Planning and cooperation on the part of three major campus units, along with special funding and support, introduced new, accessible and convenient areas for students to use public access computers replacing older lab facilties on campus in time for fall 1998 opening. New equipment, software installation, authentication, wiring, port installation, furniture, carpeting and painting were all implemented in three distinct areas within two physical libraries along with special services to aid in training, troubleshooting and instruction. A Help Center, staffed by two librarians and a supervising librarian, offer one-on-one instruction as needed, drop-in service, and scheduled short workshops in a wide variety of computer activities ranging from using the library catalog, how to do e-mail, and a number of software applications. Extended hours are a feature of two of the areas with one location open 24 hours a day and the other until 2:00 am. CIT (Computing and Information Technology) provides student consultants and a supervisor to deal with technical issues and computer-related questions in the areas. Furniture was selected to promote students working together conveniently on joint projects in the computer areas and in adjacent study sections of the "Cybraries". This project is an important first step in creating the atmosphere and program for the University at Buffalo to initiate a computer access requirement for all entering freshmen in fall 1999.

This session provides a forum for discussion of the challenges of access management in university settings, which are framed and addressed in the CNI White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources. While the first draft of the White Paper was being prepared, the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop to develop formal requirements for more sophisticated and versatile systems of authorization than those in common use in research libraries today. The workshop convened expert practioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and identified design principles and research topics for the development of access management systems. Caroline Arms prepared the report of the workshop (see the Executive Summary in the handouts) and will present the results in this session. In addition, David Millman and Ariel Glenn of Columbia University and Joan Gargano of the California Digital Lbrary will discuss ongoing efforts in their institutions to design and develop access management systems. Millman and Glenn will describe several architectural models for such cross- organizational access management services now under development at Columbia University. Gargano, who is the chair of the University-wide Authentication Workgroup in the University of California, will describe the current architecture for authentication and authorization systems for the University of California campuses, projects underway based upon this architecture and issues which are the highest priority for the workgroup to resolve.

The ATHENS Access Management System was designed to provide a unified authorization and authentication service for electronic services in the UK academic community. The service has now been in use for over one year and the briefing will provide an update on the experiences of introducing and developing this service. It will also describe how the service is expected to develop in future and how it has been deployed elsewhere, both in academic environments and in the commercial sector.

On September 14, 1998, the University of Washington Libraries released its new Information Gateway, a result of a 9-month effort to design and format a new web site based on user needs and functions rather than the Libraries administrative structure. Throughout the prototyping, development, and implementation of the Information Gateway, the Libraries systematically employed usability testing for continual inclusion of faculty, student and staff input. This project briefing features test designs developed in consultation with campus usability experts, a demonstration of how results influenced product design, a checklist for conducting usability testing with limited resources and expertise, and lessons learned.

Librarians and publishers face a world of possible solutions to the question of how to give researchers access to authoritative content. The next generation of bibliographic reference resources will (1) be multi- disciplinary in scope, (2) index heterogeneous sources of content, and (3) support access to digital as well as non-digital resources. This session reviews the limitations of the current approaches to developing digital collections and suggests that the next generation of digital libraries will integrate holdings information, document delivery, electronic, secondary, and primary documents into a single, thematically unified multi-disciplinary resource, accessible via the web.

In September 1997, the University of California established a tenth research library, the California Digital Library (CDL), to serve its nine campuses and eventually, all citizens of the state. Viewed as a collaborative venture of UC's nine campuses, this 'co- library' is the result of 3 years of intensive planning. This new virtual library will 'open its doors' in January 1999, integrating licensed content, the Melvyl system On-Line Archive of California, and services to facilitate sharing among the UC campuses. The panel will discuss the vision for the CDL, its initial release including design and design process, its unique organizational structure as a co-library, and its experience in collection building through licensing, digitization, technology transfer, and data base development.

