Cross
Currents No 11 Sep 2002
A
digest of cross sectoral information management events, issues and ideas in
organisations, libraries, archives and museums, with special emphasis on
arts and the humanities.
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ARTS
& HUMANITIES: Australian e-Humanities Network | UK arts &
humanities research funding | US cultural partnerships
ARCHITECTURE:
Society of Architectural Historians of Australia & New Zealand
CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES: Creative Clusters Summit
THEATRE:
Artmedia Physical Theatre
VISUAL
ARTS: AMICO
ASSOCIATION
MANAGEMENT
CROSS
SECTORAL MANAGEMENT
National
Collections Advisory Forum
LIBRARIES
ARL statistics. MUSEUMS
Creative Space Conference | International Museum Theatre Alliance |
Museum Computer Network Conference
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ONLINE
INFORMATION
Metadata
registries | ASIST annual meeting | digital divide } digital rights
management | IT governance & project management | LITA Forum |
Internet 2 Shibboleth access management pilots, Information Resources
Management Association Conference | National Office of the Information
Economy activities
RECORDS
& ARCHIVES
Australia's
lost documentary heritage | e-mail records | recordkeeping and
authentication | Queensland State Archives recordkeeping guide |
Information Management: Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic
Records
STANDARDS
ISIL
| Library Statistics | Reference Ontology for the Interchange of
Cultural heritage Information
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Metadata
Registries
[CFP}.The
sixth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries will be held on 20-24
January 2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Under the theme cooperation and interoperation of ISO/IEC 11179
Metadata Registries, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI),
XML Registries/Repositories, database catalogues (e.g. relational DBMS/SQL),
CASE Tool Repositories, Software Component Registries, Terminology and
Ontological Registries, Dublin Core Registries and other technologies.Web:
http://www.metadata-standards.org/OpenForum2003
ASIST
Annual Meeting
The
American Society for Information Science and Technology 2002 Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, USA, on 17-21 November
2002.
Sessions will be devoted to bibliometrics, collaboration &
communication, education; information policy, information retrieval,
information use, metadata, search strategies, social issues, user issues,
visual IR, web IR, webmetrics, knowledge management, behaviour research, media
asset retrieval, chat reference, competitive advantage metrics, content reuse,
content analysis ppen sourcing, data mining, relevance research, digital
libraries, distance education, scholarly publication & communication,
e-books, semantic web, global content, spoken archives, image management,
information architecture, virtual reference, iand other topics. Pre-conference
summits and seminars will include the KM Summit Knowledge Management in the
21st Century: Moving Forward, Sustaining the Momentum,
Strategies to Improve the Intranet's Business Value, Initiating a
Content Management Initiative, Taxonomies and Metadata, Critical Legal
Concerns for Information Professionals, Content Management &
Personalization Strategies, Intranet Strategy & Architecture, Machine
Learning for Text Classification and Information Organization. Source KM
Listserv Web:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM02/index.html
Digital
Divide
The
Benton Foundation's Digital Divide Network
(www.digitaldividenetwork.org) publishes a daily online news-service,
communications-related headlines and the Digital Divide Network (www.digitaldividenetwork.org),
which focuses on digital divide issues in the United States, and its
international sister site, the Digital Opportunity Channel (www.digitalopportunity.org).
Digital
Rights Management
Forrester
Research estimates that by 2003 the market for digital downloads will be worth
US$2 billion, and that by 2004 up to 25% of all online music sales will be
downloads.
The
US Congress held a round table discussion on Digital Content and Rights
Management with officials from the entertainment and ICT industries on 17 July
2002. The round table discussed progress on technical standards to enable
legitimate digital media distribution, developments in the market for digital
content including consumer perceptions and expectations, and the proper role
for the government in facilitating solutions that are best for innovation and
best for consumers.
The
panellists, representing major industry forces, included Jack Valenti (Motion
Picture Association of America); Rhett Dawson (Information Technology Industry
Council); Joe Tasker (Information Technology Association of America); Mitch
Glazier (Record Industry Association of America) Jon Potter, (Digital Media
Association); Stewart Vendery (Vivendi Universal); Preston Padden (Disney);
Mike Miron (ContentGuard); Rick Lane, (News Corp); Gordon Lyon (NIST); Rob
Reid (Listen.com); Phillip Maggi (Computer Systems Policy Project); Tim
Sheehy, (IBM); Andrew Moss (Microsoft); Ted Cohen (EMI); and Doug Comer
(Intel); Source: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT. Web http://www.ta.doc.gov/.
IT
Governance & Project Management
Standards
Australia is developing new national guidelines for IT governance and project
management. The project aims to address poor IT management practices that are
endemic within local organisations and will cover the "lack of awareness
and involvement at the CEO and board level; poor elicitation and documentation
of requirements and specifications; lack of user consultation; failure to
apply essential project management practices; excessive management
expectations; personality clashes between members of the project team;
'artificial' deadline setting; and poor contracting decisions and
management’. The new guidelines are expected to be released for public
comment in 2003. Source: The Update
Web:
http://www.standards.com.au.
Library
and Information Technology Association Forum
The
Library and Information Technology Association will hold its 2002 National
Forum in Houston, Texas, USA, 10-13 October under the theme Making
Connections.
Plenary speakers include Clifford Lynch, Marc Rotenberg, and Fred
(Rick) Weingarten.
Pre-conference sessions will be devoted to XML and libraries, building
digital libraries, and technology disasters. For complete details, see http://www.lita.org/forum02/index.html.
