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semantic web

TBL+13: If everybody did it it would be awesome

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

13 years ago I sat entranced listening to Tim Berners-Lee giving the closing address at the first WWW conference in CERN, Geneva. I was particularly influenced by one diagram which changed the way I thought about the world. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Chemical Microformats have arrived some time ago!

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Egon writes and puts me to shame… Name: Egon Willighagen | E-mail: egon.willighagen@gmail.com | URI: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ | IP: 134.95.200.25The use of microformats in chemistry has already begun:http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/12/including-smiles-cml-and-inchi-in.html He suggested this over FOUR MONTHS ago! I probably missed it as I … Continue reading →

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Microformats in the chemical blogosphere – the Chemical Semantic Web has arrived?

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

One of my readers writes privately… Too many acronyms for my poor head in [blog] world. I am beginning to see this as a series of rocks in a swirling sea of T- and F-LAs. People on the solid rocks … Continue reading →

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GRDDL and RDFa

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

This is how we create our own microformats under Blue Obelisk… from the GRDDL tutorial Is it too much work to ask people to add the transformation and profile to their individual instance data? Creators or maintainers of vocabularies can … Continue reading →

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GRDDL and the scruffies –

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

I think this is very important and we should create a BO microformat for chemistry… I’ve defected from the heavyweight stuff to the microformats tutorial – also goes along with GRDDL. Being given as a double act by Harry Halpin … Continue reading →

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I'm a scruffy

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

I’m at a (very good) tutorial on semantic web at the WWW 2007 meeting in Banff. In the first session there was a key slide from Garole Goble on the different axes – semantics and web. Putting both of these … Continue reading →

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Tagging molecules

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

Another of last night’s ideas that I have been beaten to – that’s the power of the blogosphere! Nick Day and I are trying to find a social mechanism for commenting on data – specifically his CrystalEye collection of 60 … Continue reading →

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Chemical Blogosphere

Posted on May 2, 2007 by pm286

For those who denigrate the blogosphere I reply that the chemical blogosphere is an excellent example of a coherent, productive, communal social organism. The members find their ecological niche, and where necessary feed off each others’ electronic secretions. ChemBark (Paul) … Continue reading →

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