Making the collective knowledge of chemistry open and machine actionable
Chemist here.  Every few years, someone has the novel idea that we should have open data for all chemistry laboratories, so then we can do Better Science.  And like every other proposal I&#x27;ve seen, this one will get approximately zero traction because it doesn&#x27;t address any of the core issues behind why laboratory data is currently closed.<p>I try not to be too pessimistic about it, because it really would be great if there were more open chemical data.  I just really doubt anything could accomplish that without remaking the US university research system from top to bottom.