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Bi-annual LIBRE8N1 JOURNALS ________________________________________________ NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS SECTION Contents: Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:18:54 -0500 Sender: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list From: Maureen Donovan Subject: AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter Comments: To: asiandoc@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu **ANNOUNCEMENT** AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter Volume 1 Number 1 publication date: March 18, 1998 URL http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu Asian Database Online Community Electronic Newsletter The first two experimental issues (March and June 1998) of the AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter test the use of a web e-newsletter to support scholars, librarians, and researchers world-wide who are developing text and image databases in the various fields of Asian/EurAsian Studies or who are incorporating materials in Asian languages into larger databases, and to promote better communication among them. A discussion of AsianDOC will be on the agenda of the Work Group for Electronic Resource Development at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Washington, DC on March 28, 7:00-9:00 pm. It will also be discussed at the International Convention of Asia Scholars in late June. Maureen Donovan Editor, AsianDOC donovan.1@osu.edu xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Approved-By: Gretchen Whitney Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:20:40 -0400 Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum Subject: October Bulletin TOC (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:46:19 -0400 From: Richard Hill Reply-To: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" , Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science Table of Contents October/November 1997 Volume 24, No. 1 Cover Stories Organizing Internet Resources: Metadata and the Web 4 Introduction Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Allyson Carlyle, guest editors 6 Cataloging Internet Resources: Survey and Prospectus Erik Jul 9 The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic Resources Stuart Weibel 12 Uniform Resource Identifiers and the Effort to Bring Bibliographic Control to the Web: An Overview of Current Progress Ray Schwartz 14 Options for Organizing Electronic Resources: The Coexistence of Metadata Sherry L. Vellucci 18 Metadata in Australia Carmel Maguire 21 GEM: Using Metadata to Enhance Internet Retrieval by K-12 Teachers Stuart A. Sutton and Sam G. Oh 24 >From Book Classification to Knowledge Organization: Improving Internet Resource Description and Discovery Diane Vizine-Goetz 28 Scorpion Helps Catalog the Web Keith Shafer DEPARTMENT 2 Inside ASIS Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:24:23 -0500 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Abby Goodrum Subject: Call for Papers Please excuse cross-posting to multiple lists. Call for Papers Special Topic Issue of Computers and the Humanities: "Digital Images" The full call can be found at http://httpsrv.ocs.drexel.edu/faculty/goodruaa/special/ This special issue will address challenges and opportunities in designing, building, and using digital image collections in the humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: User and Use: Images and Their Use in the Humanities. New Uses for Old Images Visual Information Needs for Scholars in the Humanities Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology, Visual Humanities Planning, Design and Implementation: Constraints and Opportunities of Collection as Representation. Designing a Digital Library for Humanities Scholars Networking Images: The Scholar's Workstation Revisited Indexing, Access and Representation: Analogs to Practice in Other Genres & New Frontiers The Language of Images: Is the Goal of a Visual Thesaurus Impossible? Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar: Interdisciplinary Image Interpretation. Preservation: Representation of the Public Knowledge. Archiving and Digital Images Platform Standards and Planned Obsolescence Saving Images That Never Existed: The Line Between Preservation and Creation Interface Design and HCI: Facilitating Scholarly Methods Design to Support Multiple Users and Uses Design to Support Multiple Image Types. Full papers (4 copies) should be submitted to: Dr. Abby A. Goodrum College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 (215) 895-6627 The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for publication in this special issue is October 1, 1998. A separate cover page should be provided with the title, the author(s) names and affiliations, plus complete contact information (postal, fax, e-mail) for the corresponding author. Guest Editors: Abby Goodrum Assistant Professor College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University goodruaa@post.drexel.edu Brian O'Connor Associate Professor School of Library and Information Management Emporia State University oconnorbe@esumail.emporia.edu James Turner Professeur Adjoint Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information Universite de Montreal turner@ere.umontreal.ca xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 19:12:12 +0000 Reply-To: Solo Librarians Listserv From: Gerry Hurley Subject: Current Cites, Sept. 1997 _Current Cites_ Volume 8, no. 9 September 1997 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne Acting Editor: Roy Tennant ISSN: 1060-2356 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.9.html Contributors: Campbell Crabtree, Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant DIGITAL LIBRARIES Fox, Edward A., et. al. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations" D-Lib Magazine (September 1997) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september97/theses/09fox.html). - Fox and companydescribe an interesting project to build a National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The article cites a good deal of interesting work, and yet I was also eager for more URLs than were provided. Where, for example, can one find the "multimedia training materials explaining how to use PDF tools"? But that is nitpicking with what is overall a very interesting piece that highlights some very thorny issues related to publishing information that has a very different (and entrenched) paper publishing stream. Will we ever have the NDLTD that Fox envisions? After reading this article, I have my doubts, but at the same time I also want to go out and help him build it. - RT Hildreth, Charles R. "The Use and Understanding of Keyword Searching in a University Online Catalog" Information Technology and Libraries 16(2) (June 1997): 52-62. - If you're a reference librarian Hildreth's research findings will not surprise you. After statistically analyzing searches performed in a university library catalog, Hildreth finds that users "search more often by keyword than any other type of search, their keyword searches fail more often than not, and a majority of these users do not understand how the system processes their keyword searches." He suggests two possible solutions to these problems: 1) educate the user, or 2) improve the design of our catalog systems. As the second is more practical and attainable, especially given the fact that increasingly users of our catalogs do not enter our buildings, Hildreth asserts that "it is time to put end-user Boolean retrieval systems...behind us." He points to probabalistic retrieval theory and hypertextual systems as providing sources for improvements. - RT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States. President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, Panel on Educational Technology, March 1997 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/NSTC/PCAST/k-12ed.html). - This report to President Clinton culminates the two-year work of the Panel on Educational Technology, which was formed to advise him on the application of technology in K-12 education. The Executive Summary lists six main recommendations: 1) Focus on learning with technology, not about technology, 2) Emphasize content and pedagogy, and not just hardware, 3) Give special attention to professional development, 4) Engage in realistic budgeting, 5) Ensure equitable, universal access, and 6) Initiate a major program of experimental research. The report also includes a number of tactical recommendations that target specific needs for improving the impact of technology on K-12 education. In an introductory letter I received with the report, the Panel on Educational Technology highlighted the sixth recommendation as the most important. This recommendation specifies that the ind of expenditure required to support the research needed must be provided largely at the federal level. They acknowledge the difficulty of obtaining such funding while simultaneously attempting to balance the federal budget, but this only serves to underscore the importance they place on this recommendation. This report is well worth reading for anyone interested in K-12 education and the present and future of our children. - RT MULTIMEDIA & HYPERMEDIA Avgerakis, George and Becky Waring. "Industrial-Strength Streaming Video" New Media 7(12) (Sept. 22, 1997): 46-58 (http://www.newmedia.com/NewMedia/97/12/feature/Streaming_Video.html) - The state of the art of video for the web. Streaming video (playback in nearly real time instead of download-and-watch-later) has come of age. This article concentrates on reviewing 7 current video servers for the web, but it does mention other server-less options such as plugins for QuickTime and MPEG formatted video can take advantage of. Perhaps not surprisingly, the handy list showing numbers of different video formats on the web to date reveals the server-less formats far outrank the pricier server-based formats. Another irony revealed is that QuickTime, until recently authored only on Macintosh, is the most popular video type on the web, while none of the 7 web servers reviewed even run on Macs. Beyond the review, this