D-Lib Magazine
March 2000

Volume 6 Number 3

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers
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In Print

    Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice, Authored by the Visual Arts Data Service: Catherine Grout, Phill Purdy, and Janine Rymer; and the Technical Advisory Service for Images: Karla Youngs, Jane Williams, Alan Lock, Dan Brickley, and Oliver Moss.

    This announcement is courtesy of:
    Catherine Grout
    VADS Manager
    Farnham, United Kingdom

    The Visual Arts Data Service <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk> provides, preserves and promotes high quality digital resources in the visual arts, and the Technical Advisory Service for Images advises and supports the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.

    We are pleased to formally launch the web version of the VADS/TASI Guide to Good Practice, "Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice", <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html>

    The guide is intended primarily to introduce new users of technology to its applications, and to provide comprehensive guidance on all the following issues:

    • Creating Digital Images
    • Copyright
    • Data Documentation and Metadata Standards
    • Project Management
    • Resource Delivery and User Issues
    • Storage and Preservation
    • Using Specialised Formats for the Visual Arts

    We hope that it will also provide a useful source of information for those who are more experienced in generating digital resources. Bibliographic links and a glossary of terms are also included.

    Permitted Uses
    While we encourage you to read and make use of our Guide fully, please do not print out the whole Guide or distribute it to colleagues. It is intended for individual use.

    Print Publication
    A print publication is soon to follow this electronic version, published by Oxbow Books; information on how to order the Guide in book form will be posted on the VADS and TASI sites.

  • Two new reports are now available from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

    The first of two new CLIR reports is entitled "Collections, Content and the Web". Published January 2000, it is available for purchase in print format for $20 from CLIR. This report explores how the World Wide Web is affecting collections-based institutions.

    The second CLIR report is "Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment" by Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, February 2000. This report examines how the archival perspective can be useful in addressing problems faced by those who design, manage, disseminate, and preserve digital information. It may be purchased in print format from CLIR for $15.

    CLIR also recently released CLIR Issues Number 14, March/April 2000.

  • SIGIR Forum: A Publication of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, online version, edited by William Hersh and Fazli Can. The SIGIR Information Director is Charles Viles. SIGIR is a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

    SIGIR Forum now has an online edition that may be used as an adjunct to the paper version of the magazine. The online magazine states its mission as follows: "The SIGIR Forum serves as a medium for the dissemination of short technical papers and book reviews, general information, and opinions on matters of interest to the membership."

    Papers are provided either in PDF or HTML formats, and at the time of this writing (3/14/00), the Fall 1999 issue, Volume 33, Number 3 is the current issue being displayed at the magazine web site < http://www.acm.org/sigir/forum/index.html >.

  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 51, Numbers 5 and 6.

    To see the Tables of Contents, please click here.

    The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html> contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.

    The John Wiley Interscience site http://www.interscience.wiley.com includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the Interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints.

    American Society for Information Science
    8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
    (301) 495-0900 FAX (301) 495-0810
    http://www.asis.org/

  • Digitisation of European Cultural Heritage, Products-Principles-Techniques, proceedings of the 21 - 23 October 1999 conference that was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

    The proceedings makes available the abstracts and slides from presentations from the conference. The purpose of the conference is described as follows:

    "Most conferences on digitisation focus on the Anglo-Saxon projects (American, Canadian, Australian and British initiatives). Indeed, many major digitisation projects are being carried out there. Yet this specific focus may be biased to some extent. Therefore we believe it was both necessary and worthwhile to provide a survey of what Europe has in store...The most important criterion in the programme was to pay attention to projects that could already show considerable results and long-term experience and the methods that led to these results."

    The Proceedings web site is located at <http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/dech1999/dech.htm>.

Point to Point

  • Version 29, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., February 2000.

    Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, has announced the availability of Version 29 of his periodical bibliography, which is selective and is focussed on scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. In the bibliography, he provides links to sources listed, where available. The bibliography is located at < http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html >. It is available in HTML, PDF, and Word 97 formats.

  • Libraries of the Future Bibliography, Compiled by Carol R. Gurstelle, October 1999.

    Carol Gurstelle is an independent information broker and creator of this bibliography of resources about future library directions. The criteria she used for selecting resources for the bibliography include:

    • Timelessness
    • Stimulating and thought provoking
    • Focused on libraries rather than one institution
    • Easily accessed

    Although Ms. Gurstelle's work on the project has now ended, there is a submission form available for those who wish to add items to the bibliography. The host for the bibliography is Metronet, a multi-type library organization in the St. Paul / Minneapolis, Minnesota area. The website for the bibliography is located at < http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lib/libfut.cfm >.

