D-Lib Magazine
April 2000

Volume 6 Number 4

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers
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In Print

  • What is the Internet (And What Makes It Work), By Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf, for the Internet Policy Institute, December 1999.

    The following is an excerpt from the Internet Policy Institute web site that describes the purpose and content of the paper: "This paper was prepared by the authors at the request of the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., for inclusion in their upcoming series of Internet related papers. It is a condensation of a longer paper in preparation by the authors on the same subject. Many topics of potential interest were not included in this condensed version because of size and subject matter constraints. Nevertheless, the reader should get a basic idea of the Internet, how it came to be, and perhaps even how to begin thinking about it from an architectural perspective. This will be especially important to policy makers who need to distinguish the Internet as a global information system apart from its underlying communications infrastructure."

    The paper is available at <http://www.internetpolicy.org/briefing/12_99_story.html>.

  • A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases, Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Resource Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1999, ISBN 0-309-06825-8.

    In addition to the print version, this report is available in HTML format at the National Resource Council (NRC) website at <http://books.nap.edu/html/question_balance/>. Clifford Lynch, the Director of the Coalition for Netorked Information has described the book as follows: "This report...complements the study 'The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age' (which deals primarily with copyright)...[it] is also supplemented by a separate report of a workshop that was held as part of the development of 'A Question of Balance'...available ONLY online" at the NRC site."

  • Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective, by Laura Price and Abby Smith, March 2000, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Available in print format from CLIR at the price of $15.00.

    This new report from CLIR is also available in full text in PDF format from CLIR. The description of the report from the CLIR site follows: "Published in cooperation with the Library of Congress (LC), this report describes how LC developed and implemented a plan for greater accountability over its collections....The report presents a model for the management of library and archival collections that defines collections as core assets and seeks to make them maximally productive while controlling risks to their integrity."

    The PDF version is located at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub90/pub90.pdf>.

  • Primary Source, an email newsletter from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    Primary Source is a free monthly e-mail newsletter that provides links to current agency news, grant deadlines, new publications, and highlights of funded projects. It also provides information about best practices to be followed by museums and libraries. Current and past issues of Primary Source and instructions for subscribing can be found at <http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/new_imls.htm#ps>.

  • Preservation and Access for Electronic University Records Conference: Presentation Slides, from the October 1999 conference hosted by Arizona State University.

    Seventeen experts made presentations at the conference regarding the management of electronic records, courseware, and research products from colleges and universities. Officials at Arizona State University felt it was important to provide wide access to the thirteen presentations for which slides were available. Rob Spindler, the co-chair of the conference stated, "Since this was the first conference concentrating on university electronic records issues and given the diverse professional backgrounds of our speakers we felt it was important to make these presentations widely available." The presentations are located at <http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure/ecure-confirmed-speakers.html>.

  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 51, Number 7 and Number 8.

    To see the Tables of Contents, please click here.

    The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html> contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.

    The John Wiley Interscience site http://www.interscience.wiley.com includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the Interscience site and ASIS members who have selected electronic access have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints.

    Richard Hill
    American Society for Information Science
    8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
    Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA.
    (301) 495-0900
    FAX (301) 495-0810
    http://www.asis.org/

  • "I say what I mean, but do I mean what I say?", an article by Paul Miller, in Ariadne, Issue 23, March 2000.

    Paul Miller has written this article to report about the MODELS 11 workshop held in early January 2000. MODELS stands for MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services. MODELS is a UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) initiative supported by the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) and it has as its mission "to develop an applications framework to manage the rapidly multiplying range of distributed heterogeneous information resources and services being offered to libraries and their users." In his Ariadne article, Miller also discusses the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. His article may be found at <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/metadata/>.

    Ariadne, <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/> , is an open access, electronic magazine published quarterly by UKOLN. The MODELS web site is located at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/>.

Point to Point

  • Collection Management and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resource, by C.J. Armstrong, Bronant, Aberystwyth: Information Automation Ltd., June 1998 - present. Updated continously.

    This resource is divided into two main areas: "Collection Management", and "Scholarly Electronic Publishing". The area "Scholarly Electronic Publishing" is further organized in one general and four sub-sections:

    • General;
    • Authority and Digital Signatures;
    • Charging, Licences and Copyright;
    • Preservation & Legal Deposit; and
    • Practical E-Publishing.

    External links to listed resources are provided where possible. The Collection Management and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resource is located at <http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/CM_Bibl.htm>.

  • Ninch Town Meetings 2000: Resources, Articles & Papers, Web Resources, and Guides & Other Resources from the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) web site.

    Beginning in January 2000, NINCH has been conducting what it calls "Copyright and Fair Use Town Meetings 2000" at locations throughout the country. Each of the town meetings has a different theme. Listed so far are the following:

    • The Public Domain
    • Access: The DMCA and Digital Copyright Issues
    • Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher
    • Distance Education
    • The Public Domain: Implied, Inferred and In Fact
    • Copyright Confusion? Community Guides

    NINCH is also making available a cumulative list of resources from the meetings with links to many of them. The resources page is located at <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/resources.html>.

