From astroweb-request Mon May 2 04:53:50 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA23997; Mon, 2 May 94 04:53:50 EDT Return-Path: Date: Mon, 2 May 94 18:53:37 EST From: anton@mso.anu.edu.au (anton koekemoer) Message-Id: <9405020853.AA21559@merlin.anu.edu.au> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Subject: Australian Working group for Antarctic Astronomy Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU > From mgb@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au Mon May 2 18:20:24 1994 > To: anton@merlin.anu.edu.au > Subject: www listing > Date: Mon, 02 May 94 18:20:24 +1000 > > you might like to add to your www listings: > > http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/ School of Physics, UNSW > http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/awgaa.html Australian Working group > for Antarctic Astronomy > > Regards > > Michael Burton cheers, - anton. From astroweb-request Mon May 2 14:05:48 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA25997; Mon, 2 May 94 14:05:48 EDT Return-Path: Date: Mon, 2 May 94 12:26:08 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405021626.AA00968@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: [root@ctiol5.ctio.noao.edu: CTIO] Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Date: Mon, 2 May 94 11:37:26 CST From: root@ctiol5.ctio.noao.edu (jim hughes x236) To: rpss@stsci.edu Subject: CTIO we've had a WWW server at CTIO for a while now, might be good to add it to you resource list. the "gopher" & "ftp" lines are okay, but the WWW stuff is MUCH newer (more up to date & interesting, too) Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) WWW Home Page http://ctios2.ctio.noao.edu/ctio.html cheers & thanks jim hughes, CTIO system & network manager jhughes@noao.edu From astroweb-request Tue May 3 13:05:51 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA28420; Tue, 3 May 94 13:05:51 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 3 May 94 12:00:26 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405031600.AA04210@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: [root@bovine.uoregon.edu: More info on University of Oregon WEB Server] Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 08:49:23 -0700 From: Operator To: jackson@stsci.edu Subject: More info on University of Oregon WEB Server Please insert this in your list of Astronomical World Wide Web Resources. I see we already have a cursory description their. Thanks:
The University of Oregon is engaged in a dynamic electronic educational outreach program to local schools which have T1 connectivity to the Internet. We are assembling archives of resources centered around astronomy and environmental resources so that middle and high-school science teachers can personalize coureseware around these resources. The project is just beginning and the available resources are evolving rapidly. In the area of astronomy we currently offer:

  • Movies of Colliding Galaxies

  • Images showing the Time Evolution of Recent Supernovae

  • CCD Images of Famous Messier Objects, some in true color

  • An Introduction to Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

  • Infrared Images of Galaxies

  • Comparative Galaxy Morphology

  • Hypertext Astronomy Courseware

In the near Future we will be offering:

  • Parking Lot Camera Images of Local Group Galaxies

  • Fabry-Perot Velocity Maps of Galaxies

  • A Digital Library of Stellar Spectra

  • A Digital Library of Galaxy Spectra

  • A Substantial amount of Animation for use in the classroom

  • The coolest Morphing movie you ever saw about a Physics Dept.

