Guidelines for Statements of Interest

All workshop participants are asked to submit a Statement of Interest. The statements are intended to introduce workshop participants and initiate discussion at the meeting, and may be as long as you need to make your position clear--3 to 5 pages is a reasonable length. Please submit the Statement of Interest by Wednesday, May 21, as text attached or inserted into an e-mail to our webmaster, Chris Stebbins ( stebbins@sscf.ucsb.edu). Chris will then format this text into HTML format for you. If you are willing to prepare your own HTML formatted document as your Statement, we welcome your assistance. Feel free to include any URLs, graphics, etc. you wish. Instructions for transferring your HTML and graphics files to NCGIA are provided below. If you do choose to do this, please send email to the address indicated above telling us when and how you wish to transfer the file(s).

Transferring HTML and graphics files to NCGIA

To transfer your file(s) to NCGIA, you have two options: Post it/them on your local website where we can access it/them and save copies for our website. In this case we will need to know your URL. Transfer them to us directly via anonymous ftp. Our incoming ftp site is at "ftp.ncgia.ucsb.edu", directory "/incoming". To deposit your file(s), please make a new directory in "/incoming" called "lastname_firstname" (using your name, of course) and put all your files in this new directory. Please avoid doing this file transfer at the top of the hour as all files are transferred to a secure directory once per hour at that time. You may not be able to see your files in the ftp site once you have transferred them as the directory is write only. (Important! Don't forget to use binary transfer mode for any .jpg or .gif files). Remember, please send email to stebbins@sscf.ucsb.edu to let us know when and how you wish us to access your file(s).

Assistance with Creating HTML Documents

If you are unfamiliar with creating documents in HTML format there are several resources available to assist you: An excellent list of on-line tutorials and information about creating HTML format files can be found at http://www.utexas.edu/learn/pub/html.html Most current word processing packages (including Microsoft Word and Word Perfect) have built-in format translators which will automatically convert word processor documents (including in-line images) into .html and .gif formats. There are a number of stand-alone translators available for converting between various document formats and HTML. See, for example, http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Tools/Filters.html. Finally, you'll find that undergraduate students are an excellent source of information and assistance with HTML formatting.