D-Lib Magazine
February 2000

Volume 6 Number 2

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips & Pointers
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In Print

  • SPEC Kit 253: Networked Information Resources, December 1999, Association of Research Libraries (ARL). (Prepared by Richard Bleiler and Terry Plum, University of Connecticut, as part of the ARL Office of Leadership and Management Services (OLMS) Collaborative Research and Writing Program.)

    This SPEC Kit examines how ARL libraries identify networked, electronic information resources; evaluate the information in order to make purchasing decisions; decide the best means of dissemination of the resources; and continue to assess usage of the resources after purchase.

    The Executive Summary of SPEC Kit 253 is available full-text online at < http://www.arl.org/spec/253sum.html >. Also included at that site is a link to the ARL Distribution Center where one may order the full kit online or obtain off-line ordering instructions.

  • Abstracts available online from the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

    HICSS and IEEE have established a digital library on the World Wide Web from which access to all HICSS papers, starting with the ones from the 32nd HICSS Conference will be made available in full text with certain restrictions.

    Members of IEEE who have a "Member Digital Library Subscription" can access the articles from this and other proceedings in full text. More information about the membership subscription may be found at < http://computer.org/proceedings/ >. There are instructions at the site for non-members who wish to purchase individual articles in full text. Abstracts and tables of contents of all conference proceedings are available free to everyone.

    The 32nd HICSS Conference presentations were organized under 8 tracks:

    1. New Curriculum and Courses and Collboration Systems and Technology
    2. Digital Documents
    3. Emerging Technologies
    4. Information Technology in Health Care
    5. Internet and the Digital Economy
    6. Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems
    7. Organizational Systems and Technology
    8. Software Technology

    For more information and to see the abstracts from the 1999 conference, please see the HICSS web site at < http://computer.org/proceedings/hicss/0001/0001toc.htm >.

  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Volume 51, Number 4.

    To see the Tables of Contents, please click here.

    The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html> contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.

    The John Wiley Interscience site http://www.interscience.wiley.com includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the Interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints. Richard Hill, Executive Director of ASIS says, "We are still working on restoring access for ASIS members 'registered users'."

    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/

  • DCMI Update, Volume 1, Number 2, February 2000.

    The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has begun publishing a monthly newsletter, DCMI Update "to improve communication in [their] globally distributed collaboration." The DCMI Update will highlight ongoing activities and serve as a digest of the initiative's work. The editors also seek features from the DCMI Update reader community.

    The February 2000 issue of DCMI Update is located at < http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-02.htm >.

  • Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems: Manual for Commonwealth Agencies (Draft), ISBN 0-642-34417-5, jointly published by the National Archives of Australia and the State Records Authority of New South Wales and released February 2000 for comment.

    This manual is described as the first of its kind designed to help Commonwealth and New South Wales Government agencies to "implement recordkeeping systems for any technological or paper-based [record-keeping] environment." Although it was written specifically for use by and for a specific region of the world, the principles set forth in the manual regarding recordkeeping may be of interest to those outside the targeted region.

    The manual may be viewed in its entirety at http://www.naa.gov.au/Govserv/techpub/DIRKSman/dirks.html, but please note that copyright is held by the Commonwealth of Australia. Please consult < http://www.naa.gov.au/Govserv/techpub/DIRKSman/
    Part_1.html#Acknowledgement     > for information regarding restrictions for use of the manual.

  • Public Space in Cyberspace: Library Advocacy in the Information Age, by Doug Shuler and Jamie McClelland, published by Libraries for the Future, New York, New York, 1999.

    This publication was created as part of the Libraries for the Future's Telecommunications Advocacy Project. Funding came from several grants and the project was endorsed by such organizations as the American Library Association Video Roundtable, Association for Community Networking, Civil Rights Forum, Community Technology Institute, and others.

    The booklet encourages advocacy to ensure public access to information in the digital world for those who may have limited financial resources. Included are profiles of technologically innovative public libraries and a beginners' policy primer on legal rights to affordable access.

    Public Space in Cyberspace: Library Advocacy in the Information Age may be viewed full text online in HTML format at < http://www.lff.org/advocacy/technology/public/entirepublic.html >. Or it may be ordered in print format from Libraries for the Future at a cost of $9.95 plus shipping and handling. Contact Libraries for the Future at email <lff@lff.org> for ordering instructions.

Point to Point

  • PhysNet: the Physics Departments and Documents Network

    This subject gateway on the topic of Physics comes from the Department of Physics of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität of Oldenburg, in Germany. PhysNet offers links to Physics Institutions and documents worldwide ordered by country, links to several physics journals that are available full-text and free of charge on the Internet, and lists of Physics conferences, jobs, and educational resources.

