Author Archives: pm286

chem:microformats – what questions would YOU like?

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Many years ago Henry Rzepa and I discussed the idea of extending Dublin Core to chemistry and we called it Dublin-Chem. The “Dublin” is Dublin Ohio, home of OCLC. We discussed this with Stuart Weibel [OCLC] – the DC guru … Continue reading →

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TBL+13: If everybody did it it would be awesome

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

13 years ago I sat entranced listening to Tim Berners-Lee giving the closing address at the first WWW conference in CERN, Geneva. I was particularly influenced by one diagram which changed the way I thought about the world. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Chemical Microformats have arrived some time ago!

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Egon writes and puts me to shame… Name: Egon Willighagen | E-mail: egon.willighagen@gmail.com | URI: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ | IP: 134.95.200.25The use of microformats in chemistry has already begun:http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/12/including-smiles-cml-and-inchi-in.html He suggested this over FOUR MONTHS ago! I probably missed it as I … Continue reading →

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Open Data WWW 2007

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

I am on a panel at WWW 2007 and have a 10-minute slot. Since our wireless in the hotel is pretty good I thought I would continue the experiment I made earlier by blogging parts of it. It also means … Continue reading →

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We must protect our digital history

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

I’m at a rather special session on the history of WWW and more generally the web. 13 years ago at WWW CERN 94 I got a T-shirt. I’ve never worn it till now – when we are celebrating the history … Continue reading →

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Microformats in the chemical blogosphere – the Chemical Semantic Web has arrived?

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

One of my readers writes privately… Too many acronyms for my poor head in [blog] world. I am beginning to see this as a series of rocks in a swirling sea of T- and F-LAs. People on the solid rocks … Continue reading →

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GRDDL and RDFa

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

This is how we create our own microformats under Blue Obelisk… from the GRDDL tutorial Is it too much work to ask people to add the transformation and profile to their individual instance data? Creators or maintainers of vocabularies can … Continue reading →

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GRDDL and the scruffies –

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

I think this is very important and we should create a BO microformat for chemistry… I’ve defected from the heavyweight stuff to the microformats tutorial – also goes along with GRDDL. Being given as a double act by Harry Halpin … Continue reading →

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I'm a scruffy

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

I’m at a (very good) tutorial on semantic web at the WWW 2007 meeting in Banff. In the first session there was a key slide from Garole Goble on the different axes – semantics and web. Putting both of these … Continue reading →

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Blogotrivia

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

A few points for readers and contributors. SPAM. I get a few hundred a day. Akismet does a superb job of precision/recall but occasionally a few genuines get false spam. If so, repots and mail me and I’ll see if … Continue reading →

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