IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.18, Issue 454

[Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>]

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
May 10, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 18
Issue 454

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  I. QUERIES
        1. Document Collection
        2. Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
 II. JOBS
        1. Charlotte, NC: Programmer/Analyst
        2. Northern California: Data Warehouse Development Engineer
III. NOTICES
     B. Meetings
        1. ICML-99 & ILP-99 Registration
        2. ACM SIGIR 99 Workshop: Recommender Systems
        3. Evaluating & Using Networked Information Resources
           & Services
        4. Working Together for Archivists, Records, IT
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. NEH Email Newsletter
     E. Miscellaneous
        1. Streaming Video Technology
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I. QUERIES
I.1.
Fr: Arturo <arturo@ruc.dk>
Re: Document Collection

We are two students working in our final career project. We need some kind
of document collection where documents are classified into a subject tree
structure (or something like that). We have Reuter's, but it doesn't have
such structure.

Thanks a lot,
Arturo
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I.2.
Fr: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu>
Re: Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals

To All/

I am greatly interested in identifying a *review* article that discusses
the use of embedded multimedia (e.g., audio, video, data files, etc.)
within e-journals (or e-books), either as supplemental materials or
integrated within the text of an e-article (or e-chapter).

Significant items that discuss this phenomena for a particular journal or
publisher are also of interest [I'm done a _preliminary_ search in ERIC,
Library Lit, Applied Science and Technology Abstracts, and EiCompendex,
MicroComputer Abstracts, but am not finding significant literature [?]]

As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, critiques, comments,
questions, concerns, etc., etc. are Most Welcome.

Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: 915602@candseek.com
Re: Charlotte, NC: Programmer/Analyst

I represent a growing supplier of registration and lead retrieval services
to leading tradeshows around the country. Currently, they are looking for a
team player to support their expanding Information Technology needs. As a
Programmer, this individual will be responsible for taking existing Visual
Basic applications and putting them on the web. In addition, the programmer
will develop new web applications using Cold Fusion. The ideal candidate
will have at least 3 years of experience with Visual Basic, Microsoft
Access, and SQL Server. Experience with e- commerce and Internet
applications is a plus. For the right person, the salary can go as high as
$68,000 with a generous bonus plan and great benefits.

Contact:
Megan McCullough
Diedre Moire Corporation
Voice: 609-584-9000 ext. 275
Fax: 609-584-9575
mail: 915602@candseek.com
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II.2.
Fr: 915602@candseek.com
Re: Northern California: Data Warehouse Development Engineer

I represent one of the country's largest providers of management
information systems, data and services to the Automotive and Lumber
industries. Currently, they are looking for a Development Engineer for
their web enabled, enterprise level data warehouse. As a Senior Development
Engineer, this individual will be responsible for database modeling and
design activities to expand the existing Data Warehouse content and
capabilities. This individual will be an integral part of a team that is
building the infrastructure to consolidate data from coast-to-coast
distribution chains into the data warehouse. The ideal candidate will have
at least 4 years of experience with general applications development with
the last 2 years specifically with the Oracle database. Experience with
Oracle Developer 2000 and Oracle Forms deployed under Unix is required.
Data Warehouse Project experience will be extremely beneficial for this
opportunity. For the right person, the salary can go as high as $75,000
with generous bonuses and a great benefits package.

Contact:
Megan McCullough
Diedre Moire Corporation
Voice: 609-584-9000 ext 275
Fax: 609-584-9575
Email: 915602@candseek.com
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III. NOTICES
III.B.1.
Fr: ICML-99 (16th Intl Conf on Machine Learning) <icml99@ijs.si>
Re: ICML-99 & ILP-99 Registration

REGISTER FOR ICML-99, ILP-99 AND ACCOMPANYING EVENTS THE EARLY REGISTRATION
DEADLINE IS MAY 20

To register for ICML-99, ILP-99 or any of the accompanying events, please
visit http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/register/. This page also
contains information on reserving accommodation, transfer to/from the
airport, and travel to the region. The early registration deadline is MAY
20, 1999, 23:59 local time (GMT+1). This is also the deadline for
guaranteed accommodation reservations.

The Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-99) will
be held June 27-30, 1999 in Bled, Slovenia. Note that the ICML-99 tutorials
and the joint ICML-99/ILP-99 reception will take place in the
afternoon/evening of June 26. The ICML-99 home page is at
http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/main.html. The list of papers
accepted for publication and presentation at ICML-99 can be found at
http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/accepted.html.

Accompanying events include the ICML-99 Tutorials to be held on June 26, 5
ICML-99 Workshops and 2 collocated workshops (Learning Language in Logic;
Computational Intelligence and Learning) to be held on June 30. More
information on these is available through the ICML-99 home page.

ICML-99 will be preceded by the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive
Logic Programming (ILP-99), to be held June 24-27, 1999 in Bled, Slovenia.
Its home page is at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~ilp99/. The list of papers
accepted for publication and presentation at ILP-99 can be found at
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~ilp99/Accepted/. ILP-99 has also issued a call
for late-breaking papers presenting very recent research (deadline MAY 31,
see ILP-99 home page).
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III.B.2.
Fr: Ian Soboroff <ian@cs.umbc.edu>
Re: ACM SIGIR 99 Workshop: Recommender Systems

Call for Papers
ACM SIGIR 99 Workshop on Recommender Systems:
Algorithms and Evaluation

Organizers:
Ian Soboroff, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Michael J. Pazzani, University of California, Irvine.

Background and Theme
The world of recommender systems has undergone quite an expansion since the
Communications of the ACM published their feature issue on the topic two
years ago.  Projects such as GroupLens have gone on to be successful
commercial ventures, and recommendation systems are de rigeur for Internet
commerce.  The basic technology has very quickly gone from the research
world to popular applications.  However, many problems remain to be solved.

Several methods for recommender systems have emerged, including approaches
that base recommendations on correlations of groups of users and methods
that learn about individual users. However, the architectural issues of
cold-start, sparse ratings, and scalability continue to dominate the field.

The state of the art in recommender systems will be enhanced by the
development of evaluation methodologies for recommender systems.  User
studies are difficult to conduct and generalize from, and issues of
presentation and relevance make traditional IR evaluation measures not
entirely suited to the domain.  Furthermore, test collections such as DEC
SRC's EachMovie data set are becoming standard tools, but the need for
larger collections in different domains is great.

Thus, the theme of the workshop is moving to the next phase of
recommender systems research, from the basic "how do we do it"
to "how can we do it better", and "how do we know that it's better".

Goal
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners involved in developing, testing, and fielding recommender
systems.  The workshop will provide a forum for discussing current practice
and recent research results, and develop a roadmap for future recommender
systems research.

Participants and Selection Process
Workshop participants are invited to submit position papers that describe
recent or ongoing work in this area.  Accepted papers will be published in
the workshop proceedings to be distributed at the workshop and preserved on
the Web.  The organizing committee will select papers to be presented at
the workshop on the basis technical merit, interest, or significant
innovation.

Those interested in presenting a paper, please send a paper, up to 12 pages
by May 30 to the address below. Please follow the author instructions for
SIGIR 99 papers (except for the length limitation), found at
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/sigir99/author-info.html. Those
interested in attending should send a one paragraph statement of their
research interest to the same address.

Ian Soboroff
ECS 233F
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
ian@cs.umbc.edu

For news and workshop updates, please visit the workshop web page at
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian/sigir99-rec/
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II.B.3.
Fr: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@nwu.edu>
Re: Electronic Identifiers Workshop at ALA

The 1999 LITA Preconference "Making Sense of Digital Identifiers for
Internet and Other Applications" will take place on Friday, June 25 from
9a.m. - 4p.m. at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans.  Early registration
deadline is May 21, 1999.   This workshop will highlight the growing need
for such identifiers as presented by a formidable group of experts.

Keynote speakers:
Clifford Lynch, CNI and William Arms, CNRI

Electronic identifiers are of increasing importance in the management of
digital objects, both on and off the Internet, and affect services such as
library operations, copyright privileges, item tracking, discovery and
linking, commercial transactions, and archiving. This workshop will include
theoretical, practical and descriptive information on many of the high
profile identifiers that are now in use or under development, such as the
Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) and CNRI's Handle System on which it
is based, the International Standard Work Number (ISWN), and the Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI) concept. Applications, representative problems
and complications surrounding their development and implementation, and
examples of their use and management, will all be presented.

This workshop is aimed at all levels of library staff that will be
affected, from public services and bibliographers, to technical services.

Scheduled speakers include:
William Arms, Vice President, Corporation for National
    Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Helen Barsky Atkins, Director of Database Development,
    Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
Leslie L. Daigle, URI expert and consultant
Brian Green, Executive Director, Book Industry
     Communication (BIC) and EDItEUR
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for
     Networked Information (CNI)
Dr. Norman Paskin, Director of International Digital
     Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation
Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist for OCLC's
     Office of Research

For more details and registration information visit
http://www.lita.org/ac99/precon99.htm or contact: Lloyd Davidson
(Ldavids@nwu.edu) (out of town, May 4-10).

Program made possible with support from ISI.

Lloyd A. Davidson
Life Sciences Librarian and Head, Access Services
Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
2233 N. Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL  60208
Ldavids@nwu.edu
(847)491-2906 (Voice)
(815)371-1079 (fax)
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III.B.3.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: Evaluating & Using Networked Information Resources & Services

This ASIS meeting has many sessions of interest to the CNI constituency.
Clifford Lynch will be one of the plenary speakers.

"Evaluating and Using Networked Information Resources and Services,"
May 22-26, 1999
Pasadena California

The complete program is available (and evolving) at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/MY99/

Abstracts are posted for all sessions and for each contributed paper.
What's more, at the site you can register for the conference, continuing
education classes and special events through the secure online registration
form.

Just in case you haven't yet seen anything about this important meeting,
here are some of the program's highlights:

Cutting Edge Continuing Education Courses:
     * Introduction to Image Databases
     * Introduction to XML
     * Metadata for Digital Libraries
     * 2nd Generation IntraNet Development (Content Management)

Insightful Sessions:
     * Opening overview and "stage setter" by Clifford Lynch, CNI
     * Barry Leiner and Bill Arms from the Corporation for National
       Research Initiatives, and Carl Lagoze from Cornell, on the
       D-Lib Working group and their D-Lib Test Suite.
     * The Importance of Evaluating Networked Information..."
       featuring Ron Larson of DARPA, Peter Brophy from Manchester
       Metropolitan University, and Chuck McClure, Syracuse
       University (and Conference Chair).
     * "Network Access to Visual Information" about a Mellon
       sponsored study of digital image distribution.
     * Several panels and contributed papers on Web Site Evaluation.
     * How is Authentication and Authorization being Implemented?

Visit the ASISweb for complete program details and join us in Pasadena for
this ground-breaking conference.

Questions?
meetings@asis.org
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/
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III.B.4.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: Working Together for Archivists, Records, IT

CNI announces Working Together: A Workshop for Archivists, Records Managers
and Information Technologists, which will be held on Monday and Tuesday,
June 21-22, 1999 at the Radisson Barcelo Hotel, 2121 P St., NW in
Washington, DC.

In an intensive, participatory workshop, archivists, records managers, and
information technologists will look at the issues of digital preservation
and access, and discuss the management of electronic records in their own
institutional context. Sessions will include presentations and small group
work.

The emphasis of this workshop is on teamwork -- bringing together teams of
archivists, records managers, and information technologists who will begin
to develop practical plans for electronic records management that can be
implemented at their own institutions. Librarians with archive or records
management responsibilities are also eligible and encouraged to participate
as part of an institutional team. Individuals from higher education
institutions, national, state and local archives and agencies, the
corporate sector, and non-profit institutions are eligible to attend.

