Publishing software for remote servers

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Katarina Steinwachs

>Subject: Announcing: Free - Marmot Publishing Capability
>
>Marmot Internet Publishing Capability
>
>In short
>
>The Marmot publishing server and client are now available free to provide a
>method for end users to interactively manage their information on a remote
>Internet server.
>
>More Details
>
>Would you like to:
>- interactively manage information on an http or gopher
>server, using a simple graphical user interface;
>- allow a distributed project team, located in various places
>across the country, to share management of their information;
>- organize your Internet information files logically, and let
>the server generate the navigation HTML pages for you?
>
>If you are a server administrator, would you like to give users total control
>of their information, without teaching them ftp, telnet, or e-mail commands,
>and without worrying that they will inadvertently affect someone else's data?
>
>At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we have developed a publishing
>protocol called Marmot, which provides these and other similar capabilities.
>
>Marmot works with servers that support both HTTP and Gopher+ services; in
>fact, it coordinates the two services and allows each to be utilized to its
>fullest advantage. People may continue to use current HTTP or Gopher clients
>to access the information. A Marmot-aware client is needed only to publish
>(add, modify, or delete) information on the server.
>
>Marmot provides a framework for extensible task plug-ins, which allow the
>server to be readily customized to meet users' needs. Plug-ins can be
>automatic or user-requested. They are easily written and configured, and can
>interface to other systems. Much as forms are an adaptable means to retrieve
>information, plug-ins are adaptable agents for managing information. Some
>uses include:
>
> - convert between document formats,
> - support a local style guide, for example by adding a
>common header to each HTML document,
>- facilitate group authoring,
>- enforce business rules such as clearance procedures,
>- automate generation of HTML pages.
>
>Marmot regulates the level of publishing access granted to individual users
>or groups. Access levels can be set and controlled by information owners for
>each information object.
>
>Where to get it
>
>You can try Marmot out for yourself.  Clients (InfoShare 2.3)
>are available for Windows and Macintosh.  By default, they
>start out pointing to a live tutorial of Marmot capabilities,
>allowing users to publish information to our demo server.  If
>you want to install your own server, copies (mmtd 1.38) are
>available for SunOS and Solaris.  Both clients and servers
>are located under
>
>ftp://ftp.pnl.gov/pub/pnlinfo/marmot
>
>For more information, see
>http://www.pnl.gov:2080/marmot/
>gopher://www.pnl.gov:2070/11/marmot
>or send electronic mail to info-share _at__ pnl.gov.
>
>Important Note
>
>You may freely use the Marmot client and server binaries and associated
>files.  You may also make them available to others free of charge, provided
>that all documentation is included.  You may not resell the Marmot client or
>server or associated files, or make derivative works from them, without
>written permission from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  You may
>not provide the Marmot client or server as part of a for-profit service (such
>as selling WWW space) without written permission from the Pacific Northwest
>National Laboratory.  For more information, send electronic mail to
>info-share _at__ pnl.gov.
>
>DISCLAIMER
>
>This material was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of
>the United States Government.  Neither the United States Government nor the
>United States Department of Energy, nor Battelle, nor any of their employees,
>MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ASSUMES ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR
>RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY
>INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT, SOFTWARE, OR PROCESS DISCLOSED, OR
>REPRESENTS THAT ITS USE WOULD NOT INFRINGE PRIVATELY OWNED RIGHTS.
>
>ACKNOWLEDGMENT
>
>This software and its documentation were produced with Government support
>under Contract Number DE-AC06-76RLO-1830 awarded by the United States
>Department of Energy.  The Government retains a paid-up non-exclusive,
>irrevocable worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, perform
>publicly and display publicly by or for the Government, including the right
>to distribute to other Government contractors.
>
>
>-- 
>Chris Rusbridge
>
>Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
>The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
>Phone 01203 524979	Fax 01203 524981
>Email C.A.Rusbridge _at__ Warwick.ac.uk
>
>
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