Subject: Current Cites January 1998
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:15:25 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130529b10504168841@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:15:25 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Current Cites January 1998
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 9, 1998
JANUARY ISSUE OF "CURRENT CITES"
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.1.html>
Among the many articles cited in the January issue of "Current Cites" from
the Library of the University of California, Berkeley, are the following:
* "The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library
Challenges the Humanities and Technology"
* "Locating Public Domain Images"
* "Digital Libraries: A Selected Resource Guide"
* "Advancing the Digital Map Library"
* "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection Online: The Digital Object
Identifier"
* "Conceptual Models for Network Literacy"
* "The Best Library-Related Web Sites"
David Green
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> Subject: Current Cites January 1998
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>
> _Current Cites_
> Volume 9, no. 1
> January 1998
> The Library
> University of California, Berkeley
> Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
> ISSN: 1060-2356
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.1.html
>
> Contributors:
>
> Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe,
> Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Roy Tennant
> Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
>
>
> DIGITAL LIBRARIES
>
> Crane, Gregory. "The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a
> Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology" D-Lib
> Magazine (January 1998)
> (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01crane.html). - The Perseus
> Project was one of the earliest large-scale digital library efforts
> to be undertaken. Conceived and created before the explosion of the
> World Wide Web, this ambitious interdisciplinary collection of digital
> materials relating to Ancient Greece has become the project by which
> others measure themselves. In this article the projects founder, Dr.
> Gregory Crane, reflects on the last ten years and describes future
> directions and goals. The article focuses on how the developers of
> Perseus have tried to transcend the constraints of the printed
> document by offering a completely integrated set of tools for the
> navigation and analysis of interrelated texts, objects and scholarly
> writings. Judging by their Web site, I would say that the project has
> succeeded to a large extent. Dr. Crane then goes on to discuss how
> such an effort can be a positive force for the scholarly comminutes
> which they serve. A number of new and innovative careers have been
> built around the project, and it continues to be an active arena for
> the development of a "new generation of humanists". Looking forward to
> the future, Dr. Crane explores ideas for new formats, expansion of the
> project's subject coverage, and how Perseus might be a force for the
> institutionalization of electronic scholarship. - KH
>
> Crawford, Walt. "Paper Persists: Why Physical Library Collections
> Still Matter" Online 22(1) (January 1998)
> (http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/JanOL98/crawford1.html). - For
> many years the library community has benefited from Walt Crawford's
> reality checks. No technophobe, he analyzes information systems for
> the Research Libraries Group. With this Online essay, he addresses an
> audience which may see total digitization as imminent, but he gently
> deflates that notion by citing examples of digital media limitations
> and library usage patterns. He makes a convincing case that, for now
> and the forseeable future, the value of online resources will beto
> enhance and extend library collections. For those administrators and
> others who demand that an argument be put succinctly, he offers the
> simple phrase "and, not or" as a reminder that any good information
> center will combine appropriate technologies, including the printed
> page. - JR
>
> Klemperer, Katharina and Stephen Chapman. "Digital Libraries: A
> Selected Resource Guide" Information Technology and Libraries 16(3)
> (September 1997): 126-131
> (http://www.lita.org/ital/1603_klemperer.htm). - An excellent selected
> guide to digital library resources for anyone wanting an overview of
> digital library issues, draft standards, and technologies, as well as
> strategies for staying current in the field (full disclosure: Current
> Cites is mentioned). The sources cited here serve as good background
> Main sections include general resources, bibliographies, retrospective
> conversion and preservation, electronic publication of current
> materials, initiatives to follow, listservs, conferences, journals,
> and workshops. - RT
>
> Lamont, Melissa and G. Ian Bowles. "Advancing the Digital Map
> Library "Information Technology and Libraries 16(3) (September 1997):
> 121-124. - This article describes an innovative service wherein Web
> users can select census data for the state of Pennsylvania and have a
> thematic map created to their specifications. The Pennsylvania County
> Mapper allows users to select a data set and a year, then a
> subdivision of the data set, the variable to map, the type of data
> classification, the number of data classes and the color. How this
> service is constructed is discussed in the article, but basically the
