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.


Z39.50 Access to Web Searching

Barcelona II

Cliff Lynch
Director, Library Automation
University of California

Ray Denenberg
Senior Network Engineer
Library of Congress

Ralph LeVan
Senior Computing Analyst
OCLC

Terry Noreault
Director, Office of Research
OCLC

A new profile, Simple Distributed Searching and Ranked Retrieval, has been defined for Z39.50. This profile represents an open protocol to allow Web type searching by clients. The panel will discuss the need for the profile and its underlying principles.

Assessing the Academic Networked Environment:
A New CNI Initiative

Barcelona I

Charles McClure
Distinguished Professor
Syracuse University

Christopher Peebles
Associate Vice President
Indiana University

Earlier this year CNI published Assessing the Academic Networked Environment: Strategies and Options, developed by Charles McClure and Cynthia Lopata of Syracuse University with funding from the United States Department of Education. This manual provides a solid base of theory and practice to use in beginning to assess the networked information environments of individual research and education institutions and organizations. CNI is now formulating a project to provide a framework for testing these measures and for refining definitions and suggestions for their implementation. CNI will coordinate the work of ten academic institutional teams who will field test the measures and user survey components of the manual, and produce a handbook that will assist institutions in using the manual. In addition to the face-to-face interactions at three workshops and a number of conferences over the course of the next year, project communications will take place electronically through email, discussion lists, and a Web site, all managed by CNI. This project briefing will cover the recently issued Call for statements of interest and experience for this new initiative, and will brainstorm some of the specific issues and questions to be addressed by it.

Strategic Planning and Organization for Enterprise-Wide Information Systems:
The University Experience

DaVinci II and III

Arnold Hirshon
Vice Provost for Information Resources
Lehigh University

Roy Gruver
Group Leader, Technology Management Services
Lehigh University

During the past year, Lehigh University merged its computing, telecommunications, library and media services under Information Resources. A strategic planning process resulted in a new organizational structure that is highly integrated, client-services based, and positions the organization to meet the University's strategic goals. One major goal is the completion of the Student, Advancement, Financial, and Human Resource Information Systems (SAFHARIS) project. A major premise of the project is that enterprise-wide information has strategic institutional importance for improving client services and operational effectiveness, and that state-of-the-art technology can be a major enabler in this process.

Getty-Research Libraries Group
Distributed Database Initiative (DDI)

Cervantes

Joseph A. Busch
Program Manager
Getty Information Institute

Katharine Martinez
Member Services
The Research Libraries Group, Inc.

This briefing session will include information about the Getty-RLG Distributed Database Initiative that will enable remote data entry and decentralized editorial functions, and allow the Institute's user communities to become active partners in developing the information resources in which they have a stake. In March 1996, the Information Institute and the Research Libraries Group embarked on a partnership to combine the Getty art research databases with RLG's network infrastructure. Getty-RLG working groups are implementing pilot projects (1) analytics of the contents of published materials with the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA); (2) art object documentation with the Provenance Index; and (3) vocabulary and authority file coordination across art and culture research databases.

Unified Information Access System:
A Project of the California State University

Rubens

Gordon Smith
Senior Associate, Information Technology Policy & Analysis
California State University Office of the Chancellor

Deborah Masters
University Librarian
San Francisco State University

Evan Reader
Director, Software & Electronic Information Resources
California State University Office of the Chancellor

The Unified Information Access System is a system-wide project of the California State University designed to create a single, easy to use, integrated, and coherent computer-based user interface which provides access to the print resources in CSU and other libraries; print resources described in bibliographic/abstract databases; digital resources, including text, image, video, and multi-media; and Internet-based resources including those on the World Wide Web.
Handout provided at the meeting

JSTOR: Building the
Electronic Journal Library

Sienna I

Richard De Gennaro
Senior Library Advisor
JSTOR

Originally a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR is now an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. JSTOR's initial objective is to develop a trusted archive of core scholarly journal literature, with an emphasis on the retrospective conversion of the entire backfiles of key journals.

In pursuing its mission, JSTOR is taking a system-wide approach, taking into account the needs of those involved in the field of scholarly communication: libraries, publishers, and individual scholars and students. JSTOR will contain the complete runs of 100 core journals in the humanities and social sciences within three years.

On January 1, 1997, the first 25 of these journals will be accessible on the Internet to participants. The JSTOR database consists of digitized page images, along with the optically scanned text and tables of contents which serve as indexes.

University of Virginia Library to Explore
Internet Future of Rare Books

Sienna II

David Seaman
Coordinator, Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia

The economics of electronic versions of rare books is the subject of a two-year study being undertaken by the University of Virginia Library. Sponsored by a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project will compare usage and costs between electronic texts and original printed editions of rare early American fiction. A major goal of the project will be to determine if rare research materials can be made available at a reasonable cost on the Web.
Handout provided at the meeting

Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment
in the United States and Australia

Corintia (2nd floor)

Joan Cheverie
Head, Government Documents Department, Georgetown University and
Visiting Program Officer, Coalition for Networked Information

Renato Iannella
Research Data Network CRC
DSTC Pty Ltd., Australia

With the increasing use and availability of information technologies, there has been a significant change in how federal agencies disseminate government information. This change is resulting in new dissemination mechanisms, as well as new and changing user needs and expectations. As a result, the responsibilities and capacities of institutions that facilitate the flow of federal information to academic and civic communities need to be rethought in this shifting environment. This session will update attendees on the Coalition's white paper, Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment. This paper will guide higher education institutions and others in the development of strategies for providing access to federal information by their constituencies using the powerful and rapidly expanding global information infrastructure.

Also included will be an Australian perspective on Government Networked Information.
Handout provided at the meeting

On Demand Publishing
in the Humanities

DaVinci I

Phil Sykes
Liverpool John Moores University

On Demand Publishing in the Humanities, a project based at Liverpool John Moores University, forms part of the United Kingdom's Electronic Libraries Program. Its aim is to devise a cheap and cheerful method of networking electronic texts, which can be copied simply and easily by other institutions. Good progress has been made in developing an approach which does not require heavy investment in project-specific software and hardware (the project materials are mounted directly on Netscape with no underlying database software). Problems remain in two principal areas: achieving fair and affordable agreements with publishers; and the costs of digitizing printed originals.
Handout provided at the meeting

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