NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION
SEPTEMBER 2004 issue
Editorial note:
This section contains items
culled from various Internet news services, discussion lists and other
announcements. Unless specifically
noted, I have not visited the sites, used any of the software, reviewed the
literature, or written the news items. I
present this digest to you in good faith but cannot vouch for the accuracy of
its content.
Kerry Smith
The Academic Web Link Database Project
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From: Hodge, Chris [mailto:chodge5@UTK.EDU]
Sent:
To: UTKSIS-L@listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [UTKSIS-L] The Academic Web Link Database Project
The Academic Web Link Database Project http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/database/
The Academic Web Link Database Project makes available databases of
academic web links to the world research community. This project was created in
response to the need for research into web links: including web link mining,
and the creation of link metrics. It is aimed at providing the raw data and
software for researchers to analyse link structures without having to rely upon
commercial search engines, and without having to run their own web crawler. You
may use all of the resources on this site for non-commercial reasons provided
that you notify them if you have an academic paper or book published that uses
the data in any way (so that they know the site is getting good use).
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Corporate Library Benchmarks 2005
Amy Cole
[amy.cole@researchandmarkets.com] Thu
I enclose details of our latest Corporate Library Benchmarking Report.
Data is broken out by company size and industry type - compare your
library to your peers. Means estimated
annuals sales of the companies in the sample: $3.1 billion. Hundreds of charts and tables explore the
purchasing decisions, priorities and attitudes of todays
corporate librarians
The data in the report is based on a survey of 50 major
Findings in this study include:
Only 8.7% of the libraries in the sample experienced an increase in the
amount of office space allocated to them over the past five years, while nearly
4x that number, or 32.61%, experienced a decrease in the space allocated to
them.
Furthermore, about 3% of the organizations contacted for this study had
eliminated their libraries in the two year period between the 2003 and 2005
editions of Corporate Library Benchmarks.
The lack of inclusion of these libraries in the sample base artificially
minimizes the sample findings that corporate libraries are occupying less
physical space, since the inclusion of these libraries would amplify this
finding.
Expected Budget Increases for 2005
The mean expected budget increases in 2005 for the libraries in the
sample was only 1.04%, far below the
expected rate of economic growth.
Corporate administrations have become accustomed to library downsizing
in the lean years of the early 2000?s, and do not appear to be supportive of
new rounds of investment in library resources.
Library Staff Time
Increasingly, librarians are spending less time on routine library work
and more time as researchers monitoring subjects for management. The librarians in the sample spent 34.18% of
their time doing research for senior management but only 4.77% of their time
giving classes, seminars or formal tutorials in how to use library
resources. Librarians in
consulting/business services and finance spent more time on direct research for
executives than librarians in other sectors.
Attitude of Library Management Towards Knowledge Management
For about half of the libraries in the sample, knowledge management
software and practices had little impact on their day to day work life, while for
a third, the impact was quite important.
Patent Research
A shade less than half of the libraries in the sample believed that
patent research was best done in house, while a shade more than half believed
that it was best to outsource some or all of such research.
Trade Off in Spending Between Print and Electronic Materials Forty four
percent (44%) of the librarians in the sample noted that they planned to reduce
spending on print information and increase spending on electronic information,
while 46% said that they planned to maintain spending on print information and
increase spending on electronic information.
Only 8% said that they planned to increase spending on both formats.
Budget Trends
About 68.3% of the libraries in the sample had no change in their
overall budget in 2004, while about 17.1% experienced an increase, and 14.63%
had a decrease in their budget. More
than 27% expect an increase in their budgets in 2005 while only 15.91% expect a
decrease, with the remainder expecting no increase or decrease in their
budgets.
Demand for Books
More than three quarters of the libraries in the sample note that demand
for print books has not changed over the past two years, while close to 16%
believe that it has increased and only 6.82% say that it has decreased. These
results are consistent with findings in past editions of Corporate Library
Benchmarks.
Nonetheless, spending by libraries in the sample on print books fell
substantially from 2003 to 2004, though enormous cuts by a few large libraries
accounted for virtually the entire decline in spending of more than 25%. Most libraries in the sample maintained print
book spending or decreased it slightly.
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Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards,
Amy Cole
Senior Manager
Research and Markets Ltd
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Report Data Summary:
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Date Published:
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Category: Business
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Creating the Virtual Reference Service
Amy Cole
[amy.cole@researchandmarkets.com] Thu
I enclose details of our latest libraries report.
This report profiles the efforts of 15 academic, special and public
libraries to develop digital reference services.
The aim of the study is to enable other libraries to benefit from their
experience in deciding whether and how to develop a digital reference service,
how much time, money and other resources to spend on it, how to plan it,
institute it and evaluate it.
In this report librarians share - in their own words - their experiences
with digital reference.
Among the libraries and other organizations profiled are: Pennsylvania State University, Syracuse Universitys Virtual Reference Desk, The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Palomar College, The Library of Congress, the University of
Florida, PA Librarian Live, the Douglas County Public Library, the Cleveland
Public Library, Denver Public Library, OCLC, the New England Law Library
Consortium, the Internet Public Library,
Paradise Valley Community College, Yale University Law School, Oklahoma
State University, Tutor.Com and Baruch College.
Some of the issues covered include:
- email
- phone
- in-person and chat room reference query volume
- software selection
- software acquisition costs
- software training
- criteria for evaluation and success
- monitoring usage
- hours of service offered
- demographics of usage
- integration of digital reference with knowledge management programs
- means of distributing queries to correct librarian
- time demands on librarians
- dealing with digital harassment
- query answer time
- use of direct links to reference librarian within library databases
- marketing the digital reference service
- real time vs email performance
- use of publicly available services
- participation in partnerships and cooperatives
- impact on traditional reference services
..and many other issues and problems confronting the current or
potential virtual librarian.
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U.S. Public Data Services User Preferences Survey, 2002 - http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/73135
A Process Model for Creating a Taxonomy - http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/73394
Self-service Strategies: Creating Value with Natural Language Search - http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/34365
Digital Rights Management - http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/698
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Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards,
Amy Cole
Senior Manager
Research and Markets Ltd
amy.cole@researchandmarkets.com
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Category: Computing and Technology
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Descriptive cataloging of East Asian material:
Chinese Japanese and Korean (CJK)
John D Byrum [jbyr@loc.gov] ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr;AUTOCAT@listserv.BUFFALO.EDU
Descriptive cataloging of East Asian Material Fri
28/05/2004 11:17 PM
Five chapters of the Descriptive cataloging of
East Asian material: Chinese Japanese and Korean (CJK) examples of AACR2 and
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations have been posted at this address on
the home page of the Library of Congress' Cataloging
Policy and Support Office (CPSO):
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/CJKIntro.html
The CJK examples, a joint project of the Technical Processing Committee
of the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) and the Library of Congress,
update and expand the 1983 publication AACR2 workbook for East Asian
publications. These examples were
compiled primarily to show non-LC catalogers of CJK
material, many of whom are non-native speakers, how AACR2 (Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.) and the LCRIs (Library of
Congress Rule Interpretations) applied to the material they cataloged
by providing actual illustrations from CJK bibliographic records, in the same
manner that AACR2 and the LCRIs provide examples in
western languages. The compilation not
only updates the workbook to reflect changes to AACR2 and the LCRIs, but also broadens the scope to include the rules
that govern specific types of material.
Examples for individual chapters of AACR2 and related LCRIs were compiled by CEAL members between 1997 and
1999. Most of the roman, and all of the nonroman text of the compilations then had to be keyed in
manually by LC staff. Because the
project has taken so long to complete, many examples had to be updated to
correspond to changes in the text of AACR2 and the LCRIs. Chinese, Korean and Japanese language catalogers at LC, as well as with experts in special
formats, reviewed and edited the compilations, followed by another thorough
review by CPSO specialists.
The examples are presented in a familiar format. They follow the text of AACR2 and the LCRIs themselves.
Efforts were made to find examples of each and every rule, in each of
the three CJK languages, so that a rough balance would occur within each
chapter. All examples have been taken
from Korean, Japanese, and Chinese language bibliographic records. Some examples appear only in roman form, just
as they do on bibliographic records.
CEAL members and LC staff agreed that a digital version of the examples
should be posted on the Web to make them conveniently available to a wide
audience.
This is a work in progress. LC
staff will continue to review and edit the compilations of examples for the
remaining chapters of AACR2 and then post them on the CPSO home page, as soon
as they are available.
Philip Melzer
Acting Assistant Chief
Regional & Cooperative Cataloging Division
LC
(pmel@loc.gov)
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DigiCULT Cultural Heritage
Professional CV Access Service
digicult-forum [digicult-forum@digicult.info] Mon 28/06/2004
[DIGICULT] DigiCULT
Announces New Online Service - Cultural Heritage Professional CV Access Service
DigiCULT
Cultural Heritage Professional CV Access Service
DigiCULT.Info the
information rich Website for the cultural and scientific heritage sector of
Archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural and scientific heritage
institutions often have difficulty identifying professionals with expertise in
applying relevant ICT.
By creating a searchable online CV database containing details of
experts and their areas of expertise DigiCULT can
help the community to identify and gain access to specialists.
Persons on the database have expertise or an active professional
interest in the study and use of ICT in the cultural and scientific heritage
field.
DigiCULT
extends an invitation for experts to add their CV to the DigiCULT
Cultural Heritage Professional CV Access Service
- Submit your CV to the DigiCULT website http://www.digicult.info/pages/addcv.php
- DigiCULT Cultural Heritage Professional CV
Access Service http://www.digicult.info/pages/digicv.php
DigiCULT
Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the
selection and use of digital technologies for
- Thematic Issues: results of expert forums http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php
- DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth
technology evaluation http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php
- DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about
services, studies, technologies, and activities http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php
- DigiCULT Website: project information,
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Digital collections and the management of knowledge Renaissance emblem
literature as a case study for the digitization of Rare text and image
digicult-forum [digicult-forum@digicult.info] Mon 24/05/2004
OFFICIAL RELEASE OF A DIGICULT SPECIAL PUBLICATION
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
RENAISSANCE EMBLEM LITERATURE AS A CASE STUDY FOR THE DIGITIZATION OF
RARE TEXT AND IMAGES
DigiCULT
Forum published alongside the series of DigiCULT
Publications a special edition on the digitization of emblem books.
The twelve articles which stem from the working conference on emblem
digitization held in September 2003 at the Herzog August Bibliothek,
Wolfenbüttel, Germany, allow to exemplify how
scholars in a highly specialised area of research together with digital
librarians have taken advantage of information technologies, standards, and
emerging best practices for the digitization of emblems and emblem books, and
the scholarly work related to them.
The complexity of practises is illustrated by the key issues and methods
covered in this DigiCULT Special Publication:
establishing metadata, using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard,
indexing emblems (e.g. with Iconclass),
collection-level descriptions, metadata exchange procedures, using the Open
Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-MHP) for emblem data,
federated searching based on ontologies, and establishment
of an emblems portal.
Download DigiCULT Special Publication
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DigiCULT
Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the
selection and use of digital technologies for
- Thematic Issues: results of expert fora http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php
- DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth
technology evaluation http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php
- DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about
services, studies, technologies, and activities http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php
- DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all
publications online for download http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php
(c) DigiCULT Forum 2002-2004
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Digital Libraries & Course Management System Interoperation Report
asis-l-admin@asis.org; on behalf of;
Richard Hill [rhill@asis.org] Wed
1/09/2004
[Asis-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE]
Digital Libraries & Course Management System Interoperation Report
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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
FAX: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from
the Coalition [mailto:CNI-
ANNOUNCE@cni.org] On Behalf Of
Clifford Lynch
Sent:
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the
Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Digital
Libraries & Course Management System
Interoperation Report
Over the past year, I have been
fortunate to be able to participate in
an
Andrew Mellon Foundation-funded study group chaired by Dale Flecker
of
Harvard and Neil McLean of IMS Australia that has been looking at
issues
involved in the interfaces between digital library content
management
systems (for example, institutional repository type
systems)
and learning or course management systems. Among other
accomplishments,
the group has produced a checklist of reccomended
repository
services, and then examined how a number of operational
repositories
that are deployed today meet this checklist. Note that
for some
systems, like DSPACE or FEDORA, the answer is often "it
depends
on choices made in a local implementation", so this checklist
should
be valuable not only for system designers but for institutions
that are
doing implementation planning for a system of this type.
