LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research
Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768
1999 Volume 9 Issue 2; September.
Bi-annual LIBRE9N2 JOURNALS
Editorial note:
This section contains items culled from various Internet news services,
discussion lists and other announcements. Unless specifically noted, I have not
visited the sites, used any of the software, reviewed the literature, or written
the news items. I present this digest to you in good faith but cannot vouch for
the accuracy of its content.
Kerry Smith
1.
ASIA LIBRARY NEWS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:13:59 +0700
To: Kerry Smith <kerry@biblio.curtin.edu.au>
From: jyee@ksc5.th.com
Subject: Asia Library News--Call for Papers
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Asia Library News (ALN) is the official journal of ALIVA (Asia Library and
Information Association <www.aliva.org>) co-founded by Jaffe Yee Yeow-fei,
founding publisher/editor of Asian Libraries, and a group of prominent library
and information professionals
ALN is distributed free of charge to all core members in East Asia. It is
entirely supported by advertisers
and sponsors. The publishing activities of ALN are fully undertaken and
underwritten by InfoMedia Asia Limited.
ALN publishes original feature articles on all aspects of library and
information services related to
Asia. It also publishes news, announcements, reports, library profiles and
interviews. ALN now invites library and information professionals to contribute
articles to appear in future issues.
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2.
THE BOTTOM LINE: MANAGING LIBRARY FINANCES
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances provides librarians, library trustees,
and others concerned with library management, with current information
related to the financial aspects of library operations.
The journal focuses on cost measurement and containment,
fundraising, development, fiscal policies and procedures, and the financial implications
of technological change. The
journal seeks to provide current, practical information that can be applied
in all types of libraries. The
Editor welcomes submissions which discuss budgeting, economic trends
affecting libraries, endowments, leasing, outsourcing, insurance,
grantsmanship, resource allocation, cost analysis, funding technological
innovation and alternative sources of revenue.
Authors should:
Prepare articles that are specific enough for readers to apply to their local
situations
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Include facts and pertinent examples
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3.
CURRENT CITES,
Volume 10, No 3, March 1999
Date:
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:55:01 +0000
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Librarians Listserv <SOLOLIB-L@LISTSERV.SILVERPLATTER.COM>
From:
Gerry Hurley <Gerry_Hurley@SILVERPLATTER.COM>
Subject: Current
Cites, March 1999
Here's the March issue of Current Cites, resposted from
the PACS-L list.
--Gerry Hurley
SOLOLIB-L List Owner
:
_Current Cites_
Volume 10, no. 3
March 1999
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1999/cc99.10.3.html
:
Contributors
Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Roy Tennant, Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
:
Ellis, Steven, ed. "A Special Theme: Digital Libraries" Library HiTech
16(3-4) (1998):12-62. - Since all but two of the seven articles are
specifically on electronic text centers, the theme title is more than a
little misleading. E-text centers, as important as they may be, do not
comprise anywhere near the totality of digital libraries. However, if one
takes this error into account, the collection of articles can serve as a
useful overview of a number of electronic text center projects. - RT
:
Floyd, Bianca. "Digital Storytelling Updates an Ancient Art by Adding Technology"
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1999 (http://www.chronicle.com/daily/99/03/99031801t.htm).
- This article describes the new art of digital storytelling as pioneered
at UC Berkeley's Center for Digital Storytelling. Participants claim that digital
storytelling merging together text, images, sound and animation will emerge
as a new art form that will be pursued by large numbers of people who have
access to technology. Amateur practitioners may be the pioneers of this art
form, because basic manipulation of digital formats can be learned with
relative dispatch. Moreover, it may resemble independent film-making and
other forms of expression that do not rely on corporate sponsors. - TH
:
Fourie, Ian. "Should We Take Disintermediation Seriously?" The Electronic
Library 17(1)(February, 1999): 9-16 (http://www.learned.co.uk/tel/focus1.asp).
- Does the growing volume of electronic information available to end-users
spell the end of intermediaries as we know them? Well, perhaps as we know
some of them today. While end-users may be increasingly less dependent on
information specialists, Fourie argues that end-user empowerment does not
necessarily imply disintermediation or "the finding of information by
an end-user without the need for a third party." Fourie discusses the
implications of disintermediation on the future of information specialists
in nearly excruciating detail. While his conclusion that information
specialists will continue to have a role in improving society's access to
quality information is not surprising, he does offer some valuable points
for information specialists to consider in keeping their skills effective and
relevant. - LY
:
Hegener, Michiel. "The Internet, Satellites, and Human Rights" OnTheInternet
5(2) (March/April 1999):20-29; 40 (http://www.isoc.org/isoc/publications/oti/interim.html).
- In a previous article on Internet satellite technology in OnTheInternet, Hegener
focused on issues of capability and implementation. This piece focuses on its possible impact on global
human rights. Not surprisingly,
what may happen is far from clear and will be the result of a complex
interplay of technical, political, economic, and human realities. Hegener
understands these issues and does not fall into the trap of overlooking
their complexity in order to deliver a strong conclusion. It is not yet
clear what, if any, impact satellite communication may have on the ability
of people to "get the word out" to the rest of the world about
the violation of their human rights. One might imagine, however, that every
new method of communication would threaten the power of oppressors to
create and sustain their oppression. - RT
:
Huwe, Terence K. "New Search Tools for Multidisciplinary Digital Libraries"
Online 23(2) (March/April 1999):67-74 (http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1999/huwe3.html). -
This article is not just for librarians who "have" a digital library, because
any information service is becoming more about remote access and less about
collection ownership. Online searchers and librarians of all stripes should
take a look. Current Cites contributor Terry Huwe sees the migration of
many online services to the Web environment as a stimulus for the creation
of better search utilities which can ease the task of
multidisciplinary searches. He argues that "the current challenge is
to develop new search tools that deliver multidisciplinary results, but
that also preserve the metadata and finding aids of the discrete
databases." The tools highlighted include the KnowledgeCite Library by
Silverplatter Information (http://www.silverplatter.com/KC/kcintro.html),
UC San Diego's Database Advisor http://scilib.ucsd.edu/Proj/dba/),
Ameritech's Pharos system for the California State University System
http://uias.calstate.edu), and Northern Light (http://www.northernlight.com/).
These critiques are written from the point of view that a huge information
utility's sheer size can become a curse, if it turns the utility
into a sea of bytes devoid of context and meaning. - JR
:
Kelley, Tina. "Whales in the Minnesota River?" The New York Times
(March 4, 1999): D1-D8. - The Web is largely unregulated and unchecked so
it is wise to be skeptical when using web-based resources. Talk about
stating the obvious. Nonetheless,
it is encouraging to see the Times "Circuits" section
illustrating some dramatic cases of bogus data found on the Web: the
Amnesty International site on human rights in Tunisia (www.amnesty.org/tunisia)
versus a site sponsored by the Tunisian government on human rights in that
country (www.amnesty-tunisia.org). The article describes the efforts of
some librarians to teach students how to evaulate the Web. Included are references
to some Web sites that tell you what to look for when seeking reliable
information online including: Thinking Critically About World Wide Web
Resources (www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm)
and Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources (milton.mse.jhu.edu/research/education/practical.html).
A sidebar on "How to Separate Good Data From Bad" provides a
checklist of what to look for including things that are second nature to
information professionals like: "beware of sites with lots of spelling
and grammatical errors" and notice when the site was last updated. -
MP
:
Ober, John. "The California Digital Library" D-Lib Magazine (March
1999) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march99/03ober.html). - The California
Digital Library is a recent invention of the University of California, and
so far very little has been publicly available on what it's all about. This piece
fills in a lot of holes, and provides some key URLs for finding out more.
Ober does a good job of both recounting the recent history that led to its
creation as well as describing its present and charting its future. - RT
:
Puglia, Steven. "Creating Permanent and Durable Information: Physical Media
and Storage Standards" CRM: Cultural Resource Management 22(2)(1999):
25-27 (http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf). - This
"laundry list" of preservation standards, media, and guidelines is
a useful reference to the key materials regarding the current preservation
state-of-the-art. Life expectancy as applied to preservation media is
defined, environmental requirements for long-term storage are noted, and
digitization guidelines are described. This is not an article, but a
reference piece dense with data. - RT
:
Vogt-O'Connor, Diane. "Is the Record of the 20th Century at Risk?" CRM: Cultural
Resource Management 22(2) (1999): 21-24 (http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-9.pdf).
- I don't recall ever reading a better articulated description of the
digital preservation problem. Vogt-O'Connor has penned a thorough,
interesting and compelling description of the challenges that face anyone
with digital material they wish to preserve. The works cited are useful and very
up-to-date, with most barely six months to a year old. If we are to avert a
"digital dark age of information loss," we should heed what Vogt-O'Connor
has to say. - RT
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1999) ISSN: 1060-2356
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Volume 10, No 4, April 1999
Date: Fri,
30 Apr 1999 14:41:30 -1000
From: Liz
Bryson <bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu>
Organization: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation
_Current Cites_
Volume 10, no. 4
April 1999
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1999/cc99.10.4.html
Contributors:
Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Roy Tennant, Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
Bilal, Dania, Jeff Barry
& W. David Penniman. "A Balancing Act" Library Journal 124(6) (April 1, 1999): 45-54. - This
article is LJ's annual
picture of the automated systems marketplace. 1998 is depicted as a year of partnerships, and the authors describe the
ways in which vendors
and customers are working together to address such problems as
planning for new interfaces while living with old closed systems,
checking for Y2K readiness, and creating Web-based services. After the
overview, 27 vendors are profiled. Tables include microcomputer system
sales, server-based system sales, academic, school and public library
system sales and others. - JR
Coffman, Steve.
"Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving Into the Future" Searcher 7(3) (March 1999)
(http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar/coffman.htm). - Every once in a
while an article comes along that sparks your imagination, or provides
the missing piece to a puzzle, or spurs a moment of "ah-ha!"
insight. For me, this
is just such a piece. In this article Coffman paints a
compelling vision of a library catalog system that is accessible,
convenient, personal, and _huge_. Using Amazon.com as his inspiration,
Coffman wonders why libraries can't band together and do something
similar, only better. I can't help thinking the same thing. Sorry,
patient Current Cites readers, you're going to have to read this one
yourself. I really can't do it justice in one paragraph, and frankly I
can't think of any librarian who shouldn't read this. If you think you
are such a person, drop me a line. I'd like to know why. - RT
Hedstrom, Margaret and Sheon Montgomery. _Digital Preservation Needs
and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions_, Mountain View, CA:
Research Libraries Group, December 1998
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html). - This study commissioned
by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) was to determine the status of
digital archiving at its member institutions. Fifty-four libraries
responded, and fifteen participated in supplementary interviews. While
fully 98% of the responding libraries expect to be preserving digital
material by 2001 if they are not doing so already, almost half lack
"the capacity to mount, read, or access files on some of the storage
media they hold." The service most libraries look to consortia to provide is the development of standards and best
practices; third-party
vendors, on the other hand, are expected to provide migration and conversion services. The report ends with
recommendations based on the findings of the survey for RLG, member institutions, and service providers. - RT
Kiernan, Vincent. "An
Ambitious Plan to Sell Electronic Books:
University Librarians and
Press Officials See Promise and Possible
Pitfalls in the Concept" Chronicle of Higher Education 65(32) (April
16, 1999): A27. - A Colorado-based firm is embarking on a venture to
sell electronic books to university libraries, and some university
press officials say the new program is "the most promising
experiment with e-books
yet." The product is called netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com), and it already has 2,000
titles on its list.
Library officials are quoted in more cautionary tones, but
powerful agencies like CARL and OhioLink are charter customers. - TH
Kiernan, Vincent. "Two
Big Libraries Abandon Home-Grown Software for Commercial Products" Chronicle of Higher Education
April 14, 1999. - This
article describes recent developments at the Library of Congress
and National Library of Medicine in cataloging policy. Both libraries
are shifting their cataloging activity to commercial products, hoping
to cut overhead and streamline work processes. Current arrangements at
LC can involve searches in as many as three databases to confirm
holdings and veracity, so the library is also trying to solve legacy
system challenges at the same time it is updating work practices. –TH
Seadle, Michael. "The
Raw and the Cooked Among Librarians" Library HiTech 16 (3-4) (1998): 7-11. - In this introduction to
Library Hi Tech's
special issue on digital libraries, Seadle posits how
librarians can use anthropological methods and theories to examine
library systems in fresh, new ways. He notes that as our language has
yet to catch up to modern technology, we tend to gravitate towards
physical metaphors to describe digital artifacts, such as
"electronic library."
While helpful in their familiarity, these metaphors can skew
user expectations and conceal new technology-based capabilities. Seadle's observations are insightful and foreshadow the organizational
themes which dominate the electronic text and information technology
center profiles in this article series. - LY
Stokes, John R.
"Imaging Pictorial Collections at the Library of
Congress" RLG DigiNews 3(2) (April 15, 1999)
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-2.html). - The Library
of Congress is one of the few institutions that has the resources to
outsource the digitization of a quarter of a million images. But
nonetheless, this account of such a project will likely be fascinating
to anyone who digitizes pictorial material. Judging from the
accompanying photographs, a phenomenal amount of work was accomplished
in what appears to be a space not much larger than an elongated
closet. But what is most fascinating are the decisions that were made
along the way and the reasons for them. There is little enough of this
kind of nitty-gritty information around, so digital librarians (and
those who aspire) should take a good look. - RT
Stubbs, Walter and Eric
Wettstein. "U.S. GPO CD-ROMS: Blessing or
Curse?" Journal of Government Information 26(2) (March/April 1999):
131-163. - Federal legislators see it as a painless method of streamlining government, and librarians know what
headaches it can cause:
the push for a more electronic Depository Library System has resulted in a Tower of Babel of Government Printing
Office CD-ROMs. The
authors surveyed 205 federal depository libraries in 1996, with a
lengthy questionnaire about 156 CD-ROM titles. The statistics derived
can't be seen as overwhelmingly conclusive about much of anything,
because only 70 usable responses were received, and a lot has changed
in three years. However, this study sheds light on what librarians
found useful, why some disks were avoided like the plague, and if and
when the Web was preferred. Particular attention is paid to the
advantages and disadvantages of the many varieties of enabling
software required to run these disks. Comments from depository
librarians are included. - JR
Weibel, Stuart. "The
State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative,
April 1999" D-Lib Magazine 5(4) (April 1999)
(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/04weibel.html). - The effort to
define a basic set of metadata elements for Internet resource
discovery has been ongoing for years. In this report, the leader of
the Dublin Core effort describes the current state of affairs and identifies six areas where participants are currently
focusing their efforts.
The six areas are: formalization of a process for the Dublin Core, standardization, HTML encoding, qualification
mechanisms, the role of
RDF, and relationships to other metadata models. For those
wanting to follow this effort, either as an observer or a participant,
the references for this piece point to some essential current
resources. - RT
Young, Jeffrey R.
