IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.23, Issue 459

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
June 14, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 23
Issue 459

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III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
           Information
        2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] E-COMMERCE SPOTLIGHTED BY FEDERAL
           GOVERNMENT
     B. Meetings
        1. ACM DL'99: Advance Program
        2. IEEE Vis'99 - Hot Topics: Final CFParticipation
        3. "Corpora and NLP" (ACIDCA'2000 Session): CFPapers
        4. UM99: Last Update
        5. CIA-99: CFParticipation
        6. THAI-ETIS Symposium: Final CFParticipation
        7. GECCO-99: Conference Schedule
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. SIGIR99: CFVolunteers
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. DARPA: CFProposals for Translingual Information Access
        2. Pew Learning and Technology Program
     D. Miscellaneous
        1. Guide to Good Practice: RFProposals

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Marian Dworaczek <marian.dworaczek@usask.ca>
Re: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information

The June 1st, 1999 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on
Electronic Sources of Information" is available at:

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

The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A
Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of
electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical
articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 900
titles 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.

Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the
Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:

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

Marian Dworaczek
Head, Acqusitions Department
and Head, Technical Services
University of Saskatchewan Libraries
Phone: (306) 966-6016
Fax: (306) 966-5919
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze

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III.A.2.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] E-COMMERCE SPOTLIGHTED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu

EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 11, 1999

***IN THIS ISSUE***

E-COMMERCE FOCUS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK IN DC

1. CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE BILL TURNS ON
STATE PREEMPTION ISSUE

2. FTC RELEASES RESULTS OF INTERNATIONAL WEB SURVEY
   COMPETITION IN DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION BEGINS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update"
is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies.

Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname"
in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send  a "signoff update"
command to the same address. If you would like more information about the
Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact
Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu.

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III.B.1.
Fr: James C. French <french@cs.virginia.edu>
Re: ACM DL'99: Advance Program

ADVANCE PROGRAM
FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99)
SPONSORED BY ACM SIGIR AND ACM SIGWEB
AUGUST 11-14, 1999

Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina
200 Marina Boulevard
Berkeley, California 93710 USA
1-800-333-333 or 1-800-243-0625

Conference Web site: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/


General Chair: Neil C. Rowe, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
  (rowe@cs.nps.navy.mil)
Program Chair: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
  (fox@cs.vt.edu)
Publicity Chair: James C. French, University of Virginia
  (french@virginia.edu)
Tutorials Chair: Gene Golovchinksy, Xerox FX Palo Alto Lab
  (gene@pal.xerox.com)
Workshops Chair: Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland
  (rba@glue.umd.edu)
Posters/Exhibits Chair: Jonathan Furner, UCLA
   (jfurner@ucla.edu)
Treasurer: Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara
   (freeston@alexandria.ucsb.edu)

Schedule

Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Tutorials

Registration 8-8:30

Morning Tutorials (8:30-12):

T1: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 1)", Ian Witten
(University of Waikato), ihw@rata.cs.waikato.ac.nz

T2: "Multilingual Information Access", Judith Klavans (Columbia
University) and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information
Technology AG), schauble@eurospider.ch

T3: "XML, RDF, and Metadata for the Web", Neel Sundaresan
(IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose),
neel@almaden.ibm.com

12-1:30: Lunch and Tutorial Registration

Afternoon Tutorials (1:30-4):

T4: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 2)", Edward Fox
(Virginia Tech), fox@vt.edu

T5: "Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Assistance in Searching
Digital Libraries", Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland),
ds52@umail.umd.edu

T6: "Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet",
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Weiyi Meng
(State University of New York at Binghamton),
meng@panda.cs.binghamton.edu

5-7 Opening Reception

Thursday, August 12, 1999: General Sessions

8-9 Registration

9-10:10 Session 1, Chair: Neil Rowe
- Welcome
- Keynote - David Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Testbeds, Chair: Henry Gladney

P1: "The Computing Research Repository: Promoting the Rapid Dissemination
and Archiving of Computer Science Research", Joseph Y. Halpern and Carl
Lagoze (Cornell University)

P2: "VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana University", Jon
W. Dunn and Constance A. Mayer (Indiana University)

P3: "A Digital Library for Authors: Recent Progress of the Networked
Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations", Constantinos Phanouriou,
Neill A. Kipp, Ohm Sornil, Paul Mather, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech)

P4: "A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory", Yuan Chen (NEC
Research Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology), Jan Edler (NEC
Research Institute), Andrew Goldberg (Intertrust Corporation), Allan
Gottlieb (NEC Research Institute and New York University), Sumeet Sobti
(University of Washington), and Peter Yianilos (NEC Research Institute)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3 Session 3a - IR / Multimedia, Chair: Edie Rasmussen