article, with discussions of background, formats, and tips, will be very useful to bring you up to date on options for serving video from your website for distance learning, putting film resources online, or just viewing that oh-so- cool QuickTime panorama taken from the local university's bell-tower. - RR NETWORKS & NETWORKING Hegener, Michiel. "Internet Unwired" OnTheInternet 3(5) (September/October 1997): 23-31 (http://www.iicd.org/articles/sep97/hegene10.htm). - In the world of satellite connections to the Internet, it's GEOS v. LEOS. But don't let the acronyms scare you off. This article is a well-written overview of the state of Internet connectivity via satellite. Why would you want a satellite connection to the Internet? If you're in Manhattan you may not want one. But if you're in Niger it may be your only option. Internet satellites will soon (finally) make the Internet a truly global network by bringing the possibility of connection to every corner of the planet. I say possibility, because as you well know, the pipe is only part of the system. Hegener mentions some figures regarding estimated "station" costs, but for the most part the question of affordability by individuals was left largely unaddressed. Nonetheless, this piece is an excellent and highly readable overview of the technology and where things stand. - RT Karpinski, Richard. "A Tangled Web of Standards" InternetWeek 682 (Sept. 22, 1997):1, 75 (http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19970922S0001). - Focusing on the proposed DOM (Document Object Model) standard, this article reveals the tensions between the marketplace and the world of standards. The article cites how both Netscape and Microsoft have leapt ahead of the standards process in attempting to be the first to bring DHTML (Dynamic HTML) products to market and creating yet another browser-war and compatibility issue for content providers. Standards groups like the W3C (itself made up largely of vendors) are criticized for being too slow in finalizing standards, and vendors for giving lip service to "standards-based" solutions, yet ignoring the standards process for the push to market. Content providers such as universities, libraries, and museums are particularly hard hit since they often attempt to serve the broadest possible public (and not one market niche) and so must keep keenly aware of compatibility and access issues. - RR Smith, Alastair G. "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8(3) (1997) (http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html). - While many people have written about how to evaluate the quality of Internet information resources, Smith has done an excellent job of distilling the essential criteria for evaluation. He first briefly considers evaluation criteria for print materials, and then continues with a review of previous articles on Internet resource evaluation. The core of the piece is the "toolbox" of evaluation criteria, which cover the broad areas of scope, content, graphic and multimedia design, purpose and audience, reviews, workability, and cost. Smith then reviews internet evaluation sites to determine which of his criteria they employ. It perhaps comes as no surprise that the sites with the most criteria employed in evaluation have librarian involvement (for example, the Argus Clearinghouse and the Internet Public Library). - RT Radosevich, Lynda. "XML Initiatives Take Shape" InfoWorld, 37 (September 17, 1997):1,24 (http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchives.pl?97-t02-37.1.htm). - A brief update on vendor progress in bringing XML compliant applications to market. XML (Extensible Markup Language) bridges a gap between two important standards for information management and sharing: the SGML standard (Standard Generalized Markup Language) which can provide detailed structure to documents, allowing them to be parsed, searched, and managed (but which can be difficult to create programs for), and HTML which benefits from it's own simplicity, but is not rich enough to allow documents to be searched or managed in precise ways. XML allows one to use customized or standard tags to manage data in forms from databases to webpages. Microsoft, Arbor, Sybase, and several others are beginning to bring products which support XML to the user. - RR Wehmeyer, Lillian Biermann. "Evaluating Internet Research" Syllabus 11(2) (September 1997):46-50. - Now that students are citing Internet-based sources in their schoolwork, instructors must be knowledgeable about how to evaluate the quality of the cited works. Being a former librarian, Wehmeyer knows the criteria for evaluating print resources, and she makes effective use of that background in this article. She points out both print and electronic resources that can be used for evaluation, and provides URLs for the latter. - RT GENERAL "Xerox won't duplicate past errors" Businessweek no. 3546 (September 29, 1997): 98-103. - The mistake they're referring to is Xerox's groud-breaking creation of all the icons of modern computing -- graphical user interface, the mouse, Ethernet technology -- which were popularized by Apple and are now taken for granted. Some of these features were never even patented, leaving Xerox completely out of the mammoth revenue stream these products created. Now, under the leader of John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC (i.e., Palo Alto Research Center) is researching new applications and planning to take them to market. This article offers an overview of the products that might be in your computing future. These include "hyperbolic trees" that reveal more information as you move the cursor around a full circle of "links", new approaches to machine processing of spoken human language, and other paradigm-breakers. The common denominator to PARC's approach is a growing realization that social scientists have a place in systems design. - TH _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites 8(9) (September 1997) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (c) 1997 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. [URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/] To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to listserv@library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. 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All commercial use requires permission from the editor, who may be reached in the following ways: trinne@library.berkeley.edu // (510)642-8173 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:39:06 +0000 Reply-To: Solo Librarians Listserv From: Gerry Hurley Subject: Current Cites, November 1997 _Current Cites_ Volume 8, no. 11 November 1997 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne ISSN: 1060-2356 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.11.html Contributors: Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant DIGITAL LIBRARIES "Z39.50: Part 1- An Overview" Biblio Tech Review October 1997 (http://www.biblio-tech.com/html/z39.50.html). -- If you're anything like me, you know vaguely what Z39.50 is about but if someone asked you to explain it you'd feign deafness. Well, get ready to regain your hearing. This brief piece will soon have you speaking Z-speak in no time. After reading this, you should not only be able to understand why you keep hearing about it, but you will also be able to drop utterances like "Z-client" and "Z-server" with both abandon and authority. It may not make you the life of the library cocktail party, but you will be much sought after if your library wants to link other databases to your library catalog interface. -- RT Zamparelli, Roberto. "Copyright and Global Libraries: Going with the Flow of Technology" First Monday 2(11) (November 3, 1997) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_11/zamparelli/) -- Instead of trying to make Internet users conform to copyright laws by ever more powerful protections against copying and unauthorized downloading, Zamparelli proposes a different approach. He argues that a single, relatively expensive access fee should open the gateway to a "global library" with unlimited downloading privileges. The system would also have built-in incentives for profit-sharing by authors, new modes of advertising, and an array of user benefits. At the heart of his argument is a belief that "policing" cyberspace may be too labor-intensive and might in fact chill discourse; instead, he says, we should build incentives that reward compliance, and see what happens. -- TH ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Dudrow, Andrea & Joanna Pearlstein. "XML Format May Fortify Web Content" MacWeek 11(2) (November 3, 1997): 1,7 (http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/mw_1142/nw_xml.html). -- This article updates readers on the latest companies to announce products supporting the new XML standard-in-progress. XML, a simplified subset of SGML, is a method of encoding the structure and content of documents. XML can be used in conjunction with HTML to offer 3 advantages: its extensibility lets users create their own tags; its structure can support object-oriented hierarchies; and it can be validated, so documents can be checked for validity. In addition, XML will allow web documents to be searched in more precise ways and the content can be sorted and delivered in pieces instead of only as entire web pages. The article predicts future adoption by vendors and that XML will augment rather than replace HTML. -- RR Grout, Catherine & Tony Gill. "Visual Arts, Museums & Cultural Heritage Metadata Draft Workshop Report" Visual Arts Data Service & Arts and Humanities Data Services (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html) -- AHDS and its subset VADS are UK-based organizations exploring, and thankfully documenting, issues involved in creating, managing, and delivering arts and humanities data in electronic environments. This report is the result of a workshop to "..examine the descriptive information needed to enable the discovery of visual arts, museums and cultural heritage resources on the Internet, particularly in the form of digital images." In particular they wanted to find out if the Dublin