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======== The Scout Report ==
======== March 19, 1999 ====
======== Volume 5, Number 45 ======
====== Internet Scout Project ========
==== University of Wisconsin ========
== Department of Computer Sciences ========
== I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K ========
====== Subject Specific Reports ====
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering and KIDS Report
====== Research and Education ====
2. Early Canadia Online (ECO)
3. World Population Profile: 1998
4. Emilio Segre Visual Archives
5. Blake Digital Text Project
6. Two New Online Databases from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
7. electronic Transactions
8. British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
9. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL)
10. H-HistBibl: Study & Practice of History Librarianship
====== General Interest ====
11. First Report of the Committee of Independent Experts
12. The Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and
Budget Report
13. Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust
14. From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond
15. 1998 Tax Planning Guide
16. Botany.com
17. Three March Madness Sites
====== Network Tools ====
18. RealGuide
19. Internet Explorer 5.0
20. Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0
====== In The News ====
21. Dow Jones at 10,000
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====== Subject Specific Reports ====
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering and KIDS Report
Scout Report for Science & Engineering
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/1999/se-990317.html
KIDS Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/archive/KIDS-990316.html
Volume 2, Number 13 of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering is
available. The In the News section annotates six resources on the discovery
of a bioluminescent Octopus. The March 16 issue of the KIDS Report, written
by and for K-12 students, comes to us from students of Memorial High School
in Madison, Wisconsin. This issue features Internet resources on language.
[MD]
====== Research and Education ====
2. Early Canadia Online (ECO)
http://www.canadiana.org/
A collaborative research project, ECO has created an outstanding online
library of primary sources in Canadian history from the arrival of the
first Europeans to the late 19th century, with particular emphasis on
literature, women's history, native studies, and the history of French
Canada. Composed of digital images of the pages from over 1,100 selected
books and pamphlets, the collection may be searched by keyword, title,
author, subject, or publisher or browsed by title or author. Search returns
include title, author, subject, page length, and publisher. Users may
choose to view the full text or examine each of the pages that matches
their search. Users can also choose from four viewing sizes and navigate
within the text from the individual imaged pages. The entire site is also
available in French. [MD]
3. World Population Profile: 1998 [.pdf, 167p., .WK1, .zip]
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp98.html
Just released on the Web by the US Census Bureau, this report offers "a
comprehensive assessment of world demographic prospects as we approach the
end of this century and the beginning of the next." The report highlights
major demographic trends and the roles played by the developed and
developing nations in these trends, and identifies some of the key elements
and questions behind global population change. In addition, the report
features a special chapter on one of the most important health and
demographic events of modern history: the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic. At
present, users may download the full text, highlights, and detailed tables
of Appendix A (in zipped or unzipped Lotus 1-2-3 format). In the near
future, users should also be able to download the report by chapter and the
three remaining Appendixes. [MD]
4. Emilio Segre Visual Archives
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
Niels Bohr Library
http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm
Named in honor Emilio Segre, Nobel Laureate for nuclear and high-energy
physics, the Emilio Segre Visual Archives contains approximately 25,000
historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual
materials related primarily to American physicists and astronomers of the
20th century. Almost 1,500 of these are currently available online,
searchable by name, keyword(s), and category. Users can also browse a
collection of "mini-exhibits," featuring photos, stories, and quotes
revealing the "human face" of some of the most famous physicists in
history. The Segre Visual Archives is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the
Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics (AIP)
(last discussed in the February 7, 1997 Scout Report). The Bohr Library
site features an online catalog, archival finding aids, oral history
interview abstracts, and a link to the International Catalog of Sources
(ICOS) for History of Physics and Allied Sciences. [MD]
5. Blake Digital Text Project [Frames]
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html
Maintained by Nelson Hilton, Professor of English at the University of
Georgia-Athens, this site will quickly become a favorite of Blake scholars.
In addition to the full text of David V. Erdman's _The Complete Poetry and
Prose of William Blake,_ the site features a hypertext version of _Songs of
Innocence and of Experience _which allows users to explore the various
versions of Blake's masterpiece and "proceed from any given poem to any
other which followed it in any edition, looping through the various
juxtapositions Blake created in the intratextual, echoing world of
_Songs._" In addition, the site also includes a powerful Blake Concordance.
