Information Retrieval List Digest 401 (April 13, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-401.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 13, 1998 Volume XV, Number 15 Issue 401 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. European Community: Joint Research Centre: Computational Linguist/Programmer 2. Drexel U.: IS&T: Assistant/Associate Professors 3. U. Dortmund, Germany: IR Researcher III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ARL Announces: Report of Pew Higher Education Roundtable B. Meetings 1. ACM SIGIR '98: Post-Conference Workshop on Hypertext IR for the Web 2. CIA-98: Preliminary Program C. Miscellaneous 1. Version 17, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2. UCAID Announces Advisory Councils IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowshipos, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training D. Research 1. Library Purchasing of Electronic Information ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Ralf Steinberger Re: European Community: Joint Research Centre: Computational Linguist/Programmer Vacancy at the EC's Joint Research Centre: Document Clustering The Unit Advanced Techniques for Information Analysis (ATIA) at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy is looking for a skilled computational linguist/programmer to work on document clustering, automatic indexing and subject domain recognition for the period June 1998 to May 1999 (twelve months). Besides the implementation of a prototype document clustering system, which will eventually be turned into a workable system and should run on WindowsNT, the new group member will help with the integration of linguistic tools and resources such as lemmatisers, dictionaries and thesauri. The remuneration will be approximately 4.5 Million Lira/month net (equivalent to ca. 2.250 ECU or 4.500 DM or 15.000 FF or 1.500 GBP) for an Italian national, or 16% more for nationals of other EU member states. Candidates should have the following skills: * Good programming skills and experience in a programming language suitable to build the prototype document clustering system such as PERL, C++ or C; Knowledge of Prolog, AWK, Visual C++, Visual Basic or Java would be a plus. * Knowledge of WindowsNT and UNIX. * Good working knowledge of English and the ability to write reports in English; knowledge of French; German and Italian would be a plus. * Previous experience with systems for word or document clustering would be a plus. * Self-motivation, flexibility, team spirit and good communication skills. * EU member state nationality. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Ispra: As the corporate research centre of the European Commission, the JRC maintains a neutral and impartial status which has led to the development of activities in the areas of certification, standardisation and accreditation. The Ispra site of the JRC employs approximately 1800 people and is thus the biggest of the five JRC sites in Europe. Its staff engage in a variety of scientific areas, including the Environment, Space Applications, Advanced Materials and Systems Safety. The JRC has more than 800 partners involved in more than 140 collaboration agreements with national research organisations, universities and private industry. The high-level research and the multi-disciplinary and multi-national ambience at the centre attract visiting scientists and students from all over the world. The activities of the unit Advanced Techniques for Information Analysis comprise, among others: support to the Commission's anti-fraud unit in the Directorate General (UCLAF) and to the Statistical Office of the EC (EUROSTAT); development of European databases; image compression and analysis; 3-D imaging; information retrieval; information processing for the fight against fraud; handling of large amounts of data; multimedia systems. Ispra is situated at the South end of the lake 'Lago Maggiore' in Northern Italy and is surrounded by mountains as well as several other lakes, being therefore an ideal starting point for many different outdoors activities. The multi-national community working at the centre is engaged in a large variety of cultural and sports activities offering over thirty sports clubs and interest groups. Ispra is approximately an hour's drive from Milano (1 hour from Milano Linate airport and 1/2 hour from Milano Malpensa airport). Interested candidates should send a CV with a covering letter and two references to the address below. Applications by fax or by email in plain text or with attachment in Microsoft Word or LaTeX format would be preferred. Dr. Ralf Steinberger European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety Advanced Techniques for Information Analysis (http://www.jrc.org/isis/atia/) T.P. 361 I - 21020 Ispra (VA) Tel: + 39 - 332 - 78 6271 Fax: + 39 - 332 - 78 9098 Email: ralf.steinberger@jrc.it ********** II.2. Fr: Kate McCain Re: Drexel U.: IS&T: Assistant/Associate Professors Drexel University Assistant/Associate Professor Library & Information Science Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology (IST) invites applications for full-time positions, tenure-track or auxiliary, at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to begin September 1, 1998. The successful applicant will have responsibility for teaching, curriculum development, and research in one or a combination of the following areas: 1. Knowledge Management: Includes topics such as business information resources, competitive intelligence, information services in organizations, corporate intranet design and administration, database management applications, records management, and electronic archives. 