Done Review and approve the charter making any changes deemed
necessary. Examine the particular functional needs for
expanded whois directory service. Begin work on a framework
for recommendations. Assign writing assignments for first
draft of document.
12/1/93 Submit the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
Recommendations document to the IESG as an Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Submit the WHOIS++ protocol document to the IESG as an
Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Submit the "Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service"
document to the IESG as a revised Internet Draft.
12/1/93 Freeze all work on the Internet Drafts for 6 months for
software development.
Membership is open to attendees of the quarterly IETF meetings; the
mailing list is open to all. The WNILS-WG charter can be obtained via
anonymous ftp from the Document Archive sites listed in the Networked
Information Retrieval Working Group (WNILS-WG) template.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Joan Gargano
Email address: jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
Postal Address: Distributed Computing Analysis and Support (DCAS)
Information Technology
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
U.S.A
Telephone: +1-916-752-2591
Fax: +1-916-752-9158
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Mailing Lists:
Address: ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu
Administration: ietf-wnils-request@ucdavis.edu
Description:
Archive: ftp://ftp.ucdavis.edu:/pub/archive
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News groups: None.
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Document Archive:
Location details: Gopher: gopher.ucdavis.edu 70
ftp://ftp.ucdavis.edu/archive/wnils-archive
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Other Information:
This Working Group formed jointly in the User Services and
Applications Areas of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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IRTF-RD
Date template updated or checked: 1st March, 1994
By: Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
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NIR Group Name: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource
Discovery and Directory Service (IRTF-RD)
Sponsoring Organisation: Internet Society
Working subgroups: None
Description of main group:
The IRTF-RD group is focused on problems of scale that will arise in
resource discovery systems in the next 3-5 years. We divide these
scaling problems into three dimensions: volume of information, size of
the user base, and information diversity.
Our goal is to explore techniques for dealing with these problems
through a set of interrelated prototypes demonstrating advances in
each of these dimensions. Briefly, our current approaches are:
- deal with information diversity through a coordinated set
of techniques to gather, transform, and manage entropy of data
- deal with user scale through large scale replication
- deal with information volume using a combination of
views, space efficient indexing, and customization w.r.t.
vocabulary, search methods, and personal user history
We expect these approaches to evolve significantly over time.
Membership of this group is closed. We will consider new members,
with two constraints. First, the group must be kept small and focused
to make substantive progress - at most 4 or 5 members seems
appropriate at this time. Second, prospective members must be active
resource discovery researchers, who will bring clear strengths to the
group. Prospective members should send a vitae and a one page
position paper describing what they propose to do to advance the
group's efforts, addressed to the group chair.
The group currently consists of:
Mic Bowman (Transarc, Inc.)
Peter Danzig (University of Southern California)
Udi Manber (University of Arizona)
Mike Schwartz (University of Colorado - Boulder; chair)
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Postal Address: Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
Telephone: +1-303-492-3902
Fax: Declined.
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Mailing Lists:
The IRTF-RD group has no formal mailing list or archive.
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News groups:
The IRTF-RD group has no news groups.
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Document Archive:
The IRTF-RD group has no document archive, although our paper(s) and
prototype(s) are available from the members' FTP archives (see below).
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Official Publications:
Occasional updates in the Internet Monthly Report.
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Bibliography:
C. Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig and Michael F. Schwartz.
Research Problems for Scalable Internet Resource Discovery.
Technical Report CU-CS-643-93, Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder, March 1993. To appear,
Proceedings of INET '93. Available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.colorado.edu in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/RD.ResearchProblems.ps.Z
(compressed PostScript) or in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/RD.ResearchProblems.txt.Z
(compressed ASCII).
C. Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Udi Manber and Michael F.
Schwartz. Scalable Internet Resource Discovery: Research
Problems and Approaches. Technical Report CU- CS-679-93,
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder,
October 1993. To appear, Communications of the ACM, 1994. A
pre-publication version of this paper is available by anonymous
FTP and e-mail from ftp.cs.colorado.edu in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/RD.ResearchProblems.Jour.ps.Z
(compressed PostScript) or in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/RD.ResearchProblems.Jour.txt.Z
(compressed ASCII).
