D-Lib Magazine
November 1999

Volume 5 Number 11

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers
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In Print

  • Press Release of the First meeting of the Universal Preprint Service Initiative, UPS Initiative: Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce, and Herbert Van de Sompel, October 29, 1999.

    The first meeting of the Universal Preprint Service (UPS) was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, on October 21-22, 1999. Sponsors included: the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Association of Research Libraries, and the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Moderators for the meeting were Clifford Lynch and Donald Waters.

    A press release from the meeting is now available at  <http://vole.lanl.gov/ups/ups1-press.htm >. The following Executive Summary is an excerpt from the press release:

    Executive Summary

    The Universal Preprint Service initiative has been set up to create a forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between author self-archiving solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance (see http://vole.lanl.gov/ups/ups.htm).

    The first, largest and most important such archive is the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Physics Archive. Founded by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, LANL now houses over 100,000 papers, mirrored worldwide in 15 countries with over 50,000 users daily and still growing (see http://arXiv.org/cgi-bin/show_stats). Other disciplines and institutions have begun to create public research archives along the lines of LANL but what is needed are conventions that archives could adopt to ensure that they work together so that any paper in any of these archives could be found from anyone's desktop worldwide, as if it were all in one virtual public library.

    The participants in the meeting were digital librarians and computer scientists specializing in archiving, metadata, and interoperability, and they included the founders of the principal public research archives that exist so far. The participants were diverse in their underlying motivations, but entirely unified in their objective of paving the way for universal public archiving of the scientific and scholarly research literature on the Web.

    The group agreed on minimal technical requirements for archives. These will be published separately as the "Santa Fe Conventions" and, in the next six months, will be implemented in the existing archives.

    The Technical Summary and a list of future proposed actions are available in the press release.

  • IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation.

    On behalf of UNESCO within the framework of its Memory of the World Programme (MOW), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Core Programmes for Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) carried out a major worldwide survey on digitization and preservation. (A copy of the survey is available in PDF format at  <http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/quest.pdf >.) The results of this survey, and an analysis of the responses, have now been published. The report, IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation, is available free of charge from:

    IFLA Offices for UAP and Interlending
    c/o The British Library
    Boston Spa
    Wetherby
    West Yorkshire
    LS23 7BQ
    United Kingdom

    For more information about the project and/or the resulting report, please send an email to Richard Ebdon at IFLA UAP, [email protected], or see  <http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm >.

  • Scoping the Future of the University of Oxford�s Digital Library Collections, Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Final Report, Stuart D. Lee.

    An online version of the report of the Scoping Study conducted by Oxford University and funded by the A. W. Mellon Foundation is now available. The report looks at the future of digitization and "makes concrete recommendations which can be implemented rapidly to satisfy the known and increasing needs of readers for digital materials". Although the study was conducted primarily to address the needs of Oxford University, many of the recommendations made in the report may be of interest and value to other institutions worldwide who are addressing digitization issues.

    The full report is available at  <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/report.html > in HTML format, or it may be downloaded in Word format from  <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/ >.

  • Public Performance of Musical Works, 1996, 1997, 1998, Copyright Act Section 67-2, Statement of Royalties to be Collected for the Performance or the Communication by Telecommunication, in Canada, of Musical or Dramatico-musical Works, Decision of the Copyright Board of Canada, 27 October 1999.

    This decision from the Copyright Board of Canada is a ruling regarding whether music made available on the Internet is protected under Canadian copyright law. A copy of the decision may be downloaded in PDF format from Copyrightlaws.com, a web site "devoted to international copyright law, digital property, media, and other intellectual property issues". The web site is produced by Lesley Ellen Harris, a writer and lawyer who specializes in copyright and information technology issues. In addition to the Canadian Copyright Board decision, links to other copyright resources, including a newsletter on copyright and new media law for librarians, a list of copyright seminars, and other resources may be found at the web site.

    (Please note the disclaimer at the Copyright.com web site, "The information published on this site and linked sites is provided as a reference only and is not to be used as a substitute for specific legal advice.")

  • The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery, Draft for Public Comment, Developed by The Bath Group (Participants a the Bath UK Meeting, August 1999), Edited by the Bath Profile Editorial Team: Carrol Lunau, Paul Miller and William E. Moen, October 15, 1999.

    Dr. Paul Miller, Interoperability Focus, UKOLN, has made available a draft of the above referenced Z39.50 Bath Profile. Comments from interested parties were sought, with a deadline of November 12, 1999 for comment. The purpose of the Profile is to "improve semantic interoperability when searching across diverse systems". Although the deadline for comments has passed, as of November 15, 1999 you could still view the draft at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/z3950/int_profile/bath/draft/
    BathProfilePublicDraft15Oct99.htm    >.

  • Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork Guide to Good Practice, by Adrian Brown, et al., AHDS Guides to Good Practice Series, Arts and Humanities Data Service, United Kingdom, 27 September 1999.

    This guide, which is part of a series from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, was written to provide "guidelines for those responsible for the creation of digital archives containing archaeological excavation and fieldwork data, for agencies and bodies commissioning this work, and for the curatorial staff who will receive the resulting digital archives." Although the guide primarily addresses practice in the United Kingdom, many of its recommendations are applicable internationally.

    The guide is available in full text online at  <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/excavation/ >.

  • Freedom of Information? The Internet as Harbinger of the New Dark Ages, by Roger Clarke, First Monday, Volume 4, Number 11, November 1, 1999.

    First Monday is a peer-reviewed, open access journal about the Internet and available on the World Wide Web. It is published the first Monday of each month. Among several interesting stories in the November 1999 issue is the one cited above by Roger Clarke. The story takes a less sanguine view of the availability of information on the Internet and the expectation that the Internet would result in "openness, democracy, the end of inequities in the distribution of information, and human self-fulfillment."

    The November 1999 issue of First Monday may be found at  <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/index.html >.

  • Open eBookTM Publication Structure (version 1.0), September 16, 1999, Open eBook Authoring Group, Facilitator, Victor McCrary, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.

    Work on the Open eBook (OEB) Specification 1.0 has been completed and the Specification is now available at the OEB web site. The Specification may be downloaded in several formats including Word 2000 (ZIP file), Word 95 (ZIP file), RTF (ZIP file), Word for the Macintosh (SIT file), and Open eBook format (ZIP file), and it may be viewed directly on most version 4 browsers.

    Below is an excerpt from the Specification describing its purpose and scope.

    The purpose of the Open eBook Publication Structure is to provide a specification for representing the content of electronic books. Specifically:

    • The specification is intended to give content providers (e.g., publishers, and others who have content to be displayed) and tool providers minimal and common guidelines which ensure fidelity, accuracy, accessibility, and presentation of electronic content over various electronic book platforms.

    • The specification seeks to reflect established content format standards.

    • The goal of this specification is to provide the purveyors of electronic-book content (publishers, agents, authors et al.) a format for use in providing content to multiple reading systems.

    This specification is based on the premise that in order for electronic-book technology to achieve widespread success in the marketplace, reading systems must have convenient access to a large number and variety of titles.

    The Specification is available at  <http://www.openebook.org/specification.htm >.

Point to Point

  • A Brief Checklist of Information on Digitizing, from the brochure Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections in New York State, (Neil Larson, Director, Hudson Valley Study Center, SUNY New Paltz authored the text of the brochure.)

    The brochure Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections in New York State contains a great deal of guidance for those planning to digitize collections. One section, "Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections" is in a Frequently Asked Questions format organized with the following headings:

    • What does a digital project involve?
    • Why undertake a digital project?
    • How to plan for digital projects
    • How to select collections and materials for a digital project
    • How to organize information
    • How to deliver materials effectively

    In the "Conclusions" of the brochure, a list of resources may be found, many of which are hyperlinked. The brochure is at  <http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html >, and the resource list is at  <http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/conc.htm#brief >.

  • TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative, a membership consortium web site.

    The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) began as an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research. In February 1999, a new consortium for TEI was formed to maintain and develop the Text Encoding Initiative. The Consortium is currently hosted by the four institutions: Brown University, Oxford University, the University of Bergen, and the University of Virginia, which seek to recruit members from library organizations, scholarly societies, and other groups "with a proven and acknowledged interest in data standards."

    For the latest information about the work of the Consortium, including links to documents, publications and software, please see the TEI web site at  <http://www.tei-c.org/ >.

Deadline Reminders

Calls for Participation

  • International Conference on Learning with Technology, ICLT 2000: Does Technology Make a Difference? 8 - 10 March 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Call for papers. Abstracts due 30 November 1999.

    The International Conference on Learning with Technology has issued a call for papers for the annual conference to be held at Temple University in the spring. Conference registration opens in December 1999.

    Presenters and panelists should focus on measuring the effectiveness of educational technology in one or more of the following areas:

    • Fundamental issues
    • Strategies, methods, and resources
    • Results and findings
    • Implications for education, policy, and research

    Topics can include, but are not limited to the following:

    • What is effective use of technology?
    • What specific levels of analysis do we need?
    • Is technology held to a different standard than other educational expenditures?
    • How can educational agencies measure whether technology is making a difference?
    • Are we using old metrics in a new environment?
    • How does an evaluator choose between measurement tools?
    • How does context of use affect evaluation?
    • How can we measure technology-enabled learning, including Web-based or distance learning?
    • What have been the results of replicable research?
    • What have been the results of meta-analyses?
    • What are successful strategies for technology usage?
    • What lessons or insights are transferable between disciplines, between countries, or between educational levels?
    • What doesn't work, and how can it be avoided?
    • How can research be translated into educational practice?
    • How can research be translated into policy?
    • How can policymakers promote effective use of technology?
    • What long-term research programs are needed?
    • How can policymakers and educators promote effective research on the use of technology?

    Please see the conference web site at  <http://www.temple.edu/iclt/ for specific submission guidelines.

  • Third International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Applying New Media to Scholarship, 16 - 18 March 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Call for submissions. Deadline for papers is 1 December 1999.

    • The conference will balance plenary keynote speakers, with papers, tutorials, and concurrent discussion sessions, posters, and exhibits. Invited are proposals for five kinds of sessions:

    • Papers
    • Discussions
    • Demonstrations
    • Posters
    • Tutorials

    And these should be in topics organized under the following categories:

    • Issues
    • Graduate Policies
    • Library Policies
    • Case Studies
    • Training
    • Demonstrations
    • Research & Theory

    Please see the conference web site for specific information about submission and suggested topics. The Call for Papers is located at  <http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/tsubmissions.asp >.

  • Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Social Sciences, CSS 2000, an online conference to be held 15 April - 15 May 2000. Call for papers and participation. The deadline for paper proposals is 15 December 1999, but earlier submission will recieve priority.

    CSS 2000 is organized around three tracks, one dealing with the research uses of computing in social science, one dealing with instructional uses, and one dealing with the study of the social impacts of computing. The general theme is "Social Science in the New Millennium," focusing on how information technology is transforming the social sciences.

    For suggested topics under each of the three tracks, please see the Call for Participation at the conference web site at  <http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/css2000/call.htm >.

  • IASSIST 2000, Data in the Digital Library: Social, Spatial, and Government Data Services, 7 - 10 June 2000, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Call for papers; submission deadline is 24 December 1999.

    The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) invites submissions for paper presentations, panel discussions, poster/demonstration sessions, and workshops for its 26th annual conference to be held at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois on June 7-10, 2000.

    The theme of the conference looks at innovation in data services operations and current digital library and archive initiatives that will shape access and services in the 21st century. The conference is an opportunity to explore service models for data, government information and mapping.

    Proposals for papers and poster/demonstration sessions in the following areas are sought:

    Innovative Services and the Effective Use of Technology

    • Administering and providing data services in an academic library
    • Innovations in data delivery and access methods
    • Implications of Web-based data distribution and access models
    • Integrating GIS and spatial data in the digital library
    • Bringing numeric and spatial data into the classroom
    • Expanding and preserving multi-media resources
    • Developing support services for qualitative analysis
    • Promoting statistical literacy
    • Data warehousing

    Promoting Preservation and Standards

    • Preserving our (numeric) digital heritage
    • Archival challenges of the digital government
    • Promoting metadata and documentation standards for data
    • Exploring XML, RDF, GILS, FGDC, and Dublin Core applications for data
    • Data quality and authentication

    For complete information, check the IASSIST 2000 conference website at  <http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000  >.