Concordance results link to a three-line context in the bottom frame of the
page. [MD]
6. Two New Online Databases from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Atomic Spectral Line Broadening Bibliographic Database
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Linebr/html/reffrm0.html
Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons, and Helium Ions
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Star/Text/contents.html
Two databases containing Physical Reference Data are available online from
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (mentioned in the
August 16, 1996 Scout Report for Science & Engineering). The first, Atomic
Spectral Line Broadening Bibliographic Database, includes 800 references
containing "numerical data, general information, comments, and review
articles." Users can conduct fielded searches (e.g., Element, Mechanism,
etc.) of Papers with Numerical Data or General Interest Papers without
Numerical Data, or search via Additional Criteria such as Author and
Journal. Results yield listings of the articles but no hyperlinks. The
second database, Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons,
and Helium Ions, contains "three web databases, ESTAR, PSTAR and ASTAR,
which calculate stopping-power and range tables for electrons, protons, or
helium ions, according to methods described in ICRU (International
Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements) Reports 37 and 49." In the
Appendix section, users will find summaries explaining the significance of
the calculated quantities. [SN]
7. electronic Transactions [.pdf]
http://www.rgs.org/pu/8publetr.html
The _Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,_ a quarterly,
peer-reviewed scholarly journal concerning "any theoretical or empirical
subject on geography," has substantially changed its Web presence since its
first review in the (Scout Report April 30, 1997. Although the site no
longer offers free access to current issues, it has placed the full text of
over 1,500 articles and book reviews, the full back-run of the journal from
1935-1993, online in .pdf format. Users may search the archive by
keyword(s), author, title, or year. Search returns include title, author,
year, issue, and item type (article, book review, or commentary). Users may
also view content lists for recent issues and titles and abstracts for
forthcoming papers. [MD]
8. British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
Showcasing works by British women poets, this University of
California-Davis site is a haven for scholars, students, and fans of the
Romantic period. The goal of the project is the "design and development of
highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by
British women poets between 1789 and 1832" with the initial texts coming
from the UC-Davis Library's Kohler Collection of British Poetry, housed in
the Department of Special Collections. Texts are selected with input from
the project's Editorial Advisory Board (listed at the site) made up of
scholars in the United States and Canada. The texts (there are 36
presently, with new titles being added) can be accessed via a listing of
authors; some texts consist of whole books (several hundred pages) and
some, a single poem. The creators have gone to great lengths to make the
HTML versions as accurate as possible, including notations about special
features or characters not included in the HTML version and scanned pages
from the actual works which can be enlarged for greater detail. SGML
versions of each piece are also available. Information about how to access
the original works in the Kohler Collection is also included online as well
as a list of links to related Web-based resources. [REB]
9. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL)
http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/
The primary mission of the CCNMTL is to support Columbia faculty in the use
of digital technologies for teaching and learning. However, the Center also
plans to share the successful technologies and curriculum models it
develops with the wider university community. This new site is the first
step in that direction. College educators and media lab staff will find a
number of items of use, including a Web Publishing Guide and overviews of
ongoing projects at the Center. Probably the most useful section of the
site at present is the EdCITE Reference Database of over 230 research and
case studies on the effective use of technology in education. Searchable by
title, author, keyword, descriptor, and discipline, the database offers
citations to journal articles, Websites, and other relevant information
resources on technology in education. Citations include author, title,
source, resource type, date, education level, discipline, an abstract, and
whenever possible a link to the full text. [MD]
10. H-HistBibl: Study & Practice of History Librarianship
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~histbibl/
Affiliated with the Association for the Bibliography of History [ABH] and
the History Section of the American Library Association, this new
discussion list from H-Net is aimed at "librarians, archivists, curators,
and scholars interested in the practice and study of bibliographic and
library services in support of historical study and teaching." The
H-HistBibl site offers subscription information and will include searchable
discussion logs, discussion threads, and related links. [MD]
====== General Interest ====
11. First Report of the Committee of Independent Experts [.pdf, 140p.]
http://www.europarl.eu.int/experts/
BBC Special Report: EU in Crisis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_297000/297584.stm
Released on March 15, this report has created the worst political crisis in
the European Union's 42-year history. The 140-page report by independent
experts looked into charges of widespread fraud, nepotism, and corruption
in the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, and found
numerous cases where "commissioners or the Commission as a whole bear
responsibility for instances of fraud, irregularities or mismanagement." In
response, the President of the Commission, who is also the chief executive
of the EU, and nineteen other senior officials abruptly resigned on March
16. This would be roughly equivalent to the entire US Cabinet resigning.
Users can read the full text of the report, in HTML or .pdf format, at the
European Parliament site. Users interested in further analysis of the
crisis and the latest developments will want to visit the BBC Special
Report site. [MD]
12. The Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and
Budget Report
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/hmt/budget99/budget99.htm
On March 9, UK Chancellor Gordon Brown delivered the 1999 Budget.
