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WAIS Bibliography

8/11/93


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Hard copies of most of the following documents are available.  Some
documents are available electronically, as stated, but might not contain
figures in the ascii version.
Email, fax, mail or phone your name, address, email and phone number to:
WAIS Inc, 1040 Noel Drive, Menlo Park, CA, 94025,
phone: 415-327-WAIS, fax: [phone], email:  [e-mail]
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WAIS Inc. Documents
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WAIS Server and WAIS Workstation Technical Description, Release 1.0, July,
1993.  Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-inc-doc/[e-mail]

WAIS Inc. Releases New Network Publishing Software, April 29, 1993, Press
Release announcing WAIS Inc. and its products.

WAIS Inc. Price List, April 1993.

WAIS Inc. & SUN Microsystems to market WAIS technology, April 29, 1993,
Press Release announcing partnership with SUN Microsystems.

WAIS Inc. Question and Answer, March 1993.

WAIS Inc. Company Story, March 1993.

Interfaces for Distributed Systems of Information Servers, Brewster Kahle,
Harry Morris, Jonathan Goldman (Thinking Machines  Corporation), Thomas
Erickson (Apple Computer), John Curran (NSF Network Service Center), March,
1992. (formally named "Interfaces for Wide Area Information Servers")
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-inc-doc/[e-mail]
or WAIS server wais-discussion-archives.src

An Executive Information System for Unstructured Files: Wide Area
Information Servers, Brewster Kahle, Harry Morris, Franklin Davis, Kevin
Teine, Clare Hart, Robin Palmer.  November, 1991.  Description of the Peat
Marwick experiment, similar to the paper in Online below.  Also in
Electronic Networking, a Meckler publication, Spring 1992, pp.59-68.

An Information System for Corporate Users: Wide Area Information Servers,
Brewster Kahle, April, 1991. Thinking Machines technical report TMC-199.
Also in ONLINE Magazine August 1991. Report on the system constructed for
Peat Marwick and other corporate users.  Has screen shots of WAIStation.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-inc-doc/[e-mail] or WAIS server
wais-docs.src

WAIS Bibliography, WAIS Inc, August, 1993.  (This list).
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-inc-doc/[e-mail] or
WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src

Wide Area Information Servers Concepts, Brewster Kahle,
November, 1989.
Early draft of paper outlining how a Wide Area Information System
could grow.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-inc-doc/[e-mail] or WAIS
server wais-docs.src

Brief Description of WAIS Sources, Chris Christoff, November 1992.
A brief description of the content of many WAIS sources on the Internet,
grouped into relevant categories.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail] or WAIS server
wais-discussion-archive.src


WAIS articles & publications
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Pointing finger, WAIS at Internet addresses, MacWEEK, Jeff Ubois, May 28,
1993, pp42&44.

WAIS Offers Publishing Products, Open Systems Today, Paul Kapustka, May 10,
1993, pp13.

Unix servers distribute on-line information, Info World, Cheryl Gerber, May
3, 1993, pp6.

Info Access Plan Promises Power to Fed Users, Federal Computer Week,
Jennifer Jones, March 29, 1993, pp1&41.

A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services, New York Times, John Markoff,
February 28, 1993.

Good-bye, Dewey Decimals, Forbes Magazine, David Churbuck, February 15,
1993, pp204-205.

Internet Retrieval Tools Go on Market, Network World, Ellen Messmer,
February 15, 1993, pp29 & 77.

Federal Information on the Internet, Anna Keller, Library of Congress,
February, 1993.

Internet of the Future may be a One-Stop Information Shop, MacWEEK, Margie
Wylie, January 25, 1993, pp22&24.

Index Everything, Share It Companywide with WAIS, MacWEEK, Daniel P. Dern,
October 26, 1992, pp24-25.

Help is on the WAIS, American Libraries, M. Lukanuski, October 1992,
pp742-744.
Feature article with some pros and cons of the WAIS protocol from the
library community point of view.

Information - the Commodity of the Future, Merit/NSFNET Link Letter
Newsletter, Merit/NSFNET Information Services, September/October 1992.
Follow-up to above article, explaining how Merit/NSFNET is utilizing the
different information services available.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

Identifying and Describing Federal Information Inventory/Locator Systems:
Design for Networked-Based Locators, Charles R. McClure, Joe Ryan, and
William E. Moen, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, August
25, 1992, volume 1.

A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches, M. Schwartz, A.
Emtage, B. Kahle, B.C. Neuman, August 1992.  Paper to appear in Computing
Systems 5(4), 1992.
In-Depth overview and comparison of current Internet information systems.
Postscript copy available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

WAIS: The Wide Area Information Server or Anonymous What???, Peter
Marshall, June 18, 1992.
Describes and details the implementation of WAIS at the University of
Western Ontario.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

Personal Computing: Collective Dynabases, Communications of the ACM, Larry
Press, June 1992, pp26-32.
Overview of WAIS and commercial projects.

