Spring 1996 Meeting of the Coalition Task Force
999 9th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-9000
202-898-9000 (voice)
202-789-4213 (fax)
Theme
- The Networked Information User
Purposes
- To promote understanding of the characteristics and needs of the rapidly growing and diversifying population of users of networks and networked information.
- To provide an environment in which people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force can share experiences, visions, and plans.
- To provide an opportunity for people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force to discuss network and networked information policy issues and initiatives.
- To provide an opportunity for representatives of members of the Coalition Task Force, leaders of the Coalition working groups, members of the Coalition Steering Committee, and the Coalition CEOs to identify needs, to formulate priorities, and to evaluate results.
Schedule for Monday March 25, 1996
11:00 am — Registration and Refreshments [North Salon Foyer]
Cold drinks and light refreshments will be available.
11:30 am — Meeting Overview for First-Time Attendees [North Salon]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will provide first-time attendees with some background on the Coalition and the meeting.
1:00 pm — Call to Order and Welcome [North Salon]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will call the Meeting to order and make some general remarks on the first six years of CNI and, in the parlance of the year, on “the road ahead” for CNI.
1:30 pm — Opening Plenary Session [North Salon]
John S. Quarterman, Secretary and Editor, Matrix Information and Directory Services, will share his conception and measurements of the current Internet and the rapidly evolving Global Information Infrastructure and its user population, and
Gary A. Puckrein, President, American Visions Society, will discuss his views on the positive potential of the Internet in particular and the information highway in general for African-Americans.
2:45 pm — Break [North Salon Foyer]
3:15 pm — Project Briefing Sessions
Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.
Assessing the Academic Networked Environment: Strategies and Options [MR 2]
Charles R. McClure, Distinguished Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
This session will introduce the just published CNI manual Assessing the Academic Networked Environment: Strategies and Options authored by Charles R. McClure and Cynthia L. Lopata from the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. McClure will provide an overview of the manual and its contents, discuss the uses of the manual, and offer recommendations regarding future work to be done in assessing academic networks.
An Overview of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [MR 10]
Heather Boyles, Policy Analyst, FARNET (Federation of American Research Networks)
This session will review the major provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, passed earlier this year, report on the immediate timetable for implementation of its provisions, discuss coming changes within the industry, and attempt to predict how the whole thing will affect users and providers of communications services.
PURLs: Persistent Names for URLs [MR 15]
Terry Noreault, Director, Research & Special Projects, OCLC, Inc.
There is an immediate need to establish a naming convention which can be used to identify and locate resources on the Net. PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) have been developed and distributed by OCLC to address this need. PURLs function like URLs for the Web client and are resolved using redirection by a special HTTP PURL server. The briefing will discuss the motivation for URNs, the PURL proposal, additional PURL services, and the PURL server being distributed by OCLC.
Integrating Bibliographic Databases with Primary Journal Literature [MR 13]
Peter Ciuffetti, Director of Corporate Development, SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
This briefing describes the efforts of project “WILD Thing” at SilverPlatter Information. Starting in November 1994, the authors developed a technology architecture that enables the construction of sophisticated digital libraries. We present here solutions we considered and deployed to address features not provided by many current digital library technologies. These include: (1) unification of the organization and presentation of content at the primary (digital), primary (non-digital), and secondary levels; (2) tools to help librarians establish organization among large collections of digital artifacts; (3) opportunities to exploit the richness of information encoded in SGML in ways not achievable with HTML; (4) extensibility mechanism to support the unique requirements of searching non-textual data; and, (5) features to enable the distribution of commercial and non-commercial content among cooperating domains. This briefing will focus on and demonstrate the first of these solutions where we have taken steps to integrate primary and secondary material. As time allows, it will also touch upon the other four aspects.
A Look on the Digital Horizon [MR 14]
Kelly L. Frey, Counsel and Director of Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center
This session will overview Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) networked intellectual property rights management strategies, products, and services. It will also present information on related studies conducted and services offered by CCC. Open discussion of what CCC is doing and can do to assist all parties in the rapidly developing marketplace for networked information resources and services will be encouraged.
Columbia University Online Books Evaluation Project [MR 8]
Carol Mandel, Deputy University Librarian, Columbia University
David Millman, Manager, Research and Development, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University
Mary Summerfield, Coordinator, Online Books Evaluation Project, Columbia University
Ursula Bollini, Electronic Publishing Coordinator, Oxford University Press
Kate Wittenberg, Editor in Chief, Columbia University Press
In the Online Books Evaluation Project, Columbia University is assessing the potential for online delivery of books to supplement or replace traditional print books in research, teaching and learning. The three-year project, supported by a grant from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, is examing users’ adoption of and responses to various counterparts, and implications of intellectual property regulations and commercial traditions for the online format. Reporting on the Project’s start-up year, this briefing will describe the evaluation methodologies designed for the project, the technical environment developed to deliver materials and measure use (e.g. Web “session” data, user data, etc.), and traditional books and expectations of online books.
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)
Cultural Heritage Information Online (CHIO) Project: Update on Z39.50 Application Profile for Cultural Heritage and SGML DTD for Museum Exhibition Catalogs [MR 12]
John Perkins, CIMI Project Director, Computer Interchange of Museum Information
Ray Denenberg, Senior Networked Engineer, Library of Congress
Robin Dowden, Collection Management Systems Administrator, National Gallery of Art
Steve Dietz, National Museum of American Art
CIMI has been working on Project CHIO, a demonstration project of the application of SGML and Z39.50 to the online search and retrieval of museum information. This session will review the work on a DTD for museum objects and exhibition catalogues that allows comprehensive markup of catalogs, and the Z39.50 application profile being written that will make them searchable.
AMICUS System Implementation at the National Library of Canada [MR 11]
Louis J. S. Forget, Director General, Information Technology Services, National Library of Canada
Louis-Paul Normand, Director, Consulting Services, CGI
This session will discuss the large scale implementation of the new Z39.50-based library management system using a relational and full text engine at the National Library of Canada. The system, named AMICUS, is a client-server based system and it was put in operation in June, 1995. The AMICUS data base includes 11 million bibliographic records. The system is used by the National Library of Canada and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) as well as a few federal libraries for searching and cataloguing and by over 500 Canadian institutions who are members of our Access AMICUS national database service.
4:30 pm — Break [North Salon Foyer]
4:45 pm — Project Briefing Sessions
Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.
The New NSF Program for High-Performance Connections to the Internet [MR 2]
Mark Luker, Program Director, NSFNet, National Science Foundation
The present Internet is a great success by many measures, and it has led to significant advances in research, access to information, publications, and collaboration for research and education. It fails, however, to meet certain emerging needs of research and higher education since it does not guarantee the “quality of service” required, for example, to view large images rapidly, to control remote instrumentation in real time, or to reliably support human teleconferencing. The National Science Foundation is updating its original “Connections to the Internet” program to focus on quality of service for advanced applications. It is hoped that this program will help to stimulate the development of additional Internet services that better address the full needs of research and education.
Interactive Data Service In Academic Libraries: The UVA Experience [MR 10]
Patrick M. Yott, Coordinator, Social Sciences Data Services, University of Virginia
Academic data centers have long supported instruction and research by building collections of machine-readable numeric data. With the development of the WWW and associated programming tools, data centers now are capable of serving an expanded clientele in new and exciting ways. Data centers can now offer not only wider access, but more interactive access to numeric data. This briefing will discuss these potentialities within the context of efforts at the University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center (SSDC).
State of NIDR in Colorado: ACLIN, BPL, Z39.50, DIPP & other TLA’s (Three-letter acronyms) [MR 15]
George H. Brett II, Consultant, Boulder Public Library, Colorado State Library, ACLIN project, University of Colorado at Boulder
This briefing will present information about NIDR projects in the State of Colorado that involve distributed networked information discovery and retrieval. Some specific examples are the Access Colorado Library and Information Network (ACLIN), the remote access imaging project, the Distributed Information Processing Protocol, Z39.50 and distributed information environments, and all the above working in diversely aggregated environments. A presentation summary will be made available online after the briefing session.
The Electronic Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (EJECT): A Libraries-initiated publishing venture [MR 13]
Judith Sessions, Dean and University Librarian, Miami University
Stacey Kimmel, Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Librarian, Miami University
The Electronic Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (EJECT) project is an ejournal project undertaken by the Miami University Libraries in cooperation with the Office for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching. This electronic publication is produced using existing library staff and equipment. The session will focus on the Libraries’ role in the development of this project and the strategies used to minimize costs and staff time. Other topics discussed will include collaboration with the Office of Scholarship and Teaching, production costs (staff time and equipment), data collection on usage of articles, and future directions.
The Virtual Magistrate: A Pilot Project for Online Dispute Resolution [MR 14]
David G. Post, Georgetown University Law Center and Cyberspace Law Institute
The Virtual Magistrate is a pilot project for resolving disputes about online postings through new, rapid-response, online arbitration. The pilot project was convened by the Cyberspace Law Institute, with funding provided by the National Center for Automated Information Research (NCAIR) and operational support provided by the American Arbitration Association. The project’s goals are to (1) establish the feasibility of using online dispute resolution for disputes that originate online; (2) provide system operators with informed and neutral judgments on appropriate responses to complaints about allegedly wrongful postings; (3) provide users and others with a rapid, low-cost, and readily accessible remedy for complaints about online postings; (4) lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining, online dispute resolution system as a feature of contracts between system operators and users and content suppliers (and others concerned about wrongful postings); (5) help to define the reasonable duties of a system operator confronted with a complaint; (6) explore the possibility of using the Virtual Magistrate Project to resolve other dispute related to computer networks; and (7) develop a formal governing structure for an ongoing Virtual Magistrate operation.
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and the American Arts and Letters Network (AALN) [MR 8]
David L. Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
Charles Henry, Director of Libraries, Vassar College
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) was founded out of a concern that the arts and humanities were being left behind as plans for the National Information Infrastructure moved ahead. The NII has the potential to provide direct and democratic access to our national cultural resources not only for its guardians and scholars but also for the general public. In turn, the NII will be a more dynamic place if there is a rich, multimedia representation of our culture than if it is solely a structure for business transactions or mass entertainment. NINCH will operate as a broad coalition of organizations representing artists, contemporary arts groups, libraries, museums, schools and universities, archives and learned societies. It will act as a central clearinghouse of information about electronic cultural projects, as a resource for members in charting the way forward and as an advocate in policy making circles for the importance of this initiative.
Two programs in support of NINCH’s goals, the American Arts and Letters Network (AALN) and the Two Ravens Institute-which, like NINCH, were initiated through CNI-will also be described.
The WORLD 1 Online Information Service: A Progress Report [MR 12]
Kerry Webb, Director of Digital Library Projects, National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia together with the National Library of New Zealand is developing a new online information service. WORLD 1 is the name being given to the Australian service; the New Zealand service has not yet been named. The service will support the whole document supply cycle from the creation and management of data to the search and delivery of information.
WORLD 1 is aimed at assisting libraries and individuals to obtain documents when their local resources need to be supplemented. WORLD 1 will be particularly relevant when the search for information needs to be broadened to a nationwide or international search. The service will facilitate seamless access to documents of all kinds, including print, multimedia and electronic.
Senior University Administrators for Information Resources and Technology Services [MR 11]
Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University
During the past few years, some universities have been combining the administrative responsibility for libraries, computing, and media services. This session is specifically intended for senior university administrators who are currently responsible for these merged operations to enable the administrators to discuss management and administration issues related to their areas of operation. A specific topic of discussion will be the strategic planning for and reorganization of, information resources organizations where there are combined library and computing center operations.
6:00 pm — Reception [East Salon]
Enjoy complimentary wine, beer, and soft drinks and a light buffet along with the company of your fellow Meeting participants. A cash bar will also be available.
Schedule for Tuesday, March 26, 1996
8:00 am — Registration and Continental Breakfast [East Salon]
A breakfast buffet will be offered and attendees may choose to join a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) table to discuss an issue or hot topic.
9:00 am — Morning Plenary Session [North Salon]
Robert Weber, Senior Vice President, Electronic Publishing Resources, will provide an overview of the rapidly developing networked intellectual property rights management scene, and
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, will present his views on the equally rapidly developing networked intellectual property public policy scene.
10:15 am — Break [North Salon Foyer]
10:30 am — Project Briefing Sessions
Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.
HighWire Press and Project Muse [MR 16]
Vicky Reich, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University
Michael J. Jensen, Electronic Publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press
Ellen Meserow Sauer, Co-manager, Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University
Two electronic publishing projects will be presented: HighWire and Project Muse. Consistent with Stanford’s mission of creating and disseminating knowledge, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) established the HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu) to provide new models for publication of scholarly literature. These models reflect changing ideas about who owns information and provide a means for interactive communication among scientists that go beyond the one-way publishing/broadcasting model. HighWire Press has co-published two important scientific journals on the Internet, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, andScience. The Press plans to put several more journals online in 1996. For each new project, SUL/AIR establishes a partnership with a scholarly society. SUL/AIR acts as a systems integrator, bringing together faculty scientists, librarians, technologists, and students. This new partnership provides the opportunity to rethink models, not just recast old ones. Universities and scientists can design services that fit the way they want to work in the future.
Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/), a collaborative project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, is an initiative to enable worldwide networked access to the full text of the over forty journals published by the Press. Fourteen journals are currently available, with an average of two new journals being added every month. The “domain access” subscription model, in which the entire campus domain is given access when its library subscribes (at less than the cost of paper subscriptions), is a promising one for institutional access to publishers’ content.
Campus Information Policy Issues [MR 5]
William H. Graves, Associate Provost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patricia A. Wand, University Librarian, American University
Anne S. Parker, Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sharon Hogan, University Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago
The current tumultuous social and regulatory climate surrounding the access and use of networked electronic information resources encompasses a wide range of issues including free speech, academic freedom, censorship, intellectual property, and privacy. What are the important implications for campus information policy and practice? Where and when are policies needed? What strategies have campuses used in developing efficient and effective policies? This session will consist of brief presentations on approaches to these questions, a summary of the policies other campuses have adopted, and group discussion.
Networked Intellectual Property: Rights Management and Public Policy [MR 2]
Michelle Arden, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Electronic Publishing Resources
Jeff Crigler, Vice President, IBM infoMarket
Kelly Frey, Counsel and Director of Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University
Alistair Kelman, IMPRIMATUR Legal Consultancy
Mary Grace Smith, Principal, Northeast Consulting Resources
Robert Weber, Senior Vice President, Business and Technology Strategy, Electronic Publishing Resources
Mary Grace Smith will lead a small group discussion on the issues raised and the remarks made during Bob Weber’s and Peter Jaszi’s plenary session. In addition to providing an opportunity for questions and comments to be directed to the two plenary speakers, it will allow other voices to be heard on the general subject of networked intellectual property rights management and public policy. In particular, Alistair Kelman will remark upon relevant European efforts and developments, and Jeff Crigler, Kelly Frey, and Michelle Arden, each of whom is leading a separate small group discussion of the networked intellectual property rights management strategies, products, and services of their respective firms, will briefly comment on the plenary session.
SOSIG -The Social Science Information Gateway: A Subject Approach to Network Navigation [MR 3]
Nicky Ferguson, Director, Social Science Information Gateway, University of Bristol, Bristol
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is the first of a series of subject-based gateways under construction in the UK. Its aim is to provide academic researchers and practitioners with easy access to networked resources worldwide. The proliferation of networked resources is causing increasing problems for users who wish to locate and retrieve relevant information. Most are unwilling or simply do not have the time to learn to navigate through the maze of information available. The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) aids the process of navigation by collecting and organizing valuable social science resources available over the Internet. It also classifies and describes them, and these descriptions, and associated keywords, form the basis of a searchable database.
SOSIG has been running for 18 months and is now piloting an approach, code named ROADS, which is developing tools and a distributed, standards-based platform for resource discovery systems. It will also be used as the framework for a number of other subject-based gateways. ROADS will allow the subject-based resource discovery services to be located at the appropriate centre of expertise, to be separately managed but to work within the same framework and to be accessed by the users in an integrated way, thus allowing cross-disciplinary searching and addressing the scaling problems which this might otherwise cause.
Cost Centers and Measures Project in the Networked Information Value Chain [MR 4]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition For Networked Information
Mark A. Tesoriero, Market Research Account Executive, Robert Ubell Associates
Robert N. Ubell, President, Robert Ubell Associates
The three main objectives for the “Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value-Chain” project are:
- to produce a white paper on the value-chain of productive relations and activities that link authors and readers in the scholarly and scientific communication and publication system;
- to identify the value centers and cost categories that will experience the greatest impacts due to the increased significance of networks and networked information in the scholarly and scientific communication and publication system; and,
- to formulate strategies for measuring those impacts over time.
At this project briefing, we will review the methodologies of the past research (expert panels convened in New York), present the preliminary findings of the draft report, discuss the recommendations gathered from the panels, and consider the next steps in moving the project forward.
Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment [MR 15]
Joan Cheverie, Head, Government Documents Department, Georgetown University and Visiting Program Officer, Coalition for Networked Information
Peter Graham, Associate University Librarian for Technical and Networked Information Services, Rutgers University
Joan Lippincott, Assistant Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Patrick Wilkinson, Director of Collection Management Services, University of Vermont
With the increasing use and availability of information technologies, there has been a significant change in how federal agencies disseminate government information. This change is resulting in new dissemination mechanisms, as well as new and changing user needs and expectations. As a result, the responsibilities and capacities of institutions that facilitate the flow of federal information to academic and civic communities need to be rethought in this shifting environment. This session will update attendees on the Coalition’s white paper, “Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment.” This paper will guide higher education and other institutions in the development of strategies for providing access to federal information by their constituencies using the powerful and rapidly expanding global information infrastructure.
Planning for Digital Archives [MR 13]
Ronald Larsen, Associate Director of Libraries for Information Technology, University of Maryland at College Park
Peter Hirtle, Policy & IRM Services, National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP), in collaboration with CNI, are sponsoring a series of workshops beginning in the fall of 1996 to examine strategic issues in the development of digital archives. Each workshop will bring together leaders with specific expertise in the workshop topic, with the objective of increasing shared knowledge of archives in an increasingly digital world. The draft set of workshop topics includes:
- Access issues: Finding, accessing, & using archival materials digitally;
- Security & Privacy: Balancing open systems, secure information, & individual privacy;
- Conversion: Accommodating a world of mutable information & information sources; and,
- Architecture: Laying the foundation for a coherent system.
The purpose of this project briefing is to engage the CNI community in the planning process for the workshop series, to refine the initial list of workshop topics, and to identify individuals and organizations who have a significant interest in participating
Levelling the Road Ahead: The Effective Use of Computers and Online Information Systems by Persons with Visual and Physical Disabilities [MR 14]
Judith M. Dixon, Consumer Relations Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
This session will provide an overview of computer and network use by persons with visual and physical disabilities. A demonstration of refreshable braille and synthetic speech access will be provided as well as an in-depth discussion of strategies for making online material accessible.
11:45 pm — Circulation Break [North Salon Foyer]
12:00 pm — Lunch [East Salon]
A buffet lunch will be offered and attendees may choose to join a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) table to discuss an issue or hot topic.
1:00 pm — Project Briefing Sessions
Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.
Using Networks to Build Bridges: Reaching Out To and In From The Black Community [MR 16]
James Briggs Murray, Curator, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division and Assistant Director, Media Productions and Theater Operations, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Rosie Albritton, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
E. David Ellington, Chief Executive Officer, NetNoir Inc.
Itabari Zulu, Director, Center for African American Studies Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Puckrein, President, American Visions Society
The progress and success of any community in the 21st century will depend upon the ability of ALL of its citizenry to create and access computerized information, to use electronic resources adroitly, and to translate these skills successfully into applications beneficial to themselves and society. If Blacks are to be aptly represented as the electronic information infrastructure evolves, then they must contribute their share of content relating to the African-American community. This session will discuss how black information professionals and executives have taken proactive measures to ensure that the black community is made aware of the positive potentiality of emerging technology, both as consumers and producers. Particular attention will be given to successful community partnerships, educational projects, and the collaborative ventures of NetNoir Inc./America Online and the American Visions Magazine/CompuServ.
The JSTOR Project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation[MR 5]
Kevin Guthrie, Mellon Foundation, JSTOR
Wendy Lougee, Assistant Director, Digital Library Initiatives, University of Michigan
The JSTOR (Journal Storage) Project, developed and sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a large-scale undertaking to convert the backfiles of journals into digital form and develop access tools which allow both full text searching and indexed tables of contents. In its pilot phase, JSTOR has focused on 10 journals in history and economics, but expansion is underway. JSTOR is securing rights to additional titles, linking current issues to backfiles in certain cases, and (later in 1996) developing an economic model to offer access to potentially hundreds of institutions. The presentation will provide a description of the production process, system technologies, and objectives of the project.
Enterprise-Wide Information Strategies: A Discussion of a New CNI Initiative in the Making [MR 2]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
CNI is preparing to undertake a new initiative to promote enterprise-wide strategies in four key areas of networked information resource and service development: hardware and software infrastructures; budgets; policies and practices; and, managing staff and facilities. As a collaborative effort that marshals the perspectives and experiences of a diverse group of institutions, organizations, and professionals, the ultimate outcome of this initiative will be a framework of shared ideas and language, what Peter Senge in his The Fifth Discipline refers to as a “shared mental model,” for formulating, describing, and analyzing enterprise-wide networked information resource and service strategies. The initiative will also produce a set of case studies that will speak to the experiences and approaches of the individual institutions, organizations, and professionals that participate in it.
Secure Electronic Commerce and Digital Rights Protection [MR 3]
Michelle Arden, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Electronic Publishing Resources
Robert Weber, Senior Vice President, Business and Technology Strategy, Electronic Publishing Resources
A vast amount of information, literature, video, images, and music is not yet available in digital format, even though digital distribution and storage have significant advantages for both providers and customers. The primary reason is the providers’ concern that their intellectual property-if provided in digital form-will be copied and redistributed uncontrollably without generating any revenue after the initial sale. The future growth of electronic commerce requires that creators, publishers, and distributors retain the same kind of control in the electronic marketplace as they do in today’s physical marketplace. What is needed is a self-enforcing electronic rights management system that is seamlessly integrated into the electronic marketplace and persistently protects content without inhibiting its free flow.
Electronic Publishing Resources has pioneered electronic rights management and has created the first such system, consisting of the DigiBox(tm) secure container technology and the InterTrust(tm) distribution and event management architecture. NetTrust(tm) 1.0 is the first EPR(tm) product line utilizing the DigiBox and InterTrust technologies.
IBM infoMarket: Rights Management Strategies, Products, and Services [MR 4]
Jeff Crigler, Vice President, IBM infoMarket
This session will overview networked intellectual property rights management strategies, products, and services of IBM infoMarket. Open discussion of what IBM infoMarket is doing and can do to assist all parties in the rapidly developing marketplace for networked information resources and services will be encouraged.
MESL Project Description [MR 15]
Jennifer Trant, Manager, Imaging Initiative, Getty Art History Information Program
Steve Dietz, National Museum of American Art
Gregory Welsh, Instructor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department, American University
David Millman, Manager, Research & Development, Columbia University
Howard Besser, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan
The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL) brings representative museums, colleges, and universities together to define the terms and conditions for educational use of museum images and information on campus-wide networks. During this two-year collaboration, launched in 1995, sixteen selected educational and cultural institutions are collaborating to agree on terms for the capture, distribution, and use of digital images and their associated texts. MESL participants are exploring and evaluating the educational benefits of digital access to museum collections through campus networks. Administrative, technical, and legal mechanisms are being developed and tested to enable the future use of large quantities of high-quality museum images by all educational institutions.
The Electronic Library of Delaware and The New Hampshire Automated Information System: Statewide Networking Strategies[MR 13]
Tom Sloan, State Librarian, Delaware State Library
James Cayz, Senior Librarian, Delaware State Library
Kendall F. Wiggin, State Librarian, New Hampshire State Library
Various states have differing strategies for meeting the needs of the networked library user. This session will present two approaches being taken by state libraries to network library resources within their respective states. The presenters will provide background on how each initiative came about, examine technical and policy issues that arise in a statewide network, and discuss the current status of their systems and future directions they are headed.
The International Library School in Central and Eastern Europe: A Call for Collaboration and Involvement [MR 14]
Maria Sliwinska, Deputy Director, University Library, University of Torun, Poland
Czeslaw Jan Grycz, Director, The Wladyslaw Poniecki Foundation, University of California Extension
Barbara Rodes, Library Consultant
The significant role of librarians in managing and harnessing the power of distributed digital networks is well known to CNI Task Force members. That role-in the context of developing economies and emerging democracies of the Third World-is even more central than it is among technologically-advanced nations. For this reason, the University of Torun, in Poland, is endeavoring to establish a new form of “International Library School,” which can act as an efficient conduit of training, education, practical workshops, and online support for practicing librarians from Third World and developing countries. Already having received the support of the Ministry of Education and the Council of University Rectors in Poland, the Mellon Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the Poniecki Foundation in the U.S., and from universities and libraries in the EU, the ILS now seeks active collaboration and partners from among U.S. libraries and institutions to help flesh out appropriate curricula and course requirements, provide guest and distance-delivered lectures, and make available 4-week long internships for students enrolled in the ILS. This briefing session will provide information about the current status of the project, and the important opportunities available to Task Force members to support a truly innovative and significant global outreach project.
2:15 pm — Break [North Salon Foyer]
2:30 pm — Closing Plenary Session [North Salon]
Kenneth C. Green, Visiting Scholar, The Claremont Graduate School, will present some of the key findings of the 1995 National Survey of Desktop in Higher Education, with particular attention to what the survey has to say about the use of networks and the development and use of networked information resources and services, and
Karen R. Hitchcock, Interim President of the University at Albany of the State University of New York, will share her views on higher education cultural transformations occasioned by the spread of networks and networked information, with particular attention to the implications for faculty development priorities and programs.