  • Internet Resources Newsletter, a free, monthly, non-subscription newsletter edited by Roddy MacLeod and published by the Heriot-Watt University - Internet Resource Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

    This monthly newsletter provides current awareness information on the subject of the Internet for engineers, scientists, academics, students, and social scientists. The newsletter web site provides access to past issues of the newsletter and has archived links to over 5000 resources which are arranged alphabetically. The newsletter was begun in 1994, and the current issue (as of 14 April 2000) is Issue Number 67.

    The Internet Resources Newsletter is located at <http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html>.

  • A Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River.

    Contributed by:
    Melissa Murphy
    Directory of Marketing & Development
    Grand Canyon Association
    <mmurphy@grandcanyon.org>

    Grand Canyon Association recently published the Internet edition of A Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River. Compiled and edited by Earle E. Spamer, the bibliography contains over 22,500 citations, including information on printed publications, audio-visual works, and electronic products that relate to the Grand Canyon and the lower Colorado River. This new bibliography is free and accessible to the public at <http://www.grandcanyon.org/biblio>. A Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River will be updated monthly and is fully searchable.

    A Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River is an educational outreach program of Grand Canyon Association (GCA), a non-profit organization that exists to support education, research, and other programs for the benefit of Grand Canyon National Park and its visitors. GCA publishes books and other materials relating to Grand Canyon and the surrounding region, supports research at the park’s Science Center, provides funding for the park’s research library, and produces a wide variety of free publications and exhibits for park visitors. Since its inception in 1932, GCA has provided Grand Canyon National Park with over $13 million in aid.

    For more information about the bibliography or Grand Canyon Association visit <http://www.grandcanyon.org>.

Deadline Reminders

Calls for Participation

  • 6th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 4 - 6 October 2000, Softopia, Gifu, Japan. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 22 May 2000.

    The theme of the VSMM 2000 conference will be multifaceted, highlighting Virtual Heritage, Highspeed Connectivity and Technical Excellence. The conference will run simultaneously with EVA2000, EUROGIFU, and a large exhibition on Japanese Virtual Reality. Combined, these events will feature the best in virtual reality hardware, software, applications, and business opportunities.

    Papers are being sought which pertain to a wide range of topics in virtual reality with special emphasis on:

    special session on Virtual Heritage
    This will be the third Special Session on Virtual Heritage and will explore the virtual reality tools and applications used in Cultural, Natural and World Heritage. This session has quickly become the industry benchmark for all developments and innovations pertaining to Virtual Heritage, so if your research is in any way related to this field, you are highly encouraged to participate.

    special session on high speed collaboration and connectivity
    This new session will explore the use of Highspeed collaborative tools and applications. With the advent of the Internet2, vBNS and other highspeed networks, a great importance is being placed on greater speed and complex sharing across international boundaries. Researchers developing collaborative applications which either utilize this highspeed connectivity or use standard networking topology in an innovative way are highly encouraged to submit papers.

    technical session
    This session has been the standard session of VSMM since 1995 and attracts a large number of high quality papers dealing with many themes including Telemedicine, Medicine, robotics, telepresence, software and hardware innovations and more. This session is open to research related to virtual reality and multimedia.

    commercial collaboration: special session on Japanese VR commercialization
    This session will focus on the commercial development of the virtual reality industry in Japan. It's focus is to assist all Japanese and International researchers and companies planning to do business in or with Japan. It will include special sessions on incubation programs and opportunities, case studies, funding and technical resources, workshops and a full exhibition of Japanese VR Technologies. The VSMM Society is currently working with many embassies to assist and promote a strong international attendance for this session.

    intelligent virtual environments workshop led by Marc Cavazza
    Position papers, technical papers or application descriptions are invited on the following topics: Planning techniques for Virtual Environments Action recognition in Virtual Environments Qualitative Physics in Virtual Environments Machine Learning and user adaptation in Virtual Environments Multi-agent systems and distributed AI for Virtual Environments AI models for storytelling and interactivity in Virtual Environments High-level languages for scene description and knowledge representation Functional programming, logic programming and constraint programming in Virtual Environments.

    Please see the VSMM conference web site for additional information and submission instructions. The web site is located at <http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2000/">.

  • Preservation 2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials, 7 - 8 December 2000, York, United Kingdom. Call for papers. Abstracts are due no later than 30 May 2000.

    The following is a verbatim reprint of an announcement from Kelly Russell, CEDARS Project Manager, CEDARS Project, University of Leeds, about a Call for Papers for the Preservation 2000 conference coming up in December. It appeared on several discussion lists with the request that it be circulated as appropriate.