The CIC Virtual Electronic Library links the online public access catalogs of the CIC university libraries using Z39.50, provides a web-based patron interface, and allows patrons to initiate their own requests for information. This update will report on the project status, including the results of a large scale Z39.50 assessment recently completed by the consortium, as well as a description of the "Phase II" implementation and system design. The Phase II deployment will manage interlibrary loan traffic between the CIC member libraries, other libraries outside the CIC, national bibliographic systems, and commercial document suppliers. The software -- developed on a client/server architecture, and supporting the ISO10160/161 protocol -- will automate patron authentication; the initiation, processing, and tracking of requests; and will report on the call number, shelf location, and availability of any item at the point of request. Additional development will enable "remote circulation" of items, copyright tracking, financial transactions for fee-based services, and statistical reporting.

The CIMI Dublin Core (DC) testbed is finishing Phase 1 of a project to test the DC for use in museums. In Phase 1 from May - Oct 98 18 CIMI members from 8 countries negotiated consensus on the use of the 15 unqualified DC elements for describing art, cultural, and natural history items and collections. Over 300,000 records were created along with a use guide.

This session will report on the outcomes and challenges of using DC for museums, lessons learned, and experiences of the participants.

Engineers and librarians team up to enable access to visual resources for faculty, students and citizens alike. CONTENT has applications across a wide range of industries including education, photohouses, museums, libraries, healthcare, newsrooms, etc. It is currently being used for collections of historical photographs, paintings, sports videos, medical images and library materials.

The CORC project is a major research effort at OCLC to explore the cooperative development and maintenance of a database of Internet accessible resources. OCLC is also developing technologies to automatically create portal pages which integrate Internet resources with their local collections. These tools will enable each library to specify selection criteria for the creation of the pages so that the pages will meet the unique needs of their patrons. This project will eventually involve the participation of over 100 libraries. Volunteers are being solicited.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), has developed and is accepting submissions for a database of digital initiative projects taking place in or involving libraries. The objective of the ARL Digital Initiatives Database is to gather information about digital projects of all sizes and scope together in one place. Representation of a wide range of projects will identify knowledge and technical skills within the library community and promote information sharing.

This session will update the attendees on the International DOI Foundation, their contract with the International ISBN Agency for maintenance of the DOI Foundation, system, the identifier itself and related metadata. Activities in Europe and the U.S. have brought together individuals concerned with the identifier itself, as well as the discovery and rights- related metadata required as final decisions on syntax and metadata are reached.

Albert Simmonds will provide an overview of the ISBN Agency arrangements with the Foundation and details on how the system will run; Godfrey Rust will highlight several international initiatives related to the metadata considerations.

As part of its WWW-based Information Gateway, the University of Washington Libraries has developed a Digital Registry. The Digital Registry is a data store containing metadata for licensed electronic resources purchased by the Libraries and for other electronic resources selected by Libraries' subject selectors. Records are maintained in the Libraries INNOPAC system and exported to the Registry, using USMARC as a record transfer syntax. In its current production implementation, the Registry is searchable directly by the end user and is used to drive HTML writers that generate subject pages from multiple classification schemes and from customized resource lists. Additionally, Registry data is used in the "My Gateway" customized profiles that users can create. A prototype extension of the Registry that includes additional data elements to facilitate linking to local holdings information and to full text is under development.

This project briefing will cover the design rationale and initial implementation of the Digital Registry and our experience with database-generated HTML pages. We will also present an overview of the prototype extensions and the experimental linking architecture they are designed to support.

Join Janet Murray for further discussion of the issues she raised in her opening plenary presentation.

On September 14, 1998, the University of Washington The Sixth Dublin Core Workshop, held in Washington DC November 2-4 led to the initiation of formal procedures for reporting and approving Dublin Core decisions (and ultimately issuing versions of the Dublin Core standard) and to a work plan for 1999. It identified a number of areas in which further clarification needs to occur, especially in the requirements for "qualified" Dublin Core. In this context, discussions prior to, during and following the meeting identified a semantic framework and a syntactic framework for resolving differences between the Dublin Core and the metadata required by the rights holding community which also seeks to create metadata for discovery. It is hoped that in the coming year, the requirements of several metadata communities can be mapped to these semantic and syntactic frameworks to more precisely specify their overlaps and differences.