    Physnet also provides a search facility called MetaPhys that serves as a unified query interface to the databases of various publishers with relevance in physics. MetaPhys is sponsored by the European Physical Society. (For those who are interested, a summary of usage statistics for MetaPhys is available for the last 12 months.)

    Physnet may be found at < http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/EPS/PhysNet/ >, but it may also be accessed by using the easy-to-remember URL < http://i.am.physnet >.

  • Library and Information Science, Librarianship, a collection of links from the website located at the Traugott Koch, Lund University Library in Sweden.

    This collection of pointers to external sites aims not "to collect a list of primary, original, individual resources in the subject area of librarianship and LIS but to give advice and pointers to sites which allow [discovery of] such individual resources". The collection of links is located at < http://www.lub.lu.se/netlab/documents/lisres.html >.

  • Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries.

    Sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources and the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, this web site has organized its large and comprehensive collection of links on the subject of copyright and fair use under the following four major categories:

    • Primary Materials
    • Current Legislation, Cases and Issues
    • Resources on the Internet
    • Overview of Copyright Law

    The Copyright & Fair Use web site is located at < http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ >.

  • LISNews.com: Information Science News.

    This web site collects and presents news about libraries and information science. Its creators are librarians, and the site is interactive. Submissions are welcome, and readers can submit comments about the stories and other items they find on the site. Please note that the inclusion of a story on the site does not imply LISNews.com endorsement. Rather, LISNews.com has as its goals to inform, stimulate ideas and encourage conversation.

    A quick glance at the web site on February 13, 2000, found items listed on the following subjects: a new search engine, an update on a library lawsuit, censorship in a school library, content filtering in a public library, e-books, protests of library closures , web navigation, an upcoming library conference, Internet pornography in libraries, and intellectual property rights regarding book covers. In other words, the subjects of items on LISNews.com site are a smorgasbord of library and library-related topics.

    LISNews.com is located at < http://www.lisnews.com/ >.

Deadline Reminders

Calls for Participation

  • DEXA 2000: 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Call for papers for several DEXA Workshops. There are various deadlines for submission ranging from 11 February to 21 March 2000. See the following list:

    • 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2000 Deadline for papers: 23 February 2000.

    • 2ndInternational Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery DaWaK 2000 Deadline for papers: 23 February 2000.

    • 1stInternational Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies EC-Web 2000 Deadline for papers: 23 February 2000.

    • Third International Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems NBIS'2000 (The deadline for papers for this workshop has passed.)

    • Second International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems NLIS 2000. (The deadline for papers for this workshop has passed.)

    • Third International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems MDDS'2000. The deadline for papers is 11 February 2000.

    • Workshop on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems HoloMAS'2000. (The deadline for papers has passed.)

    • Workshop 'On the Way to Electronic Government'. (The deadline for papers for this workshop has passed.)

    • International Workshop on Agent-Based Information Systems ABIS2000. The deadline for papers is 20 February 2000.

    • International Workshop on Management of Information on the Web - Methodologies and Applications MIW'2000. The deadline for papers is 15 February 2000.

    • Second International Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems LUMIS 2000. The deadline for papers is 1 March 2000.

    • Second International Workshop on Web-Based Information Visualization WebVis 2000. The deadline for papers is 1 March 2000.

    • The International Workshop on Web and Database Connectivity WebDaC. The deadline for papers is 22 February 2000.

    • Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Databases : innovative applications and new architectures PaDD'2000. The deadline for papers is 25 February 2000.

    • International Workshop on Interacting with Databases IDA 2000. The deadline for papers is 21 February 2000.

    • First International Workshop on Web Agent Systems and Applications WASA 2000. The deadline for papers is 28 February 2000.

    • International Workshop on Advanced Spatial Data Management ASDM 2000. The deadline for papers is 28 February 2000.

    • Fourth International Workshop on Query Processing and Multimedia Issues in Distributed Systems QPMIDS 2000. The deadline for papers is 20 February 2000.

    • The Second International Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Process - Innovative Techniques, Models, Tools to support the RE Process REP'2000. The deadline for papers is 15 March 2000.

    • Workshop on Negotiations in electronic markets - beyond price discovery e-Negotiations. The deadline for papers is 29 February 2000.

    • Workshop on Legal Information Systems and Applications LISA 2000. The deadline for papers is 21 March 2000.

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    Please visit the web sites of the individual workshops and conferences listed above for the suggested topics and other details.

  • WET ICE 2000 - IEEE 9th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 14 - 16 June 2000, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Call for papers for Wet Ice Workshops. The deadline for submission of papers is 10 March 2000.

