================================================================================ RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA NOTIRED ================================================================================ Forum On Wide Area Information Servers and Electronic Publishing Brewster Kahle Contents: SIGWAIS at Library of Congress (Virginia Sorkin vsor@seq1.loc.gov) WAIS Client for IBM/MVS: DinoWAIS (Tim Gauslin tgauslin@isdres.er.usgs.gov) To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to wais-discussion-request@think.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's an invitation/announcement to the SIGWAIS conference happening on July 23rd at the Library of Congress, WA DC. They will soon be closing registration, so register quickly! ***************************************************************************** ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR SIGWAIS SPONSORED BY THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR NETWORK INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND RETRIEVAL (CNIDR), THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AND USGS July 23, 1993, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress, CNIDR, and USGS are pleased to announce SIGWAIS. The meeting will be held July 23, 1993, at the Library of Congress. The theme of this SIGWAIS is "Libraries and Databases--Quality and Navigation." The meeting will bring together those interested in, as well as those actively working with, WAIS and Z39.50 If you are interested in participating in SIGWAIS send an email to sigwais@seq1.loc.gov Please include your name, address, telephone number, fax number, and email address for registration. Indicate whether you are registering to attend or only wish to include your name in the SIGWAIS mailing list. Also, please indicate if you would like to conduct a demonstration or make a presentation at this or future meetings of SIGWAIS. Registration is free but is limited. There will be no registration the day of the conference. An ANONYMOUS FTP DIRECTORY with SIGWAIS information is available. Included in the directory's files are a list of those registered to attend the conference and the names of hotels and restaurants in the area. Further information will be added as available. The FTP site address is seq1.loc.gov. Sign in as "anonymous". Files pertinent to the conference can be found in the directory /pub/sigwais.ii. The SIGWAIS morning sessions will include presentations by Brewster Kahle, President of WAIS, Inc.; Ron Larsen, Associate Director for Information Technology at the University of Maryland Libraries, who will discuss "Computer Networks and Libraries"; Jane Bortnick Griffith, Acting Associate Librarian for Science and Technology, who has worked extensively with Congress on Internet and NREN policy issues, will welcome the conference attendees. The afternoon sessions will focus on Quality Databases and the Organization and Navigation of Data. Demonstration and small-group discussion rooms are also planned. Although SIGWAIS will focus on issues pertinent to libraries, participation is open to all: libraries, government agencies, industry, academia, and others. ------------------------------ WAIS Client for IBM/MVS (DinoWAIS) Well, it's working. We (USGS) now have a WAIS client for IBM's MVS operating environment (this is the IBM mainframe operating system.) The client runs under TSO (time sharing option), and relies on ISPF (Interactive Systems Productivity Facility) for screen management. ISPF is almost a given for MVS systems. I couldn't resist the temptation to follow the stampede and call this "Dino(saur)WAIS." What I'm looking for at this point is a few folks to help check out the client. Initially I'd like to provide the load library and support libraries; we'll be providing the source when we package the whole thing up after testing. Any takers?? Also, I'm unaware of any Internet "standard" for moving IBM partitioned data sets (PDS) around. Is anyone aware of a simple way to pack these up for FTP and still get a usable dataset at the other end? If, not, I've got some ideas. I just don't want to do anything totally foreign if there's a better way. Since the translation and file structure differences are worked out, we also expect to have an indexer and server before too long. Updates on this as we go along. Lastly, DinoWAIS is based in WAIS b5.1. That's waht was available when we started the MVS port, so we stuck with it. Every step of the process has been documented, so moving it to other versions shouldn't be very difficult. Let me know who's interested, and we'll work out the FTP details on the side. Tim Gauslin US Geological Survey tgauslin@isdres.er.usgs.gov ------------------------------ ***************************************************************************** .