Information Retrieval List Digest 367 (August 11, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-367 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 11, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 29 Issue 367 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Agent Technology and Information Retrieval 2. The Parts for the Whole: Thesauri and Semantic Linking 3. Browsing in Context: SubDivision/SubHeading/Facet Display in Online Systems II. JOBS 1. U. Strathclyde: Lectureship, Information Science III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Web Site: Handbook of Research Impact Assessment 2. FARNET's Washington Update -- August 4, 1997 3. Special Issue of UMUAI on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative B. Meetings 1. FOIS'98 2. Hypertext - IR - Multimedia (HIM) '97 3. BISCA-97 4. ISIC'98: Changes 5. Knowledge Management Program ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Tim Finin Re: Agent Technology and Information Retrieval Rob van der Aa wrote: ... I'm working on my thesis, which involves, among other things - an agent based approach for information retrieval on the internet/intranet. ... My question is, can you help me to get relevant information about new developments, techniques et cetera in the field of agent technology and information retrieval. ... Ian Soboroff maintains a page on Agent-based information retrieval (ABIR) at . This includes presentation slides on ABIR given last week at SIGIR'97. He's seeking suggestions for additional material for this page, so send them to ian@cs.umbc.edu. Tim ********** I.2. From: "Gerry McKiernan" Re: Browsing in Context: SubDivision/SubHeading/Facet Display in Online Systems Browsing in Context: SubDivision/SubHeading/Facet Display in Online Systems For my review of 'neo-conventional' thesauri, I am interested in identifying online systems that have incorporated thesauri of an analog (e.g. LCSH) that permits browsing of a SubDivision / SubHeading / Facet with the context of its occurrence within the thesauri vocabulary. Systems that allow for the browsing of a term of a compound subject phrase (e.g. Women college teachers) as well as facet browsing in context within separate and not integrated thesauri are also of interest. As I have three daughters, one wife and three sisters, [and a mother], I'll use 'Women' of my example: Women -- Africa Women--United States--History--20th Century Women and literature--United States--History--20th Century Women Air Pilots--United States--Biography Women in Politics--Great Britain Afro-American Women Social Reformers Urban Women Women College Teachers [You get the idea] I believe that this type of context browsing can/is/could be useful to using in any online system as well as in browsing in a separate thesaurus for term or phrase candidates. Ideally the core term would be a different color, or font, or both. User have/could have/might have the ability to further browse In Context by clicking on any term or phrase to see that term or phrase In Context. Clicking on the item number associated with the given entry would perform a search in the system on that heading. Adjacent to the entry would be the number of records that have been assigned the specific entry. I am particularly interested in any and all relevant literature relating to the theory, practice and/or possibilities of SubDivision/SubHeading/Faceted browsing as I describe it. As always, any leads, suggestions, reactions, critiques, criticisms, comments, citations, celestial insights, etc. are most welcome! ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Forbes Gibb Re: U. Strathclyde: Lectureship, Information Science The University of Strathclyde in Scotland DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE Lecturer in Information Science The University of Strathclyde invites applications for a lectureship in Information Science. The Department was awarded an Excellent under the Teaching Quality Assessment and a 4 in the last Research Assessment Exercise. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to research and publication in either of the two main research areas of the Department: Knowledge and Information Retrieval. Information Management. The successful candidate will teach on the Department's Postgraduate courses (Msc in Information Management and Msc in Information and Library Studies) and may also be expected to make a contribution to other courses within the Faculty which are serviced by the Department. Application Forms and further details are available from Personnel Office, University of Strathclyde, McCance Building, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ, or from http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk For an informal discussion about the post please contact Forbes Gibb on 0141-548-3704 (forbes@dis.strath.ac.uk). The deadline for applications is Friday 12 September 1997. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Ronald N. Kostoff Re: Web Site: Handbook of Research Impact Assessment The "Handbook of Research Impact Assessment" is a source document of research evaluation principles and existing/ proposed methods. It is targeted at people and organizations involved in research evaluation, management, planning, administration, and performance. The Seventh Edition of "The Handbook of Research Impact Assessment" has been completed. It has been updated and expanded, and is now available on the Internet at: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/index.html Two other documents are available at that web site: 1) "Research Program Peer Review: Principles, Practices, Protocols", a companion paper to the Science magazine Policy Forum of 1 August 1997. 2) "Science and Technology Roadmaps", a compendium of the many roadmap types available. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update -- August 4, 1997 FARNET's WASHINGTON UPDATE --- AUGUST 4, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: Status of Internet copyright legislation Will the universal service fund be the victim of a balanced budget? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.3. Fr: Susan Haller Re: Special Issue of UMUAI on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Call for Papers UMUAI Special Issue on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction In a mixed initiative interaction, direction and control of the interaction shifts among the participants. Since the information and abilities needed to solve a problem are distributed among the collaborating agents, a system that is engaged with other users to solve a problem must have the ability to take or relinquish initiative. The possibility of shifting initiative requires that computer systems include mechanisms for recognizing when to lead or otherwise take control of an interaction and when to let others take the initiative. In addition, an interactive system must be able to take initiative into account in interpreting utterances and in selecting appropriate responses. From the perspective of user modeling, individual users are comfortable with assuming different levels of control and initiative during task interaction. The purpose of this special issue is to present important results by researchers who are developing theoretical models of robust interaction or designing robust systems. * Knowledge representation and reasoning strategies for modeling initiative to address issues such as controlling how changes in initiative are manifested in the interaction, and taking initiative affects into account when interpreting another agent's actions and choosing an appropriate response. * Computer systems developed for controlling mixed-initiative interaction to: decide when it is appropriate to take initiative and alert other participants to the shift, decide when to relinquish initiative and how to alert other participants, or to detect when another agent is attempting to alter the control or purpose of the conversation. ABOUT USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION: The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that adapt to their current users, and which may employ user models for supporting the adaptation. As is the case for high quality journal publications, theoretical proposals should generally be appropriately substantiated by a discussion of the results of a computer implementation, by a formal analysis, or by empirical experiments). The normal means of submission is electronic and the review process is normally completed within two months. IMPORTANT DATES: SEPTEMBER 30, 1997: (Optional) Submit a one page abstract to Guest Editor NOVEMBER 1, 1997: Deadline for submission of papers DECEMBER 31, 1997: Notice of review results SUBMISSION: One page abstracts may be sent (but are not required) prior to September 30, 1997 if authors are concerned about relevance of the paper to the special issue. These abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors only. Full paper submissions should be in the UMUAI format and will follow the standard refereeing process. Authors may obtain more details of submission requirements from the editors or at UMUAI's site http://umuai.informatik.uni-essen.de/home.html Send electronic (postscript) or three hard copy versions of your manuscript to Susan Haller Computer Science and Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Parkside Kenosha, Wiconsin 53141-2000 U.S.A. haller@cs.uwp.edu GUEST EDITORS: Susan Haller Susan McRoy Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Parkside University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee haller@cs.uwp.edu mrcroy@cs.uwm.edu http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/ http://www.cs.uwm.edu:80/faculty/mcroy/ THIS CALL FOR PAPERS IS AVAILABLE AS A WEB PAGE: http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/Activities/UMUAI ********** III.B.1. Fr: Alessandro Artale Re: FOIS'98 Preliminary Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOIS'98 In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'98 TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998 Under the auspices of the Project ONTOINT (Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration) funded by the Italian National Research Council Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic information science, and intelligent information access. Various workshops addressing the engineering aspects of ontology have been held in the past few years. However, ontology -by its very nature- ought to be a unifying discipline. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first step in this direction. As the heterogeneity of the program committee indicates, the conference will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers addressing concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. TOPICS: Examples of problem areas that may be addressed at the conference include: THEORETICAL ISSUES: * Foundations: parthood, constitution, identity, integrity, dependence, causality * Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, attributes, relations, qualities, quantities, tropes or moments, states, situations, environments * Matter, space, time, motion, change * Natural kinds, organisms, artifacts * The ontology of social reality: legal and administrative entities, artistic expressions * The ontology of information and information processing: representations, signs, software products, virtual reality, cyberspace * Top-level ontological taxonomies: new proposals or critical analyses of existing ones * Cognitive foundations of ontological distinctions * Kinds of ontology: top-level ontologies, domain ontologies, task ontologies, application ontologies * Ontological commitment APPLICATION AREAS: * Knowledge organization, integration and standardization * Intelligent information access * Information systems design * Knowledge engineering * Conceptual modelling * Qualitative modelling * Lexical semantics * Terminology integration * Product knowledge integration * Geographic information systems * Legal information systems TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES: * Ontological and linguistic instruments for conceptual analysis * Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Papers will be selected on the basis of a rigorous review of full paper contributions. Authors should submit 5 copies to the Conference Chair by December 19, 1997. Papers received after the deadline or not conforming to the submission format will be rejected without review. The proceedings will be printed by a major publisher and will be available at the conference. Final camera-ready copies of the accepted papers will be due by March 9, 1998. Authors will be responsible for preparing the final camera-ready in conformity with the formatting requirements laid down by the publisher. Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantially different from papers under review. Papers that have been or will be presented at small workshops/symposia whose proceedings are available only to attendees may be submitted. Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s), affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating the topic areas listed above that best describe the contribution. Submissions must be at most 16 pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt) using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Papers should be sent in 5 copies. Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Those proposing to submit papers must complete the form at the WWW address by Monday December 15, 1997. If intending authors do not have WWW access, then an e-mail message must be sent to by the same date, giving details of any proposed submission in the following format: Title: Author: <Last name, initials> Author: <Insert as many more author lines as necessary> .. CorrespondingAuthor: <name of corresponding author> CorrespondingEmail: <email of corresponding author> CorrespondingAddress: <address of corresponding author> Keywords: <insert list of keywords, preferably chosen from above list> Abstract: <insert short abstract, max 200 words> EndAbstract: <mark the end of the short abstract thus> Should intending authors not have e-mail access, the information above should be sent by letter to arrive to the Conference Chair by Monday December 15, 1997. SCHEDULE: Monday, December 15, 1997 Electronic abstracts due Friday, December 19, 1997 Papers due Friday, February 6, 1998 Results sent to authors Monday, March 9, 1998 Final papers due Saturday-Monday, June 6-8, 1998 FOIS'98 CONFERENCE CHAIR ORGANIZATION CHAIR Nicola Guarino Alessandro Artale National Research Council ITC-IRST LADSEB-CNR Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy Corso Stati Uniti, 4 e-mail: artale@irst.itc.it I-35127 Padova, Italy e-mail: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it ********** III.B.2. Fr: Norbert Goevert <goevert@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Re: Hypertext - IR - Multimedia (HIM) '97 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Hypertext - Information Retrieval - Multimedia (HIM '97) http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/HIM97/ E-mail: him97@ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de Dortmund, September 29 - October 2, 1997 Hypertext, Information Retrieval and Multimedia are essential for designing and building current and future information systems that meet the demands of a wide range of applications and users. Thus, there is a clear need for combining the work of the