I was in Boston for two days at the Bio-IT meeting. As usual this was a long list of conversations, meetings and chance introductions that will help ChemSpider grow in reputation. I had an opportunity to sit with Peter Murray-Rust, Steve Heller and Alex Tropsha (the latter two gentlemen on our advisory group). We discussed Open Data, specifically in terms of adding spectral data into the NIST MS Database and how the data on the NIST Webbook are NOT Open Data, they are copyrighted. They are FREE to access and even download. But they are copyrighted and not Open. ...
Peter, Rajarshi Guha and I were speakers in a session on Open Science. I opened up with my presentation “Crowdsourcing, Collaborations and Text-Mining in a World of Open Chemistry” on SlideShare here.
Peter talked about Open Data and Semantic Data and gave live demos of CrystalEye and Chem4Word. ...
ChemSpider was nominated for a Bio-IT Award. There were 72 nominations in total and we did not win but we were up against some very significant projects from organizations such as GSK, Astra Zeneca etc. The winners are listed here. In any case…it was nice to be nominated for a Best Practices Award at the Bio-IT meeting. We clearly have some fans. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 5/07/2009 10:26:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
