Contributing Instructions

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How to get your stuff on the Web

The private NOPP web site will be used to share information, descriptions and other documentation, including figures and diagrams, amoungst the Program's investigators. Once there is a consensus on the final version of a document, Ann or someone she designates, will contact the Data Management Office (DMO) to let them know that the documentation (or other material) is ready for publication on the public NOPP web site.

To get material to the DMO in the first place, there are several options:

  1. Send the material (text, images, etc.) as part of an e-mail message to the DMO at dmo@lena.whoi.edu. The material you send will be placed in the private NOPP web site for review and comments.

  2. Send the material (text, images, etc.) as files using anonymous ftp to lena.whoi.edu. Change the directory to /pub/incoming before transfering the files. For example, a command line ftp session might look like this:

    This example assumes you are sending an ascii (straight text) file called mytext.txt. If you want to send a document created by a word processing program such as Word or WordPerfect, you need to include the command

    prior to the put command in order to tell the ftp program that you will be sending a binary file. Newer versions of ftp (such as "fetch" for the Macintosh computers and "ftp" on Windows 95 and Windows NT computers are easier to use. On these platforms, once you have established the connection to lena.whoi.edu, you can "Drag" and "Drop" the file(s) you want to transfer. Usually, the file type is handled automatically.

    Tip: You can get a document (file) from the ftp site in a similar way if you know what it's called. Just log into lena.whoi.edu using ftp, and navigate to the /pub/incoming directory.

  3. You can also provide text and images on floppy disks. Mail them to the Data Management Office.

Images will generally be made available on the Web site as "GIF" images. Images will be accepted in many different formats including "TIF", postscript, PBM, BMP, JPEG, X11 Bitmap, Sun rasterfile, and the standard Windows formats. However, if you have a choice, please use either GIF or TIF formats.

If you have any questions, contact the Data Management Office.

Last modified: April 7, 1999