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AUTHORS ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MATERIAL. uh n Arbor, MI, USA., "Theories for a new millennium: the  &9&&*l*w88<W W)W*Z]]d_dkkknwNwOwZwcwewwwwwwwwwwwwxx)xaxxxxy y0y?y~yyyzzz8z9zyzzzzzz{0{2{p{q{{{{| | | || |C|Y|Z|j||||||||} }B}C}O}^}_}n}} @cCRgq.:FT NW:z Cij+JK0q  @ ~  +,QR{|[\  $ $  $  $ $  $ $ W *normal.o X!@! @! @"II.4. Fr: Gail Conner Re: U. TN, Knoxville: Systems Librarian for Networked Service Integration POSITION: Systems Librarian for Networked Service Integration APPOINTMENT RANK: Assistant Professor SALARY: Minimum $33,000 AVAILABLE: September 1, 1998 RESPONSIBILITIES: The Systems Librarian for Networked Service Integration works within the Systems Team and reports to the Head. This position is one of four faculty positions in the Systems Team, along with six permanent staff positions. Systems is a service-oriented team that develops, maintains, and supports an array of networked services as well as the Libraries widely distributed information technology infrastructure. As a member of the Systems Team, this position will be expected to provide leadership in the planning and development of technology-based user services as outlined below. Participating in an environment of Library-wide collaboration, and in a collegial atmosphere within the Systems Team, this person will: coordinate UTK Libraries web-based services; implement UTK Libraries web interface to the online catalog (Ameritech Horizon) using OCLCs SiteSearch; implement SiteSearch interfaces to remote online catalogs (e.g. Law Library, Information Alliance); convert a variety of local non-marc databases to SiteSearch; initiate projects to maximize the interoperability of disparate web-based services such as the online catalog, bibliographic and full-text databases, ejournals, document delivery services, interlibrary loan, etc.; participate in a Team-based implementation of our automated library system; interact with campus computing units and vendors of automated systems; participate in Library-wide committees. Additionally, this position will involve some Library-wide training, and supervisory responsibilities within the Systems Team. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: MLS from an ALA-accredited institution. Computer-related experience in an academic library. Evidence of excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work collegially. Demonstrated experience managing complex projects. Demonstrated familiarity with some programming, scripting, and page-formatting languages such as Perl, Java, HTML, etc. Understanding of network standards and protocols. Knowledge of developments and trends in information systems. Ability to articulate a user-service philosophy of librarianship. Preferred: Experience implementing OCLC SiteSearch software. Demonstrated knowledge of Structured Query Language. Knowledge of the Z39.50 standard. Demonstrated familiarity with UNIX server environment. Familiarity with an automated library system. BENEFITS: Librarians at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have faculty rank and status and are appointed for twelve months. This is a tenure track appointment. Library faculty must meet University requirements for promotion and tenure. Annual leave is accrued at the rate of two days per month and sick leave at the rate of one day per month. Faculty have their choice of a state retirement plan or TIAA/CREF. Non-refundable contributions to either retirement plan are paid for the employee by the University. Group health and life insurance plans are available. Tuition remission is available for all university employees; partial undergraduate tuition remission is available to dependent children and spouses of UT employees. ADDITIONALINFORMATION about this position may be found at http://toltec.lib.utk.edu./~lss/search/netsrvin.html ENVIRONMENT: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Carnegie Research Level One institution, enrolls approximately 26,000 students from every state in the United States and approximately 100 other countries. As Tennessee's comprehensive campus, UTK offers more doctoral programs than any other institution in the state, and its faculty attract nearly $80 million annually for sponsored research programs. UTK is one of 27 higher education institutions holding the distinction of being both a land-grant institution and state university. The UTK Libraries, with an annual budget of almost $10 million, holds 2 million volumes and receives approximately 14,000 current serials. The Libraries system includes the John C. Hodges Library and four branches on the Knoxville campus: Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine, Map, Music, and University Archives and Special Collections. A fifth branch, the Social Work Library, is located in Nashville. Over three hundred persons are employed, including 49 librarians, 8 exempt, 123 non-exempt, and 150 students. UTK Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, SOLINET, and the Center for Research Libraries. The UTK Libraries installed a client-server integrated system in 1997. The Libraries also offers a Web-based information system and access to a variety of electronic information sources. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send letter of application, a current resume, and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three recent references to: Jill Keally, Head, Library Support Services, 1015 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996-1000, fax 423/974-4696. Review of applications will begin June 1,1998, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or veteran status in provision of educational programs and services or employment opportunities and benefits. This policy extends to both employment by and admission to the University. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in the education programs and activities pursuant to the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Diversity Resources & Educational Services (DRES), 1818 Lake Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone (423)974-2498 (TTY available). Requests for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the Office of Human Resources Management, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN 37996-4125. Gail Conner SWAT Supervisor Library Support Services 642 Hodges Library 974-4658 Gail-Conner@utk.edu ********** II.6. Fr: Bill Bartenbach Re: Engineering Information, Inc.: Associate Editor and Webmaster Associate Editor and Webmaster Overall responsibility for implementing and maintaining a high quality information website catalog, containing links to websites and databases. Responsibilities include supervision of identification, description, indexing, classification, linking of websites, training, supervision and reviewing the work of staff and vendors. Qualifications: college degree required, knowledge of computer or information science desirable, orientation to detail with an ability to differentiate and classify, and an ability to supervise editorial staff. Salary: $35,000, plus fringe benefits, including 2 weeks vacation, health benefits, and sick leave. Send applications to: Bill Bartenbach Director, Editorial Content Engineering Information Inc. 1 Castle Point Terrace Hoboken, NJ 07030 Fax: (201)216-8526 E-mail: bartenb@ei.org ********** II.7. Fr: Teresa Juzba Re: Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips, LLP: Technical Information Analyst Description: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a West Los Angeles-based law firm with approximately 145 attorneys. The Information Services Department (IS) contains more that 10,000 volumes and documents and is a member of TLIN. The IS Department is currently involved in automation projects throughout the Firm. The IS Department has full access to the internet via a T-1 link and to numerous online databases. Each IS Department member has CD-Rom access at his or her own desktop. Job Summary: The Technical Information Analyst provides support and development for the firm's knowledge management activities in coordination with the Information Services Director. Provides programming support, maintenance, and training for Information Services in developing the firm's knowledge management systems. Coordinates, in conjunction with Information Services Director, the assessment, development and management of all knowledge management resources. Responsibilities: Will implement and maintain the Firm's information management projects. Will perform systems analysis and programming specific to knowledge management projects. Will researche knowledge management problems and find solutions. Conducts studies relating to development of knowledge management products as required. Will manage CD-ROM LAN and server where CD-ROMS are copied; implementation, networking and troubleshooting of electronic information resources, including the Internet, full-text databases (internal and external), and all public access PC products. Will test and convert data for computer software (and occasionally hardware) and the prepare documentation. Will write or revise user training manuals and procedures. Develop training materials such as exercises and visual displays. Will train users on software and hardware on-site or in classroom; responsible for teaching attorneys how to utilize knowledge management tools. This will include developing training classes and teaching the use of information technology, coordinating other Information Services' instruction for information management projects. Qualifications: Master's degree (M. L. S.) or equivalent from ALA-accredited program; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in libraries. Demonstrated knowledge of information management and programming. Excellent interpersonal communication. Demonstrated teaching skills and training experience. Preferred: Knowledge of DOS/Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and UNIX operating systems; FolioViews, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office (especially Access), MARC and RLIN records; WWW browsers and HTML and Java applications. Familiarity with PDF (portable document format) and Adobe Acrobat and capture applications. Demonstrated teamwork, communication and organizational skills. Salary: $38,000 per year and up depending on experience. Deadline: Review of applications continues until position is filled. To apply: Please send or fax cover letter, resume and salary history to Jennifer Zeidler, Recruiting Administrator, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, 11355 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90064-1614. Fax: (310) 312-4224 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is an EEO employer. Teresa Juzba Information Services Director Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (310) 312-4108 Phone (310) 312-4224 Fax ********** JxkH0<FC"A00<FCƱVA00<FgpA0:C2LNuafpNu <2fRpCj"1x Z1|,Nupaa f$(H z0+@@'LB0+ H L"H'IF'IJ Ы^(+ثĠ.pa'DN'zV'zR$kFNu x 0"k*8 "g k zr*-fRc +Ы"apNu"bdYOJbe, rNu kJ"k>p2+AAAl #X@`Nu kB"k>p2+ IAlv0CC  !,!-!!""$'$(&9&:&F&V&o&&&&&&'''7'8''(()T)U)))))**0*B*U*l*w*}***,,..335561626w6x7Z7[777777888<<5 Re: NCSU: Head, Textiles Library NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Head, Textiles Library The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Head, Burlington Textiles Library. The Textiles Library is located on NC State's Centennial Campus, a 1000-acre academic village adjacent to the main campus, where university, corporate, and government partners conduct research and development in a collaborative atmosphere. The Textiles Library serves a primary clientele of 50 faculty and 950 students in the College of Textiles. Current initiatives in the college include not only production of fabric and apparel, but development of composites, artificial organs, fireproof materials, and computer circuit boards. The Head of Textiles, with assistance from the Textiles and Engineering Services Librarian, provides reference service to faculty and students with research interests that include textiles design, engineering, electronics, chemistry, management, and computer science. The Textiles Library is currently the NCSU Libraries' central service point for other Centennial Campus faculty, students, and corporate partners. Responsibilities Under the direction of the Associate Director for Public Services, has administrative responsibility for the Textiles Library, manages the budget and staff (two library assistants and student assistants), and works with personnel from College of Textiles to manage the facility. Plans, develops, and delivers responsive and innovative service programs that support teaching, research, and extension. Develops and manages the collection, working closely with Collection Management Department and as a member of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Subject Team. Provides direction in textiles reference service for the Textiles and Engineering Services Librarian. Utilizes information technologies to support access to a broad range of networked electronic resources, including citation databases, full-text journals, electronic reserves, and web sites. Collaborates with faculty on delivery of digitized information to the classroom. Develops and maintains robust web site in support of College of Textiles information needs. Is a member of the Textiles Library faculty committee. Serves on Libraries Department Heads group, develops departmental goals and objectives, and participates actively in library wide planning process. Is active professionally. Qualifications Required: MLS degree from ALA-accredited library school. Minimum three-to-five years' experience in academic, research, or special library. Academic preparation or significant library work experience in textiles, engineering, or physical sciences. Demonstrated ability to work with digital resources in science and technology. Knowledge of current issues in scholarly communication and science and technology. Evidence of leadership potential. Excellent interpersonal skills; evidence of effective collaboration with researchers, faculty, and students; ability to communicate clearly, knowledgeably, and personably, orally and in writing. Preferred: At least five years' relevant experience. Experience with web technology and with databases relevant to textiles research and manufacturing. Supervisory experience. The University and the Libraries North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh within the Research Triangle. This region of North Carolina encompasses one of the nation's premier concentrations of academic, corporate, and public research. The area offers outstanding opportunities for professional growth and an exceptional quality of life. As one of the nation's outstanding land-grant universities, NC State offers degrees through the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Management, Education and Psychology, Veterinary Medicine, Forest Resources, Textiles, and the School of Design. As the largest academic institution in the state, NC State enrolls 28,000 students and offers doctoral degrees in 58 fields of study. The university ranks seventh nationally in research support from private industry and ninth in the number of patents awarded. The Centennial Campus is an expanding enterprise, whose current occupants include more than 25 high-tech companies and agencies conducting research in such areas as communication, biotechnology, environmental technology, and microelectronics. The College of Textiles, located on the Centennial Campus, awards half of the nation's four-year textiles degrees. The library system consists of a central library and branch libraries for design, natural resources, textiles, and veterinary medicine, and maintains an affiliation with a separately administered learning resources library and African-American Cultural Center reading room. With a staff of 309 FTE, the Libraries has over 2.6 million volumes in its collection, acquires more than 26,000 current serials, and has a total annual budget in excess of $18 million, with over $7 million allocated to collections. The NCSU Libraries is a founding member of SOLINET and a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries. Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University and NC State form the Triangle Research Libraries Network with combined resources approaching 12 million volumes, and collections budgets totaling more than $22 million. For more information about the NCSU Libraries, visit our home page at: www.lib.ncsu.edu Salary and Benefits The Libraries offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, not less than $43,000 for this position. Librarians have academic status without tenure or rank. Benefits include: 26 days vacation, 12 days sick leave; health insurance (comprehensive major medical or HMO); and state, TIAA/CREF or other retirement options. Additional and optional dental, life, disability, deferred compensation, and legal plans are available. Tuition waiver program for all campuses of The University of North Carolina is available. Recruiting Schedule Position available immediately. Review of applications will begin April 22, 1998. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the review date above to receive full consideration. To apply, send cover letter (including title of position), resume, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of four current, professional references to: Wendy L. Scott, Office of Personnel Services; Box 7111, NCSU Libraries; Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 North Carolina State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer H. Lea Wells Recruitment Librarian, Office of Personnel Services NCSU Libraries Box 7111 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 919.515.3522 Internet: jennifer_obrien@ncsu.edu  4SD >S8 x J P `   ( J N6 C  @EEHHJXJYNNP PQQRRT'T(U%U&V&V'VhViVvVVVVVWW*Z Z2ZSZTZZ[<[=[[\Z\[\] ]],]8]9]U]w]]]]^^%^&^=^L^l^m________`~`aabqbrbb$ $ $ $ $ $  $ $ $  $ $ $ MIII.A.2. Fr: Pedro Hpola Re: Digital Documents Management The next special topic issue of IWE is scheduled to come out in September 1998 on "Digital Document Management". IWE editors will be pleased to receive contributions. Further information for contributors is available upon request. El Profesional de la Informacion (formerly Information World en Espanol) is a monthly journal addressed to Spanish language information professionals. Launched in 1992 by Learned Information (Oxford, UK) IWE is now published by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (Lisse, The Netherlands). The IWE team also created in 1993 IweTel, the main email list in Spanish for information professionals (more than 1,700 subscribers). http://www.rediris.es/list/info/iwetel.html Tomas Baiget and Pedro Hipola IWE editors IWE editors: iwe@sarenet.es IWE suscriptions: orders@swets.nl Advertising in IWE: akeefer@arrakis.es http://www.ugr.es/~phipola/ ********** III.A.3. Fr: Katharine Sharp Review Re: Katharine Sharp Review No. 6 Katharine Sharp Review ISSN 1083-5261 http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review Katharine Sharp Review, the review of student scholarship in library and information science, announces the publication of issue No. 6, Winter 1998. KSR is published by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats. http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/6/ Table of contents: * Jonathan W. Estrin. Instructional Communication as a Core Service Competancy: A Call for Curricular Change in Professional Library Education * Ali Al-Ghamdi, Mohsin Al-Harbi, Natalie A. B. Beacom, Jennifer Dedolph, Marci Deignan, Charles Elftmann, Nancy Finley, LeAnn LoCicero, John Middlecamp, Christine O'Regan, Faymarie Pluskota, Andrew A. Ritter, Scott Russell, Irene Sabat, Joseph Schneider, Maria Schoeberl, Phyllis Tragash, and Bonnie H. Withers. Authorship in JASIS: A Quantitative Analysis * Harold E. Thiele, Jr. Appraisal, Provenance, and the Computer Revolution: An Examination of Organizational Records in the Electronic Age * Eron Main Records Management for Electronic Mail * Jonathan W. Estrin From Bibliographic Instruction to Instructional Management: A Process-Oriented Approach for Reengineering Library Instruction Programs * Line Pouchard. Cataloging for Digital Libraries: The TEI Scheme and the TEI Header -- Katharine Sharp Review is also available on the following mirror site: http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/review/review/ Kevin Ward Editor Katharine Sharp Review review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review ********** III.A.4. Fr: Informatica Journal Re: Call for Papers CALL FOR OVERVIEW PAPERS The area of PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING has matured to the point when it could benefit from papers providing a broader perspective on the discipline and attempting to introduce order into the rapidly expanding knowledge. To address this need the new journal -- Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (http://orca.st.usm.edu/pdcp) -- decided to publish OVERVIEW papers. An overview paper is expected to cover a subarea of parallel and/or distributed computing. It is supposed to contain a historical perspective on the developments up to date as well as information about the state of the art. It should also contain the description of what research is currently considered the most important and which roads are considered to be the most promising to lead to the answers. The paper should contain extensive bibliography. It is crucial that the paper be written in such a way as to be accessible to computer professionals who do not have detailed knowledge of the subject. All papers are refereed against a specially designed set of criteria matching their special nature (see the WWW site for more details). Due to the nature of the endeavor we expect the overview papers to be longer than the papers typically accepted for journal publication. I am happy to announce that the first issue (in print now) contains an overview paper: "Asynchrony in Parallel Computing: From Dataflow to Multithreading" by J. Silc, B. Robic and T. Ungerer. It is a rather extensive study (with 236 references) providing an excellent source of information about the subject. I would like to invite all everyone interested in contributing an overview paper to contact the Editor-in-Chief (Marcin Paprzycki) at: m.paprzycki@usm.edu to discuss the details of the project. ********** $ $ $ QbcBcCccccddd(d/dFd_ddddddddfsftiikkkkn n7ntnuooqqrrrrrssUsVtwtxttuoupv*v+wwwMwNwOwZwcwwwwwwxx)xaxxxxy y0y?y@{1{2| | |$ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ OIII.A.5. Fr: Richard Hill Re: The April 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available! The April 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at . The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: , and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at . In this issue, we feature research stories about Internet 2; a new user studies project funded jointly by the NSF and the British Library; a description of Case Western Reserve University's approach to intellectual property management; a discussion of some of the recent legal developments relating to hyperlinking and framing; and a note on the ongoing discussion about object identifiers. In addition, we have some new information concerning the DLI-2 solicitation and GILS, and a description of a new museum digital licensing collective. CONTENTS All Packets Should Not Be Created Equal: The Internet2 Project. William H. Graves, COLLEGIS Research Institute. Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study. Amanda Spink University of North Texas, Tom Wilson, David Ellis, and Nigel Ford University of Sheffield. Safeguarding Copyrighted Contents: Digital Libraries and Intellectual Property Management, CWRU's Rights Management System. Tareq M. Alrashid, James A. Barker, Brian S. Christian, Steven C. Cox, Michael W. Rabne, Elizabeth A. Slotta, Luella R. Upthegrove, Case Western Reserve University. Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing. Maureen A. O'Rourke, Boston University School of Law. Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: A Note on Universal Unique Identifiers. Henry M. Gladney, IBM Almaden Research Center. Rhonda Burton-Arnold, D-Lib's editorial assistant, is leaving to pursue other opportunities. We wish her the best in her new position and trust that the wind will always be at her back. D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ********** III.B.1. Fr: Steven Krauwer Re: LREC WORKSHOP, PRE-FINAL PROGRAMME Pre-Final Programme and Call for Participation TOWARDS A EUROPEAN EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NL AND SPEECH. A workshop jointly organised by the European Network of Excellence in Language and Speech ELSNET and the EC Language Engineering-4 project ELSE to be held on Wednesday May 27, 9:00-13:00 at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN Right now, a generic framework for semi-automatic quantitative black-box evaluation of Speech and NLP systems does not exist in Europe. When confronted to a choice, developers and users prefer to ask the opinion of local experts as any other way of processing is either unrealistic or too costly. The LE-4 project ELSE aims at providing developers with a generic strategy and definition of the primary building blocks needed to implement a semi-automatic quantitative black-box evaluation scheme. Prominent speakers from field the have been invited to present papers addressing motivation, advantages, but also problems in connection with the implementation of such an evaluation scheme at an international scale. PROGRAMME: OPENING (Steven Krauwer / Joseph Mariani) "The Darpa experience" (Charles Wayne) "Ethnology and sociology of evaluation" (Lynette Hirschman) "The Aupelf experience" (Joseph Mariani) "Experience in Grace tagging evaluation" (Patrick Paroubek) "Experiences in bilingual text alignment evaluation and word sense disambiguation" (Jean Veronis) "Best practice and evaluation" (Ole Bernsen/Laila Dybkjaer) "Confidence measures and evaluation" (Lin Chase) "Evaluation within Eagles" (Maghi King) "Technology vs User-evaluation" (Marc Blasband) "Evaluation for better products" (Christian Dugast) "Resources for evaluation" (Mark Liberman) "Organising Parser Evaluation" (Richard Sutcliffe) "Specification and infrastructure for text summarization evaluation" (Beth Sundheim) "ELSE" (Patrick Paroubek) PANEL SESSION (Chair: Rob Gaizauskas) CLOSING The selected topics include the multilingual nature of evaluation, lessons from the past (in Europe and the US), and the need for language resources. At the workshop the first intermediate results of the ELSE project will be presented and discussed. This call serves to invite interested parties to ACTIVE participation in the workshop. During the workshop, ample opportunity will be provided for the participants to react to the presentation of the ELSE project, and to the talks by the invited speakers. Furthermore participants will be given the opportunity to give brief position statements. The workshop is very timely as it takes place when the EC's 5th Framework Programme is taking shape. It is clear that the availability of a European evaluation infrastucture can be an important factor in European R&D activities, and that it can only be successful if it is organized and implemented on a European scale. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: The workshop is coorganized by ELSNET and ELSE. The Programme Committee are the participants in the ELSE LE-4 project: Niels Ole Bernsen; Jean-Pierre Chanod; Khalid Choukri; Robert Gaizauskas; Steven Krauwer; Isabelle de Lamberterie; Joseph Mariani; Klaus Netter; Patrick Paroubek; Martin Rajman; Antonio Zampolli CONTACT: Steven Krauwer Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 30 253 6050 Fax: +31 30 253 6000 Email: steven.krauwer@let.ruu.nl FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html CONFERENCE ADDRESSES The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA). Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126 Pisa, ITALY +39 50 560 481 tel. +39 50 555 013 fax pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information on the Conference, is: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion Dpto. de Traduccion e Interpretacion C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es EXHIBITION: An exhibition will be organised by ELRA. This exhibition is open to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their language resources products and prototypes to the wide range of experts and representatives from all over the world participating in the conference. For more information on this, please contact the ELDA office on elra-elda@calva.net. **********III.C.1. Fr: Mary Jean Moore Re: California Digital Library Patrick Newell to Serve as Special Assistant to the University Librarian for Strategic Projects, California Digital Library pNu0<`V0<`N0<`F0<`>}}}}}}}~~#~$~4~T~U~h~~~~~~~~  "6C\eST^`UV45rs@A )+8:LSTU"yzez@A78:VWHIS!"mn45 RSHT`bnopwy~  @b||| |B|C|j||} }N}n}}}~~4~h~~~6\de_`KLUd!"78.ATU&;Pdyz8WX =IUc$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ UPatrick Newell has been appointed as Special Assistant to the University Librarian. As support to the University Librarian, he will work with the senior management team of the CDL to develop and coordinate CDL projects. He will assist in strategic planning, analyzing trends in information management and technology, exploring issues involved in the transition from paper-based to digital resources and services, and developing alternative models for scholarly and scientific information. Patrick comes to the CDL from UC San Francisco, where he served as Special Assistant to the University Librarian for Planning and Special Projects and as a Personal Information Management Specialist. He has also made several presentations on medical libraries and information technology. He holds an MA in Philosophy from Fordham University in New York and an MLIS from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. I. QUERIES 1. Text CategorisationSystems Librarian for Networked ion, Inc.: Associate Editor and ips, LLP: Technical Information 4. 3. : 4. , orkshoprefinalrogramme 2. ECDL98 - Final Call For Papers CMiscellaneous 1. I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: krohnu@info.bt.co.uk Re: Text Categorisation Hi, Are there any maillists on text categorisation? Uwe Uwe Krohn Networked Information Research Tel: +44 1473 605508 British Telecom Laboratories Fax: +44 1473 642459 MLB1/14 email: krohnu@info.bt.co.uk Martlesham Heath Ipswich IP5 3RE UK 1234123: 4, orkshoprefinalrogramme ********** III.B.2. Fr: Stavros A. Papadakis Re: ECDL98 - Final Call For Papers CALL for PAPERS Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries European European ICS-FORTH University of Union Research Crete Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics 19 - 23 September, 1998 Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL ecdl@cc.uch.gr Be sure to check the following categories: Papers, Posters, Accepted Tutorials, Panels and Demos, Invited Speakers, Special Sessions OBJECTIVES: This conference is the second of a series of European conferences on research and technology for digital libraries funded by the European Commission's TMR Programme. Its objectives are: to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines whose science relates to the development of digital libraries; to provide an opportunity for these scientists to form a research community in Europe specific to digital library development and to enable them to discuss issues and strategies specific to the European context; to assist young researchers in establishing relationships with senior scientists in their areas of interest; to enable review and discussion of research under way in Europe, the US, Japan and other countries on digital libraries; to stimulate researchers, especially young scientists, to explore new areas of interest in digital library development; to establish a forum for discussion of issues specific to Europe such as interoperability, multilinguality, intellectual property policy, and information commerce; to provide an opportunity for researchers in the relevant enabling technologies and information sciences, to discuss issues related to interoperability between world wide distributed digital libraries. From a technical point of view, the European Conferences series aims to contribute to the definition of those digital library parameters which especially influence issues of access, retrieval, and interaction with information; to identify key problems which must be solved to make digital library services an effective reality; to identify a general structure or framework for integrating research and solutions; and to propose and encourage specific, high priority research directions within such a framework. TOPICS: The conference organisers solicit papers on topics related to digital libraries, including but not limited to the following list: o Digital Library Models, Frameworks, and System Requirements o Metadata o System Integration and Architecture Issues o Interoperability, Scalability o Networked Information Discovery, Agent Technologies o Information Retrieval, Organisation, Navigation - Tools and Paradigms o Multilinguality o Role of Knowledge Representation Systems in Digital Library Interactions o Collecting, Capturing, Filtering, Cataloging, Indexing, o Preserving o Intellectual Property Rights, Terms and Conditions, Rights Management o Authoring, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Commerce and Information Economies o Economic and Social Implications and Issues o User Interfaces o Handling of Graphics, GIS, Medical Data, Multimedia Information, Experimental Data and o Scientific Models. Conference Programme: The conference will be held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Tutorials will be organised on the 19th and 20th of September 1998 (for a list of accepted tutorials please consult the relevant section below). The opening session will take place at 9.00a.m. on Monday the 21th of September 1998 and the final session will take place on Wednesday afternoon, the 23th of September 1998. Full details on the scientific programme of the Conference will be published on our Web site by the 1st of July 1998. IMPORTANT DATES: 15 May 1998 Papers and proposals for posters deadline 25 June 1998 Notification of paper and poster acceptance 1 July 1998 Scientific Programme on the Web 25 July 1998 Final papers due 19,20 September 1998 Tutorials 21-23 September 1998 Conference POSTERS: During the conference a space will be reserved for poster sessions. Research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts and prototype systems. Poster proposals should include title, names of presenters and outline (max. 500 words). Electronic submissions are obligatory; proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat, ecdl@cc.uch.gr. PAPERS: Submission Details: Papers (max 20 pages, double spaced) should be submitted electronically in HTML format, either by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat, ecdl@cc.uch.gr, or to our ftp site, ftp://ftp.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL. In either case please follow the guidelines below: 1. in your submission there should be exaclty one HTML file containing the paper text, suitable for review printing 2. each figure (or other material except text) should be in a separate file 3. all files consisting your paper should be gathered in a single file (zip or tar format) 4. submit your paper (please note that electronic submissions are obligatory) either by e-mail or ftp 5. send a separate e-mail message to ecdl@cc.uch.gr containing the title, abstract, keywords for the paper and the relevant contact information. he deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 1998. Important Information: - Best papers will be proposed for publication in a special issue of the IJODL: The best papers of the conference will be proposed for publication (after a new revision and refereeing process) in a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm ) - Accepted papers will be published by Springer: All accepted papers for the conference will be published by Springer. Upon selection of your paper you are also obliged to provide us another copy of your paper, in LaTeX2e or MS Word format, following the guidelines provided by Springer. The final date for the preparation of the accepted papers will be July 15, 1998. Detailed information on preparing accepted papers for publishing can be found at the Springer-Verlag web site, http://www.springer.de. Please be sure to read the "Information for Authors" (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ), as well as the new version of the "Authors's Instructions" (you may retrieve this file in PDF format from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf or in Postscript format from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps; you may also retrieve all related files from our web site; information will be available from our web pages shortly). PANELS, TUTORIALS AND DEMOS: Detailed information regarding tutorials, demos and panels can be found at the conference web page http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html. In brief, accepted tutorials for the conference are the following (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html): 1. Standards for interfacing with a digital library by Larry Masinter 2. Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries by Dagobert Soergel 3. Visual Information System by Babu M. Mehtre 4. Multimedia Information Retrieval, categorisation, and filtering by Pasquale Savino and Fabrizio Sebastiani 5. Designing Content for the Web of Tomorrow, World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial by Bert Bos 6. Metadata on the Web: the Resource Description Framework (RDF), World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial by Janne Saarela 7. Metadata for Networked Resources by Renato Iannella, Carl Lagoze and Stuart Weibel A tutorial registration form will be available shortly from our web pages. Accepted panels for the conference (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/panels.html): 1. Interaction Design in Digital Libraries. Panelists: Constantine Stephanidis, David Benyon, Mark Maybury, Daniel Dardailler, Dan Diaper 2. Digital Video Libraries: Providing Access to the Moving Image. Panelists: Richard Paterson, Rachel Hughes, Robin Wright, Bruce Tonkin 3. Digital Library Technologies in Health Care. Panel Coordinator: Prof. Stelios Orphanoudakis 4. Architectures and services for cultural heritage information. Panel Coordinator: Panos Constantopoulos 5. Metadata and content-based approaches to resource discovery. Panel Organizers: Thomas Baker and Judith Klavans Accepted demos for the conference (http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/demos.html): 1. Liberation by Robert Stubenrauch 2. Aquarelle by Vassilis Christophides 3. Aontas: The CaberNet Technical Report and Abstracts Service by Frank Siqueira 4. The Low-Cost Digital Library by Philip Konomos 5. Multilingual Informedia: A Demonstration of Speech Recognition and Information Retrieval across Multiple Languages by Howard Wactlar 6. ARHON: A Multimedia Database Design for Image Documents by Kostas Chandrinos 7. Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) Digital Library System by Hideki Sunahara 8. The Document Management System SAROS/Mezzanine by Norbert Lossau 9. Unicode-based Digital Library Interface by Sarantos Kapidakis 10. ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library by Stefania Biagioni 11. CiBIT: Biblioteca Telematica Italiana. A Digital Library for the Italian Cultural Heritage by Eugenio Picchi 12. INTEX: Searching Information in Full Text by Maurice Gross 13. Calliope: an experiment in Digital Libraries by Catherine Alauzun INVITED SPEAKERS: http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html#speakers * Dr. Donald F. Ferguson, Senior Manager IBM T.J Watson Reseach Center, IBM Academy, USA. Software Systems and Middleware for Information Economies and Digital Libraries * Dr. James J. O'Donnell, Professor of classical studies, Vice Provost for Computing University of Pennsylvania, USA. The Digital Library in the University: How We Use it * Dr. Amy Friedlander, CNRI, Editor of the D-Lib Magazine and Dr. William Y. Arms, CNRI, Publisher of the D-Lib Magazine. Publishing at the Speed of Web-Light; Experiences from D-Lib Magazine * Mark T. Maybury Advanced Information Systems Center, The MITRE Corporation. Intelligent Multimedia Information Access SPECIAL SESSIONS: http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights.html#sessions A special session on "Digital Library Technologies for Libraries" will be held during the conference. Detailed information can be found at the conference web site. Session organiser: Ann Okerson Speakers: Diann Rusch-Feja, John Price-Wilkin, Chris Rusbridge PROCEEDINGS: The Proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be distributed at the Conference. FELLOWSHIP FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS: A limited number of fellowships for the Conference and also for Tutorials are available for young researchers who are citizens of European Union countries or Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland. The fellowship offers free registration for the participants and, in special cases where necessary and appropriately justified, may pay for or reimburse travel and lodging expenses. PROGRAMME CHAIR: Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH Leoforos Knossou, GR-71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Tel: +30 81 393199, Fax: +30 81 210106 E-mail: nikolau@cc.uch.gr CONTACT INFORMATION: For more information regarding this conference contact the conference secretariat, Rena Kalaitzaki and Maria Stavrakaki University of Crete, Computer Science Department, Tel: +30 81 393504 Fax: +30 81 393501 E-mail: ecdl@cc.uch.gr You can subscribe to the announcement list of the "Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries" by sending electronic mail to 'majordomo@csi.forth.gr' with body 'subscribe ecdl2-announce '.x 5. FARNET'S Washington Update, April 20, 1998 6. FARNET's Washington Update, April 24, 1998 ********** III.A.5^^__``aMaNaabbcjckcccgg$ $ $ $ $ $ $ 045(+,-./01235678?AFNZc{ ;XZj<JKL/0|}^_FG'(rsRSBCemn=\ 2c=y(=>U78$CDEFNPUV%8,.}~.Jm{9=RteP67u_ABAB67^_`(*dkt)+Vi9VpCD[\_e18:fg~ EFJ~ $&bix{"08;ry,35]t,YkJZ[\!"Zopqt-e-ghi )On<=iIJ"#45 Q^__ęĚ CKLNXhixŃńŊŋxٗ٣٩٫٬ٮnoڻڼ'JOkl|}ۇ @bNOST^),OZc X<KLw>?DEV@c9:.j6ROP$ $ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ S_`(h)fSop\.8{G}~$fx-8v)3t,kYZ#$5m¦¿_$ $ $ $ $ $ Y_Èâ yń&UVքօ*+:;}~ ٘٣٬/0JK}ۿMWdp{1`a#/Tm;<pq%<Bi34@AQRB$ $ $ $ $ Y. Fr: Garret Sern RE: FARNET'S Washington Update, April 20, 1998 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- APRIL 20, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: UCAID unveils Abiline, kicks off week of Internet policy meetings Chairman Kennard suggests changes to administration of universal service. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.6. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update, April 24, 1998 FARNET's Washington Update --- April 24, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: The RBOCs' SEC 706 petition: an answer to overcoming the "bandwidth deficit" or a SEC. 271 end-run? SLC board looks ahead to 1999 application process >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. TMay 484 I. QUERIES 1. I. QUERIES HONE: (909) 869-3110 ippi: AssrZk 2uYZ$%Vۇۑۛۥۯ۾ۿ STܟܠ67LMNOTUVo{ݛk%;< &'(?j&!"&*_**====@MWMdPQ QT````````a aaa,a-a.a2a>aJaKaLaXadazaaaaaa @bI.1. Fr: Donna Forster Re: Electronic Claiming of Serials/Periodicals We are an Innovative Library, using EBSCO and Yankee Book Peddler as our major periodical/serials vendors. We will be acquiring Innovative' Electronic Claiming of serials issues via E-mail in the near future and would like some input from libraries that are currentlterested in hearing which vendors you process e-claims with; and what was involved in pre- and post- implementation, e.g.,: 1. What information needs to be included in the Order/CKIN records; 2. Procedures for preparing records; 3. Problems encountered; 4. Level of staff involved in the preparation as well as the actual e-claiming process; 5. Savings in staff time, etc. Also, have you been pleased with the results once all glitches were taken care of? We will be greatful for any information we receive. Donna Forster Cal Poly Pomona Library - Serials Bibliographic Access Services 15-505 3801 W. Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 E-mail: DMFORSTER@CSUPOMONA.EDU FAX: (909) 869-3103 PHONE: (909) 869-3110 II.1. Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: Research Assistant in Computational Linguistics RESEARCH ASSISTANT Researcher A (Fixed Term, 3 years) 11562 - 13101 UK. pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies wish to appoint a research assistant to work on anaphora resolution project. The duties will focus on the development and implementation of a robust, knowledge-poor pronoun resolution approach. We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and with excellent programming skills. The successful candidate will have a first degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science. Appointees may register for a Ph.D. or an M.Phil. on a part-time basis. The successful candidate is expected to start the job as soon as possible but no later than 1 September 1998. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk . Formal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested at per@wlv.ac.uk, please quote Reference number A1587), a full CV (including details on your experience in NLP projects and programming skills) and one or two relevant publications, if available. Please note the closing date for applications for this post is 18 May 1998. i BChiw 6stpq Cqr A~,V-.OP%PxyhiVWop$ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Q********** II.2. Fr: Foo Schubert Re: NTU,Singapore: Faculty Appointments, Information Studies NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE FACULTY APPOINTMENTS DIVISION OF INFORMATION STUDIES SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE The School of Applied Science invites applications for teaching posts within its expanding Division of Information Studies. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. or is likely to obtain one in a relatively short period and relevant work experience in an aspect of information service, research, or teaching information studies at graduate level. The appointee, in addition to providing teaching and administrative support to the Division, is expected to carry out active research activities in one or more related areas of Internet technology, information retrieval, digital libraries, library automation, collection development and management, bibliometrics, information security, intelligent interfaces and groupware systems. A good track record from a well-known academic institution and quality research publications will be an additional advantage as the appointee will be required to supervise students for research degrees at Master and Doctoral level in the Division's expanding programme of research. In this round of appointments, candidates from a LIS background with work experience in the library services are particularly encouraged to apply. Gross annual emoluments (for 12 months) range as follows: Professor : S$150,000 - S$202,110 Associate Professor : S$122,460 - S$170,100 Senior Lecturer : S$67,940 - S$138,090 Lecturer : S$58,390 - S$74,300 (US$ 1.00 = S$ 1.58 or *1 = S$ 2.65 approximately as at 21 April 1998) Leave and medical benefits will be provided. Other benefits, depending on the type of contract offered, include provident fund benefits or an end-of-contract gratuity, settling-in allowance, subsidised housing, children's education allowance, passage assistance and baggage allowance for transportation of personal effects to Singapore. Application forms can be downloaded via Internet at: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/personnel/academic/StaffRec/AdSAS.html More information on the University and Division can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg and http://www.ntu.ac.sg/sas/postgrad.htm respectively. The Head of Division, Schubert Foo, can be contacted at : assfoo@ntu.edu.sg III.A.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: New Draft of Authentication Paper A second draft of the White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources, edited by Clifford Lynch, was released at the CNI Spring Task Force meeting on April 14. The latest version is available on the CNI website at: http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html ********** III.A.2. Fr: Russ Greiner Re: Special Issue on "Relevance" is Available! We are pleased to announce that the long-awaited special "Aritificial Intelligence Journal" issue on *RELEVANCE* is now available! Its 11 original articles, written by leading researchers from various fields, cover a diverse range of topics, from learning and learnability, to representation and reasoning to game-playing --- and includes both empirical and theoretical results. See http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/Relevance-AIJ.html for the titles, authors and abstracts of the articles, including the editors' introduction. ********** III.A.3. Fr: Nerea Llamas Re: ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project The Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section, in conjunction with the Coalition for Networked Information, is sponsoring a WWW site which identifies exemplary user education and training materials supporting the use of the Internet and other networked information resources. The primary goal of the project is to provide a common focal point for librarians and others involved in the instruction and delivery of networked information to display and share model instructional materials specifically designed for the selection and evaluation of information in a networked environment. Materials selected for inclusion on the site will be considered the professional standard. Of particular interest to the committee are materials which demonstrate innovative and creative use of technology in instruction and those which successfully integrate the selection and evaluation of both print and electronic resources. For examples of projects currently included on the site, go to the following URL: http://www.cwru.edu/affil/cni/base/acrlcni.html. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: To submit materials to be considered for the Internet Education Projec Site, send mail to: user-ed-submit@po.cwru.edu or to: Internet Education Project c/o Martha Fleming Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7151 U.S.A. Digital submissions are strongly encouraged. If the submission is available on the Internet, it is sufficient to send the URL. If this is not possible or appropriate, materials may be sent as e-mail attachments or submitted on 3.5" diskette(s). Those sending diskettes should also include two (2) paper copies. Include the following information with each submission: 1.Title. 2.Author(s). 3.Objective(s) of the materials. 4.Intended audience of the materials 5.Your name and complete contact information including mailing address, e-mail, fax, and URL. 6.Permission statement from the author(s) for use on this site. 7.Any necessary copyright clearances. 8.Any necessary disclaimers. Nerea A.LLamas, MLS Davidson Library University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone:(805) 893-3713 fax: (805) 893-4676 email:llamas@ariz.library.ucsb.edu~ **********   ABz{7w&;_j 6^_01Rz P Q   c d   DQ&.U?@XY $ $ $ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ QIII.B.1. Fr: James C. French Re: CIKM'98 deadline extended to May 12 C I K M '9 8 D E A D L I N E E X T E N D E D New FIRM deadline: May 12, 1998 Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline to May 12. This is a FIRM deadline. CIKM '98 Call for Papers Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 3--7, 1998, Washington D.C., USA Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS The focus of the conference is new and original research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of information and knowledge management. We solicit papers that address novel, challenging and innovative results. We also solicit short papers that challenge the field with new technologies or applications and open new horizons of research. Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance. Of particular interest are papers which address experiences with concrete applications. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by ACM Press, provided at least one author attends the conference to present the paper. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by May 12, 1998 to either of the Program Co-Chairs: Dr. James French Dr. Georges Gardarin c/o CIKM'98 (IR track) c/o CIKM'98 (DBMS track) Dept. of Computer Science PRiSM Laboratory (& INRIA) U. of Virginia U. of Versailles SQ Charlottesville VA 22903 78035 Versailles Cedex USA France french@cs.virginia.edu georges.gardarin@prism.uvsq.fr 804/982-2213 33-1-39254054/56 For additional information please consult the conference home page: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/cikm/1998/ ********** ********** III.A.4 Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: Special Issue Machine Translation: Final call for papers FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN MACHINE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) The interpretation of anaphora is crucial for the successful operation of a Machine Translation system. In particular, it is essential to resolve the anaphoric relation when translating into languages which mark the gender of pronouns. Unfortunately, the majority of MT systems developed in the seventies and eighties did not adequately address the problems of identifying the antecedents of anaphors in the source language and producing the anaphoric "equivalents" in the target language. As a consequence, only a limited number of MT systems have been successful in translating discourse, rather than isolated sentences. One reason for this situation is that in addition to anaphora resolution being itself a very complicated task, translation adds a further dimension to the problem in that the reference to a discourse entity encoded by a source language anaphor by the speaker (or writer) has not only to be identified by the hearer (translator or translation system) but also re-encoded in a coreferential expression in a different language. The nineties have seen an intensification of research efforts in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. This can be seen in the growing number of related projects which have reported promising new results (e.g.Wada 1990; Leass & Schwall 1991; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1992; Chen 1992; Saggion & Carvalho 1994; Preuss et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1995; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1995; Mitkov et al. 1995; Mitkov et al. 1997; Geldbach 1997). However, we still feel that additional work is needed to highlight and further explore the specifics of the problem in operational MT environments, including fully automatic Machine Translation and Machine- aided Translation. We are inviting high-quality, original research papers describing recent advances in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. Topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to) - operational anaphora resolution components in Machine Translation - resolution of zero pronouns in MT environments - lexical transfer of anaphors across languages - to what extent have the latest trends towards knowledge-poor, corpus- driven and robust approaches in anaphora resolution, been called upon in Machine Translation? - what are the most scalable contributory factors /resolution strategies in MT? - what makes anaphora resolution a more complex task in Machine Translation? - multilingual anaphora resolution SUBMISSION AND FORMAT: Articles should be submitted directly to the publishers, either by e-mail to Ellen.Klink@wkap.nl, with the Subject header "Submission to COAT Anaphora special issue", or in hard-copy to Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990 3300 AZ Dordrecht The Netherlands or Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-023 U.S.A. The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is 15 May 1998. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. For more details, please consult the journal's web pages: Home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567 Instructions for Authors: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567 LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are also requested to send a copy of an abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in hard-copy to Ruslan Mitkov, School of Languages and European Studies, University of Wolverhampton, Stafford St., Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, United Kingdom. GUEST EDITOR: Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD: Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge) Guenter Goerz (University of Nuernberg/Erlangen) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, McLean) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Susan LuperFoy (MITRE, McLean) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Frederique Segond (Ranx Xerox, Grenoble) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) *normal.o X!@! @! @"II.4. Fr: Gail Conner Re: U. TN, Knoxville: Systems Librarian for Networked Service Integration POSITION: Systems Librarian for Networked Service Integration APPOINTMENT RANK: Assistant Professor SALARY: Min  1LYnuv(Z[  %&4Bk  D p   ! !1!]!!!& &9&I&J&m&~&&'0'1'~'''(((()))*W*X*******+4+W+X++++,$ $ $ $ $ $ WIII.B.3. Fr: Prolamat 1998 Re: Prolamat 98 Call for participation and Program IFIP PROLAMAT 98 I TRENTO - ITALY September 9-11, & 12 1998 The Call for papers has been very succesful: over 140 refereed papers will be presented at the conference in three technical tracks: 1 Sharing experience from telecom use in industry for agility and innovation 2 Human and machine communications, modeling, standard representation, reuse 3 Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing The program will include keynote speeches, an applied track organised in thematic sessions, and a selection of R&TD projects co-financed by the European Community on subject areas related to PROLAMAT 98. For information about program, registration fees, accomodation and forms, please find the Call for participation and preliminary Program on the PROLAMAT 98 weekly updated web site: http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it Please note that the deadline for the reduced registration fee is May 10, 1998, and that early registration and early travel & hotel booking is advisable. Prof. Gianni Jacucci, Conference Chair ********** ********** ci, Conference Chair*III.B.4. Fr: Lorenzo Magnani Re: MBR'98 Call for Papers MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (MBR'98) Pavia, Italy, December 17-19, 1998 As from April 15, 1998: up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://philos.unipv.it/courses/progra1.html GENERAL INFORMATION: From Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 December 1998 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). PROGRAM: The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in scientific discovery, including computational models of such practices. Abduction is widely recognized as a significant reasoning process in discovery whose features are in need of explication. We solicit papers that examine various forms of model-based reasoning, such as analogical and visual modeling, from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. The scientific program will include invited speakers and presentations of accepted papers. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS: We shall call for papers that cover topics from the following (not exclusive) list: - abduction - analogical reasoning- computational models of model-based reasoning - conceptual combination and theory formation - hypothetical and explanatory reasoning - logical analyses that may contribute to our understanding of the issues in model-based reasoning - thought experimenting - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and simulation. SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS: All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We are thinking in terms of presentations of 40 and 20 minutes. The funding is Italian, but we are also looking elsewhere for further financing (and would appreciate any suggestions). All accepted papers will be presented at plenary sessions and a selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to refereeing) in a book which will constitute an advanced handbook for scientists and researchers. The book will be published by an international publishing house. FORMAT: Authors must submit five printed copies and an electronic version - preferably formatted in Microsoft Word (up to 6.0) format - of an extended abstract (about 1000 words) not later than June 30, 1998. For information about paper submission and the program that is not available on the web site, please contact the program chair. For information about local arrangements, registration, forms, etc., please also contact the program chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Registration deadline............................15 July 1998 Submission deadline..............................15 July 1998 Notification of acceptance.......................15 Oct 1998 Final papers (from those selected for publication) due........30 Jan 1999 Conference....................................17-19 Dec 1998 PROGRAM CHAIR: Lorenzo MAGNANI Department of Philosophy University of Pavia 27100 Pavia, ITALY lorenzo@philos.unipv.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIR: Nancy J. NERSESSIAN School of Public Policy and College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 30332 0345 Atlanta, GA, USA nancyn@cc.gatech.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIR: Paul THAGARD Department of Philosophy University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G pthagard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Silvana Borutti, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Ronald Giere, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA - David Gooding, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK - Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Joke Meheus, University of Ghent, Ghent, BELGIUM - Nancy Nersessian, School of Public Policy and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA - Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, ITALY - Mario Stefanelli, Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA IMPORTANT ADDRESSES: Submitted extended abstracts should be sent to the Program Chair: LORENZO MAGNANI: Dipartimento di Filosofia Piazza Botta 6 27100 PAVIA - ITALY phone: +39 382 506341/506283 fax: +39 382 23215 email: lorenzo@philos.unipv.it home: Via Dante Alighieri 2, 27053 LUNGAVILLA (PV) - ITALY phone: +39 383 371067 CONFERENCE SITE: Collegio Ghislieri Piazza Ghislieri 27100 PAVIA, Italy, phone +39 382 22044. Collegio Borromeo Piazza Borromeo 27100 PAVIA, Italy, phone +39 382 24787. The Conference is sponsored by the UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA and by CARIPLO (Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, Milan) ********** may be sent as e-mail attachments or submitted on 3.5" diskette(s). Those sending diskettes shoul,,//003g3h494:5&5'585v5556;6x6y6666666777H7h7777777888 838u88899^9m99::U:y::;;&;';~;;;;;;;< Re: Workshop on Information Mediation I'MEDIAT'98 Call for Papers and Demonstrations First International Workshop on Practical Information Mediation and Brokering, and the Commerce of Information on the Internet. Tokyo, Japan, September 14 1998 In Conjunction with The Eleventh International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'98) (http://www.ap.kagu.sut.ac.jp/PAJ/inap98/) The development of the Internet has created a new space for the exchange and the commerce of information. From search engines and bargain finders to expert information servers we are witnessing the development of a new range of mediation and intermediation services. I'MEDIAT is a forum of discussion and presentation of new ideas and technologies for value adding services in information mediation and brokering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, users and information providers involved in the development and deployment of commercial, industrial and practical applications. We solicit papers describing novel information mediation applications and systems. Papers reporting on commercial or experimental applications as well as demonstrations are strongly encouraged. The main topics for papers and demonstrations include, but are not limited to: * Mediated access to heterogeneous information sources; * Mediation systems architecture; * Internet tools for information and knowledge sharing; * Advanced information search and filtering; * Information extraction from unstructured or semi-structured documents; * Information personalization and customization techniques; * Information distribution protocols (channels, push/pull technologies, etc.); * User interfaces; * Trust, privacy, and security; * Business models for the commerce of information: technological implications; * Policy (intellectual property, privacy, etc.): technological implications; * Information mediation applications. Committee: Oskar Bartenstein,IF Computer, Japan Stephane Bressan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Cheng Hian Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore Alexander Herold, Siemens Medical Systems, Germany Mauricio Lopez, G.I.E. Dyade (Bull/INRIA), France Louiqa Rachid, University of Maryland, USA Raphael Yahalom, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA PAPER FORMAT: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing or completed work. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers and demo descriptions should be between 3000 and 5000 words. Papers and demo descriptions will be published in informal proceedings distributed during the workshop. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Papers and demo descriptions must be submitted by e-mail to the addresses below. Submissions can be either in HTML or Postscript formats. In alternative, submission can by done by emailing a URL pointing to an HTML version of the paper. Contact: imediat98@context.mit.edu IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission deadline: June 19th 1998 * Acceptance notification: July 20th 1998 * Camera ready paper due: August 10th 1998 * Workshop dates: September 14th 1998 Home and updates: (http://context.mit.edu/imediat98) Stephane Bressan Research Scientist MIT Sloan School of Management E53-320, 50 Memorial drive Cambridge, MA, 02139 Tel: +1 (617) 253-0151 Fax: +1 (617) 253-4424 IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF KDI -- updates Updated information is now available on the NSF Online Document System for the following document (nsf9855): Title: KDI: Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs, Education, Social/Behavioral Sciences, Biology Note: Full proposal deadlines have changed; see the KDI home page (http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/kdi/)for details. For proposals encompassing more than one KDI component, the deadline is determined by the primary component, indicated by the choice of organizational unit -- KDI/KN, KDI/LIS, KDI/NCC -- at the top of the cover sheet in FastLane. It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9855 NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ********** ********** III.B.2. @=/R@H-:LaserWriter 8 )ChicagoNew YorkGenevaMonaco Zapf DingbatsBookmanN Helvetica NarrowPalatino Zapf C@^@j@@@A A-AAAgAAAE1GGGHH:HyHHI+IdIeJJKKKKKLL.LYLLLLLLLMM)M@MWMdMlMMMMNNNON}NNNPIPJP^PPPPPQ QQTT-ThTiT}T~W-W.XXY YKYkYYZ!ZbZxZ$ $ $  $ $ $ $ WIV.C.2. Fr: Terry Kuny Re: Open Society Institute Network Library Program fellows NLP Fellows Program The Open Society Institute Network Library Program welcomes proposals from libraries, information centers, and schools of library and information science to host librarians and information professionals from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia. The Fellowship should last from three to six months. Hosts may be in English-speaking, French-speaking, German-speaking, Italian-speaking, or Russian-speaking countries. The aim of the program is to familiarize Fellows with the practice of librarianship in other countries, and to give them some work experience in libraries or information centers, or to help teachers in the LIS field to broaden their knowledge and upgrade their skills. Proposals that focus on helping Fellows to develop skills and strategies for sharing their new knowledge with colleagues upon their return home will receive top priority. Please address the following points in your application: Why are you interested in hosting Fellows? What do you hope to accomplish? What does your institution have to offer NLP Fellows? What is your institution's experience in LIS education and/or continuing professional development for librarians? If you have had any experience with international activities in this area, please describe it. What program will you offer Fellows? (Describe how you plan to orient them to your lnstitution and community; what kinds of work experience you can provide) How many Fellows are you prepared to host? How will you recruit and select Fellows? (Note that recruitment must be done in conjunction with the Soros Foundations Network.) What in-kind contributions is your institution prepared to contribute? What are the benefits to Fellows? What are the benefits to your institution? What are the living conditions for Fellows you host? (Describe housing, community) What is your plan for evaluating the success of your Fellows Program? PROPOSALS INVOLVING GROUPS OF FELLOWS AND MULTIPLE COUNTRIES WILL BE ESPECIALLY WELCOME The application must be submitted in English, and the budget must be in U.S. dollars. Budget should include accommodation, stipend for the Fellow, health insurance, local transportation, airport transportation, attendance at additional training workshops, conferences that could be part of the Fellowship, package of training material. Please note that the NLP does not pay overhead costs. Please note that this program is for working professionals, not for students. If you are interested in an exchange or twinning program, please apply under the NLP Matching Funds Grants Training Program. Applications must be received by the NLP office in Budapest by 1 August 1998. Decisions will be made in the middle of September. MAILING ADDRESS: Open Society Institute Network Library Program Oktober 6 utca 12 1051 Budapest Hungary tel. (361) 327 3100 fax. (361) 327 3101 e-mail : kupryter@osi.hu 1. U. Wolverhampton: A, 2. S 1. CNI 2. U. Wolverhampton: A,CNI 3. 1. DE 2. 3. IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. U 2. FDE23UF I.1.y in - . 4. 41195 $ $ $ZZ[[D[[\\\2\]\\\\\]S]T^^__`(`)`:`Q`i`{```````aa3a?aMaYaraaaaaff+f=f>fOfPjjjjjjk@kAkPkQkklll l4lRlvllllmmmmKmLn n n>n?oQoRpSpT$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaflvlxxxx|itABWvw)*1Ot)a$ù    )5`ano|}>pz @bI.1. Fr: N.F. Matsatsinis Re: The Next WAVe(sm): Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases _The Next WAVe(sm):_ Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases I am pleased to announce the formal establishment of _The Next WAVe(sm)_, a new clearinghouse devoted to Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web databases. The URL for _The Next WAVe(sm)_ is: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm I believe that the projects, research, products and services profiled in _The Next WAVe(sm)_ will be of interest to librarians and computer scientists alike who seek to enhance access to Web information sources as well as information found in conventional database systems. For those who have limited knowledge about Auditory Displays, I strongly recommend reading any and all of the excellent papers from the first international conference on auditory display organized by the International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD). Gregory Kramer (editor), AUDITORY DISPLAY: SONIFICATION, AUDIFICATION AND AUDITORY INTERFACES Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62603-9 This volume is a seminal work in the field. [I strongly recommend that every research library obtain a copy for their collections.] I also strongly suggest a visit to the ICAD homepage at http://www.santafe.edu/~icad/ I believe that both the able and disabled will find the efforts profiled in _The Next WAVe(sm)_ to an important resource of value for facilitating access to Web resources. I am greatly interested in developing this clearinghouse further and would greatly appreciate learning of other research, projects, products, and services in the following areas: Auditory exploration of data via sonification Audification (audible playback of data samples) Real Time monitoring of multivariate data Sound in Immersive Interfaces (Virtual Environments) Perceptual issues in Auditory Display Sound in generalized computer interfaces Technologies supporting Auditory Display creation Data handling for Auditory Display systems Applications of Auditory Display I am particularly interested in projects in Assistive Technology as well as auditory or multimodal access in computer interface and the use of sound is data mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) [For information about DM and KDD, see my Four-T-Nine-R(sm) project at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/4T9R.htm] _The Next WAVe(sm)_ is the second in a series of three planned clearinghousesdevoted to Sensory Information Navigation (SIN) [:->]. _The Next WAVe(sm)_ complements _The Big Picture_, my clearinghouse devoted to Information Visualization at available at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm As always, Any and All suggestions, comments, critiques, queries, questions and/or contributions are most welcome. Regards, Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library 152 Parks Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/]2 m `;am0`; aWindowmmmm `; ''mmmP`;@ -[[D;3 @???mmP`;@ -[[D;3 @???m`;wwwwpTq q qqqqqrrsIsJsxsstt-tVttttuv"v#w wVwWwwwwwxxx8xVx`xnxx|||U|V||~~UV !*+AM\ht>?Z[k01$ $  $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ QII.1. Fr: Maria.Barja@ubs.com Re: Research positions at Ubilab (Zurich, Switzerland) OPEN RESEARCH POSITIONS AT UBILAB, UBS (ZURICH, SWITZERLAND) Ubilab, the information technology (IT) research and innovation laboratory of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), is looking for research staff members in the areas of Information Systems and Data Mining. Ubilab pursues a small number of attractive, highly competitive IT projects in cooperation with other UBS departments. Most of these projects are carried out in cooperation with other research institutions in Switzerland or abroad. In addition, Ubilab serves UBS as an effective consulting, technology watch, and technology transfer unit. Ubilab's Information Systems group is currently working on a project whose objective is to support information gathering from heterogeneous and distributed information sources. We are developing a system named Bellevue which offers full-fledged information retrieval capabilities across different types of information sources, including relational and object-oriented databases, file systems, and WWW sites. The development of this system requires a combination of database, information retrieval, distributed systems, knowledge-based, and decision support techniques. In the area of Data Mining, we would like to establish a new project group with the aim of pursuing applied research and transferring results in this area to projects within UBS. This new project will be tightly linked to existing Ubilab projects in the areas of Information Systems and Visualization as well as to endeavors of other project groups within UBS. Our new staff members will complement and strengthen the capabilities, skills, and expertise of the lab. The successful candidates must have adequate research and/or industrial experience in at least one of the above mentioned fields, and a definite interest in applying research results to practical problems. Experience in developing object-oriented software and building high-quality, robust systems is a plus. A PhD is desirable, but not a prerequisite. Ubilab is centrally located in the down-town Zurich area and employs some twenty researchers of various nationalities. Please refer to our World Wide Web page at URL http://www.ubs.com/ubilab for more detailed information about the lab. Please send your resume to: Dr. Maria Luisa Barja Ubilab, UBS Bahnhofstr. 45 8021 Zurich Switzerland Tel.: +41-1-236-1216/+41-1-236-5714 e-mail: Maria.Barja@ubs.com WWW: http://www.ubs.com/ubilab ********** II.2. Fr: A. Carlyle Re: UW: GSLIS, Visiting Faculty Positions VISITING FACULTY POSITIONS People and Knowledge: Building Information Connections. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Washington is searching for two visiting faculty members who subscribe to this visionto start from Fall 1998. These positions are one year appointments with opportunities to apply for future tenure track position openings. The positions require competency in an area of library and information science. Candidates would ideally teach in one or more of these areas: * conceptual database design * management * information resources and retrieval * design and provision of information services, including children's and young adult services * information policy * organization of information. Applicants should have the following qualifications: * an earned Ph.D., or near completion, in library and information science or cognate area * appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of library and information science and an ability to integrate research areas and disciplinary perspectives * research and publications commensurate with experience. The University of Washington is a research university in an active information environment. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers an ALA accredited masters program. Seattle is a multicultural, modern city with numerous cultural, outdoor and athletic activities. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. We are building a multicultural work force and strongly encourage women, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Special interest will be given to applicants who can serve well in an increasingly diverse university community. The University of Washington is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Interested individuals should mail or fax their applications, consisting of (1) letter of interest, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) three letters of recommendation to: Raya Fidel Graduate School of Library and Information Science Box 352930 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2930 USA voice (206) 543-1888 fax: (206) 616-3152 Detailed information about the school, the faculty, the curriculum, and other aspects of the program can be obtained from the School's website: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~gslis/ ********** II.3. Fr: Melanie Jay Norton Re: U. Southern Mississippi: Ass't. Professor, LIS PLEASE RESPOND to Joy M. Greiner, jgreiner@whale.st.usm.edu, not to the list The University of Southern Mississippi announces a full-time tenure track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the School of Library and Information Science to begin August 1998. Required qualifications: Ph.D. in library and information science or one anticpated within the academic year; demonstrated skills with current educational and information technology, including computers, multimedia, and audiovisual equipment; expertise in services for children and young adults for school library media centers and public libraries; knowledge of multicultural issues related to children and young adults; evidence of potential for excellent research and publication; ability to provide effective instruction. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, developing new courses and being involved in the implementation of a newly approved specialist's degree beyond the master's. The position is a nine-month appointment, with opportunities for summer teaching. The University requires balanced research, teaching and service. Any interested parties should contact Dr. Joy M. Greiner, Director School of Library and Information Science The University of Southern Mississippi Box 5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5146 email jgreiner@whale.st.usm.edu voice 601-266-4228 AA/EOE/ADAI AUDIFICATION AND AUDITORY INTERFACES Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62603-9 This volume is a seminal work in the field. [I strongly r`a  HSlitz/0HIo!45AB -VW()89. 6\01yzYZ1q!2$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ UIII.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update - 5/05/98 FARNET's Washington Update --- May 5, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: Congress ratifies Internet domain name registration tax; gives NSF go-ahead to use the funds School and library requests for USF funds top $2 billion; Congress awaits FCC report >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.2. Fr: David L. Green Re: AHDS Resource Lists STANDARDS & PRESERVATION RESOURCE LISTS The UK Arts & Humanities Data Service Provides New and Revised Resource Pages: **Standards for the Interchange of Digital Information** **Digital Preservation** Two particularly fruitful resource pages have been announced by the British Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). The first, "Standards for the Interchange of Digital Information," is an initial presentation of organizations that are working on relevant standards for the interchange of cultural resource material. These standards cover * Technical standards for data interchange (eg encoding and compression) * Data documentation standards (e.g. MARC, Dublin Core, CIMI). * Controlled vocabularies (e.g. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), Art and Architecture Thesaurus). This exercise is the preliminary step to gathering and considering actual "best practices" in implementing and using particular standards for networking particular bodies of information and for maximising their usefulness. The second resource page is a revised set of references to resources and initiatives on the preservation of digital resources. Both of these resources are recommended and will be linked to from the NINCH website. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at . $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $2q/cd+,Dj |}PQq34   w(Rv78*+N1DOX$  $ $  $ $  $ $ $ $ QIV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Career Program (new): Proposals Due 7/22/98 Proposals due: July 22, 1998, submission via FastLane CAREER home page for FastLane Instructions and Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/career/ (NOTE: Replaces NSF 97-87) NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: CHF Garfield Post-Doctoral Fellowship Applications Invited for the Eugene Garfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information Philadelphia-The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) invites applications for the 1999-2000 Eugene Garfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information. The Garfield Fellow will spend nine months in residence at CHF. The fellow will create a historiographical and bibliographical guide to the field, with emphasis on twentieth-century developments; conduct oral histories with two to four pioneers in the development of scientific information; and identify emerging research opportunities in the field. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in the chemical sciences, in information science, or in the history of science, technology, or medicine. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a two-page letter outlining the applicant's competencies in the field of scientific information and the relevance of the Garfield Fellowship to his or her career plans. In addition, applicants should arrange for two letters of reference to be sent directly to CHF. Deadline: 1 December 1998 Contact: Leo Slater Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702 Phone: (215) 925-2222, ext. 224 Fax: ( 215) 925-1954 E-mail: lslater@chemheritage.org The Chemical Heritage Foundation was established in 1982 by joint action of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Public education programs and academic initiatives are undertaken through the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry. They include traveling exhibits, oral histories, high-school teacher workshops, publications, lectures and seminars, archival projects, and other appropriate endeavors to publicize the achievements of chemical scientists and the chemical process industries. Basic research in the history of the chemical sciences, scholarly publications, and the building of a strong chemical presence in the world of academic and public history are emphasized. The Othmer Library of Chemical History houses a rapidly growing collection of primary published sources on chemistry in the last hundred years, maintains a wide array of reference books and other secondary literature, collects the archives of professional organizations and the personal papers of outstanding chemists and industrialists, and maintains an extensive pictorial collection. It serves as an information resource for the chemical community and the media and supports the programs of the Beckman Center. For more information on the Chemical Heritage Foundation, visit our Internet pages at www.chemheritage.org ********** ********** ibm.com ritage.org III.B.1. Fr: Birgit Schmidt-Wesche Re: SIGIR Workshop: Query Input and User Expectations Call for Participation Workshop at SIGIR98, Melbourne, Australia "Query Input and User Expectations" Conference: August 24-27, 1998 Workshop: August 28, 1998 Users of search engines expect to see a number of input devices and search features to which they have been accustomed to over time. When asked about their preferences, they can usually name a list of specific features. But the question is: given that specific features are provided, how do users expect them to function, and what search results do they expect? The workshop was motivated by evaluating the variety of user reactions during tests of different search applications, including a prototype for the TREC-6 Interactive Track test. The conclusion seems to be that the more freely users can enter their queries the more room there is for misunderstandings of what the search result will be. In particular, we observed the expectation of all (unsigned) query terms being ANDed by default, 'termA +termB' being read as 'termA AND termB', and very often we saw users searching conceptually by entering generics in terms of plurals where they expected to receive specific instances (for example, with the queries 'Ferry sinkings' or 'Alzheimer's drug treatments' the users expected to find documents on the Estonia sinking event or the Cognex drug). HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Please, send an abstract of (up to) four pages if you want to make a presentation, or a brief statement of why this workshop is of interest to you if you want to participate without a presentation. Both should be sent to the workshop chairs (see our addresses below). Please, send submissions either in ASCII text or in HTML. The timetable is as follows: Submission: June 1, 1998 Notification: June 15, 1998 Camera-ready copy: July 15, 1998 Workshop: August 28, 1998 For further information, turn to the SIGIR98 web site at http://www.cs.mu.oz/sigir98/, have a look at our workshop web page at http://www.fxpal.com/SIGIR98, or get in touch with us: Birgit Schmidt-Wesche Gene Golovchinsky IBM T.J. Watson Research Center FX Palo Alto Laboratory PO Box 704 3400 Hillview Ave. Bldg 4 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 914 784 6080 Phone: +1 650 813 7361 fax: +1 914 784 6307 fax: +1 650 813 8071 bwesche@us.ibm.com ********** III.B.2. Fr: Kyle Banerjee Re: Online Northwest 1999 WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST: A one-day conference focusing on the use of technology within libraries and attracting librarians from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and northern California. Presenters receive free registration to the conference. WHEN IS THE CONFERENCE: February 12, 1999 (this will be the 16th annual conference). WHERE IS THE CONFERENCE: Portland Sheraton Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon. WHAT TOPICS ARE WE LOOKING FOR: The coordinating committee is open to presentations on innovative uses of technology within a library setting. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome, but we are especially looking for submissions on the following topics: * Merging of information and entertainment * Technostress * Selection process for choosing vendor * Database licensing * Keeping up with new technology in the workplace * Non-western languages * Effective Internet searching * Electronic document delivery * Printing (free or fee) * PC Workstation Security * Integration of web-based indexes, fulltext and other reference sources into the OPAC * Collection development with electronic journals * Government documents - the move toward an all-electronic depository program. PUBLIC and SCHOOL LIBRARIES: We are especially looking for submissions from these communities to help balance the program. WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL: Proposals must be received by June 30 to receive full consideration. HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL: Use the online submission form at: http://osu.orst.edu/groups/onlinenw/proposal.html FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the Online Northwest home page at: http://www.sou.edu/library/onlinenw/ ********** III.B.3. Fr: Cassandra Armstrong Re: Hypertext '98 and Digital Libraries '98 Two international research conferences are coming to Pittsburgh this June -- Hypertext '98 and Digital Libraries '98 -- both sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). The fields these conferences represent -- and the technologies they foster -- are likely to figure prominently in the 'day-to-day' activities of future organizations. Hypertext, already the 'backbone technology' of the World-Wide Web, is continuing to evolve rapidly and become an integral part of everyday work. Digital libraries -- with their emphasis on structure, order, and 'intellectual economy' -- will be among the most important and influential institutions of the 21st Century. Indeed, the early prognostications of visionaries such as Bush, Nelson, and Licklider -- of large-scale, sustainable digital libraries -- are progressively becoming a reality with the initiation of major DL projects at national levels in countries such as the U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan and Singapore. Future digital libraries will not only improve access to the world's knowledge, but also act as 'collaboratories' within which new knowledge is 'spawned' and refined by widely-distributed teams and organizations -- knowledge fully-interconnected with previous work right from conception. I would like to invite you and your associates to attend Hypertext '98 and/or Digital Libraries '98 -- both the premier research conferences in their fields -- and interact with the hundreds of delegates from around the world who will be attending. These back-to-back conferences (HT98 20-24Jun; DL98 24-26Jun) have rich programs of papers, panels, workshops, courses, demos and posters (over 100 presentations total), as well as evening social events for developing close relationships with others in these fields. Thus -- I believe you would find these conferences a valuable experience that helps you refine the long-range agenda you have for your work. To get a detailed view of what these conferences have to offer -- as well as registration information -- please see our web sites: http://ks.com/ht98 and http://ks.com/dl98. A second note, shortly trailing this one, provides an 'Advance Trip Report' combining details from both these conferences --- for those of you who'd like a direct read. ********** Wide LatinMistralPlaybillStencil MT Extra Arial Rounded MT Bold Bauhaus 93 Bookman Old Style Bold Colonna MT Footlight MT Light Kino MT Matura MT Script Capitals Vivaldi Brush Script MT MS LineDrawSgSgBBB+bo( CGIcdmn67TUFG„¶·-ZÆÇxyȈȉù2rsе%_фх@Aؐؑ;<!"_` Cop$  $  $  $ $ $ $  $ $ $  $ $ $ $ III.4. Fr: Patty Boling Re: UT, Knoxville: Government Documents/Data Services Librarian POSITION: Government Documents/Data Services Librarian APPOINTMENT RANK: Assistant or Associate Professor SALARY: Minimum $30,000, Assistant Professor Minimum $36,000, Associate Professor AVAILABLE: October 1, 1998 UTK Libraries seeks a creative, enthusiastic individual for this newly created position of Government Documents/Data Services Librarian. This librarian will report to and work with the Coordinator, Documents and Microforms to shape, direct, and facilitate delivery of quality information services in a dynamic environment. The position offers an exciting opportunity to combine new technologies with traditional documents and reference work. RESPONSIBILITIES: Assesses and plans the delivery of all formats of electronic government documents and the application of digital technology; designs and provides staff training and bibliographic instruction in the use of government documents; provides reference assistance at the government documents and main reference desks; maintains the government documents Web pages; works closely with Social Sciences Coordinator on the identification, acquisition, and management of data from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR); serves as the official representative to ICPSR and as the resource specialist for data files housed in Documents and Microforms; collaborates with library acquisitions and cataloging teams in ordering and processing electronic data files; develops and promotes procedures for use and access to electronic resources, including CD-ROM, numeric files, digital images, text files, and online databases; collaboratively develops electronic support services for the three depository units in the Hodges, Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine, and Map Libraries including the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Works with library-wide groups to coordinate services and to implement programs and projects. Serves on library and campus committees. Reports to the Coordinator, Documents and Microforms. Additional responsibilities may include: Collection development duties in the social sciences; participation in weekend reference desk duty. The Documents and Microforms unit is a part of Reference & Instructional Services in the Hodges Library. The unit is an 80% selective federal depository and one of six Tennessee state depository libraries. Ongoing monthly GPO tape records are included in the OPAC beginning in 1992 and a GPO Access gateway on the Web was established in 1995. Depository map collections are housed in the Map Library which also serves as the Earth Sciences Information Center for the state and was a participant in the ARL-GIS project. Department of Agriculture publications are sent to the Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine Library. Library holdings include over 1 million government documents and maps in print, microform, and electronic formats. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA-accredited MLS degree. Experience or training in government documents; experience in microcomputer applications including technical skills related to hardware and software; experience in the use and application of basic statistics; ability to plan and implement innovative user services; excellent oral and written communication skills. Commitment to public service in a team-oriented environment. Preferred: Working knowledge of UNIX, Windows, LAN, the Internet, GIS; experience or training in the use of numeric data in electronic format. BENEFITS: Librarians at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have faculty rank and status and are appointed for twelve months. This is a tenure track appointment. Library faculty must meet University requirements for promotion and tenure. Annual leave is accrued at the rate of two days per month and sick leave at the rate of one day per month. Faculty have their choice of a state retirement plan or TIAA/CREF. Non-refundable contributions to either retirement plan are paid for the employee by the University. Group health and life insurance plans are available. Tuition remission is available for all university employees; partial undergraduate tuition remission is available to dependent children and spouses of UT employees. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about this position may be found at http://toltec.lib.utk.edu./~lss/search/govtdocs.html ENVIRONMENT: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Carnegie Research Level One institution, enrolls approximately 26,000 students from every state in the United States and approximately 100 other countries. As Tennessee's comprehensive campus, UTK offers more doctoral programs than any other institution in the state, and its faculty attract nearly $80 million annually for sponsored research programs. UTK is one of 27 higher education institutions holding the distinction of being both a land- grant institution and state university. The UTK Libraries, with an annual budget of almost $10 million, holds 2 million volumes and receives approximately 14,000 current serials. The Libraries system includes the John C. Hodges Library and four branches on the Knoxville campus: Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine, Map, Music, and University Archives and Special Collections. A fifth branch, the Social Work Library, is located in Nashville. Over three hundred persons are employed, including 49 librarians, 8 exempt, 123 non-exempt, and 150 students. UTK Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, SOLINET, and the Center for Research Libraries. The UTK Libraries installed aclient-server integrated system in 1997. The Libraries also offers a Web-based information system and access to a variety of electronic information sources. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send letter of application, a current resume, and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three recent references to: Jill Keally, Head, Library Support Services, 1015 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996-1000, fax 423/974-4696. Review of applications will begin August 15, 1998, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or veteran status in provision of educational programs and services or employment opportunities and benefits. This policy extends to both employment by and admission to the University. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in the education programs and activities pursuant to the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Diversity Resources & Educational Services (DRES), 1818 Lake Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone (423)974-2498 (TTY available). Requests for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the Office of Human Resources Management, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN 37996-4125. III.A.3. Fr: Richard Hill Re: Draft for Comment - Digital Collections Digital Collections: A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Resources Version 3.1, 24/4/98 First Public Consultation and Review Draft Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive The public consultation draft of this study is now available on the web at . A final publication draft is in progress. Comments and additions for incorporation are accordingly welcome and should be mailed to neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk and daniel.greenstein@ahds.ac.uk by 30 June 1998. BACKGROUND: The study is part of a programme funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education sector in the UK, following a workshop on the Long-term Preservation of Electronic Materials held at Warwick in November 1995. The programme of studies is guided by the Digital Archiving Working Group, composed of members from UK Higher Education Libraries, Data Centres and Services; the British Library; the National Preservation Office; the Research Libraries Group; and the Publishers' Association. The Group reports to the Management Committee of the National Preservation Office in the UK. The programme is administered by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre. The study was based upon traditional desk-based research methods and on fifteen structured interviews. Structured interviews, conducted in person or over the phone or by email, involved senior data managers and specialists working in organisations both in the UK and overseas with experience in digitisation, data management or the long-term preservation of digital information resources. Interviewees were selected to provide a wide cross-section of experience of different media types, and experience in different sectors such as national museums, archives, and libraries; university computer centres and data archives;scientific data centres; and research libraries. Further review and consultation with professional organisations, specialists and institutions with an interest in its contents is now being sought by placing the draft on the AHDS webpages and inviting further input and comments via appropriate email-lists and correspondence. The study has been researched and written by Neil Beagrie (Collections and Standards Development Officer) and Daniel Greenstein (Director) of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Executive. The AHDS is funded by JISC on behalf of the UK Higher Education community to collect, manage, preserve, and promote the re-use of scholarly digital resources. Further information on the AHDS and its constituent Service Providers is available from the AHDS website . Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ********** 2. 3. 4. ernment Documents/Data Services , May 5, 1998 , May 5, 1998 vices in a dynamic environment.mplement programs and projects.see state depository libraries.he Web was established in 1995.$ $3^_gh?} *Uap{2NO  $lmQR_   . /    [ \   . / n o    - .$ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ Sicipant in the ARL-GIS project.re-Veterinary Medicine Library.ALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA-accredited MLS degree.BENEFITS: is a tenure track appointment.ments for promotion and tenure. the rate of one day per month.e retirement plan or TIAA/CREF.the employee by the University. insurance plans are available.ENVIRONMENT:roximately 100 other countries.or sponsored research programs.stinction of being both a land-imately 14,000 current serials.chives and Special Collections.brary, is located in Nashville.APPLICATION PROCEDURE:ent opportunities and benefits.ds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm>. 8206D. Research 1. IV.C.1. &/?Xnr OX^v-.bc P l m !!%!+!V!!!!###$r$s%%&&(()K)L)W))))))))****+#+$+q+r,5,6/////00(0C0c0v0w0000114@_~/NTX`acdz{$'mpRT   \ _   / 2 o q%&WXtw$LMPDmnq./>?pu @bFr: Michele Devine Re: ISI/ASIS Citation Grant Submission are due June 1st for the ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Research Grant. All proposals should be sent to ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Research Grant I.S.I. 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 A copy of the guidelines follows - if you have any questions, please contact ISI: Barbara Nagy at bnagy-teti@isinet.com or 1800-336-4474 or 1. Nature of the Award 1.1 The grant shall consist of an award of $3,000 (donated by the Institute for Scientific Information). Additionally, ISI shall contribute $500 towards travel or other expenses to the grant recipient, contingent upon the recipient's attending the ASIS annual meeting, and $250 to ASIS Headquarters towards administrative fees. 2. Purpose of the Award 2.1 The purpose of this grant is to support research based on citation analysis by encouraging and assisting individuals in this area of study with their research. Citation analysis is broadly defined, including but not limited to analyses using resources developed by ISI. Because of the limits proposed by timing considerations, the grant may be made for research underway as well as for new research proposed. 3. Eligibility 3.1 Candidates for the ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Grant shall be eligible without regard to nationality, membership in the Society, or other limitation. 3.2 The Grant is a once-in-a-lifetime award. 4. Administration 4.1 The ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Research Grant is sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information and is administered by the Awards and Honors Committee. 5. Proposals 5.1 Proposals are sought globally and may be submitted by anyone. 5.2 Proposals should be mailed by June 1 to: ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Research Grant I.S.I. 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104. ISI will review all proposals, assessing technical feasibility only, and forward those that are feasible to ASIS Headquarters for the Jury to review no later than June 30. 5.3 The submission package should include the following: (a) Name, address, affiliation, and brief biography of applicant(s); (b) Brief statement of the research problem not to exceed a maximum of 1,000 words (double-spaced); (c) Description of the research design and methodology, including details of how citation data will be used; (d) Discussion of the expected impact of the research results; e) Proposals may be submitted in hard copy, e-mail, or fax. 6. Jury Committee 6.1 The ISI/ASIS Citation Analysis Grant Jury will be composed of a Chair and 4 members. Two ASIS members will be appointed to the Jury by the Awards and Honors Committee to serve staggered terms of 2 years each. Two members of the jury will be appointed by ISI. The Jury should be composed of individuals who offer a variety of backgrounds to the selection process. 6.2 The Chair of the Jury, the fifth voting member, shall be appointed by the Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee to serve a one-year term. The Jury Chair should have previous experience as a Jury member. The Jury Chair may serve no more than two consecutive terms. 6.3 Members of the Jury appointed by ASIS may by reappointed once. Members of the Jury appointed by ISI may be reappointed as determined by ISI. 7. Selection of the Awardee 7.1 Each member of the Jury shall review and evaluate the submissions ISI has deemed feasible on merit with= emphasis on the following: (a) Potential global significance of proposed citation analysis research ("global" is defined as a proposal which offers practical applications for the use of citation data to individuals/organizations worldwide.); (b) Validity of methodology and proposed methods of analysis; (c) Originality and creativity; (d) Clarity and completeness of the proposal; (e) Presentation of a convincing plan for completion; (f) Evidence of a continuing interest in scholarship, such as, a previous publication record. 7.2 Each of the proposals shall be scored by the selection criteria 7.3 The scoring will be on a five-point scale, with one being the highest score and five the lowest score. (Form attached) 7.4 The Jury Chair shall total the rankings and declare the recipient to be that submission with the lowest total. There can be only one winning submission per year. 7.5 In the event that no submission can be declared the awardee, the Jury Chair shall announce the result to the Jury and repeat the ranking until one clear winner is agreed upon. 7.6 If all submissions reviewed by the Jury are rejected, the Jury Chair will notify the Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee, who may begin a re-submission process with ISI. 7.7 In the absence of qualified submissions or in the event of uncertainty by the Jury, the award shall not be given that year. 7.8 The Jury Chair shall communicate the jury's decision to the ASIS President, the Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee, the ASIS Executive Director, and the Institute for Scientific Information by 60 days before the start of the ASIS Annual Meeting. 7.9 The Jury Chair shall provide a 50-250 word abstract, stating why the award was given. All or parts of this abstract will be used to publicize the award. Material for this abstract can be taken from the voting rationales provided by members of the jury. 7.10 After selection of the awardee is complete, the Jury Chair shall send the grant proposal packets and the results of jury deliberations to the ASIS Executive Director 7.11 ISI shall notify the winner(s), in advance of the annual meeting. 8. Presentation of the Award 8.1 Upon receipt of the Jury's decision, ISI shall inform and congratulate the awardee and make arrangements for the presentation of the award. 8.2 The grant shall be presented to the winner at the banquet of the annual meeting of the Society by a representative from ISI. 9. Publicity 9.1 Publicity is the responsibility of ISI and ASIS Headquarters, coordinated to insure no redundancy of effort. 10. Deadlines 10.1 Appointments to the Jury Committee shall be made in advance of the award year. 10.2 Proposals must be submitted to ISI by June 1. All proposals submitted must be acknowledged upon receipt. Proposals to the Jury will be sent by ISI to ASIS Headquarters no later than June 30. 10.3 Selection shall be made and the ASIS President, the Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee, the ASIS Executive Director, and the Institute for Scientific Information shall be notified by 60 days before the start of the annual meeting. ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Steve Hitchcock Re: Citation Linking Demonstrator The Open Journal project, supported by the UK Electronic Libraries (eLib) research programme, announces an open-access demonstrator highlighting the process of citation linking for journals, co-developed with ISI and Professor Stevan Harnad. It may be of particular interest to those involved with science journals or with e-journals generally. To see for yourself how it works come to the project's site at http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and click on the highlighted box 'Try an Open Journal' in the right-hand column. Apologies if you have seen this message already but we want to give those in the journals development community the opportunity to comment on the demonstrator which, for contractual reasons, we can make available only to the **end of May**. There's a Web form linked to the introductory material for your responses. The results will be published so your views will inform developments within the wider electronic libraries research and development community. Given the involvement of a number of publishers in the project your views could be influential in determining the shape of e-journals in the future. For our perspective on the possible impact of citation linking see our published papers. For a short and recent description see our paper coauthored with ISI: Webs of Research: Putting the User in Control http://sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper42.htm Alternatively, the paper presented at the Digital Libraries97 conference has a little more detail of the project's linking implementation: Citation Linking: Improving Access to Online Journals http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/acmdl97.htm All of our papers are listed at http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/papers.htm Many thanks for your attention and for your responses. Steve Hitchcock Open Journal Project Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ,UK Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (01)703 594479 Fax: +44 (01)703 592865 Open Journal Project Web page http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ "Bringing journals alive on the World Wide Web" k > ? ƴ Ǹ ȼ       ' 2 = H S ^ i t      ghjnx| [ ]  !9!V!X!!$$ *2h2s6<<AAELEWMM#MMPZ5Z6Z`bbbbopv}~~0~:~L~M~l~m~~~~~~~~~OZ{ @b .=>tLMmn./>?pqghijxGH \ ]  !W!X"E"F""""""#$#;#a#~####$$ **+*k*l*$ $ $ $ $ $ YII.5. Fr: Anne Gregg Re: Indianapolis, IN: Dow AgroSciences: Information Specialistg Information Specialist Dow AgroSciences LLC Indianapolis, IN Dow AgroSciences (formally known as DowElanco), a leading company in the development of innovative products for crop production and urban pest control, has an immediate opening within the Information Resource Center (IRC) for a highly motivated, energetic Information Specialist. Primary Responsibilities: * Serves as the primary information contact for retrieving chemical, biological and business information from internal and external databases. Provides patent, substructure, reaction, genetic sequence and biological searching. Implements individualized current awareness profiles based on customer needs using appropriate vendors. * Participates in development of information management strategies. * Provides leadership and counsel to IRC customers for effective information management as related to searching, organizing, disseminating and communicating key information. * Seeks out, evaluates and implements new information technologies and services that enable Dow AgroSciences employees to be more effective information consumers. * Actively involved in the development of the virtual library. Required Qualifications: * Bachelor's in Chemistry or Life Sciences and Master's degree in Library Science. * Experience in scientific libraries (minimum 2-3 years is preferred). * Knowledge of online database searching: DIALOG, STN, Questel, Derwent, CA. Experience in substructure, reaction and patent searching is preferred. * Demonstrated ability to work on project teams. * Strong people, verbal and written communication skills. In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits package, Dow AgroSciences offers challenging opportunities within a creative, stimulating, and diverse environment. Dow AgroSciences is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. Interested candidates should send cover letter, resume, references and transcripts by June 15, 1998 to: Kathy McIntyre (lst2) 9330 Zionsville Road Indianapolis, IN 46268 ********** =/R@H-:LaserWriter 8 )ChicagoNew YorkGenevaMonaco Zapf DingbatsBookmanN Helvetica NarrowPalatino Zapf ChanceryTimes HelveticaCourierSymbol! Avant Garde"New Century SchlbkLockFont Arial NarrowArialCentury Gothic Courier NewTimes New Roman****++---.-r-s.#.$../ / 00112$2%2<2Q2h2s6626j6k66669o9p:::;;;8;^;{;|<<<<==.=/=D=e=f???d?e??@ @ @&@B@P@\@c@k@lAAAAABBLBMByBzCC C/C0 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ SII.6. Fr: Ethel Bloesch Re: University of Iowa: SLIS: Visiting Faculty Position VISITING FACULTY POSITION IN INFORMATION SCIENCE School of Library & Information Science The University of Iowa The University of Iowa invites applications from candidates for a visiting faculty position in the School of Library and Information Science. The School seeks an individual who is excited by the challenging developments in Information Science. The position is a nine-month position with additional optional teaching opportunities for the summer. Visiting faculty are encouraged to apply for future tenure-track positions. The position requires expertise to teach some of the following graduate courses: * Digital Libraries * Electronic Publishing * Design of Automated Systems * Information Policy * Informatics and Law * International Information Networks. Candidates with a Ph.D. completed or near completion are invited to apply. Doctoral study may be in Library and Information Science, Computer Science or a related discipline. The position opens in Fall 1998, and the screening process begins immediately. Interested applicants may send their resume and the names of three references to Padmini Srinivasan, Director School of Library and Information Science The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 Phone: 319-335-5707; Fax 319-335-5374 padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu The University of Iowa is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Information about the School of Library and Information Science may be obtained by contacting the School or from the web site at http://www.uiowa.edu/~libsci. ********** II.3. Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: U. Wolverhampton, UK: Research Studenship, Computational Linguistics RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP Current value of bursary 5,500 The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies invites applications for a research studentship on computational linguistics. The successful candidate will work on an automatic abstracting project. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science and with excellent programming skills. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 1 September 1998. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk. Formal applications must be made to: The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley DY1 3HR and must include a completed application form (to be requested from Mrs. Lesley Barlow - tel. 01902 323317, Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk), a CV and a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they apply for the studentship and give details of their research interests/experience, background and programming skills. Please note that the closing date for applications is 1 June 1998. III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update, May 12, 1998 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MAY 12, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: FCC submits USF report to Congress Welcome to "High-Tech Week" in Congress >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 18, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 18 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ********** aaadN$*2hC0CSCTC|CELEWE`EEEFFG'G[GGHHIIIAIBITIUIhIIIIIJJ#JYJqJJJJJJKK*K\KxKKKKL(L^L{L|LLLLMM;MPM|MMP P/PVPWPPQzQ{QQQQQQQRRRRYRRRS S S#$ $ $ $ $ $ WIII.A.3. Fr: Dorian.Selz Re: IJEM: Electronic Transactions, 8:1 Transactions are the core of active Electronic Markets, points out our Editor-in-Chief Beat F. Schmid. The present issue (Vol.8 - No.1 / Spring '98) brings together a wealth of papers on Electronic Transactions. Find below the table of contents. You may download papers from our Website at http://www.electronicmarkets.org. Electronic Transactions (Vol.8 - No.1, Spring 1998) Table of Contents: Editor's Note Focus Theme: Electronic Transactions Exchange Costs as Determinants of Electronic Markets Bearings Narciso Perales Dominique, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Evaluating Integrated Electronic Commerce Systems David-Michael Lincke, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland Internet Commerce Basics Danielle Guay and Jim Ettwein, Open Market, Cambridge MA, USA The Need for Supporting Electronic Commerce Transactions with Electronic Contracting Systems Alexander Runge, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Intermediation, Contracts and Micropayments in Electronic Commerce Soon-Yong Choi, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas at Austin, USA Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce Robert H. Guttman, Alexandros G. Moukas and Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory, USA Services of a Broker in Electronic Commerce Transactions Martin Bichler, Carrie Beam and Arie Segev, University of California Berkeley, USA Just a Minute? Marcus de Ferranti, Band?X, London, Britain Purchasing on the Net: The new opportunities for electronic commerce David Aldridge, iCat Europe, Borehamwood, Britain Introducing XML/EDI Frameworks David RR Webber, Optiplex, London, Britain Research Issues: Reducing the Barriers to Interorganization Electronic Data Interchange Mary R. Lind, North Carolina A & T State University, USA Success and Failure Factors for Implementing Effective Electronic Markets Trevor Fong, Monash University, Danielle Fowler, Swinburne University, and Paula M.C. Swatman, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Focus Asia Ad Convention: Indian Advertising Agencies Urged To Harness Internet Technologies Madanmohan Rao, PlanetAsia, Bangalore, India Departments Preview Next Issues / Calendar of Events / Impressum / Order Form Find the complete issues and archives of the last seven years on the Journal?s Website (http://www.electronicmarkets.org). Please write to the editor for hard copies (em.editors@netacademy.org). Please direct any responses to: dorian.selz@unisg.ch. Best regards, Dorian Selz, Executive Editor Electronic Markets - International Journal of Electronic Markets ********** III.B.5. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: CfP BOBCATSSS CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International BOBCATSSS Symposium Bratislava 25. - 27 January 1999 LEARNING ORGANISATION - LEARNING SOCIETY - LIFELONG LEARNING This symposium aims to point out what kind of changes and challenges ask for a LEARNING SOCIETY necessary. BOBCATSSS 99.is the seventh symposium to be held at Bratislava. It will be attended by all kind of information professionals (e.g. information managers, librarians, lecturers and students). PAPERS ARE INVITED ON ALL ASPECTS OF LLL, ESPECIALLY ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS + The crucial role of information technologies for learning organisations and lifelong learning + Information management and knowledge management in learning organisations + Self-directed learning in organisations - the role of information managers + Libraries - learning organisations and - agencies for lifelong learning The BOBCATSSS symposium is arranged by a students4 project of the Fachhochschule Darmstadt and Hochschule fuer Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen Stuttgart. The BOBCATSSS symposium is an event initiated by EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER: If you wish to attend as a speaker at the symposium, please send a preregistration together with the title and abstract (200 words, English) of your contribution to the BOBCATSSS99-team. We encourage you to use the BOBCATSSS99 homepage for registration, submitting contributions and further information. Alternatively you may use the postal or e-mail address. Accepted papers will published in the proceedings of the conference. They must be written in English and must not exceed the maximum of 10 pages DEADLINES Abstracts to be submitted before May, 29th 1998 Notification of acceptance June, 30th 1998 Papers for proceedings September, 1st 1998 For further information please contact: e-mail: BOBCATSSS@hbi-stuttgart.de Tel./Fax: 0711/2570615 HBI Stuttgart Wolframstra_e 32 D-70192 Stuttgart Germany ********** III.B.5. Fr: Stephane Bressan Re: Workshop on Information Mediation I'MEDIAT'98 Call for Papers and Demonstrations First International Workshop on Practical Information Mediation and Brokering, and the Commerce of Information on the Internet. Tokyo, Japan, September 14 1998 In Conjunction with The Eleventh International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'98) (http://www.ap.kagu.sut.ac.jp/PAJ/inap98/) The development of the Internet has created a new space for the exchange and the commerce of information. From search engines and bargain finders to expert information servers we are witnessing the development of a new range of mediation and intermediation services. I'MEDIAT is a forum of discussion and presentation of new ideas and technologies for value adding services in information mediation and brokering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, users and information providers involved in the development and deployment of commercial, industrial and practical applications. We solicit papers describing novel information mediation applications and systems. Papers reporting on commercial or experimental applications as well as demonstrations are strongly encouraged. The main topics for papers and demonstrations include, but are not limited to: * Mediated access to heterogeneous information sources; * Mediation systems architecture; * Internet tools for information and knowledge sharing; * Advanced information search and filtering; * Information extraction from unstructured or semi-structured documents; * Information personalization and customization techniques; * Information distribution protocols (channels, push/pull technologies, etc.); * User interfaces; * Trust, privacy, and security; * Business models for the commerce of information: technological implications; * Policy (intellectual property, privacy, etc.): technological implications; * Information mediation applications. Committee: Oskar Bartenstein,IF Computer, Japan Stephane Bressan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Cheng Hian Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore Alexander Herold, Siemens Medical Systems, Germany Mauricio Lopez, G.I.E. Dyade (Bull/INRIA), France Louiqa Rachid, University of Maryland, USA Raphael Yahalom, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA PAPER FORMAT: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing or completed work. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers and demo descriptions should be between 3000 and 5000 words. Papers and demo descriptions will be published in informal proceedings distributed during the workshop. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Papers and demo descriptions must be submitted by e-mail to the addresses below. Submissions can be either in HTML or Postscript formats. In alternative, submission can by done by emailing a URL pointing to an HTML version of the paper. Contact: imediat98@context.mit.edu IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission deadline: June 19th 1998 * Acceptance notification: July 20th 1998 * Camera ready paper due: August 10th 1998 * Workshop dates: September 14th 1998 Home and updates: (http://context.mit.edu/imediat98) Stephane Bressan Research Scientist MIT Sloan School of Management E53-320, 50 Memorial drive Cambridge, MA, 02139 Tel: +1 (617) 253-0151 Fax: +1 (617) 253-4424 ********** is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. TMay 484 I. QUERIES 1. I. QUERIES HONE: (909) 869-3110 ippi: AssrZk 2uYZ$%VS#SaSbSSSST:T|TTTUUUUMUUUUUUVV"VTVUVtVVVVVVW2W3WuW}WWXXXXXYXoXXXXXXYYYYYZZZ)ZUZ`ZiZZZZZZ[[A[B[[\l\m\\\]]Q]j]]]^^_&_'a9a: $ $ $ $ $ $ Ya:aDaaaab$bGb^b_bmb~bbbbbccc c0cPccccd d.dYdZgj]j^jijjkkYkkllmFmGnKnLnonpnnnno"o#oXoYojo}ooooopv v8vkvlvvvxdxezz|U|V}}~%~A~~~$ $  $ $ $  $ $ $ $ SIII.B.2. Fr: Donna Marman Re: SIGIR 98: Panel on Tools for Searching the Web Call for Participation in a Web Treasure Hunt http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/~over/websearch NIST's proposal for a panel at SIGIR'98 on Tools for Searching the Web was accepted and now we need some input for that panel. The panel is an attempt to provide insight into web search problems and to examine what types of additional tools might be useful in a web environment to aid users in searching. We will do this by presenting the results of a web "treasure hunt" and you are invited to join the hunt ! :-) The proposed treasure hunt will take place in early June. NIST will distribute a (vetted) list of 10 information requests concerning travel information that not only have an answer on the web, but allow a variety of different scenarios to locate these answers (see the web site for examples). Interested groups have one week to find this information, and can tackle some or all of the requests. Although much of the travel data is relatively stable, the one-week limit will further reduce the dependence of results on changes in the data being searched. The purpose of this treasure hunt is not mainly to find the information or show off your WWW search talents, but to honestly and objectively record the significant steps you took in getting to this information. Therefore each group will be asked to send NIST some brief writeups: bulleted lists of main steps with approximately the level of detail and in about the format shown in the examples on the web site. These will be shared via the web page. The panel itself will be a one-hour summary of what happened, including a presentation of the most interesting results and some thoughts about possible tools - all interspersed with audience discussion of the various issues raised by the treasure hunt. Even if you can't be at SIGIR'98 in Australia this year, your searches can! For more information, please see the above web site; for further questions please contact donna.harman@nist.gov.ciences: Information Specialisttship, 1ciences: Information Specialist2Scholarly Electronic Publishing 123a Nagy at bnagy-teti@isinet.com2517 II.1. Fr: Luca Gambardella Re: Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland: Research Associate, Collective/Cooperative Automomous Robotics RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Collective/Cooperative Autonomous Robotics IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Lugano, Switzerland http://www.idsia.ch/luca/opening_coll_rob.htm For a period of 1 year, starting summer 1998, with possible extensions. Candidates for this position need to have a PhD in Mobile Robotics and experience with learning and/or adaptation paradigms or a PhD in Computer Science and basic knowledge of mobile robotics. Experience with real robot is appreciated. IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation. More precisely, IDSIA is involved with LAMI EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne) in a project supported by Swiss National Science Foundation concerning with "Methodology for Collective Robot Design". The goal is to study how to combine reactive behaviour with learning or adaptation capabilities in order to obtain complex, robust and perhaps emergent group behaviors with a team of simple robots. SALARY: Commensurate with experience - There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences. DEADLINE: June 15th 1998 Applications (including curriculum vitae, names and addresses of at least three references, and a list of publications) should be sent to the following address, where also further information can be obtained: Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA C.so Elvezia 36 6900 Lugano Switzerland Phone : +41 91-911 98 38 Fax : +41 91-911 98 39 email: luca@idsia.ch http://www.idsia.ch/luca ********** II.2. Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: U. Wolverhampton, U K: Research Fellow: Language Engineering SELECT Project - Research Fellow in Language Engineering (Fixed Term, 12 months) 14648 - 19267 UK pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton wishes to appoint a Research Fellow to work on the EU Framework IV Language Engineering Project SELECT -- a high-profile international Telematics project involving Klett in Germany, Giunti in Italy and the University of Poitiers in France. The Research Fellow's responsibilities will focus on the development of the "Language Learner's Workbench" (LLW). The aim of the LLW is to develop an electronic resource-based tool which will assist business users to learn and use foreign languages. The tool will involve working with material in French, English and Portuguese. It will also give the user access to Web-based and intranet-based language learning material. The LLW will be developed in collaboration with IAI, Saarbruecken and OFAI, Vienna. For more information on the LLW and SELECT, visit http://www/wlv.ac.uk/sles/select We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and Corpus Linguistics and with programming skills. Candidates should preferably have a knowledge of one of the target foreign languages and fluency in English. The successful candidate may apply to be registered for a higher degree on a part-time basis. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Stephen Hagen (s.g.hagen@wlv.ac.uk) and for specific information about the Language Learner's Workbench -- Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk) Formal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested a per@wlv.ac.uk; please quote reference number A1628), a full CV and reference to one or two relevant publications. Please note the closing date for applications for this post is 12 June 1998. $ $ $ $ $ $ ~~+gBCxy,+7C\sTZ[mn 9QR%Ir=de$ $ $ $ $ $  $ $ $ $ QIII.A.1. Fr: Ellen Voorhees Re: TREC Data Available The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) series has been creating a set of large IR test collections. NIST is pleased to announce that the intellectual property issues that prevented the general release of the documents used in the most recent collections have been resolved. As a result, the disks of documents known as TREC disk 4 and TREC disk 5 are now available through the Standard Reference Data group at NIST. See the Standard Reference Data Products catalog at http://www.nist.gov/srd/special.htm for ordering information. There is a fee of $200 per disk to cover the distribution costs. Some of the data on the disks is copyrighted by the data providers. The data providers have granted permission to use the documents for research purposes only. Organizations wishing to obtain the disks will be required to sign a data use permission form that describes the permissible uses of the data before a disk will be shipped. The disks contain only the documents. Topics (queries) and relevance judgments are available separately from the TREC web site http://trec.nist.gov/data.html ********** III.A.2. Fr: Amanda Spink Re: IP&M: Special Topic Issue CALL FOR PAPERS Special topic issue of Information Processing and Management: Web Research and Information Retrieval A special topic issue of Information Processing and Management is scheduled to appear in 1999 on the topic of Web Research and Information Retrieval. Dr. Amanda Spink of the University of North Texas and Dr. Jian Qin of the University of Southern Mississippi will be the guest editors. This special topic issue provides a forum for original research that is targeted to theories and applications in information organization and retrieval in the Web environment. Papers in this area are being solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limted to, the following: 1. Content acquisition and processing in Web-based digital libraries 2. Information retrieval research and its implications on methods and tools for information organization and retrieval on the Web, including search engines 3. Information retrieval and knowledge discovery in the transition from conventional systems such as DIALOG and Lexis/Nexis to Web-based systems 4. Interaction between users and Web-based information and search engines, and design of interfaces 5. Evaluative and comparative study of conventional and Web-based information organization and retrieval systems Information about IP&M as well as Instructions to Contributors is available on the WWW server http://www/elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman/ All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees. Interested authors should submit four copies (hard-copy only) of their article by 1 November 1998 to: Dr. Amanda Spink School of Library and Information Sciences University of North Texas P.O. Box 311068 Denton Texas 76203 Phone: 940-565-2187 Fax: 940-565-3101 Email: spink@lis.admin.unt.edu Dr. Jian Qin School of Library and Information Science University of Southern Mississippi Box 5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5146 Phone: 601-266-4232 Fax: 601-266-5774 Email: jqin@ocean.otr.usm.edu ********** 3 Bookman Old Style Bold Colonna MT Footlight MT Light Kino MT Matura MT Script Capitals Vivaldi Brush Script MT MS LineDraw22)%C+b$\CGIbcdmn %&6BNZ[qy~NOyz !2]w<E`t 6UV6B^4I[/[q,D]IJyz   $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ RIII.B.1. Fr: Joao Balsa da Silva Re: CaNew'98 - Call for Papers Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation CaNew'98: Causal Networks: from inference to data mining 3 October, 1998 A workshop held in conjunction with the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA'98 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Cincias Sociais e HumanasOctober 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. kindly supported by ACIA Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Instructions for Participants * Instruction for Submissions * Workshop Committee * Important Dates * Address for Submisssions and Further Information WHAT THE WORKSHOP IS ABOUT: Causality has a natural representation in the form of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Causal associations have been represented in the framework of Bayesian Networks and Possibilistic Causal Networks and also by means of special logics. There is a growing interest both in defining more precisely the causal semantics equivalences of the existing representations as well as in developing efficient methods for reasoning and learning that could be used in practical applications. The workshop will focus on several topics on this area, basically in properties of causal networks related to inference and learning methods. Participants are encouraged to submit descriptions of work in progress specially in the areas of learning and practical application but not limited to these ones. Topics: * Properties and expressiveness of causal networks o Conditional Independency relationships in causal networks o Relation to other causal formalizations + Causal theories + Default Logics o Expression in other formalisms * Learning methods o Identifying Causal Parameters o Dependence-based methods o Information-based methods o Hybrid methods o Comparative studies * Practical applications o Scaling up to large volumes of data o Data Mining o Applications to industry and services INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS: All workshop participants must register both for the main IBERAMIA'98 conference and the workshop itself. We expect the number of participants to be around 20, and attendance will not be limited to active participants. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Interested authors may submit papers (max. 12 pages) addressing issues that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, including an additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research projects as well as applications in the area. Also, authors planning to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail. A provisional title must be provided. Authors should send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop Organizing Committee by June 10, 1998. The length of each manuscript including figures should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced using font size 12. Each manuscript should start with an abstract of no more than 150 words and should include a list of five keywords. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following the recommendations by the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will prepare a presentation. Presentations will be grouped into sections to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as for extended more general exchange of ideas between presentations and sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session commentators who summarize and critically reflect on the presentations of a session. In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes that will be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare electronic versions of their papers to be made available prior to the workshop. The Workshop Proceedings will be published as a special issue of a relevant publication after the conference. In this case, authors will have the opportunity to revise and extend their contributions. IMPORTANT DATES: * June 10, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers * July 8, 1998 Authors notification of acceptance/rejection * July 15, 1998 Publication of final workshop program * September 8, 1998 Final revised camera-ready papers * October 3, 1998 Workshop at IBERAMIA 98 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Proposals should be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in UNIX compatible postscript, html, or RTF) to Ulises Corts, at following address: Ulises Corts Dept. of Software Technical University of Catalonia Campus Nord-Edifici C5 C. Jordi Girona 1-3 08034 Barcelona Catalonia, Spain Tel.: + 34 3 401 70 16 Fax: + 34 3 401 70 14 e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es Further information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98 Homepage: http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html There exists a text and PostScript of this call. ********** sign and user possibilities of terminology management systems. Each course lecture will adopt the following approach: - State-of-the-art of current methodologies and  V-l%;QROZ 2CDyzMN}~  \w0 6Oq"FG# $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ RIII.B.2. Fr: Michael Fuller Re: SIGIR'98 CFA Call For Attendance: SIGIR'98 Registrations Now Open Registrations for SIGIR'98, the 21st ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, are now open. SIGIR'98 will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 24-28 August 1998. SIGIR is the premier international conference in Information Retrieval. Now in its 21st year, SIGIR showcases new research and technology in areas such as text retrieval, multimedia database systems, Web technology, and user interfaces, and is attended by representatives of both industry and academia. The conference schedule includes a keynote address by Steve Kirsch, CEO of Web search company Infoseek; a full program of research paper presentations; a poster session; and demonstration of research and commercial information retrieval software systems. The conference is preceded by a day of tutorials, and concludes with a day of workshops. A list of the tutorials and workshops appears below. For details, and to register for the conference, see the web site at http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98/ or send email to sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au. Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne Justin Zobel, RMIT Conference Chairs. TUTORIALS (Monday 24 August): * Multimedia Information Retrieval. Presenter: Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund) * Models in Information Retrieval. Presenter: Fredric C. Gey (University of California, Berkeley) * Metadata on the Internet. Presenter: Renato Iannella (DSTC, Australia) * Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. Presenter: William R. Hersch (Oregon Health Sciences University) * Machine Learning for Information Retrieval. Presenter: David D. Lewis (AT&T Labs) * Content-Based Image Retrieval. Presenters: R. Manmatha and S. Ravela (University of Massachusetts) * Practical Digital Libraries. Presenters: Ian H. Witten and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato) WORKSHOPS (Friday 28 August): * Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web. Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University) * Information Retrieval: Theory into Practice. Chairs: Justin Zobel (RMIT) and David Hawking (Australian National University) * Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. Chairs: Rohini K. Srihari, Zhongfei Zhang (CEDAR, State University of New York), R. Manmatha, and S. Ravela (University of Massachusetts) * Query Input and User Expectations. Chairs: B. Schmidt-Wesche (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and G. Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) ********** III.B.3. Fr: K. Rajaraman Re: IRAL 98: Final CFP Final Call for Papers (submission dateline extension) The 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages - IRAL'98 SUBMISSION DATELINE EXTENSION 15-16 October, 1998 Organized by, and to be held at: Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) Singapore URL: http://sdmc.krdl.org.sg/IRAL98 (Note: KRDL is a new Research Institute incorporating the former Kent Ridge Digital Labs and the Information Technology Institute) ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: The purpose of the IRAL workshop is to bring together researchers and developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results in the field of information retrieval (IR), with an emphasis on the issues related to Asian languages and multilingual applications. The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages" in 1996, in Taejon, Korea, and the second, renamed as "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages" to increase the scope, was held in Tsukuba City in Japan in 1997. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUITORS: Papers (4 hardcopies) should be submitted in English only to the Program Chair of the 3rd International Workshop as follows: Dr. Mun-Kew Leong (IRAL'98 submission) Kent Ridge Digital Labs 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Email: mkleong@krdl.org.sg Electronic submissions WILL NOT be supported because of the difficulty of printing different language fonts. Papers should be at most 5000 words in length, and should be double-spaced. The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of no more than 100 words, and no indication about the author(s) and affliation(s). In addition, authors must attach a separate page with the title, the author name(s) and respective affiliations, plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, email) for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Email will be the default means of communication. IMPORTANT DATES (DATELINES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED, and are reflected below) 29 May 1998: The NEW deadline for receipt of papers (4 hardcopies) 27 Jul 1998: Notification of result to authors (by email) 21 Aug 1998: Final manuscript due in camera ready format LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP: Kent Ridge Digital Labs 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Please see web site: http://sdmc.iss.nus.sg/IRAL98 for details. Note that KRDL was formerly the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (ISS) and is located within the National University of Singapore. ********** rch engines 3. Information retr#$+FGŴŵǼǽIȄȽȾ  :`a̯̅̚&Hh͊ͧ23Ԕԕشصٮٯop܇ܯܻ:M~Z[ށޝު޼1$ $  $  $ $ $ $ $ $ PIII.B.3.use Fr: Steven Krauwer Re: MT Special Issue on SLT: REMINDER REMINDER -- DEADLINE IS JULY 1 1998 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MACHINE TRANSLATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Guest editorial board: Doug Arnold (University of Essex) Pascale Fung (HKUST, Hong Kong) Walter Kasper (DFKI, Saarbrucken) Alon Lavie (CMU, Pittsburgh) Lori Levin (CMU, Pittsburgh) Hermann Ney (RWTH, Aachen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Some 15 years ago, when Machine Translation had become fashionable again in Europe, few people would be prepared to consider seriously embarking upon spoken language translation research. After all, where both machine translation of written text, and speech understanding and production (despite important achievements) were still quite far from showing robustness in domain-independent applications, it seemed clear that putting three not even halfway understood technologies together would be premature, and bound to fail. Since then, the world has changed. Many researchers, both in academia and in industry, have taken up the challenge to build systems capable of translating spoken language. Does that mean that most of the problems involved in speech-to-text, text-to-text translation, and text-to-speech have been solved? The answer is no: although we have made a tremendous progress, both from a scientific and from a technological point of view, many of the fundamental problems in MT and in speech understanding remain unsolved. Yet a certain degree of optimism is justified here. First of all, it is clear that on the whole general expectations of what MT will do are changing. Where in the past the ultimate goal of MT seemed to be to provide a perfect, but cheaper and faster alternative to the human translator, there is now a clear shift from the ideal of fully automated high quality translation of unrestricted texts to the more practical problem of overcoming the language barriers we encounter in various situations. This shift of focus allows us to partition the problem we address into a series of smaller ones, the solution to which may be within our reach. This applies both to spoken and written language translation. If we look at spoken communication between human beings with different native languages, very often the main success criterion for this communication is not whether or not the individual utterances produced by the participants have been expressed or understood without errors (which will rarely be the case), but rather whether the intended goal of the communication has been attained (hotel room reservation, airline information, etc). This observation is extremely important when we try to set our goals for spoken translation systems. Once we have realized that communication takes place in a specific context, with a specific goal, and have accepted that sentence-by-sentence linguistically correct translation is not a necessary condition for successful multilingual communication, we can start exploiting the full potential of spoken dialogues in human-human and human-machine interaction: the basic structure of dialogues, the ways to control dialogue flow, the possibility for repair. A workshop dedicated to spoken language translation, organized in conjunction with EACL/ACL 1997 in Madrid, showed that there was a keen interest in the topic, and that many acedemic and industrial research teams have interesting results to report. Therefore we feel that the time has come to dedicate a special issue of the journal Machine Translation to this topic, and we are inviting high-quality, previously unpublished research papers addressing problems in the whole field of spoken language translation. (Note: authors who had papers accepted for the Madrid workshop are especially encouraged to submit papers which have developed out of their workshop contributions, though they should note that we do not intend simply to reprint the workshop papers in their original form.) We are especially interested in papers addressing problems or solutions that are typical for spoken language translation (as opposed to written language translation). FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Please consult the journal's web pages: home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567 Instructions for Authors: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567 LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567 Articles should be submitted DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLISHERS, either by e-mail to ELLEN.KLINK@wkap.nl, with the subject header "Submission to COAT Speech special issue", or in hard-copy to either of the following addresses: Machine Translation Editorial Office, Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990 3300 AZ Dordrecht The Netherlands or Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-023 U.S.A. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are requested to send a copy of an Abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor Steven.Krauwer@let.ruu.nl or in hard-copy to Steven Krauwer Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Submissions and abstracts should be received by July 1 1998. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the editorial board. We are aiming for publication as issue 3 or 4 of volume 13 (Autumn or Winter, 1998). ********** ibutions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ---------------- Message requiring your approval (131 lines) ------------------ REMINDER -- DEADLINE IS JULY 1 1998 CALL FOR 189*+:_iy{ 6de+01[*CWXnGe +Mkl%X+MZho$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ %RIII.B.4. Fr: Jan Frnsdal Re: The 2nd ELSNET Bullet Course: TERMINOLOGY HUMANITIES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES An Interdisciplinary Research Programme BULLET COURSE IN TERMINOLOGY Bergen, Norway, Autumn 1998 PROGRAMME OUTLINE AND CALL FOR PREREGISTRATION The Humanities Information Technology Research Programme, University of Bergen, is pleased to announce the following bullet course: "The role of computer-based terminology management systems in translational information management." The course is organized in cooperation with the ELSNET task group on training and mobility (www.elsnet.org). A sufficient number of preregistered participants is a prerequisite for organizing the course (see below). 1. GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION: It is a well known fact that translation of expert documentation is a time-consuming and expensive activity. In technical writing it is also increasingly recognized that easy access to well-structured terminologies in the relevant fields will reduce the cost of this activity considerably.Electronic management of terminology spans a range of interdependent phases, such as organizing documentation and capturing data from running text, storing, editing, maintaining and updating data using various data structures. It also includes electronic publication. All these things can be carried out electronically by means of a terminology management workbench.In this "bullet course" the role of terminology management systems in the translation process of professional texts will be focussed. The primary goal of the course is to describe and demonstrate both the design and user possibilities of terminology management systems. Each course lecture will adopt the following approach: - State-of-the-art of current methodologies and computer-based tools (systems & software) - Merits and shortcomings of current methodologies and computer-based tools (systems & software) - Prospects for the (near) future These questions will be dealt with within a principled framework of current theory of terminology, its goals and basic concepts. 2. Target groups, goals and relevance: This course is relevant to documentalists, information managers, technical writers, translation managers and librarians in public administration and in private companies. The participants should gain a better platform for improving their knowledge concerning - identifying and specifying terminology-related problems within their own company or field of activity - assessing available technology and software for improving their terminological practice 3. CONTENT: I Introductory lectures: *Terminology and terminology management: fundamentals and state-of-the art -Terminology and classification - Indexing and thesauri. * Termbanks: design and maintenance - Terminology in machine translation - (Semi-)automatic translation: overview - Translation memory systems. II IN-DEPTH LECTURES: *The use of text encoding for indexing and terminological purposes - Electronic publishing and terminology - Corpus methodology and term extraction in termbank design - Integrating termbanks into terminology management systems - Standardization and information quality requirements - standardizing objects - standardizing terms - standardizing texts - Information and terminology exchange (e.g. MARTIF and/or equivalent formats) - Web resources in terminology management - the European infrastructure - Nordterm and Nordterm-Net - Integrating text and terminology in documentation management - Summing up: The interaction of different competences in terminology: - the interdisciplinarity problem - linguistic vs. expert knowledge - linguistic vs. IT knowledge CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Dates: September 7- 9 1998 (NB: May be subject to change). Price: 800 ECU - lectures, course material and accomodation included. (Travel expenses not included.) Course venue: Hotel Terminus, City centre, Bergen. Lecturers: International experts in the field of terminology management. Preregistration deadline: June 2, 1998. The course will be arranged on the condition of 15 registered participants within June 2, 1998. We also welcome registrations after that date, within a maximum number of 30. No fee will be charged until the course has been confirmed by the organizers. INFORMATION AND PREREGISTRATION: Humanities Information Technology Research Programme The HIT Centre Eldbjrg Gunnarson / Johan Myking Allegaten 27 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY Tel. +47 5558 2970 Fax. +47 5558 9785 E-mail: adm@hit.uib.no For updated information, see http://www.hit.uib.no/konferanser/ebct-98.html ********** nt Arial NarrowArialCentury Gothic Courier NewTimes New Roman Wingdings BraggadocioBritannic Bold DesdemonaImpact Wide LatinMistralPlaybillStencil MT Extra Arial Rounded MT Bold Bauhaus 93 Bookman Old Style Bold Colonna MT Footlight MT Light Kino MT Matura MT Script Capitals Vivaldi Brush Script MT MS LineDraw``[[[)%C+b$CGIbcdm =jk"#Jn<U;bt;}        b c       ! L      :;23$ $ $ $ $ $  $ $ $ QIII.B.5. Fr: Marc Rittberger Re: Fall '98 School of Information Retrieval Fall 98 School Information Retrieval Today, effective search for information gains more and more importance. This is why the special interest group 'Information Retrieval' of the German Computer Society GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) holds the first 'Fall 98 School Information Retrieval' in Schwerte/Germany from 27th September to 2nd October 98. The invitation goes to all those interested, be they in industry or science -- the users of search machines and databases as well as developers of information systems. The fall school aims at communicating knowledge of specific and successful searching for information. Topics will be search methods within the WWW, patent information retrieval, searching in multilingual or multimedia data or intelligent and linguistic retrieval as well as user interfaces and methods for evaluation. Further information and details on the registration you will find at http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/IR/ . Registration deadline: 25th July 1998 Chairwoman: Christa Womser-Hacker Contact: Marc Rittberger Marc Rittberger Tel.~49-7531/883595, Fax.~49-7531-882048 email: ir@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de i sull'Intelligenza Artificiale,witzerland: Research Associate, low: Language CaNew'98: Casual Networks: From Inference to Data Mining 4. achine ranslation:poken Language Translation 5. 6. Re: CaNew'98: Casual Networks: From Inference to Data Mining FIDM4.achine ranslation:poken Language Translation56 :2. TARGET GROUPS, GOALS AND RELEVANCE: June 128 I. QUERIES IV. PROJECTS I.QUERIES l m   &')*mzlm Jhiy!"gij(<[\i +G`r:;<=>?AFGHSfqrstu     $$<$>$J$K(*,*-+++11KLRT7]]e8eCqqqq(q)q+q,q8qcqiqxqqqqqqtt@t]t^t_t`trtstt @bI.1. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Life is a But a Stream: Streaming Audio for Auditory Browsing Beautiful Streamer: Streaming Video for Visual Browsing Recently, I announced the establishment of a new clearinghouse of projects, research, products, or services devoted to Auditory Browsing in Web and bon-Web Databases called _The Next WAVe(sm)_. _The Next WAVe(sm)_ is available at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm I am greatly interested in learning about additional efforts in the field of Auditory Browsing that employ _Streaming Audio_ (e.g RealAudio) to display or present data or information in Web databases as potential candidates for inclusion in a future update of _The Next WAVe(sm)_. Over the past several weeks, I have discovered through mention in various listservs, increasing use of Streaming Video for a variety applications. In considering the growing adoption of this technology for extended conventional applications, it has occured to me that Streaming Videos also holds great potential for Information Visualization applications for enhanced Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web databases. I am also interested in learning of any and all current or planned applications of Video Streaming for Information Visualization in projects similar (or different) than those profiled in my clearinghouse devoted to Information Visualization called _The Big Picture_. The address for _The Big Picture_ is also: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm My hope is to update _The Big Picture_ with these and other InfoViz profile by the end of this summer. As always, Any and All contributions, citations, contacts, questions, critiques, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! 1. m: Streaming Audio for Auditory II.1. Fr: A. Carlyle Re: Visiting Faculty Positions, Univ. of Washington, GSLIS University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA VISITING FACULTY POSITIONS People and Knowledge: Building Information Connections! The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Washington is searching for two visiting faculty members who subscribe to this vision to start from Fall 1998. These positions are one year appointments withopportunities to apply for future tenure track position openings. The positions require competency in an area of library and information science. Candidates would ideally teach in one or more of the areas below: * conceptual database design * management * information resources and retrieval * design and provision of information services, including children's and young adult services * information policy * organization of information Applicants should have the following qualifications: * an earned Ph.D., or near completion, in library and information science or cognate area * appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of library and information science and an ability to integrate research areas and disciplinary perspectives * research and publications commensurate with experience. The University of Washington is a research university in an active information environment. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers an ALA accredited masters program. Seattle is a multicultural, modern city with numerous cultural, outdoor and athletic activities. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. We are building a multicultural work force and strongly encourage women, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Special interest will be given to applicants who can serve well in an increasingly diverse university community. The University of Washington is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Interested individuals should mail or fax their applications, consisting of (1) letter of interest, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) three letters of recommendation to: Raya Fidel Graduate School of Library and Information Science Box 352930 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2930 USA voice (206) 543-1888 fax: (206) 616-3152 Detailed information about the school, the faculty, the curriculum, and other aspects of the program can be obtained from the School's website: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~gslis/ ********** II.2. Fr: Dr. Raghavan Re: U.SW Louisiana/Southern U.-Baton Rouge: Assistant/Associate Professor: Computer Science Joint Faculty Appointment in Computer Science at The University of Southwestern Louisiana and Southern University-Baton Rouge The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) and the Department of Computer Science at Southern University-Baton Rouge (SUBR) have received funding from the Louisiana Board of Regents' NSF-EPSCoR Joint Faculty Appointments Program (JFAP) to develop a nationally competitive research team with a research focus of strategic importance to the state. This computer science project is entitled "Harnessing distributed, heterogeneous information sources." Through the JFAP support, USL and SUBR recently hired a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor, and is now seeking another member at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor in computer science, to begin Fall 1998. The successful applicant should be committed to research and supervising students at M.S. and Ph.D. levels at both institutions. The annual teaching load is one regular course at each campus. We are recruiting a candidate who possesses or who will receive a Ph.D. degree in computer science or in a closely related area, prior to the date of appoinment. The preferred area of specialization is in developing multimedia retrieval and digital library systems, especially those for handling geo-referenced data or full text. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in some aspects of complex, distributed software systems research and development (such as in object-oriented programming, Internet protocols, multimedia indexing, softbot development, networked database interoperability, or communication security). Louisiana's JFAP program has received strong support from the National Science Foundation, and has been hailed as having the potential to become a model program for the nation. The administrative plan ensures that both faculty members will enjoy full association with both partnering institutions. The startup package will include support for summer salary, research assistantships, travel costs to professional meetings, and laboratory equipment. USL and SUBR are linked to each other, as well as to other research universities in the state, by the new Louisiana Audio-Visual Research Network, facilitating distance learning and remote research collaboration. Direct all inquiries to: Professor Vijay Raghavan Center for Advanced Computer Studies The University of Southwestern Louisiana P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504-4330 Phone: 318-482-6603 Fax: 318-482-5791 Email: raghavan@cacs.usl.edu OR Professor Erold Hinds Computer Science Department Southern University-Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA 70813-0400 Phone: 504-771-2060 Fax: 504-771-4223 Email: ewhinds@aol.com Interested individuals should send a complete vita, samples of publications, three names and addresses of references, and a brief description of research interests to Professor Raghavan. The consideration of candidates will begin June 15th, 1998 and continue until the position is filled. Please note that if you choose to send your application by email to jfap-search@cacs.usl.edu; only ASCII or PostScript files can be accepted. USL and SUBR are both EEO/AA employers. IV. PROJECTS al databases including its slide image database, participation in staff and patron training programs, the design and implementation of the public interface to the library's digital collections, and oversight of library digitization initiatives such as electronic reserves. The Systems Librarian will also work with the Center for Information Technology Services (CITS) to ensure technical support of library workstations. ALA accredited/0 `()     !!E!T!m!!!!!!!!" "$"8"L"c"d##$$$=$>$K((/(a(b))))*L*M****++/+0+H+n++++,#,$,a$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ SIV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: (US) National Medal of Science -- Nominations I would like to encourage you to nominate information and computation scientists or engineers for the National Medal of Science (see below) in order to give the public recognition to our colleagues for their outstanding contributions. In addtion, the medal winners will bring POSITIVE attention to computer and information science and engineering that will be beneficial to everybody. Maria Zemankova The following document (nsf9881a) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: President's Committee on the National Medal of Science Type: General Information, Program Announcements & Information Subtype: National Science Board It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9881a NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training Program Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program (NSF 98-96) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9896 Receipt Deadline for Preproposals: July 1, 1998 Receipt Deadline for Full Proposals: November 23, 1998 The following document (nsf98116) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: Frequently Asked Questions about the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traning (IGERT) Program Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs Replaces igertfaq It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98116 NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov This program is *ideal* for preparing Ph.D.s with multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed in information-intensive research. I highly recommend this as a vehicle for fostering multidisciplinary research between the Information and Data Management Program researcher community with the domain researchers and engineers. Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. Program Director, Information and Data Management (IDM) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 email: mzemanko@nsf.gov Phone: 703-306-1926 Fax: 703-306-0599 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm_home.html ********** IV.D.1. Fr: The Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) Re: The New **Cedars Project** CURL exemplars in digital archives *****Press Release****** INTRODUCTION: In recent years university libraries have included a growing number of digital information resources in their collections. At present there is no legal obligation nor are there formal mechanisms for ensuring that such digital information is preserved for posterity. As libraries' reliance upon such resources increases, they become stakeholders in ensuring that those resources are maintained over the longer term. They are responsible for ensuring that these resources may be as accessible to users in 10, 20 or 200 years time as they are now. Just as academic libraries have an ongoing responsibility for the preservation and access of paper-based resources, they now have a new and more complex responsibility for digital resources. For digital materials, unlike paper, a library continues to have responsibility for ensuring long-term access to them irrespective of whether the burden for physically preserving that resource falls directly to the library or to a third party agency. For example in the case of an electronic journal, a publisher might have the ultimate role of preserving the physical digital object but the research library is responsible for providing long term access to this material for its researchers. The need to devise strategies for digital preservation is both pressing and immediate and these strategies will need to encompass all forms of digital information resources. DESCRIPTION: With these issues in mind the Cedars project aims to address strategic, methodological and practical issues and will provide guidance for libraries in best practice for digital preservation. In the UK, CURL (The Consortium of University Research Libraries) is uniquely placed to lead this project. Digital preservation is a key issue for all its members. Under the overall direction of the CURL Management Board, Cedars will be based across three lead sites (Oxford, Leeds and Cambridge). Wider involvement from the community will come through focus groups, workshops and discussion lists. CEDARS is a three year project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). PROJECT OBJECTIVES: The project aims to investigate strategies which will ensure that the digital information resources typically included in library collections may, with other non-digital objects, be preserved over the longer term. It order to achieve this aim the project plans to * promote awareness about the importance of digital preservation, both amongst university libraries and their users, and amongst the data creating and data supplying communities upon which they depend. * identify, document and disseminate strategic frameworks within which individual libraries can develop collection management policies which are appropriate to their needs and which can guide the necessary decision-making to safeguard the long-term viability of any digital resources which are included in their collections. *investigate, document and promote methods appropriate to the long-term preservation of different classes of digital resources typically included in library collections, and to develop costed and scaleable models, There is an enormous range of digital resources (e.g. text, sound, pictures, moving images). In focusing on the following categories ,the project intends to identify techniques which can be generalised and extended to the full range of + digital materials: + digitised primary resources + electronic journals + large online databases + electronic ephemera + digital resources in which the intellectual content in bound to structure, form, and behaviour In meeting its objectives, the project intends, wherever possible, to make use of work that has already been done and to build upon existing expertise in digital preservation and digital collection management. Key deliverables of the project include: *guidelines for developing collection management policies which will ensure the long-term viability of any digital resources included in the collection; *demonstrator projects to test and promote the technical and organisational feasibility of a chosen strategy for digital preservation; *methodological guidelines developed by the demonstrator projects providing guidance about how to preserve different classes of digital resources; *clearly articulated preferences about data formats, content models and compression techniques which are most readily and cost-effectively preserved; *publications of benefit to the whole higher education community, available on the WWW WEB SITE: As project work evolves, all Cedars working papers and documentation will be available at: http://www.curl.ac.uk General information about the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) can be found at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib Information about JISC is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk CONTACT DETAILS Kelly Russell Cedars Project Manager Edward Boyle Library University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT phone: (+44) (0)113 233 6386 fax: (+44) (0)113 233 5539 email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.uk Clare Jenkins Cedars Project Director BLPES London School of Economics 10 Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD phone: (+44) (0)171 955 6314 fax: (+44) (0)171 955 7454 email: c.jenkins@lse.ac.uk BACKGROUND Many of the recommendations of the Follett Report1 related to ways in which the use of information technology in the electronic library can help to alleviate some of the problems of university libraries today. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) established the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) as a direct response to the Follett Report. The programme has a budget of about =A315 million over 3 years, and its objectives include the use of IT to improve delivery of information through increased use of electronic library services, to allow academic libraries to cope better with growth, to explore different models of intellectual property management and to encourage new methods of scholarly publishing. Now in its third phase, eLib is funding integration projects to build exemplar hybrid libraries (those which provide access to both digital and non-digital materials) including several Z39.50 pilot projects to link library catalogues. Phase 3 will also directly address issues of concern for the long-term preservation of and access to digital resources. Kelly Russell CEDARS Project Manager Edward Boyle Library The University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT phone: (+44) (0)113 233 6386 fax: (+44) (0)113 233 5539 email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.ukroaches that are common elsewhere in Asia. They examine several important repercussions of this more complex strategy, such as the costs of services, network growth, the risk of private investments, universal service, and employment. Petrazzini and Krishnaswamy illustrate how different countries can organize the development, access to, and pricing of telecommunications in very different, but viable, ways. This issue concludes with David Garson's review of the scholarly anthology, Inf,a,u,,,- - -a-b--. .H.I.[.\.p.q....//00001 1'1D1X1p111112232Z2[2t2u447Q7R88::<< <<>>@@AABLBMBBChCiCDDXDYDDDDEE0E1EVEWE$ $  $ $  $  $ $ $ $ $ QEEEEEEEEEFF"F=F\F]FkFFFFFFGGGK]K^KlKKKKKKR R0RURVRfRRRT6T7UYUZUUVVXXYZZ[@[A[[[[[\\7\N\c\t\u]]]^-^K^L^^__A___aaaa$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ SIII.A.1. Fr: Marcia J. Bates Re: Journal of ASIS 50th Anniversary CALL FOR PAPERS JASIS Special Topic Issue Taking Stock for the Future: JASIS' 50th Anniversary A very special Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) will be coming out in 1999 (vol. 50) in order to celebrate JASIS's Fiftieth Anniversary. The topic will be "Taking Stock for the Future: JASIS's 50th Anniversary. The guest editor for this issue is Professor Marcia J. Bates of the University of California, Los Angeles. In planning for our lives, we often review where we've been, where we are now, and where we want to go. This special 50th Anniversary Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science will mark information science's half-century celebration and outlook for the future. Two kinds of articles are encouraged: 1. Articles in the usual length range on these topics: *the nature of information science *the broad sweep of history of the field (not articles on very specific historical events or people) *the direction of the field--as it is or as it should be *the role of JASIS--past, present, future in the field and in scientific communication generally. 2. Brief commentary articles of a maximum 500-600 words on any of several types of topics: *brief opinion piece on any information-science-related issue *biographical sketch of some pioneer in the field *comments on future directions for the field *under-recognized research areas that should be getting more attention *forecasting JASIS' appearance and contents for the year 2049 *other imaginative topics relevant to the Journal's anniversary. People at all levels, senior and junior, in the field are urged to submit papers for this issue. We'd like to hear from recipients of the ASIS awards, faculty, researchers, and practitioners, as well as students at various educational levels. If there are sufficient suitable brief articles, some will be run in other issues during the Volume 50 (1999) year. Inquiries can be made to the guest editor by telephone or electronic mail. Authors must submit a paragraph "Statement of Intent" by June 30, 1998, in which you describe the general topic you intend to write about (for both short and long articles). All statements of intent may be submitted via electronic mail. Authors must submit four copies of the finished article (short or long) by August 31, 1998 to: Dr. Marcia J. Bates Department of Library and Information Science 230 GSEIS Building University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 (310) 206-9353 (Voice) (310) 206-4460 (Fax) mjbates@ucla.edu All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in this special issue of JASIS. Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about JASIS, at http://www.asis.org/ ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: D-Lib Magazine (May 1998) The May 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at . The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: , and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at . In this issue, we feature research stories about the Physical Review Online Archives and scholarly communication; the Resource Description Framework (RDF); the National HPCC Software Exchange; and terms and conditions languages. In addition, we are pleased to run tables of contents for JASIS, which ASIS has graciously contributed to D-Lib Magazine. In the Technology Spotlight, we are featuring a webVIBE, a visual language project by students at the University of Pittsburgh. CONTENTS Archives in a New Paradigm of Scientific Publishing: Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA). Timothy Thomas, Los Alamos National Laboratory An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework. Eric Miller, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE): Uniting the High Performance Computing and Communications Community. Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Jeff Horner, Paul McMahan, Scott Wells, University of Tennessee Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Storing, Sending, Showing, and Honoring Usage Terms and Conditions. Henry M. Gladney and Jeff B. Lotspiech, IBM Almaden Research Center D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ********** III.B.1. Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis Re: UW Talk: Indexing/Data Mining in Multimedia DBs The Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Washington and the UW Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science invite you to a presentation: Indexing and Data Mining in Traditional and Multimedia Databases. by Dr Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University. DATE: Monday, June 8, 1998 TIME: 3-5 pm VENUE: Room 127, Suzallo Library Bldg, UW PARKING: UW parking available at $6 ABSTRACT: The talk presents fast indexing methods for multimedia databases, as well as recent tools for datamining. Specifically, it examines (a) Spatial Access Methods, like R-trees, for multimedia indexing and (b) scaleable methods for lossy compression and rule discovery. For the first part, we do feature extraction, mapping each multimedia object into a low-dimensionality point; then, we store these points in Spatial Access Methods, and thus we can quickly find objects that are similar to a desirable object (e.g., 'find stocks similar to Microsoft'). We describe the conditions under which the method gives no false dismissals, and we also describe FastMap, a method that does automatic feature extraction. For the second part on data mining, we describe a method that compresses a large data matrix, such as, eg., a matrix with customers as rows, days-of-the-year as columns, and the amount spent in each cell. For such a large, multi-GigaByte matrix, we want to compress it so that (1) it fits on the disk and (2) we can reconstruct arbitrary cells of the matrix quickly. The proposed method exploits patterns in the data matrix, achieves 50:1 compression with less than 10% reconstruction error, and moreover allows visualization. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Christos Faloutsos received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr Faloutsos is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining CMU he was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. He has spent sabbaticals at IBM-Almaden and AT&T Bell Labs. Dr Faloutsos has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), two ``best paper'' awards (SIGMOD 94, VLDB 97), and three teaching awards. He has published over 70 refereed articles, one monograph, and has filed for three patents. His research interests include physical data base design, searching methods for text, geographic information systems indexing methods for multimedia databases and data mining. CONTACT: Christos Faloutsos Computer Science Department phone#: 412-268.14.57 Carnegie Mellon University FAX#: 412-268.55.76 Wean Hall, room 4111 christos@cs.cmu.edu 5000 Forbes Avenue http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 1. .: : 2. isiana/Southern U.-Baton Rouge: A. Publications 1. 2. 1. C. Miscellaneous 1. cation & Research Training ab%b&bbc\c]ddddee8eCeLeeeeffffOfmfnfffffgggDgigjj7j8kklHlInAnBpp pp%p[ppqqq-qXqdqyqqqqqtt5tAtRtgtttttttxx;xMxNx]x^znzo $ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ O C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. D. Research 1. :EDigital A .: :People and Knowledge:se . ********** II.C.1:EDAJASIS 839 1. UMLS for LCSH 2. Response to UMLS for LCSH `m)k|}PQ   F 4 5  ,-)*Zz{tttutwtxtttttttttttttttttx%Sr}~ 59:;<[z *IQp!"$12RS @bI.2. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: UMLS for LCSH UMLS for LCSH I am greatly interested in learning about any current or pending research that seeks to apply the Unified Medical Language System [UMLS] model for the creation of knowledge-bases and metathesaurus for Medical Vocabularies to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, or other controlled vocabularies. The UMLS was initiated more than ten years by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to enhance access to biomedical literature. As part of this effort, a "Metathesaurus" was created to integrate several medical vocabularies. The "Metathesaurus" "is organized by concept or meaning. Alternate names for the same concept (synonyms, lexical variants, and translations) are linked together. Each Metathesaurus concept has attributes that help to define its meaning, e.g., the semantic type(s) or categories to which it belongs, its position in the hierarchical contexts from various source vocabularies, and, for many concepts, a definition. A number of relationships between different concepts are represented. Some of these relationships are derived from the source vocabularies; others are created during the construction of the Metathesaurus. Most inter-concept relationships in the Metathesaurus link concepts that are similar along some dimension. The Metathesaurus also includes use information, including the names of selected databases in which the concept appears, and, for MeSH terms, information about the qualifiers that have been applied to the terms in MEDLINE. Information on the co-occurrence of concepts in MEDLINE and in some other information sources is also included." Additional information the "Metathesaurus" is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlsmeta.html Background information about the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project as well as other part of the UMLS effort is accessible from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umls.html The free Internet Grateful Med [Yep, Grateful _Med_] [http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/] makes uses of the Metathesaurus for the Medline dfatabase as does OMNI, the e-Lib Web clearinghouse of Medical Web resources [http://omni.library.nottingham.ac.uk/umls/] In addition to learning about formal actual or planned applications of the UMLS model to LCSH (or a segment of LCSH), I would also appreciate hearing speculation about the possibilities of such an application to the LCSH domain. As Always, Any and All citations, sources, contributions, critiques, questions, concerns, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ********** I.2. Fr: Marcia J. Bates Re: Response to UMLS/LCSH Gerry and any interested others, In response to your query regarding UMLS and LCSH, I proposed clustering related terms to aid searchers in retrieval as long ago as 1985 in print. The easiest-to-access article of mine on this is "Subject Access in Online Catalogs: A Design Model," in Journal of ASIS Nov. 1986. NLM has been developing UMLS on formal linguistic principles. I've been more interested in discovering empirically what helps people in searching in practice. The way our minds work in practice is not necessarily along lines of formal linguistic relationships--though that can be one way to help people. I urged giving people a lot of different ways to identify terms and topics for searching. As a consultant, I subsequently designed and oversaw the development of a real system based on these principles that was implemented at the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power for their multi-million item automated records management system, and its10,000 staff members The design of the search interface and thesaurus is described in close to its final form in a Proceedings of ASIS article in the 1990 volume. California's disastrous early-90's depression precluded formal testing of the system. The DWP had huge cutbacks and I had to stop being a researcher for a while and become Chair of my Dept. at UCLA. Finally, and most relevant to your query, the (then) Council on Library Resources in Washington, DC gave me a grant to apply these ideas to LCSH in 1994. The report from that project is called "Expanded Entry Vocabulary for the Library of Congress Subject Headings: Final Report," July 1994. CLIR should have copies; if not, I can provide them. Marcia Marcia J. Bates Professor 230 GSE&IS Building Dept. of Information Studies Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA Tel.: 310-206-9353 Fax: 310-206-4460 Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/facpage/bates.html UV_`klmxz  +47Wc|},3A T]^ 9 |   4 5 J%&zo~~~~  /05=>DE'Vg6vwhi./9MgFG$ $ $ $  $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ MII.10. Fr: Roger D. Gifford Re: U. Albany: Assistant Director, Technical Services & Systems POSITION: Assistant Director for Technical Services & Systems RESPONSIBILITIES: The Assistant Director for Technical Services and Systems leads and administers the Technical Services Division, which consists of the following departments: Acquisitions; Cataloging; Database Maintenance, Processing and Bindery; and Library Systems. Responsibilities include coordination to ensure the overall operational effectiveness of the division, planning, policy and budget development, fiscal management, and supervision of staff. The Assistant Director works in a collaborative mode with a team-centered approach to problem solving. As a member of the senior administrative group, the Assistant Director shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission and goals and broad policy directions of the University Libraries and coordinating initiatives with other Assistant Directors and library managers. The Assistant Director participates in leading the dynamic process of change in the transition to the digital library in a networked research environment. Reports to the Dean and Director of Libraries. Research, publication and service to the Libraries, university and profession are expected to satisfy criteria for continuing appointment and promotion. QUALIFICATIONS: Graduate degree in librarianship from an ALA-accredited institution or foreign equivalent. Minimum of five years of providing successful leadership in progressively more demanding technical services management roles in research libraries. Must have broad knowledge and proven expertise in technical services operations in a medium or large research library. Must have thorough knowledge of library systems applications. Must demonstrate a vision for providing information services in a research environment that is responsive to current trends and anticipates future needs. Must demonstrate strong leadership, analytical, interpersonal, communication and supervisory skills, and an ability to manage change. Highly desirable: experience planning and administering library-wide information systems and related technology. SALARY: From $52,000, plus administrative stipend. Commensurate with education and experience. TERMS & BENEFITS: Twelve month appointment; sick leave and annual leave @ 1.25 days each per month; health insurance, major medical or Health Maintenance Organization. Social Security coverage. TIAA/CREF or New York State Teachers Retirement available (employee contribution rate = 3%). APPLY TO: Christine M. Travis Library Personnel Officer University Libraries - UL-112 University at Albany State University of New York 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 DEADLINE: Review of letters of application and resumes will begin June 20, 1998. Please include the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references that may be contacted. THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER III.A.1. Fr: K.L.Kwok Re: Reminder of DFP Deadline: Information Retrieval We like to remind potential authors of the approaching deadline of June 30, 1998 for the following CFP. Thank you. Journal: Information Retrieval Editors: Paul Kantor and Stephen Robertson Call-for-Paper of Special Issue: "Connectionism, Genetic Algorithms and Regression Techniques for IR" Guest Editors: Norbert Fuhr and Kui Lam Kwok In Artificial Intelligence, the competition between 'hard' symbolic, first order logic based methods and 'soft' connectionist approaches to problems involving intelligent behavior is well-known. To a lesser extent, such a scenario has also been played out in the field of Information Retrieval (IR) between the the classical, well founded models and more heuristic ranking strategies. Soft approaches such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, regression techniques, etc. have strengths of flexibility, robustness and tolerance of imprecision that are well recognized. In real-world commercial web searching or TREC large-scale IR experiments, statistical approaches are also found to be preferable. It is therefore of interest to see how the state-of-the-art soft computing techniques may be applicable to the concept formation and matching problems in IR. Such then is the essence of this special issue call. Soft computing is a rapidly expanding field encompassing not only those disciplines mentioned before, but also important topics such as fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, machine learning, belief propagation, and others. In order to limit the scope for this particular issue however, we have decided to focus on the topics as given in the title. Other related approaches may well be subjects of future issues. To borrow a page from the objectives of this journal, we list some soft computing methodologies that may be applicable to some IR tasks. We seek original papers - theoretical, experimental or practical - that deal with the intersection of these non- exhaustive lists of topics. Methodologies in Neural Network include but are not limited to: network models and architecture; feedforward or recurrent propagation modes; network learning - supervised or unsupervised and varied learning algorithms; objective functions, gradient descent and other optimization. Methodologies in Genetic Algorithms include but are not limited to: coding schemes; genetic operators; fitness functions, their derivative-free optimization, including other methods such as simulated annealing, random searching, evolutionary strategies. Regression methodologies include but are not limited to: model functions, parametrization, interpolation, error minimization. We prefer contributions which are applicable to at least reasonable-sized collections of texts. In addition, methods of scaling-up these various techniques including but not limited to parallel, distributed computation to handle very large, real-word IR environments will be of particular interest. IR tasks of interest include but are not limited to: retrieval modes such as ad-hoc, routing, filtering, document classification; representation issues such as optimal feature selection and weighting; issues in training such as learning from judged (relevance feedback) or unjudged items, positive or negative, sampling of items for training, generalization problems; optimal combination of representations or retrieval; correspondence of evaluation measures in IR and objective functions; term and document clustering or categorization, collection structural discovery for retrieval, display, interaction or summarization. Submission Deadline: June 30, 1998 COMPLETE submission information can be found at http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ir Authors should submit six hard copies of their final manuscript to: Karen S. Cullen Information Revtrieval - Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park Norwell, Massachusetts 02061 U.S.A. Phone: 781-871-6600 Fax: 781-878-0449 E-mail: Karen @wkap.com ******************** lar to those formed by Qwest. NVN^Nu__(mn !56  ./ST"=^{4fg'(9Oix !M )u&YZ$  $ $  $ $  $ $ $ $ QII.4. Fr: Susan A. Glenn Re: MITRE, Massachusetts: Library Systems Analyst Job Title: Library Systems Analyst (PEP 7) Description: Coordinates planning, implementation and maintenance of automated library applications and systems including: integrated on-line library systems, Web-based interfaces, text-retrieval systems, CD-ROM and optical systems, and records management systems. Gathers requirements for enhancements as well as new systems, analyzes options, evaluates COTS products, implements chosen solutions, arranges for on-going maintenance, and provides training to users. Demonstrates a high degree of independent judgment and initiative. Possesses strong leadership abilities, excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with MITRE's technical and management staff in addition to professional contacts outside of MITRE. Demonstrated analytical abilities are required. Education/Experience Required: Graduate degree in library, information science, or computer sciences. Experience or education in information systems management and systems analysis. Three to five years experience with library services or information systems required. Request Number: R103-150(B) For more information about the MITRE Corporation view the web site at: http://www-i.mitre.org Send Resumes to: The MITRE Corporation Office of Human Resources P. O. Box 0857 Bedford, MA 01730-0857 Email: jobs@mitre.org (ASCII text only) FAX: (781)271-3402 III.B.1. Fr: Joao Balsa da Silva Re: CaNew'98 - Call for Papers Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation CaNew'98: Causal Networks: from inference to data mining 3 October, 1998 A workshop held in conjunction with the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA'98 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Cincias Sociais e HumanasOctober 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. kindly supported by ACIA Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Instructions for Participants * Instruction for Submissions * Workshop Committee * Important Dates * Address for Submisssions and Further Information WHAT THE WORKSHOP IS ABOUT: Causality has a natural representation in the form of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Causal associations have been represented in the framework of Bayesian Networks and Possibilistic Causal Networks and also by means of special logics. There is a growing interest both in defining more precisely the causal semantics equivalences of the existing representations as well as in developing efficient methods for reasoning and learning that could be used in practical applications. The workshop will focus on several topics on this area, basically in properties of causal networks related to inference and learning methods. Participants are encouraged to submit descriptions of work in progress specially in the areas of learning and practical application but not limited to these ones. Topics: * Properties and expressiveness of causal networks o Conditional Independency relationships in causal networks o Relation to other causal formalizations + Causal theories + Default Logics o Expression in other formalisms * Learning methods o Identifying Causal Parameters o Dependence-based methods o Information-based methods o Hybrid methods o Comparative studies * Practical applications o Scaling up to large volumes of data o Data Mining o Applications to industry and services INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS: All workshop participants must register both for the main IBERAMIA'98 conference and the workshop itself. We expect the number of participants to be around 20, and attendance will not be limited to active participants. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Interested authors may submit papers (max. 12 pages) addressing issues that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, including an additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research projects as well as applications in the area. Also, authors planning to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail. A provisional title must be provided. Authors should send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop Organizing Committee by June 10, 1998. The length of each manuscript including figures should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced using font size 12. Each manuscript should start with an abstract of no more than 150 words and should include a list of five keywords. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following the recommendations by the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will prepare a presentation. Presentations will be grouped into sections to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as for extended more general exchange of ideas between presentations and sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session commentators who summarize and critically reflect on the presentations of a session. In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes that will be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare electronic versions of their papers to be made available prior to the workshop. The Workshop Proceedings will be published as a special issue of a relevant publication after the conference. In this case, authors will have the opportunity to revise and extend their contributions. IMPORTANT DATES: * June 10, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers * July 8, 1998 Authors notification of acceptance/rejection * July 15, 1998 Publication of final workshop program * September 8, 1998 Final revised camera-ready papers * October 3, 1998 Workshop at IBERAMIA 98 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Proposals should be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in UNIX compatible postscript, html, or RTF) to Ulises Corts, at following address: Ulises Corts Dept. of Software Technical University of Catalonia Campus Nord-Edifici C5 C. Jordi Girona 1-3 08034 Barcelona Catalonia, Spain Tel.: + 34 3 401 70 16 Fax: + 34 3 401 70 14 e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es Further information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98 Homepage: http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html There exists a text and PostScript of this call. **********  `;\ / s   ?   O !`;T ! "# " #+ ZNO&<Qt(P`DEkl}!W‚7JKYkÍäøĒēľ% 0=>GzȘOP`agh̄$ $ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ QIII.B.1. Fr: Roberto Poli Re: BISCA-98 BISCA-98 Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis UNFOLDING PERCEPTUAL CONTINUA From ecology of perception to cognition Recent problems raised by artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences such as the perception of forms, the recognition of natural languages, the problems of common sense, nave physics, and consequently the need for direct and non-propositional reference to the objects of experience (as cited, for example by scientists working in robotics) have opened new areas of inquiry for psychophysics. BISCA-98 will analyze the morphogenesis of the perceptive fields of vision, sound and touch, starting from the microstructure of intuitive continua, and therefore from a semiology of primitives as boundaries, points, angles, blobs, pointers, denotators, local signs, etc. The lectures, which from a general point of view will adopt an ecological perspective on perception, will proceed along the parallel tracks of psychophysical experimental research and the conceptual development of a theory of the intentionality of consciousness Speakers of BISCA 1998 are: LILIANA ALBERTAZZI, The experimental phenomenology standpoint JAN J. KOENDERINCK, Multiply extended continua in vision GUERINO MAZZOLA, Grouping paradigms in music RUGGERO PIERANTONI, Sensory perception: touch and cognition GENERAL INFORMATION: 1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants. 2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board. 3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion. 4. All lectures will be in English. 5. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet the costs of participation. For more information write to Liliana Albertazzi: alberta@risc1.gelso.unitn.it and see the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm ********** $ $ $ $ $ $ (dezͲDbΜΫ :;mϋόϦ 6_`{Ҟ-.mnvӹӺ%&ՠ9lm֘OP׫׬,-ؕؖPQپٿgh~ڷڸ-ܠܡKL݆݇'12Xޕ$ $ $ $ $ [III.B.2. Fr: Christian Jacquemin Re: COMPUTERM Workshop at COLING-ACL'98 ANNOUNCEMENT and PROGRAMME COMPUTERM'98 Workshop announcement First Workshop on Computational Terminology August 15, 1998 (just after COLING-ACL98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html mailto: db@lli.univ-paris13.fr,jacquemin@limsi.fr,lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca CONTEXT: The workshop provides a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. REGISTRATION: The number of participants to the workshop is limited. It is advisable to pre-register as soon as possible: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Fees.html ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (TRAVEL, ACCOMODATION, TOURISM...): See the COLING-ACL98 conference main page at: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html PAPER PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: (Preliminary) Opening address David Hull: "A practical approach to terminology alignment" Akiko N. Aizawa, Kyo Kageura: "An approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keywords clusters" Ralf Brown: "Automatically-extracted thesauri for cross-language IR: When better is worse" First poster session Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan: "Building a prototype system for trends survey in a knowledge extraction program" Anne Condamines, Josette Reyberolle "CTKB : A corpus-based approach to a terminological knowledge base" Toru Hisamitsu; Yoshiki Niwa: "Extraction of useful terms from parenthetical expressions by using simple rules and statistical measures -- a comparative evaluation of bigram statistics" Paul Bowden, Lindsay Evett, Peter Halstead "Automatic acronym acquisition in a knowledge extraction program" Laura Davidson, Judy Kavanagh, Kristen Mackintosh, Ingrid Meyer, Douglas Skuce: "Semi-automaticextraction of knowledge-rich contexts from corpora: examples and issues" Second poster session Dekang Lin: "Extracting collocations from text corpora" Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tatsunori Mori: "Nested collocation and compound noun for term extraction" POSTERS: (Preliminary) Lee-Feng Chen, Min-Chan Chen, Chun-Liang Chen, Bo-Ren Bai: "Internet-based Chinese text corpus classification and domain-specific keyterm extraction" Hongyan Jing, Evelyne Tzoukerman: "Improving retrieval with semantics and morphology" Kyo Kageura, Masaharu Yoshioka, Teruo Koyama, Toshihiko Nozue: "Towards a common testbed for corpus-based computational terminology" Diana Maynard, Sofia Ananiadou: "Acquiring contextual information for term disambiguation" Michael P. Oakes, Chris D. Paice: "Term extraction for automatic abstracting" Antje Schmidt-Wigger: "Building consistent terminologies" Hinrich Schuetze: "HyperConDex -- A hypertext concordance as a back-of-the-rule index" ********** III.B.4. Fr: Gerhard Weiss Re: CIA98 Call for Registration & Participation 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA-98) Learning, Mobility, and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery in the Internet July 4 - 7, 1998, at Agents' World, in Paris, France http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html Registration for CIA-98 workshop at Agents' World Conference: http://goma.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld/regis.html Co-Sponsors of CIA-98 workshop: DAIMLER-BENZ AG, Stuttgart, Germany. George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA. SATURDAY, JULY 4th Welcome Session 1: Cooperative Information Agents Systems and Applications Invited Contribution: What can Agents do in Industry, and Why? An Overview of Industrially-Oriented R&D at ITI CEC, Van Parunak, Scientific Fellow, ITI (USA) Invited Contribution: The InfoSleuth Agent System, Marian Nodine, MCC Corp. (USA) Invited Contribution: The Dynamics of the UMDL Service Market Society, Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan (USA) Agents for Hypermedia Information Discovery, V.S. Lazarou, K. Clark, Imperial College, London (UK) Trafficopter: A Distributed Collection System for Traffic Information, A. Moukas, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA), K. Chandrinos, FORTH, Heraclion (Greece) Agent-Supported Information Retrieval for Tracking and Tracing, D. Deschner, O. Hofmann, S. Reinheimer, F. Bodendorf, University of Erlangen (Germany) Invited Contribution: Intelligent Agents for Web-based Information and Process Management Jrg P. Mller, Zuno Ltd., London (UK) SUNDAY, JULY 5th Session 2 Cooperative Information Agents Issues of Design, Querying and Communication Invited Contribution: Inducing Cooperation Among Information Systems, Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) Strategies for Querying Information Agents, P. Chalasani, S. Jha, O. Shehory, K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Contribution: Toward Cross-Cultural Communication for Socially Intelligent Agents, Takashi Kido, NTT R&D Department (Japan) Session 3 Rational Collaboration and Electronic Commerce Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce, R. Guttman, P. Maes, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA) Enhancing Mobile Agents with Electronic Commerce Capabilities, H. Vogler, M.-L. Moschgarth, T. Kunkelmann, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy, J.O. Kephart, J.E. Hanson, D.W. Levine, B.N. Grosof, J. Sairamesh, R.B. Segal, S. White, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (USA) Open Discussion: "Electronic Commerce and Rational Information Agents - Challenges and Risks for Users and/or Vendors?'' MONDAY, JULY 6th Session 4 Adaptive and Collaborative Information Gathering Invited Contribution: Levels of Adaptation in Systems of Coordinating Information Agents, Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) Invited Contribution: Adaptive Choice of Information Sources, Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa (USA) Agent Mediated Collaborative Web Page Filtering, S. Green, P. Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), F.Somers, Broadcom Eireann Dublin (Ireland) Content-based Collaborative Information Filtering, Joaquin Delgado, Naohiro Ishii, Tomoki Ura, Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) Domain Experts for Information Retrieval in the World Wide Web, W. Theilmann, K. Rothermel, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Semantic Navigation Maps for Information Agents, W. Benn, O. Grlitz, Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) TUESDAY, JULY 7th Invited Contribution: Multiagent Systems in Information-Rich Environments, Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina (USA), Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University (USA) Session 5 Mobile Information Agents in the Internet Invited Contribution: On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility, Robert Tolksdorf, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) Mobile Information Agents on the Web, A. Gehrmeyr, Corporate Technology Siemens AG, Munich (Germany), J. Mller, Technical University of Freiberg (Germany), A. Schappert, Public Networks Siemens AG, Munich (Germany) Melding Abstractions with Mobile Agents, A. Corradi, M. Cremonini, C. Stefanelli, Universita di Bologna (Italy) Data-Security in Heterogeneous Agent Systems, P. Bonatti, Universa di Torino (Italy), S. Kraus, Bar-Ilan University (Israel), J. Salinas, Army Research Lab (USA), V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland (USA) Open Discussion: ''The Future of Adaptive and Mobile Information Agents - Travelling Bandits on the Information Highway, or Powerful Information Providers?'' IV.D.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Digital Government Program Announcement: deadline 9/1/98 NEW!!! Program Announcement - Digital Government - NSF98-121 http://www.cise.nsf.gov/eia/DGProgAnnounce.html. National Science Foundation DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DIVISION OF EXPERIMENTAL AND INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES DEADLINE: September 1 1998, March 1 each year thereafter Lawrence E. Brandt Program Director for Digital Government Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities, Suite 1160 National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22230 Phone - 703/306-1981 Fax - 703/306-0589 Internet - lbrandt@nsf.gov Home page - http://www.cise.nsf.gov/eia/staff/lbrandt/index.html NOTE: The Digital Government program provides "an immediate opportunity for the broad connection of information services providers and research communities", and I'd like to encourage you to get involved. I highly recommend your looking at the report "Toward a Digital Government in the 21st Century", by Herbert Schorr and Salvatore J. Stolfo (http://www.isi.edu/nsf/) that is referred to in the Digital Government program annoucement, as it provides good "pointers" and "triggers". 1. nt Director, Technical Services 2. A. Publications 1. B. Meetings 1. 2. ޕޞ)*bcߡDEX`alCDZw  8opV ./@JiIw+,6ef0q6FGY+o$ $ $ _A}\] LM_`v"LMc6l H{?wNKL_ 1L[\s *$ $ $  ($ [ 3. 4. D. Research 1. II.1223UTERM Workshop at COLING-ACL'98l networks, genetic algorithms, have strengths of flexibility,ision that are well recognized.e also found to be preferable. opagation, and others. topics as given in the title.be applicable to some IR tasks.descent and other optimization.ategies.include but are not limited to:tributions which are applicableble-sized collections of texts. issues such as optimal featuretraining such as learning from Submission Deadline:ligence and cognitive sciences 15410 IV. PROJECTS .6. regards, figures, tables, II.10. Fr: Stefan Wermter Re: U. Sunderland, UK: RA, School of Computing and IS: Neural and Intelligent Systems Research Assistant in Neural and Intelligent Systems (reference number CIRG28) Applications are invited for a three year research assistant position in thz{ & ' L M R 89Z[*%2SZ9:  st7EXgABno%&;< {  0HIa|LM  "#P~$  $ $ $ $ $ $ $  $ $ Oation Systems investigating the development of hybrid neural/symbolic techniques for intelligent processing. This is an exciting new project which aims at developing new environments for integrating neural networks and symbolic processing. You will play a key role in the development of such hybrid subsymbolic/symbolic environments. It is intended to apply the developed hybrid environments in areas such as natural language processing, intelligent information extraction, or the integration of speech/language in multimedia applications. You should have a degree in a computing discipline and will be able to register for a higher degree. A demonstrated interest in artificial neural networks, software engineering skills and programming experience are essential (preferably including a subset of C, C++, CommonLisp, Java, GUI). Experience and interest in neural network software and simulators would be an advantage (e.g. Planet, SNNS, Tlearn, Matlab, etc). Salary is according to the researcher A scale (currently up to 13,871, under revision). Application forms and further particulars are available from the Personnel department under +44 191 515 and extensions 2055, 2429, 2054, 2046, or 2425 or E-Mail employee.recruitment@sunderland.ac.uk quoting the reference number CIRG28. For informal inquiries please contact Professor Stefan Wermter, e-mail: Stefan.Wermter@sunderland.ac.uk. Closing date: 10 July 1998. The successful candidate is expected to start the job as soon as possible. Professor Stefan Wermter University of Sunderland Dept. of Computing & Information Systems St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 2781 email: stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update, June 8, 1998 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 8, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org/) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: The e-rate in peril. Clinton administration releases domain name system policy statement; leaves decisions to new non-profit board. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. **********  HH(FG(HH(d'@=/R@H-:LaserWriter 8 )ChicagoNew YorkGenevaMonaco Zapf DingbatsBookmanN Helvetica NarrowPalatino Zapf ChanceryTimes HelveticaCourier { S"22668<@@MMV_V~VVZa!a%a&a-a.a4a9a:aNaOaPaaaaabbb1b<bnbzbbbbbbbbbbfmmZ[$   +˘˷׿gن߾,efnoqy @bIII.B.1. Fr: Mark D Dunlop Re: 2nd IR&HCI Workshop Call for papers for the Second one day workshop on Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction 11 September 1998 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/irhci/ Contact: Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson (chairs) mailto:mark@dcs.gla.ac.uk mailto:johnson@dcs.gla.ac.uk Papers describing work in progress or completed work are invited on any topic in areas related to work addressing issues between the classic fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Retrieval (IR). Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Evaluation of IR systems; * Novel interaction techniques for information retrieval; * Understanding the nature of relevance; * Visualisations of interactive searches (2D and 3D); * Browsing based information retrieval (inc. hypermedia); * Conversational modelling of information retrieval tasks; * Navigation through complex paths of information; * Networked information retrieval; * Multimedia information retrieval. Authors should submit extended abstracts (roughly 500 words) no later than 7 August 1998. It is intended to publish the proceedings of the workshop (full papers will be due strictly one week before the workshop). Further details are available from the workshop organiser. The workshop is jointly organised by the British HCI Group and the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Workshop chairs: Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson. Programme committee: Susan Dumais (Microsoft), Mark Dunlop (Glasgow Univ); Jan IJdens (Sharp), Chris Johnson (Glasgow Univ), Jane Reid (Glasgow Univ); Tony Rose (Canon), plus others to be confirmed. ********** ********** s, figures, tables, III.B.2. Fr: Tefko Saracevic Re: CoLIS 3 - DIGITAL LIBRARIES - Dubrovnik, Croatia CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS -- CoLIS 3 Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science Theme: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatia 23 - 26 May 1999 ORGANIZED BY: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Tampere, Finland; and Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. CO-SPONSORED BY: Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery (SIGIR/ACM); American Society for Information Science, European Chapter (ASIS/EC); and International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) The focus of the conference is on fundamental and integrating issues and problems that reflect research and development efforts and conceptual, critical thinking on digital libraries from a number of disciplines and countries. Contributions are invited that address: Fundamental and theoretical aspects and questions underlying digital libraries. Nature of digital library collections. Organization of digital libraries. Access to digital libraries. Use of digital libraries. Technical infrastructure. Evaluation of digital libraries. Social, cultural, legal, and economicissues, nationally and internationally. Integration of information resources. Cooperation among digital libraries.Relations to traditional libraries -- roots, comparison. TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS INVITED: Research papers. of up to 12 pages covering any of the topics. Poster presentations: synthesis of work in progress. Panels: proposals for panel sessions on general interest. Tutorials. proposals for half or full day tutorials. Workshops: proposals for a one day workshops. Demonstrations and exhibits IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES: Today: register interest to receive information by completing a form at the conference web site, or send an email to colis3@ffzg.hr 15 September 1998: Research papers deadline. 15 October 1998: Deadline for posters, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations and exhibits. 1 December 1998: notifications on selections. 15 January 1999: Final camera-ready copy FOR MORE INFORMATION: Web sites: http://www.colis3.hr or in the US http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/colis3. Email: colis3@ffzg.hr CONTACT AND SUBMISSIONS: Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. School of Communication Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-6916. Email: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgerEmail: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html ********** nd Information Science Co-sponsored by The ASIS Pittsburgh Chapter and The /@A:;Z  op GHax<r" "-"U"V"l""""##&<&=((++,,/'/(112222233333K3v3334$  $  $  $ $ $ $  $ $ $ $ OIII.A.2. Fr: Terry Colvin Re: California Digital Library Database FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 12, 1998 Terry Colvin (510) 987-9198 terry.colvin@ucop.edu CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY TO PUT FIRE, FLOOD, EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION ON THE WEB The University of California will make it easier for the public to gather facts about fires, floods, earthquakes and other important environmental events and issues by digitizing selected materials held in its academic libraries and putting them on the World Wide Web for all the world to share. The project was funded by a $198,000 federal grant to the California State Library. It is one of the firsts in UCs effort to build the California Digital Library, a dream of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, who calls it the university's library without walls. Launched last October, the California Digital Library will eventually blend major portions of the electronic and print holdings of UC's 29 million-volume collection to make it accessible by desktop or laptop computer to students, faculty and the general public. The environmental project also marks the first collaborative effort with the state library to build the Library of California, a digitally constructed library that could eventually link all of the states public, private and academic libraries -- as well as many of its museums and think tanks -- into one of the worlds largest electronic information-sharing networks. The Library of California is a visionary plan created by a statewide library coalition -- led and supported by the California State Library and State Librarian Kevin Starr -- which would enable resource sharing, cooperation and collaboration among libraries of all types: public, private, school and academic. The Environmental Information Project, funded by The Library Services and Technology Act -- new federal legislation to promote the innovative uses of technology in the nations libraries -- is the first attempt to bring both these initiatives together to demonstrate the economic and intellectual benefits of collaboration. Organizers hope to explore the technological, organizational and financial issues involved in converting print materials to digitized form and delivering the electronic content from UCs libraries to libraries in Library of California network. "This is an opportunity to achieve two benefits at once," said Gary Lawrence, UC director of library planning and policy development. "First, the project will make UC's California Digital Library collections available to the public at an early stage in its development. Second, this is a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with librarians throughout the state to develop new digital collections and services that will benefit all of California." Materials related to fires, floods, water rights, earthquakes and pollution will be among those covered by the Environmental Information Project. The first step in the project will be the creation and licensing of an environmental database. The database will be used by public libraries selected as demonstration sites. UC is already digitizing the environmental information held in its special collections and government documents and programmers will create a website to serve as home page for the project and to link it to other existing websites devoted to environmental issues. The website is expected to be running by the end of this summer at about 30 demonstration sites in Northern, Central and Southern California. Criteria for selecting the demonstration sites will include the availability of appropriate computer hardware and a speedy connection to the Internet since no project money will be spent on purchasing support systems for demonstration sites. UC's budget for 1998-99 includes a request to the state to provide $3 million in general funds to be matched by $1 million from the university for the California Digital Library. The university is spending $1 million in the current budget year to launch the effort. Note: More information about the California Digital Library is available from Gary Lawrence, UC director of library planning and policy development at (510) 987-9461, or Terry Colvin, UC senior public information representative at (510) 987-9198. IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE Experimental Activities Program: 11/1, 1/15 NEW!!! Experimental Activities Program (NSF 98-127) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98127 Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) The program has two parts: CISE Advanced Distributed Resources for Experiments (CADRE) Proposal Deadline: January 15 each year Each year approximately 5 awards, duration 4 years, average size $400,000 per year Experimental Partnerships Proposal Deadline: November 1 each year Each year approximately 14 awards, duration of up to 5 years, averaging $500,000 per year INQUIRIES: Dr. Michael Foster, Program Director EIA/CISE National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard #1160, Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 306-1980 Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their ideas with the program director, either in person, by letter, by email, or by telephone. ********** IV.E.1. Fr: Kurt_Kopp@MUCCMAIL.MISSOURI.EDU Re: New Standards for Review Here are two draft international standards for review: ISO/DIS 11799 "Information and documentation - Document storage requirements for archive and library materials" and ISO/DIS 14416 "Information and documentation - Requirements for binding of books, periodicals, serials and other paper documents for archive and library use - Methods and materials." They are both accessible on the web for review at merlin.missouri.edu/lso/asis_standards/ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ }-ۇatt2EFcdefgo @b|_B,@^ZpT2 .*444Q4y44455i5j5u5555666666666767777778d8e888<<;>?f??@9@:@?@O@h@~@@@@@AANAcAdAABBCCGGIILLMMMN N7$  $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ OI.1. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Library Subject and Organization Systems as Ontologies Library Subject and Organizational Systems as Ontologies In preparation for a presentation and paper, I am greatly interested in learning about any and all research that views and analyzes established Library Classification Systems (e.g L of Congress Classification, Dewey, Colon, etc.) as Ontologies. I am also interested in any work that views Controlled Vocabularies as Ontologies, specifically in application as Index Terms or Descriptors, and in a formal Thesaurus structures. I am particulary interested in efforts that conceptualize Cross Reference (BT, NT, RT) structures in Online Systems as Ontologies. For background information about Ontology, I strongly recommend the MIKROKOSMOS ONTOLOGY resource page as well as its major links, at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/htmls/ontology-htmls/onto.index.html As Always, Any and All citations, sources, contributions, critiques, questions, concerns, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ **********II.5. Fr: Barbara R. Tysinger Re: UNC-Chapel Hill: Library Systems Department Head, Health Sciences Library Library Systems Department Head University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library invites applications from leaders who can develop and provide technology-enhanced information systems, services and support at the point of need for staff and library users. Department Head is member of library's senior management team. Supervises 4.0 FTE librarian and technical staff. UNC-CH is an information technology leader: first-year medical and dental students required to have computers; all freshman undergraduates beginning fall 2000; Internet II and high performance computing site. Health Sciences Library (www.hsl.unc.edu) is highly computerized and collaborative environment: multiple-server, multiple-platform LAN that supports access to multi-user resources mounted locally, on the campus WAN, Internet, and statewide digital library, NC-LIVE. Over 100 staff and public workstations with web Internet access (including 2 teaching labs) plus 20-station campus lab and public drops; Research Triangle Libraries Network shared DRA library system; collaboratively developed and maintained digital library (www.uncle.unc.edu); campus libraries electronic reserves project underway; leadership role in support of online courseware development and providing electronic knowledge resources for distance learning. Staff: 66 FTE. Collection: 300,000 volumes. Budget: $5.9 million. Major renovation of five-story library planned. Required: ALA-accredited MLS or comparable information technology graduate degree and relevant experience in a library or service environment. Strong technical skills including in-depth knowledge of integrated library systems, client server hardware, software and networks, electronic information resources, and microcomputers. Increasingly responsible management experience in systems or computer networking positions, including successful leadership in planning, setting priorities and implementing major projects; budgeting; and liaison with senior management and external groups. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Proven user service focus and ability to work in a team environment. Record of professional involvement. Desired: Five years experience in library systems or in computing and networking operations in an academic environment, including two years supervisory experience. Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills. Experience with maintaining Windows95 and Windows NT client workstations. Technical experience in delivering content through the Internet using a variety of methods. Knowledge of advances in and opportunities to apply information technology. Experience teaching, consulting, or presenting. Salary: commensurate with experience; minimum $45,000 with five years experience. State benefits include annual and sick leave; state or TIAA/CREF retirement plan. Application: Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references to Francesca Allegri, AHIP, Administrative Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library, CB# 7585, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7585. Review of applications begins June 12, 1998. EOE/AA III.A.4. Fr: Rob Kling Re The Information Society 13(4) & 14(1): ToC The Information Society I welcome a new member to TIS's editorial board: Professor Nancy Baym of Wayne State University. This journal's vitality owes much to the high quality reviewing of the editorial board. In particular, Associate Editors Phil Agre, Gary Marx, and Rick Weingarten played pivotal roles in working with the authors of the articles about identity formation to make this issue possible. Please check our web site (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS) for a current list of editorial as well as news on forthcoming issues, calls for papers, and abstracts of articles from previous issues. The Information Society 13(4) Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Rob Kling Articles: Wynn, Eleanor & Jim Katz "Hyperbole over Cyberspace." Hert, Phillippe "The Dynamics of On-Line Interaction in a Scholarly Debate." Halbert, Debora "Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker." Waskul Dennis & Mark Douglass "Cyberself: The Emergence of Self in On-line Chat." Book Review: Kim Viborg Anderson. "Information Systems in the Political World." Reviewed by David Garson. The Information Society 14(1) (to appear) Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Rob Kling Articles: Petrazzini, Ben A., and Krishnaswamy, Girija. "Socioeconomic Implications of Telecommunication Liberalization: India in the International Context." Tang, Puay. "How Electronic Publishers are Protecting against Privacy: Doubts about Technical Systems of Protection." Shade, Leslie Regan. "A Gendered Perspective on Access to the Information Infrastructure." Zelwietro, Joseph P. 1997. "The Politicization of Environmental Organizations through the Internet." Forum: Mosco, Vincent. 1997. "Myth-ing Links: Power and Community on the Information Highway." Book Reviews: Feenberg, A. and A. Hannay (Eds.). "Technology and the Politics of Knowledge. Reviewed by Peter Asaro. Feenberg, A. "Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory.." Reviewed by Michael Heim. Read & contribute to the Social Informatics Home Page http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI a resource about research, teaching, conferences & journals ******************** $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $N7N8NPNQOOPPPPPPPPQQ QmQnQQRRRRRoRpRRRRRRRSfSgSST9T:TTTTUUUUUwUxUUV$VCVVZ Z:ZRZS[[\V\W\\]%]_]`]^^^S^^^___T____` `2`3`a!aEaNaQaa$ $ $ $ $ [III.C.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Key Copyright Bills If you are concerned about the future of copyright and its impact on issues such as fair use, the first sale doctrine, digital preservation, distance education, and user privacy, it is important to find out more about landmark copyright legislation in the 105th Congress that will have a profound long-term impact on U.S. libraries. For a comparison (by the Digital Future Coalition) of House bills H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act) and H.R. 2281 (WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act), see: For a comparison of House bill H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act) with Senate bill S. 2037 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), see: For Robert L. Oakley's (Library Director at the Georgetown University Law Center) related House testimony, see: For the text of H.R. 2281 (WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act), see: For the text of H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act), see: For the text of S. 2037 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), see: For EFF's action alert with Congressional contact information, see: For more information on these bills and other key intellectual property bills (such as the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act and Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code), see: II.12EQUIRED-ESIREDALARY2********** III.B.2. C1 1. Library Subject and Organization Systems as Ontologies 1. 2. ibrary Systems Department Head, A. Publications 1. 2. B. Meetings 1. 2. igital Libraries C. Miscellaneous 1. 2. C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. E. Miscellaneous 1. :igital Libraries2251 :bms}~OPsJKWbk!P!Q"""5"6"a"b"l"m""""#2#3######$aaaaab bb&bMbcbob{bbbbff/feffgkgli&i'j7j8jjjjmmmmnnnn`nannooppssu'u(wqwrxxyy{{|(|)]^89Z[l$  $  $  $ $  $ $ $ $ $ OIV.D.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: "Teaming with Life": a role for IT/CS communities The President's Committee of Advisors for Science and Technolog (PCAST) recently released a report "Teaming with Life: Investing in Science to Understand and Use America's Living Capital" http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/Environment/html/teamingcover.html This is a motivational report for research in sustainable ecology (an issue that affects us all). Furthermore, a strong case is made that reserach in computer science, library and information science, and communications technology (IT/CS) is vital to the success of developing a National Biodiversity Information Infrastructure and achieving the biodiversity and ecology research goals as well as societal, educational and economic benefits. Section I: Increase the Information Content of the National Biological Information Infrastructure and Section IV: Build a Next Generation" National Biological Information Infrastructure (with our own Michael Lesk being quoted!) are most relevant to the IT/CS communities. There is plenty of motivation to start thinking about the research issues and forming partnerships with the ecologists, etc. This paragraph from Section IV says it very clearly: "The biodiversity and ecosystems information domain is not at present as amenable to correlation, analysis, synthesis and presentation across networks as are other domains because of the problems of complexity pointed out above and because the CS/IT community has, to date, more or less ignored these sorts of data and the associated challenges. A concerted research effort, by government, business, and academia is needed, and needed soon, so that the masses of data and information that are stored in the museums, libraries, and government agencies of this country, and that are generated daily by Mission to Planet Earth and other activities, can be put to good use." ********** IV.E.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: US Researchers: FYI #95 - Important NSF Bill (forward) FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 95: June 19, 1998 Take Notice - Senate Appropriations Committee Report Language on NSF When the Senate Appropriations Committee released its report last week on the VA, HUD, Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill for FY 1999, the National Science Foundation numbers looked pretty good. While the appropriation was not as high as the request, the total budget would increase by over $215 million. But, as is true with many things, sometimes the fine print reveals more than first met the eye. This is the case with the report language accompanying the bill. While not the end of the world, this development should be viewed with great concern. Every bill sent to the House or Senate floor has a committee report accompanying it. The report generally describes the bill's objectives, provides some background, dollar figures, and recommendations on implementation. The report is not the same as the bill, and is not legally binding. But people generally do what their boss tells them to do -- even if it is not an order. In this case, the Senate Appropriations Committee is telling NSF what to do, even if it is not legally ordering it do so (which is the purpose of an authorization, not an appropriations, bill). Up until this time, Congress has pretty much left NSF alone when it came to telling it how to spend its money. NSF has been able to distribute its funds free of earmarking through a system of competitive, merit-based, peer review. There was usually some general report language, and sometimes, as in the case of Senator Barbara Mikulski's 1993 language telling NSF to fund more "strategic research," it caused discussion. The new Senate report language below should cause the scientific community to do more than have discussions: ITEM 1: The report states: "...the Committee remains concerned over the National Science Foundation's failure to provide a budget justification for fiscal year 1999 that meets the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act [GPRA]. It is important that all initiatives and programs of NSF be identified with specific funding as well as quantifiable goals and milestones. The Committee expects NSF's fiscal year 2000 budget to establish quantifiable goals and milestones, and absent compliance, the Committee may have to consider appropriating program specific funding." Those last ten words are important. Given the difficulty of establishing "quantifiable goals and milestones" for basic research, one has to ask if the committee is opening up the door to "appropriating specific funding" that will override NSF's internal and external funding system. ITEM 2: Congress has always had concerns about the distribution of federal research money to "the old boys' network." EPSCoR's mission is more evenly distribute this money. However, the Senate Appropriations Committee is taking this much further: "The Committee, therefore, urges the agency [NSF], as part of its KDI [Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence] initiative, to support proposals addressing the demonstrated personnel needs of information technology firms for expanded education and training at three university-based centers. The Committee directs the agency to focus its support on universities and colleges that do not normally fall within the top 100 of NSF's survey of universities and colleges receiving Federal research support to overcome any bias toward more established institutions. The Committee has provided $6,000,000 to support this initiative." There is more in a later section of the report: "The Committee, therefore, directs NSF to develop a new research program for the establishment of three multi-investigator centers in the area of applied molecular biology. The development of such centers shall be targeted to universities and colleges that do not normally fall within the top 100 of NSF's survey of universities and colleges receiving Federal research support to overcome bias toward more established institutions. The centers should facilitate the preparation of a new generation of trained scientists at younger institutions. Further, the institutions must demonstrate evidence of interdisciplinary efforts in the molecular biosciences and have a history of laboratory-based training of researchers for the biotechnology industry. The Committee is providing $12,000,000 to support this initiative." ITEM 3: There are at least two instances of geographically-specific report language, the first on the Next Generation Internet Program: "The Committee is well aware that some States, such as Hawaii and Alaska, face unique challenges in getting access to high-performance telecommunication networks and urges NSF to continue to work closely with universities from these States and with other Federal agencies, to address this access problem. The Committee strongly encourages NSF and the other relevant agencies involved in high-speed networking to provide appropriate support that will assist these and other States and their institutions of higher education to gain access to the developing national research network test bed." Another instance concerns a LTER, a Long Term Ecological Research Center: "The Committee directs NSF to support through a competitive process an additional LTER site, for the study of a pristine, inland, mountain wilderness areas. Preferences should be given to sites with established research facilities operated by an accredited university or nonprofit organization." THE BOTTOM LINE: This report language should be of great concern to the scientific community. It opens the door to the House Appropriations Committee to do the same thing this year. A House appropriations subcommittee just completed work on its own version of this bill yesterday. More ominously, the Senate language sets a precedent for even greater restrictions on how NSF can distribute research funding in coming years. Richard M. Jones Public Information Division American Institute of Physics fyi@aip.org (301) 209-3095 III.A.1. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 19, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 19 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 190 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.A.2. Fr: LYNCH@BPA.Arizona.EDU Re: Special Issue of Decision Support Systems *** Due Date: October 15, 1998 *** Special Issue of Decision Support Systems "From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management: Enabling Technologies and Best Practices" Dr. Hsinchun Chen, The University of Arizona CALL FOR PAPERS Decision Support Systems will publish a special issue on "From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management: Enabling Technologies and Best Practices" that will report on original research on the development and use of effective information management and knowledge management technologies and practices. Emerging, scaleable systems, techniques, and practices which are at the intersection of information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and management information systems are of particular interest. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Information retrieval systems and techniques * Electronic document management systems * Internet and Intranet search engines * Information and content management * Digital library applications and systems * Groupware and collaboration technologies and case studies * Knowledge discovery and machine learning techniques and case studies * Textual knowledge mining * Advanced, interactive information visualization * Advanced human-computer interactions * Single and multiple-agent based systems and architectures * Information/knowledge management consulting practices * Case studies and implementations in competitive intelligence, intellectual capital, knowledge chain, and corporate memory Send five copies of your manuscript by October 15, 1998 to: Hsinchun Chen Professor, Management Information Systems Department Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab The University of Arizona McClelland Hall 430Z Tucson, AZ 85721 TEL: (520) 621-4153, FAX: (520) 621-2433 email: hchen@bpa.arizona.edu Web site: http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu ********** aFont0`;aToolsu <2fRp `;a 0`;:;`alm+CY{&Mj<Tg6o$-Guv"O_`YZ89uvHe +WX $  $ $ $ $ $ WIII.A.5. Fr: Casey Lide Re: FARNET's Washington Update, June 2,1998 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 2, 1998 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. IN THIS ISSUE: VBNS to remain with MCI,despite sale of company's Internet backbone services to Cable & Wireless RBOCS form controversial marketing agreements with QWEST AT&T and MCI plan to charge residential customers universal service fee beginning in July >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ *+:;1s ;st'( o  YZ[ +0[$ $ $  $  $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ MI.4. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Content Analysis of Academic Departmental Homepages Content Analysis of Academic Departmental Homepages As a science reference librarian and bibliographer [Yes, I do have a real job, (and a wife, three kids, mortgage, etc. [:->], I seek to maintain an understanding of the information needs of my clientele as well as the research interests of the faculty and staff I serve in the selection of materials that will best support their research interests. Last year, in an effort to gain a better understanding of such interests, I identified and reviewed the Web pages of my liaison departments as well as the official individual homepages of each member of a department, e.g. Aeronautical Engineering. My immersion and digestion of this formal information, has been of greay benefit in identifying and selecting materials for purchase for our library collection [This knowledge has been most useful in decisions realating to the purchase of more expensive engineering monographs and proceedings]. At one point, I considered tabulating the interests of my departmental faculty into a spread- sheet as a formal aid for assisting in the decision process for retrospective purchases as well as future considerations. However, in a recent revisit to my project on the use of Intelligent Software Agents for library applications, it occurred to me that an ideal application of Agent Technology for collection development for libraries would be one in which Agents analyze the contents of departmental homepages and generate a group user profile department based upon a synthesis of the expressed (and possibly implicit or latent) collective research interests. With such a collective user profile, one could now consider using it as a Mega Search Statement that another agent would use to search the Web, local (or remote) licensed index and abstract databases, other OPACs, etc. to identify relevant resources for subsequent consideration for selection and purchase and/or incorporation within the local 'collection'. Of course, we would want the ability to instruct the Content Agent so that we would be able to be selective in a choice of a department an/or to specify the type of electronic database for a subsequent search by the Search Agent. One would of course wish to manage that agents such that one could massage the results of each agent such that results could be organized according to professional judgment. It would be hope that the results could in turn be used to identify the deficiencies of the local 'collection'. For example, to identify those e-journals that best 'suit' the interests of a department, or to identify key Web resources that would serve the interests of a department or a rsearch group within a department. One could also imagine providing an alerting service to which a faculty member could subscribe that would provide them with a Mega Current Awareness Service of newly discovered items. [One could indeed consider using another agent, a Feedback Agent, that in turn could provide a Real Time update to each and every faculty members interests based upon their selection and use of selected resources.] In planning for the formal establishment of my clearinghouse devoted to the use of Agents for collection development, reference as well as technical services, called _Library Agents(sm)_ {:->], I would be interested in learning about any efforts envisioned, as well as those related to it. BTW: The address for Library Agents(sm) is: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Agents.htm Currently, this site has a fuller description of the Larger Project, as well as links to key Agent clearinghouses. [I am aware of the various e-mail alerting services offered by publishers (e.g., Elsevier, IOP) and information services (e.,g EBSCO, ISI) and would appreciate learning about any compendium of such Agent-based services as basic background for Library Agents(sm).] As Always, Any and All citations, sources, contributions, critiques, questions, concerns, comments, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ********** I.5. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: XML for MARC _XML for MARC_ Over the past several weeks, I am noticed more and more mention of XML, the eXtensible Markup Language, with many stating that it will be _The Next Step_ in the evoluation of the Web and Web pages. I myself am just beginning to learn about it from journal articles, new monographs [We've ordered and are receiving all the major quality books on the topic here at ISU], and of course, Web sites. To Quote: 'XML is a subset of SGML. XML is not a markup language, as HTML is, but a meta-language that is capable of containing markup languages in the same way as SGML. UnQuote Quote "...the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), takes document markup to the next level, offering human-readable semantic markup, which is also machine-readable. As a result, XML makes it dramatically easier to develop and deploy new mission-specific markup, enabling the automation of the authoring, parsing, and processing of networked data." UnQuote For an excellent review article, a must-read is "X Marks the Spot: eXtensible Markup Language opens the door to a motherlode of automated Web applications' at http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/papers/xml/x-marks-the-spot.html The relationship of XML to SGML prompted me to revisit the Library of Congress Web page on MARC [http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/] and to review an LC effort to convert MARC to SGML [For details, see [http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/; MARC DTDs (Document Type Definitions] This in turn prompted thoughts about the conversion or mapping of MARC to XML, and to consider all of the potential possibilities for enhanced access and navigation and presentation of MARC record data and the associated imnformation. As Always, I would much appreciate any comments, questions, concerns, queries, contributions, citations, or critiques about the application of XML to MARC data, be they bibliographic records, Subject Authority Files, Name Authority Files, LCSH, etc. Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ ********** I.5. Fr: Gerry McKiernan Re: Agent-based Cooperative Collection Development _Agent-based Cooperative Collection Development_ In response to my recent posting _Content Analysis of Academic Departmental Homepages_, a respondee raised one of the major issues relating to Web resources of the day -- Quality. In considering a means of identifying Quality of resources that might be presented for consideration by the Model presented in this posting, it occurred to me that would could adopt/adapt the technology employed in Recommendation Agents, i.e., agents that present a user with candidate resources based upon criteria established from an initial questionnaire _and_ subsequent interaction with recommendations made by the Recommendation Service. For example,_Firefly_, one of the oldest and well-known Web-based services that employs Recommendation Agents, is a personal software agent that understands people's tastes and interests, and allows users to access reviews and receive personalized recommendations on movies and music." In the context of Collection Development, I see a parallel service that would initially generate a set of candidates resources based _not_ upon a completed questionnaire, but on a Research Interest Profile (RIP) that would automatically be derived from individual faculty members and departmental homepages from a Content Agent [No doubt, we would also want to consider integrating a Conceptual Agent here at some point such that the 'text-expressed' content would be massaged with appropriate synonyms, BT, RT, etc. for the subject domain to represent the homepage _not_ as a collection of terms _but_ of concepts. This massaged RIP would become the basis for searching Internet accessible resoures using an associated Search Agent. The Search Agent would submit the RIP to such sites as electronic bookstores (e.g., Amazon.com) to identify candidate monographs works, or to individual publisher sites (e.g., Elsevier) to identify possibly relevant print or electronic journals for the 'local' collection', professional society clearinghouse (i.e.,Scholary Societies Project (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html), as well as significant Web resources (e.g., OMNI for Medical resources). The results of these submissions to these sources would be sent based to the Review Agent that in turn would collate all the results from a Hard Night's Day [:->] and present the results based upon the relative importance of an individual's RIP or a collective departmental RIP, using an appropriate algorithm. Based upon the selection of items of these retrieved results by a selector, a profile established for a Selector or Bibliographer would be modified to reflect their new and ongoing choices, subsequently affect the dynamics of teh algorithm and the ranked presentation of subsequently retrieved items from future Search Agent searches. [One could consider integrating this feedback activity into a Duo RIP that would be the synthesis of a faculty member RIP and that generated from the selecting activity of a bibliographer.] Likewise, as noted in the original post, as a subscribed member of The Service, the activity of a individual faculty member in his/her selection of material could be feedback to his/her RIP by a Feedback Agent such that the RIP exists in Real Time and at a high level of specificity. One could also envision bibliographers who have similar subject responsibility be subscribers to the Service, such that _their_ selections for _their_ clientele as well as _their_ faculty and departmental RIPs are integrated into a larger System. It is here through the Combined Group behavior within The System and Service that we can _indirectly_ determine Quality. To more formally establish Quality, we would need other agents, notably an Acquisitions Agent and a Citation Agent. The Acquistions Agent that would provide feedback to The System and The Service to identify a work as formally Acquired. [Here we believe that formal Acquisition is a manifestation of a Quality judgment.] [The Acquisitins Agents of course would need to be integrated within the institution's Acquisition system.] The Citation Agent would monitor the publications of a researchers to determine if he/she cites/sites works made known by The Service. Whew! In preparation for an article I will be writing in July on Agent-based Cooperative Collection Development, I would much appreciate any reactions to this scenario. As Always, Any and All contributions, questions, concerns, comments, citations, or queries are Most Welcome! Joy! Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ II. JOBS override NSF's internal and external funding system. ITEM 2: [OPHIef]^  #$)*:Siwˌ˸0OPgΓΔ/0Ӽӽmn֊֋ֹ-IXkl׿&'LMܹܺwxߏߐ$ $  $ $  $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ MII.1. Fr: Dagobert Soergel Re: U. MD: LIS: Faculty in HCI UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND College of Library and Information Services We are looking for candidates in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary area concerned with research into the cognitive and affective processes of people as they interact with computers and with the design of user-friendly interfaces. >From a CLIS perspective, HCI is a part of a general endeavor that investigates how people interact with information and how information systems and information displays (including documents) should be designed for effective interaction. Foci of interest include, among others, digital libraries, educational applications, multimedia, image retrieval and processing, computer-enhanced intellectual work, computer-supported collaborative work, user requirements and usability, and specification of information content and structure for effective interaction. We are committed to bringing new approaches into the field and melding them into the existing knowledge base to solve problems in a wide spectrum of information and education environments. We are seeking candidates who can help us implement this approach in research and teaching at the master's and doctoral levels. A doctorate in a relevant field is required. Preference will be give to candidates with a demonstrated record in research and publication. The University of Maryland is located in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and 30 miles from Baltimore. Opportunities exist for working collaboratively with related units on campus, such as the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), and many government agencies. The University of Maryland has a policy of being responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Rank & Salary: Rank is open. dependent upon qualifications and experience. 9-1/2 month appointment with the opportunity for summer teaching. Appointment Date: Expected Fall 1999. Applications will be accepted until Nov. 1, 1998, or until appropriate candidates have been identified. Inquiries and applications should be sent to: Dagobert Soergel Chair, Faculty Search Committee College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4345 (301) 405-2033 ds52@umail.umd.edu The University of Maryland is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer ********** II.6. Fr: Susan Zappen Re: Skidmore College: Systems Librarian Systems Librarian (Search re-opened) Full-time library faculty position to provide leadership in and management of library digital technologies including the library's integrated system, reference databases, and specialized local databases. Skidmore College has just chosen the Endeavor's Voyager System and plans to begin implementation this summer. During the first year of the position, the incumbent's primary area of responsibility will be the system implementation. As a library faculty member, the systems librarian will participate in departmental governance, work several hours a week in reference and may serve as a subject liaison to one department. Specific responsibilities include support for the library's integrated system and local databases including its slide image database, participation in staff and patron training programs, the design and implementation of the public interface to the library's digital collections, and oversight of library digitization initiatives such as electronic reserves. The Systems Librarian will also work with the Center for Information Technology Services (CITS) to ensure technical support of library workstations. ALA accredited MLS with at least two years experience in the support of library systems and experience implementing relational DBMS software required. Experience in UNIX, NT, CD-RM networking and MS Access preferred. The ideal candidate will be someone whose technical skills are balanced with a strong commitment to service and an understanding of technology as applied to libraries. Familiarity with technical service operations is preferred. Review of resumes begins June 1. Submit resume and cover letter to: Human Resources A94CF, File #, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Skidmore College encourages applications from women and men of diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Visit our web site at http://www.skdimore.edu A. Publications 1. 2. D. Research 1. E. Miscellaneous 1. 1. Content Analysis of Academic Departmental Homepages 2. 3. 1. 2. Scholarly Electronic Publishing 3. 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