World Wide Web Virtual Library Research Articles

The World Wide Web virtual library: theatre and drama

The World Wide Web virtual library: theatre and drama

The World Wide Web virtual library: theatre and drama

The World Wide Web virtual library: theatre and drama

REESWeb: the World Wide Web virtual library for Russian & East European studies

REESWeb: the World Wide Web virtual library for Russian & East European studies

REESWeb: the World Wide Web virtual library for Russian & East European studies

REESWeb: the World Wide Web virtual library for Russian & East European studies

The World Wide Web virtual library: forest genetics and tree breeding

The World Wide Web virtual library: forest genetics and tree breeding

World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

The World Wide Web virtual library: the men's issues page

The World Wide Web virtual library: the men's issues page

Growing Pains at REESWeb

Abstract REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources is an annotated, subject-specific link site, part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, begun in late'1993. In its four years it has become a huge site and difficult to use. A reorganization last year using Frames and shortened pages helped, but its structure still causes problems for users. There are four basic reasons why the site is difficult to use in its present form: no search engine, split categories, idiosyncratic terminology and idiosyncratic subcatego-rization. The search engine problem will be solved soon, after the site moves to a new server. Another simple improvement will be to create a map of the site. These two changes by themselves are not enough, because the site needs increased browsability. The author explores various considerations involved in reorganizing REESWeb, taken from other Web sites, from subject cataloging and from indexing.

Growing pains at REESWeb: Thoughts on restructuring a link site which has outgrown its organization

REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources is an annotated, subject-specific link site, part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, begun in late 1993. In its four years it has become a huge site and difficult to use. A reorganization last year using Frames and shortened pages helped, but its structure still causes problems for users. There are four basic reasons why the site is difficult to use in its present form: no search engine, split categories, idiosyncratic terminology and idiosyncratic subcategorization. The search engine problem will be solved soon, after the site moves to a new server. Another simple improvement will be to create a map of the site. These two changes by themselves are not enough, because the site needs increased browsability. The author explores various considerations involved in reorganizing REESWeb, taken from other Web sites, from subject cataloging and from indexing.

World Wide Web for Crystallography.

Some characteristics of the World Wide Web (WWW) and its Virtual Library (W3VL) are described. Aspects of the setting up, maintenance, future development and objectives of the World Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography are detailed. An overview of the successful use of WWW in the organisation of two crystallographic conferences and one entirely electronic conference is given. A revolution in scientific publication is under way with the introduction of WWW and CD-ROM technologies and a few of the points important to crystallography are touched upon. An application to distance teaching in crystallography is described. There is no mention of WWW applications to crystallographic databases in this paper as others at the Workshop have adequately described their work.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library of museums

The World Wide Web (WWW) Virtual Library of museums is an interactive directory of on-line museums on the global Internet computer network of networks. Virtual 'visitors' can select a 'hyperlink' to a museum of their choice (categorised by country) and view on-line hypermedia information and exhibits provided by that museum. Since its inception in 1994, the page has received over 200,000 visits, with around a thousand a day recently, easily the most popular page at our site. The paper includes a brief introduction to this library, some of the museum sites linked to it, visitor statistics, and possible future directions.