This is a "vendor presentation" that I gave in New Orleans on June 14th 2010. It is a very general presentation on ChemSpider relevant to the needs of librarians.

1. ChemSpider: Collecting and Curating the
World’s Chemistry with the Community

2. What are Trustworthy Sources Online?

3. What is the modern online search?

4. What is Methane?

5. What is Methane?

6. What ELSE is Methane???

7. Chemistry is Complex

8. Where is chemistry online?
 Encyclopedic articles (Wikipedia)
 Chemical company databases
 Metabolic pathway databases
 Property databases
 Patents with chemical structures
 Drug Discovery data
 Scientific publications
 Blogs/Wikis
 Why not integrate it all?!

9. As few interfaces as possible
What do humans want?

10. A Pragmatic Vision
“Build a Structure Centric Community”
 Integrate chemical structure data on the web
 Create a “structure-based hub” to information and
data
 Provide access to structure-based “algorithms”
 Let chemists contribute their own data
 Allow the community to curate/correct data

11. Resourcing structure-based info

12. ChemSpider Searches

13. What is Levulinic Acid?

14. Basic Info

15. External Links

16. External Links to Data

17. Patent Integration

18. Google Patent Integration

19. Access to Articles
 RSC Journals
 RSC Books
 PubMed
 Google Scholar
 Google Books
 Microsoft Academic Search

20. Articles Linked

21. The RSC Publishing Platform (Beta)

22. RSC Databases
 Direct links into six Royal Society of Chemistry
databases
 Mass Spectrometry Bulletin
 Laboratory Hazards Bulletin
 Methods in Organic Synthesis
 Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions
 Natural Product Updates
 Analytical Abstracts

23. Access to Articles

24. Google Scholar

25. Experimental and Predicted Properties

26. Experimental and Predicted Properties

27. Links from ChemSpider
 Chemical suppliers
 Other publications
 Analytical Data
 Related Reactions
 Wikipedia
 Patents
 “Everything”

28. Linked Data on the Web

29. How “Big” is ChemSpider?
 Nearly 25 million compounds, >400 data sources
 A crowdsourced deposition and curation platform
 Grows daily – more depositions, more data
 But now also a publishing platform for the community

30. Citizen Scientists Add and Validate

31. Crowd-sourcing Chemistry Curation
 Crowd-sourced curation: identify errors, add and
edit data in a “controlled environment”

32. Citizens as Data Sources

33. What do computers want? “Interfaces”
Web services
flickr.com/photos/microcosmos

34. ChemSpider Everywhere: ChemMobi

35. Mobile ChemSpider

36. ChemSpider Multimedia Content
 The web is of course a multimedia host today
 ChemSpider is a multimedia host for Chemistry
 Images
 MP3s
 Videos
 Chemistry data: spectra, crystal structures

37. Multimedia Content Holder

38. Periodic Table Images

39. CAS SciFinder

40. reaxys

41. Differences between ChemSpider,
Reaxys and SciFinder
 Everything on Reaxys and Scifinder is curated
 The data resources can be over a 100 years old
 The platforms are commercial and “read-only”
 ChemSpider is free, to everyone
 Data are in a state of ongoing curation & annotation
 Data resources are from the “electronic era”
 Data are expanded daily and enhanced on an
ongoing basis
 The platform delivers integrated algorithm access

42. Semantic Markup: Project Prospect

43. Semantic Linking of Publications
 What would you want
to link off a structure?
 Chemical suppliers
 Other publications
 Analytical Data
 Related Reactions
 Wikipedia
 Patents
 “Everything”

44. Chemistry on the Internet FUTURE
 The “semantic web” for chemistry is in place
 Crowdsourcing is commonplace
 Chemists will search the web by “structure”
 Chemistry articles indexed and searchable
 Reduced number of searches to find data because
data are integrated – compounds, vendors,
syntheses, data, publications and patents
 A world of Open Access and Open Data

45. Community Contribution
 ChemSpider wins “Community
contribution” best practice award”
 ChemSpider wins I-Expo innovation award, Paris,
France, June 2010

46. Thank you
antony.williams@chemspider.com
Twitter: ChemSpiderman
www.chemspider.com/blog
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