Internet
2 Shibboleth Access Management Pilots
An
invitation has been extended to a number of universities to participate in a
pilot to explore the use of Shibboleth in a variety of academic settings.
Shibboleth is an initiative by Internet2 member universities to develop and
deploy new middleware technologies that can facilitate inter-institutional
collaboration and access to digital content. It supports a new model for
access management control that is designed to be both scalable and easily
administered for both campuses and content providers. Goals for the pilot
phase include: (a) evaluating the use of Shibboleth to enhancing management of
content access (involving
the Coalition for Networked Information, Digital Library Foundation,
EBSCO, Elsevier, and SFX, RLG and OCLC). b). facilitating the sharing
of instructional materials between institutions. and (c).developing approaches
to multi-institutional services and processes. Web
http://middleware.internet2.edu/shibboleth.
Information
Resources Management Association
[CFP].
Proposals for full-length papers, research-in-progress, panels, workshops,
tutorials or symposium are invited for the 2003 Information Resources
Management Association International Conference on 18-21 May 2003 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.irma-international.org,
Conference theme: Information Technology and Organisations: Trends, Issues,
Challenges and Solutions.
Enquiries and submissions to: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Program Chair irmaconf@irma-international.org.
[Source: Diglib]
National
Office of the Information Economy
Recent
publications and current activities at the Office http://www.noie.gov.au/
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Broadband.
Three papers published: Broadband in Education: Availability,
Initiatives and Issues, Broadband in Health: Drivers, Impediments
and Benefits and Broadband for Small Business.
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E-procurement
The July eProcurement Update newsletter highlights new approaches and
developments in eProcurement solutions and case studies.
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Digital
Divide. NOIE is participating in a Digital Divide Cross Sector Working
Group which aims to foster greater collaboration and shared learning
around Digital Divide projects in Australia. it is now seeking digital
divide projects.
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National
authentication Technology Framework. NOIE has called for public
submissions.
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Information
Technology Online Program ITOL, NOIE has launched round 8 of a scheme
aimed at encouraging the take up of eBusiness in Australia. eBusiness
incubation. Seven consortium-based projects will receive a total of $1.1
million in grants under the scheme. .:
Online
authentication. DCITA has released Online Authentication: a guide for
government managers to provide agencies with advice and guidance on key issues
to consider when implementing authentication solutions in their e-business
strategies.
Australia's
Lost Documentary Heritage
Ross
Harvey and Anne Lloyd are compiling a list of Australia's Lost Documentary
Heritage for the Australian Memory of the World project and are looking for
input on the subject, particularly answers to the following question: (1) Can
you tell us about any collections or items which you think fit into the
definition of lost or missing Australian documentary heritage of significance?
(2) Can you suggest anyone else we should contact?
[Source Aus-Archivists List] Definitions of documentary heritage and
significance can be found at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~aghowell/mow/amow_cri.htm.
Contact: Professor Ross Harvey, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt
University, Locked Bag 675, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678. AUSTRALIA, Telephone: +61 2
6933 2369, Mobile: 0411 898 292, Fax: +61 2 6933 2733, http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~dharvey/
E-mail
Records
Adam
Wilkins has written E-mail Records and Knowledge Management: the Hidden Risk.
in Information Systems Control Journal, Volume 4, 2002.
http://www.isaca.org/jrnlhome.htm.
Although e-mail has emerged as the backbone of interoffice communication and
become a repository of knowledge-rich interactions among employees, customers,
suppliers and business partners, records management practices regarding e-mail
are primitive or non-existent in many companies. [Source RECMGMT-L].
Recordkeeping
and online authentication
The
National Archives of Australia. in consultation with the National Office for
the Information Economy and the Attorney-General's Department. is developing
guidelines for keeping records in an online authentication environment. The
guidelines will: look at e-business in government and the authentication
technologies that make online service delivery possible; outline the potential
recordkeeping implications; identify relevant recordkeeping requirements and
discuss strategies that can be used to meet these requirements; canvass
disposal authorisation for certain records arising from the use of
authentication technologies; and provide some approaches to long-term digital
preservation and accessibility issues. For further information: Project
Officer: Melissa Lawrence Recordkeeping Standards and Policy National Archives
of Australia email: melissal@naa.gov.au.
Source Aus-Archivists
Queensland
State Archives' Recordkeeping Guide
Queensland
State Archive has published Best Practice Guide to Recordkeeping, developed to
assist public authorities to meet their recordkeeping obligations. [Source:
Aus-Archivists]. Web: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/
Information
Management: Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic Records
The
US General Accounting Office has released Information Management: Challenges
in Managing and Preserving Electronic Records. The report considers the
efforts of the National Archives and Records Administration towards digital
preservation, particularly those focused on the Electronic Records Archive
initiative, provides a summary of world models of electronic records
management and preservation, discusses NASA's Open Archival Information
Systems model two large-scale web archives, the Internet Archives Project and
Google's UseNet archive, [Source Aus-Archivists]. Web: http://www.gao.gov/
The
National Information Standards Organisation has released three standards for
comment at http://www.niso.org/
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ISIL
Standard (DIS 15511), a 16-character variable length code to uniquely
identify libraries and related organizations.
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Library
Statistics Standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.7 addressing measurement of electronic
resources (E-metrics)
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Reference
Ontology for the Interchange of Cultural Heritage Information CD
21127, developed by TC46/SC4/WG9,
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