This effort is being maintained by Dr. DarkMatter at the University of Oregon.
From astroweb-request Tue May 3 15:15:09 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA28648; Tue, 3 May 94 15:15:09 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 3 May 94 15:15:03 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405031915.AA04413@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: Request for Comments Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU In an effort to relieve Don of the burden of doing all the editing, I have created a tool which allows any one of us to edit the master list. ALPHA VERSION ALERT ALPHA VERSION ALERT ALPHA VERSION ALERT There are two versions of the client tool: 1. http://stsci.edu/astroweb-html/putastrowebfile A Tcl script which take the input file, creates a HTML file from it and opens your HTML form compliant client on the file. (No I have not tested it on Lynx.) 2. http://stsci.edu/astroweb-html/putastrowebfile.html A slightly abbreviated version of the file created by the above tool. You edit your master file and insert it into this template. On the server end, I have written a script which uses CVS and supports the following CVS actions: DIFF UPDATE COMMIT The DIFF command compares your file with the one in the CVS archive on the server. The UPDATE command returns your version updated by any changes The COMMIT command puts your version into the CVS archive and updates a accessible copy at http://lor.stsci.edu/astroweb/astroweb/inp_astroweb.html We all could edit the file and Don could then extract it and create his yp_master stuff. There is some security: set awpassword(adorf) {} set awnode(adorf) eso.org set awpassword(anton) {} set awnode(anton) mso.anu.edu.au set awpassword(dwells) {} set awnode(dwells) nrao.edu set awpassword(egret) {} set awnode(egret) simbad.u-strasbg.fr set awpassword(fmurtagh) {} set awnode(fmurtagh) eso.org set awpassword(heck) {} set awnode(heck) cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr set awpassword(jackson) bob set awnode(jackson) stsci.edu You each have a username. Send me a password. The script even checks that the client is in the awnode domain. Are the domains correct? From astroweb-request Wed May 4 09:53:05 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA00541; Wed, 4 May 94 09:53:05 EDT Return-Path: Date: Wed, 4 May 94 09:52:53 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405041352.AA05466@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: further tricks Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU http://lor.stsci.edu/astroweb/loadastrowebfile.html eliminates the need for any local software other than Mosaic. It is looking like (but I have not exhaustively checked) that you can either: Edit the file in the Mosaic window OR SAVE AS with HTML format, edit the file, and then OPEN LOCAL From astroweb-request Thu May 5 10:21:49 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA02710; Thu, 5 May 94 10:21:49 EDT Return-Path: Date: Thu, 5 May 94 10:21:43 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405051421.AA13117@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: astroweb meets CVS Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU It needs more work. I hope it has not caused any inconvenience or dashed expectations. I will let you know when it is ready for another trial. Bob From astroweb-request Fri May 6 08:11:40 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA05338; Fri, 6 May 94 08:11:40 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405061209.AA11987@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr Subject: Draft of AstroWeb announcement in CDS Bulletin Date: Fri, 06 May 94 14:09:16 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear Friends, Please find below a TeX file as a *very first* draft of a short presentation of AstroWeb for the CDS Information Bulletin. The strict deadline for the next issue of this periodical is May 15, so I would need your input as soon as possible. I am sorry for the short delay, but I was busy during the past weeks with intense work on other projects. I organized the paper along the following structure: AW aim and purpose, membership, structure of the documents, how to get connected to AW, how to contribute to AW. I deliberately excluded historical and technical details that are not of direct interest to potential AW users and kept the paper as short as possible to have a chance it be read by as many people as possible. You will notice that I often used excerpts of existing AW documents. A couple of figures will be added. The paper for Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. could have the same structure if you feel it appropriate. We could be more specific on the categorization of entries, but, definitely, this paper should be short too in order to facilitate acceptance. Please check your affiliations as I am not sure I got all of them right. Be also careful there is no political statement implying youself or your institution beyond what it should be. All the best, Andre. ************************************* \overfullrule=0mm \hfuzz=2pt \font \mm=cmr10 \font \pp=cmr10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ip=cmti10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ff=cmbx10 scaled\magstephalf \font \yy=cmbx10 scaled\magstep2 \font \ww=cmbx10 scaled\magstep4 \def\bang{\item{$\bullet$}} \parskip 10pt plus 1pt \eject \null \pp {\narrower \centerline{\ww The AstroWeb Database} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent R.\ Jackson$^1$, D.\ Wells$^2$, H.M.\ Adorf$^3$, D.\ Egret$^4$, A.\ Heck$^5$, A.\ Koekemoer$^6$ and F.\ Murtagh$^3$ \bigskip {\rm \parskip 3pt plus 1pt \item{$^1$} Space Telescope Science Institute, Homewood Campus, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, U.S.A.\ {\it (jackson@stsci.edu)} \item{$^2$} National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville VA 22903-2475, U.S.A.\ {\it (dwells@nrao.edu)} \item{$^3$} Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, c/o European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra\ss e, D-85748 Garching, Germany {\it (adorf@eso.org \& fmurtagh@eso.org)} \item{$^4$} Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg, c/o Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (egret@simbad.