We'll be continously improving Galaxy over the upcoming months.
Also available electronically (and through the Galaxy) are Press Releases for the Galaxy and SprintLinkPlus debut at COMNET next week (1/25) and the EINet TRP and MADE government awards. Send me (speyer@einet.net) a message if you would like an email PR copy.
Access to EINet Galaxy is at http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html
Regards, -Bruce
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 23:02:03 CST From: wa@mcc.com (Wayne Allen) To: www-announce@www0.cern.ch Subject: New Directory Services!
EINet would like to announce an *experimental* World Wide Web-based directory service called the EINet Galaxy. The need for such a directory stems from the sheer size and diversity of information available on the Internet today. In this environment, the ability of any one user to find and access information in a timely fashion depends on directory (location) services that can quickly point to the most promising sources of service or information. Such a directory must also reflect the ever-changing landscape of information, so that new information is made visible quickly, and stale information references are purged.
EINet has recently been a participant in several government awards aimed at promoting electronic commerce. EINet expects the Galaxy to become a model for the kind of directory services used for electronic commerce and believes that these government efforts will identify the necessary features of a global electronic commerce directory.
We have used both manual and automated techniques to identify and classify sources of information on the Internet. This effort has included looks at Gopher sites, WAIS sites, and WEB sites. The information has been indexed and is searchable. Thus, a user should be able to reach useful information in a small number of steps.
Caveat: the Gopher references are culled from the Veronica dataset, and some number of them are now stale. We will do our best to keep our information as up-to-date as possible. We hope to improve our data collection procedures and the information content over time. EINet has a growing staff dedicated to this task.
All comments, suggestions, etc. are invited. Feel free to contact the galaxy staff via email at galaxy@einet.net.
Access to EINet Galaxy is at http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html
Cheers!
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