D-Lib Magazine (April 1999)

Mathematical image of Julia set courtesy of David Joyce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month is The Math Forum hosted at Swathmore College, Swarthmore, PA.

William Y. Arms
Publisher

Bonita Wilson
Managing Editor

Catherine Rey
Art Director

Laurence Lannom
Technical Advisor

March 1999; Volume 5 Number 3; ISSN: 1082-9873

From the Publisher: Scholarly Communication, Digital Libraries, and D-Lib
To the Editor: Letters

Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records
David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics

Global Info: The German Digital Libraries Project
Diann Rusch-Feja, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Hans Jürgen Becker, State and University Library of Lower Saxony Göttingen

The National Engineering Education Delivery System: A Digital Library for Engineering Education
Brandon Muramatsu and Alice M. Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking
Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent, Belgium

Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution
Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent, Belgium

The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative April 1999
Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Distributed Information and Computation in Scientific and Engineering Environments
Nicholas M. Patrikalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Paul J. Fortier, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Yannis E. Ioannidis, University of Athens; Christos N. Nikolaou, University of Crete; Allan R. Robinson, Harvard University; Jarek R. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alvar Vinacua, Polytechnic University of Catalonia; and Stephen L. Abrams, Harvard University Library

Universal Preservation Format
Contributed by Thom Shepard, Project Archivists, WGBH Educational Foundation

Advancing the Virtual Government: A Survey of National Digital Libraries in the Executive Branch
Contributed by Sharon Jordan, US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress
Contributed by Alan Inouye, National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)

Contributed by Richard Hill, ASIS

In Print

iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts

Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core

Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML

Identification, Location and Versioning of Web-resources

New Ways to Serve the Library User: A Global Perspective

Is the Record of the 20th Century at Risk?

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-readable Cataloging

Point to Point

Brown University Women Writers Project

Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Deadline Reminders

ICCC/IFIP Third Conference on Electronic Publishing '99 - Redefining the Information Chain - New Ways and Voices

VALA 2000 - Books and bytes: technologies for the hybrid library

HCI International'99: 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

ACM CIKM '99: Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

7th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems

IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference '99

Knowledge Management for Reference Librarians

Eighth International World Wide Web Conference

Tenth DELOS Workshop on Audio-Visual Digital Libraries

1999 Information Resources Management Association International Conference: Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millenium

CoLIS 3 - Third International Conference on Concepts in Library and Information Science

Goings On

Evaluating and Using Networked Information Resources and Services: ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 24 - 26 May 1999, Pasadena, California, USA.

EVA'99 - Beyond the Digital Archive: The Practical Use of Images, 19 - 21 May, New York, New York, USA.

School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-based Collections, 2 - 4 June 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Third International Conference on VISual Information Systems '99, 2 - 4 June 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1999 Annual Conference Association of Canadian Archivists/Archives Association of Ontario -- Measuring Up: Standards in Archival Practice, 3 - 5 June 1999, London, Ontario, Canada.

Knowledge Leaders for the New Millennium: Creators of the Information Future, Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, 5 - 10 June 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

IEEE Multimedia Systems '99, 7 - 11 June 1999, Florence, Italy.

EUNIS '99: Information Technology Shaping European Universities, 7 - 9 June 1999, Espoo, Finland.

CGI'99: Computer Graphics International, 7 - 11 June 1999, Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

NASIG 14th Annual Conference, 10 - 13 June 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

International Workshop on Integrated Spatial Databases: Digital Images and GIS, 14 - 16 June 1999, Portland, Maine, USA.

INET'99: The Internet Global Summit, The Internet Society's 9th Annual Internetworking Conference 22 - 25 June 1999, San Jose, California, USA.

Making Sense of Digital Identifiers for Internet and Other Applications - 1999 LITA Preconference, 25 June 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Celebrating the Freedom to Read! Learn! Connect! - 1999 ALA Annual Conference, 16 - 29 June 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

7th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, 5 - 6 November 1999, Kansas City, MO, USA.

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Please send questions or comments to the editor to: dlib@cnri.reston.va.us.

D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by DARPA on behalf of the Digital Libraries Initiative under Grant No. N66001-98-1-8908.

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DOI:10.1045/april99-contents

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