[extropy-chat] A Manifesto for Open Chemistry (fwd from george at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: george at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:01:37 -0700
To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: A Manifesto for Open Chemistry
Reply-To: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST <CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>

forwarded from Open Access News
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>

Peter Murray-Rust, Henry S. Rzepa, Simon. M. Tyrrella, and Y. Zhanga,
Representation and use of Chemistry in the Global Electronic Age
<http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/obc/>, a preprint forthcoming from Organic
& Biomolecular Chemistry. On the exciting potential of combining open
access and the semantic web in chemistry. Excerpt: "Almost all of an
author's output (compounds, spectra, reactions, properties, etc.) is
nowadays computerised and in principle redistributable to the community
for re-use. Few journals actively validate the primary data (e.g.
spectra) involved in a publication (chemical crystallography being a
clear expectation where data are intensively reviewed by machine). We
reassert that chemists must now move towards publishing their collective
knowledge in a systematic and easily accessible form for re-use and
innovation....We urge that authors, funders, editors, publishers and
readers move further towards the following protocol: [1] All information
should be ultimately machine-understandable in XML....[2]
Machine-understandable information for a compound should include a
connection table, the IUPAC unique identifier (INChI) which guarantees
that the connection table can be checked and regenerated, and a
name....[3] Rights metadata. An explicit statement in the data that its
re-use is consistent with the Budapest Open Access initiative and a
requirement that this statement be preserved when the data is
re-used....The main challenge is for chemists to recognise the value of
making their data machine-understandable, rather than destroying it with
traditional paper or slide-focused publication and dissemination
processes." 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_09_05_fosblogarchive.html#a10948
3796605304806

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
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