In this session, Stu Weibel will report on DC6 and the 1999 Dublin Core work plan. The other speakers will address the ways in which the IFLA Functional Requirements for the Bibliographic Record (FRBR) and the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) are being used to explore, clarify, and resolve areas of apparent differences between metadata creating communities. The commitment to seek common ground between DC and INDECS by modeling requirements in the semantics suggested by the FRBR and the syntax suggested by RDF, is itself a significant achievement, and this development has already served to clarify some needs of each community. Much work by both communities remains to be done to ensure that the needs of each are met and that the common expression can be made to work.

The ARL Internet 2 Committee will stimulate a discussion with participants regarding how libraries will be involved in the evolution of Internet2 as a new high performance network environment. Questions will be posed and explored such as:

• What is the content we will need in the I2 world?

• What beyond text do libraries and their users need to access in this environment? How do we envision images, data, video, multi-media integration in such an environment?

• What are libraries doing or should they do to partner with the IT efforts on their campuses?

• What applications will be critical for use of these resources?

In the 1980s, the Research Libraries Group played a major role in developing the online format for cataloging archival and mixed collections, resulting in a database that today is approaching half a million descriptive records of archival collections and items. Now, RLG has integrated access to this resource with use of a growing range of online finding aids -- the detailed collection guides or inventories that reveal where a collection came from, how it is arranged, and what it contains. And both the catalog records and detailed collection guides can provide a further resource: a link to digitized archival materials themselves. In this presentation RLG describes its recent work to improve access to these primary sources, including an in-depth look at RLG's Archival Resources service.

Now that the Gates Library Foundation has been actively working for more than a year in US public libraries, there are a number of exciting lessons learned. Many of the lessons learned are equally applicable to other types of libraries such as school libraries and university libraries. We will use this opportunity to give you an overview of our current program and highlight some of those invaluable lessons learned with respect to technology, telecommunication, and training of librarians.

The Global Information Locator Service (GILS) is designed to identify and describe information resources so as to assist searchers in obtaining the information they seek. GILS allows a high level of interoperability among disparate communities through use of international standards. This briefing will touch on the policy, standards, and technology aspects of GILS and will describe exemplar implementations in various international, national, and other fora around the world.

By deploying a Citrix Winframe Terminal Server, IUPUI has developed a service that allows patrons of our library to access CD-ROMs and a variety of applications via the Internet. Initially laptop users in the building could access the system, followed by access to users throughout the campus and via the dial-in modem pools. Soon we will offer unlimited access across the Internet after user authentication. This is probably the only way currently available to allow full access to CD-ROM database searches and application usage via the Internet without making substantial changes to a desktop device. The accessing system can be Windows, Mac, DOS, or Unix based, on a platform that can be much less powerful than the platform actually needed to run the application. The program has been successful and has also been a technical challenge.

The mission of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development's Internet2 project is to accelerate the next stage of Internet development in academia. One approach to this mission is the development of new networking technologies that are not available on the commodity Internet, such as Quality of Service connections across the wide area network. Another approach, taken by the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure project (I2-DSI) is to deploy a system of replicated servers around the country and the globe and to develop intelligent resolution mechanisms which enable users to connect with the replica nearest to them at the high performance offered by local networks. The I2-DSI strategy enables local infrastructure to transparently support globally available high pereformance services. Central to this replication strategy is the development of "channels": collections of content which can be transparently delivered to end user communities at a chosen cost/performance point through a flexible, policy-based application of resources.

