D-Lib Magazine
April 1997

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips and Pointers

In Print

• Once upon a time. . .Japanese Folk Tales in English, French, and Japanese. This combination conversion/multilingual translation project hosted by the University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, offers web access to traditional Japanese tales in three languages and invites volunteers to participate in building the collection in three ways: by adding new "old tales"; by translating a Japanese tale into one of several various languages. (German, Chinese, Italian, Korean, etc.), and by painting illustrations for the subject tales. This is part of an on-going multilingual effort at the university, which embraces developing multilingual browsers as well as offering materials in translation.

• The Making of America is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Michigan, which will create a digital library of approximately 5,000 items documenting American social history in the period 1850-1877. This collection will be made available to the academic communities at each institution. The site currently supports searching and browsing and contains a complete description of the goals and methods of the project.

• Timeframes is an on-line database of approximately 1.300 cultural and historical images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, at the National Library of New Zealand. The collection is made available to the public, free-of-charge until June 30, 1997, enabling users to search, browse and print images from the entire collection at no cost. Free sample images will still be available after July 1997 but additional services will require subscription

• New Journals
  • International Journal on Digital Libraries. Springer-Verlag has scheduled release of the print version of this journal for April 28, 1997; the content will go on-line at approximately the same time at http://link.springer.de/journals/ijodl/. This is a juried publication devoted to covering all aspects of digital libraries research.

  • Journal of Digital Information. A new electronic journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press, the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) is hosted by the University of Southampton Multimedia Group and will be mirrored at the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A & M University. No parallel, paper version is intended. Among the topics to be covered are digital libraries, hypermedia systems, intelligent agents, information management, interfaces to digital information, social consequences of digital information, and digital information design.

Point-to-Point

• The New York State Electronic Doorway Library (EDL) Network is a network offering users a consolidated gateway to the on-line resources belonging to schools, public agencies, hospitals, and academic and special libraries statewide. The program is sponsored by the state's nine Reference and Research Resources Councils.

• Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Archival Data Online Repository offers World Wide Web access to a twelve collections supporting research in history, sociology, and the environment. Each collection is accompanied by appropriate documentation (e.g., the study that created the data, the codebook) and usage requirements.

• The Getty Information Institute's a.k.a. is an experimental searching tool that uses two controlled vocabularies to provide enhanced access to databases of cultural information: the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN. Three databases are searchable via the web: the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Avery); the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) [1975-1989]; and the Provenance Index Databases (comprising Sale Catalogues and Sale Contents).

• The European Register of Microform Masters (EROMM) Database enables registered users to search more than 350,000 records of books held by European libraries that have been re-formatted in microfilm or other media as a preservation strategy. The databases are available in English and German. EROMM has undertaken a coordinative role. However, the site also offers users the ability to place orders for re-formatted items.

Goings On

• Books at Virginia: Rare Book School, July 14 - Friday 8 August 8, 1997. The Rare Book School (RBS) at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, offers a collection of five- day, non-credit courses on topics concerning electronic texts, rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. Students make a full-time commitment to any course they attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday; most students also attend an informal dinner on the Sunday evening before their first class on Monday. In addition to the formal classes, there are early-evening public lectures and other events throughout the four weeks of RBS.

  For an application form and a copy of the RBS 1997, write Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498; or fax 804/924-8824; or e-mail [email protected]; or telephone 804/924-8851. Electronic copies of the Expanded Course Description and various other RBS documents can be accessed through the World Wide Web site: http://poe.acc.Virginia.EDU/~oldbooks/rbs97/.

• Networking And Telecommunications Conference, The University of Texas at Austin J. J. Pickle Research Campus, April 30, 1997. This one-day conference addresses issues in telecommunications and networking technologies with sessions on infrastructure, Internet 2, and security.

• 5th ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 15-16, 1997. Call for papers closes May 1, 1997. The focus of the conference is research on systems based on spatial data and knowledge, including but not limited to digital libraries, decision support, data mining, interoperability, and metadata.

