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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:06:57 -0600
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
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Subject: Scout Report -- March 6, 1998
The Scout Report
March 6, 1998
Volume 4, Number 44
Internet Scout Project
University of Wisconsin
Department of Computer Sciences
== I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K
====== New From Internet Scout
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering, Addition to the Scout
Toolkit
====== Research and Education
2. The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
3. GrantsNet--HHMI and AAAS
4. Powering a Generation of Change--SI
5. The Tobacco Resolution
6. Celebrating Women's History Resource Center--Gale Research
7. A Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology
8. The Ada Information Clearinghouse
9. ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website
====== General Interest
10. State-level Casualty Lists from the Korean Conflict (1951-57)--NARA
11. 9th National People's Congress (NPC) & Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
12. Great '98 Backyard Bird Count
13. National Governors' Association State-of-the-State Addresses
14. CNN Audio Select
15. The Myth of the Melting Pot--_Washington Post_
16. National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds
====== Network Tools
17. "Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry"--US
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
18. "Weaving a Better Web"--_Byte_
19. Astound WebMotion--Animation Tool
====== Where They Are Now
20. Volume 1, Number 44, March 3, 1995
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====== New From Internet Scout ====
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering, Addition to the Scout
Toolkit
Scout Report for Science & Engineering
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/
End User's Corner--March 1998
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/enduser/
The twelfth issue of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering is
available. It annotates over twenty new and newly discovered Internet
resources in the physical & life sciences and engineering. The In the
News section annotates five resources related to a _Scientific American_
special report on the future of oil. The March 1998 End User's Corner,
Was Ranganathan a Yahoo!?, discusses the relationship of the
classification scheme of the famed Indian librarian S. R. Ranganathan
and Yahoo!. [JS]
====== Research and Education ====
2. The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [frames]
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/
Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
Library, this site contains three electronic text resources of interest
to scholars and educators. The first and most important of these is a
recently released collection of the first 49 volumes (1948-96) of the
Society's _Studies in Bibliography_, "a virtual encyclopedia of
scholarly work on the history of books and editing over the past 50
years." The volumes are offered individually and as a full-text
searchable database. The second resource, Shakespearean Prompt-Books, is
an eight-volume collection of studies of the stage texts used in various
seventeenth-century performances of Shakespeare's plays; the plays are
also available individually or as a searchable database. The third
resource, Attributions of Authorship in the _Gentleman's Magazine_,
1731-1868, is a searchable database containing well over 5,000
attributions of authorship for this popular magazine. Additional
resources at the site include information on the Society and related
links. [MD]
3. GrantsNet--HHMI and AAAS
http://www.grantsnet.org/
This new database is the result of a collaboration between the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. The database allows users to search for
available grants in the biological and medical sciences. Users can
narrow their grant search by specifying training level, type of
application (individual or institution), or research area. More than 20
research areas are included in the database. Registration is required to
use the database and to receive the email updates on new grants, but it
is free. The New Awards section on the front page can be viewed without
registering. [KH]
4. Powering a Generation of Change--SI [frames]
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/csr/powering/
Powering a Generation of Change is a Smithsonian Institution
documentation project that is a response to the coming deregulation of
the electric power industry in the United States and Canada. The site is
interesting almost as much for its information on electricity and the
history of electric power regulation, as for its information explaining
deregulation and its societal impacts. One of the highlights of the site
is the Visions of Power section, with in-depth interviews with Joseph P.
Kearney of US Generating, Andre Caille of Hydro-Quebec, and William T.
McCormick, Jr. of CMS Energy. Visions of Power offers numerous links to
information provided by a variety of participants in the deregulation
debate. The Powering the Past section provides a fascinating tour
through the history of electric power, accompanied by images from
various Smithsonian museums. A large bibliography on electric power is
also available. [JS]
5. The Tobacco Resolution [frames, NetShow Player, WaterMark WebSeries
Viewer, .tiff]
http://www.tobaccoresolution.com/
This site, provided by Media On Demand, Inc., is meant to be an
information clearinghouse on the ongoing tobacco litigation in the US.
