Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the launch(es) of PP and IIO. Cameron and I presented these at the Science Commons meeting on Saturday 20th feb in Redmond - there were about 70 people there but a lot more following on Twitter and Chris Pirillo's live video stream.
I got a very strong feeling that Open Data has arrived and I think the Open Data button is a major tool for dissemination. I have already suggested to my collaborators at Microsoft that we should create an OpenDataButton add-in. This could be similar to their CC add-in. Alternatively anyone writing software (as we have been doing in Chem4Word) should be able to add an "OpenData" statement to the output. In our case we would expect to have an "OpenData" button on the MS ribbon which the user could enable or disable. If enabled then all documents would carry appropriate RDF licence, links, statement, etc. I'd be grateful on what this should look like. It should be easy with XML or HTML as this can be emebedded in a comment as CC does. It's more difficult for fixed formats such as CSV. It could be very useful indeed for images where it could appear in the metadata or even as a small part of the image visible to the reader. P. PS. I can't remember how much I showed of IIO - it should be on the video. I didn't show any crashes - thanks to all who mended/tried_to_mend the system at short notice. Has the problem been pinned down? This gives us an immediate -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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