Rob Spindler
University Archivist and Head, Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Arizona State University
This session will provide a review of the work and recommendations of the Arizona State University Task Force on Electronic Theses and …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2002 Membership Meeting
December 5-6, 2002
San Antonio, TX
Academic Data Research Services Alliance: Bridging the Gap between Data and Discovery
Denise Stephens
Associate University Librarian for Public Services
Syracuse University
Beth Forrest Warner
Director, Digital Library Initiatives
University of Kansas
Numeric and spatial data is created, purchased, and stored by various units in …
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The Afterlives of Courses on the Network: Information Management Issues for Learning Management Systems
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
The large-scale deployment of learning management systems (LMS) throughout higher education in recent years raises far-reaching questions that have yet to be defined or addressed …
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Building a Large Digital Collection for Remote Use
Barbara Taranto
Director, Digital Library Program
The New York Public Library, Research Libraries
As libraries and cultural institutions consolidate and continue to increase their digital activities and build new digital collections, the issues of …
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Digital Collection Cross-Server Sharing: A New Integrated Model and Technology for Building and Accessing Digital Libraries at Multiple Locations in Utah
Kenning Arlitsch
Head of Digital Technologies
University of Utah
Greg Zick
President
DiMeMa, Inc.
The Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) comprises the 15 college and university libraries in the state of Utah. Earlier this year the UALC …
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The Digital Library Federation: An Update
David Seaman
Director
Digital Library Federation
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a pioneer in the use of electronic information technologies to extend library collections and services. Operating under the administration of the Council on …
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Digital Rights Management in Research and Education
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Mairead Martin
Director, Advanced Internet Technologies
University of Tennessee
In September 2002 several organizations, including CNI, sponsored an NSF Middleware Initiative …
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EAD Harvesting for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word
Nancy Fleck
Head of Technical Services
Michigan State University
Michael Seadle
Head of Digital and Multimedia Center
Michigan State University
The library portion ofthe Digital Library Initiative (Phase 2) National Gallery of the Spoken Word …
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E-Learning and the Digital Library: A Report on Collaboration between IMS and OKI
Steve Griffin
Chief Operating Officer
IMLS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Jeff Merriman
Project Leader, OKI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) and MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) are …
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Image Retrieval Benchmark Database: A Report on a CLIR/CNI Exploration
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
The rapid increase in the quantity of visual materials in digital libraries--supported by significant advances in digital imaging technologies--has not been accompanied by a …
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Implementing FRBR on Large Databases
Thomas Hickey
Chief Scientist
OCLC Research
Diane Vizine-Goetz
Consulting Research Scientist
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC is investigating how best to implement IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records …
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Implications of Improved Security for Networked Information
Dan Updegrove
Security Task Force Co-Chair and Vice President for Information Technology
University of Texas at Austin
Steve Worona
Director of Policy and Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE
The security of computers and networks is critical to ensure …
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Institutional Repositories Part One: Project Overviews and Organizational Issues
Joseph Branin
Director of Libraries
Ohio State University
MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thornton Staples
Director of Research and Development, Alderman Library
University of …
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Institutional Repositories Part Two: Functional Requirements and Technical Issues
Joseph Branin
Director of Libraries
Ohio State University
MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thornton Staples
Director of Research and Development, Alderman Library
University of …
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JSTOR’s New Initiative to Archive Electronic Journals
Eileen Gifford Fenton
Director of Production
JSTOR
Kevin M. Guthrie
President
JSTOR
The academic and publishing communities have moved into the 21st century with ever-increasing reliance on digital content, but methods for preserving this …
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Learning Management Systems: Integrating Information Resources
Patricia Albanese Pitkin
CIO and Director of LITS
Mt. Holyoke College
Susan Gibbons
Director, Digital Library Initiatives
University of Rochester
John Ockerbloom
Digital Library Architect and Planner
University of Pennsylvania
Learning …
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The Million Book Digitization Project with India and China
Gloriana St. Clair
University Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University
The vision of the Million Book Project is to scan a million books to make these materials available worldwide on the Web. One commentator noted that "In the end, this will be …
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A Model Digital Library of 3D Data: A Progress Report
Jeremy Rowe
Head, Media Development
Arizona State University
This presentation updates progress and new developments in the integrated system for storage, archiving, sketch-based query and retrieval system of three-dimensional (3D) objects developed …
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Next Generation Library Tutorials for the Academic Setting
Anne Graham
Senior Computer Specialist
University of Washington
John Holmes
UWILL Coordinator
University of Washington
The University of Washington Libraries is currently creating a next-generation series of Web-based tools for teaching …
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The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Project
Dan Atkins
Director, Alliance for Community Technology
University of Michigan
In 2001 the National Science Foundation established an Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure, and charged the members with three broad goals:
Evaluating the …
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The Open URL Standard
Tony Hammond
Architect, Linking & Structures
Advanced Technology Group
Elsevier Science
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eric Van de Velde
Director of Library Information …
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An Overview of the Internet Scout Project and the Scout Portal Toolkit
Edward Almasy
Technical Director
Internet Scout Project
Rachael Bower
Director
Internet Scout Project
The Internet Scout Project, located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focuses on developing better tools and services for finding, …
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A Resource Discovery Service for the Library of Texas: Requirements, Architecture, and Interoperability Testing
William E. Moen
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
University of North Texas
Kathleen R. Murray
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
University of North Texas
In the past several years, a number of states have initiated virtual library projects …
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Security Issues for Licensed Resources
Kevin Guthrie
President
JSTOR
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
CNI members include many institutions that license a wide array of content for their communities, and many of our members also produce licensed …
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The Shibboleth Approach to Web Access for Digital Content Becomes a Reality
David Millman
Director, Research & Development, Academic Information Systems
Columbia University
Shibboleth, a project of Internet2/MACE, is a set of architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to …
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Specialized OAI Service Providers: Sheet Music Harvester–A Work in Progress
Kristine Brancolini
Director, Digital Library Program
Indiana University
Stephen Davison
Music Librarian, Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Curtis Fornadley
Digital Library Lead Programmer
University of California, Los …
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Today’s Web for Tomorrow’s Generation: Web Preservation at the Library of Congress
Gina Jones
Digital Conversion Specialist
Library of Congress
An ever-increasing amount of the world's cultural and intellectual output is presently created in digital formats and does not exist in any physical form. Such materials are colloquially …
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Transformative Assessment in the Educational Process
Colleen Carmean
Director of Consulting Services for Information Technology
Arizona State University West and EDUCAUSE NLII Fellow
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Robin Zuniga
Associate Director, …
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The UT Digital Knowledge Gateway
Mark McFarland
Assistant Director, University Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel A. Updegrove
Vice President for Information Technology
The University of Texas at Austin
In March 2002, University of Texas President Larry …
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A Web Service for Transforming Metadata Schemas
Carol Jean Godby
Consulting Research Scientist
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC is interested in facilitating the exchange of information in metadata records that have been encoded in formats commonly used in digital library projects, …
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Weaving Meaning: Overview of the Semantic Web and the Potential for Library Leadership
Eric Miller
W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
World Wide Web Consortium
The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web designed to support machine readable data as well as human readable material. The semantic web defines a set of standardized …
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World Health Grid
Charles Henry
Vice President and CIO
Rice University
Geneva Henry
Executive Director, The Connexions Project
Executive Director, Digital Library Initiative
Rice University
Twenty-seven thousand children aged five and under die from preventable …
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XML Markup of Taxonomic Literature
John Aubry
Database Manager
American Museum of Natural History
Applications based on XML markup offer promising means of making new uses of the information stored in the taxonomic literature. Publications can be linked to specimen collections. …
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