"Three Research Libraries Plan Vast New Facility to Store Little-Used Books" Chronicle of Higher
Education April 6, 1999. -
Columbia, The New York Public Library and Princeton are pooling
resources to build a single off-site storage facility in the Bronx,
and it will be a big one. This article describes the project, which is
cast as a defining moment in inter-university collaboration on a very
large scale. Princeton's provost makes several insightful comments
about library planning, to wit, "In the past, [collection development]
has been an area where many universities sought to compete, rather
than cooperate with each other to provide the very best service." Other joint initiatives, such as digitization of
material, may follow in
time. - TH
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Current Cites 10(4) (April
1999) ISSN: 1060-2356
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DIGINEWS
Volume 3, No. 2, April 1999
Date:
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:46:29 -0400
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From:
"Oya Y. Rieger" <oyr1@CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: April
1999 issue of RLG DigiNews available
The April 1999 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from
all points other than Europe)
or
http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
(from Europe).
In addition to announcements, a highlighted web site and a current calendar
of events, the following is covered in the new April 1999 issue:
Volume 3, Issue 2: CONTENTS
_Feature Article_
Imaging Pictorial Collections at the Library of Congress
by John R.
Stokes
_Technical Feature_
DoD-NARA Scanned Images Standards Conference
by Sue MacTavish
_FAQ_
JPEG Compression Methods
_RLG News_
RLG to Publish Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and
Archives
Papers from the Joint RLG/NPO Preservation Conference: Guidelines for Digital
Imaging Now Available
Upcoming RLG Forum: Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving, Emory
University
_____________________________________________
Oya Y. Rieger
Digital Projects Librarian
Cornell University Library
701 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: oyr1@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 254-5160
Fax: (607) 254-7493
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Vol 3, no 3, June 1999
Date:
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From:
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Subject: June
RLG DigiNews Now Available
The June 1999 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
In addition to announcements, a highlighted web site and a current calendar of
events, the following is covered in the new June 1999 issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3
CONTENTS
_Feature Article_
The Cedars Project: Implementing a Model for Distributed Digital Archives
by Kelly Russell and Derek Sergeant
_Technical Feature_
Tools and Techniques in Evaluating Digital Imaging Projects
by Robert Rieger and Geri Gay
_FAQ_
I have heard of a consortial activity that is attempting to develop
metadata standards for digital images. Does such an initiative
exist?
_RLG News_
Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving Forum
e18, the Eighteenth Century Digitization Project
For more information about RLG or PRESERV, please contact
Robin Dale (Robin_Dale@notes.rlg.org).
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D-LIB MAGAZINE
MAY 1999
Date:
Tue, 18 May 1999 12:54:43 -0400
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<ASIS-L@asis.org>
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: The
D-Lib Magazine May 1999 Issue Is Now Available
To: ASIS-L@asis.lib.indiana.edu
The May 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at:
http://www.dlib.org/
The stories for May include:
DOI: Current Status and Outlook May 1999
Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation
The Virtual Naval Hospital: Lessons Learned in Creating and Operating a Digital
Health Sciences Library for Nomadic Patrons
Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D., Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D., and Mary J.C.
Hendrix, Ph.D. University of Iowa College of Medicine; CAPT Richard S. Bakalar,
MC, USN and LT Denis E. Ashley, MC, USNR
Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: The Cornell/CNRI
Experiments
Sandra Payette, Cornell University; Christophe Blanchi, The Corporation for
National Research Initiatives; Carl Lagoze, Cornell University; and Edward A.
Overly, The Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Education for Digital Libraries
Amanda Spink, University of North Texas and Colleen Cool, Queens College
- City University of New York
Bonnie Wilson
Managing Editor
D-Lib Magazine
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SEPTEMBER 1999
Date:
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:08:36 -0400
Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science"
<ASIS-L@asis.org>
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: The
September 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.
The September 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at
http://www.dlib.org/
You will note a change in the structure and appearance of the home page at
http://www.dlib.org/ this month. This
change reflects the current structure of the D-Lib Forum and its
constituent activities, including D-Lib Magazine.
For an explanation of this change, follow the link to "A Note
from D-Lib Forum". Please note that your entry point to D-Lib Magazine has
not changed, and you can continue to use http://www.dlib.org/ to reach the
magazine.
Other changes this month include the addition of a new column entitled "In
Brief" and a new section in Clips & Pointers, "Calls for
Participation".
Stories in the September 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine include:
e-Skeletons: The Digital Library as a Platform for Studying Anatomical Form and
Function
John Kappelman, Timothy Ryan, and Myriam Zylstra, University of Texas, Austin
Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management
of Digital Information
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
The ISI Web of Science - Links and Electronic Journals: How links work today in
the Web of Science, and the challenges posed by electronic journals
Helen Atkins, Institute for Scientific Information
MPEG-7: Behind the Scenes
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Titia van der Werf-Davelaar, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the
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_Current Cites_
Volume 10, no. 3
March 1999
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Contributors
Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Roy Tennant, Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
:
Ellis, Steven, ed. "A Special Theme: Digital Libraries" Library HiTech
16(3-4) (1998):12-62. - Since all but two of the seven articles are
specifically on electronic text centers, the theme title is more than a
little misleading. E-text centers, as important as they may be, do not
comprise anywhere near the totality of digital libraries. However, if one
takes this error into account, the collection of articles can serve as a
useful overview of a number of electronic text center projects. - RT
:
Floyd, Bianca. "Digital Storytelling Updates an Ancient Art by Adding Technology"
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1999 (http://www.chronicle.com/daily/99/03/99031801t.htm).
- This article describes the new art of digital storytelling as pioneered
at UC Berkeley's Center for Digital Storytelling. Participants claim that digital
storytelling merging together text, images, sound and animation will emerge
as a new art form that will be pursued by large numbers of people who have
access to technology. Amateur practitioners may be the pioneers of this art
form, because basic manipulation of digital formats can be learned with
relative dispatch. Moreover, it may resemble independent film-making and
other forms of expression that do not rely on corporate sponsors. - TH
:
Fourie, Ian. "Should We Take Disintermediation Seriously?" The Electronic
Library 17(1)(February, 1999): 9-16 (http://www.learned.co.uk/tel/focus1.asp).
- Does the growing volume of electronic information available to end-users
spell the end of intermediaries as we know them? Well, perhaps as we know
some of them today. While end-users may be increasingly less dependent on
information specialists, Fourie argues that end-user empowerment does not
necessarily imply disintermediation or "the finding of information by
an end-user without the need for a third party." Fourie discusses the
implications of disintermediation on the future of information specialists
in nearly excruciating detail. While his conclusion that information
specialists will continue to have a role in improving society's access to
quality information is not surprising, he does offer some valuable points
for information specialists to consider in keeping their skills effective and
relevant. - LY
:
Hegener, Michiel. "The Internet, Satellites, and Human Rights" OnTheInternet
5(2) (March/April 1999):20-29; 40 (http://www.isoc.org/isoc/publications/oti/interim.html).
- In a previous article on Internet satellite technology in OnTheInternet, Hegener
focused on issues of capability and implementation. This piece focuses on its possible impact on global
human rights. Not surprisingly,
what may happen is far from clear and will be the result of a complex
interplay of technical, political, economic, and human realities. Hegener
understands these issues and does not fall into the trap of overlooking
their complexity in order to deliver a strong conclusion. It is not yet
clear what, if any, impact satellite communication may have on the ability
of people to "get the word out" to the rest of the world about
the violation of their human rights. One might imagine, however, that every
new method of communication would threaten the power of oppressors to
create and sustain their oppression. - RT
:
Huwe, Terence K. "New Search Tools for Multidisciplinary Digital Libraries"
Online 23(2) (March/April 1999):67-74 (http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1999/huwe3.html). -
This article is not just for librarians who "have" a digital library, because
any information service is becoming more about remote access and less about
collection ownership. Online searchers and librarians of all stripes should
take a look. Current Cites contributor Terry Huwe sees the migration of
many online services to the Web environment as a stimulus for the creation
of better search utilities which can ease the task of
multidisciplinary searches. He argues that "the current challenge is
to develop new search tools that deliver multidisciplinary results, but
that also preserve the metadata and finding aids of the discrete
databases." The tools highlighted include the KnowledgeCite Library by
Silverplatter Information (http://www.silverplatter.com/KC/kcintro.html),
UC San Diego's Database Advisor http://scilib.ucsd.edu/Proj/dba/),
Ameritech's Pharos system for the California State University System
http://uias.calstate.edu), and Northern Light (http://www.northernlight.com/).
These critiques are written from the point of view that a huge information
utility's sheer size can become a curse, if it turns the utility
into a sea of bytes devoid of context and meaning. - JR
:
Kelley, Tina. "Whales in the Minnesota River?" The New York Times
(March 4, 1999): D1-D8. - The Web is largely unregulated and unchecked so
it is wise to be skeptical when using web-based resources. Talk about
stating the obvious. Nonetheless,
it is encouraging to see the Times "Circuits" section
illustrating some dramatic cases of bogus data found on the Web: the
Amnesty International site on human rights in Tunisia (www.amnesty.org/tunisia)
versus a site sponsored by the Tunisian government on human rights in that
country (www.amnesty-tunisia.org). The article describes the efforts of
some librarians to teach students how to evaulate the Web. Included are references
to some Web sites that tell you what to look for when seeking reliable
information online including: Thinking Critically About World Wide Web
Resources (www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm)
and Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources (milton.mse.jhu.edu/research/education/practical.html).
A sidebar on "How to Separate Good Data From Bad" provides a
checklist of what to look for including things that are second nature to
information professionals like: "beware of sites with lots of spelling
and grammatical errors" and notice when the site was last updated. -
MP
:
Ober, John. "The California Digital Library" D-Lib Magazine (March
1999) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march99/03ober.html). - The California
Digital Library is a recent invention of the University of California, and
so far very little has been publicly available on what it's all about. This piece
fills in a lot of holes, and provides some key URLs for finding out more.
Ober does a good job of both recounting the recent history that led to its
creation as well as describing its present and charting its future. - RT
:
Puglia, Steven. "Creating Permanent and Durable Information: Physical Media
and Storage Standards" CRM: Cultural Resource Management 22(2)(1999):
25-27 (http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf). - This
"laundry list" of preservation standards, media, and guidelines is
a useful reference to the key materials regarding the current preservation
state-of-the-art. Life expectancy as applied to preservation media is
defined, environmental requirements for long-term storage are noted, and
digitization guidelines are described. This is not an article, but a
reference piece dense with data. - RT
:
Vogt-O'Connor, Diane. "Is the Record of the 20th Century at Risk?" CRM: Cultural
Resource Management 22(2) (1999): 21-24 (http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-9.pdf).
- I don't recall ever reading a better articulated description of the
digital preservation problem. Vogt-O'Connor has penned a thorough,
interesting and compelling description of the challenges that face anyone
with digital material they wish to preserve. The works cited are useful and very
up-to-date, with most barely six months to a year old. If we are to avert a
"digital dark age of information loss," we should heed what Vogt-O'Connor
has to say. - RT
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Date: Fri,
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_Current Cites_
Volume 10, no. 4
April 1999
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1999/cc99.10.4.html
Contributors:
Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Roy Tennant, Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
Bilal, Dania, Jeff Barry
& W. David Penniman. "A Balancing Act" Library Journal 124(6) (April 1, 1999): 45-54. - This
article is LJ's annual
picture of the automated systems marketplace. 1998 is depicted as a year of partnerships, and the authors describe the
ways in which vendors
and customers are working together to address such problems as
planning for new interfaces while living with old closed systems,
checking for Y2K readiness, and creating Web-based services. After the
overview, 27 vendors are profiled. Tables include microcomputer system
sales, server-based system sales, academic, school and public library
system sales and others. - JR
Coffman, Steve.
"Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving Into the Future" Searcher 7(3) (March 1999)
(http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar/coffman.htm). - Every once in a
while an article comes along that sparks your imagination, or provides
the missing piece to a puzzle, or spurs a moment of "ah-ha!"
insight. For me, this
is just such a piece. In this article Coffman paints a
compelling vision of a library catalog system that is accessible,
convenient, personal, and _huge_. Using Amazon.com as his inspiration,
Coffman wonders why libraries can't band together and do something
similar, only better. I can't help thinking the same thing. Sorry,
patient Current Cites readers, you're going to have to read this one
yourself. I really can't do it justice in one paragraph, and frankly I
can't think of any librarian who shouldn't read this. If you think you
are such a person, drop me a line. I'd like to know why. - RT
Hedstrom, Margaret and Sheon Montgomery. _Digital Preservation Needs
and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions_, Mountain View, CA:
Research Libraries Group, December 1998
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html). - This study commissioned
by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) was to determine the status of
digital archiving at its member institutions. Fifty-four libraries
responded, and fifteen participated in supplementary interviews. While
fully 98% of the responding libraries expect to be preserving digital
material by 2001 if they are not doing so already, almost half lack
"the capacity to mount, read, or access files on some of the storage
media they hold." The service most libraries look to consortia to provide is the development of standards and best
practices; third-party
vendors, on the other hand, are expected to provide migration and conversion services. The report ends with
recommendations based on the findings of the survey for RLG, member institutions, and service providers. - RT
Kiernan, Vincent. "An
Ambitious Plan to Sell Electronic Books:
University Librarians and
Press Officials See Promise and Possible
Pitfalls in the Concept" Chronicle of Higher Education 65(32) (April
16, 1999): A27. - A Colorado-based firm is embarking on a venture to
sell electronic books to university libraries, and some university
press officials say the new program is "the most promising
experiment with e-books
yet." The product is called netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com), and it already has 2,000
titles on its list.
Library officials are quoted in more cautionary tones, but
powerful agencies like CARL and OhioLink are charter customers. - TH
Kiernan, Vincent. "Two
Big Libraries Abandon Home-Grown Software for Commercial Products" Chronicle of Higher Education
April 14, 1999. - This
article describes recent developments at the Library of Congress
and National Library of Medicine in cataloging policy. Both libraries
are shifting their cataloging activity to commercial products, hoping
to cut overhead and streamline work processes. Current arrangements at
LC can involve searches in as many as three databases to confirm
holdings and veracity, so the library is also trying to solve legacy
system challenges at the same time it is updating work practices. –TH
Seadle, Michael. "The
Raw and the Cooked Among Librarians" Library HiTech 16 (3-4) (1998): 7-11. - In this introduction to
Library Hi Tech's
special issue on digital libraries, Seadle posits how
librarians can use anthropological methods and theories to examine
library systems in fresh, new ways. He notes that as our language has
yet to catch up to modern technology, we tend to gravitate towards
physical metaphors to describe digital artifacts, such as
"electronic library."
While helpful in their familiarity, these metaphors can skew
user expectations and conceal new technology-based capabilities. Seadle's observations are insightful and foreshadow the organizational
themes which dominate the electronic text and information technology
center profiles in this article series. - LY
Stokes, John R.
