Category Archives: data

The thing about Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.

Posted on October 14, 2007 by pm286

A correspondent asked my opinion about Freebase: This blog entry may be of interest, about Freebase a collaborative database project which may or may not be open.  Are you familiar with it? http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/20/freebase-wikipedia-and-the-right-to-fork Also see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/technology/09data.html?ex=1331096400&en=a87d4f61e6052888&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss I must admit to … Continue reading →

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Open NoteBook Science, Chemspiderman, GIAO and HOSE. We write the final paper

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

We posted yesterday about our proposed Open NoteBook approach to 13C chemical shifts from experiment and calculation and Chemspiderman has posted very helpful contributions, including offers of help. This is much appreciated and accepted. The main problem we have is … Continue reading →

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We start Open Notebook Science at UCC on calculating NMR

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

We are starting an experiment on Open Notebook Science. See (Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis : Nature Precedings, Drexel CoAS E-Learning: Open Notebook Science, Useful Chemistry: Cameron Neylon on Open Notebook Science, Drexel CoAS talks mp3 podcast: Open … Continue reading →

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What are the shortest and longest known As-As bonds?

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

How would you find the answer to this question? How long did it take you? How sure are you that your answer is correct? What would you do to check? Comments welcome.

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Billion-dollar Scientific Scholarship?

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber seems to have connections everywhere and picked up this really exciting post about how there is a wide-open market to completely restructure scientific publishing. Alexandre Linhares is the Director-General of the Brazilian Chapter of the Club of Rome. … Continue reading →

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Naming chemical compounds

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

At the risk of boring readers who already understand the issue of names, metadata, recursive annotations and versions, let me do this discussion to death. I reiterate. A name by itself is neither right of wrong. It is possible that … 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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TOPAZ and CLADDIER

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

Hopefully of great interest to those of us looking at self-publishing, Open Notebooks, etc. Deepak Singh: A publication and a publication framework When PLoS One was first announced, one of the first things that caught my eye was the fact … Continue reading →

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Name that graph (acknowledgements to Rich)

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

Rich Apodaca has an excellent series of graphs (e.g. Name That Graph) where he has removed key annotations (titles, units, axes, etc.) I’m not going to to steal his theme but there is one graph that I hope my readership … Continue reading →

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change because old scientists die

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

Tobias Kind has asked (Comment to Nature Protocols: How much can we re-use?) why shouldn’t require chemists to submit data… Hi Peter, making chemistry data machine-readable is not the business of the publisher! It’s the business of the chemists themselves … Continue reading →

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