Complementary Electronic Publishing II
SIGCAT May 24th
May 24, 1995
My colleague suggests that even at 10 of we start early.
Again, for those coming in or standing, we will offer this again at 3:00. Or stay around for any and all.
We will start. 9:56.
I am on the board
Welcome to this session.
Notice right off the bat I didn't know which version of complementary to put on presentation - complimentary or complementary.
We have three speakers only two of which are here.
National Biological Service. Presentation and handout will be described.
I'm Brand Neeman - EPA to Biological service, see last page of handout.
John Williams will provide information on how to contact him for follow up questions.
Offer again at three o'clock
OVERVIEW
I think it is clear from developments in technology.
CDROM and the internet should be complementary
CD ROM can deliver multimedia with larger
Author once - demonstrate several CD ROMs
John Williams will talk about Folio Views, Infobase Web server.
For those of you who weren't here this morning, we had an excellent session this morning that was run twice - the basic concept was to put
HTML is HyperText Markup Language that allows those to be displayed in a very nice form.
I use the term Mosaic like because there is a porliferatio nof browsers.
People develloping other services, I will not attemp t to sumarize those.
Either making large files that are part of a Web Server
The GAP analysis probgram - biodiversity on state by state basis.
Serves very large files for states.
Well, in respoinse to frequent users, to make those larege files available ion CD ROM we have doen this. You would need Arc Infor to use these CD ROMS. We are discussing putting ArcInfor n the CDs. Thsis have become popular with high schools and junior high schools.
Or Author Once, where you author a afile once and that's a multimedia file, serverdd on CC ROM and on the
Does not require HTML or link to WAIS server
The WAIS server was discussed just p;rev
and internet tool where large quant of text information - hard in html or because you want to be able to serach it - just as you serach on CDROM - using WAIS to index, query box in home page, type in phrase, through script, will search through large collection o ftext.
Allows you to integreate WAIS function into your home page.
So we have 3 presentations .
GAP Analysis. Utah GAP CDROM. Complementary products - home page and CD.
Web page advertises it CD ROM delivers it. For people who don't want to doenlowd.
Brian did the home page. Doug developed CD.
John Williams, president for ProInfo, Folio Views business partner.
NBS Home Page and National Biological Info Structure Infobases.
Even though not on web here, I can run Web server unter Windows NT, live on this notebook as the third presentation.
URL is
http://www.nr.usu.edu/gap/gaphome.htm
Seciotns
- Over view
- How to Manual
- On line data available
- Bulletin Board
- Investigator and collaboraor
- Refernece
Relation to CD ROM
What if I have home page wit h HTML. Gap is 250 HTML and 100s of GIF files - Graphi c Interchange Format.
Another Folio product can capture someone's home page in HTML format and put it in Infobase format off-line. Either on LAN or on Standalone.
Gap Analysis home page
Mechanics of doing a home page in HTML addressed this morning.
Same collection of documents could be done
You can access HTML off of CD ROM same as off WWW.
Graphical and GEOPGRAPHICAL interface. Select Utah - this is waht's called a clickable image depending on where yo uclick it will take you to different destinations. In this case done in a GIF file. Related to bandwidth - with fasxt modem - 1 page per second. with 56 3MB per min, T1 1MB in 10 seconds, T3, several MB per second
CDROM delivery - if your time is woth something 1-3 days by mail.
Two CD ROMS are about 1GB of inforatmoin - taking delivery of 1FB of infor vs cost of CD ROM reader. Possible file transfer ereror.
CD ROM - with file transfer you are usually on your own.
There is meta data.
Go home pages have both meta data - how developed, caveats, CD ROM adds value, conventient format, docs, often not party of home pages.
Please only take the packet if you have or wil lget the GIS software. Much demand from schools and others. Next printing will hopefully have Arc Info.
Has 4 wall size maps, report on biodiversity, WWW Home Page.
Diercotyr of files
Sample application - even studetns at TJ HS could work with data so well they exhibited to teachers.
Disc one - species, owner, othe rarc infor - macros.aml a little esoxteric.
Disc two is a serise of macros, docs, statistics, wildlife data, etc.
