ACS flash talk on wiki databases scidbs, scimobileapps, scientistsdb given march 25 2012 at ACS

1. Creating New Databases by
Wiki
Sean Ekins
Collaborations in Chemistry, Fuquay Varina, NC
Antony J. Williams
Royal Society of Chemistry, Wake Forest, NC

2. Motivation for scimobileapps.com
Collecting information and
making it accessible fast
Quality of data & getting
crowd involved
Making science and the
tools for science more
visible
Williams et al DDT 16:928-939, 2011

3. How do you find useful science
apps?
• Search in App store
• Returns a myriad of Apps many not even
be appropriate
• Many are flashcards when you want an
App that does something else
• How do you find the right App quickly
• No definitive Encyclopedia of Science
Apps
• No book on science Apps!!!!
• So we started a wiki – stimulate others –
easier to update than a paper
http://slidesha.re/lhyq8s
www.scimobileapps.com

4. Scimobileapps.com
Public Launch
June 21 2011
via chemconnector blog
Twitter, facebook etc.

5. Focus on cheminformatics apps
Scimobileapps.com
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6. Capture basic information
Who owns it
What is it used for
Technical details
What platforms does it run on
Blogs
Slides

7. ODDT is in Scimobileapps.com
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8 Contributors only…in 7 months
Mainly vendors---Get involved!!

8. Motivation for scidbs.com
Errors in NPC browser was just the tip of
iceberg..after years of looking at database
quality
http://bit.ly/lXHInG
http://bit.ly/m4Tx2b
How can we track and quantify quality in
scientific databases?
Williams and Ekins, DDT, 16: 747-750 (2011)
Williams et al., DDT in press (2012)

9. Scidbs.com
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10. Scidbs.com
DB logo
Type of DB
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Owner
Website
License
Curation etc

11. Motivation for
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http://bit.ly/uG5f0N http://slidesha.re/wCuboZ

12. What is
• ScientistsDB is a database of scientists,
young and old, historical and active, from
various sciences.
• Almost 50,000 articles from Wikipedia
• User-contributed content
• http://www.scientistsdb.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams/sci
entists-database

13. Is Different to Wikipedia
UNLIKE WIKIPEDIA
ScientistsDB allows you
to add yourself
integrate TwitterFeed,
Mendeley profile,
YouTube links, LinkedIn
Profile..
Your online biography
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Add more detail than
LinkedIn
Link to slides, talks etc
36 contributors in 6 weeks

14. Connect on Oters

15. Why YOU should be on
• Tired of having to hunt around many websites to find
scientists for paper reviewing, chapter contributions or
for conferences.
• Fed up with having to send your bio and headshot to
conference organizers?
• Reporters having a hard time finding the best scientist
to interview?
• Want to find new scientists to collaborate with but do
not know where to start?

16. If you want to market yourself and your
databases, Apps then get involved…
www.scimobileapps.com
www.scidbs.com
www.scientistsdb.com
ekinssean@yahoo.com
ScientistsDB Logo by Kalliopi Monoyios

17. Bonus slide: The Wikipedia Notability Paradox
http://bit.ly/yqxopV