The Document Archive section highlights this work in progress; it offers
links to search indexes for tobacco documents from six major companies
or industry-related entities. The first of these documents were released
to the public at the end of last week. Documents are accessible via
various search mechanisms; explanations of search strategies and indexes
should be studied carefully at each of the document sites before
searching. Note that page image legibility varies. The site also
contains a proposed resolution of the litigation, industry news
releases, and industry produced issue briefs, among other resources.
[JS]
6. Celebrating Women's History Resource Center--Gale Research [frames]
http://www.gale.com/gale/cwh/cwhset.html
The 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement is commemorated
with this site by Gale Research. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd
Whitman, Astronaut Shannon Lucid, and US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright are just three of the newer additions to the list of over 60
brief biographies. Educators looking for ways to celebrate Women's
History Month will find sixteen different activities described for
various age groups, including round table discussions, public awareness
campaigns, and reading. The Trials section provides background on ten
trials of historical significance to women in the United States.
Visitors can also test their women's history IQ in a 20-question quiz or
scroll through a timeline of key events in women's history. [AG]
7. A Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology
http://epidem13.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/~js/glossary/course-glossary.html
Maintained by postdoctoral researcher Jonathan Swinton of the University
of Cambridge's (UK) department of Plant Sciences, this site contains
cross referenced definitions of hundreds of terms from acquired immunity
to zoonosis. It is loosely based on the glossary by Watt, Dobson, et al,
in _Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations_. Sleek in
design and spare but concise in definition, this is a useful site for
anyone interested in quick reference to information on ecological
epidemiology. [JS]
8. The Ada Information Clearinghouse
http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/
The Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC), sponsored by the Ada Joint
Program Office, provides a large amount of current, useful information
about the Ada programming language. Information offered includes a
quarterly electronic publication about Ada, a searchable database of on-
and off-line Ada resources, an annotated database of Ada products and
tools, recent Ada news, and lots more. While sometimes slow to process
queries, the numerous search interfaces provide a handy alternative to
the clear, hierarchical structure of the site. The information provided
tends toward the industrial user, but there is still plenty to engage
people ranging from Ada novices to those interested in software
engineering or compiler design. [CL]
9. ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website
http://www.enterweb.org/
ENTERWeb, provided by Jean-Claude Lorin of the Canadian International
Development Agency, is an annotated and rated metasite concerning small
and medium sized enterprise development in both developed and developing
countries. Sites are listed in 24 topical categories including
entrepreneurship, incubators, and microcredit. They are available
geographically or via an alphabetical index. Though small for a
metasite, each of the several hundred resources is carefully annotated
and rated from average to outstanding (rating criteria or process is not
given). Resources include both original content and other metasites.
Users can view the site in English or French. [JS]
====== General Interest ====
10. State-level Casualty Lists from the Korean Conflict (1951-57)--NARA
http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/kcas.html
The Center for Electronic Records of the US National Archives and
Records Administration (discussed in the June 10, 1994 Scout Report--
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/6-10-94.html) provides
this set of US casualty lists from the Korean Conflict. The list covers
"persons who died as a result of hostilities in Korea, 1950-57,
including those who died while missing or captured." CER has created
state casualty lists from the larger list. The lists can be browsed by
state, and then alphabetically by last name or "'home of record,' as
identified by the serviceman upon last entrance into military service."
