Spring 1994 Meeting of the Coalition Task Force

April 5-6, 1994Loews L’enfant Plaza Hotel
480 L’enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20024-2197

Highlights

Theme

• Advances in Networked Information Technologies.

Purposes

• To highlight some of the significant developments in networked information applications that will provide enhanced capabilities to use and manage networked information.
• To provide a framework for understanding and analyzing National Information Infrastructure (NII) developments at the national and state level.
• To provide an environment in which people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force can share experiences, visions, and plans.
• To provide an opportunity for people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force to discuss network and networked information policy issues and initiatives.
• To provide an opportunity for representatives of members of the Coalition Task Force, leaders of the Coalition working groups, members of the Coalition Steering Committee, and the Coalition CEOs to identify needs, to formulate priorities, and to evaluate results.

Plenary Sessions

• The Tuesday afternoon opening speaker will advance understanding of networks and networked information in the context of state government infrastructure and policy, using New York State as a model.
• The Wednesday morning plenary session will promote understanding of intellectual property management systems and encourage participation in their future application and development.
• The Wednesday luncheon speaker will provide an update on the priorities, plans, and activities of the Clinton Administration’s Information Policy Committee of the Information Infrastructure Task Force.
• The closing plenary session will promote understanding of Internet audio/video technologies and encourage participation in their future development and application.

Project Briefings, Working Group Meetings, and Synergy Sessions

• Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities will provide opportunities for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.

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Schedule for Tuesday, April 5, 1994

12:00 pm — Registration and Refreshments (Ballroom Foyer)

• • Cold drinks and light refreshments will be available.

1:00 pm — Welcome and Overview (Ballroom)

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will call the Meeting to order and make opening remarks and announcements.

1:15 pm — Opening Speaker (Ballroom)

Robert B. Adams, Commissioner, New York State Office of General Services, will present his views on why networks and networked information resources and services are excellent targets for state government initiatives and investments, and will share his experience with planning and managing such initiatives and investments.

2:00 pm — Update on the Federal Scene (Ballroom)

Robert Gillespie, Principal, Robert Gillespie Associates and HELCIIP, will survey the landscape of Administration and Congressional plans and activities pertaining to the telecommunications policy reform in general and the National Informative Infrastructure (NII) initiative in particular.

2:30 pm — Break (Ballroom Foyer and Second Floor)

2:45 pm — Working Group Meetings, Project Briefings, and Synergy Sessions

Working Group on Legislation, Codes, Policies, and Practices (Ballroom D)

Richard G. Akeroyd, Jr., State Librarian, Connecticut State Library

Peter S. Graham, University Librarian for Technical and Networked Information Services, Rutgers University

This session will focus on state and local decision making in response to the changing federal regulatory environment. The format of the meeting will be an open discussion of the issues raised by the topic with a focus on assisting Coalition membership in their own planning and decision-making processes. Ideally the discussion will elicit ideas and suggestions which will help state and local decision makers in assuring they will be prepared to connect to and fully participate in the NII as it emerges and develops. Robert Adams and Robert Gillespie will be available to answer questions emerging from the opening plenary session.

University Presses in the Networked Information Environment (Monet I)

Peter Grenquist, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses

Colin Day, President, Association of American University Presses, and Director, University of Michigan Press

Michael Eleey, Associate Vice Provost, Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania

Janet Fisher, Journals Manager, MIT Press

Lisa Freeman, Director, University of Minnesota Press

Sue Lewis, Online Projects Manager, Johns Hopkins University Press

John Samples, Director, Georgetown University Press

Jay Starratt, Director of Technical and Automation Services, Southern Illinois University

Jane Ellen Long, Information Systems Manager, University of California Press

Tamara Miller, Head of Systems, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thirteen institutions are participating in an initiative sponsored by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and the Coalition to facilitate university presses in their efforts to develop networked information resources and services, to improve the infrastructure for such resources and services, and to experiment with mechanisms for production, distribution, and utilization of scholarly and scientific materials in networks. This session will include reports on the plans and progress of a number of participants in the initiative.

