2012 Web Discussion
- The following is the agenda of work posted under business for canSAS-2012 under the Web Portal topic. Please add comments here:
- define scope, purpose, and goal of portal
- list content type to which such a portal should give access.
- Suggest method for hosting
- ?more distributed or more centralized,
- ?under auspices of a particular facility or SAS commission
- ? .. or both etc)
- Build a working straw landing page prototype
- Build at least 2 or 3 subpages and/or designs on paper
- plan for presentations
- SAS 2012
- SAS commission
There are a number of places on the www with information about small-angle scattering. A portal needs to provide links to relevant information and extra content. The working group needs to find a way to make information readily available in an attractive way for different categories of people that will include scientists curious about the technique but unfamiliar, potential users, experienced users, etc. Some current pages are:
Software for small angle scattering
World Directory of SANS Instruments
BioSAXS data analysis software (EMBL Hamburg)
Wikipedia Small-angle Scattering
These pages are examples of what is already available. The challenge is to provide access and to integrate information.
ARR: A challenge is to find a means to keep the portal maintained and updated. We will need some continuing commitment to this task.
SMK: If you type 'small angle scattering' into Google - what I suspect most people would do in the first instance if looking for information on the topic - you get a Wikipedia article (which then subdivides into further articles on SANS & SAXS). Do we know who wrote these articles?
