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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:00:26 -0500
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There are 4 messages totalling 141 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. UC Digital Library Report 2. DigLibns: An Electronic Discussion for Digital Librarians 3. CORRECTION: DigLibns: An Electronic Discussion for Digital Librarians 4. Text Retrieval Conference (January 1997 - November 1997)
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:11:09 -0800
From: Roy Tennant
The report of the University of California Digital Library Executive Working Group, "The University of California Digital Library: A Framework For Planning and Strategic Initiatives" is now available on the SunSITE at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/UCDL/title.html . Roy Tennant SunSITE Manager
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:34:38 -0500
From: Terry Kuny
DigLibns: An Electronic Discussion for Digital Librarians
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/DigLibns/
send the message "sub diglibns" to listserv@sunsite.berkeley.edu
Why DigLibns?
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DigLibns is a place to discuss practical digital library issues and problems. We need to build systems that will make information stored in digital forms easy to find and use. We need to create new kinds of services and ways to deliver them. We need to get help with our problems and share our solutions.
DigLibns is a place to discuss the impact of technology on our jobs and the profession. If the library profession is to survive as the primary interface to information in any format then we must retool, retrain, and reinvent. We need to create, foster, beg, borrow and steal digital skills, knowledge, and experience. We need to redefine our roles or risk becoming an anachronism in an increasingly online world.
Purpose and Audience
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The DigLibns electronic discussion is for the discussion of issues relating to digital librarianship. Although the discussion is primarily aimed toward librarians and library staff involved in building digital collections or maintaining digital services, anyone is welcome to join the discussion. Those more interested in a research-oriented list may wish to join DIGLIB (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cgi-bin/ifla-lwgate/DIGLIB/), the Digital Libraries Research Discussion. DigLibns is a direct result of the Institute on Digital Library Development (http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/IDLD/).
Administration
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The DigLibns list is hosted by the UC Berkeley Library. It is an un-moderated list, but only subscribers may post messages. The software program List Processor (ListProc) 6.0 is used to provide an automated method for persons to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. Questions about DigLibns may be directed to Roy Tennant (rtennant@library.berkeley.edu).
Mr. Terry Kuny Phone: 819-776-6602 XIST Inc. Email: terry.kuny@xist.com Global Village Research URL: http://xist.com/kuny/
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:05:38 -0800
From: Roy Tennant
I am very sorry, but my previous subscription instructions for this new list were incorrect. I inadvertently left off the fact that you must specify your name for your subscription to be properly recorded. I have no good reason for making such a mistake, only stupidity. The corrected instructions are below. Mea culpa, Roy Tennant
DigLibns: An Electronic Discussion for Digital Librarians
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/DigLibns/
CORRECTED Subscription instructions:
send the message "sub diglibns YOUR NAME" to listserv@sunsite.berkeley.edu
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:17:46 -0500
From: Terry Kuny
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE January 1997 - November 1997
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) workshop series encourages research in information retrieval from large text applications by providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their results. Now in its sixth year, the conference has become the major experimental effort in the field. Participants in the first five TREC conferences have examined a wide variety of retrieval techniques, including methods using automatic thesauri, sophisticated term weighting, natural language techniques, relevance feedback, and advanced pattern matching. You are invited to submit a proposal for participation in TREC-6.
TREC has two main tasks, ad hoc and routing retrieval. The ad hoc task investigates the performance of systems that search a static set of documents using new user need statements ("topics"); the routing task investigates the performance of systems that use standing queries to search new streams of documents. In addition, TREC has smaller "tracks" that allow participants to focus on particular subproblems of the retrieval task. Participants will be expected to work with approximately a million documents (2 gigabytes of data), retrieving lists of ranked documents in response to the topics. NIST will distribute the data and will collect and analyze the results.
Dissemination of TREC work and results other than in the (publically available) conference proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of participation preclude specific advertising claims based on TREC results. As before, the WORKSHOP IN NOVEMBER WILL BE OPEN ONLY TO PARTICIPATING GROUPS THAT SUBMIT RESULTS and to government sponsors.
The full call for participation including submission details can be found at the trec home page:
http://potomac.ncsl.nist.gov/trec
All responses should be submitted by Jan. 6, 1997 to Ellen Voorhees, TREC project leader, at
ellen.voorhees@nist.gov
Any questions about conference participation, response format, etc. should be sent to the same address.
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End of DIGLIB Digest - 10 Dec 1996 to 11 Dec 1996
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