Archives of What's New - WWW Social Sciences
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: Oct-Dec 1994
30 December 1994
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 22:45:55 -0800
SENDER: NTKCD-NTCPM (hho@hsc.usc.edu)
Subject: VietWEB: Links to Vietnamese Culture
Welcome to VIET-WEB,
The Pages of VietNet/Soc.Culture.Vietnamese, brought to you by
VietNet Admin.
VietWEB presents:
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* Vietnet/SCV FAQ, Guide-lines, and general information on
the main Vietnet/SCV & its numerous mailing lists.
* Information and specs on Vietnamese software by many professional
groups, including links to FTP archives.
* Direct link to Vietnet/Soc.Culture.Vietnamese via News, plus
other Vietnamese mailing lists.
* Technical library in HTML format by Vietnamese professionals
worldwide.
* Sceneries of Vietnamese places & people, plus links to
graphics archives
* Songs libraries of contemporary & folk songs
* Poetry libraries of famous poems & great works
* Pages introducing Vietnamese organizations worldwide
* Links to Vietnamese Student Associations at many campuses
* Commercial Vietnamese Org on Net
+ Many Links to other Vietnamese specific pages
VietWEB offers 3 different interface:
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* VIQR (7 bits Vietnamese for shell accounts/email
* VISCII (Full 8 bits Vietnamese)
* English (still working on English)
How to Connect to VietWEB:
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URL http://www.internic.net/~hot/
Email for Q/A hho@usc.edu or hot@is.internic.net
How to View FULL 8 bits Vietnamese:
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For PC & MAC, install VISCII truetype fonts into your system,
then inside Mosaic or NetScape, set the font to a Vietnamese
VISCII fonts. (WinVNKey or VietVU)
For DOS, run VietDOS first, then dial your modem & run lynx
For X, use VISCII Postscript Fonts, there is a vnmosaic source
at haydn.stanford.edu:/incoming/
Thank you many netters for the help of setting up the Vie^.tWEB.
More helps are needed. We are collecting Technical Vietnamese
Papers to publish on the web, and collections of famous poems
:-) Please contact us if you can help. Else, publish your own pages,
we will link them.
--
VietNet Viet-WEB Server:
http://www.internic.net/~hot/
VietNet EBBS/Dial-in:
(619) 566-5200 / Join Conference #4 for VietNet
VietNet Information:
viet-net-info@media.mit.edu
VietNet ListServer:
listserv@vm.usc.edu
send a message with the following line in the body:
subscribe VIETNET First LastName
VietNet Main FTP Server:
PC/DOS/Unix: media.mit.edu or oak.oakland.edu
Precompiled Unix: haydn.stanford.edu
Human Q/A: hho@usc.edu
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 12:17:35 +48000
From: "Samuel P. Mallare" (cscspm@linux2.dlsu.edu.ph)
Subject: Philippines' DLSU web server
I'd just like to inform you about the web server here in De La Salle
University (DLSU):
www.dlsu.edu.ph
We also maintain web servers in the country:
http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/othersites/phil-www.html
21 December 1994
Announcing the University of Macau homepage which provides an
introduction to University of Macau (formerly University
of East Asia) and Macau. In it you will find that Macau
is a unique blending of Chinese and Portuguese cultures which
makes Macau a place where visitors will find themselves engrossed and
fascinated.
The URL for University of Macau's homepage is:
http://sftw.umac.mo:8000
Dr. J.A.Wang
University of Macau
P.O.Box 3001, Macau
Fax: (853) 831 694
Tel: (853) 3974 368
E-mail: fstjaw@sftw.umac.mo
17 November 1994
The "Hong Kong Business Directory" is a free service on the World Wide Web
that allows Internet users all over the world to source products, find
manufacturers, locate importers and exporters, find hotels, services,
suppliers, buyers, even individuals in Hong Kong. There are over 123,400
entries in the Directory and can be searched by "keywords". Most entries are
company or individual names only. Some entries have additional information
such as "product list" or "catalog" which the search engine also looks at.
Entries with graphic catalogs available are clearly marked for easy
identification.
URL http://FarEast.Com/HongKong/directory.html
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The Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo now has a WWW server.
The server offers
(1) Social Science Japan, an online magazine containing articles on recent
trends in economics, political science and legal research on Japan.
(2) An events diary of conferences, seminars etc. for social scientists
interested in Japan.
The address is:
http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Jonathan Lewis (jonathan@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp),
Institute of Social Science,
University of Tokyo
16 November 1994
The Coombs Computing Unit at the Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific
and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, calls for nominations
for the
Best of 1994 Social Sciences & Humanities Internet
Info.Systems.
Readers are warmly invited to email tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au their nominations
for the following seven (7) categories of networked facilities:
- Best overall SocSci/Humanities networked information system
- Best SocSci/Humanities FTP system
- Best SocSci/Humanities Gopher system
- Best SocSci/Humanities WWW system
- Best SocSci/Humanities Electronic Journal
- Best SocSci/Humanities Electronic (email) Forum/List/Discussion Group
- Best SocSci/Humanities On-line Database
All nominations (with
subject line marked "BEST") need to provide the following details:
- Nomination category (eg. Overall, FTP, Gopher, WWW, E-journal, E-mail, Dbase)
- Info.System's name (eg. ABCD Studies & Resources Page)
- Info.System's institutional affiliation (eg. Univ of XYZ, Sweden)
- Info.System's URL (for a mailing-list its full name and
electronic address)
- Total score awarded on the scale 1-10 points
- quality/ usefulness/ amount of information offered (0-5 pts)
- presentation/ ergonomics/ aesthetics/ accessibility (0-5 pts)
- Name & e-mail of the person sending the nomination
Participation in the "Best of 1994 Social Sciences & Humanities Inf.
