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January 17, 1997
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In This Issue:
Research and Education:
1. The Annotated Constitution--GPO, CRS
2. 1996 Digest of Education Statistics--NCES
3. .edu--_U.S. News and World Report_ Colleges and Careers Center
4. Viral Load Management Expert Discussion and Background: Clinical
Perspectives Toward Managing HIV Disease
5. National Science & Technology Week Online
6. National Geophysical Data Center
7. LIBLICENSE-L--Electronic content licensing discussion list
General Interest:
8. Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.--San Diego County Democratic Party
9. Celebrating Democracy--The Presidential Inauguration
10. _TV Guide_ Entertainment Network
11. Two Cartographic Sites
12. Institute of Management & Administration
13. RARA-AVIS--Hardboiled fiction discussion list
Network Tools:
14. WebPainter--Web animation authoring tool
15. Infoseek's Premier News
16. Doctor HTML
Research and Education
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1. The Annotated Constitution--GPO, CRS [ASCII, .pdf], 2,444p.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/toc.html
Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
The Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service, in cooperation
with the U.S. Senate and Government Printing Office (GPO) has made the
massive _The Constitution of the United States of America Analysis and
Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States to June 29, 1992_ available at the GPO web site. The volume
is both searchable and browsable, and contains annotated references to
Supreme Court decisions in their constitutional context. It is arranged by
article and amendment and is available in both plain-text and Adobe Acrobat
(.pdf) formats. Unfortunately, files are also arranged by article and
amendment, making for some extremely large file sizes (over 1 megabyte in
some cases). Still, this is a small price to pay for an indispensable
constitutional law and history reference. Note that the site will be shut
down for server maintenance January 18 and 19, 1997. [JS]
2. 1996 Digest of Education Statistics--NCES [HTML, .pdf] 523p.
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/D96/index.html
1992-1995 Digest of Education Statistics [.zip]
gopher://gopher.ed.gov:10000/11/publications/majorpub/digest/
gopher to: gopher.ed.gov:10000
select: NCES Publications and Reports/Major NCES Publications/Digest of
Education Statistics
The US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics
has recently made available this exhaustive compendium of education
statistics. The bulk of the work is contained in 418 tables covering
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education, as well as federal
programs for education, outcomes, international comparisons, and library
resources and technology. This is the 32nd in a series of publications
begun in 1962. Many tables are updated through 1994 or later, and all are
available in ASCII text format. The report can also be downloaded by
chapter in .pdf format. The site is organized by subject, and offers as
well a complete list of tables. There is a link to the 1995 Digest at the
site, and NCES has also made 1992-1995 Digests available (tables in .zip
format) at the Education Department's Gopher site. The Digest is one of the
most respected and referenced sources for US education statistics. [JS]
3. .edu--_U.S. News and World Report_ Colleges and Careers Center
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/home.htm
This new site contains much information that prospective undergraduates and
graduates will find useful. It is highlighted by several rankings for US
undergraduate and graduate schools, and also contains customizable search
engines to find suitable schools from over 1400 undergraduate and 800
graduate schools. There is also information on the application process for
undergraduates, career information for the prospective graduate student,
and financial aid information. [JS]
4. Viral Load Management Expert Discussion and Background: Clinical
Perspectives Toward Managing HIV Disease
http://www.iapac.org/consumer/vload/
IAPAC
http://www.iapac.org/index.html
Provided by the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, this
site offers an in-depth dialogue about viral load testing, the latest
advance in HIV treatment and management. The issues are presented in a
somewhat novel format; there are at present sixteen questions posed about
viral load measurement, to which two clinicians respond in a dialogue. The
experts, Dr. Andrew Pavia (Director of Clinical Research, Health Sciences
and AIDS, University of Utah) and Dr. Gabriel Torres (Medical Director,
AIDS Center at Saint Vincent's Hospital), provide not only descriptions of
the procedures and measurements, but also tables, graphs, and flow charts
to help users of the site understand the sometimes advanced concepts
involved. Throughout, terms that may not be widely known are linked to
entries in the site's glossary. The main page of the IAPAC contains a wide
range of AIDS/HIV information for both clinicians and consumers. [ML]
5. National Science & Technology Week Online
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/start.htm
"Webs, Wires, Waves: The Science and Technology of Communication" is the
theme for the 1997 National Science & Technology Week (NSTW), April 20-26,
1997. This year's focus "is designed to help children explore and
understand the myriad ways we communicate with one another." The NSTW
Online site provides teachers, parents, and youth leaders with hands-on
teaching activities that coincide with this year's theme (as well as those
for the past two years). The goal of the project is to "teach children how
to observe real-world phenomena, analyze variables, draw conclusions, and
evaluate findings." Another feature here, designed "just for kids," is "Ask
a Scientist or Engineer," where kids can submit questions, and browse or
search questions and answers from previous years. In addition to the
English language version, the 1997 teaching activities will soon be
available in Spanish at this site. [AG]
6. National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), located in Boulder, Colorado
is a project of the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration, and National Environmental Satellite, Data and
Information Service. This site is an informational resource for glaciology,
marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics,
and solid earth geophysics. The glaciology section is linked to the
National Snow and Ice Data Center website, which offers resources for those
interested in studying snow and ice and their relation to Earth systems.
The other four sections contain data (often searchable), images, reports,
publications and general information on a variety of areas such as
bathymetry, ocean drilling/seafloor sediment/rock sample data, the
geomagnetic field, solar and upper atmospheric data, global climate,
heatflow, and much more. [TB]
7. LIBLICENSE-L--Electronic content licensing discussion list
Electronic Content Licensing Project:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~Llicense/index.shtml
LIBLICENSE-L is a moderated list for the discussion of issues related to
the licensing of digital information by academic and research libraries.
Increasingly, libraries are being inundated with information created in
digital format and transmitted and accessed via computers. This list is
designed to assist librarians and others concerned with the licensing of
information in digital format in dealing with some of the unique challenges
faced by this new medium. Information providers (creators, publishers and
vendors) who deal with libraries are welcomed as members of LIBLECENSE-L.
LIBLICENSE-L is an outgrowth of the Electronic Content Licensing Project.
[JS]
To subscribe send email to:
listproc@pantheon.yale.edu
In the body of the message, type:
subscribe LIBLICENSE-L Firstname Lastname
General Interest
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8. Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.--San Diego County Democratic Party
http://www.netgaincc.com/sddemocrats/mlk.html
Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory--Stanford University and the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/King/index.html
The San Diego (California) County Democratic Party has recently made a
tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. available at its web site, in honor of
the civil rights leader's birthday and U.S. national holiday commemorating
it. At the heart of the site are its links, which include the Seattle Times
Martin Luther King web site (discussed in the January 12, 1996 issue of the
Scout Report), the Martin Luther King Directory at Stanford University,
which contains full text of a small selection of his papers (free access
after registration), pictures from Life Magazine, and several newspaper
articles, among others. While this is an excellent bookmark page, the pages
to really bookmark are the Seattle Times page and especially the King
Directory, which, while very limited in content at present, still contains
much biographical and chronological information, as well as promising to
eventually be an invaluable King archive [JS].
9. Celebrating Democracy--The Presidential Inauguration
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html
There are many sites for Internauts interested in the upcoming US
presidential inauguration, and the Smithsonian Institution, Library of
Congress, National Archives, National Endowment for the Arts, and Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts have combined to create a site (hosted at
the Kennedy Center) that points to over 20 inauguration and related sites.
Included in this smorgasbord are the Smithsonian's live coverage of
inaugural events, selected presidential and inaugural information from
LOC's American Memory pages, the official Inaugural Home Page (sponsored by
the Presidential Inaugural Committee), the National Portrait Gallery's Hall
of Presidents, PBS's Inaugural Classroom, the White House's Presidential
Biographies, and Columbia University's Project Bartleby Inaugural Addresses
site (unfortunately the link is broken from the Celebrating Democracy site,
but it can be accessed from the White House Biographies site). There's
more, of course--this is an excellent bookmark page from which to observe
the festivities and learn more about this quadrennial celebration. [JS]
10. _TV Guide_ Entertainment Network
http://www.tvguide.com/
Movie database:
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/index.htm
Sporting a new, customizable interface, the best selling magazine in
America is making a bid to be your choice for entertainment news on the
web. More than television listings, the site offers news on all
entertainment fronts: television, movies, music, and sports. There is a
chat/BBS area that offers live events with celebrities. A very rewarding
aspect of the revamped site is the television listing section. After (free)
registration, users can view a television viewing grid that lists only the
stations they're interested in. The Quick Pick section will suggest shows
based on user input; this section of the site is still undergoing final
bullet-proofing, so the occasional 404-Not Found may result. For those
users who have to budget their television time, a Planner section will help
make the most of those precious moments in the blue glow. However, the
hidden gem of the site is its movie database, a searchable archive of over
30,000 movie reviews taken from the 23 volume _Motion Picture Guide_, as
well as annotations from Ephraim Katz's nearly 1500 page _Film
Encyclopedia_, one of the most authoritative references in the field. [ML]
11. Two Cartographic Sites
National Geographic Map Machine [Shockwave]
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/maps/cartographic.html
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
For those interested in map information, National Geographic's Map Machine
and the Landform Atlas of the United States, provided by Ray Sterner of the
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, are effective places
to start. Map Machine's Atlas allows users to click on a world map or on
continent or country menus to retrieve country maps, with concise
information and flags. There are also selected area maps available, created
from weather satellite data, as well as political and physical maps and a
Macromedia Shockwave enhanced world map that allows users to view a world
map interactively. The quality of the maps is the quality of the site.