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Z39.50 Implementors Group
Date template updated or checked: 28 February 1994
By: Name: Mark Needleman
Email address: mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
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NIR Group name: Z39.50 Implementors Group
Description of main group:
The Z39.50 Implementors group (ZIG) is a volunteer organization
consisting of representatives of most of the organizations in the
United States and Canada that are actively engaged in implementing
the Z39.50 protocol. This includes the United States Library of
Congress, The National Library of Canada, the major bibliographic
utilities, many library automation vendors, and other information
service providers. The group is a volunteer effort whose meetings
are open at no charge to all. The group meets about 3 times a year
and conducts its activities extensively on its mailing list which is
also open to any interested party.
The group was originally formed to deal with interoperability issues
among the Z39.50 implementations that were beginning to emerge in
1989 and 1990 but the group has since expanded its role and has now
become the primary forum in which new features and versions of the
Z39.50 are developed.
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Primary Contact(s): Z39.50 Implementors Group
Name: Mark Hinnebusch (Chair)
Email address: fclmth@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Internet)
FCLMTH@NERVM (Bitnet)
Postal address: Florida Center For Library Automation
Suite 320
2002 NW 13th Street
Gainesville, FL 32609
Telephone: +1-904-392-9020
Fax: +1-904-392-9185
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Z39.50 Maintenance Agency
Name: Ray Denenberg
Email address: RAY@RDEN.loc.gov
Postal address: Library of Congress
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Collections Services
Washington, DC 20540
Telephone: +1-202-707-5795
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Mailing Lists:
Name: Z39.50 Implementors Group (ZIG)
Address: Z3950IW@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
Administration/Subscriptions: listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
(archives of the mailing list are also
available at this address.)
Archive: gopher://sally.fcla.ufl.edu
ftp://sally.fcla.ufl.edu
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/services/z3950
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Documentation and References for the Z39.50 Protocol
American National Standard Information Retrieval Application
Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Open Systems
Interconnection Version 2, National Information Standards
Organization, July 1992
Mark Hinnebusch "A Primer on Z39.50 Parts 1-8", Academic and
Library Computing Volume 9, Numbers 2-9, February-October 1992,
Meckler Corporation, Westport CN. (ISSN 1055-4769)
Mark Hinnebusch "The Z39.50 Explain Service", Campus Wide
Information Systems, Volume 10, Number 1, January/February 1993,
Meckler Corporation, Westport, CT. (ISSN 1065-0741)
Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch. "THE LINKED SYSTEMS PROTOCOL
AND THE FUTURE OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS,"
Information Technology and Libraries 6:2 (June 1987), pp. 83-88.
Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch. "NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
IMPLICATIONS OF THE LINKED SYSTEMS PROTOCOL FOR ONLINE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
8:3/4 (Spring 1988), pp. 15-33.
Clifford Lynch. "INTERSYSTEM LINKING AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASE
TECHNOLOGY: A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF
NETWORK-BASED INFORMATION UTILITIES," Proceedings of the Fourth
Integrated Online Library Systems Meeting, New York, New York,
May 10-11, 1989. (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc., 1989),
pp. 107-112.
Clifford A. Lynch "LIBRARY AUTOMATION AND THE NATIONAL RESEARCH
NETWORK," EDUCOM Review (Fall 1989), pp. 21-28.
Clifford A. Lynch. "ACCESS TECHNOLOGY FOR NETWORK INFORMATION
RESOURCES," CAUSE/EFFECT (Summer 1990), pp. 15-20.
Clifford A. Lynch; Cecilia M. Preston. "INTERNET ACCESS TO
INFORMATION RESOURCES," Annual Review of Information Science and
Technology (ARIST) Volume 25. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1990), pp. 264-312.
Clifford A. Lynch. "THE CLIENT-SERVER MODEL IN INFORMATION
RETRIEVAL," Interfaces for Information Retrieval and Online
Systems: The State of the Art Martin Dillon, ed. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1991); pp. 301-318.