three subfields in order to develop integrated HIM systems. The HIM conference strives to be a forum for this integration by bringing together researchers from the different communities. CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS/POSTERS If you want to present a demonstration or a poster, please notify the demonstration chair till September 5, 1997: Thomas Roelleke Computer Science VI University of Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund Germany e-mail: roelleke@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de Demonstrators will have to bring their own hardware equipment, but Internet access will be available. We will provide panels for your posters. Persons interested in giving a demonstration/poster should send a short proposal (up to 3 pages) to the Demonstrations Chair till September 5, 1997. Organizing Committee, chair: Prof. Dr. Gisbert Dittrich Program Committee, chair: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr DATES: Monday, September 29, 1997: 09:30-17:30 Tutorials Tuesday, September 30, 1997: 10:30 Start of conference Wednesday, October 1, 1997: 20:00 Social Event Thursday, October 2, 1997: 15:30 End of conference PROGRAM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 Opening: Dr. W. Buchow (Abteilungsleiter im Ministerium fuer Wirtschaft und Mittelstand, Technologie und Verkehr des Landes NRW): Multimedia in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Entwicklungsperspektiven und Gestaltungsmoeglichkeiten Keynote Address 1: Chiaramella, Y. (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble): Browsing and Querying: two complementary approaches for Multimedia Information Retrieval Session 1: Visualisierung zur Unterstuetzung der Suche in komplexen Datenbestaenden Elzer, P.; Krohn, U.; TU Clausthal; AutoFocus: User Assistance in Information Visualization Orosco, R.; Universidad AutF3noma de Madrid; A model for structured document retrieval: empirical investigations Lalmas, M.; Ruthven, I.; University of Glasgow Session 2: DVS - A System for Recording, Archiving and Retrieval of Digital Video in Security Systems Herzner, W.; Kummer, M.; Thuswald, M.; Austrian Research Centre, Seibersdorf; A user interface for the design of human figures multimedia animations LF3pez, J.; RodrEDguez, D.; Meziat, D.; Carbaja, M.; Casillas, A.; Real, J.; GarcEDa, J.M.; Universidad de AlcalE1; Transformationelle Multimedia-Softwareentwicklung Boles, D.; Wuetherich, G.; University of Oldenburg WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1997 Keynote Address 2: J. Wenzel (Leiter des Aktionszentrums Informationsgesellschaft, Europaeische Kommission, Bruessel): Die Position Europas auf dem Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft Komplexe Hypertextmodelle im World Wide Web durch aktive Dokumente Hammwoehner, R.; University of Regensburg Session 3: Probabilistische Modellierung der effizienten Informationssuche in verteilten multimedialen Dokumentbestaenden durch Einschraenkung des Suchraums Baumgarten, C.; TU Dresden; Evaluierung eines entscheidungstheoretischen Modells zur Datenbankselektion Goevert, N.; University of Dortmund; Probabilistic Logical Information Retrieval for Content, Hypertext, and Database Querying Roelleke, T.; Bloemer, M.; University of Dortmund Session 4: High Precision Hypertext Navigation Based on NLP Automatic Extractions Vichot, F.; Wolinski, F.; Tomeh, J.; Guennou, S.; Dillet, B.; Aydjian, S.; Informatique CDC, Bagneux; Adding semantics to hypermedia towards Link's enhancement and Dynamic Linking Petrou, C.; Martakos, D.; Hadjiefthymiades, S.; University of Athens; Hand-made and Computed Links, Precomputed and Dynamic Links Ashman, H.; DSTO Salisbury; Garrido, A.; Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Oinas-Kukkonen, H.; University of Oulu Session 5: Analysis Of Algorithms For Clustering Documents In Databases Moghrabi, I.A.R.; Lebanese American University, Beirut; Incremental Processing of Vague Queries in Interactive Retrieval Systems Pfeifer, U.; Pennekamp, S.; University of Dortmund; Realisierung und Optimierung der Informationsbeschaffung von Internet-Suchmaschinen am Beispiel von www.crawler.de Dresler, S.; Grosse, A.G.; Roesner, A.; University of Karlsruhe Social Event THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1997 Keynote Address 3: Danilenko, L. (WDR - Technische Direktion, Koeln): Multimedia: Technologien und Strategien im Rundfunkbereich Graphisches Faktenretrieval mit vager Anfrageinterpretation Wolff, C.; University of Leipzig; Womser-Hacker, C.; University of Regensburg Session 6: Automatic Construction of News Hypertext Dalamagas, T.; Dunlop, M.D.; University of Glasgow; GRAS: An Adaptive Personalization Scheme for Hypermedia Databases Kahabka, T.; Specht, G.; TU Muenchen; Korkea-aho, M.; Helsinki University of Technology; DIANE - Hypermedia Documents in a Distributed Annotation Environment Benz, H.; Fischer, S.; Mecklenburg, R.; University of Stuttgart Session 7: Kontextsensitive Visualisierung von Suchergebnissen Bekavac, B.; Rittberger, M.; University of Konstanz; Fach-, raum- und zeitbezogene Katalogisierung und Recherche von Umweltinformationen auf dem Internet Riekert, W.