Category Archives: open issues

Access to and re-use of Open Data in chemistry – impressions

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Continuing the preparation of material for WWW 2007 … It is almost universally held (see Open Data – Wikipedia) that facts cannot be copyrighted. It is common for scientific papers to be accompanied by “supporting information” or “supplemental data”. In … Continue reading →

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The pit-bull and the pendulum

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Continuing the preparation of my WWW 2007 panel material blogwise (and with apologies to those who have heard me before on this) the following epitomises the difference of interests in the Open/Closed Access/Data community. In 1994 Rudy Baum (C&EN: Editor’s … Continue reading →

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The reality of closed access

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Here’s a typical example of getting information from the literature. Assume I don’t belong to a rich University and I need to find out about cystic fibrosis. I can go to the splendid Pubmed (MEDLINE) PubMed is a service of … Continue reading →

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The importance of Open Data

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

(Note for true effect, go to the real live pages mentioned here). Here is a page from the Canadian National Committee for CODATA (sent by Alison Ball). I’m going to choose just one of many data sources:   About This … Continue reading →

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Open Canada

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

(and maybe a reader will give me the French translation – I do not know the gender). I am delighted to be speaking at WWW 2007 in Banff Canada as Canada has a very high profile in Open activities. This … 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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"Open Access" and "low fat"

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

In an earlier post Open Access and Fuzzy Access I challenged the position of “Molbank” as a collection of Open Molecules. The position is that Molbank is “Open Access” but copyrights the articles and imposes special conditions on their re-use … Continue reading →

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Open Data At WWW 2007

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

polemic level AMBER I am in Canada – can get internet but have some difficulty in sending email. This post is quite a good way of letting everyone in the world know where I am… I shall be talking on … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Fuzzy Access

Posted on May 5, 2007 by pm286

In reply to my request for lists of Open Molecules Dietrich Rordorf Says: May 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am eHave a look at MolBank: http://www.mdpi.org/molbank/ Molbank (ISSN 1422-8599, CODEN: MOLBAI) is fully open-access and publishes one-compound-per-paper short notes and communications … Continue reading →

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SPECTRa and SPECTRa-T

Posted on April 13, 2007 by pm286

Every chemistry department spends millions each year on determining crystal structures, calculating properties of molecules and measuring spectra for newly synthesised compounds. The data are potentially extremely valuable, but almost all of them are lost. Of those that are saved … Continue reading →

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