Scout Report: Week ending September 2, 1994
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC Information
Services to the US. research and education community and others who will
benefit from the listed resources. Included are selected new and
newly-discovered online resources, network news, and bits of net culture.
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Highlights in this week's Report:
- Several new education resources
- The Peabody Museum gopher site expands content and functionality
- InterNIC Directory Services expands the Directory of Directories
- NII section overflowing
- National Hockey League information on the 'Net
World Wide Web
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The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, a 501(c)(3)
organization in Washington, DC, announces Solstice, a file server with
state-of-the-art information on renewable energy, energy efficiency, the
environment, and sustainable community development.
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The Chesley Bonestell Art Gallery was created so that people world wide
could view the art work of the astronomical painter, Chesley Bonestell,
who was known in the fields of architecture, motion picture illustration,
and astronomical art. Bonestell worked on the Golden Gate Bridge, the
Chrysler Tower, and films such as War of the Worlds. Digitized views of
26 original painting in a private collection are all inventoried,
researched to the Bauder Catalog, and annotated with information
collected from various sources.
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The Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing is an interdisciplinary
research effort in the College of Engineering at U.C.Berkeley and an
industry/university partnership focused on issues related to
environmentally-conscious product design and manufacturing. The page
contains information on current research, industry partners and general
background on green manufacturing.
- Coombs Computing Unit at the Australian National University, Canberra
now administers CERN's Virtual Library page on
Demography & Population Studies. The server has links to 105 sites
worldwide which may be of interest to demography and population
researchers and others. Listings are nicely organized by access method.
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The HotList of K12 Internet School Sites: the latest in K12 Internet
School Sites are linked from this home page, which includes 11 Elementary
Schools, 4 Middle/Junior High Schools, 32 High Schools, 17 School
Districts Sites, and 7 State/Regional Sites.
- The Hub
is an Internetworked resource for mathematics and science education
whose goal is to transform the technological potential of recent
developments in telecommunications into services of value to educational
policy-makers, administrators, educators and students in the Northeast and
the islands. The Hub provides services that can help to publish curricula,
projects in progress, requests for proposals, and to share data. It is also
an educational resource, making available newsletters, curriculum materials,
and software in support of the greater educational community as well as
provide references to valuable information from across the internet.
- The Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University is
now offering
Engines for Education, a hyper-book discussing what's wrong with
the education system, how to reform it, the role of educational
technology in reform, and progress made at the Institute using computers
to provide motivating learning environments that let students learn
things by doing them. Engines is constructed as an ASK system, a form of
structured hypermedia developed at ILS based on the metaphor of a
question-answer conversation.
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InterNIC Directory and Database Services has added 74 resources to the
Directory of Directories this month.
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National Wetlands Inventory's World Wide Web server includes a U.S. map
indicating availability of both hardcopy and digital versions of wetlands
maps. Or you can directly access their WAIS database to search their
metadata index. Links to the Wetlands Inventory FTP files and ordering
information for hardcopy versions is also available.
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The Russian and East European Studies Home Pages, a comprehensive
hypertext guide to the worldwide network-accessible resources available
to scholars in the interdisciplinary study of Russia and Eastern Europe
has been improved and expanded. Resources organized by discipline, type,
and links to the homepages of 16 related countries.
- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics
Administration's WWW servers for the
National Trade Data Bank and the
Economic Conversion Information Exchange are now available.
These servers make use of the University of Massachusetts's
Center for Intelligent Retrieval's natural language query software.
Gopher
- ACE GOPHER
(American Council on Education)
- Alberta Research Council
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Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
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Chinese University of Hong Kong -- University Library System
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EPA Microbiology Gopher -- Cincinnati
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Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Greenpeace
- The Internet NonProfit Center,
aims to make it easier and cheaper to
learn about nonprofit orgnanizations, wise giving practices, and other
issues of concerning nonprofits. The Center promotes the exchange of
information among donors and helps nonprofit organizations communicate
their message to a wider audience of potential friends and supporters.
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The Medical Research Council of Canada
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National Agricultural Library (NAL)
- Yale's The Peabody Museum
has expanded and enhanced their collections
gopher with access to 60,084 records from the Anthropology Division.
Also search for any labeled feature appearing on topographic maps released
by the US Geological Survey; there are 1,233,933 records to peruse from
across the USA, covering populated places, parks, lakes, mountains.
