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_Current Cites_
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Volume 8, no. 12
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December 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/cc97.8.12.html
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Contributors:
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Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
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Richard Rinehart, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant
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Digital Libraries
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Cromwell-Kessler, Willy. "Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information
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Landscape" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997)
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(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html). - In
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July 1997, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) held a "Metadata Summit"
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to provide a venue for a number of communities interested in metadata
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to explore their commonalities and differences, particularly vis. a
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vis. the Dublin Core. One of the outcomes of this meeting is the
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document "Guidelines For Extending the Use of Dublin Core Elements to
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Create a Generic Application Integrating All Kinds of Information
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Resources", which is aimed at those involved with developing the
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Dublin Core specification. At the core of this article as well as the
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"Guidelines" is the issue of how to handle the original object vs. the
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digital surrogate. - RT
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Frey, Franziska. "Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections:
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Foundations for Technical Standards" RLG DigiNews 1(3) (December 15,
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1997) (http://lyra.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com). -
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This brief article serves as a good introduction to the issues
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relating to digital imaging. But since it is the barest of overviews
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of the outcome of a two-year project of the same name, funded by the
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National Endowment for the Humanities, one is left with a feeling of
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impatience until the products from the project are published "sometime
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next year". But at least this piece can give a sneak peek into what
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will be coming soon in more detail. - RT
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Mintzer, Fred, Jeffrey Lotspiech, and Norishige Morimoto.
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"Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital
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Watermarking" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997)
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(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html). - Digital
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watermarking is the online equivalent of the long-practiced art of
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marking paper with a mark of ownership or origin. Digital watermarking
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may be important to assert copyright or to mark a file as authentic.
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This article is a great introduction to the principles, applications,
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and technologies relating to digital watermarking. But if you are
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interested in this topic, don't stop your investigation here, as only
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technologies from IBM are highlighted (all the authors are IBM
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employees). - RT
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Electronic Publishing
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Valauskas, Edward. "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the
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Evolution of Electronic Journals" First Monday 2 (12)
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(http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/valauskas/). - First
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Monday's editor surveys the growth of the journal as a case study in
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Internet-based, peer-reviewed journals. It's not at all a self-serving
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piece; on the contrary, he uses his experiences with the journal and
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with print journals to think about the future in broad terms. The
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print journal will not disappear entirely, he believes; instead, a
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rich diversity of formats will persist. - TH
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Multimedia & Hypermedia
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CIDOC Multimedia Working Group Multimedia Evaluation Criteria
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(http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html) September
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1997. -- This set of evaluation criteria can be used in many
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evaluation or survey projects as a set of questions and criteria for
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measuering the full effectiveness of multimedia resources on web,
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CD-ROM, DVD, etc. - RR
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Networks & Networking
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Global Information Locator Service FAQ, Dec. 26, 1997
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(http://www.usgs.gov/gils/faq.html) . - This FAQ, compiled primarily
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by Eliot Christian of the US Geological Survey, is very thorough in
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answering questions about this new technical standard to facilitate
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resource discovery. - RR
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Minow, Mary. "Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy
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Analysis" First Monday 2 (12)
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(http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/minow/). - Minow
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insightfully reviews the tangled area of public policy covering
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Internet access in public libraries. Much policy is decided without
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empirical evidence for any stance, and the resulting policies
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demonstrate this gap in their ambivalence, and lack of clarity. Minow
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maps some strategies librarians can employ to balance the needs of the
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community with the directives of the profession, and provides a useful
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review of the issues along the way. - TH
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Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical
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Guide. Second edition. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library
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Center, 1997 (http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet). - In what
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is clearly a nascent field, this online resource stands out as the
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only reference tool for librarians cataloging Internet resources using
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MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging). If you are a cataloger, this is
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the kind of nitty-gritty guidance that makes a difficult job easier.
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One of the most useful sections is the appendix with record examples,
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although in poignant counterpoint at least a couple of the URLs in the
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example records were out of date. - RT
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_________________________________________________________________
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Current Cites 8(12) (December 1997) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright
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