1993-05-12
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Apple now has gopher archives of higher-education materials for
business, computer science and engineering (CSE), library and
information systems, mechanical engineering and medical/health
sciences. Foreign language and schools of education will be added
later. "Discipline chairs" will write material and interact with
academic communities in this Apple Internet Higher Education Pilot
Program. Dr. Jon Stricklen of Michigan State's AI/KBS Lab is the chair
for CSE. Additional gopher folders will highlight Mac software and
support for academic users. Gopher client software (from
boombox.micro.umn.edu) can be used to access the gopher at
info.hed.apple.com. James J. Buckley, VP of Apple USA's Higher
Education Division. [
[email protected],
comp.sys.mac.announce. Bill Park, 4/22/93.]
Gopher was the 9th most active application on the Internet last
month. A recent Veronica search found 10M items available in
Gopherspace, but only 1.5M unique items. Collecting and organizing
information is rather like running a library, but Gopher developers
are not happy with library tools and classification
systems. Developers prefer a used-bookstore model, but it might not
scale up when gophers can access dynamic relational databases and
other structured data sources. Subject-based gophers should be
organized by domain experts, with feedback from users -- but you can't
please all users simultaneously. Among the 250 attendees at the 2nd
Gopher conference were people from Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola,
New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNIDR, NOTIS,
NASA-Goddard, Xerox PARC, and the World Bank. [Tim Kambitsch
(
[email protected]), PACS-L, 4/21/93.]
~ via [The Computists' Weekly Volume 3: No. 19]
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