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- From: ullmer@uiuc.edu (Brygg Ullmer)
- Subject: Wavelet Information available through Gopher
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:33:58 GMT
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- Wavelet Information available through Gopher
-
- The Gopher server of the University of South Carolina Department of
- Mathematics has been extended to hold a collection of Wavelet information.
- Currently, this information includes papers, programs, source code, and
- USENET messages pertaining to Wavelet theory, as well as an interactive
- search service for Wavelet references and archives of the Wavelet Digest.
-
- 1. What is Gopher?
-
- Gopher is a distributed-information system developed at the University of
- Minnesota. It consists of both information servers at institutions spanning
- the globe, and client programs used by individuals to access and navigate
- this data. Gopher has been designed to be easy-to-use; it is menu-based,
- and most information can be retrieved using only the cursor keys. Another
- major feature of Gopher is the seamless access it brings to distributed
- information located on remote Gopher, anonymous FTP, WAIS, WWW, or other
- services. For more information on Gopher, check out the Gopher Information
- items on most Gopher services, the information via anonymous FTP on
- boombox.micro.umn.edu in directory /pub/gopher, or the alt.gopher and
- comp.infosystems.gopher USENET newsgroups and the Frequently Asked Questions
- posting on Gopher in news.answers.
-
- 2. Accessing the USC-Math Gopher service.
-
- Gopher is growing rapidly in popularity on the Internet; as a result, there
- is a good chance your local computer system may already have a client
- compiled. If your site already possesses a Gopher client (check with your
- system administrator), type
-
- gopher bigcheese.math.scarolina.edu
-
- Within a few seconds, you should find yourself at the USC Dept. of
- Mathematics Gopher service; use the cursor keys to select "Wavelet
- information" on the menu (currently item 14), and explore the information
- offerings of the service as you please; the cursor keys can be used to
- navigate the system.
-
- If your site *doesn't* currently possess a Gopher client, the Wavelet Gopher
- service may be anonymously accessed using the Telnet program. Type
-
- telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu
-
- and login as "gopher" (case is important). After logging in, you will find
- yourself at the Gopher server of the University of Minnesota. To reach the
- University of South Carolina Gopher server, choose "Other Gopher and
- Information Servers" from the main menu, then servers in "North America."
- Choose the "University of South Carolina, Dept. of Mathematics" from the
- list of servers; currently, we're number 71 or so, but this changes as new
- servers become available. If you have difficulties reaching Gopher with the
- above instructions, ask your local system administrator for assistance, or
- contact Brygg Ullmer as ullmer@math.scarolina.edu.
-
- If you would like to obtain the Gopher client for installation upon your
- system, it is available via anonymous FTP from boombox.micro.umn.edu in
- directory /pub/gopher. Versions of Gopher are currently available for Unix,
- VMS, NeXT, Macintosh, IBM PC-compatible, and other computer systems.
-
- 3. The Wavelet Reference Database.
-
- A feature of the Wavelet information on the USC Gopher service is a database
- of Wavelet references. Currently the references are accessible in two
- forms. Individual reference lists from various individuals or papers are
- available in their original formats; however, more powerful access is
- provided through the local WAIS search engine. With the WAIS facilities,
- references and abstracts (when available) are processed to yield a master
- full-text index for all citations available, regardless of format. This
- index can be queried using either keywords or full natural-language
- requests. Documents containing the specified words are ranked on the
- basis keyword proximity, frequency, and other factors, and listed in order
- of the strength of search matches.
-
- 4. If you have references or papers to contribute...
-
- If you have a reference list to literature concerning Wavelets that you'd be
- willing to contribute, we'd be happy to add it to our database and credit
- you as its source. Mail any such lists with the subject "submit" to
- wavelet@math.scarolina.edu; BibTeX format is preferable but not necessary.
- If abstracts for your references are readily available, please include those
- as well... this will allow more accurate selection of articles and will be
- more useful to people viewing references. Additionally, if you have papers
- related to wavelet theory which are online, particularly if these papers are
- available via anonymous FTP, feel free to submit these as well, and they
- will be made publically available through the service as storage space
- permits. If your papers are available via anonymous FTP, please send the
- location of the papers rather than the papers themselves.
-
- 5. Other features of the USC-Math Gopher Service.
-
- In addition to the Wavelet information available on the above-described
- Gopher service, a wide variety of information of more general interest is
- available. Phone directories and libraries of many universities around the
- world are integrated into the service, as well as collections of technical
- reports from many institutions, electronic books from Project Gutenberg and
- the Online Book Initiative, and a wide variety of other electronic texts.
- Throughpoints to major NSF, NASA, NOAA, and other governmental databases are
- also integrated into the system, as well as large collections of Frequently
- Asked Questions lists, search services for USENET newsgroup archives, and
- numerous other bodies of information.
-
- 6. Credits
-
- Gopher has been developed by the University of Minnesota.
-
- WAIS is a freely-distributed product of Thinking Machine Corporation.
-
- Contributions to the Wavelet Reference list have currently been received
- from Akram Aldroubi, Bjorn Jawerth, Christopher Koenigsberg,
- Juhana Kouhia (from a USENET posting), Eero Simoncelli
- (from a USENET posting), Wim Sweldens, and Brygg Ullmer.
-
- The USC-Math Gopher service was developed and is maintained by Brygg Ullmer.
-
-
- Brygg Ullmer (ullmer@math.scarolina.edu / ullmer@uiuc.edu)
- University of South Carolina / University of Illinois
-