Porter, 'WWWorld', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v22n06 (January 1995)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 22 no. 6
January 1995
Porter, George
"WWWorld"


The CIA's web server http://www.ic.gov contains the 
latest editions of two Central Intelligence Agency publications 
in hypertext formats, _The World Factbook 1994_ and 
_Factbook on Intelligence_.  Even secretive government 
agencies are beginning to publish information openly via the 
Internet.


The advent of the 104th Congress has seen increased activity 
on the Internet from the House of Representatives and a major 
push to distribute legislative information over the WWW.  The 
U.S. House of Representatives established a gopher server 
gopher://gopher.house.gov/ in 1994.  Much of the 
material being distributed from their new WWW server 
http://www.house.gov/ originated on the gopher 
server.  Both the gopher and web servers are experiencing 
heavy traffic, beyond their capacity, so connections are not 
easy to establish.  House Information Systems (H.I.S.) is 
working on upgrading their server and network hardware.


The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library 
http://www.pls.com:8001/ is a collection of 
Internet sites, many beyond the control of the House, offering 
various laws, regulations, and treaties.  _The Code of Federal 
Regulations_ (CFR) is searchable using forms 
http://www.pls.com:8001/his/cfr.html.  This is a 
joint service by H.I.S. and Personal Library Software, Inc.


The Library of Congress announced its new THOMAS service, 
named for Thomas Jefferson, this week-- 
http://thomas.loc.gov/.  THOMAS provides forms-based 
searchable access to the full text of legislation from the 103rd 
and 104th Congresses and will soon be offering _The 
Congressional Record._


The HCI Bibliography is a free-access, online, extended 
bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction.  The basic goal 
of the project is to put an online bibliography for most of HCI 
on the screens of all researchers, developers, educators, and 
students in the field through anonymous ftp access, mail 
servers, and Mac and DOS floppy disks.

http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/CHCIbib/


NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory-- 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/--offers a myriad of space-
related files and services. "Welcome to the Planets" is a tour 
of the solar system that uses a selection of the best images 
from NASA's planetary exploration program 
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/.  The images 
and text are a subset of an interactive educational CD-ROM 
slated for release this month from the Planetary Data System.


CETH, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, is a 
joint project of Rutgers and Princeton universities 
http://cethmac.princeton.edu/.  CETH is a major 
player in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Standard 
Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and provides access to 
materials related to these standards.  Susan Hockey, director of 
CETH, has compiled _Bibliography for Humanities Computing_.

http://cethmac.princeton.edu/CETH/bib.html/