Data Sources not yet on-line

This is a list of information sources which we could put on line with WorldWideWeb . It's not supposed to be about protocols or formats , just data. Mail www-request@info.cern.ch if you know of things not on the list. See also: Information already available by subject , WWW servers .
MOOs and MUDS
Start at JayHouse to find out more about Social Virtual Reality... see also efforts to integrate these with W3.
Archie
A program which polls all anonymous FTP sites and makes an index of what they hold. Very useful, ought to be on the web directly. A sort of archie is NOW ACCESSIBLE via WWW-WAIS gateway, but its database is not kept up to date. Telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca and log in as "archie". See also: Internet archives . First online gateway was via wais server gatewayed as hypertext ...Much better is WARCHIE.
Mailing lists
Why not archive a mailing list, index it, deduce the links between messages, and put it up using WWW? Many groups are coordinated using mailing lists, which lack an easy access to back-issues. Some mail servers archive the stuff anyway, and so would be the natural site for an archive server. An important aspect is the generation of links between related articles. See mailing list handlers MAILBASE and the Mailbase data and LISTSERV Italian LISTSERV , and the WWW mailing lists for example, and Ed V's index of public mailing lists .
Journals
Electronic journals are mostly distributed by mail or or using BITNET. (Because if they are on the Internet news schemes suffice?). VOICE is an exception, as well as some journals whose back-issues are available (often compressed) by anaonymous FTP (often from IBM machines).
Library systems.
See the hytelnet database of telnet sites etc. and other lists . Examples of systems coming on the web include all sites running Aleph (TM) automated library system.
MIT X11
Technical Bibliography on X11-related subjects
MUDs
Multi-User Dungeons games were the origin of these interactive cyberspace programs.
Prospero
Prospero is a virtual file system which allows more powerful linking than unix files, and so allows a web to be created across many machines. Requires the instalation of a gateway -- best, write a HTProspero module like the HTGopher and HTFile modules for libwww. This will generate direct client access.
Whois
This is a unix command giving network access to a various databases of people, host machines and organisations on the network. WHOIS is now available through a gopher gateway. Thanks to Brian Carpenter for pointing Whois out. Brian also points out the commercial product NETFIND
ASTRA
Some database of BITNET databases.
CONCISE
A network information service using OSI protocols but also to be available on the Internet probably. Remote login for searches, file transfer (FTAM/FTP) for retrieval. Specified by RARE WG3 Developed as COSINE project 2.2. See the help page , User Guide
Relational databases
A generic SQL->HyperText report generator could be a simple project with very widespread use. See development notes.
Unix "man" pages
Make links out of the "see also" lines? Certainly ought to be serving them up... This has also been done in Ohio and New Jersey.
NeXT Digital Librarian (TM)
This is a neat indexing tool. We really need a W3 server hook to it but we've not got around to it yet. Any takers?
Emacs TeXinfo
A possible source of data with some hypertext content. The normal format for GNU documentation. Under emacs, type Control/h Control/i, or see various news articles .
FutureCulture FAQ
or "Cyberography", is maintained by Andy Hawks, owner of the Future Culture mailing list (ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu). Anyone can get an up-to-date copy of the FC FAQ by emailing future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu with subject line "send faq".
"High Weirdness by Email",
by Mitchell Porter which is meant to be a guide to the various odd things that one can reach over the net. "I am somewhat less organized than Andy, and the current draft of "High Weirdness" is still a mess, although a new tidier, version is in the works. " - Mitchell.Porter@lambada.oit.unc.edu

High Energy Physics specific

Durham data
Physics cross-section "Hepdata" data - see Rene Brun: A PAW program to visualise this data is planned (June 91). See HEPDATA information. Maintained by M.R.Whalley.
NADIR
Aleph and Delphi experiments use this database of people, institutes, etc.
EMNODES
Lists of node names versus institute.
CERN
Divisional reports, HEP addresses (yellow book), Stores catalogue, Experiments at CERN (Grey book), Administrative information from FI, PE divisions. Alice library system.
Source code management
Hypertext browing of source code (eg Patchy, RSCS, etc) systems.
STING
CERN's Software Technology Interest Group has lists of CASE products, glossaries of terms, lists of member's interests, etc. Not HEP specific but CERN based. NOW ONLINE
Tim BL