WebWorld is "the first virtual world you can travel in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web." In other words, a MUD. Prime real estate is available to early builders. Connect to http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld /welcome.html. [Ron Britvich (ronb@peregrine.com). Robert Young (pgrine@nic.cerf.net), comp.infosystems.www, 5/24/94. net-hap.] Barry Holroyd has started a shopping mall with buildings for book stores, computers, flora & fauna, and audio & video. He welcomes additional scenery, paths, and general-topic buildings, but asks that you not create any cities (!) within his mall. http://sailfish.peregrine.com/wb/ww/m(15,-2,1,-1). [berries@eng.sun.com, 5/26/94.]

Cornell has a $320K grant from the Culpeper Foundation for an online database of page images from rare scholarly books. "The Making of America" will initially contain 2,000 historical titles on infrastructure building, but other libraries are being invited to contribute 100K volumes. OCR would multiply the cost by 10-50, and would be difficult with non-English holdings. ark@cornell.edu. [dot.COM, 5/27/94.] (Even poor-quality OCR would permit text searches. I'm sure funding could be found.)

Roger H. Scott is looking for a way to map document annotations from an original text file to an edited version. An intelligent "diff" algorithm may be required to identify corresponding text locations. Willing to pay. roger@procase.com. [comp.ai, 5/26/94. David Joslin.]