P5: "Semantic Indexing for a Complete Subject Discipline", Yi-Ming Chung,
Qin He, Kevin Powell, and Bruce Schatz (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign)

P6: "Summarization and Selection of Information Sources Using Automated
Classification", R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi (University of
California, Santa Barbara)

P7: "Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Design Issues and Preliminary
Investigation", Fabio Crestani (University of California, Berkeley)

P8: "Multimedia Description Framework (MDF) for Content Description of
Audio/Video Documents", Michael J. Hu and Ye Jian (Nanyang Technological
University)

1:30-3 Session 3b - User / Social Issues, Chair: Cliff McKnight

P9: "Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading group",
Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, and Bill N.
Schilit (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

P10: "Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing", Wei Ding (University of
Maryland, College Park), Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill) and Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland, College Park)

P11: "Making Digital Libraries Go: Comparing Use Across Genres", Ann Bishop
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

3-3:30 Break

3:30-5 Session 4, Chair: Sugimoto Shigeo
Panel 1: "Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics,
Engineering Technology Education (SMETE)" Chair: Alice Agogino (University
of California, Berkeley) Panelists: William Y. Arms, Edward A. Fox, Frank
Wattenberg, and Flora McMartin

7-10 Reception with posters and demonstrations

Friday, August 13, 1999: General Sessions

8:30-10:00 Session 5 - Links / Citations and User Interfaces, Chair: Nick
Belkin

P12: "A System For Automatic Personalized Tracking of Scientific Literature
on the Web", Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles (NEC
Research Institute)

P13: "Topic-Based Browsing Within a Digital Library Using Keyphrases",
Steve Jones and Gordon Paynter (University of Waikato)

P14: "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation", Donald Byrd
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

P15: "Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?", Tammara T.A. Combs and
Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland, College Park)

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Session 6 - Multimedia, Chair: Robert Allen

P16: "Learnable Visual Keywords for Image Classification", Joo-Hwee Lim
(Kent Ridge Digital Labs)

P17: "A New Ranking Principle for Multimedia Information Retrieval", Martin
Wechsler and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information Technology AG)

P18: "Musical Information Retrieval using Melodic Surface", M. Melucci and
N. Orio (University of Padova)

P19: "Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music", David Bainbridge, Craig
G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. Smith, and Rodger J. McNab
(University of Waikato and Rutgers University)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Session 7 - Multiple Collections/Sources, Chair: Jose Luis Borbinha

P20: "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital
Libraries", Naomi Dushay (Cornell University), James C. French (University
of Virginia), and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University)

P21: "A Patent Search and Classification System", Leah S. Larkey
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

P22: "Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific
Data", Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante (NCSA, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Damien Guillaume (Universite Louis-Pasteur)

P23: "User Preferences When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-text
Databases", Soyeon Park  (Rutgers University)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Session 8, Chair: Edward Fox
- Bush Award Presentation for Best Paper, by Robert Akscyn
- Panel 2: "Digital Library Futures"; Chair: Barry Leiner (CNRI)

5:00-7:00 Final Reception

Saturday, August 14, 1999: Full-Day Workshops

W1: "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems", Linda L. Hill (University
of California, Santa Barbara) and Gail Hodge (Information Intl. Assoc.),
lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu; see
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nhos/DL99workshop.html

W2: "Organizing Web Space", Robert Wilensky (University of California,
Berkeley), Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University), and Yoshinori Hara (NEC
USA),hara@ccrl.sj.nec.com; see http://www.ccrl.neclab.com/dl99ww/

W3: "Multilingual Information Discovery and Access", Douglas W. Oard
(University of Maryland) and Carol Peters (IEI-CNR, Pisa), joint with
SIGIR'99, oard@glue.umd.edu; see
http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/midas.html

W4: "D-Lib Forum Working Group on Metrics for Digital Libraries", Barry
Leiner (CNRI), bleiner@cnri.reston.va.us; see http://www.dlib.org/metrics

W5: "Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital
Libraries", Robert Akscyn (KSI, Inc.) and Ian Witten (University of
Waikato), rma@ks.com; see http://www.ks.com/idla/

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III.B.2.
Fr: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (Dirk Bartz)
Re: IEEE Vis'99 - Hot Topics: Final CFParticipation

F I N A L  C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N
Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers
Demonstration Proposals
Creative Application Lab

Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999
Celebrating Ten Years
Call for Participation
October 24 - October 29, 1999
San Francisco Airport Hyatt
San Francisco, California

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99
http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/

THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Sponsored by the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

For further information on the conference or symposia contact:

Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center -
+1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair,
Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center -
+1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov

See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and
submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99

Conference Topics:

Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization,
Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc.

Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases,
Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, Virtual
Reality, etc.

Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace,
Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics,
Environment, Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology,
Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer,
Iris Explorer, Khoros, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 15:        Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics and Demonstration
                proposals due
July 1:         InfoVis '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due
July 15:        Final Conference papers, final InfoVis '99 papers,
                  and PVG '99 papers due to publisher
August 1:       Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics selections
                announced
August 21:      Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics final papers due to
                publisher
August 31:      Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics video submissions
                due
September 25:   Close of Early Registration
October 24:     Conference Commences
October 25:     InfoVis '99 and PVG '99 Commence

Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999)

Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking Hot Topics that pertain to
all areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show
work in progress, and may not exceed 2500 words or a maximum of 4 pages
including images. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are
recommended; the video will be included in the conference video
proceedings. Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the
conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a
revised paper. Submissions will be done electronically. Submission details
can be found at the conference web site or by contracting Craig Wittenbrink
at craig_wittenbrink@hpl.hp.com.Videotapes should be sent to Craig M.
Wittenbrink, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, MS3U-4, Palo
Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA - +1-650.857.2329 - Fax: +1.650.852.3791

Demonstration Proposals (due June 15, 1999)

Visualization '99 is a unique opportunity to present your products or
research to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite
demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems,
peripherals, literature, as well as academic research. We encourage
demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more
information on participating in Visualization '99 demonstrations, contact
Upul Obeysekare at obey@ctc.com

Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 1999)

The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let Visualization '99
attendees run their software to show off their latest work. CAL will have a
variety of computers available. For details on participating in the CAL,
see the conference web site or contact Kelly Gaither at +1-601-325-2067 -
kelly@erc.msstate.edu

Dirk Bartz
University of Tuebingen
Phone: +49-7071/29-76361
Email: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Fax:   +49-7071/29-5466
WWW:   http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz

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III.B.3.
Fr: Richard Evans <in6087@wlv.ac.uk>
Re: "Corpora and NLP" (ACIDCA'2000 Session): CFPapers

"Corpora and NLP"
ACIDCA'2000 session
Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

Organised by:
University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

Sponsored by: IEEE SMC
co-sponsored by: TSS
Supported by: Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific Research and
Technology (SERST)

General
The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in a
number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for the
design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but also
for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part of
the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence
for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and Industrial Systems
(ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000, visit
http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session "Corpora and NLP" will be
organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.

Main Topics
We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics:
* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus processing
techniques are welcome.

Honorary Chairs
Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific and
Technological Research

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley

General Chairs
Adel Alimi, National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and
Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and
Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Submission Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written
in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables and
references. The first page of the papers should feature title, author's
name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract.

Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following address :
ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk and copied
to l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn

The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.

Schedule
Paper Submission Due:         1 October 1999
Notification of Acceptance:  10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due:      10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session:   22-24 March 2000

Further information
Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants to
attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as the
exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call for
Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials will
be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories: Best Paper,
Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.

The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.

The call for papers is is also available at:

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html

This is the "Corpora and NLP" web site and any important information will
be available at this site too.

For any Information
Please contact :
Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229

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III.B.4.
Fr: Judy Kay <udy@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au>
Re: UM99: Last Update

UM99 is almost upon us. The Canadian Rockies are about to provide the
perfect venue for multi-disciplinary study of user modelling. The Programme
is exciting with a core of invited talks and full paper. This is
complemented by the forward looking and innovative work to be discussed in
short papers, posters and workshops.

We look forward to seeing you and hope you will encourage colleagues to
join registrants from 15 countries. For more information, please mail asap
or check out the web site http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/

Hope to see you at Banff,
JJJ
Jim, Judy, Julita
Greer, Kay, Vassileva

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III.B.5.
Fr: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de>
Re: CIA-99: CFParticipation

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Third International Workshop CIA-99 on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
July 31 - August 2, 1999
Uppsala, Sweden

http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html

The workshop is co-sponsored by

 ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
 Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T Berlin, Germany
 Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH, Germany
 Active Online Systems, London, UK
 George Mason University, USA
 Uppsala University, Sweden

INVITED SPEAKERS
 Walt Truszkowski   (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
 Toru Ishida        (Kyoto University, Japan)
 Pat Langley        (Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T, USA)
 Amit Sheth         (Georgia University, USA)
 Mike P. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
 Michael Wellman    (University of Michigan, USA)
 Michael C. Lewis   (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
 Alexander Brodsky  (George Mason University, USA)
 Erol Gelenbe       (Duke University, USA)

REGISTRATION
Please register for the CIA-99 workshop using the form available at

http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/cia99/

The regular registration fee amounts to 170 USD (160 EUR, 1400 SEK).

