Information Retrieval List Digest 410 (June 15, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-410.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 15, 1998 Volume XV, Number 24 Issue 410 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Library Subject and Organization Systems as Ontologies II. JOBS 1. U. Sunderland, UK: RA, School of Computing and IS: Neural and Intelligent Systems 2. UNC-Chapel Hill: Library Systems Department Head, Health Sciences Library III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update, June 8, 1998 2. The Information Society 13(4) & 14(1): ToC B. Meetings 1. 2nd IR&HCI Workshop 2. CoLIS 3 - Digital Libraries C. Miscellaneous 1. California Digital Library Database 2. Key Copyright Bills IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF/CISE Experimental Activities Program: 11/1, 1/15 E. Miscellaneous 1. New Standards for Review ****************************************************************** I.QUERIES I.1. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Library Subject and Organization Systems as Ontologies Library Subject and Organizational Systems as Ontologies In preparation for a presentation and paper, I am greatly interested in learning about any and all research that views and analyzes established Library Classification Systems (e.g L of Congress Classification, Dewey, Colon, etc.) as Ontologies. I am also interested in any work that views Controlled Vocabularies as Ontologies, specifically in application as Index Terms or Descriptors, an= d in a formal Thesaurus structures. I am particulary interested in efforts that conceptualize Cross Reference (BT, NT, RT) structures in Online Systems as Ontologies. For background information about Ontology, I strongly recommend the MIKROKOSMOS ONTOLOGY resource page as well as its major links, at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/htmls/ontology-htmls/onto.ind= ex.html As Always, Any and All citations, sources, contributions, critiques, questions, concerns, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Stefan Wermter Re: U. Sunderland, UK: RA, School of Computing and IS: Neural and Intelligent Systems Research Assistant in Neural and Intelligent Systems (reference number CIRG28) Applications are invited for a three year research assistant position in thation Systems investigating the development of hybrid neural/symbolic techniques for intelligent processing. This is an exciting new project which aims at developing new environments for integrating neural networks and symbolic processing. You will play a key role in the development of such hybrid subsymbolic/symbolic environments. It is intended to apply th= e developed hybrid environments in areas such as natural language processin= g, intelligent information extraction, or the integration of speech/language in multimedia applications. You should have a degree in a computing discipline and will be able to register for a higher degree. A demonstrated interest in artificial neura= l networks, software engineering skills and programming experience are essential (preferably including a subset of C, C++, CommonLisp, Java, GUI= ). Experience and interest in neural network software and simulators would b= e an advantage (e.g. Planet, SNNS, Tlearn, Matlab, etc). Salary is accordin= g to the researcher A scale (currently up to =A313,871, under revision). Application forms and further particulars are available from the Personne= l department under +44 191 515 and extensions 2055, 2429, 2054, 2046, or 24= 25 or E-Mail employee.recruitment@sunderland.ac.uk quoting the reference number CIRG28. For informal inquiries please contact Professor Stefan Wermter, e-mail: Stefan.Wermter@sunderland.ac.uk. Closing date: 10 July 1998. The successful candidate is expected to start the job as soon as possible. Professor Stefan Wermter University of Sunderland Dept. of Computing & Information Systems St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 2781 email: stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ ********** II.2. Fr: Barbara R. Tysinger Re: UNC-Chapel Hill: Library Systems Department Head, Health Sciences Library Library Systems Department Head University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library invit= es applications from leaders who can develop and provide technology-enhanced information systems, services and support at the point of need for staff and library users. Department Head is member of library's senior manageme= nt team. Supervises 4.0 FTE librarian and technical staff. UNC-CH is an information technology leader: first-year medical and dental students required to have computers; all freshman undergraduates beginnin= g fall 2000; Internet II and high performance computing site. Health Sciences Library (www.hsl.unc.edu) is highly computerized and collaborative environment: multiple-server, multiple-platform LAN that supports access to multi-user resources mounted locally, on the campus WA= N, Internet, and statewide digital library, NC-LIVE. Over 100 staff and publ= ic workstations with web Internet access (including 2 teaching labs) plus 20-station campus lab and public drops; Research Triangle Libraries Netwo= rk shared DRA library system; collaboratively developed and maintained digit= al library (www.uncle.unc.edu); campus libraries electronic reserves project underway; leadership role in support of online courseware development and providing electronic knowledge resources for distance learning. Staff: 66 FTE. Collection: 300,000 volumes. Budget: $5.9 million. Major renovation = of five-story library planned. REQUIRED: ALA-accredited MLS or comparable information technology graduat= e degree and relevant experience in a library or service environment. Stron= g technical skills including in-depth knowledge of integrated library systems, client server hardware, software and networks, electronic information resources, and micro-computers. Increasingly responsible management experience in systems or computer networking positions, including successful leadership in planning, setting priorities and implementing major projects; budgeting; and liaison with senior managemen= t and external groups. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Proven user service focus and ability to work in a team environment. Record of professional involvement. DESIRED: Five years experience in library systems or in computing and networking operations in an academic environment, including two years supervisory experience. Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills. Experience with maintaining Windows95 and Windows NT client workstations. Technical experience in delivering content throug= h the Internet using a variety of methods. Knowledge of advances in and opportunities to apply information technology. Experience teaching, consulting, or presenting. SALARY: commensurate with experience; minimum $45,000 with five years experience. State benefits include annual and sick leave; state or TIAA/CREF retirement plan. Application: Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references to Francesca Allegri, AHIP, Administrative Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library, CB# 7585, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7585. Review of applications begins June 12, 1998. EOE/AA ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update, June 8, 1998 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 8, 1998 FARNET (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: The e-rate in peril. Clinton administration releases domain name system policy statement; leav= es decisions to new non-profit board. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CN= I) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Upda= te or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Ser= n at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Rob Kling Re: The Information Society 13(4) & 14(1): ToC The Information Society I welcome a new member to TIS's editorial board: Professor Nancy Baym of Wayne State University. This journal's vitality owes much to the high quality reviewing of the editorial board. In particular, Associate Editor= s Phil Agre, Gary Marx, and Rick Weingarten played pivotal roles in working with the authors of the articles about identity formation to make this issue possible. Please check our web site (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS) for a current list of editorial as well as news on forthcoming issues, calls for papers= , and abstracts of articles from previous issues. The Information Society 13(4) Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Rob Kling Articles: Wynn, Eleanor & Jim Katz "Hyperbole over Cyberspace." Hert, Phillippe "The Dynamics of On-Line Interaction in a Scholarly Debat= e." Halbert, Debora "Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker." Waskul Dennis & Mark Douglass "Cyberself: The Emergence of Self in On-line Chat." Book Review: Kim Viborg Anderson. "Information Systems in the Political World." Review= ed by David Garson. The Information Society 14(1) (to appear) Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Rob Kling Articles: Petrazzini, Ben A., and Krishnaswamy, Girija. "Socioeconomic Implications of Telecommunication Liberalization: India in the International Context." Tang, Puay. "How Electronic Publishers are Protecting against Privacy: Doubts about Technical Systems of Protection." Shade, Leslie Regan. "A Gendered Perspective on Access to the Information Infrastructure." Zelwietro, Joseph P. 1997. "The Politicization of Environmental Organizations through the Internet." Forum: Mosco, Vincent. 1997. "Myth-ing Links: Power and Community on the Information Highway." Book Reviews: Feenberg, A. and A. Hannay (Eds.). "Technology and the Politics of Knowledge. Reviewed by Peter Asaro. Feenberg, A. "Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory.." Reviewed by Michael Heim. Read & contribute to the Social Informatics Home Page http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI a resource about research, teaching, conferences & journals ********** III.B.1. Fr: Mark D Dunlop Re: 2nd IR&HCI Workshop Call for papers for the Second one day workshop on Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction 11 September 1998 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/irhci/ Contact: Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson (chairs) mailto:mark@dcs.gla.ac.uk mailto:johnson@dcs.gla.ac.uk Papers describing work in progress or completed work are invited on any topic in areas related to work addressing issues between the classic fiel= ds of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Retrieval (IR). Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Evaluation of IR systems; * Novel interaction techniques for information retrieval; * Understanding the nature of relevance; * Visualisations of interactive searches (2D and 3D); * Browsing based information retrieval (inc. hypermedia); * Conversational modelling of information retrieval tasks; * Navigation through complex paths of information; * Networked information retrieval; * Multimedia information retrieval. Authors should submit extended abstracts (roughly 500 words) no later tha= n 7 August 1998. It is intended to publish the proceedings of the workshop (full papers will be due strictly one week before the workshop). Further details are available from the workshop organiser. The workshop is jointly organised by the British HCI Group and the Britis= h Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Workshop chairs: Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson. Programme committee: Susan Dumais (Microsoft), Mark Dunlop (Glasgow Univ)= ; Jan IJdens (Sharp), Chris Johnson (Glasgow Univ), Jane Reid (Glasgow Univ= ); Tony Rose (Canon), plus others to be confirmed. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Tefko Saracevic Re: CoLIS 3 - Digital Libraries CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS -- CoLIS 3 Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science Theme: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatia 23 - 26 May 1999 ORGANIZED BY: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Tampere, Finland; and Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. CO-SPONSORED BY: Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery (SIGIR/ACM); American Society for Information Science, European Chapter (ASIS/EC); and International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) The focus of the conference is on fundamental and integrating issues and problems that reflect research and development efforts and conceptual, critical thinking on digital libraries from a number of disciplines and countries. Contributions are invited that address: Fundamental and theoretical aspects and questions underlying digital libraries. Nature of digital library collections. Organization of digital libraries. Access to digital libraries. Use of digital libraries. Technical infrastructure. Evaluation of digital libraries. Social, cultural, legal, and economicissues, nationally and internationally. Integration of informatio= n resources. Cooperation among digital libraries.Relations to traditional libraries -- roots, comparison. TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS INVITED: Research papers. of up to 12 pages coveri= ng any of the topics. Poster presentations: synthesis of work in progress. Panels: proposals for panel sessions on general interest. Tutorials. proposals for half or full day tutorials. Workshops: proposals for a one day workshops. Demonstrations and exhibits IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES: Today: register interest to receive information by completing a form at t= he conference web site, or send an email to colis3@ffzg.hr 15 September 1998: Research papers deadline. 15 October 1998: Deadline for posters, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations and exhibits. 1 December 1998: notifications on selections. 15 January 1999: Final camera-ready copy FOR MORE INFORMATION: Web sites: http://www.colis3.hr or in the US http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/colis3. Email: colis3@ffzg.hr CONTACT AND SUBMISSIONS: Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. School of Communication Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-6916. Email: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html ********** III.C.1. Fr: Terry Colvin Re: California Digital Library Database FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 12, 1998 Terry Colvin (510) 987-9198 terry.colvin@ucop.edu CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY TO PUT FIRE, FLOOD, EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION ON THE WEB The University of California will make it easier for the public to gather facts about fires, floods, earthquakes and other important environmental events and issues by digitizing selected materials held in its academic libraries and putting them on the World Wide Web for all the world to share. The project was funded by a $198,000 federal grant to the Californ= ia State Library. It is one of the firsts in UC=EDs effort to build the California Digital Library, a dream of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, who calls it the university's =EClibrary without walls. Launched last October, the California Digital Library will eventually blend major portions of the electronic and print holdings of UC's 29 million-volume collection to make it accessible by desktop or laptop computer to student= s, faculty and the general public. The environmental project also marks the first collaborative effort with the state library to build the Library of California, a digitally constructed library that could eventually link all of the state=EDs publi= c, private and academic libraries -- as well as many of its museums and thin= k tanks -- into one of the world=EDs largest electronic information-sharing networks. The Library of California is a visionary plan created by a statewide library coalition -- led and supported by the California State Library and State Librarian Kevin Starr -- which would enable resource sharing, cooperation and collaboration among libraries of all types: public, private, school and academic. The Environmental Information Project, funded by The Library Services and Technology Act -- new federal legislation to promote the innovative uses = of technology in the nation=EDs