Scout Report July 29, 1994
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Tue Aug 2 18:57:50 CEST 1994
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Scout Report, July 29, 1994
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Services to the US. research and education and entire Internet community
via email, gopher, and World Wide Web. Included are selected new and
newly-discovered online resources, network news, and bits of net culture.
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Highlights in this week's Report:
* Library of Congress Electronic Digital Library
* FinanceNet
* Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
* Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
* MIT and CERN form WWW Organization
World Wide Web:
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The hypertext interface to the Internet and Computer-Mediated
Communication and Internet Tools has been reorganized and redesigned . A
table of contents is available at three levels and can be used to retrieve
just the desired section of the guide. The Internet Tools guide is a
particularly useful collection of network tools information pointers.
http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/icmc/toc2.html
http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/toc2.html
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) WWW server.
CPSR is a non-profit, public interest organization concerned with the
effects of computers on society. CPSR is supported by its membership and
has chapters throughout the country.
http://www.cpsr.org/dox/home.html
The Cyberspace Report: A public affairs radio show aired on KUCI, 88.9 FM
in Irvine, California every Wednesday from 6:00 to 6:30 PM. The
Cyberspace Report explores social issues of computing using interview
and topic shows. Audio files of the programs are available for downloading
in sections, with the size of each file clearly marked. Current show
include feature interviews with Mark Poster on post modernism and the
Internet, and Mark Bernstein on literary hypertext and the hypertext
authoring tool StorySpace. Finally, Marc Smith discusses virtual
communities on the Well.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/csr/cyber.html
The Daily News - Free Internet Sources. A catalog of those sites on the
Internet that provide significant business and economic news on a daily
basis, without charge. Includes publications organized by geographic
regions around the world.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html
"Family Times Online" -an electronic magazine which includes links to
other family-oriented resources.
http://ssnet.com:8011/times.html
FinanceNet links government financial management professionals together
in an effort to innovate and optimize the way governments manage
taxpayer's resources. FinanceNet is associated with the NetResults
network of people and reinvention teams at Vice President Gore's office of
the National Performance Review, and was designed and is now supported
by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.financenet.gov/
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a
multinational federation of professional and technical organizations (or
national groupings of such organizations) concerned with information
processing. Dr. Vinton G. Cerf will be a keynote speaker at IFIP's 13th
World Computer Congress on the Computing and Communications Evolution.
http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html
The United Kingdom's Information Technology Training Initiative (ITTI) has
produced many products aimed at improving the availability of IT training
materials (cbt, electronic, and hardcopy) to Universities in the UK. ITTI
also makes their products available to other institutions.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/ITTI/itti.html
Kennedy Homepage: Senator Edward Kennedy's Web page, including links to
information on issues of interest to the Senator, online resources
available in and for Massachusetts, and other government information.
Note that an election year freeze has been in effect since July 23,
preventing any update of information until after the election on November
8, 1994.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/Kennedy/homepage.html
List of Libraries available via WWW.
http://peterhe.ulib.albany.edu/mk-docs/mk-isp.html
The Library of Congress new World Wide Web server, the first step in the
Library's Electronic Digital Library project. The first collections include
approximately 4000 prints and photographs from the American Memory
project, and Country Studies from the Federal Research Division. All
collections are searchable through an advanced text retrieval system. Also
available is an Online Exhibits Program of exhibits on display at the
Library. The Library's Home Page also provides a connection to LC
MARVEL(the Library's gopher-based campus-wide information system ) and
LOCIS (the Library's database retrieval system ).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
A hypertext version of the LINGUIST List, the electronic mailing list of
the linguistics community, is available on the University of Rochester,
Department of Linguistics.
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/linguist/contents.html
NTIS FedWorld WWW homepage includes a list of more than 100 US.
Government information servers, each sorted by NTIS Subject categories.
Also, limited information on the services provided by NTIS, as well as
access to many of the free files that are available from the dialup/telnet
FedWorld interface.
http://www.fedworld.gov.
