Subject: IEEE/Digital Library News
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:59:26 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011703b1f609618184@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:59:26 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: IEEE/Digital Library News
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 11
DIGITAL LIBRARY NEWS - Vol 2: No. 1
IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Digital Libraries
archives at: <http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln>
This long posting is a forward of the current "Digital Library News,"
issued three times a year by the IEEE. Although there is much here that is
generally applicable to digital libraries, there are also a number of
snapshots of humanities networking projects that readers perhaps will find
useful.
For inclusion in the next edition email details to Sue Feldman at
<mailto:sef2@cornell.edu >
David Green
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Digital Library News
A publication of the IEEE Computer Society
Task Force on Digital Libraries
archives at: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln
July 1998, v.2 no.1
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*** Contents ***
Conference Reports
Current Projects
Announcements
Recent Publications:
Calendar of meetings and events
Useful URL's
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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:
The events and projects included in this edition were selected from over
400 pages of notices we received. It seems clear that the number projects
which are primarily digitization of existing materials are growing beyond
the capacity of this newsletter to cover them. We welcome the Digital
Initiatives Database from the Association of Research Libraries (see
Current Projects) as a remedy for finding and keeping track of these
projects. We will continue to concentrate on digital library technologies
and experiments. Our scope emphasizes new digital library technologies and
ideas. Workshops and conferences have been selected for their emphasis on
digital library technology as opposed to allied subjects such as archiving,
or more traditional library subjects which have been translated to the
digital medium.
Digital Library News is published by the IEEE Computer Society three
times each year. It is a brief alerting/reporting service for those
working in the diverse fields which digital libraries comprise. While we
monitor a number of Digital Libraries sources, coverage can only be as
complete as your submissions are. Please send contributions, comments and
suggestions to me at sef2@cornell. Be sure to keep the report brief, and
include a contact name, email address and a URL so that readers can find
more extensive information.
--Sue
Feldman, Editor
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Advances in Digital Libraries 1998: Conference Report
This year's Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL) conference, held April
22-24 in Santa Barbara, California, has moved beyond digital library
technologies to an examination of the political, social, and psychological
aspects of creating access to, and using electronic information. Not that
new technologies did not abound, but rather that they were placed within
the wider context of access and use. Libraries have always been
repositories of existing information. They gather it, select and organize
it, make it accessible, and preserve it. The vision of digital libraries
that emerges from this conference is far beyond the scope of current
libraries. It places the library squarely in the middle of the
information-creation business. Users will be able to use new information
tools to combine pieces of information and to create new ones.
The first Digital Libraries Initiative projects have yielded research
results, as well as usable collections and products. Particularly notable
were the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University, the Stanford
project, and the Berkeley project. In addition to creating information
tools, however, these projects were instrumental in initiating debates on
societal issues, such as intellectual property, physical vs. digital forms
of materials, how people use information, what information packages should
look like, and what tools should be developed to manipulate their contents.
What will the impact be on existing institutions, and on society? How will
scholars choose to communicate if they can either send out research results
today or have them appear in a paper peer-reviewed journal 2 years from
now? For a longer report on this conference, see Report from the Field:
Advances in Digital Libraries 1998
<http://www.infotoday.com/it/jun/article3.htm>
--Sue Feldman
* Conference report: European Science and Technology Forum: Electronic
communication and research in Europe Seeheim/Darmstadt April 15-17, 1998.
This conference addressed the impact of electronic communication
technology on communication and research in Europe. It identified the
following needs: rigorous quality assessment; higher bandwidths; dedicated
academic bandwidth; creation of a distributed European library system.
Further recommended in a number of areas, including the relationship
between conventional (printed) and electronic publishing; the economics of
electronic publishing; privacy and data protection; and intellectual
property rights and copyright issues. The Academia Europaea was founded in
1988 and has 1700 members from 33 European and five non-European countries.
For further information: {boecker,neuhold}@darmstadt.gmd.de. See also the
Web pages of the Academia Europaea: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/ and
the conference pages: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/seeheim.
--Heinz-Deiter Boecker and Erich J. Neuhold
***CURRENT PROJECTS***
* NCSTRL+: NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) and Old Dominion
University (Norfolk, VA) will upgrade the current digital library offerings
of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program. The
research program, NCSTRL+, will modify the Dienst protocol to support
"clusters", and create new publishing entities, "buckets", that are both
aggregative and intelligent.
