Information Retrieval List Digest 449 (April 6, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-449.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 6, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 12 Issue 449 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-31-99 2. Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 3. NEW JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES: CFP 4. News Items for _Journal of Internet Cataloging_ B. Meetings 1. I'MEDIAT '99 2. SPIRE '99: String Processing & Information Retrieval 3. UM99 REGISTRATION DEADLINE ! 4. MT Summit VII Workshop 5. LACUNY INSTITUTE'99 6. CIMI/CHIN Metadata Workshop ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-31-99 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MARCH 31, 1999 ***IN THIS ISSUE*** INTERNET GAMBLING BILL REINTRODUCED IN SENATE - ISP LIABILITY AND ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS REMAIN DNS FUND UNDER FIRE ONCE AGAIN - NSF WARNS OF POTENTIAL DISRUPTION OF NGI AND ADVANCED NETWORKING PROGRAMS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 24 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 950 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 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources, a collection of links to related Web sites: . The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 200 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: Nikitas Assimakopoulos Re: NEW JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES: CFP JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches [JASS ] AIMS AND SCOPE The mission of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" is on the development of methodologies based on the laws and rules of various sciences. New designs and functional methodologies are composed for applications in business, operational and social, as well as biological phenomena. The objectives of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" are to widespread the science of systems and present the research and application results of its domain. As the science rapidly changes and grows, resources and time become more precious, "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" provides the very best information and analysis to keep up to date with the latest developments and approaches to other scientific domains, through the application of systems approaches upon them. The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" aims to: · To provide a forum for the exchange of experiences and information of studying the systems and the methodologies, tools and products used to design, measure and achieve it. · To promote awareness of the crucial role of systems studies in the effective construction of the information systems developed, used, and/or maintained by organizations in pursuit of their business objectives. · To provide a vehicle for the publication of academic papers related to all aspects of soft and hard system approaches. The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" addresses all aspects of systemic analysis from both a practical and an academic viewpoint. It invites contributions from practitioners and academics, as well as national and international policy, standard-making bodies, and sets out to be the definitive international reference source for such information. The readership of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" consists of academics, systems managers, computer scientists, information scientists, and researchers in applied system theory, as well as those involved in management, operations and political science in different scientific discipline i.e. Universities, Consulting Firms, Enterprises and Industries. Topics of Interest Topics of interest to JASS include, but are not limited to: · Applications of cybernetics using the viable system model · Applications of interactive planning methodology · Applications of soft systems methodology · Applied cybernetics in medicine · Applied living systems · Cognitive patterns · Complex systems · Conceptual systemic models · Control systems · Critical systems thinking · Culture of peace · Decision support systems · Dynamical systems approaches · Electronic service systems (Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Deltanet) · Human-centered systems · Human-computer interaction · Intelligent systems engineering · Intelligent tutoring systems · Knowledge based systems · Knowledge ecology · Law systems · Multimedia systems · Problem structuring approaches · Project management using systemic approaches · Religious systems · Semiotic approaches · Social systems design · Systemic metaphors · Systemic reengineering · Systems - metasystems and decisions - metadecisions · Systems and design education · Systems approaches for information systems · Systems thinking for total quality management · Total systems intervention · Virtual communities We seek papers that improve on the best academic research or the best practical applications. Submitted papers should be motivated by the problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers must contain either a new methodology or interpreted results through well known methodology(ies) on real systems or simulations based on representative traces from real systems. Proposals for special issues, especially on emerging topics, are also welcome. EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief : Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str., GR-185 34 Piraeus, Greece. Email : assinik@unipi.gr Honorary Editor : Bela H. Banathy, President of the International Federation for Systems Research & International Systems Institute, USA. Editor : Russell L. Ackoff, Chairman of the Board of INTERACT, USA. PUBLISHER "Cambridge International Science Publishing" , Cambridge, England. GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS Authors should send to the Editor-in-Chief via email (assinik@unipi.gr) the paper in attached file(s) using "winzip32" for compression, with a description in the body of the message, and by post a printed copy along with the electronic file(s) submission on a 3½ diskette which should conform the following requirements: 1. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and spelling should be adapted with The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Original papers (not published or not simultaneously submitted to another journal) will be reviewed by three anonymous referees. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher which it will insure the widest possible dissemination of information under applicable copyright law. 2. The disk should be in IBM PC format; the files should be saved in Microsoft Word for PC, version 97 for Windows. Any other word-processing package will not be approved for submission. For artwork, figures and tables should only use the Ms-Office 97 package facilities and must be grouped and pasted, in the proper place, into the Word document. 3. Papers should be typed on one side of the paper. The pages should be numbered consecutively at the bottom centre of the page. The length of the paper should not exceed 10 journal pages (or about 5000 words), and hence manuscripts should not exceed 15 typed single-space A4 (printing area 14.7 x 24.7 cm) pages including title page, abstract, text, figures, tables and references. The number of artworks, figures and tables must be kept up to a minimum. Do not start a new page after the title information and abstract. Do not use tab for the first text line of each main section. Paragraphs should be both right and left justified. 4. The font (typeface) is Times New Roman. The text type size should be 11 points. Please use the page set-up command to ensure that your paper is prepared on A4 size paper (21 x 29.7 cm) using the default format for text and margins at the top and the bottom of the page for Microsoft Word 97. 5. The title should be written on the first line of the first page, left justified in upper and lower case letters (20-points bold). The authors' names should be left justified two lines below the full title in upper and lower case letters (14-points). Affiliation and mailing address (including email) should follow left justified also in upper and lower case letters (11-points). 6. Two lines below the author's name and affiliation start an abstract as the first paragraph of the paper. The abstract should follow the title, author's name, and mailing address on the first page (10-points) and must be up to 150 words. At the end of the abstract, skip a line and then, left justified, type "Keywords" (10-points bold) : followed by up to three (3) sets of words that describe the focus and contribution of the paper (10-points). The first set of keyword must be one of the topics of interest to JASS. Skip two lines and then begin the body of the paper (after an Introduction heading if required) immediately after the abstract. 7. All major headings are left justified. They are to be written in 12-points bold font and numbered consecutively followed by a period and the default tab, with Arabic numerals, e.g., 1. Introduction. Do not put a period after the text of the heading. Leave two lines above a major heading and one line before the start of the next paragraph or second-level heading. Subheadings are flush left in 11-points bold. There should be one line space before and after this level of heading. The paragraph should be numbered as a subsection of the previous major heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1 Subheadings. Sub-subheadings are flush left, in italics and in 11-points type. The paragraphs should be numbered as a sub-section of the previous subsection heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1.1 Sub-subheadings. There should be one line space before this level of heading and after this level of heading and the following paragraph. 8. The electronic version of the art should be included in the attached files and on the diskette, and it must be incoprorated into the word-processing file. Figures should be labeled in the text as "Figure x". Figure captions should be typed directly below the figure, in upper and lower case (11-points), and centred. 9. Table captions should be centered above the table. Tables should be included in the manuscript proper and referred to in the text as "Table x". 10. When numbering equations, enclose numbers in parenthesis ( ) and place them flush with the right-hand margin. Refer to them in the text as "Equation (x)". 11. Papers should be written without the use of footnotes. 12. Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be typed using the facilities of Ms-Word 97 and must be written clearly with ample spacing. Use the widely accepted symbols and abbreviations following the style of BS 1991 Part 2 1954. 