Acquisition of a Computer Server for the GeoClio Electronic Bulletin Board of the U.S. National Committee on the History of Geology

9508309邓恩夫妇将为南密西西比大学的美国国家地质史委员会建立GeoClio，这是一个可通过互联网计算机网络访问的电子公告板。公告牌将促进地质学家和海洋学家就地球科学中的历史课题进行研究的人与科学史学家之间的交流。它将成为分布在各大洲和澳大利亚的历史研究人员之间的一种交流方式。除了作为研究人员发布他们特定研究主题的公告和合作或协助请求的“公告牌”来促进交流外，GeoClio还将提供空间列出即将举行的具有历史主题的会议、会议和专题讨论会。它还可能包含最近历史会议和研讨会的摘要，可能还包括地球历史出版物的目录，以帮助初级研究人员更熟悉历史文献。如果这种使用不违反适当的版权法，GeoClio也可以被用作“电子档案”，其中可以存储面向历史的研究论文和期刊文章的文本。该大学目前通过其科学与技术学院的学术计算中心与互联网计算机网络(Whale.st.usm.edu)建立链接，该计算机服务器将与现有链接连接以提供互联网接入。GeoClio计算机公告牌将以文本方式(通过Gopher)或图形方式进入，使用国家超级计算活动中心的MASIC软件包将GeoClio建立为万维网(WWW)上的一个网站。通过将文本和图形访问结合起来，GeoClio将既可供只能低速互联网访问(文本模式)的用户使用，也可供拥有能够通过马赛克访问WWW“主页”的高速计算机的用户使用。***

9508309 Dunn The PI's will establish GeoClio, an electronic bulletin board accessible through the Internet computer network, for the U.S. National Committee on the History of Geology at the University of Southern Mississippi. The bulletin board will facilitate communication between geologists and oceanographers doing research on historical topics in the Earth sciences, with historians of science. It will serve as a means of communication between geographically-widespread historical researchers on all the continents and Australia. In addition to assisting communication by serving as a "bulletin board" for researchers to post announcements of their particular research topics and requests for collaboration or assistance, GeoClio will provide space for listings of upcoming meetings, conferences, and symposia with historical themes. It may also contain summaries of recent historical meetings and symposia, and possibly the table of contents of publications in Earth history, to assist beginning researchers in becoming more familiar with the historical literature. GeoClio might also be used as an "electronic archive" in which text of historically- oriented research papers and journal articles may be stored, if this use does not violate appropriate copyright laws. The university currently operates a link with the Internet computer network (whale.st.usm.edu) through the Academic Computing Center of its College of Science & Technology, and this computer server will connect with the existing link to provide access to the Internet. The GeoClio computer bulletin board will be accessible in text mode (via Gopher) or in graphic mode, using the MOSAIC software package of the National Center for Super computing Activities to establish GeoClio as a site on the World- Wide Web (WWW). By combining both text and graphics access, GeoClio will be available both to users who have only low-speed Internet access (in text mode), and to users with high-speed computers able to acc ess WWW "home pages" through MOSAIC. ***