Army casualties list home of record by county within state. The other
three branches of the military list by city/town within state. Each
record contains the soldier's name, rank, branch of service, home
city/town or county, state, date of death, and cause of death. At
present the database contains 33,642 names. Unfortunately, the list is
not searchable at this time. [JS]
11. 9th National People's Congress (NPC) & Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC) [frames]
http://www.china.com/npc/english/index.html
Chinese version:
http://www.china.com/npc/index.html
China Internet Corporation and the Xinhua News Agency provide coverage
of the 9th NPC and CPPCC. At the site, users can find news coverage of
the Congress, explanations of both the NPC and CPPCC, and a photo
archive. The NPC is China's "highest organ of state power and a
unicameral legislature." The CPPCC is an "institution for multi-party
cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the
Communist Party of China." [JS]
12. Great '98 Backyard Bird Count
http://birdsource.cornell.edu/Great'98/index.html
During the weekend of February 20-22, 1998, thousands of birders
participated in the first-ever simultaneously recorded (via Internet)
continent-wide back yard bird count. A massive effort co-sponsored by
Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon
Society, the Great '98 Bird Count's goal is to "provide a detailed
picture of how bird populations compare region-by-region, as counted by
ordinary citizens at the time of year when most migratory birds are just
getting ready to head back north from their wintering grounds." The site
contains summary data on the number of observers reporting (by postal
code, state, and hour), the total number of birds recorded (by species),
and--of greatest value--color maps of species distributions (including
all locations surveyed). In addition, 10-year trends from Project Feeder
Watch are provided for comparison. Note that "raw data" maps and
summaries are currently being added to provide immediate access to data;
charts have not yet been checked for accuracy. [LXP]
13. National Governors' Association State-of-the-State Addresses
http://www.nga.org/Releases/1998sos.htm
The US National Governors Association provides a wonderful value added
service in this site, a one stop shopping source for 41
State-of-the-State messages that were given in January and February
1998. Analysis of the general themes of the speeches, along with the
states that emphasized those themes (see "Bold Vision for the Future")
is available. While the addresses are, in some measure, pep talks and
partisan rationalizations of policy, they also provide a microcosm of
economic and social trends in America. [JS]
14. CNN Audio Select [frames, NetShow, RealPlayer]
http://cnn.com/audioselect/help.html
The Cable News Network and AudioNet (discussed in the March 15, 1996
Scout Report--
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-960315.html#13) have
collaborated to provide live audio news feeds of five of CNN's program
offerings. Via NetShow or RealPlayer streaming audio, users can listen
to CNN, _CNN Headline News_, _CNN International_, _CNN/SI_ (discussed in
the July 18, 1997 Scout Report--
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-970718.html#11), and
_CNN en Espanol_ (Spanish Language news for Latin America). Selected on
demand reports from CNN radio are forthcoming. [JS]
15. The Myth of the Melting Pot--_Washington Post_
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/meltin
gpot.htm
The _Washington Post_ has recently launched this site, which will be the
home for a series of occasional articles about racial and ethnic
divisions in the US. The first article in the series, "One Nation,
Indivisible: Is it History?" by William Booth, is currently featured.
The article discusses the "second great wave of immigration" into
America, which greatly differs from the first wave of European
immigration in that it is mostly fueled by Asian and Latin American
immigrants. The site contains selected ethnic shift graphs and charts, a
link to a _WP_ article on US immigration policy, and a link to selected
US Census data. [JS]
16. National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds
http://www.opportunitynocs.org/
The Management Center of San Francisco, California provides this site,
the web counterpart of a weekly jobs and information publication by the
same name. The heart of the site is an interactive nonprofit job search.
Jobs can be searched by region, state (although not all states are
represented), or keyword. Job postings contain job descriptions and
application information. Users can also view job postings made in the
last week, two weeks, or month. In addition, briefly annotated links to
information about the nonprofit sector are available. Note that while
the job searching is free, there is a fee for organizations who wish to
post nonprofit jobs. [JS]
====== Network Tools ====
17. "Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry"--US
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Committee
http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/wlfulm3.htm
C|net Radio [RealPlayer]
http://www.news.com/Radio/Features/0,155,149,0.html
On March 3, 1998, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill
Gates, Sun Microsystems President and CEO Scott McNealy, Netscape
Communications President and CEO Jim Barksdale, Dell Computer Chairman,
President and CEO Michael Dell, Great Plains Software Chairman,
President and CEO Doug Burgum, and New Enterprise Associates Venture
Partner Stewart Alsop testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee
in a hearing on "Market Power and Structural Change in the Software
Industry." Interested Internauts can make their own analyses of this
much publicized hearing at these two sites. The first is the official
Senate Judiciary Committee site, and contains transcripts of the
prepared testimony of the six witnesses, along with statements by
Senator Orrin G. Hatch and Patrick J. Leahy. C|net (discussed in the
July 28, 1995 Scout Report--
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-950728.html#CLNET)
provides the second site, which contains RealPlayer versions of the
statements and testimony as well as the questioning by Senate Judiciary
members. The files are conveniently split for ease of locating testimony
of interest. [JS]
18. "Weaving a Better Web"--_Byte_
http://www.byte.com/art/9803/sec5/sec5.htm
The cover story of _Byte_'s March 1998 issue contains several articles
on the future of web publishing techniques. The articles begin with the
proposition that Hyptertext Markup Language (HTML) is no longer able to
keep up with the development of dynamic web content. They then discuss
the future of web markup, with particular emphasis on the advantages of
the newly emerging Extensible Markup Language (XML). Examples are
provided. [JS]
19. Astound WebMotion--Animation Tool
http://www.astound.com/products2/webmotion/webmotion.html
Astound WebMotion offers an easy means to create animated gifs and
interactive Java powered animations with sound. There is no need for
programming knowledge or a browser plug-in, although viewers must use
Java enabled browsers (Netscape Navigator 2.01+ or Internet Explorer
2.0+). A trial version of WebMotion is available. Included in the
download are a library of animations and clip art. Since there is no
real tutorial or quickstart guide, these ready-made animations offer
users an easy way to familiarize themselves with the program. The Mac
version of WebMotion requires QuickTime 2.5 for importing graphics.