Clifford A. Lynch. "INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AS A NETWORK
APPLICATION," Library Hi Tech 8:4, Issue 32 (1990), pp. 59-74.
Clifford A. Lynch. "THE Z39.50 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROTOCOL:
AN OVERVIEW AND STATUS REPORT," Computer Communications Review
21:1 (Sigcomm) (January 1991), pp. 58-70.
Clifford A. Lynch. THE Z39.50 PROTOCOL: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Produced as a pamphlet by Data Research Associates (1991).
Dennis Lynch "Z39.50 Extended Services" Campus Wide Information
Systems Volume 10, Number 3 May/June 1993, Meckler Corporation,
Westport, CT (ISSN 1065 0741)
Mark H Needleman. "The Z39.50 Protocol: An Implementor's Perspective",
Resource Sharing and Information Networks Volume 8 Number 1, 1992, The
Haworth Press Inc, Binghamton, NY (ISSN 0737-7797)
Kunze, John A. "Nonbibliographic Applications of Z39.50." The
Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3, no. 5 (1992): 4-30.
(Refereed Article.) To retrieve this article, send the following
e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1 or LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU:
GET KUNZE PRV3N5 F=MAIL.
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Other Information:
Brief Description of the Z39.50 Protocol
Z39.50 is a US ANSI standard protocol for information retrieval. It
uses a client server model that allows clients ( or origins in Z39.50
terminology) to search servers (targets in Z39.50 usage) and retrieve
records from remote databases. The type and format of the data
retrieved is not constrained by the protocol but is agreed to by the
origin and the target. There is a mechanism that allows popular
record syntax's to be registered and then referred to by well known
identifiers. Z39.50 is an OSI application layer protocol; that is,
it is designed to make use of the OSI presentation layer protocol.
It may be used with or without the presentation protocol, and below
that, it is irrelevant (to the Z39.50 protocol) what protocols are
used. Most implementations of Z39.50 currently run directly over
TCP/IP.
User's View:
Users (either human or electronic) run client software to connect
with servers to retrieve information using the Z39.50 protocol. Many
clients already exist at least in prototype version today and more
are being written. Most of the major library automation vendors have
announced that they will be supporting Z39.50 in either client or
server mode or both. Many of the major information vendors either
currently have or are working on implementations of Z39.50 for their
systems. There are also a couple of Z39.50 implementations that are
expected to be put in the public domain at some point. The recently
announced FREEWAIS software incorporates Z39.50 Version 2 into it
(the older version used a variant of the 1988 version 1 protocol).
The Library of Congress acts as the maintenance agency for Z39.50 and
can be contacted for a list of registered Implementors.
Z39.50 provides a protocol mechanism for accessing remote information
sources. It defines the model for the interaction between two sides,
a client and a server. It makes no assumptions or presumptions about
how the data is actually organized in the server, nor about how the
data is presented to the end user by the client.
The model postulates one or more databases on the remote system that
can be searched using attributes from defined search attribute sets,
creating a result set. Records can be retrieved from the result set
using agreed upon record formats.
Information types supported:
The Z39.50 protocol was designed as a general purpose search and
retrieval mechanism that could be used with a wide variety of data
types. The MARC format (a format used for cataloging library
material among other things) and a search attribute set suitable for
bibliographic and similar types of data are registered within the
current version of the standard. It is assumed that, as the protocol
begins to be used by other communities and for other types of data,
other attribute sets and record syntaxes will be developed. This
process has already begun and a generic record syntax and attribute
set are already under development, as well as some others,
specifically those supporting chemical structures, general science
and technology, and business information. The design philosophy
behind Z39.50 is that it will be used with other standards such as
Postscript, SGML, ODIF (and others), to communicate a wide variety of
data types, including full text, images, and many others.
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RARE Groups
RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) is the
Association of European Networking Organizations and their users.
RARE's aim is to overcome national boundaries in research networking
by creating a harmonized computer communications infrastructure for
the European research community. At this point in time RARE has over
40 members, most of which are national networking organizations
providing networking services to their national research and education
community.
