With an intention to provide a free internet resource of chemistry related data for the community, ChemSpider provides an online database of...
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With an intention to provide a free internet resource of chemistry related data for the community, ChemSpider provides an online database of chemical compounds, reaction syntheses and related data. Members of the community can contribute to the database via the deposition of chemical structures, synthesis procedures and analytical data. Data are also aggregated from many other depositors, at present over 400 data sources. The aggregation of data associated with over 25 million chemical compounds does not come without data quality issues. By engaging the community to curate the data the quality continues to improve on a daily basis. The presentation will provide an overview of our ongoing efforts to expand and curate the database. Using a combination of game-based and recognition systems as well as our dependence on societal giveaway by the community ChemSpider continues its path to become a high quality resource and foundation for the semantic web for chemistry.