Category Archives: cyberscience

WWMM: The World Wide Molecular Matrix

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

Since I have been asked to talk about the WWMM here’s a bit of background… When the UK e-Science project started (2001) we put in a proposal for a new vision of shared chemistry – the World Wide Molecular Matrix. … Continue reading →

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NSF/JISC meeting on eScience/cyberinfrastructure

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

I was privileged to be at a meeting between JISC (UK) and NSF (US). Every paragraph of the report is worth reading – I quote a few… William Y. Arms and Ronald L. Larsen, The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building … 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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scifoo: academic publishing and what can computer scientists do?

Posted on August 14, 2007 by pm286

Jim Hendler has summarised several scifoo sessions related to publishing and peer-review and added thoughts for the future (there’s mote to come).  It’s long, but I didn’t feel anything could be selectively deleted so I’ve left only the last para, … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Changing the business model for access to data

Posted on July 31, 2007 by pm286

I have been reviewing the availability of Open Data for cyberscience – concentrating recently on crystallography and chemical spectra as examples. I’ll propose a new business model here, still very ill-formed and I welcome comments. It applies particularly to disciplines … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Why 100% is never achievable

Posted on July 22, 2007 by pm286

In the current series of posts I argue that data should be Open and re-usable and that we should be allowed to use robots to extract it from publishers’ websites. A common counter argument is that data should be aggregated … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: CrystalEye at WWMM Cambridge

Posted on July 22, 2007 by pm286

We’ve mentioned CrystalEye frequently on this blog but not announced it formally. We were about to post it about three weeks ago but had a serious server crash. Also we are very concerned about quality and want to make sure … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Where does the data come from?

Posted on July 22, 2007 by pm286

[In several previous and future posts I use the tag “cyberscience” – a portmanteau of E-Science (UK, Europe) and Cyberinfrastructure (US) which emphasizes the international aspect and importance of the discipline.] Cyberscience is a vision for this century: The term … Continue reading →

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