2. Information Retrieval/Digital Libraries: Includes topics such as information retrieval from textual and multimedia databases, content representation, cataloging and classification, linguistics and natural language systems, and metadata. 3. Youth Services: Includes topics such as instructional technology and youth, resources for children and young adults, information-seeking behaviors of children and young adults, social, cultural, and professional issues. The IST view of information is broad, multidisciplinary, and practical. We offer an ALA-accredited MS in library and information science, a BS and an MS in Information Systems, an MS in Software Engineering, and a PhD. We are executing a grant from the Kellogg Foundation that is focused on reinventing education for information professionals. As a result, our master's programs have undergone substantial redesign. With Sloan Foundation grants we have established leadership in online education. The success of our programs is based on faculty teamwork, enterprise, and industry. The successful candidate will have (or almost have) an appropriate PhD degree, with evidence of (or potential for) excellence in teaching and research. Substantial time in relevant practice is also desirable. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least three references to: Gregory Hislop, PhD, Chair, Faculty Search Committee College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Drexel University is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. ********** II.3. Fr: Norbert Fuhr Re: U. Dortmund, Germany: IR Researcher Research Position in Agent-Based Information Filtering Computing Science Department, University of Dortmund, Germany For the EU-funded Telematics project EUROgatherer, the Information Retrieval group at the University of Dortmund is looking for a research staff member, starting May 1, 1998. EUROgatherer involves three commercial European Web search engines and four research institutes from six countries. The project aims at the development and pilot application of agent-based methods for information gathering from Web-based information sources. Starting from user-defined interest profiles, the system will monitor relevant Web sites as well as Web databases and forward new, relevant documents to the user as soon as they become available. The major responsibility of our group will be the development of the filtering component. We are looking for applicants owning a degree in computer science who have knowledge in at least one of the following areas: - Web-based information systems, - Information Retrieval, - Agent systems. Knowledge of German is not required. Due to the short duration of the project, the initial contract will be limited to 15 months. However, there are good chances for working in other projects afterwards. Our research group is involved in a number of other national and European research projects on digital libraries, Web-based information systems and multimedia information systems. Further details are available at http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/ir/. Payment will be according to German BAT IIa (approx. 70000 DM p.a.). Please send your resume to: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr Informatik VI University of Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund Germany Email: fuhr@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: ARL Announces: Report of Pew Higher Education Roundtable March 31, 1998 "To Publish or Perish" the March issue of Policy Perspectives, the publication of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable available at: . Academic Community Sets Agenda to Reclaim Scholarly Publishing Research universities have it within their power to work with each other and scholarly societies to transform scholarly communication into "a system of electronically mediated publications that will provide enhanced access to scholarly information and relief from the escalating prices of commercial publishers." So conclude the participants -- university presidents, provosts, faculty, librarians, counsels, and representatives of scholarly societies and university presses -- in a special Roundtable on Managing Intellectual Property in Higher Education. The findings of this group are reported in the essay "To Publish and Perish" featured in the March 1998 issue of Policy Perspectives, the publication of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable. Noting that the rising cost of scholarly publications is not a 'library problem,' but a symptom of the deeper conflict between the sociology and economics of academic publishing, the essay contrasts the expectation of an open exchange of information within the academy to the pricing and copyright practices of commercial publishers that control many of the major scholarly publishing venues. In an effort to regain some control over the research and scholarship generated by the academic community, the Roundtable participants proposed a set of five strategies to address the problem. They recommended that: * promotion and tenure committees disentangle the notions of quality and quantity in the work of the faculty; * libraries leverage their resources by creating a more coherent market for scholarly publications; * universities, led by their national associations, help faculty understand the implications of signing away their intellectual property rights; * universities and scholarly societies invest in electronic forms of peer-reviewed scholarly communication; and * universities and scholarly societies decouple publication and faculty peer reviewed evaluation of the merit of scholarly work. The participants stated that "The outcome we seek is a set of specific arrangements -- linking institutions, their faculty, and their scholarly organizations -- that protects the rights of faculty and secures for their appointing institutions