Web Projects for the Enthusiastic
This is a list of interesting ideas that we'd love to see developed. To keep
in contact with other folks working on the web, try the
www-talk mailing list.
There are also special lists of little things to do for each existing project
such as the Line Mode Browser, the
NeXT browser, the
W3C Reference Library, and the
server.
Client side
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News post
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Allow posing to newsgroups, viewing by subject, integration with .newsrc
files, etc.
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Better news reading
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Allow viewing by subject, integration of .newsrc files, etc
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Mail post
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Allow mailing too.
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Mail viewing
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Reading mailboxes with multiple views and efficient indexing.
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Virtual Reality meets WWW
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Given a graphics composition language to allow 3 dimensional (maybe also
with time) constructions of other network objects, the web can form a basis
for networked virtual reality.
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Linking into frozen documents
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This will allow annotation of news articles, mail messages, and images.
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Search engines
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Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms
("knowbots?" TM Vint Cerf) could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing,
Just think...There are more and more of these around nowadays.
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Text from hypertext
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We need a quick way to print a book from the web. (A simple method using
TeX exists). Generating large documents from nested list tables of contents.
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Slide show
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Timed sequences of presentations. Scripting language for Multimedia stuff.
References: Apple Quicktime, IBM/PC's AVI, HyTime. Make a new MIME content
type for such a 4-D montage of other documents. Interest: jcasey@maths.tcd.ie
Aug 93. See Kevin Hughes's solution too.
Server side
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More Gateways
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The list of information we have thought of or been pointed to which could
be put into the web.
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WAIS integration
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WAIS protocol extensions to allow hypertext; HTML data type, docids to be
conforming UDIs. WAIS has been integrated into the client now, using freeWAIS
code. Maybe that code could all be simplified/speeded up? Z39.50 latest version
added?
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Relational Database Gateway
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Flexible tools for generating hypertext views of relational databases.
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FTP server distribution
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Persuade the newer FTP server implementations to include a HTTP server in
the distributed code, to allow more efficient access
Other software
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Transport level Gateways
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Novell IPX, JANET, DECnet for example.
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Link semantics
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Links with semantics have been in the spec for ages -- we need clients which
can edit the semantics, and then machines to analyze a semantic web.
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Mail manager
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A hypertext view of a mail archive with lists of messages by author, topic,
with links between messages. A friendly face on a mail archive would be a
great project management tool.
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Graphic overview
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Display the web from any document in a graphical form. Display the user''s
view of the web as a tree, given the history of navigation.
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Phone-line protocol
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There is a need for a point-point low bandwidth protocol designed for beating
the heck out of a phone line. The protocol will keep the phone line occupied
in a very intelligent way with look-ahead fetches of related documents and
lists or parts of them so that a home user with a big disk can explore with
optimized ease when he is paying by the minute.
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MOO Integration
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WWW meets MOO, IRC, etc. MOO users explore the web, WWW users find MOO rooms.
See MOOs on the web . See also VR above.
Documentation
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Tutorials
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Hypertext leading a new or prospective user through W3. Some good ones are
now available.
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Canned demos
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A hypertext path through some good representative places to visit. Maybe
a script to make a timed presentation (with sound?). We have quite a lot
of these in hypertext now.
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Videos
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Would save us giving so many talks!
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Policy documents
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Statements on NIR: collect from institutes, provide background for organizations
making NIR policy decisions.
Tim
BL
Webmaster
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