"Imaging Pictorial Collections at the Library of
Congress" RLG DigiNews 3(2) (April 15, 1999)
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-2.html). - The Library
of Congress is one of the few institutions that has the resources to
outsource the digitization of a quarter of a million images. But
nonetheless, this account of such a project will likely be fascinating
to anyone who digitizes pictorial material. Judging from the
accompanying photographs, a phenomenal amount of work was accomplished
in what appears to be a space not much larger than an elongated
closet. But what is most fascinating are the decisions that were made
along the way and the reasons for them. There is little enough of this
kind of nitty-gritty information around, so digital librarians (and
those who aspire) should take a good look. - RT
Stubbs, Walter and Eric
Wettstein. "U.S. GPO CD-ROMS: Blessing or
Curse?" Journal of Government Information 26(2) (March/April 1999):
131-163. - Federal legislators see it as a painless method of streamlining government, and librarians know what
headaches it can cause:
the push for a more electronic Depository Library System has resulted in a Tower of Babel of Government Printing
Office CD-ROMs. The
authors surveyed 205 federal depository libraries in 1996, with a
lengthy questionnaire about 156 CD-ROM titles. The statistics derived
can't be seen as overwhelmingly conclusive about much of anything,
because only 70 usable responses were received, and a lot has changed
in three years. However, this study sheds light on what librarians
found useful, why some disks were avoided like the plague, and if and
when the Web was preferred. Particular attention is paid to the
advantages and disadvantages of the many varieties of enabling
software required to run these disks. Comments from depository
librarians are included. - JR
Weibel, Stuart. "The
State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative,
April 1999" D-Lib Magazine 5(4) (April 1999)
(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/04weibel.html). - The effort to
define a basic set of metadata elements for Internet resource
discovery has been ongoing for years. In this report, the leader of
the Dublin Core effort describes the current state of affairs and identifies six areas where participants are currently
focusing their efforts.
The six areas are: formalization of a process for the Dublin Core, standardization, HTML encoding, qualification
mechanisms, the role of
RDF, and relationships to other metadata models. For those
wanting to follow this effort, either as an observer or a participant,
the references for this piece point to some essential current
resources. - RT
Young, Jeffrey R.
"Three Research Libraries Plan Vast New Facility to Store Little-Used Books" Chronicle of Higher
Education April 6, 1999. -
Columbia, The New York Public Library and Princeton are pooling
resources to build a single off-site storage facility in the Bronx,
and it will be a big one. This article describes the project, which is
cast as a defining moment in inter-university collaboration on a very
large scale. Princeton's provost makes several insightful comments
about library planning, to wit, "In the past, [collection development]
has been an area where many universities sought to compete, rather
than cooperate with each other to provide the very best service." Other joint initiatives, such as digitization of
material, may follow in
time. - TH
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DIGINEWS
Volume 3, No. 2, April 1999
Date:
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Subject: April
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The April 1999 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from
all points other than Europe)
or
http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
(from Europe).
In addition to announcements, a highlighted web site and a current calendar
of events, the following is covered in the new April 1999 issue:
Volume 3, Issue 2: CONTENTS
_Feature Article_
Imaging Pictorial Collections at the Library of Congress
by John R.
Stokes
_Technical Feature_
DoD-NARA Scanned Images Standards Conference
by Sue MacTavish
_FAQ_
JPEG Compression Methods
_RLG News_
RLG to Publish Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and
Archives
Papers from the Joint RLG/NPO Preservation Conference: Guidelines for Digital
Imaging Now Available
Upcoming RLG Forum: Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving, Emory
University
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Subject: June
RLG DigiNews Now Available
The June 1999 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
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events, the following is covered in the new June 1999 issue:
Volume 3, Issue 3
CONTENTS
_Feature Article_
The Cedars Project: Implementing a Model for Distributed Digital Archives
by Kelly Russell and Derek Sergeant
_Technical Feature_
Tools and Techniques in Evaluating Digital Imaging Projects
by Robert Rieger and Geri Gay
_FAQ_
I have heard of a consortial activity that is attempting to develop
metadata standards for digital images. Does such an initiative
exist?
_RLG News_
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D-LIB MAGAZINE
MAY 1999
Date:
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The May 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at:
http://www.dlib.org/
The stories for May include:
DOI: Current Status and Outlook May 1999
Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation
The Virtual Naval Hospital: Lessons Learned in Creating and Operating a Digital
Health Sciences Library for Nomadic Patrons
Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D., Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D., and Mary J.C.
Hendrix, Ph.D. University of Iowa College of Medicine; CAPT Richard S. Bakalar,
MC, USN and LT Denis E. Ashley, MC, USNR
Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: The Cornell/CNRI
Experiments
Sandra Payette, Cornell University; Christophe Blanchi, The Corporation for
National Research Initiatives; Carl Lagoze, Cornell University; and Edward A.
Overly, The Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Education for Digital Libraries
Amanda Spink, University of North Texas and Colleen Cool, Queens College
- City University of New York
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Date:
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Subject: The
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The September 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at
http://www.dlib.org/
You will note a change in the structure and appearance of the home page at
http://www.dlib.org/ this month. This
change reflects the current structure of the D-Lib Forum and its
constituent activities, including D-Lib Magazine.
For an explanation of this change, follow the link to "A Note
from D-Lib Forum". Please note that your entry point to D-Lib Magazine has
not changed, and you can continue to use http://www.dlib.org/ to reach the
magazine.
Other changes this month include the addition of a new column entitled "In
Brief" and a new section in Clips & Pointers, "Calls for
Participation".
Stories in the September 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine include:
e-Skeletons: The Digital Library as a Platform for Studying Anatomical Form and
Function
John Kappelman, Timothy Ryan, and Myriam Zylstra, University of Texas, Austin
Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management
of Digital Information
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
The ISI Web of Science - Links and Electronic Journals: How links work today in
the Web of Science, and the challenges posed by electronic journals
Helen Atkins, Institute for Scientific Information
MPEG-7: Behind the Scenes
Jane Hunter, Distributed Systems Technology Centre
Long-term Preservation of Electronic Publications: The NEDLIB project
Titia van der Werf-Davelaar, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the
Netherlands
LIB-LICENSE Project
Ann Okerson, Yale University
The "In Brief" column includes pieces about DL'99: The Fourth ACM
Conference on Digital Libraries, by Roxanne Missingham; news about a new IFLA/OCLC
fellowship, by Erik Jul; and a press release about a UK project at the National
Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) from Andrew Cox.
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iMP
THE MAGAZINE ON INFORMATION IMPACTS
June 1999
Date:
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iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts
From: "Friedlander, Amy" <AMY.E.FRIEDLANDER@cpmx.saic.com>
Subject: iMP: The Magazine on
Information Impacts
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:42:49 -0400
The June issue of iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts, which is published
on the web by the Center for Information Strategy and Policy (CISP) of Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been posted.
You can find the magazine at:
http://www.cisp.org/ [follow
"visit imp"] or
http://www.cisp.org/imp/june_99/06_99contents.htm
In this issue, we are featuring stories and editorials on the theme of IT and
education, several of which have digital library connections.
Our contributors include:
Stretching the Zero Sum Paradigm with a National Digital Library for Science
Education, Frank Wattenberg
Education at a Distance: How Demography and Technology Are Creating a Worldwide
Learning Revolution in Higher Education, Claudine SchWeber
E-Learning: A Catalyst for Competition in Higher Education, Walter Baer
Cyberspace, Deviance, and Children, Terry Gudaitis
It Takes an (Extended Internet) Community to Teach a Child, Daniel Bobrow
Schools Don't Want Technology, Schools Want Curriculum, Elliot Soloway and
Cathleen Norris
Broadband Networking and the Future of Graduate Education, Clifford Lynch.
Wattenberg, SchWeber, and Lynch address the contributions of digital libraries
to more equitable resource distribution, and digital library technologies are
implicit in nearly all of the other stories.