Core had any value as a content discovery tool for such data, and if so, in what forms and what applications. This report is very detailed; covering a variety of areas, and reporting on sub-committee break-out groups. -- RR Hobohm, Hans-Christoph. "Changing the Galaxy: On the Transformation of a Printed Journal to the Internet" First Monday 2(11) (November 3, 1997) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_11/hobohm/) -- Hobom explores a journal's experience with publishing a web-based edition. The journal, INSPEL, is published by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). He lends a concrete, real-world feeling to the intellectual dilemma facing journal publishers in cyberspace. How, for example, should markets be segmented? Should access be limited to certain audiences? How to handle pricing? The answers aren't always clear, but if you've ever worked with publishing deadlines and budgets, this analysis will make you think about the potential, and the pitfalls. -- TH Powell, Thomas A. "Extend the Web: an XML Primer" Internet Week no. 691 (November 24, 1997): 47-49 -- This primer will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in authoring, managing, or delivering web-based content. It is a relatively in-depth look at the emerging XML standard, covering a bit of history and background, related URLs for more information, and examples of how XML actually works, including existing tools and plans for tools to implement XML. The article takes a realistic view, and makes a good introduction to XML. -- RR MULTIMEDIA & HYPERMEDIA Gibbs, Simon and Gabor Szentivanyi. "Index to Multimedia Information Sources" German National Research Center for Information Technology (http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/) -- This web resource is an invaluable index of information and tools for multimedia. The site breaks down resources into categories first by media type (audio, video, etc.) then by type of resource (FAQs, conference proceedings, tutorials, newsgroup, articles, tools, etc.) -- RR NETWORKS & NETWORKING Danner, David and Paul W. Taylor. "Principle and Practicality: Funding Electronic Access to Washington State Government Information" Journal of Government Information 24(5) (Sept/Oct 1997):347-359. -- This article, written by two policy advisors for the State of Washington Department of Information Services, argues that electronic access to government information should be funded by appropriate user fees allowing for cost recovery. Based on court rulings, the authors differentiate between the content of public records, which should be accessible in the least costly format, and the delivery of government information, which does not have to occur in the most convenient form (i.e. electronically) to satisfy the public's right to access of information. The authors also point out that in many cases it is not individual citizens who are primary users of electronic information, but commercial users. Thus, providing free electronic access would constitute a taxpayer subsidy to commercial customers. In addition, difficult economic circumstances may prevent state legislatures from providing sufficient or lasting funding to develop an effective electronic infrastructure. The authors see the development of cost-recoverable services as a fair and appropriate mode of funding electronic access systems and recommend that policy makers allow agencies to recover costs for electronic services. -- CG GENERAL Ream, Dan. "Glitch Management for Internet Instruction" Internet Trend Watch for Libraries 2(11) (November 1997) (http://www.itwfl.com/glitch.html) - If you do not immediately know what this article is about from the title, this article is not for you. If, on the other hand, images of projection bulbs burning out, computer cables with the wrong connectors, and other such technical calamities pop into your brain, you're the one that needs to know what this article has to say. As a long-time Internet instructor, I've seen my share of technical glitches -- enough to know that what Ream says in this piece is well worth heeding. In particular, his four "universal rules" are excellent advice: 1) Always have a plan B, 2) Know your equipment before it's too late!, 3) Know your technicians on a first name basis, and 4) Prepare your mind. One thing you can do to prepare your mind is to read this article. -- RT _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites 8(11) (November 1997) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright © 1997 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. _All rights reserved._ All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. [URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/] To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to listserv@library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. An archive site is maintained at ftp.lib.berkeley.edu in directory /pub/Current.Cites [URL: ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/pub/Current.Cites]. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission from the editor, who may be reached in the following ways: trinne@library.berkeley.edu // (510)642-8173 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:34:14 +0000 Sender: Solo Librarians Listserv From: Gerry Hurley Subject: Current Cites, February 1998 _Current Cites_ Volume 9, no. 2 February 1998 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne ISSN: 1060-2356 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.2.html Contributors: Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huey, Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Roy Tennant Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson Digital Libraries Arms, William Yeo. "Implementing Policies for Access Management" D-Lib Magazine (February 1998) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/arms/02arms.html]. -- Virtually any digital library will require methods by which it can control access to content. Whether the content is commercial data for which a licensing agreement stipulates only certain users may view it, or internal collections such as electronic reserve material, libraries will have a need to enforce access policies for digital objects. This article outlines a sophisticated yet fairly simple architecture for libraries to stipulate policies that can interact dynamically with information about a particular user (and that user's _role_) and a particular digital object (and that object's _attributes_) to derive an appropriate _operation_ (for example, delivery or denial). This piece reflects work that the Corporation for National Research Initiatives [http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/] has been undertaking along with the Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/]. - RT Lamont, Melissa. "Managing Geospatial Data and Services" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23(6) (November 1997):469-473. -- This article addresses three often neglected aspects of geospatial data management: collection, description, and access of spatial data. The author identifies federal, state, and local government agencies as possible data resorces. Besides appropriate computing facilities, skilled staff and user-friendly interfaces, the author stresses the importance of standardized metadata in the successful delivery of GIS services in libraries. The article emphasizes the ever increasing importance of web-based geospatial data services. Not only does the web, as a convenient remote access mechanism, mitigate increased demand on local resources, it is also evolving into a prime source for information on GIS as well as for geospatial data sets. Sites such as the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESN) [http://www.ciesin.org] or Starting the Hunt: Guide to Online and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data [http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html] are impressive repositories for spatial data. Other sites such as GIS WWW Resources List [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html] or Guide to GIS Resources on the Internet [http://library.berkeley.edu/UCBGIS/gisnet.html] provide links to GIS related web sites. -- CG Starr, Susan S. "Building the Collections of the California Digital Library" Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Winter 1998) [http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-winter/article2.html] -- One of the most interesting developments in libraries is happening at the moment in California, but there is presently very little in print about it. Thus this article is a welcome insight into some early developments in the University of California's efforts to create a California Digital Library. There is as of yet no publicly-accessible Web site to point to, but the Executive Working Group Report [http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/UCDL/title.html] that led to its formation is available at http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/UCDL/title.html. Also, a brief insight into the thinking of the man who runs the operation can be found in "Visions and Intersections: A Conversation with Richard E. Lucier of the University of California" [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/02editorial.html], which just came out in D-Lib Magazine. -- RT Stephens, Denise. "Managing the Web-Enhanced Geographic Information Service" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23(6) (November 1997): 498-504. -- This article discusses the development of an Internet-accessible collection of digital spatial data sets, the creation of "canned" map images, the implementation of interactive mapping tools, and the development of a collection of Internet-based GIS reference materials at the Geographic Information Center (GIC) [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/] of the University of Virginia Library (UVA). The Center has assumed the role of "data intermediary", creating access mechanisms to a variety of geospatial data in many different formats incompatible with widely used commercial GIS systems. Aimed at, but not restricted to, a clearly defined primary clientele consisting of