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TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity

IETF49, San Diego

IETF User Services WG

Yuri Demchenko, TERENA

[email protected]

USWG, IETF49, San Diego TERENA Update IETF49 Slide_2

Outlines

• GNRT at TERENA

• TIUG – GNRT Edition of Yr2001 User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference

Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme

Portal Coordination Workshop


TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/

User Overview

World Wide Web

Web Searching (including SE, Subject Gateways)

Specialist Tools (Directory, etc.)

Group Communication

Providing Information

Security

Other Tools (FTP, Gopher)

Printed by AWL/Pearson Education - October 1999

“INTERNET User's Guide to Network Resource Tools. 2000 Edition”


GNRT Mirror sites

• Croatia - http://www.carnet.hr/vodic/gnrt/

• Greece - http://www.grnet.gr/gnrt/

• Italy - http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/net/gnrt/

• FYRo Macedonia - http://ii.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/

• Sweden - http://www.student.uu.se/gnrt/

GNRT Section at TERENA website http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/

is the most popular– More than 50% of all web traffic, e.g.

http://www.terena.nl/stats/usage_200011.html

http://www.carnet.hr/vodic/gnrt/


GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, Extensions and Updates

Change name to TIUG – TERENA Internet Users Guide to Tools and Services – still TBD

User Overview -> Introduction

How to use the Guide

Responsible use of network (Netiquette, Spam, E-mail viruses etc.)

Web Searching

SE and Subject Gateways update

Special purposes SE and Portals extended

FTP Search and Image Search

Specialist Tools

Directory/LDAP technologies update


GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, Extensions and Updates

Group Communication E-Mail, Mailing Lists sections – rewritten

Streaming technologies

Providing Information Metadata/RDF and XML

Java/Interactive Web Tools

FTP

Security Update Security Tools

Add about CSIRT services


Other User Services TERENA Activity

User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference Advanced Networking Applications for Gigabit Networks

Technological aspects mostly


Portal Coordination Workshop To coordinate Portal oriented projects at NRENs


TERENA Networking Conference TNC2001 Antalya, Turkey, 14-17 May 2001

Main topics Advanced Networks

Networking Technology

Middleware and Security

Advanced Services

Advanced Applications

The Last Mile

Research and Education Networking in the Mediterranean Region



• WG-i18n concluded in 1998

• There are many talks to re-start ML/i18n activity at TTP– Or make ML/i18n as a requirement to all other areas in TTP

• Current status– Mailing list is alive – [email protected], archive –

http://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0011&L=wg-i18n

– Webpage on Multilingual Support in Internet/IT Applications at http://www.terena.nl/multiling/

– Special pages • European Multilingual Requirements

http://www.terena.nl/multiling/euroml/index.html

• and test pages http://www.terena.nl/multiling/euroml/testpages.html


Portal Coordination Workshop February 15, 2001, Amsterdam

• Follow-on activity of previous TERENA projects: – CHIC on Cooperative Indexing

– Clearing House for Internet related Project in Europe

– REsearch Indexing Service for European NRENs (REIS) Assist in the dissemination of information in a multi-lingual

environment using multilingual indexing system and cross-language searching

To facilitate development of new technologies, standardisation and cooperation framework for European A&R community

Current webpage - http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/


Portal Coordination Workshop – February 15, 2001, Amsterdam

Main topics – Providing Services for Professional Community

• Portal related projects in NRENs (including Portal, Search and Indexing Service examples)

• Special Portal services for professional scientific, research and education communities

• Portal(s) as an element of building cooperative environment for information and experience exchange in Europe

• Cooperation and collaboration in building cross-border portal information services - best of practice, common approach, standards and technologies


Portal Coordination Workshop – February 15, 2001, Amsterdam

Main topics – Technological Issues• Search and Indexing Techniques (relevant searching, adaptive searching,

cooperative resource discovery, cross-searching automatic indexes and SBIG)

• Metadata and XML/RDF (semantic web and web-of-trust, trusted metadata environment)

• Information Quality and Quality ranking

• Image and Multimedia searching and metadata for multimedia information

• Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching)

• Electronic/virtual communities (Instant messaging, virtual and persistent presence, trusted communities)

• -- Legal issues and privacy --

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