We offer a reduced fee of 145 USD for members of the ESPRIT Network of
Excellence for Agent-Based Computing AgentLink (http://www.agentlink.org).

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in July 1999.

M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss (Eds.),
Cooperative Information Agents III
Proceedings 3rd International Workshop CIA-99
Springer Publisher, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 1652.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

SATURDAY, July 31, 1999

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening of the Workshop

Session 1:
Information Discovery and Management on the Internet

9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective
Walt Truszkowski (USA)

9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment
Erol Gelenbe (USA)

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Agent-Based Optimal Constraint Management in Distributed Information
Environments
Alexander Brodsky and Samuel Varas (USA)

LUNCH BREAK

Parallel Sessions 2 & 3

Session 2:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (1)

14:00 - 14:30
A Multi-Agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance
Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam, and Jan Treur (Netherlands)

14:30 - 15:00
Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in
Web Repository Change Monitoring Service
Santi Saeyor and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Japan)

15:00 - 15:30  Open Discussion

Session 3:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (2)

14:00 - 14:30
GETESS - Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts
Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, et al. (Germany)

14:30 - 15:00
An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering
Colm O'Riordan and Humphrey Sorensen (Ireland)

15:00 - 15:30 Open Discussion

Coffee Break

Session 4:
Communication and Collaboration

16:00 - 16:30
Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems
Hassan Gomaa (USA)

16:30 - 17:00
Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork:
An Initial Empirical Investigation
David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, and Sarit Kraus (USA,
Israel)

17:00 - 17:30
A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving
with a Group of Agents
Seppo Puuronen and Vagan Terziyan (Finland)

17:30 - 18:00
A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System
Misbah Deen (UK)


SUNDAY, August 1, 1999

Session 5:
Mobile Information Agents

8:30 - 9:00
Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation
C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, and C. Sibertin-Blanc (France)

9:00 - 9:30
Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents
W. Theilmann and K. Rothermel (Germany)

9:30 - 10:00
Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents
W. Vieira and L.M. Camarinha-Matos (Portugal)

10:00 - 10:30
Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, and Shoji Tatsumi (Japan)

Coffee Break

Session 6:
Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business

11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Agents and Automated Commerce on the Internet
Michael Wellman (USA)

11:45 - 12:30
Invited Talk:
The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce
Mike P. Papazoglou (Netherlands)

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30
An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business
Larry Kerschberg and Sonali Banerjee (USA)

14:30 - 15:00
Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol
for Internet Retail Commerce
X.F. Wang, X. Yi, K.Y. Lam, C.Q. Zhang, and E. Okamoto (Singapore, Australia)

Coffee Break

Session 7:
Service Mediation and Negotiation

15:30 - 16:15
Invited Talk:
Information Brokering in Digital Media
Amit Sheth (USA)

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:00
Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests
Thomas Tesch and Peter Fankhauser (Germany)

17:00 - 17:30
Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adaptive Software Agents
Wolfgang Benn, Otmar Goerlitz, and Ralf Neubert (Germany)

17:30 - 18:00 Open Discussion


MONDAY, august 2, 1999

Session 8:
Adaptive, Personal Assistance

9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice
Pat Langley (USA)

9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Anticipation, Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents is Hard
Michael C. Lewis (USA)

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
A Cooperative Comprehension-Assistant for Intranet-Based
Information Environments
Ludger van Elst

11:30 - 12:15
Invited Talk:
Digital City Kyoto: Towards A Social Information Infrastructure
Toru Ishida (Japan)

12:15 - 12:30
Closing of the Workshop

from 13:00
Direct Shuttle to Stockholm Conference Center

18:00
Opening of IJCAI-99 Conference at Stockholm Conference Center


ORGANIZATION & CONTACT

General Chair
Matthias Klusch (DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany)

Co-Chairs
Onn Shehory (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Gerhard Weiss (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA)

For more information please visit the CIA-99 Web page

http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html

or contact

  Dr. Matthias Klusch
  DFKI GmbH
  Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
  Phone: +49-681-302-5297
  Fax:   +49-681-302-2235
  email: klusch@dfki.de
  http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/

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III.B.6.
Fr: G. A. Lanzarone <lanzarone@mail.varbio.unimi.it>
Re: THAI-ETIS Symposium: Final CFParticipation

Last Call for Participation

THAI-ETIS

EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON
TELEMATICS, HYPERMEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE NEW PROFESSIONS
IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

Varese, Italy, June 21-22 1999

This two-day Symposium is organised jointly by the Universita' degli Studi
dell'Insubria at Varese and the European Consortium of the THAIland project
(Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence). Members of the
Consortium are the Universities appearing as affiliations of the program
committee members listed below. The THAIland project is concerned with
preparing a Master-level curriculum that focuses on the artist-engineer of
the future, from either a technical/information systems or media
background, developing specialists who will make a valid contribution to
the growing telematics "content" sector.