RARE's technical programme is carried out by volunteers working in a
number of Working Groups.
For further information on RARE contact:
RARE Secretariat
Singel 466-468
NL-1017 AW AMSTERDAM
Telephone number +31-20-639-1131
Fax number +31-20-639-3289
E-mail address RFC8222
raresec@rare.nl
E-mail address X.400
C=nl; ADMD=400net; PRMD=surf; O=rare; S=raresec;
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RARE ISUS
Date template updated or checked: 28th February, 1994
By: Name: Jill Foster
Email address: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
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NIR Group Name: RARE Information Services and User Support Working
Group
Sponsoring Organisation:
RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne)
Working subgroups (of relevance to nir):
Name of subgroup: MMIS Task Force
Mailinglist-Address: mmis@mailbase.ac.uk
Name of subgroup: NIR Task Force
Mailinglist-Address: nir@mailbase.ac.uk
Name of subgroup: UNITE Task Force
Mailinglist-Address: unite@mailbase.ac.uk
Description of main group:
The Information Services and User Support (ISUS) Working Group has
been established by the RARE Technical Committee as one of the major
working groups in the RARE Technical Programme. ISUS is concerned
with all aspects of networked information services, group
communications and network user support. It is open to all those
involved in working in these areas and should include:
Network User Support Staff: National and European Support Staff
(whether RARE, RIPE, EARN, Eunet etc.)
Site Computing Centre Support Staff
Special subject related User Support Staff
Library Staff
Networked Information Providers
Networked Information Service Providers
Application Developers
The ISUS WG mailing list will act both as a forum for discussion
amongst experts in this field and as a means for disseminating
information to the wider community.
The ISUS Working Group is chartered to have a very broad area of
interest which is broken down into several sub-areas:
Network User Support
Asynchronous Group Communication
Networked Information Retrieval and Services
Liaison
Current tasks being worked on in the area of NIR include:
o Coordination of NIR services in Europe
o Collection of information related to NIR tools and groups.
This is a joint effort with the IETF and CNI.
o Network Interface to everything (UNITE). This group is starting
to look at the user requirements for a single interface to the
network (network information services, email, bulletin boards,
etc.). (unite@mailbase.ac.uk)
o Multimedia Information Services task force (MMIS). This group is
a joint task force of the RARE ISUS Working Group and RARE
Interactive Multimedia Working Group (mmis@mailbase.ac.uk).
charter: anonymous ftp from mailbase.ac.uk
file: /pub/lists/wg-isus/files/isus.charter
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Jill Foster
Email address: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Postal Address: Computing Service
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Telephone: +44-91-222-8250
Fax: +44-91-222-8765
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Mailing Lists:
Address: wg-isus@rare.nl
Administration: Auto subscriptions to: mailserver@rare.nl
"subscribe wg-isus <firstname> <lastname>"
Human admin to: wg-isus-request@rare.nl
Description: General purpose mailing list for whole ISUS WG.
Archive: Not yet available
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News groups: None
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Document Archive:
Location details
Site: raredoc.rare.nl
Directory: /rare/working-groups
Location details
Site: mailbase.ac.uk
Directory: /pub/lists/wg-isus/files
/pub/lists/nir/files
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Official Publications: RARE Technical Reports
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Bibliography:
RARE Technical Report 1: User Support and Information Services
in the RARE Community - a Status Report. Jill Foster
RARE Technical Report 5: A Survey of Distributed Multimedia -
Research, Standards and Products. Chris Adie
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Other Information:
This group was formed in May 1992 and takes over and expands on the
work of the former RARE WG3 USIS Subgroup. The group conducts most
of its business by email, but meets twice a year before the European
Networking Conferences.
The EARNinfo group has recently joined forces with RARE ISUS WG, they
will be working together in the areas of documentation and network
training.
