World Wide Web Research

This page contains links to documents on W3 research. This list is not for user manuals or similar documents. Please contact me at relihanl@ul.ie if you have anything that you would like to add.

Papers and Abstracts

[Berners-Lee, Cailliau, Groff, Pollermann 92] "World-Wide Web: The Information Universe"

Paper by T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, J-F Groff, B. Pollermann. Published in "Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy", Vol. 2 No 1, pp. 52-58 Spring 1992, Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT, USA. Postscript preprint.

[Berners-Lee, T.J, R. Cailliau and J.-F. Groff 92] "The World-Wide Web, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems"

Presented at Joint European Networking Conference , Innsbruck, Austria, 1992.

[Harvest92] Various Papers on the Harvest Project"

[BlC92] "World-Wide Web"

Paper by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. Delivered by TBL at "Computing in High Energy Physics 1992". In Postscript.

[BlCGP92] "World-Wide Web: An Information Infrastructure for High-Energy Physics"

January 1992 paper by Berners-Lee, Cailliau, Groff and Pollermann. Presented at "Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for High-Energy Physics". In Postscript.

[Fu93] "Network Information Dissemination Standards and Z39.50"

Paper by Jim Fullton delivered at Interop 93. It explains "the relationship between standards used in the dissemination of information on the Internet, primarily in conjunction with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Standard Z39.50".

[JM95] "Feedback In Internet Resource Discovery Systems: SIMON"

Paper by Mark J. Johnson and E. H. Mamdani.

[THO95] "A Structured Approach to Web Site Design"

A paper by Steve Thomas.

[SEKN] "A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches"

A paper by Michael F. Schwartz, Alan Emtage, Brewster Kahle and B. Clifford Neuman. In PostScript.

[RCH94] "Untangling the World-Wide Web"

A paper by Liam Relihan, Mike Hinchey and Tony Cahill. HTML Version. PostScript version.

[Gua95] "WEB Publishing Paradigms"

Tim Guay, April 1995

Specifications, Draft Specifications, RFCs

Access Authorization Overview: Documentation of W3 telnet-level Access Authorization as implemented in October 1993.
Common Gateway Interface: The specification of CGI at NCSA.
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies.Note: this is a hypertext version of RFC1341 which has been obsoleted by RFC1521, of which no hypertext version currently exists.
HTML+ Specs: Proposed Internet Draft for enhancements to HTML. In Postscript. This is a more up to date version of Dave Raggett's work in HTML+ (Postscript). His updated HTML+ DTD is also available.
HTML Specs: The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) in hypertext or Postscript format
HTTP Drafts: Work of the IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Working Group.
Formal Treatment of WWW (RFC): Proposes more formal treatment of Web components.
Toward a Formalism for Communication On the Web (RFC): A discussion of some HTML and SGML issues.
Toward Closure on HTML (RFC): Some observations on HTML and a proposal to improve it.

Statistics, Surveys, etc

Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre: This site carries out forms-based surveys on Mosaic, WWW, HTML, HTTP.

Meetings, Discussions and Working Groups

IIIR Charter: The Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group charter. Part of the IETF.
Working Notes: An assorted collection of design notes, discussions on W3 at CERN. Contains pointers to some provisional documents.
WWW/TEI Meeting 19-20th November 1993: The minutes of the meeting which took place in Cork, Ireland.

Interesting Collections and Sites

Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval: These is some information here on information retrieval that is relevant to W3.

Bibliographies

Selected WWW Bibliography: Good W3 bibliography maintained at SLAC.
AT&T Bell Labs Bibliography: A Searchable Bibliography.

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