cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) (11/02/90)
Numerous participants have recommended the creation of a Virtual Worlds Database available from sci.virtual-worlds, via USENET. The Virtual Worlds Database is now available by anonymous FTP (file transfer) at the following location: milton.u.washington.edu The Virtual Worlds database resides at this location and is filed as: /public/virtual-worlds/bibliography Recent additions to the bibliography, which is currently sized at 13K, will be filed as: /public/virtual-worlds/recent-additions Eventually an automated fileserver will be available to provide the updated bibliography on an as-requested basis. The availabilityof this service will be announced when it's ready for use. It's our intention to grow the database to include, in addition to the bibliography, research reports submitted to sci.virtual-worlds and an online-accessible library of virtual world models. Please send recommendations for addition to the Virtual Worlds Database to me at the address above, or post them to sci.virtual-worlds. Please include a short abstract of with the usual information (author(s) name, title, year of publication, source, and so forth). We will be using INGRES as our data management software. Thanks to James Demmers and Alan Wexelblatt, who offered to do these things before we knew we had the machinery at hand, right here in the HIT Lab. Bob Jacobson Moderator