PROJECTS BRIEFINGS ARE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS REGARDING PROJECTS, IDEAS, AND ISSUES RELATED TO CNI THEMES AND PRIORITIES. THEY PROVIDE A FORUM FOR SHARING INFORMATION AND EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES.


The Research Libraries Group's
Digital Collections Projects

Barcelona II

James Michalko
President
The Research Libraries Group, Inc.

David Richards
Director of Development
The Research Libraries Group, Inc.

RLG and seven of its member institutions have embarked on the first planned series of collaborative digital collections projects, Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1815-1914, which will result in a cohesive, focused, comprehensive collection of digitized documents relating to 19th-century family law and domestic relationships as well as the metadata necessary to locate desired information in the collection: RLIN records, finding aids, and other lists. This presentation will provide an overview and status report in this and other related projects.
Handout provided at the meeting

Archiving the Internet

Barcelona I

Brewster Kahle
President
Internet Archive

The Internet Archive <www.archive.org> gathers, stores, and allows access to all public information on the Internet (WWW, Gopher, netnews, and usage logs) to offer a new set of services. This would enable historians to understand what really happened; serve as a backup for dead sites; be a central library for the Internet research community, (for clustering studies, demographic shifts, indexing technology); and be a copy of record for past URLs and postings. Once established, this Archive could assume a permanent position in the Internet infrastructure. This project briefing will discuss the current state of the Archive and where it is going.
Handout provided at the meeting

Enterprise-Wide Information Strategies:
A New CNI Initiative

DaVinci II and III

Joan K. Lippincott
Research Director
Academic Strategies, Gartner Group

Michael Zastrocky
Assistant Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

The spectacular growth of networked information resources and services and the fundamental rethinking of how institutions are positioned, organized, and managed are two of the most powerful forces affecting the contemporary research and education community. If these forces are to produce sustainable, extensible results, they must be held accountable to enterprise-wide as well as departmental goals and objectives. These forces and the enterprise-wide information strategies needed to marshal them are the focus of this briefing.

New Models In
World Wide Web Publishing

Cervantes

Karen Butter
Deputy Director, Library & Center for Knowledge Management
University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco, Library and Center for Knowledge Management has undertaken several projects that offer an opportunity to experiment with Web publishing. The two projects discussed in this session originated while creating an archival collection for tobacco control. The first model focuses on the publication of primary source documents, based upon an anonymous gift of materials from The Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and examines legal, archival, and access issues. Building upon the first project, the Library and CKM published The Cigarette Papers Online, an electronic version of the book published by the University of California Press. The Cigarette Papers Online offered an opportunity to work with an academic press in a joint project and to experiment with business models for Web projects.
Handout provided at the meeting

THESE TWO BRIEFINGS EXAMINE COOPERATION BETWEEN
LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS.


DCIS: The Enterprise-Wide Information
System for Darmouth College

Rubens

Malcolm Brown
Director, Academic Computing
Dartmouth College

DCIS (Dartmouth College Information System) is a single information system resource for faculty, students and staff, serving a wide variety of academic and administrative needs. DCIS utilizes a variety of search engines (including BRS, Oracle, and PAT) to access many kinds of information, both structured and unstructured, text and image. Yet, DCIS presents to the user a single, consistent interface, which greatly simplifies access to these diverse information resources. Most recently, DCIS introduced Web-based access to its data resources. DCIS is a joint undertaking between the library and computing services, which have pooled FTE and budget resources to create the staff needed to develop and maintain the DCIS infrastructure. The content for DCIS is supplied across organizational lines as well: academic computing staff, librarians, and administrative staff all develop and maintain content for the system. The result is an information resource for the campus, containing resources such as the Administrative Guide, the complete works of major authors, reference works, the Classics Department Image Database, Medline, and the Library Catalog.
Handout provided at the meeting

The Impact on People of Electronic Libraries: Monitoring Organizational
and Cultural Change in United Kingdom Higher Education

Rubens

Professor Joan Day
Head of Department of Information and Library Management
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Catherine Edwards
Research Associate
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Graham Walton
Faculty Librarian, Health, Social Work, and Education
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

The IMPEL2 project is one of the Supporting Studies of the United Kingdom Electronic Libraries Program (eLib), which is helping to shape the development of academic libraries and information provision in an increasingly electronic environment. IMPEL2 is currently collecting data from a purposive sample of 28 varied higher education institutions in order to identify the key issues surrounding the effective management of information services on the electronic campus.

