vra> Scout Report September 16, 1994 (fwd)
VLADIMIR VRABEC
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Mon Sep 19 17:46:15 CEST 1994
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Scout Report: September 16, 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
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Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Special double issue this week to celebrate 10,000 subscribers!
* A brief explanation of resource address listings in the Scout Report
and pointers to information about network tools has been added to the
last section "About the Scout Report".
* Expanded NetBytes section
* Mercury Site -- real-time interaction with a robot on the 'Net
* Art Crimes; real and virtual surfing; and Adam Curry is back
World Wide Web
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The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is a German
national research centre for Polar and Marine research, and has huge
amounts of data related to Global Change research. Efforts are underway to
make the data widely available via the Web. Already on-line are ozone
soundings from the Antarctic - you can watch the ozone depletion over the
coming Antarctic summer in "real-time".
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/
The Amnesty International Web site offers the full text of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly in 1948, the organizations goals and activities, and membership
information.
http://cyberzine.org/html/Amnesty/aihomepage.html
The ASAP Canberra Office now maintains the World Wide Web Virtual Library
on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAP/WWWVL-HSTM.html
Environment Canada's Web server (english and french) includes Canada's
climate and meteorological data updated daily, monthly, and seasonally.
Forecasts, maps, satellite images, and weather service modernization
information is available.
http://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca
GrantSource(SM) - Information about grant and funding opportunities is
provided by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Office of
Research Services through their GrantSource(SM) Service. The GrantSource
Service can search the full text of nearly 10,000 documents available
from major funding sources.
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
gopher to: gibbs.oit.unc.edu
The Jesuits and the Sciences, 1600-1800, is available from the Science
Library of Loyola University of Chicago. The Jesuits and the Sciences is a
collection of images and text from rare works on astronomy, cosmology,
engineering, mathematics and natural history written by members of the
Society of Jesus in the 17th and 18th centuries.
http://www.luc.edu/~scilib/jessci.html
The JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page has been accessed over 2 million
times as of September 13. The second million took a little longer to get
to than the first million - the first million only took 10 days, most of
that during the comet impact week.
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/sl9.html
The Medical Research Council of Canada has implemented a World Wide Web
server to disseminate Canadian biomedical research funding information.
For further information, contact Lynne Mulvihill at mulvihilll at hpb.hw.ca
http://hpb1.hwc.ca:8100/
Mercury Site: Remote Tele-Excavation via the Web. An inter-disciplinary
team at the University of Southern California has made available Mercury
Site, a WWW server that allows users to tele-operate a robot arm over the
net. Users view the environment surrounding the arm via a sequence of
live images taken by a CCD camera mounted on a commercial robot arm. The
robot is positioned over a terrain filled with sand; a pneumatic system,
also mounted on the robot, allows users to direct short bursts of
compressed air into the sand at selected points. Thus users can
"excavate" regions within the sand by positioning the arm, delivering a
burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region. To operate the robot
you'll need an ethernet link and a WWW client that handles forms. Have a
blast:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/
NASA Ames Research Center K-12 World Wide Web Server homepage stated
mission: "To provide support and services for schools, teachers and
students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information
technologies, as one of the basic tools of learning and acquiring
knowledge." Links to HPCC & K-12 Internet Projects, partner schools, and
other NASA resources on the Internet.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
For an extensive listing of K12 and teacher resources:
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/HPCC/K12/edures.html
The National Child Rights Alliance (NCRA), formed by youth and adult
survivors of child abuse and neglect, is now on-line. Resources include
the history of the NCRA, the youth bill of rights, and numerous articles
on children's rights.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/NCRA/ncra.html
The National Marine Fisheries Service announces it's home page. The
server includes links to the NOAA home page as well as links to National
Marine Fisheries Science Centers and NMFS related sites. In addition, the
books Our Living Oceans Annual Report 1993 and Index for Fisheries of the
U.S -1992 are available online.
http://kingfish.ssp.nmfs.gov/home-page.html
A National Software Exchange for the High Performance Computing and
Communications community has been established to facilitate the
development and distribution of software enabling technologies for high
performance computing a wide availability of high-quality, public-domain
software for high performance computers. The exchange promotes software
reuse and collaboration and information sharing between universities,
research laboratories, and industry.
http://www.netlib.org/nse/home.html
The NIH-Guide to Grants and Contracts is accessible through NYU's WWW
server and NIH-Guide searchable database.
http://www.med.nyu.edu/nih-guide.html
The Puerto Rico WWW page is now online. It contains information about
Puerto Rico: interesting facts, history, places to visit, hotel
information and a large library of beautiful images from the island.
http://hppprdk01.prd.hp.com/
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and
development center whose objective is to provide leadership in software
engineering and in the transition of new software engineering technology
into practice. The SEI Information Server provides links to the ongoing
research efforts of the ARPA Software and Intelligent Systems Technology
Office and an index of information relating to numerous software and
computing topics.
