[1] From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk> (36)
Subject: Anthropological Index Online: not just another update!
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (87)
Subject: Current Cites: "Content-Based Image Retrieval;"
"Z39.50"
[3] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (254)
Subject: NEH Outlook: Vinton Cerf; John Unsworth
[4] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (63)
Subject: IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitization and Preservation
[5] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (68)
Subject: Two New CLIR Reports: Dance Documentation &
Preservation; Social Science Data and Metadata
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:51:11 +0000
From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: Anthropological Index Online: not just another update!
No indeed, AS WELL AS another routine update, a lot of behind the scenes
improvements have just gone live on the Anthropological Index Online:
All the data now has both contracted and full Journal Titles, and both are
automatically searched by a term entered in the journal field. Users have
the option to select which form of the title is displayed.
The large accumulation of data in the "Recent" has now been sorted by
publication year and merged with previous data. The file now in "Recent"
is the latest data to be added. From now on when the index is updated the
file in "Recent" will be sorted by year of publication and merged with the
existing data, so the recently-added file will be small and current.
Where data was available (but in a note field) first name information has
been merged with the main author names so searching for "Claude" in the
author field will find a variety of different anthropologists... (Query: I
would be interested to hear of a actual situation in which anyone really
wants to do this. The only scenario I can come up with involves a
conference meeting and the next day having a bleary memory of an article by
some one called "Charles". Other examples would be welcomed).
We will shortly be looking for pilot testers for an email notification
service that will run stored searches on updates to Anthropological Index
Online.
best wishes as the autumn term gets underway
davidz
Dr David Zeitlyn,
Hon. Editor Anthropological Index Online
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology,
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
Department of Anthropology,
Eliot College,
The University of Kent,
Canterbury,
CT2 7NS
UK.
Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 direct)
Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office)
Fax +44 (0)1227 827289
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ (personal research)
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:52:02 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Current Cites: "Content-Based Image Retrieval;" "Z39.50"
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 5, 1999
Two Selections from "Current Cites"
"Content-based Image Retrieval"
"Z39.50 for All"
Following are two citations with comments from the most recent "Current
Cites," that I thought readers might be interested in.
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
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>
>>SNIP
Eakins, John P. and Margaret E. Graham Content-based Image Retrieval:
A report to the JISC Technology Applications Programme Newcastle, UK:
Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at
Newcastle, January 1999
(<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir/report.html>http://www.unn.ac.
(<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir/report.html>http://www.unn.ac.uk/i
idr/research/cbir/report.html). - Have you ever
wanted to find images based on color, texture, shape, or other image
characteristics? I haven't, but read on. This technology, called
alternatively Query By Image Content (QBIC) or Content-Based Image
Retrieval (CBIR), seeks to provide a method whereby images can be
retrieved without first indexing or cataloging them. The idea is that
a) indexing or cataloging images is a time-consuming (expensive)
undertaking, and b) indexing has it's own problems, such as the
difficulty of pre-selecting every aspect of an image by which someone
may eventually wish to search. Having the ability to search for images
that "look like" a reference image, for example, may be useful in
particular instances, such as automatic fingerprint matching and face
recognition. If this idea intrigues you, this report should be
required reading. Eakins and Graham are relentlessly thorough in their
coverage of current CBIR systems and the literature describing such.
They conclude that CBIR is exciting but immature, and that it although
it is unlikely to completely replace other methods of locating images,
it nonetheless will be essential for some applications. - Roy Tennant
Miller, Paul. "Z39.50 for All" Ariadne 21 (September 1999)
(<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/intro.html>http://www.ariadne.a
(<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/intro.html>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk
/issue21/z3950/intro.html). - Miller has
succeeded in what I have long thought to be impossible: he has
explained Z39.50 briefly, simply, and understandably. The text is
embellished with screen shots, diagrams, and even its own glossary -
an essential element for any explanation of Z39.50. The URLs alone are
worth a lot, as Miller has pulled together a lot of pointers to the
essential web sites, technical information, and working systems.
Anyone interested in Z39.50 should check this out. The rest of us can
look (in vain) for the famous Ariadne caption contest; or, better yet,
check out the latest Brian Kelly column (see elsewhere in this issue).
- Roy Tennant
_________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:52:39 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NEH Outlook: Vinton Cerf; John Unsworth
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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October 6, 1999
NEH OUTLOOK - OCTOBER 1999
Features Include:
* 8th White House Millennium Evening With Vint Cerf
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http:
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http://www.
whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html
* "Changing the Nature of Humanities Research:"
Report on article on University of Virginia's
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Converge Magazine: September, 1999
<http://www.convergemag.com/>http://www.convergemag.
