Information Retrieval List Digest 432 (November 23, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-432.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 23, 1998 Volume XV, Number 46 Issue 432 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. IU: SLIA: Sr. Faculty Position: Social Informatics: Search Extended 2. UNC: Director of Information Technology and Services 3. UI: Visiting Faculty Positions: SLIS 4. UMN: Archivist Position: Center for the History of Information Processing III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. IR Journal Special Issue 2. Version 22, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 11-20-98 4. D-Lib Magazine November 1998 B. Meetings 1. Canadian Association for Information Science Conference: CFP 2. 3rd ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing: 2nd CFP 3. Conference at Stanford University on Work of Doug Englebart IV. PROJECT C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Pitt Alumni Award to Peters 2. NASIG Fritz Schwartz Scholarship Announcement D. Research 1. Isaac Network Call for Collaborators ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Rob Kling Re: IU: SLIS: Senior Faculty Position: Search Extended: Social Informatics Senior Faculty Position - Search Extended Social Informatics School of Library and Information Science Indiana University -- Bloomington Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) invites applications and nominations for a senior faculty position (associate or full professor) at its Bloomington campus. SLIS is committed to exploring important trends, theories, and technologies and to understanding the cognitive, contextual and social processes that characterize information behavior at individual, organizational and societal levels. Areas of specialization for the new position are not prescribed. However applicants must be able to articulate how they would enhance the School's strengths in social informatics -- studies of information technologies and social change in organizational, institutional and cultural contexts (see www.slis.indiana.edu/SI and www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI). Individuals who can crystallize nationally significant debates and synthesize social informatics research and/or policy issues will be given special consideration. Applicants for this position should have an outstanding record in research and teaching. Essential qualifications are: evidence of sustained scholarship; influential research; dynamic teaching; national/international reputation; record of external funding; ability to mentor doctoral students and junior faculty. Current research foci include human-computer interaction, scholarly communication, electronic publishing, computer-supported work, community networks and digital libraries In addition, the School maintains good working relationships with faculty in other academic departments such as Computer Science, Telecommunications, Political Science and IU's Schools of Business, Journalism, Education and Law through joint faculty appointments or participation as Fellows in the Center for Social Informatics. Information about the School's faculty, degree programs and research activities, including the Center for Social Informatics and the Usability Laboratory, can be found at . The School has a full-time interdisciplinary faculty of twenty whose backgrounds include information science, computer science, psychology, sociology, and communications. SLIS is one of the top-ranked programs of its kind in the nation and offers both a master's degree (MIS) and PhD in Information Science, along with a master's in Library Science (MLS) and a post master's specialization in Library and Information Science. Indiana University is a major public university with about 1500 faculty and 35,000 students on the Bloomington campus. The campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. Indiana University has also been rated as one of the best networked universities in the U.S. Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, offering a full range of benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Salary is negotiable, commensurate with your qualifications and experience. To apply, submit a letter of application that explains some of the ways that you can help to strengthen SLIS's programs, five references and curriculum vita. Informal inquiries can be directed to members of the search committee: Dr. Debora Shaw (shawd@indiana.edu), Dr. Rob Kling (kling@indiana.edu) or Dr. Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba@indiana.edu). Applications, nominations and curricula vitae should be sent to: Dr. Debora Shaw, Chair of the Search and Screen Committee School of Library and Information Science 10th Street and Jordan Ave., Library 012 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 phone: (812) 855-3261; fax: (812) 855-6166 ********** II.2. Fr: Greg Newby Re: UNC: Director of Information Technology and Services Position Title: Lecturer/Director of Information Technology and Services Location: School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Proposed Starting Date: 1-1-99 Approximate Salary Range: $40,000 - $60,000 Professional Qualifications Required: Education: Master's degree in Information Science, Information Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field. Experience: Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to one year of supervisory experience and a broad-based knowledge of Unix system administration (Solaris and Linux), Windows NT/98, or LAN administration. Teaching experience preferred. The Director of Information Technology and Services is responsible for the development and support of the School's computer, communication, and networking facilities and services. The Director of ITS reports to the School's Dean and manages a staff of two professionals and numerous student assistants. Principal Functions: -- Helps SILS maintain a position of national leadership in the use