"Rzepa, Henry" wrote:
On more directly Web related matters, two sessions at the ACS had relevance, one on XML in Chemistry, and another on "The Scientific Article in the digital World". As it happens these CINF sessions also had counterparts in the
Henry, I am impressed by the timeliness of your reports. My own 180-page jobs take three months and they don't come free either! Seriously though, I have some sympathy with you about the conflicts between CINF and COMP sessions because I too have to run between CINF and COMP sessions like a headless chicken. The problem also accounts for the head count (no pun intended) of 20 at one session - COMP had 5 concurrent streams on some days and CINF had two on Sunday and part of Monday. On the other hand it does mean that I do have an option of listening to something other than density functional theory for boffins or the implications of nanotechnology for librarians. Moreover, there will still be clashing papers between COMP and MEDI, for example, even if CINF and COMP didn't overlap. Your description of the CAChe stereo hardware is interesting. I had a quick look at it from the adjacent (ACS Pubs) booth but did not take in all the implications. I'll follow this up with Dave Gallagher for my own report. Thanks for the heads-up. I did receive an invitation to the CAChe UK workshop some time ago but there was no mention of advances in 3D viewing. As regards the CINF sessions, I thought that the session on the scientific article was very interesting indeed (I even missed an important data mining paper in MEDI for it) but it was a pity that Tony Czarnik did not leave his planned ten minutes for discussion. Dozens of hands went up but there was no time to thrash out the issues raised by preprints, the Open Access movement etc. I spoke to the citation count lady afterwards. Interesting that studies in Webometrics et al. for chemistry seem to be lagging behind other disciplines. This is partly connected with your own concerns about bioinformatics being more "visionary" than cheminformatics on the Web. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.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)