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USMARC/OCLC
Date template updated or checked: 10 March 1994
By: Name: Rebecca Guenther
Email address: rgue@seq1.loc.gov
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Working Group or Organisation: USMARC/OCLC
Name of group: USMARC Advisory Group; OCLC Internet Resources
Cataloging Experiment
Sponsoring Organisations: OCLC, Library of Congress,
USMARC Advisory Group
Working subgroups: None
Description of main group:
OCLC and the Library of Congress have formed a working group to
consider how libraries can create cataloging records for online
information resources. The group initiated a cataloging experiment
designed to test and verify the applicability of the cataloging rules
and the USMARC format for computer files. Guidelines have been
written for cataloging Internet resources and were considered by the
American Library Association committee responsible for maintaining the
Anglo- American Cataloging Rules. Changes to the USMARC format were
initiated to accommodate a subset of these materials (electronic data
resources, such as software, electronic text, bibliographic and
nonbibliographic databases). USMARC format changes which were
approved included an identification of type of file and a field for
location and access of the resource (very much like a URL).
The group is continuing its work by looking at how online systems and
services can be accommodated in USMARC. This work will be done within
the USMARC Advisory Group of the American Library Association, which
considers changes to the USMARC formats. Data elements will be
defined with mapping to MARC fields; in some cases new fields will be
proposed. This will be accomplished in conjunction with efforts by
other working groups (e.g., Government Information Locator Service, or
GILS).
A proposal was presented and approved in February 1994 to the USMARC
Advisory Group to add data elements to the Electronic Location and
Access Field (USMARC field 856). Included among these was a subfield
for URL (Uniform Resource Locator). It is intended to be used instead
of or in addition to other data identifying location of and access to
a networked information resource.
Membership is closed at this point.
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Primary Contact(s): Rebecca Guenther rgue@seq1.loc.gov
Name: Rebecca Guenther
Email address: rgue@seq1.loc.gov; rebecca@rgue.loc.gov
Postal address: Network Development and MARC Standards Office,
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC 20540-4020
Telephone: +1-202-707-5092
Fax: +1-202-707-6269
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Name: Erik Jul
Email address: ekj@oclc.org
Postal address: OCLC, Inc.
6565 Franz Rd.
Dublin OH 43017-0702
Telephone: +1-614-764-4364
Fax: +1-614-764-2344
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Name: Priscilla Caplan
Email address: p-caplan@uchicago.edu
Postal Address: University of Chicago Library,
1100 E. 57th St.,
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: +1-312-702-5079
Fax: +1-312-702-6623
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Name: William W. Jones, Jr.
Email Address: jones@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Postal Address: New York University/Elmer Holmes Bobst Library,
Technical and Automated Services Division,
70 Washington Square South,
New York, NY 10012
Telephone: +1-212-998-4070
Fax: +1-212-995-4070
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Name: Nancy Olson
Email Address: nbolson@msus1.msus.edu
Postal Address: Memorial Library,
Mankato State University,
Mankato, MN 56001
Telephone: +1-507-389-5062
Fax: +1-507-389-5488
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Name: Glenn Patton
Email address: gep@oclc.org
Postal address: OCLC, Inc.
6565 Franz Rd.
Dublin OH 43017-0702
Telephone: +1-800-848-5878
Fax: +1-614-764-0155
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Name: Martin Dillon
Email address: mjd@oclc.org
Postal address: OCLC, Inc.
6565 Franz Rd.
Dublin OH 43017-0702
Telephone: +1-614-764-6079
Fax: +1-614-764-2344
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Mailing Lists: None.
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News groups: None.
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Document Archive:
Archives under USMARC listserv.