a more assured ability to provide access to research and scholarly information." While the challenges are not insignificant, the group concluded that: the risks of doing nothing substantially outweigh the difficulty of doing something -- and doing it now! A moment of opportunity is at hand, occasioned by the potential for peer-reviewed electronic publishing and a sense of desperation spawned by runaway acquisition costs. Missing this opportunity will mean more rapidly accelerating costs, greater commercial control, and, in the end, less access to scholarly communications. John Vaughn, Executive Vice President of the Association of American Universities, noted that the recommendations emanating from the Roundtable "form the most critical agenda for universities and scholars over the next decade. The issues have been defined. It is time now for universities to act." Duane Webster, ARL Executive Director, added, "These discussions underscore once again that creative action by the entire scholarly community is necessary to solve the problem of increasingly unaffordable scholarly publications." The Roundtable was convened in Baltimore in November 1997 to confront the challenges facing the academic community in maintaining access to significant research and scholarship at a time when both the volume and price of information have increased nearly three-fold in the last decade alone. The Roundtable was hosted by the Johns Hopkins University and sponsored by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Pew Higher Education Roundtable. Funding was provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Individual copies of the March 1998 issue of Policy Perspectives can be obtained from the Institute for Research on Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania, 4200 Pine Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4090; phone 1-800-437-9799. The issue is available on the Web at . Members of the Association of Research Libraries can contact ARL at pubs@arl.org for information about copies of the report. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising 121 libraries of North American research institutions. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. The Association articulates the concerns of research libraries and their institutions, forges coalitions, influences information policy development, and supports innovation and improvement in research library operations. ARL operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and as an agent for collective action. More information is available at: . The Association of American Universities (AAU) was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen universities offering the Ph.D. degree. The AAU currently consists of sixty American universities and two Canadian universities. Approximately half are public institutions and half are private. The association serves its members in two major ways. First, it assists them in developing national policy positions on issues that relate to academic research and graduate and professional education. Second, it provides them with a forum for discussing a broad range of other institutional issues, such as undergraduate education. More information is available at: . The Pew Higher Education Roundtable is a national laboratory that seeks to identify and test "best practices" for academic restructuring. Initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1986, the Roundtable's member institutions include colleges and universities from all parts of the nation, representing a broad range of institutional size and mission. The Roundtable convenes both national conversations to focus on issues confronting all of higher education and on-campus conversations to facilitate exploration of challenges facing specific institutions. More information is available at: . March 31, 1998 For further information please contact: Mary Case, Director ARL Office of Scholarly Communication mary@arl.org Roundtable Participants * Douglas C. Bennett, President, Earlham College * Robert D. Bovenschulte, Director Publications Division, American Chemical Society * William R. Brody, President, The Johns Hopkins University * Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania * Nancy M. Cline, Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, Harvard University * Jonathan R. Cole, Provost and Dean of Faculties and Quetelet, Professor of Social Science, Columbia University * John D'Arms, President, American Council of Learned Societies * Kenneth L. Frazier, Director, General Library System, University of Wisconsin-Madison * James S. Gardner, Vice President (Academic) and Provost, University of Manitoba * Peter Givler, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses * Georgia Harper, Head of the Intellectual Property Section, Office of the General Counsel, University of Texas System * Richard E. Lucier, University Librarian, and Executive Director, California Digital Library, University of California * Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information * James G. Neal, Sheridan Director, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University * James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies, Vice Provost, Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania * Charles E. Phelps, Provost, University of Rochester * Bernard Rous, Deputy Director of Publications, Association for Computing Machinery * David E. Shulenburger, Provost, University of Kansas * Elaine Sloan, Vice President for Information, Services and University Librarian, Columbia University * Robert Wedgeworth, University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Gloria Werner, University Librarian, University of California - Los Angeles * Association of Research Libraries, Mary Case, Duane Webster * Association of American Universities, John C. Vaughn, Cornelius J. Pings * Pew Higher Education Roundtable, Ann J. Duffield, Gregory R. Wegner, Robert Zemsky ********** III.B.1. Fr: Eric W. Brown Re: ACM SIGIR '98: Post-Conference Workshop on Hypertext IR for the Web ACM SIGIR'98 Post-Conference Workshop on Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web Melbourne, Australia, August 28, 1998 Call For Participation BACKGROUND: The notion of searching a hypertext corpus has been around for a while. Early work in the area includes the development of formal search models that attempt to capture both the content and graph structure of a hypertext, automatically constructing hypertexts (e.g., via content-based clustering or citation linking) to incorporate navigation and visualization into the search process, and extending traditional IR search techniques to exploit the link relationships in a hypertext (both authored and automatically generated links). Although this work is interesting, much of it was conducted at a time when hypertexts were smaller, not distributed, and somewhat esoteric. With the advent of the World Wide Web, hypertext and the linking together of related pieces of information has become ubiquitous. Of course, hypertext on the WWW has drifted somewhat from the original ideal. Hypertext "documents" are written by multiple, independent authors who can create links between pages with indiscretion. Navigational links, citation links, reference links, and just plain confusing links are creatively mixed together and scattered throughout the pages. Page lengths range from a few words to thousands of words, producing a remarkable variety of hypertext "nodes." Consistency is rarely found within a website (let alone the WWW), and often only as an afterthought when management of the site has become problematic. Given the current state of affairs, it is unclear how much of the early work in hypertext information retrieval is applicable to the WWW. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: In this workshop we will investigate in depth the application of information retrieval techniques to hypertext/Web documents. In particular, we will seek to answer the question, "Can we improve on content-based search results by exploiting the links, meta-data, and other additional information available on the Web?" We will explore models, algorithms, heuristics, and systems that attempt to do just that. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners in the area, as well as anyone interested in deploying and using WWW search technologies, to identify the problems, explore general approaches, discuss recent results, and propose future directions for research, evaluation, and possibly standardization. Topics may include: * formal models of hypertext search * algorithms and heuristics for searching hypertext * link analysis and exploitation * meta-data extraction and exploitation * visualization/results presentation that captures hypertext structure * scalability issues and implementation techniques * impact of new standards (e.g. XML linking, Resource Description Framework) * evaluation criteria. The workshop will include paper presentations and discussion, with an emphasis on the discussion. The organizers will select position papers for presentation and arrange the presentations and discussion based on the interests of the attendees. The organizers may invite other presentations as well. PaARTICIPATION: All attendees should submit a short abstract in ASCII text on why this topic is of interest to them. Those wishing to make presentations should prepare a 3-5 page position paper (no more than 2500 words) in HTML on the WWW and submit the URL for the paper. All submissions and requests for further information should be sent via email to Eric Brown (ewb@us.ibm.com) or Alan Smeaton (asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie). Final versions of selected papers will be due in Postscript, and copies will be distributed to the workshop attendees. Note to authors: we are seeking preliminary or draft papers - you will retain copyright ownership and may submit your paper elsewhere for more formal, subsequent publication. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Eric Brown IBM T.J. Watson Research Center PO Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA Phone: +1 914 784 7708, fax: +1 914 784 6307 ewb@us.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/b/brown/ Alan Smeaton School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Glasnevin Dublin 9, IRELAND Phone: +353 1 7045262, fax: +353 1 7045442 asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~asmeaton/asmeaton.html TIMETABLE Position Paper URL Submission: July 1, 1998. Notification: July 10, 1998. Camera-ready copy: July 31, 1998. Interest Abstract Submission: July 31, 1998 Workshop: August 28, 1998. COMPLETE INFORMATION: Information about the full SIGIR program is available through the SIGIR home page, http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98. The web page for this workshop can be found at http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98/work1.html. If you are considering attending SIGIR or this workshop, use the SIGIR page to register your interest in participation. Also, be sure to email your abstract for this workshop to Eric Brown (ewb@us.ibm.com) or Alan Smeaton (asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie) by July 31, 1998. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Gerhard Weiss Re: CIA-98: Preliminary Program Preliminary Program http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html 2nd International CIA-98 Workshop: Learning, Mobility, and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery in the Internet July 4 - 7, 1998, at Agents' World, in Paris, France Matthias Klusch (General Chair) SATURDAY, July 4th, 1998 Opening of the Workshop Session 1: Cooperative Information Agents - Systems and Applications. Invited Short Presentation: What can Agents do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at CEC. H. Van Dyke Parunak, ITI (USA) Invited Short Presentation: Intelligent Agents for Web-based Information and Process Management. Joerg Mueller, Zuno Ltd., London (UK) Invited Short Presentation: The InfoSleuth Agent System. Marian Nodine, MCC Corp. (USA) Agents for Hypermedia Information Discovery. V.S. Lazarou, K. Clark, Imperial College, London (UK) Trafficopter: A Distributed Collection System for Traffic Information. A. Moukas, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA) K. Chandrinos, FORTH, Heraclion (Greece) Agent-Supported Information Retrieval for Tracking and Tracing. D. Deschner, O. Hofmann, S. Reinheimer, F. Bodendorf, University of Erlangen (Germany) Invited Talk: The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society. Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan (USA) SUNDAY, July 5th, 1998 Session 2: Cooperative Information Agents - Issues of Design, Querying and Communication. Invited Talk: Inducing Cooperation Among Information Systems. Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) Strategies for Querying Information Agents P. Chalasani, S. Jha, O. Shehory, K. Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Short Presentation: Toward Cross-Cultural Communication for Socially Intelligent Agents. Takashi Kido, NTT R&D Department (Japan) Session 3: Rational Collaboration and Electronic Commerce Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce. R. Guttman, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA) Enhancing Mobile Agents with Electronic Commerce Capabilities. H. Vogler, M.-L. Moschgarth, T. Kunkelmann, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy. J.O. Kephart, J.E. Hanson, D.W. Levine, B.N. Grosof J. Sairamesh, R.B. Segal, S. White, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (USA) PANEL AND OPEN DISCUSSION (1) "Electronic Commerce and Rational Information Agents - Challenges and Risks for Users and/or Vendors?" MONDAY, July 6th, 1998 Session 4: Adaptive and Collaborative Information Gathering. Invited Talk: Levels of Adaptation in Systems of Coordinating Information Agents. Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Talk: Adaptive Choice of Information Sources. Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa (USA) Agent Mediated Collaborative Web Page Filtering. S. Green, P. Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), F. Somers, Broadcom Eireann Dublin (Ireland) Content-based Collaborative Information Filtering. Joaquin Delgado, Naohiro Ishii, Tomoki Ura, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) Domain Experts for Information Retrieval in the World Wide Web. W. Theilmann, K. Rothermel, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Semantic Navigation Maps for Information Agents. W. Benn, O. Goerlitz, Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) TUESDAY, July 7th, 1998 Invited Talk: Multiagent Systems in Information-Rich Environments. Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina (USA), Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University (USA) Session 5: Mobile Information Agents in the Internet. Invited Talk: On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility. Robert Tolksdorf, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) Mobile Information Agents on the Web. A. Gehrmeyr, Corporate Technology Siemens AG, Munich (Germany), J. Mueller, Technical University of Freiberg (Germany), A. Schappert, Public Networks Siemens AG, Munich (Germany) Melding Abstractions with Mobile Agents. A. Corradi, M. Cremonini, C. Stefanelli, Universita di Bologna (Italy) Data-Security in Heterogeneous Agent Systems. P. Bonatti, Universa di Torino (Italy), S. Kraus, Bar-Ilan University (Israel), J. Salinas, Army Research Lab (USA), V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland (USA) PANEL AND OPEN DISCUSSION (2) "The Future of Adaptive and Mobile Information Agents - Travelling Bandits on the Information Highway, or Powerful Information Providers?" ********** III.C.1. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 17, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 17 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.C.2. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: UCAID Announces Advisory Councils UCAID has announced members of its three advisory committees. Clifford Lynch, CNI's Executive Director,,will join the Application Strategy Council. The complete press release is provided below. The University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) has announced the initial members of three advisory committees that will guide higher education's advanced networking efforts, including the Internet2 project. Drawn from industry, academia and government, the advisory committee members have all made significant contributions to Internet development, and will assist UCAID in the areas of advanced application development, network policy and planning, and network research. "We are very excited to have been able to assemble such a distinguished group of experts; The advisory council members represent unsurpassed experience in fields crucial to advanced networking in higher education," said David Ward, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and chair of the UCAID Board of Trustees. He further remarked, "Drawing from this deep and diverse pool of knowledge will ensure the continued success of the Internet2 project, and all UCAID endeavors." The Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council, with interim chair J. Gary