Subject: New Copyright Search Method at Copyright Office; Articles on Semantic Web & E-Books in Academe
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:54:12 -0400
Message-Id: <v04210109b7414d5adcd3@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:54:12 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: New Copyright Search Method at Copyright Office; Articles on Semantic Web & E-Books in Academe
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
June 4, 2001
NEWSNOTES:
COPYRIGHT OFFICE LAUNCHES PILOT SEARCH METHOD
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search
May Issue of CIT INFOBITS
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/
Includes: "Articles on E-Books in Academe"
Article on "The Semantic Web"
by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila,
in May SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
A few collected news notes from two sources: the U.S. Copyright
Office announcing an experimental method for searching for
copyrighted works online and the May issue of CIT Infobits (from The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional
Technology) pointing us to a "Scientific American" article on the
Semantic Web by Tim Berners Lee and others, and a collection of
articles on the E-Book in the University.
David Green
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COPYRIGHT OFFICE LAUNCHES PILOT SEARCH METHOD
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:04:49 -0400
>From: Copyright News <copynews@loc.gov>
>Subject: U.S. Copyright Office NewsNet Issue 123
>
>U.S. Copyright Office
>NewsNet
>
>June 1, 2001
>Issue 123
>
>-------------Copyright Office---------------
>
>NEW SEARCH METHOD LAUNCHED FOR PILOT TESTING
>
>The Copyright Office invites NewsNet readers to pilot test a
>new copyright search method. The Web-based search allows
>users to find copyright information pertaining to more than
>14 million works registered since 1978. The interface is
>designed with user-friendly commands for first-time and
>occasional users. The older, powerful Telnet-based LOCIS
>system will also continue to be available.
>
>NewsNet readers are encouraged to conduct searches in the
>system's three databases: registered works, serials, and
>documents. Pilot testers may report problems they encounter
>and any suggestions for improvements by email to
>copyweb@loc.gov. The Copyright Office appreciates your
>help.
>
>To use the search, connect to http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search
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>Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:39:05 -0400
>From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
>Organization: ATN/CIT
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>To: "CIT Infobits Newsletter" <infobits@listserv.unc.edu>
>Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- May 2001
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>CIT INFOBITS May 2001 No. 35 ISSN 1521-9275
>
>ARTICLES ON E-BOOKS IN ACADEME
>
>"A University That Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books" (by
>Jeffrey R. Young, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 18, 2001, p.
>A39) describes an experimental University of Virginia seminar in which
>students use hand-held computers loaded with all the course materials.
>The seminar is part of a pilot project to see if e-book technologies
>could allow entire courses to go "bookless." The article is available
>online at http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03901.htm
>
>Related articles from the same issue:
>
>"Publishers Promote E-Textbooks, but Many Students and Professors Are
>Skeptical"
> http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03502.htm
>
>"Companies Find Academic Libraries a Key Target and a Tough Sell"
> http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03701.htm
>
>"Academic E-Publishing: Some Key Players"
> http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03702.htm
>
>"Author Says Libraries Shouldn't Abandon Paper"
> http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a04001.htm
>
>The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly
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>For another perspective on the future of books, read "The Premature
>Obituary of the Book: Why Literature?" (THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 14).
>Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and professor of literature at Georgetown
>University, reviews the challenges facing literature and books. The
>article is available online at
>http://www.thenewrepublic.com/051401/llosa051401.html
>
>The New Republic [ISSN 0028-6583] is published 48 times a year. For
>more information, contact The New Republic, 1220 19th St. NW Suite 600,
>Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-331-7494; fax: 202-331-0275;
>Web: http://www.tnr.com/index.html
>
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>THE SEMANTIC WEB
>
>The article "The Semantic Web" (by Tim Berners-Lee [inventor of the
>World Wide Web], James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,
>May 2001) describes how the World Wide Web will evolve into the
>Semantic Web which "will bring structure to the meaningful content of
>Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from
>page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for user. . . .
>The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current
>one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better
>enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The first steps
>in weaving the Semantic Web into the structure of the existing Web are
>already under way. In the near future, these developments will usher in
>significant new functionality as machines become much better able to
>process and 'understand' the data that they merely display at present."
>The entire article is available online at
>http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
>
>Scientific American [ISSN 0036-8733] is published monthly by Scientific
>American, Inc., 415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-1111 USA; tel:
>212-754-0550; Web: http://www.sciam.com/
>
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>for Instructional Technology. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in
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