Porter, 'WWWorld', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v23n09 (April 1996)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 23 no. 9
April 1996
Porter, George
"WWWorld"


The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) produces highly 
accurate, SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by 
British women writers of the late-Victorian period.  The 
works chosen for this project are not available elsewhere in 
SGML-encoded form [such as the Chadwyck Healey English 
Poetry Full-Text Database, which is available at the NCSU 
Libraries; inquire at the Reference desk for assistance].  The 
works include anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry 
and verse drama.  Considerable attention is given to the 
accuracy and completeness of the texts and to accurate 
bibliographical descriptions of them.  Texts are encoded 
according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, 
using TEILite.DTD (version 1.6).  The VWWP includes with each 
text a header describing fully the source text, the editorial 
decisions, and the resulting computer file.  The texts are 
freely available through the World Wide Web in both HTML and 
SGML formats.  Panorama is required for viewing SGML files 
through a web browser.  A faculty advisory board considers 
textual and editorial issues, while a technical advisory panel 
considers issues of encoding and distribution.

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/


VizieR, the CDS/ESRIN service for astronomical catalogs is the 
result of a joint effort of CDS (Centre de Donn=E9es 
Astronomiques de Strasbourg) and ESA-ESRIN (European Space 
Agency Information Systems Division) to provide the 
astronomical community with a dedicated tool for retrieving 
data listed in published catalogs and tables.

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/

The CDS collects and distributes astronomical data catalogs, 
generally related to observations of stars and galaxies: 1,509 
catalogs are archived at CDS (Astronomer's Bazaar)

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Cats.html

of which 1,026 are documented and available online (as ASCII 
or FITS files) and 847 are also available through the VizieR 
system.

Browse a list of loaded catalogs.

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/htdocs/listcata.html

Search by author, wavelength, mission name, catalog title

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/wcbDirSearchPg


Continuing to march to the beat of its own music, Netscape has 
introduced another nonstandard extension to HTML: frames. 
Frames facilitate the concurrent presentation of table-of-
contents or directory information parallel to a site's 
information content.  Frames are only viewable with Netscape 
2.0 (or later).  The HTML coding for frames separates the 
intellectual content and the navigational information into 
linked files.  When browsers that do not support frames access 
a web page with frames, only the basic content is transmitted.  
The following two sites illustrate the potential of this 
extension.

_Godey's Lady's Book Online_ reproduces several issues of a 
popular nineteenth-century literary magazine.  It is a joint 
effort of the University of Rochester's Department of History 
and the Electronic History Project.  Each frame can be 
independently resized and scrolled.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/

Natural Disaster Reference Database attempts to assemble and 
make available a bibliographic database on research, programs, 
and results that relate to the use of satellite remote sensing 
for disaster mitigation.  The site has shown significant 
evolution in its use of frames, server push animation, and 
other nifty HTML tricks.  The content level has grown 
considerably in the last two months as well.

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/fndrd.html