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FOS Newsletter, 4/29/02
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Peter Suber
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Apr 29, 2002 10:33 PDT
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Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter
April 29, 2002
The Poincaré conjecture
The Poincaré conjecture is unusual in several respects. First, it's on
every shortlist of the most famous and difficult unsolved problems in
mathematics. Second, the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a $1
million prize for a proof of the conjecture. Third, a serious assault on
the problem is now taking place in a free online preprint archive.
Martin Dunwoody, a mathematician at Southampton University, posted a
tentative proof of the conjecture to the Southampton Pure Mathematics Group
Preprint Archive. Dunwoody has revised his text several times as readers
found flaws in his proof and as he found solutions. When I last visited,
he was up to version 8, and wrestling with a difficulty pointed out by
Warwick mathematician Colin Rourke.
Despite the setbacks and fixes, the evolving proof is generating
excitement. Arthur Jaffe, president of the Clay Institute, called
Dunwoody's work "the first serious effort" on any of the institute's seven
prize-winning problems. Mathematician Ian Stewart calls Dunwoody's proof
"the first good shot at this problem in years."
From an FOS point of view, this is an experiment in putting unfinished
work on an open-access preprint server, updating the work in response to
criticism, harnessing informal peer review to improve a result before
submitting it to formal peer review, and letting the world watch every step
free of charge.
If Dunwoody never quite fixes the leaks in his proof, he will still have
proved the utility of free online preprint archives in gathering relevant
expertise and focusing it on an important scientific problem. If his proof
succeeds, then it will count not only as the world's first proof of the
Poincaré conjecture, but as an elegant new proof of the FOS Quality
Theorem, which asserts that first-rate science and scholarship do not
depend on the medium (print or electronic) or cost (priced or free) of the
channel of distribution.
Martin Dunwoody, "A Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture?"
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/~mjd/Poin.pdf
Southampton Pure Mathematics Group Preprint Archive
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/pure/preprints.phtml
The Clay Mathematics Institute
http://www.claymath.org/index.htm
(The CMI list of seven "Millennium Problems" was announced in 2000 as a
deliberate echo of Hilbert's famous list of 23 in 1900.)
Background on the Poincaré conjecture
http://www.claymath.org/prizeproblems/poincare.htm
http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbritten/ldt/poincare.html
AP story on Dunwoody's proof
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/26/britain.math.mystery.ap/
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Housekeeping
* I'm still investigating a handful of possible new hosts for the FOS
Newsletter and discussion forum. Please forgive any ads that Topica may
insert into the newsletter before I finish picking a new host and making
the move.
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Developments
* BioMed Central offers to handle the infrastructure for editorial groups
wanting to launch their own free online peer-reviewed journals in
biomedicine. Since November 2001, BMC has launched five new journals and
has 29 in preparation.
New and forthcoming journals from BMC
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/newjournals.asp
Starting a new journal with BMC
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/startyourown.asp
* The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DMCI) have announced an XML schema for unqualified Dublin Core
metadata. The new schema was developed to use with the OAI Protocol, and
will facilitate the declaration of modular metadata components.
http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20020312.xsd
http://dublincore.org/schemas/
* Six more major regional library networks have signed up with ebrary to
deliver its online content. Ebrary allows users to read full-text books
and articles for free, but charges to copy or print them.
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/lt/2002/news2284.html
Ebrary now offers the option of flat-fee pricing. Students, faculty, and
other library patrons at institutions paying an annual fee based on FTEs
may copy and print as much they like with no further charges.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd020429.htm
(Not yet on the ebrary site.)
Finally, ebrary has launched a page for individuals who don't have ebrary
access through libraries. This is the easiest path to free online reading
of the ebrary collection of full-text books and articles.
http://shop.ebrary.com/
* Free access to Computing Reviews ends on May 1. Computing Reviews is to
computer science roughly what Faculty of 1000 is to biology (FOSN for
12/19/01).
http://www.reviews.com/home.cfm
* Kluwer has put over 150 of its research monographs online in ebook format
and plans to add more titles in the future. Access to the ebooks is not free.
