WORLD-WIDE-WEB FOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Some characteristics of the World Wide Web (WWW) and its Virtual Libra ry (W3VL) are described. Aspects of the setting up, maintenance, futur e development and objectives of the World Wide Web Virtual Library: Cr ystallography are detailed. An overview of the successful use of WWW i n the organisation of two crystallographic conferences and one entirel y electronic conference is given. A revolution in scientific publicati on is under way with the introduction of WWW and CD-ROM technologies a nd a few of the points important to crystallography are touched upon. An application to distance teaching in crystallography is described. T here is no mention of WWW applications to crystallographic databases i n this paper as others at the Workshop have adequately described their work.