    "As we enter the new millennium, many organisations and individuals share concerns about our ability to bring with us the vast array of digital materials accumulated in libraries, archives, museums and other cultural and heritage organisations. "

    "The Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) in the UK, through the Cedars project, funded through the JISC eLib programme, has been developing strategic, methodological and practical guidance for libraries and archives in best practice for digital preservation. Over the past 2 years, Cedars has been actively promoting awareness about the importance of digital preservation both amongst university libraries and archives and amongst the data creating and data supplying communities upon which they depend."

    "Preservation 2000 promises to bring together experts and enthusiasts from a variety of disciplines and organisations to discuss and debate recent advances in this critical area. This state of the art conference will make the most of both the interdisciplinary and international dimensions which are key to facing the challenges imposed by long term access to digital objects."

    "The aim of the conference is to facilitate meaningful dialogue between the wide array of organisations and individuals currently working with digital archives and preservation. The main goal for the conference is to share, disseminate and discuss current key issues concerning the preservation of digital materials."

    "The conference aims to focus the programme around three main strands:

    • Content and selection issues for long term preservation

    • Models for digital archives including technical and organisational issues related to access and management

    • Economic and Cost Modelling for digital preservation"

    "We invite submissions in ALL areas of digital archiving and preservation, including (but not limited to) the following:

    • Exemplars for the establishment of digital archives systems and services

    • Management practices commonly required by libraries and archives in addressing the longevity of digital collections

    • Business models for digital archives (e.g. collaborative or federated repositories)

    • Frameworks for the development of digital collection management policies including selection or materials

    • Intellectual property rights: digital preservation issues

    • Security, authentication and authenticity in digital archives

    • Electronic publishing and digital archives"

    Submissions

    "Prospective authors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words describing their paper by NO LATER THAN 30 May. Notification of acceptance will be made by 30 July. A provisional Programme will be available by 30 August. Authors are encouraged to submit papers electronically and, in particular, in postscript (or PDF) format."

    "The Conference Proceedings will be available on the web."

    Abstracts should be submitted to:

    Kelly Russell
    Cedars Project Manager
    University of Leeds
    Leeds, LS2 9JT
    England, UK Phone: (+44) (0) 113 233 6386
    Fax:(+44) (0) 113
    2335539
    <k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk>.

  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Initiative to Broaden the Base of Archival Expertise in the Area of Electronic Records Issues. Call for Proposals. Proposals are due 1 June 2000. (The following is from a December 1999 Press Release.)

    At its November 1999 meeting, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) voted to expand its current strategic initiative in the area of electronic records. The Commission is issuing a call for proposals to address the need to broaden the base and increase the level of archival expertise in the area of electronic records. This call for proposals is in response to the recognized need to increase the number of archivists who are equipped to work with electronic records. It also responds to the need to increase the basic knowledge of archivists and related professionals in general about the challenges and opportunities information technology poses and the initiatives currently attempting to address them. At the same time, the Commission will continue to support proposals addressing other areas of its electronic records research agenda.

    To support this initiative, the Commission will commit up to $1.8 million to proposals that respond to this need. The Commission has allocated up to $600,000 of its annual appropriated grant funds for the next three fiscal years (2001-2003) toward the call for proposals in this area.

    The Commission believes that archival expertise needs to be enhanced at a number of different levels and in a number of different venues. For example, the Commission would welcome proposals to:

    • support a research fellowship program to conduct fundamental research in archives administration as it relates to electronic records

    • provide post-doctoral opportunities at universities that have doctoral programs in archival or information science

    • develop additional graduate-level archival courses focusing on the challenges that information technology poses for the profession

    • develop educational opportunities for working archivists in the form of fellowships, web-based distance education, or an institute

    • develop computer science curricula that incorporates archival/records management concerns about electronic records and electronic recordkeeping.

    This list is not exhaustive. The Commission welcomes all types of proposals that address this strategic initiative. The Commission anticipates funding a number of proposals in each of the three years of the initiative and has set no arbitrary limits on dollar amounts. Proposals for the first cycle are due June 1, 2000, for high-priority projects beginning no earlier than January 1, 2001. These proposals will be considered at the Commission's November 2000 meeting.

    Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Commission staff early in the process of preparing a proposal for this strategic initiative. Applicants should contact the Director for Technology Initiatives for further information:

    Point of Contact:

    Mark Conrad
    National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
    National Archives and Records Administration
    700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 111
    Washington, DC 20408-0001
    E-mail: <mark.conrad@arch1.nara.gov>

  • International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval: MUSIC IR 2000, 23 - 25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 15 June 2000.

    This will be the first music information retrieval (IR) symposium, and its aim is to provide an information exchange that will enable scholars to move more quickly toward viable solutions to many problems.

    Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:

    • Estimating similarity of melodies and polyphonic music
    • Music representation and indexing
    • Problems of recognizing music optically and/or via audio
    • Routing and filtering for music
    • Evaluation of music-IR systems
    • Intellectual property rights issues
    • User interfaces for music IR
    • Issues related to musical styles and genres
    • Language modeling for music
    • User needs and expectations

    Please see the conference web site, <http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000/> for complete instructions for submitting papers to MUSIC IR 2000.

  • ACM Multimedia 2000, 30 October - 3 November 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA. The deadline for full papers has expired, but proposals for demonstrations, short papers, posters, and doctoral symposium proposals may be submitted up till 19 June 2000.

    Please see the ACM Multimedia 2000 web site for details about the conference and for instructions for submission of those items listed above. The web site is located at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/>.

  • PAKM 2000: Third International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, 20 - 31 October 2000, Basel, Switzerland. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 June 2000.

    To succeed in the accelerating business pace of the Internet age, companies must efficiently leverage their most valuable and under-leveraged resource: the intellectual capital of their highly educated, skilled, and experienced employees. The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers engaged in developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge and intellectual capital.

    The sponsors of PAKM seek attendance and contributions from practitioners, researchers, and developers who work at the leading edge of Knowledge Management, pursuing integrated approaches which consider both the technological side as well as the proper business side. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision completely new kinds of solutions to Knowledge Management problems.

    Papers may address one or more of the following topics, or any other topic as long as it fits into the overall conference theme:

    • Building and maintaining an inventory of the knowledge available in the organization (with people, in files, databases, documents)

      • setting up appropriate communication links between people, groups, departments to communicate what skills and knowledge they have

      • meta information systems

    • Bringing the knowledge existing somewhere inside or outside the organization to those places where it is needed

      • aligning organizational structures towards a knowledge sharing community

      • group support systems

      • decision support systems, just-in-time knowledge delivery systems, electronic performance support systems

      • information retrieval: interest profiles, information filtering, automatic text understanding, searching the world wide web, personal web agents

    • Making sure that available knowledge is reused and not reinvented

      • documentation and annotation of knowledge to facilitate its being assimilated by people who did not provide it

      • ontologies and enterprise data models to provide a common terminological framework

      • automatic text summarization to facilitate selection of relevant texts

      • group support systems

      • automatic indexing and abstracting of texts

    • Capturing and securing knowledge to keep it from getting lost

      • designing business processes such that knowledge generated in ongoing work is easily and immediately captured

      • implementing lessons learned processes

      • organizational memories: knowledge integration, knowledge sharing, versioning, contexts, high-level modelling languages for non-computer scientists

      • knowledge extraction from texts

    • Developing new knowledge

      • organizational measures for supporting and stimulating innovation

      • information systems for supporting creative processes (exploration of data spaces, visualization tools, etc.)

      • data mining (from data, text, and the web)

    Please see the PAKM 2000 web site for complete information at <http://research.swisslife.ch./pakm2000/>.

Goings On

  • IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, 22 - 24 May 2000, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    The goal of this conference is to share and disseminate information about important current issues concerning digital library research and technology. This goal will be achieved by means of research papers, invited talks, workshops, and panels involving leading experts, as well as through demonstrations of innovative technologies and prototypes. The conference has the additional goal of indicating the importance of applications of digital library technologies in the public and private sectors of the economy by reporting on and demonstrating available systems.

    The preliminary program for the conference is now available at the conference web site, as are forms for registration, information about the conference venue and other details. A sample of the scheduled speakers and their topics follows:

    • Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google, Inc.
      "Search versus Find: A Future History of Information Retrieval"

    • G. Ozsoyoglu, USA
      "Electronic Books in Digital Libraries"

    • D.Calvanese, Italy
      "Building a Digital Library of Newspaper Clippings: The LAURIN Project"

    • Z.Qiu, Germany
      "Towards Supporting User-defined Hypertext Contexts in Web Searching"

    • Y. Yang, UK
      "Mobil Agents and the SARA Digital Library"

    • B. Chidlovski, France
      "Using Regular Tree Automata as XML Schemas"

    • D. Kuo, Australia
      "Morphing Towards Interoperable Catalogues"

    • C. Baptista, UK/Brazil
      "An Integrated Metamodel for Knowledge Representation in Geolibraries"

    The above sample from the program highlights the breadth of topics from international speakers. Please see the program at <http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/> and click on "program" for the complete list of speakers. There will also be open workshops on Tuesday evening, 23 May 2000.

    Significant discounts are available for early registration (if made by 1 May 2000).

  • 28th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 28 - 30 May 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

    Dimensions of a Global Information Science has annnounced that the 28th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI 2000) will be held on 28 - 30 May 2000, within the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2000, 24 - 31 May 2000, at Edmonton. (The Congress -- and its predecessor, the Learned Societies Conference -- has been held annually in Canada since the 1930s. It is the largest annual multi-disciplinary gathering in the world, with between 5,000 and 8,000 participants across 80 to 100 disciplines.)

    The CAIS/ACSI conference has scheduled speakers from around the world. A few of them are listed below:

    • Information Science and Information Systems: Converging or Diverging?
      Ira Monarch - Carnegie Mellon University

    • Meta- and Object-language in Information Retrieval Research
      Julian Warner - The Queen's University of Belfast

    • Text as a Tool for Organizing Moving Image Collections
      James Turner and Michèle Hudon - Université de Montréal

    • The Impact of Telework on Information Professionals' Work Processes
      Crystal Fulton - University College at Dublin

    • The Web as a Classroom Resource: Reactions from the Users
      Andrew Large and Jamshid Beheshti - McGill University

    • The Hidden Dimensions of Global Information Networks
      Edward F. Halpin and Steve Wright - Manchester Metropolitan University

    • Assessing the Preparedness of Information Institutions For the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)
      Abdus Sattar Chaudhry - Nanyang Technological University Chew Lay Meng - Productivity and Standards Board of Singapore

    Please see the Congress 2000 web site for more information. The web site is located at <http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoEng.html>.

  • Hypertext 2000: 11th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 30 May - 4 June 2000, and ACM Digital Libraries 2000: the Fifth ACM Digital Libraries Conference, 2 - 7 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

    The programs for the ACM Hypertext 2000 conference and the ACM Digital Libraries 2000 conference are now available online and registration is open. The Hypertext 2000 and Digital Libraries 2000 conferences are being held back-to-back to make it more convenient for those who wish to participate in both. Early registration discounts are being offered for each of the conferences if completed before 1 May 2000.

    Both conferences will offer keynotes, expert presentations, tutorials, workshops, demonstations, poster sessions and exhibits. Please visit the web sites for the conferences for complete information. ACM Hypertext 2000 is at <http://www.ht00.org/>, and ACM Digital Libraries 2000 is at <:http://www.dl00.org/>.

  • WebContent 2.0 - The New Internet Revenue Models: Building Value from Information, 1 - 2 June 2000, London, United Kingdom.

    Speakers for this conference will represent all types of enterprises: from established online services to new Web initiatives. More than 20 different organisations will present their views on the best ways to use content as a source of revenue. With its sharp focus on revenue generation, WebContent 2.0 will be a premier forum in 2000 for coming to grips with one of the central challenges facing third-generation Web sites.

    Please visit the WebContent 2.0 web site to view the conference program and to obtain registration information. The site is located at <http://www.infonortics.com/webcontent/>.

  • Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage, 5 June 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    Contributed by:
    Robert Cunningham
    NELINET, Inc.
    Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
    rcunningham@nelinet.net

    Announcing: Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage

    A conference cosponsored by the NELINET Preservation Advisory Committee, the John F. Kennedy Library, and the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

    Location: John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts Date: Monday, June 5, 2000.

    How can libraries, archives, and organizations cope with the ever-increasing amount of digital material? Will future generations be able to read our CD ROMs and computer files? Come hear what the experts pose as the barriers and solutions to our digital problems.

    Speakers

    Tim Berners-Lee, MIT, the inventor of the World Wide Web,
    <http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/>

    Jeff Rothenberg, Rand Corporation, promoter of emulation as a digital preservation strategy,
    <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html>

    Fynnette Eaton, Smithsonian Institution, promoter of migration as a digital preservation strategy,
    <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9922.html>

    Paul Conway, Yale University, author of articles on digital preservation and digital imaging,
    <http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pconway.htm>

    Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group, an information architect and author of 14 books and over 180 articles on libraries, technology, publishing, and personal computing,
    <http://home.att.net/~walt.crawford/>

    Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard, consultant and author in preservation planning, management, and development,
    <http://preserve.harvard.edu/>

    In 1998 NELINET sponsored the first Digital Reality Conference attended by over 400 people. We heard about the new world of electronic information, electronic resources in the consortial environment, implications of digitization for preservation, and designing and planning electronic resources access. How far have we come? Do we have it all figured out or are we still looking for answers?

    Mark your calendars now. Full program and registration information is posted on the NELINET web site, <http://www.nelinet.net/conf/pres/pres00/digital.htm>.

    For more information contact Robert Cunningham at NELINET via email: <rcunningham@nelinet.net> or by phone: 1-800-NELINET.

  • Removing Barriers: Advanced Internet Applications for Education, Research, and E-Business, 7 - 9 June 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA.

    The Northwest Academic Computing Consortium and EDUCAUSE have joined together to offer this regional conference in the Northwest bringing together technology leaders from dozens of colleges, universities, and other organizations to explore new directions in network-based applications for both research and teaching. Sessions will examine existing Internet projects as well as near-future Internet2 software initiatives.

    The conference program and registration information can be found at <http://www.educause.edu/conference/regional/nwacc/2000/>.

  • American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) 28th Annual Conference, 8 - 13 June 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    AIC is the national membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the art and historic artifacts of our cultural heritage for future generations. (This conference is not restricted to AIC members.)