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^5$} Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^6$} Australian National University, Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Private Bag, Weston Creek ACT 2611, Australia {\it (anton@mso.anu.edu.au)} \par} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent {\yy 1. Generalities} \noindent AstroWeb is a new WorldWideWeb (White, 1993) resource providing links to astronomy resources available on Internet and using the Mosaic (Harding, 1994) client tool. Links are anchors or harpoons to the listed resources provided through implicit Universal Resource Locators (URLs) that can also be pointers towards anonymous ftp accounts as well as towards gopher (Anklesaria \& McCahill, 1993) services. \noindent This AstroWeb database of resource records is maintained by the authors who are members of the {\ip AstroWeb Consortium} and located at five institutions: CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI (see the detailed affiliations above). \noindent Each of these institutions supports a version of the AstroWeb service. The five separate versions have different styles and contents, but all are computed from the same master database, which is coded in an agreed interchange format. \noindent The AstroWeb database merges resource listings that were earlier maintained independently at the five institutions in a effort of providing a unique and more complete resource database. This eliminated also the need to check several different and largely redundant lists. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 2. Structure of AstroWeb Documents} \noindent Each resource record is categorized and many resources have a paragraph describing the resource and containing links to other records (see example in Fig.\ 1). Different presentations of the master listing are available, sorted by category, Internet domain, protocol and name, and name. There is also a searchable version of the merged resource listing, using a WAIS (Fullton, 1993) index. \noindent The database is queried on a regular basis to identify which URLs no longer work and the merged listing is edited to reflect these changes. \noindent Fig.\ 2 reflects the current statistics of the various categories of entries in the master database. It would be interesting to compare them with the situation by the time this report is read. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 3. Connecting to AstroWeb} \noindent Astroweb is available at: {\parskip 0pt plus 1 pt \bang http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html (CDS site) \bang http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astronomy.html (MSSSO site) \bang http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html (NRAO site) \bang http://ecf.hq.eso.org/astro-resources.html (ST-ECF site) \bang http://stsci.edu/net-resources.html (STScI site). \par} \noindent In each site, the successive panels are self-explanatory and provide also links to the other sites. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 4. Contributing to AstroWeb} \noindent The AstroWeb database has been designed to facilitate distributed maintenance. The AstroWeb Consortium welcomes also contributions of resource records to the database. \noindent Specific on-line facilities have been made available for this purpose. There are also HTML forms by which new resources can be added ({\ip AstroWeb Resource Entry Form}) and existing resources can be edited ({\ip AstroWeb Database Correction Report Form}). \bigskip \noindent {\yy 5. References} \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Anklesaria, F. \& McCahill, M.\ 1993, {\ip The Internet gopher}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 119-125. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Fullton, J.\ 1993, {\ip WAIS}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 113-117. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Hardin, J.\ 1994, {\ip Human collaborations technologies for the Internet -- NCSA Mosaic and NCSA Collage}, in {\ip Proc.\ Third Annual Conf.\ on Astron.\ Data Analysis Software and Systems -- ADASS 1993}, in press. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 White, B.\ 1993, {\ip WorldWideWeb (WWW)}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 127-133. \par} \vfill \eject \end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.35.82.22 Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.35.82.18 11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct) +33-88.49.12.55 F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60 France -+- * * Telex 890506 starobs f ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mosaic homepage URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Fri May 6 09:14:43 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA05414; Fri, 6 May 94 09:14:43 EDT Return-Path: Date: Fri, 6 May 94 09:14:36 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405061314.AA13993@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: minor edits denoted by % CHANGE - Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU \overfullrule=0mm \hfuzz=2pt \font \mm=cmr10 \font \pp=cmr10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ip=cmti10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ff=cmbx10 scaled\magstephalf \font \yy=cmbx10 scaled\magstep2 \font \ww=cmbx10 scaled\magstep4 \def\bang{\item{$\bullet$}} \parskip 10pt plus 1pt \eject \null \pp {\narrower \centerline{\ww The AstroWeb Database} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent R.\ Jackson$^1$, D.\ Wells$^2$, H.M.\ Adorf$^3$, D.\ Egret$^4$, A.\ Heck$^5$, A.\ Koekemoer$^6$ and F.\ Murtagh$^3$ \bigskip {\rm \parskip 3pt plus 1pt % CHANGE - my employer \item{$^1$} Computer Sciences Corporation, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, U.S.A.\ {\it (jackson@stsci.edu)} \item{$^2$} National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville VA 22903-2475, U.S.A.\ {\it (dwells@nrao.edu)} \item{$^3$} Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, c/o European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra\ss e, D-85748 Garching, Germany {\it (adorf@eso.org \& fmurtagh@eso.org)} \item{$^4$} Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg, c/o Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (egret@simbad.