Email/FTP
- Division of Endangered Species of the US Fish & Wildlife Service
has made available the following items on their Library Server: The List
of Threatened and Endangered Species, The Plant Notice of Review, The
Endangered Species Act of 1973, and Species Maps.
email to: r9irmlib@mail.fws.gov
in the subject line type: SEND HELP
- The Internet Press -- A guide to electronic journals about the Internet.
Provides some guidance on what's out there and what's good. Multiple
access methods included where available. Some of the publications are
free, some cost money. Email access, or check out
the copy on the InterNIC InfoGuide
which includes links to the referenced items.
send email to: savetz@rahul.net
in the Subject line type: send ipress
to receive future updates automatically:
in the subject line type: subscribe ipress
- The US Environmental Protection Agency has established a new forum
concerning the US/Mexico border. The purpose of the discussion group is
to begin a dialogue among individuals and groups in the United States,
Mexico, and elsewhere who are conducting research or work concerning the
US/Mexico border environment. Government and non-government
participation is welcome.
send mail to: listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov
in the message body type:
Subscribe us_mexborder <your name>
- The wellnesslist list is founded for the purpose of discussing issues
concerning Health/ Nutrition/Wellness/Life Expectancy/Physical Fitness,
and the books, experiences, and solutions recommended by the
participants. This can and should include announcement of and reviews of
books that include solutions, nutrition related position papers, requests
for information, recommendations of participants, healthy recipes,
nutrition and fitness related product announcements, and general
discussion of related issues.
email to: majordomo@wellnessmart.com
in the body of the message type: subscribe wellnesslist
National Information Infrastructure
- Released at the end of July and now available via gopher and WWW:
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Research Council has published:
Realizing the Information Future, The Internet and Beyond
by: The Nrenaissance Committee. It is a "new study (which)
revisit(s) the issues addressed by the CSTB in a 1988 report "Toward a
National Research Network" The report views the internet as a
"distributed information and communications system." The committee
supports a vision of the NII as "the full integration of communications
and information infrastructures" supported by an "Open Data Network
(ODN)". It rejects the either or notion of the future being either a
pure extention of the Internet or purely a commercial extention of the
entertainment industry.
- Electronic versions of _Public Libraries and the Internet: Study
Results, Policy Issues, and Recommendations_ funded by the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
are now available online.
- "Cable TV Resources on the Net"
is a collection of Internet resources
useful to cable professionals and others who track telecomm developments.
Included are separate listings for mailing lists, publications, FTP -
gopher - WWW sites, newsgroups, FAQs, and a section specific to Canada.
- The House has forwarded to the Senate the first major telecommunications
policy reform legislation since the 1934 Communications Act. The Final
Bills (H.R. 3626
and 3636)
as Reported by the House as passed on 6/24/94,
are available. Also posted are the Senate versions,
S. 1822 and
S. 2111 in
full text and summary versions,
other relevant documents, and a pointer to the WAIS database of U.S.
House Legislation for the current session of Congress.
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The Alliance for Public Technology, providing a consumer voice for
equitable and affordable access to telecommunications technology, is
pleased to announce its WWW site. APT's vision paper, membership
information, and other items of interest are available.
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The Federal Communications Law Journal Volume 46, Number 3 for
June, 1994
is now available. Of particular interest to the Internet community is an
article entitled
"The National Information Infrastructure Initiative and
the Emergence of the Electronic Superhighway".
NetBytes
- New versions of the
Pine Message System are now available - Pine and
PC-Pine 3.90. This release represents a notable step forward in
functionality.
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The Network Training Materials Gopher now holds a revised version of
Unit 1 of the Network Training Pack, which includes presentation, handout,
workshop, and exercise materials. This unit is an introductory overview
of networking, covering in a general way the sort of information which is
available via networks, and some of the tools available to access it. It
assumes some computer-literacy, but no previous network familiarity. The
revised material reflects the increasing importance of tools such as WWW
and gopher, and the diminishing role of straight ftp and telnet, though
these latter are still included.
- webNews
contains announcements of new Web pages as well as notices
relating to other useful Web information, with new articles added
regularly and conveniently "hypertext-ified" to aid your access to the
referenced Web resources. If you missed it on the WWW USENET News groups,
you may find it in webNews.
Weekend Scouting
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