francois@welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte) (04/26/91)
Dear Netters
The response I got was amazing, and almost everybody suggested looking
at the bibliography that is currently being built up in Ohio. Below
are some details on how to go about accessing it. I have looked at
it and it is amazing. All thanks should go to Gary Perlman for his efforts.
Francois
The first release has over 750 entries and over 500K of text.
More is on the way, especially if people volunteer to work on
the parts that need data or validation.
Gary Perlman, Drone-in-Chief, HCI Bibliography Project
Last November 23, 1990, I sent out some mail following up on messages
from Dec. 3, 1989 and Aug. 16, 1990 about compiling an HCI bibliography.
I am please to say that thanks to many volunteers, the first chunks of
a comprehensive bibliography are now available for you to use.
In this announcement, I hope to provide you with enough information
so that you can get at the current holdings, and to request more volunteers
to continue the work of getting materials online and validated.
The biggest chunks that we have online, with abstracts, include the
complete ACM SIGCHI conference proceedings for 1983-1990, the complete
abstracted contents of the journal Human-Computer Interaction, and the
contents of several edited handbooks (with release of detailed tables
of contents and abstracts pending publisher approval). Also included are
over 100 entries on books and major reports on HCI.
Although considerable planning has gone into this first release, I assume
there will be feedback about problems, so I will warn people who access the
bibliography during February that the files and procedures may change.
The general description of the bibliography is about 3500 words,
so I will not include it here. I will only include directions
about how to access the files with ftp. Once on our machine,
see the README file for full details, or the "index" file for contents.
Send me feedback. And try not to kill a bunch of trees with printouts.
INTERNET/ANONYMOUS FTP ACCESS: To access files in the HCI
Bibliography, internet users can use FTP (file-transfer-protocol) to
copy files and programs to their machines. See the file named README
for more information about the contents of files and for information
about how to contact publishers of the works. To log in to the archive
machine, use the login name: "anonymous" and provide your internet
account name as your password. The messages provided by ftp are
unbelievably cryptic; many users can not distinguish between positive
feedback and messages about unrecoverable errors, so ignore them and
plod along. In the following example, where much of the output from ftp
is left out, the following conventions are used.
"$" is your system's prompt
text after "#" is a comment
you type in text after the ":"
"ftp>" is the prompt from the file transfer program
File transfer rates will vary, so try something small first.
$ cd mybib # set transfer directory before ftp
$ ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu # to reach our archive; obscure text will follow
Name (...): anonymous # user logs in with standard anon ftp name
Password: yourname@yoursite # anon users identify themselves this way
ftp> cd pub/hcibib # go to HCI Bibliography directory
ftp> dir # to get a listing of what's there
ftp> get README # to retrieve a file
ftp> mget * # interactively retrieve all files
ftp> quit # to leave ftp when done
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Name: Gary Perlman | Computer and Information Science Department
Email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu | Ohio State University, 228 Bolz Hall
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