Marry, or partially mirror, MicroPal and Paleonet? (posted for W. Riedal)

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From: William Riedel 619-534-4386 <wriedel@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Marry, or partially mirror, MicroPal and Paleonet?
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Or, more precisely, might it not be desirable to duplicate intensely graphic
and/or interactive paleontologic elements at the Berkeley and London sites
(exhibits, paleonet forum, image collections, etc.)?

For us in the US, it can take a frustratingly long time to display large
images and to make hypertext jumps in interactive programs that reside on
servers in Europe, and European geologists have told me that the same is
true in the reverse direction.  These delays may well be sufficient to
discourage some people from viewing complicated interactive programs for
which a trans-Atlantic server has to be accessed frequently.

Would it be possible to duplicate the interactive programs at ucmp1 at nhm,
and vice versa?  I ask this in complete ignorance of the logical and
political implications, but as one who suspects that there is substantial
overlap between the subscribers to micropal and to paleonet.

                                                Bill R.

W. Riedel
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0220

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