PUBLISHING

ELECTRONIC PROTEIN SCIENCE

Contribute Electronic Delivery and Display Issues to DTD Design: - Ensure that SGML DTD takes future HTML development into consideration (style sheets).; - Allow for current display and future implementations. (sub and superscripts, tables, greek letters, math symbols); - DTD must allow on-the-fly SGML to HTML conversion.

Study and Outline Image Specifications for Electronic Display: - Work with CUP personnel to standardize image scanning.; - Determine transfer rate of different sized images (varying dimension and resolution).

Install and Create Software Tools: - Install public-domain and commercial software as need to enable/enhance delivery/display (wwwstat, kidofwais, print_bold, mapedit, pat2www, freeWAIS, gopher+, html-check, giftrans, OpenText, Motif); - Be aware of software limitations (gopher text transfer size).; - Write scripts/programs as needed for conversion, file modification. (copyright insertion, carriage-return insertion, SGML-to-Medline, mail-form cgi's, SGML-to-HTML conversion).

Create and Modify Web Pages: - Create information pages to provide general protein science information, EPS information, and Web/Browser info.; - Maintain Web pages as technology/info changes.; - Assist others in creation of homepages and preparing their EPS offering for the Web site.; - Markup other's work for mounting on server (Mage, ProTeach).

Electronic Display Quality Control: -Verify that all documents on the server are HTML 2.0 compliant. Place HTML 2.0 compliance icon on every page.; - Verify that SGML articles parse with the EPS DTD (for indexing) and that the on-the-fly HTML converted article is HTML 2.0 compliant (for display).

Training Peers to Work in a Networked Environment: - Use email and ftp to enable communication and electronic file transfer of images and articles.; - Provide information about computer networking to enable others to rethink communication and their way of doing business.; - Production work done at UCI is transferred to CUP personnel. File directories are created and article and image files are placed in appropriate locations.; - CUP personnel to verify article parsing for SGML (for indexing) and HTML (for display) compliance.; - HTML Markup training.

Basic Design Considerations: - Continually research new technologies to added value to EPS.; - How to keep scientific journal scholarly, yet interesting to younger users.; - Design with little to no human intervention required.

This document last updated: 05 Mar 1996

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