    WET ICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration. WET ICE 2000 will consist of parallel, three-day workshops on different topics related to collaboration technology. Each workshop will include paper presentations and working group discussions, with additional joint keynote sessions and a final joint session to summarize each groups' findings. Below is a list of the individual workshops for which papers are being solicited:

    The deadline for submission of papers to each of the above listed workshops is 10 March 2000. Please see the individual workshops for information about topics and instructions for submission of papers.

  • IV2000 - Symposium of Information Visualisation in Digital Libraries, 19 - 21 July 2000, London, England, United Kingdom. Call for participation. Deadline for submission of papers is 17 March 2000.

    This symposium is being planned to provide a widely interdisciplinary forum to address advances, applications, and implications of information visualization in connection with digital libraries. The theme focuses on the use of information visualization techniques in digital libraries, information repositories, information spaces, and knowledge spaces.

    Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • Architecture of Digital Libraries
    • Citation Analysis
    • Collaboration in Using Digital Libraries
    • Content-based Retrieval
    • Digital Library Projects and Case Studies
    • Electronic Publishing
    • Information Exploration
    • Value Added Information Services
    • Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    • Maintaining Digital Libraries
    • Metadata in Digital Libraries
    • Mobile Access to Digital Libraries (Visualisation on Small Screens)
    • Navigation and Search in Digital Libraries
    • Novel Methods of Information Access
    • Social Interaction through Digital Libraries
    • Social Networks
    • Usage Analysis, User Interface Design and Evaluation
    • User Modelling and Adaptive Interface Design
    • Visual Information Retrieval Visualising Queries, Search Engines, and Search Results
    • World Wide Web
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    For full information and submission guidelines, please see the IV2000 web site at < http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/DLIB.htm >.

  • EEI21 2000: The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, A Scholarly Symposium at the University of Memphis, 5 - 8 October 2000, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Call for proposals. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 24 March 2000. Contact Thomas Mendina via email <tmendina@memphis.edu> for information about submissions.

  • ICC'2000: International ICSC Symposium on Interactive and Collaborative Computing, 12 - 15 December 2000, University of Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2000.

    This symposium is being organized as part of the International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA'2000). Suggested topics for the ICC'2000 symposium are as follows:

    • Agent Based Systems
    • Adaptive and Adaptable Systems
    • Application for Disabled People
    • Computer Mediated Communication
    • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
    • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
    • Cooperative Database Systems
    • Digital Libraries / Museums
    • Ergonomic, Interface, and Cognitive Issues
    • Interactive Learning / Tutoring Environments
    • Human Computer Interaction
    • Multimedia, Hypermedia and New Media
    • User Modeling
    • Socialware / Communityware
    • Systems Evaluation
    • Teleworking / Telelearning Environments
    • Wearable / Ubiquitous Computing
    • Internet / Web Based Computing
    • Virtual and Augmented Realities

    Please see the ICC'2000 web site at < http://www.icsc.ab.ca/152-info.htm > for full details about submission and to link to the ISA'2000 conference call for papers.

  • Classification for User Support and Learning, 12 November 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Call for papers. Deadline for submission is 1 April 2000.

    Contributed by:
    Hanne Albrechtsen
    Center for Human-Machine Interaction
    Systems Analysis Department
    Risoe National Laboratory Roskilde, Denmark
    <hanne.albrechtsen@risoe.dk>

    The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 11th ASIS Classification Research Workshop to be held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of ASIS, 13 - 16 November 2000 in Chicago, IL. The workshop will be held on Sunday, November 12, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

    Scope

    Sought are theoretical and applied papers that advance the thinking about classification and ontologies with a non-exclusive focus on the use of these tools for user support and learning in a wide range of application domains such as mathematics, education and e-commerce. We seek submissions from all disciplines concerned with classification and ontologies.

    In addition to the paper sessions, the workshop will include an "idea mart" which will provide an opportunity for informal presentation and small-group discussion of emerging ideas, research topics and proposals, and prototypes of innovative systems. Potential idea mart presenters need to submit a 1-2 page description of their topic suitable for inclusion in the pre-proceedings.

    The workshop emphasizes both presentation and discussion of ideas. Participants are strongly encouraged to collaborate not only through presentations and reactions to presentations but also with proactive contributions as per the workshop guidelines that will be posted at the ASIS web site.

    Topics

    The following list of both general and specific topics is meant as a starting point for the development of further ideas.

    • Knowledge organization schemas for complex information systems, such as the Web as a whole, the NSF-sponsored National SMETE (Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education) Digital Library, or e-commerce.

