A collective experiment
towards a non-commercial, decentralized HYPERbiographical database of
people on the Internet
If you wish to be listed in this year WHO's On-line,
you not necessarily need to be a head of state or a selected member of your
national academy of science.
Just simply tell us where is your own personal HTML page !
Standards of Admission
The foremost consideration in determining a new entry for the
WHO's On-line
is to have written down your own data entry containing your
current CURRICULUM VITAE or SIMILAR,
(see examples for WWW,
gopher or
ftp).
Therein you can include
- your personal data (including your photograph - ".gif", ".tiff", etc extentions)
and make links to
- your own collection of papers (".tex", ".dvi", or ".ps" extentions)
Why to do it ?
The importance of being easily and quickly reachable, you a scientist, artist,
economist, engineer, student, hacker or whatever you are, has been always a
necessity of humankind. Today this is possible due to the on-line services
of the Internet. Friendly gopher, WWW, ftp and others are (and, certainly, will continue to) change
the way information is passed along. So, if you do not wish to be ignored this year
we invited you to tell us about your own biographee.
In this way people finally may start to read your scientific work or
to know about your ideas. In short, this is the faster way to get a feeling for WHO on earth
YOU ARE !
Benefits to everyone !
To create and mantain your own data source allows you
-
to update your entries at any
time you think is necessary.
- to make cross-references to YOUR OWN PAPERS.
And, to the others, it facilites the work of discovering you.
To have all these entries together also
helps to melt the impersonal side of
Internet.
How to be recognized ?
Send us your spatial coordinates by selecting your profession from within the ENTRIES.
E. Canessa; ICTP-Trieste, Italy; May 1994/Jan 1995.
WHO's On-line