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APPLICATIONS--Information

Information dissemination is one of the major functions of online communication. In this section, I've collected links to a variety of projects, research groups and resource lists which are devoted to information dissemination and retrieval over networks.

• Dissemination and Retrieval
  • ACM/SIGIR: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/)
  • Agents, Intelligent: a collection of information about software information agents (http://retriever.cs.umbc.edu/agents/)
  • Addressing: Uniform Resource Identifiers/Locators/Names (URI, URL, URN) (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html)
  • ArD: database of published articles in the field of information systems (http://www.zib-berlin.de/People/mueller/GNA/ISG/Services/ArD/)
  • CAIT-WUSTL: Center for the Application of Information Technology, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/intro.html)
  • Cataloging Internet Res: explores how to catalog electronic information, by Priscilla Caplan: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get caplan prv4n2"
  • CATRIONA: CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/catriona.html)
  • CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access Technology, natural-language interface (ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/chat/)
  • CIT: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/cit.html)
  • CIIR-UMass: Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu)
  • CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments (http://www.cni.org)
  • CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.cwi.nl/default.html)
  • CNIDR Web Page: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page (http://cnidr.org/welcome.html)
  • Data Research: databases and information, some free (don't abuse free services) (http://www.dra.com)
  • DIMUND: Document Understanding Information and Resources (http://dimund.cfar.umd.edu)
  • Doc Center: Document Center, a hard copy document delivery service for government and industry specifications and standards (http://doccenter.com/doccenter/home.html)
  • IDU: Information Design Unit (http://www.idu.co.uk/idu/index.html)
  • Info Provider: discussion of WWW and other servers from an information provider standpoint (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Overview.html)
  • IIP: Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html)
  • IRLP: Internet Resource Location Project (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/gc/cs/genbbb_wwww.html)
  • IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship (http://www.iris.brown.edu/iris)
  • IRTF: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD) (http://rd.cs.colorado.edu/~schwartz/IRTF.html)
  • IS Meta List: Information Systems Meta-List, sponsored by the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/infosys.html)
  • ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
  • ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://www.isri.unlv.edu)
  • ISS: Information Sharing System, A tool that enables transparent, model-based access to distributed, heterogeneou s databases. Developed by CERC, West Virginia University. (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/iss/index.html)
  • ISWorld Net: information systems web, sponsored by the Edwin L. Cox School Management at Southern Methodist University (http://www.isworld.org/isworld/isworldtext.html)
  • Library Special: Library special collections on the Internet (ftp://vm1.nodak.edu/nnews/nnews.1993-10)
  • Lycos: a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs (http://www.lycos.com)
  • OCLC Research: Toward Providing Library Services for CMC (ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/internet_resources_project/report/)
  • PCP: Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)--the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/RELATED.html)
  • Publishing: Advanced Publishing in the Web, by Terje Norderhaug (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/WWWauthoring/abstract.html)
  • Quality: Quality and Standards of the Internet Information Resources (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html)
  • ResInfo: working toward a basic operational framework necessary to implement a globally distributed information system (http://www.hmc.edu/~jared/professional/resinfo/resinfo.html)
  • SIFTER-UAB: Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Studies of Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources (SIFTER) Research Group (http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/AdPage.80)
  • SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
  • UWI: UnderWorld Industries, nodes that wish to share information with other UWI nodes (http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html)
  • Z39.50: Network Information Dissemination Standards (http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/)
• Library
  • ALA: American Library Association (http://www.ala.org)
  • ARL: Association of Research Libraries Web server (http://arl.cni.org)
  • CARL: access to UnCover and other indexes (http://www.carl.org/carl.html)
  • Dialog: a service of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. (http://www.dialog.com)
  • Internet libraries: various Internet material for librarians (ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/library/)
  • IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users (http://www.ipl.org)
  • LaUNCpad: access various infomration services, from the University of North Carolina (telnet://launch@launchpad.unc.edu) Login as : launch
  • LRL: Library Resources List, a variety of Internet resources for the library community, including reference resources, new net sites and search engines, government resources, library sites, and issues about libraries and national information infrastructure, compiled by Bob Bocher, Technology Consultant WI Dept. of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries. (http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/dpi/www/lib_res.html)
  • Lib webs: Library Information Servers via WWW, by Thomas Dowling (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/)
  • LEXIS-NEXIS: Legal and news information (http://www.lexis-nexis.com)
  • OCLC: Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization (http://www.oclc.org)
  • Public Libraries: St. Joseph County (Indiana, USA) list of public libraries with Internet services (http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PublicLibraryServers.html)
  • RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
  • SLA: Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org)
  • US LOC: United States Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov)