Scout Report: Week ending August 26, 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:
- Volcano images from land, air, and space
- InterNIC Directory and Database Services upgrades WAIS access
- PENpages now available in gopherspace
- Summary of telephony and telecomm policy information sites
- Pizza in cyberspace
World Wide Web
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Arizona Health Sciences Library, W(orld) W(ide) W(eb) Guide to Public
Health. This guide is intended for public health professionals, medical
and health science library personnel, or anyone interested in WWW
documents pertaining to issues of public health.
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The Center For World Indigenous Studies and the Fourth World
Documentation Project are now available via the World Wide Web.
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The City of San Carlos has World Wide Web server offers a fire safety
tutorial which gives information and tips on how to prevent all types of
house fires with special emphasis on preventing wildland fires. It also
includes a color diagram on how to create a proper firebreak.
- The City of Staunton
was founded in the 1740's in the central Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia along the trail that evolved into the
Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, the main land route south, which wound
down the western frontier of Colonial America from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
Staunton's architectural ambience is nineteenth century -- site includes
a walking tour of five historic districts with easy-to-download
black-and-white photos.
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The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center is a data
management, systems development, and research field center of the U.S.
Geological Survey's National Mapping Division. The center holds one of
the world's largest collection of space and aircraft acquired imagery
of the Earth.
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The Japanese Prime Minister's Official Residence now has a WWW server.
It is under construction but plans are to provide substantial content and
to serve as an example for other Japanese government ministries and
agencies.
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The Maui High Performance Computing Center WWW home page provides
information about the Maui High Performance Computing Center and its
resources to MHPCC users and to the wider Internet community.
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The Michigan Tech Volcanoes Page encourages collaborative,
interdisciplinary work on active volcanos, and links to resources for
the Santa Maria Decade Volcano in Guatemala and for Central America's
most frequently active volcano, Fuego. Also includes images of Pinatubo
Volcano [one nice one taken from the Space Shuttle Endeavor] and some
movies of laharic activity.
- NORDUnet is a collaboration
between the national research networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden and provides international access for these countries.
The server provides background information about NORDunet as well as
pointers to the Nordic national research networks.
- Ohio Supercomputer Center, Program for Computational Reactive Mechanics
(PCRM), is sponsoring a meeting:
Combustion, Environment, and Heating Technology -- the Role of
High Performance Simulation. The meeting will be held October 6-7,
1994, on the campus of The Ohio State University.
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The Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) Young Scholars Research
Participation Program is one of over 150 Young Scholars Programs funded
by the National Science Foundation. OMSI Young Scholars are entering
sophomores, juniors and seniors, from throughout the US., participating
as members of Geology/Paleontology, Aquatic Ecology, or Archeology
research teams.
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Sounds from Chaos in Chua's Circuit - References and Sound Examples
contains on-line papers with sound examples and references of one of the
most interesting chaotic systems. The variety of sounds generated by this
system ranges from Bassoon and Clarinet like sounds all the way to
quasi-white noise. An interactive version of the same system with a
virtual reality interface was displayed as a VROOM exhibit at this year's
SIGGRAPH'94 conference.
- U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Environment, Safety and Health
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The Visual Resources Curator of the Department of Art at Appalachian
State University announces the on-line Rosen Sculpture Exhibition.
- You are invited to take part in the hyperfiction dreamscape that is
The Walking Man, a brand new collaborative hypertale in process on the
Big Time Television
infoserver. It's a dream, It's a mystery, It's... a guy walking.
- Recently Announced College and University Web Servers:
Gopher/Telnet/FTP/WAIS/Email
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California Secretary of State gopher server includes the information
that will appear in the voter pamphlet that will go out before the election,
plus connections to other gophers in California.
- The Human Services Research Institute Evaluation Center has established
an Internet Listserv to discuss how national health care reforms may
affect the delivery of mental health care and substance abuse treatment
services at the state and local level. The NHCTEN mailing list is part of
The Evaluation Center's Topic and Evaluation Network on National Health
Care Reform. The Evaluation Center will be represented on-line by Robert
Dorwart, M.D. of the Kennedy School of Government and Steve Leff Ph.D.
and Matthew Wise, M.P.H. of HSRI.
