vra> Scout Report - November 25, 1994 (fwd)

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                   Scout Report:  November 25, 1994

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new on
and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of
interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,
however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated fees.

The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and
WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources of
interest. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick reference, and
you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the items reported in all
previous issues.  The Scout Report is also distributed in an HTML version
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other users at your site.

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Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
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ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES:

+++  Last week the HTML version of the Scout Report was sent in error to
the mailing list for plain text version, resulting in folks on that list
receiving two copies of the same Scout Report. Have no fear, you haven't
been mistakenly added to another mailing list -- it was only an error on
the part of an un-named (ahem...) InterNaut.  Apologies for the confusion.

+++  You may have noticed that recently the Scout Report has been arriving
a bit late in the week. This is due to two factors:  one of them human
related (too many airplanes) and one computer related (too much work).
Action is being taken to alleviate both situations. ;-)  In the
meantime, thanks for your patience.

Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  Library of Congress American Memory Project adds audio collection
*  The Art of Renaissance Science, a prototype hypermedia article that
   explores the interconnections between art and science in Renaissance
   Italy
*  Guide to the Stars and Galaxies in multimedia
*  "New on the Net" numbers:  largest monthly jump yet in domain name
   registrations

ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES:

+++  Last week the HTML version of the Scout Report was sent in error to
the mailing list for plain text version, resulting in folks on that list
receiving two copies of the same report. Have no fear, you haven't been
mistakenly added to another mailing list -- it was only an error on the
part of an un-named (ahhem...) Internaut.  Apologies for the confusion.

+++  You may have noticed that recently the Scout Report has been arriving
a bit late in the week. This is due to two factors:  one human-related
(too many airplanes) and one computer related (too much work).  Action is
being taken to alleviate both situations. ;-) In the meantime, thanks for
your patience.

World Wide Web
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American Memory Project - The Library of Congress has added a collection of
sound recordings to its American Memory project. The Nation's Forum
collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American
leaders at the turn of the century. The speeches focus on issues and
events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential
election of 1920. Speakers include Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin
Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and
John J. Pershing.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

Banned Books Online is a new Web page featuring books available on-line
that have been the objects of censorship, particularly by legal
authorities or by schools.  The on-line exhibit gives short descriptions
of the titles, which range from "Ulysses" to "Little Red Riding Hood".  It
also describes how and why each book was censored or suppressed.  You can
then follow hypertext links from the top-level page to the works
themselves, so that you can see what the censors didn't want people to
see. Pointers to other resources (both on- and off-line) on censorship
issues and on-line literature are provided. The exhibit is based at
Carnegie Mellon University, where the administration recently announced
the university would censor numerous newsgroups (including text-based
groups) related to sexuality, citing fears of legal liability as its
reason.  The exhibit is particularly appropriate now, as a reminder of the
continuing struggle for free expression and the increasingly important
role of computer-based forms of expression.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/spok/banned-books.html

The Berlin Wall Falls Project is being initiated by the Patch American
High School in Stuttgart, Germany. Do you remember where you where when
the Berlin Wall fell? It's been 5 years now, and Patch American High
School has started a collaborative Web project that invites participation
from students and researchers around the globe. Over the next twelve
months, the Berlin Wall Falls: Perspectives from 5 Years Down the Road
project hopes to link student-produced Web documents from as many as 30
different sites. Willkommen!
http://192.253.114.31/Berlin/Introduction/Berlin.html

The Cabot Science Library at Harvard University has announced its new WWW
home page providing a variety of information and directional links to
assist science students and researchers at Harvard and elsewhere. In
addition to providing information about the library's services,
collections and policies, this resource also provides guidance in how to
access major scientific databases on campus, and points to useful
Internet-accessible science resources including home pages of other
science libraries, as well as a number of Harvard scientific publications
currently being produced via WWW.  Also included are HTML versions of
Cabot's popular topical research guides and of the Library newsletter.
http://fas-www.harvard.edu:80/libraries/cabot/cabot.html

The City University of New York, New York, USA contains the 19 CUNY
colleges. Offers previews of multimedia programs developed by CUNY faculty
and links to an innovative gopher containing resources for teaching
English as a second language. Featured in the CUNY Multimedia Development
Initiative page is "The Art of Renaissance Science," a prototype
hypermedia article that explores the interconnections between art and
science in Renaissance Italy.
http://www.cuny.edu/

Guide to Stars and Galaxies, produced by the Engineering in Astronomy team
at the University of Bradford, England, is a multimedia guide to stars and
galaxies. The guide has been converted from a popular CD-ROM (with
permission), is rich in graphics and audio, and is nicely done.
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/btl/

The Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo now has a WWW server.
The server offers Social Science Japan, an online magazine containing
articles on recent trends in economics, political science and legal
research on Japan. An events diary of conferences, seminars etc.  for
social scientists interested in Japan.
http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

The World Data Center A for Marine Geology & Geophysics, located at the
National Geophysical Data Center, USA, is now accessible through the Web
and includes a forms interface allowing full on-line inventory searches of
all Marine Geology & Geophysics Division holdings.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/aboutmgg/wdcamgg.html

Xerox PARC Web Map Viewer offers a "clickable" world map which lets you
zoom in on areas of interest. Cities, roads, and rivers are not labeled
since the underlying map data contains only line data such as coastlines,
borders, rivers, roads, and not the data or software to add labels or
topographic information. However, there is a link to link to the
Geographic Name Server which allows searches by name, and returns a Map
Viewer page which pinpoints the searched item on the appropriate map.
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map

