[1] From: AP Postmaster <postman@aldinepress.com> (49)
Subject: TELICA: An on-line discussion
[2] From: Lloyd Davidson <ldavids@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU> (97)
Subject: ALA Panel on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:19:32 -0500
From: AP Postmaster <postman@aldinepress.com>
Subject: TELICA: An on-line discussion
The PERPETUAL ARISTOTLE announces a new discussion list, TELICA,
an on-line forum for discussion of the theory of fine art.
Discussion on TELICA is paced by periodic postings of a question by
the moderator. A total of 150 of these questions will be posted
beginning in early 1998. The exact date of the first posting will
be announced to the list in early January. The philosophical
vocabulary of the questions is Aristotelian. The forum is intended
to encourage disciplined argument in the Aristotelo-scholastic
manner.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Each subscriber to TELICA is required to submit one substantive
contribution to the discussion each month. Subscribers who, in the
estimation of the moderator, fail to participate in the discussion
substantively will be unsubscribed. This rule will be applied
seriously, not strictly or pedantically.
A NOTE ON THE TITLE OF THE FORUM
The title of the forum, TELICA, is a coinage fashioned after the
Greek term *telos,* "end." It is employed as a generic name of things
such as paintings, poems, musical compositions and so forth that
today are often collectively called "artworks" or "works of fine
art." The choice of this term reflects a view that such terms as
"fine art" and "aesthetic" for different reasons are ill-conceived
DISCUSSION ETIQUETTE
Subscribers are asked to avoid addressing one another in the second
person on-list, and to avoid mentioning persons, and in particular
other subscribers, save as the authors of philosophical texts or
arguments. A fuller explanation of this protocol is found in the
welcome message to the list.
SUBSCRIBING, UNSUBSCRIBING and DIGEST
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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 16:35:24 +0000
From: Lloyd Davidson <ldavids@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
Subject: ALA Panel on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
For those of you who are going to the Midwinter meeting of the American
Library Association in New Orleans:
Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals
LITA Special Interest Group
http://www.lita.org/igs/epej.htm
Panel Discussion and Business Meeting New Orleans Convention Center
Rms. 97-98, Monday, January 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Document Tracking in an Electronic Universe:
Description, Applications and Implications of
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Publisher Item Identifiers (PIIs)
Introduced and moderated by
Kimberly Douglas <kdouglas@caltech.edu>
Director, Sherman Fairchild Library and Technical Information Services
California Institute of Technology
Overview of issues:
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has been designed to overcome
the impermanence of URLs and to identify and track digital media at any desired
level of granularity. The DOI System has been designed by the Association of
American Publishers (AAP), in partnership with the Corporation For National
Research Initiatives (CNRI), to link customers with publishers, facilitate
electronic commerce, and enable copyright management systems. The DOI System,
governed by The International DOI Foundation, is now in use by more than a
dozen U.S. and European publishers. These include Academic Press, Elsevier,
John Wiley & Sons, Houghton Mifflin, Springer-Verlag and Harcourt Brace.
Widespread implementation of this system promises to have a profound effect
on library functions and services, from ILL to online catalogs.
The PII - Or, A funny thing happened on the way to the DOI
Karen Hunter <K.HUNTER@elsevier.com>
Senior Vice President
Elsevier/North-Holland Scientific Publishing Co.
DOI overview: what they are; how they are to be used; and how they work
Ed Pentz <epentz@harcourtbrace.com>
Manager, Electronic Business Development
Academic Press
DOIs as an Internet standard: Update on NISOs DOI working groups
Brian Green <brian@bic.org.uk> and Pat Harris
Managing Agent of Book Industry Communication (BIC)
BIC / EDItEUR
Bringing DOIs into the library:
DOI implementation in an integrated library system
Cindy Edgington Miller <cindy@endinfosys.com>
Director of Product Strategy
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
Implications for library users and library services
Julia C. Blixrud <jblix@arl.org>
Senior Program Officer
Association of Research Libraries
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Useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers
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Articles about DOIs:
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html
Article by Clifford Lynch published in issue 194 of the ARL
newsletter describing in very readable language the background on DOIs and
articulating five issues and concerns regarding their use.
A response by Bill Arms is linked from the end of this article.
http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497doi.htm
DOI: Darling of Industry or Dead on Impact, Trialogue, no. 4, Spring 1997
http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497rtsmn.htm
Rights Management in the Digital Age: Trading in Bits, not Atoms, Trialogue,
no. 4, Spring 1997
http://www.scripting.com/seybold/stories/960702.html
Seybold's commentary is somewhat dated, July 1996, however the issues
he articulates with the implementation of DOIs remain largely unresolved.
http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/bicinfo.html
This site provides the British perspective and is maintained by
Brian Green, one of the programs speakers, and includes a link to the article,
"In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a user Perspective" by Mark Bide
discussing the methodology behind DOIs with scenarios and discussion.
http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/uniquid
Article by Brian Green (speaker) and Mark Bide entitled "Unique
identifiers: a brief introduction." Introduces DOI vocabulary and addresses
the shortcomings of legacy object identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, SICI).
http://elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/infoident/
Norman Paskin's article "Information Identifiers," originally published
in Learned Publishing, vol 10, no. 2 pp. 135-157 (April 1997), provides
extensive technical background and assessment of various types of object
identifiers that publishers have explored.
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Publisher Demonstrations and Explanations of their work with DOIs:
http://www.doi.org
Publisher organized information describing the purpose and progress
of each organization's work in developing DOIs. There are demos illustrating
different publishers' implementations.
http://www.apnet.com/www/doi
Academic Press explanation and demonstration of its work with DOIs.
The speaker Ed Pentz, above, is instrumental in this work.
http://www.alcs.co.uk/doidocs/index.htm
This site is for the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
which has linked the DOI system to a text numbering scheme and embedded the DOI
in a text watermark using a system developed by the IMPRIMATUR project. This
is done to identify any illegal use of the text.
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Organized by Lloyd Davidson
Head Life Sciences and Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow
Northwestern University
Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
LDavids@nwu.edu
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