Consisting of two reports, the Budget offers the Government's assessment of
"the medium-term economic and budgetary position" and sets out the
Government's tax and spending plans. At this site, provided by the
Stationary Office, users can view the full text of the Budget reports as
well as the Chancellor's Budget Statement and a collection of news releases
from the Treasury and other Government departments. [MD]
13. Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust
http://sunsite.utk.edu/neighborhoods/witness/index.html
This Website presents Witness and Legacy, a travelling exhibition of 63
works of contemporary art which "explores the linkages between the
Holocaust and creativity." Some of the artists represented in the show are
Holocaust survivors, while others are their descendants. Probably the most
satisfactory way to enter the exhibit is to select an image of one artist's
work from the horizontal display on the bottom of your screen. Doing so
takes you to that artist's section, containing more images and analysis of
their work, portrait photographs, and exhibition history. The site also
provides a collection of essays and animated tours, a resource section with
links to additional holocaust information, discussion forums, and examples
of ways in which Witness and Legacy has been used to teach about the
Holocaust in schools. [DS]
14. From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond [RealPlayer]
http://www.albany.edu/history/FromTheBackAlleys.html
The University at Albany History Department, SUNY (last discussed in the
November 20, 1998 Scout Report) has added yet another fine resource to its
homepage. The inaugural program in the site's History and Public Policy
Documentary Series, From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond is a
streaming audio adaptation of the video trilogy by the same name. Composed
of five parts, each approximately a half-an-hour long, this program
documents the history of abortion rights in America, from the untold
stories of back alley abortions to the development of underground networks
to Roe v. Wade to the current rollbacks in reproductive rights. For optimal
audio quality, users may choose from three connection speeds for each
segment. [MD]
15. 1998 Tax Planning Guide
http://www.dtonline.com/taxguide98/cover.htm
For US residents, tax day is fast approaching, and even those who have
already filed their returns may want to pay a visit to this year's version
of the Deloitte and Touche LLP Tax Planning Guide (originally reviewed in
the December 18, 1997 Scout Report for Business and Economics). Focusing on
long-term financial and tax planning, the site features a host of
resources, including an overview of recent and future tax changes, a
financial planning checklist, an extensive discussion on Taxes and Your
Financial Plan, a collection of tax tools, numerous tips and strategies for
different taxpayers, and general and specialized future tax strategies.
Also included is a link to the Deloitte and Touche LLP and Tax News & Views
detailed summary of the tax provisions in last October's appropriations
bill. [MD]
16. Botany.com
http://www.botany.com/
Gardeners of all abilities will find a use for this online Encyclopedia of
Plants. Browseable by common or botanical name and category (bulbs,
perennials, trees and shrubs, etc.), the site offers a general description,
cultivation and propagation instructions, and information on the different
varieties and hybrids. While some plant entries are short and all would
benefit from the inclusion of photos, each offers a useful introduction.
Additional resources at the site include a Dictionary of Botanical Words;
links to botanical gardens, associations, and societies; and online sources
for weather information around the world. [MD]
17. Three March Madness Sites
FinalFour.net
http://www.finalfour.net/
College Hoops Insider [RealPlayer]
http://www.collegeinsider.com/
Coach's Edge [RealPlayer, WindowsMedia, Shockwave]
http://www.coachesedge.com/
These three sites will appeal to Internauts who wish to follow the
remainder of the 1999 NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments online.
The first, the official NCAA tournament site (reviewed in the March 14,
1997 Scout Report), contains links to live game cybercasts; scores; feature
stories, rosters, and statistics for each team; and tournament brackets.
College Hoops Insider provides excellent coverage of the Men's Tournament,
featuring seventeen columnists, interviews, short pieces on all the
coaches, feature stories, Power Ratings, and RealPlayer Audio selections.