of information technology through strategic activity and long-range planning; -- Works with faculty to develop and guide school policies and practices related to information technologies, especially educational applications of such technologies; -- Instructs and assists faculty with the incorporation of information technologies into their courses, such as web- based instruction, multimedia, group conferencing solutions, and Internet collaboration tools; -- Establishes and supervises the development of appropriate policies and procedures for systems and facility management including security, backup, and resource allocation; -- Is responsible for the School's approximately $200,000 annual budget for information technology; -- Identifies, evaluates, and supervises the implementation of appropriate software, hardware, and networking technologies to support faculty, curricular, and student computer lab requirements; -- Oversees the daily operation of the school's approximately 50 station computer lab, research computing facilities, all faculty workstations, the School's administrative computing network, and the eventual integration of student laptops into the School's computing infrastructure; -- Manages a staff of two professionals and approximately four to six student assistants; -- Insures reliable and functional operation of the School's telecommunication, LAN, Unix, and PC based systems and components and supervises system changes and updates as necessary; -- Teaches courses as necessary in the area of information technologies; -- Supports faculty and students by offering individualized consultation, lab demonstration sessions, and short courses on specific software applications; -- Participates in departmental and campus wide computing forums and committees; -- Executes special projects and assignments at the discretion of the School's Dean. Submit a cover letter, resume, and names of references to: School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3360 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3360 Email: info@ils.unc.edu Review of candidates' materials will begin in early December. Information about SILS: http://ils.unc.edu ********** II.3. Fr: Ethel Bloesch Re: UI: Visiting Faculty Positions: SLIS VISITING FACULTY POSITIONS IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 1999-2000 School of Library and Information Science The University of Iowa The University of Iowa invites applications for two visiting faculty positions in the School of Library and Information Science. The School seeks individuals who are excited by the challenging developments in Library and Information Science. The positions are nine-month positions for the 1999-2000 academic year. Areas of strength we are seeking include: Information Technology (Multimedia, Automated Systems) Collection Development Organization of Information Resources Information Policy, Law, and Literacy Specialized Information Resources (Government, Young Adult, Adults) Management (Special Libraries, Program Evaluation) Candidates with a Ph.D. completed or near completion are invited to apply. Doctoral study may be in Library and Information Science, Computer Science, or a related discipline. The positions open in Fall 1999, and the screening process begins immediately. Interested applicants may send their resume and the names of three references to: Padmini Srinivasan, Director School of Library and Information Science The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 Phone: 319-335-5707; Fax: 319-335-5374 padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu The University of Iowa is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Information about the School of Library and Information Science may be obtained by contacting the School or from the web site at http://www.uiowa.edu/~libsci. ********** II.4. Fr: Janet M. Arth Re: UMN: Archivist Position: Center for the History of Information Processing UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARIES-TWIN CITIES CAMPUS http://www.lib.umn.edu Position Available Archivist, Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Processing The University of Minnesota Libraries invites applications and nominations of dynamic and innovative professionals for the position of Archivist, Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Processing. The CBI is a research center dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing. The Institute's archival collection includes individual and corporate records, oral histories, monographs, serials, videos, and films relating to the history of computing, primarily since World War II. Currently housed in Walter Library, the CBI Archives will move into a new archival research facility over in late 1999 (see http://kinglear.lib.umn.edu/mlac/). The CBI Archivist reports to the Team Leader for Collection Development and Management for the University Libraries, and works closely with the Director of the CBI. All archives and libraries staff must have the ability to work effectively with a diverse community of faculty, students, and library colleagues in a team environment. DESCRIPTION: * Unit Administration: Responsible for planning and policy making for the unit; manage daily operations; supervise one full-time Library Assistant III and additional part-time student employees; maintain liaison with other archival and special collections units. * Resource Development: Oversee the acquisition, appraisal, description, arrangement, and preservation of materials in the Archives. In cooperation with staff in other library units, maintain physical and bibliographic control of resources in digital and print formats. * Reference Service and Outreach: Provide reference and instructional services to faculty, students, and independent researchers during scheduled hours and by appointment. Provide outreach to external user community, develop grant proposals, and assist in fund-raising with the Libraries Development Office and the Director of