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^5$} Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^6$} Australian National University, Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Private Bag, Weston Creek ACT 2611, Australia {\it (anton@mso.anu.edu.au)} \par} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent {\yy 1. Generalities} \noindent % CHANGE - rewrote slightly to mention all the supported resources AstroWeb is a new WorldWideWeb (White, 1993) resource providing links to astronomy resources available on Internet. Links are anchors or hypertext references to the listed resources provided through implicit Universal Resource Locators (URLs). The links provide transparent access to information provided by World Wide Web, Gopher (Anklesaria, 1993), Anonymous FTP, WAIS (Fullton, 1993), USENET News, and Telnet services. \noindent This AstroWeb database of resource records is maintained by the authors who are members of the {\ip AstroWeb Consortium} and located at five institutions: CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI (see the detailed affiliations above). \noindent Each of these institutions supports a version of the AstroWeb service. The five separate versions have different styles and contents, but all are computed from the same master database, which is coded in an agreed interchange format. \noindent The AstroWeb database merges resource listings that were earlier maintained independently at the five institutions in a effort of providing a unique and more complete resource database. This eliminated also the need to check several different and largely redundant lists. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 2. Structure of AstroWeb Documents} \noindent % CHANGE - remote Fullton reference since used earlier Each resource record is categorized and many resources have a paragraph describing the resource and containing links to other records (see example in Fig.\ 1). Different presentations of the master listing are available, sorted by category, Internet domain, protocol and name, and name. There is also a searchable version of the merged resource listing, using a WAIS (Fullton, 1993) index. \noindent The database is queried on a regular basis to identify which URLs no longer work and the merged listing is edited to reflect these changes. \noindent Fig.\ 2 reflects the current statistics of the various categories of entries in the master database. It would be interesting to compare them with the situation by the time this report is read. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 3. Connecting to AstroWeb} \noindent Astroweb is available at: {\parskip 0pt plus 1 pt \bang http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html (CDS site) \bang http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astronomy.html (MSSSO site) \bang http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html (NRAO site) \bang http://ecf.hq.eso.org/astro-resources.html (ST-ECF site) \bang http://stsci.edu/net-resources.html (STScI site). \par} \noindent In each site, the successive panels are self-explanatory and provide also links to the other sites. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 4. Contributing to AstroWeb} \noindent The AstroWeb database has been designed to facilitate distributed maintenance. The AstroWeb Consortium welcomes also contributions of resource records to the database. \noindent Specific on-line facilities have been made available for this purpose. There are also HTML forms by which new resources can be added ({\ip AstroWeb Resource Entry Form}) and existing resources can be edited ({\ip AstroWeb Database Correction Report Form}). \bigskip \noindent {\yy 5. References} \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Anklesaria, F. \& McCahill, M.\ 1993, {\ip The Internet gopher}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 119-125. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Fullton, J.\ 1993, {\ip WAIS}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 113-117. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Hardin, J.\ 1994, {\ip Human collaborations technologies for the Internet -- NCSA Mosaic and NCSA Collage}, in {\ip Proc.\ Third Annual Conf.\ on Astron.\ Data Analysis Software and Systems -- ADASS 1993}, in press. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 White, B.\ 1993, {\ip WorldWideWeb (WWW)}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 127-133. \par} \vfill \eject \end From astroweb-request Fri May 6 16:34:53 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA06139; Fri, 6 May 94 16:34:53 EDT Return-Path: Date: Fri, 6 May 94 16:34:43 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405062034.AA16011@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: AstroWeb meets CVS Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU I believe that I have raised the HTML-Forms<->CVS interface to the AstroWeb master file to the level of BETA Software It is accessible at: http://lor.stsci.edu/astroweb/astroweb-cvs.html You can: Edit in the Mosaic window OR Save As HTML Use your favorite editor Open Local The following people don't have passwords yet: Adorf Anton Murtagh Bob From astroweb-request Wed May 11 01:46:12 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA06575; Wed, 11 May 94 01:46:12 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405110548.AA12721@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr Subject: AstroWeb papers Date: Wed, 11 May 94 07:48:46 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear Friends, You will find below the TeX file of the paper submitted for the CDS Information Bulletin, including the only suggestions for changes I received from Bob. There will be two pictures, both screen copies: Don's homepage for AstroWeb and the CDS Astroweb homepage (since we are publishing this paper in the CDS Bulletin). As to Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., I suggest we use basically the similar stuff, but with another second picture. Suggestions? All the best, Andre. %****************************** \overfullrule=0mm \hfuzz=2pt \font \mm=cmr10 \font \pp=cmr10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ip=cmti10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ff=cmbx10 scaled\magstephalf \font \yy=cmbx10 scaled\magstep2 \font \ww=cmbx10 scaled\magstep4 \def\bang{\item{$\bullet$}} \parskip 10pt plus 1pt \eject \null \pp {\narrower \centerline{\ww The AstroWeb Database} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent R.\ Jackson$^1$, D.\ Wells$^2$, H.M.\ Adorf$^3$, D.\ Egret$^4$, A.\ Heck$^5$, A.\ Koekemoer$^6$ and F.\ Murtagh$^3$ \bigskip {\rm \parskip 3pt plus 1pt \item{$^1$} Computer Sciences Corporation, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, U.S.A.\ {\it (jackson@stsci.edu)} \item{$^2$} National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville VA 22903-2475, U.S.A.\ {\it (dwells@nrao.edu)} \item{$^3$} Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, c/o European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra\ss e, D-85748 Garching, Germany {\it (adorf@eso.org \& fmurtagh@eso.org)} \item{$^4$} Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg, c/o Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (egret@simbad.