Open Bibliography for Science, Technology, and Medicine

Abstract

The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open

NoSQL Data Model for Semi-automatic Integration of Ethnomedicinal Plant Data from Multiple Sources

“…Although a perfect document data model for the ethnomedicinal plants is still lacking, there are many related‐data models that are related to the ethnopharmacological data. In the current model, chemical collections and bibliography collections were revised on an existing data model of the MongoChem and BibJSON format (Jones et al ., ) for data compatibility and linking open data.…”

Semantic science and its communication - a personal view

“…A colleague recently told me he had spent a month researching the literature of his child's condition (to critically effective purpose) and we agreed he could only do this because he was a professor at a University. That is one reason I support the Open Knowledge Foundation and its projects to define and obtain Open information (of which Open Bibliography [ 4 ] in this issue is typical).…”

“…I and others have been critical of PDF as a publication format - it destroys semantics and innovation, but we must "eat our own dogfood" [ 5 ] and this is shown by several articles. Henry Rzepa creates all his molecules as semantic objects, while in Open Bibliography [ 4 ] we use our newly developed BibJSON and ScholarlyHTML to create and publish the article.…”

“…Several of the papers in the article have adopted these later ideas. This has been most obvious in Open Bibliography [ 4 ] where effectively the whole concept and technology has been driven during the 6 weeks of "writing the paper". We started with a blank page and four people (William Waites, Mark MacGillivray, Ben O'Steen, Peter Murray-Rust) and during the writing process brought in new authors (Jim Pitman, Peter Sefton, Richard Jones) and communally created the design, technology and "paper".…”

CMLLite: a design philosophy for CML

“…We have explored a full RDF implementation of CML through ChemAxiom [ 15 ] (an OWL-compatible representation of physical chemical properties) and we have also explored full RDF in Open Bibliography [ 16 ]). Both of these have shown that the entry overhead is high as the tools are at an early stage.…”