----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has updated its Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). Items on the server as of May 1994 include: 1. A Catalog of Automated Information Systems (CAIS) of the FWS. This catalog of metadata (descriptive information) lists both active and proposed information systems. Contact points are included for each system. The CAIS currently describes 87 information systems. A new version of the CAIS will be available by the end of June. This version will serve updated metadata on 120 systems. 2. A description of the various servers (WAIS, World Wide Web, Gopher, File Transfer Protocol, etc.) maintained by the FWS. 3. State codes, County codes, and USGS Hydrologic Units, as defined in FIPS publications 5-2, 6-4 and 103. 4. The latest copy of the "Content Standards for Digital Spatial Metadata" produced by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. 5. The President's Executive Order implementing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. 6. A list of State fish and wildlife agency contacts for fish and wildlife information systems produced by the Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange. 7. The WinWAIS client software produced by the U.S. Geological Survey for accessing WAIS servers. 8. The MOSAIC client software for accessing World Wide Web servers. The easiest way to access USFWS_Region_9_Info_Res_Mgt_Data_Admin is to use WAIS client software to connect to the Directory of Servers, search for "wildlife" (without the quotes), and save the description of our server. You can also key the following address information directly into your WAIS client software. server: USFWS_Region_9_Info_Res_Mgt_Data_Admin port: 1028 address: 164.159.126.3 database: /data/wais/spxwais/irmindex/irmserv This is just one of many approaches the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will use to share its data. =============================================================== Dr. Alan R. Fisher National Data Administrator U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service phone: 303-236-8217 fax: 303-236-5156 FWS-Mail: FisherA Internet Mail: [log in to unmask] ===============================================================