    • Knowledge organization for intelligent information retrieval and question answering to better support users.

    • Knowledge organization for natural language processing, information extraction, summarization, or machine translation.

    • Knowledge organization systems as knowledge bases in their own right providing the information sought by the user.

    • End-user interactions with knowledge organization systems - visualization and browsing to assist in information needs clarification and query formulation.

    • Concept maps in education, collaboration and information system navigation.

    • Tools methodologies and frameworks for assisting users in constructing their own knowledge organization systems.

    • Distributed development of knowledge organization systems.

    • Evaluating ontologies and knowledge organization systems - notions of completeness, accuracy and reliability.

    • Evolution of knowledge schemas - conflict management, versioning and automatic adaptation.

    • Ontologies and interlingua.

    Submissions:

    Those interested in presenting are invited to first submit an extended abstract by 1 April 2000. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full version of their paper (1 June 2000) which will also be refereed for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. Authors of full research papers are expected to attend the workshop. The program committee will assist authors in preparing the final version of their paper.

    Accepted papers will be published in the preliminary workshop proceedings that will be mailed to early registrants prior to the workshop. Following the workshop, authors of full papers will be given the opportunity to revise their papers for final publication. The papers will be published in: Advances in Classification Research Vol. 11: Proceedings of the 11th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. (Previous proceedings have been published as Volumes 1 through 10 of Advances in Classification Research and are available from the publisher: Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055. Tel: 609-654-6266. URL: < http://www.infotoday.com>.

    Electronic submissions for abstracts and papers are strongly encouraged. Submissions should be sent to < padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu> as an attachment to an e-mail. The attached file should be in PDF, RTF, or PostScript and titled with the last name of the first submitting author. If electronic submission is not possible, two paper copies should be sent to the address below. Confirmation of receipt of a submission will be sent via e-mail.

    Padmini Srinivasan
    SIG/CR Chair
    School of Library and Information Science
    The University of Iowa
    Iowa City, IA,
    USA - 52242 br>

    Deadlines & Submission Details

    • 1 April 2000: Extended abstract in English, single-spaced and 2 to 3 pages in length received by the workshop chair. The abstract should provide the name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), fax, phone, e-mail of submitting author(s).

    • 1 May 2000: Notification of acceptance or rejection provided to submitters. Instructions for full papers will be provided at this time.

    • 1 June 2000: Full papers due.

    • 15 July 2000: Notification of preliminary acceptance or rejection of papers mailed. Reviewer comments included. Idea mart submissions (1-2 page description) due.

    • 1 August 2000: Notification of selected idea mart submissions.

    • 15 August 2000: Final copies of full research papers in camera-ready condition received by the workshop chair for publication in the workshop proceedings. Format for full paper submissions will be announced later.

    • 10 October 2000: Pre-proceedings mailed out to workshop registrants.

    • 20 October and beyond: Development of workshop web site: discussion questions, background reading etc., in collaboration with workshop registrants.

    Additional Information

    For information regarding ASIS SIG/CR please visit <  http://www.panix.com/~schwartz/asis.sigcr >. For information about the ASIS SIG/CR Workshop please visit <  http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr >.

  • Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link, 30 May 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 5 April 2000.

    This workshop is held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext and Digital Libraries conferences. The workshop will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure.

    The call for participation states: "The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing from it."

    Topics

    • Issues of presentation
      • Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)
      • Grouping of results
      • Labelling groups of documents
      • Creating hierarchies of results
      • Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results
    • Issues of results refinement
      • Similarities detected between results (represented in text)
      • Query refinement (textual options)
    • Issues of evaluation
      • How results are read
      • Does presentation change users navigation experience
      • Different users - different presentations?
      • Large scale studies
      • Task-specific studies
    • Issues of speed and efficiency
    • Commercial applications

    Please see the Information Doors web site for more information at < http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ >.

  • CCS 2000: 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, 1 - 4 November 2000, Athens, Greece. Call for papers. Submission deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2000.

    Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited. Papers may address theory, technique, applications or practical experiences on topics including:

    • Authentication and key management
    • Authorization, access control, audit
    • Cryptographic algorithms, protocols
    • Steganography, watermarking
    • Intrusion detection and response
    • Licensing and intellectual property
    • Malicious code and countermeasures
    • Database security
    • New threats and attacks
    • Privacy and anonymity
    • New security architectures
    • Secure electronic commerce
    • Security evaluation
    • Security education

    Instructions for submission of papers may be found at the CCS 2000 conference web site <&nbs;http://www.ccs2000.org/ >.

Goings On

  • Digitising Journals: Conference on future strategies for European libraries, 13 - 14 March 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark.