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/FrontDoor.html
Gopher
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AJCU Gopher (Jesuit Mission and Identity)
gopher to: ajcu.luc.edu
City of Saint Paul, Minnesota
gopher to: gopher.stpaul.gov
College News Association of the Carolinas
gopher to: cnac.clemson.edu
ERNET (Education and Research Community Network, India)
gopher to: mahavir.doe.ernet.in
FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)
gopher to: gopher.faseb.org
Hong Kong Supernet
gopher to: Hk.Super.Net
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics
gopher to: gopher.math.ias.edu
The Foundation for Research Development
gopher to: gopher.frd.ac.za
James Madison University
gopher to: vax1.acs.jmu.edu
New York University, Stern School of Business
gopher to: swis.stern.nyu.edu
North Carolina Community College System
gopher to: ccgo4.faytech.cc.nc.us
Oak Ridge National Laboratory ESD Gopher
gopher to: gopher.esd.ornl.gov
Smart Valley, San Francisco Bay Area non-profit networking group
gopher to: gopher.svi.org
St. Francis Xavier University
gopher to: gopher.stfx.ca
Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Inc.
gopher to: snoopy.tblc.lib.fl.us
University of Texas San Antonio - UTSAInfo
gopher to: utsainfo.utsa.edu
University of Utah
gopher to: gopher.utah.edu
Email/FTP
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The GENII Project (Group Exploring the National Information
Infrastructure) is open for business. The mission of their volunteer
Virtual Faculty is to provide friendly, supportive guidance and simple
answers when members of the K-12 Education Community go online for the
first time, and for those who are training teachers to use the Internet.
They recently announced the Warm Bodies Response service. Send mail if
you have a question or if you would like information about becoming a
"Warm Body" mentor yourself.
rlile2 at ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
Interactive Medical Anatomy Program for Biology Teachers available via
FTP. You are advised to read the INDEX file for info on each program.
send questions in email to: cornoiu at monu1.cc.monash.edu.au
ftp.monash.edu.au cd pub/medical
National Information Infrastructure
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Libraries and the National Information Infrastructure conference to be
held on December 5-6 in Washington, DC and sponsored by the CAPCON
Library Network. A brochure with the program and registration information
may be obtained by calling CAPCON at (202)331-5771 or sending an e- mail
message to niiconf at capcon.net (requests sent via e-mail should include
the requestor's surface mail address).
New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:
* The National Information Infrastructure: Progress Report
* Putting the Info. Infra. to Work -- Comments Requested
gopher to: ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
NetBytes
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) continues its series of regional
outreach meetings with the NSF Midwest Regional Grants Seminar hosted by
Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, October 27 and 28, 1994.
This seminar will provide researchers and research administrators in the
Midwest with an opportunity to learn more about the NSF including its
role, budget, programs, grant policies, proposal requirements, etc.
Attendance is limited to 300 and registration priority is given to
midwest regional institutions. There is a nominal charge to cover costs of
the meeting. To receive a brochure and registration material fax your name,
title, institutional affiliation, and address to 708-491-4800 or write to
NSF Regional Seminar, c/o Office of Research and Sponsored Programs,
Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street, Room 2-502 Crown, Evanston,
Illinois 60208-1110. For additional information, please contact
policy at nsf.gov or call 703-306-1243.
NYSERNet has released a new videotape about Project GAIN, which extended
Internet access to five rural New York State public libraries and one
Indian Nation school. Project GAIN (Global Access Information Network)
asked what would happen if rural librarians were given access to the
Internet, its tools, and training. Could they learn to use networked
information resources effectively? Was there anything of value on the Net
to improve the quality of service offered to rural patrons? The video
documents the project from training meetings to site visits, and could
be used in workshops introducing the Internet to librarians, or for
anyone wondering how rural areas might benefit from a community Internet
connection. The printed Project GAIN Report, bundled with the video,
outlines the lessons learned from connecting; details critical success
factors contributing to the overall accomplishments of the project; and
offers a number of recommendations for pub public librarians, network service
providers, policy makers, and researchers. Appendices include evaluation
instruments, contracts, success stories, and more. $40 -- For more info:
Call 315/453-2912, x221, or send email to info at nysernet.org.
