Collaborative Information Retrieval: Gopher from MOO

There are two visions of how use of the globalnetwork will evolve in the future. First, individualswill use the network as a resource, providingaccess to material from libraries and othersuppliers of information and entertainment. Second,in addition to communicating with thesedata sources, people will communicate with eachother, using a variety of interactive text, audio,and video conferencing methods.This paper is about a system that combinesthe two uses: adding an information...