Help! Does anyone out there have any experience writing interpreters for GUIDE ver 2.0 for the Macintosh? Specifically, interpreters that will collect data? If so, please reply!
-Mark Langston Psychology Dept. Memphis State University
Is anyone reading this newsgroup aware of research or development efforts in the following areas:
1. Hypertext links enabling retrieval from multiple heterogenous sources of information? 2. "Qualified Hypertext LInks" -- By this I mean attaching semantic information to the links themselves and retrieval using this to cut down on links that get followed.
In article <1991Aug2.115...@ardor.enet.dec.com> kan...@ardor.enet.dec.com (Nari
Kannan) writes:
> Is anyone reading this newsgroup aware of research or development efforts in > the > following areas:
> 1. Hypertext links enabling retrieval from multiple heterogeneous sources of > information?
The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. The address format includes an access method (=namespace), and for most name spaces a hostname and some sort of path.
We have a prototype hypertext editor for the NeXT, and a browser for line mode terminals which runs on almost anything. These can access files either locally, NFS mounted, or via anonymous FTP. They can also go out using a simple protocol (HTTP) to a server which interprets some other data and returns equivalent hypertext files. For example, we have a server running on our mainframe (http://cernvm.cern.ch/FIND in WWW syntax) which makes all the CERN computer center documentation available. The HTTP protocol allows for a keyword search on an index, which generates a list of matching documents as annother virtual hypertext document.
If you're interested in using the code, mail me. It's very prototype, but available by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch. It's copyright CERN but free distribution and use is not normally a problem.
The NeXTstep editor can also browse news. If you are using it to read this, then click on this: <http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html> to find out more about the project. We haven't put the news access into the line mode browser yet.
We also have code for a hypertext server. You can use this to make files available (like anonymous FTP but faster because it only uses one connection). You can also hack it to take a hypertext address and generate a virtual hypertext document from any other data you have - database, live data etc. It's just a question of generating plain text or SGML (ugh! but standard) mark-up on the fly. The browsers then parse it on the fly.
The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation. We are very interested in spreading the web to other areas, and having gateway servers for other data. Collaborators welcome! I'll post a short summary as a separate article.
Tim Berners-Lee ti...@info.cern.ch World Wide Web project Tel: +41(22)767 3755 CERN Fax: +41(22)767 7155 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland (usual disclaimer)
In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.
WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
Reader view
The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple protocol ("HTTP") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword search by a remote information server.
The web contains documents in many formats. Those documents which are hypertext, (real or virtual) contain links to other documents, or places within documents. All documents, whether real, virtual or indexes, look similar to the reader and are contained within the same addressing scheme.
To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse (or types in a number if he or she has no mouse). To search and index, a reader gives keywords (or other search criteria). These are the only operations necessary to access the entire world of data.
Information provider view
The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and information suppliers encourage each other.
Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full text or keyword indexing.
The WWW model gets over the frustrating incompatibilities of data format between suppliers and reader by allowing negotiation of format between a smart browser and a smart server. This should provide a basis for extension into multimedia, and allow those who share application standards to make full use of them across the web.
This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the WWW project, such as efficient document caching. the reduction of redundant out-of-date copies, and the use of knowledge daemons. There is more information in the online project documentation, including some background on hypertext and many technical notes.
Try it
A prototype (very alpha test) simple line mode browser is currently available in source form from node info.cern.ch [currently 128.141.201.74] as
/pub/WWW/WWWLineMode_0.9.tar.Z.
Also available is a hypertext editor for the NeXT using the NeXTStep graphical user interface, and a skeleton server daemon.
Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions is included in the tar file!). Document
Randy Pausch and colleagues at University of Virginia ran an experiment where node visit counts over time were listed as part of a link representation which apparently influenced user behavior. Don't know where and if it has been published yet.
R. O'Hara (MNHVZ...@SIVM.bitnet) has done some nice iconic design to show what type of object one would jump to if a link was followed in a HyperCard implementation; I don't believe he has attempted to publish anything on it yet. Icons of speakers if the object is a sound, piece of paper if a text node, grid for spreadsheets, different looking arrows for other cards and stacks, etc. Nice stuff. -- Richard "carm" Chimera | Zorched by Zarches, Human Computer Interaction Lab, U Md. | spaceman Spiff's A.V. Williams Bldg, room 4166 | crippled craft crashes College Park, MD 20742-3255 | on planet Plootarg!
In article <37...@mimsy.umd.edu> c...@tove.cs.umd.edu (Richard Chimera) writes:
>Randy Pausch and colleagues at University of Virginia ran an experiment >where node visit counts over time were listed as part of a link >representation which apparently influenced user behavior. Don't know >where and if it has been published yet.
It was published in Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination, and Design (of which I am U.S. Editor). It was in one of the recent special issues focusing on Hypertext---either Volume 3 #3 or Volume 3 #4, I don't recall which just off the top of my head. EPODD is published by John Wiley.
In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I posted a summary of the WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext system.
Thanks to feedback from many people, some bugs have been fixed. In particular, the documentation shipped with the tar file now contains absolute links to futher references on our servers, so that the links will still work when the files are read elsewhere. There are a few other minor changes. Details are in the bug and feature lists in the online documenation. New tar files are available as follows. Instructions are enclosed in each.
WWWLineMode_0.11.tar.Z Portable line mode hypertext browser - source.
Oops -- I forgot to mention "WorldWideWeb: UPDATE" that the WorldWideWeb software anonymous FTP host is (as before) info.cern.ch, currently at address 128.141.201.74.
See article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> for background on WWW. Sorry for clogging up the news. - Tim BL __________________________________________________________________________ Tim Berners-Lee ti...@info.cern.ch World Wide Web project Tel: +41(22)767 3755 CERN Fax: +41(22)767 7155 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
I tried writing to the Time, but he didn't answer so...