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^5$} Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^6$} Australian National University, Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Private Bag, Weston Creek ACT 2611, Australia {\it (anton@mso.anu.edu.au)} \par} \bigskip \bigskip \noindent {\yy 1. Generalities} \noindent AstroWeb is a new WorldWideWeb (White, 1993) resource providing links to astronomy resources available on Internet. Links are anchors or hypertext references to the listed resources provided through implicit Universal Resource Locators (URLs). \noindent The links provide transparent access to information provided by WorldWideWeb, Gopher (Anklesaria, 1993), Anonymous FTP, WAIS (Fullton, 1993), USENET News, and Telnet services. \noindent This AstroWeb database of resource records is maintained by the authors who are members of the {\ip AstroWeb Consortium} and located at five institutions: CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI (see the detailed affiliations above). \noindent Each of these institutions supports a version of the AstroWeb service. The five separate versions have different styles and contents, but all are computed from the same master database, which is coded in an agreed interchange format. Fig.\ 1 reproduces the top of the CDS AstroWeb home page. \noindent The AstroWeb database merges resource listings that were earlier maintained independently at the five institutions in a effort of providing a unique and more complete resource database. This eliminated also the need to check several different and largely redundant lists. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 2. Structure of AstroWeb Documents} \noindent Each resource record is categorized and many resources have a paragraph describing the resource and containing links to other records. Different presentations of the master listing are available, sorted by category, Internet domain, protocol and name, and name. There is also a searchable version of the merged resource listing, using a WAIS index. \noindent The database is queried on a regular basis to identify which URLs no longer work and the merged listing is edited to reflect these changes. \noindent Fig.\ 2 reflects the current statistics of the various categories of entries in the master database (from the NRAO AstroWeb home page). It would be interesting to compare them with the situation by the time this report is read. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 3. Connecting to AstroWeb} \noindent Astroweb is available at: {\parskip 0pt plus 1 pt \bang http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html (CDS site) \bang http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astronomy.html (MSSSO site) \bang http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html (NRAO site) \bang http://ecf.hq.eso.org/astro-resources.html (ST-ECF site) \bang http://stsci.edu/net-resources.html (STScI site). \par} \noindent In each site, the successive panels are self-explanatory and provide also links to the other sites. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 4. Contributing to AstroWeb} \noindent The AstroWeb database has been designed to facilitate distributed maintenance. The AstroWeb Consortium welcomes also contributions of resource records to the database. \noindent Specific on-line facilities have been made available for this purpose. There are also HTML forms by which new resources can be added ({\ip AstroWeb Resource Entry Form}) and existing resources can be edited ({\ip AstroWeb Database Correction Report Form}). \bigskip \noindent {\yy 5. References} \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Anklesaria, F. \& McCahill, M.\ 1993, {\ip The Internet gopher}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 119-125. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Fullton, J.\ 1993, {\ip WAIS}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 113-117. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Hardin, J.\ 1994, {\ip Human collaborations technologies for the Internet -- NCSA Mosaic and NCSA Collage}, in {\ip Proc.\ Third Annual Conf.\ on Astron.\ Data Analysis Software and Systems -- ADASS 1993}, in press. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 White, B.\ 1993, {\ip WorldWideWeb (WWW)}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 127-133. \par} \vfill \eject \end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Fri May 13 16:40:01 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA14929; Fri, 13 May 94 16:40:01 EDT Return-Path: Date: Fri, 13 May 94 16:39:55 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405132039.AA18084@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: inSecurity check Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Would someone kindly see if they can access any of the following URL's? http://grendel.stsci.edu/ http://grendel.stsci.edu/apsb/ http://grendel.stsci.edu/opr/ http://grendel.stsci.edu/pep/ http://grendel.stsci.edu/spb/ I want to verify the security on one of our servers. Thanks. Bob From astroweb-request Mon May 16 04:21:38 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA19749; Mon, 16 May 94 04:21:38 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405160824.AA25682@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr Subject: Announcement via Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Date: Mon, 16 May 94 10:24:10 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear Friends, I am now going ahead with the announcement of AstroWeb via Astron. Astrophys. Suppl.. The TeX file follows. This is basically the same text as for the CDS Inform. Bull., without figures though. All the best, Andre. ************************** \overfullrule=0mm \hfuzz=2pt \font \nn=cmr9 \font \mm=cmr10 \font \small=cmr7 \font \mm=cmr9 scaled\magstephalf \font \pp=cmr10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ip=cmti10 scaled\magstephalf \font \ff=cmbx10 scaled\magstephalf \font \xx=cmbx10 scaled\magstep2 \font \yy=cmbx10 scaled\magstep3 \font \ww=cmbx10 scaled\magstep4 \def\bang{\item{$\bullet$}} \parskip 10pt plus 1pt \eject \null \pp \narrower \vfill \centerline{\ww AstroWeb} \bigskip \centerline{\ww A database of links to astronomy resources} \bigskip \centerline{(Announcement of a database)} \bigskip \bigskip \bigskip \noindent R.\ Jackson$^1$, D.\ Wells$^2$, H.M.\ Adorf$^3$, D.\ Egret$^4$, A.\ Heck$^5$, A.\ Koekemoer$^6$ and F.