[open-science] The Green Chain Reaction - please get involved

Wed Aug 11 15:48:49 UTC 2010

I've opened this out to the OKF open-science list as there will be others
who will be interested.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter and others,
>
> Sure, I'd be happy to help with that!
>

Wonderful

>
> I assume I'll model my emails after the existing ones on the IsItOpen site.
>  Do you have suggestions on how to identify the right person to send the
> emails to?
>

We know many of them, and they will need customising.

> Are any of the previous IsItOpen enquiries considered "Resolved"?  If not
> and some should be, may I help with that organization?  It would help my
> browsing :)
>

That would be REALLY great. If you can say something like - "many thanks for
replying, and we're very happy / would like more info, etc..."

>
> In short:  let me know when and how to start.
>
> btw to see if I could edit the green chain wiki etc I added IsItOpen
> volunteering as an area where people can help contribute.  After I did that
> I realized maybe you didn't want to highlight this sort of volunteering
> rolled under the umbrella of the green chain project?  If that is true, let
> me know and I'll remove it.
>

I'm very happy for it to be highlighted! It allows me to highlight you, the
OKF, JISC and several others.

>
> another btw, I've removed Todd Vision from the email CC.  As my PI, he was
> curious, but I don't want to fill his inbox.
>

Good.

Hacking code, maybe back in 2 hours

>
> Exciting!
>
> Heather
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> Great!
>>>
>>> I'll keep my eye on the list.  Let me know how/when I can help, and if
>>> you have a suggested location for notes/wikipages.
>>>
>>
>> The wiki is now all at:
>>
>> http://scienceonlinelondon.wikidot.com/topics:green-chain-reaction
>> as its probably the best place for people to see it.
>>
>> It would be really great if you could help make the IsItOpen request
>> system work. This was built by Jenny, Rufus and others from an idea I had
>> based on whatdotheyknow.org (FOI). It's a system to request information
>> from publishers as to whether their data is truly Open. The problem as you
>> know is that it is usually unclear.
>>
>> I intend to use this to ask publishers whether we can data-mine their
>> chemical reactions. We know we can do this with BMC, PLoS, Acta E and a few
>> others. The problem is that we haven't really put the proper attention to
>> collating replies. In particular it's valuable to make sure they get
>> courteous replies (even if they say no).
>>
>> So we'd like to start by asking the committed OA publishers, get "yes"
>> from them and then start the not-so-committed ones. How far we'll get before
>> the date I don't know. I'd like to present this at the meeting and at least
>> be able to show successes.
>>
>> But if there are other aspects of organization you can see feel free to
>> suggest them.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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