    This conference aims to work out a joint policy on digitisation and hopes to take the first steps towards the establishment of a European JSTOR. It is being organised by LIBER and Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEF) in co-operation with the European project DIEPER, the North American JSTOR project and NORDINFO, the Nordic Council for Scientific Information.

    Technical issues regarding digitisation that will be discussed include standards, production, metadata and identifiers for e-journals, and permanent access, and the conference will also concentrate on the economic and practical aspects involved in the work at the national level, such as prices and costing, best practices, out-sourcing, level of ambition, etc. The full programme may be seen at <http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/dieper/
    confprog.htm#programme    >.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Electronic Documents Conference, 16 - 17 March 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

    The Federal Government's Chief Information Officers' Council (CIO Council) is sponsoring this conference which has the following objectives:

    • To present and compare the electronic document visions and object models of the major suppliers of document creation software products

    • To present and compare the electronic document visions, models, and needs of major user enterprises in industry and government

    • To present and compare the electronic document standards efforts now underway, nationally and internationally

    • To identify the major issues in electronic document interoperability, for the period beginning in 2000

    • To prioritize the electronic document standards-making work needed in 2000-2005 and identify the voluntary consensus standards bodies that will do it

    • To establish a mechanism for compiling and communicating the standards-making work progress

    The conference will be conducted in English, is unclassified, and is open to all interested parties in the U.S. and elsewhere. Because of space limitations, organizations may send no more than two attendees. An online registration form is available at the conference web site.

    Please see the NIST web site < http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/e-docs/ > for more information.

  • CHI 2000: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1 - 6 April 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands.

    The annual CHI conference is a leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI). The theme for this year's conference is "The Future is Here."

    The advance program is now available for viewing at the CHI 2000 web site. Listed are tutorials, workshops, and a technical program made up of plenaries, papers, panels, demonstrations, organization overviews, short talks, a poster session, and special interest group meetings. Please see the CHI 2000 web site for details at < http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2000/index.html >.

  • Electronic Commerce in Information Industries: Technical Frontiers and Institutional Issues for Information Management Professionals, a GSLIS-2000 Clinic presented by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2 - 4 April 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

    The following press release was contributed by Cindy Kehoe, University of Illinois.

    Press Release

    Clinic to Examine Electronic Commerce in Information

    URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, IL - That we live in the "Information Age" is so widely accepted as to be considered a cliche. Now almost any information product you want -- books, journals, software, videos, music and more -- can be bought, sold, and delivered in completely electronic form. But even as we take this digital world for granted, staying on top of the latest technologies and markets for producing these goods can be challenging.

    This spring the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science will be gathering industry leaders to work through these issues. Entitled "Electronic Commerce in the Information Industries: Technical Frontiers and Institutional Issues for Information Management Professionals," the GSLIS-2000 Clinic will be held from April 2 - 4, 2000, at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    This year's keynote, "E-Books and Beyond: Information Content Standards for Encoding and Exchange," will be delivered by Allen Renear, director of the Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, and participant in the Open E-Book Initiative.

    Other topics to be addressed at the Clinic are:

    • Electronic Publishing and Information Logistics;
    • Information Collections and Repositories;
    • Organizational, Market, and Business Models;
    • Social and Institutional Transformations and Impacts.

    A detailed schedule and registration information can be found at < http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/clinic/ >.

    For further information contact Director of Communications Marlo Welshons, Phone: (217) 244-4643, Email: <welshons@uiuc.edu>.

  • Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries, 3 - 4 April 2000, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

    This conference is sponsored by the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium and hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. It aims to highlight the best practices in diversity in academic libraries. Scheduled speakers include:

    • The Hon. Hilda Tagle, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
    • Dr. Teresa Sullivan, Vice President and Graduate Dean at The University of Texas at Austin
    • Dr. Linda Crump, Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Access, and Diversity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Dr. James V. (Jim) Carmichael, Jr., Professor of Library and Information and Library Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    • Dr. Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Professor, University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science
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    For more information see the conference web site at < http://www.cudenver.edu/public/library/diversitynow/index.html >.

  • EGUK2000: 18th Eurographics UK Conference, 4 - 6 April 2000, Swansea, United Kingdom.

    This conference described its aims as:

    • celebrating the achievements of the UK graphics community over the past three decades;
    • presenting the latest research and development;
    • facilitating research collaborations and new initiatives; and
    • giving young researchers a head start in the new millennium.

    The first day program will include invited speeches. The second day will be devoted to parallel sessions for presenting technical papers and a special session on Populating the Virtual Cities. The final day will offer a series of visionary speeches, given by a panel of leading graphics experts from both industry and academia, who will look into the future developments of computer graphics, and its use in different application areas in the new millennium.

