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“Alan Wood” is quite a common name, so here is some information about the author of this Web site, just in case you are wondering if I am the Alan Wood you know (or used to know).

Employment

1997–Justis Publishing Limited: designing and producing user manuals, Help files and Web sites for databases of case law and statute law.
1996–1997CAB International: designing and constructing a 60,000-term, tri-lingual, classified thesaurus for agriculture; producing Windows Help files; editing user manual.
1986–1996CAB International: quality control of the indexes and abstracts in the CAB Abstracts agricultural and biomedical database and the abstract journals derived from it; maintaining the CAB Thesaurus; converting manuals, reference works and databases into Windows Help files; editing user manual; designing data entry systems and bibliographic databases.
1971–1985Commonwealth Institute of Entomology: indexing the Review of Applied Entomology; photographing insects.
1970–1971    IBM London Data Centre: operating IBM System/360 mainframes.


University

1967–1970    University of Lancaster (major Biological Sciences, minors Chemistry and Environmental Science)
Lancaster Alumni Online


School

1960–1967Glyn Grammar School, Epsom, Surrey (‘A’ Levels in Chemistry, Physics and Zoology)
1953–1960    Cheam Park Farm Infants School and Cheam Park Farm Junior School, North Cheam, Surrey


Interests

CDS/ISISWhile I worked for CAB International, I was an active user of Unesco’s bibliographic database, and provided assistance on the CDS-ISIS Listserv. Sadly, I have lost touch with recent developments.
PesticidesI have been a member for several years of the BSI/ISO committee that assigns common names to pesticides, and I created and maintain the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names.
Photography    I used to spend a lot of time photographing insects, as a part of my job at the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology and as a hobby, and I used to give demonstrations of my techniques. I have started work on photographing the equipment and converting my handouts into 2 Web sites. The sites are not finished yet, but you can see them at:
Close-up and Macro Photography for Entomologists
Olympus OM System Close-up and Macro Equipment
ThailandI have visited Mahidol University’s Faculty of Tropical Medicine in Bangkok (where my wife used to work) many times, and also LRDC at the Asian Institute of Technology and various agricultural research establishments.
UnicodeWhile looking for a Thai word processor and trying to find a reliable way of displaying Greek and mathematical characters in the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names, I found all sorts of information about Unicode characters, fonts, browsers and other programs. My records of this information have since developed into Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources.


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Created 10th December 1996     Last modified 22nd July 2005

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