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Fwd: IT Online

Attached is input from Mike Glazer. Your comments
on these suggestions are encouraged.
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Professor Sydney R. Hall
School Biomedical & Chemical Sciences
University of Western Australia
Crawley, 6009  AUSTRALIA.
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"Data data everywhere but not a thought to think!" - Theodore Roszak



Begin forwarded message:

>
> 1. Our subject has the  benefits of a good deal of mathematics,
> reference material as well as images, and so we should try to make use
> of this.
>
> 2. There is little point in making electronic versions of the existing
> books per se with all the descriptive bits but it is better to extract
> those items that are useful reference material. If one simply copied 
> the
> books onto the web it would get in the way of finding the material one
> is seeking.  Too much verbage on web pages is something that I find
> annoying. If you want to have all the text put on the web then I 
> suggest
> that it is separated from the actual reference material.
>
> 3. So I would favour making the information as succinct as possible but
> at the same time readily accessible.
>
> 4. For example, pages could be constructed giving all the mathematical
> formulae relevant to crystallography, without the need necessary to
> explain the derivations etc (this could be added as a link but should
> not get in the way of the presentation).
>
> 5. Similarly with respect to say Vol D tensor tables would be given.
>