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# Open Data
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/open-data/
- Published: 2006-09-14T19:23:05.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:31.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Collections, Research ∕ Learning

[Peter Murray Rust](https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/pm.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) [writes](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=32&ref=lorcandempsey.net) about Open Data on his recently inaugurated [blog](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?ref=lorcandempsey.net). His work in [chemical informatics](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) is well known and may be of interest to some readers.  
However, I am drawn to write this entry by another small point. Having discussed the origins and uses of ‘open data’ as an expression, he suggests:

> I think the current usages are sufficiently close that we should try to bring them together. Comments here would be useful. Maybe a Wikipedia article would help? \[[Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge – petermr’s blog » Blog Archive » Open Data – the time has come](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=32&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] 

This impulse is not untypical; it seems to be a recognized way of establishing some shared understanding of a topic to write a Wikipedia article about it.  
Incidentally, readers may be interested in his [predictions](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=25&ref=lorcandempsey.net) for the future of chemistry communications (of interest to more than chemists), and his [thoughts](https://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=31&ref=lorcandempsey.net) on scholarly publishing.