IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.30, Issue 466

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
August 9, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 30
Issue 466

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  I. QUERIES
        1. Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals
        2. User Study on IR
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Version 26, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
        2. INIS Database Free to Researchers
     B. Meetings
        1. ASIS Annual '99: Knowledge Creation, Organization & Use

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I. QUERIES

I.1.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals

           _Ramification Issues of Embedded Multimedia E-Journals_

Over the next several weeks I will be considering and researching the
issues relating to the ramifications / consequences / requirements of
embedded multimedia in electronic journals for libraries and institutions.
I have sketched the following outline of these issues and would very much
appreciate my colleague's review of these as well as suggestions for other
issues not included.

I. TECHNICAL

   Installation of Plug-Ins
   Maintenance
   Retrieval  / Access
   Downloading

II. FINANCIAL

   Equipment (e.g. multimedia workstations)
   Cost
   Labor
   Time

III. PROFESSIONAL

   Cataloging (e.g. cataloging of multimedia edition
   vs. non-multimedia edition of journal)

   Reference (e.g., user-assistance /interpretation)

IV. COOPERATIVE

   Interlibrary Loan (e.g. 'document' delivery of
     multimedia e-article)

V. PREPARATION / PRODUCTION

   Author training and skills
   Institutional infra-structure
   Publisher capability

VI. ARCHIVAL

   Technical
   Financial
   Management

I would also appreciate citations to *any* and *all* literature that
address these issues in a general sense, i.e. the management, etc. of
conventional multimedia applications in libraries.

This outline as well as relevant literature will be used to prepare two
articles for submission this Fall, and will complement M-Bed(sm) my
recently-established registry of embedded multimedia e-journals available at:

     http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm

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

Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu

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I.2.
Fr: Anton Leuski <leuski@cs.umass.edu>
Re: User Study on IR

Hello, I'm a graduate CS student at UMASS at Amherst.

The National Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst is conducting an effectiveness study
of a new (and cool!) interface concept for information retrieval (IR). The
system visualizes similarities among the documents retrieved by an IR system.

We invite you to participate in our study. We will ask you to solve a set
of ten information foraging problems in 2D and 3D. To solve all the
problems takes less than one hour.

The detailed information about the study and instructions on how to access
the software can be found at
http://toowoomba.cs.umass.edu/~leouski/SE/

Thank you and if you like our study, please don't hesitate to tell your
friends about it.

Anton Leuski
Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <cbailey@UH.EDU>
Re: Version 26, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Version 26 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now
available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,000 articles, books,
electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding
scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

     HTML: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>
     Acrobat: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf>
     Word: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc>

The HTML document is designed for interactive use.  Each major section is a
separate file.  There are live links to sources available on the Internet.
It can be can be searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document also includes Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources,
a collection of links to related Web sites:

     <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm>

The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 200
KB.

(Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.)

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
     2.1 Case Studies and History*
     2.2 General Works*
     2.3 Library Issues
3  Electronic Serials
     3.1 Case Studies and History
     3.2 Critiques
     3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
     3.4 General Works*
     3.5 Library Issues*
     3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
     5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
     5.2 License Agreements*
     5.3 Other Legal Issues*
6  Library Issues
     6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata*
     6.2 Digital Libraries*
     6.3 General Works*
     6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
     8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author
Appendix B. About the Author

Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems,
University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204-2091.  E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu.  Voice: (713) 743-9804.
Fax: (713) 743-9811.
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm>
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>

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III.A.2.
Fr: Emil Levine <E.Levine@iaea.org>
Re: INIS Database Free to Researchers

INIS Database Freely Available for Research Purposes

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Database of the
International Atomic Energy Agency contains over 2,100,000 bibliographic
records on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy contributed by 103 INIS
States and 19 international organisations over the past 30 years. These
bibliographic records include abstracts, keywords and subject codes. The
keywords and subject codes have been selected by a process of intellectual
subject analysis of the original documents and assigned by human indexers.
The INIS Database will be made freely available to universities or research
institutes doing work in the areas of automatic indexing and advanced
search engines. The Database is available in three formats:
a)      INIS Database on the Web.
        If this option is selected, access will be provided free of charge via
password for the duration of the research contract. Research institutions
will be responsible for their own telecommunication costs, if applicable.
b)      INIS Database on CD-ROM using Silverplatter software.
        Research institutions will be eligible for a free subscription for the
duration of the research contract.
c)      Atomindex files for the whole or parts of the INIS Database.
        These files contain the INIS data stored in ISO Standard 2709 exchange
format.

The database will be available free of charge, but researchers will be
asked to sign a contract with the following conditions:
1.      No funding for the research will be provided by INIS or the IAEA;
2.      The database will not be used for commercial purposes;
3.      Access to the database will be restricted to those involved in the
research at the research institute. All INIS data will be returned to INIS
once the research is completed or the agreement terminated;
4.      The research agreement will be valid for a renewable period of two years;
5.      Results of the completed research will be provided to INIS. Copies of
reports will be sent with an author's abstract and include a copyright
release for the abstract. INIS will be authorised to include a
bibliographic citation and the full text of the report(s) in the INIS
System if it decides to do so;
6.      Researchers will be asked to provide a semi-annual report (January and
July) on (1) the research in progress and (2) research completed during the
previous six month reporting period.

Interested researchers should submit a request for the database and a brief
outline of the proposed usage to the Systems Analyst, INIS Secretariat,
International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100 Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400
Vienna Austria E-mail y.turgeon@iaea.org Additional information on INIS and
this research opportunity are available at
http://www.iaea.or.at/programmes/inis/inis.htm.

Emil Levine
Head, INIS Clearinghouse
IAEA/INIS
PO Box 100
Vienna Austria A1400
43-1-2600-22880/29882 fax
e.levine@iaea.org

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III.B.1.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Re: ASIS Annual '99: Knowledge Creation, Organization & Use

ASIS 1999 ANNUAL MEETING
"KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION and USE"
JW Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue
October 31 - November 4, 1999
Washington, DC

Programs are being mailed, by why wait? It's all online at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM99/ Register online (secure form) or
print the form and fax/mail.  For further information call (301) 495-0900.

Over 60 sessions, 2 plenaries, 6 pre-conferences, and 236 individual
presentations!  Programming time has expanded. Plenary starts at 2:00 pm on
SUNDAY, October 31

The Technical Program is organized around five tracks:
     * KNOWLEDGE Discovery, Capture and Creation: capturing tacit
         knowledge, data mining, expert directories...

     * CLASSIFICATION and Representation: Metadata, information
         visualization, taxonomies, clustering, indexing...

     * Information RETRIEVAL: Search engine design, evaluation,
         navigation, browsing vs. searching...

     * Knowledge DISSEMINATION: Communication, publishing, push vs.
       pull...

     * Ethical, Cultural, Social and BEHAVIORAL Aspects: policies &
         politics, knowledge seeking behavior, rights tracking, ...

PLENARIES:
* Knowledge Management: Harnessing the Human Dynamic.
     Tom Sudman, President and Founder, Digital AV

* Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information
  Infrastructure.
      Summary and discussion of a report to be released by the
      National Academy's Computer Science & Telecommunications Board.

PRE-CONFERENCES:
* Information Product Development: Enabling Knowledge-based
  Systems (2 day seminar/workshop: 10/29 & 10/30)
* Practical Text Mining (10/29)
* Thesauri for Indexing and Retrieval (10/29)
* Intro to XML (10/30)
* Metadata for Digital Libraries (10/30)
* Second Generation Intranet Development (10/30)

SEE YOU IN DC!

Richard Hill
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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