NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #23/NN_1992_23.iso/spool/triangle/freenet/48

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From: [e-mail] (Judy Hallman)
Subject: Clearinghouse for Networked Info. Discovery & Retrieval (fwd)
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Some of you may be interested in this.

  Judy Hallman
>  ---------------------------- Text of forwarded message -----------------------
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:40:41 -0500
> To: [e-mail]
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: Clearinghouse for Networked Info. Discovery & Retrieval
>
> The Clearinghouse
> for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
>
>
> On October 1, 1992, the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery
> and Retrieval (CNIDR) received a 3-year grant from the National Science
> Foundation (NSF). CNIDR is headquartered at the Center for Communications
> at MCNC in the Research Triangle Park, NC. The Center for Communications
> has provided primary support for the past several months and additional
> initial support has come from Apple Computer, Inc., Digital Equipment
> Corporation, IBM, NeXT, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Office of Information Technology.
>
> Two existing staff members have been actively promoting the use of
> networked information discovery and retrieval tools such as WAIS, gopher,
> archie and WWW at many national and international conferences. CNIDR is
> participating with associations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force
> (IETF), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the Reseaux
> Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne (RARE; the Association of European
> Networking Organizations and their users) to further the development and
> appropriate uses of networked information.
>
> In February, 1992 CNIDR, with funding from NSF, held a successful two-day
> workshop on the topic of WAIS. The Clearinghouse will use the new NSF grant
> to sponsor more workshops, add staff members, and increase its collection,
> classification, and dissemination activities. To keep the Internet
> community informed of its priorities, goals, and projects, CNIDR will use
> as many avenues as possible, including both print and electronic media.
>
> One of the first priorities is to provide pointers to the locations of the
> various flavors of clients and servers for WAIS, gopher, WWW, and other
> similar tools which have been developed for use in the public domain -- and
> we need your help. If you have written a client or server we'd like to hear
> from you. Our immediate goal is to compile an annotated list which
> describes the uniqueness of each tool, attributes the author(s), and
> provides a reliable address from which to ftp or otherwise obtain the tool.
> With the authors' permissions, we would like to gather all the different
> flavors into one or more of our internet-connected computers and offer
> "one-stop shopping" for potential users via anonymous ftp -- and/or other
> servers such as WAIS and gopher as appropriate.
>
> We're also interested in improving the documentation for installing,
> maintaining, and using the tools. If you've written any guides, articles or
> descriptions for your local community -- whether technical or end-user
> oriented -- we'd like to collect and distribute those as well.
>
> Finally, if any of you have suggestions for other Clearinghouse activities
> we'd like to hear from you and consider your suggestions and concerns in
> our planning.
>
> Below is an outline of our general goals. We look forward to serving and
> hearing from you.
>
> -- Promote and support the implementation and use of neworked information
> discovery and retrival (NIDR) applications such as the Wide Area
> Information Server (WAIS), the Internet Gopher, the WorldWide Web, and
> Archie.
>
> -- Coordinate to create consensus among NIDR applications developers to
> ensure compatibility and interoperability.
>
> -- Disseminate information about NIDR applications to the network community
> as well as individuals or organizations active with NIDR applications
> development.
>
>
> For more information about the Clearinghouse contact:
> George Brett, [e-mail] or Jane Smith, [e-mail]
> CNIDR
> Center for Communications - MCNC
> PO Box 12889
> Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889
> tel. [phone] or 919-248-9213
> fax [phone]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jane Smith   [e-mail]
> Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
> Center for Communications - MCNC
> PO Box 12889  3021 Cornwallis Road
> Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2889
>
>