  • CRIDALA 2000: The First Conference on Research in Distance & Adult Learning in Asia, 21 - 24 June 2000, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 14 January 2000.

    CRIDALA 2000 is designed specifically as a showcase of the current research in the region but it is more than that -- it is an opportunity for researchers world-wide with common interests to meet together under expert guidance and to make important decisions about the future direction of research.

    The conference program has been designed to support and encourage the in-depth treatment informed discussion, the exchange of ideas and opinions, and to encourage the establishment of new professional relationships.

    The seven sub-themes for the conference are:

    • Cross-national, cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary and cross- institutional research
    • Mentoring and research career development
    • Utilising information and communication technologies in ODL research
    • Research as incentive and reward in professional development
    • Enhancing teaching and learning through research
    • ODL (open and distance learning) research agenda for the 21st century
    • Research and policy nexus in ODL

    Please see the CRIDALA 2000 web site at  <http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/cridal/cridala/details.htm > for complete details regarding topics and submission.

  • IFLA Section on Regional Activities: Africa, Call for papers from librarians in the African region to be presented at the 66th IFLA Conference in Jerusalem, Israel. Deadline for submission is 15 January 2000.

    The Africa Section of IFLA invites the librarians of the region to participate in the Africa Papers Contest as a way to encourage professionals to join IFLA's program. The winning paper will be presented at the 66th IFLA General Conference in the Open Session. The theme is Networking and Cooperation in the Information Age: the African Experience. For details regarding submission, please see  <http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/conf/call99.htm >.

  • American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference 2000, 6 - 13 July 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Call for papers. Deadline for submission is 15 January 2000.

    The program theme for the ALA 2000 conference is "Libraries Building Community and Building a Worldwide Library Community". In light of the theme, librarians from around the world are encouraged to submit paper proposals with that focus. Papers may be practical or theoretical.

    Proposals may be submitted via fax, email or hard copy. They must be written in English and should include the title, a 400 - 500 word abstract, name of presenter, position or title of presenter, employer or affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address. Proposals should be submitted to:

    International Relations Office - American Library Association
    50 East Huron Street
    Chicago, IL 60611-2795, USA
    Fax: +1-312-280-3256
    Email:     [email protected]

  • Fourth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions 15 - 17 August 2001, Chester, Vermont, USA. Call for papers. Abstracts are due 15 January 2000.

    Background information about the conference may be found at  <http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/097-104e.htm >.

    Abstracts and papers are invited on these topics:

    • Defining lifelong learning needs for continuing professional education

    • Models to expand shorter continuing education experiences into lifelong learning

    • Meeting the needs of information professionals for lifelong learning: predicting their needs

    • Effects of new technologies on both the need for continuing education as well as the use of new technologies to provide the actual opportunities

    • Acknowledging differences; how to structure learning sessions so that "one size fits all" when our students live in different countries and cultures, speak different languages, and have widely varying educational systems in their countries

    • Sharing continuing professional education programs across time and space

    Abstracts may be sent electronically to Viki Ash-Geisler [email protected] or mailed to:

    Dr. Viki Ash-Geisler
    Texas Woman's University
    School of Library and Information Studies
    P.O. Box 425438
    Denton, TX 76204-5438

  • The Information Society Technologies Programme. Call for proposals. Submission deadline is 17 January 2000.

    The Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme brings together and extends the ACTS, Esprit and Telematics Applications programs to provide a single and integrated program that reflects the convergence of information processing, communications and media technologies.

    Organizations and individuals who are interested in presenting proposals for consideration are encouraged to see the IST web site at  <http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/fp5/septcall.html > in order to link to guides, tools, related documents, manuals, and other resources that are being made available to prospective proposers.

Goings On

  • Libraries in the Digital Age: Visions for the Future and Road Maps for Change, 6 December 1999, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA.

    The Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) division of the American Library Association offers informative regional institutes on topics of current importance to the library profession. This institute, "Libraries in the Digital Age" is a one day workshop that covers the topics:

    • Living in the Digital Age
    • Impact of the Digital Age on Libraries
    • Strategic Planning in the Digital Age
    • Role of the Library in the Digital Age
    • The Impact of the Digital Age on Budgeting and Finance
    • Alliances in the Digital Age
    • Delivery of Services in the Digital Age
    • Role of the Librarian in the Digital Age
    • Conclusion: The Importance of Managing Change

    Registration is available online at  <http://www.ala.org/lama/events/institutes/digital/regform.html >. The deadline for registration for the workshop in Lawrenceville, New Jersey is November 22, 1999. Institutes such as the one described above may be scheduled by contacting Yvonne A. McLean, ALA/LAMA, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, Email: [email protected].

  • Online Information 99, 7 - 9 December 1999, London, United Kingdom.

    Online conferences provide an opportunity for information professionals and end-users to "discuss future developments in information access, content, and the impact of technology across all industry sectors."

    The Online Information Conference & Exhibition in London will be held at the National Hall and Olympia 2. It will provide plenary sessions, keynote presentations and panel debates, and will offer the chance to hear from over 125 experts from around the world on such themes as:

    • Going global
    • Portals and publishing
    • Working with XML
    • Building your own portal
    • Libraries and the Internet
    • Full text -- bringing it all together
    • Lifelong learning and the Information Professional
    • Web search engines
    • Filling and managing Intranets
    • SMEs and the information revolution
    • Building a knowledge community
    • Keeping it legal
    • Where to now for knowledge management?
    • Digital libraries -- making it happen
    • Moving past the millenium
    • Pricing
    • STM publishing
    • Competitive intelligence
    • Classifying Internet resources
    • Professional Web searching

    • Please see the conference web site at  <http://www.online-information.co.uk/ol99/index.html > for full information including online registration.

  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-33, 4 - 7 January 2000, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, USA. Early registration is encouraged as the number of registrations accepted is limited.

    The objective of HICSS is to provide a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners in the information, computer and system sciences can exchange ideas, techniques and applications in a workshop-like setting. HICSS will offer advanced seminars, tutorials, open forums, task forces, plenary lectures, a distinguished guest lecture, and the presentation of accepted manuscripts which emphasize research and development activities in several areas of the system sciences.

    HICSS offers eight tracks:

    • Collaboration systems and technology
    • Decision technologies for management
    • Digital documents
    • Emerging technologies,
    • Information technology in health care
    • Internet and the digital economy
    • Organizational systems and technology
    • Software technology

    Please see the conference web site at  <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_33/apahome3.htm > for complete information about HICSS.

  • ALISE 2000 Annual Conference, 11 - 14 January 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

    The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) will celebrate its 85th anniversary by looking toward the future. The theme for ALISE 2000 is "Celebrating our Traditions, Sharing our Dreams, Shaping New Strategies for Excellence in Library and Information Science Education". Planned are workshops, juried papers, special interest group meetings, panels, discussion groups and a poster session.

    Special interest groups include:

    • Assistant/Associate Deans
    • Distance Education
    • Research
    • History
    • Teaching Methods
    • International
    • Archives
    • Database Searching
    • Curriculum
    • Gender Issues
    • Multicultural, Ethnic and Humanistic Concerns
    • Technical Services

    The preliminary program and online registration are available at the conference web site at  <http://www.alise.org/nondiscuss/conference_main.html >.

  • NLII Meeting, 19 - 21 January 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

    • The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) is a membership coalition of institutions and organizations sponsored by EDUCAUSE with a mission "to create new collegiate learning environments that harness the power of information technology to improve the quality of teaching and learning, contain or reduce rising costs, and provide greater access to American higher education."

    For the NLII meeting in January 2000, proposers were asked to address one of the following tracks:

    • Enhancing Academic/Learning Productivity
    • Developing Tools and Standards
    • Transforming the Institution
    • Development of New Learning Materials/Market
    • Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • Articulating Public and Institutional Policy Issues

    Meeting attendance for the NLII meeting might be restricted to members of NLII. (Membership information may be found at  <http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/membership.html >.) Contact [email protected] for additional information.

  • Online Northwest 2000: Promoting Innovation and Technology in Libraries, 4 February 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA.

    Online Northwest focusses on computers and technology in libraries of all types. Below are samples of a few of the scheduled paper presentations. (Please see the conference web site for the complete schedule.)

