Community activity #2: FAIRsharing

Some years ago we started the ELIXIR Toxicology Community. It has been an interesting journey, partly covered in this whitepaper). We started with interaction we had in several projects already, but particularly the potential. I see this. This series of posts is a number of things toxicology projects can do to benefit from ELIXIR solutions (“services”). The posts have been sent first to the ELIXIR Toxicology Community mailing list (please join!). 1 minute read

Information Retrieval versus ChatGPT

When last week in a large (and relevant) Dutch research event ChatGPT came up, and that this was going to change the world. Even the critiques came up, but were effectively disregarded with “these methods get better very quickly”. This is not untrue, but not really true either. I murmur “not even wrong”. I know how hard it is to get computers to find meaningful patters; I did a PhD in this in the early 21st century. 2 minute read

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. 1 minute read

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. 3 minute read

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. 1 minute read

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.” less than 1 minute read

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: less than 1 minute read