Summer 2000 Project Ideas
				June 13,2000
		
David Colby     (utdave@cs.utexas.edu)
Daniel Kim      (dankim@cs.utexas.edu)
Shiraz Laeeq	(lucky@cs.utexas.edu)
Joe Lenert	(joelen@cs.utexas.edu)
Jaime Napier    (napier@cs.utexas.edu)
Brian Quicksall (brianq@cs.utexas.edu)
Pierre Tsai     (ptsai@cs.utexas.edu)
Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan (chris@cs.utexas.edu)

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1) To support Goals A and B:
   what does it mean to "create online, searchable archives"

   1.1 what is required from a digital library perspective
		(answer? some sort of indexing design (title, date, authors,
		historic designation, unique id, category, keywords...) 
		plus the usage of supporting software, such as 
		XML, XSL, bibtex, DBMS)
   1.2 should the documents be scanned and OCRed or retyped?
		perform an experiment to help determine the answer
		(what's the best scanner? what's the best OCR software?)
   1.3 what is required to create online archives?  steps, time,
		equipment(hw/sw), personnel, $, other questions such as:
		will sources require that this typically be performed 
		onsite or will they let the materials be sent to a 
		production facility?
   1.4 what is required to create *searchable* archives?
		sw (what features would be most helpful? --- I like the
			UC Berkeley CS dept search engine, but may not
			be required for this...)
		hw ???? (will the load ever be such that we need to
			purchase a server?)
   1.5 hosting:  one vs multiple sites?  
		  under whose auspices:  Univ of Texas, Internet Society, 
			SIGCOMM, Charles Babbage Institute, ACM, IEEE,
			ISI, Society for the History of Technology, History
			of Science Society 
		  what sysadmin or network administration is needed?
   1.6 format of files (searchable files: html with mostly text and 
				occastional links to pdf figures?)
			(non searchable files: pdf?) 
   1.7 study related projects (such as history of computing, history
		of programming languages)

   CCEY * contact UT HofS, GSLIS, UT Libraries TARO
	* contact key people in History of computing, archivists,  

2) To support Goal C:

   2.1 Everyone should read Where Wizards stay up Late (by Hafner and Lyons)
 
   2.2 Build an annotated web page on each of the following network archi-
       tectures:
	   Baran's, Davies', Arpanet, Early days of the Internet, Cyclades  

	Find all the resources that you can that relate to your topic;
	papers from old proceedings (study their reference lists); biblio-
	graphy from the network history books, include the Charles Babbage 
	Institute interviews by name.  Resources will be mostly
	offline, but some may be online; create a bibliography of as 
	many documents as possible, and identify which you think are 
	important enough for us to order, purchase, request copies of....)

        Build an annotated web page on History of computing
		what type of work has been done?  what people are doing
		it and where are the archives?  What types of technical
		descriptions are being written?

	Build an annotated web page on 
		Digital Archiving and Science of History
	Build an umbrella project web page (where we will archive everything
		from the summer)

   2.3 Divide up the other network history books and write a report on
	each:  strengths of the book; goals and audience of the book.  
	comparison with Where Wizards ....

   2.4 Create the taxonomy of network protocols to use in C1/C2/C3 
	(by surveying terms used by Gouda, Peterson/Davie, Keshav, Tanenbaum, 
	 Stallings, with insights from Schulzrinne and Ammar)

   2.5 As a group, critique my proposal of the type of writing:
	C1, C2, C3, and create your own proposal of what needs to be
	written and how.... 
 
   2.6 Write drafts of C1 and C2 for each of
	Davies, Baran, Arpanet (multiple iterations?), Early Internet days
	(if time Cyclades).  Critique each others writing.  Critique
	each others technical summaries.  Now, what?  do we still like
	the definitions of C1 and C2???? or does it make sense to rework
	this?

   2.7 As you work on the above, keep thinking about C4 (any interviews)
 
3) RE Goal D: I suggest that 
	at least two students work on one or more of the following 
	architectures over the summer 

	Baran's Distributed Communication architecture (??? was it ever built)
	Donald Davies' NPL architecture (??? was it ever built)
	Arpanet (iteration 1)... does this make sense? what timeframe? 
	Arpanet (iteration 2)
	Internet beginnings (through about 1980?)
	Pouzin's Cyclades
	
4) To support Goal E:
   see http://www-ninch.cni.org/PROJECTS/Building/may3.99.html... for
   a description of a project "BUILDING BLOCKS" funded by nsf with an 
   interesting structure:  steering committee, "field committees", 
   workshop groups, multiple mtgs a year

   CCE-Y:  contact Worthy Martin, CS Dept, U of Va. 
	(a steering committee member of Building Blocks)

5) Write a grant proposal.