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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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Re: Useful Programs
by M.Winter＠Sheffield.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 > I'd like to contribite the following links The Sheffield Macintosh Archive of Chemistry software (SMACS) is at ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/pub/uni/academic/A-C/chem/ This contains the vast majority of Mac Chemistry software availalbe on the InterNet. Embedded within is ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/pub/uni/academic/A-C/chem/www/ which contains pretty well everything Mac-based you are ever likely to need for reading/writing WWW material. I try and keep it up to date! 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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Re: presentation of course notes using http
by Jeffrey J Gosper 07 Dec '95

07 Dec '95

Dear All, > > My comment about 'value added content' did not refer to the > material adding value to the WWW but to it gaining in value > by the addition of embedded molecules, audio, movie, links to > electronically published journal articles etc. > I too believe this to be a mojor feature of the WEB. I have used this approach in a few of my courses and have gone a little further in that the assignments for the course are presented in this fashions. See http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/depts/chem/ch241s/assign.htm for example. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dr. Jeff Gosper Dept. of Chemistry BRUNEL University Uxbridge Middx UB8 3PH, UK voice: 01895 274000 x2187 facsim: 01895 256844 internet/email/work: Jeffrey.Gosper(a)brunel.ac.uk internet/WWW: http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~castjjg \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ----- 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: presentation of course notes using http
by Stuart J. Fairall 06 Dec '95

06 Dec '95

My comment about 'value added content' did not refer to the material adding value to the WWW but to it gaining in value by the addition of embedded molecules, audio, movie, links to electronically published journal articles etc. They could then be used in a supportive role to formal lectures and not negate the necessity for students to attend lectures. The amount of interest in this form of material would narrow as the subjects became more specialist but the CAL consortiums have started at the 'elementary' levels. Should we follow suit? Targeting this level would increase readership, especially if the material was self contained and did not rely on the formal lectures. Surely this would yield one selling point ie. increased presence. ************************************************************** * Stuart J. Fairall * * sfairall(a)dmu.ac.uk * * http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~sfairall * * * * "If there was a GOD things like LIFE wouldn't happen." * * * ************************************************************** ----- 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: Getting the powers that be interested in the web
by Dave Currie 06 Dec '95

06 Dec '95

At 17:20 05/12/95 GMT, you wrote: >Hi, > >> I would like to hear any opinions about this. Has anybody any >> other suggestions as to how the education of the eventual end-users >> of this new technology should be achieved? > >One way I'm trying to do it is to 'force' them to use the web by making it >the *only* source of certain internal documents, eg minutes of meetings, etc. Sure, that is the 'stick' approach, and it has value, but I have found the 'carrot' also to be useful. I have shown academic staff here at Southampton that our research group has had : 1) numerous, sensible applications for postdoctoral positions advertised on the webpages (how much is an ad in Ch in Brit ? or New Scientist ?) 2) applications from overseas undergraduates _with_their_own_funding_ who had found our research on the webpages 3) suggestions for collaboration from other researchers/institutions. Much more interest was definitely shown by academic staff on hearing the above and, as previously said, once people begin to realise the *potential* of the web it seldom takes long for them to start using it. Dave Currie p.s. I am a postdoc, and it interesting to see what the positions are of the people who are administering depts' web pages ! ************************************************************ * Dr Dave Currie --------------- * * Superconductivity Research Group | O | * * Chemistry Department | | O | * * University of Southampton | |/ | * * Southampton, United Kingdom, SO17 1BJ | O---Cu----O | * * Tel. 01703-593304; FAX 01703-593592 | / | | * * Chemistry Webmaster | O | | * * http://www.soton.ac.uk/~chemweb | O | * * EMAIL dbc(a)soton.ac.uk |_______________| * * Web //www.soton.ac.uk/~dbc * ************************************************************ ----- 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: On-line lectures - Literature searching
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 06 Dec '95

06 Dec '95

>Dear colleagues, > >to get discussions rolling I am offering one of my lectures entitled >'Manual and Computer-Aided Literature Searching' over the Web to >any interested party. The URL for the document is >http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/depts/chem/ch361a/lect.htm > >If anyone spots any mistakes or believes I have lissed any major >points please contact me. > >PS: It has been logged with Yahoo. Any similar contributions, I am happy to "collect" in http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/GIC/ Our own contribution to this area is to be found as an undergraduate experiment on http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/organic/3.html 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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On-line lectures - Literature searching
by Jeffrey J Gosper 06 Dec '95

06 Dec '95

Dear colleagues, to get discussions rolling I am offering one of my lectures entitled 'Manual and Computer-Aided Literature Searching' over the Web to any interested party. The URL for the document is http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/depts/chem/ch361a/lect.htm If anyone spots any mistakes or believes I have lissed any major points please contact me. PS: It has been logged with Yahoo. Here's hope to a succesful maillist and similar 'open-learning' lectrues from others. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dr. Jeff Gosper Dept. of Chemistry BRUNEL University Uxbridge Middx UB8 3PH, UK voice: 01895 274000 x2187 facsim: 01895 256844 internet/email/work: Jeffrey.Gosper(a)brunel.ac.uk internet/WWW: http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~castjjg \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ----- 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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