Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 11:17:05 GMT+0100 From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee) Message-Id: <9111081017.AA04649@ nxoc01.cern.ch > To: www-interest@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: WWW-WAIS Gateway (Now its been running for some time, I guess I should announce it!) World-Wide Web <-> WAIS Gateway Running A gateway running on info.cern.ch provides access by any WWW browser to the world of information provided by "WAIS" servers. WAIS servers are full-text search servers using software from Thinking Machines Corporation. There's more infomation about WAIS and the gateway in the web. [By the way, if you have an old WWW default page which may not have links to everything of interest, you can pick up by ftp (or link to) a new one from file://info.cern.ch/pub/default.html] HYPERTEXT GUIDE You can find WAIS indexes by browsing a hypertext guide to WAIS (linked from our default page), and/or doing an index search on the WAIS index of indexes. The guide starts at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Products/WAIS/Sources/Overview.html Here is an sample of what there is: Biochemistry The EC enzyme database of Amos Bairoch , REBASE restriction enzymes , the annotation of the GenBank(R) DNA sequence database (Bacterial Division), the Peter Karps CompoundKB database of 981 metabolic intermediate compounds , periodical references to journals in the area of molecular biology , BIOSCI mailing lists and newsgroup archives Geography Asia Pacific region: Curriculum Resources & Course outlines; India: Miscellaneous information Humanities Discussion, Poetry Meterology The weather (around MIT) Music MIDI interfacing , Song lyrics , Religion The Bible (King James version) , The Holy Qur'an Computing & Networking: AARNet Australian Academic and Research Network Resources Guide Fidonet List of nodes Usenet FAQ, cookbook, science Internet RFCs, resource guide, etc etc (etc etc) By Organsiation E.F.F. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Documents, discussion N.S.F. National Science Foundation: bulletins M.I.T. Algorithms book: Bugs , excercises , suggestions for the book, 'Introduction to Algorithms' by Tom Cormen, Charles Leiserson, and Ron Rivest, all members of Theory of Computation Group, Laboratory for Computer Science. Weather . University of Noth Carolina Phone book University of North Texas Documents Univ. Oslo Publications bibliography Mail me with any problems/questions/suggestions. __________________________________________________________ Tim Berners-Lee timbl@info.cern.ch World Wide Web project (NeXTMail is ok) CERN Tel: +41(22)767 3755 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Fax: +41(22)767 7155