You can find the report at:
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/cmsdl0407/
Note that some of the findings of
this study group was previewed at
the
Spring 2004 CNI meeting, for those that have been tracking it.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Richard Hill [rhill@asis.org] asis-l@asis.org;
sighfis-l@asis.org; sigcr-l@asis.org
Fri 14/05/2004
We were surprised to learn that Douglas Foskett
passed away last Friday (5/7).
As one member commented:
> He was a very important
figure in early IS in the
> member
of the CRG, developed a faceted classification for education, > was the Librarian at the London School
of Education (part of the Univ > of
In his own words, edited from
History and Heritage of Science Information
Systems_ (1999), where each Pioneer was asked to prepare brief remarks
on a "memorable moment in his or
her career"
Librarianship to Information
Science
After six years of war duty, I
rejoined the Ieford Public Library Service in 1946 and set about completing my F.L.A..
and when I joined the Metal Box Company
in 1948 I soon realized how the skills required for a scientific and industrial research
information officer depended on the
basic techniques of librarianship, notably classification and cataloging.
Presenting scientific and technical information and building on librarianship skills cave me the magic
opportunity to be among the pioneers of
the emerging paradigm that came to be known as "information science," and I meant to proclaim this
in the title of my book,
"information Service in Libraries (1958."
Meeting with S. R. Ranganathan in 1948 gave me a new view of classification as facet analysis plus
traditional generic analysis, and I
applied this in schemes for packaging, occupational safety and health, and education.
This experience has suggested to me that facet analysis applied to any subject can reveal hitherto
uncoordinated concepts -- for
example materials and processes - and thus offer an indication of
possible areas of future research. This could be a unique information science
to the World Wide Web.
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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information
Science and Technology
FAX: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
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Draft of Digital Reference Competencies on Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI)
asis-l-admin@asis.org; on behalf of;
Joann Wasik [jmwasik@iis.syr.edu]
The Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI) Advisory Board has
drafted a set of core competencies for digital reference education and practice
that is now posted on the DREI site. "Rubrics for Digital Reference
Service Providers" is a working document, for which we welcome comments
and suggestions from the virtual reference community. The rubrics have been
developed to aid in the teaching of virtual reference to LIS students, as well
as to act as a guide for the hiring, training, and assessment of practicing
librarians and reference staff with digital reference responsibilities.
Please take a look at the competencies at http://drei.syr.edu/pdf/DREICompetenciesDraft092004.pdf
Again, we are very interested in input from the digital reference
community at large about this draft. Please send your comments to Ken Lavender
at kenlavender@YAHOO.COM.
Regards,
Joann
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Joann M. Wasik
Research Consultant
& Communications Officer
The Virtual
Reference Desk
Project
Manager
Digital Reference
Education Initiative
drei.syr.edu
jmwasik@iis.syr.edu
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Emerging Technologies for the Cultural & Scientific Heritage Sector
digicult-forum [digicult-forum@digicult.info]
[DIGICULT] Emerging Technologies for
the Cultural & Scientific Heritage Sector / DigiCULT
Technology Watch Report 2 - NOW AVAILABLE
Technology Watch Report 2 -
NOW AVAILABLE
Emerging Technologies
for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector
The Technology Watch Report identifies and describes technologies that are
either not currently used in the heritage sector or are under-utilised by it.
The Report provides accessible descriptions of new technologies, suggests how
these might be employed, and indicates the implications and risks.
Technologies examined in Report 2 include:
o
The Application Model
o
The XML Family of Technologies
o
Cultural Agents and Avatars, Electronic Programming Guides and Personalisation
o
o
Rights Management and Payment Technologies
o
Collaborative Mechanisms and Technologies
Download DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 2
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DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of
mission-critical information in the selection and use of digital technologies
for Europe’s heritage organisations:
- Thematic Issues: results of expert fora
http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php
- DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth
technology evaluation
http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php
- DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services,
studies, technologies, and activities
http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php
- DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all
publications online for download
http://www.digicult.info
Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info
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European Network on Information Literacy
Consultation
Carla Basili
[basili@ISRDS.RM.CNR.IT] LIS-FID@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Wed 21/04/2004
European network on Information Literacy: consultation
The European network on Information Literacy (EnIL)
is a research network established by initiative of the Italian National
Research Council
(http://www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html)
EnIL is going to set up a
gateway on Information Literacy initiatives in Europe (EU25), in order to
improve the visibility of European Information Literacy activities.
It would be greatly appreciated if you would fill in the following form to advise us about Information Literacy
initiatives in your Country.
Thank you for your time and comments.
Carla Basili, co-ordinator
European network on Information Literacy
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CONSULTATION FORM
1) BODY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
INITIATIVE
Institution:
Country:
City:
Address:
contact person:
e-mail address:
2) DESCRIPTION OF THE INITIATIVE
(in English, max 200 words)
3)TYPOLOGY: (delete attributes not appropriate)
research project
survey - report
special interest group
event (seminar, conference, call for papersŠ)
course for adults
course for university students
course for secondary schools
course for primary schools
e- learning course
other (specify)
4) WEBSITE OF THE INITIATIVE:
5) FURTHER INFORMATION: (optional, in English and free format): this information
will be published into the "short communications" section of the EnIL newsletter.
Longer articles on the initiative can be sent to Anna Perin at a.perin@ceris.to.cnr.it
for inclusion in the body of the EnIL newsletter.
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Please, reply to this message with the filled form
or use the WEB FORM at http://www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/form.html
Please, forward to other networks in your Country.
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H-ECAI: H-Net Network on the Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative
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Image Retrieval Benchmarking Service?
Comments Requested
J. Trant [jtrant@archimuse.com] Wed 21/04/2004
[Asis-l] An Image Retrieval Benchmarking Service? Comments
Requested
Dear Colleagues,
Comments are requested on the following study commissioned by CLIR
into the feasibility of an image retrieval benchmarking service, and
its possible role in speeding the development and deployment of image
retrieval technology for the digital library.
Please forward your comments to
me or to CLIR c/o
<ksmith@clir.org>.
I'd appreciate it if you would share this request for comments
widely. The issues cut across many communities, and breadth of
interest and commitment is critical if the concept is to be
successfully developed.
Thank you.
jennifer.
