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arl-japan: Japan STI Project:Status

Japan STI Project:Status

G Jaia Barrett ((no email))
Thu, 16 Jun 1994 17:44:02 -0400 (EDT) 

From: G Jaia Barrett <jaia>
Message-Id: <9406162144.AA21788@a.cni.org>
Subject: Japan STI Project:Status
To: arl-japan@cni.org
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 17:44:02 -0400 (EDT)

TO:   ARL-Japan List
FROM: Jaia Barrett 

RE: Status of AAU Japanese STI Project

This message is to bring you up to date on the AAU 
proposed project on coordinated management and 
distribution of Japanese scientific and technical 
serials in North America.

In Austin, a number of directors of ARL libraries 
met to discuss the project.  Don Simpson summarized 
a proposal from the Center for Research Libraries 
to design and implement such a demonstration 
project.  Project scope was discussed and consensus 
emerged that an initial focus should be in areas of 
applied science.  The following topics were 
suggested a priorities:  artificial intelligence, 
biotechnology, robotics, computer sciences.

Information was also exchanged on the following:
* Japan Resource Sharing: an infrastructure project 
conducted by Ohio State, UC-Berkeley, Columbia, 
Duke, and MIT
* Library of Congress Japan Documentation Center
*emerging services by document delivery suppliers
*an upcoming NTIS/JICST Conference


The conclusion of the Austin briefing was:
* positive interest in pursuit of the project
* appreciation for the Center's initiative to provide 
an organizational base for the project; and
*agreement that the scope should be narrowly 
focused to allow a reasonably quick start to the 
initiative. 

Several developments have unfolded since the Austin 
discussions.

1.  Electronic List
Those at the briefing, plus others who expressed 
interest before or since, have been included in an 
electronic list called ARL-Japan@cni.org.

2. The Center for Research Libraries is drafting an 
action plan for the project.  In addition, CRL is 
checking the National Diet Library list of serials 
to determine the number of titles that fall into 
the tentatively defined scope of the project.

3. The National Library of Medicine has agreed to 
provide a list of Japanese imprint serial titles 
that NLM currently collects and if these titles are 
indexed.

4. Jim Wyatt has contacted a sampling of  faculty 
at U. Rochester to gather their response to the 
project.  He has identified user support and is 
preparing a summary statement about their 
priorities for access to Japanese STI.

5. Jutta Reed-Scott has identified a small working 
group to advise on the development of the demo 
concept into a project proposal and work plan.  
Members of the working group include:
Don Simpson, CRL, Chair
Maureen Donovan (East Asian Collection, Ohio State 
U. , and coordinator of Japanese Text Digitizing 
Project)
Jim Wyatt, U. of Rochester
Jay Lucker,MIT
Barbara Peterson (3M Corp.)
tentative: Phyllis Genther Yoshida, Director, Japan 
Technology Project, NTIS
tentative:  Richard Schlichting, Dept. of Computer 
Science, U.of Arizona
tentative: Sachie Noguchi, East Asian 
Bibliographer, U. Pittsburgh
Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Director, C.V. Starr East 
Asian Library, Columbia U., and Chair NCC

Those of the working group who will be at the 4th 
Annual NTIS/JICST Conference held in Boston July 
14-15, will meet over lunch on the 15th for an 
information meeting.   A full day working group 
meeting will be held later during the summer for 
more detailed discussion of the project

Staff contact: For the present, Jutta Reed-Scott 
and I are jointly staffing this initiative.  Let 
either of us know if additional information would 
be useful or if you are aware of other people or 
organizations that we should contact.
Jaia@cni.org
Jutta@cni.org



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   Office of Research and Development
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