    A sample of papers to be presented include:

    • Creating a Digital Archive for the Most Well Documented Movie Ever - STAR WARS
      Justin Graham, Image Archivist, LucasFilm, San Rafael, CA

    • Between Cinema and a Hard Place: The Conservation and Documentation of a Video Installation by Gary Hill
      Pip Laurenson, Conservator of Media Arts, The Tate Gallery, London, England

    • Technological Evolution of Video
      Jim Lindner, President, VidiPax, New York, NY

    • Accelerated Life Expectancy Estimation of Data Storage Media: How Long Will It Last, and How Do You Know?
      William P. Murray, Reliability Engineer, Maplewood, MN

    • Immaterial Culture: Collecting in the 21st Century
      Abby Smith, Council on Library Information Resources, Washington, DC

    • Collecting Video Art: What are the Minimum Accession Requirements?
      Sarah Stauderman, Conservator, VidiPax, New York, NY

    • Digital Information Lasts Forever - or Five Years, Whichever Comes First
      Jeff Rothenberg, Senior Computer Scientist, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

    Please visit the conference web site for complete information at <http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/aic/conf/>.

  • Special Libraries Association 91st Annual Conference, 10 - 15 June 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    The theme of this SLA Annual Conference is "Independence to Interdependence: The Next Phase in the Information Revolution." The theme was chosen to reflect "the evolving, more active and independent role of information professionals and special librarians within their organizations, as well as the intertwined nature of the information profession."

    The conference will feature speakers, workshops, selected continuing education courses, hot topics sessions, tours and exhibits. The conference is open to non-SLA members.

    Please see the SLA web site at <http://www.sla.org/> for more information about the conference and about the Association's other activities and opportunities.

  • AusWeb2K - The Sixth Australian World Wide Web Conference, 12 - 17 June 2000, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.

    The AusWeb conferences are hosted by Southern Cross University and strive to deliver in-depth content on Web technology and applications. The papers to be presented are made available at the AusWeb site a month in advance of the conference. A short, partial list of keynote topics follows:

    • W3C: Leading the Web to its Full Potential

    • Using Technology to Manage Collections

    • Preparing Campus Information Systems for Global Web-based Education

    • Law and the World Wide Web

    Please visit the AusWeb2K web site for complete information about the conference: <http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/>.

  • JISC/CNI Conference - Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century, 14 - 16 June 2000, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

    The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are sharing this major international conference which will bring together experts from both the United States and the United Kingdom with keynote addresses from speakers from the National Science Foundation, the British Library, CNI and the JISC.

    Sessions will cover major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic in fields such as Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Preservation, Middleware, access to digital resources and virtual universities.

    A draft programme can be found at: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/programme.html>. Online registration is available and early registration is recommended.

  • North American Serials Interest Group - NASIG 15th Annual Conference, 22 - 25 June 2000, San Diego, California, USA.

    The NASIG conferences provide a forum for librarians, publishers, vendors, educators, binders, systems developers, and other serials specialists to exchange views, present new ideas, seek solutions to common problems and discuss current issues in the field. Though this is a member organization conference, registration has been open since 1 April 2000 to non-members as well.

    The theme for this year's conference is "Making Waves: New Serials Landscapes in a Sea of Change." The three plenary sessions support this theme:

    • Plenary I, Impossible Things: Eugenie Prime, Manager, Corporate Libraries, Hewlett-Packard.

    • Plenary II, Bob's World and Welcome To It: Bits, Bytes, and Your Little Dog, Too. Bob Cringley, PBS Commentator on the Information Industry

    • Plenary III, Catching the Wave: Views of the Serials Future: Eugenie Prime, Manager, Corporate Libraries, Hewlett Packard; John Cox, Principal, John Cox Associates; Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC; Chris Beckett, Director, Sales & Marketing, CatchWord, Ltd.; Regina Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress; Mark McCabe, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cathy Norton, Library Director, Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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    Please visit the NASIG web site for more information: <http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/nasig/nasigframe.htm>.

  • Two EDUCAUSE Institute Programs Scheduled, 18 - 22 June 2000 and 25 - 29 June 2000, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

    The EDUCAUSE Institute is designed as a professional development program for those who manage some aspect of information technology and resources in higher education, whether within their department or for the entire institution.

    The two programs to be offered this summer are:

    Management Program: 18 - 22 June

    Leadership Program: 25 - 29 June

    Please see the EDUCAUSE Institute web site for complete information about these programs at <http://www.educause.edu/inst/inst.html>.

  • Concurrent Conferences of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA), and Region VIII (Canada) of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), 19 - 24 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

    CLA President, Lorraine McQueen says that the concurrent conferences of CLA, ACA and ARMA "...will focus on emerging trends in information services over a broad spectrum, and the program will provide many opportunitiies for healthy dialogue and exploration of common values and diverse practices among [the]communities."

    To view the individual association programs and to obtain registration information, please see each of the association web sites:

    Canadian Library Association <http://www.cla.ca/conference/cla2000/index.htm>

    Association of Canadian Archivists <http://aca.archives.ca/index.htm>

    Association of Records Managers and Administrators <http://www.armacanada.org/conference.html>

    In addition, on 21 June CLA's Emerging Technologies Interest Group (ETIG) will hold a pre-conference workshop, "Explosive Techno Hits 2000!", and information about that preconference may be found at <http://nofish.library.mun.ca/etig/index.html>.

