Category Archives: “virtual communities”

RELAX wins

Posted on November 29, 2006 by pm286

There’s been a buzz today about the changing scene in XML. On the XML-DEV list Michael Champion wrote: I see that Elliotte Harold has declared the schema wars over, and Tim Bray, Don Park, and others have piled on. That … Continue reading →

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5 Years of Open Babel

Posted on November 26, 2006 by pm286

I’ve mentioned Geoff Hutchison and Open Babel here before in the context of the Blue Obelisk awards. Open Babel is an Open Source “universal adapter” (see below). So it’s nice to report his announcement of 5 Years of Open Babel … Continue reading →

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Community peer-review? In chemistry???

Posted on November 19, 2006 by pm286

Why do scientists publish in scientific journals? Are they still necessary? This has been debated intensely in recent years, but the chemical blogosphere gives a recent twist to the subject. Even if you aren’t a chemist you should be able … Continue reading →

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Information Barter

Posted on November 17, 2006 by pm286

A comment to my post Negotiating Open Access – a mutual success resonates with me: # Rupak Chakravarty Says: November 17th, 2006 at 6:03 am e I believe, If we really want to knowledge driven open society, where business models … Continue reading →

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Semantic Chemistry in Wikis and Blogs – a proposal

Posted on November 14, 2006 by pm286

Joerg Wegner posts (Blogging chemistry means not blogging minable data) : As posted by Peter more and more chemists are blogging. And I would appreciate if those blogs would contain more chemical minable information. I think especially Rich and Egon … Continue reading →

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Blogging Blogging…

Posted on November 13, 2006 by pm286

TotallySynthetic has just posted Blogging… where he exults over the growing chemical blogosphere. I share this enthusiasm. He also implies the reinforcement effect – if you have N blogs that are linked there are N*N links and this makes the … Continue reading →

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Org Prep Daily – Help! An Open Opportunity for Chemistry

Posted on November 11, 2006 by pm286

Milkshake runs a superb blog (Org Prep Daily) which does exactly what it says on the tin. Here is an example of a post (6-amino-4-chloro-2-methylpyrimidine). Take a look – you don’t have to be a chemist to get the idea … Continue reading →

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"Open Data" on Wikipedia. Bloat and NOR?

Posted on November 7, 2006 by pm286

Latest report on the Open Data entry on Wikipedia – we are starting to get contributions. Remember always that WP is ours, not mine. And that it”s an encyclopedia, not a platform. This post is just to show how things … Continue reading →

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"Open Data" Wikipedia NPOV, three revert, etc.

Posted on November 2, 2006 by pm286

The “Open Data” article on WP has already had useful attention from Wikipedians. Some minor typo corrections (and many WPians devote much energy to this, including developing bots). My reference numbering was a mess since I didn’t know WP had … Continue reading →

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Rich Apodaca: Closed Chemical Publishing and Disruptive Technology

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

Rich Apodaca, a founder member of the Blue Obelisk, has a thoughtful blog, DepthFirst. Besides the interesting stuff on programming – especially Ruby – there are useful injections from outside chemistry and IT. Here’s one: The Directory of Open Access … Continue reading →