Open Notebook Science and Glueware
Cameron laments the difficulty of creating an Open Notebook system when there is a lot of data: The problem with data… Our laboratory blog system has been doing a reasonable job of handling protocols...
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Does the semantic web work for chemical reactions
A very exciting post from Jean-Claude Bradley asking whether we can formalize the semantics of chemical reactions and synthetic procedures. Excerpts, and then comment… Modularizing Results and Analysis...
View ArticleScience 2.0
Bill Hooker points to an initiative by Scientific American to help collaborative science. Mitch Waldrop on Science 2.0 I’m way behind on this, but anyway: a while back, writer Mitch Waldrop interviewed...
View ArticleAPE2008 – Heuer, CERN
APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) was a stimulating meeting, but I wasn’t able to blog any of it as (a) there wasn’t any wireless and (b) there wasn’t any electricity (we were in the...
View ArticleWellcome gets tough on Open Access depositions
When one is active in an area (in this case Open Access) it’s often difficult to see how important it is from outside. So I was delighted to get an internal email to all staff making it clear that it...
View Articlethe library of the future – Oxford 2009-04-02
In this and subsequent posts I shall explore some ideas on the library of the future, being catalyzed by the following invitation from Rachel Bruce of The JISC: …I’m now writing on behalf of the JISC...
View ArticlePlease send us your Vistas
I recently got an invitation to speak (anonymized as I don’t want to fall out) which included: “I would very much appreciate a copy of your presentation in advance of the event in Windows XP format as...
View ArticleOREChem
I will start to widen out from the library of the future and bring in chemistry and eScience. Librarians should not switch off as the topics are very relevant. Several in our group are off to Redmond...
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CML – a semantic approach to chemistry
Rich Apodaca has asked me to show how CML can deal with metallocene compounds – and I’m happy to do this – it comes at a very good time. He points to Metallome blog and I’ll copy some of the material...
View Articlefunding models for software, OSCAR meets OMII
In a previous post I introduced our chemical natural language tools OSCAR and OPSIN. They are widely used, but in academia there is a general problem – there isn’t a simple way to finance the continued...
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