__________________________________________________________________ The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture __________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 1 May, 1993, Vol.1, Nr.2 EJVCV1N2 MONITOR THE CYBERSPACE MONITOR ====================== ///////////////////// / TABLE OF CONTENTS / ///////////////////// MEDIA REVIEWS THESES: - A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL INFORMATION ACCESS MODELS APPLIED IN A HYPERTEXT INFORMATION SYSTEM - USING DIALOG CIP AT WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY TO EDUCATE END-USERS NETWARE REVIEWS (systems/hw/sw/services) SERVICES: - GETTING INFORMATION TO AND FROM THE WHITE HOUSE - INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES - "THE INTERNET COMPANION" ON-LINE - ANNOUNCING THE QK-MHS MANAGER'S GUIDE - EARN HELP DESK - NET-CONSULTING SERVICE ANNOUNCED NETWARE TUTORIALS LISTSERV/LDBASE MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS PROJECTS: - CALL FOR CONSORTIUM MEMBERS OF U.S.-RUSSIA ELECTRONIC DISTANCE EDUCATION SYSTEM (EDES) - ASPESA SIG IN RESEARCH IN DISTANCE EDUCATION - COMPUTER NETWORKING IN K-12 EDUCATION: PROJECT KYBER-12 - PROJECT EASI, EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION - SURVEY QUESTIONS: CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE ACQUISITION, DELIVERY AND USE OF INFORMATION IN THE 1990'S - INTERNATIONALIZATION QUESTIONNAIRE - INFOSHARE WANTS FOREIGN STUDENTS AND STUDENT SPONSORS CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: - CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: SUNY PRESS SERIES IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN EDUCATION, WORK, & SOCIETY - INET'93 - TOWARDS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY - 10TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & OPEN HOUSE OF THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION LABORATORY - ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE - ED-MEDIA'93: WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA - HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) MINI-TRACK ON DISTRIBUTED GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS - CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT PROPOSALS: COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ///////////////// / MEDIA REVIEWS / ///////////////// THESES ~~~~~~ To: Multiple recipients of list IR-L IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 2, 1993 Volume X, Number 9 Issue 153 ********************************************************** Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-19620. AU PEREZ, ERNEST RAOUL. TI A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL INFORMATION ACCESS MODELS APPLIED IN A HYPERTEXT INFORMATION SYSTEM. IN Texas Woman's University Ph.D. 1991, 259 pages. SO DAI V53(02), SecA, pp338. DE Library Science. Information Science. Mass Communications. AB Hypertext is an effective computer interface technology showing promise for information retrieval system applications. The ease of use and totally self-directed nature of navigating a hypertext information system using embedded associative links has drawn favorable reactions from system developers and implementors. However, many information retrieval specialists and librarians are concerned about the absence of planning for effective, consistent, controlled means of information organization and access. This exploratory study investigated the potential for transferring traditional, print-based methods of information retrieval to the hypertext medium. An extensive literature review provided background for construction of a conceptual model of traditional information access methods. The study used the established case study procedure of comparing a subject system against a proposed model, to establish the degree of agreement or disagreement with the hypothesis. The investigator selected an MS-DOS hypertext authoring system which apparently used some traditional information organization and structuring methods. Data collection methods included interview of the system developer and associates, examination of system documentation, informal interview of hypertext system developers using the system, and use of the subject system authoring tools for construction of a small hypertext system. Multiple means of data collection were used, allowing for cross-checking and verification of information. The data was interpreted by tabulation and examination of results against the traditional information access model. The study conclusively supported the hypothesis of the transferability of nearly all traditional information access and retrieval methods to the hypertext medium. It identified the hierarchical taxonomy matrix tool used in the subject authoring system as an accepted method of organizing information structure, and found it to be an effective hypertext authoring approach. It recommended the use of methods for insuring structured information organization, and tools to provide for consistency and control of access means. The study concluded that it would be productive for hypertext system authors to adopt a highly integrative approach, using a mixture of traditional information access methodologies to complement hypertext associative linking access and sophisticated information retrieval software approaches. