Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals

Subject: Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals
Gerry Mckiernan (GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu)
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 15:07:41 -0500

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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 15:07:41 -0500
From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
To: arl-ejournal@arl.org
Subject: Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals

           _Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals_

   Over the next several weeks I will be considering and researching
the issues relating to the ramifications / consequences / requirements
of embedded multimedia in electronic journals for libraries and
institutions. I have sketched the following outline of these issues
and would very much appreciate my colleague's review of these as well
as suggestions for other issues not included.

I. TECHNICAL

   Installation of Plug-Ins
   Maintenance
   Retrieval / Access
   Downloading

II. FINANCIAL

   Equipment (e.g. multimedia workstations)
   Cost
   Labor
   Time

III. PROFESSIONAL

   Cataloging (e.g. cataloging of multimedia edition
   vs. non-multimedia edition of journal)

   Reference (e.g., user-assistance /interpretation)
   
IV. COOPERATIVE

   Interlibrary Loan (e.g. 'document' delivery of
     multimedia e-article)

V. PREPARATION / PRODUCTION

   Author training and skills
   Institutional infra-structure
   Publisher capability

VI. ARCHIVAL

   Technical
   Financial
   Management

     I would also appreciate citations to *any* and *all* literature
that address these issues in a general sense, i.e. the management,
etc. of conventional multimedia applications in libraries.

     This outline as well as relevant literature will be used to prepare
two articles for submission this Fall, and will complement M-Bed(sm) my
recently-established registry of embedded multimedia e-journals
available at:

     http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm

     As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques,
are Most Welcome.

     Regards,

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu

                                   "Words still have ... primacy, but
they can be illuminated by images and moving pictures and by numbers
and by sounds."
          Tom Wilson / "In the Beginning Was the Word ..." ELVIRA2: 1

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