Navigating scientific resources using wiki based resources
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Navigating scientific resources using wiki-based resources Wikipedia and other wiki platforms are increasingly being used for scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing. Wikis allow users to easily add, modify, and delete content through a web browser. Wikis have been used to curate information on chemicals, drugs, and other scientific topics. Errors have been found and corrected on Wikipedia chemistry pages through collaborative editing. New developments include linking chemistry pages to structured databases, adding specialized boxes for chemical information, and developing educational wikis for chemistry learning. Wikis provide an accessible platform for scientific communities to connect, discuss, and build knowledge bases.
Navigating scientific resources using wiki based resources
- 1. Navigating scientific resources using wiki-based resources Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Alexey Pshenichnov, Sean Ekins, Aileen Day and Martin Walker ACS New Orleans Sunday April 7th 2013
- 2. Show of Hands • Does anyone here run a Wiki?
- 3. The Most Famous of Wikis
- 4. Show of Hands • Who has used Wikipedia in the past week? • Who has written an article on Wikipedia? • Who has found an error on Wikipedia? • Who has edited an article on Wikipedia?
- 5. Collaborative Authoring for Drug Discovery • Pfizerpedia
- 6. So many Scientific Wikis…
- 7. Even Jimmy Wales cares…
- 8. What is a Wiki??? • “A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.” Technical Definition
- 9. It is so much more… • A place to connect and collaborate • A place for discussion and constructive conflict • An EASY path to set-up an environment for you to engage the community • And….
- 11. “Collaborative Environments” …for anything!
- 13. Am I a poster boy?
- 14. Collaborative Knowledge Management for Chemists
- 15. ChemBoxes
- 16. DrugBoxes
- 17. January 9 2008 th
- 18. Top 200 Drugs on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bestselling_drugs
- 19. Types of Errors Found • Structure drawing errors • Misassociation of names and structures • IUPAC Name Errors • Links out to databases were to wrong structures • Property errors/validation • CAS Number validation
- 20. CAS Discourages Using SciFinder for curating 3rd party databases Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) objects to anyone encouraging the use of SciFinder® and STN® to curate third-party databases or chemical substance collections, including the one found in Wikipedia. SciFinder and STN are provided to researchers under formal license agreements, under which the researchers agree to refrain from using these tools to build databases.
- 22. New announcement from CAS • CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers® for current substances listed in Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal that are of widespread general public interest.
- 24. Full up curating Wikipedia Chemistry
- 25. DrugBoxes
- 29. ChemSpider Limitations • We handles compounds where there are defined InChIs • Poor handling of polymers, minerals, materials • ChemSpider does not handle reactions
- 32. Named Reactions on Wikipedia
- 33. ChemSpider Development • ChemSpider Reactions : working on rolling out a half million reactions to the community • Will integrate ChemSpider SyntheticPages, Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions and Methods of Organic Synthesis • Developing support for materials – where InChIs are not available.
- 37. Sean Ekins
- 38. Challenging the Status Quo http://tinyurl.com/7e3l6rz
- 40. Where is your Wikipedia Page?? • The challenging notability criteria of Wikipedia • But what about an environment to create your own Wiki page on a database that you manage • Harvested Wikipedia scientists and set it up
- 44. Sandy Lawson • Skolnik Symposium
- 46. www.SciDBs.com
- 48. What encourages participation? • “Interested” parties contribute • Marketing and self-promotion are primary reasons for participation • There are very few “selfless” participants • Relationships garner contributions…
- 49. www.SciMobileApps.com • 8 contributors only…in 7 months
- 50. www.SciDBs.com • 7 contributors only…in 6 months
- 51. www.ScientistsDB.com 38 contributors …in 6 weeks
- 52. Learn Chemistry Wiki – Last two years of secondary school to end of undergraduate – Integrated to a small slice of ChemSpider – Introduction of more educational “games”: Chemistry quizzes – e.g reactions – Hosting training/educational resources – Integrate to existing RSC websites – An environment of participation. It’s a WIKI!
- 54. ChemSpider is too much… Simplified interface …..to this From this…..
- 55. Substance Pages
- 56. Quizzes: Fill in the Blank
- 57. Detailed Quizzes
- 59. Learn Spectroscopy using a Wiki
- 60. Submit Structures as Answers!
- 61. Lab Experiments
- 63. Searching Wikipedia by Structure • Presently preparing the Wikipedia chemical structure collection to donate to anybody who want to link to Wikipedia by chemical • Coming Soon – Contact me directly…
- 64. Acknowledgments • Wikipedia Chemistry Team: especially Walkerma, PhysChim62, Beetstra, Edgar181, MANY others • RSC|eScience team –Aileen Day as technical lead on Learn Chemistry. Alexey Pshenichnov for SpectraSchool. • Learn Chemistry Wiki: Martin Walker, Potsdam U • Sean Ekins – ScientistsDB, SciMobileApps, SciDBs • Alex Clark – SciMobileApps contributions
- 65. Video Online http://youtu.be/4vDeyean190 Thank you Email: williamsa@rsc.org Twitter: ChemConnector Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Editor's Notes
- #55: However, current ChemSpider user interface is not student friendly. IT contains too much information which is irrelevant to school students. Martin’s first project is developing a simpler ‘student interface’ for less experienced users. Called a substance page, being developed in our wiki environment, contains only physical data and spectra plus some information imported from wikipedia. Also has the lewis version of the structure, important because students are not introduced to skeletal forms until the later stages of A-level