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Portals to the World

April 17, 2002

Carolyn Brown
Acting Director Area Studies Collections
Library of Congress

Everette Larson
Head of Reference, Hispanic Division
Library of Congress

Portals to the World is an electronic resource created by Library of Congress subject experts. It contains links to Internet materials that provide authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and areas of the world. These links are arranged first by country or area, and then by a wide range of categories. Staff specialists use current Library of Congress selection criteria to choose useful links, and then enhance these links by providing annotations. The staff also has the option to forward the links to catalogers for inclusion in the Library’s OPAC. The project is intended to be of interest to both scholars and the general public and, when completed, will include all nations of the world. This session will describe the design concept, the prototype pages, the selection criteria, the subject categories, as well as the current status and future direction of this project.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries
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A Research Agenda for Digital Archiving: Report on an NSF-LOC Workshop

April 17, 2002

Margaret Hedstrom
Associate Professor, School of Information Library Studies
University of Michigan

This session will present the preliminary results of a workshop on Research Issues in Digital Archiving, sponsored by the NSF Digital Government Program, the NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Division, and the Library of Congress. The workshop, held immediately preceding the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, included 50 participants from government agencies, universities and industry who discussed research issues and developed priorities for research on digital archiving and long-term preservation. This session will present preliminary results and recommendations from the workshop.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Special Collections
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Update on the Open Knowledge Initiative

April 17, 2002

Phillip D. Long
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise & Outreach Coordinator for the OKI Project
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Open Knowledge Initiative is defining an open architectural specification to be used for the development of educational related software. As a framework for applications development, the project was motivated by the desire to have a modular and extensible development platform for building both traditional and innovative educational applications. The initial specifications of the first layer of the Common Services architecture for OKI is now being shared with not just the core development partners (see http://web.mit.edu/oki/comm/) but also the general public via the OKI website, (http://web.mit.edu/oki/dsgn/specs.html). This session will provide an update on the project’s progress and activities.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons), Teaching & Learning
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A Web-Based Image Access System for Classroom Presentation in Art History

April 17, 2002

Marshall Breeding
Library Technology Officer
Vanderbilt University

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University has developed a system for managing and presenting digitized images for classroom use. This image management system is a pilot project, currently used for three Art History classes. The interface is entirely web- based, allowing instructors to select and organize images without locally loaded software. The key feature that supports the use of the system for classroom use involves its “Virtual Slide Trays”; Instructors can search the database of images and place selected images into slide trays they create and name, usually corresponding to each class session. Art History classes rely on a dual projection environment, presenting comparative images in addition to the work of primary interest. The system supports this dual-projection requirement, giving the instructor the ability to select whether each image in the slide tray will be presented on the left or right screen. Students can access the slide trays for exam study and class preparation, with access controlled through the university’s course management environment. This session will include an opportunity to provide feedback on the classroom presentation features.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, Teaching & Learning
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Where Students and Faculty Go for Information: Project Update on the Digital Library Federation Study of Academic Information Users

April 17, 2002

Leigh Watson Healy
Vice President
Outsell, Inc.

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Digital Library Federation and Outsell, Inc. are engaged in a multi-institution study that compares the information-seeking behaviors of more than 3,200 students and faculty across academic disciplines in liberal arts colleges and research/doctoral universities. This session will present preliminary findings and highlights of this research into how student and faculty behaviors and preferences are affecting library use and the demand for information resources.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Net Generation (includes Millennials)
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ZING: Z39.50-International: Next Generation

April 17, 2002

Ray Denenberg
Senior Networked Engineer
Library of Congress

Pat Stevens
Manager, Product Planning & Special Projects
OCLC

ZING, Z39.50-International: Next Generation, brings together a number of current initiatives by Z39.50 implementors looking at making Z39.50 a more mainstream protocol and lowering implementation barriers, while preserving the intellectual contributions of Z39.50 that have accumulated over 20 years. This session will focus on one of these efforts, the development of Search and Retrieval for the Web (SRW), a proof-of- concept initiative to enable development of value-added search and retrieve applications such as the scholar’s portal, that will integrate access to various networked resources. SRW, building on Z39.50 along with web technologies — XML, SOAP/RPC, WSDL and HTTP — recognizes the importance of Z39.50 for business-to-business communication, and focuses on getting information to the user.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2002 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata
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