The Computer Science Technical Reports Project (cs-tr): A Networked Electronic Library (Monet II)

John Garrett, Director of Information Resources, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Vicky Reich, Stanford University

Greg Anderson, Associate Director, Systems and Planning, Libraries, MIT

Marilyn McMillan, Director, Information Systems Planning, MIT

William Arms, Vice President for Computing Services, Carnegie Mellon University

Supported by ARPA, the Computer Science Technical Reports (cs-tr) project is building a system of networked distributed libraries of technical reports and related materials at five leading universities, and is supporting advanced research on major issues in digital library design, construction, and implementation. The session will focus on progress to date at the participating universities, and the identification of issues which will be emphasized as the project continues.

Data Administration in a Distributed Computing Environment: The Role of Information Policy (Monet III)

Gerry Bernbom, Assistant Director for Data Administration,Indiana University

The goals of data administration in an information organization are to:

• help manage a shared data environment;
• enable responsive access to organizational information resources;
• promote the accuracy, integrity, authenticity, and intelligibility of data; and,
• develop policies and methods that support these goals.

Distributed technology presents challenges of fragmentation, uncontrolled replication, loss of quality through dissociation of data use from data source, and others. Data administration can be an effective tool in maintaining information quality in a rapidly distributed world. This session will discuss the role of information policy as the foundation for an effective program of data administration, addressing both documented policy statements and policy-making structures. The discussion will be based on the data adminstration experiences at Indiana University.

Agricultural Network Information Center (AgNIC) (Monet IV)

Richard Thompson, Assistant to the Associate Director for Automation, National Agricultural Library

Linda Hutchinson, AgNIC Coordinator, EXNET.IP Training Support, Iowa State University

George Strawn, Director, Computation Center, Iowa State University

Pamela J.Q. Andre, Acting Director, National Agricultural Library

The National Agricultural Library, Iowa State University, Cornell University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service are collaborating on the development of a discipline-oriented Network Information Center (NIC) that will deal with agriculture and related sciences. An important hallmark of the envisioned AgNIC is that its function and responsibilities will be distributed among several geographically disparate institutions. Its activities will be coordinated through the capabilities provided by the Internet. The session will provide an overview of the AgNIC vision and an Iowa State University proposal to obtain funding for a prototype pilot project.

The NIST Virtual Library Program (Renoir)

Paul Vassallo, Director, Office of Information Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Lawrence A. Welch, Manager of Office Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

The goal of the NIST Virtual Library Program is to bring to the NIST staff member’s desktop workstation the information needed to perform assigned responsibilities. The Electronic Document Interchange Project serves as the first step to achieve this goal by improving the ability of NIST staff to interchange documents (defined as communication items that are viewable or printable) across software platforms.

The Virtual Slide Library: Should We Build It? (Degas)

Paul Gherman, Director of Libraries, Kenyon College

David Bearman, Archives and Museum Informatics

There is a great deal of discussion concerning image technology as applied to images of text. The possibility exists to build the virtual slide collection of art, architecture, archaeology, and other graphic images for use in the classroom on the net. This session will discuss current projects, standards, copyright issues, and database design neccessary to build the virtual slide collection.

Libraries and Environmental Information Centers in Central Eastern Europe: Consortium Cooperative Agreement (Montcalm)

Czeslaw Jan Grycz, The Wladyslaw Poniecki Foundation, Inc.

Barbara Rodes, World Wildlife Fund

An environmental training project (ETP) has been funded by the US Agency for International Development as a 5 year cooperative agreement with a consortium headed by the University of Minnesota. Other members of the consortium include the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Hazardous Materials Research, The Institute for Sustainable Communities, and the World Wildlife Fund. This cooperative agreement and the various projects that will be executed in the target countries of Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Bulgaria, and Romania span the period of 1992-1995.