  • Papers on Document Imaging - Document Management, by Steve Gilheany, Archive Builders. These materials are used in the UCLA Extension and other classes. They are available free for download courtesy of Archive Builders at <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com>. For those who are able to attend one of the offered courses at the UCLA Extension, the classes scheduled are:

    • Spring 2000: 30 March - 1 April
    • Summer 2000: 22 - 24 June
    • Fall 2000: 15 - 17 September

    See <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com> for copies of course descriptions as well as information regarding the venues for these classes.

Deadline Reminders

Calls for Participation

  • Electronic Publishing in the Third Millenium: Fourth International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 17 - 19 August 2000, Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 March 2000.

    This conference will concentrate on electronic publishing for specialists and also for the general public. Speakers from both technical and non-technical tracks are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words.

    Suggested topics are:

    • Technical track
      • prospective technologies
      • file formats
      • protocols
      • networking
      • retrieval techniques
    • Non-technical track
      • socio-economic aspects
      • implementations in cultural institutions
      • implementations in education
      • projects in libraries, archives, and information systems
      • implementations in health care
      • implementations in education

    The conference web site is being developed at <http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000. The point of contact for further information is:

    Prof. D. Vera Zabotkina
    Vice-Rector for International Affairs
    Kaliningrad State University
    14, A. Nevskogo str., 20 Kaliningrad
    236041, Russia
    Email: <[email protected]>.

  • VRD 2nd Annual Digital Reference Conference, 16 - 17 October 2000, Seattle Washington, USA. Call for papers. Submission deadline: 1 April 2000.

    The Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) has announced its second annual conference with the theme, "The Facets of Digital Reference". The conference will explore all aspects of digital reference including: libraries and information centers, education, Intranets, the commercial sector, government, and more.

    Papers are being solicited on the following main categories:

    • Digital reference service management
    • Technology for digital reference
    • General issues in digital reference
    • Case studies in digital reference service

    Please see the conference web site at <http://www.vrd.org/conferences/VRD2000/callforprop.html> for suggested topics under each of the catagories listed above, as well as for complete submission instructions for proposed papers.

  • Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. The deadline for submission of data forms required for participation in CLEF is 1 April 2000.

    Contributed by:
    Carol Peters
    Italian National Research Council
    Pisa, Italy
    [email protected]

    A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched in Europe sponsored by the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries, funded by the EC Information Society Technologies programme, and conducted in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC Conferences.

    The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main evaluation tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual (non-English) information retrieval systems. There will also be a special sub-task for domain-specific cross-language evaluation.

    Multilingual Information Retrieval
    The main task in CLEF 2000 requires searching a multilingual collection in English, French, German, and Italian for relevant documents. The goal is to retrieve documents from all languages, listing the results in a merged, ranked list.

    Although the official languages for CLEF 2000 will be English, French, German and Italian, it will also be possible to submit runs in which the document collection is queried in other languages.

    Bilingual Information Retrieval
    A task will be provided in which the query language can be French, German or Italian and the target document collection is English. Unofficial bilingual runs in which the query to the English document collection can be in other languages can also be submitted and will be evaluated.

    Monolingual (non-English) Information Retrieval
    So far, most IR system evaluation has focussed on English. We will provide the opportunity for monolingual system testing and tuning and will build up test suites in other European languages (beginning with French, German and Italian in CLEF 2000).

    Special Task GIRT
    The rationale of this subtask is to study CLIR in a vertical domain (i.e., social science) where a German/English/Russian thesaurus and English translations of the document titles are available.

    Those intending to participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an e-mail to Carol Peters ([email protected]), as soon as possible, indicating in which task(s) they intend to participate.

    A two-day Workshop will be held 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal. The first day will be open to all interested participants and focussed on research related issues in Multilingual Information Access. The second day will present and discuss the results of the CLEF activity and will be restricted to active CLEF participants.

    For further information about CLEF, please see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>.

  • ACM Hypertext '00 and ACM Digital Libraries 2000 Workshops. Call for papers. Deadlines for submission range from 3 - 5 April 2000 or as posted at the respective workshop web sites.

    The following is a list of workshops for which papers are being solicited:

  • National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) -- Program Solicitation: NSF 00-44. Proposal deadline 14 April 2000.

    Program Name:
    National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL)

    Cognizant Program Officers:
    Dr. C. Dianne Martin and Dr. Lee L. Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, Suite 835, telephone 703.306.1666, e-mail <[email protected]>

    Short Description/Synopsis of Program:
    Building on work supported under the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative, this program aims to found a national digital library that will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education at all levels. The program will accept proposals in four tracks: (1)Core Integration System projects are expected to focus on the coordination and management of the library�s core collections and services and to develop the library�s central portal. (2)Collections projects are expected to aggregate and manage a subset of the library�s content within a coherent theme or specialty. (3)Services projects are expected to develop services which support users, collection providers, and the Core Integration System and which enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the library. (4) Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to one of the other three tracks.

    Award Information
    Awards will be Standard Grants and Continuing Grants. Pending availability of funding, the NSF anticipates that 20 awards will be made totaling approximately $13 million in Fiscal Year 2000. The anticipated date of award is July 2000.

    Additional Information
    Solicitation NSF 44-00 may be seen in its entirety at <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf0044/nsf0044.htm>.

  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2 - 6 December 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers is 28 April 2000.

    The ACM CSCW conference is a leading forum for presenting and discussing research and development achievements concerning the use of computer technologies to support collaborative activities, as well as the impact of digital collaboration technologies on users, groups, organizations and society.

    Papers submitted for consideration for this conference should present original reports of substantive new work or integrative reviews of some aspect of CSCW. Potential areas of interest include theory, methodology, empirical investigations, architectures, prototypes and experiences related to the development, deployment and use of computer systems supporting all aspects of collaborative activities, including, but not limited to, activities in the home, at work and in entertainment.

    For the complete Call for Proposals, please see the conference web site at <http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw2000/cfp.html>.

  • ACRL 10th National Conference, 15 - 18 March 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA. Call for participation. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2000.

    Seven theme tracks will examine how academic and research librarians must explore new frontiers as they cross the divide into the new millennium. The values of the library profession define and establish who librarians are, proposals that deal with the values of the profession are especially encouraged as a part of each theme track, and proposals that cover more than one theme track are encouraged. The seven theme tracks are:

    • Advocacy
    • Information Literacy
    • Collections
    • Distance/Distributed Education
    • Leadership and Management
    • Collaborations and Partnerships
    • Services for Users

    For descriptions and suggested topics for each of the seven themes listed above, please see the ACRL conference web site at <http://www.ala.org/acrl/calltheme.html>.

  • ECDL 2000: Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 18 - 20 September 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.

    The ECDL series of conferences has as its goal to bring together researchers, industrial members, professionals, and user communities; it is promoted as a reference forum for discussion of new emerging issues, requirements, proposals, politics and solutions.

    Proposals for papers and panels related to digital libraries are being sought that will address the following main topics:

    • Digital Library Requirements, Models, Systems and Frameworks (Metadata; Capturing; Indexing and Cataloging; User Interfaces; Knowledge Representation; Filtering and Dissemination; Preservation; etc.);

    • Electronic Publishing and Economic Issues (New Publishing and Economic Models; Terms and Conditions for Access and Use; Intellectual Property and Rights Management; etc.);

    • Networking and Distributing Issues (Interoperability; Scalability; Networked Resource Discovery; Collaborative and Distributed Authoring; Collaborative and Distributed Resources Management; etc.);

    • Social Implications and Issues (User's Models; International Collaboration; Digital Libraries and Consortia; Multicultural and Multilingual Issues; New Emerging Issues; etc.).

    Please see the ECDL web site for complete information and instructions for submission. The web address is <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/call.htm>.

  • Participatory Design Conference 28 November - 1 December 2000, New York City, New York, USA. Call for participation. The submission deadline for papers is 1 May 2000.

    This will be the sixth biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC). This year's theme is "Designing Digital Environments -- Bringing in more voices" and will serve as a "forum to explore theories, methods, and examples of design through participation that foster early intervention on the part of future users and active and democratic involvement of both current and future users." PDC 2000 participants will exchange ideas and experiences that can be applied throughout the cycles of design and use to:

    1. Maintain and deepen the knowledge about design through participation in order to promote inclusion of workers, citizens, students and users;

    2. Explore practices and methods of early intervention into the design and use of digital environments.

    Academics, practitioners, and users are encouraged to document and demonstrate ways that multiple voices can be heard in technical design environments. Particular interests are research and experience about participation of active users in the following design environments:

    • Community-based systems
    • Health care systems
    • Governmental and GIS systems at local, regional and international levels
    • Education, instructional technologies and learning communities across distance
    • Media, broadcast and new media environments
    • Virtual communities and interactive designs
    • Union – management relations
    • Curricula for participatory design

    Please see the Call for Papers at the conference web site located at <http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000/jancfp.html>.

  • 8th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 10 - 11 November 2000, Washington, D.C., USA. Call for papers. The deadline for abstract submission is 8 May 2000.

    This symposium is for researchers, users, and developers, carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge. It will take place within the framework of the 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) in Washington, D.C.

    Papers for the symposium are being sought -- but are not limited to -- the following topics of interest:

    • Animated cartography
    • Digital libraries for GIS
    • Geographic data interchange standards
    • GIS and the internet
    • Interactive mapping
    • Interoperability & heterogeneous GIS
    • Multi-database spatial data structures
    • Multi-source fusion
    • Quality control and re-engineering
    • Spatial aspects of mobile computing
    • Spatial data warehousing and indexing
    • Spatial indexing and query processing
    • Spatio-temporal databases
    • CASE tools for GIS
    • Embarked GIS
    • GIS as components in large systems
    • GIS metadata
    • Interface design & visualization
    • Management of parallel and distributed GIS
    • Multimedia GIS
    • Open GIS
    • Real time GIS, especially based on GPS
    • Spatial data mining
    • Spatial decision support systems and CSCW
    • Spatial knowledge discovery
    • Virtual reality and 3D GIS

    The conference web site is still under construction, but the call for participation is available at <http://acmgis.cs.pusan.ac.kr/html/acmgis2000/index.html>.

  • 21st Annual International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2000, 10 - 13 December 2000, Brisbane, Australia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 10 May 2000.

    The ICIS 2000 theme is "Fundamental Concepts for the New Millennium". The conference will provide an opportunity for Information Systems researchers to reflect on and discuss the state of knowledge and set of issues that will be important in the coming years. The overall conference program will be organized into four major tracks: a completed research track, a research-in-progress track, a teaching cases track, and a track for debates, panels and tutorials.

    Specific submission requirements for each of the tracks are listed on the Call for Papers page at the ICIS 2000 web site, <http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/icis2000/>.

Goings On

  • Putting Digital Information to Work: Knowledge Management and Information Policy, 10 - 11 April 2000, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.

    The Maryland Forum on Information Policy Issues will present "three leaders in the information policy and knowledge management fields to discuss the implications of the digital information revolution.":

    • Knowledge Management and the Future Course of American Business
      Dr. Thomas Davenport, Director, Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change and Professor, Management Information Systems Department, Boston University Graduate School of Management
      Monday, 10 April, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Center (Bldg. #163)

    • Knowledge Management and Human Socialization: Information Serving People
      Dr. John C. Thomas, Manager, Knowledge Socialization, IBM Watson Research Center
      Tuesday, 11 April, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, McKeldin Library, Special Purposes Room, (Bldg. #035)

    • Archives, Records, and Information Policy: Issues and Challenges for the Future
      Mr. Ian Wilson, National Archivist of Canada
      Tuesday, 11 April, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, McKeldin Library, Special Purposes Room, (Bldg. #035)

    The presentations are open and there is no fee to attend. However, those who wish to attend are asked to contact the event coordinator Dr. Bruce Dearstyne at <[email protected]> so that arrangements for space will be adequate for the number of attendees.

  • Publishing in the 21st Century: Redefining the Industry, 13 - 15 April 2000, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA.

    This seminar is the sixth annual seminar of the University of Virginia and the Library of Congress. It is aimed for "book and journal publishers, including trade, educational, textbook, association/nonprofit, business-to-business, government/service, and those in related fields who are expanding into digital and Internet publication". Topics covered will include:

    • power shifts: redefining the industry
    • best practices in strategic and tactical decision making
    • digital rights management
    • creating the most effective Web sites
    • code once, use many times: the promise of SGML and XML
    • copyright issues in a digital environment
    • e-Publishing: the new software systems
    • the new aggregators: Internet libraries

    To see a list of the scheduled speakers and for registration information, please see the seminar web site at <http://uvace.virginia.edu/cup/publishing/media.htm>.

  • CAA 2000: Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past, 18 - 21 April 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

    This is a joint conference of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology and the Union Internationale des Sciences Pr�historiques et Protohistoriques, Commission IV. Through presentations, the conference aims to share experience, research results or practical solutions in computer, quantitative and other advanced methods in archaeology.

    The main objective of the conference is "...is to bring together archaeologists, historians, computer scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, geographers, environmentalists, cultural heritage managers and others to discuss current issues in the impact of information technology on advances in archaeological methods and theory."

    Please see the conference web site at < http://www.zrc-sazu.si/caa/ > for full information.

  • Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the Electronic Age: An Oxford Colloquium, 28 April 2000, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

    This colloquium will be the sixth of a series with the focus on the place of technology in the spheres of literature, learning, and cultural resources. It should be of interest to anyone who is working in museums or libraries, or who is concerned about the Internet, censorship, policing, control, or civil liberties.

    Planned for the day are presentations, open discussions, and debates. A provisional programme is available at < http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/prog.html >.

  • Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums: A CIMI Institute, 29 - 30 March 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 27 - 28 April 2000, Amstelveen, The Netherlands; and 31 May - 1 June 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

    CIMI has scheduled three two-day workshops that will focus on information access and management issues in museums and cultural heritage organizations.

    CIMI describes the goals of the workshops as shown below:

    • Several key concepts will be introduced and discussed during the workshop, including:
      • Integrated Information Management
      • Metadata
      • Syntax
      • Structure
      • Semantics
      • Consistent Vocabulary
      • Resource Discovery
    • In addition, the workshop is designed to:
      • Demonstrate the benefits of implementing the Dublin Core standard for the museum community.
      • Provide insight into making the business case for the use of the Dublin Core standard.
      • Share experiences from the CIMI Testbed project.
      • Introduce the Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core as a resource for implementers.

