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_Current Cites_
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Volume 8, no. 1
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January 1997
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.1.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, Terry Huwe,
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Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart,
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Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
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Brown, Elizabeth W. and Andrea L. Duda. "Electronic Publishing
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Programs in Science and Technology, Part 1: The Journals" Issues
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in Science and Technology Librarianship 13 (Fall 1996-Winter
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1997). (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/96-fall/brown-duda.html)
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-- This survey article summarizes information on the electronic
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publishing programs of fourteen commercial and professional
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association publishers in science and technology fields. The
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tabular format makes it easy to quickly survey the offerings. Read
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it online and you can "click through" to the publisher's Web sites.
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Part two of the article to be published in the next issue will
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focus on abstracting and indexing services. -- RT
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Litman, Jessica. "Copyright Law and Electronic Access to
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Information" First Monday 4 (http://www.firstmonday.dk)
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-- Litman's article is adapted from a speech she gave to LITA at
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the 1996 meeting of the American Library Association. It's a
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skillful summation of the tension between "fair use" values and
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market values. Readers will also appreciate the easy-to-follow
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guide to the first draft of the "Lehman Report" which set the stage
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for the late 1996 international debate about copyright. This is a
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useful refresher on the issues. -- TH
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"Metadata, Dublin Core and USMARC: A Review of Current Efforts"
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MARBI Discussion Paper no. 99, Library of Congress, January 21,
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1997. (gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/.listarch/usmarc/dp99.doc)
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-- If you have no need to describe images for Internet access, and
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the word "metadata" has no meaning to you, then skip this cite. The
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rest of you should pull up a scanner and have a seat. Describing
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the essential elements of a text document or image for the purposes
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of providing access to it is the process of collecting metadata, or
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information about information. Librarians have been doing this for
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centuries, with some very powerful and yet quite complicated tools
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(MARC, AACR2, etc.). With the advent of the Internet and
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digitization technologies, we are suddenly faced with the prospect
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of trying to provide structured access to millions of individual
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images, text documents, manuscripts, sound files, movies, or
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whatever else can be stored on a computer. A simple and yet
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extensible standard for describing digital objects would allow just
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about anyone to describe their files in a way that could be
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interpreted by almost anyone else, and thus provide easy access to
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a huge amount of digital content. Right now the draft standard that
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appears to be making the greatest headway is called the Dublin
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Core, named for the town in Ohio where the first meeting was held
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to begin the process (the home of OCLC). This serves as a useful
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overview of the Dublin Core effort to date, as well as how the
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Dublin Core elements can be mapped to the USMARC format. -- RT
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Samuelson, Pamela. "On Authors' Rights in Cyberspace: Questioning
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the Need for New International Rules on Author's Rights in
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Cyberspace" First Monday 4 (http://www.firstmonday.dk) -- Pam
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Samuelson is the best person to read in order to sort out
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intellectual property and electronic media. As a professor of law
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(as well as information management) at UC Berkeley, she has
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followed the perils facing "fair use" for years. In this typically
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excellent review of the issues, she offers a realistic look at the
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legal precedents, and argues that we need to continue to balance
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competing rights and privileges or else run the risk of stifling
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technological creativity. She says, "No sooner did governments
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around the world "discover" cyberspace than they became intent on
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regulating it." And also: "New regulations may indeed only restrict
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access to information and impede the application of new technologies
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by authors and their audiences." -- TH
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Weibel, Stuart and Eric Miller. "Image Description on the
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Internet: A Summary of the CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop" D-Lib
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Magazine (January 1997).
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(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/oclc/01weibel.html)
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-- This article describes the third meeting of the Dublin Core
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effort (see the article "Metadata, Dublin Core and USMARC: A
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Review of Current Efforts" in this issue of Current Cites for an
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overview). This meeting focused on the particular issues regarding
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image description. The meeting led to a revision of the core
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elements to better generalize them to apply to either images or
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document-like objects. The links listed at the end of the article
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are essential references to the latest developments regarding
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this important standard. -- RT
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NETWORKS AND NETWORKING
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Kessler, Jack _Internet Digital Libraries: The International
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Dimension_. Boston: Artech House, 1997. -- Kessler has written a
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thoughtful and thought-provoking book on international aspects of
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digital libraries. Using a writing style that is both scholarly
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and easily readable (no minor achievement), he ponders a number of
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issues that have not yet been well considered by digital library
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developers. Although the reader may assume that the reports on
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digital library developments in specific countries serve as the
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main thrust of the work, it is actually the thematic essays that
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sandwich them that are the real heart. Notable among them are an
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interesting dissection of the term "digital library," and
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discussions of the barriers/opportunities of language, politics,
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and the standards process. The biggest mistake one can make about
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this book is thinking that it is only appropriate for those
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specifically interested in the international dimensions of digital
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libraries. These days, digital libraries are by *default*
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international in scope, whether we like it or not, and those of us
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involved with building them should be at least aware of some of the
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issues Kessler raises. -- RT
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Valauskas, Edward J. "Lex Networkia: Understanding the Internet
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Community." First Monday 4 (http://www.firstmonday.dk).
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-- First Monday editor Valauskas explores the self-regulating
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nature of Internet communities, and the absence of any awareness
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among would-be regulators as to how these communities work. He
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provides a list of definitions, parameters, codes of conduct and
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social protocols as evidence of a lively electronic space, and
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argues that an upward initiative to codify this culture into a
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"lex networkia" might be the best strategy for preserving it in
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the face of the current challenge of formal government regulation.
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-- TH
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GENERAL
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Murphy, Kate. "Moving from the Card Catalogue to the Internet:
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To Control the Information Glut, Librarians Become More
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Technologically Oriented." New York Times (January 6, 1997):C15.
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-- Technologically-minded librarians who have been at it for a
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good long time may allow themselves a snicker at being "discovered"
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by the New York Times. Librarians have been involved not only in
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using new technology but exploring solutions to the problems users
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face, and Murphy finds a growing realization that this is a rather
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important--even marketable--set of skills. She also spins a good
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tale of technological innovation in libraries, particularly in the
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law and corporate sectors. And, recent MLIS graduates, take heart:
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according to the Times, corporate recruiters are beginning to show
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up at library schools, on the lookout for a few good information
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managers! -- TH
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