Consortium homepages

[Shirley Kieran]

You may want to investigate Front Page from Vermeer Technologies   
(http://www.vermeer.com).  Their product is supposed to support   
cooperative Web page development in a client/server environment.

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From:  web4lib[SMTP:web4lib at library.berkeley.edu]
Sent:  9 November, 1995 14:32 PM
To:  Multiple recipients of list
Subject:  Consortium homepages

Sometime ago I posted a query about running a homepage for a consortium
(no central server with access available to all).  Our dilemma is how to
manage this in such a way that various members can maintain various
pages, rather than the office staff having to do all the maintainance.
We haven't reached a conclusion, but here is a brief summary of the
responses I received.

Most people suggested using an anonymous ftp site to allow file
exchange.  Several suggested allowing ftp or telnet contribution of files   

to a desktop server.  One of these suggested a Mac program called ftpd.
Others suggested Windows httpdd v1.4c at http://www.city.net/win-httpd/
as a way to do some windows-based networking.  A very simple suggestion
was just to link to locally maintained sites on each institution's web
servers.  Forms with cgi-bin scripts were suggested.  Finally, a program
called Marmot was suggested.  This is a client server product, running on   

all platforms, which is described as a "publishing protocol"
(http://www.pn1.gov:2080/marmot).

If we reacha really elegant, or at least effective, solution, I'll post
the details.


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