Fwd: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2001
I wonder what, in general, is happening in the chemistry area? Are electronic theses in chemistry widely accepted? For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, will be held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2001.
ETD 2001 is a forum for academic administration officials, information-technology professionals, and librarians interested in providing easy access to theses and dissertations by making them available online.
The conference will cover a broad range of topics: from the technology necessary to make it happen to organizational and policy issues that arise when a university institutes ETDs. A list of confirmed speakers and session topics is available at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm
A limited number of sessions are available for contributed papers and poster presentations. Please, go to http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm for details on the call for papers. The deadline for submitting contributed papers and/or posters is January 15th, 2001. Please send proposed title and abstract to mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu.
For full details on conference schedule, program, and location, please go to the conference web site at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/
Online registration will open in early December.
-- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ 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)
"Rzepa, Henry" wrote:
I wonder what, in general, is happening in the chemistry area? Are electronic theses in chemistry widely accepted?
For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
Henry, This looks like a good topic for chminf-l. Do you subscribe? 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)
For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
Would'nt this be a perfect place to see the use of CML / XML? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rajarshi Guha | Disease can be cured; fate is incurable Dept Of Chemistry, | IIT Kharagpur. | -- Chinese proverb | email: rajarshi@presidency.com | web : www.psynet.net/jijog | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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)
For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
Would'nt this be a perfect place to see the use of CML / XML?
Of course! We indeed have a "mini dissertation" (actually a final year project report, of about Masters standard) submitted entirely in XML, and about to be published in the New J. Chemistry in both print and via the supplemental information, in the original XML/CML. The original site around which the article was written is up at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chimeral/ Of course, the creation of this dissertation was non trivial, and mostly "hand authored". Its not the sort of thing the average PhD student would or could want to do at the moment. The "lowest common denominator" at the moment is viewed by libraries etc as Acrobat, and not "chemical information components". The re-use of these components is not, but will be, seen as a top priority. Their time will come! -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ 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)
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Dr. Wendy A. Warr
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Rajarshi Guha
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Rzepa, Henry