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=341&nl
* The European Union Council of Ministers has adopted European Copyright
Directive (ECD), which has generated controversy since it was proposed five
years ago. Member states have until January 2003 to implement it in
national legislation. Limited national variation is allowed. The ECD
covers nearly every aspect of copyright law, and hence many topics not
relevant to scholarship and libraries. Among the provisions most relevant
to FOS are reductions in readers' right to fair use and web authors' right
to deep linking.
http://www.content-wire.com/FreshPicks/Index.cfm?ccs=86&cs=1716
* The WIPOUT essay contest on the harms and excesses of modern intellectual
property law has announced its 11 winners. The essay contest was launched
to showcase critical examinations of IP law that the official WIPO essay
contest would surely have buried, e.g. on teachers who can't photocopy what
they need for their students or scholars who can't post their own essays to
their own web sites (see FOSN for 9/6/01, 1/30/02).
Full-texts of the winning essays
http://www.wipout.net/winners_eng.htm
Background on the contest, including full-texts of the other submissions
http://www.wipout.net/home_eng.html
WIPOUT announced its winners on April 26, the day that WIPO celebrates as
World Intellectual Property Day. According the WIPO, the day is "an
opportunity to highlight the significance of creativity and innovation in
people's daily lives and in the betterment of society."
http://www.wipo.org/about-ip/en/world_ip/2002/index.htm
* Michael Williams has found a theme for his Alabama Congressional
campaign: support NASA and space exploration through a tax on
space-related books, information, and knickknacks. The tax would cover not
only sci-fi novels, comics, toys, puzzles, and games, but also serious
works of space science.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E25826EB
(Thanks to Freedom News.)
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New on the net
* The University of Glasgow has created a web site, "Create
Change: Challenging the Crisis in Scholarly Communication". It contains
an institutional eprints archive, a description of the serials crisis,
alternatives to commercial publication, advice to individual academics, an
FAQ, and a discussion forum.
Glasgow's Create Change pages
http://www.gla.ac.uk/createchange/
Glasgow's eprints service
http://eprints.lib.gla.ac.uk/
* The University of Nottingham has also launched an eprints archive. In
addition to the university's research papers, the site contains information
and advice for faculty on eprints, copyright, and open access.
http://www-db.library.nottingham.ac.uk/ep1/information.html
For an account of Nottingham's experience setting up this archive, see this
article by Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl from the
March/April _Ariadne_ (FOSN for 4/15/02).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/
==> Does your university have an eprints archive for the research output of
its faculty? Eprint archives use free software, are easy to set up,
greatly amplify the readership and impact of every participating author,
and directly help readers around the world.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
* A very good discussion is taking place in a thread of Ann Okerson's
LibLicense list on the true costs of publishing electronic journals.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0204/msg00062.html
* OAIster has put online a short summary of the results of its user
survey. OAIster digs content out of the deep internet and makes it
OAI-compliant and searchable (FOSN 3/4/02). Highlight: online journals
were both the most-sought online resource and the least-found.
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/surveyreport.html
* Flipper is a new search engine of the deep internet. The deep internet
consists of databases not crawled by traditional search engines. By most
estimates, it's more than 500 times larger than the surface internet, and
most online academic content resides there.
http://www.flipper.com/
Press release on the launch of Flipper
http://www.urlwire.com/news/042402.html
* The abstracts of the papers given at the United Kingdom Serials Group
conference (Warwick, April 15-17) are now online. Many are
FOS-related. The UKSG announced its 2002 International Research Awards at
the conference, but I haven't yet been able to find an online list of the
winners.
http://www.uksg.org/conferences/Abstracts_2002.pdf
* The papers from the "Museums and the Web 2002" conference (Boston, April
17-20) are now online. So are the winners of the "Best of the Web" awards,
the year's best museum web sites in seven categories.
Papers from the conference
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/speakers/index.html
Best of the web awards
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/best/
* The presentations from the EUSIDIC conference (Paris, March 11-12) are
now online.
http://www.eusidic.org/Paris2002_final_program.html
(Thanks to El.pub Weekly.)
* _Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property Newsletter_ is a new,
free online periodical. The inaugural issue is now online.
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/archive/2002-1.htm
(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
* The New Library of Alexandria is both an atoms and bits library. Both
versions will attempt to live up to its ancient namesake's reputation for
comprehensiveness. The physical library will hold eight million books, and
the online library will host 10 billion web pages, starting with content
donated by the Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive. Both opened last
week. The opening ceremony was to have been as extravagant as the
library's ambitions, but it was toned down to accord with the heightened
conditions of war in the Middle East.
Mark Anderson's news story for _Wired News_
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52028,00.html
Paul Schemm's news story, especially on the digital library, for the _Cairo
Times_
http://www.cairotimes.com/news/library.html
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alexandria_new/
* Sam Williams has given the world free online access to his new book,
_Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free
Software_. Because Williams distributes the book under the GNU Free
Documentation License, readers may not only read it without charge, they
may modify it. Starting in June, Williams will host an evolving, second
edition of the book. The first edition is published by O'Reilly & Associates.
Book front page
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom/
Full-text of the first edition of the book
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
Site of the future, evolving edition of the book
http://www.faifzilla.org/
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Share your thoughts
* In FOSN for 4/15/02 I reported that NISO is developing a standard for
exchanging serials subscription information. To gather data for its
deliberations, NISO and DLF are conducting a survey of libraries. (Surveys
of other stakeholders will be launched soon.) NISO and DLF will accept
responses until May 30.
http://www.niso.org/survey/serials.cfm
* JISC is conducting a survey evaluating its Legal Information Service. It
welcomes responses until May 10.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/new/lis_survey.html
* The EU's CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service)
has created an online survey for its users. CORDIS provides free online
access to EU-funded research.
http://www.cordis.lu/usersurvey/en/userq_en.htm
* ManagingInformation is conducting a poll on whether the forthcoming
changes in UK copyright law favor publishers, libraries, or strike a fair
balance between them.
http://www.managinginformation.com/index.html
(The poll on this page will change soon. When I checked the results as of
this morning, 45% claimed publisher bias, 25% claimed library bias, and 29%
thought there was a fair balance.)
* Phyllis Sweeney is conducting a survey on the use of online resources for
teaching rather than research.
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/psweeney/
* The 2002 ALPSP Awards for learned and professional publishing will be
given in September. Nominations and applications are due by May 31.
http://www.alpsp.org/awards2002.htm
* The National Science Foundation has been investigating the
cyber-infrastructure that will best support science. It has completed some
draft recommendations for which it now seeks public comment. It would like
comments by May 1, so that it can complete the final version of the report
by early June.
https://worktools.si.umich.edu/workspaces/datkins/001.nsf
* The Council of Europe (COE) has drafted a Declaration on Freedom of
Communication on the Internet. It welcomes public comments until May
1. Send comments to <media [at] coe.int>.
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/media/documents/Draftdeclaration.rtf
(Thanks to Internet Law News.)
The COE has also drafted questions about freedom of expression on the
internet to be debated at a May 14 hearing.
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/media/events/2002/QuestionnaireCDMM(E).rtf
(Thanks to Politech.)
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In other publications
* The May/June issue of _CLIR Issues_ is now online. It contains the
following FOS-related articles.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html
Daniel Greenstein and Leigh Watson Healy, "National Survey Documents [by
the DLF] Effects of Internet Use on Libraries"
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html#national
"Mellon Foundation to Support Scholarly Communication Institute"
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html#mellon
(Excerpts from the press release.)
Anon., "The Digital Library: A Biography"
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html#digital
(Preview of a forthcoming study from DLF and CLIR.)
Abby Smith, "The Cost of Providing Access"
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html#cost
("Access" here means long-term access to digital content. Smith argues
that long-term access and preservation costs are core business expenses of
libraries, analogous to insurance.)
