=============================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA GOPHER =============================================================================== NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN' Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland SUBJECT TREES AND STUDY CARRELS There are other places in Gopherspace that organize Gophers by disciplines--usually the information is organized by subject or by a combination of names. If only the world was perfect and we all used the same naming scheme. Oh well. If you search Veronica with the word "subject," you'll get an enormous amount of information--most of which will be irrelevant. I've searched Veronica for you, and found that what we _really_ want to look for is "subject tree". Here's what you get: ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: subject tree -t1 --> 1. Mathematics Subject Tree/ 2. Subject tree (based on UDC)/ 3. Subject Tree/ 4. Subject tree (based on UDC)// 5. Subject Tree Internet Resources @ Other Gophers/ 6. Subject Tree Internet Resources @ VSU Gopher/ 7. BUBL Subject Tree, Other Subject Trees, Gopher Jewels/ 8. BUBL Subject Tree (under construction)/ 9. Subject Tree/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** In this Veronica search, there is an implied "and" when I use the phrase "subject tree". This means that Veronica will return any item with the words "subject" and "tree" in it. I've also learned from my experience searching on the word "discipline" that what I really want are directories, not text files or other Gopher items. Thus I limit my search by using "-t1", which indicates I want only directories. Let's look at number five " 5. Subject Tree Internet Resources @ Other Gophers/ ". ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Subject Tree Internet Resources @ Other Gophers --> 1. Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.)/ 2. Resources by Subject (from Univ. of California)/ 3. Subject Tree - sunet.se/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** We'll continue by selecting number one. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.) --> 1. About this collection of Internet resources. 2. More about this collection of Internet resources/ 3. Aerospace/ 4. Agriculture and Forestry/ 5. Anthropology and Culture/ 6. Arts/ 7. Astronomy and Astrophysics/ 8. Biology/ 9. Census/ 10. Chemistry/ 11. Computer Networks and Internet Resource Guides/ 12. Computing/ 13. Economics and Business/ 14. Education/ 15. Engineering/ 16. Environment and Ecology/ 17. Geography/ 18. Geology and Geophysics/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 ********** Selecting number one gives use information about this collection of Internet Resources. ********** These directories contain links to resources organized by subject matter. The resources themselves are scattered all over the Internet. They may be unavailable at any time due to many factors beyond our control. The selection of resources you see here is based on several similar collections of such links maintained on Gopher servers at the following places: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, flubber.ciesin.org) Mass. General Hospital, Harvard University (weeds.mgh.harvard.edu) North Carolina State University (dewey.lib.ncsu.edu) SLU, Sweden (pinus.slu.se) SUNET, Sweden (sunic.sunet.se) Texas A&M University (tamuts.tamu.edu) The WELL (nkosi.well.sf.ca.ua) University of Nevada at Reno (hunter.unr.edu) UCSC InfoSlug (scilibx.ucsc.edu) ... plus a few specialized collections from other places. Once a week we merge selected directories of links at these institutions into our own collections of links. To see how we do this, look in the subdirectory "More about this collection of Internet resources". If you know of other collections of Internet resources organized by subject matter which we should merge in a similar fashion, please send mail to "riceinfo@rice.edu". In the future we plan to add our own local resources to these menus. If you have information in any of these subject areas which you would like to make available, please send mail to "riceinfo@rice.edu". -- Prentiss Riddle (riddle@rice.edu) 9/7/93 ********** Well let's try to get some information. I'll go down a page and select number thirty-six "36. Weather, Climate and Meteorology/". ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.) --> 19. Government, Political Science and Law/ 20. Grants, Scholarships and Funding/ 21. History/ 22. Language and Linguistics/ 23. Library and Information Science/ 24. Literature, Electronic Books and Journals/ 25. Mathematics/ 26. Medicine and Health/ 27. Military Science/ 28. Music/ 29. News and Journalism/ 30. Oceanography/ 31. Physics/ 32. Reference/ 33. Religion and Philosophy/ 34. Sociology and Psychology/ 35. Travel/ 36. Weather, Climate and Meteorology/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 2/2 ********** ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Weather, Climate and Meteorology --> 1. About this directory. 2. A Source of Meteorological Data FAQ. 3. Austin, Texas Forecast. 4. Australian Weather Forecasts 5. Climate Adaption News/ 6. Climate Ecosystem Dynamics/ 7. Climatic Perspectives/ 8. Current Weather Forecasts/ 9. Current Weather Images/ 10. DOE Climate Data 11. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Forecast. 