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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:42:05 CDT
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- From: Hal Bloom <hal@UCHICAGO.EDU>
- Subject: Internet Access to Vatican Exhibit at LC (answer)
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Thanks to Marti Scheel of the US Postal Service Library for answering my
- question regarding internet access to the text and images of the Vatican
- Library exhibit at the Library of Congress. For those of you who might
- also be interested, here's how to do it and what I discovered:
-
- FTP (anonymous) to seq1.loc.gov, do a cd to pub, and then to vatican.exhibit.
- The directory and file names on this machine are fairly self-explanitory.
- Get the README file first--that contains info helpful in navigating the
- directory structure.
-
- Each section of the exhibit (ie, subdirectory) contains both a text file
- describing the exhibits and files of the images themselves. The images are
- stored in JPEG format, so the file type must be set to binary before
- retrieving them. There is a directory which contains various JPEG viewers
- for the MS/DOS world. I'm a Mac user, and there are also JPEG viewers for
- the Mac (though not available on seq1 as far as I can tell).
-
- While accessing these images is not a seamless process, and it takes a
- while for my Mac IIci to uncompress the images for display, the ability to
- access this exhibit from a networked Mac in Chicago gives a nice indication
- of what life in an internetworked world will be as improvements are made in
- hardware and software. It's also interesting that the best network
- navigation tool is still asking the "human network" -- I don't know how I
- might have discovered the information through WAIS, Gopher or WWW.
-
-
- Hal Bloom Associate Director for Shared Systems and Network Services
- Academic and Public Computing
- hal@uchicago.edu University of Chicago
-