students, faculty, and staff at UVA, GIC developed not only interactive tools allowing for both the creation of user-defined maps-on-the-fly (U.S.G.S. Digital Line Graph Data Browser http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/spatial/dlg.browse2.html) and for querying and retrieving data files mounted on FTP servers (Digital Resources Catalog [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/catalog/]) but also a "Reference Desk" [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/reference.html] web page that assembles links to documents, sites, and databases that answers to reference queries. The author points out that the successful implementation of Web-based GIS services is based on UVA's commitment to innovative service based on advanced technology and that the Library's "ownership of the development process" was achieved by building in-house technical expertise to develop web-to-application or web-to-database interfaces. -- CG Weibel, Stuart and Juha Hakala. "DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop" D-Lib Magazine (February 1998) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/02weibel.html] -- Faithful readers of Current Cites will recognize the Dublin Core, which is probably our best chance at creating a metadata (can you say "cataloging" boys and girls?) standard that can serve a diversity of users and purposes. This article is a report on the Fifth Dublin Core meeting, held in Helsinki in the fall of 1997. The article also serves to bring us up-to-date on the current status of the draft standard, in which we discover that the frozen north served to freeze the 15 elements in what is being called in typical DC style, the "Finnish finish". There will be no more elements added or deleted to the core. Don't let that fool you, though, as much work remains to specify what can be put into those fields (content) and how (syntax). Those of you who would like to participate can find everything you need to know at the Dublin Core Web site [http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core]. - RT Young, Jeffrey R. "A Community College Uses Windfall to Create a Library without Books" Chronicle of Higher Education 64(20) (January 23, 1998) -- The title should be warning enough to seasoned readers: it's a new library at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City, but it does have books. However it will also has computers, lots of them. The new library, which will be a "virtual library" in concept, is the result an unusually generous gift by college landlord Miles Fiterman. Fiterman gave the college a building, which will be designed to maximize the digital benefits-- along with the print. The article goes on to describe how the campus is planning to update its library services in the context of the digital revolution, and it's interesting not only as a guide to the library's planning process, but also as an analysis of library trends in general. -- TH Electronic Publishing Grothkopf, U. "Bits and Bytes and Still a Lot of Paper: Astronomy Libraries and Librarians in the Age of Electronic Publishing" Astrophysics and Space Science 247 (1997):155-174 [http://www.eso.org/libraries/bits-and-bytes/bits-and-bytes.html]. - This wide ranging article serves as an interesting overview of technologies and standards that are providing challenges and opportunities for librarians trying to bring libraries into the new millennium. Grothkopf touches on networking technology, digital libraries, electronic publications, copyright and access control, metadata, addressing, archiving, and the changing role of librarians. Unfortunately, the addition of the word "Astronomy" may greatly limit the audience unnecessarily, since there is almost nothing in the piece that is of interest to only astronomy librarians. -- RT Mace, Scott, et.al.. "Weaving a Better Web" BYTE 23(3) (March 1998):58-68 [http://www.byte.com/art/9803/sec5/sec5.htm]. -- HTML 4.0 has barely been released, but to some of us it is dead on delivery. We're already looking past it to XML, the eXtensible Markup Language, which promises to add much more power, flexibility, and reliability to the web. This article serves as a great introduction to XML and, to a lesser degree, Dynamic HTML (DHTML). The online version of the article links you through to some of the essential documents on XML. If you are interested in the future of the web, listen up. As the authors of this article put it: "Although it will require developers and user to retool, the migration to XML must begin. The future of the Web depends on it." -- RT Okerson, Ann. "Copyright or Contract?" Library Journal 122(14) (September 1, 1997):136-138. -- Uncertainty about making intellectual property available without infringing copyright has vexed many information managers. This piece contrasts copyright law, which is general in nature and open to debate on many points, with licensing agreements, which are specific in their wording and presumably acceptable to all parties concerned. The author deftly summarizes the protections and exceptions in copyright law, and shows how chinks in this armor became gaping holes in the hail of arrows from digital storage & transmission. Information owners and customers are turning to contracts to regain some control. After an initial period of paranoia, with proposed licenses so strict as to be virtually unworkable, licensing for information resources has become a viable way to avoid misunderstandings and courtroom appearances. However, the wrinkles are not all ironed out yet - see Okerson's list of unresolved issues. An unabashed advocate for licensing in libraries, she includes a selection of online licensing resources headed by her LIBLICENSE [http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.html] site. -- JR Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity (February 1998) [http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/intro.html] -- This "document" is actually the website for a conference that took place at the Getty Information Institute this month. However, the website includes an exhaustive set of links to related resources and will include the conference proceedings soon. The conference grappled with the issue of information preservation in the digital era. Many topics were covered, from the need, desire, and feasibility of preserving digital information for decades, centuries and even millenia, to some proposed technological approaches for implementing such preservation. To be sure, no one had "the answer", but the discussions and links themselves will be very informative to anyone involved in information preservation and access. -- RR Z39.50 Draft Attribute Architecture (February 18, 1998) [http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/orlando/output/attrarch.html] -- This draft document, hosted on the Library of Congress' website, and announced by NISO (National Information Standards Organization http://www.niso.org ) is fairly technical in nature. Nevertheless anyone interested in the development of network standards for resource discovery, Z39.50 is one act to follow. This document is the latest draft of proposed improvments to this standard - including means to integrate the recent proliferation of different Z39.50 profiles by different user communities (GILS by the US Governemnt, CIMI by the Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information, etc.) -- RR Networks and Networking Cobb, David A. and Arlene Olivero. "Online GIS Service" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23(6) (November 1997):484-497. -- The present article reviews a wide range of GIS related web resources in the following five categories: geographic snapshots, spatial database catalogs and libraries, map generators, map browsers, and real-time maps and images. Each category is succinctly defined and reviews of individual sites include title, URL, and a brief summary of the services provided. Overall, the reviewed sites constitute a representative sample of geographic information available on the web. -- CG Gould, Cheryl. Searching Smart on the World Wide Web: Tools and Techniques for Getting Quality Results. Berkeley, California: Library Solutions Press, 1998. -- Number 8 in Library Solutions Press Internet Workshop series, this guide like the others in this series, is designed as both a practical workbook for individuals as well as a training model to be used by teachers. In this case, Cheryl Gould takes on web searching. But it's more than about how to find stuff on the web, it's about how to be a conscious evaluator of the web sites and how to be "information literate." Taking a wholistic approach, Gould's philosophy is that searching the web intelligently is not necessarily a sequential process but requires knowledge of many concepts that do not necessarily build upon each other. Each of the eight chapters takes on a different concept -- from a first chapter that gives an overview of what the Web is to later chapters on the different types of search tools, how search tools work and how to assess the quality of your results; depending on your level of web savviness, you can start from the very beginning or skip around as necessary. Each chapter includes exercises liked a guided online excursion through Yahoo! or a mini-quiz that tests your understanding of Boolean Logic or a worksheet to help you better evaluate web pages. Included in the workbook is a disk that contains Netscape bookmarks and Internet Explorer favorites for sites referred to in the volume. Particularly useful in this guide is the appendix which includes a grid on that list the search features of the major subject directories and search engines. -- MP Kushigian, Nancy. "Researching Women's Lives and Issues: Contemporary Women's Issues and Women 'R'" Database 20(6) (December 1997):19-26. -- As women's studies programs continue to develop and grow, the activist and interdisciplinary nature of women's issues has posed difficult challenges for scholarly research in this area. However, the recent availability of two CD-ROM (and soon to be online) full-text databases is good news for those interested in women's studies. In this feature article, Nancy Kushigan provides a