Date:         Sat, 26 Nov 1994 12:59:19 CST
Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Publications
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From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <[email protected]>
Subject:      The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, No. 7 (1994)

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           The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Volume 5, Number 7 (1994)                          ISSN 1048-6542
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                           CONTENTS

COMMUNICATIONS

A Gateway Between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML
Through the Web

    By John Price-Wilkin (pp. 5-27)

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This technical paper discusses how the World-Wide Web can be
linked to the PAT system, Open Text's search engine that supports
access to SGML-encoded documents.  This Web-to-PAT Gateway
utilizes the Web's Common Gateway Interface (CGI) capability and
SGML-to-HTML filter programs.
    After briefly overviewing key technical concepts, the paper
explains the operation of the Web-to-PAT Gateway, using several
examples of how it is employed at the University of Virginia
Libraries, including access to text files such as a Middle
English collection, the Oxford English Dictionary, and the Text
Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and
Interchange.

COLUMNS

Casting the Net

    A User's-eye View of the OPAC

    By Priscilla Caplan (pp. 28-33)

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Editor-in-Chief

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
University Libraries
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2091
(713) 743-9804
Internet: [email protected]

Associate Editors

Columns: Leslie Pearse, OCLC
Communications: Dana Rooks, University of Houston

Editorial Board

Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II, Clearinghouse for Networked Information
    Discovery and Retrieval
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Pat Ensor, University of Houston
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma
Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland
Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation,
    University of California
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information
Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone, University of Sussex
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University

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