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This is a collection of all the blog posts that I made on the Greenchain reaction. They give some idea of the tight deadline , the volunteering. It’s followed by a scrape of the (now-spammed) site…   #solo2010: The Green … Continue reading →

#greenchain #acsanaheim #quixotechem #blueobelisk I am leading off today’s ACS program on the Internet and Social Networking 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 . I intend to talk about our social experiment last year at Science Online (the “greenchain reaction”) but this is also a … Continue reading →

#acsanaheim #opendata #crystaleye I’ve more-or-less put my thoughts together for the session on Open Data. It seems to me that the key question is whether the price we pay for traditional closed data is worth it. Not just the monetary … Continue reading →

#opendata #acsanaheim #pantonprinciples Last night I asked Jan Kuras of BiomedCentral (BMC) whether any of their publications specifically declared their data as Open [OKD-compliant). Here’s his immediate reply: Hi Peter   The following papers at BMC Bioinformatics have Open Data … Continue reading →

#pantonprinciples #opendata #acsanaheim I am speaking on Open Data and the Panton Principles at ACS. It’s in a session solely on Open Data. But I suspect I am the only one who is promoting Free-as-in-speech. I get to kick off, … Continue reading →

#pantonprinciples   I am using the ACS session on Open data as an opportunity to create principles that allow textmining in science. With Jenny Molloy and Graham Steel we are creating a draft Panton Paper, on an Etherpad at: http://okfnpad.org/PPDataTextMining … Continue reading →

Robert Belford invited me to present at the ACS “Online resources for Chemical Education” on Monday 2011-03-28 (tomorrow). I’m meeting Robert soon at the CHED reception but here’s what I plan to say and the resources. I may change things … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #greenchain #scholarlyhtml #oscar4 #pantonprinciples Am attending the 241st National Meeting of the ACS at Anaheim (read Disney). In case you want me I am at the Sheraton Park. I have a hectic program being author of 6 presentations and … Continue reading →

Many scientists have to work with data produced by programs written in the era of FORTRAN IV which produces a mindset of punched cards for input and lineprinter for output. Both of these were designed primarily for humans – the … Continue reading →

  Peter Sefton (PT) is leaving Toowoomba – http://ptsefton.com/2011/03/24/onwards.htm. We talked about it while he was here but the news was only public this week. PT has been part of our past and will be part of our future – … Continue reading →