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