From: Ian Newington Now that we have lots of chemistry resources available on the Web, including journals, patents and databases which can give us a lot of know-how is anyone thinking about the identification of experts in certain fields? In industry there is a great move toward connecting people who have a problem with someone who has expertise in that area and may be able to help. This is often done with a sort of "yellow pages" of the organization. Let's say I'm looking for information about the nitration of a molecule with some very sensitive substituents. When I search the databases it would be great if I got a list (preferably short and in some rank order) of people I could contact with my question - email address as a minimum. I know that the tools to do some, perhaps most, of this are available through many search tools but it not a simple process and requires perhaps a different method of clustering and indexing reactions, not to mention a link with an up-to-date source of contact details. This would seem to be a step further than sending a note out to a mailing list. It is probably easier to address within an organization than globally on the Web but it may lead to being able to answer the real questions we ant answers to and not those we are forced to ask by the current interfaces to chemical information. Ian Newington Kodak European R&D Tel: +44-(0)181-424-4451 FAX: +44-(0)181-424-5788 email: ian_newington@kodak.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)