A goal of the training project is to improve the capacity of state and private businesses, local and regional governments, non-governmental organizations and universities to manage important environmental issues in an integrated way. The project will develop programs to increase communication among these various sectors.

Information resources, libraries, and national as well as international network links are all integral to communication of environmental information. Therefore, one specific element or focus of the over-all project emphasizes the identification and collection of environmental information as well as provisions for its access.

3:30 pm — Break (Ballroom Foyer and Second Floor)

3:45 pm — Working Group Meetings, Project Briefings, and Synergy Sessions

Working Group on Legislation, Codes, Policies, and Practices (Ballroom D)

• • Continuation of the session that began at 2:45 pm.

Recent Development in the NCSA Mosaic Environment: The Present and the Future (Monet I)

Joseph Hardin, Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Software Development Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

NCSA Mosaic is a window on the world of online information, bringing the most advanced multimedia, networked information resources to any user’s fingertips. As a distributed hypermedia browser designed for information discovery and retrieval, NCSA Mosaic provides a unified interface to the diverse protocols, data formats, and information archives used on the Internet.

Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) (Monet II)

Barbara Von Wahlde, Associate Vice President for University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo

Richard Lesniak, Director, Academic Computing Services, State University of New York at Buffalo

Many colleges and universities have set up or are planning to offer a Campus Wide Information System (CWIS). Recently, ARL Library Directors engaged in a lively discussion on their Internet discussion forum raising issues, sharing plans and describing the collaborative efforts required on campus to implement a CWIS. The University at Buffalo will share local planning for SUNY Buffalo’s “Wings,” summarize responses from the ARL Internet discussion forum and provide an opportunity for others interested in a CWIS to cover plans, questions, successes and problems associated with implementation. Examples of such issues are: who coordinates the information content; where does CWIS administration report; how is the information gathered and updated; and, what are the resources needed to implement a CWIS?

The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Initiative (Monet III)

Charles E. McClure, Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

William E. Moen, Syracuse University

Eliot Christian, Information Services Division, U.S. Geological Survey

Kevin Oliveau, WAIS, Inc.

Ralph Levan, Senior Consulting Analyst, Online Computer Library Center

David Kay, Director, Search Client Software, TRW Business Intelligence Systems

The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) initiative will spur the development of an agency-based, network-accessible locator service to assist the public in identifying and locating publicly available Federal information resources. This session provides an overview of the GILS initiative and the status of an associated research project, “Expanding Research and Development on the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 Search and Retrieval Standard.” The research project is developing an application profile for ANSI/NISO Z39.50, The American National Standard Information Retrieval Application Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Open Systems Interconnection, for use in the GILS. The GILS Profile specifies how Z39.50 will be used in interoperable implementations of GILS locators. In addition, the session will include a discussion of the readiness of agencies to develop GILS locators and vendors to develop implementations of the GILS Profile.

Working Group on Modernization of Scholarly Publishing (Monet IV)

Judith Turner, Director of Electronic Services, Chronicle of Higher Education

James F. Williams, II, Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussion of the draft paper on advertising on the Internet, which is based on the ongoing “cni-modernization” list. The paper attempts to identify different types of Internet advertising, explain them, and come up with some brief but important recommendations to current and potential advertisers that will help them design advertising that best meets the needs of Internet users and advertisers themselves. Prerequisite: reading and being ready to comment on the draft paper, or at least the handout.

Copyright Implications of Electronic Reserves (Quorum)

Paul Kobulnicky, Acting Director, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Ron Naylor, Assistant Director for Systems and Technical Services, University of Miami

Electronic technology allows the library to offer instructional support, of the kind traditionally provided through reserve rooms, in new ways. Reserve readings can be scanned into an electronic database and be retrieved by students from terminals in their dorms, homes, offices and even the library. This session will examine the copyright implications of providing electronic access. What is the role of fair use? What can librarians do to ensure that users can take advantage of these new means of access?

