RE: more potential contacts for DP-IG STEM/MathML Task Force

Copying the IG.

If you look at Peter's doc, you'll see what I mean about having a wealth of contacts!

Note the implication about how much work is being done in this area, how many extremely knowledgeable and articulate people there are, how many very large and influential organizations are involved, and how we have to go outside our normal channels to involve them. . . .

Not to be beating a dead horse here, but it really pains me that folks like this, and organizations like this, are not more actively involved in the W3C.

--Bill Kasdorf

From: Peter Krautzberger [mailto:peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:56 AM
To: Bill Kasdorf
Cc: t-cole3@illinois.edu; Bill Mischo; Bonn, Maria Stella; Ivan Herman; Karen Myers
Subject: Re: more potential contacts for DP-IG STEM/MathML Task Force

Thanks everyone.

I have started a google doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DGO1QAoAnlBObSADC85Bd3eH4Up9x8xNGowFLk521bk/edit?usp=sharing>; everyone with the link should be able to comment.

It's just contacts for now (still growing) -- next up: a collection of questions.

Peter.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com<mailto:bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>> wrote:
Thanks, Tim. Yes, virtually all of these are folks active in SSP. That's why I think some outreach through SSP in general might be of great benefit to us, as we discussed on the call you and I had with Peter last week. But in the meantime these are all good names. Rick Anderson is particularly important: he comes from the library side of the world and is very thoughtful and articulate on these issues. (I would also include Kent Anderson, JBJS; David Crotty, OUP; Joe Esposito, consultant; Howard Ratner, CHORUS; Mike Clarke, Clarke & Company; and Ann Michael, DeltaThink, in that category. And Maria Bonn!!) We have a wealth of good contacts in this area!

--Bill

From: Tim Cole [mailto:t.cole3.illinois@gmail.com<mailto:t.cole3.illinois@gmail.com>]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 12:29 PM
To: Bill Kasdorf; 'Peter Krautzberger'
Cc: Bill Mischo; 'Bonn, Maria Stella'; 'Ivan Herman'; 'Karen Myers'
Subject: more potential contacts for DP-IG STEM/MathML Task Force

Peter, Bill -

Maria Bonn and Bill Mischo here suggested a few names that might good for us to contact and talk to about publishing needs and use cases, with a focus on scholarly publishing and/or STEM.  May have already occurred to you, but just in case.


•         Maria suggested Rick Anderson (rick.anderson@utah.edu<mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu>), Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections at the University of Utah Marriott Library.  Bill, you probably know him from SSP and/or his posts on the Scholarly Kitchen blog. Maria happy to help with the contact if needed.



•         Bill Mischo suggested IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg (IJ.J.Aalbersberg@elsevier.com<mailto:IJ.J.Aalbersberg@elsevier.com>), Senior VP of Journal and Content Technology for Elsevier and part of Elsevier's 'Article of the Future' team. His name may (probably has) already have come up in the DG-IG work before I joined? Interesting post a year ago about a survey they did asking for pros / cons of HTML articles vs. PDF articles.  http://www.elsevier.com/connect/pdf-versus-html-which-do-researchers-prefer  I assume more fulsome information about this, maybe already linked from DP-IG wiki? Again, Bill is happy to help us make initial contact.



•         Bill Mischo also suggested a couple of other names as people worth talking to about STEM publishing if time allows;



o   Paul Dlug, American Physical Society,  paul.dlug@gmail.com<mailto:paul.dlug@gmail.com>, or possibly Arthur Smith there (who we know also from work we did with APS back in 1990's

o   Kenneth Moore, IEEE, k.moore@ieee.org<mailto:k.moore@ieee.org>

o   Jennifer Lin, public library of science,  jlin@plos.org<mailto:jlin@plos.org>

I will not be on tommorrow's DP-IG conference call, by the way. Traveling. Ayla Stein, one of our metadata librarians, who just joined the Interest Group last week, will be on the call from Illinois instead – for now mostly just to listen and help fill me in when I get back.  If we decide there's more to do on metadata she may be able to be of help.

I will be back in Urbana on the 16th.  Should have reasonably good connectivity latter half of the week and will be checking in case anything comes up.

Thanks,


Tim Cole
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign