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I have been invited to give a virtual lecture by VEI Ltd and Chemweb Ltd and I have taken the opportunity to "launch" Chemical Markup Language and also to promote the use of XML. Details are at: http://chemweb.vei.co.uk [Time: 1998-02-04:16:00 UTC. Free registration. Technology required: any HTML browser, preferably with ECMAScript (= JavaScript). No real-time audio/video required; all text-based like MOOs] The first lecture in this series was given by Henry Rzepa and attracted several molecular scientists worldwide. I have taken this as a timely opportunity to promote XML, given that (hopefully) there should be a positive public announcement at about that time :-) The format of Henry's lecture was that he presented a number of slides and "spoke" to them. A number of panellists were present to comment. The session then developed to communal discussion on the issues raised, the whole proceedings taking about 2 hours. I have decided to present more slides, but would be grateful for authoritative support on XML. In general the message I want to promote is: - XML is going to happen in a big way - XML is the only reasonable way for documents/data over the WWW (OK, I also believe in CORBA but it's not so amenable) - other disciplines are making serious headway with XML; molecular science needs to catch up. - There will be lots of XML tools very shortly - XML can do things beyond our current imagining. (For example the virtual lecture could be given in XML). If any seasoned XMLers would like to 'come' then I would be grateful for contributions. Unless you are a pan-dimensional hyperbeing it probably takes most of your attention for that period, though some people can multitask. Outwards communication is through scrolling text; inwards is through HTML-based forms. There is a "room" for invitees who wish to make comments and I would be grateful for volunteers :-) Whatever else it's fun, and it's a step towards the future. I shall be releasing the "current" CML DTD, which is now fairly lean and clean and intentionally flexible. Also I plan to have snapshots of JUMBO and JUMBO-CML in action although I do NOT intend to run these as live applets :-) I have taken the XML-WG's goals as a starting point for CML's goals and I'd also value comments on them when they are released. If you cannot 'come' to the lecture, the transcript and slides will be available and there will be an ongoing virtual discussion P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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