the CBI. Develop and maintain information tools and digital resources via the CBI web page. QUALIFICATIONS Required: Masters degree in archival administration or ALA-accredited M.L.S. (or foreign equivalent); experience in a research institution dealing with archives or manuscripts; demonstrated knowledge of acquisition, arrangement, description, preservation, and appraisal of archival materials; demonstrated knowledge of digital information technology as it relates to archives and special collections; strong oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work effectively with a diverse clientele. Preferred: Supervisory experience; background relating to the history of science and technology, especially computing. SALARY AND BENEFITS: This is a full-time, 12-month, continuous appointment track, academic/professional position with probationary appointment at the Assistant or Associate Librarian rank. Rank will depend on qualifications and experience consistent with collegiate and University policy. The Libraries offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, but not less than $35,000, for the position. Excellent benefits and substantial moving allowance. RECRUITING SCHEDULE: Position is available immediately. Review of applications will commence on December 16, 1998. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the review date to receive full consideration. A full position description is available at http://www.umn.edu/ohr/employ.html listed with Academic Professional positions by Job Number UL86. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send a letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of three current professional references to: Linda DeBeau-Melting, Libraries Human Resources Office, University Libraries, 499 Wilson Library, 309 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55455-0414. Please identify your application with the number UL86. The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Henry S. Baird Re: IR Journal Special Issue FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on DOCUMENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL Information Retrieval Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers Editors-in-Chief: Paul B. Kantor & Stephen E. Robertson GUEST EDITORS Henry S. BAIRD, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA USA David S. DOERMANN, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA Francine CHEN, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA USA TECHNICAL FOCUS: Classical information retrieval methods have been commonly and often tacitly designed to operate on passages of plain, correctly encoded text. If however that text was extracted from images of paper documents (as is increasingly done), then new research issues arise. Text extracted from images may be corrupt to some degree, whether due to manual transcription or machine-assisted recognition. The text may have been provided on the page with significant and useful contextual clues, for example in the organization of the page layout, in typographic details such as text size and typeface, and in proximity to images or graphics. This non-textual ``meta-data'' is often multi-dimensional and multimedia. For some purposes it is best to operate directly on the document image rather than on its textual content, for example to identify nearly identical documents or search for semi-textual ``terms'' such as logos or handwritten annotations and signatures. And it is sometimes possible to operate effectively on highly compressed or subsampled versions of the document image. Categorization of document images, as a prelude to retrieval or for other purposes, is also relevant to this special issue. This special issue is intended to provide a forum for current research on these and related technical problems that lie near the boundary between the text-based information retrieval and image-based document analysis and recognition research fields. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 1999 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Manuscript style will be governed by the `Instructions for Authors' found at the Information Retrieval journal's Web site http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ir Some procedures for submission to this Issue differ from the Web site's standing instructions. 1. Submit manuscripts directly to: Henry S. Baird Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA. 2. Submissions may, alternatively, be made via E-mail to baird@parc.xerox.com in LaTeX (as explained on the Web site), or in encapsulated PostScript. 3. Communicate all inquiries to Dr. Baird by E-mail if possible. If it is necessary, telephone him at +1-650-812-4481 or FAX +1-650-812-4374. 4. Manuscripts should ordinarily be limited to 40 pages double-spaced, but the Editors will entertain exceptions for critical surveys, large-scale comparative performance evaluations, or architectural descriptions of complete working systems. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 22, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 22 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 related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues: . The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 180 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.3. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 11-20-98 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- NOVEMBER 20, 1998 IN THIS ISSUE: NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS MUST REGISTER WITH COPYRIGHT OFFICE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR NEW COPYRIGHT LAW LIABILITY PROTECTIONS GOVERNMENT RESTRAINED FROM ENFORCING CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT GOVERNMENT SEEKS GREATER ACCOUNTABILITY IN NEW INTERNET CORPORATION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to the same address. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu. ********** III.A.4. Fr: Richard Hill Re: D-Lib Magazine November 1998 The November 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at . The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: , and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at . In this issue, we feature a mix of stories, book reviews, news, announcements, and pointers to interesting sites. Our research stories address: CoRR, a repository of computing research reports; the cost of publishing electronic journals; collection development for digital libraries; and the benefits of using controlled language and thesauri to improve online access. In addition, we have a review by Anne Hoag of two recent Internet communications books: 1. Network & Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, and 2. Culture of the Internet. CONTENTS A Computing Research Repository Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University The Cost of Publishing an Electronic Journal: A general model and a case study. Marjolein Bot and Johan Burgemeester, PricewaterhouseCoopers; and Hans Roes, Tilburg University Library Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries. Carl Lagoze and David Fielding, Cornell University WWW -- Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled vocabulary and thesauri in support of online information access. David Batty, CDB Enterprises, Inc. D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms Bonnie Wilson Editors ********** II.B.1 Fr: Mounia Lalmas Re: IJCAI '99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration 31 July 1999, Stockholm http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/dfe/iii99.html http://www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/ The growth of the Internet and other on-line information repositories has greatly simplified the access to numerous sources of information. But it has become cliche to observe that this growth has vastly complicated tasks involving finding, extracting, merging or synthesizing such information. With today's tools, a tourist planning a trip to Paris cannot simply fetch from the Web a map showing all Italian restaurants close to the Eiffel Tower, although this information may well be available on the Web if maps of Paris, lists of restaurants, and of tourist sites are combined. The problems is one not of information distribution, but of information integration. Building tools to simplify access to the wealth of available information constitutes a significant challenge to computer science. Artificial Intelligence is well-suited to this challenge, with its emphasis on heuristic solutions, knowledge representation and knowledge-intensive techniques, explicit management of uncertainty, learning and adaptivity, planning, and so forth. Over the past several years, the "information integration" community in AI has been exploring these issues. The result has been substantial progress on problems such as representing information sources; planning information-gathering actions; handling semantic heterogeneity; optimizing queries; caching; exploiting ontological knowledge; tools for Web sites construction; resource discovery; automatically learning to access sources; and scaling information-gathering systems up to the "real world". Information on workshops on this topic is available at www.tzi.de/grp/i3 and www.isi.edu/ariadne/aiii98-wkshp/index.html. Topics of interest include: * modeling the contents of information systems * flexible approaches to selecting relevant sources * approaches for efficient and flexible query planning * learning or constructing wrappers for extracting data * resolving inconsistencies in identifying objects * integration approaches using ontologies/contexts * design principles for ontologies used for integration * languages for information integration * advanced integration architectures * semantic, schematic, vocabulary, data heterogeneity * information sources in Internet, Intranet * classification schemes (for mediators, semantic heterogeneity, etc.) * tools for supporting information integration * reviews and evaluation of existing integration approaches * practical experience with integration approaches * theoretical perspectives of information integrations * ontology mapping, ontology algebras and context logic * intelligent information retrieval * security aspects * change management * federated databases and multi-databases * integration of uncertain or inaccurate sources IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 1 April 1999 Notification of acceptance: 1 May 1999 Camera ready copy and author registration due: 1 June 1999 Workshop: 31 July 1999 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit a full paper electronically either as a Postscript, HTML or PDF. In addition, authors should submit an ASCII version of their title page with abstract by email. To submit your paper, send it's URL to dieter.fensel@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Submission Format: The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the author designated as contact person in the electronic title page. Submissions should not exceed 6000 words and should be printed on 8.5" x 11" or A4 paper with at least 1-inch margins on all sides. A publication of selected articles in a special issue of a journal is planned. PROCEEDINGS: The workshop proceedings will be available on-line. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Elaine G. Toms Re: Canadian Association for Information Science Conference: CFP Call for Papers 27th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science / Association canadienne des sciences de l'information June 9-11, 1999 Universite de Sherbrooke (http://www.usherb.ca) Sherbrooke, Quebec (http://www.sders.com/tourism/) Watch for more information soon at http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~turner/english/cais1999.html Theme: Information science: Where has it been, where is it going? For more than a quarter century, information scientists have met at the CAIS conference to discuss the access, retrieval, production organization, distribution, value, use and management of information. From those early days of examining computational ways of manipulating information through to investigations of information as communication, CAIS has provided a forum for presentation, discussion and debate. At its last conference before the year 2000, CAIS 1999 continues this tradition. CAIS 1999 will be held at the Universite de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, located 150 km south of Montreal and 450 km north of Boston. CAIS will be meeting with the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) and will offer exceptional opportunities for creative contacts and fruitful discussion between delegates and members of the approximately 80 learned societies that will meet concurrently. We seek submissions related to any aspect of information science, particularly those that exemplify the leading edge of our discipline. Submissions must include a title and a 500 word extended abstract of the proposed paper. The name(s) of the author(s), complete mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers should be included on a separate sheet. Abstracts will be refereed. Final papers will be published in the proceedings and presented at the conference. Papers may be in English or French. Preference will be given to papers that report research or debate underlying methodological/philosophical issues, rather than those that report on plans yet to be implemented. Deadline for abstracts is January 15, 1999. Approval will be made by February 15, 1998. Final papers (3000-4000 words) must be received in camera-ready form on paper by April 16, 1999. Doctoral candidates are especially invited to submit to the conference. CAIS will be awarding a full conference registration and one-year membership to the best student submission. Student submissions must be single-authored, and proof of student status must be included with the submission. Initial submissions in print, fax, or included in an e-mail message bearing the subject "CAIS 1999 proposal" should be sent to: James M Turner CAIS 1999 Program Chair Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l;information Universite de Montreal CP 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal, QC CAN H3C=A03J7 Voice: +1=A0514=A0343=A02454 Fax: +1=A0514=A0343=A05753 e-mail: james.turner@umontreal.ca Web: http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~turner ********** III.B.2 Fr: Peter Linde Re: 3rd ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing: 2nd CFP Call for papers The Third Conference on Electronic Publishing (http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf) will be held in Ronneby, Sweden and presents a great opportunity to present achievements in this area to an international audience. On behalf of the Organizing committee of Electronic Publishing '99, I, therefore would like to encourage you to submit an abstract or to pre-register. Peter Linde, chairman of the Programme Committee. 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, in 1997 and Budapest 1998 (http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC98/) papers on technical, human and economic aspects of electronic publishing will be welcomed Submit a paper The conference will be concerned with electronic publishing both for specialist audiences and for the general public. Submit your paper at: http://www5.hk-r.se/abstract.nsf/input/ Deadline for abstract submission is 7th of December 1998. There will be two tracks. The first track will concentrate on technical issues, such as file formats, 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 Program 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 scale 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 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 will 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: mailto:abstract@notes.hk-r.se or submitted by webform to: http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf Preregister: Preregister for the Conference by filling out our web-form available at http://www5.hk-r.se/ElPub99.nsf/ and we will later send you registration Paper/Panel debate submission: All submissions will be refereed by members 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 fees 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: mailto: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 mailto:Elpub99@hk-r.se Deadline for abstract submission is 7th of December 1998. 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 e-mail or a letter with your name and address and which of the titles you want to buy (ICCC/IFIP Conference Proceeding Electronic Publishing '97 - "New Models and opportunities or ICCC/IFIP Conference Proceeding Electronic Publishing '98 - "Towards the Information-Rich Society") to: Dipak Khakhar Department of Informatics S-223 63 Lund, Sweden mailto: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/ http://www.ballad.org/ Soft Center http://www.softcenter.com/ ********** III.B.3 Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Conference at Stanford University on Work of Doug Englebart Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Stanford Symposium Wednesday, December 9, 1998 http://unrev.stanford.edu/ Thirty years ago at a San Francisco computer conference Doug Engelbart and a small team of researchers from the Stanford Research Institute revolutionized the computing world with an extraordinary demonstration of how we could work with computers. That presentation brought together for the first time: the computer mouse, graphical user interface, display editing, and integrated text and graphics, hyper-documents, and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces. How did that historic event affect us and what does the future hold for human interaction with the computer? Stanford University Libraries and the Institute for the Future will present a day-long, public