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-17762. AU SULLIVAN, KATHRYN ANN. TI USING DIALOG CIP AT WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY TO EDUCATE END-USERS. IN Nova University D.Sc. 1991, 300 pages. SO DAI V53(02), SecA, pp338. DE Library Science. Information Science. Education, Technology. AB Graduate students need to know the resources of their university library in order to do research and cannot be expected to remember any library training they may have received as undergraduates. A class offered by the library on how to search databases available through DIALOG's Classroom Instruction Program (CIP) was proposed, in cooperation with existing research classes in the student's field. A study was conducted at Winona State University, Winona, MN, with research classes offered by two professors in the field of special education. The study was to determine whether the information presented in an instruction session based on six learning objectives--choosing a database, choosing search terms and connectors, using search commands, modifying the search online, printing search results, and logging out--would enable graduate students to conduct an online search. Eighteen graduate students were provided with an hour's free searching on DIALOG in order to locate citations on their own choice of topic as part of an assignment from their instructor. Questionnaires were used to gather student assessments of their skills before and after their DIALOG search, while observation of the student during the search and examination of the actual printout of the search were used in conjunction with performance indicators to rate the actual skill in using DIALOG. All of the students were able to search DIALOG and print out citations but, based on performance indicators, none had the skill to be fully independent searchers. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] //////////////////////////////////////////// / NETWARE REVIEWS (systems/hw/sw/services) / //////////////////////////////////////////// SERVICES ~~~~~~~~ GETTING INFORMATION TO AND FROM THE WHITE HOUSE From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) GETTING INFORMATION TO AND FROM THE WHITE HOUSE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Updated March 12, 1993 A. HOW TO SIGN UP FOR ELECTRONIC RELEASES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: The White House Communications office is distributing press releases over an experimental system developed during the campaign. You can sign up to receive press releases on this experimental system by using the automated computer server. You will be carried forward onto the system that replaces it. However, it would be appreciated if you used this service sparingly at this time. The present system was not designed to handle high levels of message traffic. In due course, a more powerful system will be available. You can also find copies of the press releases in certain on-line bulletin board groups devoted to discussions of either national politics in general or President Clinton in particular. 1. On USENET/NETNEWS, electronic publications are found on a variety of groups: Direct Distribution alt.politics.clinton alt.politics.org.misc alt.politics.reform alt.politics.usa.misc alt.news-media alt.activism talk.politics.misc Indirect Distribution misc.activism.progressive cmu.soc.politics assocs.clinton-gore-92 2. On CompuServe: GO WHITEHOUSE 3. On America Online: keyword WHITEHOUSE or THE WHITEHOUSE or CLINTON 4. On The WELL: type whitehouse 5. On MCI: type VIEW WHITE HOUSE If you don't have access to the these accounts or if you would prefer to receive the releases via e-mail, then the next section details how to sign up for this service. The server is not set up to answer e-mail letters, comments or requests for specific information. To reach this server, send e-mail: to: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org subject: Help The server works by reading the subject line of the incoming message and taking whatever action that line calls for. If you want to sign up to automatically receive press releases, then your subject line would begin with the word RECEIVE. You can then specify what kind of information you are interested in receiving. The categories of information are: ECONOMIC POLICY Get releases related to the economy such as budget news, technology policy review, etc. FOREIGN POLICY Get releases related to foreign policy such as statements on Bosnian airdrop, Haitian refugee status, etc. SOCIAL POLICY Get releases related to social issues like National Service (Student Loan) program, abortion, welfare reform, etc. SPEECHES All speeches made by the President and important speeches made by other Administration officials. NEWS Transcripts of press conferences released by the White House Communications office, as well as the President's remarks in photo ops and other Q&A sessions. ALL All of the above So, if you wanted to sign up to get releases related to the economy your e-mail message would look like this: To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org Subject: RECEIVE ECONOMY When you send a signup message to the clinton-info server, it sends you back a status message letting you know what distribution streams you are signed up for. If you ever want to check on what groups you are signed up for send the following message: To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org Subject: STATUS You can stop receiving e-mail releases by sending a REMOVE message to the clinton-info server. The word REMOVE would be followed by whatever distribution stream you wanted to drop. If you wanted to stop receiving message about the ECONOMY then your mail would look like this: To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org Subject: REMOVE ECONOMY You could substitute SOCIAL, FOREIGN, SPEECHES, NEWS or ALL for ECONOMY in the above message and you would be dropped from that distribution list. If you send the subject line REMOVE