• Paper: The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers

    I think that if you want to make your knowledge FAIR, you should use an open license and RDF. Simple. Now, not everything is knowledge. A lot of data is, but a lot more is not, think raw data. Using RDF to explain a protein sequence is still something that makes me feel uneasy.
  • CiTO updates #4: annotations in datasets

    Okay, the Pilot is over ending with 17 papers, 16 of which have CiTO annotations (and so far 4 J.Cheminform. papers after the pilot), but my interest in the Citation Typing Ontology continues and we just need more adoption.
  • Scholia timeline

    Sometimes I think back about how Scholia started, and then I think I remember a Twitter discussion. Twitter was a social platform that was unable to fight hate speech. I left it last year in favor of Mastodon.
  • Doing the "Open Science Challenge"

    Screenshot of the sign up page. Triggered by the “reflections on your career” in the announcement I decide to give the Open Science Challenge by Heidi Seibold a try: “12 emails over the course of a month that are designed to help you on your Open Science journey.”
  • Finding Mastodon accounts with Wikidata (a few SPARQL queries)

    There are multiple initiatives to support the migration from Twitter to Mastodon (see also this blog post ). But Wikidata should not be forgotten here which has been tracking Mastodon accounts of things in their database:
  • Wikidata script for SMILES, SMARTS, and CXSMILES depiction

    In August I reported about 2D depiction of (CX)SMILES in Wikidata via linkouts (going back to 2017). Based on a script by Magnus Manske, I wrote a Wikidata gadget that uses the same CDK Depict (VHP4Safety mirror) to depict the 2D structure in Wikidata itself:
  • s/Twitter/Mastodon/g

    Yeah, it has been hard to miss it (see e.g. Should I join Mastodon? A scientists’ guide to Twitter’s rival). Twitter is experiencing some turbulence and Mastodon has become a very attractive, open source, community-driven, inclusive alternative. It’s been around since 2016 and there is some research literature about it already. I got my account in 2018, but did not start actively using it until earlier this year.