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1. “Science Ajar” “Chemistry Clouds and Crowds” Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long. Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long.

2. 2 If using a school logo, make sure that if you have a long page title, it does not encroach on the logo. Allow about 2cm around the logo. Run the page title onto two lines if necessary. If using a school logo, make sure that if you have a long page title, it does not encroach on the logo. Allow about 2cm around the logo. Run the page title onto two lines if necessary.

3. Science Ajar Research materials need to be available if they are to be used Data needs to be accessible, searchable and available in context, How open all data should be is a matter of considerable current debate. However even when we wish to make data available it is not easy to make the data available in context. Context/Environment needs to be transported along with the data. 3

4. Small Scale long tail science Typical Chemistry laboratory group with 1 – 20 researchers Publish concise and important papers which reference extensive local data sets and access international data sets The problems are with medium scale If once off then do it any reasonable way and record the data with sufficient annotations If very frequent then worth investing time for a complete infra-structure 4

5. 5 Motivations Self interest first! Sharing comes as an additional benefit. Range pictures to the left and place underneath the bullet point text. Range captions to the bottom right hand corner of the picture. The image shown here is 7cm x 5cm. Range pictures to the left and place underneath the bullet point text. Range captions to the bottom right hand corner of the picture. The image shown here is 7cm x 5cm.

6. Better and more open communications Need easy way to provide access to the important local data (data not sufficiently important or long lived to be in the national collections) Avoid the need to scan a pdf graph Facilitate alternative and unexpected uses for the data 6

7. 7 Usability No need to do everything Must be easy and simple to use When using more than one image, use images that are roughly the same size and proportions. You can scale the images to make the sizes appear more even. Avoid stretching images - hold down the shift key when you drag to resize to avoid altering the proportions. When using more than one image, use images that are roughly the same size and proportions. You can scale the images to make the sizes appear more even. Avoid stretching images - hold down the shift key when you drag to resize to avoid altering the proportions.

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10. An RDF graph of posts and links between them rendered using Welkin (simile.mit.edu/welkin)

12. Pub-Sub systems provide the flexible & extensible approach to distribution of real time laboratory monitoring & archivingPub-Sub systems provide the flexible & extensible approach to distribution of real time laboratory monitoring & archiving

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