ALL, then you will be taken off the e-mail distribution system all together and will not receive further releases of any kind. You can also ask for help from the automated server. Send an e-mail query as follows: To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org Subject: HELP The server will respond by sending you a detailed form that will guide you through the process of signing up for the various distribution streams. B. ARE THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES BEING ARCHIVED. Yes. Various sites are archiving the press releases. What follows is an incomplete list of some of the sites containing the documents that have been released to date. This FAQ will be updated to reflect new sites as they become known. SITE DIRECTORY 1. SUNSITE.UNC.EDU /HOME3/WAIS/WHITE-HOUSE-PAPERS 2. FTP.CCO.CALTECH.EDU /PUB/BJMCCALL 3. FTP MARISTB.MARIST.EDU 4. CPSR.ORG /CPSR/CLINTON 5. FedWorld BBS 703-321-8020 8-N-1 Notes: The following are notes on how to log in and get information from the above sites. 1. Office FOR Information Technology at University of North Carolina Maintains the full collection of White House electronic release available for search with WAIS. (:source :version 3 :database-name "/home3/wais/White-House-Papers" :ip- address "152.2.22.81" :ip-name "sunsite.unc.edu" :tcp-port 210 :cost 0.00 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "pjones@sunsite.unc.edu" :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Feb 27 15:16:16 1993 by pjones@sunsite.unc.edu These are the White House Press Briefings and other postings dealing with William Jefferson Clinton and Albert Gore as well as members of the President's Cabinet and the first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea, Socks and others in Washington DC. Dee Dee Meyers and George Stephanopoulos. Other good words: United States of America, Bill Al Tipper Democrats USA US These files are also available via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu The files of type filename used in the index were: /home3/ftp/pub/academic/political-science/whitehouse- papers/1993 ") Folks without WAIS clients or gophers that act as WAIS clients may telnet to sunsite.unc.edu and login as swais to access this information via WAIS. 2. No special instructions. 3. The CLINTON@MARIST log files which contain all the official administration releases distributed through the MIT servers are available via anonymous FTP. These logs contain in addition to the official releases, the posts that comprise the ongoing discussion conducted by the list subscribers. To obtain the logs: FTP MARISTB.MARIST.EDU - the logs are in the CLINTON directory and are named CLINTON LOG9208 thru CLINTON LOGyymm where yymm stands for the current year and month. Problems should be directed to my attention: URLS@MARISTC.BITNET or URLS@VM.MARIST.EDU. Posted by Lee Sakkas - owner, CLINTON@MARIST 4. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is providing all Clinton documents on technology and privacy at the CPSR Internet Library, available via FTP/WAIS/Gopher at cpsr.org /cpsr/clinton (and in other folders as relevant). For email access, send a message with the word "help" at the 1st line of text to listserv@cpsr.org. 5. The White House Forum (GO WHITEHOUSE) on CompuServe is devoted to discussion of the Clinton administration's policies and activities. The forum's library consists of news releases and twice daily media briefings from the White House Office of Media Affairs. CompuServe members can exchange information and opinions with each other in the 17 sections in the forum's message area. The message board spans a broad range of topics, including international and United Nations activities, defense, health care, the economy and the deficit, housing and urban development, the environment, and education and national service. 6. On America Online the posts are sent to the White House Forum, located in the News & Finance department of the service and accessible via keywords "white house" and "clinton." The White House Forum on America Online contains the press releases from the White House, divided into the categories "Press Briefings," "Meetings & Speeches," "Foreign Policy," "The Economy," "Technology," "Health Care," and "Appointments." The area features a message board so you can discuss the releases with other AOL members, and a searchable database for easy retrieval of releases in the topic that interests you. 7. MCI Mail users can access daily information on the administration's programs provided by the White House through MCI Mail bulletin boards. The available boards are: WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC, WHITE HOUSE FOREIGN, WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL, WHITE HOUSE SPEECHES and WHITE HOUSE NEWS. A listing of these boards can also be obtained by simply typing VIEW WHITE HOUSE at the COMMAND prompt. C. SENDING E-MAIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE The White House e-mail system is under construction. This is a new project and suffers from all of the problems common to a startup operation. The Communications office is currently working on defining what this system will do, as well as trying to come up with equipment and staffing to make sure that it works. E-mail messages are currently being printed out and responses are being sent out via US Mail. Nobody wants this new venture to work more than the staff that has devoted so many hours to getting it up and running. But much time and effort will be required before the system is truly interactive. In the mean time, they will need a little patience from the electronic community. If you send a