serving up and consuming community content for chemists using wikis
DESCRIPTION
Wikipedia has become the world’s most famous encyclopedia using as it’s platform the MediaWiki open source software. The software is supported not only by the MediaWiki foundation but by a community of developers who build widgets and add-ons to extend the capabilities. This presentation will review how MediaWiki has been used as a container for a number of resources of value to chemists, specifically SciMobileApps, SciDBs and ScientistsDB holding content regarding mobile scientific apps, scientific databases and scientists. We will also review how chemistry content within Wikipedia has been used to enhance the content underlying the RSC ChemSpider database and how the platform supports an educational environment for chemistry students.TRANSCRIPT
Serving up and consuming community content for chemists
using wikisDavid Sharpe, Antony Williams, Alexey Pshenichnov, Valery
Tkachenko, Aileen Day and Sean Ekins
ACS Philadelphia August 2012
Wikis
Collaborative Knowledge Management for Chemists – Wikipedia, Built by a Network
Collaborative Authoring for Drug Discovery Pfizerpedia
and biologists…WikiProteins
WikiProteins
So many Scientific Wikis…
www.SciMobileApps.com
www.SciDBs.com
www.ScientistsDB.com
And of different “flavors” Not all MediaWiki!
Wikis are “collaborative environments”…for anything!
RSC eLearning
The Initial Vision of RSC eLearning From 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
Substance Pages
Quizzes
Fill in the Blank
Immediate Answers
Submit Structures as Answers!
Participation!!!
Lab Experiments
Tutorials
A Growing Wiki Resource
Acknowledgments
RSC|Learn Chemistry team RSC|ChemSpider team – especially Aileen Day as
technical lead on Learn Chemistry. Alexey Pshenichnov for SpectraSchool.
Learn Chemistry Wiki: Martin Walker, Potsdam U.
iChemLabs (ChemDoodle Components) GGA Software Services LLC: Ketcher
Thank you
Email: [email protected] Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams