TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity

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TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related
Activity

• IETF49, San Diego
• IETF User Services WG
• Yuri Demchenko, TERENA
• demchenko_at_terena.nl

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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

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TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools
http//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

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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.n
  l/gnrt/
• is the most popular
• More than 50 of all web traffic, e.g.
  http//www.terena.nl/stats/usage_200011.html

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GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, Extensions
and Updates

• Change name to TIUG TERENA Internet Users Guide
  to Tools and Services still TBD
• User Overview -gt 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

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GNRT - Next Edition Yr2001 Revision, 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

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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

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TERENA Networking Conference TNC2001 Antalya,
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

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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_at_terena.nl,
  archive http//listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.ex
  e?A1ind0011Lwg-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/eur
  oml/testpages.html

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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 AR community
• Current webpage - http//www.terena.nl/projects/re
  is/

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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

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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 --