George,
I was very excited by your plenary at the Australasia eResearch meeting
where you painted the future directions of cyberscience. In particular I'm
following up your initiative in virtual worlds (
http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/Meta_Institute_for_Computational_Astrophysics)
where astronomers have created their own area in Second Life. When we
chatted I mentioned that we had done a similar thing in chemistry (The Blue
Obelisk, http://www.blueobelisk.org) where we espouse the virtues of
collaboration and sharing through ODOSOS (Open Data/Source/Standards).
We also share a vision of collaborative science, so this mail is to register
an (unstructured and uncharted) willingness to pursue interdisciplinary
science in cyberspace. The BO is an unfunded, unstructured group which is
now 5 years old and holds itself together through the e-charisma of its
members (there is no official membership, of course, and this is determined
by a gift society).
We believe that Open Source and Data will inexorably increase and become
mainstream, although it can be painful and lonely at present. Our tools
interoperate and we often forgo glory for utility.
In particular we have colonised part of SL which contains tools for
presentations and creating molecules. This is a good opportunity for some of
us to review the current state of the BO in SL.
P.
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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