serving up and consuming community content for chemists using wikis

Serving up and consuming community content for chemists

using wikisDavid Sharpe, Antony Williams, Alexey Pshenichnov, Valery

Tkachenko, Aileen Day and Sean Ekins

ACS Philadelphia August 2012

Wikis

Collaborative Knowledge Management for Chemists – Wikipedia, Built by a Network

Collaborative Authoring for Drug Discovery Pfizerpedia

and biologists…WikiProteins

WikiProteins

So many Scientific Wikis…

www.SciMobileApps.com

www.SciDBs.com

www.ScientistsDB.com

And of different “flavors” Not all MediaWiki!

Wikis are “collaborative environments”…for anything!

RSC eLearning

The Initial Vision of RSC eLearning From 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!

From this…..…..to this

Simplified interface

ChemSpider is too much…

Substance Pages

Substance Pages

Quizzes

Fill in the Blank

Immediate Answers

Submit Structures as Answers!

Participation!!!

Lab Experiments

Tutorials

A Growing Wiki Resource

Acknowledgments

RSC|Learn Chemistry team RSC|ChemSpider team – especially Aileen Day as

technical lead on Learn Chemistry. Alexey Pshenichnov for SpectraSchool.

Learn Chemistry Wiki: Martin Walker, Potsdam U.

iChemLabs (ChemDoodle Components) GGA Software Services LLC: Ketcher

Thank you

Email: williamsa@rsc.org Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams