Information Retrieval List Digest 329 (October 21, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-329.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 21, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 42 Issue 329 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Thesaurus Software II. JOBS 1. UC Irvine: ICS, Professor III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASIS ToC, November 1996 2. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. The Information Age: The Future is Now! 2. Economics of Digital Information and IP C. Miscellaneous 1. Web Design Workshop IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Internet II Initiative ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Ralph Dumain Re: UC, Irvine: ICS, Professor Even though the formal advertisement says "intelligent information retrieval", we are interested in all areas of information retrieval and access. The Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS) invites applications for a tenured position at the full professor level, although promising candidates at other levels may also be considered. Research emphases of interest include databases; digital libraries; human-computer interaction studies, techniques, and approaches; intelligent information retrieval; multimedia; networking and communications; visualization; and the study of these technologies and their effect including aspects of management, privacy, public policy and security. We are looking for candidates with strong research records who would thrive in a highly productive setting. Duties include research and undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. The ICS Department is an independent campus unit reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor. ICS faculty emphasize core computer science as well as research in emerging areas of the discipline, with effective interdisciplinary ties to colleagues in biology, cognitive science, engineering, management, medicine, and the social sciences. The Department currently has 29 full-time faculty and 120 Ph.D. students. The ICS Department has research groups in the areas of algorithms and data structures; artificial intelligence; computer networks and distributed systems; computer-supported cooperative work; computer systems design; parallel processing; and social and managerial analysis of computing; and software/software engineering. UC-Irvine is located in Orange County, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near Newport Beach, and approximately forty miles south of Los Angeles. The campus is situated in the heart of a national center of high-technology enterprise. Both the campus and the enterprise area offer exciting professional and cultural opportunities. Salaries and benefits are competitive. Mortgage and housing assistance are available. Housing options include newly built, for-sale housing located on campus and within short walking distance from the Department. Send resume and contact information for five references to: ICS Faculty Position c/o Joy Schuler Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of curriculum vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to applications received by December 1, 1996. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS Novwember Table of Contents Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS, VOLUME 47, NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER 1996 CONTENTS PERSPECTIVES ON . . . DISTANCE INDEPENDENT EDUCATION 799 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Howard Besser and Stacey Donahue 801 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Distance Education in North American Library and Information Science Education: Applications of Technology and Commitment Daniel D. Barron 805 The Story of Distance Education: A Practitioner's Perspective Judith M. Roberts 811 DISCUSSION OF METHODS Issues and Challenges for the Distance Independent Environment Howard Besser 817 INSTANCES OF DISTANCE LEARNING Planning for the Twenty-First Century: The California State University Stuart A. Sutton 821 Cognition and Distance Learning Marcia C. Linn 826 Inside-Out Thinking about Distance Teaching: Making Sense of Reflective Practice Elizabeth J. Burge 843 Teacher of the Future Ben H. Davis 849 EXAMPLES OF CLASSES USING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES FOR MEDIA DISTRIBUTION AND COLLABORATION Distance Learning and Digital Libraries: Two Sides of a Single Coin Charles B. Faulhaber 854 Collaborative Technologies in Inter-University Instruction Maurita Peterson Holland 857 DEVELOPMENT OF MODULAR CURRICULAR MATERIALS Engineering Courseware Content and Delivery: The NEEDS Infrastructure for Distance Independent Education William H. Wood III and Alice M. Agogino 863 PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES Programs and Resources in Distance Education Stacey Donahue 870 EFFECTIVENESS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION MLIS Distance Education at the University of South Carolina: Report of a Case Study Gayle Douglas 875 Impact of Distance Independent Education Howard Besser and Maria Bonn 880 Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@cni.org http://www.asis.org ********** III.A.2. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- October 18, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o FCC's local competition rules dealt major setback by court >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org ********** III.B.1. Fr: Woojin Paik Re: The Information Age: The Future is Now! The Information Age -- The Future is Now! 1997 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference May 13-15, 1997 ITT Sheraton Four Points Hotel Syracuse, New York Emphasizing applications Promoting economic of information growth and incentives technologies, systems, and for small-to-large strategies for information businesses. integrity, information systems, law enforcement, medicine, and more! In Conjunction With: Central New York Technology Development Organization (CNYTDO) Hosted By: Syracuse University Cornell University In Cooperation With: Syracuse Section IEEE USAF Rome Laboratory New York State Technology Enterprise Corporation (NYSTEC) Co-Sponsored By: Mohawk Valley Section IEEE Associaton for Computing Machinery, Utica-Rome Chapter Computer Applications Software Engineering (CASE) Center