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_Current Cites_
Volume 8, no. 12
December 1997
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.12.html
Contributors:
Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Richard Rinehart, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant
Digital Libraries
Cromwell-Kessler, Willy. "Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information
Landscape" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997)
(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html). - In
July 1997, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) held a "Metadata Summit"
to provide a venue for a number of communities interested in metadata
to explore their commonalities and differences, particularly vis. a
vis. the Dublin Core. One of the outcomes of this meeting is the
document "Guidelines For Extending the Use of Dublin Core Elements to
Create a Generic Application Integrating All Kinds of Information
Resources", which is aimed at those involved with developing the
Dublin Core specification. At the core of this article as well as the
"Guidelines" is the issue of how to handle the original object vs. the
digital surrogate. - RT
Frey, Franziska. "Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections:
Foundations for Technical Standards" RLG DigiNews 1(3) (December 15,
1997) (http://lyra.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com). -
This brief article serves as a good introduction to the issues
relating to digital imaging. But since it is the barest of overviews
of the outcome of a two-year project of the same name, funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities, one is left with a feeling of
impatience until the products from the project are published "sometime
next year". But at least this piece can give a sneak peek into what
will be coming soon in more detail. - RT
Mintzer, Fred, Jeffrey Lotspiech, and Norishige Morimoto.
"Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital
Watermarking" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997)
(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html). - Digital
watermarking is the online equivalent of the long-practiced art of
marking paper with a mark of ownership or origin. Digital watermarking
may be important to assert copyright or to mark a file as authentic.
This article is a great introduction to the principles, applications,
and technologies relating to digital watermarking. But if you are
interested in this topic, don't stop your investigation here, as only
technologies from IBM are highlighted (all the authors are IBM
employees). - RT
Electronic Publishing
Valauskas, Edward. "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the
Evolution of Electronic Journals" First Monday 2 (12)
(http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/valauskas/). - First
Monday's editor surveys the growth of the journal as a case study in
Internet-based, peer-reviewed journals. It's not at all a self-serving
piece; on the contrary, he uses his experiences with the journal and
with print journals to think about the future in broad terms. The
print journal will not disappear entirely, he believes; instead, a
rich diversity of formats will persist. - TH
Multimedia & Hypermedia
CIDOC Multimedia Working Group Multimedia Evaluation Criteria
(http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html) September
1997. -- This set of evaluation criteria can be used in many
evaluation or survey projects as a set of questions and criteria for
measuering the full effectiveness of multimedia resources on web,
CD-ROM, DVD, etc. - RR
Networks & Networking
Global Information Locator Service FAQ, Dec. 26, 1997
(http://www.usgs.gov/gils/faq.html) . - This FAQ, compiled primarily
by Eliot Christian of the US Geological Survey, is very thorough in
answering questions about this new technical standard to facilitate
resource discovery. - RR
Minow, Mary. "Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy
Analysis" First Monday 2 (12)
(http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/minow/). - Minow
insightfully reviews the tangled area of public policy covering
Internet access in public libraries. Much policy is decided without
empirical evidence for any stance, and the resulting policies
demonstrate this gap in their ambivalence, and lack of clarity. Minow
maps some strategies librarians can employ to balance the needs of the
community with the directives of the profession, and provides a useful
review of the issues along the way. - TH
Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical
Guide. Second edition. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library
Center, 1997 (http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet). - In what
is clearly a nascent field, this online resource stands out as the
only reference tool for librarians cataloging Internet resources using
MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging). If you are a cataloger, this is
the kind of nitty-gritty guidance that makes a difficult job easier.
One of the most useful sections is the appendix with record examples,
although in poignant counterpoint at least a couple of the URLs in the
example records were out of date. - RT
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