Image Retrieval Benchmark Database Service:
A Needs Assessment and Preliminary Development Plan
A Report Prepared for the
Council on Library and Information Resources
and the Coalition for
Networked Information
Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics
REPORT BODY
Text: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/tranttext.htm
PDF: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/tranttext.pdf
REFERENCES
Text: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/trantrefs.htm
PDF: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04/trantrefs.pdf
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The rapid increase in the quantity of visual materials in digital
libraries-supported by significant advances in digital imaging
technologies-has not been supported by a corresponding advance in
image retrieval technologies and techniques. Digital librarians sense
that much could be done to improve access to visual collections and
hope, perhaps vainly, that users' needs to identify relevant digital
visual resources might be met more satisfactorily through search
strategies based on visual characteristics rather than on textual
metadata associated with the image, which are expensive to produce.
However, digital librarians currently have no tools for evaluating
either content-based or metadata-based image retrieval systems.
Consequently, they have difficulty assessing existing systems of
image access, evaluating proposed changes in these systems, or
comparing metadata-based and content-based image retrieval.
Some have proposed benchmarking as a solution to this problem. An
image retrieval benchmark database could provide a controlled context
within which various approaches could be tested. Equally important,
it might provide a focus for image retrieval research and help bridge
the significant divide between researchers exploring these two search
paradigms: metadata-based vs. content-based image retrieval. If so,
such a database could spur advances in research, as comparative
results make it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of particular
strategies and thereby add value to studies supported by many funding
agencies.
Creating an image retrieval benchmarking service would be a
significant undertaking. A benchmarking database is more than a
collection of images. Benchmarking requires a set of queries to be
put to that test collection. Each image in the test collection must
be assessed to determine whether it is relevant to that query.
Assessing the performance of systems requires a set of evaluation
metrics that make it possible to compare one system with another and
to rank results. Developing a test collection requires an investment
in data collection, documentation, enhancement, and distribution.
Most significantly, maintaining an image reference benchmarking
service requires that a community of researchers make a long-term
commitment to its use. Without a community vested in the development
of the database-and publishing research based on it-the collection
remains a chimerical solution to advancing the state of research and
improving the retrieval of visual materials in the digital library.
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J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com
Partner & Principal Consultant phone:
+1 416 691 2516
Archives & Museum Informatics fax:
+1 416 352 6025
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International Library and Information Science Research: A comparison of international
trends
Josche Neven [mailto:Josche.Neven@ifla.nl
Erratum: LTR Publication available online
-----Original Message-----
From: Josche Neven [mailto:Josche.Neven@ifla.nl]
Sent:
To: Kerry Smith; koren@debibliotheken.nl; hassoun@enssib.fr;
dyjeong@ewha.ac.kr; steffen.rueckl@freenet.de;
ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr; ragnar.audunson@jbi.hio.no;
kemgaki@mail.ru; steffen.rueckl@rz.hu-berlin.de;
r.usherwood@sheffield.ac.uk; Cynthia.Hill@Sun.COM; bplynch@ucla.edu; jcfernan@ugr.es;
mueller@unb.br; ilkka.makinen@uta.fi; wkoehler@valdosta.edu;
wildanewman@yahoo.com
Subject: Erratum: LTR Publication available online
Dear Colleagues,
Due to a mix-up the numbering of the publication is incorrect.
The LTR publication is Nr. 82 in the IFLA Professional Reports Series.
It is available at: www.ifla.org/VII/s24/pub/iflapr-82-e.pdf
With kind regards,
Josche
>>> "wilda newman"
<wildanewman@yahoo.com> 14-8-04
Dear Colleagues,
The Library Theory and Research report prepared by Maxine Rochester and Pertti Vakkari,
"International Library and Information Science
Research: A
comparison of international trends," is available at: www.ifla.org/VII/s24/pub/iflapr-80-e.pdf
and will be published in print as Nr 80 of professional reports and will
probably be available around the time of the IFLA Congress.
Thank you,
Wilda
IFLA/LTR Information Coordinator
Wilda B. Newman
Knowledge Resources Associates, LLC
5964 Rosinante Run
Telephone: 1-410-730-7583
FAX:1-410-730-7583 (contact before FAXing)
Email: wildanewman@yahoo.com
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ISBD-FRBR Mapping Now
Available on IFLA Web site
John D Byrum [jbyr@loc.gov] ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr;
AUTOCAT@listserv.BUFFALO.EDU Thu
The ISBD Review Group and the FRBR Review Group are pleased to announce
publication of "Mapping ISBD Elements to FRBR Entity Attributes and
Relationships" (
Background
Among IFLA's most important achievements in
the area of bibliographic control has been the articulation of widely
implemented practices set out in the series of the International Standard
Bibliographic Descriptions (ISBDs) and of the
respected model developed on the basis of the ISBDs,
GARE, and GSARE in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR). It is critically important to
the credibility of IFLA's work in these areas that
the ISBDs and FRBR are inter-related and mutually
supportive in order to assure users of consistency between them. As a result, the ISBD Review Group has been
assessing the feasibility of aligning the terminology used in the texts of the ISBDs with that used in FRBR. However, the group has encountered
difficulties in trying to achieve that alignment, owing in large part to the
fact that the terms used in FRBR were defined in the context of an
entity-relationship model conceived at a higher level of abstraction than the
specifications for the ISBDs. While the entities defined in the FRBR model
are clearly related to the elements forming an ISBD description, they are not
necessarily congruent in all respects and the relationships are too complex to
be conveyed through a simple substitution of terminology.
Purpose and scope
As a result, the IFLA's ISBD Review Group and
its FRBR Review Group concluded that an alternative approach to clarifying the
relationship between the ISBDs and the FRBR model
should be pursued in the form of developing a table to detail the relationship
of each of the elements specified in the ISBDs to its
corresponding entity attribute or relationship as defined in the FRBR
model. Such a table, it was felt, would
satisfy the need to make clear that the ISBDs and
FRBR themselves enjoy a harmonious relationship. In addition, it would serve to complement the
mapping from FRBR to the ISBDs (and other standards)
presented in Appendix A of the FRBR Final Report. The mapping would also allow both Review
Groups to ensure that there is no element in the ISBDs
that is not represented in FRBR and to consider initiation of changes needed to
achieve greater consistency between them.
Project
Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) and the British
Library (BL) generously provided funding to support this initiative. They are partnering in this regard to support
the strategic goals of the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards
(ICABS). DDB is responsible for ICABS
activities in the area of ISBD maintenance and development, while BL is
assigned responsibility for FRBR and FRANAR maintenance and development. They contracted with Mr. Tom Delsey, formerly of the National Library of Canada, a
principal author of FRBR, and contributor to many of the ISBDs,
who performed the work needed for the project.