13. All papers should end with a conclusion which summarizes the value of the work end, where appropriate, indicates possible directions for future developments. 14. References must be indicated in the text by brackets [ ]. Identify references in the text of the paper by typing the corresponding surname (or first surname) and year in brackets e.g.: [Aauthor (1998)]. They are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper under the major heading "References" (12-point bold font) left justified. List authors alphabetically by the first letter of the first author's surname name. Book titles and names of journals should be printed in italics. Please adopt the following style for references : Aauthor, A. (1998). Title of Book. XYZ Press, New York. Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1999). Title of Paper. Journal vol. 3(2), 1-20. Cauthor, C., Aauthor, A., Bauthor, B., and Jones, G. (1996). Title of Paper, in Title of Book, (E. Editor, ed.). XYZ Press, New York, 47-82. For multiple papers in the same year by the same author(s): Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995A). Title of PaperA. JournalA vol. 3(5), 1-20. Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995B). Title of PaperB. JournalB vol. 6(9), 56-80. 15. If material has been published elsewhere, authors must obtain the consent of the earlier publisher. Authors wishing to use material from the JASS should consult the Editor-in-Chief. ********** III.A.4. Fr: Gerry McKiernan Re: News Items for _Journal of Internet Cataloging_ For my next "News from the Field" column for the _Journal of Internet Cataloging: The International Quarterly of Digital Organization, Classification, and Access_ (JIC), I would appreciate any and all news items about current or planned efforts for organizing or providing enhanced access to Internet or Web resources BTW: The homepage for JIC is http://www.haworthpressinc.com/jic/ I am interested in relevant conferences, workshops, discussions, institutes, presentations, and/or other programs. I am also interested in current or completed digital/digitization projects, as well as noteworthy articles, reports, journals, newsletters or other print or electronic publications. Thanks! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) and Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu ********** III.B.1. Fr: Stephane Bressan Re: I'MEDIAT '99 I'MEDIAT'99 (http://context.mit.edu/imediat99) Call for Papers and Demonstrations Second International Workshop on Practical Information Mediation, Brokering, and Commerce on the Internet. Tokyo, Japan, September 3-5 1999 In Conjunction with The Twelfth International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'99) Following the success of I'MEDIAT'98, we are happy to announce the second international workshop on practical information mediation, brokering, and commerce on the Internet. As Internet based interactions and commerce continue to evolve very rapidly, new and exciting opportunities for mediation applications are constantly created. We are witnessing a tremendous growth in the number, types, and novelty of mediation services, as well as an increased level of sophistication. I'MEDIAT is a forum of discussion and presentation of new ideas and technologies for value adding services in information mediation and brokering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, users and information providers involved in the development and deployment of commercial, industrial and practical applications. We solicit papers describing novel information mediation approaches, applications, and systems. Papers reporting on commercial or experimental applications as well as demonstrations are strongly encouraged. The main topics for papers and demonstrations include, but are not limited to: * Mediation systems and intelligent access to heterogeneous and distributed information * Internet tools for information and knowledge sharing; * Canonical metadata modeling for structured, semi-structured and unstructured information collections; * Wrapper development technique and data model mapping; * Information extraction from unstructured or semi structured documents; * Advanced information search and filtering; * Information personalization and customization techniques; * Information distribution protocols (channels, push/pull technologies, etc.); * Information visualization and user interfaces for mediation; * Next generation commerce mediation (e.g. product comparison technologies, price negotiation, bargain finders, electronic auctions) * Next generation customer management technologies (e.g. sophisticated profiling, direct marketing technologies, brand loyalty promotion technologies). * Trust, privacy, and security; * Business models for the commerce of information: technological implications; * Policy (intellectual property, privacy, etc.): technological implications; * Information mediation applications. Committee Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer, Japan Philippe Bonnet, Cornell University, USA Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Chairman) Leonid Kalinichenko Russian Academy of Science Russia Mauricio Lopez, G.I.E. Dyade (Bull/INRIA), France Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA R. Sadananda, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Raphael Yahalom, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Paper format: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing or completed work. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers and demo descriptions should be between 3000 and 5000 words. Papers and demo descriptions will be published in informal proceedings distributed during the workshop. Both an electronic and printed version will be edited and published after the workshop. Stricter formatting guidelines will be given to the authors for the publication in the formal proceedings. (Electronic) Submission: Papers and demo descriptions must be submitted by e-mail to the addresses below. Submissions can be either in HTML or Postscript formats. In alternative, submission can by done by emailing a URL pointing to an HTML version of the paper. Contact: imediat99@context.mit.edu Important Dates * Submission deadline: June 18th 1999 * Acceptance notification: July 12th 1999 * Camera ready paper due: August 10th 1999 * Workshop dates: September 3rd-5th 1999 Home: (http://context.mit.edu/imediat99) ********** III.B.2. Fr: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Re: SPIRE '99: String Processing & Information Retrieval CALL FOR PAPERS SPIRE'99 - String Processing and Information REtrieval September 22 - 24, 1999 Cancun, Mexico Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project WHAT IS SPIRE'99? SPIRE'99 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval which is in its sixth edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996). Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. SPIRE'99 will continue this trend to include also the area of DNA computing and, as a result, we expect to have contributions from several related communities. In addition, SPIRE'99 will be held together with the Fifth International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG'99), with a joint session on Collaborative Retrieval. The SPIRE'99 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross- fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'99 will be published by IEEE CS Press. TOPICS SPIRE'99 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and automata based string processing. * Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications. o Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein structure prediction. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: April 16th, 1999 Authors notification: May 28th, 1999 Camera ready: June 25th, 1999 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA, Co-chair Natasha Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, USA Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada José Luis Marroquín, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico Ruy Milidiu, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia Giri Narasimhan, Univ. of Memphis, USA Doug Oard, Univ of Maryland, USA Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC, Lisboa, Portugal, Chair Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Marie-France Sagot, Pasteur Inst., Paris, France João Setubal, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, Co-chair Miguel Mira da Silva, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal Esko Ukkonen, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil INVITED SPEAKERS Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada Gary Marchionini, Univ. of North Carolina, USA Pavel Pevzner, Univ. of Southern California, USA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are requested to: - prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent. - send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no later than April 16th, 1999 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail: spire99@algos.inesc.pt - use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers, which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or PDF. LOCAL ORGANIZATION The local organization committee is chaired by Edgar Chávez from Univ. Michoacana and CIMAT, Mexico. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to elchavez@zeus.ccu.umich.mx. WEB HOMEPAGE http://algos.inesc.pt/spire99/ ********** III.B.3. Fr: Julita Vassileva Re: UM99 REGISTRATION DEADLINE ! YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN UM99! 7th International Conference on User Modeling June 20 - 24, 1999 Banff Centre, Banff, Canada http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99 The DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: APRIL 15, 1999 User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness and/or usability of software systems in a wide variety of situations. A system that constructs and consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance to individual users. Techniques for user modelling have been developed and evaluated by researchers in a number of fields, including artificial intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, and information science. The 7th International Conferences on User Modelling, UM99 will provide a forum in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modelling issues. The size and format of the meetings support intensive discussion, which often continues long after the conference has ended. Some of the HIGHLIGHTS of UM99 are: Two pre-conference TUTORIALS on