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"By my count Dana actually posted 1,580 times [on
CHMINF-L] (when I searched the CHMINF-L archives
for "dzrlib" in the author's address, I found 31 screens of
50 postings each, plus a final screen with 30 postings)."
Bob Michaelson
"In the few years since having joined CHMINF-L I had
the opportunity of reading many of your deep-insight
comments and even posting an occasional reply. Having
never personally met you, a certain gestalt was formed
with passing time, imagining you in Pasadena
surrounded by a battery of computers linked to diverse
databases, and running now and then to a shelve to pick
up something that has not yet undergone
digitalization. All this incarnation of the "electronic"
Dana Roth crumbled down to nothing the other day, after
the panegyric of Garry Wiggins, whereby I realized that
now Dana has to wear trousers and probably a tie. How
concealing can English be of little important details?"
Jacob Zabicky
"Thanks to all for your very kind thoughts. They are
very much appreciated. Caltech has been an increasingly
interesting place to work over the years, and especially
so with the current library staff. Working with both
faculty and students, with incredibly diverse interests,
have made each day a stimulating adventure.
Contributing to CHMINF-L has added immeasurably to
my job satisfaction ... many thanks to Gary Wiggins, for
his leadership, and all of you for making it such a
wonderful resource. Involvement in the activities of the
SLA Chemistry Division has also been a real pleasure. It
is very satisfying to know and work with such an
excellent group of fellow librarians." Dana
"The Dana Roth Tribute Blog...is a place for his
colleagues and friends to reminiscence and share
thoughts, photos, and the like about Dana's contributions
to the community... Dana has been an active participant
in the ongoing discussion about chemistry, scholarly
publishing, and librarianship during his career (on
CHMINF as well as in many other forums), and has had
a significant influence on many of us. We hope you'll
visit and share some comments. Congratulations, Dana,
on a marvelous 40-year (and counting) career at
CalTech." Adam Chesler
The Dana Roth blog can be accesses at
http://acspublications.blogs.com/danarothcaltech/
Compiled by Svetla Baykoucheva, CIB Editor
CIC-CINF Collaborative Working
Group (CWG)
Two years ago, during a long-range planning meeting of
the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical12
Information (CINF), we discussed the topic of outreach
as part of the CINF mission and in the context of the
larger ACS Society strategic plan. Based on the fact that
problems and issues exist that affect CINF as well as
other informatics societies and groups, the long-range
planning group on the suggestion from Guenter Grethe
decided that collaboration with the Fachgruppe ChemieInformation-Computer
(CIC) of the German Chemical
Society should be initiated as a first step. In discussions
with ACS governance, collaboration between societies
on a divisional level for the purpose of exchanging ideas
and developing solutions was highly encouraged.
As a follow-up, Rene Deplanque (CIC) and Guenter
Grethe (CINF) presented their ideas about the planned
collaboration at the CINF Executive Committee Meeting
in Philadelphia in August 2004 and subsequently
organized an exploratory workshop with representatives
from CIC, CINF and ACS governance at the Spring
2005 ACS meeting in San Diego. At this meeting, the
objectives of CINF and CIC as well as problems
common to both divisions were discussed in general
terms. To facilitate communication among members of
the working group, Christoph Steinbeck, Chair of CIC,
created a website for the group's mailing list. A followup
workshop was held in Germany in the Fall of the
same year at which specific topics for collaboration were
identified and discussed in more detail. Additionally, it
was decided to hold two meetings per year alternating
between US and German localities. In addition to the
representatives from CINF and CIC, David Schutt (ACS,
Chief Strategy Officer) and Wolfram Koch (GDCh,
Executive Director) also attended, thus providing
recognition by the respective societies.
Discussion topics dealt with the recruitment of new
members for the divisions; promoting the use of
chemoinformatics in chemistry-related fields;
accessibility of chemical information at academic
institutions; and the development of open standards in
chemical information. As a result, several task forces
were formed to address the issues and charged with
reporting their findings at future meetings. Furthermore,
in order to generate greater visibility for the activities of
the Collaborative Working Group (CWG) and to
highlight new developments in chemoinformatics, it was
decided to hold a symposium at the 2006 Fall ACS
meeting in San Francisco. The day-long symposium
"Cyberinfrastructure in Chemistry, Information and
Education: New Developments" will take place on
Sunday, September 10, as part of the CINF program.
Experts from various areas in chemoinformatics will
discuss their work. The symposium will be followed by
a meeting of the working group.
In May of 2006, at the Stanford University campus, the
creation of a Mission Statement (see below) took up a
large part at the next meeting. Not only was this essential
to identify CWG but it was also requested by the ACSChemical Information Bulletin
http: // www. acscinf. org
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