-F.; Tochtermann, K.; Wiest, G.; Gaul, M.; FAW Ulm Seggelke, J.; Mohaupt-Jahr, B.; Umweltbundesamt Berlin; PRISMA - Ein Informationssytem fuer Moderne Kunst im Internet Dupont-Christ, S.; Goettler, H.; Heyen, R.; Krimm, J.; Kuballa, U.; Schoenhaber, M.; Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: The program is subject to change without notice. Actual and more detailed Information can be obtained from the Web: http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/HIM97/ Please direct your requests to: him97@ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de ********** III.B.3. Fr: Roberto Poli <poli@gelso.unitn.it> Re: BISCA-97 BISCA-97 The 1997 Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis Categories: Ontological Perspectives in Knowledge Representation Bolzano, Italy, Maretsch Castle, 15-19 September 1997 John Sowa, Knowledge Representation: Logical, Computational, and Philosophical Foundations Maurice Gross, Lexically-based Semantics: The Interrelations Between Lexicons and Grammars David Woodruff Smith, Systematic Ontology: Varieties of Category Schemes Roberto Poli, Dimensions of the Ontological Analysis GENERAL INFORMATION: 1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants. 2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board. 3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion. 4. All lectures will be in English. 5. The lectures will be given at Castel Maretsch, downtown, starting September 15, at 9 a.m. 6. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet the costs of participation. BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker (La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo) People wishing to participate should write to Roberto Poli, Department of Sociology and Social Research, 26 Verdi st., 38100 Trento, Italy (call: (++39) 461 881 403; fax: (++39) 461 881 348), or send an e-mail message to: poli@risc1.gelso.unitn.it For those willing to present their research work, an informal workshop will be held on September 17, Wednesday afternoon. Send please an e-mail request containing a two pages abstract to Aldo Gangemi: aldo@saussure.irmkant.rm.cnr.it Information about the past BISCAs -- Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis (Previously: Bolzano International Schools in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (1988 - 1995)) Roberto Poli Department of Sociology and Social Research 26, Verdi street 38100 Trento -- Italy Tel. ++39-461-881-403 Fax: ++39-461-881-348 e-mail: poli@risc1.gelso.unitn.it home-page: http://www.gelso.unitn.it/~poli/ ********** III.B.4. Fr: D.K.Allen <D.K.Allen@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK> Re: ISIC'98: Changes Information Seeking in Context : an International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. PLEASE NOT THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THE ISIC '98 CONFERENCE (first posted in IR-L Digest, XIV-28-366, August 5, 1997) 1. The dates of the conference have been altered and it will now begin at 9.15am on Thursday the 13th of August 1998 and conclude at 6.00pm on Saturday the 15th of August. 2. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Friday the 31st of October 1997. 3. The conference web site has now been updated and details of the ISIC=9296 programme are now available: http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/david_allen/ISIC/isic.html ********** III.B.5. Fr: Beata Panagopoulos <Beata_Panagopoulos@KSG.HARVARD.EDU> Re: Knowledge Management Program American Society for Information Science New England Chapter (NEASIS) KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Thursday, 4 September 1997 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Companies have used a variety of organizational methods--handbooks, vertical files, data collections, and electronic databases--to organize and access knowledge. This knowledge encompasses not only printed publications, reports, and memos, but also more intangible assets, such as subject expertise and experience held by various employees--a company's "intellectual capital." As such, knowledge management has become a recognized and important function within many corporations and institutions. This full-day program will focus on several aspects of knowledge management, including history and research, infrastructure, technology, corporate and academic perspectives and approaches, as well as managerial techniques and challenges in the knowledge management process. In addition to lectures and panel sessions, this program will present two in-depth case studies of knowledge management programs currently in operation. A partial list of speakers includes: -- Michael Leach, Harvard University -- Kris Liberman, Ernst & Young -- Jerry Miller, Simmons College, GSLIS -- Lisa Mitchell, Draper Laboratory -- Rudy Ruggles, Ernst & Young FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Margret Lippert: lippertm@mit.edu or 617-253-1293. ********************************************************** 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: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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