navigating scientific resources using wiki based resources
DESCRIPTION
There is an overwhelming number of new resources for chemistry that would likely benefit both librarians and students in terms of improving access to data and information. While commercial solutions provided by an institution may be the primary resources there is now an enormous range of online tools, databases, resources, apps for mobile devices and, increasingly, wikis. This presentation will provide an overview of how wiki-based resources for scientists are developing and will introduce a number of developing wikis. These include wikis that are being used to teach chemistry to students as well as to source information about scientists, scientific databases and mobile apps.TRANSCRIPT
Navigating scientific resources using wiki-based resources
Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Alexey Pshenichnov, Sean Ekins, Aileen Day and Martin Walker
ACS New Orleans Sunday April 7th 2013
Show of Hands
• Does anyone here run a Wiki?
The Most Famous of Wikis
Show of Hands
• Who has used Wikipedia in the past week?• Who has written an article on Wikipedia?• Who has found an error on Wikipedia?• Who has edited an article on Wikipedia?
Collaborative Authoring for Drug Discovery
• Pfizerpedia
So many Scientific Wikis…
Even Jimmy Wales cares…
What is a Wiki???
• “A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.”
Technical Definition
It is so much more…
• A place to connect and collaborate• A place for discussion and constructive conflict• An EASY path to set-up an environment for you
to engage the community• And….
Not all MediaWiki!
“Collaborative Environments”…for anything!
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemical_Information_Sources
Am I a poster boy?
Collaborative Knowledge Management for Chemists
ChemBoxes
DrugBoxes
January 9th 2008
Top 200 Drugs on Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bestselling_drugs
Types of Errors Found
• Structure drawing errors• Misassociation of names and structures• IUPAC Name Errors• Links out to databases were to wrong structures• Property errors/validation• CAS Number validation
CAS Discourages Using SciFinder for curating 3rd party databases
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) objects to anyone encouraging the use of SciFinder® and STN® to curate third-party databases or chemical substance collections, including the one found in Wikipedia. SciFinder and STN are provided to researchers under formal license agreements, under which the researchers agree to refrain from using these tools to build databases.
New announcement from CAS
• CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers® for current substances listed in Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal that are of widespread general public interest.
Beneficial Outcome…
Full up curating Wikipedia Chemistry
DrugBoxes
WikiBox Chemicals/ChemBox Validationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Chembox_validation
Wikipedia on ChemSpider
Wikipedia Chemical Linkouts
ChemSpider Limitations
• We handles compounds where there are defined InChIs
• Poor handling of polymers, minerals, materials • ChemSpider does not handle reactions
Wikipedia Polymers
Wikipedia Minerals
Named Reactions on Wikipedia
ChemSpider Development
• ChemSpider Reactions : working on rolling out a half million reactions to the community
• Will integrate ChemSpider SyntheticPages, Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions and Methods of Organic Synthesis
• Developing support for materials – where InChIs are not available.
World without Wikipedia
Scientists on Wikipedia
Sean Ekins
Scientists on Wikipedia
Where is your Wikipedia Page??
• The challenging notability criteria of Wikipedia• But what about an environment to create your
own Wiki page on a database that you manage
• Harvested Wikipedia scientists and set it up
www.ScientistsDB.com
www.ScientistsDB.com
www.ScientistsDB.com
Sandy Lawson
• Skolnik Symposium
ScientistsDB to Wikipedia?
www.SciDBs.com
www.SciMobileApps.com
What encourages participation?
• “Interested” parties contribute • Marketing and self-promotion are primary
reasons for participation• There are very few “selfless” participants
• Relationships garner contributions…
www.SciMobileApps.com
• 8 contributors only…in 7 months
www.SciDBs.com
• 7 contributors only…in 6 months
www.ScientistsDB.com
38 contributors …in 6 weeks
Learn Chemistry Wiki
– Last two years of secondary school to end of undergraduate
– Integrated to a small slice of ChemSpider– Introduction of more educational “games”:
Chemistry quizzes – e.g reactions– Hosting training/educational resources– Integrate to existing RSC websites– An environment of participation. It’s a WIKI!
From this…..…..to this
Simplified interface
ChemSpider is too much…
Substance Pages
Quizzes: Fill in the Blank
Detailed Quizzes
Immediate Answers
Learn Spectroscopy using a Wiki
Submit Structures as Answers!
Lab Experiments
Wonderfully Detailed Procedures
Searching Wikipedia by Structure
• Presently preparing the Wikipedia chemical structure collection to donate to anybody who want to link to Wikipedia by chemical
• Coming Soon – Contact me directly…
Acknowledgments
• Wikipedia Chemistry Team: especially Walkerma, PhysChim62, Beetstra, Edgar181, MANY others
• RSC|eScience team –Aileen Day as technical lead on Learn Chemistry. Alexey Pshenichnov for SpectraSchool.
• Learn Chemistry Wiki: Martin Walker, Potsdam U• Sean Ekins – ScientistsDB, SciMobileApps, SciDBs• Alex Clark – SciMobileApps contributions
Thank you
Email: [email protected] Twitter: ChemConnectorPersonal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Video Online http://youtu.be/4vDeyean190