Was:Anatomy of a netscam/ Organizing Web Information

[Robert H. Terry]

Well Bob, I will be the first to bite.  The Electronic Library Services & 
Applications Lobby, is at: http://rbse.mountain.net/ELSA/ .  ELSA is a 
library of reusable, public domain software, supported by NASA and 
operated by MountainNet, Inc., which recently took off User 
Authentication.  You can Browse/Search using a variety of ways, all of 
which use matadata stored in an Oracle Database.  We recently included 
nearly 20 Collections for WWW resources (mostly external links).  So come 
on by, and please sign the Guest Book to let us know what you think.

Bob Terry



On Thu, 11 Jul 1996 skindrf1 at teomail.jhuapl.edu wrote:

> I think that Jim Campbell, Laura Cohen and our old friend, Tom, from the
> Buzzards Nest are getting to the point of what we as librarians or information
> specialists are supposed to be doing with these Internet resources and that is
> attempting to organize them for our users.  In our particular case we are doing
> so for a relatively small audience, a university sci/tech laboratory (see http:/
> /lib2.jhuapl.edu/APL/ins/ins.html) while others might have to do for an entire
> university, a state, a republic or whatever.
> 
> I usually try to think of our project, the Information Navigation System or the
> INS as an extension of our library.  In such a scenario the search engines are
> sort of like the opac or the indexes or even the cd-roms, the finding tools,
> but you also need the hard copy stuff, the books and the journals so we have
> both.  When someone uses our system they can use the search engines, most of
> them are in one place and even grouped as to general, by subject or by
> organization, but we also supply them with links to places where strong subject
> resources and locations are already supplied that we have looked at and
> periodically try to check to make sure that they are current.
> 
> I'm glad that this netscam business has come up but now I'd like to see us show
> one another what we or our organization have done with these new internet
> resources and how we are making them useful to our peopleor organizations.  I
> guess what I am looking for is a way to unify the work that we are all doing;
> for example, I grabbed Jim's Western European work and pointed to it from my
> political science section; when SILS introduced their physics, chemistry and
> astronomy reference pages I pointed to them from their respective subject
> pages.  I guess that what I would like to see here on this list is more showing
> off of what we've each done with the full understanding that the other list
> members might very well add it to their resources.  At least we will be
> librarians or whatever we call ourselves helping each other with the
> understanding that some real work/research has gone into what we are displaying
> ---and whatever you do, don't take any money to put someones resource at the
> top.
> 
> C'mon, lets talk about it.
> 
> Bob Skinder
> R.E. Gibson Library and Information Center 
> The Johns Hopkins University 
> Applied Physics Laboratory
> 410-792-6000 ext. 4685
> robert_skinder at jhuapl.edu
> http://lib2.jhuapl.edu/APL/ins/ins.html
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