(:source 
 :version  3 
 :ip-name "wais.fws.gov"
 :tcp-port 1028
 :database-name "/data2/wais/irm/index/irmserv"
 :cost 0.00 
 :cost-unit :free 
 :maintainer "fishera@mail.fws.gov"
 :description "Server created with freeWAIS-sf Release beta 05 on
 Sep 14 14:59 1994 by fishera@mail.fws.gov


DESCRIPTION:    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is a 
                federal agency within the Department of the 
                Interior.  The mission of the Service is to 
                provide leadership toward achieving a 
                national net gain of fish and wildlife and    
                the natural systems which support them.  The
                Service fully supports the concept of sharing
                data and information, and towards that end    
                the Service has established this Wide Area
                Information Server (WAIS). 
  
                Please feel free to contact the Server Owner  
                with comments.

                The Division of Information Resources         
                Management (IRM) will use this server to serve
                its own data, data from Service organizations 
                that do not manage their own WAIS servers,
                and data from non-Service sources (ex. Federal
                Information Processing Standards).  IRM also
                plans to use this server as a means of
                providing users with client and server
                software packages and useful utilities.
               
                Items on the server as of July 1994 include:

                1.  The June 1994 version of the Catalog of
                    Automated Information Systems.  This catalog
                    of metadata (descriptive information) 
                    describes 123 automated information systems 
                    owned by, or used by, the Service.  Contacts
                    are provided for each system.

                2.  A description of the various servers
                    maintained by the Service.

                3.  State codes, County codes, and USGS
                    Hydrologic Units, as defined in FIPS
                    publications 5-2, 6-4 and 103.

                4.  The latest copy of the "Content Standards for
                    Digital Spatial Metadata" produced by the
                    Federal Geographic Data Committee.

                5.  The President's Executive Order implementing
                    the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

                6.  A list of contacts for State and Federal
                    fish and wildlife information systems.  This
                    list is produced by the Fish and Wildlife
                    Information Exchange.

                7.  The WinWAIS client software produced by the
                    U.S. Geological Survey for accessing WAIS
                    servers.

                8.  The MOSAIC client software for accessing
                    World Wide Web servers.


DISCLAIMER:     No warranty is made by the U.S. Fish and 
                Wildlife Service as to the accuracy, reliability,
                or completeness of these data for purposes not
                intended by this organization.  This disclaimer
                applies both to individual use of the data and
                aggregate use with other data.


WAIS SERVER
NAME:           USFWS_Region_9_Info_Res_Mgt_Data_Admin


NAME
IDENTIFIES:     U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
                Region 9
                Division of Information Resources Management  
                Data Administration


SERVER OWNER:   Dr. Alan R. Fisher
                National Data Administrator
                U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
                Division of Information Resources Management  
                Branch of Field Operations
                P.O. Box 25207
                Denver, CO 80225-0207

                303-275-2400
                fishera@mail.fws.gov


INDEX METHODS:  X   Boolean Expression
                X   File Name
                    Spatial Coordinates
                X   Word
                X   Word Pair

                    
FILE
EXTENSIONS:     dat = Text files containing raw data
                dbf = Binary files containing xbase databases
                dbt = Binary files containing memo fields from
                      xbase databases
                exe = Binary files containing DOS software
                met = Text files containing metadata
                txt = Text files containing catalogs, reports,
                      lists, etc.
                wp  = Binary files containing Word Perfect
                      documents
                zip = Binary files containing files compressed
                      using the PKZIP DOS compression utility


SUGGESTED
SEARCH WORDS:   aquatic
                bibliography
                bird
                catalog
                citation
                client      
                contaminant
                county
                dat
                data
                disease
                ecology
                ecosystem
                endangered
                finance
                fire
                fish
                geographic
                gis
                habitat
                hatchery
                help
                how
                hydro
                image
                information
                infrastructure                
                law
                mammal
                map                
                met
                metadata
                migratory
                model
                mosaic
                nuisance
                order
                personnel
                readme
                refuge
                server
                software      
                spatial                
                standard 
                state
                system
                terrestrial
                threatened
                txt
                unit
                wais
                water
                wetland
                what
                why
                wildlife


DATE
INITIALLY
CREATED:       October 20, 1993  ")
