Does chemical data do get a watermark in the future ? How do we watermark a synthesis ?
That's interesting and I hope for some further insights and comments.
An interesting question. We have been working on XML, which can be described in many ways, one of which is a way of capturing information components, or perhaps fragments. Thus a <synthesis> can be easily identified within say a large collection of chemical information. If one combines this with another recent technology, of digital signatures or "watermarks", then one has the possibility of say an individual author "signing" either a complete document describing many chemical components, or of say a part of a document, such as a synthesis. An article of ours is about to be published in Chemical Communications which will be made available in its entirety in the original XML which (were it to be about synthesis) could be so signed. See http://www.W3.org/Signature/ for more information about XML signatures, and http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chimeral/ for more information about how chemistry can be captured (not yet signed) using XML. See also http://pubs.acs.org/reprint-request?ci980336g/v8Eo for more information about how resources can be signed. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)