    • Geographic Information Systems at the Library
      Jennifer Stone, University of Washington

    • Is Free Better? Comparing Search Interfaces for MEDLINE
      Leslie Cable, Patty Davies, and Dolores Judkins, Oregon Health Sciences University

    • Delivering Government Information Virtually: The GILS Movement among the States
      Gayle Palmer, Washington State Library; Ernest Perez, Oregon State Library

    • A Multi-media Approach to Library Instruction for Distance Education Students
      Betty Ronayne & Debbie Rogenmoser, California State University-Sacramento

    • From Selection to Access: A Collaborative Approach for Managing Electronic Journals
      Sara Brownmiller, Faye Chadwell, Mary Grenci and Nancy Slight-Gibney, University of Oregon

    • Web-Based Reference Services
      Donna Reed and Rivkah Sass, Multnomah County Library

    • Cybergenealogy: Helping patrons with Genealogy on the Internet
      Christopher D. Rumbaugh, Oregon State Library

    The conference web site is at  <http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/index.shtml >.

  • Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property, 10 - 12 February 2000, Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

    The purpose of this conference is to address "the multi-disciplinary effect of the interface of law and digital communication technology on the creation, dissemination, and protection of intellectual property."

    Below are titles of scheduled conference sessions. Please see the conference web site for descriptions of what each session seeks to cover.

    • Reexamination of The Function and Role of Copyright: Rethinking the Purpose of Copyright Law in Light of Technological Change

    • Toward a Workable Doctrine of Exemption and Fair Use

    • Information, Research, and Protection of and Limitations on Data and Databases

    • Implications of Technological Change and Application of Intellectual Property Laws for the Creation and Dissemination of Musical and Artistic Works

    • The Impact of Technological Change on the Way in Which Scholars, Educational Institutions, Libraries, and Archives, Deal with Intellectual Property

    The conference web site is at  <http://www.osu.edu/units/law/intellectualproperty.htm >. If registration is completed before December 10, 1999, an earlybird registration discount will apply.

  • The Electronic Library: Strategy, Policy and Management Issues (A British Council International Seminar), 13 - 18 February 2000, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

    Directed by Cliff McKnight, Charles Oppenheim and Ron Summers, this seminar "aims to engage participants in addressing the strategic, policy and management issues in the development of electronic, or digital libraries".

    The main topics of the seminar are:

    • The spectrum of traditional libraries, hybrid libraries and electronic libraries

    • The role of intermediaries such as booksellers, subscription agents, publishers and library staff

    • Staffing issues in electronic libraries

    • The move from holdings policy to access policy just in case to just in time

    • Legal issues in the electronic library

    • The management of technological and cultural change

    • Digitisation, storage, archiving and metadata

    • Costing and pricing issues

    • User issues in the electronic library

      •

    Please see the seminar web site at  <http://www.britcoun.org/seminars/libraries/isem9032.htm > for full details and registration information.

Pointers in this Column

A Brief Checklist of Information on Digitizing, from the brochure Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections in New York State, (Neil Larson, Director, Hudson Valley Study Center, SUNY New Paltz authored the text of the brochure.

http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html

ACIS'99: The 10th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 1 - 3 December 1999, Wellington, New Zealand.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/acis99/

ACM Digital Libraries '00, 2 - 7 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline has been changed to 1 December 1999.

http://www.dl00.org/

ALISE 2000 Annual Conference, 11 - 14 January 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

http://www.alise.org/nondiscuss/conference_main.html

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference 2000, 6 - 13 July 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Call for papers.

[email protected]

Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research (CollECTeR) 3rd Annual Conference, 29 November 1999, Wellington New Zealand.

http://www.collecter.org/

Consolidating the European Library Space, DG Information Society Cultural Heritage Applications Unit, 17 - 19 November 1999, Mondorf-les-Bains Resort, Luxembourg.

http://www.echo.lu/libraries/events/FP4CE/FP4CE.html

CRIDALA 2000: The First Conference on Research in Distance & Adult Learning in Asia, 21 - 24 June 2000, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Call for papers.

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

Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork Guide to Good Practice, by Adrian Brown, et al., AHDS Guides to Good Practice Series, Arts and Humanities Data Service, United Kingdom, 27 September 1999.