OBJECTIVES
The aim of the Symposium is to bring together experts from different areas
of computer science, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, both
from the academic environment and from public/private enterprise, who have
a common interest in exploring the new employment opportunities that arise
from the recent trends in ICT: the interdisciplinary professions combining
creative and technological capabilities in producing content material for
the Information Society and the type of education and training needed to
qualify for these innovative positions.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Chris Hutchison, Kingston University (U.K.) (Co-Chairman)
Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone, University of Insubria at Varese (Italy)
(Co-Chairman)

Phillip Burrel, Southbank University (U.K.)
Ulises Cortes, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
Matti Hamalainen, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland)
Daniele Herin, University of Montpellier II (France)
Veli-Pekka Liflander, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland)
Daniele Marini, University of Milan (Italy)
Wolf Paprotte', Munster University (Germany)
Ramon Sanguesa, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
Christian Wolf, University of Leipzig (Germany)

SYMPOSIUM VENUE
The Symposium will be held in the city of Varese in northern Italy, which
can be reached in 30 minutes by car from the new Milan airport, Malpensa
2000. Consult the Internet for the site of the Varese province to navigate
in four languages through this interesting area: http://www.provincia.va.it
even before coming to the Symposium.

Related events
A related workshop will take place after the symposium, in the days June
23-25. An exhibition will take place in the same site during the whole week
June 21-25 on projects, products and demonstrations on all the topics
covered by the symposium.

Web site of the symposium and the related events:
http://andromeda.varbio.unimi.it/~VA_99/

Contact address:
Prof. Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone
Insubria University
Faculty of Sciences at Varese
Director of the Undergraduate Curriculum in Computer Science
Via Ravasi, 2
I-21100 Varese (Italy)
Tel.: 0332-250.207
Fax: 0332-281308
E-mail: lanzarone@mail.varbio.unimi.it

Program

June 21, Monday

9:30-9:45 Welcome address by the Rector of Insubria University

9:45-10:45 Keynote speaker
Chris Stuart Hutchison
Kingston University
"The Unlimited Dream Machine"

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

Session A: CULTURE THROUGH COMPUTING AND NEW PROFESSIONS

Chairperson: Wolf Paprotte'

11:00-11:30
Marco Jennarelli
Insubria University at Varese (Italy)
"A new Humanism: scientific research and new professions in humanities
computing"

11:30-12:00
Sadhna Jain, Simon Clarke, Paul Newland and Michele-Anne Dauppe
University of Portsmouth (U.K.)
"Communication design in contemporary digital culture. EMMA a case study"

12:00-12:30
Round table discussion
Chairperson and Introduction: Ramon Sanguesa
Participants:
- keynote speaker
- speakers of session A

12:30-14 lunch

Session B: EDUCATION WITHOUT DISTANCES

Chairperson: Merja Bauters

14:00-14:30
Marijana Lomic And Zoran Putnik
University of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia)
"On creation of educational software based on a dynamic learning model"

14:30-15:00
Giovanni Adorni, Dario Bianchi and Agostino Poggi
University of Parma (Italy)
"Teleteaching experiences with a 'scalable' architecture"

15:00-15:30
Vito Leonardo Plantamura, Paola Plantamura and Enrica Gentile
University of Bari (Italy)
"Videoconferencing for distance learning but learning without distance"

15:30-16:00
Aurora Vizcaino, Manuel Prieto
Castilla-Mancha University (Spain)
"Collaborative learning. Student modelling"

16:00-16:15 coffee break

16:15-17:00
Round table discussion
Chairperson and Introduction: Ulises Cortes
Participants:
- speakers of session B
- Luca Maria Gambardella
IDSIA - Dalle Molle Institute of Studies on Artificial Intelligence
Lugano (Switzerland)

18:00 Vernissage of the exhibition

19:00 Welcome cocktail offered by the Municipality of Varese

20:30 Gala Dinner

June 22, Tuesday

9:30-10:30
Invited speaker
Flavio Argentesi
European Commission Joint Research Centre - IHCP
"IT evolution, new professions and new education"

Session C: METAPHORS FOR DIGITAL DOCUMENTS

Chairperson: Christian Wolf

10:30-11:00
Monica Landoni and Forbes Gibb
University of Strathclyde - Glasgow
"The importance of visual rhetoric in the design and production of
electronic books: the visual book experience"

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-11:45
Stefano A. Cerri, Vincenzo Loia, Michel Quaggetto
"Complex display specification via Java constraints: interactive
Web-based technical manuals"
University of Milano & University of Salerno (Italy)
Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris (France)

11:45-12:30 Round table discussion
Chairperson and Introduction: Christian Wolff
Participants:
- speakers of session B
- Goffredo Haus, University of Milan (Italy)
- Julian Padget, University of Bath (UK)

12:30-14 lunch

Session D: TRAWLING THROUGH THE WEB

Chairperson: Daniele Herin

14:00-14:30
David Inman
South Bank University (U.K.)
"A multilingual, agent based approach to finding content on the Web"

14:30-15
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Gulli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
University of Pisa (Italy)
"Theseus: Categorization by Context"

15:00-15:30
Stefano A. Cerri, Vincenzo Loia, Pierluigi Fontanesi, Alberto Bettinelli
University of Milano & University of Salerno (Italy)
"Serendipitous acquisition of Web knowledge by agents in the context of
human learning

15:30-15:45 coffee break

15:45-16:30
Round table discussion
Chairperson and Introduction: Phillip Burrel
Participants:
- speakers of session B

16:30
Closing session

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III.B.7.
Fr: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
    <gecco@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>
Re: GECCO-99: Conference Schedule

The conference schedule for the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-99) to be held 13-17 July 1999 (Tuesday-Saturday) at the
Omni Rosen Hotel in Orlando, Florida is now posted at
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/.

The conference brings together 235 parallel papers, 3 invited talks,
24 free tutorials, 15 workshops, 105 poster papers, a large number of
late-breaking papers, a 70th birthday party celebration for John Holland,
and much, much more. Conference attendees will receive as part of their
registration a two-volume, 2000-page conference proceedings, admission to
all tutorials, all exhibits, all workshops, and all paper sessions (at no
extra charge)copies of all tutorial handouts, copies of all workshop and
late-breaking papers, a GECCO souvenir, and admission to all conference
receptions.

In addition, if you register before June 15, 1999 you receive a price break
on registration over that charged at the door.  For a registration form,
see the web site

http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/

 or email gecco@aaai.org.

I hope to see you in Orlando, Florida for what promises to be a special
event in the evolution of the growing field of genetic and evolutionary
computation.

Dave Goldberg
GECCO-99 Conference Chair

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III.C.1.
Fr: Mark Evan Rorvig PhD <mrorvig@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Re: SIGIR99: CFVolunteers

The SIGIR99 Organizing Committee is again requesting student volunteers. As
a volunteer at SIGIR99 you will be entitled to free conference
registration. Typically, volunteers stuff bags, monitor equipment items and
rooms, take tickets at tutorials and workshops, assist the ACM registration
person, follow through on arrangements for poster sessions, bus
transportation, and like matters. If you would like to volunteer, you
should visit <http://archive.lis.unt.edu:1999/sigir/>.

Mark E. Rorvig, Ph.D.        Off. Tel.: 940-565-2445
Associate Professor          Hm. Tel.:  940-484-8445
School of Library and        Fax:       940-565-3101
Information Sciences       mrorvig@jove.acs.unt.edu
University of North Texas    http://archive.lis.unt.edu:2025/resume/
P.O. Box 311068
Denton, Texas 76203-1068

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IV. PROJECTS

IV.C.1.
Fr: Ellen Voorhees <ellen.voorhees@nist.gov>
Re: DARPA Soliciting Proposals for Translingual Information Access

The Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) has announced it is soliciting proposals for research on
machine translation and algorithms for Translingual Information Detection,
Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES). The TIDES program goal is to
dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to perform cross-lingual
retrieval, information extraction, summarization and interpretation, and
machine translation of a new language.

More information regarding how to repond to the solicitation can be found at
http://www.darpa.mil/baa/BAA99-26.htm

Ellen Voorhees
NIST

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IV.C.2.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: Pew Learning and Technology Program

THE PEW LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

The Pew Learning and Technology Program is an $8.8-million, four-year
effort to place the national discussion about the impact that new
technologies are having on the nation's campuses in the context of student
learning and ways to achieve this learning cost-effectively. The Program
has three areas of work:

1) The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is a $6 million institutional
grant program that will support efforts of colleges and universities to
redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost
savings as well as quality enhancements.  Redesign projects will focus on
large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the potential of
impacting significant numbers of students and generating substantial cost
savings.  The program expects to award 30 - 35 grants over three years
(approximately 10 awards per year) with an average award of $200,000.

