Comments on: The ChemSpider Team Chooses Our Future Platform for Collaboration – Microsoft SharePoint http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html Building Community for Chemists Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:07:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Anirban Ghosh http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-7867 Anirban Ghosh Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:48:35 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-7867 A Day in the life of a Chemist involves myriad sets of tasks and activities which covers information life cycle of search, information aggregation, visualization of patterns, collaborating with other scientists and partners, and reporting identified outcome to the decision makers. In order to enable these sets of tasks, a services based inter-operable and scalable platform can manage such chemist specific tasks. I have published a paper titled Chemistry Workbench, which suggests how services consumed and provided by the chemistry community can be facilitated by a composite application. Also, messaging, alerting, and providing real-time communication is very key to connect a disparate and large heterogeneous multi-disciplinary and super-specialization line of research environment. So, Wikis, Blogs, Instant Messenger, RSS Feeds - all are great tools which will facilitate collaboration and connectedness among scientific communities. The challenge is how various application in open source platforms can be connected to one seamless facade to promote a monolithic view? Will it be yet another tool for the scientists? Will scientists need a lot of training to start using such a modern interface which provides a composite interface? Will the modern platform accommodate all functional and office applications, support semi-structured work flows, enable database cross-talks, and help drive share and exchange of information in real time? With these point in the background - I feel dot.NET based SharePoint Platform with BizTalk and Web Service and SQL Server is a good pick on porting the ChemSpider Application Portfolio to bring in additional dimensions of Collaboration and Connectedness. I till do like the Java beans and Linux :) A Day in the life of a Chemist involves myriad sets of tasks and activities which covers information life cycle of search, information aggregation, visualization of patterns, collaborating with other scientists and partners, and reporting identified outcome to the decision makers. In order to enable these sets of tasks, a services based inter-operable and scalable platform can manage such chemist specific tasks.
I have published a paper titled Chemistry Workbench, which suggests how services consumed and provided by the chemistry community can be facilitated by a composite application.
Also, messaging, alerting, and providing real-time communication is very key to connect a disparate and large heterogeneous multi-disciplinary and super-specialization line of research environment. So, Wikis, Blogs, Instant Messenger, RSS Feeds – all are great tools which will facilitate collaboration and connectedness among scientific communities.
The challenge is how various application in open source platforms can be connected to one seamless facade to promote a monolithic view?
Will it be yet another tool for the scientists?
Will scientists need a lot of training to start using such a modern interface which provides a composite interface?
Will the modern platform accommodate all functional and office applications, support semi-structured work flows, enable database cross-talks, and help drive share and exchange of information in real time?

With these point in the background – I feel dot.NET based SharePoint Platform with BizTalk and Web Service and SQL Server is a good pick on porting the ChemSpider Application Portfolio to bring in additional dimensions of Collaboration and Connectedness.

I till do like the Java beans and Linux :)

]]> By: ChemSpider - My first step in proving my previous post wrong - Noticias externas http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-7506 ChemSpider - My first step in proving my previous post wrong - Noticias externas Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:02:50 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-7506 [...] their ChemSpider blog, I stumbled on the fact that they are using a lot of our platform to build out their capabilities [...] [...] their ChemSpider blog, I stumbled on the fact that they are using a lot of our platform to build out their capabilities [...]

]]> By: Brian Willson (Microsoft) http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-7504 Brian Willson (Microsoft) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:41:08 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-7504 I ran across your blog while doing some research on interesting projects going on in the chemical field with web 2.0 capabilities. Thank you for choosing our platform for your work. I'll stay tuned to the blog to read your thoughts about SharePoint as you make progress on the project. I recently posted an observation about the lack of web 2.0 usage to build community within the industry - though I've seen more and more interest from the chemical companies I have talked to over the last few months. I promised to do some digging over the holidays and your project was one of the first that popped up in my searches. Good stuff. I'll stay tuned to learn more. I ran across your blog while doing some research on interesting projects going on in the chemical field with web 2.0 capabilities. Thank you for choosing our platform for your work. I’ll stay tuned to the blog to read your thoughts about SharePoint as you make progress on the project.

I recently posted an observation about the lack of web 2.0 usage to build community within the industry – though I’ve seen more and more interest from the chemical companies I have talked to over the last few months. I promised to do some digging over the holidays and your project was one of the first that popped up in my searches.