thorough review of Responsive Database Systems' (RDS) Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)and Soft Line Information's Women 'R'. While Women 'R' receives high marks for its more popular focus and coverage of ethnic and minority media, CWI is the clear favorite. CWI is recommended for scholarly research as it offers a greater range, variety and depth of source materials as well as "beautiful" subject cataloging and a thesaurus - all at an affordable price. This article also features a nice summary of Internet-based resources on women's studies. -- LY Lewis, Janice S. and June Chressanthis. "Internet Resources: Investments and Personal Finance" College & Research Libraries News 59(2) (February 1998): 90-94 [http://www.ala.org/acrl/resfeb98.html]. -- This month's C&RL News guide to Internet resources is a selective list of web sites that offer unique, objective data that the authors consider to be most useful to investors, students, researchers and individuals interested in personal financial issues. The annotations are informative and evaluative. Items are listed under broad subject categories like comprehensive sites (e.g. Invest-o-rama http://www.investorama.com), Security and Exchange Commission filings (e.g. U.S, Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov), financial news (e.g Business Wire http://www.businesswire.com), bonds, retirement, tax information, credit, financial calculators and associations. -- MP Lin, Zi-Yu. "How to Use CJK Software to Read Chinese, Japanese and Korean on the Web" Computers in Libraries 17(10) (Nov/Dec 1997):50-54. -- We all know about language barriers, but some web masters are encountering character barriers too. This short article is a primer on the linguistics, character encoding and application software involved in reading CJK on the web. There are conflicting and competing encoding standards, as one might imagine; the explanations here provide a useful reference when confronted with ISO-2022-GB, Big5, et al. Knowing about them will be important when choosing application packages! Four are described: AsiaSurf, Asian Viewer, AsianSuite 97, and NJWIN CJK Multilingual Support System Version 1.5 for Windows 3.1/95/NT. Downloading and use instructions for each one are given in sidebars. The author is looking at evaluation versions of shareware, but plenty of direction is given for anyone who needs to go further with fonts and functions. Some interesting web sites are suggested, for the day when your new CJK add-ons are installed and ready to pounce on some juicy content. -- JR General Blumenstyk, Goldie. "Western Governors U. Takes Shape as a New Model for Higher Education" Chronicle of Higher Education 64(22) (February 6, 1998). -- "WGU" has 21 participating colleges and firms in 16 states (and the U.S. territory of Guam), but California is conspicuously absent. This article describes the bare-bones structure that has already taken shape, which has a solid funding base, a board of directors, and a dream. It sounds like a great idea, but there are some hurdles to cross. The biggest is how to obtain financial aid under strict federal guidelines. Following fast on funding questions is how to keep good fences with member colleges who are themselves embroiled a swiftly changing educational marketplace. A surprise issue: college administrators worry that W.G.U. will increase pressure to invest in technology at a cost to other critical needs, and may result in more large, impersonal courses. -- TH Brand, Stewart. "Freeman Dyson's Brain" Wired 6.02 (February 1998): 130-177. -- "How would you build a 10,000 year library?" This question caught my eye as I scanned Stewart Brand's interview with futurist Freeman Dyson. As I began reading with great expectations, this interview quickly evolved into an intellectual sparring match between Brand (cofounder of Global Business Network and author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT) and Dyson (renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics). While their discussion focused more on historic scientific breakthroughs, biotechnology and cosmic ecology than libraries, Dyson does offer thought-provoking ideas such as the abolition of the PhD system and the inevitability of returning to a village culture. By the end, the most I could extract of Dyson's views on the 10,000 year library was an appreciation for long term thinking and the need for patience - this article serves as a good exercise in both. -- LY _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites 9(2) (February 1998) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright © 1998 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. _All rights reserved._ All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. [URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/] To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to listserv@library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. 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This issue contains stories on the Warwick Framework, a data management and data visualization system for environmental information, and results of a user study in Texas in addition to shorter pieces on a proposed preservation format, conversion of literary texts, one participant's experiences at the Tilburg Institute on the Digital Library, and developments at the Scout Project. CONTENTS Extending the Warwick Framework: From Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects Ron Daniel, Jr. Los Alamos National Laboratory Carl Lagoze Cornell University THETIS: Design of a Data Management and Data Visualization System for Coastal Zone Management of the Mediterranean Sea Catherine Houstis, Christos Nikolaou, Manolis Marazakis Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Nicholas Patrikalakis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jakka Sairamesh IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Anthony Thomasic INRIA Development of the Digital Ranch: A Lot of Bull on the Net! 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In this issue, we continue series on Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users by senior members of IBM's research staff. We are also featuring stories on multilinguality, quantitative literacy and digital libraries of statistical data, and users' needs as well as an update from RLG on metadata. Clips includes two shorter pieces on a recent NSF/ERCIM workshop on multilingual information access and the organization of a D-Lib working group on metrics for digital libraries. CONTENTS Serving Users in Many Languages: Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries Douglas W. Oard University of Maryland, College Park Quantitative Literacy: New Website for Federal Statistics Provides Research Opportunities Alan R. Tupek National Science Foundation Cathryn S. Dippo Bureau of Labor Statistics Digital Libraries and Special Libraries: Initial Concerns of Special Libraries in the Social Welfare Sector Mark Watson National Institute for Social Work David Streatfield Information Management Associates Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape Willy Cromwell-Kessler Research Libraries Group Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital Watermarking Fred Mintzer, Jeffrey Lotspiech, Norishige Morimoto IBM Research Division 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, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ~ Rhonda E. 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We also have a cluster of stories relating to information access and retrieval: indexing, metadata, and automatic classification. A story on the Perseus Project describes the history of this multidisciplinary project and outlines the challenges that humanities scholarship poses for developing the information technologies. The "Clips" column includes summaries of the recent International Symposium on Research, Development, and Practice in Digital Libraries (December 1997) in Japan and the organization of the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries. Finally, we unveil a new column: Book Reviews. CONTENTS Safeguarding Digital Library Contents: Charging for Online Content Amir Herzberg IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Cross-Searching Subject Gateways: The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge Approach John Kirriemuir, Dan Brickley Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol Susan Welsh Nottingham University, UK Jon Knight, Martin Hamilton Loughborough University of Technology The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: A Review of the Literature - March 1995 - September 1997 Harold Thiele University of Pittsburgh Using Automated Classification for Summarizing and Selecting Heterogeneous Information Sources R. Dolin, D. Agrawal A. El Abbadi, J. Pearlman University of California, Santa Barbara The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology Gregory Crane Tufts University 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, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine Rhonda E. 