Living in London, travelling using public transport is often the best way to get around. Before setting out on a journey one checks the status of the network. Doing so today I came across this page: our open data from Transport for London.
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A nice example of open data (in London).
Sunday, March 5th, 2017Tags:API, chemical databases, Chemical IT, City: London, Company: TfL, Government, Greater London, Local government in London, London, Passenger Transportation Ground & Sea - NEC, PDF, Public transport, Route planning software, search engine, Sustainable transport, Technology/Internet, Transport, Transport for London, travel apps, travel data, XML
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Open science and the chemistry lab of the future.
Thursday, February 9th, 2017The title refers to an upcoming symposium on the topic on 22-24 May, 2017. I quote here some of the issues tabled for discussion:
Tags:Chemical IT, Contact Details, General, Social Media & Networking, Symposium, Technology/Internet, Will technology
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Revisiting (and maintaining) a twenty year old web page. Mauveine: The First Industrial Organic Fine-Chemical.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2017Almost exactly 20 years ago, I started what can be regarded as the precursor to this blog. As part of a celebration of this anniversary,[1] I revisited the page to see whether any of it had withstood the test of time. Here I recount what I discovered.
References
- P.W. May, S.A. Cotton, K. Harrison, and H.S. Rzepa, "The ‘Molecule of the Month’ Website—An Extraordinary Chemistry Educational Resource Online for over 20 Years", Molecules, vol. 22, pp. 549, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040549
Tags:10.5517, Advertising & Marketing - NEC, chemical context, Chemical IT, chemical markup language, City: London, Commercial REITs - NEC, Company: Chime, Company: Eastman Kodak, Company: First Industrial, digital cameras, Digital Object Identifier, food additives, Historical, HTML, Imperial College, industrial strength HTML editor, Java, JavaScript, manufacturing factory, mauveine using molecular modelling software, Person Attributes, Photographic Equipment, Technology/Internet, validation tool, Web, web archaeology, web server, XML, year old Web pages
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OpenCon (2016)
Friday, November 25th, 2016Another 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!
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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Pidapalooza!
Thursday, November 10th, 2016This is sent from the Pidapalooza event in Reykjavik, Iceland, and is a short collection of notable things I learnt or which attracted my attention.
Tags:active site, Bill Gates, Chemical IT, City: Reykjavik, Country: Iceland, scientist, social media, Technology/Internet
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The 2016 Bradley-Mason prize for open chemistry.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016Peter Murray-Rust and I are delighted to announce that the 2016 award of the Bradley-Mason prize for open chemistry goes to Jan Szopinski (UG) and Clyde Fare (PG).
Tags:Analytical chemistry, chemical information, chemical insight, Cheminformatics, Chemistry, Chemometrics, Clyde Fare, Company: GitHub, computation chemical research projects, computational chemistry, computing, Cross-platform software, driver, GitHub, Jan Szopinski, machine learning, open sourcing software development, opensource healthchecker software, Peter Murray-Rust, public web sites, Python, quantum chemical calculation, quantum chemical codes, quantum chemical data, quantum chemical research, Quotation, Server & Database Software, simulation, Software, supervisor, sustainable software conference prize, Technology/Internet
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Chemistry preprint servers (revisited).
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016This week the ACS announced its intention to establish a “ChemRxiv preprint server to promote early research sharing“. This was first tried quite a few years ago, following the example of especially the physicists. As I recollect the experiment lasted about a year, attracted few submissions and even fewer of high quality. Will the concept succeed this time, in particular as promoted by a commercial publisher rather than a community of scientists (as was the original physicists model)?
Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Chemical IT, Data publishing, Data sharing, food, Grey literature, Open access, Open science, PDF, Peter Murray-Rust, pre-print server, Preprint, preprint server, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, Technology/Internet
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Managing (open) NMR data: a working example using Mpublish.
Monday, August 1st, 2016In March, I posted from the ACS meeting in San Diego on the topic of Research data: Managing spectroscopy-NMR, and noted a talk by MestreLab Research on how a tool called Mpublish in the forthcoming release of their NMR analysis software Mestrenova could help. With that release now out, the opportunity arose to test the system.
Tags:Acrobat, analysis software, chemical, Chemical IT, Chemistry, City: San Diego, format type chemical/x-mnpub, media type, Mestrenova, non-commercial open software packages, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra database, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, PDF, public key, Science, Scientific method, spectroscopy, Technology/Internet
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Data-free research data management? Not an oxymoron.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016I occasionally post about "RDM" (research data management), an activity that has recently become a formalised essential part of the research processes. I say recently formalised, since researchers have of course kept research notebooks recording their activities and their data since the dawn of science, but not always in an open and transparent manner. The desirability of doing so was revealed by the 2009 "Climategate" events. In the UK, Climategate was apparently the catalyst which persuaded the funding councils (such as the EPSRC, the Royal Society, etc) to formulate policies which required all their funded researchers to adopt the principles of RDM by May 2015 and in their future researches. An early career researcher here, anxious to conform to the funding body instructions, sent me an email a few days ago asking about one aspect of RDM which got me thinking.
Tags:Academic publishing, chemical identifiers, Chemical IT, chemical names and chemical terms, chemical tagger page, CrossRef, Data management, Data management plan, DataCite, Identifiers, ORCiD, RDM, researcher, Royal Society, Singular spectrum analysis, Technical communication, Technology/Internet
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Collaborative FAIR data sharing.
Sunday, April 17th, 2016I want to describe a recent attempt by a group of collaborators to share the research data associated with their just published article.[1]
References
- C. Romain, Y. Zhu, P. Dingwall, S. Paul, H.S. Rzepa, A. Buchard, and C.K. Williams, "Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide", Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, pp. 4120-4131, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b13070
Tags:10.17616, Academic publishing, Chemical IT, DataCite, energy profile diagrams, Figshare, Identifiers, Open science, ORCiD, PDF, Scholarly communication, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web-enhanced object
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