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The University of Minnesota's Internet Gopher System: A Tool for Accessing Network-Based Electronic Information
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993)
Describes the Gopher system developed at the University of Minnesota for accessing information on the Internet. Highlights include the need for navigation tools; Gopher clients; FTP (File Transfer Protocol); campuswide ...
A Gateway Between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML Through the Web
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994)
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) used by the World-Wide Web has limited markup and structure recognition capabilities. Only a small set of text characteristics can be represented, and few of these have any functional ...
You Call It Corn, We Call It Syntax-Independent Metadata for Document-Like Objects.
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995)
Discusses the 1995 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop that met to define a standard set of data elements for describing network-accessible information resources. These document data elements had to be simple enough for authors ...
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and the World-Wide Web: Raising ASCII Text to a New Level of Usability
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994)
Describes HyperText Markup Language (HTML), which is used to format documents for the World-Wide Web. HTML tags that enhance ASCII files, examples of their use, and guidelines for organizing hypertext documents are given. ...
OJAC: An Electronic Document Delivery System for British Columbia Post-Secondary Students
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993)
Describes the Online Journal Access Citation (OJAC) project developed with the British Columbia Electronic Library Network and Simon Fraser University to demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic document delivery system. ...
The World-Wide Web and Mosaic: An Overview for Librarians
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994)
Provides an overview of the Internet's World-Wide Web (Web), a hypertext system. Highlights include the client/server model; Uniform Resource Locator; examples of software; Web servers versus Gopher servers; HyperText ...
Teaching Remote Users How to Use Electronic Information Resources
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994)
Describes how remote users of electronic information resources can be effectively trained. The categories and characteristics of remote users, training challenges, and ways that emerging electronic capabilities can be used ...