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Open{Data|Source|Standards} is not enough: we need Open Projects
The Blue Obelisk mantra ODOSOS, Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards, is well known, and much cited too. Jean-Claude Bradley popularized the Open Notebook Science (ONS). This has always been nagging me a bit, because the CDK, Jmol, JChemPaint and other chemistry projects have done that for much longer, though we did not use notebooks as much, so called it just an open source project. It really is no different, IMO, though surely, there are differences.
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EMBRACE workshop in Uppsala
This Monday and Tuesday I will attend the EMBRACE workshop Understanding, creating and deploying EMBRACE compliant WebServices. I will present there the ongoing work in Bioclipse to support services and web services in particular. The sheets of the presentation will look like:
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Next generation asynchronous webservices
Johannes joined a Bioclipse Workshop a long time ago, and introduced the participants to the idea of using XMPP (aka Jabber) for asynchronous web services. SOAP is commonly user to run webservices over HTTP, but via (SMTP) email and XMPP is possible too (see SOAP over XMPP). Using HTTP as transport layer has problems. The biggest problem, is possibly that HTTP connections are timed out, e.g. by intermediate router. This makes it rather unsuited for long running jobs. Workarounds are easy to come up with, and polling is a common solution.
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Embedding Gists in blogs
Mark pointed me to the embed functionality of Gist, product on GitHub where I host some todo software and a git mirror of CDK 1.2.x.
