Message-Id: <199407011710.MAA13656@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 12:25:00 EST From: Sarah Richards <mailto:Sarah_Richards@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV> Subject: OLI/HMD Anouncement - Prints and Photographs On-line To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
---------------------------------- Forwarded ---------------------------------- From: Sarah mailto:Richards@HMDPOST@SMTPCC Date: 6/30/94 12:10PM To: Lori mailto:Klein@SHAMUPOST Subject: OLI/HMD Anouncement - Prints and Photographs On-line -------------------------------------------------------------------------------_________________________________________________________ Message from R.P.C. Rodgers (LHNCBC) on June 8, 1994
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
On-Line Images from the History of Medicine (OLI/HMD)
INTRODUCTION
The History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), in conjunction with the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, is pleased to announce the availability of On-Line Images from the History of Medicine, an experimental World-Wide Web-based service which provides interactive multimedia access over the Internet to over 59,000 items from the HMD prints and photographs collection. The user can enter textual descriptions of images into a form. The catalog is searched, matching images identified, and a summary report generated. The user is then allowed to download browsable subsets of the images found, each subset containing from 1-40 images. Images can be viewed in larger size, marked for later retrieval as a special subset, and printed or saved locally. The corresponding textual catalog entries can be displayed as well.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
To access this new system, the following are required:
1) An Internet-connected computer (or one capable of connecting to the Internet on demand via a PPP or SLIP connection), or a terminal connected to a computer which is on the Internet.
2) An appropriate World-Wide Web browser (either NCSA Mosaic or lynx; note that this software is evolving rapidly, so that these instructions may be out of date by the time you are reading them!). Consult your local application software expert or computer system administrator if you require help to obtain or install this software.
Instructions for specific platforms are as follows:
UNIX workstations:
1) Computer must be running the MIT X windowing system, version 11R4 or later.
2) Install and use NCSA Mosaic for X, version 2.4 or later.
IBM PC (or compatible):
1) Minmum acceptable configuration: 80386SX-based machine, with 4 MB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 3.1 in 386-enhanced mode. (Recommended: 33-MHz or faster 80486-based machine with at least 8 MB RAM.)
2) Computer must be running a WinSock 1.1-compliant Windows socket library (WinSock DLL or winsock.dll).
3) Install and use NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows, version 2.0 alpha 4 or later. NOTE: this version of Mosaic is still under development, and is not yet entirely reliable.
Apple Macintosh:
1) Minimum acceptable configuration: 68000- or PowerPC-based Macintosh (running System 7.0 or later) with MacTCP (version 2.0.2 or later), 2.5 MB memory (recommend: 4 MB), and a hard disk.
2) Install and use NCSA Mosaic for Apple Macintosh, version 2.0 alpha (or later). NOTE: this version of Mosaic is still under development, and is not yet entirely reliable.
Computer Terminals:
A program developed at the University of Kansas, lynx, allows browsing of World-Wide Web documents on text-based terminals that are connected to Internet-connected computers. This can be used to search and browse the OLI/HMD catalog information, although ordinary terminals cannot display the graphical images associated with OLI/HMD.
ACCESSING ON-LINE IMAGES FROM NCSA MOSAIC
Under UNIX, the PC, and the Macintosh, NCSA Mosaic offers a graphical user interface which provides a pop-up window for entering an electronic information address known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Enter the following URL into this window:
This will connect you to the experimental NLM World-Wide Web server, known as HyperDOC. Then select the item entitled "On-Line Information Services, followed by the item entitled "On-Line Images from the History of Medicine" (selections are made by clicking the mouse button when the cursor is positioned over the item to be selected). The resulting display provides complete documentation describing the history and usage of the system, as well as access to the collection.
For further information regarding the technology, software, hardware, etc., contact Rick Rodgers on Internet: mailto:oli@nlm.nih.gov