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#scholarlyhtml There were several exciting things to come from the recent workshops (World University Network Lab note book, and OREChem) at PNNL; this post is on Southampton’s Blog3 (http://blog3.rubyforge.org) (Jeremy Frey, Simon Coles, Mark Borkum and others). They’ve been using … Continue reading →

#nwchem #quixotechem I’ve spent a great 4 days at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (http://www.pnl.gov/ ) where we’ve been doing a number of things – including OREChem (which I’ll blog later). It’s been great to talke with the people who have … Continue reading →

#oscar4launch I am delighted to announce the launch of OSCAR4: http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OSCAR4_Launch OSCAR (Open Source Chemistry Analysis Routines) is an open source extensible system for the automated annotation of chemistry in scientific articles. It can be used to identify chemical names, … Continue reading →

#okcon2010 #okfn I have known Becky Hogge for several years – Becky is deeply involved in the Open movement and is inter alia a board member of the OKF. She’s just published an essay http://www.opendemocracy.net/becky-hogge/freedom-cloud which so exactly mirrors my … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #acsanaheim I’m in the Mecca café on Queen Anne in Seattle and in heaven. I’ve been to Seattle quite often – mainly to visit Microsoft in Redmond and we’ve stayed at the Mediterranean Inn on Queen Anne and one … Continue reading →

#acsanaheim I spoke on Monday at the ACS “Open Data” session on the Panton Principles. I had to leave after mine because I was speaking in the Education session and my comments on them are based on hearsay and their … Continue reading →

#jiscopenbib #opentheses As part of our JISCOpenBIB project we are running a workshop on Open Theses at EURODOC 2011. “We” is an extended community of volunteers centered round the main JISC project. In that project we have developed an approach … Continue reading →

#scholarlyhtml #acsanaheim In this morning’s CINF program http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/241nm/program/divisionindex.php?act=presentations&val=Internet+and+Chemistry:+Social+Networking&ses=Internet+and+Chemistry:+Social+Networking&prog=54108 Alex Clark observed that there was such as mess of different mobile providers (Apple, Blackberry, Android …) all incompatible that the solution for Chemistry was to adopt HTML5 and Javascript. Just what … Continue reading →

#acsanaheim #greenchain #quixotechem My presentation is diverse and unpredictable. It covers: Chemical Internet history (e.g. Henry Rzepa contrib from 1995 http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/infobahn/Paper38/ ) Etherpad for communal creation of collective memory (http://okfnpad.org/internetChemistry ); Green chain reaction – a 1-month collaborative project at … Continue reading →

Summary of resources and results from the Greenchain reaction. Collecting them into a blog is the best way of collecting and probably preserving them   http://greenchain.ch.cam.ac.uk/patents/ ..ben/flob/indexes/jars/patents.tgzquixote/results.tgzresults/test/ http://greenchain.ch.cam.ac.uk/patents/results/ …> Listing of “/patents/results” ..1996/1998/1999/2000/2000yearTotal.htm2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/9999/complete.htmdissolveTotal.htm   Typical years Listing of “/patents/results/2000” ..EPO-2000-02-23/EPO-2000-03-01/EPO-2000-04-05/EPO-2000-06-07/EPO-2000-07-12/EPO-2000-08-09/EPO-2000-09-13/EPO-2000-10-11/EPO-2000-11-08/EPO-2000-12-13/EPO-2000-12-20/EPO-2000-12-27/solventFrequency.htmyearTotal.htm … Continue reading →