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Margaret Henty (ANU) has done a very professional job of collecting the material (of several media types from the APSR 2008 meeting in Brisbane: APSR is pleased to announce that podcasts and vodcasts of Open Access Collections held in Brisbane … Continue reading →

I was privileged to be asked to present a homage to Leo Waaijers yesterday at the SURF foundation in Utrecht (actually in an old castle+microbrewery – Stadskasteel Oudaen). Leo has been an architect of so much in the Netherlands that … Continue reading →

I have been so busy I haven’t managed to blog the Open Knowledge Foundation’s OKCON 2008. Here’s it in brief: OKCon: The Annual Open Knowledge Conference When: Saturday 15th March 2008 10:30-18:30 (doors open 10am) Where: Clement House (D602), London … Continue reading →

Bioclipse is an Open Source chemo- and bio-informatics toolkit (rich client) developed by Ola Spjuth and colleagues and a wide virtual community (including me). It’s Open Source (LGPL). Under the heading Bioclipse pirated Christoph Steinbeck writes A company called InfoCom, … Continue reading →

Antony Williams reports that CAS has agreed to cooperate with Wikipedia Chemistry on the use of CAS numbers:  A Message of Support and Public Service from the Chemical Abstracts Service […] This week conversations have been ongoing between WP:Chem and … Continue reading →

To a recent post by Glyn Moody (The World’s Leading Anti-Scientific Society) [ largely quoting me so I shan’t repeat it…] [GM] … Clearly, it’s time to kill off this pernicious closed CAS system, which is damaging science, by boycotting … Continue reading →

There has been discussion recently (e.g. CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia Structures and CAS Numbers and the Wikipedia Project: CAS Validation page) about the use of CAS identifiers and possible alternatives. One suggestion is that CAS numbers … Continue reading →

I am delighted to be corrected in my statement about the number of compounds in Wikipedia: chemconnector.com/chemunicating/the-curation-of-almost-5000-structures-on-wikipedia.html (ChemConnnector is written, I think, by Antony Williams, Chemspiderman). […] There are likely legal reasons for a number of these databases to have … Continue reading →

Cameron Neylon picks up the theme of an alternative approach to identifying chemicals (especially in the context of CAS’s blanket refusal to allow normal scientific practice – thed quoting of authority). I reproduce some key quotes and then introduce what … Continue reading →

In a recent post (CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia) I commented on the refusal  of CAS to allow Wikipedia to use the CAS numbers and/or related information obtained from their Scifinder(TM) product. As far as I know … Continue reading →