Re: [Jmol-users] Brian McMahon's talk at ACS meeting was good publicity for Jmol...

[Brian M. <bm...@iu...>]

Hi Jonathan

Thanks for the kind words. Sorry not to get a chance to chat, but
it's always great to put a face to a name familiar from postings
on the jmol-users list.

As I said, our current policy doesn't include use of the signed
applet since we manage all the file loading and saving server-side
to preserve the content in the journal archive; but we're not
inflexible about that if we perceive or learn of community
requirements for use of the signed applet. On the other hand,
we also don't want to frighten off prospective readers with the
"threatening" messages that some browsers emit when the signed
applet is first used!

Regarding standardisation of an appropriate graphical language,
I suspect Jmol has a lot to contribute because of its very clean and
well-behaved state description (probably a corollary of an
appropriately high-level scripting language).

Does anyone on this list have experience of the SBEVSL initiative
(http://sbevsl.sourceforge.net)? If not, I could certainly approach
them to see what the current status of this project is. It looks
dormant, but the principal investigator is a long-time supporter
of IUCr software development activities in the CIF area, and may
be amenable to re-engagement in such a project.

Best wishes
Brian

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:18:38PM -0700, Jonathan Gutow wrote:
> Brian,
> 	You don't know this, but I got to attend your talk on "Interactive  
> publishing of structure data" (I asked the last question about the  
> signed applet:), hope that was OK).  I just wanted to publicly thank  
> you for the good publicity for Jmol.
> 
> I also wanted to put in a plug for others to look at the publishing  
> interface the International Union of Crystallography has developed and  
> encourage other journals to emulate it.  It looks like the best  
> submission system I have yet seen.
> 
> One other point that you made in your talk that is very important long  
> term.  We need to come up with a common language for describing 3-D  
> views and manipulation.  Maybe the key players leading this   
> discussion should be the IUCr and the PDB?  Is there a similar group  
> that could provide representation for the quantum community?  Anybody  
> else that should be included?
> 
> Jonathan
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