    The advance program, registration information, and other details may be found at the Eurographics conference web site at < http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/eguk/index.html >.

  • 10th Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy: Challenging the Assumptions, 4 - 7 April 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    The advance program for this conference lists the following titles of scheduled panels. This is just a sample, please see the conference program for the complete list of tutorials, panels, speakers, and other events:

    • Domain Names Under ICANN: Technical Management or Policy Chokepoint (panel)
    • Privacy Commissioners: Powermongers, Pragmatists or Patsies?
    • Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy
    • "Who Am I and Who Says So?": Privacy and Consumer Issues in Authentication
    • Internet Voting: Spurring or Corrupting Democracy

    The conference web site is located at < http://www.cfp2000.org/ >.

  • NEXT 1.0: An International Conference, sponsored by the Media and Communications Department of Karlsbad University, 5 - 7 April 2000, Karstad, Sweden.

    The themes of this conference are:

    • Creating Content for Interactive New Media - developing alternative approaches to the design of narrativity in interactive digital environments

    • Virtual Connected Communities - considering transformations of technology in terms of the changing human machine interface

    • Storytelling - determining the relationship between writing technology and individuals who use this technology to either write or read

    For more information, please see the conference web site at < http://www.media.kau.se/next/NEXT.html >.

  • ASIS Summit 2000 Information Architecture: Defining Information Architecture, 7 - 9 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    The following is an excerpt from the conference web site that outlines the goals of the ASIS Summit 2000 conference:

    "As the Web matures, many organizations are realizing that a quality information architecture is an absolute requirement for successfully bringing together users and content while meeting organizational goals and resource constraints. As a result, many organizations are attempting to hire information architects. However, the field is relatively new and ill-defined; there is no consensus regarding the disciplinary background, skill sets, and expertise that validate information architects. This ASIS-sponsored conference looks to provide the first inter-disciplinary venue for"

    "Exploring definitions for Information Architecture.

    Outlining the types of expertise that should contribute to the practice of Information Architecture.

    Understanding the role of the Information Architect within different settings.

    Bringing together the broader community of information architects."

    To see the advance program and list of speakers, please see the ASIS Summit 2000 web site at < http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/ >.

  • Search Engines and Beyond, 10 - 11 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    This Search Engines Meeting will provide a forum where commercial search engine developers, academics and corporate professionals can meet and learn from each other.

    The advance program for this meeting, which is the fifth of the Search Engine meetings to be held, is now available at the meeting web site. Also located at the site are links to slides of presentations from the previous Search Engine conferences. The web site is located at < http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/index.html >.

  • SCECSAL 2000: Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians, 10 - 15 April 2000, Windhoek, Namibia.

    SCECSAL is a regional grouping of library and information associations. The SCECSAL region covers the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    The theme of the SCECSAL 2000 Conference is: Information 2000: A Vision for the SCECSAL Region. Conference sub-themes will include:

    • provision of library and information services
    • SCECSAL in the global village
    • professional development
    • training and research
    • marketing of library and information services
    • management of library and information systems
    • archives and records management
    • heritage
    • sectoral information systems (i.e., Agricultural Information Systems, Health Information Systems, etc.)

    For registration instructions and to see the conference program, please visit the web site at < http://www.unam.na/1370/niwa/scecsal.htm >.

  • ICDCS 2000: The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 12 - 14 April 2000, Paris, France.

    This conference is sponsored by the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, CEA,DGA,ELRA,ELSNET and with the collaboration of ASIS, FRANCIL, and ESCA. The following is a description of the conference found at the RIAO web site:

    "The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications."

    The advance program is now available at the conference web site, < http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO/frame.htm >.

  • Museums and the Web 2000, 16 - 19 April 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

    Now in its fourth year, Museums and the Web 2000 will provide a review the state of the web in arts and heritage. Speakers from around the world are scheduled to present their ideas in sessions and panels that explore theory and practice at both basic and advanced levels. Pre-conference workshops provide in-depth study of methods and issues. Exhibits will feature hot tools, new techniques and services to help you get things done.

    Please see the conference web site for more information at < http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/ >.

  • Managing the Digital Future of Libraries, 18 - 19 April 2000, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia.

    This international conference will mark the final phase of the European Union –- Russian State Library project "To Create an Information System for the Russian State Library".

    The aims of the conference are:

    • to present results and lessons learnt from the EU project and other RSL IT projects
    • to discuss main issues and future activities of digital library development in Russia
    • to stimulate Russian-international dialogue and cooperation in digital library

    Please see the conference web site at < http://www.rsl.ru/tacis/conf.htm > for more information about the project that led to this conference.

