Information Retrieval List Digest 333 (November 18, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-333.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 18, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 46 Issue 333 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. AT&T Labs: Machine Learning and IR Research: Research Programmer 2. WLN: UNIX/Sybase Administrator, IT III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ARL Announces E-Journal Discussion List 2. December JASIS TOC B. Meetings 1. 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing 2. Last Call '96 Make the Link Workshops C. Miscellaneous 1. Common Lisp Web Server (60.57) 2. Questel.Orbit Announces the Launch of ChemPath IV. PROJECTS E. Miscellaneous 1. Electronic Publishing by Faculty ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: David Lewis Re: AT&T Labs: Machine Learning and IR Research: Research Programmer The department of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval Research in AT&T Labs has an immediate opening for a research programmer. This is a limited term (1-2) year position. Applicants should have a BS or MS degree in computer science or a related field and experience programming in C/C++ in a Unix environment. A strong mathematical background is desirable, as is experience in any of these areas: machine learning, information retrieval, pattern recognition, neural networks, natural language processing, or artificial intelligence. Applicants should have an interest in building robust implementations of state-of-the-art methods for text classification and machine learning, and in interacting with both research and development groups. AT&T Labs-Research is located in Murray Hill, NJ but will soon be moving to Florham Park, NJ. More information about AT&T Labs can be found at http://www.research.att.com. AT&T is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If interested, send your resume (or a pointer to an online version of your resume at a publically accessible web site) to the following address. William W. Cohen AT&T Labs-Research 600 Mountain Avenue Room 2A-427 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 email: wcohen@research.att.com WWW: http://www.research.att.com/~wcohen/ ********** II.2. Fr: Re: WLN: UNIX/Sybase Administrator, IT UNIX/SYBASE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR JOB ANNOUNCEMENT WLN, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Lacey, WA, is seeking a UNIX/Sybase Administrator to join its professional information technology division staff. The successful applicant will be responsible for WLN's production server and its UNIX operating system and Sybase database; handle configuration planning, consulting, software installation and management; define and write programs and procedures as well as acquiring and installing software tools; monitor audit logs; troubleshoot problems advising application developers or end users; train WLN staff in their use of UNIX and the Sybase database, performs other duties as requested. To qualify, applicants should have a minimum of four years experience administering UNIX systems, preferably IBM AIX and/or HP/UX and two years experience of SQL database administration, preferably Sybase. For 19 years, WLN has provided a broad range of innovative, high- quality products and services to libraries of all types and sizes throughout the US and around the world. These services include a full-service online MARC bibliographic database (with acquisitions, cataloging, and interlibrary loan subsystems, and a linked authority file), a CD-ROM version of the database, as well as database preparation and authority control (the WLN MARC Record Service). WLN is a full-level Internet service provider. WLN is offering a competitive salary ($40,000-$60,000 annually, full-time), commensurate with experience and qualifications, accompanied by an excellent, comprehensive benefits package. Applications received by November 20th will be given first consideration; applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please send a letter of application, resume, and the names of three references at your earliest convenience to: Annette Castellano WLN Human Resources PO Box 3888 Lacey, WA 98509-3888 Fax: (360) 923-4009 Voice: (360) 923-4032 email: wln-hr@wln.com For technical questions regarding this position, contact: Dane Robertson, WLN Director of Information Technology Division Fax: (360) 923-4009 Voice: (360) 923-4072 email: daner@wln.com ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Dru W. Mogge Re: ARL Announces E-Journal Discussion List ARL-EJOURNAL is a discussion list concerned with all aspects of the management of electronic journals by libraries and information centers. It was conceived during a roundtable discussion led by Sharon Cline McKay at the LITA/LAMA Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in October, 1996, where issues were identified and those attending agreed that there was a need for further discussion. The address of the forum is: ARL-EJOURNAL@CNI.ORG ABOUT THE ARL-EJOURNAL FORUM: The major issues discussed during the session are listed below. These and other related topics are appropriate for discussion on ARL-EJOURNAL. - Archiving - Pricing - Licensing - Indexing - File formats - Use of the SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier) - Administering - Registration by username/password or IP address - Article access - Security - Privacy - Multiple user interfaces - Whether to cancel subscriptions for print versions of e-journals - Links to ILS systems - Hypertext links within articles - Links to index & abstract databases - Interlibrary lending restrictions - Printing/storing e-journals - Changing concept of "journal" - Peer