DIG Chemistry is a global conversation emerging in the chemical information professional community to map the challenges and opportunities for chemistry data across the enterprise. Quoting from the group presence in the open Research Data Alliance: “There is a wealth of chemical data in various heterogeneous formats, distributed across a myriad of systems with endless potential for reuse in chemistry research and many related domains. However, many social, technical and administrative factors have limited the opportunities for open sharing and interoperable exchange. The high reuse value of chemical information has sparked decades of innovative technologies addressing various challenges in handling chemical specific data, but very few approaches have persisted, are extensible beyond specific data types and/or are operable at scale. There is demonstrable need for coordinated development of updated and scaled infrastructures, hard and soft, for enabling chemical data exchange and connecting data providers with data users across sources and applications.” This discussion session will provide the opportunity for those most active in the field to identify the highest priorities and target productive community collaborations.

Community forum for chemistry data and information

252nd National Meeting (2016)

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