December 1995 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Re: One day conference
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

>Hi, > >> Are we convinced that a one day conference, say starting at 10 >> and going till 5, and with posters, is excluded? This would ease >> accomodation problems and hence cost. > >That might work. As long as it was held somewhere easily accessible to >everyone - eg London. I might add that several people from continental Europe made enquiries about the Webmasters meeting. They regretted that it was apparently for UK only! Perhaps a 1 day meeting (on a Friday so that visitors from afar can enjoy the weekend if they wish) might go down well? Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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WWW site for Instructors of Chemistry
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

I am forwarding a message received from James Dix in the States (with his permission). Its a delight to have our first USA member on chemweb! >Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:57:27 MST >From: dix(a)t10.Lanl.GOV (James Arthur Dix) >To: h.rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk >Subject: WWW site for Instructors of Chemistry >Cc: Kathi_Prancan(a)hmco.com, Stacey_Pastor(a)hmco.com > >Dr. Rzepa, > > I am creating a WWW site devoted to instructors of chemistry and >chemistry instruction. The site is sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company >in Boston and will be actively maintained. I've been pondering the form >and content of the site for some time, and would like to ask your advice >on what should be included and how it should be arranged. > > Some items to include are straightforward, such as pointers to other >sites of interest to chemistry educators and instructions on how to use >the WWW for novice users. But as you have pointed out repeatedly, there is >much more to the WWW than just serving as a repository of information. I >particularly like your sites containing recent presentations in chemistry, >and your efforts in developing interactive methods to present chemical >information. > > Some ideas I have including scanning print and electronic media for >items of use to chemistry instructors and posting digests, posting a >molecule of the week with commentary by a chemist closely associated with >the molecule, soliciting electronic manuscripts from colleagues describing >their experiences in teaching chemistry electronically, evaluation of new >educational software, interviews with movers and shakers in the world of >chemical education, and developing and posting chemistry-specific Internet >tools and content (especially with Sun's Java programming language and >Microsoft's Blackbird technology). I would appreciate any thoughts you >might have on how to enhance this WWW site for chemistry educators. > > I will be presenting a paper on our site at the Spring ACS meeting in >New Orleans, at a symposium on the Internet in Chemical Education. Are you >planning to attend the Spring meeting? If so, maybe we could meet over >lunch with like-minded colleagues and talk about how to use the Internet >to its fullest potential. > > >James A. Dix dix(a)chemiris.chem.binghamton.edu >Associate Professor dix(a)binghamton.edu >Chemistry Department, Box 6016 bg0681(a)bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu > >State University of New York voice: (607) 777-2480 >Binghamton, NY 13902-6016 USA fax: (607) 777-4478 > >on sabbatical leave 1995-1996: > >Los Alamos National Laboratory dix(a)t10.lanl.gov >Theoretical Biology and Biophysics voice: (505) 665-3853 >T10, MS 710, TA3-SM483, Rm 103A (505) 667-7510 >Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA fax: (505) 665-3493 > Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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One day conference
by Paul May 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

Hi, > Are we convinced that a one day conference, say starting at 10 > and going till 5, and with posters, is excluded? This would ease > accomodation problems and hence cost. That might work. As long as it was held somewhere easily accessible to everyone - eg London. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Global Chemweb?
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

>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., I endorse that. Its only going to get worse. Whether products such as SiteMill/PageMill, HotMetal (which is very fussy) etc will become commonly used I don't know. They are not cheap, and have to compete with free products!! Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Global Chemweb?
by Paul May 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Useful Programs
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

Dear all, Many of us have favourite programs we use, on various platforms. I wonder if we might all share our experiences. I have collected some under http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/clic/progs.html No doubt there are others. If anyone has similar pages (focused really on using the Web and chemistry, rather than other themes), they might consider sharing them here? Individual programs I can add to the above page; collections, I could add simply as hyperlinks. Any takers? PS I know Unix is missing! Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Global chemweb?
by Paul May 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

Hi, > How about an on-line meeting in the first instance? The ACS poster session > was useful. Perhaps an on-line meeting, with "posters" and "talks" > (including real audio) would be a good way to get started and to extend the > ACS poster concept. It would also help to cement standards for the chemical > community world-wide. I agree. A virtual email/WWW conference would be a good first step, and if enough interest was developed there, we could think about a real meeting later. A main topic for discussion at the virtual meeting could be 'Should we have a real meeting, and if so what shall we talk about?' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: chemweb UK or Global?
by M.Winter＠Sheffield.ac.uk 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

>I contacted Steve Bachrach in the States. He thought there was no other >existing forum related to chemistry web matters, and that chemweb might >usefully extend its scope. > >He also raised the possibility of organising an international conference >as the next step from the UK webmasters meeting. This would of course >cost people to attend. Personally, I doubt if many people would be >able to raise the funding to attend such a meeting, although the time >may come quite soon when such a meeting would be viable. Any thoughts? How about an on-line meeting in the first instance? The ACS poster session was useful. Perhaps an on-line meeting, with "posters" and "talks" (including real audio) would be a good way to get started and to extend the ACS poster concept. It would also help to cement standards for the chemical community world-wide. Ultimately, though, a real face-to-face conference would be needed. Everyone knows that the real business at a conference is done in the bar and a virtual bar does not quite have the same appeal as an unvirtual one! Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: M.Winter(a)Sheffield.ac.uk web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html CU-SeeMe: mac043078.shef.ac.uk ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Useful program archives
by Paul May 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

Hi, > Many of us have favourite programs we use, on various platforms. > I wonder if we might all share our experiences. I have collected some under > http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/clic/progs.html > No doubt there are others. If anyone has similar pages (focused really > on using the Web and chemistry, rather than other themes), they might > consider sharing them > here? Individual programs I can add to the above page; collections, I could > add simply as hyperlinks. We have a collection of PC Windows/DOS based software at: http://www.tlchm.bris.ac.uk/shared/ which contains similar stuff to the IC archive, as well as Ghostscript, Webedit, and a few others. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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chemweb UK or Global?
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

I contacted Steve Bachrach in the States. He thought there was no other existing forum related to chemistry web matters, and that chemweb might usefully extend its scope. He also raised the possibility of organising an international conference as the next step from the UK webmasters meeting. This would of course cost people to attend. Personally, I doubt if many people would be able to raise the funding to attend such a meeting, although the time may come quite soon when such a meeting would be viable. Any thoughts? Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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