WWW and the Globewide Network Academy

✍ Scribed by C. Butts; C. Reilly; M. Speh; J. Wang

• Book ID: 104309830
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0169-7552
• DOI: 10.1016/s0169-7552(94)90167-8

✦ Synopsis

In Spring 1993, C.I.C.G. and I.M.A.G. decided to work together on a project called "Bibliothèque Virtuelle" (Virtual Library).

The idea was to provide access, not only to catalogs of bibliographic references, but also to the actual grey literature (theses, technical reports and other publications) produced by researchers in I.M.A.G., Grenoble, and even elsewhere.

The project was based on the idea that, given the existente of the campus local network GRENET, and the french national network RENATER, users could gain access to al1 sorts of documents, provided the information was available in an organized way.

The Virtual Library, therefore, was to be based on network retrieving tools principally WAIS( and www.

The project was supported by the Pole Européen (an Inter-University organism in Grenoble), who decided to extend the system to al1 the Libraries and Documentation Centers in and around Grenoble.

This gave birth to the Réseau Documentaire de Grenoble (Grenoble Documentary Networkl: (http://www.grenet.fr/ anteserveur/ anteserveur.html).