Comments
Please send any comments you may have regarding the "Mapping"
to John Byrum, chair, ISBD Review Group, at:
jbyr@loc.gov and/or to Patrick Le Boeuf,
chair FRBR Review Group at patrick.le-boeuf@bnf.fr.
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Joint Library PR on
WIPO Declaration
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [JESSE@listserv.utk.edu]; on behalf of;
Sam Trosow [strosow@UWO.CA] Tue 28/09/2004
Here is a press release indicating support from the major library
associations for the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World intellectual
Property Association. You can view the
declaration along with background information and add your name to the
statement at; http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html
Samuel Trosow
PRESS RELEASE
Four major
Declaration on the Future of the
World Intellectual Property
Organization.
Together, the American Association of Law Libraries, the
American Library Association, the
Association of Research Libraries
and the Special
Libraries Association represent the views of over
90,000 librarians and millions of
library users throughout the United
States and
abroad.
The Geneva Declaration calls for
the development of a new agenda for
the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that recognizes
the
importance of intellectual property for the future of humanity
while
stressing the importance of balance in the laws and policies
governing
such intellectual property. WIPO must move beyond its
original
agenda of simply protecting intellectual property to develop
a new
agenda that promotes both international development and
establishes
new approaches to supporting innovation and creativity.
In recent years, our library
organizations have been concerned about a
number
of trends that have combined to limit access to knowledge.
These include, among others:
" the
lengthening of the copyright term which substantially delays
works
from entering the public domain; " the development of legal
protections
for technological protection devices without consideration
of
whether the circumvention of such a measure would be done for a
lawful
purpose; and, " the efforts to develop new protections for
databases
containing facts and other public domain material.
Our organizations believe that
these recent efforts to expand
intellectual
property rights have gone too far and must be brought
back
into balance. The development of a new agenda will give WIPO the
opportunity
to take a leadership role in re-crafting the necessary
balance.
In doing so, we urge WIPO to affirmatively seek to balance
the
rights of creators with the rights of users. This may call for the
rollback
of recent expanded protections or the development of new user
rights
to counterbalance them. We also urge WIPO to deal creatively
with the
issues raised by digital technology to provide appropriate
levels
of protection while also supporting the rights of users to
effectively
use the new technologies.
We believe that as WIPO seeks to
develop its new agenda, it should:
" promote
the development of a robust and expanding public domain,
allowing
new works to enter the public domain following a fair and
reasonable
period of exploitation by the original creator; and, "
establish
accepted limits on the rights of copyright owners that
permit
reasonable uses for legitimate purposes.
The development of digital
technology has created a fundamental
challenge
to the copyright system. The creation of a new agenda is an
opportunity
for WIPO to move beyond a protectionist approach to craft
balanced
solutions to today s issues. Our organizations look forward
to
working with WIPO and the international library community to
develop
an agenda that will both promote the protection of
intellectual
property and, at the same time, encourage access to
knowledge
and international growth and development.
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The American Association of Law
Libraries (AALL) is a nonprofit
educational
organization with over 5000 members nationwide who respond
to the
legal information needs of legislators, judges and other public
officials,
corporations and small businesses, law professors and
students,
attorneys, and members of the general public. AALL s mission
is to
promote and enhance the value of law libraries, to foster law
librarianship
and to provide leadership and advocacy in the field of
legal
information and information policy.
Contact: Robert L. Oakley
(202-662-9160)
The American Library Association
(ALA) is a nonprofit educational
organization
of over 64,000 librarians, library trustees, and other
friends
of libraries dedicated to improving library services and
promoting
the public interest in a free and open information society.
Contact: Lynne Bradley
(202-628-8410)
The Association of Research
Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit
organization
of 123 research libraries in
and
services promote equitable access to and effective use of recorded
knowledge
in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community
service.
Contact: Prue Adler
(202-296-2296)
The Special Libraries Association
(
Association (
information
professionals and their strategic partners.
more
than 12,000 members in 83 countries in the information
profession,
including corporate, academic and government information
specialists.
learning,
advocacy, and networking initiatives.
Contact: Doug Newcomb
(703-647-4923)
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Libraries and The September Project
david
silver [dsilver@u.washington.edu] ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr Fri 27/08/2004
My name is David Silver. I teach
communication at the
The September Project
The September Project is an effort to foster open exchanges in public places
about issues that matter. On Saturday,
September 11, people will share ideas about democracy, citizenship, and
patriotism. Locally organized,
libraries, schools, and organizations will host talks, deliberations, and
performances about issues that matter to their communities. September Project events are distributed
locally, nationally, and internationally, and are free and open to all people.
September Project events take place annually.
The project launched in April, 2004.
In the
Although our focus is primarily on the
We invite you to consider this map: http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp
The September Project's goal is 100s of public spheres taking place
across the country and around the world on
Please consider getting YOUR LIBRARY involved.
Thank you for your time,
david silver
--> http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp
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Library Research Seminar IV (2007)
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]; on behalf of;
Stephen E Wiberley [wiberley@UIC.EDU] JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Thu
Request for Proposals to Host Library Research Seminar IV (2007)
The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of the American Library
Association is seeking volunteers to organize and coordinate the next Library
Research Seminar (LRSIV), an international conference focusing upon research
within the library and information science profession and discipline. These persons should have strong credentials
in research and in organizing meetings and should have the backing of their
organizations. These organizations should be schools that offer
LRS is a research meeting that will include empirical, methodological,
and conceptual work within library and information science. It will include the following types of
scholarship:
Quantitative and
qualitative work
Functionally related work
- e.g. covering information seeking or
retrieval,
classification or library management
Site specific work - e.g.
covering public or academic libraries
Doctoral student research
Collaborative work between
professionals and researchers
Examples of potential topics for seminar programs and presentations are:
The foundations of the
library profession
Information access
Facilities for information
service
Technologies
Research methodology
Library organizations
LRS requires a site and a facility, either on or near the sponsors' home
institution that meets these criteria:
Provides a conference
planning service
Has rooms, dining, and
meeting space for 300 to 400 conference
attendees
Offers meeting and dining
space within walking distance of one
another
Includes meeting space
able to support juried papers, invited
papers,
panel discussions, advisory clinics, and roundtable
discussions
Provides these facilities
in October or early November without
conflict
with major local events, e.g. football games
Offers these facilities
all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
Has extensive and
convenient air travel service
Provides a cost-effective
event with reasonable fees and travel
expenses
LRS meets every three years and LRRT intends to distribute future
seminars equally among the eastern, western, and middle parts of the
The seminar is self-supporting and non-profit. Any surplus will supply seed money to the
succeeding LRS.
