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- From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
- Subject: Re: Phone Books w/ departmental listings
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.154039.25716@rice.edu>
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- Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh
- References: <CWIS-L%92073109432739@WUVMD.BITNET>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:40:39 GMT
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- Rich Wiggins asks:
- > Most university staff directories have a section sorted by name and a
- > section organized by unit name. Does anyone have the departmental style
- > listings on their CWIS?
-
- The Rice University CWIS, currently running only as a prototype, has this
- feature. The people who generate our printed phone book gave me the staff
- data in two forms: (1) a person-by-person alphabetical listing, from which
- I generated a simple CSO database; and (2) a "hierarchical" listing by
- department. The latter I am serving out using WAIS indexes. I found
- that "paragraph" mode worked fine with very little massaging of the
- input data necessary. I glued both pieces together using Gopher, which
- is the software platform for our CWIS as a whole.
-
- Thus our CWIS has a menu which looks like this:
-
-
- Rice Campus Directory
-
- 1. About the Rice Campus Directory.
- 2. Departmental Directory (92-93) <?>
- 3. Staff Directory <CSO>
-
-
- An individual shows up in the Staff Directory like this:
-
- name: riddle, prentiss a
- department: ncs/systems
- title: systems programmer ii
- address: 208 mudd
- phone: 5327
- email: riddle@rice.edu
-
- ...while my organization shows up in the Departmental Directory as:
-
- OFFICE OF NETWORKING & COMPUTING SYSTEMS .... 6059
- [NCS@rice.edu]
- [FAX 527-6099]
- Mudd Bldg.
- Farrell Gerbode, Director ............... 4988
- [FARRELL@rice.edu]
- Mark R. Williamson, Assistant to the
- Director for Technical Affairs ...... 4987
- [MARK@rice.edu]
- Charles A. Richard, Manager, Computer and
- Network Operations .................. 4981
- [CARICH@rice.edu]
- Richard A. Schafer, Manager, Network and
- Systems Support ..................... 4984
- [SCHAFER@rice.edu]
-
- Since the Departmental Directory is served out using WAIS keyword
- indexes, a user doesn't have to know an exact organizational name
- to look something up: a shred of information, like the name of a
- building or one of the faculty members or supervisors, is enough to
- summon up the whole listing. (Unfortunately it doesn't extend down
- to level of non-supervisory grunts like me. :-) )
-
- -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
- -- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems
- -- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327
- -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
-