Postal address
NRCPS DEMOKRITOS,
153 10
GR-ATHENS
Telephone number
+30 210
6513392
E-mail address
RFC822
Yannis.Corovesis@isosun.
ariadne-t.gr
E-mail address
X.400
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USER GROUP SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
A line
of work which has produced some good results has been with a special
group of Chemists. This has been a "pump priminng" exercise
by just giving the user basic assistance and examples, after which
he acts as a rapporteur. This has produced a series of documents,
also available electronically, including "What the Chemist
can find in the networks". This includes software, databases,
ftp sites, discussion lists, contacts, projects etc.
SUMMARY OF MAJOR INFORMATION SERVICES ON NETWORK
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Two projects
carried out by student assistants, are just being completed. One group
"hunts" information and documents it generally, the other
group developed an information server, userid "pythia",
on a SUN machine which is fed with the output of the former group.Certain
browsing commands are available to the logged in user including a
mail facility to describe unsolved problems.The
server currently contains general information about ARIADNE, other
networks, key network terms, contacts etc
A hardcopy report of the "what we have found" of the first
group is to be printed and widely distributed, and is also available
electronically. A problem that has been dealt with is handling information
in the Greek character Set (ISO standard). An emulator is available
on diskette for users with appropriate table translation so as to
suit their terminal. A solution to cover "dumb" terminals
has also been incorporated by using a Greek Standard which maps Greek
characters into Latin.
In general the activity on the NIS at ARlADNE has slowly increased.
At the end of the year a more detailed, documented report is to be
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