The context of change; strategic planning; organizational structures; impact on staff and users; training and development; and the management of organizational and cultural change are discussed from the preliminary analysis of findings. The development of new roles and computing services at both the operational and organizational level, and the need to deploy staff effectively across formerly distinct departmental boundaries are common themes to emerge. Examples of good practice are described for managing changes and minimizing the cultural lag that results from change.
Handout provided at the meeting

DTDs Together: TEI, CIMI & EAD

Sienna I

David Green
Executive Director
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage

John Perkins
Project Director
Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information

Daniel Pitti
Librarian for Advanced Technologies Projects
University of California, Berkeley

Allen Renear
Director, Computing and Information Services
Brown University

Since SGML has been applied to cultural heritage materials, specific communities have been hard at work creating Document Type Definitions to make particular classes of materials more usefully and flexibly searchable. This session will present the three critical DTDs in the cultural communitythe Text Encoding Initiative, that of the Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information and the most recently developed Encoded Archival Description. How have these three development projects evolved? What recent projects using these DTDs have been made possible? What are the differences between them and what ideas are afloat for mapping between them?

Hot Stuff! A New Approach to Full Text
Delivery on the Internet

Sienna II

Dana Johnson
Director of Product Development
Ovid Technologies

Delivery of full text to users' desktops has long been the holy grail at Ovid Technologies. Ovid has been working on several projects to provide an integrated approach to searching bibliographic and full text databases to create a rich searching world for our users in which the documents themselves, particularly documents that the user deems useful, act as both pointers and guides to help find more related information. There are a number of technical problems, ranging from interface design to linking of documents and references from diverse sources to speedy delivery of text across the Internet, all of which need to be solved. In this project briefing, some of the ways that these projects have converged upon a solution and the lessons learned along the way will be discussed. The project briefing will also unveil and demonstrate our latest technologies for searching and using full text on the Web.

Swets Subscription Services: Developing a
New Service for Electronic Serials

Medici

Michael Markwith
Chief Executive Officer
Swets & Zeitlinger, Inc.

Swets & Zeitlinger, Inc. an international subscription agent, has developed a new service for the ordering and access of electronic journals: SwetsNet. As a single source for electronic journals, the initial release of SwetsNet will be January 1997. As a new commercial service, there are still many issues to be resolved regarding access to full text electronically. Thus, the purpose of holding this project briefing is to seek input on SwetsNet's current design and elicit suggestions for further development from interested CNI members such as librarians, publishers, and IT managers.
Handout provided at the meeting

Community-based, WWW
Information Resources

Corintia (2nd floor)

Robert Ubell
President, BioMedNet
Acting Chief Executive Officer, ChemWeb

Paul Lomax
Manager, Information Systems
Specialty Labs

Dorothy Solbrig
Librarian
Harvard University

Mark Tesoriero
Market Research Director
BioMedNet

The session will bring together academic and industrial librarians to discuss present experiences and future possibilities for community-based information services such as BioMedNet and ChemWeb (two new community-based WWW clubs for scientists, physicians, researchers, and engineers). The presentation includes information about the various features available through BioMedNet and ChemWeb, including more than 60 full-text periodicals, making it the largest full-text scientific Website in the world; methods by which students and faculty are presently making use of community-based information systems and how they may be used in the future; and methods by which industrial laboratories provide their research staff with on-line resources now and how industry-based librarians anticipate employing such services in the future.

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