Since the last CNI meeting, the Internet2 Project has launched several new projects, including the Internet2 Middleware Initiative, the I2-Digital Video Network, the I2-Distributed Storage Initiative, the Q-Bone (a quality of service testbed), and the Abilene network. This talk provides an overview of each of these new initiatives and a general status update for the Internet2 Project. We will also discuss opportunities for CNI / I2 cooperation on digital library applications in 1999, including middleware testbeds (e.g., authentication and authorization) and demonstrations.

Recently the Internet Scout Project released a call for collaborators for a new research initiative, the Isaac Network, which is co-sponsored by CNI. The Isaac Network links together human-mediated, highly authoritative collections of Internet resources from content providers who have developed metadata for the resources. Using the latest directory protocols and the Dublin Core metadata set, the Isaac Network provides a search interface to the distributed collections of metadata. The overall goal is to allow users to submit a single query to search geographically distributed and independently maintained metadata collections and to return the combined results to the user. During the session the Issac Network will be described, the collaborator criteria will be discussed, and the software and content support provided to collaborators by the Internet Scout Project will be detailed. Providers of high-quality content are encouraged to join the discussion as potential collaborators in the network's development.

The Making of America II (MoA II) is a project that is investigating best practices and community standards for creating and encoding digital objects from archives (e.g., photographs, diaries, correspondence, etc.). As of July 1st, the MoA II entered the production phase with funding provided by the NEH. Since the last CNI meeting, the project has completed the Moa II White Paper, which was commissioned by the Digital Library Federation during the planning phase of this effort.

In addition, the first meeting of the Moa II collaborators was held at New York Public Library in late September, 1998. In this meeting, the participants reviewed digitization management software that was developed to capture Moa II metadata. This metadata, recorded during the image and text conversion workflow, will be stored in a database from which programs will run to automatically create fully encoded Moa II objects. The participants also discussed the first draft of the SGML DTD that will be used as a transfer encoding syntax for Moa II objects. Finally, the participants also discussed the features MoA II testbed tools would need to support, as well as the project evaluation.

This CNI Project Briefing will explore the progress made to date in more detail. The MoA II White Paper and further information on the project can be found at: <http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/moa2/>

The NDLTD project at Virgina Tech is entering its third year of funding by FIPSE. At this time over 1200 ETDs have been submitted by Virginia Tech students, many of whom have attended our ETD training workshops or used our ETD project WEB pages <http://www.ndltd.org/>. The Virginia Tech ETD team has made presentations to numerous institutions and conferences, and several institutions have made visits to Blacksburg. Interest in the ETD project continues to grow with over 40 US and international institutions now having joined the project. Several of these institutions have vigorous pilot projects and are accepting ETDs from their students. Even so, three issues continue to concern students and faculty and to deter prospective NDLTD members. These are plagiarism, relations with publishers, and long term archiving of electronic documents. Accomodations or solutions to these issues are among the next steps for widespread acceptance of ETDs by universities. Discussion will focus on these topics and others of interest to the audience.

This briefing provides an overview of EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) and its emphasis on adapting new technology to reduce costs, increase access, and enhance quality. It will describe progress to date including efforts to define academic productivity, reengineer instruction, create tools for distributed learning, and stimulate a market for collegiate instructional software.

The briefing will also cover a particular NLII project, the Instructional Management Systems (IMS) project, a cooperative of academic, commercial and government organizations which is designing the Internet architecture for learning. These technical standards will facilitate the growth and viability of learning on the Internet through assuring interoperability of instructional systems and learning content.

COS, Inc. is developing a web-based Collaborative Authoring Platform (CAP) for scientific meeting abstracts. The new, open online system allows societies to manage their entire meeting program, from abstract submission, through peer review, to publication - on the WWW. The Entomological Society of America used the COS system to manage their annual meeting this year. The CAP for Scientific Meeting Abstracts enables researchers to submit abstracts to societies on the Web, drafting the content directly in an online form or cutting and pasting it from a word processing program. Because the new system uses the society's membership database as the basis for access management, it can automatically populate itself with information about submitting author(s) who are members. The system assigns a unique ID number to each abstract, then stores it in a centralized relational database enabling fellow authors to review and/or contribute to the abstract- in-process during multiple sessions.

