Information Retrieval List Digest 423 (September 21, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-423.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 21, 1998 Volume XV, Number 37 Issue 423 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. OHIONET: Library Technology Consultant 2. U. AZ: Assistant Librarian: Metadata III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Libraries on the Internet 2. Report on Computer Support to Indexing 3. Version 21, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 4. Annoucing A Computing Research Repository B. Meetings 1. ICCC/IFIP Third Conference on Electronic Publishing 1999 C. Miscellaneous 1. URGENT: Internet Funding Crisis in the Senate ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Mary M. Conroy Re: OHIONET: Library Technology Consultant Library Technology Consultant OHIONET is seeking an experienced information professional to fill the position of Library Technology Consultant. The ideal applicant will have an MLS/MIS degree, 1 to 2 years of professional experience working with technical issues in libraries, advanced system and LAN administration skills, familiarity with Integrated library systems (specifically Innovative Interfaces Innopac system), extensive experience with the Internet, training, web design and CGI programming. Duties include: OPLIN training, system administration, project management= , technology consulting for OHIONET member libraries, web design/site management, and technology training. OHIONET offers a flexible work environment, a competitive salary, and excellent benefits. Salary range minimum in the lower $30s. Application deadline: October 2, 1998 OHIONET is a not-for-profit membership organization that serves more than 200 libraries in Ohio and environs. Members are encouraged to "Call OHIONET first for information technology". Please send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to: James D. Rubottom OHIONET Director of Library Technologies 1500 W. Lane Ave, Columbus, OH 43221 Email: james@ohionet.org Toll Free: 800-686-8975 x 24 (OH, MI, PA, WV) Phone: 614-486-2966 x 24 Fax: 614-486-1527 ********** II.2. Fr: Vanessa Foss Re: U. AZ: Assistant Librarian: Metadata University of Arizona Library Assistant Librarian: The University of Arizona Library seeks a Metadata Librarian to establish relationships with potential campus partners; take leadership role related to academic metadata; implement the Library's OCL= C SiteSearch software suite; and contribute to fulfilling the Library's obligations to strategic projects. Required: ALA-accredited MLS and knowledge of concepts and application of standards and practices for organizing information, including metadata, record structure, indexing, a= nd information search and retrieval. Salary Range: $34,921- $43,615. To appl= y, please submit a current resume; names, addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references; and a letter of interest citing position title and describing experience with metadata and information organization, digital technologies, partnership development, training, knowledge of mark-up languages to: Ms. Martina Johansen, University of Arizona, Library, 1510 = E. University, Room C327, P.O. Box 210055, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0055. Revie= w of application materials will begin 10/12/98 and will continue until position is filled. Candidates are encouraged to review the full position description at: http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/access98/meta610.htm. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer-M/W/D/V. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Pattee Fletcher Re: Libraries on the Internet WORLD LIBRARIES ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. Patricia Diamond Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot, eds. Idea Group Publishing The global economy and the Internet are creating an international perspective on information gathering and use. Libraries are a key organization in guiding this transition to a global information environment. The goal of this edited book is to present an international picture of the response by libraries to the electronic networked environment in general and the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. Public, academic, school, business, and other special librari= es will be the subject of the discourse. Current research on the effectivene= ss of library networks and on the direction for libraries in a networked environment will be presented to share library best practices, policy, an= d services. Chapter submissions on the following topics are encouraged: * Internet-based services in libraries (of any type) * US * Canada * South America * Europe * Asia * Africa * Australia * Other * Best practice examples of libraries using the Internet for service(s) provision * Technical concerns for libraries using Internet-based services * Budget issues in planning for Internet-based services * Trends in Internet-based services in libraries * Trans-border issues in providing Internet-based service/access * The role of the library in a global information environment Important Deadlines: November 1, 1998 -- Brief proposals for chapters (1 -2 pages) due December 15, 1998 -- Notification to authors on submissions March 15, 1999 -- First draft of chapters due to editors May 15, 1999 -- Reviewers comments on chapters due to editors July 15, 1999 -- Authors final chapter submissions due to editors Anticipated Publication date: December 1999 Direct all inquiries and submissions to: Patricia Diamond Fletcher, Ph.D. Department of Information Systems 1000 Hilltop Circle The University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD, USA 21250 410-455-3154 410-455-1073 (fax) John Carlo Bertot, Ph.D. School of Information Science & Policy University at Albany, SUNY 135 Western Avenue Albany, NY, USA 12222 (518) 442-5125 (518) 442-5367 (fax) SEE ALSO the "Call for Papers" for the special issue of the Journal for Global Information Management on "Libraries and the Internet: An International Agenda." Papers submitted for the above book may also be considered - if received in time - for inclusion in the special JGIM issu= e. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Gail Hodge Re: Report on Computer Support to Indexing COMPUTER SUPPORT TO INDEXING NFAIS Issues Latest Report The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) announces the publication of "Computer Support to Indexing," written by Gail M. Hodge and Jessica L. Milstead. Based on extensive interviews with twenty-nine database producers, this report describes the current environment of database indexing, the use of indexing with metadata, plus the surrounding issues, policies, and developments since the advent of th= e Web. "Computer Support to Indexing" provides an overview of the general design of existing indexing systems, aids to the clerical aspects of indexing, support to intellectual decisions, quality control, management, and syste= m implementation. It also discusses factors affecting the future of comput= er support to indexing. This latest reports updates the 1992 NFAIS publication, "Automated Support to Indexing" by Gail Hodge. About the authors... Gail Hodge has been involved in the design of production systems for abstracting and indexing services since 1978. As Senior Project Manager for Information International Associates, Inc., sh= e has primary responsibility for project management and consulting in the areas of database production, metadata and bibliographic record analysis, and the application of technology to cataloging and indexing. Jessica Milstead is Principal of The JELEM Company, which since 1986 has been offering consulting services in thesaurus and index development, including machine-indexing. She works with a variety of clients, includi= ng database producers, Web content developers, and government agencies, to a= id in development of user-oriented, cost-effective products. "Computer Support to Indexing" is must-reading for secondary publishers, primary publishers, and intermediaries, who seek to provide subject acces= s to databases, and for consultants who support this effort. Founded in 1958, the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services is a membership organization of more than 50 leading information producers and providers. Its purpose is to serve the information communi= ty through education, research, and publication. Database producers surveyed for "Computer Support to Indexing": Access Innovations American Association of Retired Persons American Institute of Physics Bibliography of the History of Art BIOSIS Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Chemical Abstracts Service Defense Technical Information Center Department of Energy, OSTI Elsevier Science Engineering Information FIZ Karlsruhe Information Access Company Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique Institute for Scientific Information International Nuclear Information System INSPEC, Institution of Electrical Engineers Modern Language Association of America NASA Center for AeroSpace Information National Air Intelligence Center National Library of Medicine National Technical Information Service PsycINFO Public Affairs Information Service UMI USGS/Biological Resources Division University of Tulsa, Petroleum Abstracts To order, contact: National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 307 Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-893-1561 Fax: 215-893-1564 E-mail: NFAIS@nfais.org ********** Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Special Bulletin: NSF Announces New HPC Awardees 9/18/1998 EDUCAUSE Special Bulletin: NSF Announces 36 More High Performance Connections Grants A press release issued by the National Science Foundation today states th= at 36 more universities will receive High Performance Connections grants. Th= e announcement of the awards was made by Vice President Gore. The HPC program enables universities to connect to NSF's very high performance Backbone Network Service or other NSF-approved high performan= ce networks, allowing scientists and engineers to collaborate and share powerful computing and information resources. These networks are crucial = to the Administration's NGI program, and currently serve as the interconnect for Internet2 member institutions. Today's announcement brings the total number of HPC awardee institutions across the country to 128. The announcement comes on the heels of controversy surrounding the disposition of the Intellectual Infrastructure Fund, created through a Congressionally-ratified tax on domain name registration fees in the earl= y and mid-1990's. A lawsuit against NSF and Network Solutions, Inc. seekin= g return of the IIF monies was dismissed last week by Judge Hogan of the U.= S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit. The plaintiff plans to appeal the ca= se. UNIVERSITIES RECEIVING GRANTS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE CONNECTIONS: University of Kansas Colorado State University Oklahoma State University University of Delaware Kansas State University Kent State University Florida A&M University University of Oklahoma West Virginia University University of Arkansas Fayetteville Lehigh University North Dakota State University University of Rhode Island Louisiana State University South Dakota State University University of South Florida Mississippi State University University of New Hampshire Wake Forest University Emory University University of Maine, Orono Tulane University University of South Dakota University of North Dakota South Dakota School of Mines and Technology University of Central Florida New Mexico State University University of Oregon Utah State University Arizona State University University of Cincinnati University of Rochester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute State University of New York at Buffalo University of Pittsburgh Northeastern University (MA) ********** III.A.3. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 21, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 21 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 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 relat= ed Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 1= 70 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.A.4. Fr: Jean Ziemba Re: ACM Respository Annoucing A Computing Research Repository Researchers have made their papers available by putting them on personal web pages, departmental pages, and on various ad hoc sites known only to cognoscenti. Until now, there has not been a single repository to which researchers from the whole field of computing can submit reports. This is about to change. Through a partnership of ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), an online Computing Research Repository (CoRR) is bei= ng established. The Repository has been integrated into the collection of ov= er 20,000 computer science research reports and other material available through NCSTRL (http://www.ncstrl.org) and