Syracuse University Our conference mission is to provide a high-power, interactive forum for showcasing leading-edge technologies where government laboratories, universities, and industries present successful applications of government-based technology spin-offs (technology transfer) which have improved private sector productivity and competitiveness. The 1997 Conference will emphasize applications of Information Technologies, Systems, and Strategies for: * Information Integrity * Information Systems * Law Enforcement * Medicine * Business/Finance * Education * Transportation * Communications * Also...technology spin-offs, applications, and uses promoting economic growth and incentives for small- to large-sized businesses. The 1997 conference focuses on recent advances in and applications of technologies, systems, and strategies associated with the evolving Information Age. The new format will showcase poster and video sessions, interactive technical demonstrations, and vendor exhibits of relevant technology developments and applications. Keynote and spotlight speakers from regional commercial and private sector enterprises, government labs, and universities will be present. Multimedia presentation formats: standard overhead and 35-mm projection, real-time computer-generated graphics display, Internet access and on-line visualization, TV/video, and long-distance video teleconferencing. IMPORTANT DUE DATES: Abstract Due Date: October 25, 1996 Notification of Acceptance: December 6, 1996 Camera-Ready Paper Due: February 28, 1997 Abstract should be up to a half-page in length and must include: title, author's names, affiliations/addresses, telephone/fax numbers, and email addresses (if available). Also include the name and address of a point of contact who will receive all conference correspondence. SEND ABSTRACT INFORMATION TO: Rome Laboratory/ERDA Dave Williamson, Technical Program Chair 525 Brooks Road Rome, NY 13441-4505 (315) 330-7324; Fax: (315) 330-3709 williamsond@rl.af.mil SUGGESTED TOPICS: Stressing applications and uses for Industrial Finance and Business, Insurance, Law Enforcement, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Education, Transportation, and Military/Federal Government. Information Integrity: * Record Management & Maintenance for Business/Financial Institutions * Data Management Strategies & Techniques * Data Dissemination * Access Control & Information Security * Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) * Strategic Management of Information Resources * Electronic Commerce on the World-Wide-Web * Virtual Organization * Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies Information Systems: * Cost-Effective Strategies * Data Mining * Data Management * Information Storage & Processing * Distributed Computing * Human Factors, Ergonomics, & User Interfaces * Networking & Communications * Alternative Data/Information Entry Systems * High Performance Computing * Electronic Commerce & the World-Wide-Web * Virtual Organization * Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic & Neural Net Applications Law Enforcement: * Speech Technology * Image Processing * Data Management * Advanced Crime Prevention * Intra/Inter-Agency Data Dissemination * Forensics/Evidence Cross Matching * Concealment & Detection Medicine: * Telemedicine * Artificial/Prosthetic Devices & Bionic Technologies * 3D Virtual Simulation/Training Aids * Nursing Informatics * Pharmaceuticals * Insurance/Virtual Agents * Intelligent Diagnostics * Imaging & Processing * Health Care Automated Management Agents FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION CONTACT: Rome Laboratory/XPD ATTN: Cynthia S. Cooley 26 Electronic Parkway Rome, NY 13441-4514 (315) 330-1471 Fax: (315) 330-3022 cooley@xpcc.xpx.rl.af.mil OR ANDRO Consulting Services ATTN: Andrew L. Drozd, General Chair P.O. Box 543 Rome, NY 13442-0543 (315) 337-4396 andro1@aol.com WEB SITE ADDRESS: http://mvieee.borg.com/dualuse ********** III.B.2. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: Economics of Digital Info and IP John F. Kennedy School of Government Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Center for Business and Government Harvard Law School Center for Law and Information Technology Council on Library Resources Coalition for Networked Information "Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property" Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA January 23-25, 1997 Announcement and Final Call for Papers Harvard University is hosting this symposium to broaden and deepen understanding of emerging economic and business models for global publishing and information access and the attendant transformation of international information markets, institutions, and businesses. By refining and publishing the work presented at the symposium, our goal is to provide planners and managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors with a practical framework for developing program strategies and assessing the efficiency and competitiveness of new information markets and institutions. The symposium and book will address: -- How will pricing be affected by different technological factors and market environments? What are likely long-term scenarios for different pricing models? -- What will be the relationships between classic production costs, transaction costs, and the economic value of intellectual property? -- How will different pricing practices for telecommunications and Internet services affect the pricing of information? -- What will be the effect of bundling or unbundling of information services? How will opportunities for bundling and unbundling change? -- How will changing cost structures and other factors affect the allocation of rights between authors and publishers and other intermediaries? -- How will markets for complementary products and services, including advertising, affect the pricing and use of information? -- What are the policy implications of different pricing models? How do these reflect policy values associated with different kinds of information? BACKGROUND: The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is transforming the way information is accessed and used in business, education, and the home. New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and enhancing information are appearing, often embodied in software or information