- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:26:54 -0400
- To: Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
- Cc: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>, Markus Gylling <markus.gylling@gmail.com>, "public-digipub-ig@w3.org" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 14:59 +0200, Peter Krautzberger wrote: > Hi, > > > The "E" in STEM > > I always thought the E was Engineering, not Education. Another ambiguity: > > the S sometimes means "Science" and sometimes means "Scholarly". > > (I think it means "Science", which is why I often say "Scholarly and > > STM" or "Scholarly and STEM.") > > I like referencing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields. Peter, thank you for that helpful link! That helps me a lot for one, as I see now it's overloaded in different fields. (1) STM in publishing for Scientific, Technical, Medical, e,g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STM#In_publishing (which is where I knew it, e.g. from the online journal reader project we had at SoftQuad years ago) (2) STEM or STEAM in graduate or college-level education in the US (and elsewhere??) where the E includes Education, and similar to MINT for Maths, Information science, natural science and technology. An additional E creeps in to journal publishing for engineering or education sometimes, probably because of this confusion. See e.g. http://www.stm-assoc.org/ for the international association of scientific, technical and medical publishers. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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