[BlindMath] Developing a New Braille Code

[John Gardner]

Hi Zack. I am no lawyer, but I am fairly sure that the answer to your legal
question is "It depends...". If you are taking something very specific and
using it, then you must reference it. You do not need permission unless you
are quoting a substantial amount of material - which from your description,
you are not. If you are not using some specific item but are depending on
some article/book as general background, it is probably sufficient to
include it in your general bibliography. My feeling is that if you include
everything you have used in that bibliography, you are not likely to get
into any legal problems. 

As for your second question, there may be multiple places you can publish
your information. One is access2science.com - write up a Word article and
send it to me.

John


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Subject: [BlindMath] Developing a New Braille Code

Hello: 

 

I know this isn't exactly the list for biochemistry, but it seems to have
the best minds for the question I have in regards to publishing accessible
STEM content. For my biochemistry courses at Mississippi State University, I
developed a short-hand notation to illustrate reaction pathway diagrams. Now
that I'm done taking courses, I've continued to work on updating and
critiquing the short-hand, and I believe I have something very close to
being worthy of publishing. I would like to make the code rules, as well as
several very commonly encountered reaction pathways, (E.G., glycolysis,
citric acid cycle, electron transport chain, etc.), publicly available. My
question is this. 

 

The examples of code I would be providing are a composite created from
Wikipedia articles, Khan Academy, Spider Chem, etc.; my course text book;
and course handouts. Unfortunately I did not keep track of my sources. In
this instance where I just want to share information in a format usable to a
very small population, in a format I developed that was inspired by Simple
molecular input linear entry (SMILES) and computer and Nemeth Braille, and
which almost all sighted users have access to without purchasing a $200 text
book; do I need special permissions, and if yes from whom? 

 

My second question is, is there an organization that would be interested in
featuring this or should I build a website to host this myself? 

 

 

Thank you,

 

Zac

 

P.S. Thank you for everyone involved in helping me through regression
analysis. I got a B in the course. 

 

Zachary Mason

M.S. Student

Animal and Dairy Sciences

Mississippi State University

 

 

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