Once submitted, the secure review functionality of the system is activated. Finally, program committees and reviewers can organize and assign abstracts, automatically create the schedule, publish the meeting on the Web, or output the file for printing. Scientists planning to attend can search the database, and prepare personalized itineraries online.

The new system's advanced mechanisms for distrbuted access and secure review lay the groundwork for the next evolution of online collaboration: peer review of full-text scientific and scholarly journal content.

Although commercial publication of web material without permission is illegal, what about linking to sites that may contain illicitly reproduced material? Does Fair Use play into this scenario? And, inevitably, how will the provisions of the newly passed Digital Millennium Copyright Act affect our use of online materials?

From Edupage, 27 September 1998:
CAN LINKING MAKE YOU LIABLE?

"If your Web site links to a site that links to a third site and the third site contains illegal reproductions of copyrighted material, can you be sued for damages? So far, the answer is no, because Los Angeles Federal District Court Judge Manuel A. Real dismissed one of the defendants from a case brought by Hollywood glamour photographer Gary Bernstein, charging that such linking is illegal. After the judge's ruling, Bernstein withdrew his lawsuit, but legal experts say the issue will come up for court review another day. Law professor Mark Lemley says that "the consequences of holding an end user liable for copyright infringement would be disturbing for the Net... It might deter surfing. It might also give some unscrupulous groups the power to suppress speech or critics."

(New York Times  25 Sep 98)            

The University of Toronto Library provides access to over 7,500 licensed and public journals and to a wide range of other electronic information resources <http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/eir/summary.cfm>. Use of these resources is primarily by people working outside of the Library. For example, more than 75% of the user of the Elsevier journals on one of the Library's servers is by people working at a distance. About 66% of the use of the Library's electronic information resources server is by people outside the Library.

One of the challenges faced by the University of Toronto Library and by other libraries is how to support people working at a distance from traditional service points. The Library has initiated a project to provide interactive, web-based support for people working at a Library public access computing site far removed from reference/information staff and for people accessing the Library's information systems from one of the University's affiliated teaching hospitals.

During this project, the Library is examining:

-- the kinds of questions asked by remote users and the skills needed to answer them

-- the impact on staff resources if this service were extended to a wider population

-- how to develop an "knowledge base" out of the answers provided - ways to organize resources and information to minimize the need for questions

This project briefing will present an overview of the project and will present preliminary observations.

The SURA Video Development Initiative (ViDe) is a partnership among universities in the Southeast to develop and implement highly functional, scalable and standards-based video-on-demand and video conferencing systems for use in the higher education and research environment. Sponsored by the Southeastern Universitites Research Association (SURA), SURA ViDe is directing its efforts towards the selection and implementation of standards-based video systems to ensure a robust, widely available digital video platform, supporting both commodity Internet and Internet2 applications, in the SURA region. This project briefing will present the goals of the initiative, the progress made to date and likely next steps, and a discussion of the role such collaborations might have in enabling the sharing of multimedia resources, the development of distance learning applications, and the promotion of collaborative research.

Over 90,000 full text dissertations now reside in UMI's Web-based digital library. The complete 1.5 million citation UMI Dissertation Database can be accessed over the Web; the most recent two years (over 100,000 citations and abstracts) are available for free searching. Dissertation research from over 75 graduate institutions is featured in individual web- sites through Current Research @. And, more features are coming.

The Western Governors University started enrolling students in September 1998. What makes WGU unique? Why is it different from other distance education programs? What should librarians know about the Western Governors University?

In December 1997 WGU announced its intention to award a contract for its Central Library to the University of New Mexico. The speakers will describe the unique aspects of WGU and the management of the Central Library web site. The presentation will include a description of the Central Library's electronic resources and what "traditional" services are needed to support the WGU electronic library.