Porter, 'WWWorld', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v22n08 (March 1995)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 22 no. 8
March 1995
Porter, George
"WWWorld"


Many federal agencies have established a WWW presence.  The 
majority of the servers have addresses of the form 
http://www.agency name.gov/ or 
http://www.laboratory or center name.agency name.gov/.  
The first two services highlighted this month illustrate these 
naming conventions.

NASA has established a web site at Marshall Space Flight 
Center to distribute information from the Endeavour's fifteen-
day ultraviolet astronomy mission.  Images (JPEG) and video 
clips (QT) are available for users with the appropriate display 
software.  The service has proven so popular that they were 
forced to create mirror sites to redistribute the load.  Any of 
the following URLs should provide access to identical 
information.  An intriguing feature is that NASA has provided 
downloadable virtual reality tours of the payload bay.
http://indus.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/msfc/astro_home.html/
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/mol/astro_home.html/
The Department of Energy (DOE) provides one-stop access to 
materials from many of the national laboratories through their 
Energy Information Services page.
http://www.doe.gov/html/doe/infolink/infolink.html/
Another DOE site of interest is the Office of Human Radiation 
Experiments (OHRE), established in March 1994.  OHRE leads 
DOE's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation 
research using human subjects.  OHRE has undertaken an 
intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical 
documents from DOE's 3.2-million cubic feet of records 
scattered across the country.  Internet access to these 
resources is a key part of making DOE more open and 
responsive to the American public.
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/home.htm/
Parallel I/O Archive is maintained by David Kotz (Computer 
Science, Dartmouth).  The archive includes Kotz's _Parallel I/O 
Bibliography_, 6th edition (February 3, 1995), which covers 
parallel I/O with primary emphasis on file systems.  This 
includes architecture, operating systems, some algorithms, 
some databases, and some workload characterization.  The 
bibliography is spotty on topics like disk array reliability, 
parallel I/O algorithms, parallel databases, and parallel 
networking.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/pario.html 

TimeLife has launched a (currently) free web-based 
information service to tout many of their products.  One very 
interesting entry is the Virtual Garden, which includes 
excerpts from some of their magazines and a forms-searchable 
electronic illustrated encyclopedia.
http://www.pathfinder.com/vg/Welcome/welcome.html
The TIME LIFE Complete Gardener Encyclopedia searchable 
database will eventually contain more than 2,000 species 
selected for general use in North American horticultural 
practice.  At the present time, it contains approximately 1,400 
plants, including herbs, bulbs, house plants, wildflowers, and 
roses; each week another one hundred species will be added to 
this database.

http://www.pathfinder.com/vg/TimeLife/CG/vg-search.html