Color Landform Atlas, while only containing US state maps, delivers a
topographical and county boundary (without county names, unfortunately) map
as well as pointers to Yahoo, City Net, and Virtual Tourist information
about that state. As might be expected, both these sites are extremely
graphical and download times can be long. [JS]
12. Institute of Management & Administration
http://www.ioma.com/ioma/
The Institute of Management & Administration contains both original content
and pointers to, broadly defined, "business information." While much of the
content is in the form of articles meant to entice the reader into
purchasing a subscription, these freebee articles are substantive. Located
under "Newsletters" and "Management News," they include tips for getting
employees to use direct deposit, advice on developing disaster recovery
plans for mail centers, and suggestions on how to encourage suppliers to
reduce costs. The Business Directory section contains Business News
pointers and pointers to information on topics from Competitive
Intelligence and Strategy to Small Business. This categorization is quite
helpful. From a navigational perspective, what isn't very helpful is that
this section is divided into two pages in an unclear way. The last major
section, IOMARate, collects and quantifies money managers' performance
data. [ATW]
13. RARA-AVIS--Hardboiled fiction discussion list
http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/
RARA-AVIS is for the discussion of hardboiled fiction, in and out of the
mystery genre. Possible topics for discussion include: just what is
hardboiled fiction?; how does it relate to film noir and/or the pulps?;
who's better, Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett?; who are the best
modern practitioners? do they in fact exist?; are there any truly
hardboiled women writers?; and, how does the genre fit into modern
literature? A web page for the list is available. [JS]
To subscribe send email to:
majordomo@icomm.ca
In the body of the message type:
subscribe rara-avis
Net Tools
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14. WebPainter-- Web animation authoring tool
http://www.totallyhip.com/
Web authors in search of a high-quality tool for creating GIF animations
should consider WebPainter by Totally Hip Software. Animated GIFs are
viewable with most browsers, and are an easy way to spice up a Web site.
WebPainter includes excellent bitmap drawing and animation tools, including
an "onion skin" feature that allows users to draw a new animation frame
while seeing a lightened version of the previous frame underneath. Pricing
information is available at the site. An evaluation version of both the Mac
and Windows 95/NT versions of WebPainter, which allows users save the first
five frames of animation, is available for download. WebPainter is an
excellent product for Web authors who would like to create animated
graphics. [PJD]
15. Infoseek's Premier News
http://www.infoseek.com/dailynews?pg=news_source.html
Infoseek has added a new capability to its searching service. Premier News
allows users to search recent stories in The Chicago Tribune, CNN, MSNBC,
The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Jose Mercury News, and
The Washington Post (or any combination of them), retrieving recent stories
in relevance ranked order. Although the search engine offers no
sophisticated options at this time, the ability to retrieve current
articles from multiple news sites of this quality is a very powerful
feature, adding to an already excellent Internet subject directory. Note
that for stories in the New York Times, registration is required. [JS]
16. Doctor HTML
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
Many Web authors would appreciate a site that will test HTML pages for
design and syntax flaws automatically. One of the best is Doctor HTML,
which will test single Web pages for free. The company also offers a
complete site analysis service for a fee. Doctor HTML checks spelling,
image syntax, form structure, document structure, table structure, and
analyzes images and verifies links. To use the free service, simply enter
the URL for the page to test. The site then produces an extensive report on
the page. As HTML pages get more complex, this tool is very helpful in
finding mismatched tags and other errors. The site also offers another
useful feature: it will give an estimated download time for the page based
on a 14.4Kb/s connection (though other factors, such as an over-burdened
Web server, may increase the download time). One limitation is that Doctor
HTML does not give a complete report of frame-based pages; like Lynx or
Netscape Navigator 1.x, it ignores the frame information and returns a
report only on the code existing between the FRAMES and NO FRAMES tags.
Even with this minor flaw, the Doctor HTML site is a great tool for
creating better Web pages. [PJD]
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Index of Scout Report selections for January 17, 1997
1. The Annotated Constitution--GPO, CRS
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/toc.html
2. 1996 Digest of Education Statistics--NCES
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/D96/index.html
3. .edu--_U.S. News and World Report_ Colleges and Careers Center
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/home.htm
4. Viral Load Management Expert Discussion and Background: Clinical
Perspectives Toward Managing HIV Disease
http://www.iapac.org/consumer/vload/
5. National Science & Technology Week Online
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/start.htm
6. National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
7. LIBLICENSE-L--Electronic content licensing discussion list
Email: listproc@pantheon.yale.edu
Message: subscribe LIBLICENSE-L Firstname Lastname
8. Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.--San Diego County Democratic Party
http://www.netgaincc.com/sddemocrats/mlk.html
9. Celebrating Democracy--The Presidential Inauguration
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html
10. _TV Guide_ Entertainment Network
http://www.tvguide.com/
11. National Geographic Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/maps/cartographic.html
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
12. Institute of Management & Administration
http://www.ioma.com/ioma/
13. RARA-AVIS--Hardboiled fiction discussion list
http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/
Email: majordomo@icomm.ca Message: subscribe rara-avis
14. WebPainter-- Web animation authoring tool
http://www.totallyhip.com/
15. Infoseek's Premier News
http://www.infoseek.com/dailynews?pg=news_source.html
16. Doctor HTML
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
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