To subscribe to the list, or the digest version of the list, send email to:
majordomo@world.std.com
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE NHCTEN (or)
SUBSCRIBE NHCTEN-DIGEST
- The Internet Guide:
"Federal Government Information on the Internet",
release 8, July 1994 is now available.
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InterNIC Directory and Database Services has implemented a new release
of WAIS -- freeWAIS-0.3 -- and a new, more user-friendly WAIS client. The
server includes features such as nested queries, boolean operators,
partial queries, and literal queries. Also in this version are dynamic
Archie and Netfind query extensions which allow archie or netfind queries
from within the framework of WAIS. The client is curses based and
provides some nice features such as relevance feedback for improving
query results. A new on-line tutorial is provided which explains these
features as well as providing some guidance on effective searching
techniques. On-line help is also available. We'd like to hear your
feedback before making these available on all servers. Send feedback to:
waisadmin@ds.internic.net
To try out the new server,
connect your WAIS client to port 8210.
To try out this new client,
telnet to: ds.internic.net
or: ds1.internic.net
or: ds2.internic.net
login as nwais (no password required)
- The K-12 Technology by Design Center provides on-line access to books,
educational materials, and information about Technology. Its resources
are directed at the needs of K-12 teachers, students, parents, and
teacher-training programs, but everyone is welcome to participate.
Telnet: k12technology.bc.ca
(login as guest)
E-mail: center@k12technology.bc.ca
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NASA's Center for Advanced Space Studies has established a Gopher.
- New York Art Line (NYAL)
is an area where Arts organizations, NYC area
artists, and artists who work with technology can post information.
- PENpages, which has
been a valued resource on the network since 1986 via
telnet, is now also available in gopherspace. PENpages is an electronic
library containing thousands of reports, newsletters and fact sheets
pertaining to a wide variety of Agriculture related topics.
- The USDA has posted four
additional fact sheets concerning the recently
released draft USDA school lunch regulations. Deadline for comments
on the proposed regulations is September 8, 1994. Titles include The
Role of Commodities in the School Meals Initiative and USDA Technical
Assistance to States. Comments may be sent to: healthykids@esusda.gov.
Email: almanac@esusda.gov
Type in body of message: send fns catalog
National Information Infrastructure
- A listing of various WWW, gopher, and ftp sites relating to telephony,
policy/regulation, privacy, cryptography, etc has been made available in
the
National Information Infrastructure section of the InfoGuide.
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Federal Communications Law Journal, Volume 46, Number 3 for June, 1994 is
now available online. Of particular interest to the Internet community is
an article by Jonathan D. Blake and Lee J. Tiedrich entitled The National
Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the Electronic
Superhighway.
- The document
"Europe and the global information society - Recommendations
to the European Council" (a.k.a Bangemann Commission Document) is now
available online. In its Brussels meeting of December 1993, the European
Council requested that a report be prepared for its meeting on 24-25 June
1994 in Corfu by a group of prominent persons on the specific measures to
be taken into consideration by the Community and the Members States for
information infrastructures. On the basis of this report, a program
identifying precise procedures for action and the necessary means will be
defined. The report is wholly the product of the group of prominent
persons. It does not necessarily represent the views of the European
Commission or the European Council and is distributed under the condition
that it is not modified in any way.
NetBytes
- Can't find the phone book? Order it over the 'Net.
PizzaNet that is. Really.
- Need a daily web fix of something new? Try
The Cool Site of the Day.
Every night at midnite the Cool Site of the Day gets set to point at a
new Cool Site. You'll never know what's there until you take the link so
expect to be surprised.
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AsTeR --Audio System For Technical Readings-- is a computing system that
exploits the display-independent nature of electronic information to
orally render technical documents marked up in La)TeX.
Weekend Scouting
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The World Wide Web Tennis Server has now started gearing up for the
US Open which begins Monday, August 29. A variety of polls and surveys
will be run during the open, and the responses will be posted. Copies of
the polls and summary responses to the rec.sport.tennis newsgroup for
those without Web access. The tennis server also offers monthly player
and equipment tips, daily tennis news, hyperlinked versions of the
Tennis Rules and Tennis Code, and links to tennis info throughout the web.
- People's stories, sounds and pictures live from
Woodstock '94: over 300
pages were made by ordinary folks at Woodstock '94 using a special
program called Woodstock Immortalizer.
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