Network and Computer Security resources reference index. Topics include
FAQs, WWW Information Sources, USENet News Groups, FTP Sites, and
Mailing Lists & Mail Addresses.
http://www.tansu.com.au/Info/security.html
Gopher/Telnet/FTP/Email
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Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet, is a new service
offered by Oxford University. Alex allows users to find and retrieve the
full-text of documents on the Internet. It currently indexes over 700
books and shorter texts by author and title, incorporating texts from
Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the On-line Book Initiative, the Eris system at
Virginia Tech, the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University, and the
on-line portion of the Oxford Text Archive.
gopher to: gopher.ox.ac.uk
choose: The World/Gopherspace/Alex
gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk:70/11/lib-corn/hunter
The Bureau of Labor Statistics public database, called LABSTAT, provides
current and historical data for 26 surveys, as well as numerous press
releases. LABSTAT on the Internet is composed of individual databases (in
flat file format) corresponding to each of the surveys.
FTP to: stats.bls.gov.
"The Educator's Guide to the Internet" was written and designed by
educators for educators or anyone who wants to unlock the secrets of the
Internet without possessing a degree in computer science. A user-friendly
to help you find the resources around the world that will be of most use to
you in the classroom. The Educator's Guide is a 170-page book packed
with detailed tutorials, easy-to-follow and useful examples, and tips on
major Internet functions. Available for $16.00 from the Virginia Space
Grant Program. Send mail to: vsgc at pen.k12.va.us
"The K-12 Network Technology Planning Guide" developed by the California
Department of Education is now available in gopherspace.
gopher to: goldmine.cde.ca.gov
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) a non-profit consumer education
group, now has a gopher site containing State of California and Federal
legislation relating to the issue of privacy and informational fact sheets
that are constantly being updated. Topics include; Your Social Security
number, junk mail, e-mail in the work place, wiretapping, and many
others.
gopher to: gopher.acusd.edu.
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office -- Tulsa, Oklahoma
gopher to: galaxy.galstar.com
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Web Home Page. Special
emphasis is placed on locating resources of interest to the K-12 and
public library communities. In deference to these two groups who often
have slower SLIP or PPP access (if they have any access at all!) all inline
graphics in the WisDPI page total less than 5k and the size of the file is
indicated.
http://badger.state.wi.us/0/agencies/dpi/www/dpi_home.html
gopher to: badger.state.wi.us
telnet to: wigoph and then hit enter twice
choose: --> Wis. State Agencies... --> Wis. Dept. of Public....
NetBytes
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The Department of Justice gopher includes the text of the recent US vs.
Microsoft decision. Look under antitrust.
gopher.usdoj.gov
MIT and CERN have announced plans for a joint effort to form and manage a
WorldWideWeb organization. Tim Berners-Lee, the developer of the
WorldWideWeb, will be the director of WorldWideWeb Organization (W3O).
See NetNews on Global Network Navigator (GNN) for 2 reports on the
announcement. Also available is a link to the newly constructed homepage
for W3O.
http://www.digital.com/gnn/news/feature/www.mit.html
http://www.digital.com/gnn/news/feature/bernerslee.html
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Organization/Consortium/Prospectus
/Overview.html
WWW client: MacMosaic V1.0 alpha6, for Macintosh and Mac PowerPC,
from NCSA.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/MacMosaic/
WWW client: MacWeb V1.0 A2 for Macintosh, from EINet.
http://www.einet.net/EINet/MacWeb/MacWebHome.html
Weekend Scouting:
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The Orienteering and Rogaining WWW Server is now on-line with
information on clubs and federations from around the world, including
schedules, results, maps and people to contact for more information.
Orienteering is the use of a highly detailed map and a compass to find
one's way through unknown surroundings and, if done competitively, in the
least possible time. Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country
navigation in which teams of two to five members, on foot using map and
compass, visit as many checkpoints as possible in up to twenty-four
hours.
http://www2.aos.Princeton.EDU:80/rdslater/orienteering/
World Youth Baseball pages are now available via the web including
scores, schedules and standings.
http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/WYB/.
About the Scout Report
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