Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future

Additional booklet insert distributed at the VSMF Symposium held at the Unilever Centre on 2011-01-17The event looks forward. Scholarship (universities, research, teaching, publishing) has been slow to take up the opportunities of this digital century. This is an opportunity to identify and build the future.EPSRC (Pathways to Impact award). Unilever plc (Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Open Chemistry

An invited article on Open Chemistry discussing the importance of Open Access and Open Data and stressing the emerging role of the blogospher

Reproducible Physical Science and the Declaratron

Invited Book ChapterThe Declaratron is a semantic engine for formalising mathematics and science in publication

The Blue Obelisk Community

Poster presented at the VSMF symposium held at the Unilever Centre on 2011-01-17The Internet has brought together a group of chemists who are driven by wanting to do things better, but are frustrated with the Closed systems that chemists currently have to work with. they share a belief in the concepts of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source. And they express this in software, data, algorithms, specifications, tutorials, demonstrations, articles and anything that helps get the message across. [http://www.blueobelisk.org/

The social, political and legal aspects of Text and Data Mining (TDM)

The ideas of textual or data mining (TDM) and subsequent analysis go back hundreds if not thousands of years. Originally carried out manually, textual and data analysis has long been a tool which has enabled new insights to be drawn from text corpora. However, for the potential benefits of TDM to be unlocked, a number of non-technological barriers need to be overcome. These include legal uncertainty resulting from complicated copyright, database rights and licensing, the fact that some publishers are not currently embracing the opportunities TDM offers the academic community, and a lack of awareness of TDM among many academics, alongside a skills gap

Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future

Booklet handout distributed at the VSMF Symposium held at the Unilever Centre on 2011-01-17The event looks forward. Scholarship (universities, research, teaching, publishing) has been slow to take up the opportunities of this digital century. This is an opportunity to identify and build the future.EPSRC (Pathways to Impact Award). Unilever plc (Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Water supply and demand forecasting in the Zayandeh Rud Basin, Iran

Water demandWater supplyForecastingWater useRiver basinsReservoirsIranZayandeh Rud BasinChadegan Reservoir

Semantic science and its communication - a personal view.

The articles in this special issue represent the culmination of about 15 years working with the potential of the web to support chemical and related subjects. The selection of papers arises from a symposium held in January 2011 ('Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future') which gave me an opportunity to invite many people who shared the same vision. I have asked them to contribute their papers and most have been able to do so. They cover a wide range of content, approaches and styles and apart from the selection of the speakers (and hence the authors) I have not exercised any control over the content.RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are

Improving irrigation management through better information: Testing practical options in Indonesia

Information services / Irrigable land / Performance evaluation / Monitoring / Water users' associations / Water allocation / Irrigation management / Irrigated sites / Water delivery / Economic aspects / Benefits / Mapping / Labor / Indonesia / West Java / Cerebon

Irrigation system performance assessment and diagnosis

Performance evaluation / Irrigation programs / Irrigation management / Irrigation systems / Case studies / Hydraulics / Management / Environmental effects / Asia / Africa / South America