The Dienst software distribution is being modified to include clusters
which will allow for partitioning very large collections. Current
supported clusters include: subject category, publishing organization,
archival type, and terms and conditions. Buckets are independent of any
digital library protocol, and are likely to be deployed in the current NASA
STI digital library, the NASA Technical Report Server, before the various
NASA centers switch to Dienst. Buckets address NASA's requirements for
aggregating many different STI formats together and for having fine grained
access controls to the various formats.
For further information:
NASA POC: Michael Nelson <m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov>
NTRS: http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS
NCSTRL+:
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/1998/mtg/NASA-98-ieeedl-mln.pdf
ODU Digital Library Group: http://dlib.cs.odu.edu:8000
* The INDIANA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM incorporates: The
Victorian Women Writers Project (electronic editions of works by 19th
century British women) <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html>;
The Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), which provides access
to electronic texts in literature, history, philosophy and linguistics, and
also provides reference service in its facility in the Main Library.
<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/>; VARIATIONS , which provides CD-quality
digital audio to campus workstations and is a testbed for real-time
multimedia networking at Indiana University.
<http://www.music.indiana.edu/variations/>. The Digital Library Program is
also engaged in a series of image and sound digitization projects in
partnership with special collections libraries at Indiana University.
Indiana University has been awarded an Internet2 research grant from IBM,
for work in the areas of digital library applications and advanced audio
and video services. <http://www.hied.ibm.com/internet2/projects.html>.
* The UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MAKING OF AMERICA site
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ moa/ now contains 1,601 books and ten journals
with more than 49,069 articles documenting America's social history. Based
on feedback solicited in earlier announcements for the resource, as well as
local user studies, the current implementation adds functionality in a
number of areas. System features include full text search and browsable
bibliographies for journal articles and monographs. Future plans:
Integration with the Making of America materials at Cornell University
(http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/); Improved markup and presentation of raw
text; new works added. We hope to work with other institutions and funding
agencies to make more significant additions to the MoA site. Please send
expressions of interest to moa-info@umich.edu.
* CHINESE PILOT DIGITAL LIBRARY: Under a grant from the Chinese government,
the National Library of China and Shanghai Library, together with libraries
in Nanjing, Zhongshan, Liaoling, and Shenzhen will develop the Chinese
Pilot Digital Library. Together these libraries house over 30 million
volume, including resources from 1911 to the present, as well as Chinese
rare books, records, manuscripts, and special collections originally held
in the imperial libraries of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There
are unique inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Yin-Shang
Dynasties (16th-11th century B.C.), and scarce Dun Huang manuscripts
ranging from Wei and Jin to Sui, Tang, and the Five Dynasties. (Report
submitted by Sally C. Tseng, Head, Serials Cataloging, University of
California, Irvine Libraries, voice: (949) 824-6832, fax: (949) 824-2059,
e-mail: sctseng@uci.edu.)
* PROJECT CIRCE (Community Information Research Resource), will create a
network of public libraries to increase access to core community
information in Great Britain: clubs and societies council services,
health services, citizen's rights, etc. Access will be the
responsibility of the participating authorities, most of whom are already
implementing strategies to open up public access to the Internet
throughout their communities. The technical side of the project will by
handled by UKOLN, the UK Office for Library Networking, who are funded by
the British Library Research and Innovation Centre and by JISC. UKOLN
are working with various tools including their ROADS software for
networking information. They are also heavily involved in metadata
projects including Dublin Core, MODELS and RDF.
For details, contact Helen Leech, CIRCE Project Officer, e-mail:
hleech@gloscc.gov.uk, or see http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/circe/.
