Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 10.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Stephen Clark <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk> (93)
Subject: The Long Now
[2] From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org> (131)
Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS; NYC Meeting Report Available;
Final Meeting: Baltimore, May 18
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 04:46:49 +0100
From: Stephen Clark <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: The Long Now
From: http://www.longnow.org/
Great Minds to Discuss '10,000-year Library'
The Long Now Foundation and Stanford University Libraries announced they
will hold an invitational conference, "The 10,000-year Library," June 30 -
July 2, 2000 on the Stanford campus sponsored by the Lazy Eight Foundation.
Two dozen confirmed participants - including Elizabeth Niggeman head of the
German National Library; cuneiform expert William Hallo of Yale University;
leading innovators in high-tech, such as Brewster Kahle the creator of the
Internet Archive, an extraordinary Native American anthropologist Dave
Warren; Council on Library and Information Resources director Deanna
Marcum; and others -will join the Long Now board (Michael A. Keller, Danny
Hillis, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Paul Saffo, Kevin Kelly, Peter Schwartz,
and Doug Carlston) and librarians to deliberate on the permanence of
information and the nature and need for long-term thinking about it. (See
complete list of current attendees at the bottom of this page.)
In a time of accelerating technology, accelerating history, and a dangerous
shortening of civilization's attention span, the role of libraries becomes
deeper than ever. Libraries need to be rethought in the new context and in
the light of civilization's now-global and very long term responsibilities.
Some new initiatives need to be set in motion. The conference participants
will address needed directions for such initiatives. According to Stewart
Brand, co-chairman of the Long Now board, "We want to jump-start some
serious, collaborative thinking about how to see information - the real
narrative of civilization - in very long-term ways. We're talking in part
about technology, but it goes much deeper, right to the root of why we are
here, what we're doing, and what kind of legacy do we want to leave to our
descendents and to their successors."
"Stewardship of cultural content is the essential role of research
libraries," says Stanford University Librarian Michael A. Keller. "Serious
players in this field have always collected, organized, and preserved
information - OK, books, mostly - on behalf of future generations, but up
to now, we haven't really thought seriously about how many such
generations, or how to think about the mission in terms of thousands of
years. Digital information technologies, with their notorious instability,
force us to reassess how we go about fulfilling this mission hereafter. So
we are an interested party. But nobody knows what the important questions
are, to say nothing of solutions. This conference will be tremendously
valuable in helping to pose the right questions." Adds Brand, "The issues
are pan-disciplinary, so the group we're bringing together is as broad as
we can make it with a small group."
The format will be similar to what Long Now used successfully in 1998 at
the Getty Center in Los Angeles with a related conference called "Time &
Bits: Managing Digital Continuity." The participants will meet for dinner
and introductions Friday evening; scheme and probe all day Saturday; spell
out next steps Sunday morning, and sum up and for a public audience Sunday
afternoon. The public event - for invited press, scholars, technologists,
and others - will also include a question & answer session. (Details about
the public event will be announced later.) Delivered at the conference will
be the first prototype of the 'Rosetta Disk' also being produced under the
Lazy Eight Foundation Grant. This modern Rosetta will be a micro-etched
nickel two inch disk which will include all the worlds translations of the
book of Genesis written at a scale to be read by microscopes. Expected
outcomes of the conference will be a publication and paths toward
subsequent conferences, whose topics should emerge from this conference.
There may be recommendations to specific institutions of actions to pursue.
The Long Now Foundation was officially established in 01996 to develop the
10,000-Year Clock and 10,000-Year Library projects as well as to become the
seed of a very long term cultural institution. It has been nearly 10,000
years since the end of the last ice age and the beginnings of civilization.
Progress during that time was often measured on a "faster/cheaper" scale.
The Long Now Foundation seeks to promote "slower/better" thinking and to
focus our collective creativity on the next 10,000 years. One of its
related projects is development of the Rosetta Disk, a long-term linguistic
archive and translation engine that allows for the recovery of "lost"
languages in the deep future, the storage technology for which is a 2"
nickel disk which records analog text and images at densities up to 350,000
pages per disk, with a life expectancy of 2,000-10,000 years. For more
information about the Long Now Foundation: http://www.longnow.org/
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR)
develops and implements resources and services within the University
libraries and academic technology units that support research and
instruction. With collections containing over seven million volumes and
numerous of archival, manuscript, map, media, government document, database
and serial materials among its fourteen libraries, SUL/AIR coordinates with
Stanford's Business, Law, Medical, and SLAC libraries and the Hoover
Institution to provide comprehensive information resources to the Stanford
Community. The Academic Information Resources division provides
information-technology support and instruction and network services to the
entire campus community, whether in the library or in the dorm. SUL/AIR's
HighWire Press division provides advanced online publication and access
services to over 170 of the world's leading peer-reviewed scholarly
journals in science, technology, and medicine, and thus is significantly
involved in the provision of information to the world's research and
academic communities. For more information about the Stanford Libraries:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu
The Lazy Eight Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization
dedicated to promoting research and development in the sciences and
education. It supports efforts to bring together scientists, artists, and
educators across disciplines, with a focus on projects that offer creative
solutions to educational, social and environmental problems. The Lazy Eight
Foundation works with its "Lazers," individuals from a broad range of
disciplines who advise the Foundation on various projects. For more
information about the Lazy Eight Foundation: http://www.lazy8.org
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 04:48:08 +0100
From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS; NYC Meeting Report Available;
Final Meeting: Baltimore, May 18
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 9, 2000
NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS
New York City Meeting Report Available
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.report.html
Baltimore Meeting: May 18, 2000
American Association of Museums Annual Conference
"Copyright Confusion? Community Guides.
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html
A report is now available on the third in the NINCH series of six town
meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY, held in New York City. This
report joins those on the first two town meetings, held at the Chicago
Historical Society and at Syracuse University. Reports on the meetings held
at the Triangle Research Libraries Network in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
and at the Visual Resources Association conference in San Francisco, will
be available shortly.
The last meeting in the series will be held on Thursday May 18 from 2pm to
4:45pm at the annual convention of the American Association of Museums at
the Baltimore Convention Center (Rooms 321-323).
Please Note: Members of the public wishing to attend the Baltimore Town
Meeting but not registered for the AAM Convention should leave their names
(by eob Tues. May 16) at 202-296-5346, or email them to david@ninch.org for
free admission to the town meeting.
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NEW YORK CITY: "The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher
for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education."
A report is now available on the NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN
MEETING, co-sponsored by the College Art Association and held at its annual
conference, February 26, 2000. This was the third in this series of six
town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY, organized by NINCH,
with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
The opening paper by Christine Sundt, "Been There. Done That!," reviewing
the community's history of wrestling with intellectual property issues over
the past five years is available at
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nycsundt.html> as well as at
her own website, <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/CAAcls.htm>.
Three speakers engaged the topic of the ownership of university faculty
production. Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and
Artistic Property Law, Columbia University Law School, focused on two
current cases that test the extent to which professors have the right and
the ability to control the dissemination of their classroom performances.
Sanford Thatcher, Director of the Pennsylvania State University Press,
reviewed the success of a Pennsylvania State University task force to
create guidelines to clarify ownership issues on campus. Rodney Petersen,
Director of Policy and Planning at the University of Maryland's Office of
Information Technology, shared his discoveries about intellectual property
policies at research universities, and, based on his campus experiences,
advised focusing on parties' needs and interests rather than gross
ownership of intellectual property.
Questions, comments and discussion were far-ranging, including the issues
of museums' ownership of copyright, the "Ditto.com" case, distance
education, licensing, and the familiar issue of the legality of copy
photography.
* * *
BALTIMORE: "Copyright Confusion? Community Guides"
BALTIMORE: Thursday May 18, 2000
American Association of Museums Annual Conference
"Copyright Confusion? Community Guides.
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html
In the light of the failure of CONFU to produce guidelines accepted across
the community for the fair use of copyrighted material, and as copyright
issues continue to become increasingly complicated for practitioners, new
guidelines are being produced from within the community to help answer many
practical questions about managing and using online intellectual property.
This Town Meeting will focus on the resource materials that have been
developed by the American Association of Museums, the College Art
Association and the Visual Resources Association to provide guidance on
managing intellectual property. What questions do these guides answer and
what guidance do they offer? What more is still needed by this community?
What other practical resources are available? In the tradition of a town
meeting there will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.
A G E N D A
Welcome and Brief Overview of Current Scene:
* Barry Szczesny, Government Affairs Counsel and Assistant Director,
Government and Public Affairs, American Association of Museums
* Michael Shapiro, Private Attorney and Consultant to Arts and Cultural
Organizations
Overview of Town Meetings Series:
* David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
Speakers:
AAM's "Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark"
* Diane Zorich, Information Management Consultant
VRA's "Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in
Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections"
* Kathe Albrecht, Visual Resources Curator, American University
CAA's work-in-progress, the "Guidebook on Copyright for Artists and Art
Historians"
* Robert Baron, Independent Art Historian and Consultant
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ABOUT THE NINCH COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS
With support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Initiative
for a Networked Cultural Heritage is sponsoring a series of six Copyright
Town Meetings for the cultural community during the year 2000.
The series of day-long and half-day meetings builds on the popular 1997-98
Town Meetings on Copyright & Fair Use, organized jointly with the American
Council of Learned Societies and the College Art Association, which focused
on the Conference on Fair Use and its aftermath.
The 2000 series of Town Meetings will be held in Chicago, Syracuse, New
York City, Chapel Hill, San Francisco and Baltimore and will be hosted by
the Chicago Historical Society, Syracuse and Cornell Universities, the
College Art Association, the Triangle Research Library Network (North
Carolina), the Visual Resources Association and the American Association of
Museums.
Issues to be covered by the meetings include changes in copyright law as it
affects working on-line; fair use and its on-line future; the status of the
public domain; ownership and access of on-line copyrighted material;
distance education; and the development and implementation of institutional
and organizational copyright policies and principles.
A hallmark of the Town Meetings will be the balance of expert opinion and
audience participation. Speakers include, among others: Robert Baron,
Howard Besser, Kathleen Butler, Kenneth Crews, Eric Eldred, Jane Ginsburg,
Dakin Hart, Peter Hirtle, Tyler Ochoa, Rodney Petersen, Christine Sundt,
Barry Szczesny, Sandy Thatcher, Richard Weisgrau and Diane Zorich.
For full details on the Town Meetings, including information about
registration and any admission fees, agendas and speakers as they are
announced, as well as for later reports on the meetings, see
<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>
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