<http://www.convergemag.com/>http://www.convergemag.com/
These two notes in the NEH's online newsletter for October might catch
readers' attention: the NEH-funded 8th White House Millennium Evening on
Tues Oct 12 featuring Vinton Cerf discussing in an interactive cybercast
the changes information technology may bring to our lives in the next 30
years; and an article in Converge magazine discussing how the Institute of
Advanced Technology in the Humanities is helping to change the way that
some practitioners conduct their research.
David Green
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NEH OUTLOOK
A MONTHLY E-MAIL NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
(www.neh.gov)
OCTOBER 1999
In this issue: The National Humanities Medalists
New subscriptions: Send an e-mail to newsletter@neh.gov and type the word
"subscribe" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, type "unsubscribe"
in the body of the message.
Past issues: Go to
<http://www.neh.gov/html/public_affairs/outlook>http://www.neh.gov/html/publ
ic_affairs/outlook.
Comments: Send to outlook@neh.gov.
CHAIRMAN'S NOTE
by William R. Ferris, Chairman
Fall has gotten off to a running start at NEH, as the news and schedules in
this issue of NEH Outlook indicate. George Farr, director of the
Endowment's Division of Preservation and Access, is currently serving as
acting deputy chairman. He replaces Juan Mestas, who left the Endowment in
mid-September to begin his new job as chancellor of the University of
Michigan-Flint. In addition to the usual plentiful business of the
Endowment, the White House recently held the annual presidential ceremony
honoring the National Humanities Medalists. It was an inspiring celebration
and a fitting reminder that the humanities express the deepest meaning of
civilization.
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
by Michael Bagley, Director, Office of Governmental Affairs
Fiscal Year 1999 ended at midnight Thursday, Sept. 30. To avoid a
government shutdown on Friday, Oct. 1, due to expired spending authority,
Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) covering a three week period
from Oct. 1 to Oct. 21. A CR allows the government to continue spending at
levels equal to the previous fiscal year for the period covered by the
resolution. Because the Interior Appropriations bill for FY 2000, which
funds the Endowment, has not been signed into law, the agency will be
covered by the CR. Versions of the bill, however, have passed the floor in
both the House and the Senate. The House version recommends an FY 2000 NEH
budget of $110.7 million, representing no increase in the current level of
funding. The Senate version recommends an NEH budget of $115.7 million, or
$5 million more than the current level. A House-Senate conference, which
could occur at any time, will determine the final outcome of NEH's budget
for the next fiscal year.
NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALISTS HONORED
The 1999 recipients of NEH's National Humanities Medal came to Washington on
Sept. 28 and 29 to be feted for their outstanding contributions to the
nation's cultural life. This year's recipients are Patricia Battin,
librarian and preservationist; Taylor Branch, historian of the civil rights
era; Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, scholar of the New South and oral history expert;
Garrison Keillor, storyteller, radio host, and author; Jim Lehrer,
journalist and TV news anchor; John Rawls, political philosopher; Steven
Spielberg, filmmaker; and August Wilson, playwright. During the two-day
celebration of their work, the awardees spoke to a standing-room-only forum
at NEH, received their medals and citations from President Clinton and the
First Lady in a ceremony at Washington's Constitution Hall along with the
recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts,
and dined at the White House. The President's remarks at the Constitution
Hall ceremony are located at
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/html/19990929.html>http://www.whitehouse.g
ov/WH/New/html/19990929.html. For NEH's press
release and bios, go to
<http://www.neh.gov/html/public_affairs/medals99.html>http://www.neh.gov/htm
l/public_affairs/medals99.html.
EIGHTH WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM EVENING
If we were looking back from the year 2030, what changes occurring now will
have most affected our lives by then? That is the question on Oct. 12 in
the eighth of a series of interactive discussion forums called White House
Millennium Evenings. The series is cosponsored by NEH with major support
from Sun Microsystems.
The program, to be cybercast live from the White House at 7:30 p.m. ET, will
focus on developments in the fields of information technology and genetic
research. These two fields are full of possibilities and challenges that
will affect the lives of everyone. Presenters are Vinton Cerf, senior vice
president of Internet architecture and technology for MCI WorldCom, and Eric
Lander, director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.
For information on how to participate in the cybercast, visit
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http://www.
whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html.
PHARAOHS OF THE SUN EXHIBITION OPENS IN NOVEMBER
The NEH-funded traveling exhibition "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten,
Nefertiti, Tutankhamen" opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Nov.
14. Focusing on the Amarna Period (1353-1336 B.C.), which saw the
abandonment of Egypt's age-old pantheon of deities in favor of a sole god,
the show will include approximately 300 artifacts ranging from large-scale
royal sculpture and reliefs to jewelry, handicrafts, and articles of daily
use. An interactive Web site will enable users to see every object in the
exhibition, navigate through a re-creation of the ancient city of Amarna,
and visit the excavation site. Exploring a period of unprecedented change in
Egyptian society, the exhibition will be the first to present a
comprehensive picture of daily life in Amarna. The show runs in Boston
through Feb. 6, 2000, before traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (March 19-June 4, 2000), the Art Institute of Chicago (July 17-Sept. 24,
2000), and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Holland (Nov. 23,
2000-Feb. 18, 2001).
THE CIVIL WAR ON THE INTERNET
The NEH-funded "Valley of the Shadow" Web site has been reviewed in
Converge, an on-line magazine about cutting-edge uses of technology in
education. The article, titled "Changing the Nature of Humanities
Research," is available at
<http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGSept99/FeatureVirginia/FeatureV
i>http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGSept99/FeatureVirginia/FeatureVi
rginia.shtm. "Valley of the Shadow" is among the 49 top-quality humanities
Web sites linked through EDSITEment, NEH's educational Web site located at
<http://edsitement.neh.gov>http://edsitement.neh.gov. Twenty-three new
peer-reviewed humanities Web
sites will be added to EDSITEment later this month. Approximately 40,000
teachers and students use EDSITEment every month.
REMINDER ABOUT HUMANITIES ON THE RADIO
Last month's NEH Outlook ran a heads-up piece on "StoryLines America," an
NEH-funded series of live radio programs developed by the American Library
Association (ALA) in which listeners can call in to discuss U.S. regional
literature with authors and scholars. Beginning Oct. 3 and continuing each
Sunday through Dec. 26, two separate series of radio programs will highlight
the literature of California and of the Coastal Southeast (southeastern
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida).
To check program schedules, visit the StoryLines Web site at
<http://www.ala.org/publicprograms/storylin/itsback.html>http://www.ala.org/
publicprograms/storylin/itsback.html. You can also
contact the ALA's Susan Brandehoff at (312) 280-5054 or sbrandeh@ala.org.
And don't forget to listen in to National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered" on Fridays, when you will hear the latest segment of "Lost &
Found Sound," the NEH-funded series that documents the history of recorded
sound in the 20th century. The series runs through Dec. 31, 1999.
FLORIDA AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES LIBRARY BREAKS GROUND
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Broward County Library's African American
Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will take
place October 23. NEH awarded a $600,000 challenge grant for the facility,
which will be a major focal point for the study of African American heritage
in South Florida. With a collection of 75,000 books and documents by and
about African Americans, the center will be a research hub linking area
universities.
KUDOS
.......to Robert Patten, a professor of humanities at Rice University, whose
"George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art" (Rutgers University Press) was
recently named "best biography of the decade" by the respected British
newspaper "The Guardian." Patten received two NEH research grants to
complete the two-volume biography of the renowned British illustrator......
NEH-funded documentaries aced a number of Emmy Awards categories this year.
A PARALYZING FEAR: THE STORY OF POLIO won Best Research in News and
Documentary Programming, as did AFRICANS IN AMERICA for the episodes "The
Terrible Transformation" and "Judgment Day." THE U.S.-MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848
won Best Historical Programming with Limited Dramatization for the episode
"The Fate of Nations." And MACARTHUR took a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding
Non-fiction Series, as part of WGBH's The American Experience...... Two
NEH-supported efforts have received this year's top annual awards from the
Society of American Archivists. The Coker Award, recognizing innovation and
excellence in finding aids, goes to the archival team of Francis X. Blouin,
director of the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan, for "Vatican
Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Records of the Holy See"
(Oxford University Press). The Preservation Publication Award goes to "The
Storage Guide for Color Photographic Materials," produced by James Reilly,
director of the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of
Technology.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Division of Public Programs
*
<http://www.neh.gov/pdf/other/cal_199904.pdf>http://www.neh.gov/pdf/other/ca
l_199904.pdf
Division of Education Progams
* Oct. 6 and 7: Schools for a New Millennium project directors
meeting at NEH.
* Oct. 18 and 19: 2000 summer seminars and institutes project
directors meeting at NEH.
* Nov. 14 to17: Annual Historically Black College and University
(HBCU) Faculty Network Meeting in Houston, Texas. Two NEH program officers
attending; past NEH grantees presenting.
CHAIRMAN'S MONTHLY COLUMN
Honoring Excellence: National Humanities Medal Awarded to Great Americans
(<http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/papers/usa199910.html>http://www.neh.gov/
html/chairman/papers/usa199910.html)
CHAIRMAN'S SCHEDULE
October 1
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, Center for the West, and the Denver
Public Library
Public lecture
Denver, CO
October 2
Federation of State Humanities Councils
Annual meeting (Chairman's remarks:
<http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/speeches/19991002.html)>http://www.neh.gov
/html/chairman/speeches/19991002.html)
Denver, CO
October 5
American Council on Education/President's Network for International
Education
Education panel
Washington, DC
October 14
West Virginia Humanities Council
25th anniversary celebration--Annual McCreight Lecture
Charleston, WV
October 27
NEH headquarters
Chairman's Forum with Adele Alexander
Washington, DC
October 29
Community College Humanities Association
National conference--luncheon address
Chicago, IL
November 10
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Humanities lecture
Baltimore, MD
November 16
Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
D.C. Public Humanities Awards Ceremony
Washington, DC
November 18-19
National Council on the Humanities
Washington, DC
SUBSCRIBE TO "HUMANITIES," NEH's award-winning magazine. The
November/December 1999 issue focuses on family history. The issue also
profiles the 1999 National Humanities Medalists and looks at the fall of the
Berlin Wall 10 years later. "HUMANITIES" subscriptions are $22 for six
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:53:47 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitization and Preservation
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
OCTOBER 6, 1999
IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitization and Preservation
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.o
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.
htm>
>Approved-By: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@XIST.COM>
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:52:48 -0400
>To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
>
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Core
Programmes for Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and Universal
Availability of Publications (UAP) have carried out, on behalf of UNESCO
within the framework of its Memory of the World Programme (MOW), a major
worldwide survey on digitisation and preservation. The results of this
survey, and an analysis of the responses, have now been published.
The report `IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation'
is free and available from this office:
IFLA Offices for UAP and Interlending
c/o The British Library
Boston Spa
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS23 7BQ
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 1937 546478
email: richard.ebdon@bl.uk
N.B.
Because the publication is very popular, more copies are being printed at
the moment. Therefore there may be a slight delay in sending out copies.
For more information about:
- the Survey take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.
htm>
- IFLA-PAC take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm>
- IFLA-UAP take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/uap.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/uap.htm>
- UNESCO-MOW take a look at
<<http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/index.html>http://www.unesco.org/webwor
ld/mdm/index.html>
*****
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:54:13 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Two New CLIR Reports: Dance Documentation & Preservation; Social Science Data and Metadata
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 6, 1999
TWO NEW CLIR REPORTS AVAILABLE
Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach
to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata
Securing Our Dance Heritage:
Issues in the Documentation and Preservation of Dance
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) recently published
two new reports. The full text of these reports is available online and
they are also available in PDF format. Take a look at the list of CLIR
reports at:
<<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/rep
orts/reports.html>
Publication number 83
Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social
Science Data and Metadata
by Ann Green, JoAnn Dionne, and Martin Dennis
ISBN 1-887334-68-8
Published in June 1999, Preserving the Whole appears as the
second publication of the Digital Library Federation and reflects the
Federation's interests both in advancing the state of the art of social
science data archives and in building the infrastructure necessary for the
long-term maintenance of digital information. The paper is especially
valuable as a meticulously detailed case study of migration as a
preservation strategy. It explores the options available for migrating both
data stored in a technically obsolete format and their associated
documentation stored on paper, which may itself be rapidly deteriorating.
The obsolete data format known as column binary was born in the same era of
creatively parsimonious coding techniques that have given rise to the
widely publicized Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problems.
Publication number 84
Securing Our Dance Heritage: Issues in the Documentation and Preservation
of Dance
by Catherine J. Johnson and Allegra Fuller Snyder
ISBN 1-887334-69-6
Published in July 1999, Securing Our Dance Heritage addresses the full
range of issues involved in evaluating, documenting, preserving, and making
accessible the history of dance. It will be of interest not only to members
of the international dance community, but also to libraries and archives
that house dance materials, many of which are dispersed throughout
collections of sport, anthropology, and religion. It will also interest
historians and funders of the performing arts, scientists, and scholars of
all types, who will find in dance documentation rich new resources for
investigating this uniquely expressive human activity, and, more broadly,
the managers of research institutions that hold or are acquiring
collections in nonprint form.
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European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
P.O. Box 19121, NL-1000 GC Amsterdam,
visiting address: Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, NL-1011 JV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
tel. +31 - 20 - 551 0839 fax +31 - 20 - 620 4941
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