review/quality/tenure - Bypassing the library? General discussions of acquiring, cataloging, checking in and managing of serials should be directed to SERIALST or ACQNET-L. Advertisements and/or vendor announcements should not be distributed on ARL-EJOURNAL. Only subscribers to ARL-EJOURNAL may post messages to the list. All interested parties are invited and encouraged to subscribe and participate. TO JOIN THE ARL-EJOURNAL FORUM: You may join this forum at any time by sending this command as an e-mail note to the Coalition ListProcessor (LISTPROC@CNI.ORG) subscribe arl-ejournal e.g. SUBSCRIBE ARL-EJOURNAL John Doe FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON ARL-EJOURNAL: All questions regarding the substance of, or policies related to, the postings on this forum or regarding difficulties with mail or requests for technical assistance with the ListProcessor should be addressed to the list owner Dru Mogge . ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF REASEARCH LIBRARIES: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) represents the interests of 119 libraries that serve major North American research institutions. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to and effective use of knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. Members include large university libraries of the United States and Canada, and a number of public and independent libraries with substantial research collections. For more information, contact: Dru Mogge Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle Washington, D.C. 20036 voice: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884 dru@cni.org ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: December JASIS TOC Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) VOLUME 47, NUMBER 12; DECEMBER 1996 IN THIS ISSUE Bert R. Boyce 885 RESEARCH Bibliocryptography. A. Bookstein. 886 Labeled, Typed Links as Cues when Reading Hypertext Documents. Lisa Baron, Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, Mark T. Kinnucan, and Tom Carey. 896 Experiments with a Stemming Algorithm for Malay Words. Fatimah Ahmad, Mohammed Yusoff, and Tengku M. T. Sembok. 909 The Effectiveness of the Electronic City Metaphor for Organizing the Menus of Free-Nets. Elaine G. Toms and Mark T. Kinnucan. 919 The Modern Language Association: Electronic and Paper Surveys of. Computer-Based Tool Use Debora Shaw and Charles H. Davis. 932 The Contributions of Organizational Science to the Development of Decision Support Systems Research Subspecialties. Sean B. Eom and Roy S. Farris. 941 BOOK REVIEWS The Internet Compendium: Subject Guides to Health and Science Resources, by Louis Rosenfeld, Joseph Janes, and Martha Vander Kolk. J. R. Jackson. 953 Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd Ed.), edited by Rob Kling. Thomas A. Peters. 953 Educational Services in Health Sciences Libraries. Volume 2: Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship, edited by Francesca Allegri. Linda S. Bixler. 955 AUTHOR INDEX 961 SUBJECT INDEX 965 VOLUME CONTENTS 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.B.1. Fr: David Dubin Re: 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: "Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc/index.html Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The three-day conference will be held March 2-4, 1997, at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Clinic Co-Chairs: Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois; Eric H. Johnson, Research Programmer, Digital Library Initiative, Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The growth of the Internet only foreshadows what will happen with globally distributed information resources in the coming century. Coping with current problems of organization and retrieval using present-day technological answers will not be enough for tomorrow's users. Some of the questions we intend to discuss at this clinic include the following: * What interface, browsing and navigation tools are on the drawing board or in prototype systems which may help to improve subject access? * Do the designers of digital library systems envision a role for more traditional library classification schemes and thesauri? If yes, how will they be made more visual and useful than they are now? If no, how will metadata and full text repositories be accessed and organized and what kinds of tools will provide term suggestion and representation of related concepts? * What new tools exist to create visual displays of vocabulary choices and term relationships to improve browsing and search negotiation in either collections of full-text information or information surrogate files on the Internet, on CD-ROM, etc.? * How will the new systems handle the Inter-space where switching vocabularies will be needed to access and search federated and unfederated repositories of full-text information in various languages? * Has the cognitive research and user modelling efforts produced some results which could impact subject access tool design? Speakers who will address these issues will be drawn from various communities of research and development here and in Europe: digital library developers, interface and visualization experts, bibliographic system vendors, cognitive researchers, librarians and information service providers. PROGRAM Schedule subject to change; check the Web site at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc/index.html SUNDAY, MARCH 2 Registration (pick up conference packet) Demonstrations Reception (Beckman Institute Atrium) Keynote Address (Beckman Institute Auditorium) Roland Hjerppe, LIBLAB, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Sweden MONDAY, MARCH 3 Session 1: The World of Distributed Repositories: Better or Worse