Resources" vote is open to all people and all Internet sites. Any
person may nominate more than one site in a given category. The
nominations close on 31 December 1994.
For interim results see the URL
"http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/BEST/Best94.html" Final
results of the poll will published in early January 1995.
In order to preserve integrity and spontaneity of the nominations
process, members of the Coombs Computing Unit, ANU will abstain
from casting their "Best-of-94" votes.
15 November 1994
Information below was kindly supplied by toshio@info.anu.edu.au (Toshio Takagi):
NCFC's (National Computing/networking Facility of China) WWW server
(http://www.cnc.ac.cn) is available for internet users, providing
information about NCFC and many other networks which connected to NCFC
backbone. These networks are not only covering the Zhong Guan Cun area but
also the Beijing Metro area and many other cities. All WWW services
announced on CINET-L newsletters: IHEP and NCFC, can also be accessed via
http://www.cnd.org. (cinet-editor@cnd.org)
____ ____ ____
After IHEP and NCFC got connected to the Internet, Beijing University of
Chemical Technology (BUCT) became the third institute that has full internet
connectivity in China. BUCT joined the Internet family on September 20, 1994
via Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Its domain name is BUCT.EDU.CN
(IP address: 192.112.36.5). (Heting Chu 06 Nov 94
22:21:31 EST)
____ ____ ____
InfoLink announced on Nov. 2 a new WWW server (http://www.infolink.net).
This server is dedicated as an information hub for businesses and Internet
users in Hong Kong to exchange information, provide their home pages and
to provide a central place that leads to varies kinds of local and
international information resources. (otto@infolink.net)
____ ____ ____
Guangdong Public Numerical Data Network was put into operation in Guangzhou
on October 27. The data network (DDN) has a capacity of over 14,000
terminals, and it is the largest provincial DDN in China at present. The
established network is divided into two parts: the backbone provincial
network and city/county network. 11 cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen,
Zhuhai were connected with the network. (info@asiainfo.com)
____ ____ ____
The China section of the Eurasian land optical-fibre cable extending from
Shanghai at the east end to Frankfort at the west end, has been recently
finished, according to the Posts and Telecommunications Administration of
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyugr Autonomous Region. It is learned that
upon completion, the Eurasian land optical-fibre cable can be linked to the
Shanghai-Japan-U.S. submarine cable in the east, incorporated into the
European telecommunications network via Frankfort at the west end, and then
join the American telecommunications network. (info@asiainfo.com)
One of the big changes in HEPnet is the new establishment of the Japan-China
link. KEK (National Laboratory for High Energy Physics) in Tsukuba, Japan,
and IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics) in Beijing, China, are connected
with a 64Kbps satellite circuit and Cisco routers.
The 64Kbps circuit itself was delivered from telecom companies to us in
March 1994, but it took some time to get approval from US DOC in using Cisco
routers in IHEP. Both DECnet and IP started to run over the KEK-IHEP link on
18 July 1994. In the DECnet Internet, IHEP belongs to Japan's area, area 40,
due to the shortness in address space in the DECnet PhaseIV. In the TCP/IP
Internet, IHEP has their own AS and is connected to KEK with BGP. From IHEP,
the link is extended to ITP (Institute of Theoritical Physics) and to ISTIC
(Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China) in China.
The satellite circuit will soon be replaced by a terrestrial circuit
(hopefully, before the APNG meeting in November 1994).
HEPnet-J and other networks in Japan including SINET, JOIN, TISN, and WIDE
who have their own link to the US are mutually connected at Tokyo. Some of
them are configured to work as a back-up of the KEK-US link. Thus, even in
case the KEK-US link happens to be down, not only HEPnet-J but also IHEP
won't lose the connectivity to the world. However the KEK-IHEP link
doesn't have any back-up for the present, though there exist several
international links terminated in Beijing. Coordination in the routing and
the back-up in Asia shall be needed in near future in some place (probably
in APNG).
KEK has a plan to extend the link to High Energy Physics institutes in
Russia from KEK. The KEK-US link was upgraded from 192Kbps to 512Kbps on 28
August 1994.
19 October 1994
It's a great pleasure introduce the Connections Consulting Company of
China and it's excellent Information Package which is weekly updated.
As a local representative, I hope you can add the URL
http://www.ihep.ac.cn/com/CCC/ccc.html to the VL on Asian Studies.
Also, I can provide the full Information Package for testing. Please
tell me how to ftp it to you.
Best regards
"Gu, Xiangming / Institute of High Energy Physics"
(guxm@bepc2.ihep.ac.cn)
12 October 1994
Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific
and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University, Canberra has
developed a Info.Systems Quality & Standards home page for keeping track of documents and resources
dealing with principles of design & maintenance of the high quality www-, gopher-,
ftp-, wais- and email-based information facilities.
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html
6 October 1994
From: Ward Takamiya (ward@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Announcing the Hawai`i Home Page which provides a starting point for
access to Web services in the state of Hawai`i. In it, find links to
Hawai`i businesses, K-12 and higher education servers, state government
agencies, various organizations and visitor information.
The URL for the Hawai`i Home Page is:
http://www.hawaii.net
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