Re: Fwd: Webbib Online Library
From: Jim Pitkow (pitkow@parc.xerox.com)
Date: Thu, Jul 15 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:20:52 PDT
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From: Jim Pitkow <pitkow@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Webbib Online Library
At 11:01 AM 7/15/99 , Jim Gettys wrote:
>Looks useful...
Amazingly useful. Marc, can you contact Craig and see if there is someway
to integrate this with the repository? I'd be great to have a mutually
beneficial system.
Jim.
> - Jim
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>From: Craig Wills <cew@owl.WPI.EDU>
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>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