Posts Tagged ‘programmer’
Friday, November 25th, 2016
Another conference, a Cambridge satellite meeting of OpenCon, and I quote here its mission: “OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system of research and education” targeted at students and early career academic professionals. But they do allow a few “late career” professionals to attend as well!
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Tags:Academia, author, Chemical IT, chemist, City: Cambridge, Company: Twitter, ELife, Erin McKiernan, General, keynote speaker, Max Planck Society, programmer, Simon Deakin, Social Media & Networking, speaker, Technology/Internet, Wellcome Trust
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Saturday, April 16th, 2016
Scientists are familiar with the term data, at least in a scientific or chemical context, but appreciating metadata (meaning "after", or "beyond") is slightly more subtle, in the sense of using it to mean data about data. The challenge lies in clarifying where the boundary between data and its metadata lies and in specifying and controlling the vocabulary used for these metadata descriptions. Items in a chemical metadata dictionary might include e.g. subject classifications such as Organic Molecular Chemistry or identifiers such as InChIkey. But what could metametadata be? Here I briefly show some examples by way of illustration.
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Tags:Academic publishing, automated software analysis, BASE, chemical context, Chemical Database Service, Chemical IT, chemical metadata, chemical metadata dictionary, chemical space, City: Cambridge, Data dictionary, Data management, Identifiers, Knowledge representation, programmer, Registry of Research Data Repositories, search.datacite.org/api, SPECTRa, Technology/Internet
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Monday, May 5th, 2014
My name is displayed pretty prominently on this blog, but it is not always easy to find out who the real person is behind many a blog. In science, I am troubled by such anonymity. Well, a new era is about to hit us. When you come across an Internet resource, or an opinion/review of some scientific topic, I argue here that you should immediately ask: “what is its provenance?”
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Tags:0000-0002-8635-8390, added value site, API, Chemical IT, Internet resource, ORCiD, programmer, United Kingdom
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Computers and I go back a while (44 years to be precise), and it struck me (with some horror) that I have been around them for ~62% of the modern computing era (Babbage notwithstanding, ~1940 is normally taken as the start of the modern computing era). So indulge me whilst I record this perspective from the viewpoint of the computers I have used over this 62% of the computing era. (more…)
Tags:Chemical IT, chemical shifts, chemistry department computer network, controller, director, fancy phototypesetter, Fortran, GBP, Guggenheim, Historical, IBM, ICT, Imperial College, Joana, London Computing Centre, Michael Dewar, obviously enlightened teacher, Paul Weiner, Peter Murray-Rust, programmer, steady state chemical kinetics, Tektronix, Texas, University of London, University of London Computing Centre, Wimbledon, word processor
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