for Subject Access: David Levy, Member of Research Staff, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA; Raya Fidel, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Washington, Seattle. Break Session 2: Is Full-Text Access Sufficient without Controlled Vocabulary Indexing? Jessica Milstead, Principal, The JELEM Co., Brookfield, CT; Elizabeth Liddy, Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; David Dubin, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lunch (on your own) Session 3: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Research Projects That Will Help Improve Subject Access: Nicholas J. Belkin, Professor, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Bryce Allen, Associate Professor, School of Library & Informational Science, University of Missouri. Break Session 4: Visualizing Information Spaces: Eric H. Johnson, Digital Library Initiative, Grainger Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Diane Vizine-Goetz, Research Scientist, OCLC, Inc., Dublin, OH; Richard Greenfield, Consultant, Library of Congress. Dinner (on your own) Demonstrations and/or small group discussions TUESDAY, MARCH 4 Session 5: How Will We Provide Subject Access in 21st Century Inter-space? Bruce Schatz, Director, Community Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gerry McKiernan, Curator, Cyber Stacks, Iowa State University. Break Session 6: Plans for Servicing Digital Libraries with Improved Systems from Vendors Developers of OPACs (a panel) Conference Wrap-Up: Marcia Bates, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. DPC '97 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820-6211 Email: painter@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu Telephone: (800) 982-0914 or (217) 244-3274 (Kathy Painter) ********** III.B.2. Fr: Thomas P. Copley Re: Last Call '96 Make the Link Workshops MAKE THE LINK WORKSHOP (WORLD WIDE WEB FOR EVERYONE) Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) is an eight week distance-learning workshop conducted entirely by e-mail. It introduces the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's distributed hypermedia information system, as well as enhances the skills of the somewhat more experienced user. WWW's amazing growth has resulted largely from its ease of use and power to almost instantaneously transport a rich array of text, graphics, sound, programs, etc. to the computer desktop with the click of a mouse button. Having a WWW home page providing one's personal information has become the 1990's version of the business card, resume, telephone answering machine, and on occasion, electronic recreation area, all rolled into one. In fact, WWW provides the opportunity to participate and collaborate with others at many levels. The Make the Link Workshop will focus on how to gain maximum advantage from this simple to use, yet very sophisticated, Internet tool. The final 1996 session of the Links Workshop is scheduled to * Begin the week of November 25 and end January 17 (links19) The cost of the workshop is $20 US. To get more information about the workshop, please send e-mail to info@arlington.com or to sign up for the Make the Link Workshop, please send an e-mail message to the address: majordomo@arlington.com and in the body of the message, include: subscribe links19 to subscribe to the session that starts the week of November 25. This will automatically put you on the mailing list for more information about the workshop, and you will receive an acknowledgment with the particulars about signing up. You may sign off the list at any time and will not be charged any fee. If you have any difficulty signing up, please send e-mail to the address below in the signature line. THOMAS P. COPLEY tcopley@arlington.com Make the Link Workshop http://www.crl.com/~gorgon/ ********** III.C.1. Fr: John C. Mallery Re: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57) SERVER: A full-featured, production-quality, HTTP 1.1 Compliant Web server wholely written in Common Lisp is *freely* available from the following URL at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. INFORMATION: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html Q: Why might you care about this? A: You might be interested in: * Minimizing the cycle time from conceptualization to market. (Cooler than being last to market!) * Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly. (Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!) * Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly. (Cooler than typing it in by hand!) * Creating 3D VRML worlds on the fly. (Cooler than learning OpenInventor!) * Using an extensible presentation lattice to accept input or present output. (Cooler than duplicating endless input validators, and then getting a better idea!) * Developing complex or advanced Web applications. (Cooler than serving static files!) * Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites. (Cooler than even an "Active-X enchanced" site!) LANGUAGE: Common Lisp is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that is used to develop and deploy leading-edge applications in university, government, and business settings. This highly flexible and evolvable language has been typically used to develop large and complex artificial intelligence or natural language understanding systems. These kinds of power programming tools are becoming increasingly relevant for Web developers as ever more is required in ever less time. PLATFORMS: The server presently runs with full source- compatibility on the following platforms: * Macintosh (MCL - Comes on the CD) * UNIX (Allegro, LispWorks, Lucid) (Many flavors, including SunOS, Solaris, SGI, OSF) * Windows NT (Allegro) (Several new Lisps currently being tuned for