A Library WWW Browser

[Steven C. Perkins]

I believe that WILLOW from the Univ of Washington may be a better platform
for development.  It already supports Z39.50.

SC Perkins

At 01:12 PM 12/17/95 -0800, you wrote:
>There has been a lot of on again, off again discussion,on various lists, of
>requests for a Web Browser that could be configured/disabled/kiosked to
>meet the (various) differing needs of the library community.
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>What I always wonder is has anyone done a serious needs analysis & data
>gathering exercise, applied for funding and/or approached a Browser
>developer about producing such a client. (and I don't mean asking net$cape
>if you can mess with their code)
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>I think LYNX is a good start in the non Graphical environment, moderately
>configurable, seemingly secure for the UNIX/VMS environment and a good
>investment - its free - for anyone with lots of VT's {and I'm sure there
>still lots of us;-}.
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>Of course everyone wants a Graphical Browser (and lots of people seem to
>think that Net$cape is it). To me it seems that NCSA Mosaic is a good
>target for getting funding for them to develop an application (which I feel
>could be the "Killer App" for Libraries;-). I understand they have done
>great work in enabling Mosaic for Vision Impaired, its available on the
>major platforms, and its free.
>
>Sure it may not do HTTPS or JAVA, or let server Push occur but how long do
>Pop Up Books last in a childrens Library, and are they are core business?
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>And what about Library Automation Vendors, is your vendor developing a
>WWW/Z39.50/PAC intergrated product, or have they already got one, and how
>secure/suitable is that.
>
>my tuppence.
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>(an afterthought I just read in an old (paper) BYTE 20(11) p64 about Hyper-G.
> My reading of the article struck me that it has much more potential for us
> Libraries than $UNs JAVA , especially in its indexing/managing of data - but
> then I don't really know what Java could do in a library, but I also think
> Libraries should collect/mirror resources as well as use remote resources. )
>
>Cross posted to Pacs-L & Web4Lib
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>     Paul Sutherland                   sutherlandp at ccc.govt.nz
>     Canterbury Public Library
>     Aotearoa/New Zealand              http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/
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>My opinion only...
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