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Thank you for your interest on the ICTP 1999 WEB ENABLING Workshop.
Unfortunately, we can not accept further (filled and signed) Application
forms (Deadline was 30 July 1999).
But following the main purpose of The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, to help
research workers from developing countries within a framework of
international cooperation, we shall made an attempt to keep you
informed in real-time about our Workshop.
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WORKSHOP ON WEB ENABLING: TECHNOLOGIES & AUTHORING TOOLS
8 - 19 November 1999
Miramare - Trieste, Italy
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste,
Italy, in collaboration with the International Institute of Theoretical
and Applied Physics (IITAP), Iowa, USA, is organizing a Workshop on "Web
Enabling: Technologies & Authoring Tools" to be held from 8 - 19 November
1999. The local Organizers are Dr. G. Pastore (Univ. di Trieste, Italy)
and Dr. E. Canessa (ICTP, Trieste, Italy).
INTRODUCTION
The growth of the Internet in the Universities in developing countries
has to face two problems:
* limited bandwidth of available telecommunication lines, causing line
congestion and making access exceedingly slow, often beyond the limits of
usability;
* insufficient computer literacy of the academic community, with the
consequent insufficient understanding of the potential of the network as
a tool for spreading information (contrasted with its use for accessing
information generated elsewhere).
Both problems reduce drastically the effectiveness of Internet access
as a tool to overcome scientific isolation. Moreover, emphasizing
access with respect to diffusion of information as the only purpose of the
Internet reduces its usefulness for national development: therefore, it
would be important that this misconception is avoided in Universities.
The staff of the University Computer Centers, Computer Science
Departments, and Physics Departments, who normally are the ones building
Internet access in the Universities, are the focal point of the academic
user community with respect to the use of the network.
PURPOSE
The workshop aims at these basic objectives:
* to allow the system administrators to familiarize with the most advanced
techniques for optimizing the use of bandwidth;
* to allow them to become familiar with the basic tools to put information
on the Web, selected among those most relevant to the kind of materials
that scientists need to distribute (scientific papers, scientific data,
courseware ...). The purpose is to allow them to act mainly as teachers,
but also as consultants, to their colleagues and students;
* to introduce them to some of the recent developments in standards and
services.
PROGRAMME
The workshop will consist of:
1. Technicalities: Web Servers/Software, Design and Construction,
Redirectors, Proxy/caching, Statistical Tools and User Tracking,
Databases and the Web.
2. Applications: Authoring Tools/Page design tools/Web Site tools, CGI's,
Tools for multi-lingual Web pages, Collaborative and Learning
Environments/Chat Rooms/Web Conferencing, Didactic Web Presentations,
Scientific Electronic Publishing: Tools, Design.
Other Information: A very large proportion of the workshop will consist
of laboratory sessions. Linux will be used as primary O.S. Case studies
by participants are welcome.
Trieste, 31 July 1999
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