  • The Ninth Off-Campus Library Services Conference (OCLS), 26 - 28 April 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA.

    This conference is sponsored by the Central Michigan University Libraries and the CMU's College of Extended Learning.

    The following description of the conference and its goals are from the OCLS web site:

    "Past conferences have attracted academic, corporate, medical, and military librarians from around the world as well as college and university faculty, administrators, and government officials. All attendees have been involved in one of the fastest growing and most innovative sectors in higher education -- the providing of library services and instructional support to adult learners located at a distance from their main campuses, corporate or institutional headquarters, or primary training sites."

    "The primary objective of the conference is to provide a forum where practitioners and administrators involved with library services for off-campus constituents can gather to exchange relevant ideas, concerns, and perspectives, and to share research."

    Please visit the conference web site for full information at < http://www.lib.cmich.edu/ocls/conference/portland.htm >.

  • CONSAL 2000 - 11th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians: Stepping into the New Millennium, Challenges for Library and Information Professionals, 26 - 28 April 2000, Singapore, Malaysia.

    This conference will address how the library and information profession can reinforce the roles it is positioned to fill in the new knowledge based economy and how libraries can contribute to economic and social development of nations.

    Scheduled conference speakers will address a wide range of topics from the most basic to the most innovative services that are being developed by librarians and information technology professionals.

    Please see the CONSAL web site, < http://www.consal.org.sg/main2.htm > for full information about the conference.

Pointers in this Column

10th Conference on Computers, Freedom &amp; Privacy: Challenging the Assumptions, 4 - 7 April 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

http://www.cfp2000.org/

66th IFLA General Conference, 13 - 18 August 2000, Jerusalem, Israel. Call for poster proposals. Deadline for submission is 1 March 2000.

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/66intro.htm

Abstracts available online from the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

http://computer.org/proceedings/hicss/0001/0001toc.htm

ACM Multimedia 2000: 8th ACM International Multimedia Conference, 30 October - 3 November 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 March 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM2000/cfp/CfPMM2000.html

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) 28th Annual Conference: Links to the Past, Bridges to the Future, 16 - 22 March 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.arlisna.org/conference.html

ASIS Summit 2000 Information Architecture: Defining Information Architecture, 7 - 9 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/

CCS 2000: 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, 1 - 4 November 2000, Athens, Greece. Call for papers. Submission deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2000.

http://www.ccs2000.org/

CHI 2000: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1 - 6 April 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands.

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2000/index.html

Classification for User Support and Learning, 12 November 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Call for papers. Deadline for submission is 1 April 2000.

http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr/call.html

Computers in Libraries 2000, 15 - 17 March 2000, Washington, D.C., USA.

http://www.infotoday.com/cil2000/

CONSAL 2000 - 11th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians: Stepping into the New Millennium, Challenges for Library and Information Professionals, 26 - 28 April 2000, Singapore, Malaysia.

http://www.consal.org.sg/main2.htm

Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University)

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

DAC 2000: 3rd International Digital Arts & Culture Conference, 2 - 4 August 2000, Bergen Norway. Call for papers. The deadline for proposal submission is 1 March 2000.

http://cmc.uib.no/dac/

DCMI Update

http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-02.htm

Democracy and the Rule of Law in a Changing World Order

http://lcweb.loc.gov/bicentennial/programs_symposium.html

Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems: Manual for Commonwealth Agencies (Draft)

http://www.naa.gov.au/Govserv/techpub/DIRKSman/dirks.html

DEXA 2000: Database and Expert Systems Conference, 4 - 8 September 2000, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.dexa.org/

Digitising Journals: Conference on future strategies for European libraries, 13 - 14 March 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/dieper/confer.htm

Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries, 3 - 4 April 2000, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

http://www.cudenver.edu/public/library/diversitynow/index.html

DRH 2000: Digital Resources for the Humanities, 10 - 13 September 2000, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. Call for proposals. The submission deadline is 6 March 2000.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/

EEI21 2000: The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, A Scholarly Symposium at the University of Memphis, 5 - 8 October 2000, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Call for proposals. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 24 March 2000.

tmendina@memphis.edu

EGUK2000: 18th Eurographics UK Conference, 4 - 6 April 2000, Swansea, United Kingdom.

http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/eguk/index.html

Electronic Commerce in Information Industries: Technical Frontiers and Institutional Issues for Information Management Professionals, a GSLIS-2000 Clinic presented by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and

Information Science, 2 - 4 April 2000, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/clinic/

Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts: EVA 2000 Florence, 27 - 31 March 2000, Florence, Italy.

http://lci.die.unifi.it/Events/Eva2000/eva2000.html

Electronic Publishing of Data Sets on the World Wide Web, (A Workshop Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries), 13 - 15 March 2000, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/arl.workshop/

German Classification Society GfKl 24th Annual Conference, 15 - 17 March 2000, University of Passau, Passau, Germany.

http://stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de/gfkl2000/indexen.html

HICSS-34: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3 - 6 January 2001, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2000.