Augustson, executive director of computer and information systems at Pennsylvania State University, will provide input on the planning, development, and management of advanced networks for research and education. The Applications Strategy Council, initially led by the Thomas A. DeFanti, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will advise on the conceptualization, functionality, technical design and development priorities of advanced network applications. The Network Research Council, with interim chair Lawrence H. Landweber, the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will provide guidance on how to migrate computer systems and network research into use by UCAID members. Nine initial members join the interim chair of each council. Additional Application Strategy Council members are: Catherine Ball, professor and chair of the linguistics department, Georgetown University; Y.T. Chien, director of the Division of Information and Intelligence Systems, National Science Foundation; Jerome R. Cox, professor of computer science, biomedical engineering and radiology, Washington University, St. Louis; John Dongarra, professor and distinguished scientist, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Stuart I. Feldman, director of the Institute for Advanced Commerce, IBM Research; William H. Graves, president, Learning Technology Research Institute; Robert Kibrick, director of scientific computing, Lick Observatory, University of California Observatories; Clifford A. Lynch, executive director, Coalition for Networked Information; and Daniel R. Masys, director of biomedical informatics, University of California at San Diego. The Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council members are Carole A. Barone, associate vice chancellor for information technology, University of California at Davis; Earving L. Blythe, vice president for information systems, Virginia Polytechnic University; James Bruce, professor of electrical engineering and vice president of information systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ira H. Fuchs, vice president of computing and information technology, Princeton University; Gregory A. Jackson, associate provost, University of Chicago; Ronald Johnson, vice president of computing and communications, University of Washington; Kenneth J. Klingenstein, director of information technology services, University of Colorado at Boulder; Bonnie Neas, director of information technology services, North Dakota State University; and Scott Perry, vice president of Advanced Platform Services, AT&T. The Network Research Liaison Council members are: Scott O. Bradner, senior technical consultant for information technology services, Harvard University; Deborah Estrin, associate professor of computer science, University of Southern California; David J. Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications, University of Pennsylvania; Van L. Jacobson, Information Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley Labs; Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science, University of California at Los Angeles; Edward D. Lazowska, professor and chair of the department of computer science and engineering, University of Washington; David Meyer, Cisco Systems, Inc.; Craig Partridge, principal scientist, BBN; and Raj Reddy, dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. About the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) UCAID members are developing the broadband applications, engineering and network management tools for research and education as part of the Internet2 project. Internet2 is a collaborative effort by over 120 U.S. research universities, working with partners in government and industry. For more information about UCAID, see http://www.ucaid.edu/. The Internet2 project homepage is located at http://www.internet2.edu/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION NSF 98-96 (replaces NSF 97-112) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9896 INTEGRATIVE GRADUATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM (IGERT) Program Announcement 1998 Competition PREPROPOSAL DEADLINE: July 1, 1998 FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: November 23, 1998 1999 Competition PREPROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 15, 1999 FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: September 7, 1999 EXCERPT: The challenges of educating scientists, mathematicians, and engineers for the 21st century mandate a new paradigm for training graduate students. To meet the need for a cadre of broadly prepared Ph.D.s with multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills essential to addressing the varied career demands of the future, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces an agency-wide, multidisciplinary, graduate training program. The goal of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program is to enable the development of innovative, research-based, graduate education and training activities that will produce a diverse group of new scientists and engineers well-prepared for a broad spectrum of career opportunities in industry, government and academe. Supported projects must be based upon a multidisciplinary research theme and organized around a diverse group of investigators from U.S. Ph.D.