The following lists papers and articles
anout the W3 initiative and related
matters which you may want to pick
up for background reading or quote
as references. You can of course
also quote any page you read with
w3 by its document address. If you
want to include your own papers in
this list, mail www-request@info.cern.ch
See also: other material on WWW
Kevin Hughes. Presented to Hawaii
University September 1993. An introduction
with graphs of usage statistics,
and overviews of the sorts of things
you will find on the web. Also available
in postscript .
T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, J-F
Groff, B. Pollermann, CERN, "World-Wide
Web: The Information Universe", published
in "Electronic Networking: Research,
Applications and Policy", Vol. 2
No 1, pp. 52-58 Spring 1992, Meckler
Publishing, Westport, CT, USA.
The global hypertext dream comes
true in practice.
Pick up the preprint in postscript
form by anonymous FTP to info.cern.ch,
in /pub/www/doc/, filename ENRAP_9202.ps.
INET 93: Update and comparison
T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, N.
Pellow, A. Secret, CERN, "The World
Wide Web Initiative", proceedings
of INET93, SanFrancisco, 1993.
Preprint available in postscript
form by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch,
filename /pub/www/doc/????.
CHEP92: Short overview and Status
T.J. Berners-Lee and R. Cailliau,
CERN, "The World-Wide Web", in proceedings
of the conference "Computing in High
Energy Physics", Annecy, France,
1992. To be published as a CERN
yellow report.
A short overview of the Web and in
particular the software available
at the time. Four pages, four figures.
Preprint abailable in postscript
form by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch
as /pub/www/doc/chep92www.ps.
Technical Overview: protocols and
data formats.
Berners-Lee, T.J, R. Cailliau and
J.-F. Groff, The World-Wide Web,
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
25 (1992) 454-459. Noth-Holland.
Describes the W3 initiaitive, protocols
and data formats, how people have
made data available for the web.
As presented at Joint European Networking
Conference , Innsbruck, Austria,
1992.
T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, J-F
Groff, B. Pollermann, CERN, "World-Wide
Web: An Information Infrastructure
for High-Energy Phsyics", Presented
at "Articicial Inteligence and Software
Engineering for High Energy Physics"
in La Londe, France, January 1992.
Proceedings to be published by World
Scientific, Singapore, ed. D Perret-Gallix.
Aimed at system managers and software
engineers. 9 pages. The W3 architecture
diagram, a usage graph, and some
examples of hypertext formats, etc.
Pick up the preprint in postscript
form by anonymous FTP to info.cern.ch,
in /pub/www/doc/, filename www-for-hep.ps.
( Writenow , postscript )
Universal Resource Locators etc
URLs
Universal Resource Locators is the
IETF name for a WWW document address.
URLs are defined in draft document
discussed by the IETF working group.
Draft document available by anonymous
FTP from info.cern.ch in /pub/www/doc
as url?.{ps,txt] where ? is a version
number. ( postscript ot plain text
).
Supercedes the following paper:
UDIs
Naming and addressing discussed,
UDI proposal. Produced for the March92
IETF. Also an OSI-DS draft. 14 pages.
Pick it up in postscript form or
plain ASCII by anonymous FTP from
info.cern.ch in /pub/www/doc as file
udi1.ps or udi1.txt.
(postscript, plain text , writenow
)
W3, WAIS and x500
Discussion of convergence, what W3
needs from the WAIS and x500 protocols.
Also an OSI-DS draft. You can pick
it up in postscript form by anonymous
FTP from info.cern.ch in /pub/www/doc
as file wais-x500-w3.ps.
Tim BL et al