Table of contents
NSFnet Privatization: Policy Making in a Public Interest Vacuum
Gordon CookOffers advice to the Clinton‐Gore administration on how best toimprove the confusion surrounding the development of the Internet.Chronicles major events in the development of…
Grace: A System to Support the Development and Use of Global Computer‐Supported Cooperative (CSCW) Applications
Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock, Paul Harvey, Howidy Howidy, Alan Shepherd, Hugh SmithDescribes the Grace Project, its goals and scope. The aim of Graceis to build distributed group communications tools within an OpenSystems Interconnection (OSI) networking…
Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing Library Services for Computer‐Mediated Communication
Martin Dillon, Erik Jul, Mark Burge, Carol HickeyReports on a project to: first, provide an empirical analysis oftextual information on the Internet; second, to test the suitability ofcataloguing rules and record formats…
The Architecture of a Massively Distributed Hypermedia System
Frank Kappe, Gerald Pani, Florian SchnabelProposes how a global Hypermedia system could evolve from the“Hyper‐G” system, currently being developed at GrazUniversity. Overviews the development of Internet from…
Must Invisible Colleges Be Invisible? An Approach to Examining Large Communities of Network Users
Stephen R. Ruth, Raul GouetTakes a detailed view of the scientific community in Chileregarding network implementation and use. Argues that since Chile hasmany characteristics in common with other nations in…
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1066-2243Online date, start – end:
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- Dr Christy Cheung