* VideoTalk--the Australian Digital Video Libraries Technology site: A
resource directory providing technical content on video standards and
formats, storage technology, media servers, and communication bandwidth,
also links to Australian video libraries, archives, and research centers:
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/DMIS/VideoTalk/VideoTalk.html
* The Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology project creates a digital
archive about the life, work and relationships of Thomas MacGreevy. It
will provide a test bed for the INTENTS project which is developing
intelligent navigation tools for Hyper Documents. Contents include
documents, images, sound and video recordings -- an excellent corpus for
developing a model for managing a large hypermedia archive. Further
information at: http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei
* The CEDARS project aims to address strategic, methodological and
practical issues and will provide guidance for libraries in best practice
for digital preservation. CEDARS is a three year project funded by the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through the Electronic Libraries
Programme (eLib).CURL (The Consortium of University Research Libraries)
will lead th project. Under the overall direction of the CURL Management
Board, Cedars will be based across three lead sites (Oxford, Leeds and
Cambridge). Wider involvement from the community will come through focus
groups, workshops and discussion lists. CEDARS will identify, document and
disseminate strategic frameworks within which individual libraries can
develop collection management policies which are appropriate to their needs
and which can guide the necessary decision-making to safeguard the
long-term viability of any digital resources which are included in their
collections. http://www.curl.ac.uk email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk
* China's 211 PROJECT-CALIS: The China Academic Libraries Information
System (CALIS) will be a resource network based on the China Education and
Research Net (CERNET), providing Internet resource sharing for China and
other countries. The CALIS Project will preserve and build resources in
digital and electronic formats from their existing resources in each
participating library, and provide mirror sites at each national and
regional center. There will be eight regional centers in China. They are:
1) Beijing: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Medical
University, and Beijing Agricultural University; 2) Eastern-South: Shanghai
Jiao Tong University and Fudan University; 3) Eastern-North: Nanjing
University; 4) Central: Wuhan University; 5) Northwest: Xian Jiao Tong
University; 6) Southern: Zhongshan University; 7) Southwestern: Sichuan
University; and 8) Northeastern: To be determined. CALIS is expected to be
completed in the year 2010. (Report submitted by Sally Tseng,
sctseng@uci.edu.)
*DIGITAL INITIATIVES DATABASE: The Association of Research Libraries
(ARL), in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),is
developing a database of digital initiative projects underway at its member
institutions. The database will include digital projects of all sizes and
scope together in one place. The web site at http://www.arl.org/did/ is
searchable, and lists projects by host institution, technical focus and
subject area, and includes fuller description of the project, contact
information, and a URL. The database aims eventually to include projects
from non-ARL institutions. For more information, contact: Karen H.
Zuidema, Assistant Catalog Librarian, of Illinois at Chicago. E-mail:
khz@uic.edu
*UMI DIGITAL VAULT INITIATIVE. UMI has announced a massive effort to
digitize its 5.5 billion page archive containing documents going back to
the first texts printed in English. "When the initiative is completed-which
will take years of scanning-the UMI archive will be the deepest standing
resource of historical documents on the Net." For more information see:
http://www.umi.com/hp/Features/DVault/ Wired magazine's story on this
announcement can be found at:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/13298.html
*EUROTEXT provides access to an electronic resource bank of learning
materials on Europe via the internet (http://eurotext.ulst.ac.uk). It is
funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) established by the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Eurotext was initially funded
for three years and was recently awarded further transitional funding to
facilitate the change from project to service. For further information
about Eurotext contact the project co-ordinator, Freda Carroll at Brynmor
Jones Library, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom. For
technical information contact Clare McClean, Educational Services,
University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, BT30 0QB, Northern
Ireland.
* INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PROJECT, an Educom (now EDUCAUSE) NLII
(National Learning Infrastructure Initiative) project, is developing a
specification and software for managing online learning resources. The
specification includes a small set of required labels (including those
proposed as the Dublin Core by OCLC), lists of optional labels, and a
process for extending the lists of metadata. See
http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/index.html
*Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO): http://www.amico.net ; or, contact
Jennifer Trant, jtrant@archimuse.com, or David Bearman,
dbear@archimuse.com, Archives & Museum Informatics (AMICO's management
consultants). AMICO is a not-for-profit association of institutions engaged
in building a joint digital library which documents their collections, to
be made available to the university, public library, and
kindergarten-through-grade-12 educational communities.
*Next WAVe(sm), a clearinghouse of projects, research, products, and
services devoted to "Auditory Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases": Next
WAVe(sm), a clearinghouse of projects, research, products, and services
devoted to "Auditory Browsing in Web and Non-Web Databases":
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm.