Of more general interest are our columns, "What's Happening" and
"Calendar", in which we identify new reports, journals, funding
opportunities, upcoming conferences, and developments on the Hill and in
the courts. The scope is primarily USA but we attempt to cover the major
international developments, as well, and expect to broaden our focus as
this new magazine matures.
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We encourage you to forward this notice to others who may be interested in iMP.
Our double summer issue (release date: July 22, 1999) will be devoted to Y2K.
In September, we will resume publication with an issue on infrastructure
protection followed by one on IT and the environment.
iMP is an adventure. We hope that
you will read it, share it with your friends, and tell us what you think.
Amy Friedlander
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8.
INFORMATION RESEARCH
Volume 4, no 4, June 1999
From: t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk
To: "Inf Res List" <t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:12:40 +0100
Subject: New issue of Information Research
A new issue of Information Research has been published.
Here is the Editorial (apologies for the table - you'll have to check it
out at the site):
Go to the top page for the journal:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html
First a Call for Papers for the next issue of the journal, which will be Volume
5 Number 1 - in other words we are entering our fifth year of publication
- having lasted rather longer than many people imagined when we began.
That issue will appear in late September/early October and papers (refereed or
working) should be sent to our Regional Editors or to myself. We have
some new features on the "cover page" of this issue - first, a link to
a page I've set up, which covers free electronic resources in the fields
covered by the journal; and secondly, a search capability, added to the
manual author and subject indexes. Needless to say, I'll be very happy to
hear of any other free resources that anyone knows of, as well as to
receive feedback on everything in the journal. As hoped last time, I have
managed to update the list of student dissertations to cover 1997/98
instead of 1996/97. We have one Refereed Paper in this issue - and an
interesting one at that (although, of course, everything that appears here
is interesting!): it is by Wallace Koehler of the University of Oklahoma,
and deals with the phenomenon of page persistence on the World Wide Web.
Page persistence deals with the life-cycles of Web pages and Koehler reports
that nearly 22% of a sample of pages was unstable over a twenty-two month period.
We've all experienced this phenomenon and, of course, find it very annoying when
we discover that a regularly used source has disappeared, or when search
engine output proves to be too full of dead pages. We then have two,
very different Working Papers. Bali and colleagues present a paper on a
new conceptual model for the implementation of management information systems in
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while Julian Warner of the
Queen's University of Belfast asks, "...whether the central principle
embodied in the practice and theory of classification and indexing can
yield more satisfying design and evaluative criteria for information
retrieval systems than those which have been characteristically assumed in
information retrieval research." Read on to discover how he answers
the question.
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Spring 1999
Date:
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Subject: Issues
in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 1999
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:07:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrea Duda <duda@library.ucsb.edu>
To: STS-L@utkvm1.utk.edu
Subject: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 1999
The Spring 1999 edition of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now
available at:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/
This issues theme is Electronic Journals in Science and Technology Libraries.
Contents:
Electronic Journals as a
Component of the Digital Library
by Laurie E.
Stackpole and Richard James King, Naval Research
Laboratory,
Washington, D.C.
SPARC: The Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
by Alison
Buckholtz, Association of Research Libraries
You Can't Get There from
Here: Issues in Remote Access to Electronic Journals for a Health Sciences
Library
by Dennis Krieb,
Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center
Library
Electronic Publishing of
Scholarly Journals: A Bibliographic Essay of Current Issues
by the STS
Subject and Bibliograhic Access Committee
Consortia Building and
Electronic Licensing as Vehicles for Re-Engineering Academic Library Services:
The Case of the Technical Knowledge Center and Library of Denmark (DTV)
by Lars
Bjoernshauge, Technical Knowledge Center and Library of Denmark
Book Reviews
Basic HPLC and CE of
Biomolecules by Robert L. Cunico, Karen M. Gooding, and Tim Wehr
Reviewed by
Venkat Raman, Chemical Abstracts Service
Science and Technology Sources on the Internet Resources for Archaeological
Lithic Analysts
by Hugh W.
Jarvis, University at Buffalo
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Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
E-mail: duda@library.ucsb.edu
InfoSurf: http://www.library.ucsb.edu
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JASIS
Volume 10, No. 6
Date:
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:21:14 -0400
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From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: JASIS
TOC, Volume 50, Number 6
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 6
[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the
contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table
of Contents as well as material from the introduction to the special section.]
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
481
JASIS Standards
Donald H. Kraft
483
Research
Condorcet Query
Engine: A Query Engine for Coordinated Index Terms
Paul E. van der Vet and
Nicolaas J. I. Mars
485
Van der Vet and Mars
revive the attempts to incorporate predicate relationship between assigned
index terms during the searching process, to control for the difference
between, for example, ``aspirin as a cause of, and aspirin as a cure for,
headache.'' Such relationships, and syntaxes for their use, are defined for
each indexing language and are applied to terms from specified hierarchies
of indexing concepts to create coordinated concepts. This is used with the
possibility of specifying all narrower terms than the chosen concept with
an ANY operator. Thus for a query one may choose a single or ANY predicate
relationship, a single or ANY term as the first element of syntax, and a
single or ANY term as the second. Such indexing concepts can then be
combined with Boolean operators. The system will take considerable time or
space resources for concept expansion. The problem of syntax assignment at
the time of indexing is not addressed.
Derivative
Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in a Global Bibliographic
Database
Richard P. Smiraglia and
Gregory H. Leazer
493
Using OCLC Online Computer
Library Center's WorldCat, the proportions of works in families whose
members consist of multiple editions, translations, amplifications,
extractions, adaptions, accompanying material, and performances, were
investigated by Smiraglia and Leazer. From a random sample of 1,000 records
a final sample of 477 progenitor records was culled, and then WorldCat was
searched for derivative records. Derivative works, and thus families
greater than one, existed for one-third of the sample. Family size ranged
from 2 to 45 with a mean of 3.54, or 1.77 if single-member families are
included. Two-thirds of the observed derivations are controlled with
collocating headings. Discipline, form, and genre do not affect derivation.
Families seem to reach full size soon after publication of the progenitor,
although older ancestors have large families.
Cyberbrowsing:
Information Customization on the Web
Hal Berghel, Daniel Berleant,
Thomas Foy, and Marcus McGuire 505
Customization for Berghel et
al. is the personalization of information bearing items by extraction,
interaction, and nonprescriptive nonlinear traversal on a client's machine.
Cyberbrowser is a browser add-on which allows the analysis of retrieved
items by preforming frequency count-based keyword selection, displaying the
keywords with frequencies, and selecting sentences with chosen keywords
present.
Hierarchical Concept
Indexing of Full-Text Documents in the Unified Medical Language System[register
mark] Information Sources Map
The Ecological
Approach to Text Visualization
James A. Wise
814
The
article by Jim Wise of Integral Visuals Corporation details the technical
advances of researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)
over an intense five year history of development. Wise's "The
Ecological Approach to Text Visualization" offers a rich archive of
techniques. This descriptive tour de force
begins with the most brutal techniques (e.g., vectors of length 200K
analyzed through Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)) and, in completely clear
and intelligible detail describes the short cut methods developed for
computational efficiency. These efforts have resulted in the presently
available commercial product "ThemeMedia" offered through a
subsidiary of the Smaby Group of investors (which purchased rights to
further develop the technology). Among the highlights of this article is a
description of the discovery that single and multiple link cluster
centroids can be used to approximate the full text collections originally
required for visual display. Additionally,
the transformations of the 2d dot displays to the present terrain models
simultaneously developed at PNNL and SNL are described in sufficient detail
for engineers to reproduce the same progression of results.
