Telework training through World Wide Web

New technologies for scouting computer networks for relevant information are not generally sufficiently well tuned to the needs of the busy individual requiring specific information. World Wide Web (WWW), the latest network service tool developed by NCSA, is attracting much interest because it answers some of the shortcomings of other network service tools. WWW enables networkers to share their own and other people´s compiled information resources on given topics. With WWW, multimedia documents can easily be developed from existing resources using a Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), stored on any Internet connected workstation which has a WWW server and viewed by anyone on the Internet using a standard HTML interface or reader, such as Mosaic. HTML documents can transparently link to other HTML documents located on WWW servers anywhere in the Internet giving people using the HTML readers the impression that they are looking at a single virtual document. We are performing a six month pilot study to examine the potential of WWW as a technology infrastructure for creating virtual telework training resources to provide the teleworker with a single point-of-call for information resources. We have set up a WWW server in the UK, translated an initial set of relevant documents into HTML format and created links to relevant HTML resources elsewhere on the Internet. European project partners and a few other telework organisations have helped to provide training and information resources and to test the procedures and resources from a user´s perspective