I think it's wonderful that we have an un-organization that is still going strong. I highlight the great work done voluntarily by many people, without central management, in tackling the log4j problem.
Some of my colleagues are interested in DAOs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization) . Does this have any role for BO? Do we have algorithms for governance that make sense for BO? I am continuing to keep a hand in chemistry, particularly materials. I was asked to speak at two meetings last year (OMDI2021) and am also invited to a CECAM meeting next month MADICES2022. (I've also been changing to Python as it has a better and more integrated set of libraries than Java - which is increasingly enterprise). We need new approaches and I'm trying to work some of these out - particularly a mixture of un-natural language processing with defined objects rooted in Wikidata. Wikidata is a gamechanger and Egon is one of the leaders. I'm also building software to extract data from diagrams. This includes plots (such as electrochemistry) and biochemical reaction pathways. There are much better general libraries for images and I think we can make good progress. I'd be interested in anyone who wants to extract data from spectra, reaction pathways, plots (scatter, bar, ...) I applaud Christoph and his group for Decimer ML to identify chemical diagrams and would be happy to explore. I am particularly keen on extracting knowledge from preprints (and have been talking with bio/medrxiv people). Being able to have an immediate preprint reader - e.g. minutes after the document was loaded - would be independent of publishers. Also the PDFs are much more tractable than the awful 2-column PDFs of the "version of record". In short I think there are huge opportunities for modern tools to innovate in chemistry again and take semantic control. P. > > > -- > Robert M. Hanson > Professor of Chemistry > St. Olaf College > Northfield, MN > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > it is better to take what answer we get. > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > > *We stand on the homelands of the Wahpekute Band of the Dakota Nation. We > honor with gratitude the people who have stewarded the land throughout the > generations and their ongoing contributions to this region. We acknowledge > the ongoing injustices that we have committed against the Dakota Nation, > and we wish to interrupt this legacy, beginning with acts of healing and > honest storytelling about this place.* > -- Peter Murray-Rust Founder ContentMine.org and Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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