Interactive Graphical
Queries for Bibliographic Search
Martin Brooks and Jennifer
Campbell
824
Brooks
and Campbell describe the translation of interactive boolean interfaces
with data to a visual display. The "islands" interface which they
illustrate harnesses the power of visualization to the process of commercial
text retrieval. It is a fact that students are still mystified by these
processes. One need only while away a few minutes on any college campus to
realize that most persons still have not got a clue about the meaning of
term conjunction and its impact on search results.
Anyone who has ever performed a boolean search will be able to
examine the effect of visualization on this process, and this article is
offered to permit a broad view of practice changes which can be expected in
future systems. "islands" may not be the ideal interface, but
something like it, to paraphrase an advertising slogan, will be
"...coming soon to a library near you."
A Collection of Visual
Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of
Geographic Images
Marshall C. Ramsey, Hsinchun
Chen, Bin Zhu, and Bruce R. Schatz
836
In
Ramsay et al, earth observing images are parsed
as texts are parsed. These authors use Gabor filters to combine like
terrains. No clearer description of this process is available in the
present literature. A Gabor filter yields textures. By segmenting images
into component texture boundaries, search classes may be derived without
resorting to textual description. This
technology thus succeeds where the NASA effort by Rorvig et al failed. The
results reported in this article are concrete and verifiable; indeed,
anyone who has ever traveled over Arizona highways can authenticate these
data. The authors acknowledge the contributions of the Alexandria Digital
Libraries Project, particularly the work of Manjunath and Ma
(1996), but claim their own extensions to this work as well.
Conference
Notes--1996: Foundations of Advanced Information
Visualization for Visual Information (Retrieval) Systems
Mark Rorvig and Matthias
Hemmje
845
One
of the landmark developments in visual retrieval occurred at a workshop
held in Zurich in the summer of 1996 in conjunction with the Association
for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Annual Meeting. For the first time, both European and North American
interests were represented in the development of criteria for evaluation of
visual information retrieval. Among the Europeans, the newly formed FADIVA
(Foundations of Advanced Information Visualization) group played the
dominant role. The workshop report reproduced in this issue has been widely
circulated, but never before published. This conference led to the first
visualization of native TREC/Tipster data as a prelude to formal visual
information retrieval evaluation strategies (Rorvig and Fitzpatrick, 1998;
Rorvig, 1998).
[Robert Korfhage, one of the intellectual fathers of the visual information retrieval
effort in both Europe and North America, has contributed his bibliography
on this issue. The bibliography is comprehensive for all work in this
field c. 1997. Such documents are
of interest in determining the scope of future advances. In 1997, this was
the known world view of this area of scholarly effort. For practical use in
permitting users to copy this bibliography, it is available through the
ASIS SIGVIZ website <http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGVIS/references.html>where
future editions may be conveniently updated.]
BOOK REVIEWS
Foundations of Library
and Information Science, by Richard E. Rubin
Boyd P. Holmes
848
Into the Future: The
Foundation of Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era,
by Michael Harris, Stan A. Hannah, and Pamela C. Harris
Ebrahim Afshar
849
Newspapers of Record
in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link, by
Shannon E. Martin and Kathleen A. Hansen Amy E. Sanidas
850
ERRATUM
852
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Volume 50, Number 12
Date:
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 12
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Special Topic Issue: the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American Society
for Information Science
Part 2: Paradigms, Models, and Methods of Information Science
Guest Editor: M. J. Bates
CONTENTS
The Invisible Substrate of Information Science
Marcia J. Bates
1043
Information Science
Tefko Saracevic
1051
Industrial Roots of Information Science
Donald A. Windsor
1064
Historial Note: The Start of a Stop List at Biological Abstracts
Barbara J. Flood
1066
Interaction in Information Retrieval: Trends Over Time
Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield and Nicholas J. Belkin
1067
Museum Informatics and Collaborative Technologies: The Emerging
Socio-Technological Dimension of Information Science in Museum Environments
Paul F. Marty
1083
Mapping the Dimensions of a Dynamic Field
Caroline Haythornthwaite, Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Jenkins, and W. Boyd
Rayward
1092
Information Science and Information Systems: Conjunct Subjects Disjunct
Disciplines
David Ellis, David Allen, and Tom Wilson
1095
Comparing Information Access Approaches
Matthew Chalmers
1108
The Rise of Ontologies or the Reinvention of Classification
Dagobert Soergel
1119
From Retrieval to Communication: The Development, Use, and Consequences of
Digital Documentary Systems
Rob Kling and Holly Crawford
1121
More Research Needed: Informal Information-Seeking Behavior of Youth on the
Internet
Eliza T. Dresang
1123
An Information View of History
Julian Warner
1125
The Control and Direction of Professional Education
Bill Crowley
1127
Informing Information Science: The Case for Activity Theory
Mark A. Spasser
1136
Aligning Studies of Information Seeking and Use with Domain Analysis
Carole L. Palmer
1139
The Growth of Understanding in Information Science: Towards a Developmental
Model
Nigel Ford
1141
Information Science in 2010: A Loughborough University View
Ron Summers, Charles Oppenheim, Jack Meadows, Cliff McKnight, and Margaret
Kinnell
1153
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Volume 50, Number 13
Date:
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS. VOLUME 50, NUMBER 13
November 1999
[Note: at the bottom of this message are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from
past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" as well
as material from Zorana Ercegovac's introduction to the special section has
been added to the Table of Contents.]
EDITORIAL
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
1163
Special Topic Issue: Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards
Guest Editor: Zorana Ercegovac
Introduction
Zorana Ercegovac
1165
Metadata has remained
one of the critical components in the context of knowledge representation
and data mining in digital libraries as it had traditionally been in the
context of the pre-Web libraries. Today in the digital libraries
environment in which individual collections of massive heterogenous objects
need to be unified and linked in a single resource, we have witnessed both
the growth of different metadata and the attempts to reconcile the common
attributes in the existing overlapping standards. The ultimate goal is to
make it possible to access relevant information seamlessly regardless of
its type (e.g., visual and museum objects, historical data, cultural
heritage, scientific data), location, and scholarly tradition (e.g.,
librarians, archivists, scientists).
This Special Issue of
JASIS addresses different applications of metadata standards in geospatial
collections, education, historical costume collection, data management, and
information retrieval, and explores the future thinking of metadata
standards for digital libraries.
Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications
Linda L. Hill, Greg Janee, Ron Dolin, James Frew, and Mary Larsgaard
1169
We begin with an
article by Hall and her colleagues at the Alexandria Digital Library. They
first look at the meaning of the concept of a collection in the context of
digital libraries in general, and especially within the Alexandria Digital
Library. In order to make sense of high heterogeneity that exists among
digital library collections, Hall et al. discuss the design and
implementation approach of collection metadata that "represents the
inherent and contextual characteristics of a collection." Since ADL's
collection contains maps, remote- sensing images, aerial photographs, and
related texts, the architecture of the ADL collection metadata differs from
either the archival/EAD approach or the START's text- oriented approach.
The article defines its structure and explicates ADL's capability to
support collection registration, network discovery, user documentation, and
collection management for its georeferenced collections. Conceptual Design
and Deployment of a Metadata Framework for Educational Resources on the
Internet
Stuart A. Sutton
1182
In order to link teachers and
educational material that is distributed across the Internet and created by
federal, state, academic, nonprofit and commercial sites, Sutton's paper
discusses a conceptual design and employment of a metadata framework for
educational resources on the Internet. The paper first describes the
Gateway to Educational Materials, GEM, framework (http://geminfo.org/) and
its underpinnings in the Dublin Core Set; the paper goes on to suggest the
extension of the original GEM to account for the information seeking
behavior of teachers who search for educational resources on the Internet.
