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

小行星9508309 PI将为南密西西比大学的美国国家地质学历史委员会建立GeoClio，这是一个可通过互联网计算机网络访问的电子公告板。 该公告板将促进从事地球科学历史专题研究的地质学家和海洋学家与科学史学家之间的交流。它将成为各大洲和澳大利亚地理分布广泛的历史研究人员之间的交流手段。 除了作为一个“公告板”，为研究人员发布他们的特定研究主题和请求合作或援助的公告，以协助沟通，GeoClio将提供空间，即将举行的会议，会议和研讨会与历史主题的列表。它也可能包含最近的历史会议和专题讨论会的摘要，以及可能的地球历史出版物的目录，以帮助开始的研究人员更加熟悉历史文献。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，如果这种使用不违反适当的版权法。 该大学目前通过其科学技术学院的学术计算中心与互联网计算机网络（whale.st.usm.edu）建立了联系，这台计算机服务器将与现有的联系连接，提供进入互联网的机会。GeoClio计算机公告板将以文本方式（通过Gopher）或图形方式进入，使用国家超级计算活动中心的MOSAIC软件包，将GeoClio建立为万维网上的一个网址。通过结合文本和图形访问，GeoClio将提供给只有低速互联网访问（文本模式）的用户，以及能够通过MOSAIC访问WWW“主页”的高速计算机用户。 ***

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. ***