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Wednesday, 20th June 2001

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Directories--Higher Education
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Coming Soon? A Directory of Faculty, Staff, Students in Higher Education

From the article, "The Internet2 consortium of research universities will try to build a Web directory of millions of people in higher education. The directory would be, in effect, an electronic "white pages" of students and faculty and staff members, with information about how to communicate with them electronically over the Internet..."This is an experiment," says Michael R. Gettes, principal technologist at Georgetown University, who is one of the project's leaders. Few directories of the size anticipated have ever been built, and the necessary standardization is often hard to achieve when many institutions are involved."
See Also: Full-Text of Internet2 News Release

Web Search--AltaVista--Canada
Source:CNW
"AltaVista Canada to Rejoin AltaVista Company's Worldwide Network"
From the release, "Operational and management responsibilities for AltaVista Canada will return on June 28, 2001 to the AltaVista Company, a majority owned operating company of CMGI, following a successful three-year relationship in which TELUS launched and managed the site at www.altavista.ca"
Update: AltaVista Reclaims Canadian Portal (Source: Globe and Mail)

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