symposium that will bring together Engelbart and members of his historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the impact of Engelbart's work, examine the challenges facing us today, and to speculate about what the next three decades will reveal. The event will also introduce the work of the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University Library. Confirmed speakers include: Doug Engelbart, Marc Andreessen, Stewart Brand, Stu Card, Eric Drexler, David Evans, Paul Horn, Alan Kay, Jaron Lanier, John Markoff, Ted Nelson, Howard Rheingold, Jeff Rulifson, Paul Saffo, Andy van Dam, Terry Winograd, and Pierluigi Zappacosta. Stanford Ticket Office 650-725-ARTS Information and Background http://unrev.stanford.edu/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Pitt Alumni Award to Peters PITT'S SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES PRESENTS ALUMNI AWARD POSTHUMOUSLY TO PAUL EVAN PETERS Paul Evan Peters, who helped found the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) as served as its executive director from 1990 until his death in 1996 at age 48, was honored posthumously with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Pittsburgh. Peters earned a master's degree in information science at Pitt and completed nearly all work on his Ph.D. degree in the university's interdisciplinary department of information science. His award was bestowed Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Hilton Hotel and Towers during a plenary session of the American Society of Information Science (ASIS), which held its national conference in Pittsburgh, Oct. 25-29, SIS Dean Toni Carbo presented the award to Peters widow, Rosemarie Kozdron. Known for his ability to unite people toward a common purpose, Peters helped lead CNI to an essential role in the North American dialogue to advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Said CNI steering committee chair Richard West: "The many who had the chance to work with Paul know of his contribution and influence on our professional scholarly and technological activities." Before founding the Coalition, Peters was systems coordinator at the New York Public Library from 1987 to 1989, and was assistant university librarian for systems at Columbia University, where he also earned a master's degree in sociology in 1986. From 1970 to 1978, Peters was a principal in a variety of research and development projects while earning his master's degree at Pitt. "Paul's marked intelligence, probing the difficult philosophical issues facing the new discipline of Information Science, his commitment to exploring, in its fullest sense, the human dimensions of the emerging technologies, endeared him to his colleagues and particularly to me," said Toni Debons, professor emeritus of information science and telecommunications at Pitt. "His acumen and humanity will long remain in my memory." Peters was a former president of the Library and Information Technology Association and former chair of the National Information Standards Organization. He also served on the Council of the American Library Association as well as the editorial boards of a number of networking, networked information and library technology journals. Said Jim Williams, Pitt professor of information science and technology: "Paul was not only a superior student who truly enjoyed scholarship, but an outstanding researcher, writer and teacher. Paul was such a talented person that he excelled at everything he got involved with. He also had an extremely high level of quality standards for himself and his work. But most of all, Paul was a quality human being. He cared about people and involved himself with activities that he believed would make the world a better place." Contact: Ron Cichowicz, Office of News and Information, University of Pittsburgh 412-624-4007 cich+@pitt.edu ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Judy Johnston Re: NASIG Fritz Schwartz Scholarship Announcement NASIG AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS FRITZ SCHWARTZ SERIALS EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Sponsored by NASIG and SISAC The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) team up each year to award a $2500 scholarship to a library science graduate student who demonstrates excellence in scholarship and the potential for accomplishment in a serials career. The purpose of the scholarship is to advance the serials profession by providing an aspiring library student who has prior serials experience with enhanced educational opportunities. The award is named in honor of Fritz Schwartz, who was a well-known and highly respected authority on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the Internet, and library standards. A frequent speaker at NASIG annual conferences, his last NASIG appearance was to conduct a highly rated workshop at the 10th Conference at Duke University. He actively participated in various committees within SISAC, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the International Committee on EDI for Serials (ICEDIS). At the time of his death, Fritz was Manager of Electronic Services and Standards at the Faxon Company. NASIG and SISAC are pleased to offer this scholarship in memory of Fritz's many contributions to the library profession and to honor his energy, warmth, humor, and passion for standards. NASIG is an international organization committed to promoting communication and sharing of ideas among all people working with or concerned about serial publications. More information about the organization is available at http://nasig.ils.unc.edu/. SISAC provides a forum for professionals throughout the entire serials chain to work together in developing standardized formats with which to electronically transmit serials information. More information about SISAC is available at http://www.bookwire.com/bisg/sisac.html. In addition to the scholarship, the recipient will also receive a Student Grant Award to attend the