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[1]Current Cites (Digital Library SunSITE)
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Volume 11, no. 11, November 2000
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Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
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The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720
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ISSN: 1060-2356 -
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.11.html
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Contributors: [3]Terry Huwe, [4]Michael Levy, [5]Leslie Myrick , Jim
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Ronningen, Lisa Rowlison, [6]Roy Tennant
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Cisler, Steve. [7]"Letter from Cambridge: Digital Nations and
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eDevelopment Meetings." [8]First Monday 5(11) (November 5, 2000)
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(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_11/cisler/). - The author
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reports on a new initiative known as "Digital Nations", which was
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launched by MIT's Media Lab on October 18, 2000. The project seeks to
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assess the impact of digital convergence on the traditional concept of
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the nation-state, particularly among nations with minimal information
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infrastructures. The participants clearly hope to influence the
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international dialogue about developing nations as well as
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industrialized nations, and they argue that technology planning should
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benefit both ends of the spectrum. - [9]TH
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Fichter, Darlene and Frank Cervone. "Documents, Data, Information
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Retrieval and XML." [10]Online 24(6) (November 2000): 30-36. - For
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those to whom XML is still new territory, this article may serve as a
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useful introduction. For those who understand the meaning of
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"well-formed" this piece will be too basic. After an introduction to
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XML and XHTML, Fichter and Cervone highlight a couple of applications
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for XML - Rich Site Summary (RSS) for describing the contents of web
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sites, and the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) for data codebooks.
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Appropriate web site addresses accompany the piece. - [11]RT
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Flecker, Dale. [12]"Harvard's Library Digital Initiative" [13]D-Lib
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Magazine 6(11) (November 2000)
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(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november00/flecker/11flecker.html). -
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Harvard University granted its library $12 million over five years to
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"build a first generation production infrastructure to support digital
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library collections." This article is to some degree an update on
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their progress, some halfway through the grant. Flecker outlines the
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Harvard Library's technical, collections, and access infrastructure
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and the common services which they share. He touches on the variety of
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projects they have funded to provide digital content, and ends up with
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a current assessment and outline of further developments. Anyone
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interested in how Harvard is addressing the opportunities and
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challenges of digital libraries will find this to be a good overview
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of the variety of infrastructure and content development projects in
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which they are engaged. - [14]RT
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Forbes, Judith L. [15]"Perspectives on Lifelong Learning: The View
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from a Distance." [16]First Monday 5(11), November 5, 2000
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(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_11/forbes/). - Forbes uses
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engineering continuing education as an example to explore distance
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learning for professionals in knowledge related fields. The format is
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brief and to the point, with evaluations of college programs and
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accreditation. She also addresses the practical ways in which distance
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learning can mesh with the career-spanning necessity for knowledge
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workers to receive training and earn credentials that reflect
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knowledge gains. - [17]TH
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Lipinski, Tomas A. "Legal Issues in Accessing and Managing the
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Metadata of Digital Objects." Technicalities 20(3) (May/June 2000) :1.
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- In this article Lipinski discusses the implications of providing
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links to websites from library catalog records, including the issue of
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using frames to accomplish this goal. The author outlines potential
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areas of legal concern: trespass, trademarks, copyright, and
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defamation. Citing current cases in each of these areas Lipinski
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clearly delineates situations in which libraries may encounter
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problems. These include linking to a publishers web site but bypassing
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introductory material and advertisements; using trademarked symbols in
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a library catalog thereby interfering with its distinctiveness;
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posting or framing that involves unauthorized reproduction and the
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infringing on the exclusive rights of copyright owners to display or
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distribute their work; and finally whether a library becomes liable
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for any defamatory material as a "publisher" of content. This is an
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excellent introduction to these major areas of concern for libraries.
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- [18]ML
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Marcum, Deanna. "Digital Archiving: Whose Responsibility Is It?"
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[19]College & Research Libraries News 61(9) (October 2000):
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794-797;807. - Few questions are as perplexing to librarians as how to
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preserve digital material, and few among our number are as qualified
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to consider this question as the president of the Council on Library
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and Information Resources. The bulk of the piece focuses on the the
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CLIR/Digital Library Federation-produced document [20]"Minimum
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criteria for an archival repository of digital scholarly journals"
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(http://www.clir.org/diglib/preserve/criteria.htm), which identifies
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seven specific criteria for setting up a trusted digital archive. On
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the "who's responsible?" question, Marcum advocates that both
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publishers and libraries (which occasionally are the same
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organization) both have responsibilities. Publishers must be explicit
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about their preservation policies, and librarians must respond
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appropriately given the relative strength or weakness of such
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policies, or the amount of trust that can be placed in the
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organization behind the policy. - [21]RT
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O'Leary, Mick. [22]"Grading the Library Portals" [23]Online 24(6)
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(November/December 2000):38-44
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(http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL2000/oleary11.html). - I spotted
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this article just after attending a meeting about improving our campus
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library's portal to collections and services. It's not what I'd hoped;
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the portals which O'Leary rates are really librarianship portals.
