Category Archives: blueobelisk

Open-Data-driven science and a brokering system for ONS

Posted on October 14, 2007 by pm286

Cameron Neylon and Jean-Claude Bradley have blogged about a directory of Open Notebook Science (ONS) where projects including this approach can register. Growing a community – Open Notebook Science directories 21:19 14/10/2007, Cameron Neylon, As has been flagged up by … Continue reading →

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ODOSOS and an article on OA

Posted on October 14, 2007 by pm286

Egon reminds us of the importance of the intensity of purpose that we need in the Blue Obelisk. (ODOSOS is our mantra: Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards). I won’t add very much new to that but I’ll also add … Continue reading →

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Open NMR

Posted on October 13, 2007 by pm286

As I have already blogged (WWMM calculation of spectra) we are hoping to provide Jean-Claude Bradley and others an Open service to calculate NMR spectra from structure. This  needs a lot of software components and a lot of glueware. With … Continue reading →

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The chemical blogosphere cares

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Wow! I posted a request yesterday (sic) for supporting material for our proposal to JISC for a person to support the blogosphere as a major resource for increasing the quality of published chemistry. I have had valuable contributions from 4 … Continue reading →

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Eyeballs from the blogosphere

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Fantastic! The blogosphere has already responded to our request for accounts of data quality enhancement. Egon Willighagen Says: October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am ePeter, I’ve placed some pointer to past blog items from my blog that I feel relevant … Continue reading →

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Open grant writing. Can the Chemical Blogosphere help with "Agents and Eyeballs"

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

In the current spirit of Openness I’m appealing to the chemical blogosphere for help. Jim Downing and I are writing a grant proposal for UK’s JISC : supporting education and research – which supports digital libraries, repositories, eScience/cyberinfrastructure, collaborative working, … Continue reading →

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Volunteers: does the computer experience translate to chemistry?

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

One of the spinoffs of having been to scifoo is that I skim over 50+posts / day from the blogs that participants run. Some are multi-author blogs:  Here’s Andy Oram on Tim O’Reilly’s blog, talking about what makes volunteer documenters … Continue reading →

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The Obelisk SMILES

Posted on September 28, 2007 by pm286

We are delighted that Craig James has suggested making the molecular format SMILES an Open activity. Egin Willighagen writes: SMILES to become an Open Standard 08:03 28/09/2007, Egon Willighagen, Craig James wants to make SMILES an open standard, and this … Continue reading →

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Diazonamide : The Blue CrystalEye Greasemonkey lends a hand

Posted on September 24, 2007 by pm286

There is some doubt about what the structure of diazonamide A is. Because there is no absolute way of assigning names to structures. We only agree what aspirin is because everyone has been assigning the same structure to it for … Continue reading →

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CrystalEye GreaseMonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Nick Day has just released a Greasemonkey script which provides a full crystallographic overlay for existing journals. It’s worth trying as it’s visually exciting as well as very useful. This post tells you what it does, how it works, and … Continue reading →

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