* In the April 26 _BayArea.com_, Tim Rutten reports that the University of
California Press will stop publishing books in philosophy, architecture,
archaeology, political science, or geography. The implication for FOS is
simply that university presses are becoming more like commercial
publishers. Quoting Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative
literature: "[T]he mandate of university presses has been gravely
undermined over the past few years. The idea originally was that bringing
out serious works that were a contribution to scholarship, but not viable
for a commercial publisher, was the university press's obligation to the
world of knowledge." The University of California provides only 7% of the
press' budget and otherwise requires it to pay its own way through sales.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E285126C
(Thanks to CentralBooking.)
* On April 24 the ALPSP published a report on authors' and readers' views
of electronic research publication. The web site contains a summary of the
findings (HTML) and the key statistics (PPT), but the full report is only
available in print ($100 for the first copy, $50 each for additional
copies). The report is based on a survey of 14,000 academics from all
disciplines and many countries, with a 9% response rate. From the online
summary: "[M]ost want electronic journals to be free in the future....It
is salutary to discover how little they value the various additional
features which publishers add to electronic journals, with the notable
exception of citation linking...." The print edition contains not only the
data and its analysis, but the verbatim comments of the respondents to
several open-ended questions.
http://www.alpsp.org/pub5.htm
* In the April 24 _Chronicle of Higher Education_, Ron Southwick reports
that the Defense Department is considering criminal penalties for
researchers who publish pentagon-funded basic research without first
obtaining pentagon permission, even when the research is not
classified. Currently, researchers are free to publish unclassified basic
research at conferences and in journals. The pentagon spends $1.38 billion
every year on basic research, and is the major U.S. funder in many academic
fields including computer science, mathematics, engineering, biology, and
oceanography.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/04/2002042401n.htm
(Access only for paying subscribers.)
* In the April 23 _Voice of America News_, Stephanie Mann describes the
dilemma faced by Chinese leaders who are discovering that free use of
internet grows both the economy and the dissemination of political dissent.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P6F5220C
* In the April 18 issue of _Online Journalism Review_, Leslie Gornstein
writes about the wireless, paperless, pay-per-view future of digital
content. Part of the story covers the work of ContentGuard, which is
developing a DRM-flavored XML for Xerox and Microsoft (FOSN for
8/7/01). Gornstein asks ContentGuard CEO Michael Miron whether DRM will
deny consumers their fair-use rights. "Miron says [that] assuring such
rights is too much of a burden for his software team, arguing that every
country has different intellectual property laws." (PS: Now you know.)
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1019160490.php
(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
* Thomas Walker has put online the powerpoint version of the paper he
delivered at the April 12 ALPSP conference in London. His paper describes
the experience of the Florida Entomological Society in giving free online
access to its journal papers. From 1994-2000 it charged authors nothing
for this service, and since 2001 has charged a fee paid by authors or their
sponsors. The fees have not deterred submissions; on the contrary, they
are at record levels. Moreover, the fees not only offset the costs of
providing online access, but made print subscription prices unnecessary as
well.
http://csssrvr.entnem.ufl.edu/~walker/epub/ALPSP.htm
* In her April column for _American Libraries_, Karen Schneider describes
Fiat Lux, a forthcoming directory of quality online information in every
field, to be built by a non-profit cooperative. The directory will not
only be free, it will be in the public domain. It will not only be
well-organized, it will be organized by librarians. It will be "Yahoo with
values and a brain".
http://www.ala.org/alonline/netlib/il402.html
* In his April column for _American Libraries_, Walt Crawford gives reasons
to moderate enthusiasm for "MyLibrary" customization features in digital
libraries. If you're reading this, you're probably a power user who would
set up a MyLibrary account at your institution's digital library and make
good use of it. But libraries offering the option report adoption rates
below 10%. Libraries that aim service enhancements at customizers will
miss the remaining 90%. Even adopters face the dilemma of setting their
recommendation and awareness parameters properly. If set narrowly, to suit
their research projects, they risk solipsism (compare Cass Sunstein's
_Republic.com_, Princeton, 2001); if set broadly, to keep them generally
informed, they fail to tame information overload.
