Information Retrieval List Digest 398 (March 23, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-398.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 23, 1998 Volume XV, Number 12 Issue 398 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Robert Morris College: Asst./Assoc. Prof., Communications and Information Systems 2. Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark: Sr. Scientist and Scientist: Human-Machine Interaction Research III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Special Issue of NRHM on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems 2. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Cross-Language Information Retrieval 3. Computers and the Humanities: Digital Images (special topic) 4. FARNET's Washington Update, March 16, 1998 B. Meetings 1. Seminar: "Convergence in the Digital Age: 2. Managing the Information Deluge: Call for Proposals 3. ASIS 1998 Mid-year Meeting C. Miscellaneous 1. BISCA-98 2. John Ober Joins CDL IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. NSF/CISE KDI/New Challenges to Computation information E. Miscellaneous 1. New Working Draft ISO Standard - 15660 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: David Bennett Re: Robert Morris College: Asst./Assoc. Prof., Communications and Information Systems Assistant/Associate Professors COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS Robert Morris College Pittsburgh, PA The School of Communications and Information Systems (SCIS) seeks candidates to help implement its innovative undergraduate Communications Skills Program and new interdisciplinary Master's program in communications and information science/systems. REQUIREMENTS: Ph.D. degree in relevant field and will be competitive for a joint appointment in Communications and in Computer and Information Systems. Evidence of experience in bridging the disciplines of rhetoric/communication theory and information theory; record of excellent teaching, service, and scholarship; business and/or corporate experience. Interdisciplinary background and supporting credentials in more than one of the following fields: information management, systems theory, systems analysis, software applications, multimedia, computer assisted instruction and presentations, distance learning, applied linguistics, and/or communication law and ethics. Assist in implementing its innovative undergraduate Communications Skills Program and new interdisciplinary master's program in communications and information science/systems. Teaching assignments may include evening and Saturday schedules. Robert Morris College is consistently named among the top ten specialty schools in the USA. RMC offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs to about 5,000 students at two locations in Pittsburgh, PA. Submit a letter of interest, resume, three references, and statement delineating interdisciplinary experience in appropriate fields to: Director of Human Resources Robert Morris College 881 Narrows Run Road Moon Township, PA 15108 Robert Morris College is an equal opportunity employer. =46or more information, contact Dr. John O'Banion Head, Department of Communications Robert Morris College obanion@robert-morris.edu ********** II.2. =46r: Leif Loevborg Re: Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark: Sr. Scientist and Scientist: Human-Machine Interaction Research Scientist and Senior Scientist Human-Machine Interaction Research Applications are invited for two positions as, respectively, a senior scientist and a scientist at the Centre for Human-Machine Interaction hosted by the Systems Analysis Department at Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark. CENTRE FOR HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION: The centre was established on 1 March 1998 as a joint undertaking between Risoe, University of Aarhus, Technical University of Denmark, Danfoss A/S and The Danish Maritime Institute. The objective of the centre is to conduct interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical research in the design of ecological and elastic information systems in common information spaces and co-operative work. The centre is financed through a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation, initially for a five year period. JOB DESCRIPTION: The two positions are concerned with interdisciplinary research activities in human-machine interaction, cognitive systems engineering, knowledge organisation and management, information seeking and heterogeneous information in intranets and internets. Applicants for both positions are expected to participate in empirical user studies and research in ecological principles for system design and contribute to prototype design and the development of theoretical approaches to human-machine interaction. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree or similar qualifications. Applicants for the position as a senior scientist should be capable of identifying and formulating international research proposals within the research areas and supervise Ph.D. students. The ability to further collaboration with the scientific community both in Denmark and internationally will be emphasised as well as the ability to disseminate research results to the end users. All applications will be considered by a scientific committee. TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: The terms of employment for the Danish scientific staff at Risoe National Laboratory will be applied. Depending on qualifications and experience the annual salary for a senior scientist is in the range 400,000 to 420,000 DKK including pension contributions. The corresponding salary for a scientist is in the range 260,000 to 350,000 DKK. (1 DKK is currently equivalent to about 0.14 USD). The positions are available at the earliest convenience. INFORMATION: A brief description of the centre can be accessed from the web address: http://www.risoe.dk/sys-mem/. Further information can be obtained from Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Head of Centre, by phone: (+45) 4677 5149, fax: (+45) 4677 5199 or e-mail: amp@risoe.dk. APPLICATIONS: It should be stated whether the application is for the scientist position or for the senior scientist position, and applications should be labelled "SYS 32/98" for the scientist position and "SYS 33/98" for the senior scientist position. Applictions must include four copies of full Curriculum Vitae, list of publications and reprints of selected publications and other relevant personal data. They should be addressed to: Risoe National Laboratory Personnel Office P.O.Box 49 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark and received no later than 22 April 1998. Leif Loevborg Systems Analysis Department (SYS-110) Risoe National Laboratory P.O. Box 49 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Phone: + 45 4677 5152 (direct line), + 45 4677 4677 (switchboard) =46ax: + 45 4677 5199 e-mail: leif.loevborg@risoe.dk ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Maria Milosavljevic Re: Special Issue of NRHM on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 1998 call for submissions on the themes of 'adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems', and 'hypermedia for museums and cultural heritage'. NRHM (previously Hypermedia, one of the original journals on the subject) is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical and theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and related technologies. The new editorial team has introduced themed issues, each issue (normally 10-12 papers) will review and explore one or two topical themes from a variety of perspectives. The main theme of the 1997 issue was the evaluation of hypermedia and multimedia systems. The themes for the 1998 issue of the New Review will be: - hypermedia for museums and cultural heritage. Theme editors Douglas Tudhope and Daniel Cunliffe - adaptivity and user modeling in hypertext/hypermedia systems: Guest editors Peter Brusilovsky and Maria Milosavljevic. (also see Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia Home Page http://www.education.uts.edu.au/projects/ah/index.html) Papers should be submitted to the appropriate theme editors no later than June 1st 1998. For Instructions to Authors, see http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/ or contact the Editor. Submissions are welcomed on all aspects of the two themes, including but not restricted to: ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA: * user modeling in adaptive hypermedia * adaptive educational hypermedia systems * adaptive information systems * adaptive museum hypermedia * adaptive navigation support * natural language techniques for dynamic hypertext generation * adaptive WWW navigation aids * adaptive visualization of hypertext structure * empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia * content adaptation in hypertext and hypermedia * personalized information spaces * adaptivity and adaptability in a hypermedia context * adaptive information retrieval Guest editors: Peter Brusilovsky - plb@cs.cmu.edu School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Maria Milosavljevic - mariam@mpce.mq.edu.au MRI Language Technology Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. HYPERMEDIA FOR MUSUEMS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE * hypermedia link services * networked access * time-varying interactive presentations * image, audio and video databases * navigation design * intelligent hypermedia and agents * web-based museum hypermedia * spatial and temporal models * evaluation and studies of use * metadata and intellectual access * thesauri and semantic representations * copyright /IPR for digital multimedia standards Editor: Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope@glamorgan.ac.uk Department of Computer Studies University of Glamorgan Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan CF37 1DL Wales, UK fax +1443-482715 tel +1443-482271 Associate Editor (US) Andrew Dillon - adillon@ucs.indiana.edu Associate Editor (UK) Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif@glamorgan.ac.uk =46or subscription information, contact Taylor Graham Publishing, 500 Chesham House, 150 Regent Street, London W1R 5FA, UK. ********** III.A.2. =46r: Roberta Murphy Re: Kluwer Academic Publishers: Cross-Language Information Retrieval KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS is proud to announce the publication of: CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL edited by Gregory Grefenstette Rank Xerox European Research Centre, France Cross-Language Information Retrieval is the first book that addresses the problem of accessing multilingual information through a single-language query. This research problem is receiving growing attention by US and foreign governments. The universal adoption of the Internet and the WWW have created an enormous, multilingual virtual textual database. Rather than looking upon foreign language documents as distracting noise, one can consider these documents as untapped sources of information. Cross-Language Information Retrieval describes the problem, highlighting the differences between the field and the related areas of Machine Translation and Information Retrieval. Researchers from Europe, Japan and America present a wide variety of techniques and experimental results. The life-size experiments are run on modern large-scale retrieval testbeds, running up to hundreds of megabytes of texts. The techniques involve using bilingual dictionaries, machine translation systems, parallel text corpora, comparable but non-parallel text corpora, latent semantic indexing, and weighted Boolean interrogation. This volume is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on Cross-Language Information Retrieval, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS: Preface. 1. The Problem of Cross-Language Information Retrieval; G. Grefenstette 2. On the Effective Use of Large Parallel Corpora in Cross-Language Text Retrieval; M.W. Davis 3. Statistical Methods for Cross-Language Information Retrieval; L. Ballesteros, W.B. Croft 4. Distributed Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval; C. Fluhr, et al 5. Automatic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Latent Semantic Indexing; M.L. Littman, et al. 6. Mapping Vocabularies Using Latent Semantics; D.A. Evans, et al. 7. Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A System for Comparable Corpus Querying; E. Picchi, C. Peters. 8. A Language Conversion Front-End for Cross-Language Information Retrieval; Y. Kiyoshi, et al. 9. The SYSTRAN NLP Browser: An Application of Machine Translation Technology in Cross-Language Information Retrieval; D.A. Gachot, et al. 10. A Weighted Boolean Model for Cross-Language Text Retrieval; D. Hull. 11. Building a Large Multilingual Test Collection from Comparable News Documents; P. Sheridan, et al. 12. Evaluating Cross-Language Text Filtering Effectiveness; D.W. Oard, B.J. Dorr. References. Index. THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, Volume 2 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-8122-X, March 1998, 200 pp. =46OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR On-line Catalogue at: http://www.wkap.nl or you may order directly from: Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive Norwell, Ma. 02061 Phone: 781-871-6600, Fax: (781) 871-6528, E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com Kluwer Academic Publishers P. O. Box 322 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands Phone 31 78 639 2392 =46ax: 31 78 6546474 E-mail: services@wkap.nl ********** III.A.3. =46r: Abby Goodrum Re: Computers and the Humanities: Digital Images (special topic) Call for Papers Special Topic Issue of Computers and the Humanities: "Digital Images" The full call can be found at http://httpsrv.ocs.drexel.edu/faculty/goodruaa/special/ This special issue will address challenges and opportunities in designing, building, and using digital image collections in the humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: USER AND USE: Images and Their Use in the Humanities. New Uses for Old Images Visual Information Needs for Scholars in the Humanities Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology, Visual Humanities PLANNING, DESIGN, AND IMPLEMENTATION: Constraints and Opportunities of Collection as Representation. Designing a Digital Library for Humanities Scholars Networking Images: The Scholar's Workstation Revisited INDEXING, ACCESS, AND REPRESESNTATION: Analogs to Practice in Other Genres & New Frontiers The Language of Images: Is the Goal of a Visual Thesaurus Impossible? Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar: Interdisciplinary Image Interpretation. PRESERVATION: Representation of the Public Knowledge. Archiving and Digital Images Platform Standards and Planned Obsolescence Saving Images That Never Existed: The Line Between Preservation and Creation INTERFACE DESIGN AND HCI: =46acilitating Scholarly Methods Design to Support Multiple Users and Uses Design to Support Multiple Image Types. =46ull papers (4 copies) should be submitted to: Dr. Abby A. Goodrum College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 (215) 895-6627 The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for publication in this special issue is October 1, 1998. A separate cover page should be provided with the title, the author(s) names and affiliations, plus complete contact information (postal, fax, e-mail) for the corresponding author. GUEST EDITORS: Abby Goodrum Assistant Professor College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University goodruaa@post.drexel.edu Brian O'Connor Associate Professor School of Library and Information Management Emporia State University oconnorbe@esumail.emporia.edu James Turner Professeur Adjoint Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information Universite de Montreal turner@ere.umontreal.ca ********** III.A.4. =46r: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update, March 16, 1998 =46ARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MARCH 16, 1998 =46ARNET (http://www.farnet.org/) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: Minors and Internet content: Senate Commerce Committee approves Internet filtering bill; promises to resolve USF issue before sending to Senate floor. NGI may receive boost in funding if Senate Commerce authorization bill accepted by Appropriations Committees. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. Garret Sern Policy Analyst =46ARNET (202) 331-5365 garret@farnet.org ********** III.B.1. =46r: Johan van de Walle RE: Seminar: "Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives" Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives. Thursday 13 - Friday 14 August 1998 Amsterdam, The Netherlands On 13 and 14 August 1998, a seminar on "Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives" will be held with support of the European Union, in Amsterdam. The seminar is a satellite event of this year=92s IFLA General conference which takes place in Amsterdam from 1= 6 to 21 August 1998. Libraries, museums and archives are all increasingly dealing with documents, publications and information in electronic form. This new environment is obliging them to confront digitisation, archiving, preservation, new users services and new economic models in a complex legal framework. The seminar is hence a unique opportunity for those interested in the fields of libraries, museums or archives to share their experiences of handling digital information and to discuss common issues and challenges. It also aims at providing new ideas for the definition of strategies for co-operation in a digital environment. The seminar is organised in 6 main thematic sessions: I. The Organisation of Knowledge in a Digital Environment II. The Citizen's Access to the Digital Heritage III. New Services in their Legal Context IV. The Future of the Digital Present V. Converging Technologies and Standards for Digital Collections VI. Strategic Issues in Research and Technological Development These themes will be illustrated by presentations of ongoing projects. Most of these projects are sponsored by the European Commission. The full programme is to be published within a few