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Current Cites
Volume 15, no. 5, May 2004
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
ISSN: 1060-2356 -
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.5.html
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant
[8]Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge Washington, DC:
National Information Standards Organization, 10 May 2004.
(http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/MD-2004_agenda.html). -
The PowerPoint presentations from this one-day workshop on emerging
metadata practices are available at this web site. Topics include
metadata quality, interoperability, linking metadata, metadata for
image collections, RSS, MODS, METS, and MPEG-21. Contributors
include representatives from OCLC, CrossRef, the Library of
Congress, universities and the private sector. Given the wide range
of presentations, if you're interested in metadata you can likely
find something of interest here, but no single topic is explored in
much depth, and you are sometimes left wondering what the speaker
said about a particular slide if there are no accompanying notes. -
[9]RT
Christiansen, Lars, Mindy Stombler, and Lyn Thaxton. "[10]A
Report on Librarian-Faculty Relations from a Sociological
Perspective " [11]Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(2) (March
2004): 116-121.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4BP9R8V-1/2/c8c
e5b45547451e8e5cbea5cb70e5927). - Results from a literature review
and survey focusing on librarian-faculty relations. The study
reveals a tale of unrequited love, so to speak, with much interest
in faculty by librarians but "little or no concern" coming from the
other direction. - [12]LRK
Fallows, James. "[13]The Twilight of the Information Middlemen"
[14]The New York Times (16 May 2004)
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/business/yourmoney/16tech.html).
- "Information is both invaluable and impossible to value,"
declares James Fallows, in this engaging essay about how "the
Internet's most fascinating impact has been on those who have
decided not to charge for their work." Many publishers realize the
value of giving away content for free -- there is the possibility
of attracting additional paying subscribers and also, those who
freeload can be included in circulation figures, making the
publication that much more attractive to advertisers. Fallows
indentifies "two information sources that make us collectively
richer and exist only because of fairly recent changes in the
Internet" -- blogs and taxpayer-funded data. Blogs, he fully
realizes, run the gamut from "a nightmare vision of a publishing
house's 'slush pile' come to life" to "an intensified version of
insider journalism." And "taxpayer money," he points out, "is still
behind a surprising amount of crucial data: nearly all weather
observations and the supercomputer-based models that create
forecasts; most basic scientific research; most research into
disease causes and cures." As a specific example, he mentions Dr.
Harold Varmus, who as head of the [15]National Institutes of
Health, spearheaded the creation of [16]PubMed Central "as a
publicly accessible repository of medical research articles." And
he notes such conflicts of interest that result, for example, in
commercial weather data providers lobbying Congress to restrict
what the [17]National Weather Service puts out for free on its
Internet sites. - [18]SK
Hane, Paula. "[19]Science.gov 2.0 Launches with New Relevance
Ranking Technology" [20]Information Today NewsBreaks (24 May
2004) (http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040524-1.shtml). -
[21]Science.gov, originally launched in December 2002, [22]calls
itself "a gateway to information resources at the U.S. government
science agencies." It offers links to authoritative science
websites and databases of technical reports, conference
proceedings, etc. A new iteration, Science.gov 2.0, was launched
this month and, according to Paula Hane, it offers "additional
content, technological enhancements, and a newly-developed
relevancy ranking technology that helps patrons get to the best
documents quickly." You can now access 30 science-oriented
databases, up from 10 via the original Science.gov, and 1,700
websites, for a total of 47 million web pages. When you search,
your results are "presented in relevancy ranked order," thanks to
QuickRank technology developed by [23]Deep Web Technologies. Hane
goes on to describe how this works, and pinpoints a particular
weakness: "QuickRank filtering is based on placement of key words:
if a keyword is not in a prime location in the document, it's
likely the result won't be ranked." Gary Price, editor of the
[24]ResourceShelf points out [25]another weakness, that "...direct
links to citations found via this metasearch tool are not
available. This could cause problems in trying to get back to a
citation or including it in a bibliography." Science.gov 3.0, due
out in another year, will include more sophisticated relevancy
ranking, better Boolean capabilities, field searching options and
an alert service. - [26]SK
Mackie, Morag. "[27]Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical
Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project" [28]Ariadne (39) (2004)
(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/mackie/). - Filling an
institutional repository with scholarly articles can be a tough
job. This article discusses a variety of innovative strategies used
by the DAEDALUS Project at the University of Glasgow to encourage
faculty to contribute articles and to support the effort to do so.
Initially, the project built support by giving presentations,
offering a conference on open access, and including key faculty
members on an advisory board. When this did not result in the
desired contribution levels, project staff focused on contacting
faculty who had personal publication Web sites or who had published
articles in either open access journals or journals that clearly
permitted archiving. Inevitably, it was unclear whether a subset of
articles that faculty wanted to contribute could be legally stored,
and project staff needed to contact publishers for clarification in
these cases. Unfortunately, the project has been given "significant
amounts of content that cannot be added because of restrictive
publisher copyright agreements." - [29]CB
Miller, Dick R.. "[30]XOBIS -- An Experimental Schema for Unifying
Bibliographic and Authority Records" [31]Cataloging &
Classification Quarterly (forthcoming)
(http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/XOBIS_CCQ/XOBIS_CCQ.html). -
This preprint of an article destined for Cataloging &
Classification Quarterly discusses an experimental XML schema for
encoding bibliographic and authority data elements called the XML
Organic Bibliographic Information Schema (XOBIS). More information
is avaiable on the [32]XOBIS web site. This paper is based on an
August 2003 presentation to the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Working Group in Berlin. Whether XOBIS
itself ever goes anywhere or not, the concepts laid out by this
proposal can inform and inspire us to consider the possibilities of
a post-MARC world. - [33]RT
Press, Larry. "[34]The Internet in Developing Nations: Grand
Challenges" [35]First Monday 9(4) (5 April 2004)
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/press/index.html). -
While the title of this article may seem more grandiose than grand,
Press makes a compelling case for wiring the rural regions of the
world. He argues that a model for effective deployment already
exists, simply by following the strategies of NSFNet as it enabled
American universities to connect to the Internet. Of course, it's
not that simple; people everywhere would need to "buy in", and
cultural perceptions and cross cultural communication remain
hurdles at a fundamental level. Most importantly, Press argues, the
maintenance of newly networked ports in remote regions must
necessarily lie in the hands of the village leaders, not a distant
oversight agency. This is a timely article insofar as it
illustrates how satellite technologies, wireless networks, and
portable energy systems (such as solar technology) can combine to
help remote regions and tribal societies "leapfrog" to the network
era. What remains is the challenge of securing a long-term
commitment to investing funds globally in support of rural
networking. - [36]TH
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