The CIMI (Computer Interchange of Museum Information) Project (Renoir)

John Perkins, CIMI Project Manager, Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information

Jennifer Trant, Art Information Task Force, Getty Art History Information Program

Steve Dietz, Director, Publications and New Media, National Museum of American Art

Lyn Eliot Sherwood, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Gail Eagen, Canadian Heritage Information Network

The consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) is working to make museum information resources available on digital networks. This session will introduce the work of three CIMI members – the National Museum of American Art (NMAA), the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), and the Getty Art History Information Program – and will overview their progress in networking information.

National Infrastructure for Education (Degas)

John Clement, Division of Research Evaluation and Dissemination, National Science Foundation

Networking Infrastructure for Education is a joint program between the CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) and EHR (Education and Human Resource) Directorates. The Program intends to lay a foundation on which strategies for the appropriate use of technology to enhance teacher professionalization, student achievement and school restructuring can build. NIE will promote collaborations between commuinities of interest which do not normally work together. NIE’s goal is to build synergy between technology and education researchers, developers and implementers so they can explore networking costs and benefits, test self-sustaining strategies and develop a flexible educational networking infrastructure.

Australia’s National Collection Access Strategy (Montcalm)

Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director, General Services to Libraries, National Library of Australia

This session will describe a range of cooperative programs that are underway in Australia, aimed at improving national access to library collections. The programs include:

• the creation of a Distributed National Collection (DNC) Office in the National Library to promote and facilitate cooperative collection development;
• a major overhaul of resource discovery and document access through the development of a National Document and Information Service (NDIS), to be undertaken cooperatively between the major utilities in Australia and New Zealand over the next two years;
• a cooperative program to improve access to Australian heritage materials in libraries museums,and archives by the year 2001; and,
• a major review of copyright and intellectual property issues affecting the library community.

4:30 pm — Break (Ballroom Foyer and Second Floor)

4:45 pm — Working Group Meetings, Project Briefings, and Synergy Sessions

Recent Developments in the NCSA Mosaic Environment:

The Present and the Future (Monet I)

• • Continuation of the session that began at 3:45 pm.

Public Sector Access to the NII through the TIIAP Program (Monet II)

Laura Breeden, Director, TIAAP, Department of Commerece

Donald Druker, Program Officer, TIAAP, Department of Commerce

The TIIAP is a new program within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Department of Commerce. Funded by Congress at $26M in FY94, the program will provide matching funds for both demonstration and planning projects. All funds will go to non-profit organizations (including schools, libraries, hospitals, and community development associations) and governmental entities (state, regional, county, local, and other). The goal of the program is to enable these organizations to use, plan to use, or improve their use of telecommunications and information services, and to promote the development of the national information infrastructure for the public sector.

The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Initiative (Monet III)

• • Continuation of the session that began at 3:45 pm.

Working Group on Transformation of Scholarly Information (Monet IV)

Charles Henry, Director, Vassar College Libraries

Peter Lyman, University Librarian and Dean of University Libraries, University of Southern California

This session will focus on the status and plans of “Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways: A National Initiative.” The Initiative, which is sponsored by The Getty Art History Information Program, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the American Council of Learned Societies endorses the principle that humanities and arts voices are critical – indeed, equal to the recognized interests of the sciences – in the balanced development of the Nation’s technological infrastructure. The session will include an update on the formation of the Working Group on Technical Requirements, which will define the particular challenges that these fields pose for technology and the Working Group on Electronic Resources, which will survey the range and variety of computer-based information and tools, available and in development for transmission on the electronic superhighways.

