The document discusses using crowdsourcing and text mining to improve access to chemistry information on the internet. It describes ChemSpider, a search engine for chemical structures, properties, and information. ChemSpider aims to index chemistry articles and literature to make chemical information more accessible and searchable by structure. The challenges of aggregating and curating large amounts of chemical data from various sources are also discussed.
29. Differences between ChemSpider/Wikipedia No, but links. Analytical Data Active editors > 50 (?) Active depositors/curators – 30 No Prediction of properties ???? 6000 people/day; 1900 registered Detailed compound monographs Compound monographs linked Text Complex queries – Properties, Text, structure/substructure, OA publishers, Data Sources, … ~5000 organics, 2000 others >21 million unique structures Wikipedia ChemSpider
30. Differences between Wikipedia/ChemSpider Growing reputation as focused on quality Worldwide reputation as quality source – good and bad Chemistry is the focus of ‘Spider Chemistry is a subset of the ‘Pedia Mixed “licensing” GFL licensing for everything Growing team of advocates, curators and users Strong team of WP:Chem advocates, curators and admins “ Out of a basement” on three servers and 5 volunteers Established infrastructure and Wikipedia Foundation Team Primarily Microsoft .NET technologies with OS components Supported by tried and tested Media-Wiki platform. ChemSpider Wikipedia