Sunday, 20 June: -- Anthony Jameson: User Adaptive Systems: An Integrative Overview -- David Chin: Evaluating the Effectiveness of User Models by Experiments INVITED SPEAKERS: -- Alan Biermann (Duke University, USA) -- Gerhard Weber (University of Freiburg, Germany) -- Gerhard Fischer (University of Boulder, CA, USA) -- Pat Langely (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise, Palto Alto, CA, USA) We have received 103 high quality submissions. The competition was intense, with only 27 of the papers (26%) being accepted as full papers. Five (4.5%) of these papers have been proposed for best paper awards, which speaks for the high quality of the conference submissions! : The BEST PAPER award nominees are: -- Zukerman, Albrecht and Nicholson: Predicting Users' Requests on the WWW -- Encarnacao and Stoev: An Application-Independent Intelligent User Support System Exploiting Action-Sequence Based On User Modelling -- Petrelli, De Angeli and Convertino, A User Centered Approach to User Modelling -- Berthold and Jameson: Interpreting Symptoms of Mental Load and Time Pressure in Speech Input -- Winter and McCalla: The Emergence of Student Models from an Analysis of Ethical Decision Making in a Scenario-Based Learning Environment To allow more authors present their promising ideas, the program of UM99 will provide for: -- Eleven SHORT PAPER presentations -- Twenty POSTERS. -- DEMOnStrations of software. UM99 will feature also: -- Doctoral Consortium where 8 Ph.D. students will have the chance to present their work. -- Four post-conference WORKSHOPS: Workshop 1: Machine Learning for User Modelling Workshop 2: Standards for Learner Modelling Workshop 3: Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction Workshop 4: Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the WWW The preliminary program of UM99 is available at: http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/prog.shtml The REGISTRATION FORM is available at: http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/reg.shtml Banff in June is one of the World's most desired travel destinations. So, please, MAKE YOUR TRAVEL PLANS EARLY! Detailed travel information is available at http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/get-there.shtml We are looking forward to welcoming you in Banff! JJJ Judy Kay Jim Greer Julita Vassileva ********** III.B.4. Fr: Megumi Kiya Re: LACUNY INSTITUTE'99 THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK LACUNY INSTITUTE 1999 Presents D I G I T A L L I B R A R I E S Planning, Managing, and Adapting to Change IBM HEADQUARTERS -- 590 MADISON AVE. AT 57TH ST. -- NEW YORK, NY 10022 FRIDAY MAY 21, 1999 P R O G R A M 8:15 - 9:15 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS (SPONSORED BY IBM) 9:15 - 9:45 Welcome and Introduction 9:45 - 10:00 OPENING REMARKS ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES BY DEAN MICHAEL RIBAUDO, ACADEMIC COMPUTING, CUNY 10:00 - 10:45 "Electronic Publishing, Digital Documents, and the Library of the 21st Century" by Clifford LYNCH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CNI 10:45 - 11:00 B R E A K 11:00 - 11:45 "The Consortial Revolution and the Future of Digital Libraries in the Academy" by Dean James Neal, Dean of Libraries, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 12:00 - 2:00 L U N C H (Exhibits/Demonstrations) 2:00 - 3:45 Panel Discussion: "Racing Towards the Future" (Q & A Session) --"PAST IS PROLOGUE" BY JOHN BERRY III, Editor-In-Chief, Library Journal. --"DIGITIZING RESOURCES: TODAY, Tomorrow, and How to Get There" by Richard Hulser, IBM --"ARCHIVING E-JOURNALS" BY CAROL MacAdam, J-Stor --"DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND YOUR FUTURE" BY DR. COLLEEN COOL, QUEENS COLLEGE OF CUNY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PANEL MODERATOR: DR. DAN RUBE, CHIEF LIBRARIAN, LEHMAN COLLEGE, CUNY 3:45 - 5:00 Vendors' Demonstrations 5:00 - 6:00 RECEPTION (SPONSORED BY JOHN WILEY & SON) For further information contact: Mounir Khalil City College (212) 650-8244 FAX: (212) 650-7626 E-MAIL: moucc@cunyvm.cuny.edu O R Raja Jayatilleke College of Staten Island (718) 982-4016 FAX: (718) 982-4015 E-MAIL: Jayatilleke@postbox.csi.cuny.edu ********** III.B.6. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: CIMI/CHIN Metadata Workshop CIMI and CHIN are pleased to announce a 1-day workshop on the ABCs of Metadata to be held in Ottawa, Canada May 3 1999. This workshop is specially focused on metadata issues facing libraries, archives, museums, digital library projects and other cultural information organizations. Topics to be covered include: * Metadata: Promise and Problems * The Dublin Core Initiative * Expressing metadata in HTML,XML,& RDF * Tools for creating and using metadata * Metadata in musems, libraries, and archives Presenters: Carl Lagoze, Cornell University Digital Library Scientist John Perkins, CIMI Executive Director Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director General CHIN Stu Weibel, Director Dublin Core Initiative The full program announcement and registration information can be found at: http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute *** Space is limited *** *** Simultaneous French/English translation is available *** ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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