WAIS: A New Development in Information Services, MIT I/S Newsletter, T.
MacRae and S. Jones, June, 1992.
Overview of WAIS by the Network Services and Publication Services at MIT.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

WAIS: Wide Area Information Servers, Information Intelligence Inc., George
S. Machovec, March 1992, pp1-5.
Overview of WAIS from a librarian perspective.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

WAIS - Making it Easier to Access Internet Resources, Merit/NSFNET Link
Letter newsletter, Brewster Kahle, March/April 1992.  Overview of WAIS.
(reprinted from CERFnet News, Volume 3 Number 6)
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]

WAIS: Is It the Lotus 1-2-3 of the Internet?, Communications Week, Carl
Malamud, March 16, 1992, pp17.
Brief article of WAIS on the Internet.

Where There's a Will, There's a WAIS, Digital Media - A Seybold Report,
Denise Caruso, February 17, 1992, pp5-6.
Article touching on several issues of wais, such as protocol,
client/server relationship, "for pay" servers, and legal issues.

The Reading Room, Digital Media - A Seybold Report, Brewster Kahle,
February 17, 1992, pp7-8.
Essay on the controversy between private ownership of information and
public access to information.

The Promise of the WAIS Protocol, UNIX Today!, Jason Levitt,
December 9, 1991, pp44, 47-48.
Article describing the freeware release.

The Global Village Starts with WAIS, Tomaso Poggio, December 1991,
Overview of WAIS in Italian.

Network to Unite Data Bases, San Jose Mercury News, John
Markoff, July 21, 1991, pp1F.
Rewriting of the "For the PC User, Vast Libraries," New York Times
article with emphasis on Apple component.

For Shakespeare, Just Log On, New York Times, John Markoff,
July 3, 1991, ppC1.
Overview of WAIS Internet experiment.

Browsing Through Terabytes, Byte Magazine, Richard Stein, May
1991, pp157-164.
Readable article on what a large WAIS system looks like.

WAIS Promises Easy Text Retrieval, MacWEEK, Henry Norr, May
14, 1991, pg22.
Report on the Peat Marwick WAIS system.

Release 1.0, Release 1.0, Esther Dyson, April 1991, entire issue.
In-depth article on commercial systems and protocols, featuring
WAIS.  (Hardcopy copies available from: EDventure Holdings, 375 Park Ave.,
New York, NY 10152; [phone])
Anonymous FTP:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]
WAIS server: wais-discussion-archives.src

Designing a Desktop Information System: Observations and Issues,
Thomas Erickson & Gitta Salomon, Apple Computer.  Human Factors in
Computing Systems, CHI '91 Conference Proceedings  (pp49-54) April 1991,
New Orleans. New York: ACM, 1991.
Early paper on the Apple interface for WAIS.

An Analysis of the Effects of Data Corruption on Text Retrieval
Performance, S. Smith, C. Stanfill, December 1988.  Thinking Machines
Corporation technical report TMC-68.

Z39.50 & WAIS Protocol
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Z39.50-1988: Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol
Specification for Library Applications.  National Information Standards
Organization (Z39), P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20817.  [phone].
Available from Document Center, Belmont, CA.  Telephone [phone].

Z39.50-1992 Version 2 Final Text, July 1992.  Working copy of the latest
Z39.50 implementors group.  National Information Standards Organization
(Z39), P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20817.  [phone].  Available from
Transitions, 908-932-2280.

Z39.50-1991 Version 2, May 1991.  Electronic version of the working copy of
the Z39.50 implementors group.  Anonymous FTP:
/pub/protocol/[e-mail] or WAIS server wais-docs.

Z39.50-1992 Version 3, Draft 7, June 1993.  Electronic version of the
working copy of the Z39.50 implementors group.  Anonymous FTP:
/pub/protocol/[e-mail].

The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol: An Overview and Status Report,
Clifford Lynch, Computer Communication Review ACM SIGCOMM Introduction to
the protocol of WAIS.

The Z39.50 Protocol in Plain English, Clifford Lynch.  Fall 1992.
Available via anonymous ftp:
/pub/protocol/[e-mail]

Electronic Services
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[e-mail]: Bi-weekly digest of mail from users and
developers on Electronic Publishing (includes all wais-interest postings).
Requests to [e-mail].
Anonymous FTP access to archives:
/pub/mail-archives/wais-discussion/issue-*@wais.com

[e-mail]: interactive list of developers.  A couple
notes a day.  Requests to [e-mail].  Archives
are available on WAIS server wais-talk-archives.src

comp.infosystems.wais: a netnews discussion group on WAIS issues.  All
postings to [e-mail] go to that group as well.

