KSL Personal Web Information Instructions

This page describes how to get personal information on this web server.

A. How to get personal information on our web

You have three options for getting your information listed on our people page:
  1. Use the form. Simply enter data in the fields provided and click on buttons to turn on/off automated features (photo/links to technical report abstracts). You don't have to know HTML. When you click on the button to submit the profile, it is sent to me as an email message; I then have to send the message to a Perl script to get the data parsed. Note: there is a delay (minutes to days, depending on what I'm doing) between your submission and the appearance of your profile on the people page. Here's an example of a personal profile submitted with this form.

  2. Compose one or more HTML documents using the HTML editor/translator of your choice and then use the wwwsubmit program on HPP. See also Creating WWW Resources at CAMIS/KSL for general guidelines regarding web resource creation. See example of someone (Tom Gruber) who has put together extensive offerings this way.

    NOTE: your wwwsubmission must include a file called index.html or our harvester program will not find it and your page(s) will not be included in the People Page.

  3. Send a message to me with the URL of the page you want included. Some people may not work on HPP and therefore cannot use the form or wwwsubmit described above. In such cases, I will add the URL to a special file (extra.txt) that is read by our harvester program. Wanda Pratt and Sasa Buvac are examples of people who were added in this way.

B. How and when does the people page get created?

The people page is created automatically every night by a "harvester" program described here. Basically, the script looks for (in order of precedence):
  1. people/username/index.html
  2. people/bio/username.html and
  3. an entry in extra.txt.
If multiple entries for the same person exist, then the script will use them in the order of precedence as listed above.

The harvester script employs ypmatch to expand usernames such as tcr to Thomas Rindfleisch. It attempts to do intelligent things with names like Jan Eric Larsson, Jeffrey Van Baalen and Edward N. Robinson Jr., (the problem being: when does a last name begin and a first one end?).

Last updated on November 28, 1994 by Torsten_Heycke@smi.stanford.edu
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