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.,
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