Ira Fresen, Gregor Zimmermann, René Deplanque - FIZ CHEMIEIUPAC 46th General Assembly 2011

eXplore Chemical Information Teaching Resources

large variety of available data sources

increasing amount of data

many different searching tools and user interfaces

resources for teaching materials are widely scattered

chemical information in Germany:• neglected• no textbooks• barely part of chemistry education

Chemical Information Today

2004: first idea off an interdivisional workshop between the CIC Division of the GDCh and the CINF Division of the ACS

2005: first CIC-CINFworkshop , formation of the CIC-CINF Collaborative Working Group, definition of common

interests

2006: MISSION STATEMENT: “The mission of the CIC-CINF Collaborative Working Group is to foster a transnational dialogue to develop a sharedapproach for the access, exchange and management ofchemical information.”

principle aim

“build a center for chemical information teaching resources for educators and instructors”

The Beginning

repository for deposition and communication

bundling of globally distributed teaching material

hub in which the international chemical information community can come together to share, debate and reach consensus on teaching issues

used as general teaching aid

Goals

1. Web 2.0 features

2. free use, open to all interested parties

3. easily available, applicable to advance scientific discovery and innovation

4. material adaption to individual needs (CC-licenses)

5. criteria and procedures for quality assurance

6. archiving function

7. target groups: instructors, librarians, chemistry professors, information specialists, students, technical writers

Parameters for Development

2007: elaboration of the theoretical bases of the planned repository,creation of a metadata scheme, concept for content classification inchemical information, finding a repository name

2008: beginning of technical support at FIZ CHEMIE

2008-2009: technical tests with diverse CMS systems and archiving

software

2009-2010: development of XCITR repository based on CMS Drupal

2010: launch at the 6. GCC Meeting (Goslar, Germany), November

XCITR open to the public

2011: presentation at the ACS meeting in Anaheim, March

Work Together

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What is the Result?

repository for exploring and sharing chemical information teaching resources

collaborative project between the CIC division of the GDCh and the CINF division of the ACS

hosted by FIZ CHEMIE

http://www.xcitr.org

Content map

Top 5 content

Search

New content

Overview

Metadata

Title

Document

Submission Example

XCITR as Publishing Platform

Editorial board

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XCITR as Content Base

XCITR as Link Collection

Content from:

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Publication

rating, comments

calendar

discussion forum

author contact

XCITR as Communication Platform

quality assurance by six-member editorial board

flexible metadata scheme tailored to chemical information

freely selectable license agreements

possible file formats:

• MS Office files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and

PDF

• embedded videos (YouTube, MEGAVIDEO)

• slideshows (SlideShare)

• under development: embedded websites, direct

upload of videos, etc.

Features and Formats

CMS: Drupal (http://www.drupal.org/)

Layout:Artisteer (http://www.artisteer.com/)

User statistics:Piwik (http://www.piwik.org/)

• automated publication workflow

• facetted search and content map

• individual workspaces

• keyword linking

• role based functions and web site look

Technical Features

short objects => melting point handout

anything that helps teaching chemical information

Types of Material

complex objects => complete lecture on how to cite

XCITR Members:

Editorial board: Grace Baysinger (Stanford University) 

Martin Braendle (ETH Zürich) 

Gregor Fels (University of Paderborn) 

Guenter Grethe 

Oliver Koepler (TIB Hannover) 

Andrea Twiss-Brooks (University of Chicago) 

Development: Ira Fresen (FIZ CHEMIE)

Gregor Zimmermann (FIZ CHEMIE)

Project coordinator: René Deplanque (FIZ CHEMIE)

Ira Fresen (FIZ CHEMIE)

Guenther Grethe

Gregory Banik (Bio-Rad Laboratories)

Rajarshi Guha (NIH Chemical Genomics Center)

Chuck Huber (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Svetlana Korolev (University of Wisconsin)

Dave Martinsen (ACS Publications)

Carmen Nitsche (Accelrys, Inc.)

Frank Oellien (Intervet Innovation GmbH)

Irina Sens (TIB Hannover)

Achim Zielesny (University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen)

Members:

extending to other disciplines like chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, computational chemistry

further technical developments (e.g. semantic tools)

more features and functions

value enhancement through more submissions

more advertising activities

more submitters and users

Outlook

Have a look at XCITR

Tell your colleagues

Use XCITR material

Become an author

Final

Questions

Thank you for your attention