2) The Pew Symposia in Learning and Technology will conduct an ongoing
national conversation about issues related to the intersection of learning
and technology.  It will marshal the thinking of acknowledged experts and
frame the issues in ways that are useful to the higher education community
as it incorporates uses of technology into the academic program.  The
program will convene two invitational symposia per year from 1999 through
2002 and produce monographs based on those discussions from a
public-interest perspective.

3) The Pew Learning and Technology Program Newsletter is an electronic
newsletter that will be published quarterly beginning September 1999.  It
will highlight ongoing examples of redesigned learning environments using
technology and examine issues related to their development and
implementation.

To have your name added to the Pew Learning and Technology Program
electronic mailing list, which ensures that you receive the newsletter,
periodic updates and information about this new effort, send an email
message (with subject line left blank) to listproc@lists.rpi.edu.  In the
body of the message, type SUB PLTP-L your name.

The Pew Learning and Technology Program is coordinated by the newly created
Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute led
by its executive director, Dr. Carol A. Twigg.  The Center's mission is to
serve as a source of expertise and support for those in and around higher
education who wish to transform their academic practices to make them more
accessible, more effective and more productive by taking advantage of the
capabilities of information technology.

For further information, please see the Center Web site at
<http://www.center.rpi.edu/>. If you have any problems accessing the  site,
please contact Abbie Basile at <basila@rpi.edu> or 518-276-8323.

**********

IV.D.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: v

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is
seeking a consultant to assist with a Guide to Good Practice project. CNI
was a co-founder of NINCH and works closely with it on its current projects.

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 1, 1999

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation
and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html

June 1, 1999

INTRODUCTION
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
<http://www.ninch.org/> is undertaking a project to review and evaluate
current practice in the digital networking of cultural heritage resources
in order to publish a Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation
and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. The  Guide will be published
in print and electronic form.

A NINCH Working Group on Best Practices has outlined the scope and purpose
of the Guide. It will divide into two sections: one on the capture and
creation of digital cultural heritage resources; the other on the
management and maintenance of that digital data.  The Guide will encompass
all genres. To encourage broadest use of digital resources, the Guide will
focus on object-types (e.g., manuscripts, paintings, performance
documentations, etc.,) going beyond the limited perspectives of institution
types or disciplines (e.g,. museums or history). The primary audience will
be institutions or researchers preparing to create and manage digital
cultural heritage resources with little extensive knowledge of current
technical and information standards, metadata and best practices. Funders
will be an important secondary audience, for whom the Guide could provide a
set of key criteria for assessing the fundability of digital projects.

The Working Group will proceed by commissioning a survey of the field to
discover and define exemplary practice. The survey will include interviews
with practitioners and reviews of published guidelines and projects that
demonstrate good practice; it should also reveal areas for which good
practice still needs to be developed and documented.  The Working Group
will announce a call for nominations of practitioners and projects to be
considered by the survey.

As a starting point, the Working Group has created an initial definition of
good practice consisting of six principles each of which has a set of
evaluative criteria, by which to judge current practice
<http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-2.html>. The Working Group
has built into the process a stage in which it may refine and extend these
criteria as a result of the survey. The survey is not intended to be a
comprehensive review of current practice; its purpose is to gather
material, experiences and opinions for the writing of the Guide.

The Working Group proposes to hire a consultant or consultants to conduct
the Survey and write the Guide in close consultation with the Working
Group. Those responding may address one or both parts of this project: the
Survey (Phase 1) and the Guide (Phase 2). This RFP is also available at:
http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html

CONTENTS OF GUIDE
The following prospectus outlines the intended contents of the Guide:

GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE

Table of Contents

1. PREFACE
Establishes the scope and context of the Guide and summarily discusses
contingent issues not covered in detail.

2. GUIDE TO THE CREATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND METADATA.
This section will include but not be limited to the following:
*  an overview of principles and general issues common to all formats;
*  a detailed discussion of the issues and techniques pertaining to
   digitizing specific types of original formats and creating
   appropriate  metadata;
*  a discussion of the different strategies to be considered with
   particular digital materials for particular uses and audiences.

3. GUIDE TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL DATA & METADATA
A discussion of general issues in the management and maintenance of digital
cultural heritage materials. These will include but not be limited to:
*  intellectual property and access management;
*  strategies for the storage, archiving, and long-term maintenance of
   large collections of digital data in accordance with newly-developed
   standards and technologies;
*  the documentation of all practice.

