The CLIC Consortium:
An E-lib Chemistry Journal Project

Chemical Markup Language

A SGML based "dtd" for Chemical Content

1. Simple: "human-readable" and human-hackable"
2. Based on strict standards (SGML and HTML 2.0)
3. Independent of platform, manufacturer and application
4. Uses existing commercial and public tools
5. Extensible though glossaries, not syntax
6. Customisable through style sheets
7. Data validation and transformation through glossary-based code
8. Developed through working prototypes;
   Water PM3 Minimise geometry H O 1 1 H 1 1 111 1
   
   
   
9. For further information, see http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/glossary/sgml/ or http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/cml/
10. We seek collaborators amongst:
    Program developers, software vendors, publishers, database maintainers, equipment manufacturers, data archivists.
    Contact: Peter Murray-Rust or Henry S. Rzepa
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