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Innovations in Publishing
Collaboration
WHAT?
Business model
WHY?
Innovations in Publishing
Collaboration
WHAT?
Business model
WHY?
Royal Society of Chemistry
International Learned Society
Professional body for 46,000 chemists
Not-for-profit International publisher Education facilitator Campaigning organisation Library and Information
Centre flickr.com/photos/willzukphotos/2335689688/
RSC Publishing
Innovation in Publishing
1995 – CLIC
1999 – XML <xml> </xml>
2003 – OSCAR
2007 – Prospect
Prospect
Data mine chemistry
Identifying chemical terms in context
Uniquely identify chemical compounds
Semantic markup
2007
Capsaicin
What is ChemSpider?
An online database for science Over 21 million compounds, linking over
200 data sources A collaborative curation platform for the
public to assist in improving the quality of data
A deposition platform to extend the data A “Community for Chemists” Free to access
www.chemspider.com
Advancing the Chemical Sciences
Support publishing
Collaboration
Education
Business models
Publishing
RSC
ACS
Nature
Anyone
Collaboration
Publishers
Chemical Vendors
Databases
Chemical Community
Universities
ChemInformaticsElectronic Lab Notebooks
InChI
InChI=1/C27H46O/c1-18(2)7-6-8-19(3)23-11-12-24-22-10-9-20-17-21(2 8)13-15-26(20,4)25(22)14-16-27(23,24)5/h9,18-19,21-25,28H,6-8,10- 17H2,1-5H3/t19-,21+,22+,23-,24+,25+,26+,27-/m1/s1
ChemSpider Education
Business Models
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ChemSpider Development
Building Community Handling massive data sets Central services for publishers
ChemSpider Synthesis ChemSpider Education
Graham McCann ([email protected])Twitter: ChemSpidermanwww.chemspider.com/
By June 2009…
By June 2009 > 6000 users/day initiating over 80,000 transactions per day
We had a significant following in the “internet Chemistry” community
We were linked to from many other sites – Wikipedia, other online databases, from commercial software packages
Collaboration
Other Social Networking Tools
ChemSpider presently has a presence on: The ChemSpider Blog The ChemSpider Forum YouTube
Antony Williams, ChemSpiderman is on LinkedIn The ChemConnector Blog SlideShare Twitter
