[Nmrshiftdb-users] Status Update for NMRShiftDB

[Christoph S. <ste...@ic...>]

Dear NMRShiftDB Registrant,

with a slowly growing community of registered users while still being in 
beta status, we are going post status updates for NMRShiftDB a little 
more frequently than it will be happening in the future when NMRShiftDB 
is stable.

These postings, like this one, will be preceded by a news update, 
followed by a general section, which will be reposted on a regular 
basis, as soon as this is justified by a certain number of new 
registrants or an important update of NMRShiftDB.

CURRENT UPDATE

With a growing number of people willing to contribute structures and 
spectra, we need a better organization of the reviewing process.
NMRShiftDB's architecture provides support for so called "review 
groups". Theses groups are to organize contributors in small clusters, 
whose member review each other's contributions. Please be aware of the 
fact that anonymous peer review is no issue in NMRShiftDB - instead, 
Reviewer and Submitter need to work closely together in order to 
facilitate the reviewing process and to ensure data qualtiy.
This can, for example, be done by faxing or e-mailing each other the 
original data (for example copies of the paper from which the data was 
taken).
The reviewing will become even easier if you augment your source with 
handwritten notes, marks, etc., that highlight the data which have been 
entered. Often, measurement conditions, solvents, and other interesting 
data are nastily hidden within the text. :-)
So, as soon as you contribute your first few data sets, you will be 
assigned to a review group. If you want to form a review group with 
colleagues from your laboratory, in order to facilitate the exchange of 
the underlying material, that's fine. Just send us an email.

GENERAL REMARKS, CAVEATS, HINTS

- NMRShiftDB is an open-source, open-content database for organic 
molecule and their NMR data. Currently we support proton and carbon 1D 
NMR spectra.

- We need your help in order to make NMRShiftDB stable and comprehensive 
and thus a success.

- Up to date, NMRShiftDB is not complete, not comprehensive and not 
stable. Within the next week the system will be moved to a reasonable 
hardware platform and stress-testing can begin. We hope that the system 
will be reasonably stable within the next half year.

- We feel dedicated to the ideas of the open-source movement and we thus 
need your support but even more we need your patience with the initial 
imperfections of NMRShiftDB.

- NMRShiftDB will only grow through contributions by the community. If 
you are interested in contributing spectral assignments, either from 
your own work or from the literature, please contact me or the 
NMRShiftDB administrator to organize the reviewing process.
We urge you to consider contributing. One structure + spectrum + 
assignment per month is better than nothing, one per week is better than 
one per month, etc. :-)

- Please send comments, bug reports, feature requests or just a "hello" 
to the nmr...@li... mailing list  (The lists 
homepage with archive is 
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nmrshiftdb-users).

- Please consider using the bug tracker and feature tracker at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmrshiftdb to file feature requests and 
bug reports.

Best regards,

Christoph Steinbeck

-- 
Dr. Christoph Steinbeck (http://www.ice.mpg.de/departments/ChemInf)
MPI of Chemical Ecology, Winzerlaer Str. 10, Beutenberg Campus, 07745 
Jena, Germany
Tel: +49(0)3641 571263 - Fax: +49(0)3641 571202

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