WebMotion is a commercial product of Astound, Inc. and is available for
Macintosh and Windows 3.1/95. [TB]
====== Where They Are Now ====
20. Volume 1, Number 44, March 3, 1995
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-950303.html
CIC Electronic Journals Collection
http://ejournals.cic.net/
This Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big Ten universities plus
the University of Chicago) gopher site was announced in the March 3,
1995 Scout Report. At the time, this e-journal collection was just
beginning, and was specifically designed to be distinct from an already
existing (and now defunct) e-serials collection. It attempts to track
all free scholarly ejournals. Accessible via title or subject browsing,
as well as searching, the collection (which is cataloged by CIC member
libraries) today contains nearly 150 journals in seventeen topics. Both
the level of cataloging and the fact that this is a free full text
academic e-journal clearinghouse are the heart of this site's sustained
value. [JS]
====== ====
== Index for March 6, 1998 ==
==== ======
1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering, Addition to the Scout
Toolkit
Scout Report for Science & Engineering
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/
End User's Corner--March 1998
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/enduser/
2. The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [frames]
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/
3. GrantsNet--HHMI and AAAS
http://www.grantsnet.org/
4. Powering a Generation of Change--SI [frames]
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/csr/powering/
5. The Tobacco Resolution [frames, NetShow Player, WaterMark WebSeries
Viewer, .tiff]
http://www.tobaccoresolution.com/
6. Celebrating Women's History Resource Center--Gale Research [frames]
http://www.gale.com/gale/cwh/cwhset.html
7. A Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology
http://epidem13.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/~js/glossary/course-glossary.html
8. The Ada Information Clearinghouse
http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/
9. ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website
http://www.enterweb.org/
10. State-level Casualty Lists from the Korean Conflict (1951-57)--NARA
http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/kcas.html
11. 9th National People's Congress (NPC) & Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC) [frames]
http://www.china.com/npc/english/index.html
Chinese version:
http://www.china.com/npc/index.html
12. Great '98 Backyard Bird Count
http://birdsource.cornell.edu/Great'98/index.html
13. National Governors' Association State-of-the-State Addresses
http://www.nga.org/Releases/1998sos.htm
14. CNN Audio Select [frames, NetShow, RealPlayer]
http://cnn.com/audioselect/help.html
15. The Myth of the Melting Pot--_Washington Post_
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/meltin
gpot.htm
16. National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds
http://www.opportunitynocs.org/
17. "Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry"--US
Senate Committee on the Judiciary"
Senate Judiciary Committee
http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/wlfulm3.htm
C|net Radio [RealPlayer]
http://www.news.com/Radio/Features/0,155,149,0.html
18. "Weaving a Better Web--_Byte_
http://www.byte.com/art/9803/sec5/sec5.htm
19. Astound WebMotion--Animation Tool
http://www.astound.com/products2/webmotion/webmotion.html
20. Volume 1, Number 44, March 3, 1995
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-950303.html
CIC Electronic Journals Collection
http://ejournals.cic.net/
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