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- Networked Information Retrieval (nir)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Jill Foster <Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk>
- George Brett <George.Brett@cnidr.org>
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- User Services Area Director(s)
- Joyce Reynolds <jkrey@isi.edu>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:nir@mailbase.ac.uk
- To Subscribe: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
- In Body: subscribe nir <first name> <last name>
- Archive: mailbase.ac.uk:~/pub/nir
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- Description of Working Group:
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- As the network has grown, along with it there has been an increase in
- the number of software tools and applications to navigate the network
- and make use of the many, varied resources which are part of the
- network. Within the past year and a half we have seen a wide spread
- adoption of tools such as the ARCHIE servers, the Wide Area Information
- Servers (WAIS), the Internet Gopher, and the WorldWide Web (WWW). In
- addition to the acceptance of these tools there are also diverse
- efforts to enhance and customize these tools to meet the needs of
- particular network communities.
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- There are many organizations and associations that have recently begun
- to focus on the proliferating resources and tools for networked
- information retrieval (NIR). The Networked Information Retrieval Group
- will be a cooperative effort of three major players in the field of
- NIR: IETF, RARE, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
- specifically tasked to collect and disseminate information about the
- tools and to discuss and encourage cooperative development of current
- and future tools.
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- The NIR Working Group intends to increase the useful base of
- information about networked information retrieval (NIR) tools, their
- developers, interested organizations, and other activities that relate
- to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools, to produce
- documentation that will enable user services organizations to provide
- better support for NIRtools, to develop materials that will assist the
- support and training of end users and to evolve in the future as
- necessary to meet and anticipate changes in the field (i.e., NIR
- tools, protocols, network topology, etc.)
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Review and comment on proposed charter. Discuss Applications
- Template and Organizational Template.
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- Sep 92 Post an Internet-Draft containing the Applications and Organizational
- Templates.
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- Oct 92 Post an Internet-Draft of the ``Consumer Report'' with introductory
- material and completed templates.
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- Dec 92 Submit ``Consumer Report'' to the IESG for publication as an
- Informational RFC.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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- Mar 93 New <draft-ietf-nir-status-report-00.txt>
- A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and
- Groups
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- Request For Comments:
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- None to date.
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