Twenty years of nmrshiftdb2: A case study of an open database for analytical chemistry

Abstract

In October 2003, 20 years ago, the open‐source and open‐content database NMRshiftDB was announced. Since then, the database, renamed as nmrshiftdb2 later, has been continuously available and is one of the longer‐running projects in the field of open data in chemistry. After 20 years, we evaluate the success of the project and present lessons learnt for similar projects.