From: spencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Subject: BIBLIO: ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 15:15:33 EST
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design



       Announcing the ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
              Stephen Spencer  (bibadmin@siggraph.org)

A new resource for researchers is now available to the computer
graphics community.  Over 15,000 unique bibliographic references from
the computer graphics field have been compiled into a single database
for use by students, researchers, and the computer community in
general.

The project started with the DEC online computer graphics bibliography,
which covered the years 1976 through 1986, and added the contributed 
bibliographic databases of a number of individuals, expanding the years
covered as well as the sources of information.

This database includes references from conferences and workshops
worldwide and from a variety of publications, from magazines and
journals to books dating back as far as the late 19th century.  The
majority of the major journals and conference proceedings between the
mid-1970's and 1993 are listed here.

The database is formatted in the BibTeX bibliography entry format, an
easy-to-read and understand ASCII format.  It is organized into files by
year (except for the entries prior to 1975, which are collected into one
file by themselves).

A set of tools for manipulating and searching the bibliography database
is also available for downloading.

The database is available for anonymous FTP from "siggraph.org"
"(128.248.245.250)" in the "publications/bibliography" directory.
Use "anonymous" as the username and your electronic mail address
as the password to gain entry to the FTP area on this machine.
Please download and examine the file "READ_ME" contained in the
"publications/bibliography" directory for more specific information 
concerning the database.

An additional method of accessing the database has just been completed:
interactive searching of the database is available.  Use "telnet" or
"rlogin" to "siggraph.org" with the username "biblio".  The database is
online, and complex searches can take place.  Once connected, type "?"
at the "biblook: " command prompt for more information.

This project is an ongoing concern:  We plan to expand the bibliography,
both keeping it up-to-date as well as filling in missing pieces, 
large or small, and polishing and refining the format of the existing 
database.  Alternative distribution channels are also being considered.

Questions, corrections, suggestions, and contributions of material to the
database can be directed to:  "bibadmin@siggraph.org"  on the Internet.