I am giving a talk in early Sept at Science Online 2010 (at the British
Library). http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/
There's been concern that there isn't enough science in the program so I'm
suggesting that we do an Open Chemistry experiment in the month before
(starting now). It will be based on completely Open resources (according to
the Open Knowledge Definition, http://www.opendefinition.org/ "knowledge is
open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it". This means we need
to use Open Source code, Open Data (or public domain) resources and Open
Services (see http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd/, "service is open if its
source code is Free/Open Source Software and non-personal data is open as in
the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD).").
The initial and very rough details are given below. We'd like as many people
to take part as possible. It's possible but not certain that it may get
formally written as a paper. It's data-driven rather and doesn't require any
lab resources. We may not get a "result" by September.
Comments welcome. Comments with practical offers of help even more welcome.
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2512====================
Rapid update for #solo2010.
What’s emerged from talking with Jean-Claude Bradley, Mat Todd, Cameron
Neylon and others doing Open Science / Chemistry is that we are going to do
an open experiment starting now and in full view until #solo2010 at the
start of Sept.
We shal use the Open Access (chemistry) literature to answer the question:
“Do industrial chemists use different (or fewer) chemical reactions that
academia?”
This will be a data-driven experiment relying on the Open Access (CC-BY)
literature and extracting reactions both manually and automatically (using
the Cambridge OSCAR/ChemicalTagger software). The results will be put into
an Open RDF repository (CML +RDF) where all data will be Open Data according
to Panton (CC0 or PDDL).
Current sources will be:
- European patents (i.e. industrial) – PD
- Acta Crystallographica E (ca 10,000) CC-BY
- J-C’s open notebook (Drexel)
- Mat Todd’s theses. (Sydney)
Anyone can take part. All resources must be Open. We’ll probably coordinate
through OKF or Unilever Centre.
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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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