[7] in Information Retrieval
[cec@MIT.EDU (Cecilia d'Oliveira): [ganderso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: OCLC ]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Tue Jul 16 20:35:59 1991
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Thought you might find this interesting.
Greg
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From: Erik Jul <ekj%RSCH.OCLC.ORG@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Internet Research Funded
To: Eric Celeste <efc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, Tom Owens <owens@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>,
Greg Anderson <GANDERSO@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
Erik Jul (614) 764-4364
Nita Dean (614) 761-5002
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROVIDES GRANT FOR INTERNET RESEARCH
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 3, 1991--The U.S. Department of Education has awarded
a $48,675 Library Research and Demonstration Program grant to support an
investigation and analysis of Internet resources to be conducted by the OCLC
Office of Research. The grant funds 76 percent of the $63,694 project; OCLC
is contributing the balance of the project costs. The one-year project is
funded from Oct. 1, 1991, through Sept. 30, 1992, through the federal Higher
Education Act of 1965, Title II-D.
The project, "Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing
Library Services for Computer-Mediated Communication," will investigate the
nature of electronic information available on the Internet--a high-speed,
global network of networks--and the problems associated with providing
systematic access and traditional library services. The study, managed by
Martin Dillon, Director, OCLC Office of Research, is expected to provide a
detailed analysis of textual information on the Internet.
"Computers and high-speed communication networks are changing the ways
in which knowledge is created, stored, distributed, and used, and this
requires a rethinking of traditional library services that have evolved over
centuries: locating, acquiring, cataloging, indexing, storing, retrieving,
accessing, and disseminating information and providing reference services,"
Dr. Dillon said. "This project is an exciting step toward systematically
providing these value-adding library services for electronic information."
Using published printed resources, known electronic resources, and
online investigation, project staff will conduct an extensive search on the
Internet to locate and sample electronic information resources. Based on
data collected, project staff will develop and test a descriptive taxonomy
of Internet resources and compile a list of data types or fields present in
electronic information. This work will complement related efforts undertaken
by the Coalition for Networked Information and others who are developing
Internet resource lists and directories.
Analysis of this information is expected to lead to a description of
the nature of text resources on the Internet and recommendations toward the
establishment, extension, or implementation of cataloging or other descriptive
standards and methods to facilitate the discovery and use of electronic
resources in a network environment.
The findings of this study are expected to help libraries, information
providers, and standards organizations move closer to the goal of providing
library services for computer-mediated communication on the Internet.
OCLC is a nonprofit computer library service and research organization
whose computer network and products link more than 11,000 libraries in 41
countries and territories.
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