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                        _Current Cites_ 
                        Volume 8, no. 12 
                         December 1997 
                          The Library 
                University of California, Berkeley 
                   Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne 
                        ISSN: 1060-2356 
 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1997/cc97.8.12.html 

                         Contributors: 
       
      Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, 
              Richard Rinehart, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant 

       
  Digital Libraries 
   
   Cromwell-Kessler, Willy. "Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information 
   Landscape" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997) 
   (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html). - In 
   July 1997, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) held a "Metadata Summit" 
   to provide a venue for a number of communities interested in metadata 
   to explore their commonalities and differences, particularly vis. a 
   vis. the Dublin Core. One of the outcomes of this meeting is the 
   document "Guidelines For Extending the Use of Dublin Core Elements to 
   Create a Generic Application Integrating All Kinds of Information 
   Resources", which is aimed at those involved with developing the 
   Dublin Core specification. At the core of this article as well as the 
   "Guidelines" is the issue of how to handle the original object vs. the 
   digital surrogate. - RT 
    
   Frey, Franziska. "Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: 
   Foundations for Technical Standards" RLG DigiNews 1(3) (December 15, 
   1997) (http://lyra.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com). - 
   This brief article serves as a good introduction to the issues 
   relating to digital imaging. But since it is the barest of overviews 
   of the outcome of a two-year project of the same name, funded by the 
   National Endowment for the Humanities, one is left with a feeling of 
   impatience until the products from the project are published "sometime 
   next year". But at least this piece can give a sneak peek into what 
   will be coming soon in more detail. - RT 
    
   Mintzer, Fred, Jeffrey Lotspiech, and Norishige Morimoto. 
   "Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital 
   Watermarking" D-Lib Magazine (December 1997) 
   (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html). - Digital 
   watermarking is the online equivalent of the long-practiced art of 
   marking paper with a mark of ownership or origin. Digital watermarking 
   may be important to assert copyright or to mark a file as authentic. 
   This article is a great introduction to the principles, applications, 
   and technologies relating to digital watermarking. But if you are 
   interested in this topic, don't stop your investigation here, as only 
   technologies from IBM are highlighted (all the authors are IBM 
   employees). - RT 
    
  Electronic Publishing 
    
   Valauskas, Edward. "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the 
   Evolution of Electronic Journals" First Monday 2 (12) 
   (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/valauskas/). - First 
   Monday's editor surveys the growth of the journal as a case study in 
   Internet-based, peer-reviewed journals. It's not at all a self-serving 
   piece; on the contrary, he uses his experiences with the journal and 
   with print journals to think about the future in broad terms. The 
   print journal will not disappear entirely, he believes; instead, a 
   rich diversity of formats will persist. - TH 
    
  Multimedia & Hypermedia 
    
   CIDOC Multimedia Working Group Multimedia Evaluation Criteria 
   (http://www.archimuse.com/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html) September 
   1997. -- This set of evaluation criteria can be used in many 
   evaluation or survey projects as a set of questions and criteria for 
   measuering the full effectiveness of multimedia resources on web, 
   CD-ROM, DVD, etc. - RR 
    
  Networks & Networking 
    
   Global Information Locator Service FAQ, Dec. 26, 1997 
   (http://www.usgs.gov/gils/faq.html) . - This FAQ, compiled primarily 
   by Eliot Christian of the US Geological Survey, is very thorough in 
   answering questions about this new technical standard to facilitate 
   resource discovery. - RR 
    
   Minow, Mary. "Filters and the Public Library: A Legal and Policy 
   Analysis" First Monday 2 (12) 
   (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_12/minow/). - Minow 
   insightfully reviews the tangled area of public policy covering 
   Internet access in public libraries. Much policy is decided without 
   empirical evidence for any stance, and the resulting policies 
   demonstrate this gap in their ambivalence, and lack of clarity. Minow 
   maps some strategies librarians can employ to balance the needs of the 
   community with the directives of the profession, and provides a useful 
   review of the issues along the way. - TH 
    
   Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical 
   Guide. Second edition. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library 
   Center, 1997 (http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet). - In what 
   is clearly a nascent field, this online resource stands out as the 
   only reference tool for librarians cataloging Internet resources using 
   MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging). If you are a cataloger, this is 
   the kind of nitty-gritty guidance that makes a difficult job easier. 
   One of the most useful sections is the appendix with record examples, 
   although in poignant counterpoint at least a couple of the URLs in the 
   example records were out of date. - RT 

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