12. Delta/ 13. Detailed Colorado Weather/ 14. ECIX Climate Digest/ 15. ECO/ 16. Environmental & Climate Information Exchange Newsletter/ 17. HotNews/ 18. Houston, Texas Forecast. Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 ********** This directory contains weather information. There are several types of Gopher items on this menu; text is represented by the period "." at the end of an item, and Telnet items by . (Selecting this will take you to another system where you may be able to gain remote access.) Index-search server items are represented by a question mark at the end. Let's check out number eight "8. Current Weather Forecasts/". ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Current Weather Forecasts --> 1. Chilean Weather Forecasts (gopher in Spanish)/ 2. Colorado Weather Forecasts/ 3. National Weather Service forecasts for Midwest USA 4. US City and Oregon Weather Forecasts/ 5. University of Michigan Weather 6. Weather Server @ Thinking Machines Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** We'll try an index-search server. Number six "6. Weather Server @ Thinking Machines " will work. Thinking machines has a lot to do with WAIS, so I'll bet this is a WAIS database and search engine. I'll search for the word "Pittsburgh". ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Current Weather Forecasts 1. Chilean Weather Forecasts (gopher in Spanish)/ 2. Colorado Weather Forecasts/ 3. National Weather Service forecasts for Midwest USA 4. US City and Oregon Weather Forecasts/ +---------------------Weather Server @ Thinking Machines | | Words to search for pittsburgh | | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] | +---------------------------------------+ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Weather Server @ Thinking Machines: pittsburgh --> 1. Pittsburgh-PA.txt. ********** Looks like I'm in luck. My search retrieves one file from the Weather Server at Thinking Machines, and I'll select this file. The ".txt" usually means that it's an acsii text file. ********** "/tmp/gopheCAAa02270" may be a binary file. Continue? ********** Argh!!! It isn't a plain text file! A binary file can be a graphics file, sound file, data file, word processing file or other type of file. In most cases, extensions of "txt" or "doc" mean plain ascii text, but that isn't true of this file. As you can see, the Internet world, like the real world, is not perfect! The Gopher client I'm using can't read binary files. There are Gopher clients that can, and we'll describe some later. I've found that many binary files that have characters in them that my Gopher client can't read can be read by my e-mail program. The text of these files probably has a few non ascii characters left in it from the word processing program that was used to create it. I'll gamble and mail this file to myself. Here's the file from my e-mail program. There are one or two characters that weren't ascii. ********** >From rjs@icarus.lis.pitt.edu Tue Oct 12 09:20:57 1993 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 93 11:13:53 EDT From: rjs@icarus.lis.pitt.edu To: rjs@lis.pitt.edu Subject: Pittsburgh-PA.txt Weather Conditions at 5 AM EDT on 10 OCT 93 for _[7mPittsburgh_[m, PA. Temp(F) Humidity(%) Wind(mph) Pressure(in) Weather ================================================================= ======= 39 57% NORTH at 13 30.09 Overcast _[7mPITTSBURGH_[m METROPOLITAN AREA FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE _[7mPITTSBURGH_[m PA 1059 AM EDT SAT OCT 9 1993 THIS AFTERNOON...CLOUDY AND BREEZY WITH SHOWERS. A THUNDERSTORM ALSO POSSIBLE. TURNING COOLER WITH HIGH 60 TO 65. WIND SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH BECOMING NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTY. TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY AND BRISK WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF EVENING SHOWERS. LOW NEAR 40. WIND NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH. SUNDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND QUITE COOL. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. ROR EXTENDED FORECAST... MONDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY AND COOL. LOWS 25 TO 35. HIGHS IN THE 50S. TUESDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. LOWS IN THE 30S. HIGHS IN 50S TO LOWER 60S. WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. LOWS IN THE 30S TO LOWER 40S. HIGHS IN THE 50S TO LOWER 60S. REILLY THE 6 TO 10 DAY OUTLOOK FOR THURSDAY OCTOBER 14 THRU MONDAY OCTOBER 18 CALLS FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND NEAR NORMAL PRECIPITATION. NORMAL LOWS FOR THE PERIOD RANGE FROM 46 TO 52 AND NORMAL HIGHS RANGE FROM 57 TO 63. NORMAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE ABOUT FOUR TENTHS /.40/ OF AN INCH. ********** Well, we can get the local or worldwide weather report from Gopher. I can add this to my bookmark if I would like this information daily. Certainly useful for those frequent travelers. Your assignment is to look up the words "study carrels" and see how much they differ from "subject trees" and "disciplines". Richard J. Smith smithr@clp2.clpgh.org The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Jim Gerland gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology Manager, Network User Support Services .