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Foil 42 AskNPAC about Chemistry -- NHSE Discipline Specific Resource

From Overview of HPCC Applications at NPAC CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
Problem: Knowledge and discussions of interest to chemists are scattered all over the Internet -- hard to find and use!
  • Nearly 90 mailing lists/newsgroups identified on the first pass
  • Many lists not archived or offer only e-mail retrieval (tedious)
  • Search capability very limited or nonexistent
  • Info is too widely distributed
Solution: Use the AskNPAC news Web linked database technology to provide single point of contact, archiving, and search capability via WWW
  • AskNPAC already supports archives (primarily newsgroups) in Computers & Software, Education & Kids, Politics, New York State & Health, Jobs
  • Use with largely e-mail-based discussions in a particular discipline puts a different "spin" on the technology

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