WWW-WAIS Gateway
timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 11:17:05 GMT+0100
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-id: <9111081017.AA04649@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: www-interest@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: WWW-WAIS Gateway
(Now its been running for some time, I guess I should announce it!)
World-Wide Web <-> WAIS Gateway Running
A gateway running on info.cern.ch provides access by any WWW browser
to the world of information provided by "WAIS" servers. WAIS servers
are full-text search servers using software from Thinking Machines
Corporation. There's more infomation about WAIS and the gateway in
the web.
[By the way, if you have an old WWW default page which may not have
links to everything of interest, you can pick up by ftp (or link to)
a new one from file://info.cern.ch/pub/default.html]
HYPERTEXT GUIDE
You can find WAIS indexes by browsing a hypertext guide to WAIS
(linked from our default page), and/or doing an index search on the
WAIS index of indexes.
The guide starts at
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Products/WAIS/Sources/Overview.html
Here is an sample of what there is:
Biochemistry The EC enzyme database of Amos Bairoch , REBASE
restriction enzymes , the annotation of the
GenBank(R) DNA sequence database (Bacterial
Division), the Peter Karps CompoundKB database of 981
metabolic intermediate compounds , periodical
references to journals in the area of molecular
biology , BIOSCI mailing lists and newsgroup archives
Geography Asia Pacific region: Curriculum Resources & Course
outlines; India: Miscellaneous information
Humanities Discussion, Poetry
Meterology The weather (around MIT)
Music MIDI interfacing , Song lyrics ,
Religion The Bible (King James version) , The Holy Qur'an
Computing & Networking:
AARNet Australian Academic and Research Network Resources
Guide
Fidonet List of nodes
Usenet FAQ, cookbook, science
Internet RFCs, resource guide, etc etc
(etc etc)
By Organsiation
E.F.F. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Documents,
discussion
N.S.F. National Science Foundation: bulletins
M.I.T. Algorithms book: Bugs , excercises , suggestions for
the book, 'Introduction to Algorithms' by Tom Cormen,
Charles Leiserson, and Ron Rivest, all members of
Theory of Computation Group, Laboratory for Computer
Science. Weather .
University of Noth Carolina Phone book
University of North Texas Documents
Univ. Oslo Publications bibliography
Mail me with any problems/questions/suggestions.
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Tim Berners-Lee timbl@info.cern.ch
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