Documents available:
94-2.doc (Proposal 94-2: Addition of Subfields $g and $3 to Field 856
Electronic Location and Access) in the USMARC
Holdings/Bibliographic
Formats: Document)
94-2.cov (Cover sheet with status information)
94-3.doc (Proposal 94-3: Addition of Subfield $u (Uniform
Resource Locator) to Field 856 in the USMARC
Holdings/Bibliographic
Formats: Document)
94-3.cov (Cover sheet with status information)
93-4.doc (Proposal 93-4: Changes to the USMARC Bibliographic
Format (Computer Files) to Accommodate Online Information
Resources: Document)
93-4.cov (Proposal 93-4: Cover sheet with status information)
dp69.doc (Discussion Paper No. 69: Accommodating Online Systems
and Services within USMARC: Document)
dp69.cov (Discussion Paper No. 69: Cover sheet with status
information)
Location details
Telnet to: marvel.loc.gov
Login: marvel
Select: Services to Libraries and Publishers
Select: USMARC Standards
Select: USMARC Listserv
See list of documents
-or-
Site: listserv@sun7.loc.gov
Send email message with
get usmarc 93-4.doc
get usmarc 93-4.cov
get usmarc dp69.doc
get usmarc dp69.cov
etc.
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Official Publications:
"Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing Library
Services for Computer-Mediated Communication". Dublin, OH: OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, 1993. Available in print form
from OCLC, Inc. for $20 or electronically from:
ftp.rsch.oclc.org
/pub/internet_resources_project/report
Filenames: *.*
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Bibliography:
Proposal 94-2: Addition of Subfields $g and $3 to Field 856
Electronic Location and Access) in the USMARC Holdings/Bibliographic
Formats)
Proposal 94-3: Addition of Subfield $u (Uniform Resource Locator) to
Field 856 in the USMARC Holdings/Bibliographic Formats
Discussion Paper No. 69: Accommodating Online Systems and
Services in USMARC (Washington: Library of Congress, Network
Development and MARC Standards Office, Apr. 1993).
Proposal 93-4: Changes to the USMARC Bibligraphic Format
(Computer Files) to Accommodate Online Information Resources
(Washington: Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC
Standards Office, Nov. 1992 (rev. Mar. 1993).
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Other Information: None.
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8. Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
9. Acknowledgements
The report was very much a collaborative effort of the members of the
NIR WG and in particular Peter Deutsch (who contributed the mailing
list section and the basis for Section 5), April Marine, Rick
Rodgers, Lars-Gunnar Olsson, Farhad Anklesaria, Marsha Perrott, Kevin
Gamiel, George Brett, Barbara Thomas and all those who helped review
the document. Special thanks are due to all those contributors who
took the time to submit and update descriptions of their NIR tools
and groups; their names are included in the templates in Sections 6
and 7.
Before final submission of the report as an RFC, independent
reviewers from around the world took two or three templates each and
checked them out for accuracy and currency as best they could. They
liaised with the original template authors over the changes they
made. The volunteers were: Larry Masinter, Marilyn Martin, Sinha
Velu, Ton Verschuren, Shirley Browne, Alfred Vella, Bert Stals,
Yannis Corovesis, Gerard Egan, Robert Janz and Andy Linton. They
provided some very valuable input.
10. Author's Address
Jill Foster
Computing Service
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Claremont Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Phone: +44-91-222-8250
Fax: +44-91-222-8765
Email: Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
APPENDIX A
NIR TOOL Template (last updated 22.12.93)
Purpose and scope:
This template is to be used to collect the information necessary to
identify and track the development of networked information retrieval
tools. It is intended that the main part of this will be completed by
the main individual responsible for the tool. Sections of the
template may require completion by others.
The NIR tools included are defined by enumeration. The IETF/RARE/CNI
NIR-WG welcome suggestions for others to be included.
NIR Tools:
Alex
archie
gopher
Hytelnet
Netfind
Prospero
Veronica
WAIS (including freeWAIS)
WHOIS
World Wide Web (including Mosaic)
X.500 White Pages
New entries: Please complete this template and return it to
Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk (NIR-WG co-chair). Receipt of your
message will be acknowledged.
Please imbed descriptive text by at least one more column than the
heading for that item:
For example:
Brief description of tool:
This is the best application ever seen. It makes finding information
very easy. This is the decription imbedded one more column.
Updates: updates to existing information on NIR Tools may be sent by
the appropriate contact person at any time to:
nir-updates@cnidr.org
The full report will be updated annually and will form the basis of a
"snapshot" report on the activities in the area of networked
information retrieval (NIR).