In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) writes:
>New tar files are available as follows. Instructions are enclosed in each. > WWWLineMode_0.11.tar.Z Portable line mode hypertext browser - source. > WWWNeXTStepEditor_0.12.tar.Z NeXTStep hypertext browser/editor. > WWWDaemon_0.1.tar.Z Simple hypertext server program
Could someone please tell me the name of the ftp site for these files?
Thanks, Michael
-- Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on kaufman | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy Batty
Jonathan Wolfson wrote: > Tim, I have a query for you, I am just wondering how one views these > SGML files. I think there is some sort of Internet Explorer that can do > it, but my 1200 baud modem is too slow to download it. Also, can one > link via hypertext to mp3 files, and therefore get new music? I am > excited about the new Milli Vanilli CD but don't want to pay for it. > Jonathan
You shouldn't post these joke posts. It's not very nice you know. Paul Montreal, Canada December 10, 2004
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the > WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.
> WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to > make an easy but powerful global information system.
> The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should > be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within > internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by > support groups.
> Reader view
> The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents > which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is > another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple > protocol ("HTTP") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword > search by a remote information server.
> The web contains documents in many formats. Those documents which are > hypertext, (real or virtual) contain links to other documents, or places > within documents. All documents, whether real, virtual or indexes, look similar > to the reader and are contained within the same addressing scheme.
> To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse (or types in a number if he or > she has no mouse). To search and index, a reader gives keywords (or other > search criteria). These are the only operations necessary to access the entire > world of data.
> Information provider view
> The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols > (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data > is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and > information suppliers encourage each other.
> Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your > existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and > making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file > available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small > start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of > the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full > text or keyword indexing.
> The WWW model gets over the frustrating incompatibilities of data format > between suppliers and reader by allowing negotiation of format between a smart > browser and a smart server. This should provide a basis for extension into > multimedia, and allow those who share application standards to make full use of > them across the web.
> This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the > WWW project, such as efficient document caching. the reduction of redundant > out-of-date copies, and the use of knowledge daemons. There is more > information in the online project documentation, including some background on > hypertext and many technical notes.
> Try it
> A prototype (very alpha test) simple line mode browser is currently available > in source form from node info.cern.ch [currently 128.141.201.74] as
> /pub/WWW/WWWLineMode_0.9.tar.Z.
> Also available is a hypertext editor for the NeXT using the NeXTStep graphical > user interface, and a skeleton server daemon.
> Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions > is included in the tar file!). Document
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the > WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.
> WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to > make an easy but powerful global information system.
> The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should > be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within > internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by > support groups.
> Reader view
> The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents > which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is > another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple > protocol ("HTTP") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword > search by a remote information server.
> The web contains documents in many formats. Those documents which are > hypertext, (real or virtual) contain links to other documents, or places > within documents. All documents, whether real, virtual or indexes, look similar > to the reader and are contained within the same addressing scheme.
> To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse (or types in a number if he or > she has no mouse). To search and index, a reader gives keywords (or other > search criteria). These are the only operations necessary to access the entire > world of data.
> Information provider view
> The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols > (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data > is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and > information suppliers encourage each other.
> Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your > existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and > making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file > available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small > start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of > the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full > text or keyword indexing.
> The WWW model gets over the frustrating incompatibilities of data format > between suppliers and reader by allowing negotiation of format between a smart > browser and a smart server. This should provide a basis for extension into > multimedia, and allow those who share application standards to make full use of > them across the web.
> This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the > WWW project, such as efficient document caching. the reduction of redundant > out-of-date copies, and the use of knowledge daemons. There is more > information in the online project documentation, including some background on > hypertext and many technical notes.
> Try it
> A prototype (very alpha test) simple line mode browser is currently available > in source form from node info.cern.ch [currently 128.141.201.74] as
> /pub/WWW/WWWLineMode_0.9.tar.Z.
> Also available is a hypertext editor for the NeXT using the NeXTStep graphical > user interface, and a skeleton server daemon.
> Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions > is included in the tar file!). Document
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the > WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.
> WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to > make an easy but powerful global information system.
> The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should > be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within > internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by > support groups.
> Reader view
> The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents > which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is > another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple > protocol ("HTTP") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword > search by a remote information server.
> The web contains documents in many formats. Those documents which are > hypertext, (real or virtual) contain links to other documents, or places > within documents. All documents, whether real, virtual or indexes, look similar > to the reader and are contained within the same addressing scheme.
> To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse (or types in a number if he or > she has no mouse). To search and index, a reader gives keywords (or other > search criteria). These are the only operations necessary to access the entire > world of data.
> Information provider view
> The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols > (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data > is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and > information suppliers encourage each other.
> Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your > existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and > making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file > available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small > start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of > the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full > text or keyword indexing.
> The WWW model gets over the frustrating incompatibilities of data format > between suppliers and reader by allowing negotiation of format between a smart > browser and a smart server. This should provide a basis for extension into > multimedia, and allow those who share application standards to make full use of > them across the web.
> This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the > WWW project, such as efficient document caching. the reduction of redundant > out-of-date copies, and the use of knowledge daemons. There is more > information in the online project documentation, including some background on > hypertext and many technical notes.
> Try it
> A prototype (very alpha test) simple line mode browser is currently available > in source form from node info.cern.ch [currently 128.141.201.74] as
> /pub/WWW/WWWLineMode_0.9.tar.Z.
> Also available is a hypertext editor for the NeXT using the NeXTStep graphical > user interface, and a skeleton server daemon.
> Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions > is included in the tar file!). Document
On Wednesday, August 7, 1991 4:37:40 AM UTC+8, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In article <64...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the > WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.
> WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary
> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to > make an easy but powerful global information system.
