copyright and watermark

[Rzepa, Henry]

>Does chemical data do get a watermark in the future ? How do we watermark a
>synthesis ?
>
>That's interesting and I hope for some further insights and comments.


An interesting question.  We have been working on  XML, which can be
described in many ways, one of which is a way of capturing information
 components, or perhaps fragments. Thus a <synthesis> can be easily
identified within say a large collection of chemical information. If
one combines this with another recent technology, of digital signatures
or  "watermarks", then one has the possibility of say an individual
author "signing" either a complete document describing many
chemical components, or of say a part of a document, such as
a synthesis.  An article of ours is about to be published in
Chemical Communications which will be made available in its
entirety in the original  XML which (were it to be about synthesis)
could be so signed.

See http://www.W3.org/Signature/  for more information about
XML signatures, and http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chimeral/
for more information about how chemistry can be captured
(not yet signed) using  XML.  See also

http://pubs.acs.org/reprint-request?ci980336g/v8Eo

for more information about how resources can be signed.
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