will be linked with the ACM Digital Library. Most importantly, the Repository will be available to al= l members of the community at no charge. One of the areas covered by the repository is Information Retrieval. We encourage you to start using the Repository right away. For more details, see http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/intro.html. That site provide= s information on how to submit documents, browse, search, and subscribe to get notification of new articles of interest. Please spread the word amon= g your colleagues and students. CoRR will only gain in value as more researchers use it. See http://www.acm.org/repository for a more detailed description of CoRR. ********** III.B.1. Fr: elpub99 Re: ICCC/IFIP Third Conference on Electronic Publishing 1999 ICCC/IFIP Third Conference on Electronic Publishing 1999 University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden 12th - 14th May 1999 http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf The Third ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, will take place = on 10-12 May 1999 at Ronneby, Sweden. The theme is Redefining the Information Chain - New Ways and Voices. As at the first and second ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing conference held in Canterbury, England, i= n 1997 and Budapest 1998 (http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/index.htm) papers on technical, human and economic aspects of electronic publishing will be welcomed. Call for papers: The conference will be concerned with electronic publishing both for specialist audiences and for the general public. The= re will be two tracks. The first track will concentrate on technical issues, such as file format= s, protocols, networking, retrieval techniques etc. The second track will include case studies, presentations of projects and presentations of implemented electronic publishing in public and scholarly libraries, art galleries, museums. It will also include electronic provision of local community or tourist information, government information, and the like. Neither of these lists is meant to be exhaustive and submissions on any topic within the Conference's overall theme will be considered. The Programme Committee now calls for papers for presentation at the conference. These should report real experiences, research or development projects, or intellectual contributions on the theme of the conference Papers reporting experience of real-life activities on a significant scal= e and presenting new, inventive ways of communicating and publishing electronically are especially sought. Keynote speaker: The keynote speaker will be David Seaman, Founding Director of the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, USA (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/). Panel Debate Two Panel debates are planed. The themes are: Electronic Publishing in the service of democracy and Electronic Publishing year 2001 - a global perspective: What have Happened and what will happen!? We invite three persons for each debate and three papers on each theme wi= ll be accepted. Suggested topics: Electronic Serials Case Studies and History Distribution Library Issues Research Retrieval Issues Storage and Preservation New Publishing Models What can XML do for EP? Intelligent Agents in EP in Government information in Tourist information in Multimedia Local Information The Digital Library Cataloging and Classification Metadata Economic Issues Information Conversion Integrity and Preservation Retrieval Issues Change Management Storage and Preservation Electronic Commerce Print on Demand Security Delivery Models Payment Techniques Intellectual Property Rights License Agreements Paper submission must include: Title of paper; Abstract in English of no more than 500 words; Author(s); Affiliation(s); Address; Phone; Fax; E-mail. Panel debate submission must include: Title of Debate; Abstract in english of no more than 500 words; Title of paper; Author(s); Affiliation(s); Address; Phone; Fax; E-mail. Abstracts in English of no more than 500 words should be sent by e-mail to: abstract@notes.hk-r.se or submitted by webform to: http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf The Programme Committee: Anders Ard=F6, Head of development, Technical Knowledge Center & Library Of Denmark; Prof. Dipak Khakhar, University of Lund. Sweden; Peter Linde, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden; Gunilla Jonsson, Deputy Director, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden Jo= hn McKendree, Manager ICCC Press, USA; Prof. Jack Meadows, Loughborough University, UK John W.T. Smith, The Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK; Dr. Volker Tschammer, ECCO - Competence Center for Electronic Commerce, Berlin, Germany; Rickard =C5dahl, Senior Consultant = R&D, Swedish State Railways, Information Systems Preregister: Preregister for the Conference by filling out our www-form available at http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf/ and we will later send you registration forms and the full program. Paper/Panel debate submission: All submissions will be refereed by member= s of the Programme Committee. The working languages of the conference will = be English. Submission of abstracts should be in English. The Proceedings will be published in time for the Conference and a copy will be given to delegates at registration. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the beginning of January 1999. Conference program will be distributed in February 1999. Submitted papers from Eastern European countries will be particularly welcome. Speakers whose papers are accepted will be charged one third of the conference fee, but will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. The same fee applies to authors whose panel debate papers has been accepted. Abstracts in English of no more than 500 words should be sent by e-mail to: abstract@notes.hk-r.se or submitted by webform to: http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf Contact person is: Peter Linde University of Karlskrona/Ronneby S-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden Fax: +46 455 78137 Telephone: +46 455 78139 Elpub99@hk-r.se Deadline for abstract submission is 7th of December. Buy Proceedings: We sell the proceedings from the Electronic Publishing Conferences of 1997 and 1998 at a special price. Only 15USD each, postage included. Please send an e-mail or a letter with your name and address a= nd which of the titles you want to buy (ICCC/IFIP Conference Proceeding Electronic Publishing =B497 - "New Models and opportunities or ICCC/IFIP Conference Proceeding Electronic Publishing =B498 - "Towards the Information-Rich Society") to: Dipak Khakhar Department of Informatics S-223 63 Lund, Sweden dipak.khakhar@ics.lu.se Conference Website: http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf The Conference is Co-sponsored by University of Karlskrona/Ronneby http://www.hk-r.se The Baltic Institute http://www.balticinstitute.se Soft Center http://www.softcenter.se ********** ********** III.C.1. Fr: DavidLytel@aol.com Re: URGENT: Internet Funding Crisis in the Senate Unknown to the rest of the world, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is engaged in an effort to remove millions of dollars from the budget of the National Science Foundation that the Congress has previously made availab= le to invest in new Internet technologies. Lott is trying to repeal action earlier this year that ratified the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund as a Congressionally authorized tax on the registration of Internet domain names. This was necessary because of a lawsuit brought against Network Solutions, Inc., which has been acting as a domain registration authority for the Internet under contract to the NSF. In Thomas v. Network Solutions, Inc., 1998 WL 191205, US District Court Judge Hogan ruled that the domain name registration fee was an unauthorized tax. Based on Congress's belated ratification of the tax (in the VA/HUD Supplemental Appropriation bill earlier this year), Hogan ruled that the fee was authorized. This issue is being appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Regardless of the outcome of the Lott amendment, this means that the DC Circuit will consid= er the lawfulness of the fund. Lott's maneuver is to add the repeal of the ratification to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which has passed the House and may reach the floor as early as next week. In the Senate, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has passe= d both the Commerce and the Finance Committees without the change, but Lott is circulating a draft managers' amendment that would repeal the ratification. What is at stake: At stake are tens of millions of dollars that the NSF would no longer hav= e available to invest in research and development of high-speed networks an= d bandwidth-intensive applications. The NSF would also no longer have the funds available to aid universities as they upgrade their connections fro= m today's commodity Internet connections to tomorrow's Internet 2 level connections. For the commercial Internet, this means that experimentation with different approaches relieve Internet congestion will be slowed or stopped. The NSF funds experimental networks that address the fundamental problem = of traffic congestion on today's Internet. The problem goes beyond the limitations of access technologies, such as today's modems, or even acces= s technologies, such as ISDN. There are segments of what are supposed to be the Internet's high-speed corridors that are significantly blocked during periods of peak use. Part of the solution is building more and bigger pip= es to carry Internet traffic. But it is also quite likely that demand is growing quickly enough to fill much of this capacity. The Internet traffic problem is not unlike the automobile traffic problem in our major cities in the 1960s, when no matter how many new bridges and highways we built we never managed to get ourselves out of a traffic jam. This is why a significant part of the Internet's original academic pionee= rs are experimenting with new technologies to separate and prioritize Intern= et traffic. The Internet's underlying technologies are designed to implement what is called a "best effort" level of service -- meaning that if packet= s cannot be delivered the Internet keeps trying to send them for three days before giving up. Just as HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes have been pa= rt of the solution to the problem of highway traffic, tomorrow's Internet wi= ll support quality-of-service or QoS distinctions so that the bits containin= g an MRI moving between a primary care physician and a specialist are given the priority they deserve over more playful uses of the Internet. This ability to prioritize packets, in conjunction with the ability to reserve bandwidth in advance rather than just hoping for the best, is the foundation of tomorrow's multimedia Internet. With the right underlying technologies, tomorrow's Internet will handle voice and video services wi= th greater ease than it handles e-mail and Web pages today. Many of the next generation of Internet success stories will spring from the networking laboratories of university-based researchers. What you can do: The most important members of the Senate to contact are Lott, Senator William Roth (R-DE, chair of the Finance Committee) and Senator John McCain (R, AZ) chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and the bill's Republican floor manager). It is also useful to contact the Democratic floor manager, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND). A staffer in the office of Senator Ron Wyden, who has sponsored the Internet Tax Freedom Act, says Wyden will not make any effort to get the objectionable amendment removed= , saying "we do not have a dog in that fight." Others worth contacting are Finance Committee members Senator Al D'Amato and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from New York, the state with the highest number = of 4 year PhD granting institutions and the highest number of students at 4 year schools, who would benefit from the NSF funding. Their e-mail addre= sses: Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) senatorlott@lott.senate.gov or fax 202-224-2262 Senator William Roth (R-DE) comments@roth.senate.gov Senator John McCain (R-AZ) senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) senator@dorgan.senate.gov Senator Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY) senator_al@damato.senate.gov Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) senator@dpm.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) senator@wyden.senate.gov In addition, universities, Internet industry associations and companies should consider supporting Network Solutions in its legal battle over the lawfulness of the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure fund. 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