kef+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Friend) (03/16/88)
Stack (6 partsin BinHex-4.0 form) submitted to
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu and to comp.binaries.mac:
This stack (public domain) contains "catalog" information on **ICEC-Ware**.
In brief, ICEC-Ware (a project of the Inter-university Consortium for
Educational Computing) is a CATALOGING/DISTRIBUTION ACTIVITY FOR EDUCATIONAL
SOFTWARE THAT RUNS ON HIGH-FUNCTION (e.g. Unix) WORKSTATIONS. [See material
below between #####'s for more information on ICEC-Ware. The stack, itself,
contains more information on ICEC and on how to obtain the ICEC-Ware tape.]
--> This HyperCard stack is much more than a linear listing of entries that
appeared in the printed ICEC-Ware Catalog. "Top-level" choices allow viewing
of entries by type of use (e.g. tutorial, simulation), by discipline, or by
"system" (e.g. X.10 windowing environment, Andrew window manager, Mac). When
one of these is selected, a list of titles with that attribute is shown and
then one can move to the card with full information on the entry. Each entry
has a "hypertext" type of feature: clicking on one of the several attributes
that describe that entry allows one to see a listing of all titles that
share that attribute.
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One of the objectives of ICEC (the Inter-university Consortium for
Educational Computing) is development and use of advanced educational
software for high-function personal workstations (e.g. Unix-based
workstations as well as powerful microcomputers with a "mouse" user
interface & bit-mapped graphics).
ICEC-Ware consists of (a) a catalog of such programs and (b) a collection of
a subset of the programs in the catalog. The First Edition of ICEC-Ware has
a small sample of such programs (18). The "First Edition collection" (it is
available for distribution with the catalog -- see policy statement in the
stack) consists of software for certain Unix workstations running either the
X.10 windowing system or the Andrew system. We plan to broaden this
substantially by exploring other distribution policies and by engaging in
distribution for other machine/operating-system environments in future
editions of ICEC-Ware.
To date (prior to this HyperCard version), the "parts" of the ICEC-Ware
Catalog were: (1) a printed catalog and (2) an on-line catalog program
giving access, on Unix workstations, to the catalog database (that program
is included with the "collection" tape).
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Ken Friend
ICEC Director
kef@andrew.cmu.edu -or- kef%andrew@cmccvb (for Bitnet)