• The Northeast Document Conservation Center is sponsoring two events in May: a three-day workshop beginning May 6, 1997 on Reformatting for Preservation in a Digital World, to be held in College Park, Maryland; and School for Scanning: Preservation and Access in a Digital World, May 12-14, 1997, in Berkeley, California. Information on the College Park workshop is available at the Center's web page; for further information on the Berkeley seminar, contact the Center directly at:
  Northeast Document Conservation Center
  attn.: Gail Pfeilfle
  100 Brickstone Square
  Andover, MA 01810-1494

• The 1997 Spring Congress of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), May 28-31, 1997, in San Jose, California, is organized around the theme of "Information Technology in Community Health". Registration and program information is available at the association's web page. Early registration closes May 9, 1997.

• A License to Kill? Copyright Ownership and Fair Use in an Age of Licensing, University of California, Berkeley, May 10, 1997. This one-day conference will address a series of issues related to public interest and reasonable access, rights management, copyright protection, and patents.

• SIGIR '97 Workshop on Networked Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1997. Call for papers closes May 15, 1997. Among the topics covered by the call are resource selection; data fusion or merging; browsing, summarization, and visualization; retrieval of heterogeneous objects; multilinguality; metaknowledge; user interfaces; and architectures for networked information retrieval. The workshop is part of SIGIR '97: 20th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, which runs from July 27-31, 1997.

• Delivering the Curriculum and Student Services in a Technologically Enriched Fashion, Newark, Delaware, May 21-23, 1997. Hosted by the University of Delaware and co-sponsored by CAUSE and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), this conference features a series of sessions that address the implications of advanced information technologies for higher education including issues traditionally associated with digital libraries (e.g., the "virtual library", intellectual property, economics of information, etc.). Registration information is available at http://www.cause.org/conference/regional/r97 d/ r97d.html

• RIAO '97 Conference; Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet, Montreal, June 25-27, 1997. RIAO '97 is the fifth in a series of conferences sponsored every three years by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris in cooperation with various international sponsors. The final program, which covers topics in web-based information discovery and retrieval, data mining, visualization, automatic summarization, and natural language, has been released.

• International Symposium on Research, Development, and Practice in Digital Libraries (ISDL '97), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 18-21, 1997. This symposium will address a number of issues and topics related to digital libraries research and development including but not limited to: high performance computing, multimedia storage and communications technologies; electronic publishing, multilinguality, and collaboration. Paper proposals are due by June 30, 1997.

Pointers in This Column:

5th ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Systems Las Vegas, Nevada, USA November 15-16, 1997	http://www.insalyon.fr/Labos/LISI/GIS.html
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 1997 Spring Congress: Information Technology in Community Health San Jose, CA May 28-31, 1997	http://www.amia.org
Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) University of Wisconsin-Madison	http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/index.html
Delivering the Curriculum and Student Services in a Technologically Enriched Fashion Newark, Delaware May 21-23, 1997	http://www.cause.org/conference/regional/r97 d/ r97d.html
European Register of Microform Masters (EROMM) Database	http://www.brzn.de/eromm/gbvero-e.htm
Getty Information Institute's a.k.a.	http://www.ahip.getty.edu/aka/
International Journal on Digital Libraries	http://link.springer.de/journals/ijodl.
International Symposium on Research, Development, and Practice in Digital Libraries (ISDL '97) Tsukuba Science City, Japan November 18-21, 1997	http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL97
Journal of Digital Information	http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/jodi/.
Making of America	http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/
Networking And Telecommunications Conference The University of Texas at Austin J. J. Pickle Research Campus April 30, 1997	http://www.ots.utexas.edu/conference/
New York State Electronic Doorway Library (EDL) Network	http://www.nyedl.net
Northeast Document Conservation Center Andover, MA	http://www.nedcc.org/
Once upon a time. . .Japanese Folk Tales in English, French, and Japanese	http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales
Rare Book School Alderman Library University of Virginia	http://poe.acc.Virginia.EDU/~oldbooks/rbs97/
RIAO '97 Conference Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet Montreal, June 25-27, 1997	http://www.sciences.univ- nantes.fr/RIAO97
SIGIR '97 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 31, 1997	http://www.acm.org/sig_conferences/conf_by_d ate.html
Timeframes	http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz/

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