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

ICC'2000: International ICSC Symposium on Interactive and Collaborative Computing, 12 - 15 December 2000, University of Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2000.

http://www.icsc.ab.ca/152-info.htm

ICDCS 2000: The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 12 - 14 April 2000, Paris, France.

http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO/frame.htm

ICLT 2000: Does Technology Make a Difference, 8 - 10 March 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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

Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link, 30 May 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 5 April 2000.

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/

Information Strategies for the Next Century, 15 - 17 March 2000, Fort Myers, Florida, USA.

http://www.fgcu.edu/infostrategies/

International World-Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2 WWW9 International Conference, 15 - 19 May 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call for workshop participation. Deadline 1 March 2000.

http://www.iw3c2.org/

IV2000 - Symposium of Information Visualisation in Digital Libraries, 19 - 21 July 2000, London, England, United Kingdom. Call for participation. Deadline for submission of papers is 17 March 2000.

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/DLIB.htm

Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)

http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html

KnowRight 2000: InfoEthics Europe, 26 - 29 September 2000, Vienna, Austria. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers for this joint conference is 3 March 2000.

http://www.ocg.at/infoethics.html

Library and Information Science, Librarianship

http://www.lub.lu.se/netlab/documents/lisres.html

LISNews.com: Information Science News

http://www.lisnews.com/

LITA California Regional Institutes, 22 February 2000, San Francisco, California, USA, and 23 February 2000, Ontario, California, USA.

http://www.lita.org/institut/index.html

Managing the Digital Future of Libraries, 18 - 19 April 2000, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia.

http://www.rsl.ru/tacis/conf.htm

Museums and the Web 2000, 16 - 19 April 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference - Y2Content: The Battle for the Desktop, 20 - 23 February 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais/Conf2000/conf_prog.html

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Electronic Documents Conference, 16 - 17 March 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/e-docs/

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Electronic Documents Conference, 16 - 17 March 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

http://xw2k.sdct.itl.nist.gov/e-docs/

NEXT 1.0: An International Conference, sponsored by the Media and Communications Department of Karlsbad University, 5 - 7 April 2000, Karstad, Sweden.

http://www.media.kau.se/NEXT.html

PhysNet: the Physics Departments and Documents Network

http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/EPS/PhysNet/

Public Space in Cyberspace: Library Advocacy in the Information Age

http://www.lff.org/advocacy/technology/public/entirepublic.html

SAINT-2001: The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 8 - 12 January 2000, San Diego, California, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submissions of tutorials and workshop proposals is 1 March 2000.

http://computer.org/tab/TCI/SAINT/

SCECSAL 2000: Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians, 10 - 15 April 2000, Windhoek, Namibia.

http://www.unam.na/1370/niwa/scecsal.htm

Search Engines and Beyond, 10 - 11 April 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/index.html

Seventh International Conference: Crimea 2000, 3 - 11 June 2000, Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine. Call for papers. The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2000.

http://www.iliac.org/crimea2000/eng_inf.html

Sixteenth International Unicode Conference: Unicode and the Web - The Global Connection, 27 - 30 March 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc16/

Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery &amp; Data Mining, 20 - 23 August 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline for electronically submitted abstracts is 28 February 2000.

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2000/

SPEC Kit 253: Networked Information Resources

http://www.arl.org/spec/253sum.html

The Economics and Use of Digital Library Collections, 23 - 24 March 2000, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/

The Ninth Off-Campus Library Services Conference (OCLS), 26 - 28 April 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA.

http://www.lib.cmich.edu/ocls/conference/portland.htm

Third International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Applying New Media to Scholarship, 16 - 18 March 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

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

WebNet 2000 World Conference, 30 October - 4 November 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 23 February 2000.

http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/webnet2000call.htm

WET ICE 2000 - IEEE 9th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 14 - 16 June 2000, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Call for papers for WET ICE Workshops. The deadline for submission of papers is 10 March 2000.

http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/WETICE/WETICE2000/

Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2000), 14 May 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 20 March 2000.

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~dg/DMKD_main.htm

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DOI: 10.1045/february2000-clips