Term

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Definition

Internet Public Library

5.06

A Web site that includes hyperlinks to hundreds of international and domestic newspapers.

NewsTracker

5.07

A Web search engine that indexes current news.

NewsHub

5.07

A Web search engine that indexes current news.

BigYellow

5.14

Site operated by Bell Atlantic, listing over 17 million businesses.

Yellow pages sites

5.14

Web sites that let you search for information about businesses, including their names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

Switchboard

5.15

A Web site that collects information from published telephone directories and other publicly available information and indexes by last name.

White pages sites

5.15

Web sites that let you search for individuals’ names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

Public domain

5.17

Copyrighted works or works that are eligible for copyright protection whose copyrights have expired or been relinquished voluntarily by the copyright owner. You are free to copy text, images, and other items in the public domain without obtaining permission.

Animated GIF file

5.18

A file that combines several Graphics Interchange Format images into a single GIF file.

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

5.17

A file format for graphics images that is widely used on the Internet for storing images that have only a few distinct colors, such as line drawings, cartoons, and simple icons.

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

5.18

A file format for graphics images that is widely used on the Internet for storing images that contain many colors and few sharp edges, such as photographs and continuous-tone art.

WebMuseum

5.18

A Web resource for fine arts that occasionally features special exhibitions.

Clip Art Searcher

5.19

A Web site that can help you to locate clip-art images.

Plug-ins

5.21

Web browser software extensions that enable the Web browser to perform additional functions.

Wave (WAV) files

5.21

A file format jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM that stores digitized audio waveform information at a user-specified sampling rate and plays on any Windows computer that supports sound.

Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) format

5.21

A file format used for video and audio files on the Web that was developed by Microsoft.

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format

5.22

A series of compressed file formats for storing video and audio files on the Web.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) format

5.21

An audio file format that stores digital information about each element of a sound, including its pitch, length, and volume. Most keyboard synthesizers use the MIDI format.

Streaming transmission

5.21

A technique for transferring large sound and video files on the Web in which the Web server sends the first part of the file to the Web browser, which begins playing the file immediately. While the browser plays the file, the server sends the next segment of the file.

Vivo format

5.22

A compressed file format used for video files on the Web.

LibrarySpot

5.28

A Web site with a collection of hyperlinks organized in the same general way that a physical library might arrange its collection.

Project Bartelby

5.30

A popular Web site for full text storage of works that are no longer protected by copyright.

Project Gutenberg

5.30

A popular Web site for full text storage of works that are no longer protected by copyright.

American Psychological Association (APA) standard

5.30

A widely followed standard for print citations.

Modern Language Association (MLA) standard

5.30

A widely followed standard for print citations.

E-zine

5.31

A Web-based electronic magazine.