Interested parties should send a proposal of no more than ten pages that
explains how their credentials in research and organizing meetings and their
institutional support, their site and facilities will ensure a successful
seminar to:
Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr.
Chair, Library
Research Round Table
Richard J. Daley
Library
The deadline for submission of proposals is
Information about LRSII (
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~folive/LRSII/conference.htm
and
http://libraryresearchseminar.org/
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GSLIS
Publications Office [puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu] Sat 8/05/2004
[Asis-l] New Occasional Paper Now Available
Now available from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library
and Information Science Publications Office:
Number 213 in the Occasional Papers series
A Long Search for Information
By Brian Vickery
Brian Vickery, one of the foremost information scientists of our day,
describes his career in this highly personal and historically perceptive memoir.
A leader in classification research, he was also a pioneer in the introduction
of online searching into libraries. His several books on information retrieval
have become classics in their areas and have won him a wide audience in the US
as well as the UK. His importance in the world of scientific libraries and
librarianship culminated in his tenure as Professor and Director of the School
of Library, Information and Archives Studies at University College, London, 1973-1983. His close working relationship with leaders in
the profession both in the UK and internationally, are recalled in this brief
and delightful account.
$10, plus $5 shipping, prepaid. (Shipping is $1 per copy for additional
copies in the same order.) Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and
checks to The University of Illinois accepted.
Orders can be placed at the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science Publications Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 E.
Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820. Call (217) 333-1359 for more information, or
e-mail puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu. Please be sure to visit our Web site (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/) for
details about this and other available publications.
The Occasional Papers deal with varied aspects of librarianship and
consist of papers that generally are too detailed for inclusion in a
periodical, or are of specialized or contemporary interest.
The Publications Office
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(217) 333-1359 phone, (217) 244-7329 FAX puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff
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Gretchen
Whitney [gwhitney@UTK.EDU] JESSE@listserv.utk.edu
Wed
7/07/2004
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:11:18 -0300 (ADT)
From: Norman Horrocks <nhorrock@dal.ca>
The Australian Library and Information Association has devoted the
February 2004 issue of "The Australian Library Journal" to a
Festschrift in honour of Margaret Trask (1928-2002). Edited by Boyd Rayward,
emeritus professor,
University of New South Wales and currently research professor at
GSLIS, University of Illinois, who writes "She was a distinguished and
innovative library educator, first at the University of New South Wales and
then at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education
where she founded a new Department of Library and Information Studies to carry
out an innovative approach to professional library education in
Australia." Margaret was a powerful
figure not only in Australia but also on the international scene.
Copies are available from The Australian Library and Information
Association (ALIA), PO Box 6335, Kingston, ACT 2604, Australia, at $A15
(which includes postage). e-mail :
enquiry@alia.org.au
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National open access agreement for Finland
From: Arne Jakobsson
[mailto:p.a.jakobsson@UB.UIO.NO]
Sent: 12 May 2004 08:42
To: EAHIL-L@LISTSERV.KIB.KI.SE
Subject: NATIONAL OPEN ACCESS AGREEMENT FOR FINLAND
NATIONAL OPEN ACCESS AGREEMENT FOR FINLAND
Finland is the first country to make a nationwide commitment to Open
Access, it was announced today. All universities, polytechnics and
research
institutes in Finland have become BioMed Central
members. The membership
agreement covers the cost of publication, in BioMed
Centrals 100+ Open
Access journals, for all 25000 publicly funded researchers and teachers
in
Finland.
BioMed Central agreed the membership with FinELib, the National
Electronic
Library of Finland. A consortium of universities, polytechnics, research
institutes and regional libraries, FinELib is part of
the National
Librarys
services for libraries. FinELib acquires Finnish and
international
resources to support teaching, learning and research. 86 institutions
from
the consortium will take part in the membership deal, adding 80 new
institutions to BioMed Centrals membership program.
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen,
Head, National Electronic Library Services,
explained why the National Electronic Library took the decision,
The aim of FinELib is to promote access to
information. Open access is
an
important movement to improve access to information all over the world.
Open access enables the most effective distribution of research results
and
can have significant impact to the Finnish innovation system.
FinElib is also interested in the developments in new
business models
which
are evolving.
Finlands decision represents
a landmark in the move towards Open Access
for
all biomedical research. BioMed Central, the largest
Open Access
publisher,
has seen their membership program go from strength to strength. Over 300
institutions worldwide became members in 2003. These included the NHS in
England and all UK universities, all institutions in Ohio, USA, 18
institutions in Australia, and the Max Planck Society. BioMed
Central
now
has 500 member institutions in 39 countries.
Arne Jakobsson
University of Oslo Library
Library of Medicine and Health Sciences
Postboks 1113, Blindern
N-0317 Norway
Phone +47 23 07 44 34
Fax +47 23 07 44 30
E-mail: p.a.jakobsson@ub.uio.no
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Online Information
Literacy Articles
Michael Lorenzen [lists@iam4msu.com] JESSE@listserv.utk.edu
There are four new full-text articles dealing with information literacy
available at the Academic Exchange Quarterly website.
These are:
1. A Collaborative Approach to
Information Literacy in the Freshman Seminar (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2456may.htm)
2. Enhancing Information
Literacy: A Practical Exemplar (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2458may.htm)
3. Paths to Understanding (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2449may.htm)
4. Enticing Faculty to Library
Instruction Workshops (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2470may.htm)
In addition, Academic Exchange Quarterly is seeking manuscripts in two
areas which may be of interest to librarians.
These are:
1. Student Perceptions, Beliefs,
or Attitudes (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/ontstu.htm)
2. Community College (http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/4sucomc.htm)
Michael Lorenzen
Executive Editor
Academic Exchange Quarterly
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Open Access publishing
& ASIST publications
Part II
Michael Leach
[mrleach@fas.harvard.edu] asis-l@asis.org;
sigpub-l@asis.org
[Asis-l]
Open Access publishing & ASIST publications: Part II Wed 28/04/2004
Dear Colleagues:
I wish to provide an update,
and some further points of discussion, to my original posting on "Open
Access publishing & ASIST publications." While replies to ASIS-L and
SIGPUB-L have been minimal (as was expected) I have received about a half dozen
personal replies, which are now
summarized:
All replies indicated the
need to address these issues, even if ASIST doesn't adopt any OA model. Naturally, the critical issues hinge on a
viable revenue model for any OA initiative by the Society. It was brought to my attention that some
potential authors are steering clear of one of our publications because it is
not available (full-text) online. As
another reply noted, awareness by faculty of the OA movement is growing, and
some faculty/authors are adopting this publishing model personally.