The discussion will include links to web pages and projects that exemplify
model practice and its documentation.  The guide will also indicate the
areas that need to develope good practice that is also well documented.

4. AFTERWORD
The Afterword will concentrate on the range of potential uses of digital
material.  Focusing on model projects that exemplify best practice, as
determined by the Working Group's evaluative criteria, it would examine the
power of the medium to connect and re-combine material, and use digital
objects in often unforeseen ways.

SCHEDULE OF WORK
An outline schedule of work would include:

1. Initial survey
The consultant will commence by interviewing practitioners and reviewing
projects drawn from an initial small pool of approximately ten
practitioners and projects from diverse cultural communities, the criteria
for evaluating practice established by the Working Group.

2. Submission of Report 1.
The consultant will present initial findings in written form to the
Working Group.

3. Working group review and project evaluation.
The Working Group will discuss its response to the findings and make
modifications to the evaluative criteria and survey method, as appropriate,
with the consultant.

4. Main survey
The consultant will proceed, interviewing practitioners, reviewing existing
statements and guidelines on good practice and investigating exemplary
projects nominated by an open call to the community, issued by the Working
Group.

5. Submission of Report 2.
The consultant will write a report on the survey findings, including a
bibliography and/or other compilation of useful resources gathered through
the survey, and present it to the Working Group for its review.

6. Working group review and project evaluation.
The Working Group will review and evaluate the survey report. On the basis
of the survey report, the Working Group will then review and make
modifications to the proposed form and content of the Guide, as appropriate.

This will complete Phase 1 of the project.  If the Consultant has proposed
to work only on Phase 1, his or her work will then be complete.  If the
Consultant has proposed to work on both Phase 1 and 2, his or her work may
continue uninterrupted. If a Consultant has proposed to work only on Phase
2, his or her work will now commence.

7. Writing of the Guide
A consultant will proceed to write the Guide, according to a timetable
mutually agreed to by consultant and Working Group.

8. First Draft of Guide manuscript due.

9. Working group review and evaluation of guide manuscript draft 1.
Consultant and Working Group will discuss a first draft of the Guide, after
which the consultant will revise the Guide as needed.

10. Final Draft of Manuscript due.

11. Publication
The Working Group will then proceed with making arrangements for the
electronic and print publication of the Guide.

SCHEDULE

The Working Group expects to be able to hire a consultant in the Summer of
1999. Deadline for completion of the Guide manuscript will be by the
Spring/Summer of 2000.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications for a consultant include:
*  a working and/or practical knowledge of networking cultural heritage
   material and of the range of issues entailed;
*  proven research and analytic skills;
*  proven writing skills; in particular an ability to write about
   complex issues in a clear style;
*  a diplomatic manner;
*  the ability to work closely with a team;
*  the ability to post material to the project's website.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
A grant is expected to be available in the range of $60,000-$100,000 for
the completion of the consultant's portion of this work.  The deadline for
receipt of proposals is 5pm (EST) Monday June 21, 1999.

Electronic proposals must be available at a URL; print proposals must be in
ten copies.

Components of a proposal shall include:
*  a narrative (maximum 5 pages) explaining how the project would be
   accomplished, including:
    >>  detailed work plan (including, if more than one person will be
        working, the specific role of each);
    >>  detail of resources for completing the project;
*  your qualifications for the project (including qualifications of
   others who would work with you);
*  budget (applicants are invited to submit variant budgets for variant
   levels of work);
*  resume (including resumes for others who would work with you);
*  names and telephone numbers of references (minimum of 3);
*  references to relevant writings by you and/or others who would work
   with you.

URLs or paper proposals should be sent to: David Green, Executive
Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage,
21 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036; david@ninch.org.

NINCH Working Group on Best Practices
June 1, 1999

Kathe Albrecht (from May 24, 1999)
  American University/Visual Resources Association
LeeEllen Friedland
  Library of Congress
Peter Hirtle
  Cornell University
Lorna Hughes
  New York University
Kathy Jones
  Peabody Museum, Harvard University/American Association of Museums
Mark Kornbluh
  H-Net
Joan Lippincott
  Coalition for Networked Information
Michael Neuman
  Georgetown University
Thorny Staples
  National Museum of American Art (through 2/1/99)
  University of Virginia Library (from 2/1/99)
Jennifer Trant  (through May 24, 1999)
  Art Museum Image Consortium
Don Waters/Rebecca Graham (through May 24, 1999)
  Digital Library Federation

David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
<http://www.ninch.org/>
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346
202/872-0886 fax

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