Nice Web tool...

[Anna Gagliardi]

perhaps a more advanced tool developed at the Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, is a database management/Internet publishing system called HIREx, which is partly based on java programming. 

this system allows entire databases of people and resources (including Internet resources) to be published to the web. when using one of these inventories, you can follow links to particular web sites...this initiates a separate web browser session...in order to return to the place you left off in the inventory, just shut down that particular browser session. 

another benefit of using this system, is that web pages can be created using hypertext links that are validated by the publishing system. therefore, if a particular hot link occurs several times throughout a web site, and that URL changes, the web manager need not alter the HTML code for each page, rather, the URL within a single HIREx record must be changed, and then each of those hot links is automatically correct. 

to check out the system, go to the main web page for the Health Information Research Unit, http://hiru.mcmaster.ca, and choose Inventory, or follow a link to any of the project pages (which all use HIREx), and then click on Inventory. 

a. gagliardi

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From: 	Walt Crawford[SMTP:BR.WCC at RLG.ORG]
Sent: 	Friday, January 10, 1997 12:54 PM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: Nice Web tool...

Jim Jones writes about a HotWired site...
>If you click on a link, instead of merely following the link, it will open a
>new browser to that link's page.  That way, when you are done with the page, you
>can just close it to get back to the tool instead of having to backtrack  or
>you can have multiple information sights opened from one tool (equally able
>to navigate all or none of them).  Check this sight out!!!!!
>
Haven't looked at the HotWired site, but that's the technique
that Eureka on the Web uses for 856 (Electronic Access) fields:
that is, a new instantiation of Netscape opens on the
resource, while Eureka on the Web remains active.
It is, indeed, a practical way to retain context.

-walt crawford, br.wcc at rlg.org
 The Research Libraries Group, Inc.
 [And no, I don't think this technique was my idea;
 it probably came from the Web experts working on
 Eureka on the Web.]

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