> three pieces are static HTML pages for setting up the map, a CGI
> program written in Perl to translate the settings, and a script
> written in Arc Macro Language to interact with ArcInfo, which draws
> the map. This project demonstrates how current technologies can be
> used to create innovative and useful library services. - RT
>
> Lejeune, Lorrie. The Internet Public Library: Before Its Time" JEP:
> The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3(2) (December 1997)
> (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/IPL.html). - This article
> describes an innovative project to offer public library services to
> the entire Internet. Growing out of a graduate school project, the IPL
> soon took on a life of its own, complete with grant funding, staff,
> and a burgeoning Web site and clientele. It is an interesting story,
> and one that raises questions about how to support projects that serve
> the common good when there is none of the tax structure in place that
> normally supports such efforts. Needless to say, until new funding
> models are created and realized, efforts such as this one may be
> doomed to failure. How we can prevent this from happening is the
> challenge set forth by this article. - RT
>
> ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
>
> Gilpin, Kenneth N. "Concerns About an Aggressive Publishing Giant" New
> York Times (December 29, 1997):C2. - Although buried in the business
> section, this article on the aggressive business practices of Reed
> Elsevier, one of the world's largest publishers of science journals,
> is really more about the nature of scholarly communication and about
> how consolidation among publishers is stifling competition and driving
> up journal prices -- in other words, it's about the "Microsoft-zation"
> of the science publishing industry. With Purdue University at the
> lead, libraries and academic communities may be starting to fight
> back; when Reed Elsevier's president offered to lock in the annual
> increase in the price of 350 online publication to 9.5 percent, Purdue
> University balked and ended up cancelling many of its Elsevier titles.
> (For more on the burgeoning grassroots efforts to fight back against
> the publishing industry, see a letter by Professor Rob Kirby of the UC
> Berkeley mathematics department:
> http://math.berkeley.edu/~kirby/journals.html.) - MP
>
> Rosenblatt, Bill. "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection Online:
> The Digital Object Identifier" JEP: The Journal of Electronic
> Publishing 3(2) (December 1997)
> (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html). - Publishers have
> long desired a standard way that individual intellectual objects
> (journal articles, for example) can be uniquely identified without
> using a physical address (which is what a Uniform Resource Locator or
> URL is). Books have International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) that
> perform this role for printed books, but a similar system was needed
> that provides the same service but in a networked environment and for
> a much broader range of material. This article describes the process
> that the publishing community went through, and the outcome of their
> efforts in the form of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Rosenblatt
> gives us a good start, but I wish he had provided more links to the
> resources that are required to truly understand how these are
> constructed. For example, he repeatedly refers to the Serial Item and
> Contribution Identifier (SICI, more information at
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SICI/) as a part of the syntax of the DOI,
> and yet neglects to mention where one can go to figure out how one
> should be constructed. Nonetheless, this article is a useful
> introduction to both the reasons for, and the use of, this object
> identifier. - RT
>
> Schad, Jasper C. "Scientific Societies and Their Journals: Issues of
> Cost and Relevance" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23(5)
> (September 1997):406-407. - It seems that for-profit publishers are
> not the only ones to blame for the rising cost of journals (see cite
> for Gilpin in this issue). In this perspective piece, Schad questions
> the publishing motives of scholarly societies. For instance, the
> American Chemical Society states that one of its top priorities in
> publishing a journal is to preserve the archival record of research in
> their disciplines. Another spin on this motive might be that journals
> published by scholarly societies are simply a service for scientists'
> quest for tenure, promotion and grants and as such, some of what is
> published in these journals may be of archival use but may not
> necessarily be of use to currently active scholars. Yes, scholarly
> societies should continue to publish journals since journal literature
> is an important part of scholarly communication; journal prices could
> be reduced, however, if they were downsized and were to publish only
> the best of the professions' scholarship. Schad goes on to suggest
> that if scientific societies want to continue to preserve an archival
> record of research in their discipline, they can do so cheaply by
> providing access to this material in electronic form. - MP
>
> Turner, Judith Axler. "Pioneering an Online Newspaper: Lessons from
> the Chronicle" JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3(2)
> (December 1997) (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/chronicle.html).
