TERENA News Update

TERENA User Services related Activity

Yuri Demchenko, TERENA

demchenko@terena.nl

TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_2

TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/

– User Overview

World Wide Web

Web Searching (including SE, Subject Gateways)

Specialist Tools (Directory, etc.)

Group Communication

Providing Information

Security

Other Tools (FTP, Gopher)

Printed by AWL/Pearson Education - October 1999

“INTERNET User's Guide to Network Resource Tools. 2000 Edition”

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GNRT Mirror sites

• Croatia - http://www.carnet.hr/vodic/gnrt/

• Greece - http://www.grnet.gr/gnrt/

• Italy - http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/net/gnrt/

• FYRo Macedonia - http://ii.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/

• Sweden - http://www.student.uu.se/gnrt/

TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_4

GNRT - Next Edition Yr2000 Extensions and Updates

User Overview

Responsible use of network

Internationalisation and Multilinguality

Electronic commerce awareness

Linux and Open Source Software

Internet2

Web Searching

SE and Subject Gateways update

Specialist Tools

Directory/LDAP technologies update

Group Communication

Streaming technologies

Providing Information

WebDAV

Metadata/RDF and XML

Java/Interactive Web Tools

Security

Update Security Tools

Other Tools (FTP, Gopher)

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TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_5

Other User Services TERENA Activity

• TERENA Technical Program Terms have been changed All activity is carried out by Project oriented Task Forces

Main task of User Service related activity is in bringing advanced technologies to wider user community WG-ISUS materials - http://www.terena.nl/working-groups/wg-isus/

GNRT Next Edition

User issues at TNC2000 TERENA Conference

User issues in REIS Initiative and at DESIRE2 Web Indexing Workshop

DESIRE Project - Information Gateway Handbook -  http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/handbook/

TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_6

TERENA Networking Conference TNC2000 May 22-25, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal

"Pioneering tomorrow's Internet"

Call for Papers extended - November 15, 2000  

Advanced Applications

Security and Network Management

Networking Technologies

Economic, Social and Political Issues

TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_7

Research and Education Indexing Service Initiative (REIS) - http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/ • Follow-on activity of two previous TERENA projects: CHIC on

Cooperative Indexing and CHIP on Internet Project related Directory Creation of Webindex/Resource repository to facilitate information

resource discovery for the research and higher education community in Europe 

Apply automated pre-classified by Subject

Assist in the dissemination of information in a multi-lingual environment using multilingual indexing system and cross-language searching

To facilitate development of new technologies, standardisation and cooperation framework for European A&R community

TERENA Update IETF46 Slide_8

Web Indexing Workshop - May 13-14, 2000 http://www.terena.nl/projects/desire/workshop/d2webindex2000/

User services related issues

New SE developments, NREN Search and Indexing Service examples

Content profiling

Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching)

Resource developer recommendations for better matching Automatic Indexing and Search technologies

Legal issues (copyright - web information, scientific publication, caching, indexing, etc.)