NT). * Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0) Additional ports are underway. REALITY: This server was the first known HTTP 1.1 implementation last August, and has subsequently been through a second release cycle. Also included in the distribution are a program-level client with 1.0 persistent connections, an HTML parser, and a constraint-based web walker. Snap up this opportunity now before the next release adds new modules to the learning curve. ********** III.C.2. Fr: A. Darbois Re: Questel.Orbit Announces the Launch of ChemPath Questel.Orbit announces the launch of ChemPath, its new Chemical Information System ChemPath has been designed to bring together to the chemist end-user, in a client-server mode, all the R&D chemical data available inside and outside the company: Chemical Structures and Reactions with their associated data, as well as other related data such as biological or project data. ChemPath has been specified, tested and validated by five major chemical and pharmaceutical companies and realised through a strong partnership between: - Questel.Orbit for the proved efficiency of its powerful DARC online and In House search engine for chemical structure databases and Markush databases, - Synopsys for the experience and expertise in handling chemical reactions and producing high quality chemical databases, - CambridgeSoft for the integration of ChemDraw Pro as the preferred ChemPath chemical editor. The new system gives Quick and Comprehensive Access to Data with: - Search, Registration and Retrieval for Chemical Structures and Reactions and associated data, - Multi-database access: In House corporate and commercial databases as well as online databases, - Graphic user interface designed for the chemist in combination with CS ChemDraw Pro chemical editor - Powerful search engine derived from DARC technology and able to manage millions of compounds. - Cross-Links with external relational databases or text retrieval systems such as Oracle, Informix, Trip, Basis, RDB, S1032... - An open programming environment for customizing specific corporate applications. "Our 15 years of expertise in online and In House chemistry solutions, the acknowledged performances and reliability of our DARC search engine and the cooperation with our customers and technical partners have allowed us to build a system which fully meets the expectations of both the chemist users and the IT people with: - a single and easy to use drawing interface to access all structures and reactions databases available inside or outside the company, - a system which easily allows specific developments and links with any other database, using the ChemPath Software Development Kit" says Pascal Perraudin, Marketing and Sales Manager for In House solutions at Questel.Orbit. "We are very pleased to contribute actively to the introduction of a new high-value and flexible platform for the research community, which combines our know-how to Questel's reliable technology in corporate chemical structure information systems. Compatibility of Accord with ChemPath is also a natural consequence of this partnership" says Glen Hopkinson, Managing Director at Synopsys. With ChemDraw as the query sketcher for ChemPath, chemists can instantly use this versatile database system with little or no prior training, improving efficiency and reducing user-support overhead. "We are very excited at the prospect of thousands of chemists using database tools as part of their everyday research and look forward to an ongoing positive relationship with Questel" comments Stewart Rubenstein, President of CambridgeSoft. Many commercial databases will be made available progressively on ChemPath starting with: - Synopsys databases: MOS, Protecting Groups, Solid-phase Synthesis, Biocatalysis, - ISI databases: CCR, RCI, - CAS Online Registry through ChemPath Open Access, - Derwent: World Drug Index. Customers current own databases are also supported. ChemPath can also be used with other chemical editors such as Isis Draw and ChemWindows. Questel.Orbit, part of France Telecom Multimedia, is a global leader in the worldwide on line delivery of patent, trademark, chemical, scientific, technical, business and news information. Contact: Pascal PERRAUDIN Tel.: +33 (0)1 46 14 52 03 Fax: +33 (0)1 46 14 55 11 E-Mail: pperraudin@questel.fr Mail: Le Capitole, 55 av. des Champs Pierreux F-92029 Nanterre - France ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.E.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Electronic Publishing by Faculty How are works published in electronic form evaluated by your campus's promotion and tenure committee? Does your institution specifically address this issue in any of its policies or guidelines? Does your campus draw distinctions between the evaluation of electronic publishing and print publishing by faculty? A member of our constituency is serving on a committee that is looking into this question. Since this issue is of general interest to CNI institutions, we would like to assist in collecting information on this topic. If your campus has a specific policy on this issue, please send us information, which could include the appropriate language from the policy, a URL if available, or instructions on obtaining the policy. Please clearly identify the name of your institution. Please send responses within the next two weeks to Louise Fisch, Coordinator of Communications for CNI, who can be reached at louise@cni.org. We will provide a summary of responses on cni-announce. Thank you. Joan K. Lippincott, Assistant Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-5098 FAX: (202) 872-0884 Internet: joan@cni.org ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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