NASIG conference for the year in which the scholarship is granted and will receive a one-year NASIG membership. The 1999 NASIG conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA June 10th-13th. Eligibility requirements for the scholarship: At the time the scholarship is awarded, the applicant must be entering an ALA- accredited graduate library program or must have completed no more than twelve hours of academic requirements towards the graduate degree. The applicant must have serials-related work experience and a desire to pursue a professional serials career after earning the graduate library degree. The following materials are required by the applicant and must be postmarked/faxed by February 16, 1999 (Applications postmarked/faxed after this date will not be considered): A completed application form. Letters of reference from two information professionals. A resume or curriculum vita. A statement of the applicant's career objectives (not to exceed 250 words). A statement on how the applicant's qualifications satisfy the eligibility requirements and the purpose of the award (not to exceed 250 words). The award winner will be required to be enrolled for a minimum of six credit hours of library/information science courses per semester/quarter during the academic year that the award is granted. The award winner will be ineligible to reapply for the scholarship. Only one scholarship will be awarded per academic year. Application forms will be available after November 15, 1998 in ALA accredited library schools, through the NASIG Web Page, and from Markel Tumlin, Co-Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee. Completed applications and all related materials should be sent to: Markel Tumlin General Reference Division University Library, LLA 1101-L San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-8050 Phone (619) 594-6875 Fax (619) 594-3270 E-Mail: mtumlin@mail.sdsu.edu ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Isaac Network Call for Collaborators The Isaac Network: Information Seeker's Avenue to Authoritative Content Call for Collaborators November 17, 1998 The Isaac Network is a new initiative of the Internet Scout Project, which is located in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Isaac Network initiative is co-sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). A discussion session for potential collaborators and other interested parties will be held at the Coalition's Fall Task Force Meeting in December in Seattle. The Isaac Network links together selective collections of high quality Internet resources from content providers who have hand-chosen the resources and who have developed metadata for each resource. Using the latest directory protocols and the Dublin Core metadata set, the Isaac Network provides a search interface to multiple, distributed collections of metadata. The overall goal is to allow users to submit a single query to search geographically distributed and independently maintained metadata collections and to return the combined results to the user. The primary audience of the Internet Scout Project is the higher education community, therefore our first priority will be to include collections of interest to researchers and educators. These may include collections developed by organizations from higher education, government, public libraries, the non-profit sector, or commercial content providers. They may be collections that focus on a particular topic or discipline, or that cover a broad subject range. Content providers who already have metadata for the Internet resources in their collection have the highest potential to be early collaborators in the Isaac Network. However, any providers of high-quality content are encouraged to join discussions about the project in preparation for possible participation later in the network's development. BACKGROUND: The explosion of information on the Internet has made it difficult for researchers and educators to locate online resources that they deem relevant and of high quality. Ultimately individuals have to decide for themselves which resources are relevant and credible in a given situation. However, the task of discovering these resources is much simplified if the pool of possibilities is narrowed to a pre-selected subset of resources chosen by information specialists to be of high quality. Today there are numerous collections of "quality resources" available on the Web; however, they are generally individual, autonomous sites, not connected in any way to other quality collections. Internet users, especially those in academia, need the ability to send a single search command, which will reach specific quality collections, and just as importantly, only those quality collections. The Isaac Network is being built to provide end-users with a single search interface to a group of metadata collections, which contain or reference highly selective Internet resources. The Coalition for Networked Information's Task Force meetings will be used as a mechanism to disseminate information about the progress of the project and lessons learned. CNI Task Force members may also be asked to provide comments and evaluations of the system. Primary Goals of the Isaac Network Project: * Utilizing metadata, provide a useful resource discovery service for quality information sources. * Allow collaborators to continue to develop, maintain, and manage their own collections. Isaac provides a method to link the collections and will not subsume any of the individual collections. Content providers retain ownership of, control over, and credit for the metadata records shared through the network. * Experiment with metadata standards, such as the Dublin Core, to provide a common set of attributes with which to catalog and subsequently search collections of Internet resources. * Develop a collaborative laboratory in which we can research topics of interest, such as indexing algorithms and alternative user interfaces. We will