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/excavation/

Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Social Sciences, CSS 2000, an online conference to be held 15 April - 15 May 2000. Call for papers and participation. Deadline for papers is 15 December 1999.

http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/css2000/

Fourth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions 15 - 17 August 2001, Chester, Vermont, USA. Call for papers.

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/097-104e.htm

Freedom of Information? The Internet as Harbinger of the New Dark Ages, by Roger Clarke, First Monday, Volume 4, Number 11, November 1, 1999.

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/clarke/index.html

Global 2000: The Information Age Challenges & Opportunities, 16 - 19 October 2000, Brighton, England. (Call for papers.) Working titles of proposals due 10 December 1999.

http://www.slaglobal2000.org/confdet.html#Call

IASSIST 2000, Data in the Digital Library: Social, Spatial, and Government Data Services, 7 - 10 June 2000, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Call for papers.

http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000/docs/pcall.htm

IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 (ADL'2000), 22 - 24 May 2000, Washington, D.C., USA. Call for papers.

http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/ADL2000/ADL2000CFP.htm

IFLA Section on Regional Activities: Africa, Call for papers from librarians in the African region to be presented at the 66th IFLA Conference in Jerusalem, Israel.

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/conf/call99.htm

IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation

http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm

Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property, 10 - 12 February 2000, Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

http://www.osu.edu/units/law/intellectualproperty.htm

International Conference on Learning with Technology, ICLT 2000: Does Technology Make a Difference? Call for papers. Abstracts due 30 November 1999.

http://www.temple.edu/iclt/

International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-33, 4 - 7 January 2000, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, USA.

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_33/apahome3.htm

International Network Conference 2000, 3 - 6 July 2000, Plymouth, United Kingdom. Call for papers. Deadline for full papers is 30 November 1999.

http://www.inc2000.see.plym.ac.uk/

IST 99, Information Society Technologies Conference 1999: Exploring the Information Society, 22 - 24 November 1999, Helsinki, Finland.

http://www.ist99.fi/

Libraries in the Digital Age: Visions for the Future and Road Maps for Change, 6 December 1999, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA.

http://www.ala.org/lama/events/institutes/digital/registration.html

Mark-up Technologies '99, 7 - 9 December 1999, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.gca.org/

NLII Meeting, 19 - 21 January 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/orleans2000/

Online Information 99, 7 - 9 December 1999, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.online-information.co.uk/ol99/index.html

Online Northwest 2000: Promoting Innovation and Technology in Libraries, 4 February 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA.

http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

Open Concertation Day on the Bath Profile for Z39.50, 26 November 1999, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/

Open eBook<sup>TM</sup> Publication Structure (version 1.0), September 16, 1999, Open eBook Authoring Group, Facilitator, Victor McCrary, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.

http://www.openebook.org/specification.htm

OzCHI'99: Interfaces for the Global Community, 28 - 30 November 1999, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

http://www.csu.edu.au/OZCHI99/

Press Release of the First meeting of the Universal Preprint Service Initiative, UPS Initiative: Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce, and Herbert Van de Sompel, October 29, 1999.

http://vole.lanl.gov/ups/ups.htm

Public Performance of Musical Works, 1996, 1997, 1998, Copyright Act Section 67-2, Statement of Royalties to be Collected for the Performance or the Communication by Telecommunication, in Canada, of Musical or Dramatico-musical Works, Decision of the Copyright Board of Canada, 27 October 1999.

http://copyrightlaws.com/board/copyrightboard.shtml

Scoping the Future of the University of Oxford�s Digital Library Collections, Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Final Report, Stuart D. Lee.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/

TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative, a membership consortium web site.

http://www.tei-c.org/

The Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery, Draft for Public Comment.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/z3950/int_profile/bath/draft/

The Electronic Library: Strategy, Policy and Management Issues (A British Council International Seminar), 13 - 18 February 2000, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

http://www.britcoun.org/seminars/libraries/isem9032.htm

The Information Society Technologies Programme. Call for proposals.

http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/fp5/septcall.html

Third International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Applying New Media to Scholarship, 16 - 18 March 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Call for submissions. Deadline 1 December 1999.

http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference/

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DOI: 10.1045/november99-clips