* Documenting the American South: THE SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE IN 19TH-CENTURY
AMERICA, a full-text database of primary materials offering Southern
perspectives on American history, literature, and culture, with initial
emphasis on North American slave narratives, first-person narratives, and
Southern literature http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html.
* Playa Lakes/Ogallala Aquifer Digital Library Initiative, a bibliographic
database and full-text resource on the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest
aquifer in the world, and on playa lakes elsewhere, compiled by Texas Tech
University Libraries: http://www.lib.ttu.edu/playa/playa.htm.
***ANNOUNCEMENTS***
DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE - PHASE 2. Announcement Number NSF 98-63.
This initiative supports Digital Libraries research, in amounts up to
$200,000 per year for 1 to 3 years for individual investigators, or
$1,200,000 per year for multi-disciplinary groups for 1 to 5 years.
Topics: development, management, and accessibility of digital content or
collections, serving new user communities, HCI, and creating digital
library testbeds. See: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm
DUE DATES: FY 1999 Competition: Letters of Intent: February 15, 1999;
Full Proposals: May 17, 1999
D-Lib Working Group on Digital Library Metrics seeks to develop appropriate
metrics to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of digital libraries and
component technologies. Initial emphasis will be on (a) information
discovery with a human in the loop, and (b) retrieval in a heterogeneous
world. See http://www.dlib.org/metrics/public/index.html.
Museum Digital Licensing Collective (MDLC), formed to provide technical and
financial assistance for digitizing museum collections
http://www.museumlicensing.org
***PUBLICATIONS***
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library, report from the
international conference organized by the UK Office of Library Networking
on behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), CNI (Coalition for
Networked Information), BLRIC (British Library Research and Innovation
Centre), EDUCAUSE, and CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians),
held on June 16 and 17, 1997 in London, UK:
http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html.
"Towards the Digital Library", edited by Leona Carpenter, Dr Andrew
Prescott and Simon Shaw, published by The British Library, price #20, ISBN
0 7123 4540 X. The book gives a detailed account of the Library's
Initiatives for Access programme, which explored the application of digital
and networking technologies for the storage, retrieval, display and
transmission of information in order to widen access to items in the
Library's collection and enhancing Library services. These include: the
Electronic Beowulf project, the Patent Express Jukebox, the prototype for
Turning the Pages, winner of the 1998 BIMA Interactive Displays Award , and
Inside, a current awareness and document delivery system. Towards the
Digital Library gives a detailed account of the projects in the Initiatives
for Access programme and examines future needs. Review copies can be
obtained from Dr Bart Smith in Press and Public Relations at The British
Library, tel 0171-412 7111, fax 0171-412 7168, e-mail bart.smith@bl.uk
Further information about the British Library Digital Library Programme is
available on the Library's website, http://www.bl.uk/diglib
"Observation and Measurement in Evaluating Digital Libraries", Paul B.
Kantor from SCILS, Rutgers, the State University. Most of the problems of
evaluating digital libraries have clear counterparts in the evaluation of
traditional libraries, which therefore provides a good foundation for
dealing with digital libraries. URL: http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/seminar.htm
This lecture is available as a RealAudio broadcast at
http://zuul.ncsa.uiuc.edu/arrott2/media/kantor.ram. You will need the
RealPlayer 5.0 to view and listen to the lecture.
LIBRES: (Library and Information Science Research) a peer-reviewed
electronic journal, is published in March and September. Since 1990, LIBRES
has publishedd articles, reports, and drafts as well as news and discussion
of library and information science research, applications, and events.
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/
http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/
* AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter supports scholars, librarians, and
researchers engaged in developing text or image databases in Asian/EurAsian
Studies. Published quarterly (March, June, September, December) on the WWW.
See http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/
* Computing And The Humanities: Promise And Prospects, National Arts and
Humanities Computing Roundtable, Summary Report, published by the American
Council on Learned Societies: http://www.acls.org/op41-i.htm.
* Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification, W3C
(World Wide Web Consortium) Working Draft, July 20, 1998:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax/. Additional information on RDF can be
found at http://www.w3.org/RDF. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a
foundation for processing metadata (that is, in the context of this
specification, data describing web resources).
