DLI Partners Update DLI Partners UpdateAugust 30, 1996
Dear DLI Partners:
Classes will begin here again at the University of Illinois this coming Tuesday, September 3. We wanted to share with you where we are as this milestone happens. This update covers the following:
- What's in, and about to be added to, the Testbed
- Status on our implementation of OpenText Latitude, a stateless Web gateway
to the Opentext database server
- Upcoming milestones and continuing issues
Testbed status
The Testbed team has been making significant progress with the processing of all of the materials that have been provided to us. As of today, we have approximately 8,000 articles from four of our publishers processed and indexed. These include 4,000 articles of AIP's Journal of Applied Physics (1995 to present), 3,250 articles of APS's Physical Review Letters (1995 to present), 500 articles of IEE's Electronics Letters and IEE Proceedings (1995), and 300 articles from 9 titles from ASCE (1995). Within the next two weeks, we expect to have 14 more titles from ASCE ready. See the following list for a breakdown of the titles that are currently in the Testbed or will be added within the next six weeks:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics (1995 to present)
American Physical Society (APS)
Physical Review Letters (1995 to present)
IEE (1995-96, partial both years)
Electronics Letters
IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices and Systems
IEE Proceedings on Communications
IEE Proceedings on Computers and Digital Techniques
IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications
IEE Proceedings on Electrical Power Applications
IEE Proceedings on Generation, Transmission and Distribution
IEE Proceedings on Microwaves, antennas and Propagation
IEE Proceedings on Optoelectronics
IEE Proceedings on Radar, Sonar and Navigation
IEE Proceedings on Science, Measurement and Technology
IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing
American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) (1995)
Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Journal of Architectural Engineering
Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Journal of Transportation Engineering
Journal of Environmental Engineering
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Journal of Energy Engineering
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Journal of Management in Engineering
Journal of Structural Engineering
Journal of Surveying Engineering
Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
IEEE Computer Society (1995)
IEEE Computer
IEEE Software
IEEE Design and Test
IEEE Computational Science and Engineering
IEEE Graphics
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their Applications
IEEE Micro: Chips, Systems, Software and Applications
IEEE Parallel and Distribute Technologies
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
AIAA Journal (1995 and 1st quarter 1996)
IEEE
Electronic Device Letters
Stateless Web Gateway to the OpenText database server
In addition to the customized PC client and eventually a stateful Web client (hopefully cross-platform), we are making functional stateless Web access to the production Testbed database. You can preview what that access will look like at: http://freya.grainger.uiuc.edu/simple.html
Please note that this is a beta version of the gateway and still very buggy. Currently, the simple html form is the only form that works. The filters in place right now can only accommodate APL articles but they are being updated now to handle other publishers. We intend to add an all-DLI option soon. There is an error with the APL form in that the first citation's medium form will not display, but those following will. If you don't need a password today, you will need one soon. Please continue to use the same password that you've been using to retrieve SGML documents. Please note that we will not be providing this gateway to our users on campus until we have cleaned up the bugs.
Upcoming milestones
As noted earlier, we plan to continue to concentrate on adding materials to the Testbed, with the goal of 10,000 documents in the Testbed by the calendar year end. We have now received 1995 materials from all of our partners listed above and we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continuing support.
We've recently put in place a second webserver to serve DLI SGML documents. This potentially will allow some limited experimentation with distributed repository architectures, but we're hoping to work with one or more of the publishers setting up a true SGML distributed SGML repository by early 1997.
Issues
Work continues on the stateful Web client, and we have been testing the Macintosh, UNIX, and Windows versions of Panorama 2.0.
We continue to have problems with math rendering, and we continue to have font and entity errors. These will come across as you experiment with the Testbed.
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