Note: These are the "slides" of the talk, intended for display to an audience in 18 point font on a 640 x 480 video display. The text of the talk is also available. This document is: http://www.acs.org.au/president/1997/vala98s.htm Draft of 27 January 1998. The printed version (15 December 1997) for the proceedings is available. Suggestions and comments welcome: tom.worthington@tomw.net.au

• Title
• About the speaker
• About the Australian Computer Society
• Prescript: A Very Large Web Server
• Introduction
• Canberra Competition - Planner's Demarcation Dispute
• Federal Government Committees on Electronic Documents
• Conclusion
• Postscript: the Australian MetaWeb Project
• See also

Tom Worthington is Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society. Away from the ACS Tom is Manager Defence Internet/Intranet Policy, Australian Department of Defence and made Kangaroo 95 the first military exercise on the Internet, in August 1995.

Tom chaired the Information Exchange Electronic Document Management Services Committee, he was a member f the Information Management Services Technical Committee and Search Engine working group; preparing guidelines for Australian Government agencies on electronic document management and indexing.

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About the Australian Computer Society

The Australian Computer Society is the professional association in Australia for those in the computing and information technology fields. It was established in 1966. The Society has over 14,000 members and on a per capita basis is one of the largest computer societies in the world.

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A Very Large Web Server

• flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet
• a floating web server
• "Joint Maritime Command Information System"
• Military personnel at ordinary PCs & internet software.

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• Revolution in the way organisations operate: the Internet
• Last year's fashion: have a web page
• Next year's fashion: run your organisation via the Internet
• Information professions forced together: Computer and telecommunications professionals, librarians, archivists and records managers
• Organisations, communities and most cultural records are at risk

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• Canberra, where I live, is a planned city
• Turf war between design professionals
• Architects, surveyors & engineers wanted to extend to town planning
• demarcation dispute was played out in public, to the confusion of the professions, the clients and the public.

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• The Internet and web have gone from acceptable to essential
• Next year will go from essential, to being the core of business
• Different points of view from different professions will take longer to sort out

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• Joint initiative of Australian Universities, researchers and agencies
• To Develop these tools for meta-data.
• Using Dublin Core metadata
• September 1997 to July 1998

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• text of talk & Printed version (15 December 1997)
• Whole-of-Australian-Government Search Architecture Report & Overview, January 1998
• "Knowbots to Wobots", Internet Reality Check, Drinks Friday Night
• From Arcadia to Zeus: my first year on the Web
• CANBERRA: The Planned Capital of Australia, Ian Furar, ANU
• ACS Home Page

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Comments to Tom Worthington MACS, Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society tom.worthington@tomw.net.au.