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The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and the World-Wide Web: Raising ASCII Text to a New Level of Usability.
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Barry, Jeff – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994
Describes HyperText Markup Language (HTML), which is used to format documents for the World-Wide Web. HTML tags that enhance ASCII files, examples of their use, and guidelines for organizing hypertext documents are given. Types of documents suitable for the Web and the future of HTML are discussed. (Contains seven references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Guidelines
The World-Wide Web and Mosaic: An Overview for Librarians.
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Morgan, Eric Lease – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994
Provides an overview of the Internet's World-Wide Web (Web), a hypertext system. Highlights include the client/server model; Uniform Resource Locator; examples of software; Web servers versus Gopher servers; HyperText Markup Language (HTML); converting files; Common Gateway Interface; organizing Web information; and the role of librarians in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Data Conversion, Gateway Systems
You Call It Corn, We Call It Syntax-Independent Metadata for Document-Like Objects.
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Caplan, Priscilla – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
Discusses the 1995 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop that met to define a standard set of data elements for describing network-accessible information resources. These document data elements had to be simple enough for authors and publishers to use, to facilitate discovery and retrieval, and to be useful as a basis for descriptive cataloging. (JKP)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Computer Networks, Data
A Gateway between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML through the Web.
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Price-Wilkin, John – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994
Discusses how the World-Wide Web (WWW) can be linked to the PAT system, a search engine supporting access to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) encoded documents. Technical concepts are reviewed, and the operation of a PAT-to-Web gateway is explained using examples of how it is employed. (JKP)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design
The University of Minnesota's Internet Gopher System: A Tool for Accessing Network-Based Electronic Information.
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Wiggins, Rich – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993
Describes the Gopher system developed at the University of Minnesota for accessing information on the Internet. Highlights include the need for navigation tools; Gopher clients; FTP (File Transfer Protocol); campuswide information systems; navigational enhancements; privacy and security issues; electronic publishing; multimedia; and future…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Electronic Publishing
TORPEDO: Networked Access to Full-Text and Page-Image Representations of Physics Journals and Technical Reports.
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Atkinson, Roderick D.; Stackpole, Laurie E. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Library and the American Physical Society (APS) are experimenting with electronically disseminating journals and reports in a project called TORPEDO (The Optical Retrieval Project: Electronic Documents Online). Scanned journals and reports are converted to ASCII, then attached to bibliographic information, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Computer Networks, Data Conversion
OJAC: An Electronic Document Delivery System for British Columbia Post-Secondary Students.
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Copeland, Lynn – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993
Describes the Online Journal Access Citation (OJAC) project developed with the British Columbia Electronic Library Network and Simon Fraser University to demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic document delivery system. Topics discussed include publicity, training, and documentation; telecommunications; effects on regular interlibrary loans;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Costs, Electronic Libraries
Teaching Remote Users How to Use Electronic Information Resources.
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Wielhorski, Karen – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994
Describes how remote users of electronic information resources can be effectively trained. The categories and characteristics of remote users, training challenges, and ways that emerging electronic capabilities can be used to enhance traditional bibliographic instruction methods are examined. (Contains 18 references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Distance Education, Electronic Libraries
The Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry, and Education (CANARIE).
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Silva, Marcos; Cartwright, Glenn F. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992
Discussion of a Canadian high-speed communications network, influenced by the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative, focuses on the genesis of the system; expected benefits to Canada's economy, competitiveness, and social welfare; and specific applications such as library resource sharing, free-nets, distance education, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Competition, Computer Networks, Economic Development