Blue Obelisk

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Blue Obelisk
Formation2005
FounderPeter Murray-Rust
Membership23+
Official language
English
Budgetzero
Websitehttp://www.blueobelisk.org/

Blue Obelisk is an informal group of chemists who promote open data, open source, and open standards; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005.[1][2][3] Multiple open source cheminformatics projects associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Avogadro, Bioclipse, cclib, Chemistry Development Kit, GaussSum, JChemPaint, JOELib, Kalzium, Openbabel, OpenSMILES,[4] and UsefulChem.[5]

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Dependency diagram of some Blue Obelisk projects.

The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received[6] a Blue Obelisk Award are:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ P. Murray-Rust, The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43–46
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