D-Lib (May 2000) -- Clips and Pointers

D-Lib Magazine
May 2000

Volume 6 Number 5

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers
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In Print

  • Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files, by Gail Hodge, April 2000, a report for the Digital Library Association, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Price $15.00 in print format from CLIR.

    Press Release April 18, 2000
    The Digital Library Federation
    Contact: Dan Greenstein, 202-939-4762

    WASHINGTON, D.C.� A new report from the Digital Library Federation (DLF) examines the use of knowledge organization systems�schemes for organizing information and facilitating knowledge management�in a digital environment. Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files, by Gail Hodge, is the DLF's fourth published report.

    Knowledge organization systems serve as bridges between a user's information needs and the material in a collection. Examples of such systems include term lists, such as dictionaries; classification schemes, such as Library of Congress Subject Headings; and relationship lists, such as thesauri. These and other types of knowledge organization systems, which vary in complexity, structure, and function, can improve the organization of digital libraries and facilitate access to their content.

    The report provides examples of how knowledge organization systems can be used to enhance digital libraries in a variety of disciplines. For example, they can be used to link a digital resource to related material. They can be used directly or indirectly to provide more descriptive records for entities in the digital resource. Finally, they can provide access not only to a descriptive record, but also to location information about a relevant physical object.

    The author also discusses how knowledge organization systems can be used to provide disparate communities with access to digital library resources. They can provide alternate subject or multilingual access, support free-text searching, or add a new mode of access� such as visual or geographic�to the digital library.

    The report concludes with a discussion of what to consider when using knowledge organization systems with digital libraries. It provides a framework for the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of these systems in digital library environments.

    Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries is available electronically at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html>. Print copies may be ordered for $15, prepaid, from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Checks should be made payable to CLIR and mailed to CLIR Publication Orders, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, D.C., 20036-2124. Credit card orders may be placed by calling CLIR at 202-939-4750, sending a fax to 202-939-4765, or sending e-mail to <[email protected]>.

    The Digital Library Federation is a partnership of research libraries dedicated to creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars and to a wider public. It operates under the umbrella of CLIR, which works in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information providers to advocate collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components of its information system.

  • HEDS Papers, several papers published by the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS), from January 1998 - March 2000.

    For more than two years, the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS) has been publishing papers on the many aspects of digitization. These papers are available in PDF format at the HEDS web site. Recently, HEDS released four new papers which are described below. The descriptions quoted below are from the HEDS web site. Please note that the papers are copyrighted.

    1. "Copyright: Please Look But Don't Touch!"
      by Simon Tanner
      Abstract: This paper looks at how to protect yourself from breaching copyright in digitising originals and how to protect your materials against breach of copyright.

    2. "Digitisation: from vision to implementation - strategic and management issues"
      by Simon Tanner
      Abstract: This paper addresses the strategic issues of digitisation from a management perspective discussing reasons for digitising materials and the cost-justifications behind digitisation decisions.

    3. "Planning for a Successful Project"
      by Joanne Lomax Smith
      Abstract: Digitisation projects can often become focused solely on the 'digitisation' part of the project. This paper seeks to present the factors of project management that are essential to the smooth running of a project and which can help make sure that the digitisation part is forced back into its place as a useful tool rather than the sole purpose of the project.

    4. "Projects without pain: demystifying digitisation with the Higher Education Digitisation Service"
      Joanne Lomax Smith and Brian Robinson, Paper for Vine, issue 17 (forthcoming).
      Abstract: Digitisation should not provoke fear. This paper looks at ways of making a digitisation project run smoothly and introduces the work of the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS). Issues such as preparation, work flow issues and the decision to digitise in-house or to outsource are discussed.

    The HEDS papers are located at <http://heds.herts.ac.uk/HEDCinfo/Papers.html>.

  • Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, by Alan Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander, available online at the Arts and Humanities Data Service web site, and for purchase later this year in print format from Oxbow Books.

    This guide may be useful as a reference for those involved in digitization of texts or similar material. It includes a glossary and bibliography and covers: Document Analysis; Digitization - Scanning OCR, and Re-keying; Document Markup; Important Global Standards; and Documentation and Metadata. The Guide is online in full text at <http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/>. Please note that while the Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice is being made available online for individual research purposes, it is copyrighted by the authors, and use should be within the copyright restrictions.

  • Papers from Museums and the Web 2000, from the Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 17 - 19, 2000, published by Archives & Informatics.

    More than 45 of the papers that were presented at the Museums and the Web 2000 conference are now available in full text on the Web. In addition, all papers from the conference are available in print format or on CD-ROM. Also available at the Archives & Informatics web site are papers from the previous conferences held in 1997 - 1999. The Archives & Informatics web site is located at <http://www.archimuse.com/>, and the papers from the April conference are at <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/speakers/index.html>.

  • ERCIM News, Number 41 online, April 2000, published by ERCIM EEIG.

    The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) fosters "collaborative work within the European research community and seeks to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from fourteen European countries are members of ERCIM." One of the Consortium publications is ERCIM News, a quarterly magazine that is available online or in print free of charge. Previous issues are available online back to 1994, and back issues may also be ordered in print format.

    The April 2000 issue has as its special theme, Web Technologies. It includes a keynote article by Tim Berners-Lee entitled "The future Web and Europe - the Web and future Europe" and also includes more than 30 articles and other features about Web technologies. Material in ERCIM News is provided in full text. The April 2000 issue of ERCIM News may be found at <http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw41/>.

  • RLG DigiNews, Volume 4, Number 3, ISBN: 1093-5371.

    The April 15, 2000 issue of RLG DigiNews has been released. It contains two articles: "Recent Lessons from the Courts: The Changing Landscape of Copyright in a Digital Age" by Brett I. Miller, and "The Library of Congress/Ameritech Competition" by Barbara Paulson. Also included in this issue are columns and other features. You may find the April issue of RLG DigiNews at <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-2.html>, and full text of previous issues back to 1997 are also available at the RLG DigiNews site.

Point to Point

  • Inventory of Primary Web Resources in the Distributed Digital Research Library Germany (Retrodigitization)

    The following description is from the GDZ web site:

    "The inventory contains primary Web-accessible resources created by German research libraries and other academic institutions, granted by the funding program 'Retrospective Digitization of library holdings' of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)." . . ."Most of [these] projects offer a 'project homepage' and some of them so called 'demo-servers'."

    A sample of some of the items to illustrate the breadth of subject coverage include:

    • Distributed Digital Law Resources

    • National Picture Archive for Art and Architecture in Germany

    • Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics

    • Source Books on the History of Education, Dating Back to the 15th Century

    • Travel Books and Early North-Americana

    The resources listed in the Inventory are freely available and may be used for private and research purposes. However, all other use requires written permission from the responsible host institution.

    Please see the Inventory of Primary Web Resources... at <http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/en/projects/
    vdf_verzdokuserv_1en.html    >.

  • Memory of the World: Directory of Digitized Collections, published by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World Programme.

    The Memory of the World Programme was launched to call upon the preservation of valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and to ensure their wide dissemination. The Directory of Digitized Collections offers a search screen to provide direct access to major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programs throughout the world. As of May 2000, 79 worldwide collections are listed. The search sorts the list of collections, with the most relevant ones appearing at the top of the list. It is possible to add a collection to the list from the Directory web site.

    The Directory of Digitized Collections may be found at <http://thoth.bl.uk>.

  • ELITE Project Web Site for Distance Learners, University of Leicester.

    The Electronic Library, IT and staff Education (ELITE) project has created and made available a web site which aims to help distance learners and others develop the skills needed to use distance education information technologies. The ELITE site provides annotated links to library-focused information about email and web forms, chat, moos, mylibrary interface, videoconferencing and more.

    The ELITE site is located at <http://www.le.ac.uk/li/distance/eliteproject/index.htm>.

  • Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide, May 2000 Edition, published by HARRASSOWITZ, Booksellers and Subscription Agents.

    This online guide is a comprehensive listing of resources relating to electronic journals, covering such topics as technical standards, legal and business issues, scholarly publishing issues, preservation, archiving, reference linking, and pre-print servers. The listing is updated periodically. The May 2000 version contains 52 new references and a new section called "Usage studies of electronic journals." Nearly all of the sources listed are available on the World Wide Web. Outdated resources are dropped from the guide in order to keep it current and relevant.

    Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide may be found at <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html>

  • New Horizons in Scholarly Communication, published by the Librarians Association of the University of California.

    New Horizons in Scholarly Communication is an extensive listing of links for digital libraries and related resources. Resources are organized under such topic headings as: "Teaching", "Research", "Publishing", "Copyright & Intellectual Property", "Building & Organizing Collections" and "Technology & Infrastructure". There is a section, "What's New", which lists resources added within the last 30 days, and the site provides a search screen for items listed at the New Horizons in Scholarly Communication site, as well as a Web search page to be used to search for external resources.

    New Horizons in Scholarly Communication may be found at <http://libweb.ucsc.edu/scomm/index.html>.

  • Version 30, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., April 28, 2000.

    Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, has announced the availability of Version 30 of his periodical bibliography. The selective bibliography presents over 1,130 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources and is focussed on scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. In the bibliography, Bailey 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.

  • Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, May 1, 2000 edition, by Marian Dworaczek, Head, Acquisitions Department, and Head, Technical Services Division, University of Saskatchewan Libraries.

    The Introduction to this resource describes it as follows:

    "The Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 1,239 items were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated."

    The latest update (as of 5/6/00) to the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information was completed on April 16, 2000, and the links were also verified on that date. The web site is at  <http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM >.

Deadline Reminders

Calls for Participation

  • Digital Futures 2000: The Royal Photographic Society Image Science Group Annual Conference, 11 - 13 September 2000, Harrow, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2000.

    This conference is one of the first in Britain "to unite image science with the needs of imaging, archiving and conservation using digital technologies." Papers are being sought in the following areas:

    • Image acquisition
    • Image quality
    • Color reproduction
    • Image processing
    • Novel algorithms
    • Aerospace imaging
    • Medical & forensic applications
    • Input and output devices
    • Digitization strategies
    • Life expectancy of media
    • File formats
    • Media migration
    • Storage and retrieval
    • Conservation

    Please see the Digital Futures 2000 web site for more information: <http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2000/>

  • Semantic Web: Models, Architectures and Management, 21 September 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 3 July 2000.

    The primary goal of semantic web is to facilitate resource discovery, information filtering and "intelligent browsing". The objective of the workshop is to bring together and foster interaction among individuals conducting research in the theory and implementation of the semantic web. Invited are submissions reporting original results on the following, non-exhaustive, list of relevant themes:

    • Models and Formalisms for Knowledge Sharing in the Web
    • Semantic Interoperability & Metadata Standards (Topic-Maps, RDF, XML Schema)
    • Knowledge-based Mediation Architectures
    • Modularity & Scalability of Metadata Repositories
    • Distributed Inference Services
    • Query Languages for the Semantic Web
    • Methods and Tools for generating Web Conceptual Schemas
    • Intelligent Browsing Interfaces & Personalization
    • Automated Categorization of Web Resources
    • Semantic Web Applications for User Communities (Digital Libraries, E-Commerce, etc.).

    Please see the workshop web site at <http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/SemWeb/> for more information about submitting a paper.

  • Third International Conference of Asian Digital Library, 6 - 8 December 2000, Seoul, Korea. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 July 2000.

    The goal of this conference is to share and disseminate information and knowledge about current issues regarding digital library research and technology. Proposals for papers are sought on the following topics:

    • Agent Technology
    • Authoring and Scripting
    • Collaborative Research
    • Datamining
    • Digital Library Testbed Systems
    • Document Models
    • Economic Issues and Billing Mechanisms
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Intellectual Property, Protection, Security and Privacy
    • Knowledge Representation including Domain and User Models
    • Knowledge Integration
    • Meta-information
    • Publishing
    • Searching, Browsing, Filtering and Personalization
    • Semantic and Systems Interoperability
    • Resource Discovery and Management
    • Standards and Protocols
    • Telecommunications and Networking
    • Multimedia Libraries
    • Sensor Data Stores and Libraries
    • User Workspaces
    • Case studies

    Special emphasis will be given towards reports on experiences and open problems with available running systems or technology for digital libraries. ADL2000 will continue to provide a forum for discussing applications of Digital Library concepts and techniques, especially reflecting Asian Culture.

    Please see the conference web site for detailed submission instructions: <http://adl2000.kaist.ac.kr/>.

  • North American Serials Interest Group 16th Annual Conference, 23 - 26 May 2001, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 August 2000.

    The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) has issued a call for papers for their 2001 conference. The conference will provide for the exchange of serials information, issues, trends, and innovations. The 2001 Program Planning Committee invites proposals for preconferences, plenaries, issues, and workshops that relate to the conference theme "NASIG 2001: A Serials Odyssey."

    Plenary Papers and Issues (Concurrent) Sessions:

    Sought are proposals for plenary papers and issues sessions that deal with visionary or overarching issues. Analysis of trends, historical perspectives with an eye towards future implications and evolutions in the serials industry and within libraries are other possibilities. For example:

    • What role will current players have in the production and dissemination of serial publications in the 21st century?

    • Who will be new players in the industry?

    • What will scholarly journals be like in five years? ten years?

    • Will serials survive or be transformed totally for all those involved in information access?

    • What happens to basic values and traditional workflow of library and information professionals?

    • What implications are there for users and practitioners to explore, adapt to, and shape this information?

    • Will there be black holes or parallel universes of serials information and communities?

    Please see the conference web site for more suggestions regarding topics for papers, workshops, and preconferences.

    The Conference web site is located at <http://www.nasig.org/public/NASIG2001.html>

Goings On

  • CRIDALA 2000: First Conference on Research in Distance & Adult Learning in Asia, 21 - 24 June 2000, Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

    CRIDALA 2000 will provide an opportunity for researchers from all over the world with common interests to meet together under expert guidance and to make important decisions about the future direction of research in distance and adult learning.

    Conference planners outlined seven themes of adult and distance learning. The themes are dependent on the interest of registrants and may include:

    1. Cross-national, cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary and cross- institutional research

    2. Mentoring and research career development

    3. Utilising information and communication technologies in open and distance learning (ODL) research

    4. Research as incentive and reward in professional development

    5. Enhancing teaching and learning through research

    6. ODL research agenda for the 21st century

    7. Research and policy nexus in ODL

    A list of keynote speakers and registration information may be found at the CRIDALA 2000 web site, <http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/cridal/cridala/>.

  • DECOMATE II: Final Conference, 22 - 23 June 2000, Barcelona, Spain.

    DECOMATE II, Developing the European digital library for Economics, is an EC funded project which is nearing completion. Results from the project will be made public through this final conference. Program and registration information are now available from the DECOMATE II web site located at <http://www.bib.uab.es/decomate2>.

  • 15th Annual NASIG Conference: Making Waves: New Serials Landscapes in a Sea of Change, 22 - 25 June 2000, San Diego, California, USA.

    Three Plenary sessions are planned:

    • Plenary I, Impossible Things
      Eugenie Prime, Manager, Corporate Libraries, Hewlett-Packard

    • Plenary II, Bob's World and Welcome To It: Bits, Bytes, and Your Little Dog, Too
      Bob Cringley, PBS Commentator on the Information Industry

    • Plenary III, Catching the Wave: Views of the Serials Future
      Panel: Eugenie Prime, Manager, Corporate Libraries, Hewlett Packard; John Cox, Principal, John Cox Associates; Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC; Chris Beckett, Director, Sales & Marketing, CatchWord, Ltd.; Regina Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress; Mark McCabe, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cathy Norton, Library Director Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Preconferences, a mentoring program and many other activities are planned. Please see the NASIG 2000 conference web site for complete information: <http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/nasig/nasigframe.htm>.

  • 12th Conference - Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartoth�caires de LIBER (European Map Curators Group), 27 June - 1 July 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    The conference theme is: "Caught in the WEB or spinning it? : the role of Map Curators in building WWW-sources of cartographic information". This conference will focus "on the creation, development, and maintenance of new virtual collections by map libraries, and consider the problems that need to be addressed for these projects to be successful. Providing effective access to such images will be a central concern, as will the gathering and organising of textual information. A number of particular sub-themes will be covered".

    Please see the conference web site for more information: <http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/12th.htm>.

  • Digital Cultural Heritage II: Interoperability of Content - MEDIA-1, 29 June - 1 July 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    The following description of the year 2000 summer seminar is from the Amersterdam-Mastricht Summer University web site:

    "All over the world, the titles and contents of the great libraries, museums and art galleries are becoming available on-line. While interoperable, technological standards are emerging, problems of interoperable applications, tools, interfaces and usability remain."

    "The Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) was set up to study and develop methods for knowledge organisation and knowledge management in a digital, distributed, multimedia world. The aim of the MMI is to create comprehensive strategies for searching, structuring, using and presenting digital resources more coherently and efficiently; to integrate past knowledge and to produce ordered knowledge that leads to new understanding and insights."

    "This annual seminar is concerned with interoperability of content in digital cultural heritage, namely how the contents of museums, libraries and archives can be made available through common standards and interfaces. Following on from the 1999 debut event, the seminar will continue to explore how multimedia is transforming learning, knowledge organisation and knowledge management."

    "While all three kinds of institutions (museum, library, archive) are examined each time, the seminar follows a three-year cycle, giving extra attention to one in turn. This year's focus will be on developments within the library world. The conference will be limited to a maximum of fifty persons, with speakers and discussions in the morning and small workshops with a maximum of fifteen in the afternoons."

    Please see the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University web site for more information: <http://www.amsu.edu/2000/MEDIA1.htm>.

  • ICML 2000: 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, 2 - 5 July 2000, London, United Kingdom.

    The International Congress takes place every five years, with the involvement of the world�s medical librarians who gather to celebrate their profession, to hear and see the latest developments, to network with other medical librarians, and to exchange news and ideas.

    Five plenaries are planned for this year's conference:

    • Scholarly Communication
    • The Health Care Context
    • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
    • The Information Centre
    • The Information Professional

    Please see the ICML 2000 conference web site for more information. The web site is located at <http://www.icml.org/qe2.htm>.

  • IATUL Down Under - 21st Annual Conference: Virtual Libraries, Virtual Communities, 3 - 7 July 2000, Brisbane, Australia.

    The International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) conference, IATUL Down Under, offers a week of networking, information, discussion, and reflection, on a theme which is integral to the success of libraries and the library profession: "Virtual Libraries, Virtual Communities."

    The stated aims for the conference are:

    • provide an international forum where representatives from developed and developing countries can share views and perspectives on the opportunities available in a 'virtual' world

    • provide occasions for networking critical to developing libraries and information services as they explore new paradigms for access to global information

    • present delegates and their families the opportunity to experience Brisbane as a threshold to Queensland and Australia

    Program and registration information may be found at <http://wwwlib.qut.edu.au/IATUL/>.

  • Digitisation for Cultural Heritage Professionals - HATII Third International Digitisation Summer School, 3 - 8 July 2000, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

    The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) Summer School is designed for archive, library and museum professionals, and delivers skills, principles, and best practice in the digitsation of primary textual and image resources.

    Please see the HATII web site for more information: <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS00/.

  • CaTaC - 2nd International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 12 - 15 July 2000, Perth, Australia.

    This biennial conference series will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information communication technologies. The conference will bring together scholars from around the globe to provide diverse cultural and discipline perspectives. This year's theme is "Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village".

    For complete information, please see the conference web site at <http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/>.

  • American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference 2000, 8 - 12 July 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

    The theme for this year's ALA conference is "Libraries Build Community," and a full program is scheduled. In addition, several preconferences, planned by various divisions of ALA, will take place on 6 - 7 July.

    Below is a list of ALA divisions that are sponsoring pre-conferences, with links to more information about each:

    For information about the ALA conference see: <http://www.ala.org/events/ac2000/>.

  • Human Computing Unit (HCU) Summer Seminars at Oxford, 10 - 14 July 2000, Oxford, United Kingdom.

    Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is holding a series of seminars on humanities computing which will cater to beginners as well as experienced practitioners. The seven seminars, each lasting a full day, include:

    • An introduction to humanities computing
    • Making the most of the Internet
    • Creating and documenting digital texts
    • Creating and sharing databases online
    • Multimedia tools and techniques
    • Working with XML
    • Creating and managing digital libraries

    For full descriptions of the seminars and other information, please see the web site at <http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/Summer/>.

  • 9th UKOLUG Conference - Information for Empowerment: Resource Discovery & Management, 12 - 14 July 2000, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

    This is the Year 2000 bienniel conference of the UK Online Users Group (UKOLUG). The conference is not restricted to members only; nonmembers may also register to attend. The program for this year's conference will address the practical concerns and considerations now facing information professionals. It will explore the challenge of acquiring and managing resources in an increasingly complex global Internet market, and should be of interest to anyone who wishes to keep up to date with the latest themes and developments surrounding resource discovery and management.

    Please see the UKOLUG web site for more information: <http://www.ukolug.org.uk/meetings/conf2000.htm>.

  • INET 2000, 18 - 21 July 2000, Yokohama, Japan.

    The Internet Society (ISOC) hosts the 10th Annual INET Conference. ISOC acts as a global clearinghouse for Internet information and education, and as a facilitator and coordinator of Internet-related initiatives worldwide. From commerce to education to social issues, ISOC's goal is to enhance the availability and utility of the Internet on the widest possible scale.

    INET 2000 presents a strong technical program with all papers peer reviewed by industry experts from around the world.

    For program, registration, and other information about the INET 2000 conference, please see <http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/>.

  • IV2000 (Information Visualsation 2000), 19 - 21 July 2000, London, United Kingdom.

    The Fourth International Conference on Information Visualisation will focus on the interdisciplinary methods and affiliated research practised among various science disciplines, medicine, engineering, media and commerce. It will also focus on research in response to the current accelerating demand for "Information Transfer", through the medium of computing, and will stress the links between academia and industry. IV2000 aims to stimulate views and provide a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss the latest developments in Information Visualisation.

    Please see the IV2000 web site for more information: <http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/>.

  • SIGIR 2000 - Twenty-third Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 24 - 28 July 2000, Athens, Greece.

    SIGIR is a major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR).

    This year's conference will feature:

    • 38 original research contributions,
    • 31 posters,
    • 8 tutorials,
    • 3 workshops, and
    • 8 demonstrations of systems.

    Please see the SIGIR 2000 web site for complete details: <http://sigir2000.aueb.gr/>.

  • EVA Scotland 2000: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts, 26 - 29 July 2000, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

    The main aim of EVA 2000 Scotland is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, plans and ideas. Participants will receive up to date international news on EC and international cultural initiatives and projects.

    Please see the EVA web site at <http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/scotland/scot2000.htm> or contact James Hemsley at <[email protected]> for more information.

  • International Summer School on the Digital Library, 30 July - 11 August 2000, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

    The Tilberg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER) will stage this fifth International Summer School on the Digital Library, which will be held at Tilburg University. This year, the summer school consists of two separate courses (participants may sign up for one or both):

    • Managing the change process towards your library of the future (week one)

    • Electronic publishing: libraries as buyers, facilitators or producers (week 2)

    Please see the TICER web site for more information: <http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/summer00/>.

  • Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing, 31 July - 4 August 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    This course is designed to help those in cultural heritage institutions who are having to rethink traditional approaches to managing and disseminating information about their collections in light of rapidly developing technological environments.

    The course will include theoretical and practical sessions including:

    • Implications on the collection, the institution, scholarship, interoperability, and longevity.

    • Organization of and access to digital resources: New approaches learned from scholarly practice and other users.

    • Creating information systems in museums, libraries, and archives: Models, principles and tools.

    • Improving one�s capacity to work and solve problems with others.

    Please see program and registration information at <http://skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/gettysi/html/register.html>.

  • Third International Conference on Virtual Communities, 19 - 20 September 2000, London, United Kingdom. Attendance is limited, and early registration is recommended.

    The following paragraph from the conference web site describes the purpose of the Virtual Communities conference:

    "Virtual communities are among the most truly interactive medium so far developed. Much of what passes for interaction on the Internet today offers the user no chance to participate other than by pressing cyberbuttons. Few have taken up the challenge of enfolding the user into the creative process. Virtual communities are now the focus of much urgent attention, and the third conference in this series reviews what is happening at the moment and how we can learn from it to help build successful virtual communities now and in the future."

    For more information, please see the conference web site, <http://www.infonortics.com/vc/index.html>.

Pointers in this Column

12th Conference - Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER (European Map Curators Group), 27 June - 1 July 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/12th.htm

12th Conference of the European Map Curators Group, 27 June - 1 July 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/12th.htm

15th Annual NASIG Conference: Making Waves: New Serials Landscapes in a Sea of Change, 22 - 25 June 2000, San Diego, California, USA.

http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/nasig/nasigframe.htm

28th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 28 - 30 May 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoEng.html

6th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 4 - 6 October 2000, Softopia, Gifu, Japan. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 22 May 2000.

http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2000/

9th UKOLUG Conference - Information for Empowerment: Resource Discovery & Management, 12 - 14 July 2000, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

http://www.ukolug.org.uk/meetings/conf2000.htm

ACM Digital Libraries 2000: the Fifth ACM Digital Libraries Conference, 2 - 7 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

http://www.dl00.org/

ACM Multimedia 2000, 30 October - 3 November 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA. The deadline for full papers has expired, but proposals for demonstrations, short papers, posters, and doctoral symposium proposals may be submitted up till 19 June 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/

ACM SIGIR 2000 - Information Retrieval in Context

http://sigir2000.aueb.gr

ACM SIGWEB HyNIC Workshop, 3 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 23 May 2000.

http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/hynic/

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference 2000, 8 - 12 July 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

http://www.ala.org/events/ac2000/

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALTCS) Pre-conferences

http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/preconf2000.html

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Pre-conferences

http://www.ala.org/acrl/programs00.html

AusWeb2K - The Sixth Australian World Wide Web Conference, 12 - 17 June 2000, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/

CHArt - Computers and the History of Art - Sixteenth Annual Conference. Moving the Image: Visual Culture and the New Millennium, 1 - 2 September 2000, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 31 May 2000.

http://www.chart.ac.uk/cfp2000.html

Concurrent Conferences of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA), and Region VIII (Canada) of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), 19 - 24 June 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.cla.ca/conference/cla2000/index.htm

Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, by Alan Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/

CRIDALA 2000: First Conference on Research in Distance & Adult Learning in Asia, 21 - 24 June 2000, Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/cridal/cridala/

DECOMATE II: Final Conference, 22 - 23 June 2000, Barcelona, Spain.

http://www.bib.uab.es/decomate2

Digital Cultural Heritage II: Interoperability of Content - MEDIA-1, 29 June - 1 July 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.amsu.edu/2000/MEDIA1.htm

Digital Futures 2000: The Royal Photographic Society Image Science Group Annual Conference, 11 - 13 September 2000, Harrow, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2000.

http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2000/

Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage, 5 June 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

http://www.nelinet.net/conf/pres/pres00/digital.htm

Digitisation for Cultural Heritage Professionals - HATII Third International Digitisation Summer School, 3 - 8 July 2000, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS00/

ECDL 2000: The Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 18 - 20 September 2000, Lisbon Portugal. Call for short papers. Deadline for submission is 29 May 2000.

