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Open Chemistry Data at NIST

Posted on April 24, 2009 by pm286

I had a wonderful mail this morning from Steve Heller … Peter I am helping the NIST folks get additional GC/MS EI (electron impact only) mass spectral for their WebBook and mass spec database. http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ and http://www.nist.gov/srd/nist1a.htm The question I … Continue reading →

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Blogging Encouragement to an eScientist – Toowoomba-style

Posted on April 23, 2009 by pm286

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Crystaleyesing The Fascinator

Posted on April 21, 2009 by pm286

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Blogging using ICE

Posted on April 21, 2009 by pm286

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ICE-cold in Toowoomba

Posted on April 20, 2009 by pm286

I am here for all too short a time working with Peter Sefton and colleages on a number of collaborations on authoring and publishing tools. Peter runs the  Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba … Continue reading →

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Semantic authoring

Posted on April 20, 2009 by pm286

An interesting post from Duncan Hull  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Google about the challenges of a semantic web of data. Since I am talking on the Chemical Semantic Web at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2009 it has a lot to … Continue reading →

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Crystal26 – what I said – the Crystallographic Semantic Web

Posted on April 16, 2009 by pm286

As usual I didn’t know in detail what I would say at Crystal26 – it depends on who is present, what has just been said, how grateful I am to the organizers (10/10). I have an overview page (in HTML) … Continue reading →

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Crystal26/SCANZ at Barossa

Posted on April 16, 2009 by pm286

I’ve immersed myself for the last 2 days in the Australia/NZ crystallography meeting – about 100 scientists – some old acquaintances. It’s been wonderful. Some of the imaging and related techniques have been awesome – instrumentation has moved on so … Continue reading →

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Henry Rzepa's blog

Posted on April 14, 2009 by pm286

Henry and I have worked together more many years – today he mailed me about the latest entry in his blog. He’s wondering whether blogs are a way of recording scientific ideas – which used to be published in letters. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about DCC and USQ

Posted on April 13, 2009 by pm286

Having moved computers one of the things that got lost was a list of feeds so I am catching up with some of the ones I used to read. I came across Chris Rusbridge’s Digital Curation Blog which is essential … Continue reading →

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