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Date template updated or checked: (e.g., 02 November, 1992)
By: Name:
Email address:
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NIR Tool Name:
Brief Description of Tool:
Note: This should be a maximum of 100 line description which
should cover the following:
- overview of use, purpose, scope and characteristics
- user's view
- information provider's view
- information types supported (e.g., text, sound, etc.)
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Primary Contact(s):
[Please duplicate this section for each separate contact]
Name:
[May be the name of a role e.g., nirtool-support or of an
individual]
Email address:
Postal Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
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Help Line:
[for major center as well as each client if available]
Name:
[May be the name of a role e.g., nirtool-support or of an
individual]
Email address:
Telephone:
Level of support offered: [delete as appropriate]
o volunteer
o funded
o for experts only
o all users
Hours available:
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Related Working Groups:
[Name only]
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
[Name only]
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Mailing Lists:
[Duplicate this section for each list]
Address: [Email Address to send contributions]
Administration: [<listname>-request etc.]
Description:
[This is optional - if the group has only one mailing list]
Archive: [Location of message archive for this list]
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News groups:
[Duplicate this section for each news group]
Name:
Description:
[This is optional - if the group has only one news group]
Archive: [Location of message archive for this news group]
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Protocols:
What is supported: [e.g., Z39.50]
What it runs over:
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Future plans:
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Servers:
[Duplicate the following for each platform
e.g., Unix, VMS, VM/CMS,....]
[The main contact for this NIR tool should complete at least
"platform" and "contact" for each server known to them.]
Date completed or updated:
By: Name:
Email address: [If different from that of the Primary
contact listed below]
Platform:
Primary Contact:
Name:
Email address:
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Location of more information:
[Such as installation instructions
copyright statements,
warnings & bug reports etc.
Eventually this will be the Unique Resource
Identifiers of the documents]
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Approximate number of such servers in use:
General comments:
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Clients:
[Duplicate the following for each platform
e.g., MS-DOS PC, MAC, vt100,...]
[The main contact for this NIR tool should complete
"platform" and "contact" for each server known to them.]
Date completed or updated:
By: Name:
Email address: [If different from that of the Primary
contact listed below]
Platform:
Primary Contact:
Name:
Email address:
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
[Such as installation instructions
copyright statements,
warnings & bug reports etc.
Eventually this will be the Unique Resource
Identifiers of the documents]
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
Future plans:
Items included here could include
- optional items to come.
- plans for moving to international standards
- plans for interoperating with other NIR tools
- other functionality to be supported
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Demonstration sites:
List of sites which are willing to act as demonstration
sites for this application.
[Duplicate for each site]
Site name:
Access details:
[e.g.,
telnet archie.sura.net
login as archie ]
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Documentation:
The following is a list of suggested items to be found in a
document archive. Note that the location pointers below could be
replaced in the future by the "Uniform Resource Name".
o current overview
o instructions to information providers
o Frequently Asked Questions
o user manuals
o training materials
- tutorials
- canned demos
- sample session (screen dumps)
- videos
- etc.
o miscellaneous documents
[Duplicate the following for each existing document as
necessary]
Document Title:
Location details:
Site:
Full file name:
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Bibliography:
[A list of a maximum of 10 key papers, books etc. on this NIR tool.
Optionally a pointer to a fuller bibliography could be given.]
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Other Information:
[Feel free to add other information that you feel is relevant.
This will be considered for inclusion in the report.]
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APPENDIX B
NIR Group Template (last updated 22.12.93)
Purpose and scope:
This template is to be used to collect the information necessary to
identify and track major groups that are working to promote or develop
networked information retrieval. It is intended that this will be
completed by the group representative.
The groups included are defined by enumeration. The IETF/RARE/CNI
NIR-WG welcome suggestions for other groups to be included.