\ Murtagh$^3$ \bigskip {\rm \parskip 3pt plus 1pt \item{$^1$} Computer Sciences Corporation, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, U.S.A.\ {\it (jackson@stsci.edu)} \item{$^2$} National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville VA 22903-2475, U.S.A.\ {\it (dwells@nrao.edu)} \item{$^3$} Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, c/o European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra\ss e, D-85748 Garching, Germany {\it (adorf@eso.org \& fmurtagh@eso.org)} \item{$^4$} Centre de Donn\'ees astronomiques de Strasbourg, c/o Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (egret@simbad.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^5$} Observatoire Astronomique, 11 rue de l'Universit\'e, F-67000 Strasbourg, France {\it (heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr)} \item{$^6$} Australian National University, Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Private Bag, Weston Creek ACT 2611, Australia {\it (anton@mso.anu.edu.au)} \par} \vfill \centerline{(Proposed for publication in Astron.\ Astrophys.\ Suppl.\ Series)} \vfill \eject \null \noindent {\ff Summary} \noindent A WorldWideWeb resource providing links to astronomy resources available on Internet has been made available under Mosaic at five institutions: CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI. \bigskip \bigskip \noindent {\ff Key words:} database -- astronomy resources -- networks -- Internet -- Mosaic \vfill \eject \null \noindent {\yy 1. Generalities} \noindent AstroWeb is a new WorldWideWeb (White, 1993) resource providing links to astronomy resources available on Internet and using the Mosaic (Hardin, 1994) client tool. Links are anchors or hypertext references to the listed resources provided through implicit Universal Resource Locators (URLs). \noindent The links provide transparent access to information provided by WorldWideWeb, Gopher (Anklesaria, 1993), Anonymous FTP, WAIS (Fullton, 1993), USENET News, and Telnet services. \noindent This AstroWeb database of resource records is maintained by the authors who are members of the {\ip AstroWeb Consortium} and located at five institutions: CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, ST-ECF and STScI (see the detailed affiliations above). \noindent Each of these institutions supports a version of the AstroWeb service. The five separate versions have different styles and contents, but all are computed from the same master database, which is coded in an agreed interchange format. \noindent The AstroWeb database merges resource listings that were earlier maintained independently at the five institutions in a effort of providing a unique and more complete resource database. This eliminated also the need to check several different and largely redundant lists. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 2. Structure of AstroWeb Documents} \noindent Each resource record is categorized and many resources have a paragraph describing the resource and containing links to other records. Different presentations of the master listing are available, sorted by category, Internet domain, protocol and name, and name. There is also a searchable version of the merged resource listing, using a WAIS index. \noindent The database is queried on a regular basis to identify which URLs no longer work and the merged listing is edited to reflect these changes. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 3. Connecting to AstroWeb} \noindent Astroweb is available at: {\parskip 0pt plus 1 pt \bang http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html (CDS site) \bang http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astronomy.html (MSSSO site) \bang http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html (NRAO site) \bang http://ecf.hq.eso.org/astro-resources.html (ST-ECF site) \bang http://stsci.edu/net-resources.html (STScI site). \par} \noindent In each site, the successive panels are self-explanatory and provide also links to the other sites. \bigskip \noindent {\yy 4. Contributing to AstroWeb} \noindent The AstroWeb database has been designed to facilitate distributed maintenance. The AstroWeb Consortium welcomes also contributions of resource records to the database. \noindent Specific on-line facilities have been made available for this purpose. There are also HTML forms by which new resources can be added ({\ip AstroWeb Resource Entry Form}) and existing resources can be edited ({\ip AstroWeb Database Correction Report Form}). \bigskip \noindent {\yy 5. References} \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Anklesaria, F. \& McCahill, M.\ 1993, {\ip The Internet gopher}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 119-125. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Fullton, J.\ 1993, {\ip WAIS}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 113-117. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 Hardin, J.\ 1994, {\ip Human collaborations technologies for the Internet -- NCSA Mosaic and NCSA Collage}, in {\ip Proc.\ Third Annual Conf.\ on Astron.\ Data Analysis Software and Systems -- ADASS 1993}, in press. \noindent \hangindent=15mm \hangafter=1 White, B.\ 1993, {\ip WorldWideWeb (WWW)}, in {\ip Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences}, eds.\ A.\ Heck \& F.\ Murtagh, Kluwer Acad.\ Publ., Dordrecht, pp.\ 127-133. \par \vfill \eject \end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Mon May 16 08:43:11 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA21006; Mon, 16 May 94 08:43:11 EDT Return-Path: Date: Mon, 16 May 94 08:43:06 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405161243.AA18655@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: insecurity check Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Thanks for checking. I am using the NCSA httpd server. It appears that: If you have aliases defined in srm.conf and If you want access restricted to those aliases then You must make the appropriate entries in access.conf Bob From astroweb-request Wed May 25 10:42:09 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA27402; Wed, 25 May 94 10:42:09 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405251444.AA18387@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: aanda@frmeu51.bitnet Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr, astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Subject: AstroWeb paper for Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Date: Wed, 25 May 94 16:44:45 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU James, I just received your note expressing your willingness to publish our note on AstroWeb conditioned to the fact we mention in the abstract that A&A abstracts are accessible on WWW. I appreciate your a priori positive position towards our paper and I understand your interest in having this mentioned in our abstract, but I am afraid that, if we do this, this would be unfair for the hundreds of other services and organizations listed in AstroWeb that could complain we did not do the same about them. Our feeling here is that the resource `A&A abstracts/WWW' (already announced actually in A&A 284 (1994) E1 & A&ASuppl. 