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(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/whatsnew/new.htm) November (1997) Statutes of IFLA IFLA Journal - Volume 23, No. 5/6, 1997 INTERNATIONAL PRESERVATION NEWS - No. 15, August 1997 Section of Libraries for the Blind Newsletter - Fall '97 *********************************************************************** * IFLA-L is provided by the International Federation of Library * * Associations and Institutions (IFLA). For further information about * * IFLA activities, including organization or personal affiliate * * information, contact: ifla.hq@ifla.nl * * * * URL: www.ifla.org * *********************************************************************** xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:59:29 +0000 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: TOM WILSON Subject: Information Research X-To: lis-link@mailbase.ac.uk, lis-bailer@mailbase.ac.uk To: Multiple recipients of list JESSE As a result of a re-design of the Department's web-site, our electronic journal is now at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html Remember that we now accept "guest papers" and are willing to accept papers for refereeing. The following is the editorial for the current (delayed!) issue: Remember that you get advance notice of new issues of Information Research if you sign up. This issue of Information Research {VOL 3, NO 3, JANUARY 1998] is a little later than intended, as a result of having to much to do and an attack of 'flu. However, we have an interesting issue, made up of three papers from the third International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, which was held in Sheffield last year. Some of the papers from that meeting have been published elsewhere, but these three deserved publication in our view and Information Research was clearly the appropriate vehicle. The three papers are on rather different topics: the first, by M. P. Bradley & J. S. Briggs, of the Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, deals with the development of "An Internet Information System for GPs" concludes that "GPs want more information and that hospitals are broadly willing and able to provide it". and that, "Internet technology could provide a cheap, manageable and timely means of delivering the information to the GP's surgery." Next, J. Rolinson, of the Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University, discusses "Health Information for the Teenage Years:What do they want to know?" and finds "a shift of emphasis of the adolescent's need for information about medical conditions to information relating to body image and sexuality" as well as an "apparent lack of a systematic approach to health information education" and, finally, in a contribution from the Technical University, Berlin, A. Scheiber, R. Schneemann, & R. Wische report on "Assessment of Information Needs in Public Health in Germany: Results of a Nationwide Survey." Our next issue should be available some time in March, and I would like to remind readers that we are now open to contributed papers, which will be refereed, and to suggestions for "guest" papers. Professor Tom Wilson, Editor and Webmaster *************************************************** Professor Tom Wilson, Ph.D. Research Professor in Information Management Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K. Tel. +44-114-222-2631 Fax. +44-114-278-0300 Email: T.D.Wilson@Sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/is/lecturer/tom1.html *************************************************** "Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather". ***************************************************** xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:59:00 -0400 Reply-To: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" , Richard Hill Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Richard Hill Subject: JASIS November TOC JASIS (v. 48 #11) Journal of the American Society for Information Science VOLUME 48 NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER 1997 Special Topic Issue: Current Research in Human---Computer Interaction Guest Editor: Andrew Dillon CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Andrew Dillon 965 Human---Computer Interaction--Whence and Whither? Brian Shackel 970 Modeling the Human Factors of Scholarly Communities Supported through the Internet and World Wide Web Brian R. Gaines, Lee Li-Jen Chen, and Mildred L. G. Shaw 987 Evaluating a Multimedia Authoring Tool Bonnie E. John and Matthew M. Mashyna 1004 Organizational Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Study of Legal Research in Civil and Criminal Courts Margaret Elliott and Rob Kling 1023 An Informal Information-Seeking Environment David G. Hendry and David J. Harper 1036 Writing with Collaborative Hypertext: Analysis and Modeling Chaomei Chen 1049 Who's Zooming Whom? Attunement to Animation in the Interface Michael Chui and Andrew Dillon 1067 The Systemics of Dialogism: On the Prevalence of the Self in HCI Design Colin T. Schmidt 1073 Cover design: Adrienne Weiss Illustration: Marc J. Cohen Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:59:32 -0500 Reply-To: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" , Richard Hill Subject: December '97 JASIS TOC Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 48 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1997 CONTENTS EDITORIAL JASIS Will Be Fourteen in 1998 Donald H. Kraft 1083 In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 1085 RESEARCH Experiments with Automatic Indexing and a Relational Thesaurus in a Chinese Information Retrieval System Tian-Long Wan, Martha Evens, Yeun-Wen Wan, and Yuen-Yuan Pao 1086 In our first article Wan and others test CIRS (Chinese Information Retrieval System), which compares vectors by intersection. The number of ones in the resulting vector is considered a measure of similarity for ranking. A thesaurus generated by inspecting the terms in the documents provided assistance in query formulation. A term consisted of one or more Chinese characters as selected by a human indexer or automatically from the texts. An evaluator, familiar with the 30 queries used, read 555 document abstracts and assigned those thought relevant to the proper query. Use of the thesaurus improved recall and precision measures, and at high recall levels automatic indexing out-preformed manual indexing. Discovering Information Behavior in Sense Making I. Time and Timing 1097 II. The Social 1109 III. The Person 1127 Paul Solomon In a series of three papers Solomon describes an ethnographic study of human information behavior (characterized as ``sense making'') in the context of a work planning process carried out by a public agency on an annual cycle. Data were collected using direct recorded and informal observation, participant logs, interviews, and documentary traces. The process over time consisted of broad patterns of repetitive actions where time sensitive data collection occurred prior to use. The agency adapts through a focus on cooperation with members of the legislature and demonstration of past success. The participants do not consider information gathering or processing activities as separate from their work, but rather part and parcel of their regular activities. Very important cues come from personal interactions within and outside the agency. Individuals have varied sense making styles but the process terminates either when a deadline for action, or a point of satisfaction is reached, unless some other priority diverts attention. Information is sometimes not shared or pursued for perceived self interest or the possible violation of a confidence. Style diversity causes delay in the resolution of the process. It seemed a common practice to use information-seeking to justify decisions rather than to support a decision making process. EUROPEAN RESEARCH LETTER Europe and Information Science Peter Ingwersen 1139 Ingwersen, in a European research letter, indicates that only 34 of 278 articles in Scientometrics from 1994 to 1996 were produced in the United States. India contributed 17 articles and the rest were from Europe. A healthy system of networks and workshops seems to be leading to an increased interest throughout Europe in this area of research. BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Preliminary Findings on Searcher Performance and Perceptions of Performance in a Hypertext Bibliographic Retrieval System Dietmar Wolfram and Alexandra Dimitroff 1142 In the first of two brief communications Wolfram and Dimitroff divide eighty-three subjects into expert and beginning searchers who are then randomly assigned to a basic or enhanced version of a prototype hypertext bibliographic retrieval system, and given two questions. A success measure, defined as recall (relevant pages visited/relevant pages) times ``browsing precision'' (relevant pages visited/total pages visited) divided by search time in hours was used. Searchers were questioned on their confidence in complete recall. Confidence values are reported as between 1 and 6 where 1 to 3 was considered low and 4 to 6 high. A measure termed ``reality check'' decreases below 1 with searcher over confidence and increases above 1 with under confidence. For the question with a larger answer set, high confidence searchers searched for a significantly shorter period of time, and achieved significantly higher recall and success measures. The enhanced system provides significantly higher recall and success measures for the question with the smaller answer set. Searchers, by the ``reality check'' measure, are over confident of success. ISI's Impact Factor as Misnomer: A Proposed New Measure to Assess Journal Impact Stephen P. Harter and Thomas E. Nisonger 1146 In our second brief communication Harter and Nisonger suggest that the traditional ``impact factor'' measure is a misnomer. ``Impact factor'' measures the current impact of a recently published article and offers a probabilistic estimate of the future impact of a paper published in the journal in question. This is a measure of journal quality, but it does not imply that two journals with the same factor have equal impact since the one that publishes more articles will have more effect on the scholarly community. A better term would be ``article impact factor,'' with the not normalized number of citations received being called ``journal impact factor.'' A high ``article impact factor'' rank indicates that a journal publishes articles that are more often cited. A ``journal impact factor'' rank indicates the relative citation impact of the journal as a whole. BOOK REVIEWS Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd Robert J. Sandusky 1149 Technology and Copyright Law: A Guidebook for the Library, Research, and Teaching Professions, by Arlene Bielefield and Lawrence Cheeseman David Mattison 1150 The Economics of Communication and Information, edited by Donald M. Lamberton Hal R. Varian 1151 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1153 AUTHOR INDEX 1157 SUBJECT INDEX 1161 VOLUME CONTENTS I Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Approved-By: GWHITNEY@UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Approved-By: Richard Hill Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 