If you have GIS software this is the land ownership for Utah and the legend is on the side.
Next steps:
Esri - Evn Systems Resource Institute - makers of ArcInfo
With the possiblity of including - ArcInfor is available free on the internet - call 909 307-3111
or Compuserve.
California will be next. Working in 42 states. Won't be done until 2000. Takes about 4 years for GAP analysis.
When a state is done, you can combine and nitegrate biodiversity with other databases. For example, land view - 11 CD ROMS Land View 2 that combines socio-demographic data, environmental justice data from agencies. So more people, low income minority are preferentially exposed to pollution sources.
Recently, wil sell for about $800.
Let me just stop to demonstrate Enhanced Mosaic and bring up a static versio nof the GAP home page. What you would see on the WWW.
This is a static subset of the GAP home page. In ON-line data section. state of Utah. Online, most western states are available. Here is how dta is delivered - by vegtation (23MB) or vegetation data dictionary (.1 MB). At this point people go to Bulletin Board and ask for CD.
Second one is smaller text file in postscript.
So that's the internet delerery and ad for CD ROM. We also advertise CD widely to schools and other people so they don't have to find it on the internet.
Q: Is licensing an issue of Folio?
John Williams, ProInfo, Folio business partner.
President.
Some of you may have heard my previous sessions. Spatial meta data getting on CDROM.
Worked at EPA.
Can put INFO NBS infobase kiosk on diskette.
Collectio nof folio infobases on a CD ROM, which I will show.
Serving the same on the Web, without doing anything to them.
= John Williams.
As Brand said, we are Folio Business PArtners, the outsourcing group - to create products, we do it for them. How/Why Folio is very strong product fo r convergence comunications. Immediately on CD ROM - put up immediately through Web /Internet.
A couple of things - the product itself, licensing
Folio is really a number of products.
IPK - Infobase production kit - allows single end user to take data from different sources to create a single database - proprietary - file is the data AND the index.
Immediately one file is advantage. Huge database can be 100s of HTML files
Above that is Profession IDK - superset of IPK, tools and utilityes to create statndalone runtime products, Licentins agreemnet - how much you pay once you ship.
We created inforbase, put it out published. Bound versio nof Views that only worked with that product - can pay from $2.5 to $12 per title.
One benefit of folio view s is cross platform - Mac, Windows, Web. The key is that a single data file acn be maintained and sent everywhere. Cuts cost of updating. Vey strong product feature.
With folio you have the ability to have low cost license. With gov't there are other issues. ot contact folion - can be very very losw cost licensing.
The issue then gets to Web server software - the components are asearch engine and a client on top of it. Either sendin infor to dos or Windows or MAc or automatically tanslating to HTML
For single process server for HTML $7000 expensinve due to other $1-2,ooo products. You can update any time you want. No software neede on ther end. Generic wasy of distributing infor as attractive as you want it.
You can cut one-off CDs. You can create CD at will. So looking at cost of royalty, limited runs, under $10 a piece.
Demo later by Brand.
Overview of cross platform. A lot fo editing capabilities, production capabilities. that other products don't measuer up to . Can put out CD ROM in Read only format - create shadow file - annotate someone else's work without modifying data file. If I want to add my comments, everybody can go in an put sticky notes, and highlighting, so it becomes a repository o f information NOt editin gof text, but of USE of text.
IF you can read/write, actual mutli user editing on a data file. If you have distributed authority as to who updates what, update chapter, and you are done. Vey fluid, fast to release.
Ability to have securty and rights administration. becomeing more importatnat on net - always important on CDROM
How, besides ON /Off, make it so people cannot move off CD. Rights management features for CD ROM Publishing AND CDROM access.
Underhead - patentted - 500MB data file in asicii squeezes ti down to 350MB Huge reducatino - every word indexed - all data and index in one.
If you have 1MB data file - compression will take you to .85MB. Instead of adding overhead you are creating smaller doc.
Link to other aspects.
Integrate text and graphics on same screen. Link to MM. Full extenstion to other apps.
Of course, hypertext linking. Also the MM support, full text seraching and full text indexing, you can search for any word. So those are the basic features.