104 (1994) 1) is more an A&A/CDS matter than an AstroWeb one. We would rather suggest a specific paper on this matter either within the scope of CDS WWW services or of CDS yellow-page services. Such a paper would also allow, on one hand, future usage of this A&A abstracts service to be better referenced and, on the other hand, a more adequate recognition of the distinct contributions to this service and AstroWeb (in other words, the authorships of the papers should be different). As a kind of compromise, we could always add in the AstroWeb paper an illustration to the paper (a kind of screen copy of the corresponding CDS Mosaic page), but, again, I think this is a bit out of the way of a paper directly centered on the AstroWeb consortium. This message is actually copied to the other members of this consortium in order to trigger their reactions. Andre. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.35.82.22 Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.35.82.18 11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct) +33-88.49.12.55 F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60 France -+- * * Telex 890506 starobs f ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mosaic homepage URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Wed May 25 12:59:14 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA27559; Wed, 25 May 94 12:59:14 EDT Return-Path: Date: Wed, 25 May 94 12:57:47 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405251657.AA19155@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr In-Reply-To: <9405251444.AA18387@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> (message from Andre HECK on Wed, 25 May 94 16:44:45 +0200) Subject: Re: AstroWeb paper for Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Cc: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU I agree with you position on "we mention in the abstract that A&A abstracts are accessible on WWW" and with your suggested compromise. There are other journals, e.g., PASP (bond@stsci.edu ed.) Bob From astroweb-request Mon May 30 09:22:31 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA09233; Mon, 30 May 94 09:22:31 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405301325.AA10339@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr Subject: AstroWeb van Gogh's painting Date: Mon, 30 May 94 15:25:24 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Those of you interested in the painting that Don selected to illustrate the AstroWeb page could refer also to Sky & Tel. (1985) p. 105 detailing the sister painting `Starry Night on the Rhone' which seems astronomically quite accurate. AH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Mon May 30 12:27:36 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA09458; Mon, 30 May 94 12:27:36 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405301630.AA16654@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Cc: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr Subject: Answer from James Lequeux - Please comment Date: Mon, 30 May 94 18:30:13 +0200 From: Andre HECK Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear Folks, Here is the answer I got from James Lequeux about our paper for A&AS. If you are not happy with it (I am), please comment accordingly. Cheers, Andre. **************** 30.5.94 Dear Andre Thanks for your mail concerning the WWW paper. A possible compromise is that as an editor I insert a note recalling that our abstracts are distributed under WWW. The text wxould be extracted from our a The text would be extracted from our announcement. These will not be the responsibi sibility of the WWW consortium. Is this compromise acceptable ? JAMES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From astroweb-request Mon May 30 18:42:41 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA09752; Mon, 30 May 94 18:42:41 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 31 May 94 08:42:18 EST From: anton@mso.anu.edu.au (anton koekemoer) Message-Id: <9405302242.AA04937@merlin.anu.edu.au> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Subject: Re: AstroWeb paper for Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear friends, I also agree with the idea of not explicitly advertising particular resources in the A&A paper, since as Andre points out this would be quite unfair to all the others also providing services on WWW. James Lequeux's solution sounds fine to me too - while I'm not really familiar with the politics involved, it does seem to me that it will remove from us all responsibility for the comment about A&A's abstracts. It is maybe more appropriate for such a note to be inserted by the editor anyway, since the abstracts being advertised are his responsibility more than ours. cheers, - anton. From astroweb-request Tue May 31 02:26:42 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA10108; Tue, 31 May 94 02:26:42 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405310626.AA05226@ns3.hq.eso.org> X-Sender: hmadorf@ns3.hq.eso.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:28:06 +0100 To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU From: Alberto Maurizio Chavan (by way of adorf@eso.org (Hans-Martin Adorf)) Subject: Tcl/Tk WWW pages Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU A couple of URL's you may want to check out. http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~wade/Auto/Tcl.html http://www.sco.com/IXI/of_interest/tcl/Tcl.html Hans-Martin From astroweb-request Tue May 31 06:15:48 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA11244; Tue, 31 May 94 06:15:48 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405311015.AA08672@ns3.hq.eso.org> X-Sender: hmadorf@ns3.hq.eso.