TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity

1. TERENA News UpdateTERENA User Services related Activity IETF49, San Diego IETF User Services WG Yuri Demchenko, TERENA demchenko@terena.nl

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 Update IETF49

3. TERENA Guide to Network Resource Toolshttp://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” TERENA Update IETF49

4. 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 TERENA Update IETF49

5. 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 Yr2001Revision,Extensions and Updates TERENA Update IETF49

6. GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001Revision,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 TERENA Update IETF49

7. Other User Services TERENA Activity • User issues at TNC2001 TERENA Conference • Advanced Networking Applications for Gigabit Networks • Technological aspects mostly • Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme • Portal Coordination Workshop • To coordinate Portal oriented projects at NRENs TERENA Update IETF49

8. TERENA Networking Conference TNC2001Antalya, 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 TERENA Update IETF49

9. Multilingual/i18n issues in TERENA Technical Programme • 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 – wg-i18n@terena.nl, 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 TERENA Update IETF49

10. 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/ TERENA Update IETF49

11. 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 TERENA Update IETF49

12. 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 -- TERENA Update IETF49