The registration fee for the workshop is $225.00 per individual. This fee
includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks on both days. The National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and CNI are subsidizing some of
the costs of offering this workshop. The room rate at the Radisson Barcelo
Hotel is $125.00 per night.

Gerry Bernbom, Indiana University and Fynnette Eaton, Smithsonian
Institution Archives, will facilitate the workshop.

PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER AS INSTITUTIONAL TEAMS - one or more archivists
or records managers and one or more information technologists per
institution. Each team member must register separately via our website at
www.cni.org. REGISTRATION IS LIMITED and will be on a first-come,
first-served basis.

If I can provide additional information, please contact me at joan@cni.org.

Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 296-5098
FAX: (202) 872-0884
Internet: <joan@cni.org>
<http://www.cni.org/>
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IV. PROJECTS
IV.C.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: NEH Email Newsletter

The National Endowment for the Humanities now has a new monthly email
newsletter, NEH OUTLOOK. It brings readers the latest news and information
about NEH grant programs and activities.

To subscribe, send an email to newsletter@neh.gov and type the word
"subscribe" in the body of the email.

If you have other questions or comments about the newsletter, please send
them to outlook@neh.gov.

Thank you.
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IV.E.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: Streaming Video Technology

There is an excellent new paper on streaming video and video on demand
technology up on the site vide.utk.edu. For those who haven't seen it,
there's also a very helpful cookbook on video conferencing that was
released a few months ago.  The press release below provides more
background on the paper and the video initiative.

Clifford

ANNOUNCEMENT: VIDE WHITE PAPER ON VIDEO-ON-DEMAND

The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) was established in March 1998 to
promote and develop functional, standards-based and scalable video systems
for use in the higher education environment. ViDe is composed of
representatives from The Georgia Institute of Technology, The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and
North Carolina State University. NYSERNet (New York State, Educational and
Research Network) also partnered with ViDe in Phase 1 (August 1, 1998 -
April 1, 1999).

Phase 1 of this multi-year initiative was funded by the Southeastern
Universities Research Association (SURA) to focus ViDe efforts on the
promotion of digital video among the 44 SURA member institutions. Two
deliverables were prepared in Phase I: A Video Conferencing Cookbook  and a
White Paper on Video-on-Demand.

The white paper, "Digital Video for the Next Millenium," is now accessible
at http://sunsite.utk.edu/video (a pdf version is also available at this
URL), and presents an overview of current video-on-demand methodologies,
standards, vendor offerings, and future developments. Responses to the RFI
released by ViDe to the video system vendor community in September 1998 are
included. The online edition of "Digital Video for the Next Millenium" also
links to examples of streaming video applications at various institutions
nationally. For more information, contact Grace Agnew of GIT, author of the
white paper and ViDe video-on-demand technical lead
(grace.agnew@library.gatech.edu).

The Video Conferencing Cookbook (Version 1.0) was released to both the
SURA and NYSERNet memberships on February 15, and includes practical steps
for getting started with desktop video conferencing, a summary of current
vendor offerings, and more advanced functionalities and management. The
cookbook is accessible online at http://sunsite.utk.edu/video_cookbook/.
For more information, contact Mary Trauner of GIT, cookbook editor and ViDe
video conferencing technical lead (Mary.Trauner@oit.gatech.edu).

The next phases of the ViDe initiative will consist of the pursuit of
collaborations and partnerships with vendors, the implementation, testing
and evaluation of systems, and the development of applications deploying
the selected technologies. Pursuing interoperability will continue to be a
central focus. In addition, ViDe is currently expanding its membership to
include institutions nationwide sharing our goals and technical directions,
and who can bring additional resources and expertise to the effort.

ViDe is a member of the I2 Digital Video effort and represented on the I2
Digital Video steering committee.

More information on ViDe is available at http://vide.utk.edu
More information on SURA is available at http://www.sura.org
More information on NYSERNet is available at http://www.nysernet.org

Ms. Mairead Martin                              maireadm@utk.edu
Network Information Consultant                  Tel: (423) 974-6454
Telecommunications & Network Services           Fax: (423) 974-2622
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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