D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2003)

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	Taking Stock by Bonita Wilson Letters From Maggie Brazeau, Google Answers Researcher Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs: The CORES Resolution Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Makx Dekkers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Using the OAI-PMH ... Differently Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Jeffrey A. Young and Thomas B. Hickey, OCLC Office of Research *What Do We Mean by Authentic?: What's the Real McCoy? H.M. Gladney, HMG Consulting; and J.L. Bennett, Independent Consultant*	A stomatopod collected on a research mission off the coast of Florida. Copyright © Roy Caldwell. Courtesy of University of California Museum of Paleontology. Used with permission. The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.
	User Evaluation of the Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS): In-Depth Evaluation of Digital Collections Using Snowball Sampling and Interviews Elaine Peterson and Vicky York, Montana State University-Bozeman Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): 27 - 31 May 2003, Houston, Texas Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide: Highlights of the ETD 2003 Symposium John H. Hagen, West Virginia University; and Susanne Dobratz and Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt University University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Colleen Whitney, University of California Museum of Paleontology Building a More Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA) Workshop Summary Javed Mostafa, Indiana University, Bloomington Report on the "OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop" at JCDL 2003 Simeon Warner, Cornell University Cross-cultural Considerations in Digital Library Research: Report from the JCDL 2003 Workshop Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto and Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County New Preservation Metadata Working Group Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation MetaTest: Putting Metadata to the Test Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University Cinema Context Collection (CCC) Renze Brandsma, University of Amsterdam Seminar on Application of the Dublin Core Metadata Model in Spain Eva Méndez, Carlos III University of Madrid VTT Publications Register is now OAI Compatible Timo Hellgren, VTT Information Service In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements
	*In Print* A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyber-infrastructure Institutional Portals: A Review of Outputs The Digital Library Tool Kit, 3rd Edition The Digital Campus Primer From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence: Preserving email Archives in the Digital Age: A Study for Resource Consumer Survey on Electronic Books Ubiquity Digital Document Quarterly DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation Practical Experiences in Digital Preservation Conference Proceedings LIBER Microfilming and Digitisation for Preservation Workshop Papers and Photos *Point to Point* LISFeeds.com - Librarian & Information Science News Feeds Usability Research Laboratory (URL) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholar-Based Innovations in Publishing *Calls for Participation* NASIG 2004 Annual Conference, Growth, Creativity, and Collaboration: Great visions on a Great Lake, North American Serials Interest Group, 17 - 20 June 2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Call for Ideas E-Learn 2003, 7 - 11 November 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Call for Participation. The deadline for submissions is 29 August 2003 CUMREC 2004: Spicing Up Technology, 9 - 12 May 2004, Austin, Texas, USA. Call for Proposals. The Call for Proposals will open in early September Fifth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC), 18 - 22 January 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 5 September 2003 ICDL 2004, International Conference on Digital Libraries, Knowledge Creation, Preservation, Access, and Management, 24 - 27 February 2004, New Delhi, India. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2003 ISKO 2004, 8th International Conference of International Society of the Knowledge Organization, Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society, 13 - 16 July 2004, London, United Kingdom. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2003 IUI/CADUI 2004, Intelligent User Interfaces and Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces, 13 - 16 January 2004, Island of Madeira, Portugal. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2003 WSCG 2004, 12th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2004, 2 - 6 February 2004, Plzen, Czech Republic. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 9 October 2003 IS&T Archiving Conference, 18 - 21 April 2004, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2003 EEE 2004, International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-04), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 29 - 31 March 2004, Taipei, Taiwan. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2003 ECIR'04, 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 5 - 7 April 2004, Sunderland, United Kingdom. Call for Participation. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2003. AVI 2004, Advanced Visual Interfaces, 25 - 28 May 2004, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 14 November 2003 SIS 2004, 22nd Annual Convention and Conference of Society for Information Science, Digital Information Exchange: Pathways to Build Global Information Society, 21 - 23 January 2004, Chennai, India. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2003 JCDL 2004, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Global Reach and Diverse Impact, 7 - 11 June 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2004 *Goings On* DEXA 2003 Events - DEXA 2003, DaWaK 2003, EC-Web 2003, EGOV 2003, HoloMAS 2003, 1 - 5 September 2003, Prague, Czech Republic INTERACT 2003, 9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Bringing the Bits Together, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), 1 - 5 September 2004, Zürich, Switzerland 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop, In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open Archives, 4 - 5 September 2003, Bath, United Kingdom 2003 Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments, Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, 8 - 9 September 2003, Espoo, Finland WebSearch University, 8 - 9 September 2003, Washington, D.C., USA ALT-C 2003, 10th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 8 - 10 September 2003, Sheffield, United Kingdom DAFx-03, 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 8 - 11 September 2003, London, United Kingdom ICHIM 2003, 7th International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, 8 - 12 September 2003, Paris, France VLDB 2003, 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 9 - 12 September 2003, Berlin, Germany 12th ALIA National Library Technicians Conference, Bridging services – embracing reality, Australian Library and Information Association, 9 - 12 September 2003, Queensland, Australia Indexing the World of Information, Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI), 12 - 13 September 2003, Sydney, Australia CCI Symposium 2003 - Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge and Decision-making, Canadian Conservation Institute, 15 - 18 September 2003, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, 15 - 18 September 2003, Hamburg, Germany ECKM 2003, 4th European Conference on Knowledge Management, 18 - 19 September 2003, Oxford, United Kingdom Changing Images: The role of photographic collections in a digital age, 18 - 20 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland CLEF 2003, Cross Language Evaluation Forum, 19 - 20 September 2003, Rome, Italy Libraries Without Walls 5, The Distributed Delivery of Library and Information Services, CERLIM, 19 - 23 September 2003, Lesvos, Greece ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting, 21 - 23 September 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada I3E2003, 3rd IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-business, and E-government, 21 - 24 September 2003, Sän Paulo, Brazil IALL 2003, 22nd Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, New Rights - New Laws: Legal Information in a Changing World, International Association of Law Libraries, 21 - 25 September 2003, Cape Town, South Africa Online Learning Conference & Expo, 22 - 24 September 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, 24 - 26 September 2003, Dublin, Ireland DC2003, 2003 Dublin Core Conference, 28 September - 2 October 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA Thesauri and Taxonomies: an international conference and workshop, Multisystems, 29 - 30 September 2003, London, United Kingdom LIANZA 2003, 7 - 10 October 2003, Napier, New Zealand KMWorld & Intranets 2003, 14 - 16 October 2003, Santa Clara, California, USA RESONANCES 2003, International Convention on Technologies for Music (IRCAM), 15 - 24 October 2003, Paris, France ASIS&T 2003 Annual Conference, Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back, 19 - 22 October 2003, Long Beach, California, USA ISWC2003, 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, 20 - 23 October 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA Pocket PC Summit, 20 - 23 October 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA K-CAP 2003, 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 23 - 25 October 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA ISMIR 2003, 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 26 - 30 October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 8th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, 28 - 31 October 2003, Canberra, Australia *Deadline Reminders* ICADL 2003, 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries SCI 2003, 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Syllabus 2003, Exploring Technology Solutions for Higher Education Professionals SIGGRAPH 2003, 30th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries ACM SIGIR 2003 PISTA 2003 & CCCT 2003 Workshop on the Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Systems Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections IFLA 2003, World Library and Information Congress ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems IJCAI-03, 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence RENCON, a Workshop on Methods for Automatic Music Performance and Their Applications in a Public Rendering Contest DL2003, 19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning ALISE 2004 IEEE TCDL Bulletin ECDL 2003, 7th European Digital Libraries Conference 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives KDD 2003 Creating Electronic Texts and Images Hypertext '03, 14th International Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia World Information Technology Forum, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) DRH 2003 Conference, Digital Resources for the Humanities
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