Related CGI Applications

 

The APIB gateway has two principal characteristics setting it apart from most other CGI applications:

• It serves a group of individuals developing, maintaining, and implementing an international standard, namely STEP. This is noteworthy because standards developers traditionally have had very little software support besides generic tools such as word processors and electronic mail.
• Its data is represented in SGML, and users can issue queries referring to structures defined in its DTDs. Because the STEP DTDs are highly detailed, the APIB gateway supports a rich variety of structured queries and hypertext linking.

Two other CGI applications sharing some of the APIB gateway's characteristics are the National Standards Systems Network (NSSN)[LASK] and a gateway for accessing humanities texts[PWIL] from university libraries. Another related project is the Digital Library Initiative at the University of Illinois[SCHATZ].

• The NSSN
• Gateway for Accessing Humanities Texts
• The Digital Library Initiative