Enabling the book metaphor for the World-Wide-Web: disseminating on-line information as dynamic Web documents

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rauch ◽  
P. Leone ◽  
D. Gillihan
Author(s):  
John A. Hines

More and more, internal applications are being moved from legacy systems into a more flexible Webbased environment. The issue concerning World Wide Web technologies is important to today’s businesses. Decision making in this area is complex and needs to consider carefully the characteristics and needs of the entities employing these technologies. It has furthermore become clear that the Internet, in particular the World Wide Web, is playing an increasingly larger role in how people communicate. Through this research, technologies used to serve dynamic Web content are compared. This comparison includes performance as well as cost issues, the things that professionals in the business world face when deciding the best implementation of Web server technologies. Existing studies cover a limited scope of the overall picture, and research has thus been focused into very narrow aspects of the global entity. However, the continuing developments in Web technologies dictate the need for a broad scope approach to comparative studies in this field. Such a scope is pursued in this research.


2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keren

Abstract: Blogging, the publication of on-line diaries with links to other Web sites, is a recent activity and yet is already producing its celebrities. The author analyzes diary entries posted over five years by one master blogger, and his relations with his readers, to try to originate preliminary hypotheses on the politics of blogging. Observation of blogging in one of its most glamorous manifestations suggests that the new emancipation achieved by self-representation on the World Wide Web may be associated with what Scott Lash has called “the politics of melancholy,” here characterized by preference for virtual reality, formation of a cult-like community, and political passivity. Résumé : Le blogage, qui consiste à afficher son journal personnel en ligne en y incluant des liens vers des sites connexes, est une activité récente et pourtant elle a déjà ses célébrités. L’auteur analyse les entrées de journal d’un maître bloggeur sur une durée de cinq ans ainsi que ses rapports avec ses lecteurs, en vue de développer des hypothèses préliminaires sur la politique du blogage. L’observation du blogage dans une de ses manifestations les plus attrayantes suggère que l’on peut associer la nouvelle émancipation que permet la représentation de soi sur le Web à ce que Scott Lash appelle « la politique de la mélancolie », caractérisée ici par une préférence pour la réalité virtuelle, la formation d’une communauté ressemblant à un culte et la passivité politique.


2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S260) ◽  
pp. 603-606
Author(s):  
Françoise Genova

AbstractAstronomy has been at the forefront among scientific disciplines for the sharing of data, and the advent of the World Wide Web has produced a revolution in the way astronomers do science. The recent development of the concept of Virtual Observatory builds on these foundations. This is one of the truly global endeavours of astronomy, aiming at providing astronomers with seamless access to data and tools, including theoretical data. Astronomy on-line resources provide a rare example of a world-wide, discipline-wide knowledge infrastructure, based on internationally agreed interoperability standards.


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