TERENA News Update TERENA User Services related Activity Yuri Demchenko, TERENA

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_2 TERENA Guide to Network Resource Tools –User Overview  World Wide Web  Web Searching (including SE, Subject Gateways)  Specialist Tools (Directory, etc.)  Group Communication  Providing Information  Security  Other Tools (FTP, Gopher) Printed by AWL/Pearson Education - October 1999 “INTERNET User's Guide to Network Resource Tools Edition ”

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_3 GNRT Mirror sites Croatia - Greece - Italy - FYRo Macedonia - Sweden -

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_4 GNRT - Next Edition Yr2000 Extensions and Updates  User Overview  Responsible use of network  Internationalisation and Multilinguality  Electronic commerce awareness  Linux and Open Source Software  Internet2  Web Searching  SE and Subject Gateways update  Specialist Tools  Directory/LDAP technologies update  Group Communication  Streaming technologies  Providing Information  WebDAV  Metadata/RDF and XML  Java/Interactive Web Tools  Security  Update Security Tools  Other Tools (FTP, Gopher)  ???

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_5 Other User Services TERENA Activity TERENA Technical Program Terms have been changed  All activity is carried out by Project oriented Task Forces  Main task of User Service related activity is in bringing advanced technologies to wider user community  WG-ISUS materials -  GNRT Next Edition  User issues at TNC2000 TERENA Conference  User issues in REIS Initiative and at DESIRE2 Web Indexing Workshop  DESIRE Project - Information Gateway Handbook -

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_6 TERENA Networking Conference TNC2000 May 22-25, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal "Pioneering tomorrow's Internet" Call for Papers extended - November 15, 2000  Advanced Applications  Security and Network Management  Networking Technologies  Economic, Social and Political Issues

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_7 Research and Education Indexing Service Initiative (REIS) - Follow-on activity of two previous TERENA projects: CHIC on Cooperative Indexing and CHIP on Internet Project related Directory  Creation of Webindex/Resource repository to facilitate information resource discovery for the research and higher education community in Europe  Apply automated pre-classified by Subject  Assist in the dissemination of information in a multi-lingual environment using multilingual indexing system and cross-language searching  To facilitate development of new technologies, standardisation and cooperation framework for European A&R community

TERENA Update IETF46Slide_8 Web Indexing Workshop - May 13-14, / User services related issues  New SE developments, NREN Search and Indexing Service examples  Content profiling  Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching)  Resource developer recommendations for better matching Automatic Indexing and Search technologies  Legal issues (copyright - web information, scientific publication, caching, indexing, etc.)