attempted to let people know how to make databases more interoperable and discoverable, but this blog takes a very different take on the idea. The ideas brought forward include making data silo...
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#15 Do not follow the example of INTEGRALL database. #16 Claim for authorship each time your database is used
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lessons to be learned for the current open science movement and open linked data efforts is “The PDB wasn’t built in a day: lessons in data sharing” by Maria Hodges on her blog “Wood for...
In an article (http://sbkb.org/update/2010/03/full/th_psisgkb.2010.09.html) recently posted on the Structural Biology Knowledgebase, the NESG NMR Wiki was highlighted by Maria Hodges, and the co...
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Extend this beyong the biological databases and you get a bad bioinformatician: http://manuelcorpas.com/2009/01/29/138/
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#14 Allow raw dumps of the database, but only in PDF-formatted tables.
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#12: Take the server down for routine maintenance and don't post a notice explaining this; instead have a Forbidden Error 403 sign. #13: Don't back up the data before switching the server off. Oh...
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#11: Publish a paper about your database in a high profile journal, then actually make it available 2 years later.
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This is great. I'm going to make it a required reading for all submitters to the next NAR Database Issue (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/a)
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Hodges has a fantastic post about building (bad) biological databases, a must read. The only point I might have a little nit about is Tip #5, Totally trust your
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