Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:01:23 -0700 From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Message-Id: <9907151801.AA04618@pachyderm.pa.dec.com> To: www-wca@w3.org Subject: Fwd: Webbib Online Library Looks useful... - Jim
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From: Craig Wills <cew@owl.WPI.EDU> Message-Id: <199907151757.NAA23538@sequoia.WPI.EDU> To: jg@pa.dec.com Subject: Webbib Online Library Date: Thu, 15 Jul 99 13:57:03 -0400 Jim - Hi, we met at the Web Characterization Workshop at MIT last year. Thought you might find this to be a useful resource. - Craig The Webbib digital library (http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~webbib/) is an extensive online bibliography of literature relevant to distributed systems topics as they relate to the World Wide Web. The core bibliography currently contains over 350 Web-related papers (over 1600 total papers) from Systems, Networking, Internet/Web and Performance journals/conferences. Particular topics of interest are network protocols, caching architecture, cache replacement, cache coherency, characterization of the Web and Web performance. In addition to typical bibliographic information, most bib entries contain an online link to the contents of a paper, its list of references, and a list of papers that reference it. Bibliographic information is used to create author lists and determine reference counts for individual papers and authors. This analysis allows influential work to be identified. The library is maintained in a semi-automated manner by tracking sources of information (conferences/journals) for new articles. This approach results in a library that is relatively complete in its contents and timely in its updates. We make Webbib available as a resource to researchers and practitioners in the field. Any comments or suggestions concerning the library, particularly cases of missing information (online links to paper contents) or relevant references. The focus of Webbib is on journal and conference papers with technical reports generally appearing only if they are frequently cited by other papers. - Craig Wills Associate Professor Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609 cew@cs.wpi.edu http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cew