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Chem4Word – aspects of Openness

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

I’ll now reply to the second part of Rich’s question Rich Apodaca says: April 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm (Edit) Metallocenes? Axial Chirality? Apache/MIT/BSD License? OpenOffice? GitHub? My current understanding is that C4W will be posted on CodePlex when we … Continue reading →

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Chem4Word + CML representational power

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

Rich Apodaca is an original member of the Blue Obelisk and has developed his own chemical authoring tool (ChemWriter 299USD). He’s just posted the rather enigmatic comment… Rich Apodaca says: April 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm (Edit) Metallocenes? Axial Chirality? … Continue reading →

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A ramble through alternative chemistry

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

For many years I used to have a small patch of weeping scalp, but when I came to Cambridge I went to Ray’s barber shop in All Saints’ Passage – he was about 75 and got his politics from the … Continue reading →

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Chem4Word – the journey so far

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

We’ve been very silent about Chem4Word (C4W) for several reasons, but a major one is that I don’t like vapourware. I’ve spent too long in the pharma industry getting high-pitch sales including (ca. late 1980s, all true): “We have a … Continue reading →

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library of the future – warming down

Posted on April 4, 2009 by pm286

I’m winding down on the library of the future theme – I am impatient to tell you about Chem4Word, whether and how we can rescue Cheminformatics from its current position as a pseudoscience, how to do language processing and textmining … Continue reading →

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librarians of the future – Christine and Kimberley

Posted on April 3, 2009 by pm286

It was great to meet up again with Christine Borgman from UCLA at the Microsoft meeting. Christine and I have much in common about what needs to be done for digital scholarship. Christine runs a Masters (I think) in LIS … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – what I shall say

Posted on April 2, 2009 by pm286

I am blogging what I hope to cover in my 15 minutes.and I am speaking from the view of practising STM researchers in publicly funded institutions. Please feel free to follow the links during the presentation. There are also ca … Continue reading →

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Wellcome would like comments on author-pays licence

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

Robert Kiley has asked me to help garner comment on a potentially restrictive author-pays (or as may be funder-pays) licence. I’ll post him in full and add my own comment. Open access licence: researcher opinion sought A learned society has … Continue reading →

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Chem4Word at Microsoft External Research Symposium

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

I took several months off blogging – completely. Why? Because I was concentrating on Chem4Word – a semantic chemical authoring tool sponsored by and jointly built with Microsoft External Research in Redmond. In this and subsequent posts I’ll now tell … Continue reading →

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libraries of the future – "just do it"

Posted on April 1, 2009 by pm286

I have the phrase “just do it” associated with TimBL – certainly he was saying it at WWW in Banff during the semantic web workshops. (see, e.g. http://www.w3.org/2001/04/30-tbl). What I take this to mean is that if you spend too … Continue reading →

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