    Please see the CIMI web site at <http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html> for details about this Workshop.

  • ECPA Announces Two Workshops on Management of Photographic Collections

    Contributed by:
    Anne Muller, Asst. Executive Secretary
    European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    [email protected]

    The ECPA is pleased to announce two Workshops on management of photographic collections. The locations and dates are:

    Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-5 May 2000
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5-9 June 2000

    These workshops are part of a one-year project, "Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access" (SEPIA), funded by the European Union under the Framework Programme in Support of Culture. They are organized by three of the SEPIA partners: the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen, National Photographic Conservation Studios, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

    Librarians, archivists and curators in charge of photographic materials need to know about the role of new technology in collection management. Digital imaging offers unprecedented opportunities for access to historical materials. But how can it be combined with established preservation methods in an integrated strategy, to ensure optimal access today as well as in the future?

    The characteristics of various photographic processes and the different materials encountered in photographic collections will be reviewed. Specific requirements for their handling and preservation will be related to the nature and function of different types of photographic collections. The workshops will explore the different methods for capturing images (especially for fragile or sensitive materials), technical requirements in relation to image quality, and long-term management of digital files. Due attention will be given to aspects like needs assessment, setting priorities, planning, budgeting and outsourcing, and project management.

    In the scope of the workshop, participants will acquire knowledge of technical issues that will enable them to make informed decisions about the role of digitisation in care and management of photographic collections.

    The speakers include leading figures from the field of photographic conservation, preservation management, and digital imaging. A substantial part of the workshops will be spent on discussions and group assignments to develop participants� skills in finding their own solutions. The course will be in English.

    Target group

    All those responsible for photographic collections in archives, museums, libraries. For this introductory course, no specific expertise of photographic techniques or digital imaging is required. Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of English in order to participate in discussions.

    Workshop leaders:

    Copenhagen

    • Susie Clark: Independent photo conservator and consultant (York, UK)
    • Ingrid Fischer Jonge: National Museum of Photography/Royal Library of Denmark (Copenhagen)
    • Franziska Frey: Imaging scientist, Image Permanence Institute (Rochester, USA)
    • Magdalena Gram: Royal Library of Sweden (Stockholm)
    • Hans de Herder: Director, National Photographic Conservation Studios (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
    • Jonas Palm: Head of Preservation, Royal Library of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
    • Morten Ryhl-Svendsen: School of Conservation (Copenhagen)

    Amsterdam

    • Mattie Boom: Curator, Rijksmuseum ( Amsterdam)
    • Franziska Frey: Imaging scientist, Image Permanence Institute (Rochester, USA)
    • Hans de Herder: Director, National Photographic Conservation Studios (Rotterdam)
    • Ren� van Horik: Digital imaging specialist, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (Amsterdam)
    • Bertrand Lav�drine: Director, Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques (Paris)
    • Douglas Munson: Chicago Albumen Works
    • Adri Verburg: Independent photographer and consultant (The Netherlands)

    Registration

    The registration fee is 350 euros and includes coffees, teas, lunches, and excursion. Participants will receive a course pack with reading materials. For online registration see <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/form.htm>. The deadline for registration is 27 March 2000.

    For more information about the workshops, see <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/events/register.htm> or contact the ECPA at:

    P.O. Box 19121
    1000 GC Amsterdam
    The Netherlands
    tel.: +31 20 5510839
    fax: +31 20 6204941
    E-mail: <[email protected]>

    For more information about SEPIA, please see <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia>.

  • C.I.R. 2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference, 4 - 5 May 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom. The last day for registration at standard rates is 20 April 2000.

    This two-day event will consist of a mixture of submitted and invited papers covering both technical and human aspects of research and innovation in image retrieval.

    Presentations will cover topics such as:

    • Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image users
    • HCI issues in image retrieval
    • Evaluation of image retrieval systems
    • Novel image data management systems and applications
    • Query models, paradigms and languages for image retrieval
    • Content-based indexing, searching and retrieval of images
    • Feature extraction and representation
    • Visual perception and image retrieval
    • Image search and browsing on the Web
    • Semantic retrieval of images and video
    • Neural network techniques for image classification and retrieval
    • Database architectures for image retrieval
    • Image data management for multimedia
      • systems

    Please see the C.I.R. 2000 web site for more information, including an online registration form. The web site is at <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00/>.

  • DESIRE II Web Indexing Workshop, 13 - 14 May 2000, Delft, The Netherlands

    The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) announces this Web Indexing Workshop which will be organized within the frame of the DESIRE II Project.

    The target audience for this workshop includes: implementers and managers of NREN's Subject Gateway, Directory, Indexing and Searching Innovation; those who are planning their (SG) DIS innovation; information retrieval and automatic classification specialists; and networked information developers and digital libraries specialists.

    Workshop topics will include:

    • Search and indexing techniques
    • Relevant searching, adaptive searching
    • SE evaluation techniques
    • Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching)
    • Large scale directory and indexing service deployment
    • Standardisation (current and necessary)
    • Metadata and XML/RDF
    • Pre-index summarisation and filtering of data
    • Automatic and learning classification
    • New SE developments, NREN Search and Indexing Service examples
    • Resource developer recommendations for better matching automatic indexing and search technologies

    Please see the conference web site at <http://www.terena.nl/d2-workshop/d2webindex2000/> for more information and for registration instructions.

  • CUMREC 2000: The New Frontier: Creative Solutions for the New Millenium, 14 - 17 May 2000, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

    CUMREC is the conference of and for higher education professionals who use and enable technology to support administrative functions and processes. Through presentations, seminars, panels, special interest groups and discussions, participants will describe real higher education system projects, applications and how they were implemented.

    Six pre-conference seminars are being offered at this year's conference. Presentations will be scheduled on five concurrent tracks over the course of three days. Full information regarding the conference and the advance program are now available at <http://www.cumrec.com/cumrec2000/>.

  • 2000 Information Resources Management Association International Conference 21 - 24 May 2000, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

    The Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) has scheduled over 400 paper presentations, workshops and panels under 40 tracks for this conference. Below is a not-quite-random selection of titles of papers to be presented at the conference as well as a description of one of the panels.

    • Overcoming Barriers in the Planning of a Virtual Library: Recognizing Organizational and Cultural Change Agents
    • Use of Collaborative Technologies in Distributed Work: A Case Study
    • Ad Hoc Virtual Teams: A Multi-Disciplinary Framework and a Research Agenda
    • Virtuality - Real or Imagined? The Messy Boundaries of Cyberspace
    • Visualizing Legal Systems for Information Retrieval
    • Digitization as Adaptation: The Evolution of the Superfund Document Management System
    • Information Manager/Librarian to Knowledge Manager: Change of Role
    • Ethical Perceptions Regarding the Use of Workplace Technology
    • Developing National Library Network Statistics and Performance Measures: Issues, Findings and Recommendations
    • Value-Added Measurement: A Business Perspective on Budgeting and Resource Allocation Applied to the Non-Profit World of Libraries
    • Automating Libraries in Developing Countries: The Experience at Almaty State University
    • Information Security for Libraries
    • From Lackey to Leader: The Evolution of the Librarian in the Age of the Internet

    A panel entitled "World Libraries on the Information Superhighway: A Millennial Agenda" will discuss how libraries are sharing resources, enhancing and expanding collections, reaching new customers, archiving and preserving digital collections and reinventing themselves in a digital world. New roles for librarians whether they are academic, public, business or other will also be discussed and examined.

    Please see the IRMA conference web site for detailed information at <http://www.irma-international.org/>.

  • TERENA Networking Conference 2000: Pioneering Tomorrow's Internet, 22 - 25 May 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.

    The TERENA Networking Conference provides an opportunity for professionals from research, industry, academia and related government sectors to get together to look at recent networking achievements and explore the challenges for the next decade. The conference has a special focus on providing networking services to the research and education community.

    Papers to be presented are organized under the following 10 sessions:

    1. Developments in Network Monitoring and Management Tools
    2. Security of Internet Applications
    3. Practical Security
    4. Internet2 and Europe
    5. User Communities
    6. Coming To A Monitor Near You Soon.....
    7. Video over IP
    8. Internet Standardisation Update
    9. Tomorrow's Internet
    10. High-Speed Networking

    Please see the conference web site for complete information at <http://www.terena.nl/tnc2000/>.

  • Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA): Positioning Libraries on the Internet and Using Internet in Libraries, 25 - 28 May 2000, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

    This LIDA conference and course will address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. The theme of the course revolves on the complex relation between the Internet and libraries.

    The target audience for the course includes: professionals and researchers in librarianship, information science, and informatics; practicing librarians and information scientists; students of library and information science; and system administrators, system operators, web page managers, and others in the library and information science field.

    Please see the LIDA web site for full information. The web site is located at <http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida/>.

  • Into the Millenium...Cartography and Map Collections for a New Century, 30 May - 4 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

    This is a joint conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries & Archives (ACMLA), the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA), and the Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML). The over-arching theme for the conference is "Cartography and Map Collections for a New Century". Sessions will cover specific concerns such as the significance of metadata in the tracking of geospatial information; the role of GIS in academic Libraries; moving map collections; electronic media; maps on the web; impact of new technologies on map design; cartographic education; use of maps and digital data; and GIS in teaching, research and map production.

    The conference web site is still under construction, but some preliminary information is available there at <http://www.library.ualberta.ca/maps2000/index.html>.

  • Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, first session: 19 - 23 June 2000, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. Enrollment is limited to 16 participants. Early registration is recommended.

    This workshop is part of a new series with the goal of promoting critical thinking in the technical realm of digital imaging projects and programs. The workshop will be held four times in 2000. In addition to the June workshop, sessions will be held 31 July - 4 August; 25 - 29 September; and 23 - 27 October. You may register now for any of the four sessions.

    The following statement is from the workshop web site: "A prerequisite for attendance will be a Web-accessible, self-directed tutorial that will introduce vocabulary and key concepts, and cover the core components of a technical infrastructure to support digital imaging projects and programs. Completion of the tutorial will assure that workshop participants possess the same base-level knowledge prior to coming to Cornell, enabling them to focus on issues and learning processes best addressed in a limited enrollment seminar."

    The cost of attending the workshop will be reduced because of substantial support for the workshop from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More information about the workshop including an online application form is available at <http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>.

  • School for Scanning (by the Northeast Document Conservation Center), 18 - 20 September 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA.

    Contributed by:
    Jamie Doyle
    NEDCC
    Andover, Massachusetts, USA
    Email: <[email protected]>

    The conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is cosponsored by the University of Washington Libraries and the National Park Service.

    What is the School for Scanning? This conference provides a rationale for the use of digital technology by managers of paper-based collections in cultural institutions. Specifically, it equips participants to discern the applicability of digital technology in their given circumstances and prepares them to make critical decisions regarding management of digital projects. Although technical issues will be addressed, this is not a technician training program. Conference content will include:

    • Managing Digital Assets
    • Content Selection for Digitization
    • Text and Image Scanning
    • Quality Control and Costs
    • Current Research Projects
    • Copyright, Fair Use, and Other Legal Issues Surrounding Digital Technology
    • The Essentials of Metadata
    • Digital Preservation: Theory and Reality
    • Digital Products and Process

    Who Should Attend? Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs, will find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and worthwhile. Since the complexion of this conference evolves with the technology, it would be beneficial to attend even if you have participated in a previous School for Scanning. An audience of 200 or more attendees is expected.

    Who Are the Faculty? Martha Anderson, Library of Congress; Howard Besser, UCLA; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library; Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz, Columbia University, Anne Gilliland-Swetland, UCLA; Peter Hirtle, Cornell University; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley; Diane Vogt-O'Connor, National Park Service, and Donald J. Waters, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

    What does the Conference Cost? The cost of the conference is $295 for early bird registration postmarked on or before August 4, 2000, and $365 for late registration, deadline August 25, 2000. Participants will be responsible for all of their travel, meals, and lodging costs. A complimentary continental breakfast will be provided each morning at the conference site. For information about special hotel and airline fares, see the registration information at <http://www.nedcc.org>. Registration applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.

    For more information on registration for School for Scanning: Seattle, and a detailed agenda, please see the NEDCC Website at <http://www.nedcc.org>.

    Please direct all conference inquiries and questions to Jamie Doyle at <[email protected]>. Questions specifically concerning registration procedures and information should be directed to Ginny Hughes at <[email protected]>.

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Collections, Content and the Web" (CLIR Publication)

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub88/pub88.pdf

"Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment" by Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland (CLIR Publication)

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub89/contents.html

2000 Information Resources Management Association International Conference 21 - 24 May 2000, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

http://www.irma-international.org

21st Annual International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2000. Call for papers.

http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/icis2000/

8th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Call for papers.

http://acmgis.cs.pusan.ac.kr/html/acmgis2000/index.html

ACM Digital Libraries 2000

http://www.dl00.org

ACM Hypertext '00

http://www.ht00.org

ACM Multimedia 2000: 8th ACM International Multimedia Conference. Call for papers.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/cfp/CfPMM2000.html

ACRL 10th National Conference. Call for papers.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/denvercall.html

ASIS Summit 2000 Information Architecture: Defining Information Architecture, 7 - 9 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/

Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the Electronic Age: An Oxford Colloquium, 28 April 2000, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/

C.I.R. 2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference, 4 - 5 May 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom

http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00/

CAA 2000: Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past, 18 - 21 April 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

http://www.zrc-sazu.si/caa/

Catalogues for the 21st Century, 11 April 2000, University of Glasgow, Scotland

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/elib-clumps-2000/

CCS 2000: 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security. Call for papers.

http://www.ccs2000.org/

CHI 2000: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1 - 6 April 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2000/index.html

Classification for User Support and Learning. Call for papers.

http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr/call.html

CLIR Issues, Number 14, March/April 2000

http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues14.html

Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Call for papers.

