The Royal Society of Chemistry's chemical database ChemSpider has added RDF functionality to its interface, in collaboration with the University of Southampton's School of Chemistry. The availability of RDF is said to allow the database records to be found and understood by semantic web tools. This is part of ChemSpider's mission to create a public chemical information infrastructure.
The machine-processable representation was specifically developed in order to leverage the core competencies of the ChemSpider database: resolvable identifiers; curated metadata; and rich linking to the extensive RSC corpus. Furthermore, as part of the Microsoft Research-funded oreChem project, OAI-ORE technology is being used to facilitate the discovery and re-use of the chemical information in the correct context.
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider is seen to enable researchers to discover a comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search.
The Southampton work builds on work from the RC-UK & EPSRC funded e-Science CombeChem and Platform projects and JISC Data Management projects.
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