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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit
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- Minutes of the User Documents Revisions Working Group (USERDOC2)
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- Introduction
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- The Group's Charter was described and mailing addresses were reviewed.
- Subscriptions to the mailing list should now be sent to
- user-doc-request@merit.edu.
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- Bibliography for New Users Completed
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- The final version of the short bibliography was distributed. This has
- been submitted to the Area Director as the first step in finalizing it
- as an FYI RFC.
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- The on-line documents listed in the soon-to-be FYI are all collected in
- an archive available from four servers on the Internet for anonymous FTP
- called ``Introducing the Internet.'' Two sites have email servers
- (nic.merit.edu and nisc.sri.com). Gopher and WAIS servers are available
- at Merit. Four additional sites expressed interest in mirroring the
- archive. The documents can also be reached via dialup services at Merit
- for those with a modem and communications software. For more
- information, send an email message to nis-info@merit.edu with the text:
- send access.guide.
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- To provide an ongoing source of information about new documents for the
- FYI, a file will be kept in the ``Introducing the Internet'' archive
- listing new materials aimed at beginning Internet users. The Working
- Group recommends updating the FYI itself in a year.
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- First Draft of Comprehensive Bibliography Distributed
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- A nine-page draft bibliography was distributed as a first step in
- updating RFC1175. The Group discussed goals and directions for the
- document. The Group agreed that the new bibliography would supplement,
- rather than obsolete, the existing RFC. It will cover hardcopy and
- on-line documents about the Internet from 1990-93. With nine pages in a
- very incomplete listing, it was also agreed that abstracts for all
- listings would make the bibliography too long, so some form of keywords
- would be developed to help provide content information.
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- The Group agreed to work on developing the list on-line through the
- mailing list, and to try to have a final version for approval at the
- July meeting. A suggestion was made to develop an on-line version that
- would allow navigation to each of the electronic documents, and it was
- agreed this would be discussed at the next meeting. There was also
- interest in having a document that could have ``icons'' that would make
- it easy to identify different subject areas. Creating a tool useful to
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- librarians was another area of interest. A previous bibliography done
- by OCLC was presented as a possible source tool.
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- Input was solicited on corrections and additions to the document. A
- revised version will be submitted as an Internet-Draft and Working Group
- members were asked to send suggestions to the mailing list or authors.
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- Revised Goals and Directions
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- A brief discussion was held of new and future projects for the Working
- Group. A possible FYI aimed at those who are not yet connected, which
- had been mentioned in the earlier User Services Working Group meeting,
- was suggested as a project. With the Group having taken on introductory
- materials as part of the short bibliography, it was agreed that this was
- a reasonable project. A couple of authors said they had already written
- materials on this and offered to send them to the mailing list for
- consideration. There was continued interest in creating a ``living
- document'' to keep the bibliographies updated, and a locator resource
- for documentation on the Internet. More work will be done on these
- topics on the mailing list.
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- Attendees
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- Robert Beer r-beer@onu.edu
- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- James Conklin jbc@bitnic.educom.edu
- Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
- Brent Curtiss bcurtiss@magnuss.ocs.ohio-state.edu
- Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu
- Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
- Susan Harris srh@umich.edu
- Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu
- Susan Horvath shorvath@merit.edu
- Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
- Erik Jul jul@oclc.org
- Edward Krol e-krol@uiuc.edu
- Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
- Gary Malkin gmalkin@xylogics.com
- April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
- Jerry Martin jerry+@osu.edu
- Bruce Nelson bnelson@novell.com
- Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Charlie Smith crsmith@osvi.edu
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Craig Todd ctodd@desire.wright.edu
- William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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