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 12:17:13 +0100 To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU From: Salim.Ansari@mail.esrin.esa.it (Salim Ansari - DPE/IE) (by way of adorf@eso.org (Hans-Martin Adorf)) Subject: Update your AstroWeb DB ... Wien ist endlich ONLINE Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Hallo Hans Martin, Nach den Turbulenzen der letzten Wochen habe ich mich schon beruhigt. Ich moechte mich entschuldigen ... ich glaube ich war etwas zu grob und uebereilt in meinen Rueckschluessen... Es war halt die Frust ... WIEN ist ENDLICH erreichbar ueber die Web : http://charon.ast.univie.ac.at/ Ein Update zu eurer Liste ist faellig !! Salim From astroweb-request Tue May 31 06:28:14 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA11262; Tue, 31 May 94 06:28:14 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9405311028.AA08911@ns3.hq.eso.org> X-Sender: hmadorf@ns3.hq.eso.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 12:29:38 +0100 To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU From: "D.A.Cesarsky (33-1)6985 8680" (by way of adorf@eso.org (Hans-Martin Adorf)) Subject: WWW and the French ISO Center Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU To: 19.308::pec !Peter Clegg LWS smtp%"thijsdg@sron.rug.nl" !Thijs deGrauw SWS 28.232::lemke !Dietrich Lemke PHT 32.11::cesarsky !Catherine Cesarsky CAM isocls::mkessler !Martin Kessler SOC CC: isocls::jsternbe !Julian Sternberg SOC smtp%"adorf@eso.org" !Hans-Martin Adorf ST-ECF From: Diego A. Cesarsky Subject: MOSAIC Server I am in the process of installing a MOSAIC (Wide World Web, WWW) server in the framework of the french ISO Center. At present, the server just gives a few links to other interesting services as well as information relevant to those who may want to apply for assistance to answer the Call for Proposals. Many other services should be possible and we are still discussing which ones to offer in a near future; CAM's Capabilities Simulator is just one exemple. I learnt from Julian Sternberg the availability of ESA/ESTEC/SAI server and I have added a reference to this service in my own ISO Center Welcome page. The purpose of this e-mail is twofold: 1- to announce the French ISO Center server (accessible through http://iscam1.ias.fr); and 2- inquire from other ISO instrument teams if they have any intention of setting up similar services (SAI have done it already) so that in due time we can cross-reference each other For those who may want to learn more about WWW, I recommend the article by Hans-Martin Adorf in a recent ST-ECF Newsletter (number 21, april 1994) Best regards, Diego A. Cesarsky From astroweb-request Tue May 31 08:37:21 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA11363; Tue, 31 May 94 08:37:21 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 31 May 94 22:36:55 EST From: anton@mso.anu.edu.au (anton koekemoer) Message-Id: <9405311236.AA11927@merlin.anu.edu.au> To: astroweb@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Subject: update on AstroWeb at MSSSO Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Dear friends, You may have noticed that my version of AstroWeb at MSSSO has been undergoing something of a facelift over the last month or so. This is now essentially finished. The top-level file is still under the same URL: http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astronomy.html The main change is that I now regularly update local copies of the other AstroWeb presentations. These are fetched once a day using scripts derived from those used by Daniel Egret / Bob Jackson. The files are automatically fetched and compared to previous versions and any differences are kept in a separate directory, making it much easier to check for new URLs. I still add URLs to the final database by hand but that's just my personal preference. I also fetch and compare two files not in the official AstroWeb presentations: http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astroweb/inp_incoming.html http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html Bob, if you like I'll also include your "editable" master file in the list of files to be fetched and checked. Currently I don't know its URL. In case anyone is interested in the scripts I'm using, everything is kept in the directory: http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astroweb/fetch/ The README file gives a reasonable, if somewhat terse, description of the functions of the different scripts and how they relate to each other. Feel free to copy/modify these scripts (improve them even -there's a lot of scope for that), or just check them to see that I'm fetching the right files. (PS I note that the text of the README file appears automatically, along with the files, when the above URL is selected - it's kind of useful but I have no idea of whether this is a real or bogus "feature" of Mosaic...) One question I'd be interested in: - is (was) it the intention of Astroweb to incorporate the CDS yellow-page URLs into the database? I have taken the liberty of converting all the "personal" homepage URLs from CDS (url2.htm) into the standard format, and these have been merged with the other records (some minor changes being made to the other records in the case of alternate URLs) to produce the final file: http://meteor.anu.edu.au/anton/astroweb/yp_topzone.html - However if there is some political problem with doing this then I'll happily remove all these URLs again. For the record there are now 883 URLs in this new yp_topzone.html. Please feel free to fetch it. Some other minor changes have also been made, primarily to the titles of university departments, in order to increase the general consistency of URL names. But there's still a lot of room for improvement in this area. It's incredible just how quickly the Web grows and how fast one has to move in order to keep up with it, even just the astronomy-related services -or is it just me? Seems that a good way is to do a little each day, basically along the same lines as a hobby. This also seems to match the growth pattern of www itself. cheers, - anton. From astroweb-request Tue May 31 08:44:59 1994 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA11380; Tue, 31 May 94 08:44:59 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 31 May 94 08:44:54 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9405311244.AA21374@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: Down for repairs Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU >http://lor.stsci.edu/astroweb/loadastrowebfile.html > >eliminates the need for any local software other >than Mosaic. > >It is looking like (but I have not exhaustively checked) >that you can either: > > Edit the file in the Mosaic window > > OR > > SAVE AS with HTML format, > edit the file, > and then OPEN LOCAL >404 Not Found >The requested URL /astroweb/loadastrowebfile.html was not found on this server. Sorry. Am in process of redoing things. Bob