PROJECTS BRIEFINGS ARE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS REGARDING PROJECTS, IDEAS, AND ISSUES RELATED TO CNI THEMES AND PRIORITIES. THEY PROVIDE A FORUM FOR SHARING INFORMATION AND EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES.
The Research Libraries Group's
Digital Collections Projects
James Michalko
President
The Research Libraries Group, Inc.
David Richards
Director of Development
The Research Libraries Group, Inc.
RLG and seven of its member institutions have embarked on the first planned series of collaborative digital collections projects, Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1815-1914, which will result in a cohesive, focused, comprehensive collection of digitized documents relating to 19th-century family law and domestic relationships as well as the metadata necessary to locate desired information in the collection: RLIN records, finding aids, and other lists. This presentation will provide an overview and status report in this and other related projects.
Handout provided at the meeting
Archiving the Internet
Brewster Kahle
President
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive <www.archive.org>
gathers, stores, and allows access to all public information
on the Internet (WWW, Gopher, netnews, and usage
logs) to offer a new set of services. This would enable
historians to understand what really happened; serve as
a backup for dead sites; be a central library for
the Internet research community, (for clustering studies, demographic shifts, indexing technology); and be a copy of record for past URLs and postings. Once established, this Archive could assume a permanent position in the Internet infrastructure. This project briefing will discuss the current state of the Archive and where it is going.
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Enterprise-Wide Information Strategies:
A New CNI Initiative
Joan K. Lippincott
Research Director
Academic Strategies, Gartner Group
Michael Zastrocky
Assistant Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
The spectacular growth of networked information resources and services and the fundamental rethinking of how institutions are positioned, organized, and managed are two of the most powerful forces affecting the contemporary research and education community. If these forces are to produce sustainable, extensible results, they must be held accountable to enterprise-wide as well as departmental goals and objectives. These forces and the enterprise-wide information strategies needed to marshal them are the focus of this briefing.
New Models In
World Wide Web Publishing
Karen Butter
Deputy Director, Library & Center for Knowledge Management
University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco, Library and Center for Knowledge Management has undertaken several projects that offer an opportunity to experiment with Web publishing. The two projects discussed in this session originated while creating an archival collection for tobacco control. The first model focuses on the publication of primary source documents, based upon an anonymous gift of
materials from The Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Corporation, and examines legal, archival, and access issues.
Building upon the first project, the Library and CKM
published The Cigarette Papers Online, an electronic
version of the book published by the University of
California Press. The Cigarette Papers
Online offered an opportunity to work with an academic press in a joint project and to experiment with business models for Web projects.
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THESE TWO BRIEFINGS EXAMINE COOPERATION BETWEEN
LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS.
DCIS: The Enterprise-Wide Information
System for Darmouth College
Malcolm Brown
Director, Academic Computing
Dartmouth College
DCIS (Dartmouth College Information System) is
a single information system resource for faculty,
students and staff, serving a wide variety of academic and
administrative needs. DCIS utilizes a variety of
search engines (including BRS, Oracle, and PAT) to
access many kinds of information, both structured and
unstructured, text and image. Yet, DCIS presents to
the user a single, consistent interface, which greatly
simplifies access to these diverse information
resources. Most recently, DCIS introduced Web-based access
to its data resources. DCIS is a joint undertaking
between the library and computing services, which have
pooled FTE and budget resources to create the staff needed
to develop and maintain the DCIS infrastructure.
The content for DCIS is supplied across organizational
lines as well: academic computing staff, librarians, and administrative staff all develop and maintain content
for the system. The result is an information resource
for the campus, containing resources such as the
Administrative Guide, the complete works of major
authors, reference works, the Classics Department Image
Database, Medline, and the Library Catalog.