The company has been around for 6-7 years, part of Reed Elsevier.
From business partner point of view, very safe investment to put data into any kind of distribution environment. Folio covers across the board. Edit, enhance, literally provide soup to nuts solution.
Questions? Quick and Simple.
(applause)
= Brand. Show in practice.
Data on CD rom,
served identically on Web
We do inhouse training to empower people to do this. People who can do WP acn be electronic publishers on Internet. We are hosting Dept of Interior howm page.
Secretary can serve press releases on Web herself. She will become an electronic publishere.
So you can enhance a WP file. Folio works will with other WP or ASCI I or other databaase formats.
Settin gup infobase Web server. Install Windows NT - unfamiliar. Insalling software, configureing it. Updataing and chainging databases. Make chane, appears seemlessly.
NBS has a missio nto provide scientific undersating for mgt of biolog resoucres.
Distriburted federatio nof data and ifo provieded - not warehouseing - leaving it where it is and empowring them to servie ti up and we point to it.
That's what NII, National Spatila Infra are all aobut. And again, tech supports this very nicely.
Very low end or no connectiveity, not familiar with UNIX , in terms fo authoring an inforbase steps:
In 1/2 hour - added a title, list of contents, added a little stucture to it.
Used WP cross ference for hirearchical structure. I indicated whre graphics should be
Fiolo has WP fileter, Word Filter - you may have added TOC, footnotes, thosre are all preserved.
So that facilitites authoring process. you then often want to make it look prettier.
So, or you want to add additional text.
Open infobase, select file format, if not there, add on filter pack for 50-60 addtional things like Dbase and Paradox.
Theres are some of the stpes:
convert cross links, blue underlined
add levels an dstyles as needed
test the document, table of contenst and query functions of the new inforbase.
Make it look identical to Mosaic
I add my graphics in GIF format - put them on Photo CD - in 5 different resolutions aslo very easy to capture, svae as GIF file, plug into infobase and show on Web.
MAking CDROMs - Folio 3.01 publish - free runtime dist on discs
Information kiosk
3.1a requires, if you want multimple - VIP or Bound views - sliding price shceulde.
Tips and Tricks - Folio Express from user support. Aslos on Folio BBS.
You lear n about folio CD rom forom Folio CD ROM.
If you want interbase links, these are possible, but constult to learn how.
It is possible to search a folio infobast that spans multiple cD roms - it prompts you which CD to insert.
Now for demo
open up folio views. Kiosk infobase the runtime - supports full multimeida. link from infobase to a video clip.
those in Monday am sessiontlake baout earthweek CD - this is what our agency submitted. This is what it will look like in flolio This is a gif file. Three basic functionality - scroll from top to bootm - same as on Web. When I did first MBS 500 page WP file that became, over 2-3 day, 150 HTML files. That is real tedioius work.
Well, wouldn't you like to take large WP doc - Ino base Web SErve automaticlaly puts More//Previous link so you don't have to put link s in yourself.
The next basic way - dynamic toc. Hierarchical structure or with heading - expand or collapse, go to that section. Thrid function is full text search. Word wheel here is only thing not reporducte. The other features all carry over to the Web.
Back to contents view, if I typed in And or The - searching or common things is too many hits.. Folio has relevance ranking-like - distribution of hits. How quickly I can find what section of this document the hit is in.
In folio views, reporduced on Web.
I want to show you that you can link to video clip - on eo fo 40 that jerry mcfaul did that is on the earth week (runs tiny video -looks better on PC screen - but dark)
- comment - use of full motio nvideo - if AVI file - Folio is strong as an engine will translate AVI to Quicktime - automaticlaly port fo rMac environment. NOT inconsequential.
Let me just indicate that this was done by MPLAY.EXE What I typed in was the path to th eMPAY and the AVI file. This feature is called program link. Julmp links, ...
Of course this 10MB video is ont on disketes. Kiosk wil be on CDROM.
Now let me exit this and go to CD ROM now. Earlier I did a tutoial on the mechanics of the CDROM save that it is a very easy install on the machine.