Research and teaching with blogs and wikis

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Research and teaching with blogs and wikis
Philadelphia Area Educational Technology
Conference

• Jean-Claude.Bradley_at_drexel.edu
• Feb 23, 2007

Drexel University Chemistry Department
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Where is Science headed?
WE ARE HERE
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The Robot Scientist
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How will this happen?

• Self-organizing reduntant processes
• Agents can participate with zero or near-zero
  cost (free hosted services)
• Fully Open Access (Read and Write)
• Publication of all aspects of the scientific
  process Open Source Science / Open Notebook
  Science

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How can machines know what is important?
Ask the humans
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UsefulChem Blog
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What chemists think is important in 2005
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Find-A-Drug
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Diketopiperazine Library
Evolves to on pot Ugi reaction/cyclization
First iteration Solid Support Synthesis
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The Molecules Blog
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The Experiments Blog
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Comments from peers
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The UsefulChem Wiki
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Telling the story of the failures
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Experiments moved to wiki
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Experiment History
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Experiment Edits
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Third Party Time-Stamp on Experiment Versions
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Monitoring experimental progress
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How are people finding our experiments?
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Molecules found by InChI
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Automation in UsefulChem
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CMLRSS feed on Bioclipse
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CMLRSS feed on Bloglines
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Open science connectivity
More info on open source science here
http//usefulchem.wikispaces.com
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Extending the interaction outside of science
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The blog as an integrative tool
usefulchem.blogspot.com
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The wiki as the laboratory notebook
usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Exp049
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Graphical Mining of Data with JSpecView
usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Exp049 (2 min)
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Raw Experimental Data
neurodatabase.org
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Selected Experiments (some failed)
Orgprepdaily.wordpress.com
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Vendor Reliability
Orgprepdaily.wordpress.com
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Generalized Protocols
Openwetware.org
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Lab Notebook for intra-group communication
Openwetware.org
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Discussing Hypotheses
RRResearch.blogspot.com
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Writing Code for the Automation Component
Also Rich Apodaca, Christoph Steinbeck, Peter
Murray-Rust
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