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The Impact on People of Electronic Libraries: Monitoring Organizational
and Cultural Change in United Kingdom Higher Education
Professor Joan Day
Head of Department of Information and Library Management
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Catherine Edwards
Research Associate
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Graham Walton
Faculty Librarian, Health, Social Work, and Education
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
The IMPEL2 project is one of the Supporting
Studies of the United Kingdom Electronic Libraries
Program (eLib), which is helping to shape the development
of academic libraries and information provision in an
increasingly electronic environment. IMPEL2 is
currently collecting data from a purposive sample of 28
varied higher education institutions in order to identify
the key issues surrounding the effective management
of information services on the electronic campus.
The context of change; strategic planning;
organizational structures; impact on staff and users;
training and development; and the management of
organizational and cultural change are discussed from the
preliminary analysis of findings. The development of
new roles and computing services at both the
operational and organizational level, and the need to deploy
staff effectively across formerly distinct
departmental boundaries are common themes to emerge.
Examples of good practice are described for managing
changes and minimizing the cultural lag that results
from change.
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DTDs Together: TEI, CIMI & EAD
David Green
Executive Director
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
John Perkins
Project Director
Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information
Daniel Pitti
Librarian for Advanced Technologies Projects
University of California, Berkeley
Allen Renear
Director, Computing and Information Services
Brown University
Since SGML has been applied to cultural heritage
materials, specific communities have been hard at
work creating Document Type Definitions to make
particular classes of materials more usefully and
flexibly searchable. This session will present the three
critical DTDs in the cultural communitythe Text
Encoding Initiative, that of the Consortium for Computer
Interchange of Museum Information and the most
recently developed Encoded Archival Description. How
have these three development projects evolved? What
recent projects using these DTDs have been made
possible? What are the differences between them and what
ideas are afloat for mapping between them?
Hot Stuff! A New Approach to Full Text
Delivery on the Internet
Dana Johnson
Director of Product Development
Ovid Technologies
Delivery of full text to users' desktops has long
been the holy grail at Ovid Technologies. Ovid has
been working on several projects to provide an
integrated approach to searching bibliographic and full text
databases to create a rich searching world for our
users in which the documents themselves, particularly
documents that the user deems useful, act as both
pointers and guides to help find more related information.
There are a number of technical problems, ranging from
interface design to linking of documents and
references from diverse sources to speedy delivery of text across the Internet, all of which need to be solved. In this
project briefing, some of the ways that these projects have
converged upon a solution and the lessons learned
along the way will be discussed. The project briefing will
also unveil and demonstrate our latest technologies
for searching and using full text on the Web.
Swets Subscription Services: Developing a
New Service for Electronic Serials
Michael Markwith
Chief Executive Officer
Swets & Zeitlinger, Inc.
Swets & Zeitlinger, Inc. an international
subscription agent, has developed a new service for the ordering and access of electronic journals: SwetsNet. As a
single source for electronic journals, the initial release
of SwetsNet will be January 1997. As a new
commercial service, there are still many issues to be resolved regarding access to full text electronically. Thus, the purpose of holding this project briefing is to seek input
on SwetsNet's current design and elicit suggestions
for further development from interested CNI
members such as librarians, publishers, and IT managers.
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Community-based, WWW
Information Resources
Robert Ubell
President, BioMedNet
Acting Chief Executive Officer, ChemWeb
Paul Lomax
Manager, Information Systems
Specialty Labs
Dorothy Solbrig
Librarian
Harvard University
Mark Tesoriero
Market Research Director
BioMedNet
The session will bring together academic and
industrial librarians to discuss present experiences and
future possibilities for community-based
information services such as BioMedNet and ChemWeb (two
new community-based WWW clubs for scientists,
physicians, researchers, and engineers). The
presentation includes information about the various features
available through BioMedNet and ChemWeb, including more than 60 full-text periodicals, making it the
largest full-text scientific Website in the world;
methods by which students and faculty are presently
making use of community-based information systems and
how they may be used in the future; and methods by which industrial laboratories provide their research staff
with on-line resources now and how industry-based
librarians anticipate employing such services in the future.
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