Groups:
CNI Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Architectures and Standards
Directories and Resource Information Services
TopNode for Networked Information Resources, Services,
and Tools
CNIDR Clearing House for Networked Information Discovery
and Retrieval
IETF Integrated Directory Services (IDS)
Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR)
Networked Information Retrieval (NIR) joint IETF/RARE WG
Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI)
OSI-Directory Service (OSI-DS)
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS)
IRTF Internet Research Task Force Research Group on
Resource Discovery and Directory Service (IRTF-RD)
NISO Z39.50 Implementors Group
RARE Information Services and User Support Working Group
(ISUS)
USMARC/OCLC USMARC Advisory Group; OCLC Internet Resources
Cataloging Experiment (USMARC/OCLC)
New Entries: Please complete this template for your group or
organisation and return it to Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk (NIR-WG
co-chair). Receipt of your message will be acknowledged.
Please imbed descriptive text by at least one more column than the
heading for that item:
For example:
Description of main group:
This is the most active NIR group. This is the decription imbedded
one more column.
Updates: updates to existing information on NIR Groups may be sent by
the appropriate contact person at any time to:
nir-updates@cnidr.org
The full report will be updated annually and will form the basis of a
"snapshot" report on the activities in the area of networked
information retrieval (NIR).
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Date template updated or checked: (e.g., 02 November, 1992)
By: Name:
Email address:
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NIR Group Name:
Sponsoring Organisation:
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup:
Mailinglist-Address:
Description of main group:
[Description of the scope and purpose of the group and the
current tasks being worked on. (Recommended maximum of
100 lines.) Please indicate whether membership is open or
closed. Include a pointer to an on-line charter if
appropriate]
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Primary Contact(s):
[Please duplicate this section for each separate contact]
Name:
[May be the name of a role e.g., group-secretariat or of an
individual]
Email address:
Postal Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
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Mailing Lists:
[Duplicate this section for each list]
Address: [Email Address to send contributions]
Administration: [<listname>-request etc.]
Description:
[This is optional - if the group has only one mailing list]
Archive: [Location of message archive for this list]
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News groups:
[Duplicate this section for each news group]
Name:
Description:
[This is optional - if the group has only one news group]
Archive: [Location of message archive for this news group]
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Document Archive:
[Duplicate if necessary]
Location details:
Site:
Directory:
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Official Publications:
[for example: Journal, Newsletter, Report Series]
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Bibliography:
[A list of a maximum of 10 key papers, books etc. produced by
this group on their NIR work].
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Other Information:
[Feel free to add other information that you feel is relevant.
This will be considered for inclusion in the report.]
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APPENDIX C
/* A summary of email lists and newsgroups dealing with */
/* various issues in resource discovery and networked */
/* information retrieval. */
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Created-By: Peter Deutsch
Email Address: peterd@bunyip.com
Last Updated: 16 December 1993
Comments: Please send comments, corrections and
additions to the author at the above address.
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/* The following mailing lists are in IAFA format. NIR Groups and */
/* Tool developers are encouraged to make such descriptions */
/* available for their lists. */
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Mailinglist-Name: Alex
Address: alex-users@cs.cmu.edu
Administration: alex-users-request@cs.cmu.edu
Address: alex-servers@cs.cmu.edu
Administration: alex-servers-request@cs.cmu.edu
Description: alex-servers is for people setting up an Alex
fileserver. alex-users is for people who just
want to use Alex.
Archive: alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.13)
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Mailinglist-Name: Archie
Address: archie-maint@bunyip.com
Administration: archie-maint-request@bunyip.com
Description: This mailing list is for people who operate and
maintain archie servers. Announcements of bug
fixes, new releases and discussion of new
features are carried out on this list.
Archive: archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/archie-maint
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Mailinglist-Name: The archie People Mailing List
Address: archie-people@bunyip.com
Administration: archie-people-request@bunyip.com
Description: This mailing list is for people interested in
the archie project and its future developments.
Announcements of upgrades, new services, etc.
are made to this list.
Archive: None
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Mailinglist-Name Gopher
Address: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Administration: gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Description: News and views of all things gopher.
Archive: Via gopher: University of Minnesota Gopher
Information About Gopher
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Mailinglist-Name: HYTELNET Updates Distribution
Address: