IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 July 1, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 26 Issue 313 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. California State U., Fullerton: Equipment Technician 2. Michigan Technological U: J. Robert Van Pelt Library: Assistant Director, Technical & Automated Services III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. Using Computers to Solve Clinical Problems 2. SDAIR97 - Call for Papers 3. The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. ISI Research Grant Announcement ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Karen Stone Re: California State U., Fullerton: Equipment Technician Location - CSU Fullerton, Fullerton CA. SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY School of Library and Information Science Southern California Campus Equipment Technician II A. PURPOSE OF POSITION: The incumbent, who reports to the School's Senior Systems Software Specialist and indirectly to the Associate Director for the Southern California program and the Director of the School of Library and Information Science, operates and maintains the School's student computer labs on the Fullerton campus, loads and uploads software on the School's workstations and file servers, provides basic network services when necessary (e.g. rebooting the network, wiring connectors, etc.), maintains documentation related to the lab, assists faculty in preparation and distribution of software related instructional resources, orders and maintains necessary supplies in support of the lab, and supervises student lab and teaching assistants. The incumbent coordinates the School's Southern California computing facilities, materials, and activities with counterparts at the San Jose campus. B. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: 40% Manage the School's computer labs, 20% Manage the School's network wire plant, Internet connection and networked software, 15% Assist faculty in instructional related use of the lab, 10% Supervise student teaching and lab assistants, 10% Maintain documentation for network systems and lab software, 4% Coordinate activities with lab-related personnel in other academic and service units, 1% Other duties as required. C. LIST OF TASKS OR DUTIES: *Responsible for maintaining and supervising the School's Fullerton computer labs, *Loads LAN software and performs operating system upgrades, *Monitors the daily operation of the Fullerton network, *Supervises student lab assistants in the filing of software and database documentation, *Maintains supplies necessary to the operation of the labs, including printer ribbons and paper, *Develops user documentation regarding lab procedures, *Helps to maintain the School's WWW server, gopher site, and web browsers, *Maintains the Fullerton network wiring infrastructure, *Conducts workshops for students and faculty on the use of new systems and software, *Assists in the design and maintenance of the School's web site, e-mail system, and other Schoolwide computing services. D. SUPERVISION OF OTHERS: The incumbent schedules and supervises a number of student lab assistants. E. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT OF POSITION: The position requires experience with local area network management, network hardware and software, data communications protocols (including ethernet and TCP/IP), elementary UNIX systems administration skills including Solaris and Irix. Experience with basic equipment testing and installation across operating system platforms including DOS, WindowsNT, Macintosh and UNIX. Analytical and logical reasoning skills are essential. Knowledge of the field of library and information science extremely desirable. The incumbent must be able to speak and write English effectively and be able to work with a multiethnic, multicultural student body, faculty and staff, many of whom have limited computing backgrounds. F. LOCATION AND SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS: The SJSU School of Library and Information Science Southern California Program is located on the campus of California State University, Fullerton, situated 30 miles south of Los Angeles. Students, faculty, and computer technicians on both campuses work collaboratively using the latest interactive video technology, email, and other telecommunications systems. The ability to work with others and under stress within this geographically dispersed environment is required. G. SALARY RANGE: $2771-$3334 per month. H. APPLICATION PROCEDURES: For an application packet, contact the SLIS Office at 714/773- 2064. Completed application materials, a current resume, and the names of 3 references should be mailed to: Debra Hansen, Associate Director School of Library and Information Science PO Box 4150 California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92634-4150 CLOSING DATE IS MONDAY, JULY 8, AT 5 P.M. ********** II.2. Fr: Theresa Sanderson Spence Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- June 28, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o Department of Justice to appeal CDA case o NSF budget under attack again in House o FCC Chairman Reed Hundt bails on INET conference, but sends answers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Heather Boyles Director, Policy and Special Projects FARNET 1112 16th Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 202-331-5342 phone 202-872-4318 fax http://www.farnet.org/ ********** III.B.1. Fr: William Hersh Re: Using Computers to Solve Clinical Problems Using Computers to Solve Clinical Problems Continuing Education Course September 6-7, 1996 Oregon Health Sciences University FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM, SEE THE URL http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-Informatics/cme/. To register, contact the OHSU CME office at 1-800-452-1048. DESCRIPTION: This course will take place at Oregon Health Sciences University and provide participants with practical knowledge and skills needed to take advantage of the latest information technology in their practices. The course will use a combined lecture and workshop format emphasizing hands-on experience using current computing tools to solve clinical problems. Faculty include nationally known experts in Medical Informatics and full-time clinicians who use computing tools in their clinical work. Participants are encouraged to bring clinical questions from their practices. Training will range from basic computer skills for those with minimal computing experience, to using advanced tools for global information access. Depending on individual interest and prior experience with clinical computer tools, participants will select from among workshops designed to enable them to: * effectively search the literature for answers to clinical questions; * use CD-ROM based tools to access current medical knowledge; * explore complex cases using diagnostic decision support software; * exchange information over networks using electronic mail and other Internet tools; * utilize the World Wide Web to access medical information from practice guidelines to neuroimages * choose and dispense drug therapy using therapeutic decision support software * improve patient education using patient information software * evaluate clinical computing products for use in their own practice WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Practicing clinicians in any specialty will benefit from the skills and knowledge covered in this course. Workshops designed for basic and advanced skill levels will be included. GENERAL INFORMATION: The course will be held in the computer training facilities on the first floor of the Biomedical Information Communication Center at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. For registration information contact Continuing Medical Education-L602, Oregon Health Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97201-3098; phone (503) 494-4898 or toll-free (800) 452-1048. For other information contact the Course Directors: Paul Gorman, MD Voice (503) 494-4025 Internet: gormanp@ohsu.edu William Hersh, MD Voice (503) 494-4563 Internet: hersh@ohsu.edu CME CREDIT: The School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. American Medical Association: The School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Division of Continuing Medical Education designates this continuing medical education activity for 13 credit hours in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. This is the maximum number of hours that may be claimed by the registrant on an hour-for-hour basis. PROGRAM Basic Track DAY 1 Welcome and Overview Basics of Computing: Hands on Workshop Including an Introduction to Windows Exhibitor Displays Basics of Computing: Introduction to Medline and the Internet Clinical Software Tools: Lectures/Demonstrations on * Searching the Literature * Using Electronic Textbooks * Diagnostic Decision Support Software Vendor Displays Clinical Software Tools: * Telecommunications Software and the Internet * Therapeutic Decision Support Software * Patient Education Software DAY 2 Welcome Hands On Workshop - Session One - Choice of workshop from list of software topics above Exhibitor Displays Hands On Workshop - Session Two - Choice of workshop from list of software topics above Buying a System: Panel on Hardware/Software Issues Clinical Use of Computers: The Realities: Clinician Panel Exhibitor Displays Open Hands On Workshop: Self-directed Learning with Faculty Supervision OR Lecture/Demonstration: Electronic Medical Records and Other Advanced Tools Advanced Track DAY 1 Registration Welcome and Overview Clinical Software Tools: Lectures/Demonstrations on: * Searching the Literature * Using Electronic Textbooks * Diagnostic Decision Support Software Exhibitor Displays Clinical Software Tools (continued): * Telecommunications Software and the Internet * Therapeutic Decision Support Software * Patient Education Software Hands On Workshop - Session One - Choice of workshop from list of software topics above Exhibitor Displays Hands On Workshop - Session Two - Choice of workshop from list of software topics above DAY 2 Welcome Advanced Topics: Lectures/Demonstrations May Include Advanced Medline, World Wide Web, and Outcomes Research Exhibitor Displays Advanced Topics (continued) Buying a System: Panel on Hardware/Software Issues Clinical Use of Computers: The Realities: Clinician Panel Exhibitor Displays Open Hands On Workshop: Self-directed Learning with Faculty Supervision OR Lecture/Demonstration: Electronic Medical Records and other Advanced Tools REGISTRATION: A Registration Form can be obtained from the URL http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-Informatics/cme/register.html. Please fill it out, and FAX or mail it to the Division of Continuing Medical Education at Oregon Health Sciences University at the address on the form. Do not send the form to Drs. Hersh or Gorman. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Frank Jenkins Re: SDAIR97 - Call for Papers Sixth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 20-23, 1997 Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada SPONSOR: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Jan O. Pedersen, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center PROGRAM CHAIRS: *Document Analysis: Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi Central Research Lab *Information Retrieval: Susan Dumais, Bellcore SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY: Patty Corhn University of Nevada, Las Vegas Information Science Research Institute 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 (702)895-3338 (702)895-1183 (fax) sdair@isri.unlv.edu SCOPE: The purpose of this symposium is to present results of state-of-the-art research and to encourage the exchange of ideas in the general field of automatic extraction of information from images of printed documents. Papers are solicited on all aspects of document image analysis and information retrieval, both theoretical and applied, with particular emphasis on: Document Analysis: High-Accuracy Transcription * Postprocessing of OCR Results * Keyword Search in Textual Images * Multilingual OCR, Language ID, etc. * Geometric and Logical Layout Analysis * Recognition of Forms, Tables and Equations * Models of Document Image Degradation * Methods for Performance Evaluation Information Retrieval: Full-Text Retrieval * Retrieval from OCR'ed Text * Image and Multimedia Retrieval * Text Categorization * Multilingual Retrieval * User Interaction and Interfaces * Text Representation * Retrieval from Structured Documents * Evaluation of IR Systems Papers on subjects in the intersection of these two areas will be given priority. SUBMISSIONS: Please send five copies of complete papers, with the corresponding author's name, postal address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address, to the appropriate Chair: Hiromichi Fujisawa, Chair (Document Analysis) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 Susan Dumais, Chair (Info. Retrieval) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 Manuscripts should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000 words and should not already have been accepted for publication by another conference or journal, nor should they be submitted elsewhere during the SDAIR'97 review period. Manuscripts must arrive on or before the due date. Both camera-ready paper and machine-readable source copies of accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Student papers are encouraged. The symposium will present a prize for the best accepted student paper. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE: Papers Due September 30, 1996 Notification To Authors December 2, 1996 Camera Ready and Machine Readable Copy January 15, 1997 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property John F. Kennedy School of Government Center for Science and International Affairs and Center for Business and Government Harvard Law School Institute for Information Technology Law and Policy Harvard University Library Council on Library Resources Coalition for Networked Information "The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property" Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA January 23-25, 1997 First Announcement and Call for Papers Harvard University is hosting this symposium to broaden and deepen understanding of emerging economic and business models for global publishing and information access and the attendant transformation of international information markets, institutions, and businesses. The goal is to provide managers in public, private, and nonprofit sectors with a practical framework for developing program strategies and assessing the efficiency and competitiveness of new information markets and institutions. The symposium will address: -- What will be the principal pricing models for information in an advanced global Internet? -- How will pricing models be affected by different technological factors and market environments? -- What will be the relationships between classic production costs, transaction costs, and the economic value of intellectual property? -- How will different pricing practices at lower layers affect the pricing of information? -- What are likely long-term trends and scenarios for different pricing models? What will be the effect of bundling or unbundling of information services? -- How will changing cost structures change the allocation of rights between authors and publishers and other intermediaries? -- How will markets for complementary products and services affect the pricing and use of information? -- What are the policy implications of different pricing models? How do these reflect policy values associated with different kinds of information? BACKGROUND: The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is trans- forming the way information is accessed and used in business, education, and the home. New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and enhancing information are appearing, often embodied in software or infrastructure. No change is more dramatic than the shift to user-initiated retrieval for text-based information formerly distributed in the form of physical objects by publisher-initiated manufacturing and delivery. A similar shift may be underway for sound and video. However, the considerable differences in bandwidth and storage requirements between text, images, sound, and video may dictate different cost and pricing models in the near and mid-term. As production and distribution costs decline, transaction costs and the value of intellectual property may assume greater prominence. On the other hand, standards and software may work to substantially reduce transaction costs over the long run. With barriers to entry reduced by technology, information markets may become extremely competitive, reducing margins and possibly lowering the economic value of many forms of intellectual property. The Internet and the World Wide Web are characterized by explosion of information along with an explosion of new tools for navigating information. Competition for attention intensifies as companies extend their marketing, sales, and support functions into the Internet. Useful or entertaining information may have greater value in attracting customer attention in an increasingly competitive marketplace for information. Accordingly, it has been argued that information will be valued less as intellectual property and more in terms of the access it provides to other markets and the value it adds to relationships. As a practical matter, copyright may be overshadowed by the growing use of contracts as a means of both securing value and defining expectations in continuing relationships. Positions in simple distribution chains are likely to erode as a result of disintermediation and intense competition. In particular, reduced production costs and the desire to avoid residual transaction costs may force vendors away from complex pricing models. For example, usage-based pricing may give way to subscription pricing. Such dynamics may lead to new institutional arrangements for managing life-cycle costs of information, especially in small markets where users are also producers. Similarly, as production costs decrease, the costs of information may be assimilated by the underlying infrastructure or assumed by users. This trend may be seen in the pricing of online services and in the massive volunteering of content on the World Wide Web. The Web, including software and servers, enables editorial and navigation functions traditionally performed by publishers and libraries to be performed in increased measure by individual authors and end users. Cost analysis in this environment may hinge on identification and evaluation of critical bottlenecks -- with the understanding that many technological limitations may be short-lived. Congestion may lead to new methods of supplementing point-to-point transmissions, such as caching, mirroring, and satellite broadcast. These new mechanisms may raise intellectual property and interconnection questions that may be addressed both as business and policy issues. Congestion may also hasten the implementation of type of service priority at either the network or server levels. Negotiation over quality and scope of service may become extremely complex, and vendors may be tempted to price to as many dimensions of value as possible. However, simple pricing models may have surprisingly strong appeal, as they have had in the analog environment. Sequential distribution windows for motion pictures illustrate the potential for simple price differentiation in a technologically complex environment. Price differentiation is now playing an increasingly important role in the marketing of software and databases. In fact, there may be public policy arguments for price differentiation, not only for reasons of efficiency but to enable some of level of access for those who cannot afford access under standard terms, just as public libraries have offered access for those who could not afford to buy. The Information Infrastructure Project emphasizes communication and sharing of insight among scholars and practitioners with different skills and backgrounds. Papers should be written in a clear, non-technical manner (technical appendices may be permitted) for a mixed, interdisciplinary audience that will include publishers, librarians, economists, lawyers, and policy- makers. Prospective authors should submit short abstracts for review and comment as soon as possible. Extended abstracts or outlines should be submitted by October 15, 1996, to ensure consideration for the program. Acceptances of abstracts and outlines are conditional pending receipt of a satisfactory draft by December 15, 1996. Papers and supplementary material will be published as a volume in the Project's series with the MIT Press. Copyright assignment is not required, and parallel publication of individual papers in journals is encouraged. PLEASE SEND PAPER PROPOSALS AND REQUESTS for subsequent announcements to: iip@harvard.edu OR SEND MAIL to: Tim Leshan Information Infrastructure Project John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-1389 Fax: 617-495-5776 ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Re: ISI Research Grant Announcement ISI Research Grant Recipient Selected Professor Charles Oppenheim, International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University, UK, has been selected as the 1996 ISI Research Grant recipient. Professor Oppenheim's proposal involves providing corroboration of the value of various types of citation analyses in research assessment activities. ISI's Citation Products Division announced earlier this year that it would sponsor a US$3,000 research grant. Closing date for submissions received was May 24, 1996, and by that date proposals had been received from 14 countries around the world. Both the quantity and quality of the submissions was impressive, which made the decision a difficult one. Professor Oppenheim was previously Professor of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is a Fellow and past President of the Institute of Information Scientists, and a Vice President of Aslib. He serves as editor on a number of professional journals, is a UK representative to the European Commission's Legal Advisory Board, and is an advisor to the House of Lords on matters of the Information Superhighway. Please join us in congratulating Professor Oppenheim as the first recipient of the newly-instituted award. Our thanks also go out to the many others who submitted proposals - it was a significant challenge to choose just one among the many excellent submissions we received. Look for an announcement of next year's ISI Research Grant on our WWW Home Page (http://www.isinet.com) in the months ahead. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: NCGUR@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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