Welcome to Chempedia
After several weeks of intensive work and a helping hand from alpha testers, I'm happy to report that the new Chempedia is up and running. Feel free to create an account using the streamlined signup/login page, register a new substance, vote on a substance naming, and perform exact and substructure searches.
I'm very excited about the potential for Chempedia's open approach to the production and peer-review of high-quality chemical information. There are two ways to keep up-to-date with the latest Chempedia developments - by subscribing to the Chempedia newsfeed, or by contacting us to place your name on the Chempedia email newsletter.
About Chempedia
Chempedia is the open chemical substance registration system created by and for the global chemistry community. Chempedia uses both ChemWriter™, the Web-based 2D structure editor, and Chemcaster™, the cheminformatics Web services platform, to speed development and improvements.
Feature requests:
(BTW, it would be outstanding if ChemPedia would be the first system that allows me to say what localizations of names match together. For example:
acetic acid@EN - azijnzuur@NL ethanoic acid@EN - ethaanzuur@NL
Egon
@Egon, excellent suggestions - especially regarding name localizations. What's the best resource on that subject?
Regarding use of information, CC0 is definitely an option. The thing we're trying to achieve is to offer the right for anybody to re-use the information contained in Chempedia at no cost and for any purpose, commercial or otherwise.
No special resource for localization. I think all you need to do is to allow annotation of a name by language. Typically, the two-letter language codes are used, complemented by region:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_localization#Language_tags_and_codes
You could even consider gettext PO system for translation of names, and use LaunchPad for the translation part, as done for JChemPaint:
https://translations.launchpad.net/jchempaint
@Egon, how about if the naming defaulted to English, but could optionally could be set through a user interface element such as a dropdown? If the name were non-English in origin, some graphic would indicate which origin (such as a flag that displays the full name of the language when hovered over)?