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ScopeWe focus on the services and dynamic documents containing elements prepared with tools and techniques such as: - Virtual Reality Modelling Language (=VRML) - Netscape's JavaScript in documents, to be interpreted by the Web browser client program, - Sun's Java programming language and the whole system built around this, - Microsoft's ActiveX programming approach. These contribute to an evolution from documents on the one side and computer programs on the other side, neatly separated, apart from each other, without much interaction, so that the static document can also exist without computers and networks, to hybrids; hybrid systems where the classical distinction between the contents and the container is blurred, where all components are integrated, interwoven, and exist in synergy with each other, which can only work by involving computers; these hybrids are newer and often remarkable, surprising, and exciting, because many readers/users are not yet familiar with them; they can carry a high added value, they can be more dynamic, more interactive, in comparison with more classical, more static documents, by involving and exploiting the power of computers and networks. Here we do not try to include all interesting computer application services provided and accessible through the Internet, such as e-mail services, spreadsheets or word processors, databases, file storage, but only a few that offer not only an application but that offer also some contents: knowledge, information, data, or at least references to documents... ListWord and textFinancial information The Universal Currency Converter Karl's Mortage Calculator Science and engineering Solar System Orbit Calculator Orientation of d-orbitals VRML 2.0 Robot Atlases and maps Microsoft TerraServer Real Cities in Virtual Reality Collections which include interactive WWW services ReferencesP. Vanouplines and P. Nieuwenhuysen (1996). Highly interactive WWW services: a new type of information sources. In: Online Information 96: Proceedings of the 20th International Online Information Meeting, London, December 1996. Edited by David I. Raitt and Ben Jeapes. Oxford : Learned Information. p. 367-377. P. Nieuwenhuysen and P. Vanouplines (1997). Document+program hybrids in the Internet, and their impact on information transfer in science and technology. In: Scholarly Communication in Focus: Abstracts and full text documents of papers and demos given at the 1997 IATUL Conference, University Library of Trondheim, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 30th June - 4th July 1997. | ||||