WEBster is a new electronic magazine billed as providing a guide and
reference for the expanding World Wide Web and its applications. Included
will be news of the latest Web servers and applications, particularly
Mosaic services, and weekly features on the development of the Web,
including software, commercial, technical, multimedia and political
aspects and personal profiles. To illustrate the wealth of information
that can b e found on the WWW, WEBster is sponsoring an Internet
Scavenger Hunt (with real prizes.) Net cruisers can retrieve a list of
the items to be found by sending email to: the-hunt at webster.tgc.com
For a free trial subscription to WEBster, send a blank e-mail message to:
4free at webster.tgc.com
A WWW Development page is now available through the The WWW Virtual
Library. Topics ranges from how to develop WWW pages, to setting up
servers, to the evolution of the WWW. CGI // Catalogs // Clients //
Conferences // Database //Demonstrations // FAQ // Guides // HTML //
Icons/Images // MIME //Mail // Perl // Protocols // Providers // Robots
// Security //Servers // Software // Tools // Translators // Validation //
http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib.html
The Internet Conference Calendar is a list of upcoming Internet-related
events and is available on the WWW. A listing of Call For Papers is
included, ordered by the due date of the paper.
http://www.automatrix.com/conferences/
Training related:
Teachers and students can subscribe to Newbie News if you answer 'yes' to:
Are You A New Internet User? Do you have students who want to learn the
basics of ftp, telnet, and WWW? Are you looking for resource sites?
Newbie Newz will also mirror the ROADMAP Interactive Internet Workshop via
listserv for Workshop #1, starting in October 1994. ROADMAP Workshop #1 is
now closed for subscriptions, but not to Newbie Newz subscribers. ROADMAP
will feature assignments to help users learn the ins and outs of ftp,
telnet, WWW, and to experience the boundless resources of the Internet.
send email to: NewbieNewz-request at IO.COM
in the body of the message type:
subscribe NewbieNewz <your_email_address>
(Students can only subscribe themselves. Teachers may submit a list of
email addresses for en masse subscription of their students. to:
Owner-NewbieNewz at IO.COM)
Now available online are the handouts from a one-hour presentation on
designing and planning Internet workshops for faculty which was presented
at the LOEX conference by Abbie J. Basile, Electronic Services Instruction
Librarian at Miami University Libraries. Included are 6 succinct
documents which offer many helpful suggestions for Internet training: an
outline, timeline, teaching tips, glossary, bibliography, and good
examples of netsites for newbies.
FTP to: ftp.lib.muohio.edu cd /pub/net.workshop
A collection of Internet tools and resources is available on a concise Web
page which combines comprehensive tools documents (December's Internet
Tools Summary) and links to software collections for Mac, PC, and UNIX. A
starting point for preliminary computer science classes and the like who
are looking for a simply-designed pointer to Internet tools.
http://ug.cs.dal.ca:3400/franklin.html
A revised version of Frank Heker's paper "Personal Internet Access Using
SLIP or PPP: How You Use It, How It Works" is freely available on the
'Net. It is a high-level overview of SLIP and PPP appropriate for people
who have some familiarity with the Internet, have heard about SLIP or PPP
and wondered what all the fuss was about, and who are now looking for a
relatively brief non-technical introduction to get them oriented before
they do anything else. It does _not_ contain installation or configuration
instructions for particular versions of SLIP or PPP software; however it
does contain pointers to sources of such information. Comprehensive and
readable.
http://www.charm.net/ppp.html
ftp.digex.net cd /pub/access/hecker/internet filename: slip-ppp.txt
gopher to: gopher.well.sf.ca.us
choose: The Matrix/ The Internet
send email to: ftpmail at decwrl.dec.com
in the body of the message type:
connect ft
p.digex.net
chunksize 25000
chdir /pub/access/hecker/internet
get slip-ppp.txt
quit
Weekend Scouting
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Art Crimes, a graffiti art gallery, features wall art from the U.S. and
the Czech Republic. These elaborate, spraypainted pieces are fresh off the
street and shockingly good -- colorful and gorgeous. See guerrilla art
worth being arrested for.
http://www.gatech.edu/desoto/graf/Index.Art_Crimes.html
Rave Radio is available is available in 8 bit .au format and 44.1Khz
Stereo MPEG2. MBone broadcasts are soon to follow. Rave Radio will be a
weekley feature.
http://metaverse.com/knet/
PennMUSH has created the Almost-Complete List of MUSHes, providing
addresses, capsule summaries, MudWHO queries, and links to appropriate FTP
sites and home pages for all known MUSHes. Included are addresses,
commentary, links to home pages, and, if available, MudWHO queries. The
list is quite long, but has a color-coded index which indicates the type
of MUSH.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/muds.html
The administrators of the Surfers interactive chat program would like to
announce their Surfers W3 server. Surfers is an interactive chat program
known as a 'Talker'. For those of you who know what a MUD is, Surfers is
exactly the same, without the "nasty hacking and slaying bit". If you would
like to meet some different {in italics} people, give it a try!
http://flipper.csc.stu.mmu.ac.uk/
If the item above caught your eye because you're interested in real
(water) surfing versus virtual ('Net) surfing, try SurfNet.
http://sailfish.peregrine.com/surf/surf.html
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World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
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This is because some resources are available through multiple network
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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 right
brackets. 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. For more information
about SLIP/PPP, which can be used over a dial-up connection, see the
document listed in the NetBytes section above.
gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/email/
Gopher to: is.internic.net
Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/
Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
In the body of the message type: send INDEX
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