libraries -- is the first attempt to bring b= oth these initiatives together to demonstrate the economic and intellectual benefits of collaboration. Organizers hope to explore the technological, organizational and financial issues involved in converting print material= s to digitized form and delivering the electronic content from UC=EDs libra= ries to libraries in Library of California network. "This is an opportunity to achieve two benefits at once," said Gary Lawrence, UC director of library planning and policy development. "First, the project will make UC's California Digital Library collections availab= le to the public at an early stage in its development. Second, this is a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with librarians throughout the state to develop new digital collections and services that will benefit all of California." Materials related to fires, floods, water rights, earthquakes and polluti= on will be among those covered by the Environmental Information Project. The first step in the project will be the creation and licensing of an environmental database. The database will be used by public libraries selected as demonstration sites. UC is already digitizing the environment= al information held in its special collections and government documents and programmers will create a website to serve as home page for the project a= nd to link it to other existing websites devoted to environmental issues. The website is expected to be running by the end of this summer at about = 30 demonstration sites in Northern, Central and Southern California. Criteri= a for selecting the demonstration sites will include the availability of appropriate computer hardware and a speedy connection to the Internet sin= ce no project money will be spent on purchasing support systems for demonstration sites. UC's budget for 1998-99 includes a request to the state to provide $3 million in general funds to be matched by $1 million from the university for the California Digital Library. The university is spending $1 million in the current budget year to launch the effort. Note: More information about the California Digital Library is available from Gary Lawrence, UC director of library planning and policy developmen= t at (510) 987-9461, or Terry Colvin, UC senior public information representative at (510) 987-9198. ********** III.C.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Key Copyright Bills If you are concerned about the future of copyright and its impact on issu= es such as fair use, the first sale doctrine, digital preservation, distance education, and user privacy, it is important to find out more about landmark copyright legislation in the 105th Congress that will have a profound long-term impact on U.S. libraries. For a comparison (by the Digital Future Coalition) of House bills H.R. 30= 48 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act) and H.R. 2281 (WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act), see: For a comparison of House bill H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhanceme= nt Act) with Senate bill S. 2037 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), see: For Robert L. Oakley's (Library Director at the Georgetown University Law Center) related House testimony, see: For the text of H.R. 2281 (WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act), s= ee: For the text of H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act), see: For the text of S. 2037 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), see: For EFF's action alert with Congressional contact information, see: For more information on these bills and other key intellectual property bills (such as the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act and Article = 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code), see: ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE Experimental Activities Program: 11/1, 1/15 NEW!!! Experimental Activities Program (NSF 98-127) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98127 Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) The program has two parts: CISE Advanced Distributed Resources for Experiments (CADRE) Proposal Deadline: January 15 each year Each year approximately 5 awards, duration 4 years, average size $400,000 per year Experimental Partnerships Proposal Deadline: November 1 each year Each year approximately 14 awards, duration of up to 5 years, averaging $500,000 per year INQUIRIES: Dr. Michael Foster, Program Director EIA/CISE National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard #1160, Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 306-1980 Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their ideas with the program director, either in person, by letter, by email, or by telephone. ********** IV.E.1. Fr: Kurt_Kopp@MUCCMAIL.MISSOURI.EDU Re: New Standards for Review Here are two draft international standards for review: ISO/DIS 11799 "Information and documentation - Document storage requirements for archive and library materials" and ISO/DIS 14416 "Information and documentation - Requirements for binding o= f books, periodicals, serials and other paper documents for archive and library use - Methods and materials." They are both accessible on the web for review at merlin.missouri.edu/lso/asis_standards/ ****************************************************************** 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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