The result was the proposal to add unique metadata elements: five
description elements, two evaluative elements, and one meta- metadata
element. Sutton also discusses syntax, design and implementation of
harvesting tools for retrieving GEM metadata.
Metadata Elements for Object Description and Representation: A Case Report from
a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project
Marcia Lei Zeng
1193
Zeng examines the fitness of three
existing metadata formats (USMARC, The Dublin Core Element Set, and the
Visual Resources Association) to support a collection of historical fashion
objects held at the Kent State University Fashion Museum. Zeng adopted and
modified the VRA metadata format to catalog the entire digitized historical
fashion collection.
A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development
Kathleen Burnett, Kwong Bor Ng, and Soyeon Park
1209
Burnett, Ng and Park discuss two
different approaches: the bibliographic approach that has origins in
cataloging (the library community), and the data management approach that
has roots in computer processing (the computer science profession). The
article compares element sets between and among six different metadata
(i.e., USMARC, The Dublin Core, TEI, Semantic Header, IAFA Templates and
URC) and supports a proposal for an integrated approach to metadata.
Use of Metadata Vocabularies in Data Retrieval
Edwin M. Cortez
1218
Finally, in the context of
Information Retrieval and the Internet, Cortez considers a metadata
vocabulary as a negotiator between a set of 39 different databases
(disparate by structure, vocabulary, use and purpose) and equally diverse
user populations. The proposed metadata vocabulary relates to the domain of
food, agriculture, natural resources and rural development; it attempts to
normalize semantic and hierarchical distinctions between and among
different databases and to act as a front-end unified language to the
prototype Database Catalog.
Research
The Ecological Approach to Text Visualization
James A. Wise
1224
The Spatial Paradigm
for Information Retrieval and Exploration, SPIRE, converts digitized text
documents into vector space document representations using 280 element
vectors whose elements were produced by a neural net trained on the domain
of the documents. These are clustered with a similarity measure and
projected onto a two-dimensional plane using a modification of
multidimensional scaling that uses document-to-centroid distances rather
than pairwise document distances. The visualization shows the reoccurrence
of a concept as a height on a projection that resembles a terrain map.
A Hybrid Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles
James Liu, Yan Wu, and Lina Zhou
1234
Liu, Zhou, and Wu
begin their abstract extraction from Chinese text by comparing character
pairs with user chosen keywords for exact, partial, or variable character
matches. Word frequency of all words is compared to a standard word
frequency table, where nouns and verbs of frequency at variance with the
standard are extracted . High variance words are used to select sentences
until the required length of text is extracted. In a combined method,
matching is supplemented by weighted extraction. An additional level uses
parts of speech, pronoun referents, and syntactic rules as well as
syntactic markers explicit in Chinese text.
Thirty five users were surveyed and 60% found keyword and percentage extraction
to be useful. The extraction of summaries was not well received.
Formal Features of Cyberspace: Relationships between Web Page Complexity and
Site Traffic
Erik P. Bucy, Annie Lang, Robert F. Potter, and Maria Elizabeth Grabe
1246
Using a sample of
5,000 Web sites top ranked by hits using 100hot's InSite Pro service, Bucy,
Lang, Potter, and Grabe randomly selected 500 sites, and 496 home pages
were coded to reflect domain name, rank, average number of page views over
six weeks, and the banner, body, and advertisements were analyzed for
features and links. Banners occur on 75% of sites and are most commonly
white. One-fifth featured movement. Home pages averaged 2.4 screens in
length and 79% used one or more frames. The dominant background color was
white. A graphical element occurred on 95% of the pages, with a logo being
the most common. Movement was present in about one-third of the pages.
Asynchronous elements--links, surveys, contact information--occurred in
98.9% of pages with an average of 27.1 such elements per page. Just 15.9%
used real-time interactive elements, like audio or video links, or chat
rooms (which were the most common of these). Over half the pages exhibited
advertisements of some kind but less than one-third of these had dynamic
features. For
commercial sites, high visitation correlates with high graphics use and
less strongly with asynchronous interactive elements. In noncommercial sites,
there is a strong correlation between visits and asynchronous interactive
elements. Real time interactive elements are rare. Advertising is
prominent, but pages are not generally over-designed.
Book Reviews
Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical
Implications, by Carol A. Hert
Sue Myburgh
1257
Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age, by Kathleen L.
Spitzer with Michael B. Eisenberg and Carrie A. Lowe
Cheryl Knott Malone
1257
Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Flow of
Ideas Within and Among Disciplines, by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk
Jack Andersen
1259
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JOURNAL OF INTERNET CATALOGUING
SPECIAL ISSUE
Date:
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:57:01 -0500
<IFLA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA>
From:
Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: _Journal
of Internet Cataloging_ Special Issue
To:
IFLA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
A year ago, I had the great honor
and privilege of participating in a Colloquium on Library Science Research
entitled "Internet, Metadata and Information Access to Libraries and
Networks in the Electronic Age" at the University Center for Library
Science Research (CUIB) of the National Autonomous University ofMexico (UNAM)
[http://cuib.laborales.unam.mx/cursos/coloquio.html ]
During the conference I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Gorman, Dean
of the California State University Library, Fresno, who gave the colloquium's keynote address; Robin Wendler,
Office of Information Systems, Harvard University; Judith Hopkins, University of
Buffalo and owner of the Autocat e-list; Sandy Roe of Dakota State
University; Traugott Koch of the NetLab of Lund University; and several Mexican
librarians and information specialists as well as faculty associated with CUIB,
including its director Lic. Elsa Ramirez Leyva, and Dr. Filberto Felipe
Martinez-Arellano and Lic. Lina Escalona-Rios, joint coordinators of the
Colloquium.
Earlier this summer selected
papers from the Colloquium were re-published in an issue of the _Journal of
Internet Cataloging_ 2(1) . Abstracts of these
papers can be read at
http://www.haworthpressinc.com/jic/jic2nr1.html
I invite my colleagues to
review this contents page and when opportunity presents itself to read these
excellent contributions [I wish to personally thank Dr. Ruth Carter, editor of
JIC, for considering these papers for re-publication in a special issue, and
CUIB for its permission]. Although not include in JIC, the presentation by
Traugott Koch is available online at:
http://www.ub2.lu.se/tk/demos/mex9808a.html
All
conference papers, including a number by
our Mexican and Latin colleagues, are scheduled to be published / have been
published in a separate conference proceedings.
I wish to formally thank my hosts
at CUIB for their gracious hospitality and kindness, for their support, and for
the opportunity to participate in this most informative, stimulating, and
provocative program.
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
and
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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14.
JOURNAL T.A.L.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
To: lis-fid@mailbase.ac.uk
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>From daemon Fri Jul 2 22:57:23
1999
Date:
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:56:18 -0400
Sender: Records Management Program <RECMGMT@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
From: Karim Boughida <boughidk@sprint.ca>
Subject: [CFP]
: Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing
To: RECMGMT@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac@irit.fr>
To: boughidk@sprint.ca <boughidk@sprint.ca>
Date: 2 juillet, 1999 11:28
Subject: [Fwd: CFP: Journal t.a.l., IR-oriented NLP]
Christian Jacquemin wrote:
Journal T.A.L.: Call for
Submissions
Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing
Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
Issue coordinated by Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay)
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html
Theme
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Because of the recent
growth of
electronic data available
through the Internet or digital libraries,
information access has
become a major
scientific issue.
Evaluation conferences
in information retrieval have promoted the development of search
engines and indexing techniques over very large text databases.
In such a favorable context, several
factors have promoted the convergence of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR):
* New NLP techniques
have been designed. They allow for efficient processing of large-scale textual
data from various sources.
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