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Dear all, This message is both to inform (actually remind) and to seek volunteers. As part of my "chemical" hat, we are publishing via Imperial College Press (ISBN 981-02-3594-1 ) the proceedings of the ECHET98 conference on CD ROM shortly. With about 400 Mbytes of free space on the CD, the opportunity arises to archive eg the XML-DEV discussions for "posterity" by including the hypermail archive on the CD (the costs of producing an XML-only CD ROM would be around $1500, and as the list has no funding source of its own, this would currently not be possible). Having watched several of the original HTML dicsussion lists apparently "evaporate" during 1994, I feel that the XML-LIST, which has generated some 6000 contributions during some 20 months of operation, is worthy of preserving as an archive of the development of the subject over this period. My intention is simply to include the raw (in fact, very raw) HTML documents that comprise the archive on the CD ROM, with my editing being limited to removing the duplicate footers, and deleting any obviously offensive messages (there have been very few spams as such). Can I ask the list therefore to a) inform me of any messages that might risk crossing the boundary of acceptability. Clearly, with 6000 to scan, its an interesting task. I set it as a challenge to the XML community! I do not intend to remove all LISTADMIN messages, since that is part of the list process, but there may be a small number that do need removing. b) I ask for volunteers to eg convert the 6000 HTML documents to a richer XML-based form. I have very little time over the next two months to spend on this, so will have to rely on volunteers. I can provide a tar archive of the list. For this purpose, I intend making the archive final as of 28 August (to allow the inclusion of any response to this posting). One prepared today is available at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/echet98/email/xml-dev-2008.tar.gz (5.4 M) Anyone wishing to return "processed" material could do so via ftp://ftp.ch.ic.ac.uk/ in directory incoming (not working just yet, but soon will be) Obviously, platform independent tools such as Java could be included on the CD ROM. We are also probably be indexing the HTML documents using http://www.jobjects.com/ This is a fairly simple "low-structure" index engine. If anyone has other suggestions, they are most welcome. The default action is obviously that nothing from b) is included. I hope the final CD ROM might be "burnt" around the end of September. Copies (up to 10 ) will be available free of charge to anyone who contributes to the above task. Otherwise, copies will be available from IC Press for a fairly nominal amount (probably around $30). Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@i...; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ 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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