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Comment I've seen this before somewhere... (Score 2, Informative) 140

by tomatoguy on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @09:45PM (#29665443) Attached to: New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

In high-school chemistry I saw a chart like this, though arranged to accommodate the rare earths as their own separate but related group. It was nerd art for me - each element was assigned a shade of blue or red to indicate pH. I ordered two and they came with additional materials explaining the new chart. The charts are packed away, but I just looked up the hand-outs and tried to Google but found nothing. But, one of the had-outs is a reprint of a write-up in Chemistry magazine of September 1976. It was created by James Franklin Hyde, who is apparently the Father of Silicones acording to Wikipedia.

Oh, here's a link I just found to the chart http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=164

For the Internet Database of Periodic Tables, see http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?Button=Spiral+Formulations

Submission + - Building a Website for Legacy

Submitted by tomatoguy on Friday January 04, 2008 @02:21AM

tomatoguy writes: For the last 10 years I have been collecting digital images of memorabilia of interest to me, in addition to the things I own. It started as a record of what I didn't own, because there was so much when I started collecting. Then I realized I had enough images to tell the story of the companies that inspired the things I collect, though those images.

I've done lots of database and operational planning, as I want to do this as right as I can from the start. I figured it would be something I'd be involved in for the rest of my collecting life, so no rush to bang something out and then struggle with it thereafter. I would also involve members of the interested community of likewise collectors, as an open project with qualified contributors.

Lately I've looked at a couple of the popular CMS frameworks — Joomla! and Drupal. Both would require some custom coding on my part — no big deal because they offer lots of additional handy features I wouldn't have to write. There are other maturing frameworks and methodologies that would easily do what I want.

But then I thought... How to make this site endure after I'm gone? If all goes well I'll be able to put a couple decades into it and I'm sure it would be well-appreciated by those with a collecting and historical interest in the domain, and I'm sure I could get others involved.

So my question is: What thoughts or actions have you given to preserving your web legacy, or handing it off to others, so it continues on after you can't?

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