Now, for a few more points of
discussion:
1. The lack of a large, vivid response to my initial posting can be
taken as a) apathy, b) contentment with the status quo, c) lack of knowledge of
the issues, d) some combination of the above, or e) some variable I haven't
accounted for. Should there be little
response to this posting, I will consider the issues "dead" and
refrain from further posting/discussion.
2. Should we (ASIST--its members)
be experimenting with new models of publishing and scholarly communications, or
should we leave it up to some other group(s) (like the biomed
sciences)? The Directory of Open Access
Journals lists 27 LIS journals worldwide.
There are 216 titles under "medicine" in this directory. Granted, there are far, far fewer L/IS
researchers than medical researchers, but information--its creation, storage,
organization & retrieval--is our principle bailiwick.
We do have an OA
publication--the Bulletin--but its OA status is more a secondary consideration
to the print publication. Should we be
using this publication to test electronic publication models? Where is the metadata attached to each article? What about controlled indexing and search
interfaces? What about layout of online
content, alternative formats (e.g. pdf instead of
just the html)? What are the costs for
publishing each article online? What
will it take to truly archive this publication?
How does the print counterpart support or detract from the OA version? Should we add a peer-reviewed section
(perhaps just online) to assess the costs associated with OA publishing? Why haven't we lined up researchers in our
L/IS schools to examine these issues over the short and long term, working in
conjunction with the editors, editorial boards, and the Society?
I acknowledge that the above
is spirited and even confrontational, but I believe we have the strengths
within this Society to tackle these issues while the OA movement is young--and
to have an impact in its (OA) direction and formation. Personally, I have my doubts about the
viability of the OA publishing model, but without some experimentation, without
some effort at researching the issues, all we have is conjecture.
Michael
Michael R. Leach
Director
Kummel Library of Geological Sciences and Physics Research Library
Harvard University 24
Kummel: 617-495-2029 (voice); 617-495-4711 (fax)
Physics: 617-495-2878 (voice); 617-495-0416 (fax)
mrleach@fas.harvard.edu or leach@eps.harvard.edu or leach@physics.harvard.edu
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Richard
Hill [rhill@asis.org] asis-l@asis.org;
sigsti-l@asis.org; sigia-l@asis.org
Tue
25/05/2004 12:
For immediate release, Thursday, May 20, 2004
Media Contact: Cathey Daniels, (865) 576-9539,
danielsc@osti.gov
Interagency science portal delivers significant advance in government
information retrieval
question.
While retaining the content and advances originally unveiled in December
2002, Science.gov 2.0 will search its 47 million pages of government R&D
results and present the results to patrons in relevancy-ranked order. This new
technology sorts through the government's reservoirs of research and rapidly
returns information in an order more likely to meet patrons' needs.
The Web portal is made possible through a collaboration of 12 major
science agencies forming a coalition called the Science.gov Alliance.
The Department of Energy, which hosts the site through its Office of
Scientific and Technical Information, funded the R&D of a new
relevancy-ranking technology by a company called Deep Web Technologies. The
technology was applied to meta-searches in the deep Web where traditional
search engines cannot go.
Secretary of Energy Spencer
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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring, MD
20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
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Selection, Appraisal and Retention of Digital
Scientific Data
British Editor [British.editor@erpanet.org] asis-l@asis.org Fri 7/05/2004
[Asis-l] Fw: Release of the final report for the ERPANET/CODATA Seminar
Announcement: Release of the final report for the ERPANET/CODATA seminar
on the Selection, Appraisal and Retention of Digital Scientific Data
http://www.erpanet.org/www/products/lisbon/LisbonReportFinal.pdf
Rapid advances in technology are impacting the way scientists work,
allowing greater amounts of digital data to be produced in the majority of
scientific disciplines. These
technological advances are also changing the way scientists interact, creating
opportunities for collaborations across disciplines, institutions, and
countries. The ever-increasing data that are generated through these advances
require active curation to ensure their longevity.
The international EPRANET/CODATA seminar examined the current state of practice
of the selection, appraisal and retention among diverse scientific communities
and discussed how archival concepts can best be applied to the management and
long-term preservation of digital data.
The seminar, held from 15th-17th of December 2003 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon,
brought together more than sixty-five researchers, data managers, information
specialists, archivists, and librarians from thirteen countries to discuss the
issues involved in making critical decisions regarding the long-term
preservation of the scientific record. One of the major aims for this seminar
was to provide an international forum to exchange information about data
archiving policies and practices across different scientific, institutional,
and national contexts. The seminar proved to be extremely successful in
enabling discussions between scientific and archival communities. The seminar
also highlighted some conceptual hurdles to overcome before effective
collaboration between the diverse communities can take place.
This seminar was an important first step in the journey towards openness
and collaboration between scientific disciplines, archivists, and other
information specialists in the area of data curation
and preservation. The seminar illustrated areas where each can learn from the
others in establishing common frameworks and guidelines that will enable the
effective selection, appraisal and long-term retention of digital scientific
data.
The Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) and
the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) are pleased to
announce the release of the final report for this seminar and invite all
stakeholders involved in the creation and curation of
digital scientific data to review the results at http://www.erpanet.org/www/products/lisbon/LisbonReportFinal.pdf.
Seamus Ross, Director ERPANET
Julie Esanu,
William Anderson, Praxis 101
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Subject Index to
Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
From: Marian Dworaczek
[mailto:Marian.Dworaczek@USASK.CA]
Sent:
To: JISC-E-COLLECTIONS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Information
The
Sources of Information" is available at:
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM
The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on
Electronic Sources of
Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information:
A
Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of
electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials,
periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected
works. This edition includes 1,614 indexed titles. Both the Index and the
Bibliography are continuously updated.
Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the
Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM
This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse
any duplication.
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Technology Grant News
- Technology Resource News
Summer 2004
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Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum
[JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]; on behalf of; Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid P [Hsiehyee@CUA.EDU] Fri 6/08/2004
FW: Understanding Metadata Now Available for Download
Dear ALISE members,
I hope you will find this information useful.