Good stuff. I’ll stay tuned to learn more.

]]> By: Antony Williams http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-5953 Antony Williams Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:22:45 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-5953 Rich and Egon, The top reasons for the decision are as follows: 1) We've already established ourselves on the Microsoft platform, ASP.NET specifically. Our experience is that it has been difficult to connect with common open access/source technologies which already provide a wiki environment. These environments are commonly in PHP, JSP, etc. 2) Sharepoint already provides a simple wiki-like application and, in our opinion, Sharepoint provides a great platform for quick portal development as evidenced by our observations to date. 3) Sharepoint is built on ASP.NET and is an infrastructure for the development of portals and allows users to customize parts of the application to their needs. We are going to develop web components for our portal and if Sharepoint does not suffice we will rework them to continue with our ASP.NET development. 4) Our development team have a lot of experience in ASP.NET technologies and can make fast progress in this known environment. With the growing list of requests we need to be nimble! 5) Microsoft have shown a clear commitment to Web 2.0. We believe that this declaration stands us in good stead for the future. 6) Interoperability is intended to be via web services as we have already done with our MassSpec web service, our InChI web services and our other WS. Are there specific interoperability issues you are considering Egon? We will be sticking to ASP.NET for the foreseeable future and even if Sharepoint will not be flexible enough for our needs we will continue ASP.NET development. Rich and Egon,

The top reasons for the decision are as follows:

1) We’ve already established ourselves on the Microsoft platform, ASP.NET specifically. Our experience is that it has been difficult to connect with common open access/source technologies which already provide a wiki environment. These environments are commonly in PHP, JSP, etc.

2) Sharepoint already provides a simple wiki-like application and, in our opinion, Sharepoint provides a great platform for quick portal development as evidenced by our observations to date.

3) Sharepoint is built on ASP.NET and is an infrastructure for the development of portals and allows users to customize parts of the application to their needs. We are going to develop web components for our portal and if Sharepoint does not suffice we will rework them to continue with our ASP.NET development.

4) Our development team have a lot of experience in ASP.NET technologies and can make fast progress in this known environment. With the growing list of requests we need to be nimble!

5) Microsoft have shown a clear commitment to Web 2.0. We believe that this declaration stands us in good stead for the future.

6) Interoperability is intended to be via web services as we have already done with our MassSpec web service, our InChI web services and our other WS. Are there specific interoperability issues you are considering Egon?

We will be sticking to ASP.NET for the foreseeable future and even if Sharepoint will not be flexible enough for our needs we will continue ASP.NET development.

]]> By: Rich Apodaca http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-5946 Rich Apodaca Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:43:41 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-5946 I'm not too familiar with SharePoint. What were the top 2 or 3 features that tipped the balance? I’m not too familiar with SharePoint. What were the top 2 or 3 features that tipped the balance?

]]> By: Egon Willighagen http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-5848 Egon Willighagen Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:23:10 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-5848 I am not familiar with the product, so really can't and won't judge on why not using OS tools. I'm sure this is the cheaper product for your situation. You mention "[you] will support anyone who wishes to do the same on Open Source though"... what does SharePoint have that other options did not? That make you pick that option? What options does SharePoint have in terms of interoperability? I am not familiar with the product, so really can’t and won’t judge on why not using OS tools. I’m sure this is the cheaper product for your situation. You mention “[you] will support anyone who wishes to do the same on Open Source though”… what does SharePoint have that other options did not? That make you pick that option? What options does SharePoint have in terms of interoperability?

]]> By: Jean-Claude Bradley http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-5838 Jean-Claude Bradley Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:52:46 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-5838 I look forward to seeing what it can do and I think the majority of chemists don't care what you run on the backend - as long as the service is free, hosted and open to be used to solve problems. I look forward to seeing what it can do and I think the majority of chemists don’t care what you run on the backend – as long as the service is free, hosted and open to be used to solve problems.

]]> By: Windows Vista News http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-chemspider-team-chooses-our-future-platform-for-collaboration-microsoft-sharepoint.html/comment-page-1#comment-5692 Windows Vista News Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:14:51 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=230#comment-5692 <strong>The ChemSpider Team Chooses Our Future Platform for Collaboration ...</strong> Interesting point at www.chemspider.com The ChemSpider Team Chooses Our Future Platform for Collaboration …

Interesting point at http://www.chemspider.com

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