D-Lib Magazine
December 1996

ISSN 1082-9873

Clips and Pointers

Workshop Summary: UK Serials Group -- Learning to Live with E- Journals: Some Practical Solutions

Point-to-Point

• The National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) comprises a distributed collection of software and other material important to the high performance and parallel computing community, including a web site with pointers to software, information on new technologies, activities and programs, and other information (such as databases and publications). New resources at this site include:
  HPC-Netlib: High Performance Math Software, a branch of the software library NetLib (see story in D-Lib Magazine, September 1995)
  PTLIB: Parallel Tools Library
  Chemistry Software and Information Resources
  NHSE Review �, an on-line journal, which reviews HPCC software and technologies.

• The Bodleian Library, Oxford, has released its first digital imaging project, the Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project, a collection of some 8000 images of transport and motoring material from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera on the web. The project focuses on 15 boxes of Motor Car material held by the John Johnson Collection, considered the most important collection of printed ephemera in the United Kingdom and possibly in the world and comprising more than a million items, divided into 700 subject headings and covering the period, 1508 to the present. Bibliographic information for each item has been converted to SGML format, conforming to the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) scheme. The SGML records are processed by a TCL script and converted to HTML for display on the World Wide Web. The interface permits users to browse the collection topically, returning thumbnails of the images as well as text descriptions, and also supports searching.

• The Surgical Planning Laboratory of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have established a series of web sites devoted to the Brain Atlas datasets. These resources embody several advanced information technology applications: the data have been recovered via magnetic resonance (MR) and computerized tomography (CT) diagnostic imaging techniques and reconstructed as three-dimensional images; use of java applets enable dynamic interaction with the images (e.g., rotation); and a series of MPEG movies allow users to "fly through" various anatomical structures. The relevant sites include:
  Explanatory Paper on Brain Atlas
  Brain Surface
  Deep Grey Matter
  Ventricles
  SPL Images and Animations

• The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Wisconsin General Library System, and the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have cooperated in the creation of the SouthEast Asia images and Texts project (SEAiT). The project involves digitally encoding photographs from Southeast Asia and storing them on photo CD-ROM and has also resulted in release of an interactive multimedia database on the Internet, which offers important materials supporting the study of Southeast Asia. Images in the collection can be searched by keyword; curriculum materials and "guided tours" (i.e., canned searches) are also available at the site.

In Print

• The Groupe interuniversitaire de recherche en sciences de l'information et de la communication (GIRSIC) has released Solaris, an annual review devoted to covering research in information science and communications, including digital libraries. All three issues (1994, 1995, and 1996) are now available at the web site. Articles in the journal are in English as well as in French.

• Buildings, books, and bytes is a report issued by the Benton Foundation at the request of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The study describes research on the future of libraries in the "digital age" based on several complementary methodologies including written responses, telephone interviews, focus groups, and surveys.

• The World Intellectual Property Organization Diplomatic Conference will conclude on December 20, 1996. A Draft Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Databases was made available for comment in August. A copy of the proposed treaty has been posted by the Library of Congress. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) accepted public comments. Selections of these may be viewed at Stanford University Libraries Copyright and Fair Use.

Goings On

• First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 1-3 September 1997, Pisa, Italy
  Carol Peters, Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa

  As part of its Digitial Library Initiative, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) has decided to organize a series of conferences on research and advanced technology for digital libraries. These conferences are partially funded by the Training, Mobility and Resources (TMR) programme of the European Union. The aim is to give researchers from universities, research centres, industry and government the opportunity to meet once a year to discuss evolving research issues and applications. The intention is to provide a European forum in which to identify key problems, and to propose and encourage specific, high-priority research themes.

  The first Conference will be held in Pisa in early September 1997. For up-to-date information, see: http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/.

• ASIS 1997 Annual Meeting: Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers, and Maintainers. Submissions for this conference, to be held November 1-6, 1997, will close December 15, 1996. For a preliminary program description, instructions for submissions, and up-to-date information, see: http://www.asis.org/annual-97/ASIS97.htm

• 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources, March 2-4, 1997. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will sponsor this conference at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign campus. The preliminary program description outlines a number of interesting and important questions relating to information organization and retrieval in globally distributed information resources. For updated information, see: http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc/index.html.

• Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property, Harvard University, January 23-25, 1997. This conference is sponsored by the Information Infrastructure Project of Harvard University in association with the Council on Library Resources and the Coalition for Networked Information. A preliminary description of the conference and a contact for obtaining further information are available at: http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/econ.html.

• Second Annual Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Symposium, Monterey, California, February 24-26, 1997. VRML 97 is an academic and technical symposium sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCOMM, in cooperation with the VRML Consortium are sponsoring the Second Annual Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Symposium. The conference will provide a range of technical papers, educational opportunities, demonstrations, and exhibits. More information is available at http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml97.

Pointers in This Column:

34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources March 2-4, 1997	http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc/index.html.
ASIS 1997 Annual Meeting: Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers, and Maintainers	http://www.asis.org/annual-97/ASIS97.htm
Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project	http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/
Brain Atlas Datasets (Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
Brain Surface Deep Grey Matter Ventricles Explanatory Paper on Brain Atlas SPL Images and Animations	http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/atlas/text.html http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/umans/brain1.html http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/umans/brain2.html http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/umans/brain3.html http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/images_movies.html
Buildings, books, and bytes	http://www.benton.org/Kellogg/
Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property Harvard University	http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/econ.html.
First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries	http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL
National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE)	http://www.nhse.org/
NPC-Netlib: Higher Performance Math Software	http://www.nhse.org/hpc-netlib
PTLIB: Parallel Tools Library	http://www.nhse.org/ptlib/
Chemistry Software and Information Resources	http://nhse.npac.syr.edu/chemistry
NHSE Review�	http://nhse.cs.rice.edu/NHSEreview/
Second Annual Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Symposium Monterey, California February 24-26, 1997	http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml97.
Solaris	http://www.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/"
SouthEast Asia images and Texts project (SEAiT)	http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/"
World Intellectual Property Organization
Draft Treaty posted by the Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov/copyright/wipo6.html
Selection of comments at Stanford University Libraries Copyright & Fair Use	http://fairuse.stanford.edu/database/index.html

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