Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources

Speakers and tutors at the InterNet Workshops held on the 13th August 1996 during the IUCr XVII Congress and General Assembly in Seattle have contributed to and maintain this guide.

Availability

The Guide is available in several formats:

• As a distributed hypertext document over the World Wide Web at URL http://www.iucr.org/cww-top/int.index.html and mirror servers. The W3 version is updated continuously.
• As files in Postscript format from ftp://ftp.unige.ch/pub/soft/crystal/guide anonymous ftp server. A4 and letter size documents are found in subdirectories psA4 and psletter respectively and correspond to the Edition of September 1996.

General Reading

There is a very interesting article written September/November 1996 by Vincent Bouthors entitled Evolution of the World Wide Web and the Internet. It is available in English and in French

Table of Contents

World Wide Web - [Contents]

• Introduction, 11
• Search engines on the WWW, 23
  • AltaVista WWW search engine, 25
  • WhoWhere? WWW e-mail index, 28
  • Yahoo! WWW search engine, 27
• Crystallography World Wide, 130
• HTML and hypertext, 12
• Addressing - URLs and URNs, 14
• W3 browsers, 16
• Non-latin W3 browsers, 18
• W3 authoring, 21
• W3 Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 30
• Java application language, 106
• Perl application language, 110
• VRML - Virtual Reality Modelling Language, 108
• ftp - WWW Interface, 98
• Mirror servers, 100
• Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server
• IUCr WWW Style
  • Standard layout for IUCr WWW pages, 142
  • Style for IUCr Commission WWW pages, 143
    • Example of original web page of the IUCr Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities, 148
    • Example of amended web page conforming to suggested style guidelines, 150
  • Icons for use on IUCr WWW pages
  • Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server

Searching - [Contents]

• Search engines on the WWW, 23
  • AltaVista WWW search engine, 25
  • WhoWhere? WWW e-mail index, 28
  • Yahoo! WWW search engine, 27
• Internet File search - Archie, 33
• World Directory of Crystallographers,
  • General Information, 139
  • Registration, 139
  • To retrieve a name
  • Official list of keywords
  • List of National Editors
  • Information for the National Editors

Conferencing - [Contents]

• List servers (mailing lists)
  • General Principles, 42
  • Listserv commands, 43
  • Exchanging Information, 45
  • Crystallography Related Distribution Lists, 46
• Newsgroups
  • General Introduction, 49
    • Graphical Installation and Setup of a Newsreading Program, 52
    • Graphical Example Use of a Newsreading Program, 56
  • Crystallography Related Newsgroups with Example Discussions, 62
    1. Problems with Polaroid Film, 65
    2. Want to solve a structure?, 66
    3. Help prevent ORTEP of the year, 68
  • Creating New Internet Newsgroups, 74
  • Future Possibilities for the Newsgroups, 79
  • News-reading Software Available on the Internet, 81
• Text interactive virtual reality - MOO, 86
• Teleconferencing - MBONE, 84
• Conferences on Crystallography, 117

File handling - [Contents]

• File transfer - ftp
  • Introduction, 88
  • Command Line Interface, 91
  • Graphic User Interface, 95
  • WWW Interface, 98
• File - Compression, packing and encoding, 104
• Archie - Internet File search, 33
• Mirror servers, 100
• Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server

E-mail - [Contents]

• E-mail and multi-media extensions, 38
• File - Compression, packing and encoding, 104
• PGP - Public Key Cryptography, 102
• List servers (mailing lists)
  • General Principles, 42
  • Listserv commands, 43
  • Exchanging Information, 45
  • Crystallography Related Distribution Lists, 46
• WhoWhere? WWW e-mail index, 28
• World Directory of Crystallographers
  • General Information, 139
  • Registration, 139
  • To retrieve a name
  • Official list of keywords
  • List of National Editors
  • Information for the National Editors
• MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Enclosures, 38

Programming - [Contents]

• W3 Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 30
• Java application language, 106
• Perl application language, 110
• VRML - Virtual Reality Modelling Language, 108

Security - [Contents]

• File - Compression, packing and encoding, 104
• PGP - Public Key Cryptography, 102

Servers - [Contents]

• Archie - Internet File search servers, 33
• W3 Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 30
• Mirror servers, 100
• Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server

Crystallographic Applications - [Contents]

