On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Although there is not mucg traffic on the list many the BlueOb community
> continues to create code and data and standards
Maybe a nice OpenBibliography use case? Track all Blue Obelisk related
literature? I have been manually tracking papers citing the two CDK
papers... but it is rather annoying I have to do that manually, and
that it is not a simple (SPARQL) query to ask for all downstream
literature, where that was published, with a breakdown of journals by
JIF (not for me, but for those who swear by them), by GOA/GrOA/NOA,
etc...
I think the total sum of papers now citing Blue Obelisk components is
somewhere between 500 and 1000... in a wider picture, the use of Open
Source has taken a great flight, and has become well-accepted now.
It is hard to keep momentum without investment, but I do think it a
very strong point that the spectrum of Blue Obelisk tools are still
around *without* that investment. There is not a lot of closed source
cheminformatics software that can say the same thing ("Remember ...
well, I cannot actually remember the name of that web app for
structure display that Jmol replaced myself!" :)
Seriously, there is an enormous amount of work that remains to be
done. For example, the CDK is facing the need of a significant rewrite
of the core classes, and the full library will need to be updated for
that. It has seen several rewrites of core APIs, and it is more than
feasible in a short-on-funding setting... that history has shown.
I mean, just think what this community can achieve did we get a
serious investment! Of course, our investors are (inter)national
governments, and research foundations paying the bills, but most of us
have trouble to find dedicated funding for out projects...
The make a circle... a good citation analysis on all Blue Obelisk
tools would help very much!
Egon
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Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT
Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/)
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