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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:47:30 CST
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Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Publications
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From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Subject: Public-Access Computer Systems News 5, no. 4 (1994)
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Public-Access Computer Systems News
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Volume 5, Number 4 (1994) ISSN 1050-6004
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Editors: Linda Thompson (LIB1J@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU) and Ann Thornton
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(AThornton@UH.EDU).
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Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University
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of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091.
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CONTENTS
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Apple Announces "Cool Tools" Awards for Internet Programming
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Efforts, 1
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Carnegie Mellon University and SIRSI Corporation Announce Library
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Management System and Technology Transfer Agreements, 3
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Getty Art History Information Program Launches Initiative on
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Digital-Imaging Standards, 4
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DRA Adds Subject and Keyword Searching to Its LC MARC Database, 5
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ISSNs Now in PAIS Data Records on Tape, 6
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APPLE ANNOUNCES "COOL TOOLS" AWARDS FOR INTERNET PROGRAMMING
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EFFORTS
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The Advanced Technology Group of Apple Computer, Inc. announced
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that it has awarded eleven individuals and organizations with
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"Cool Tools" awards. This special award is designed to recognize
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programmers and their contributions of a wide variety of tools to
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allow Macintosh users to navigate the Internet.
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In addition to a certificate of recognition, the Cool Tools
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awardees will receive an Apple(r) Power Macintosh(tm) 7100 from
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Apple. The Macintosh Cool Tools Internet Award recipients and
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their projects are:
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o The Internet Society, Reston, Virginia, for its efforts to
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foster a global environment conducive to the easy exchange
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of information and the rapid development of standards and
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new software. Internet Society, 12020 Sunrise Valley Dr.
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Suite 270, Reston VA, 22091. Telephone: (703) 648 9888;
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Fax: (703) 648 9887; Email: amr@isoc.org.
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o Steve Dorner of QUALCOMM Incorporated in San Diego,
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California, for Eudora, an electronic mail client for
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Internet users. Telephone (800) 2-EUDORA; Email:
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sdorner@qualcomm.com.
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o Chuck Shotton, Houston, Texas, for MacHTTP, a World Wide Web
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server for the Macintosh. Telephone: (713) 794-5650; Email:
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shotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu.
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o Peter Lewis, Perth, Western Australia, for FTPd, an
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anonymous file transfer server, and Anarchie, an FTP client
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to search for and retrieve public files on the Internet.
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Email: peter.lewis@info.curtin.au.edu.
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o University of Michigan--Weather Underground, University of
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Michigan, for Blue-Skies, a gopher client for browsing,
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viewing and reporting real time weather and environmental
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information in an interactive graphic and text format. Key
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contributors include students Alan Steremberg, Derek Price,
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Chris Schwerzler, and Michael Kamprath. The Weather
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Underground is directed by Prof. Perry Samson with technical
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direction from Jeff Ferguson. Telephone: (313) 936-0491;
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Email: blueskies@umich.edu.
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o John Hardin of EINet, Austin, Texas, for MacWeb, a
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hypermedia World Wide Web client for the Macintosh.
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Telephone: (800) 844-4638; Email: macweb@einet.net.
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o National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Urbana,
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Illinois, for Mosaic for the Macintosh, the crossover
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application that has helped to spur interest in the Internet
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for many commercial and non-commerical users. Telephone:
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(217) 244-3473; Email: mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
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o Aaron Giles of Cornell University Medical College, New York,
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New York, for JPEGView, a graphic utility that allows the
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user to view compressed images on the World Wide Web, Gopher
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or those retrieved from anonymous FTP servers on the Net.
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Telephone: (212) 410-2781; Email: giles@med.cornell.edu.
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o John Norstad of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
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for Newswatcher, a Usenet new reader. Email:
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j-norstad@nwu.edu.
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o Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for CU-SeeMe, a
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conferencing tool that is being used by elementary schools,
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individuals, and other organizations around the world for
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low-cost video communications. Telephone: (607) 255-7566;
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Email: r.cogger@cornell.edu. Files may be ftp'ed at gate
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d.cornell.edu in the /pub/video directory.
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o University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for the
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TurboGopher client and GopherSurfer server. Internet Gopher
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is a distributed system for campus and world information
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which includes local information as well as links to other
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Gopher servers. Telephone: (612) 625 1300; Fax: (612) 625
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6817.
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Apple commissioned a panel of Apple employees to seek out and
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critique currently available tools for Macintosh on the Internet,
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to determine awardees. Programmers who would like more
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information about Apple and the Internet may contact Steve Cisler
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at sac@apple.com.
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For Apple press releases by fax, call (800) AAPL FAX (800
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227-5329) and enter I.D. number 6172. For more information,
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contact: Betty Taylor, Apple Computer, Inc., (408) 974-3983;
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betty.t@applelink.apple.com.
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CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AND SIRSI CORPORATION ANNOUNCE LIBRARY
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MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AGREEMENTS
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Carnegie Mellon University and SIRSI Corporation, a leading
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provider of information technology, announce their intention to
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enter into agreements for future cooperation on several fronts.
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Carnegie Mellon will license and install the SIRSI Corporation
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Unicorn Information Management System.
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Unicorn is a UNIX-based open system that uses the opportunities
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presented by client/server architectures in highly networked
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environments. It provides the functionality required by academic
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and research libraries and is designed to manage increasingly
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large databases of bibliographic information.
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SIRSI and Carnegie Mellon will also enter into a technology
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transfer agreement, to work together in several vital areas.
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These include advanced usability testing for clients by Carnegie
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Mellon Libraries. In addition, SIRSI will begin implementing
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technologies for page image display, digital archiving, and
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natural language information retrieval developed at Carnegie
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Mellon. Carnegie Mellon will also work with SIRSI to implement
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authentication and authorization features which will provide
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necessary security for data and system integrity in open
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environments.
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Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh,
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Pennsylvania. The University Libraries hold a collection of over
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805,000 print volumes, 500,000 titles, and 700,000 microforms.
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The University has over 7,500 students and 800 faculty.
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Founded in 1979 by information and computer professionals, SIRSI,
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based in Huntsville, Alabama, is a leading provider of
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information technology for libraries. SIRSI automates all
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aspects of information management, from consortia to the single
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desktop user. SIRSI systems are installed worldwide in academic,
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public, law, medical, government, and corporate environments.
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For more information, contact: Jim Young, SIRSI Corporation, 205-
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922-9820; or Charles B. Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University
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Libraries, 412-268-2447.
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GETTY ART HISTORY INFORMATION PROGRAM LAUNCHES INITIATIVE ON
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DIGITAL-IMAGING STANDARDS
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The Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) has announced
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the formation of an international Imaging Initiative to address
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issues related to the use of digital images in the arts and
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humanities. The Initiative will foster the development of
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standards necessary to ensure that scholars, teachers, students,
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and the general public have access to images of art and cultural
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objects over electronic communications networks.
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Recent technological developments make it possible to transmit
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and view digital images over computer networks, but many barriers
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remain to universal access. In March of this year, AHIP brought
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together representatives from the various constituencies involved
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in the issue--including image providers (museums, libraries, and
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archives), legal experts, and computer network specialists--to
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identify these barriers and pinpoint areas where AHIP could act
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most effectively. Three principle concerns were recognized:
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o Standards: Currently, there are no common standards for the
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description, capture, storage, and transmission of images
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within the arts and humanities community. Networked
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collections, accurate description, and high image quality
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and resolution are needed to build the critical mass of
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images necessary to change effectively the teaching and
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research methods used in the arts and humanities. The
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Imaging Initiative will work to form a common understanding
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of who uses digital images, how they use them, and the image
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quality they require. This effort will also include the
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development of standards for describing a digital-image
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file, ensuring that scholars can evaluate the digital images
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they use in their studies.
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o Intellectual property rights: Many image providers see
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electronic access to their collections as a great
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opportunity to reach new audiences, yet the issues related
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to compensation and the intellectual property rights of
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digital images remain largely undefined. The Initiative
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will develop and test a model for the licensing of images of
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works of art, setting up a mechanism for the reliable
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distribution of images that preserves image integrity and
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prevents misuse.