> - In this piece the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education
> describes the process and the lessons learned from moving a print
> publication to the Internet. As a pioneer (Academe Today was one of
> the earlier online publications), they learned a lot, and this article
> shares a good deal of that experience in an informative and engaging
> way. What they learned about online user behavior is well worth the
> time it takes to read the article. But then you get to the "missed
> opportunities" section, in which Turner shares her regrets. Now this
> is candid and informative stuff, and not to be missed. Her ending
> section is titled "Pioneers Are the Ones with Arrows in their Backs",
> but because of the lessons learned from pioneers like Turner's outfit,
> those who follow in their footsteps will have a much better
> opportunity to dodge them. - RT
>
> NETWORKS & NETWORKING
>
> Devlin, Brendan. "Conceptual Models for Network Literacy" The
> Electronic Library 15(5) (October 1997):363-368. - Devlin uses
> cognitive science concepts to present a conceptual model for general
> information retrieval and guidelines for when to use the Internet in
> research. The eight step conceptual model can be summarized in four
> phases: (1) identify information in the form of a question, (2)
> classify the type of question (ready reference, known item, subject
> specific, or research), (3) develop asearch strategy and (4) assess
> results. When considering the Internet, Devlin concludes that the
> Internet should only be chosen if the question is unlikely to be
> answered elsewhere, if other sources have proved unsuccesful or if a
> comprehensive source is required. While there is little assessment of
> specific search tools or strategies, this article does provide a
> preliminary framework for the information retrieval process and for
> assessing the Internet as a research resource. - LY
>
> Knight, Lorrie A. "Locating Public Domain Images" College & Research
> Libraries News 59(1) (January 1998):11-13
> (http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjan98.html). - A concise list of public
> domain image collections available on the web, this may be the only
> resource that web developers need consult to find images for
> incorporating into their sites. Listed here are references to thematic
> image collections like the Library ClipArt Collection
> [http://www.netins.net/showcase/meyers/library_clipart/clipart.html],
> government sites like the NASA Photo Gallery
> [http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html] and image archives like
> The Clip Art Connection [http://www.ist.net/clipart/]. When using
> images from these sites, as the author advises, just remember to abide
> by the appropriate rules of copyright. - MP
>
> Press, Larry. "Tracking the Global Diffusion of the Internet"
> Communications of the ACM 40(11) (November 1997):11-17. - So many
> unsubstantiated claims are made about Internet growth and usage, it's
> tempting to simply dismiss all estimates. However, when you need to
> know more than that it's just really really big and really really
> busy, this article names the organizations that are making responsible
> efforts to track and quantify, and gives a URL for each. From veteran
> net-watchers like John Quarterman's Matrix Information and Directory
> Services to the newly formed Cooperative Association for Internet
> Data Analysis, each organization's function and methods are
> described. The article appears in an issue themed "Computational
> Infrastructure: Toward the 21st Century," and there are several
> related pieces which depict the evolving infogrid. - JR
>
> "Special Issue: The Best Library-Related Web Sites" Library HiTech
> 15(3-4) (1997) (http://www.pieranpress.com/). - The articles in this
> special issue are from the site managers of the winners of the "Best
> Library-Related Web Sites Contest." If one overlooks the flawed
> contest itself, the articles represent an interesting mix of
> experiences in setting up and managing a diverse range of
> library-related Web sites. Some of these sites are clearly
> well-deserved of their reward, and are setting the standards by which
> others should aspire (for example, the OhioLink site at
> http://www.ohiolink.edu/). Some well-deserved sites are unique in what
> they do and will likely not have many competitors (such as the
> Internet Scout Report at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/). They
> all have stories to tell, and you can pick and choose among them to
> find the ones that best meet your needs or pique our interest. - RT
>
> GENERAL
>
> Bronson, Po. "Is the Revolution Over? Report from Ground Zero: Silicon
> Valley" Wired 6.01 (January 1998):99-112. - If you aren't completely
> tired of hearing the Wired digerati proselytize about the ongoing
> digital revolution, you may want to pick up Wired's 5th Anniversary
> issue "The State of the Planet-1998." In particular, Po Bronson's
> journey into Silicon Valley - the epicenter of the new economy - is
> revealing and entertaining. Bronson's stories of knowledge workers in
> the Valley depict the new "total dedication model": no longer to the
> company but to the dream of transforming the world through technology.
> While Bronson is clearly an insider, he doesn't seem to take it all
> too seriously and the result is a generally optimistic, good read. -
> LY
>
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