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What the Internet Offers

What the Internet Offers. Communications Across the country or across the world Information resources and services On a huge scale A wide range of subjects Many formats Publishing The ability to publish and provide online services. Information Resources.

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What the Internet Offers

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  1. What the Internet Offers Communications • Across the country or across the world Information resources and services • On a huge scale • A wide range of subjects • Many formats Publishing • The ability to publish and provide online services 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  2. Information Resources Many subjects and formats available • Documents • Graphics, video & audio • Software (free & shareware) • Newspapers • Directories • Library catalogues & databases • Books & journals • Junk 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  3. Basic Internet Tools Require very basic hardware and have existed for a number of years • Telnet Provides simple text based access to a remote computer • File transfer Allows files to be moved from one computer to another Often called FTP (File Transfer Protocol) 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  4. World Wide Web World Wide Web (WWW or Web) Distributed multimedia hypertext system Uses client/server architecture Clients known as browsers - Netscape, Mosaic, IE, Lynx 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  5. Client/Server Architecture WWW is based on a client/server architecture Give me file x Here it is Desktop Client Remote Server Request made using http A computer elsewhere on the Internet holding information Your desktop computer 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  6. Locating Internet Resources Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Standard address format for Internet resources URL indicates: • Method of access • Location For example: http://www.isiswomen.org http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/index.html 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  7. Terminology WWW - World Wide Web Distributed multimedia hypertext system HTML- HyperText Markup Language Native language for documents on the WWW HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol Set of rules for communication between client & server URL - Uniform Resource Locator Address of an object on the Internet 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  8. Uses of the Web: Research WWW was developed at CERN for particle physicists. http://www.cern.ch/ Sources of research material and funding are available for researchers, administrators & students. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~MAPatric/sgroup/eurinfo.html 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  9. Teaching/Distance Learning WWW is used widely for teaching. This UK-based example describes one teaching, research and administrative initiative http://www.talisman.hw.ac.uk/about/general.html 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  10. Women are using the Web to teach and to support educators http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/updates.html http://women.or.kr/ http://www.lynda.com/ 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  11. Providing Information Resources • Library catalogues • Information gateways • Electronic journals • News services • Online support http://www.loc.gov 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  12. Searching for Information http://www.yahoo.com/ Subject catalogues and sophisticated search engines can help in finding information using the WWW. http://www.lycos.com/ 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  13. Women-focused Search Engines http://wwwomen.com/ http://femina.cybergrrl.com/ 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  14. Activism and Advocacy Women, individually and collectively, are using the Web to enhance their social activism by networking with other like-minded women, by publisizing news and information, as well as their analysis of issues affecting women www.jca.apc.org/aworc/bpfa/index.html 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  15. Women are also using the Web for Social Advocacy http://womensnet.za.org/ http://www.mediawatch.ca/frames.htm www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/ 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  16. Group Work and Project Collaboration Together with groupware applications, the Web can also be a space --a virtual office--for people living in different continents and time zones to share and organize files, track projects and timelines, share address books, and conduct meetings. http://www.lycos.com/ 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

  17. Commerce Increasingly used for sales, marketing and online services http://www.women.com 1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop

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