Global Chemweb?

[peter Murray-rust]

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Paul May wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Do you think
> > there is enough demand for "generic" chemical Web themes,
> > ie the technology and sociology of chemistry on the Web? Or
> > should it focus on chemical education? I am trying to inch towards
> > an "identity" for the conference, and   hence the audience.
> 
> I'd be nice to include chemical education as well, in order to
> gain a larger audience.  Some aspects of the technology we're
> discussing (eg lecture presentation,
> on-line tutorials, lecture-note archiving, standards for chemical
> structures and spectra), would be common to the teaching of a number of 
> other science (and medical) subjects, so by including this we'd be 
> breaking new ground and doing the whole academic community a service.
> We might want to contact CTICC (Computers in teaching initiative centre
> for Chemistry) at Liverpool, and their equivalents in  say, Physics, &
> Medicine to see if they're interested.  Maybe the CTI could orgainise
> a web conference, and we produce a Chemistry parallel symposium?
> 
I think that one step that is really necessary is a properly structured 
approach to hypermaterial - i.e. it needs meta-data (indexing, etc) and 
it should be generated in a better markup language than HTML - 
preferably SGML (I'm biassed!).  At present I'm editing my Internet 
course and the pethora of styles and authors is a nightmare.  We also 
need tools for analysing slef-consistenscy, generating TOCs, etc.

	P.,


 > 
> 

Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716 at ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR)
Birkbeck College, ubcg09q at cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx at seqnet.dl.ac.uk
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html


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