The Internet and the IIAS

As reported in Newsletter 5, the IIAS now has its own World Wide Web site on the Internet. This site is part of the automatization plans of the IIAS. Preparation and development started in January of this year and since the computer itself arrived at the beginning of May the IIAS Pages have been 'on the air'.
Setting up this site has been done in cooperation with the 'CRI', 'Institute of Telecommunication and Computer Services', of the University of Leiden which took care of the technical side and in consultation with R. S. Karni M.A. of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden. Their expertise ensured everything ran smoothly.

By Annelies de Deugd

When you go to our address, (URL: http://www.iias.nl) you will get a page with several clickable options. When you click on the option you will go to a different page with more information about that particular topic.
These are the options:

The IIAS
- The IIAS
- Index on the IIAS Information (Gopher-)Server
- The IIAS Staff
- The IIAS Research Fellows
- The IIAS Agenda
- The IIAS Newsletter
- Information about other IIAS Publications
- The IIAS Database
- The Secretariat of the ESF Asia Committee at the IIAS
- Vacancies

International Conference and Art Agenda
- International Conferences in September 1995
- International Conference Agenda
- Call for Papers
- International Art Agenda

Other Asia-related Sites
- WWW-sites
- Gopher-sites
- Ftp-sites
- Newsgroups

Miscellaneous
- Online access to library catalogues
- Antiquarian Books

Photos
- For a photographic impression of the IIAS and surroundings either click on:
Photo file A (HTML 2.0 version) or Photo file B (HTML 3.0 version)

From the period May 10 1995 to September 5 1995 the following statistics are available about the use of our WWW site:

The home page has been logged into by 30 different countries from which in total 5331 requests have been made for information. 

Country        %Reqs     %Byte     Bytes sent     Requests

Austria        0.38      0.36      81726          20
Australia      4.86      0.00      1349154        259
Belgium        0.98      0.00      161472         52
Canada         1.58      0.00      434376         84
Switzerland    0.39      0.00      84944          21
Germany        6.55      8.23      1856553        349
Denmark        0.21      0.00      42677          11
Finland        1.71      0.00      537376         91
France         1.26      0.00      508108         67
Indonesia      0.13      0.00      27685          7
Israel         0.15      0.00      19770          8
Italy          0.64      0.00      168678         34
Japan          1.93      0.00      632038         103
Mexico         0.19      0.00      27878          10
Malaysia       0.11      0.00      24751          6
Netherlands    15.29     26.17     5904884        815
Norway         1.22      0.00      675620         65
New Zealand    0.49      0.00      142630         26
Sweden         3.15      0.00      1044083        168
Singapore      0.64      0.00      72630          34
Thailand       0.09      0.00      24679          5
Ukraine        0.21      0.00      24889          11
United Kingdom 3.53      2.69      607306         188
US Commercial  10.15     11.14     2513821        541
US Educational 16.49     18.16     4098165        879
US Government  1.03      0.00      315655         55
US Military    0.19      0.14      31796          10
Network        5.08      5.28      1191686        271
Non-profit 
Organisations  1.48      1.06      238089         79
Unresolved     19.92     26.77     6041396        1062
As shown in the graph below most requests came from the United States of America. followed by the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Japan. The explanation for the lower number in some countries has probably more to do with the availability of Internet connections than an unfamiliarity with the IIAS.


Statistics per month (keeping in mind that September only contains the data from five days):

          Sept      Aug       July      June      May

%Reqs     3.25      35.97     34.90     24.29     1.58
%Byte     2.33      35.43     36.67     24.72     0.86
Bytes 
sent      1407265   21406373  22155733  14939188  518425
Requests  423       4675      4336      3157      205

As shown in the graphs the IIAS site initially won itself a fast growing interest that is now staying steadily at the same level. This means, hopefully, that we have acquired a group of loyal users who will keep on using our site.
The pages that have been consulted most are the home page (1931 times), IIAS info (188 times), antiquarian books (223 times), database (182 times), fellows info (125 times), newsgroups (186 times), newsletter (309 times), photo files (223 times), staff (141 times), and wwwsites (221 times).
It is obvious that the IIAS WWW site is a growing centre of interest and we hope it will stay this way. We for our part will continue to update our site regularly and do our best to bring you quality information and interesting new features in the future.


Complete List Asia Related Sites

The IIAS is establishing a complete list of Asia related sites on the Internet. We want to provide you with a central information point where you can find any www site, gopher site, mailing list, or newsgroup you are looking for. Just look under the option 'Other Asia-related Sites' on our home page. Your participation in this effort is greatly appreciated. If you have any information you want to have included, please send it to us. 





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