Category Archives: “virtual communities”

Open Reading Mashup – would it work for chemistry?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker – a staunch supporter and campaigner for Open Data – has published his first mashup. He queries whether it actually is one – and I tend to agree – but the effect is to bring together different sources … Continue reading →

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Blogging in science and mathematics

Posted on July 1, 2007 by pm286

In a splendid post – reproduced in full (indented) – Kyle Finchsigmate highlights the difference between chemistry and other sciences. WTF is up with the Science blogosphere? 15:11 30/06/2007, Kyle Finchsigmate, sciency politics, The Chem Blog I [i.e. KF] was … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Organic Synthesis (a subversive proposal)

Posted on June 30, 2007 by pm286

Every months we get several new chemistry blogs – I don’t have time to do more than glance at them but I was struck by a newcomer, TotallyRetrosynthetic. (TotallyFoo is a metasyntactic linguistic style sparked off by TotallySynthetic.) Retrosynthesis is … Continue reading →

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A snapshot of the chemical blogosphere

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

I want to show the mathematicians the vibrancy and value of the chemical blogosphere so – at random – I picked today’s TotallySynthetic. By chance it’s very fitting as it is a review of a paper by one of the … Continue reading →

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CML on ICE – towards Open chemical/scientific authoring

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

Because WWMM had outages my blogging is behind and I’d written a post on Peter Sefton’s ICE. Peter and I met at ETD2007 and immediately clicked. But WWMM went to sleep and I haven’t reposted. Peter has beaten me to … Continue reading →

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Ola Spjuth of Bioclipse

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

From time to time people get presented with Blue Obelisks and the latest recipient is Ola Spjuth. Presentations – and the preparations for them – are rarely simple – they have included obelisk falling off the table on night of … Continue reading →

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Ranking chemistry and blogosphere metrics

Posted on May 30, 2007 by pm286

I’ve been pointed to ChemRank – a system that allows you to comment on and rank the chemical literature. I hadn’t seen this before and haven’t looked in depth, so I am only commenting on the idea and technology. (As … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

Web 2.0 and Semantic Web are sometimes used synonymously, sometimes distinct. I’ve come in halfway through a presentation (missed speaker’s name) and taken away: Web 2.0 blogging AJAX small-scale mashups proprietary APIs niche vocabularies screenscraping whereas Semantic Web is large-scale … Continue reading →

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ChemZoo IS 2.0! AND I am Jester of the Month!

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

I have been enlightened. ChemZoo IS 2.0, and I’ll explain why…. One of the features of Web 2.0 (WP) is that communities arise by the very fact of being in the Internet “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the … Continue reading →

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Open Data – what can I do? Simple, legal, viral suggestion

Posted on December 12, 2006 by pm286

Following discussion on the SPARC Open Data list I got a mail: I’d like to hear more discussion on open data, too. In particular, what are the practical approaches that will help adoption of open data by researchers themselves? We … Continue reading →

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