INVITATION Hi all,
the discussion on Open Standards and Open Specifications is not over yet; Andrew and I are still trying to work out clear guide lines of what makes something a Standard or an Open Standard. There is wild confusion about (and the Blue Obelisk wiki language seems a bit unclear at least): CML, Daylight SMILES, MDL/Symyx molfiles, InChI, ... All are published in a (the same) closed access journal, de facto freely implementable, ... so, what are the rules here? I have proposed the use of Open Specification, which is stronger than Open Standard in requirements towards Open, but does not enforce it to be a standard (that said, how would we calculate uptake anyway?) ... but it does require the freedom (rights) to modify and redistribute... I believe this is a much more precise, and more workable definition ... it is much more in line with Open Source, and Open Data too, and makes it therefore a much better approach. However, this is just me, and worse, the discussion has been mostly between me and Andrew. Shall I single handedly change the OS is ODOSOS to Open Specification, and update the wiki to the appropriate rules? I hope, instead, that others can join in, and help iron out the unclarities, and perhaps come to an Open Specification of what ODOSOS really is? Andrew has a lot of interesting points, and I do not have answers to them all, particularly not without using the 'Open Specification' definition... Please visit these two pages for the full discussion: http://blueobelisk.stackexchange.com/questions/231/what-formats-fall-into-open-specification http://blueobelisk.stackexchange.com/questions/106/which-formats-fall-into-open-data-open-source-and-open-standards Grtz, Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