http://www.ala.org/alonline/crawford/cf402.html
* In the latest (undated) issue of the _Online Information Review_, Miriam
Farber examines how vendors of online information have conceived their "end
user", and how these conceptions have changed since the 1970s when the
online information industry was born. Only an abstract is free online.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2A1563C
* Maureen Spencer and two co-authors have posted to the web the results of
their study on the use of online rather than paper sources of English
judicial opinions. Legal researchers find online sources extremely useful
even when courts will not accept the citation of online sources in official
documents. Today English lawyers use online sources much more extensively
than English law students, perhaps because access to them is so
expensive. Law students need training with online sources to be prepared
for legal practice in the age of the internet and to discriminate the more
reliable sources from the less reliable. Finally, "cost is a significant
deterrent" to the wider use of online court reporters. (PS: The U.S. was
in a similar position a few years ago. But the federal government and all
the states have created free online access to recent statutes and judicial
opinions, even if they can't use the enhanced, copyrighted versions of the
major legal publishers. The frontier now consists of older laws, smaller
jurisdictions like towns and counties, and lesser legal sources like
pleadings and briefs.)
http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2002/issue2/spencer2.html
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Following up
To see past coverage of these stories in FOSN, use the search engine at the
FOSN archive.
http://www.topica.com/lists/suber-fos/read
* More on the CBDTPA
Jack Valenti has put online his testimony before the House Appropriations
Committee. (PS: No surprises here: Because our business model is in
danger, everyone must suffer to save us.)
http://www.mpaa.org/jack/2002/2002_04_23b.htm
(Thanks to Politech.)
For a libertarian commentary on the issues, see the recent piece by Wayne
Crews, the Director of Technology Policy Studies for the Cato
Institute. "Politicians have no legitimate authority to outlaw the
development of entire categories of computing technology. More is at stake
than simply a matter of a one-size-fits-all government standard having no
place in computer programming, or the need to avoid 'premature'
regulation: Legislators have no business telling us what kinds of machines
and software we can invent for personal use--period."
http://www.cato.org/new/04-02/04-25-02r.html
Declan McCullagh reports that the Bush administration does not support the
CBDTPA. (PS: The CBDTPA is a Democrat bill leading Democrats away from
their natural constituents. Republicans are prudently taking advantage of
the opportunity to steal some Democrat voters. On the other side,
Republican opposition to the CBDTPA will lead Republicans away from their
natural constituents, so we can't expect this opposition to be firm or
final. Moreover, even the present Republican opposition is
blinkered. Bush's Undersecretary of Commerce criticized the CBDTPA in a
recent speech on the ground that the DMCA makes it unnecessary. The DMCA
should suffice, he argued, because it "carefully balances the interests of
all stakeholders".)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52145,00.html
(Thanks to Politech.)
* More on the Eldred case
A Kuro5hin member ("jolly st nick") has put online a remarkable 1841 speech
by Thomas Macaulay opposing copyright extension. Macaulay argues that it
will "inflict grievous injury on the public, without conferring any
compensating advantage" on authors. Copyright is a temporary monopoly for
authors, and monopolies tend to "to make articles scarce, to make them
dear, and to make them bad." Moreover, "the evil effects of the monopoly
are proportioned to the length of its duration." Definitely worth reading.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B247324C
(Thanks to C-FIT.)
* More on the CIPA case
Jared Kendall writes against filtering in _The Advocate_, especially when
politicians are imposing it. "The world is a blend of that which we like
and find comfortable, and that which makes us cringe. Eliminate the
squirmy parts, and what you are left with isn't the world. It's a
reflection of yourself, your strengths, and your weaknesses. A filtered
world is not true. Librarians, it seems, have more interest in truth than
politicians."
http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/042102/bus_Technobabble.shtml
(Thanks to LIS News.)
