Overview of On-Line Documents

• Who and what is NCSTRL, anyway?
• How do I participate in NCSTRL?.
• I'd like to know more about the handle service, which is used for document naming in NCSTRL.

Installing and maintaining an NCSTRL-standard site

NCSTRL-standard sites run a Dienst server, which manages their document collection, allows searches on it, and provides a user interface gateway to the entire NCSTRL collection.

• How do I download and install the Dienst software?
• Once I am up and running, how do I keep my document database and Dienst server running smoothly?
• How do I find out and install new releases?
  • When you register your site with NCSTRL, you will be added to the NCSTRL mailing list. New release announcements will be sent to this list.
  • Check out the release notes for a history and status of current Dienst releases.
  • Check out the releases directory for detailed diff's between releases.
  • Read the tips for upgrading to a new release.

Installing and maintaining an NCSTRL-lite site

NCSTRL-lite sites maintain an FTP archive of their documents and bibliograhic files. A Dienst central indexing server collects the bibliographic files and allows searching over them.

• How do I participate and download the software to become a NCSTRL-lite site?

Using NCSTRL.

• I'd like some more details on searching for documents.

More technical information.

• An overview of the NCSTRL architecture.
• An article about NCSTRL from D-Lib Magazine
• The Dienst 4.0 protocol upon which this service is based. See also the user interface methods.
• The original Dienst technical report.
• Another Dienst technical report describing the Dienst architecture.
• A technical report about WATERS, the technical foundation for NCSTRL-lite.

Related Sources of CS Material on the Internet.

• Check this out for other sources of CS material on the Internet.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Grant No. MDA972-92-J-1029 with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF-CDA-9308259, and by Xerox Corporation. Its content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government or CNRI, and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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