infrastructure. The Internet and the World Wide Web are characterized by explosion of information along with an explosion of new tools for navigating information. No change is more dramatic than the shift to user-initiated retrieval for text-based information formerly distributed in the form of physical objects by publisher-initiated manufacturing and delivery. Although a similar shift may be underway for sound and video, the considerable differences in delivery and storage requirements between text, images, sound, and video may dictate different cost and pricing models. As production and distribution costs decline, transaction costs and the value of intellectual property may assume greater prominence. On the other hand, standardization and software may reduce transaction costs over the long run. With barriers to entry reduced by the Web and related technology, information markets may become extremely competitive, reducing margins and possibly lowering the market value of some forms of intellectual property. Competition for attention intensifies as companies extend their marketing, sales, and support functions into the Internet. Especially useful or entertaining information may have greater value in attracting customer attention in an increasingly competitive marketplace for information. It has been argued that information may be valued less as intellectual property and more in terms of the access it provides to other markets and the value it adds to relationships. As a practical matter, copyright may be overshadowed by the growing use of contracts as a means of both securing value and defining expectations in continuing relationships. Some proprietary positions in simple distribution chains are likely to erode as a result of disintermediation and intense competition. Reduced production costs and pressure to avoid residual transaction costs may force vendors away from complex pricing models. For example, usage-based pricing may give way to subscription pricing. Such dynamics will lead to new business models and, in small markets where users are also producers, may lead to new institutional arrangements for managing life-cycle costs of information. Similarly, as production costs decrease, the costs of information may be assimilated by the underlying infrastructure or assumed by advertisers and other interests. This trend may be seen in the pricing of online services and in the massive volunteering of content on the World Wide Web. This applies to context and other forms of value, inasmuch as the Web, including client software and servers, enables editorial and navigation functions traditionally performed by publishers and libraries to be performed increasingly by individual authors and users. Cost analysis in this environment may hinge on identification and evaluation of critical bottlenecks -- with the understanding that many technological limitations may be short-lived. Congestion may lead to new methods of supplementing point-to-point transmissions, such as caching, mirroring, and satellite broadcast. These new mechanisms raise intellectual property and interconnection questions that may addressed as both business and policy issues. Network congestion and the demand for Internet telephony and other real-time services may hasten the implementation of type of service priority at the network level. This in turn would facilitate marketing of quality at the server and other levels, especially if vertical bundling proves successful. If so, vendors may be tempted to package and price to many dimensions of value. Conversely, simple pricing models may have surprisingly strong appeal, as they have had in the analog environment. Sequential distribution windows for motion pictures illustrate the potential for simple price differentiation in a environment with many distribution alternatives, and price differentiation is now playing an increasingly important role in the marketing of software and databases. There may be public policy arguments for price differentiation, not only for reasons of efficiency but to enable some of level of access for those who cannot afford it under standard terms, just as public libraries have offered access for those who could not afford to buy. The project emphasizes the sharing of insight among scholars and practitioners with different skills and backgrounds. Papers should be written in a clear, non-technical manner (technical appendices are permitted) for a mixed, interdisciplinary audience that will include publishers, librarians, economists, lawyers, and policy- makers. Prospective authors should submit short abstracts for review and comment as soon as possible. Extended abstracts or outlines should be submitted by November 11, 1996, to ensure consideration for the program. Acceptances of abstracts and outlines are conditional pending receipt of a satisfactory draft by January 15, 1996. Papers and supplementary material will be published as a volume in the Project's series with the MIT Press. Copyright assignment is not required, and parallel or subsequent publication of individual papers in journals is encouraged. Please send paper proposals and requests for subsequent announcements to: Nora O'Neil noneil@ksgrsch.harvard.edu Coordinator, Information Infrastructure Project John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-1389; Fax: 617-495-5776 ********** III.C.1. Fr: Robin P. Albert Re: Web Design Workshop Contributing to the World Wide Web: WWW site design and creation using HTML Sponsored by the Continuing Education Program of the College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland Are you responsible for getting your organization represented on the web, either creating the site yourself or coordinating the design team? Do you need to enhance your Internet skills? This practical hands-on workshop will emphasize the basic techniques of hypertext markup and the design of effective and readable WWW pages. The full day format features lecture, small group discussion on design issues, and individual hands-on time to create your own page. Workshop handouts will include copies of the instructor's notes, a development worksheet, and an HTML reference guide; valuable materials that you will be able to refer to again and again. Participants will also receive a disk with the web page that they create in class. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: * recognize the capabilities and limitations of HTML * mark documents with the most commonly used tags * incorporate links to other files and images into HTML documents * make appropriate design decisions to create effective pages So whether you are just getting started, or you are looking for ideas on improving your current web site, join us for a full day of practical hands-on experience. DATES: Saturday, November 23, 1996: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or Thursday, December 12, 1996: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. LOCATION: AT&T Teaching Theater, University of Maryland, College Park COST: $185.00 (make check payable to University of Maryland) INSTRUCTOR: Karla Hahn, Internet Trainer. Ms. Hahn is currently in the doctoral program at the College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland and was previously the Network-based Services Manager at the Johns Hopkins University where she coordinated the development of WelchWeb. Attendance is strictly limited, so register early. Registration deadline is one week prior to the course. Please be sure to include your mailing address so we can send you a course confirmation and a campus map. QUESTIONS? For additional information or to suggest Continuing Education topics, contact Robin Albert, Continuing Education Coordinator, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, 301-405-2057 or ra67@umail.umd.edu. ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: Internet 2 Initiative [edited for length] INTERNET II PROJECT WORKING COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair - Gary Augustson (Penn St) [jga@psu.edu] Applications - Bill Graves (UNC), Chair [Bill_Graves@unc.edu] Engineering - Greg Jackson (Chicago), Chair [g-jackson@uchicago.edu] Charter and Goals - Raman Khanna (Stanford) [khanna@jessica.stanford.edu] Organization - Stuart Lynn (UC), Chair [mslynn@ucop.edu] Search - Doug Van Houweling (Michigan), Chair [dvh@umich.edu] Project Director (Acting) - Mike Roberts (Educom) [roberts@educom.edu] INTERNET II PROJECT: SUMMARY The Internet II project will bring focus, energy and resources to the development of a new family of advanced applications to meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning. The project will address major challenges of the next generation of university networks. First and most importantly, a leading edge network capability for the national research community will be created and sustained. Second, network development efforts will be directed to enabling a new generation of applications that fully exploit the capabilities of broadband networks - media integration, interactivity, real time collaboration - to name a few. Third, the work of the Internet II project will be integrated with ongoing efforts to improve production Internet services for all members of the academic community. A major goal of the project is to rapidly transfer new network services and applications to all levels of educational use and to the broader Internet community, both nationally and internationally. SCOPE OF INTERNET II PROJECT In the initial project phase, end to end broadband network services will be established among the participating universities. On a parallel basis, applications design will commence using teams of university faculty, researchers, and industry experts. It is expected that within approximately eighteen months, "beta" versions of a number of applications will be in operation among the Internet II participating universities. INTERNET II PARTNERSHIP & FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS In most respects, the partnership and funding arrangements for the Internet II project will parallel those of previous joint networking efforts, of which the NSFnet project is a very successful example. Industry partners will work with campus-based and regional university teams to create the advanced network services that are necessary to meet the requirements of broadband, networked applications. Federal R&D agencies will provide grant support in their areas of program interest, such as the NSF vBNS meritorious high performance networking initiative. Funding for the Internet II project will include both financial and in kind services and products of various types that will be necessary for the project. Since most of the project effort will occur on or near university campuses, it is anticipated that the majority of funding from government research agencies and industry partners will be in the form of grants to the participating universities. INTERNET II PROJECT CHARTER UNIVERSITY MEMBERS (as of 10/1/96) University of Arizona MIT Arizona State University Michigan State University California State University University of Michigan Univ of California System University of Minnesota Univ of California - Berkeley University of Nebraska Univ of California - Davis Northwestern University Carnegie Mellon University University of North Carolina Case Western Reserve Ohio State University University of Chicago Pennsylvania State University Colorado State University University of Pennsylvania University of Colorado Princeton University Cornell University Purdue University Emory University Stanford University George Washington Univ Vanderbilt University Harvard University Virginia Tech University of Illinois-UC University of Virginia Indiana University University of Washington University of Iowa University of Wisconsin Yale University INTERNET II ARCHITECTURE INTERNET II PROJECT: The Internet II project is a collaborative effort among a number of universities, federal R&D agencies, and private sector firms to develop a next generation Internet for research and education, including both enhanced network services as well as the multimedia applications which will be enabled by those services. The work is developmental and pre- competitive in nature. OBJECTIVES: The technical objectives of Internet II include: - Maintain a common bearer service to support new and existing applications - Move from best effort packet delivery to a differentiated communications service - Provide the capability of tailoring network service characteristics to meet specific applications requirements - Achieve an advanced communications infrastructure for the Research and Education community APPLICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: The broad use of distance