* More on the USA PATRIOT Act
A senator, a representative, and several civil liberties groups issued a
statement last week denouncing the counter-terrorism legislation as an
"unwise and unnecessary" limitation on free-speech rights. The group
believes the PATRIOT Act pursues a legitimate end through means "that
fundamentally threaten democracy". (PS: When statutes limit rights
granted by the First Amendment, the statutes are unconstitutional. When
will a federal court have the courage to live up to its oath?)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-892450.html
http://www.freeexpression.org/patriotstmt.htm
* More on the Authors Guild v. Amazon
Award-winning sci-fi author Cory Doctorow has published an open letter
supporting Amazon's practice of making used books as easy to buy as new
books. "[T]he Amazon used-books service does not push the bounds of
established copyright law or practice *at all*. The right of a consumer to
resell the property s/he's lawfully acquired (called the Doctrine of First
Sale) is the reason that we are able to have used bookstores at
all....Indeed, one of the most revolting characteristics of many e-book
technologies is that they abridge this right...."
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/agletter.txt
(Thanks to LibraryPlanet.)
* More on the Bush denial of the digital divide
Norris Dickard for the Benton Foundation assembles the evidence that a
digital divide exists in the U.S. and will widen as a result of the Bush
administration decision to withdraw funds devoted to bridging it.
http://www.benton.org/policybriefs/brief01.html
(Thanks to Current Cites.)
* More on the Bush executive order blocking access to former presidential
papers
House Republicans are planning to submit a bill that would overturn the
order and put all presidential papers into the public domain 12 years after
a president leaves office.
http://www.thehill.com/042402/challenge.shtm
(Thanks to Red Rock Eater.)
* More on the demise of the International eBook Award Foundation
Soon after the The International eBook Award Foundation (IeBAF) announced
its own demise because Microsoft had withdrawn funding, Microsoft launched
the International eBook Association (IeBA).
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=340&nl
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Catching up (old news I should have discovered earlier)
* The Knowledge Conservancy is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to
acquire copyrights to cultural, historical, and scientific works (by
donation from their owners or by purchase with donated funds), and to make
these works available online free of charge and assure their long-term
preservation. It seeks donated content, donated funds, and members.
http://yen.ecom.cmu.edu/kc/
* The Digital Library of the Commons is an OAI-compliant archive of papers
on the economics of "common pool resources". (PS: While FOS repositories
are often called an "intellectual commons", this site uses the term
"commons" to refer more narrowly to rivalrous resources for which one
person's use subtracts from another's. FOS is nonrivalrous --not because
it is free, but because it is digital.)
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
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Correction
* In my last issue (and in several issues before that) I said that the
National Academy Press provides free online access to "all" its
books. David Goodman writes that NAP makes an exception for its Joseph
Henry Press titles, "which are a
little more popular and suitable for sale by conventional bookstores. Most
of these are not online." Thanks, David.
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Conferences
If you plan to attend one of the following conferences, please share your
observations with us through our discussion forum. (Conferences marked by
two asterisks are new since the last issue.)
* The European Library: The Gate to Europe's Knowledge: Milestone Conference
http://www.europeanlibrary.org/tel_workshops.htm
Frankfurt am Main, April 29-30
* WebSearch University
http://www.websearchu.com/
Stamford CT, April 30 - May 1; Washington DC, September 23-24; Chicago,
Octeober 22-23; Dallas, November 19-20.
* Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_01annualMtg.shtml
San Diego, May 4-7
* Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02/
Taipei, May 6-8
* DLM-Forum 2002. Access and Preservation of Electronic Information. Best
Practices and Solutions.
http://europa.eu.int/historical_archives/dlm_forum/doc/forum2002announcementrev2.pdf
http://www.dlmforum2002.org/angles/inscripcions.htm
Barcelona, May 7-8
* NISO/DLF Workshop on Standards for Electronic Resource Management
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/NISO-DLF-wkshp.html
Chicago, May 10
* ContentWorld 2002 [mostly for commercial content]
http://www.contentworld.com/conference/2002conference/index.html
San Jose, California, May 13-16
** Open Archives Forum Workshop
http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/
Pisa, May 13-14
* Copyright for Beginners [among librarians and information professionals]
http://www.cilip.org.uk/employ/c0937.html
London, May 15
** A Day in the Life of an [Electronic] Journal Publisher
http://www.uksg.org/conferences/2002/16_05_02.html
Chichester, May 16
** Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change
http://cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/
Seattle, May 16-19
* National Conference for Digital Government Research
http://www.dgrc.org/dgrc/dgo2002/
Los Angeles, May 19-22
* Libraries in the Digital Age 2002
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida/
Dubrovnik, May 21-26
** Taking the Plunge: Moving from Print to Electronic Journals
http://www.uksg.org/conferences/2002/22_05_02.html
London, May 22
* CAiSE '02. Advanced Information Systems Engineering
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/caise02/
Toronto, May 27-31
* Workshop on Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on the
Web: Trends and Perspectives
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~mizzaro/AH2002/
Malaga, Spain, May 28
* Society for Scholarly Publishing (AAP)
http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/index.cfm?Cat=5
Boston, May 29-31
* Fair Use Seminar
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaID=21113
Portland, Oregon, May 30
* Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
http://www.nedcc.org/owol/owol1.htm
Lexington, Massachusetts, May 30-31
* Multimedia Content and Tools: Towards Information and Knowledge Systems
http://www.elpub.org/agenda23.htm
London, May 30-31
* Advancing Knowledge: Expanding Horizons for Information Science
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/cais-acsi2002/
Toronto, May 30 - June 1
* Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2002
http://ce.byu.edu/cw/etd2002/
Provo, Utah, May 30 - June 1
** International Association of Technological University Libraries Annual
Conference: Partnerships, Consortia, and 21st Century Library Science
http://www.iatul.org/
Kansas City, June 2-6
** Digital Behavior: European Forum on Digital Content Creation,
Management, and Distribution
http://www.digi-b.de/
Cologne, June 4-8
** DELOS Workshop on Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds,
Measurements, and Metrics
http://www.sztaki.hu/conferences/deval/
Budapest, June 6-7
** Social Implicatoins of Information and Communication Technology
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/herkert/istas02.html
Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6-8
** Electronic Resources and the Social Role of Libraries in the Future
http://www.iliac.org/crimea2002/
Sudak, Ukraine, June 8-16
** First International Semantic Web Conference
http://iswc.semanticweb.org/
Sardinia, June 9-12
** Frontiers of Ownership in the Digital Economy: Information Patents,
Database Protection and the Politics of Knowledge
http://cip.umd.edu/IFRI.htm
Paris, June 10-11
** IASSIST 2002: Accelerating Access, Collaboration, and Dissemination
http://ropercenter.uconn.edu/iassist2002/
June 10-15
** The Commons in an Age of Globalisation. Ninth Biennial Conference of
the International Association for the Study of Common Property
http://www.iascp2002.org/
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, June 17-21
** Informing Science and IT Education
http://is2002.com/
Cork, June 19-21
** 8th International Conference of European University Information Systems
http://www.fe.up.pt/eunis2002/
Porto, June 19-22
** Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: Exploiting the Online Environment for
Maximum Advantage
http://www.ukolug.org.uk/meetings/meetings.htm#conf
Birmingham, June 20-21
** Transforming Serials: The Revolution Continues
http://www.nasig.org/wm/
Williamsburg, Virginia, June 20-23
** Choices and Strategies for Preservation of the Collective Memory
http://archives.dobbiaco2002.it/convegno-e.htm
Bolzano, Italy, June 25-29
** CIG Seminar: REVEALed: The Truth Behind the National Database of
Resources in Accessible Formats
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/cig-2002.html
London, June 26
** 4th International JISC/CNI Conference
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2002/
Edinburgh, June 26-27
** Digitisation Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS02/
Glasgow, June 30 - July 5
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