-granting institutions with appropriate research and teaching interests and expertise. NSF organizations participating in the IGERT program include the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Geosciences (GEO), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), and the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). To receive timely NSF information, you are encouraged to subscribe to NSF Custom News Service: http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Library Purchasing of Electronic Information INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION - March 25, 1998 For further information about this statement, contact: Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA. Phone: 610/758-3025. Email: arh5@lehigh.edu Fax: 610/758-3004 For further information about ICOLC, contact: Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK. Columbus, OH. Phone: 614-728-3600, ext. 322. Email: tom@ohiolink.edu Fax: 614-728-3610 The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) announced today the release of its "Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information." The Statement establishes for the first time an international perspective on consortial licensing and purchasing of electronic information by libraries. The document addresses current and future electronic information environment issues such as the increasing expectations of library users in a stable funding environment, fair use, archiving of information, pricing strategies, and electronic information delivery metrics. The preferred practices section covers contract negotiations, pricing, data access and archiving, system platforms, licensing terms, information content and its management, and user authentication. The explosion in electronic licensing, the wide variance in publisher practices, rapidly escalating prices, and a concern about the reduction in the number of independent scholarly information providers all served as the impetus for the statement. The Statement calls for developing multiple pricing models, separating charges for electronic licenses from those of paper subscriptions, and lowering the cost for the electronic information below that of print subscriptions. ICOLC expresses its concern over the growing practice of publishers that levy initial surcharges on electronic information, which is compounded by significant multi-year inflation surcharges and prohibitions against libraries canceling print versions of journal titles. As a result, while libraries may receive access to a larger array of titles by paying the "print price plus electronic subscription cost plus inflation," the total base price for electronic access over the print subscription could increase by 40% or more within as little as three or four years. Arnold Hirshon, vice provost for information resources at Lehigh University, executive committee chair of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative, and one of the authors of the Statement noted that "the 'print price plus' cost model simply is not economically sustainable for academic libraries. We must develop alternative pricing structures before the current pricing practices become the norm." While recognizing that publishers should be able to recover reasonable costs, the Statement asserts that publishers cannot expect libraries to bear all development costs today for incomplete product features and unstable systems. ICOLC seeks new economic models that reduce the unit cost of information while enabling the lowest possible cost-per-access to a journal title or article. "We see a potential for dramatic shifts in pricing, with publishers and libraries working together to break the current cycle in which libraries each year spend more on serials but are able to buy fewer of them," said Tom Sanville, executive director of OhioLINK and ICOLC convener. The ICOLC intends for the statement to be an olive branch to the publishing community. Ann Okerson, associate university librarian at Yale University and coordinator of the NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL), says "through the ICOLC we want to begin discussions with the publishing community to advance the use and availability of electronic information resources in educational and research institutions." Elmar Mittler, Library Director, Niedersaechsische Staats- und UniversitSigmatsbibliothek Goettingen, adds that "the ICOLC represents a combined membership of over 5,000 libraries worldwide, which makes it an effective forum to work with information providers to find common ground." David Kohl, dean of libraries at the University of Cincinnati and a statement author, stresses that the Statement is about more than just money. "We are as concerned the quality of the content provided and the ability to archive that content to guarantee future availability as we are about the cost of purchasing that information today." THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION: The statement is endorsed by consortial representatives in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with additional endorsements anticipated from other nations. Inspired by a previously developed statement of electronic information principles by a group of Dutch and German universities in 1997, Hirshon approached that group on behalf of the ICOLC to seek European cooperation on the Statement. Hirshon attended a meeting in The Hague in February with representatives from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. "We developed an instant rapport and common views," said Fred Friend, Director, Scholarly Communication, University College London. Hans Geleijnse, university librarian, Tilburg University, added "Scholarly publishing increasingly is a global enterprise, and the strength of libraries increases by working globally through consortia to establish mutual positions." John Gilbert, head librarian, Universiteit Maastricht, observed that "academic librarians around the world share the same interest in providing the maximum amount of information to our faculty and students at the lowest possible cost." The complete Statement can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html Further information about the ICOLC can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia AUTHORS OF THE STATEMENT: Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, and Chair, Executive Committee, Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative. Phone: 610/758-3025. Email: arh5@lehigh.edu Fax: 610/758-3004 Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK. Columbus, OH, and Convener, ICOLC. Phone: 614-728-3600, ext. 322. Email: tom@ohiolink.edu Fax: 614-728-3610 Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, and Coordinator of the NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL). Phone: 203/432-1764. Email: ann.okerson@yale.edu Fax: 203/432-8527 David Kohl, Dean, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, and Member, OhioLINK Library Advisory Council Coordinating Committee. Phone: 513/556-1515. Email: david.kohl@uc.edu Fax: 513/556-0325 ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC): The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) is an informal organization that began meeting in 1997. Comprising about sixty library consortia in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, and Australia, the Coalition represents over 5,000 member libraries worldwide. The Coalition serves primarily higher education institutions by facilitating discussion among its members on issues of common interest. ICOLC conducts meetings to keep its members informed about new electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic providers and vendors, and other issues of importance to consortium directors and their governing boards. These meetings also provide a forum for consortial representatives to meet with the information provider community, discuss their products, and engage in a dialog with Coalition members about issues of mutual concern. The ICOLC also maintains listservs and web pages for the benefit of its members. Alex Klugkist, chairman, Dutch University Library Association, and university librarian, Groningen University notes that "the ICOLC has become a highly effective forum to coordinate academic library efforts internationally." Further information about the ICOLC can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia ADOPTERS OF THIS STATEMENT: This statement was adopted in principle by member representatives of the "International Coalition of Library Consortia" (ICOLC) whose institutions are listed below. This statement does not necessarily represent the official views of each consortium listed. Consortia listed are in the United States unless otherwise noted. Adventist Libraries Information Cooperative (ALICE); AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc.; Arizona Universities Library Consortium; (AULC); Big Twelve Plus Library Consortium; Boston Library Consortium (BLC); British Columbia Electronic Library Network [Canada]; California Digital Library (CDL); California State University - Software and Electronic Information Resources (CSU-SEIR); Center for Digital Information Services [Israel]; Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Center for Library Initiatives; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) [Australia]; Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) [United Kingdom]; Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL) [Australia]; Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL); Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) and the Florida State University System Library Directors; Gemeinsamer BibliotheksVerbund (GBV) [Germany]; Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program; Illinois Libraries Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO); Israel Inter-University Library Network; Louisiana Library Network (LLN); MINITEX Library Information Network (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota); Missouri Research Consortium of Libraries (MIRACL); Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet); OhioLINK; Netherlands Association of University Libraries, Royal Library, and Library of the Royal; Academy of Sciences (UKB) [Netherlands]; Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL); New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO); New York Comprehensive Research Libraries (NYCRL); NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL); Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative (PALCI); Ontario Academic Research Libraries (OARL) [Canada]; PORTALS; Standing Conference of National and University Libraries (SCONUL) [United Kingdom]; TexShare; Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN); University of North Carolina System University Librarians Advisory Council; University of Texas System Knowledge Management Center; Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA); WALDO; Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC); Washington State Cooperative Library Project INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE STATEMENT: In the United Kingdom: Fred Friend, Director, Scholarly Communication, University College London, England. Phone: 0171-380 7090. Email: f.friend@ucl.ac.uk Fax: 0171-380 7043In Germany: In Germany: Elmar Mittler, Library Director, Niedersaechsische Staats- und UniversitSigmatsbibliothek Goettingen, Germany. Phone: +49 (551) 39-5212. Fax: +49 (551) 39-5222 Email: mittler@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de In the Netherlands: Hans Geleijnse, University Librarian, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 13 466 21 46. Email: geleynse@kub.nl Fax: +31 13 466 33 70 John Gilbert, Head Librarian, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 43 388 3404. Email: j.gilbert@ub.unimaas.nl Fax: +31 43 325 6932 Alex Klugkist, Chairman, Dutch University Library Association, and University Librarian, Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands. 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