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After the initial disappointment wore off, I began to see that the
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best among these Web sites for librarians would lead to lots of great
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ideas for grappling with my particular problem, as well as issues in
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every other aspect of librarianship: administration, collection
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development, interlibrary loan, etc. After a brief description of what
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he means by a "library portal" (in which he broadly compliments all
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visitors to these sites as already being electronic information
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experts, thanks very much), O'Leary divides his group of sites into
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vendor, commercial and library developed portals. The distinction
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between the first two is a little blurred. The grading and comments
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are useful in weeding out portals which are incomplete, innacurate,
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incomprehensible or oriented toward selling a particular product. In
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the interest of complete disclosure, we point out that one of the two
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"A" grades was given to our Sunsite-hosted [24]LibraryLand
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[http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibraryLand]/. - JR
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Raitt, David. [25]"Digital Initiatives Across Europe" [26]Computers in
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Libraries 20(10) (November/December 2000): 26-34
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(http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov00/raitt.htm). - This overview of
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European digital library projects briefly outlines initiatives in
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France, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Spain, the
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Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Given the broad geographic range
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of this overview, it is by no means comprehensive, but it can
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nonetheless serve as a good introduction to the breadth and depth of
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digital library developments in Europe -- any one of which is worthy
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of an article on it alone. A sidebar lists all the project URLs in a
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handy list that signifies hours of happy browsing by anyone interested
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in such projects. - [27]RT
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Sherman, Chris. "Napster: Copyright Killer or Distribution Hero?"
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[28]Online 24(6) (November 2000): 18-28. - Faithful Current Cites
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readers already know that we think peer-to-peer networking is well
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worth our attention (see the [29]October 2000 issue if you don't
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recall). For those of you who missed that issue, or found yourselves
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on another planet for the past year and missed all the press about
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Napster, your ignorance will not go unrewarded. Rather than reading a
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pile of articles on Napster, Gnutella, and their peer-to-peer cousins
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that are cropping up like rabbits, this one article will go a long way
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toward bringing you up-to-speed. Sherman craftily introduces the topic
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by referring to a music copyright controversy from a century ago that
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has chilling parallels (as well as significant differences) to
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today's. Explanations of Napster and Gnutella follow, as well as
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vignettes on FreeNet, MojoNation, and [30]Dan Chudnov's Docster
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concept. Altogether an excellent read about a topic that librarians
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(and those in many other professions) can ignore at their peril. -
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[31]RT
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Varian, Hal R and Lyman, Peter. [32]How Much Information? Berkeley,
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CA: University of California, 2000
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(http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/). - In this 200 page
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report produced by faculty and students at the [33]School of
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Information Management and Systems at the University of California at
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Berkeley the authors attempt to measure how much information is
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produced in the world each year. They look at several media and
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estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and
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other variables of interest. Taking advantage of the web environment
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the document indicates where they make "questionable" assumptions and
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they intend to update the document based on contributions by readers.
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The authors identify production of content in four physical media --
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paper, film, optical (CDs and DVDs), and magnetic -- then translate
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the volume of original content into a common standard (terabytes),
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determine how much storage each type takes and calculate total
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estimates. They outline 3 major findings: printed material only makes
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up .003% of the total storage of information; a vast majority of
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information is created and stored by individuals rather than
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institutions; and finally digital information is the largest in total
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and the fastest growing. The not suprising conclusion is that "we are
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all drowning in a sea of information" with information production at
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about 250 megabytes for each man, woman, and child in the world. -
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[34]ML
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Withers, Rob, et. al. [35]"Information Architecture: Tools for
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Cutting-Edge Web Developers" [36]College & Research Libraries News
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61(9) (October 2000): (http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct00.html). - For
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the budding information architect, or the experienced web manager,
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this piece covers some essential web sites, electronic discussions,
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and other information resources on IA and methods for creating dynamic
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web content. Under the misleading heading "dynamic scripting
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languages", they list resources on that topic as well as databases,
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web application servers, and an open source integrated library system
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project (it appears as if the main criteria for inclusion was that the
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project be free, open source, or both, since only one commercial web
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application server is mentioned -- Cold Fusion -- when most people are
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more likely to have Microsoft's Active Server Pages at their
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disposal). Despite the lack of comprehensitivity, the resources cited
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here are clearly central to any full-bore web manager or information
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architect. Those who aren't quite ready to tackle Perl or PHP can
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stick to the first part of the piece, which focuses on resources of
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more general interest. - [37]RT
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_________________________________________________________________
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Current Cites 11(11 (November 2000) ISSN: 1060-2356
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Last update November 29, 2000. SunSITE Manager:
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