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                   Scout Report: September 30, 1994

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Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  Le WebLouvre, with a guided tour of Paris
*  EPA on the Web
*  Ann Rand on the 'Net
*  2020World: a new mailing list with potential

World Wide Web
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The American Physical Society (APS) has established the E-Print Forum on
its home page on the World Wide Web which will serve as a temporary
archive for discussions, meeting bulletins, papers, etc., concerning
e-print (preprint) archives and the potential role of APS. The American
Physical Society has also established a listserver, for discussion on
ideas and issues pertaining to e-prints.
http://aps.org/
listserv instructions:
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   listserv at aps.org
in the body of the message type:
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Le WebLouvre offers a French medieval art demonstration, a collection of
well-known paintings from famous artists, and a tour around Paris
including the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysees.  The tour of includes
two options - walking around on your own or a historical guided tour with
comments. Le WebLouvre is a Best of the Web '94 contest for the Best Use
of Multiple Media. The Web site is the work of primarily one person and
is not officially associated with The Louvre Museum in Paris.
http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/louvre/

NASA's Astrophysics Data System has announced the availability of the
Einstein Archive Service. This service provides query and retrieval
capability for the Einstein X-ray Observatory's processed data archive.
The archive includes about 5000 X-ray observations (in astronomical
standard FITS format) taken between 1978 and 1981. A listing of other ADS
data services available via the WWW is also available.
http://adswww.harvard.edu/adswww/adshomepg.html

The Nebula File System is a structured file system based on dynamic views
of information. A WWW/Nebula gateway is available from the Penn State
Computer Science Department. The gateway exports two contexts that can be
searched with structured queries like description=emacs. The PC-archives
context contains descriptions of more 27,000 software packages available
through network archives. The StarGazer context contains bibliographic
citations for operating systems, computer communications, and programming
languages.
http://www.sys.cse.psu.edu/NEBFS/nebula.html

Objectivism is a philosophy originated by Ayn Rand, as presented in her
works The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and many others. Its basic tenets
are: in metaphysics -- an objective reality existing independent of man's
mind; in epistemology -- reason as man's means of obtaining knowledge; in
ethics -- egoism; and in politics -- capitalism. The Objectivism WWW
Service provides information on the philosophy and pointers to resources
both on and off the net.
http://www.vix.com/pub/objectivism

The Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, a centre for research and
development within the School of Education at the University of
Nottingham, offers WWW pages which includes a collection of information
technologies used in the classroom, details of publications and research,
as well as a Distractions Page "intended to contain entertaining items of
varying degrees of educational value."
http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/ShellCent/

StarHeads, the last product of the Star*s Family is now available at the
Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS). StarHeads gives
access to about 400 individual pages of astronomers and space scientists,
and this figure is rapidly growing. Forms based browser is required.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/url2.htm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announce the availability of a
WWW server providing Public Access to the EPA's Public Information.
http://www.epa.gov/

The  Center For Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) home page
serves as an information resource of CRCA activities, research, programs,
and software, a link to other art resources, electronic and terrestrial,
and the future home of image and sound galleries.  CRCA is a research
unit of the University of California, San Diego.
http://crca-www.ucsd.edu

The University of South Africa's WWW server includes links to other WWW
servers and FTP sites in South Africa as well as information about the
university.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/

The Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern
California is now on the Web. The site is an information source for those
interested or involved in the entertainment industry, containing at
present several hollywood magazines, production house catalogues, and
Hollynet, the prototype for the ETC's future commercial web site.
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/etc/index.html

Gopher
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Human Resources Development Canada
gopher:   gopher.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries -- MITosis
gopher:   mitosis.mit.edu

The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's gopher presents
educational research and development information developed by NWREL and
the national network of Regional Educational Laboratories and Research
Centers, and to provide access for educators in the Northwest region to a
broad range of information sources concerned with educational issues,
research and practice. It is also intended to focus access on the state
and local educational networks in the region serving K-12 schools and
districts, and to provide a cross-regional sharing vehicle for promising
practices in K-12 education.
gopher to:   gopher.nwrel.org

Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
gopher:   gopher.inf.bme.hu

US Institute of Peace
gopher:   gopher.usip.igc.org

University of Illinois - College of Veterinary Medicine
gopher:   gopher.cvm.uiuc.edu

University of Texas International Network Information Center
gopher:   reenic.utexas.edu

Email/FTP
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New List:  REHAB-RU.  Physical medicine and rehabilitation, especially in
rural and community settings, is the topic of the REHAB-RU list.  The
list is unmoderated and open to all who wish to share ideas, opinions,
inquiries, and information related to the topic. The REHAB-RU list is
provided by the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, which serves a large
population in Appalachia and other rural areas of our region.
send email to:
   LISTSERV at ukcc
   or LISTSERV at ukcc.uky.edu
in the body of the message type:
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National Information Infrastructure
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Advanced Digital Video in the National Information Infrastructure (NII)
is a report on a recent Workshop organized by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). At the Workshop, government and industry
speakers and participants gathered to define a vision of the role of
digital video within the NII; to identify the architectural, scaling, and
performance issues in realizing this vision; and to recommend the
research, experiments, and steps to be taken in resolving these issues.
Sponsors in addition to NIST were: Technology Policy Working Group of the
Information Infrastructure Task Force, Electronics Industries
Association, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - USA,
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Advanced Television
Systems Committee, and the Cross-Industry Working Team.
http://www.eeel.nist.gov/advnii/

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

*  OMB Bulletin on Government Information Locator Service -- Comments
       Requested
*  TIIAP Grant Program Updated Information
*  Public Telecom Facilities Program FY94 Grant Awards
*  Committee on Applications and Technology Charter
*  CAT Meeting Minutes  06/14/94
*  Telecom Policy Working Group Minutes  09/14/94

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

NetBytes
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New List:  2020WORLD will be a global group exploration of life in the
year 2020, sponsored by the Seattle Sunday Times in conjunction with a
column published in the paper weekly.  The column will be posted to the
2020World mailing list every Monday in hopes of encouraging outrageous,
yet intellectual, ideas that are far outside the typical, boring
discussions of home-shopping and video-on-demand. 2020world will explore
how our lives will change when the information highway is a familiar and
integral part of our society.  The column will *NOT* be about technology,
that's why the year 2020 was chosen, by then we can all agree that a
broadband, fully switched, ubiquitous network will have been in place for
many years.  How that network will change our lives, not how it will
work, is the question 2020world will address. With each column, an idea
will be put into play, a toss of the first jump ball. Then we want to
inspire readers to comment, explore, and extend that idea with their
responses.  The best will be published in the paper.  Your responses and
ideas are needed and welcomed, hence this invitation for you to join the
mailing list.
send an email to:
   MAJORDOMO at SEATIMES.COM
in the body of the message type:
   SUBSCRIBE 2020WORLD

Weekend Scouting
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The members of the Internet mailing list "murmur" and newsgroup
rec.music.rem have created a home page dedicated to the music of the
group R.E.M.  Also includes a nice collection of links to other music
sources on the Web.
http://www.halcyon.com/rem/index.htm

There is now a WWW page devoted to figure skating, including a link to
the Competitive Figure Skating FAQ List.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/skate.html

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