The NMR Poster95 sites are up and running in preliminary format.
The actual session with discussion will run from June 12-16 '95.
If you are interested in participating please send in a
URL and email address.
The European site URL is:
http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/nmr/poster.html
The U.S. Site URL is:
(maintained by KEVIN GARDNER)
http://zinc.csb.yale.edu/nmr/poster.html
The event is now on the front cover of the June edition of Magnetic Resonance
(The Internet Edition) at:
http://micro.ifas.ufl.edu/
Barry J. Hardy
ALSO:
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BRYAN FINN wrote up a little piece to attempt to answer questions
he was getting over the event. Enclosed is what he wrote:
What is NMR POSTER95?
1. Are we affiliated with the Gordon Conf. or other conferences or
organizations?
Answer: No.
2. Is anyone allowed to contribute a poster?
Answer: Yes, just so it's NMR related.
3. Is the electronic poster session "registered" and is the data presented
count in any way as an offical abstract?
Answer: Since we're not associated with any organization (at least not yet),
the abstract won't be published anywhere that can be checked later to
see if it actually existed. However, publication of abstracts is not
universally done at regular meetings either.
4. Is the data protected from "poaching" from competitors who might look at
the poster and then rush a similar study to press?
Answer: The data presented is entirely at the risk and responsibility of
the presentor, just like any poster session or if you hung the poster
in the hall outside of your office.
5. Is there a possibility of conflict when it comes to data later (or
simultaneously) being published in a journal (i.e. copyright, etc.)?
Answer: Same as for question 4, it is entirely between the presenter and
the publisher of the article. However, I don't know of publishers
ever having a problem with posters and articles conflicting. If there is
a concern, use original figures.
6. Is there a fee?
Answer: No, our direct costs are low, it only costs us the time to set up
and organize the thing.
7. What is this anyway? (My personal favorite question)
Answer: Essentially, this is an experiment. The history of
this Net NMR Poster session is basically that Barry Hardy contacted some
people before last years Gordon conf on Bio-NMR in NH to see if we were
interested in taking advantage of the WWW for fostering intercommunication
in the NMR community. We (Barry, Kevin, myself, and some others) just took
the opportunity of our all being at the GC to discuss what we could do in this
regard. The most promising idea seemed to be a net poster session since,
just like a regular poster session, the participants each prepare their own
work for presentation. The Gordon conference is not associated with the
poster session in any official sponsoring way, it was just a convenient forum
to get together and get the "ball rolling".
Therefore, the session is rather informal and I'm sure will be a
learning experience for us all both scientifically and organizationally. The
session is open to anyone with an NMR related poster. We are the organizers
and at least two of us will run the main relay servers with links to the poster
presenters' URLs. For those who do not have their own server, we are
willing to mount their poster directly on one of our servers.
If you think you can get a poster ready by June 12th, send us the
URL address on your server where it is located (e.g. my poster is at
http://www.fkem2.lth.se/personnel/bryan/poster/poster.html).
Please let us know by June 1 if possible. If you absolutely can't get a poster
ready by then but want to check out the session, just connect to one of
the poster sites during June 12-16. Although we'd prefer participants
to contribute a poster, everyone is welcome to look in.