• Conferences on Crystallography, 117
• Crystallography Related Distribution Lists, 46
• Crystallographic Societies and Associations, 123
• Crystallography World Wide, 130
• Electronic Publishing in Science, 132
• IUCr Journals - submission and consultation, 136
• Newsgroups on crystallography, 62
• Java examples of rotating molecules, 106
• Perl
  • for Crystallographers, 110
  • for Crystallographers on the WWW, 112
• VRML examples of rotating molecules, 108
• World Directory of Crystallographers
  • General Information, 139
  • Registration, 139
  • To retrieve a name
  • Official list of keywords
  • List of National Editors
  • Information for the National Editors
• IUCr WWW Style
  • Standard layout for IUCr WWW pages, 142
  • Style for IUCr Commission WWW pages, 143
    • Example of original web page of the IUCr Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities, 148
    • Example of amended web page conforming to suggested style guidelines, 150
  • Icons for use on IUCr WWW pages
• Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server

Author Index

Lachlan Cranswick

| Newsgroups |

Kate Crennell

| Crystallographic Societies and Associations |

Yves Epelboin

| ftp | Listserv | World Directory of Crystallographers |

Howard Flack

| Compression | Crystallography World Wide | E-mail | Encoding | E-Publishing | MBONE | Mirror | MOO | Packing | PGP | WWW |

Yuri Grin

| Addressing - URLs and URNs | HTML and hypertext |

John C. Huffman and John N. Huffman

| Java |

Ralf W. Grosse Kunstleve

| AltaVista | Search engines on the WWW | WhoWhere? | Yahoo! |

Alan Hewat

| VRML |

Arnt Kern

| Archie |

Armel Le Bail

| VRML |

Yvon Le Page

| Conferences on Crystallography |

Brian McMahon

| IUCr Journals | IUCr WWW Style | Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server |

Craig Taverner

| CGI | Perl | W3 browsers | W3 authoring |

Hidehiro Uekusa

| Non-latin W3 browsers |

Subject Index

• Addressing - URLs and URNs, 14
• AltaVista WWW search engine, 25
• Archie File Search, 33
• Authoring - W3, 21
• Browsers - W3, 16
• Browsers - W3 - non-latin, 18
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI) - W3, 30
• Compression of files, 104
• Conferences on Crystallography, 117
• Cryptography, Public Key PGP, 102
• Crystallographic Societies and Associations, 123
• Crystallography World Wide, 130
• Electronic Publishing in Science, 132
• E-mail and multi-media extensions, 38
• Encoding of files, 104
• File - Compression, packing and encoding, 104
• ftp - file transfer
  • Introduction, 88
  • Command Line Interface, 91
  • Graphic User Interface, 95
  • WWW Interface, 98
• HTML and hypertext, 12
• IUCr Journals - submission and consultation, 136
• IUCr WWW Style
  • Standard layout for IUCr WWW pages, 142
  • Style for IUCr Commission WWW pages, 143
    • Example of original web page of the IUCr Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities, 148
    • Example of amended web page conforming to suggested style guidelines, 150
  • Icons for use on IUCr WWW pages
  • Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server
• Java application language, 106
• List servers (Mailing lists)
  • General Principles, 42
  • Listserv commands, 43
  • Exchanging Information, 45
  • Crystallography Related Distribution Lists, 46
• MBONE - Enabling live, multiparty, multimedia communication, 84
• MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Enclosures, 38
• Mirror servers, 100
• Mirroring a Pan-Crystallography Server
• MOO - Interactive virtual reality for conferences and forums, 86
• Newsgroups
  • General Introduction, 49
    • Graphical Installation and Setup of a Newsreading Program, 52
    • Graphical Example Use of a Newsreading Program, 56
  • Crystallography Related Newsgroups with Example Discussions, 62
    1. Problems with Polaroid Film, 65
    2. Want to solve a structure?, 66
    3. Help prevent ORTEP of the year, 68
  • Creating New Internet Newsgroups, 74
  • Future Possibilities for the Newsgroups, 79
  • News-reading Software Available on the Internet, 81
• Non-latin W3 browsers, 18
• Packing of files, 104
• Perl application language, 110
• PGP - Public Key Cryptography, 102
• Publishing, electronic, in Science, 132
• Search engines on the WWW, 23
• Teleconferencing on the Internet, 84
• URLs and URNs - W3 addressing, 14
• VRML - Virtual Reality Modelling Language, 108
• WhoWhere? WWW e-mail index, 28
• World Directory of Crystallographers
  • General Information, 139
  • Registration, 139
  • To retrieve a name
  • Official list of keywords
  • List of National Editors
  • Information for the National Editors
• World Wide Web - a short Introduction, 11
• W3 authoring, 21
• W3 browsers, 16
• W3 Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 30
• Yahoo! WWW search engine, 27

Accessories

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