Hi Peter,
Good discussion and the primary focus of the Pistoia Alliance. Check out the activities at http://www.pistoiaalliance.org. Chris Chris L. Waller, Ph.D. Senior Director, Precompetitive Collaborations Research, Development, and Medical Informatics Business Technology Pfizer, Inc. Eastern Point Road, MS 8260-1221 Groton, CT 06340 Office: (860) 715-0398 Mobile: (860) 501-3954 Fax: (860) 686-5770 e-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.linkedin.com/in/wallerc <http://www.linkedin.com/in/wallerc> From: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:22 AM To: Noel O'Boyle Cc: Egon Willighagen; BlueObelisk-Discuss Subject: Re: [Blueobelisk-discuss] What is an Open Standard? If you are using "Standards" in a formal sense then there are very few in our area. NO chemistry specifications are standards. W3C protocols (XML, HTML, CSS) are not standards, they are "recommendations" IETF does not produce standards but drafts (e.g. MIME, URIs) The only standards are those that go through ISO (none in chemistry that matter) or ECMA. Things like Javascript, MS-OOXML (yes). Not Java. So we have to use a looser definition of standard. It's in our mantra. I think we should define what we regard as useful, not what is formally a "standard". -- 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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