  • 12th Conference of the European Map Curators Group, 27 June - 1 July 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    The theme of this conference is "Caught in the WEB or spinning it?: the role of Map Curators in building WWW-sources of cartographic information." This conference will focus on the creation, development, and maintenance of new virtual collections by map libraries and consider the problems that need to be addressed for these projects to be successful. Providing effective access to such images will be a central concern, as will the gathering and organising of textual information. A number of particular subthemes will be covered:

    • Access
      • How can effective access be provided to text, images and their metadata, using search engines or by other means?
      • Which finding aids should be employed (catalogues, indexes, gateways and standards)?
      • How should text and images be made available for our various user communities?
    • Management and policy
      • How can this work be best organised co-operatively?
      • How should this work be best funded and managed?
      • Which maps should be made available over the Internet and why?
    • Presentation
      • What type and quantity of textual information should be provided with images?
      • What technology is most appropriate for scanning, compression, and access?
      • What metadata standards should be employed for access and retrieval?

    For complete information, please visit the conference web site, <http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/12th.htm>.

  • Written in Light: Photographic Collections in a Digital Age, 12 - 14 September 2000, London, United Kingdom.

    Contributed by:
    Anne Muller, Asst. Executive Secretary
    European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    ecpa@bureau.knaw.nl

    Written in Light: Photographic Collections in a Digital Age

    (An international conference at the Public Record Office, London, United Kingdom)

    The Public Record Office will be hosting a conference in September 2000 as part of the project Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access (SEPIA) funded under the European Union’s Framework Programme in support of Culture. The conference’s aim will be to bring together those responsible for photographic collections (such as curators, librarians and conservators) and experts in photography and digital imaging. The focus will be on issues that must be considered in increasing Europe-wide access to collections of photographic materials while ensuring the preservation of those same materials for future generations.

    Image digitisation has had a dramatic impact on the ability of institutions holding photographic collections to reach out to all sectors of society, and policy-makers at both national and European levels are keen to see it employed on a large scale. Many people have been unaware until now of the wealth of material being preserved, often at public expense, and of the images of an often vanished world that are available for them to see and use. Institutions can now grant unheard-of remote access as an extension to their on-site reading facilities while reducing the handling and environmental changes that result in damage to precious and fragile originals. The apparent simplicity of the process is misleading, though, and may lead to expensive mistakes and disappointing results. Projects still need careful preparation, and expertise from both traditional and digital environments has to be shared.

    The conference will look at issues like:

    • how to reconcile the varying requirements and exploit the differing skills of libraries, museums and archives

    • aims of digitisation

    • technical requirements, image quality, image enhancement

    • selection criteria, user requirements

    • preservation of originals in relation to digitisation

    • cataloguing, descriptive methods, metadata, long-term management of digital images

    • workflow, costs, organisational issues, training

    Speakers will be experts from Europe and the USA. Apart from plenary papers, there will be small group sessions on topics like: conservation and preservation measures for large collections of original photographs; requirements for digital imaging; the ethics of digital imaging/enhancement/restoration and copyright. A trade exhibition of suppliers of relevant products will be organised, and one afternoon will be spent visiting institutions with significant photographic collections and expertise in their preservation.

    For more information, contact

    Tim Padfield, Public Record Office
    Kew, Richmond, TW9 4DU, UK
    E-mail: <tim.padfield@pro.gov.uk>
    Telephone: ++44 20 8876 3444 ext 2351
    Fax: ++44 20 8392 5295
    or consult the SEPIA website at <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia>.

Pointers in this Column

12th Conference of the European Map Curators Group, 27 June - 1 July 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/12th.htm

2000 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, 21 - 24 May 2000, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

http://www.irma-international.org

21st Annual International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2000, 10 - 13 December 2000, Brisbane, Australia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 10 May 2000.

http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/icis2000/

28th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 28 - 30 May 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoEng.html

6th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: VSMM 2000, 4 - 6 October 2000, Softopia, Gifu, Japan. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 22 May 2000.

http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2000/

8th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 10 - 11 November 2000, Washington, D.C., USA. Call for papers. The deadline for abstract submission is 8 May 2000.

http://acmgis.cs.pusan.ac.kr/html/acmgis2000/index.html

A Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River

http://www.grandcanyon.org

A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases, Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

http://books.nap.edu/html/question_balance/

ACM Digital Libraries 2000: the Fifth ACM Digital Libraries Conference, 2 - 7 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

http://www.dl00.org/

ACM Multimedia 2000, 30 October - 3 November 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA. The deadline for full papers has expired, but proposals for demonstrations, short papers, posters, and doctoral symposium proposals may be submitted up till 19 June 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/

