Category Archives: chemistry

Chemistry/science theses urgently wanted!

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

As I have blogged (Electronic Theses (ETD2007) – June 8th, 2007) I shall be demonstrating the power of the eThesis next week at Uppsala. We now have technology that will identify the chemistry in a thesis and automatically re-use it … Continue reading →

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Electronic Theses (ETD2007)

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

I am honoured to be asked to speak at the meeting next week in Uppsala on electronic theses (The Power of the Electronic Scientific Thesis). (This resonates with the JISC meeting on repositories (Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge) … Continue reading →

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Data validation in publications

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

Tony Williams’ comment to my post (Data validation and protcol validation – May 31st, 2007) has several valuable themes which I expand on here and in later posts. Tony and I are in agreement here and working towards something that … Continue reading →

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Data validation and protcol validation

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

This post replies to an ongoing debate about the quality of data and Open vs Closed data and systems. It’s specifically about NMR (spectroscopy) but my points are general. Since I have been publicly critical of some systems I must … Continue reading →

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Ranking chemistry and blogosphere metrics

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

I’ve been pointed to ChemRank – a system that allows you to comment on and rank the chemical literature. I hadn’t seen this before and haven’t looked in depth, so I am only commenting on the idea and technology. (As … Continue reading →

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Bioclipse – Rich Client

Posted on May 25, 2007 by pm286

I’m at the Bioclipse workshop in Uppsala – excellently run by Ola Spjuth and colleagues. Rich clients – where the client has significant functionality beyond the basic browser – are critical for the interchange of scientific information. A typical example … Continue reading →

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More on triple stores – molecules next

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

Since I think triple stores will change the way we think about information the current posts are somewhat of a stream of consciousness. (Rather tedious as it is almost impossible to put nicely formatted TT stuff into WordPress). We shall … Continue reading →

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dbpedia, RDF and SPARQL – for chemistry

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

A comment on the last post Richard Cyganiak Says: May 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm e Thanks for this nice introduction Peter. Note that the DBpedia URIs also work in a web browser, so you can go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uppsala and … Continue reading →

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ChemZoo IS 2.0! AND I am Jester of the Month!

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

I have been enlightened. ChemZoo IS 2.0, and I’ll explain why…. One of the features of Web 2.0 (WP) is that communities arise by the very fact of being in the Internet “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the … Continue reading →

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the chemical semantic web has arrived! just do it NOW

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

I have been overwhelmed with excitement about the new maturity of semantic technology and RDF data that is available for our construction of the chemical semantic web. Note that I used to write “Chemical Semantic Web” with the assumption that … Continue reading →

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