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Library & Information Science
Phone: (202) 319-6270
Fax: (202) 319-5574
E-mail: hsiehyee@cua.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Harris [mailto:pharris@niso.org]
Sent: Thu
To: Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid P
Cc:
Subject: Understanding
Metadata Now Available for Download
Ingrid,
Greetings! Wanted you to know that NISO's new
booklet on metadata is now available for free download. This new booklet
replaces Metadata Made Simpler. Please
feel free to share this news with the
ALISE community and beyond. Pat
Begin forwarded message:
From: Pat Harris
<pharris@niso.org>
Date:
To: VM Reflector
<niso-vm@list.niso.org>
Subject: Understanding Metadata
Now Available for Download
Dear members,
Understanding Metadata, an
introduction to metadata that includes an
overview
of leading metadata contenders and examples of practical
applications,
was distributed last month in hardcopy to all NISO
members. The publication covers a range of
fundamentals, from a
definition
of metadata and descriptions of the types of metadata, to
practical
advice on creating metadata and future directions.
This publication is now available
as a free download from the NISO
website
(www.niso.org). Bulk orders for the paper version
can be
customized
for distribution at workshops or other events.
Call NISO
for
details on bulk order pricing.
An announcement on this new
publication is below. Please feel free to
share
this information with your colleagues, staff, committee
members,
etc. Thank You!
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NISO Offers Public Free Primer on
Metadata
introduction
to metadata that includes an overview of leading
metadata
contenders and examples of practical applications, is now
available
as a free download from the National Information Standards
Organization (www.niso.org).
The publication covers a range of
fundamentals,
from a definition of metadata and descriptions of the
types of
metadata, to practical advice on creating metadata and
future
directions.
The 20-page publication defines
metadata as “structured information
that
describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to
retrieve,
use, or manage an information resource.”
“Metadata can describe resources
at any level of aggregation,” noted
Pat Harris, Executive Director of
NISO. “It can describe a
collection,
a single resource, or a component part of a larger
resources,
such as a photo in an article. Metadata
is key to
ensuring
that resources will survive and continue to be accessible
into the
future.”
About NISO
NISO, a non-profit association
accredited by the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI),
identifies, develops, maintains, and
publishes
technical standards to manage information in our changing
and
ever-more digital environment. NISO standards apply both
traditional
and new technologies to the full range of
information-related
needs, including retrieval, re-purposing,
storage,
metadata, and preservation. www.niso.org
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Pat Harris
Executive Director
NISO
T: 301-654-2512 ** Direct line:
301-654-1474** Mobile: 202-258-3296
Fax: 301-654-1721 ** Email:
pharris@niso.org
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Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases
Gerry Mckiernan
[gerrymck@iastate.edu] Thu
[Asis-l] Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases?
Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases_?
I am greatly interested in learning of ANY and ALL
bibliographic/abstract databases that offer RSS feeds. Such feeds might offer
current search results, or automatic updates for a saved search strategy. I
would be interested in any current operational systems, working prototypes, or
projects under consideration.
For examples of other library-related uses of RSS, please see my latest
registry_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_
[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm
]
BTW: Thanks to all for their nominations for _RSS(sm)_.
Although still quite limited, it has nearly doubled in size from its
establishment on Sunday, June 6 !
[ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0406/0048.html
]
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Working Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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asis-l-admin@asis.org; on behalf of; Gerry Mckiernan [gerrymck@iastate.edu]
Sun 15/08/2004
_Use of WIKIs by Libraries_
Colleagues/
I am greatly interested in the Use of WIKIs by
Libraries for Any and All public or internal library services (e.g., public services, technical services,
administrative services, collection development, instruction, etc.).
As defined by the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page),
a WIKI is defined as:
"A wiki (pronounced "wicky" or "weeky")
is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that gives users the
ability to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content
to be edited by other users.
The term can also refer to the collaborative software used to create
such a website. Wiki (with a capital 'W') and WikiWikiWeb are sometimes used to refer to the Portland
Pattern Repository, the first ever wiki. Proponents
of this usage suggest using a lower-case 'w' to distinguish the generic terms
discussed here. Wiki wiki
comes from the Hawaiian term for 'quick' or 'super-fast'" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki).
BTW: The Wikipedia is itself an outstanding
example of a WIKI!
Regards,
/Gerry
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asis-l-admin@asis.org; on behalf of; Gerry Mckiernan [gerrymck@iastate.edu]
[Asis-l] Use of WIKIs by Libraries. Part II Sun
15/08/2004
Colleagues/
One of the Leaders of WikiWorld, Dave Mattison, has written an
**Outstanding** article about WIKIs in
_Searcher_ [11(4) (April 2003): 32-48]
that is Well-Worth-The-Read and is available at
[http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml
]
Thanks!, Dave!
Enjoy!
/Gerry
Regards,
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Super-Fast Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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asis-l-admin@asis.org; on behalf of; Gerry Mckiernan [gerrymck@iastate.edu]
Thu
Colleagues/
Wikis In The News:
Educause
Review: Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on
the previous decade and lamented: "I wanted the Web to be what I call an
interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying 'interactive,'
and then I read in the media that the Web was great because it was
'interactive,' meaning you could click. This was not what I meant by interactivity."
That vision of a genuinely interactive environment rather than "a
glorified television channel"-one in which people not only would browse
pages but also would edit them as part of the process-did not disappear with
the rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It's churning away more actively than
ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic breed of pages
known as "wikis."
[ http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp ]
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Ready Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a
revolutionary act."
--- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author ____
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World List of Departments and Schools of
Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc
Prof. Tom Wilson
[t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk] JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU;
lis-bailer@jiscmail.ac.uk; asis-l@asis.org; know-org@jiscmail.ac.uk
[Asis-l]
World list.
I've been updating my "World List of Departments and Schools of
Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc"
again. It now has entries for 415 institutions (if my counting is accurate) in
58 countries around the world, and separate links to I don't know how many
individual course pages.
And I still have to add entries for a number of institutions in
If your institution is on the list, please check the entry for accuracy and
'link rot', and if it isn't, let me know - send the details in a form like that
used on the list for ease of entry.
Tom Wilson
___________________________________________________
Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD
Publisher/Editor in Chief
Information Research
InformationR.net
e-mail:
t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk
Web site: http://InformationR.net/
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