NIR charter update
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Suggested update to charter. To be discussed at the meeting. Jill Networked Information Retrieval (nir) Charter Chair(s): Jill Foster <jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk> George Brett <George.Brett@cnidr.org> User Services Area Director(s) Joyce Reynolds <jkrey@isi.edu> Mailing lists: General Discussion:nir@mailbase.ac.uk To Subscribe: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk In Body: subscribe nir <first name> <last name> Archive: mailbase.ac.uk:~/pub/nir Description of Working Group: As the network has grown, along with it there has been an increase in the number of software tools and applications to navigate the network and make use of the many, varied resources which are part of the network. Within the past two and a half years we have seen a wide spread adoption of tools such as the archie servers, the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), the Internet Gopher, and the WorldWide Web (WWW). In addition to the acceptance of these tools there are also diverse efforts to enhance and customize these tools to meet the needs of particular network communities and to create new tools. There are many organizations and associations that have recently begun to focus on the proliferating resources and tools for networked information retrieval (NIR). The Networked Information Retrieval Group will be a cooperative effort of three major players in the field of NIR: IETF, RARE, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) specifically tasked to collect and disseminate information about the tools and to discuss and encourage cooperative development of current and future tools. The NIR Working Group intends to increase the useful base of information about networked information retrieval (NIR) tools, their developers, interested organizations, and other activities that relate to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools. **** I would like to remove the rest of this paragraph - as I don't have time to get into this. (Any volunteers?) George Brett wrote this bit and I assumed this would be a CNIDR activity - but it seems CNIDR - like all of us - is over committed already. I suggest we let this drop - and will be putting that to the meeting next week. to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools to produce documentation that will enable user services organizations to provide better support for NIR tools, to develop materials that will assist the support and training of end users and to evolve in the future as necessary to meet and anticipate changes in the field (i.e., NIR tools, protocols, network topology, etc.) *** Following updated Goals and Milestones: Done Jul 92 Review and comment on proposed charter. Discuss Applications Template and Organizational Template. Done Sep 92 Post a draft report containing the Applications and Organizational Templates. Done Oct 92 Post a draft of the NIR Status Report with introductory material and completed templates. Done Nov 92 Review draft document and update templates at RARE ISUS WG meeting and IETF NIR WG meeting. Done Mar 93 Update entries in NIR Status report on individual tools and groups. Add new entries. Add appendices as agreed. Review updated document at March IETF meeting. Discuss and specify "evaluation" criteria. Done May 93 Review draft document at RARE ISUS WG meeting in Trondheim. Done Jun 93 Discuss evaluation criteria on the mailing list. Get volunteers for evaluation tasks. Jul 93 Final review of internet draft "nir status report" Discuss and agree set of evaluation criteria. Allocate evaluation tasks. Sep 93 Submit NIR Status Report to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC. Nov 93 Post draft evaluation report.
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