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
What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise.
... Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3..
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