Online Chemistry Nexus Proposal/Activity and effect

Proposed activity and effect on infrastructure

Technical activity

• Set up site, including choice and installation of appropriate pre-existing MediaWiki extensions
• Incorporation of an extension to allow display of .mol files
• Incorporation of an extension to allow searching by structure (at first, this would be a simple search on exact structure matches: greater functionality would then be developed)
• Development of an extension to support (and, if possible include semi-automatically) CML markup
• Development of extensions to support and facilitate Open Laboratory Notebooks
• Preparation of usage statistics

Technical-content activity

• Choice of supported filetypes and MediaWiki "namespaces"
• Ensuring correct procedures for the labelling of contributed content with its correct copyright license
• Development of automated and semi-automated methods for the validation and correction of certain content
• Development of methods to ensure the machine-readability of content at the minimum effort for the contributor