* Up and Running: Implementing Z39.50. Edited by Sara L. Randall. ISBN:
1-880124-33-5. 64 pages. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. Cost: $35.00 (US). Order
from: NISO Press Fulfillment, voice: 800-282-6476 (US/Canada) or
301-567-9522, fax: 301-567-9553, e-mail: nisopress@niso.org. The edited
proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the State Library of Iowa, held on
November 26, 1996. Six articles explain how the standard works and
illustrate how 25 Iowa libraries have used the standard to link their
catalogs.
* Virtually New Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation
projects in local authority libraries and archives. Final Report to the
Library and Information Commission. Prepared by Consultants to the Review,
Information North (the Development Agency for Library and Information
Services in the Northern Region of England). Report by David Parry. Library
and Information Commission. London. 1998. 129 pages. ISBN: 1 902394 003.
#15.45 (inc. UK post & packaging; international at cost). To download the
report in Word 6.0/95 or Word 97 format:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/.
* Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the
Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information, by the International
Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Presents an international
perspective on consortial licensing and the purchasing of electronic
information by libraries:
http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html.
* Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
1997. 60 pp. ISBN: 92-828-2285-0. To view or to download in PDF format:
http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html.
* FYI FRANCE, a monthly electronic journal published since 1992 by Jack
Kessler,. kessler@well.sf.ca.us. A number of issues have analyzed digital
libraries in France. Archives are at http://infolib.berkeley.edu (search
fyifrance), or http://www.cru.fr/listes/biblio-fr@cru.fr/ (BIBLIO-FR
econference archive), or http://www.fyifrance.com, or
http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/pacs-l.html.
* A Summary Report on the SPRING 1998 TASK FORCE MEETING OF CNI (Center for
Networked Information), including an account of its plenary panel on
digital archiving issues: http://www.cni.org/. (This site also provides
information on current and past projects and reports on other CNI meetings.)
* Standards for Digital Information Interchange and DIGITAL PRESERVATION,
two publications of the UK Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS):
http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/standards.html;
http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/preserve.html
* CLIR Issues is published by the Council on Library and Information
Resources. This is one of two publications, along with the Preservation and
Access International Newsletter, which superseded the Commision on
Preservation and Access Newsletter at the beginning of 1998. Both are
sources for digital library development updates and research.CLIR Reports
cover a wide-range of issues pertaining to digitization, library systems,
preservation, and other issues. All CLIR Publications can be found at:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/pubs.html
* Biblio Tech Review provides library automation technology news and
reviews to librarians, information scientists, and other professionals:
http://www.biblio-tech.com/.
* THE DIGITAL LIBRARY TOOL KIT is the newest library white paper published
by Sun Microsystems: http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries/whitepaperindex.html.
* San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and NPACI (the National Partnership
for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) publish a a biweekly Web
newsletter -- Online (http://www.npaci.edu/Online); a quarterly research
magazine -- enVision (http://www.npaci.edu/enVision)project that describes
such projects as Digital Library integration that joins four of the
NSF/DOE/DARPA digital library initiatives (Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley,
and UC Santa Barbara). Subscribe at
http://www.npaci.edu/News/subscriptions.html
***1998-1999 CALENDAR OF EVENTS***
August 13-14. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Convergence in the Digital Age:
Challenges for Libraries, Museums, and Archives. A satellite event of this
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
General Conference, August 16-21. Contact: Johan van de Walle, e-mail:
e-mail: vandewalle@stb.tno.nl or jvdwalle@bart.nl.
August 13-15. Sheffield, United Kingdom. INFORMATION SEEKING IN CONTEXT: an
International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in
Different Contexts. Hosted by The Department of Information Studies at
Sheffield University.. For additional information:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/groups/disc/ISIC/isic2.html. Contact: David
Allen, voice: +44 (0) 114 222 2641+, fax: +44 (0) 114 278 0300, e-mail:
D.K.Allen@Sheffield.ac.uk.
August 14-16. Baltimore, Maryland. Advances in Social Informatics and
Information Systems (Mini-Track of the Association for Information Systems
[AIS] 1998 Americas Conference). Contact: Roberta Lamb, Case Western
Reserve University, voice: (216) 368-3914, fax: (216) 368-4776, e-mail:
rel@po.cwru.edu.. For additional information about AIS '98, see the
Conference home page at: : http://www.isworld.org/ais.ac.98.
August 16-21. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Creating Electronic Texts
& Images: Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick. A
practical, hands-on exploration of the research, preservation, and
pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities.
Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia.
http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Announce/seaman98.htm Contact: Karen
Maguire, voice: (506) 453-4740, e-mail: kmaguire@unb.ca.
August 24-28. Melbourne, Australia. SIGIR'98: 21st Annual International ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery) SIGIR (Special Interest Group in
Information Retrieval) Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval. http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98/.
August 25-29. Lille, France. Structures and Relations in Knowledge
Organization. The Fifth International Conference of The International
Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO 5) will focus on knowledge
structures as represented in the human mind, in the formation of
categories, in information handling tools, including classification
schemes, thesauri and indexing systems, knowledge structures as represented
in computers and intelligent systems, indexing systems. For further
information: http://WWW.univ-lille3.fr/www/isko/isko2.htm. Contact: Widad
Mustafa Elhadi, Conference Chair, Universite Charles De Gaulle, Lille,
France, voice: 33 3 20 41 64 08, fax: 33 3 20 41 63 79, e-mail:
mustafa@univ-lille3.fr. ISKO 5 e-mail address : isko.conf@univ-lille3.fr.
August 31-September 2 (also offered September 9-11; September 21-23;
November 2-4; November 9-11; and December 7-9). Dublin, Ohio. Understanding
and Using Metadata. This seminar provides an intensive theoretical and
practical, project-based exploration of metadata and its applications. For
more information and to register online, see
http://purl.org/oclc/institute. Contact: Erik Jul, OCLC Institute, voice:
(614) 764-4364, fax: (614) 718-7132, e-mail: jul@oclc.org.
September 9-12. Glasgow, Scotland. Digital Resources in the Humanities '98.
A conference for creators, users, distributors, and curators of digital
resources. Email: enquiries@drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
September 16-18. College Park, Maryland. Afterimages: Reformatting Visual
Materials in a Digital World. A conference presented at the Archives II
site of the National Archives and Records Administration. Funded by the
National Park Service Cultural Resources Training Initiative. Co-sponsored
by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the National Archives and
Records Administration. A course designed to teach managers of picture
collections how to plan and manage projects to reformat endangered visual
materials. Contact: Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center,
Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010, e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org..
September 19-23. Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Second European Conference on
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Co-sponsored by the
European Union; the European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics; ICS-FORTH (Institute of Computer Science-Foundation for
Research and Technology Hellas); and the University of Crete. Conference
Web page: http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL. Contacts: Rena Kalaitzaki and
Maria Stavrakaki, , University of Crete, Computer Science Department,
voice: +30 81 393504, fax: +30 81 393501, e-mail: ecdl@cc.uch.gr.
September 23-26. Nantes, France. 2ND EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF
DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY (PKDD'98).
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98. Contact: Jan Zytkow, Program
Co-Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, e-mail: zytkow@uncc.edu.
September 23-26. Santa Monica, California, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.
KNOWLEDGE CREATION, KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION, KNOWLEDGE SHARING. The Museum
Computer Network Annual Conference, held in 1998 at. An international event
on all aspects of technology use in museums. Contact: Michele Devine,
Museum Computer Network, Silver Spring, Maryland, voice: (301) 585-4413,
e-mail: mcn@mcn.edu..
October 18-23. Ithaca, New York. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
Workshop. A week-long workshop on the use of digital imaging technology,
presented by the Cornell University Library's Department of Preservation
and Conservation. New workshop sections address image quality assessment,
image databases, color management, digital archiving, legal issues, and
user evaluation http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/digital.htm.
Contact: Oya Y. Reiger, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, voice:
(607) 254-5160, e-mail: oyr1@cornell.edu.
October 25-29. ASIS (American Society for Information Science) annual
meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. Includes ASIS
SIG/CR (Special Interest Group on Classification Research) Classification
Research Workshop on all aspects of classification theory and application,
including creation, development, management, representation, display,
comparison, and compatibility.
http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/asis.sigcr/crwork.shtml. Contact: Elin K.
Jacob, Workshop Chair, Indiana University, e-mail: ejacob@indiana.