Working Group on Architecture and Standards (Quorum)

Clifford A. Lynch, Director, Library Automation, University of California

What are we learning from the TULIP project and similar efforts? A number of important prototype efforts are now underway to explore network-based distribution and access for full text and bitmapped image files; these include mechanisms to move information from publishers to libraries, and from libraries to their patrons. The focus so far has been to get prototypes and pilot projects working. It seems clear that there are a number of problem areas coming to light, and also a number of concerns about scaling. Many of these issues will have to be addressed through revised architectural models and new agendas for standards development groups; others may require publishers, libraries, and information technology providers to alter their strategies in selecting and implementing standards and architectural models. This session is intended to move foward the process of drawing such lessons from community experience to date with projects such as TULIP.

Some specific areas to be discussed include: FTP as a means of distributing files; network printing approaches; authentication; compression of files; the X window system; standards for multipage bit-mapped images; and, linking contents information, abstracting and indexing databases, and primary content.

Application of “Knowledge Management” Concepts to the Interdisciplinary Area of Biotechnology (Renoir)

Patricia R. Leigh, Library Biotechnology Project Manager, Iowa State University

Ed Stockey, Head of Library Systems, Indiana University

Nancy L. Eaton, Dean of Library Services, Iowa State University

This project will allow for the application of “knowledge management” and IAMS (integrated academic information management systems) concepts to the identification of published and electronic resources in biotechnology, provide access to researchers and students via the Internet through the development of navigation tools and instructional programs, and help faculty integrate these tools into the teaching of selected materials, concepts or procedures following a “problem-solving” curriculum model which lends itself to direct use of electronic information resources by students. This project will serve as a prototype for the library’s role in the application of “knowledge management” concepts to a “problem solving” instruction model in biotechnology. The four participating institutions are Iowa State University, Indiana University, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Working Group on Teaching and Learning (Degas)

Susan Lane Perry, Director, Departmental Systems Group, Stanford University

Phillip Tompkins, Director of Library Information Services, Estrella Mountain Community College

Art St. George, Program Director, Applications of Advanced Technologies, National Science Foundation

This session will include discussion of the plans for a conference on new learning communities through the integration of networking and networked information into undergraduate teaching and learning, which will be held this summer. In addition, there will be discussion of the Working Group’s annual Call for Project Descriptions on uses of the network and networked information in teaching and learning, which has resulted in a database of project descriptions and programs at the EDUCOM annual meetings.

The Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery ofInformation (READI) Project (Montcalm)

Robert Ubell, President, Robert Ubell Associates

Mark Tesoriero, Market Research Account Executive, Robert Ubell Associates

At the conclusion of a series of studies conducted by Robert Ubell Associates for the Coalition, an expert panel of publishers, librarians, and distributors convened recently to explore key positions and strategies in negotiating contracts for networked information. This session will review several draft entries in a soon-to-be released contract negotiating guide. Attendees will have an opportunity to comment, suggest alternative language and positions, and identify gaps in the proposed text.

5:30 pm — Reception (Ballroom)

Enjoy complimentary wine, beer, soft drinks, and a cocktail buffet along with the company of your fellow Meeting participants. A cash bar will also be available. Dinner and evening activities are on your own.

 

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Schedule for Wednesday, April 6, 1994

7:30 am — Registration and Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Foyer and Solarium)

8:30 am — Advances in Internet Intellectual Property Management Systems (Ballroom)

This session will explore technological capabilities for managing Internet intellectual property systems. Four specific initiatives will be presented, and the issues and trends shaping the future development and deployment of the technological capabilities of these initiatives will be discussed. The presenters will be

James Barker, Case Western Reserve University,

John Garrett, Director, Information Resources, Corporation for National Research Initiatives,

Marvin Sirbu, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, and

Willem Scholten, Director of Computer Science and Research, Columbia University Law School Library and Future Info Systems.

10:00 am — Break (Ballroom Foyer and Second Floor)

10:30 am — Working Group Meetings, Project Briefings, and Synergy Sessions

Working Group on Directories and Resource Information Services (Ballroom D)

Peggy Seiden, Acting College Librarian, Skidmore College

George H. Brett, II, Director, Clearinghouse for Networked Information

This session will survey a number of recent directory and resource discovery developments by the Internet community including the new clearinghouse of subject guides to Internet resources at the University of Michigan and the continuing work by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on universal resource locators and numbers (URLs and URNs). Participants in the session will also discuss ways and means by which the Coalition might aid work in this general area by, among other things, producing some sort of white-paper on the coverage and other differences among various navigational tools and services (including printed directories) and adapting that white-paper to the perspectives and experiences of different network user communities.

