Scout Report: Week ending July 22, 1994
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Services to the US. research and education and entire Internet community
via email, gopher, and World Wide Web. 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:
- The Guide to NASA Online Resources
- NASA image database
- Washington University Archives Homepage
- Scholastic Internet Center
- Dead Rock Stars on the Web
World Wide Web:
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The Center for the Study of Southern Culture hosts information on
cultural events listed by state, on-line versions the Center's
publications, and links to pages for Blues, Gospel, and Country music.
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Frequently asked Questions (and Answers) about K-12 Internetworking,
Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet
School Networking Working Group
document, RFC1578, FYI #22
- University of Minnesota, St. Paul,
Department of Food Science & Nutrition.
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Lithuanian World Wide Web information Service includes map of Lithuania,
most current news, and news archive. Information about other Baltic countries.
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology Webserver
covers both research and clinical areas, our Webserver has PI research
interests, unit descriptions, and staff "mini-CVs" with photographs.
Current events in Neurology are kept up to date, with pointers to other
pertinent medical/neurological webservers.
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Mount Wilson Observatory Home page includes a virtual tour and
educational programs such as "Telescopes In Education" (TIE) Project,
which permits remote access of a 24-inch telescope to schools (K-18) and
amateur groups. Also contains professional services and historical
information.
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The Guide to NASA Online Resources showcases NASA and NASA-related
scientific, educational and government resources of interest to both
general Internet users and the NASA science community: JPL Information
Archive, Space Telescope Science Institute (home of the Hubble Space
Telescope Data Archive), NASA Spacelink, the NASA/NREN K-12 gopher along
with pointers to image databases and software archives.
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NASA's Johnson Space Center, Image Sciences Division, digital image
collection, includes press release and Earth observation images from the
manned space program from Mercury to the present(c. 9,000 image files).
The latest mission's images of Earth observations have been loaded (c.
4-12,000 image files). Plans are to load an additional 200,000 Earth
observation images in the next year.
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Oxford University, Centre for Humanities Computing and the CTI Centre for
Textual Studies on the Web with information about the Centre, Staff,
other services at Oxford University, and the HUMBUL Gateway to
International Resources. Also, a complete version of the CTI Centre's
Resources Guide converted into HTML.
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Scholastic Internet Center: full text of new electronic curriculum
resources for teachers and students, including Reading and Language Arts
Library Articles, Middle School Natural Science Library Special science
resources especially for grades 5-9, Integrating Technology planning
resources, lesson plans, software evaluations, and basic tips and
guidelines on using technology in the schoolroom.
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Highlands of Scotland information server.
- Slovakia Document Store:
clickable map of Slovakia containing over 100
pictures of Slovak country, map of the capital and other large cities,
history, political system, political parties. Also includes Information
for people traveling to Slovakia, like currency, exchange rates, location
of ATM (bankomats), small English-Slovak dictionary for tourists, e-mail
and other Internet services, much more.
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University of Ottawa, Multimedia Communications Research Lab
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The Washington University Archives Homepage: information about the
collections and services of the University Archives including ca. 40
online colletion guides.
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The Web Self Publishing System, a publicly updatable database of
resources on the Internet, has been developed at the University of
Illinois. Users who have browsers which support forms may add URLs into a
hierarchy of groups.
Gopher/Telnet/FTP/Email
National Information Infrastructure:
- Senate Legislation Online,
with related reports, policy papers, other
documents, and links to other telecom sites. Full text and summaries of
S. 1822 and S. 2111.
- The Indiana University School of Law and the Federal Communications Bar
Association have released the online publication of Volume 46, No 3 for
June, 1994 of the
_Federal Communications Law Journal_. This issue
includes _The National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the
Emergence of the Electronic Superhighway_ by Johnathon D. Blake and Lee
J. Tiedrich.
NetBytes
Weekend Scouting:
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Dead Rock Stars on WWW, _The Death of Rock 'n' Roll_ by Jeff
Pike. A "fascinating and witty" compendium of dead rock stars
from bluesman Robert Johnson to the present, is particularly suited to
the hypertext medium. Hyperlinked excerpts from it -- including sections
on Elvis Presley, John Lennon,Marvin Gaye, and Sid Vicious -- are now
available on the Internet.
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THE GAMES DOMAIN - http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/GamesDomain - The largest
collection of games related links on the Internet. Includes games
reviews via the W3 version of GameBytes magazine,
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The 1994 Goodwill Games Home Page is now available.
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Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture. (We knew you would want to know.)
About the Scout Report
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one place the highlights of new (and newly-discovered) online resources
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