Z3950iw: Z39.50 Implementors list for low level discussions of protocol
details. Requests to [e-mail]

Freeware Servers:

        NeXT:   /pub/freeware/next/*@ftp.wais.com
        RS6000: /pub/freeware/rs6000/*@ftp.wais.com
        SGI:    /pub/freeware/sgi/*@ftp.wais.com
        Source Code:/pub/freeware/unix-src/wais-8-*[e-mail]
        SUN:    /pub/freeware/sun/*@ftp.wais.com

Freeware Clients:

        Mac:    by Harry Morris, WAIS Inc.
                /pub/freeware/mac/wais-for-mac*@ftp.wais.com
        by Francois Schiettecatte
        /pub/freeware/mac/WAISBrowser*@ftp.wais.com

        WINDOWS: by Tim Gauslin, USGS
                /pub/freeware/windows/wnwais*[e-mail]
                                or
                by Kevin Gamiel, MCNC CNIDR
                /pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/[e-mail]

        XWAIS:  by Jonathan Goldman, Thinking Machines
                Corporation
                /pub/freeware/unix-src/wais-8-*[e-mail]

        DOS:    by Jim Fullton, University of North Carolina
                /pub/wais/DOS/*@sunsite.unc.edu   or
                /pub/tcpip/[e-mail]

    Mac Hypercard:
        by Francois Schiettecatte
        /pub/freeware/mac/HyperWais*@ftp.wais.com
        /pub/freeware/mac/JFIFBrowser*@ftp.wais.com

        EMail:  by Jonathan Goldman, Thinking Machines

                Corporation
                send message to [e-mail],
                        "search <source-name> {keywords}" or
                         "retrieve DOCID" (DOCID as returned by a search)


        OS2:    by Kevin Oliveau of WAIS Inc., Julie Mills and the
                            Library of Congress
                /pub/freeware/os2/*@ftp.wais.com

        Telnet access:  telnet quake.think.com login wais,
        (uses SWAIS)            password user@host

        SWAIS:  by John Curran, BBN
                /pub/freeware/unix-src/wais-8-*[e-mail]

        NeXT:   by Paul Burchard, University of Utah
                /pub/freeware/next/*@ftp.wais.com

        GWAIS:  by Jonathan Goldman, Thinking Machines
                Corporation
        (Gnu Emacs)/pub/freeware/unix-src/wais-8-*[e-mail]

        Openlook: by Simon Spero, University of North Carolina
                /pub/freeware/open-look/*@ftp.wais.com

        VMS:    by Jim Fullton, University of North Carolina
                /pub/wais/vms/*@sunsite.unc.edu

        SunView: /pub/wais/sunview/*@sunsite.unc.edu

        IBM Mainframe:  by Tim Gauslin, USGS
                 /pub/freeware/ibm-mvs/*@ftp.wais.com

WAIS Videos
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Special Interest Group on Wide Area Information Servers: Conference held
March 19, 1993, Open-File Report 93-252, United States Geological Survey
video on WAIS, VHS videotape $20.  Send orders to Book and Open-File Report
Sales, USGS, Federal Center, Box 25286, MS 306, Denver, Colorado, 80225.

Wide Area Information Servers Class: Indexer and Server, Open-File Report
93-253, United States Geological Survey video on WAIS, VHS videotape 2-tape
set $40.  Send orders to Book and Open-File Report Sales, USGS, Federal
Center, Box 25286, MS 306, Denver, Colorado, 80225.

Macintosh demostration screen-movie: Steve Cisler put together a short
screen-recorder movie for seeing some of what WAIStation does.
Available via anonymous FTP:
/pub/wais-doc/[e-mail]


Internet Information
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The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, Ed Krol, O'Reilly & Associates,
Inc, 1992. (Chapter 12 entitled "Searching indexed databases: WAIS")

Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue, Carl Malamud, Prentice
Hall, 1992.

Internet access providers in the United States,  The general types of
services they provide, and how to contact them. From Chapter 4 of the book,
"Internet: Getting Started".  For more information about "Internet :
Getting Started", contact SRI International at 415-859-3695,
[e-mail].

Internet access providers outside the United States.  From Chapter 7 of the
book, "Internet: Getting Started".  For more information about "Internet :
Getting Started", contact SRI International at 415-859-3695,
[e-mail].

Public Dialup Internet Access List (PDIAL), February 1993.  A list of
public access service providers offering dialup access to outgoing Internet
connections such as FTP and telnet.  Available by sending email to
"[e-mail]", with the message subject "send PDIAL".

Other services that can gateway to WAIS services:
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Gopher
by the University of Minnesota
Via anonymous ftp:
/pub/[e-mail]

World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
Via anonymous ftp:
/pub/www/[e-mail]

Freeware Information
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For information on WAIS freeware or the Clearinghouse of Networked
Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR), contact Jane Smith at
[e-mail] or 919-248-9213.  The director of the freeware is
George Brett at [e-mail] or 919-962-1000.
.