One of the consequences of the high publication pressure is that we cannot keep up converting all those facts in knowledge bases. Indeed, publishers, journals more specifically do not care so much about migrating new knowledge into such bases. Probably this has to do with the business: they give the impression they are more interested in disseminating PDFs than disseminating knowledge. Yes, sure there are projects around this, but they are missing the point, IMHO. But that's the situation and text mining and data curation will be around for the next decade at the very least.

That make any database uptodateness pretty volatile. Our knowledge extends every 15 seconds [0,1] and extracting machine readable facts accurately (i.e. as the author intended) is not trivial.

I love Compound Interest! I love what it does for popularization of the chemistry in our daily life. I love that the infographics have a pretty liberal license.

But I also wish they would be more usable. That is, the usability is greatly diminished by the lack of learnability. Of course, there is not a lot of room to give pointers.  Second, they do not have DOIs and are hard to cite as source.
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Where NanoCommons only just started, another Commons, PubMed Commons, is shutting down. There is a lot of discussion about this and many angles. But the bottom line is, not enough people used it.

That leaves me with the question what to do with those 39 comments I left on the system (see screenshot on the right). I can copy/paste them to PubPeer, ScienceOpen, or something else.

NanoCommons is a new European Commission H2020 project that started earlier this year (project id: 731032). Last week we had a kick-off meeting in Salzburg. The objective of the project is (as reported in CORDIS):

Nanotechnologies and the resulting novel and emerging materials (NEMs) represent major areas of investment and growth for the European economy.
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