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw2000/cfppapers.html

CONSAL 2000 - 11th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians: Stepping into the New Millennium, Challenges for Library and Information Professionals, 26 - 28 April 2000, Singapore, Malaysia

http://www.consal.org.sg/main2.htm

Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html

Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Call for papers.

http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF

CUMREC 2000: The New Frontier: Creative Solutions for the New Millenium, 14 - 17 May 2000, Arlington, Virginia, USA

http://www.cumrec.com/cumrec2000/

DESIRE II Web Indexing Workshop, 13 - 14 May 2000, Delft, The Netherlands

http://www.terena.nl/d2-workshop/d2webindex2000/

Digitisation of European Cultural Heritage, Products-Principles-Techniques (Conference Proceedings)

http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/dech1999/dech.htm

Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries, 3 - 4 April 2000, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

http://www.cudenver.edu/public/library/diversitynow/index.html

ECDL 2000: Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Call for papers.

http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/call.htm

ECPA Announces Two Workshops on Management of Photographic Collections: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-5 May 2000 and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5-9 June 2000

http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/events/register.html

EEI21 2000: The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, A Scholarly Symposium at the University of Memphis. Call for Papers.

[email protected]

EGUK2000: 18th Eurographics UK Conference, 4 - 6 April 2000, Swansea, United Kingdom

http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/eguk/index.html

Electronic Commerce in Information Industries: Technical Frontiers and Institutional Issues for Information Management Professionals, a GSLIS-2000 Clinic, 2 - 4 April 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/clinic/

Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: EVA 2000 Florence, 27 - 31 March 2000, Florence, Italy

http://lci.die.unifi.it/Events/Eva2000/eva2000.html

Electronic Publishing in the Third Millenium: Fourth International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 17 - 19 August 2000, Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad, Russia

http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000

Encoding Digital Video for Network Delivery

http://www.bufvc.ac.uk

Evaluation of Information Management Systems. Call for papers.

http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/EIS.html

Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums: A CIMI Institute, 29 - 30 March 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html

Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums: A CIMI Institute, 29 - 30 March 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 27 - 28 April 2000, Amstelveen, The Netherlands; and 31 May - 1 June 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html

ICC'2000: International ICSC Symposium on Interactive and Collaborative Computing. Call for papers.

http://www.icsc.ab.ca/152-info.htm

ICDCS 2000: The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 12 - 14 April 2000, Paris, France

http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO/frame.htm

Institute of Museum and Library Services: 2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums. Call for proposals.

http://www.imls.gov/

Into the Millenium - Cartography and Map Collections for a New Century, 30 May - 4 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/maps2000/index.html

JASIS: Volume 51, Numbers 5 and 6

http://www.asis.org/

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA): Positioning Libraries on the Internet and Using Internet in Libraries, 25 - 28 May 2000, Dubrovnik, Croatia

http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida/

Libraries of the Future Bibliography, compiled by Carol R. Gurstelle

http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lib/libfut.cfm

Managing the Digital Future of Libraries, 18 - 19 April 2000, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

http://www.rsl.ru/tacis/conf.htm

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, first session: 19 - 23 June 2000, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/

Museums and the Web 2000, 16 - 19 April 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) -- Program Solicitation: NSF 00-44

http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0044

NEXT 1.0: An International Conference, sponsored by the Media and Communications Department of Karlsbad University, 5 - 7 April 2000, Karstad, Sweden

http://www.media.kau.se/NEXT.html

Papers on Document Imaging - Document Management, by Steve Gilheany, Archive Builders

http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html

Participatory Design Conference. Call for papers.

http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000/

Publishing in the 21st Century: Redefining the Industry, 13 - 15 April 2000, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA

http://uvace.virginia.edu/cup/publishing/media.htm

Putting Digital Information to Work: Knowledge Management and Information Policy, 10 - 11 April 2000, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

[email protected]

SCECSAL 2000: Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians, 10 - 15 April 2000, Windhoek, Namibia

http://www.unam.na/1370/niwa/scecsal.htm

School for Scanning (by the Northeast Document Conservation Center), 18 - 20 September 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA

http://www.nedcc.org/

Search Engines and Beyond, 10 - 11 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/index.html

SIGIR Forum: A Publication of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

http://www.acm.org/sigir/forum/index.html

Sixteenth International Unicode Conference: Unicode and the Web - The Global Connection, 27 - 30 March 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc16/

TERENA Networking Conference 2000: Pioneering Tomorrow's Internet, 22 - 25 May 2000, Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.terena.nl/tnc2000/

The Economics and Use of Digital Library Collections, 23 - 24 March 2000, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/

The Ninth Off-Campus Library Services Conference (OCLS), 26 - 28 April 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA

http://www.lib.cmich.edu/ocls/conference/portland.htm

Version 29, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

VRD 2nd Annual Digital Reference Conference. Call for papers.

http://www.vrd.org/conferences/VRD2000/callforprop.html

Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2000) Call for papers.

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~dg/DMKD_main.htm

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