Peter blogged some days ago about microformats and how they could be used in chemistry .\nBeing late and a bit absent minded, I added a short comment that Chemical blogspace\nsupports\nmicroformats for chemistry , and that\nchemistry is harvested from that,\nand actually semantically distributed again using CMLRSS.
\n\nIn reply to my comment, he wrote a follow up highlighting one of blog items linked\nabove (thanx for that!). Accidentally, he also published my Gmail account and IP address, which was really just for the blog owner to\nsee who did the comment, and not for the world to harvest. This is a moment I am not so happy that Peter’s blog is so popular ;) Peter,\nmaybe be a bit more careful with copy/pasting next time.
\n\nPeter and Henry (still not in blogspace?) have been doing things along these lines for years now,\noften in different contexts. But getting these things going is a bit trickier. Actually, the take up of the chemical microformats\nhas been limited, and at least one alternative mechanism is being used: put the InChI in the @alt attribute on the <img> element.\nOther alternatives are possible too, such as recognizing molecules (or whatever else) based on a link to wikipedia; linking to\nentries in wikipedia is popular in Chemical blogspace.
One problem in getting microformats accepted, especially among chemists, is to have tools available. Tools meaning dedicated plugins\nfor blogging software to easy adding microformats to a blog item. You’d be suprised how uncommon raw HTML editing has become in the\nlast 10 years. ::: Structured Blogging ::: is a provider of such tools. On the using site,\nthere is this nice Firefox plugin, that can extract information available in\nmicroformats, though Firefox3 is supposed to support some microformats natively.
\n\nJust today, Peter also blogged about a Berner-Lee’s presentation with the nice\ncircular phenomena in all these web technologies. The diagrams nicely visualize the complex social aspects of these new technologies.\n(I’m sure the apply to chemoinformatics too… who makes a chemoinfo variant?) RDF is the way to go; it’s the machine interpretable\n(well, more accurate) microformat. All sorts of information is getting available as RDF. For example, check out\nbibtex2rdf, Wikipedia as RDF,\nuniprotRDF, and BioGUID. Moreover,\nGRDDL might mave this even more common.\nI have been maintaining a bookmark list of RDF things happening, check it out,\nthe list is social and using microformats.
", "summary": "Peter blogged some days ago about microformats and how they could be used in chemistry . Being late and a bit absent minded, I added a short comment that Chemical blogspace supports microformats for chemistry , and that chemistry is harvested from that, and actually semantically distributed again using CMLRSS.", "date_published": "2007-05-11T00:00:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2025-12-29T00:00:00+00:00", "tags": ["rdf","microformat","chemistry"], "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ] } ] }