Finally, arm-chair coaches will enjoy the in-depth analysis and animated
scouting reports for both tournaments at the Coach's Edge. The site also
offers audio reports for each team and tournament news updates. [MD]
====== Network Tools ====
18. RealGuide
http://realguide.real.com/
RealNetworks, the industry leader in streaming audio and video, debuted a
new comprehensive portal to streaming media programming this week. The site
offers programming from over 1,700 radio and TV stations and about 500 live
events daily. All programming is organized in topical sections: News,
Music, Sports, Sci-Tech, Society/ Culture, Money, and others. Each section
is further divided into subtopics. For instance, under Sci-Tech, users will
find programming on subjects such as Aviation, Computers, Environment,
Internet, Paranormal, Space, Y2K, etc. Additional resources include a
Beginner's Guide and a keyword(s) search engine. [MD]
19. Internet Explorer 5.0
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
Download Page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie5all.htm
Yesterday Microsoft introduced version 5.0 of its Internet Explorer (IE)
browser. This latest version offers a number of features designed to
automate tasks and save users time, including an improved version of
Autosearch, which was first introduced in IE 4.0. Other new components
include Related Links, similar to Netscape's What's Related Function,
tighter email integration, and a Windows Radio Toolbar. IE 5.0 is currently
available for Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 3.1, and UNIX platforms. [MD]
20. Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html#reader
Adobe has released version 4.0 of its popular and free .pdf reader. New
features in this version include improved integration with Web browsers and
improved support for longer documents and PostScript. Users may download
the reader for a variety of platforms from the site. [MD]
====== In The News ====
21. Dow Jones at 10,000
CNNfn Special Report: The Dow at 10,000
http://cnnfn.com/specials/dow10000/
Stocks -- NPR's _Morning Edition _[RealPlayer]
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/archives/1999/990319.me.html
EduStock
http://tqd.advanced.org/3088/
The Dow Jones industrial average passed the 10,000 mark twice this week,
opened this morning just a few points shy of the milestone, and will, in
all probability, finish the day in record territory. While the breakthrough
to 10,000 has no significance in and of itself for the market, it is a
symbol of the strong optimism over America's improbably steady growth in
the face of economic reversals all over the world. The CNNfn (financial
network) has produced a special report, analyzing the Dow as a market
benchmark, speculating about its future after 10,000, and offering the
opinions of eight financial experts. National Public Radio's _Morning
Edition _reported today on the history of the Dow, a collection of just 30
stocks handpicked by the _Wall Street Journal,_ and its suitability as a
barometer for US industry. Users can listen to the piece, in RealAudio
format, at the program's site. A Thinkquest site (last reviewed in the
November 27, 1998 Scout Report), EduStock offers a well-organized tutorial
on the stock market, what it is, how it works, and how investors choose and
manage portfolios. The site also features a free realtime stock simulation,
company profiles, and related links. Users interested in additional
resources for understanding the stock market and its record-breaking
performance will find a number of items in the Scout Report Signpost the
Scout Report's database. These include the Dow Jones Internet Index, the
Internet Daily Stock Report, and riskview.com:On-line Risk Management. [MD]
Signpost
http://www.signpost.org
Dow Jones Internet Index
http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00009512.html
Internet Daily Stock Report
http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00000811.html
riskview.com:On-line Risk Management
http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00005614.html
====== ======
== Index for March 19, 1999 ==
====== ======
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering and KIDS Report
Scout Report for Science & Engineering
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/1999/se-990317.html
KIDS Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/archive/KIDS-990316.html
2. Early Canadia Online (ECO)
http://www.canadiana.org/
3. World Population Profile: 1998 [.pdf, 167p., .WK1, .zip]
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp98.html
4. Emilio Segre Visual Archives
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
Niels Bohr Library
http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm
5. Blake Digital Text Project [Frames]
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html
6. Two New Online Databases from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Atomic Spectral Line Broadening Bibliographic Database
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Linebr/html/reffrm0.html
Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons, and Helium Ions
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Star/Text/contents.html
7. electronic Transactions [.pdf]
http://www.rgs.org/pu/8publetr.html
8. British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
9. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL)
http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/
10. H-HistBibl: Study & Practice of History Librarianship
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~histbibl/
11. First Report of the Committee of Independent Experts [.pdf, 140p.]
http://www.europarl.eu.int/experts/
BBC Special Report: EU in Crisis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_297000/297584.stm
12. The Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and
Budget Report
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/hmt/budget99/budget99.htm
13. Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust
http://sunsite.utk.edu/neighborhoods/witness/index.html
14. From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond [RealPlayer]
http://www.albany.edu/history/FromTheBackAlleys.html
15. 1998 Tax Planning Guide
http://www.dtonline.com/taxguide98/cover.htm
16. Botany.com
http://www.botany.com/
17. Three March Madness Sites
FinalFour.net
http://www.finalfour.net/
College Hoops Insider [RealPlayer]
http://www.collegeinsider.com/
Coach's Edge [RealPlayer, WindowsMedia, Shockwave]
http://www.coachesedge.com/
18. RealGuide
http://realguide.real.com/
19. Internet Explorer 5.0
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
Download Page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie5all.htm
20. Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html#reader
21. Dow Jones at 10,000
CNNfn Special Report: The Dow at 10,000
http://cnnfn.com/specials/dow10000/
Stocks -- NPR's _Morning Edition _[RealPlayer]
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/archives/1999/990319.me.html
EduStock
http://tqd.advanced.org/3088/
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