learning will require selectable quality of service and efficient "one-to-many" data transport in support of multimedia and shared information processing. To support world class research on a continuing basis, the academic community requires high capacity and selectable quality of service to make effective use of national laboratories, computational facilities and large data repositories. NETWORK SERVICES: Internet II is designed to provide a variety of services "on demand" in support of advanced applications. These dynamically selectable services will include guaranteed bounded delay, low data loss, and high capacity. New protocols to enable this functionality have already been defined and will be deployed early in the Internet-II project. These protocols include the IETF defined quality of service protocols such as RSVP and RTP along with IPv6, the IETF-developed replacement for the version of IP that is in current use on the Internet. In addition, Internet-II will provide access to the underlying network infrastructure for those environments that can support that access and for those applications that can make use of specific capabilities offered by the infrastructure. IMPLEMENTATION: At the heart of the Internet-II design is a new technology -- GigaPOP -- a complex of technologies developed over the first decade of the Internet integrated with new technologies developed by vendors and the Internet Engineering community. The GigaPOP is the point of interconnection and service delivery between one or more institutional members of the Internet-II development project and one or more service providers. Typical institutional connections will be made via ATM or SONET services at very high bandwidth. The fundamental advance represented by the GigaPOP architecture is dynamically acquired "quality of service" in support of a broad range of new applications while maintaining a common interoperable "bearer service". Service characteristics will include end-user definable capacity as well as latency. The architecture of the GigaPOP also will support service delivery to regional or state-based not-for-profit consortia such as the Virginia Educational Network, the Washington State K-20 network, or the combined University of California and California State University system. Equipment at a GigaPOP site will include: * One or more very high capacity advanced function packet data switch/routers capable of supporting at least OC-12 (622 megabit/second) link speeds and switched data streams as well as packet data routing; * Switch/routers supporting Internet Protocols (both version 4 and the new version 6), advanced routing protocols such as MOSPF, and "quality of service" protocols such as RSVP; * SONET or ATM multiplexers to enable allocation of link capacity to different services such as highly reliable IP packet delivery, experimental testbeds for emerging protocols, or special requirements determined by new initiatives among the Internet-II member institutions; * Traffic measurement and related data gathering to enable project staff to define flow characteristics as part of the operational and performance monitoring of the GigaPOPs. One or more wide area communications service providers will connect to the GigaPOPs in order to provide communications paths between the nationwide set of GigaPOPs and between GigaPOPs and the established commercial Internet. To support high performance distance learning and remote collaboration initiatives, the GigaPOP architecture will facilitate local interconnectivity between the higher education community and those commercial providers offering emerging high-bandwidth home access technologies. The most advanced applications will require a set of communications paths among the GigaPOPs that are engineered especially for the Internet-II project. It is essential that these interconnect pathways fully support the protocols and functions noted above. Recently, NSF has proposed an expanded role for its vBNS infrastructure that potentially could attach as many as 100 sites nationally to the current OC-3 backbone and could provide a deployment platform for emerging applications in support of research and collaboration. It is envisioned that the vBNS, with its proposed new capabilities, will be the initial interconnect network among the GigaPOPs. If the vBNS should prove insufficient for the full range of Internet-II requirements, other alternatives will be employed. Although direct SONET pathways might be most effective in providing the inter-GigaPOP pathways, it seems most likely that ATM-over-SONET will be the most commonly available commercial service. Because Internet-II will use virtual connections within and between the GigaPOPs, a test network can be implemented along side of the production network without having to duplicate facilities. This test network will be used to experiment with new capabilities of the network itself where the production network can be used to provide reliable service for applications. OPERATIONS: Clearly the design of the GigaPOPs must meet the requirements of very high reliability and availability. Each GigaPOP site will be physically secure and environmentally conditioned, including backup power and resistance to damage from acts of nature. Physically diverse fiber optic and wireless communications paths will maximize service robustness against the unlikely event of physical damage external to the site. In addition, the Internet-II infrastructure will be designed to be secure from the threats of those who would seek to disrupt its operations. Not all GigaPOP sites will be staffed 24 hours per day. Instead, redundant Network Operations Centers will monitor the operation of all equipment remotely via both in-band and out-of-band circuits and will dispatch problem resolution staff as needed to effect restoration of normal services. CONCLUSION: The Internet-II architecture has been chosen to demonstrate the effectiveness of new technologies in providing the next generation communications infrastructure. The success of Internet-II will allow higher education and research institutions to remain world leaders in the development of advanced applications of information technology. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: NCGUR@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. 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