School of Information Management & Systems.
142  Access to American Cultural Heritages.   Buckland. Fall 1997.

Exercise 3: The World Wide Web and Netscape. Due Sept 11.
The World Wide Web (WWW) uses images, color, and lots of "links" from individual words and images to other www documents ("web pages"). This exercise is to assure minimal skill is searching ("surfing") the World Wide Web. Netscape is software for finding and using WWW records which have a basically hierarchical structure. The starting point at each WWW site is called a Homepage. There are also lots of "links" to documents in other WWW sites.

1. Enter Netscape. Find this course's homepage at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is142/f97/
either by entering that address in the Location box or by following links to and from the campus homepage:   http://www.berkeley.edu

2. Search by following links: Check out Infosys 142: (a) Anything underlined is a link to another WWW "page". Use the mouse to place the cursor on the underlined word and click the mouse button (maybe twice). From the 142 homepage click on the course Schedule. When is the first exam scheduled?

Optional: Click the Back button to go back to the 142 home-page, try the Michael Buckland page.

Return to the School's home-page e.g. by clicking on the School's name at the top. Then click on the black U C Berkeley box top left. Click on Departments (on left, middle of list), then Libraries and Museums (on right, middle of list. Click on Berkeley Art Museum. You have to wait 20 secs or so, then click on the Exhibitions. Note the name of any exhibit and note the dates that it is will be open.

Use the Back button to get back to the Libraries and Museums page, then go to the Museum of Paleontology. Click on the subway. Take the purple line to the Art, History, Culture "station". Pick any museum that looks interesting. Note its name, give the "location" (aka URL), note the exact date and time that you looked at it and describe it very briefly:

3. Search by internet address: So much for exhibits. How about a "virtual" library? Change the address in the "Location" box to http://ipl.sils.umich.edu   and press Enter. Click on Reference and find an online source of interest to yourself. Write down the URL (= location), date and time you looked, and describe it very briefly.

4. Use a "search engine": Click on the Search button. Use any "search engine", e.g. Lycos or InfoSeek. Try to find something about the Amish (aka the Pennsylvania Dutch), a religous community in Pennsyslvania and nearby states. Enter:   Amish heritage   in the search space box and click the Seek (or Search) button. Scroll down the search result and pick and note one of them: Its title, content, "location" and the date and time you looked at it. If that doesn't work, don't worry. Give up and try putting http://amishheritage.com   in the Location box and pressing Enter.

5. Now you know how to do it, try recreational searching! Find something that interest you? What is it? Write down the address given in the "location" box and the precise date and time of searching.

NOTES: One often has to scroll down the "page" to find what you want. If you are not making good progress, be patient (the bottom line and the revolving sky indicate activity); if it won't perform for you, move back, try again, come back later, ask for a friend or one of us for help. If you don't have access to a suitable computer, consult Janice Woo.