WWW Bibliography : Papers

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

Entering the World-Wide Web: A guide to Cyberspace

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 .

Introduction to W3

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.

Technical Overview of W3 for system managers

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