08:16:18 -0500 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum Subject: JASIS Vol. 49, No. 2, Table of Contents (Feb. '98) JASIS (Journal of the American Society for Information Science) VOLUME 49, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1998 [Below is Bert R. Boyce's copy for "In This Issue" (a slightly expanded version compared to what will appear in JASIS) combined with the rest of the Table of Contents. Bert, Professor & Dean, School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University and a member of the JASIS Advisory Board, writes the "In this Issue" column in each regular issue of JASIS.] IN THIS ISSUE by Bert R. Boyce Page 102 Bookstein, A., S.T. Klein, and T. Raita. "Clumping Properties of Content-Bearing Words," page 102 Passages in text that contain a term of interest and are surprisingly close (physically adjacent) to other such passages indicate an other than random distribution of that term in the text. Such a distribution may well be an indication that the term is content bearing, since randomly distributed terms are likely to be other than content bearing. Five measures of such "serial clustering" are presented. Two Condensation measures, where the distribution of words over textual units is examined to identify words with other than random distributions, and three Linear measures, where the textual units containing at least one occurrence of the word are examined relative to their position relative to on another to identify other than random patterns. Comparisons of three of these measures with human expert content word identification in Hebrew, French and English indicates that a clumping tendency is present in content bearing words. Wang, Peiling and Dagobert Sorgel. " A Cognitive Model of Document Use During a Research Project. Study I. Document Selection," page 115 Here "Document Selection" means the choice from a search generated surrogate list of a particular document for the purpose of further use, and it is this cognitive process and its sub processes and components that is the focus of the study. Document Information Elements (DIE's) are the smallest meaningful components of the bibliographic record and may relate to particular user selection criteria. Using 25 faculty and graduate student subjects, participants viewed a retrieved citation printout, and were recorded reading and thinking aloud as they evaluated the individual citations. A second pass through the selected citations was then made to permit further rejection and provide a preference ranking. The recordings were then coded and analyzed to determine DIE's, document values, and criteria used. Epistemic, functional and social values are prominent, and the criteria of topicality is the clear leader although orientation, quality and novelty make strong showings. Title and abstract were the DIE's most used for topicality and orientation, author and journal for quality, and title and author for novelty. Watters, C.R., M.A. Shepherd, and F.J. Burkowski. "The Electronic News Delivery Project," page 134 After a review of news reading theory and the state of the art in electronic news provision, including filtering and prediction of user preferences, it is concluded that effective news packages must provide a value added layer in editorial and layout activities. This will include temporal and content linkages, which moves news provision closer to library processes, as well as significant incorporation of multiple media, personalization, and interactivity in both content and in advertisement. A three layer electronic news architecture resting on a digital library of truly massive proportions is suggested. The recourse layer stores and supports access to archived and current news items and consists of multiple news providers hopefully using a common markup language. The news management layer links like items and generates packages for individualized editions. It contains a query manager to accept and process profiles and requests from the news reader layer which resides on the client machine. prototypes of the three layers are in place but not discussed in any detail. Perry, Claudia A. and Ronald E. Rice. "Scholarly Communication in Developmental Dyslexia: Influence of Network Structure on Change in a Hybrid Problem Area," page 151 The existence of communication networks of researchers in visual dyslex ia and phonological dyslexia is confirmed, and their structures and changes over time investigated. Using bibliographies, conference attendance lists, presence on advisory and editorial boards, and principle investigators in funded research projects over a 20 year period, 924 names were identified of whom 69 were on four or more lists. Five more were added from the three source list to bring a target list to 74. Survey forms or CV's were received from 55, with age being the only significant variable separating respondents from non respondents. Co-citation data was then collected and analyzed using the CONCOR algorithm. In the early years of the sample period researchers with very different approaches to the problem were grouped together. In the third and final time period defined blocks corresponding to the alternative perspectives appeared. However, several distinct lines of research appear to be taking place within these groups and no pattern of convergence occurs. The social connections shown by editorial board membership and conference attendance at best weakly reflect the co-citation based patterns. He, Shaoyi. "Concept Similarity and Conceptual Information Alteration Vi a English-to- Chinese and Chinese-to-English Translation of Medical Article Titles," page 169 Fifty English to Chinese and 50 Chinese to English translations of paper s were selected at random from an existing database and their original texts paired with the translations. Two bilingual judges identified all the concepts present in the paired titles generating a list of concept pairs and concepts without counterparts. Each pair was rated on a scale of one to five indicating the conceptual similarity of the paired terms. Cohen's Kappa revealed substantial inter-judge agreement. Concepts with target language counterparts, without such counterparts and concepts in the target but not the source were counted. There is a loss of information in the translation process in both directions. Khan, kushal, and Craig Locatis. "Searching Through Cyberspace: The Effects of Link Display and Link Density on Information Retrieval from Hypertext on the World Wide Web," page 176 Is it better to have a large number of hypertext links on an index type page, or to lower the link per page density? Should the links appear within the text of paragraphs, or in lists constructed for that purpose? Sixty four magnet high school students were divided into expert and novi ce classes based on self reported browsing levels. A 15 page document on an unfamilar topic was structured into nine chapters and linked to 18 related external documents. Each of four versions of the document had a table of contents with links to chapters, and each chapter had links to relevant and irrelevant subchapters, and to the external documents which themselves had external links. The versions had either high or low density links and either list or in paragraph link placement. Six search tasks ranked by difficulty were utilized, with subjects randomly assigned to the four treatments. Search time and numbers of links were recorded by observers. Indicating the display in which an answer could be found was correct completion and accuracy was the percent of tasks correctly completed. Prioritization was scored by giving points for completing tasks in order of difficulty. Results were analyzed by a multivariate analysis of variance to test for link density interactions and display type effects. The use of lists of links and low density display produces positive effects upon overall performance BOOK REVIEWS Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking, by Jo Ann Oravec Leslie Regan Shade 183 Entertainment Technology and Tomorrow's Information Services, by Tom Kinney Sue Myburgh 184 Highway of Dreams: A Critical View along the Information Superhighway, by A. Michael Noll Donald O. Case 185 Implementation of Organizational Innovation: Studies of Academic and Research Libraries, by Peter Clayton Peter G. Underwood 186 Beyond the Library of the Future: More Alternative Futures for the Public Library, by Bruce A. Shuman Amy E. Sanidas 187 Culture of the Internet, edited by Sara Kiesler Thomas A. Peters 188 Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research, edited by Lawrence Dowler Ebrahim Afshar 190 Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:13:37 -0500 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Richard Hill Subject: JASIS, Vol 49, no.4 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 4 APRIL 1, 1998 CONTENTS In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 303 In this issue we find two bibliometric articles, a study of book review usage, a study of the search term selection process, and a look at the relationship between assumptions of user behavior and variations in performance measures. We begin with a review of information retrieval agents. RESEARCH Intelligent Information Agents: Review and Challenges for Distributed Information Sources Donna S. Haverkamp and Susan Gauch 304 An information retrieval agent is query processing software that is autonomous (able to operate without human intervention), social (able to communicate with other agents and humans), reactive (able to perceive and react to their environment), and pro-active (able to exhibit goal directed behavior and initiative). A review of current agent systems by Haverkamp and Gauch finds they have relatively small domains but that standardization efforts are underway. >From Translation to Navigation of Different Discourses: A Model of Search Term Selection during the Pre-Online Stage of the Search Process Mirja Iivonen and Diane H. Sonnenwald 312 Thirty-two searchers with diverse experience formulated query statements for 12 written queries each. They were then asked by Iivonen and Sonnenwald to explain, while being recorded, the process used to formulate the queries and select the terms. Basic concepts were identified from the analysis of transcripts. Search term selection is not effectively modeled by the view that only the translation of client's words to search terms is involved. Multiple discourses (ways of thinking about a topic) are involved for any topic and these may change over time. Beyond the client's search requests, controlled vocabularies, searcher's experience, indexing practice, the database, and the domains of the documents are all identified as involved in the selection process. All searchers do not use all discourses in every query and they move dynamically from one discourse to another in the term selection process. Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-Citation Analysis of Information Science, 1972---1995 Howard D. White and Katherine W. McCain 327 Those authors cited for a 24-year period in 12 journals chosen as defining information science and library automation provide a corpus from which the 120 most cited were chosen by White and McCain. The co-citation data from all pairs were then used to provide a categorization of the discipline through factor analysis. The mean co-citation counts for each author in each of three 8 year periods and for the 24 year span, two dimensional maps of the relative position of the top 100 authors in each period, a map of authors whose relative positions change over time, and a map of those who remain in the top 100 for all three periods are also provided. The article devotes considerable time to a justification of Author Co-citation Analysis and provides sufficient methodological detail to be used as a cookbook for the application of these statistical data reduction methods to bibliographic data. Robustness of Well-Designed Retrieval Performance Measures under Optimal User Behavior John R. Conlon and Sumali J. Conlon 356 A probability model of a retrieval system is developed by Conlon and Conlon to show that if a user is employing a retrieval system optimally, performance measures based on the user's objective function will be insensitive to variations in assumptions of user behavior. The use of Salton and McGill data upholds the theoretical result. Use of Scholarly Book Reviews: Implications for Electronic Publishing and Scholarly Communication Amanda Spink, David Robins, and Linda Schamber 364 At the University of North Texas 997 faculty (186 responding) were surveyed by Spink, Robins, and Schamber as to their use of book reviews. Most respondents (both science and humanities groups) read between one and ten book reviews per month and found most reviews in scholarly journals. The humanities and social science faculty placed more value on comments by authoritative reviews while the science and technology faculty valued content description. Neither group considered time lag in finding reviews a problem and the humanities and social science group place much more value on the use of reviews in research and teaching. BRIEF COMMUNICATION Citation Indicators of Japanese Journals Zhang Haiqi and Shigeaki Yamazaki 375 Haiqi finds that fifteen Japanese journals, all English language, had an impact factor over one in 1994. Japanese journals exhibit a high rate of self citation, and Japanese scientists contribute their best articles to other than Japanese journals. BOOK REVIEWS Automating the Lexicon: Research and Practice in a Multilingual Environment, edited by Donald E. Walker, Antonio Zampolli, and Nicoletta Calzolari P. ZoÎ Stavri 380 Language and Space, edited by Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, and Merrill F. Garrett Bryce Allen 381 The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economic and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals, by Bruce R. Kingma Herbert Snyder 382 Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert L. Harris Robert D. Wilson 383 Ergonomics and Safety of Intelligent Driver Interfaces, edited by Y. Ian Noy Mark P. Haselkorn 384 Technology and Management in Library and Information Services, by F. W. Lancaster and Beth Sandore Michael Buckland 385 Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, edited by Usama M. Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Padraic Smyth, and Ramasamy Uthurusamy Frank Exner, Little Bear 386 Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure, edited by Brian Kahin and Charles Nesson Julian Warner 387 Advanced Database Systems, by Carlo Zaniolo, Stefano Ceri, Christos Faloutsos, Richard T. Snodgrass, V. S. Subrahmanian, and Roberto Zicari Kyle Banerjee 388 The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway, by Ken Auletta Donald O. Case 389 Publishing Books, edited by Everette E. Dennis, Craig L. LaMay, and Edward C. Pease Richard J. Cox 390 LETTER TO THE EDITOR 392 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JASIS CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:44:07 +0000 Reply-To: Chaomei.Chen@brunel.ac.uk Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Dr Chaomei Chen Organization: Brunel University Subject: Call for papers: JASIS Special Issue on Individual Differences in Virtual Environments Call for Papers JASIS Special Topic Issue Individual Differences in Virtual Environments The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), to be scheduled for late 1999 (vol. 50), will be on the topic of Individual Differences in Virtual Environments. The guest editors for this issue will be Dr. Chaomei Chen of Brunel University, Dr. Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research,and Dr. Robert Macredie of Brunel University. The increasingly widespread use of virtual reality, visualisation and simulation modelling techniques has highlighted the need for a better understanding of a number of fundamental issues concerning human users in a virtual environment. There is an urgent need for in-depth empirical studies and methodologies for assessing the effectiveness and usability of a wide variety of virtual environments in this context. For example, what are the predominant human factors concerning the design of a virtual environment? What is the role of individual differences in the use of a virtual environment? How do we assess the effectiveness and usability of a virtual reality application? How do we account for users' cognitive and behavioural experiences in a virtual world? The aim of this special issue is to stimulate inter-disciplinary interests in issues concerning human users in the design, use, and evaluation of a virtual environment. Specific topics of interest for this Special Topic Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: individual differences in virtual environments,including spatial ability and cognitive styles; learning in virtual environments, including cognitive models, spatial memory, incidental learning, categorisation and abstraction abilities; usability and evaluation methodologies; user preferences and satisfaction; multi-user virtual environments, 3D interactive systems, spatial hypermedia; visualisation and simulation in virtual environments; analysis and modelling of user behaviour, search strategies and navigation heuristics; automated virtual environment generation and transformation; semantic structures and spatial structures in virtual environments. Original papers relating to research in, but not restricted to, these topics are are invited for consideration for the special issue. Inquiries (by voice, fax, or email) and manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to Dr Chen at the address below or (by email) to the other guest editors at: marycz@microsoft.com, or robert.macredie@brunel.ac.uk. Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to: Dr Chaomei Chen Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH UNITED KINGDOM Voice: (+44) 1895 274-000 ext 2569 or (+44) 1895 203080 Fax: (+44) 1895 251-686 Email: chaomei.chen@brunel.ac.uk The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is September 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about _JASIS_, at http://www.asis.org/. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JASIS CALL FOR PAPERS (2) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:41:41 +0200 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Zorana Ercegovac Subject: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (JASIS/Metadata) Call for papers for the Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, JASIS, is published in JASIS 48 (11) November 1997 on page [1082]. Title of the JASIS Special Issue is: "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" The deadline for submitting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this issue is April 30, 1998. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D. Dept of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 222 GSLIS Bldg University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 Tel: 1-310-206-9361 Email: zercegov@ucla.edu http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html An old writer says that there are four sorts of readers: Sponges, which attract all without distinguishing; Howre-glasses, which receive and powre out as fast; Bagges, which retain the degrees of the spices and let the wine escape; and SIEVES, which retain the best only. 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Other upcoming features include a section for bug reporting and a database of bug reports [JS] 21. Volume 1, Number 43, February 24, 1995 http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-950224.html CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse http://www.cdcnac.org/ The US Centers for Disease Control's National AIDS Clearinghouse was originally announced in the February 24, 1995 issue as a gopher site. It has developed into an effective information resource on the topic. The site features seven searchable databases, covering funding opportunities, and descriptions of thousands of AIDS-related organizations, educational resources and abstracts of AIDS-related news and journal articles. The site has recently added a link to the CDC's _1998 Guidelines for the Treatment of STD_ (sexually transmitted diseases). 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