weeks. =46OR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS, please contact: Johan van de Walle TNO-STB PO Box 80544 NL-2508 GM The Hague The Netherlands E-mail: vandewalle@stb.tno.nl and jvdwalle@bart.nl ********** III.B.2. =46r: Kyle Banerjee Re: Call for Proposals: Managing the Information Deluge Managing the Information Deluge ASISPNC Annual Meeting, Sept. 18-19 BICC Theater, Oregon Health Sciences University Technology allows us to store, retrieve and manipulate data in ways that were not possible just a few years ago. However, most organizations have neither succeeded in ensuring that all their current information is usable, nor have they succeeded in developing a long term strategy to ensure that the electronic information produced today will be accessible in the future. In order to function, organizations and individuals have become reliant on huge amounts of information stored, processed and retrieved according to a constantly expanding number of formats, protocols, and methods. This information lends itself poorly to long term archiving -- especially in distributed computing environments where it is not clear who should be responsible for maintaining the information. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Your proposal should include a title and 100-word abstract. It should also include your name, your title within your organization, address, phone number, and email address. You are encouraged to use the online submission form at http://www.orst.edu/groups/asispnc/current/proposal.html but ASCII email and paper submissions will also be accepted. All proposals relating to content management will be considered, though ASISPNC is especially looking for submissions on the following topics: 1.Intranet organization and management 2.Maintaining access to historical or dynamically updated data 3.Determining which information should be kept 4.Determining who should be responsible for maintaining access to what information 5.Managing increasingly complex and diverse data objects Interested parties may use the online submission form at http://www.orst.edu/groups/asispnc/current/proposal.html or they can contact: Kyle Banerjee banerjek@ucs.orst.edu 333 Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 tel. (541)737-7262 Proposals must be received by May 31, 1998 to receive full consideration. Presenters receive complimentary conference registration. ********** III.B.3. =46r: Jan White Re: ASIS 1998 Mid-year Meeting American Society for Information Science 1998 Mid-Year Meeting Collaboration Across Boundaries: theories, strategies and technology Information and on-line registration is available now! http://www.asis.org/Conferences/MY98/ ********** III.C.1. =46r: Roberto Poli Re: BISCA-98 Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura-Mitteleuropaeisches Kulturinstitut BISCA-98 Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis UNFOLDING PERCEPTUAL CONTINUA Bolzano, September 7-11, 1998 Recent problems raised by cognitive science, such as the perception of forms, the recognition of natural languages, the problems of common sense, na=EFve physics, and consequently the need for direct and non-propositional reference to the objects of experience - as cited, for example by scientists working in robotics - has proposed new areas of inquiry for psychophysics. The Bolzano School in Cognitive Analysis of 1998 will analyze the problem of perceptual continua (in particular space, time, sound, colour and touch) from the point of view of neurophysiological, of phenomenic and of philosophical enquiry. Moreover, a parallel reading of the theories developed at the beginning of this century and of contemporary ones might be useful not only in philosophy but also in various areas of cognitive sciences. Speakers of BISCA 1998 are: LILIANA ALBERTAZZI: The experimental phenomenology standpoint JAN J. KOENDERINCK: Multiply extended continua in vision GUERINO MAZZOLA: Grouping paradigms in music RUGGERO PIERANTONI: Sensory perception: touch and cognition 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. 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) =46OR COMPLETE INFORMATION, write to Liliana Albertazzi: alberta@risc1.gelso.unitn.it and see the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IM.htm ********** III.C.2. =46r: MJ Moore Re: John Ober Joins CDL John Ober Joins the California Digital Library as the Assistant Director, Education and Communications On May 11, 1998, John Ober will assume the post of Assistant Director, Education and Communications, California Digital Library. In his new role, Dr. Ober will be responsible for managing CDL communication and education programs. Working closely with other members of the CDL management team, he will develop programs that communicate the goals and objectives of the CDL to faculty, students, and librarians throughout the University, as well as to CDL partners in other educational institutions and in industry. Dr. Ober will serve as a resource to librarians on the UC campuses for the development of local educational and training programs, and will be a key participant in the design of an effective user interface for access to CDL collections and services. In addition, he will make presentations about CDL programs to various groups, as well as participate in national discussions of issues relating to the training of users of digital content. "In a cooperative endeavor such as the CDL, continuous communication with the user community and user training are of paramount importance," says Richard Lucier, University Librarian and Executive Director of the CDL. "Dr. Ober will regularly evaluate the needs of the CDL community and the effectiveness of our technological tools and systems in meeting those needs." Dr. Ober has broad experience and knowledge in librarianship, teaching, and computer technology. Most recently, he was the Development Librarian for Electronic Resources for the Center for Science, Technology, and Information Resources/Library Learning Complex, California State University (CSU), Monterey Bay. In this position, he coordinated the technological