Gopher
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A Citizen's Guide to Internet Resources on the Rights of Americans. The
guide is designed for the layperson and focuses on Internet resources
which explain and discuss individual rights under: the Bill of Rights,
select federal statutes (e.g., the ADA, the Copyright Act), rights by
status or group (e.g., women, youth, the disabled), and other
rights-related resources (e.g., gateways to legal information). It has
been posted on the Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource
Guides at the University of Michigan.
gopher to:   una.hh.lib.umich.edu
   select:  inetdirsstacks/Citizens' Rights
or use a Web browser:
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/00/inetdirsstacks/citizens:bachpfaff

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
gopher to:   aace.virginia.edu

French Embassy, Washington DC  (NOTE: totally in French)
gopher to:   IEPSERV.univ-lyon2.fr

InfoPro -- Information Professionals List Gopher
gopher to:   gopher.oss.net

Jobs Online
gopher to:   gopher.ceweekly.wa.com

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, provided by the Family
Life Development Center at Cornell University.
gopher to:   gopher.ndacan.cornell.edu

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology  -- digital cartographic data
gopher to:   nbmg.unr.edu

Email
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Eye On Government is a one way list service that functions like a bulletin
rather than a forum, brought to us by the folks who bring us Gopher
Jewels.  Subscribers will receive bulletins that both praise and question
government when they take new actions that impact public access to
government information.  Most bulletins will be authored by David Riggins,
but may (on rare occasions) be supplemented by posts from others. The
number of bulletins should be infrequent, but may become frequent for
short periods of time.  The philosophy is not to stifle debate, but
recognizes many readers don't have time to manage the high level of
traffic forums tend to generate.  Posts from this service may be
forwarded, by subscribers, to forums for consideration or debate.
Opinions expressed in this service should be take as just
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of others before forming their own opinion.
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Two new mailing lists related to laser technology, Laser Sources
Listserver (INFO-LASERSRC), and Laser Beam Transport Listserver
(INFO-LASERTRANS) are now open to anyone interested in lasers. Topics in
LASER SOURCES will include solid-state lasers, semiconductor lasers, dye
lasers, gas lasers, resonators, other coherent sources, power supplies.
Topics in LASER BEAM TRANSPORT will include optical design for lasers,
optical materials/coatings, laser diagnostics, laser damage, atmospheric
propagation, laser physics.
send Email to:   info-optolink-request at spie.org
   in the body of the message type:
       subscribe info-lasersrc
and/or
       subscribe info-lasertrans

National Information Infrastructure
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New documents on the Department of Commerce National
Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:

*  Government Information Locator Service Announcement
*  IITF Meeting Minutes
*  G-7 Meeting Information

gopher to:   ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
   choose:  Hot Off the Press

NetBytes
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"New on the Net" states that the Nov. 15th snapshot of the commercial
domains registered with InterNIC shows 24,762 unique domains compared with
21,777 as of Oct 15, 1994.  The net increase of 2,985 domains represents
and 13.7% month to month gain. This smashes the previous record number of
additions set in the month ended Sept. 15, 1994 when 1,839 domains were
added.  A detailed analysis of the data wasn't complete at the time of
release of the Scout Report, but author Mike Walsh of Internet Info says
the growth appears to be coming from all sectors e.g. high tech, consumer
products, financial services, publishing, etc.  Notable domain name
registrations:  "Mosaic Communications registers MOZILLA.COM.  Let's see
how long it takes for their corporate name change to catch up.  The Coca
Cola Company finally registers some domains COCA-COLA.COM and
COCACOLA.COM.  Bet they wish they had COKE.COM.  And if you thought the
Net was just for geeks, Harley-Davidson registers HOG.COM (along with a
couple of other variations).  The National Hockey League registers
NHL.COM.  Hey, they got nothing better to do."

After analysis, two versions of "New on the Net" will be released. If you
want to receive the short version which is free, just sent email to
short at internetinfo.com.  The long version includes noteworthy
registrations and charts which breakdown registration by state, area code
and Internet Service Provider.  The long version isn't free but is cheap
and will be available at:
http://directory.net/netinfo

RODEO INRIA High Speed Networking, France, is offering information about
the INRIA Videoconferencing System an IVS videoconferencing package which
enables audio and video to be sent over the Internet. Included are a
description of the system, the H.261 coding scheme, the changes required
to use this video coding over packet-switched networks, platforms
currently supported, and pointers to freely retrieve the package.
http://zenon.inria.fr:8003/rodeo/personnel/Thierry.Turletti/ivs.html

Weekend Scouting
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A Guide to Covered Bridges, offered by Drexel University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, transforms the Web into a time machine. Find the answer to
the question, why are there so many covered bridges, and why in
Pennsylvania and the Northeast?  The Drexel University Honors Program
sponsors this guide to dozens of covered bridges of the Philadelphia
region. Driving tours are suggested, and bridge images are indexed by
season (fall color, winter, snow and ice, spring/summer) and structure as
well as county.
http://129.25.48.205/top/bridge1/CB1.HTML

Dan Brown's Beer Page serves as something of an index to other
beer-related resources on the net, from the alt.beer FAQ to Finnish beer
aficionados.  The contributor of this item summed it up nicely when he
said:  "We're talking good beer and home brewing technology here, not
cheap swill and reckless indulgence."
http://www.eff.org/~brown/beer.html

About the Scout Report
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  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC
Information Services to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way
to stay informed about network activities. Its purpose is to combine in
one place the highlights of new (and newly-discovered) online resources
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A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.

The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP.  Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.

After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available through multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:

World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS

A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two
backslashes. For example:

http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt

To access the resource through the WWW you will need a WWW client
installed on your host computer. Clients are available for all major
computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW
client on your computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the
Internet, either through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP
connection. See the InfoGuide for additional information about the World
Wide Web and for sites which archive WWW clients.

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l/

Gopher to: is.internic.net
  Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/

Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
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