1993-05-12
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Apple  now  has  gopher  archives of  higher-education  materials  for
business,  computer   science  and  engineering  (CSE),   library  and
information   systems,  mechanical   engineering  and   medical/health
sciences.  Foreign language  and schools  of education  will be  added
later.  "Discipline  chairs" will  write  material  and interact  with
academic  communities in  this Apple  Internet Higher  Education Pilot
Program. Dr. Jon Stricklen of Michigan State's AI/KBS Lab is the chair
for CSE.  Additional gopher  folders will  highlight Mac  software and
support   for   academic   users.   Gopher   client   software   (from
boombox.micro.umn.edu)   can  be   used  to   access  the   gopher  at
info.hed.apple.com.  James  J.  Buckley,  VP  of  Apple  USA's  Higher
Education          Division.          [MartinsonJ@applelink.apple.com,
comp.sys.mac.announce. Bill Park, 4/22/93.]

Gopher  was the  9th  most  active application  on  the Internet  last
month.  A  recent  Veronica  search   found  10M  items  available  in
Gopherspace,  but only  1.5M unique  items. Collecting  and organizing
information is  rather like running  a library, but  Gopher developers
are    not   happy    with    library    tools   and    classification
systems. Developers  prefer a used-bookstore  model, but it  might not
scale  up when  gophers can  access dynamic  relational databases  and
other  structured  data  sources.   Subject-based  gophers  should  be
organized by domain experts, with feedback from users -- but you can't
please all  users simultaneously. Among  the 250 attendees at  the 2nd
Gopher conference  were people  from Apple, IBM,  Microsoft, Motorola,
New  York Times,  The  Chronicle of  Higher  Education, CNIDR,  NOTIS,
NASA-Goddard,  Xerox   PARC,  and  the  World   Bank.  [Tim  Kambitsch
(kambitsch@butleru.bitnet), PACS-L, 4/21/93.]


~ via [The Computists' Weekly Volume 3: No. 19]
  https://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?e=q-00000-00---off-0tcc--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-----stx--0-0l--11-en-50---20-about-gopher+veronica--00-0-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=tcc&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH9e70a4f62bce4d468e46c0.3


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