From: Ian Newington Now that we have lots of chemistry resources available on the Web, including journals, patents and databases which can give us a lot of know-how is anyone thinking about the identification of experts in certain fields? In industry there is a great move toward connecting people who have a problem with someone who has expertise in that area and may be able to help. This is often done with a sort of "yellow pages" of the organization. Let's say I'm looking for information about the nitration of a molecule with some very sensitive substituents. When I search the databases it would be great if I got a list (preferably short and in some rank order) of people I could contact with my question - email address as a minimum. I know that the tools to do some, perhaps most, of this are available through many search tools but it not a simple process and requires perhaps a different method of clustering and indexing reactions, not to mention a link with an up-to-date source of contact details. This would seem to be a step further than sending a note out to a mailing list. It is probably easier to address within an organization than globally on the Web but it may lead to being able to answer the real questions we ant answers to and not those we are forced to ask by the current interfaces to chemical information. Ian Newington Kodak European R&D Tel: +44-(0)181-424-4451 FAX: +44-(0)181-424-5788 email: ian_newington@kodak.com 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)
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From: Ian Newington
Now that we have lots of chemistry resources available on the Web, including journals, patents and databases which can give us a lot of know-how is anyone thinking about the identification of experts in certain fields? In industry there is a great move toward connecting people who have a problem with someone who has expertise in that area and may be able to help. This is often done with a sort of "yellow pages" of the organization.
RSC and the University of Sheffield had money for a project (Chemdex UK) which was designed to do something very similar to what you suggest within the UK, with the possibility of geographical extension. Lots of us filled out forms. I don't know where the project is up to now. I am copying this to someone in RSC who should know. In theory ChemWeb.com could also do this but I am not sure what their priorities are. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com 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)
We are trying to do this type of exercise at chemdex-uk. See http://www-rsc.shef.ac.uk/chemdex-uk/ There is a long way to go and we are looking to continue with and expand this project. An engine is as good as the data within it of course, and in this case "nitration" only generates one hit. It is surprsiingly difficult to get people to enter their own details into a database.
From: Ian Newington
Now that we have lots of chemistry resources available on the Web, including journals, patents and databases which can give us a lot of know-how is anyone thinking about the identification of experts in certain fields? In industry there is a great move toward connecting people who have a problem with someone who has expertise in that area and may be able to help. This is often done with a sort of "yellow pages" of the organization.
Let's say I'm looking for information about the nitration of a molecule with some very sensitive substituents. When I search the databases it would be great if I got a list (preferably short and in some rank order) of people I could contact with my question - email address as a minimum. I know that the tools to do some, perhaps most, of this are available through many search tools but it not a simple process and requires perhaps a different method of clustering and indexing reactions, not to mention a link with an up-to-date source of contact details.
This would seem to be a step further than sending a note out to a mailing list. It is probably easier to address within an organization than globally on the Web but it may lead to being able to answer the real questions we ant answers to and not those we are forced to ask by the current interfaces to chemical information.
Ian Newington
Kodak European R&D Tel: +44-(0)181-424-4451 FAX: +44-(0)181-424-5788 email: ian_newington@kodak.com
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Dr Mark J Winter (Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/chemdex/ 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)
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