Intellectual Property Management (Monet I)

John Garrett, Director, Information Resources, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

This session will provide an opportunity for further exploration of one of the intellectual property management systems presented at the morning plenary session.

Intellectual Property Management (Monet II)

Marvin Sirbu, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

This session will provide an opportunity for further exploration of one of the intellectual property management systems presented at the morning plenary session.

The Elixir Project (Monet III)

David A. Evans, Director, Laboratory for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University and Claritech Corporation

Charles B. Lowry, University Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University

The ELIXIR Project aims to create a prototype electronic library at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that will be a national resource for scientific, business, and technical information. The project focuses on five key goals:

• Creating a terabyte-sized testbed of selected scholarly journals, reference works, technical reports, and related information that will serve as a laboratory facility for conducting serious research in the distribution and use of electronic library services and resources;
• Making high-performance selective natural-language processing and other scholarly tools commonly available for retrieving, linking, browsing, manipulating, and annotating information in multiple formats;
• Automating security, billing, and accounting services for protection of intellectual property;
• Studying the impact of digital library technology on users and how access to electronic information of value may change individual and group behavior;
• Understanding the changing role of the unversity library and the providers of scholarly information.

The ELIXIR testbed will be available to four tiers of users:

• about 750 `power users’ from participating partners, including CMU faculty;
• up to 5,000 people on work groups associated with partner organizations;
• about 20,000 people at designated groups or sites on the Internet; and,
• all individuals on the Internet who desire to become registered users.

ELIXIR partners include the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Information Resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Technology Transfer Center, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., University Microfilms Incorporated, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NOTIS Systems, Inc., CLARIT Corporation, the Aluminium Company of America, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Working Group on Management and Professional Development (Monet IV)

Meredith Butler, Dean and Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Albany

Martha Fields, Director, Information Resource Management

This session will focus on the design and plans for a workshop for teams from computing centers and libraries. The two primary objectives are for participants to become more effective in working together collaboratively and to provide an opportunity to either begin or build upon existing joint efforts. Attendees at this Working Group session will be asked for their comments and suggestions on the workshop design and implementation plan. A second session of this Working Group will focus on other topics.

Working Group on Access to Public Information (Degas)

Barbara von Wahlde, Associate Vice President for University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo

John L. Hankins, Assistant Director, CICNet, Inc.

This session will feature an update on general activity related to access to public information. A discussion of policy issues and an update on selected government agency projects and activities will be provided. Speakers will address issues and activities related to federal information policy, ACE (Americans Communicating Electronically), GILS (Government Information Locator Service), the Bureau of the Census gopher, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) draft regulations concerning electronic mail. A second session of this Working Group will focus on other topics.

Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Life-Cycle (Club)

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

This session will generate understanding of, support for, and participation in a new Coalition initiative, undertaken with support from the Council for Library Resources. The two main objectives of this new initiative are:

• to produce a “white paper” on the “life-cycle” of the scholarly and scientific communication and publication system; and,
• to identify the cost centers that will experience the greatest impacts due to the increased significance of networks and networked information in the scholarly and scientific communication and publication system, and to formulate strategies for measuring those impacts over time.
• Participants in this session will share views on the objectives and methods of this new initiative, and will brainstorm issues, projects, and related efforts that should be addressed by or brought to bear upon this new initiative.