infrastructure for the Library, as well as strategic planning and development for the Library academic program, and the collection of electronic primary sources. Previously, he served as the Acting Director, Library Systems, at UC Berkeley, where he was responsible for the operational and strategic management of the UC Berkeley Library Systems Office and acted as project manager for several digital library projects. He was also a Network Resources Librarian at UC Berkeley. As an Instructor at CSU Monterey and an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, Dr. Ober has taught courses on database management, networks and networked information, and the management of information technology. He has worked with various faculty and university committees at both institutions, given numerous presentations on digital resources, computer technology in libraries, and user training, and has written several articles and book chapters. Dr. Ober received a B.A. in English/Philosophy from Bowling Green State University, an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Houston, an M.L.I.S. in Information Systems Management from UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Systems Management, also from UC Berkeley. ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. =46r: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE KDI/New Challenges to Computation information The following document (cise9801) is now available from the NSF Online Document System: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?cise9801 Title: New Challenges to Computation (NCC) -- Dear Colleague Letter Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences It refers to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) focus of the NCC component of the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence initiative (http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/kdi/). Letters of intent due: April 1, 1998 =46ull proposals due: May 8, 1998 Dear Colleague, Please let me take this opportunity to call to your attention a recent NSF announcement. The CISE Directorate has a continuing interest in collaborative and experimental research involving teams of researchers, with support coming both from specific, directed opportunities such as the Grand Challenge and Digital Libraries Programs and from the portfolio of awards in Directorate programs. This interest continues in FY 1998, with a more specific focus on the New Challenges to Computation (NCC) component of Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI). Information on specifically NCC and more generally KDI is available on the KDI web page at http://www.nsf.gov/kdi. Letters of intent are requested, and are due April 1, 1998 with full proposals due May 8, 1998. NCC aims to enable wide collaboration and effective management of complex systems. This will require application-driven networking research to enable distributed collaboration among disparate communities. =46or Fiscal Year 1998, NCC will emphasize research on 1. problems involving interactions between phenomena at different scales or structures, and 2. problems requiring a dynamic interplay between computations and data. In this competition, the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division of CISE especially encourages proposals that combine research in high-performance networking, middleware, and management software with the two emphases for NCC research in FY98. =46or more information or to discuss possible projects, please contact Dr. John Cherniavsky by telephone at (703) 306-1980 or by email at . John Cherniavsky Division Director CISE/EIA NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ********** IV.E.1. =46r: Kurt Kopp Re: New Working Draft ISO Standard - 15660 I received a copy of ISO/WD 15660 "Information and documentation-Storage and preservation of sound and video media". Following is the introduction to the standard: Introduction Libraries and archives are institutions established by society in order to collect, make available and preserve carriers of information intended for consultation, either by viewing directly or via a screen, or, in the case of sound recordings, by ear. Library and archive collections normally contain materials in a wide variety of formats. Paper based documents dominate the holdings, but they may also include video materials, sound recordings on gramophone disks, and magnetic media. These latter materials ideally require different storage conditions. Due to local circumstances, however, they may have to be housed in the same room. Furthermore, they require special methods of preservation and conservation after acquisition and during long-term storage as well as control operations during storage. This standard applies to the long-term storage of archive and library materials, but takes into account that, as the materials are stored to allow present use as well, the ideal conditions for long-term storage may not always be achieved. Open access storage of documents has been excluded from treatment in this standard. Various kinds of CDs (CD-ROM, VideoCD, PhotoCD, CD-i CD-R, etc) are not included. While it is relatively simple from a scientific point of view to define the right conditions for long-term storage of archive and library materials, it is at the same time difficult and expensive to realize them. This realization depends on many circumstances specific for the different climatic zones of the world and on the economic situation of a specific country. This standard therefore avoids giving absolute figures, as they are to be found in most national standards and in that genre of technical literature that may be defined as "Principles for storage and conservation". If you would like to review this ISO working draft, please send me your snail mail address. Thanks, Kurt Kopp Chair, ASIS Standards Committee ****************************************************************** 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: nancy.gusack@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. 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