October 27-29. Ann Arbor, Michigan. TO FILM OR TO SCAN: REFORMATTING FOR
PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD. A Northeast Document Conservation Center
(NEDCC) workshop on preservation microfilming and digital imaging. Emphasis
divided equally among general principles of reformatting, preservation
microfilming, and digital imaging for preservation. Contact: Gay Tracy,
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010,
e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org
December 7-9. New Orleans, Louisiana. SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: ISSUES OF
PRESERVATION AND ACCESS FOR PAPER-BASED COLLECTIONS. This conference will
train participants in: 1.The Basics of Digital Technology; 2. Deciphering
Digital Jargon; 3. Content Selection for Digitization; 4. Legal Issues of
Digital Technology; 5. Text and Image Scanning; 6. Quality Control and
Costs; 7. The Essentials of Metadata; 8. Digital Preservation: Theory or
Reality; 9. World Wide Web Publications; 10. Multi-versioning . Cost:
$255 for early bird registration, post marked by October 15, 1998, and $325
for late registration, deadline November 18, 1998.Contact: Gay Tracy,
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA, voice: (978) 470-1010,
e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org.
December 15-16. London, England, Open University Conference Centre. HYLIFE:
THE HYBRID LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE. The HyLiFe Project aims to provide
seamless access to both traditional and digital resources. Project teams
are developing six customised interfaces to match the particular needs of a
range of client groups. http://www.unn.ac.uk/~xcu2/hylife/. Contact: Peter
Wynne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, e-mail:
p.wynne@mmu.ac.uk.
January 5-8, 1999. Maui, Hawaii. GENRE IN DIGITAL DOCUMENTS. Part of the
Digital Documents Track of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-32). This minitrack addresses the
digital analogues of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the
how-to manual, and the scholarly journal, including new and emergent genres
which may not have existed in print form. http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss.
Contact: Michael Shepherd, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada, voice: (902) 494-3686, fax: (902) 492-1517, e-mail:
shepherd@cs.dal.ca.
January 19-21. Sydney, Australia, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
in Darling Harbour. INFORMATION ONLINE & ONDISC 99: STRATEGIES FOR THE NEXT
MILLENNIUM.. Sponsored by the Information Science Section of the Australian
Library and Information Association (ALIA).
http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99/. Contact: Mary Anne Kennan,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, voice: 61-2-9931-9380,
e-mail: M.Kennan@unsw.edu.au.
May 23-26. Dubrovnik, Croatia. DIGITAL LIBRARIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES. A CoLIS (Conceptions of Library
and Information Science) conference. http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/colis3 or
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/colis3. Contact: e-mail: colis3@ffzg.hr.
May 24-26. Pasadena, California, Pasadena Hilton Hotel. EVALUATING AND
USING NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES. ASIS (American Society
for Information Science) 1999 Mid-Year Conference. Conference seeks to
identify what we know and don't know about use of networked information
services and resources. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/my99call.html.
Contact: Charles McClure, Program Co-Chair, Syracuse University, e-mail:
cmcclure@mailbox.syr.edu.
November 1-4. Washington, D.C., J. W. Marriott Hotel. KNOWLEDGE: CREATION,
ORGANIZATION, AND USE. ASIS (American Society for Information Science) 1999
Annual Conference. This conference will look at current (and imminent)
knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, correlation, retrieval,
management, and dissemination. It will consider appropriate operational
policies, relevant legal issues (including legislation and the European
Union Directive), and international and domestic policies and regulations.
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/am99call.html. Contact: Richard Hill,
Executive Director, ASIS, Silver Spring, Maryland, e-mail: rhill@asis.org.
***USEFUL URLs***
http://www.digitallibrary.net hosts links about digital libraries
andrelated technologies, including metadata and information retrieval.
International Journal on Digital Libraries:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm.
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval:
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/index.html.
National Digital Library Federation (Library of Congress):
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf.
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions):
extensive list of "DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Metadata Resources":
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections for
the National Digital Library (36 collections now available in these
categories: textual collections, photographs, early motion pictures, sound
recordings, maps, multiformat collections; collection previews also
accessible): http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/.
The New York Public Library's Digital Library Collections:
http://digital.nypl.org/.
D-Lib Magazine, a monthly compilation of contributed stories, commentary,
and briefings: http://www.dlib.org/.
Sue Feldman
Datasearch
170 Lexington Dr.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-257-0937 Phone/Fax
mailto:sef2@cornell.edu
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21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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