also explore the development of a set of guidelines for connecting selective collections within the Isaac Network, and between Isaac and similar international efforts. The Isaac Network's infrastructure uses standard Internet protocols, such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) to distribute queries, return results, and exchange index or centroid information. To our knowledge, to date the LDAP protocol has been used only for white pages type directories. The Isaac project is the first to use an LDAP directory for metadata records about resources and to combine LDAP with CIP in a distributed index-sharing and query-routing architecture. COLLABORATORS: The Isaac Network will link geographically distributed metadata collections into a single, virtual metadata collection. We are primarily interested in highly authoritative collections of Internet resources that have been hand-selected by librarians or information specialists. These may include collections developed by organizations from higher education, government, public libraries, the non-profit sector, or commercial providers. (However, from a practical standpoint, collections that don't consist of primarily freely available resources will not be useful to the majority of Isaac Network users). Collections may focus on a particular topic or discipline, or cover a broad subject range. The metadata in each repository should be high quality: specifically, it should be applied by professional catalogers or information specialists using a minimum of descriptive fielded data. The Scout Report Signpost (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/signpost/) database of metadata is an example of such a repository. The Internet Scout Project will assist collaborators by providing the following resources: 1. The software components needed by each collaborator to share his or her metadata over the virtual Isaac Network. All software components for the project have been developed by the Internet Scout Project or have been upgraded from publicly available software. 2. Technical support from Internet Scout Project staff in the implementation of the software at the collaborator's site. 3. Metadata development support from Internet Scout Project staff during the integration of the collaborator's collection into the Isaac Network. 4. Support materials including software documentation and user outreach information. Given the Internet Scout Project's finite resources, we are looking for a limited number of collaborators (6 - 8) to participate in the initial phase of the testbed. We would like to partner with organizations that have and/or can provide the following: 1. An existing collection of human-mediated metadata about Internet resources that is regularly verified and updated: * The collection should contain more than 500 records but fewer than 20,000 * The metadata should include at least the following fields: Author Title Subject or Keywords Resource Description URL 2. Computing resources to run the Isaac software: *A machine directly connected to the Internet, with at least 200 Mb of free disk space running one of the following versions of Unix: SunOS/Solaris Digital Unix HP-UX AIX IRIX 3. Expertise and time to work with the Internet Scout Research Team to develop data extraction/conversion tools to facilitate the export/import of metadata records and to establish mappings between metadata formats. A general overview of the project goals and architecture is available in an article in the June 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine, "A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata." For the Project's architecture, read Project Isaac Architecture Overview for Collaborators. Both can be accessed from the Scout Research page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/research/index.html If you are interested in participating, please contact us at the addresses below with your interests, general information about your collection, and the URL of your site. Susan Calcari (scal@cs.wisc.edu), Project Director. For content or technical issues, please contact Amy Tracy Wells (awel@cs.wisc.edu), Content Coordinator, or Mike Roszkowski (mfr@cs.wisc.edu), Technical Coordinator. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, is an organization to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. More information on CNI can be found at http://www.cni.org/. The Internet Scout Project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and is located in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is charged with assisting the higher education community in resource discovery on the Internet. To that end, the Scout Report and subsequent subject-specific Scout Reports were developed to guide the U.S. higher education community to research-quality resources. The content of all the Scout Reports is archived in the Scout Report Signpost, which holds resource descriptions on over 5000 Internet resources. More than 2500 of these resources have been cataloged using established standards such as Library of Congress subject headings and abbreviated call letters, and emerging standards such as the Dublin Core (DC). More information about the Internet Scout Project can be found at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/. The Internet Scout Project provides information about the Internet to the U.S. research and education community under a grant from the National Science Foundation, number NCR-9712163. The Government has certain rights in this material. Susan Calcari Sponsored by the Project Director National Science Foundation Internet Scout Project Computer Sciences Department scal@cs.wisc.edu 1210 W. Dayton Street phone: 608.265.8042 University of Wisconsin -- Madison http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ Madison, WI 53706 ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.cdl.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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