Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) Bibliography Barbara Lincoln (barbara@think.com) 8/14/91 WAIS Documents --------------- - "Wide Area Information Servers", (overview sheet) Brewster Kahle, Thinking Machines, April, 1991. One page overview of the Internet release of WAIS. Available via anonymous ftp: /pub/wais/wais-discussion/overview.text@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src - "WAIStation, A User Interface for WAIS", February 1991, Thinking Machines technical report TMC-203. User interface documentation with screen shots. Available via anonymous ftp: /pub/wais/doc/waistation_users_guide.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-docs.src - "An Information System for Corporate Users: Wide Area Information Servers", Brewster Kahle and Art Medlar, April, 1991. Thinking Machines technical report TMC-199. Also in ONLINE Magazine Aug 1991. Report on the system constructed for Peat Marwick and other corporate users. Has screen shots of WAIStation. Available via anonymous ftp: /pub/wais/doc/wais-corp.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-docs.src - "Wide Area Information Servers Concepts", Brewster Kahle, November, 1989,Thinking Machines technical report TMC-202. Early draft of paper outlining how a Wide Area Information System could grow. Available via anonymous ftp: /pub/wais/doc/wais-concepts.txt@quake.think.com or wais server wais-docs.src - "WAIS Bibliography", Barbara Lincoln, Thinking Machines, August, 1991. Available via anonymous ftp: /pub/wais/wais-discussion/bibliography.txt@quake.think.com or wais server wais-discussion-archive.src - "Wide Area Information Servers: A SuperComputer on Every Desk", Brewster Kahle, Thinking Machines, August 1991. This is a set of overview presentation slides for WAIS. WAIS-related articles/publications -------------------------------- - "For the PC User, Vast Libraries", New York Times, pg.C1 John Markoff, July 3, 1991. Overview of WAIS Internet experiment. - "Browsing Through Terabytes", Byte Magazine, Richard Stein, May 1991, pp157-164. Readable article on what a large WAIS system looks like. - "WAIS Promises Easy Text Retrieval", MacWeek, Henry Norr, May 14, 1991, pg22. Report on the Peat Marwick WAIS system. - "Network to Unite Data Bases", San Jose Mercury News, John Markoff, July 21, 1991, page 1F. Rewriting of the "For the PC User, Vast Libraries," New York Times article with emphasis on Apple component. - "Release 1.0", Esther Dyson, April 1991, entire issue. In-depth article on commercial systems and protocols, featuring WAIS. - "Designing a Desktop Information System: Observations and Issues", Thomas Erickson & Gitta Salomon. Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '91 Conference Proceedings (pp. 49-54) April 1991, New Orleans. New York: ACM, 1991. Early paper on the Apple interface for WAIS. - "Parallel Free-Text Search on the Connection Machine System", Craig Stanfill and Brewster Kahle, Communications of the ACM, Volume 29, Number 12, December 1986. How a signature system can be used on a parallel machine. - "Z39.50-1988: Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Library Applications". National Information Standards Organization (Z39), P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20817. (301) 975-2814. Available from Document Center, Belmont, CA. Telephone 415-591-7600. - "Z39.50-1991 Version 2", May 1991. Electronic version of the working copy of the Z39.50 implementors group. Anonymous FTP: /pub/wais/doc/z3950-spec.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-docs. - "The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol: An Overview and Status Report", Clifford Lynch, Computer Communication Review ACM SIGCOMM Introduction to the the protocol of WAIS. - "WAIS Interface Protocol, Prototype Functional Specification", April 1990. Our Changes to the Z39.50-1988 specification. Electronic Services ------------------ - wais-discussion@think.com: Weekly digest of mail from users and developers on Electronic Publishing. Anonymous FTP access to archives: /pub/wais/wais-discussion/*@quake.think.com - wais-interest@think.com: announcements of new releases for the internet environment. A message every month or so. Anonymous FTP access to archives: /pub/wais/wais-discussion/*@quake.think.com - wais-talk@think.com: interactive list of developers. A couple notes a week. - WAIS Unix Release: Freeware release of client code (X and gnu-emacs), protocol code, and server code for accessing existing servers or starting new servers. Anonymous FTP: /public/wais/wais-8-b3.tar.Z@think.com - WAIStation Macintosh program: Freeware client program for accessing servers over tcp/ip. For documenation see above. Anonymous FTP: /public/wais/WAIStation-0-62.sit.hqx@think.com - Macintosh demostration screen-movie: Steve Cisler put together a short screen-recorder movie for seeing some of what WAIStation does. For documenation see above. Anonymous FTP: /public/wais/WAIStation-Canned-Demo.sit.hqx@think.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hard copies of the above listed documents are available. The first four documents are available electronically, as stated, but contain figures which are not reproduced in the ascii version. Email, fax, mail or phone your name, address and phone number to: Barbara Lincoln, Thinking Machines Corp., 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 310, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, phone: 415-329-9300, fax: 415-329-9329, email:barbara@think.com