Discussion List Archives

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Recommendations by the ITO working group

Dear ITO WG colleagues,

Nicola and I have been discussing what form the recommendations
from the working group should take in order to be of most use in
the planning and development of IT Online. As you know, the Chester
office is already well advanced in preparing some ITO material for
a demonstration at the Congress, and for a preliminary ITO launch in
January by agreement with Springer.  From what I can judge, many of
the general recommendations for online presentation arising from our
communications are addressed by what they are currently doing.

Of course, this does not preclude us from making such recommendations
anyway in order to emphasize their importance but, as Nicola's latest
mail attached below suggests, what would be really helpful is advice
on specific extra data and functionality needed in future versions.
It was intended to let us see the Florence ITO presentation in April/
May (see attachment D of the communication summary attached) but it
is not ready yet, so we will have to base any specific recommendations
(in advance of Florence) on the information that Nicola has supplied
below. Clearly this is not easy to do without the details of what is
already their... but it is worth a try. Please send me any suggestions
you have on specific data, functionality and approaches that don't
appear to be considered so far. In the meantime I will prepare some
draft recommendations based on our communications thus far.

I have also suggested that convening the working party at the congress
after the ITO presentation might be useful so that we can give our
final suggestions. Nicola will discuss this with Hartmut Fuess.

Best wishes
Syd
------
Professor Sydney R. Hall
School Biomedical & Chemical Sciences
University of Western Australia
Crawley, 6009  AUSTRALIA.
Ph: +61 (8) 6488 2725
Fx: +61 (8) 6488 1118
"Data data everywhere but not a thought to think!" - Theodore Roszak

ITOWG_summary2.doc




	From: 	  [email protected]
	Subject: 	Re: more on ITOWG recommendations
	Date: 	1 July 2005 11:22:57 PM
	To: 	  [email protected]
	Reply-To: 	  [email protected]

Dear Syd,

We are currently working against the clock, and probably will only be 
able to
show a working model of Volume D by the Congress. However, what we are �
planning to make available in the 'basic representation' in
2006 is as follows:

HTML and PDFs for all the material in the series: the reader will be 
able to
choose to view a whole chapter at a time or just individual sections, 
tables
or figures if they wish. In addition, in volumes with space-group 
tables, each
space group will have an HTML and PDF representation.

HTML navigation: ability to move quickly around a chapter and its 
sections,
around a volume and between volumes.

Hyperlinks between volumes and out from reference lists.

Indexes that link back to the relevant text.

Full-text searching facilities.

Linked contents listings at the volume, part and chapter levels.

Tables will be HTML and PDF. Figures will be thumbnails and full-sized 
gifs.
Maths will initially be gifs.

As far as additions to this go, we will probably make available the 
programs
and supplementary material from the CD-ROMs that accompany Volumes D 
and G,
but would like advice on other things to add. Any programs that 
manipulate IT
data could be considered for inclusion as 'added features' as long as 
the
working group think they are worth adding. We're hoping that the working
group (a) know of more possibilities than we do and (b) can advise us on
which are worth the effort of adding. Similarly, we know we can convert
tables of data into databases that the reader can then use to plot or
otherwise manipulate the data, but this takes quite a bit of work per 
table,
so we would need advice on which tables it would be worth doing this to.

Hope this is some help.


Best wishes,

Nicola