ACRL 10th National Conference, 15 - 18 March 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA. Call for participation. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2000.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/denvercall.html

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) 28th Annual Conference, 8 - 13 June 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/aic/conf/

AusWeb2K - The Sixth Australian World Wide Web Conference, 12 - 17 June 2000, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.

http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/

CIR2000 - Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval, 4 - 5 May 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom. Deadline for standard fees is 20 April 2000.

http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00/

Collection Management and Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resource, by C.J. Armstrong

http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/CM_Bibl.htm

Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2 - 6 December 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers is 28 April 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw2000/cfppapers.html

Concurrent Conferences of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA), and Region VIII (Canada) of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), 19 - 24 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.cla.ca/conference/cla2000/index.htm

http://aca.archives.ca/index.htm

http://www.armacanada.org/conference.html

CUMREC 2000: The New Frontier: Creative Solutions for the New Millenium, 14 - 17 May 2000, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

http://www.cumrec.com/cumrec2000/

CUU 2000: ACM Conference on Universal Usability, 16 - 17 November 2000, Washington, D.C., USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 May 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cuu/

DESIRE II Web Indexing Workshop, 13 - 14 May 2000, Delft, The Netherlands.

http://www.terena.nl/d2-workshop/d2webindex2000/

Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage, 5 June 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

http://www.nelinet.net/conf/pres/pres00/digital.htm

ECDL 2000: Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 18 - 20 September 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline for paper submission is 1 May 2000.

http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/call.htm

ECPA Workshop on Management of Photographic Collections, 1 - 5 May 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark and 5 - 9 June 2000 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/events/register.html

Electronic Publishing in the Third Millenium, 17 - 19 August 2000, Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk, Russia. Call for papers. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2000.

http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000/

Exploring the Outer Limits of E-Commerce for Publishers & Information Companies, 17 May 2000, New York, New York, USA.

http://www.infotoday.com/nom2000/elecpub.htm

Hypertext 2000: 11th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 30 May - 4 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

http://www.ht00.org/

"I say what I mean, but do I mean what I say?", by Paul Miller (in Ariadne, Issue 23)

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/metadata/

IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, 22 - 24 May 2000, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Earlybird registration discount until 1 May 2000.

http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/

International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval: MUSIC IR 2000, 23 - 25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 15 June 2000.

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000/

Internet Resources Newsletter

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html

Into the Millenium...Cartography and Map Collections for a New Century, 30 May - 4 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/maps2000/index.html

JISC/CNI Conference - Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century, 14 - 16 June 2000, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/

Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS).

http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA): Positioning Libraries on the Internet and Using the Internet in Libraries, 25 - 28 May 2000, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida/

Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective, by Laura Price and Abby Smith.

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub90/pub90.pdf

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Initiative to Broaden the Base of Archival Expertise in the Area of Electronic Records Issues. Call for Proposals. Proposals are due 1 June 2000.

http://www.nara.gov/nhprc/

Ninch Town Meetings 2000: Resources.

http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/resources.html

North American Serials Interest Group - NASIG 15th Annual Conference, 22 - 25 June 2000, San Diego, California, USA.

http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/nasig/nasigframe.htm

OCLC Institute.

http://www.oclc.org/institute/

PAKM 2000: Third International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, 20 - 31 October 2000, Basel, Switzerland. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 June 2000.

http://research.swisslife.ch./pakm2000/

Participatory Design Conference, 28 November - 1 December 2000, New York City, New York, USA. Call for participation. The submission deadline for papers is 1 May 2000.

http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000/

Preservation and Access for Electronic University Records Conference: Presentation Slides from the October 1999 conference hosted by Arizona State University.

http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure/ecure-confirmed-speakers.html

Primary Source, an email newsletter from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/new_imls.htm#ps

Removing Barriers: Advanced Internet Applications for Education, Research, and E-Business, 7 - 9 June 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/conference/regional/nwacc/2000/

Special Libraries Association 91st Annual Conference, 10 - 15 June 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.sla.org/conf/philly.html

Two EDUCAUSE Institute Programs Scheduled, 18 - 22 June 2000 and 25 - 29 June 2000, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/inst/inst.html

VRD 2000 Annual Digital Reference Conference, 16 - 17 October 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA. The deadline for proposals is 24 April 2000.

http://vrd.org/conferences/VRD2000/

WebContent 2.0 - The New Internet Revenue Models: Building Value from Information, 1 - 2 June 2000, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.infonortics.com/webcontent/

"What is the Internet (And What Makes It Work)", By Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf.

http://www.internetpolicy.org/briefing/12_99_story.html

Workshop on Electronic Resources: Quality Evaluation Mechanisms, 15 - 16 May 2000, Patras, Greece.

http://www.lis.upatras.gr/LIS/FORMS/Workshop_
May_EN.shtml

Written in Light: Photographic Collections in a Digital Age, 12 - 14 September 2000, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia

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DOI: 10.1045/april2000-clips