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TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity

TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity. IETF50, Minneapolis IETF User Services WG Yuri Demchenko, TERENA demchenko@terena.nl. Outlines. GNRT Edition of Yr2001 Portal Coordination Workshop. TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools http://www.terena.nl/gnrt/.

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TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity

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  1. TERENA News UpdateTERENA User Services related Activity IETF50, Minneapolis IETF User Services WG Yuri Demchenko, TERENA demchenko@terena.nl

  2. Outlines • GNRT Edition of Yr2001 • Portal Coordination Workshop TERENA News Update IETF50

  3. TERENA Guide to Network Resource Toolshttp://www.terena.nl/gnrt/ • Third Edition – Revised and Updated • Trial period till April 20, 2001 • GNRT Section at TERENA website is the most popular • More than 50% of all web traffic • Now in talk with AWL/Pearson Education about printing the new version Previous version was printed in October 1999 as “INTERNET User's Guide to Network Resource Tools. 2000 Edition” TERENA News Update IETF50

  4. Introduction (reduced former User Overview) How to use the Guide Responsible use of network (Netiquette, Spam, E-mail viruses etc.) Web Searching SE and Subject Gateways updated Special purposes SE and Portals extended FTP Search and Image Search Specialist Tools Directory/LDAP technologies update GNRT - Yr2001 EditionRevision,Extensions and Updates (1) TERENA News Update IETF50

  5. GNRT - Yr2001 Edition Revision,Extensions and Updates (2) • Group Communication • E-Mail, Mailing Lists sections – rewritten • Streaming technologies • Providing Information • Metadata/RDF and XML • Java/Interactive Web Tools • FTP • Security • Security Tools updated • Added information about CSIRT services TERENA News Update IETF50

  6. Other User Services TERENA Activity • User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference - Antalya, Turkey, 14-17 May 2001 • Advanced Networking Applications for Gigabit Networks • Technological aspects mostly • Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme • Multilingual Support in Internet/IT Applications - http://www.terena.nl/multiling/ • European Multilingual Requirements http://www.terena.nl/multiling/euroml/index.html • Portal Coordination Workshop • To coordinate Portal oriented projects at NRENs TERENA News Update IETF50

  7. Portal Coordination Workshop June 27-29, 2001, Amsterdam • Follow-on activity of previous TERENA projects: • Clearing House for Internet related Project in Europe • REsearch Indexing Service for European NRENs (REIS) • Assist in dissemination of information in a multi-lingual environment using multilingual indexing system and cross-language searching • Brainstorm meeting – February 22, 2001 • Participants: UKERNA/UK, ILRT/Bristol, DFN/Germany, SURFnet/Netherlands, RedIRIS/Spain, CARNet/Croatia • Current webpage - http://www.terena.nl/projects/portal/ TERENA News Update IETF50

  8. Portal Coordination Brainstorm Meeting February 22, 2001 - Action list • Taxonomy of Portal definitions • Investigate any existing thesauri and classification schemes in computer science, IT and telecommunications. • Investigate which public-domain software is available for auto-classification, and present overview of what they are and what they can do. • Look at similar research & academic information access systems in other areas than computer science, IT and telecommunications, and study how these people have solved the problems discussed today. • To continue talks with Google and other SE • Write draft proposal for activity as an input document for the workshop • Organise Workshop on Portal Coordination among European NRENs on June 27-29, 2001 TERENA News Update IETF50

  9. Existing thesauri and classification schemes in computer science, IT and telecommunications Practical area • Very useful document: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uswg-glossary-00.txt IETF SE (e.g. Yahoo!) SBIG Library CS TERENA News Update IETF50

  10. Portal Coordination Workshop – June 27-29, 2001 Main goal – Information Services for Professional/NREN Research and Education Community • Recent developments in European Research and Education Networking • Prototype: http://www.terena.nl/~demch/drafts/NREN-technews.html • Cooperation and collaboration in building cross-border portal information services - best of practice, common approach, standards and technologies • Portal(s) as an element of building cooperative environment for information and experience exchange in Europe TERENA News Update IETF50

  11. Portal Coordination Workshop – June 27-29, 2001 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 -- TERENA News Update IETF50

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