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- Editor's note: Minutes received 3/31/93. These minutes have not been edited
- and the attendee list has not been appended.
-
- Reported by Ellen.Hoffman
-
- User Documents II Working Group
- Chairs: Ellen Hoffman (Merit)
- Lenore Jackson (NASA)
- Tuesday, March 30, 1993 (4-6 p.m.)
-
-
- I. Introduction
-
- The group's charter was described and mailing addresses reviewed.
- Subscriptions to the mailing list should be sent to:
- user-doc-request@merit.edu.
-
- II. Bibliography for New Users completed
-
- The final version of the short bibliography was distributed. This has
- been submitted to the Area Chair as the first step in finalizing it as
- an FYI RFC.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 WG
- recommends updating the FYI itself in a year.
-
- III. First draft of comprehensive bibliography distributed
-
- A nine-page draft bibliography was distributed as a first step in
- updating RFC 1175. 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.
-
- 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
- librarians was another area of interest. A previous bibliography done by
- OCLC was presented as a possible source tool.
-
- 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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- IV. Revised goals and directions
-
- 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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