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Conspiracy and chemistry and an invitation to lunch

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

Antony Williams (Chemspider) and Stuart Cantrill (Nature) have recently blogged about what the blogosphere is seeing as censorship on the Web by the American Chemical Society. This is a bold and serious claim and needs some background. The facts,  from … Continue reading →

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Blogging for an eScientist – more thoughts

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

It is often exciting and rewarding when someone from outside regular contributors comments so I’ll reply to  Jean Calvin (blog: Post Tenebras Lux) Submitted on 2009/04/10 at 9:44am Good timing Peter! I started off a new blog recently and have … Continue reading →

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Open Notebook Ontology development

Posted on April 10, 2009 by pm286

One of the challenging aspects of ontology development is that in the early stages there are likely to be major collisions of orientation, and chemistry is no exception. So we need to prepare for some hard work addressing these. Traditionally … Continue reading →

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CML – "can your system encode these semantics"

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

Rich Apodaca (Bluer Obelisk) frequently asks “Can your chemoinformatics tool do this?” and has asked how CML represents various systems: Submitted on 2009/04/05 at 12:04am Peter, I would gladly drop FlexMol and enthusiastically support any robust system that enabled me … Continue reading →

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Ontological Warfare

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

I am really excited abot the state of current chemical ontological development – there are now 3-4 groups including ours and I’ll expand later. But first I want to set the scene – looking at my ontological roots. The first … Continue reading →

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library of the future – videos

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

This is the last post on LOTF09 – just to say that JISC have done an excellent job of capturing the video: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/librariesofthefuture/debate.aspx This is particularly valuable for me as I do not follow a set pattern of presentation – … Continue reading →

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Crystal26

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

I’m in Australia because I’ve been invited to talk to Crystal26 – the 26th Biennial Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand. Crystallographers from ANZ have made enormous contributions and when I studied in Oxford tha … Continue reading →

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CKAN – an idea whose time has now come

Posted on April 9, 2009 by pm286

CKAN – The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network is the brainchild of Rufus Pollock (a young and incredibly energetic economist) at Cambridge. It’s part of Rufus’ vision of a world of distributed semantic Open knowledge. I think CKAN is an idea … Continue reading →

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Blogging encouragement to an eScientist

Posted on April 7, 2009 by pm286

I recently talked at some length with a young eScientist (whose blog I might highlight later). He’s a computer scientist, professionally interested in multidisciplinary work (music, environment, agents, etc.) and although very clued up on modern informatics didn’t have a … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia has won – how can we convince you?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by pm286

The UK’s Sunday Observer newspaper yesterday had an article (Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered) where John Naughton writes: Unwillingness to entertain the notion that Wikipedia might fly is a symptom of what the legal scholar James Boyle … Continue reading →

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