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

Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide

http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html

Eleventh Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 6 - 8 December 2000, Brisbane, Australia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 June 2000.

http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/ACIS2000/

ELITE Project Web Site for Distance Learners

http://www.le.ac.uk/li/distance/eliteproject/index.htm

ERCIM News

http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw41/

EVA Scotland 2000: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts, 26 - 29 July 2000, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/scotland/scot2000.htm

HEDS Papers

http://heds.herts.ac.uk/HEDCinfo/Papers.html

Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums, 31 May - 1 June 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

http://www.cimi.org/documents/ci/ci_workshop_0500_ann.html

Human Computing Unit (HCU) Summer Seminars at Oxford, 10 - 14 July 2000, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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

Hypertext 2000: 11th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 30 May - 4 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

http://www.ht00.org/

IASSIST 2000: Data in the Digital Library - Charting the Future for Social, Spatial and Government Data, 7 - 10 June 2000.

http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000/

IATUL Down Under - 21st Annual Conference: Virtual Libraries, Virtual Communities, 3 - 7 July 2000, Brisbane, Australia.

http://wwwlib.qut.edu.au/IATUL/

ICML 2000: 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, 2 - 5 July 2000, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.icml.org/qe2.htm

IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, 22 - 24 May 2000, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/

INET 2000, 18 - 21 July 2000, Yokohama, Japan.

http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/

International Forum cum Conference on Information Technology and Communication at the Dawn of the New Millennium, 1 - 4 August 2000, Bangkok, Thailand. Call for papers. The deadline for abstracts has passed. Full papers are due 10 June 2000.

http://www.sce.ait.ac.th/it-conference/

International Summer School on the Digital Library, 30 July - 11 August 2000, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/summer00/

International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval: MUSIC IR 2000, 23 - 25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 15 June 2000.

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000/

Introduction to Digital Imaging Technologies, 2 June 2000, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

http://www.solinet.net/

Inventory of Primary Web Resources in the Distributed Digital Research Library Germany (Retrodigitization)

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/en/projects/vdf_verzdokuserv_1en.html

IV2000 (Information Visualsation 2000), 19 - 21 July 2000, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/

JISC/CNI Conference - Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century, 14 - 16 June 2000, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/

Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Pre-conferences

http://www.ala.org/lama/events/prec2000.html

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Pre-conferences

http://www.lita.org/ac2000/preconf.html

Memory of the World: Directory of Digitized Collections

http://thoth.bl.uk/

Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing, 31 July - 4 August 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA.

http://skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/gettysi/html/register.html

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Initiative to Broaden the Base of Archival Expertise in the Area of Electronic Records Issues. Call for Proposals. Proposals are due 1 June 2000.

http://www.nara.gov/nhprc/

New Horizons in Scholarly Communication

http://libweb.ucsc.edu/scomm/index.html

North American Serials Interest Group 16th Annual Conference, 23 - 26 May 2001, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 August 2000.

http://www.nasig.org/public/NASIG2001.html

PAKM 2000: Third International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, 20 - 31 October 2000, Basel, Switzerland. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 June 2000.

http://research.swisslife.ch./pakm2000/

Papers from Museums and the Web 2000

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

Preservation 2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials, 7 - 8 December 2000, York, England, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 May 2000.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/Call.htm

Removing Barriers: Advanced Internet Applications for Education, Research, and E-Business, 7 - 9 June 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/conference/regional/nwacc/2000/

RLG DigiNews

http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-2.html

Semantic Web: Models, Architectures and Management, 21 September 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 3 July 2000.

http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/SemWeb/

SIGIR 2000 - Twenty-third Annual International ASM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 24 - 28 July 2000, Athens, Greece.

http://sigir2000.aueb.gr/

Special Libraries Association 91st Annual Conference, 10 - 15 June 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.sla.org/conf/philly.html

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, by Marian Dworaczek

http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM

Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files, by Gail Hodge

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html

The Seventh International Conference - Crimea 2000 - Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation, 3 - 11 June 2000, Sudak, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine.

http://www.iliac.org/crimea2000/

Third International Conference on Virtual Communities, 19 - 20 September 2000, London, United Kingdom.

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

Two EDUCAUSE Institute Programs, 18 - 22 June 2000 and 25 - 29 June 2000, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/inst/inst.html

Version 30, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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

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DOI: 10.1045/may2000-clips