11:15 am — Break (Ballroom Foyer and Second Floor)

11:30 am — Working Group Meetings, Project Briefings, and Synergy Sessions

Interfacing MOSAIC and a Z39.50 Client (Ballroom D)

Vinod Chachra, President, VTLS

There is a rapidly growing interest in interfacing a WorldWideWeb (WWW) browser such as NCSA Mosaic with a Z39.50 client. This topic is frequently on the Z39.50IW list. So far, two different approaches have been used to combine the capabilities of WWW and Z39.50 searching. The two approaches are : (1) Combining a WWW server with a Z39.50 gateway; and, (2) Combining a WWW client (such as Mosaic) with Z39.50 URL support. This session demonstrates each approach and presents the details of each implementation. The session will be followed by a discussion period.

Intellectual Property Management (Monet I)

James Barker, Case Western Reserve University

This session will provide an opportunity for further exploration of one of the intellectual property management systems presented at the morning plenary session.

Intellectual Property Management (Monet II)

Willem Scholten, Director of Computer Science and Research, Columbia University Law School Library and Future Info Systems

This session will provide an opportunity for further exploration of one of the intellectual property management systems presented at the morning plenary session.

The Elixir Project (Monet III)

• • Continuation of the 10:30 am session.

Working Group on Management and Professional Development (Monet IV)

Meredith Butler, Dean and Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Albany

Martha Fields, Director, Information Resource Management

This session will provide an update on the projects of this Working Group and will provide a forum for discussion of a number of managment topics, including Campus Wide Information Systems and assessment. Attendees will be asked to participate in a discussion of priorities and projects for this Working Group and to make suggestions for the program content of the Fall 1994 Task Force meeting, which will focus on managment issues.

Working Group on Access to Public Information (Degas)

Barbara von Wahlde, Associate Vice President for University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo

John L. Hankins, Assistant Director, CICNet, Inc.

This session will present an opportunity for attendees to discuss FY 95 priorities for this Working Group and strategic choices for APIP, the Coalition’s Access to Public Information Program. APIP provides a framework for Task Force activities regarding access to public information. The discussion will build upon the earlier session’s updates of federal activities and will reflect the progress in the past year regarding access to government information.

Developing Infrastructure for the Virtual University (Club)

Jeremy Shapiro, Director, Academic Networking and Computing, Fielding Institute

Shelley Hughes, Administrator, Academic Networking and Computing, Fielding Institute

This session will address, through a briefing on the Fielding Institute’s CWIS project, some of the organizational, educational, and technical issues institutions confront in developing distance-learning and CWIS environments. The Fielding Institute is a graduate-school whose students are adult professionals obtaining Ph.D. degrees primarily through distance learning, in which computer networks play a fundamental role. Students and faculty are distributed around the U.S. as well as in Canada and overseas. Designing an organizational and technical infrastructure for a virtual graduate school where distance-learning is not an adjunct to the classroom but IS the classroom, where the CWIS is not a resource for the campus but IS the campus and must include classrooms, offices, a library, and the Internet presents special challenges, and may have implications for other institutions moving in the direction of more virtual environments. The session will include a demonstration of the current phase of the long-term project. This project uses the TEAMate software package.

12:30 pm — Lunch (Ballroom)

1:15 pm — Luncheon Speaker (Ballroom)

Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, will provide an update on the priorities, plans, and activities of the Information Policy Committee (which she chairs) of the Clinton Administration’s Information Infrastructure Task Force.

2:00 pm — Advances in Internet Audio-Visual Resources and Services (Ballroom)

• • This session will explore technological capabilities for transporting audio and visual materials and programs via the internet. Three specific technological capabilities (the Multi-point Backbone (MBONE), Internet Multicasting Service, and CUSeeMe) will be presented, and the issues and trends shaping the future development and use of these technological capabilities will be discussed. The presenters will be

M. Stuart Lynn, Vice President, Information Technologies, Cornell University,

Carl Malamud, Founder, Internet Multicasting Service, and

Glenn Ricart, Director, Computer Science Center, University of Maryland at College Park.

3:30 pm — Adjournment (Ballroom)

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will make closing remarks and announcements and adjourn the meeting.