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What's New in WWW Asian Studies Newsletter

Editor: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au), Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.

The "What's New in WWW Asian Studies" online newsletter (ISSN 1323-9368) is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. This facility is provided by the Australian National University (ANU) as a service to the World Wide Web community.

On-line resources listed in this newsletter are also recorded in the
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What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter ISSN 1323-9368
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/asian-www-news.html
Details of new or significantly improved networked resources are added to this newsletter on a request basis.

WWW Asian Studies Announcements: Jul-Sep 1994

6 September 1994

The Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library has been now added to the other three WWW Virtual Library systems (Asian Studies, Demography & Population Studies, and Social Sciences) developed and maintained by the Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University , Canberra.

5 September 1994

Jeffrey Friedl (jfriedl@omron.co.jp) announces the new version of his Japanese/English English/Japanese dictionary at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. It works without the need for Japanese fonts (although they're supported if you have them), and features a particularly nifty interface which allows advanced user customization across all pages, with text pages being tailored to each user on the fly. It can only be described as subarashii <-- (try it! it's a direct link to a dictionary query with an unusually large font that you're supposed to be impressed with :-)

The Chinese-Language-Related Information Page is a new WWW site for users of WWW browsers such as Mosaic, Lynx, and Cello. It points to resources all over the world, with the following categories and more to come in the future: Even though the Page is still under construction, it already contains many useful links to relevant information. In the future it will be continually improved to make it a comprehensive navigational tool pointing you to Chinese-language-related resources. The intended audience is anyone who has an interest in Chinese, including speakers and students of Chinese languages, China scholars, Chinese teachers, translators, linguists, and East Asiatic librarians.

The URL is: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mcevilly/www/chinfo.html

If you maintain or know of a site that has related information, please let me know so I can add a pointer to it.

| Carlos McEvilly ======== The Chinese-Language-Related Information Page: | | Chinese |

2 September 1994

The Armenian Research Center of the University of Michigan-Dearborn now maintains a homepage of material on the Armenians, their history, the Armenian Genocide, and the current struggle of Nagorno- Karabagh.

22 August 1994

Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University has been now invited by CERN to administer the Demography & Population Studies WWW Virtual Library .
Also, the Coombs Computing Unit, ANU has developed Irena, a Perl programme which uses keywords to glean from pages of a server in which it is installed all relevant hypertext links and their annotations. Irena is is especially useful for locating resources referenced in long, complex and densly written HTML documents. One of the Irena's search pages at the ANU system is accessible from here.

9 August 1994

EX-USSR Countries' Govt. Details - Links to HTML files from Univ. of Kansas:

  • Kazakhstan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

  • Kyrgyzstan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

  • Tajikistan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

  • Tatarstan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

  • Turkmenistan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

  • Uzbekistan - Govt.Details (U.Kansas,USA)

    12 July 1994

    The Academia Sinica is pleased to announce its WWW server and gopher server. Academia Sinica was founded on June 9, 1928, as the highest academic institution in Taiwan, Republic of China. The server is set up by the Computing Center and provides information both in English and in Chinese (Big-5). The purpose of this server is to introduce the Academia Sinica and to serve as the Academy-Wide Information System.

    7 July 1994

    Experimental WWW Server of the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM,Intl U,Japan) is now up and running.

    The purpose of this server is to provide access to a wide range of information from and about Japan with the goal of creating deeper understanding about Japanese society, politics, industry, and, most important, the Japanese people.

    GLOCOM is a research center based at the International University of Japan in Tokyo, Japan. The center focusses on the global impact of computer-based communication on a wide range of social, economic, political, cultural and technical issues.


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