2. When mounted on the desktop, double click to open.
3. Copy the file "World Factbook 1996" to your HD.
4. Double click on World Factbook 1996 to start.
Getting around in this program:
The First "Main" screen allows you to choose how to access the information
about the 266 world entities or countries.
7 choices:
Ñ (1) Multimedia Elements.
View 200 photographs from around the world. See the countries up close!
Play a slide show of all the images (click the slide show button) or select
the image by name (scroll the list of images and click on the text to view).
20 + movies, flags, charts, or languages.
Ñ (2) Geographic Search.
Select countries geographically by region.
See where the countries are in each region.
Navigate between regions.
Ñ (3) Outline Search.
Lists of the various types of information available.
These lists are of countries by type of information available.
(choose by country name).
Also includes lists of other information -- Charts, Terror groups,
State Department Travel Topics, and Appendices.
Ñ (4) Word Search.
Quickly get a list of all the text portions with a search string.
Then click on any list item to go there.
The search string can be: a country name or any text.
This search string can be more than one word and have boolean operators AND, OR
Examples:
UNITED KINGDOM
(this is a search for the words "UNITED" AND "KINGDOM" and the results would
be text portions with both words. This is equivalent to UNITED AND KINGDOM.
TERRORIST OR CARBOMBINGS OR TERRORISTS
(this is a search for any of three words TERRORIST, CARBOMBINGS, TERRORISTS
the results would be text protions with any of the three words.)
Searching works best one word, multiple words with AND between.
Ñ (5) Help!
Provides tips and techniques for using this program.
This is what you are reading now.
Ñ (6) Credits.
The people involved in putting this project together.
The sources for the text. etc.
Ñ (7) Quit.
Exit the program.
At the bottom of each screen (except main) is standard set of options,
including a way of getting back to the main screen.
Tips and Techniques:
How do I find something in this program:
(searching for specific information)
How to do a general search:
From "Main" press the " Word Search" button, now press the button
"New Search" after the text you want to search is entered.
An example would be that you know "Mugabe"
is the leader of some country -- but you don't know which one.
Search for Mugabe to find out!
How to do a specific search:
- You want to know the ranking of Burkina's death rate in the world.
Select "Outline Search" from "Main", click on "Charts" on left and
then "Death rate" in the list. Now click on the "Find within Card" button
and type Burkina.
The High to Low list will highlight and scroll down to the entry if
Burkina is ranked.
- You want to know the date that Kazakhstan was established as
a country. From "Main": click on the "Outline Search" , now click on
"Countries"
Using the "Go Back" button for repeated accessing of information
from the same screen. Some examples:
From the "Main" screen click on a continent such as "Africa",
Click on "Southern Africa", now click on a country button.
View the information/maps etc. Click "Go Back" to return to
"Southern Africa", now click on another country button.
From the "Main" screen click on the "Outline Search" button and
then select "Charts" on left, now scroll the list of comparison
statistics/charts and select one to inspect by clicking on its text.
Read the rankings/search/view the charts.
Now click on "Go Back" to return to the "Charts" listing.
Features:
* Information on 266 countries, territories etc. compiled by the CIA.
* Extracted numerical rankings for 47 statistics from the CIA
with bar charts. Statistics include: population, growth, economics, etc.
* Information from the State Department on most countries, including:
Entry Requirements (documentation needed to get into a country),
Travel Advisories (what to watch out for when you get there),
Consular notes (general notes on the country),
Background Notes (what to watch out for when you get there),
and other:
General Information topics (HIV, Adoption, Abduction, etc.), and
Terror Group Profiles.
* Maps for the 266 countries, territories etc.
* 23 Region Maps.
* 20+ QuickTime videos.
* 17 Regional Maps + world time zones.
* 200 photos from selected countries.
* Help.
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Credits:
1996 World Factbook is based on the publication The World Factbook 1995 by the CIA. It is augmented with information from the State Department and a few other sources. It has been continually published by Wayzata Technology since 1990 with nearly a million copies in distribution.
Software and Interface Design/Programming/Implementation:
Jim Wick, John Fraedrich, Dave Jackson, Jeff Noble, Cindy Samargia.
Photographs:
Scott Overby, Rosanne Engelhardt, Pierre Flener, James Henrichsen, James Kasper, Victor Ma, Gretchen Schenk, Steven Ledoux, Lynn Hart, Anand Rao, Jochen Fuehrer, Tarry Edington, Jim Wick, and M.W. Simonsen.
Videos/Movies:
Licensed from Palo/Haklar Multimedia , Hollywood California.
Videos prepared and digitized by Palo/Haklar Multimedia.
Maps:
Produced by Cindy Samargia, Wayzata Technology, Inc.
Charts:
Made from numbers extracted from the CIA data.
Languages:
Travel Sciences Company.
Text Search:
Portions of The Wayzata World Factbook 1996 are based upon SWISH, developed by Enterprise Integration Technologies. For more information about EIT's products, including the most recent freeware version of SWISH, visit EIT's
home page at http://www.eit.com/
The Sources for text:
CIA (on the World Wide Web) http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/dosfan.html
National Technical Information Services or GPO sales (703) 487-4650 or (202) 512-1800
State Department Bulletin Boards (various)
other CIA and State Department Literarture repostings on the WEB
Consular Affairs Bulletin Board (202) 647-9225
Terror group activities: CIA reports + State Department + Washington Times News published by Wayzata Technology.
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