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o Common vision: Currently, a wide range of technical options
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are available to information providers, yet few serve the
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long-term goals of universal access. Museum directors and
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library administrators are often ill-informed about computer
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technology, its potential, and its hazards. The Imaging
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Initiative will develop a tutorial with noted
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digital-imaging expert Howard Besser to inform image
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providers about the benefits and challenges of electronic
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imaging. The resulting information will be distributed
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through brochures, fact sheets, white papers, and as an
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interactive site on the Internet where users can work
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through materials, make comments, download reports, and view
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samples of digitized art.
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The Getty Art History Information Program, one of six operating
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programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust, seeks to make art-historical
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information more accessible to scholars and researchers through
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the use of advanced computer technology. It does so by promoting
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common perspectives and standards among international
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institutions and organizations on projects in three general
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areas: coordinating vocabularies to facilitate consistent data
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entry and retrieval; providing bibliographic services; and
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assembling art-historical databases. AHIP plays a catalytic role
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in helping to focus attention on the collective challenges facing
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the information community in the coming decades. Among AHIP's
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projects are the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, the Bibliography
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of the History of Art, the Avery Index to Architectural
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Periodicals, the Provenance Index, the Witt Computer Index, and
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the Getty Study of Online Searching by Scholars.
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For more information, contact: Phillipa Calnan, Director, Public
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Affairs, The J. Paul Getty Trust, 401 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 900,
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Santa Monica, CA, 90401-1455; Phone: 310-395-0388; Fax: 301-395-
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5289.
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DRA ADDS SUBJECT AND KEYWORD SEARCHING TO ITS LC MARC DATABASE
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Data Research Associates, Inc. (DRA) announced that it has
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increased the flexibility and accessibility of one of its most
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popular resources, the LC MARC database, when it added the
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ability to search by subject or by keyword. These searches are
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in addition to past search capabilities, including author, title,
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and various identification numbers. Keyword searching provides,
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among other functions, the ability to perform a search for a
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series title and the ability to search for current popular
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topics.
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Via DRA's Z39.50-compliant server, the LC MARC database can be
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accessed from any Z39.50-compliant client, whether or not that
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client is a DRA product. The server supports all Z39.50 Version
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2 facilities, allowing for a wider range of search capabilities,
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including:
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o search qualifiers (such as author, title, subject, call
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number, LCCN, ISBN, etc.)
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o truncation in search terms
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o named search sets (enabling the combination of previous
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search result sets with new search terms)
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Available for more than a decade, the LC MARC database consists
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of more than four million records representing bibliographic,
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serial, map, and other items cataloged by the Library of
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Congress. Hundreds of libraries across the globe use this
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database daily, via either the Internet or Open DRANET, to serve
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as a reference tool. Or, if they are using the DRA cataloging
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module, they use the database to copy bibliographic records to
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their own system. Recent average use included more than 5,200
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connections per day, with more than 1,200 records copied.
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For more information, contact: Joe Bonwich (Joe@dra.com).
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ISSNs NOW IN PAIS DATA RECORDS ON TAPE
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Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. (PAIS), publishers of
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the premier international index of public affairs and social
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policy information, is pleased to announce that its magnetic tape
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format of the PAIS International bibliographic database now
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includes the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
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In 1993 PAIS introduced a new magnetic tape format providing
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distinct data fields, such as Library of Congress number, journal
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name, or Superintendent of Documents number, which had previously
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been formatted in a single citation field. The new tape format
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is designed to provide data elements in separate fields in order
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to make index-building easier and consequently to improve search
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results.
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The ISSN, while provided as a data element in the separate
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Periodicals Authority file, the complete listing of periodicals
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used for PAIS indexing documents, was not provided in the
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periodical bibliographic entry. Now the bibliographic entries
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for 94% of the PAIS periodical articles includes the ISSN.
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PAIS expects the provision of the ISSN in the bibliographic entry
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to prove valuable. One anticipated benefit is in the area of
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document delivery. It will be easier to order documents
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identified in the PAIS International database with the ISSN
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number in the bibliographic entry. Subscribing organizations can
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also use the ISSN as a match element to identify periodicals held
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in their collection.
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Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., founded in 1914, is a
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nonprofit educational corporation, chartered by the Regents of
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the University of the State of New York, providing online,
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printed, and optical bibliographic indexes to the public policy
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literature of business, health, law, government, political
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science, and other social services.
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For more information, contact: Barbara M. Preschel, 212-736-6629.
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