U okviru Google Tech predavanja, izdavajamo zanimljivo izlaganje Dr. Peter Murray-Rust-a, sa University of Cambridge, strucnjaka iz oblasti Molecular Informatics. Murray je kreator CML -Chemical Mark up language-a. Tema ovog krajnje zanimljivog i korisnog predavanja je Semanticki veb iz oblasti hemije, ‘open data’, akademsko izdavastvo, naucni radovi, casopisi koji se sve godine objavljuju i novim tehnologijama koje se pritom koriste, o zanimljivim naucnim otkricima, kao i konvertovanju semantickih podataka u PDF. Ovo 55-minutno predavanje je sa titlovima za lakse pracenje izlaganja.

Zanimljiva je cinjenica da ovaj profesor, doktor nauka, u svom izlaganju na pocetku, kada govori o informacionim i web tehnologijama, kaze da je prestao i da ne voli da koristi HTML slajdove i Power Point presentation alatku za svoja predavanja (“it destroys information and it destroys brains”), vec koristi svoje slajdove, reference, komentare i predavanje koje se nalazi na njegovom blogu, odakle direktno koristi sve opcije Web 2.0 tehnologije.
Sledi citat abstrakta ovog predavanja:

ABSTRACT The millions of scientific papers published each year are an amazing source for scientific discovery but in most of them the experimental data is destroyed by the publication process. Publishers insist on converting semantic data into PDF which effectively destroys everything. We have been developing social and technical strategies to preserve and liberate this data and where this has happened have been able to create completely new mashups and other semantic resources.

Chemistry is the most tractable discipline for the semantic web – most chemistry can be turned into XML with little semantic loss, using Chemical Markup Language and complementary MLs such as XHTML, MathML and SVG.

We have to mobilise a bottom-up revolution through modern Internet ideas – blogs, communal source development, interoperability. We have done this in chemistry through the Blue Obelisk movement – an informal but coherent group of young-at-heart hackers. We are adopting lightweight web technologies (“REST”, etc.) to chemistry – an example will be CMLRSS which we run in a Bioclipse environment. «