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I think Egon is working on something along those lines for the Solubility data. None of our data is structured enough to make this easy at the moment. - Cameron Neylon

Thanks, Cameron. I am currently back to the "What would science look like if it were invented today" draft ( http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki... ) and would like to mention such examples there, along with the exciting prospect of harvesting data repositories to put the data in context, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... does it for Genes. - Daniel Mietchen

An excellent "state of the OWW" and call to action for all OWW users and potential users. - Steve Koch from Bookmarklet

Thinking... - Heather

Anthony inspired Bill Flanagan to roll out some spreadsheet (and other docs) stuff he's been working on recently. The link is to a page in Anthony's notebook using the embedded Google spreadsheet. I also think Bill either has or will enable similar features for embedding content from uploaded excel, word, and pdfs? Not really sure, but I think the ability to use spreadsheets is a huge bonus for OWW. - Steve Koch

Also, Jean-Claude had a recent post related to automatic backup of Google spreadsheets and other things. I am lack too much understanding to comment, but it appears to me that all these things are related. See his post: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Steve Koch

Steve, there is also a way of setting up a feed for a specific namespace at OWW. Have a look at the isisbio pages. Bill set this up a while back and we use it to pipe all of the changes on the wiki pages into the friendfeed room. That <startfeed/> creates a feed for all the subsidiary pages in the namespace ISISBio which you can see by pointing an RSS reader at http://openwetware.org/wiki... - Cameron Neylon

Thanks, Cameron -- I didn't know about that. I think that looks good. The simple Pipe I created would be nice if you didn't want to add the <startfeed/> for whatever reason, or for other kinds of keyword feeding. - Steve Koch

I talk about a really cool page on how to assemble a laser diode system. Written by Andy Maloney, grad student in our lab, with help from other students. - Steve Koch

Most of them anyway :) - Deepak Singh

Not sure if anyone uses this room, but thought I would share here. - Steve Koch

I'm subscribed but there is not a lot of activity - Cameron Neylon

Not that I know of - although such a thing would be useful. The key thing is to keep people engaged and contributing. Also to understand that different people have different comfort levels when it comes to editing other people's stuff. - Cameron Neylon

Not quite sure we have a "How-to" for something like this. That's an interesting idea. Should we collaborate on a "how-to" collaborate page? :-) - Ricardo Vidal

Thanks Cameron and and Ricardo. I think a how-to page for document collaboration would be useful to organize work. For example, suggesting that edits go on the doc and comments or global changes go on the talk page. We could use the draft for the OWW NSF grant as an example perhaps. see talk page at http://openwetware.org/wiki... - Maureen