On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Craig James <[email protected]> wrote: > Egon Willighagen wrote: >> Let's summarize this in the BlueObelisk wiki, and annotate things with >> homepage, mailing list, etc. > > It's always good to define our terms. > > Open definition: > - Public participation in defining the standard > - Mailing list, wiki, etc. that makes process transparent and accessible > - Possible to "fork" the spec (see Egon's email) > - Example: OpenSMILES, JCAMP-DX, FlexMOL?
Preferably a clear Open license? > Open use: > - No royalties associated with the use > - No patents, trademarks, copyrights or other encumberments > - Examples: SMILES (Daylight), SDF, InChI, SLN > - (Counterexample: SMARTS is a registered Daylight trademark) MQL (Frankfurth). > Defacto Standard: > - In wide use, few or no varients > - Data exchange is easy and reliable > - Examples: SDF, OpenSMILES / Daylight SMILES, PDB, many others PDB actually has quite a few variants... > Formal Standard: > - Endorsed by some sort of recognized group, academic, or government body > - InChI, OpenSMILES?, JCAMP-DX, ? These definitions sound like what I have in mind too. I would like to see these in the wiki... > I didn't include "open source" because a specific implementation (e.g. > InChI, OpenBabel) isn't relevant to the specification, except perhaps as a > reference standard. I agree with that! Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
