title: CancerNet redistribution via WWW.
abstract: CancerNet from the National Cancer Institute contains nearly 500 ASCII-files, updated monthly, with up-to-date information about cancer and the "Golden Standard" in tumor therapy. Perl scripts are used to convert these files to HTML-documents. A complex algorithm, using regular expression matching and extensive exception handling, detects headlines, listings and other constructs of the original ASCII-text and converts them into their HTML-counterparts. A table of contents is also created during the process. The resulting files are indexed for full-text search via WAIS. Building the complete CancerNet WWW redistribution takes less than two hours with a minimum of manual work. For 26,000 requests of information from our service per month the average costs for the worldwide delivery of one document is about 19 cents.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Statistik, Dokumentation und Datenverarbeitung der Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quade
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Püschel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Far
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D007255:Information Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007256:Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy