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.
Keywords: NMR; NMR database; chemical data; chemical information; nuclear magnetic resonance.
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