CDK 1.3.3: the changes

The CDK 1.3.3 release does not contain overly many patches, but contains a few interesting ones: 4 minute read

RDF, Jena, Bioclipse, Eclipse, Zest #2: icons and an extension point

Jonathan worked this week on new features for the Bioclipse RDF editor (see these two earlier items). This version still does not edit, but only display using Zest. Jonathan created for me an extension point so that anyone can make the editor aware of domain objects, by simply registering the extension implementation along with the rdf:Class URI of the rdf:type of an object. This fixes the problem of having to hardcode dependencies of the RDF editor on all the domain code, as was the case earlier . 1 minute read

Dutch contribution to the Crystallography Open Database at risk?

The Dutch company PANalytical has made their HighScore software available (some details in this README) for use in the Crystallography Open Database. less than 1 minute read

What IF or Article Level Metrics does not tell you...

This weekend there was the really nice Science Commons Symposium, which I virtually attended, and there is an interesting discussion at FriendFeed on article level metrics. less than 1 minute read

Further statistics on the papers citing the CDK

I already gave a wordle of the titles of papers citing the first CDK paper. Below follows some additional statistics: the number of papers that use a particular CDK package (51). Now, this numbers are a bit rough, and surely any paper that uses the CDK is bound to use the IO or SMILES package too. Additionally, for 10 papers I was not sure what CDK functionality they used, so I assigned those to the root package. 1 minute read

Wordle of the titles of the 20 most recent papers citing the first CDK article (as identified by WoS)

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Open Data: the Panton Principles

The announcement of the Panton Principles is the big news today, though Peter already spoke about them in May last year (see coverage on FriendFeed and Twitter). The four principles list in their short versions: 4 minute read