message to the White House, please include a US Post office address for replies. You can send e-mail to the following accounts: Compuserve: 75300,3115 GO: WHITE HOUSE finds White House forum America OnLine: clinton pz KEYWORD: WHITEHOUSE finds White House area MCI TO: WHITE HOUSE VIEW WHITE HOUSE views bulletin boards Internet: clinton-hq@Campaign92.Org 75300.3115@compuserve.com clintonpz@aol.com Please send corrections, deletion and additions to this faq to: Updates@Clinton92.Org [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] INTERNIC DIRECTORY AND DATABASE SERVICES From: /PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com InterNIC Directory and Database Services: Database Services Starting April 1, 1993, InterNIC Database Services will provide three categories of information in databases which will be freely accessible online to Internet end users. Material recommended or contributed by NSF, such as introductory, tutorial and policy documents. Communications documents that relate to the NSFNET and that are approved by the NSF, IAB, IETF working groups or other appropriate bodies. Database Services is a primary repository for all RFC's (Request for Comments), FYI's (For Your Information) , STD's (standard RFC's), Internet Drafts and other IETF documentation. Some individuals, schools, or institutions could have information that could be valuable to groups of users on the Internet. However, they may not have the resources or the infrastructure to make them publicly available. We will store collections of data or databases supplied by these groups that meet the NSF AUP. A fee is charged for maintaining these collections and databases on our servers using the following banded fee structure. Access to the information by end users is free. - Up to 5 megabytes: $30.00/month - 5 to 25 megabytes: $80.00/month - 25 to 50 megabytes: $200.00/month - Larger than 50 megabytes: Price negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Directory and Database Services will keep the collected data on our server with the owners of the data responsible for updates. After April 1, 1993, contact the Directory and Database Administrator on (908-668-6587) or send electronic mail to admin@ds.internic.net for information on accessing the information on our servers or for more information on storing your data on the Directory and Database servers. An electronic order template for storing your files on the Directory and Database server will be available April 1, 1993. It may be retrieved by anonymous FTP from host ds.internic.net using the following commands: cd /pub/InterNIC-info get database_order.template All files are stored using a UNIX directory structure. Users may search for and transfer text information using a WAIS client, either one local to their own host, or by telnetting to the Directory and Database server to access our specialized WAIS client. Simply telnet to host ds.internic.net and login as user "wais". No password is required. Online help information is available. Users may also use archie via telnet or electronic mail to search for local files and directories. Telnet to ds.internic.net and login with userid "archie" (no password required) or send mail to archie@ds.internic.net. All information can be retrieved using either anonymous FTP or electronic mail through our mailserver application. To find out how to retrieve documents and files from Database Services, you may obtain a user's guide for the mailserver application by sending mail to mailserv@ds.internet.net and including the command HELP in the body of the message. Our vision for Database Services extends beyond complementing the existing resources of the Internet. While storing prominent information such as RFC's, Internet Drafts, etc., we will also strive to provide new users and affinity groups access to information of interest to them. We will offer database design, management, and maintenance services to candidate institutions and groups for a fee to be determined on a case-by-case basis. For more information about specialized database design and development, contact the Directory and Database Administrator on (908) 668-6587. ================================================================= From: /PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com InterNIC Directory and Database Services: Server Access Begining April 1, 1993, the InterNIC Directory and Database server will be freely available to all end users on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The server is a UNIX processor running SunOS 4.1.3 with host name ds.internic.net. It contains the files and databases which make up the Directory of Directories, Directory Services and Database Services. Several different interfaces are available to allow easy access to these services for both sophisticated and novice users. WAIS ---- The Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) client/server application (developed by Thinking Machines, Inc. and others) is implemented to allow WAIS searching of text files stored on the server. The server is registered at the central WAIS server maintained by Thinking Machines, Inc. at quake.think.com. Our WAIS server may be accessed by remote WAIS clients or through a local WAIS client available through telnet. Just telnet to ds.internic.net and login as userid "wais". No password is required. This client contains an online tutorial and help information for all commands. archie ------ The archie system, developed by Bunyip Information Systems, Inc., is also implemented to allow searches of the Directory and Database server directory structure. Archie is accessible through telnet (login as userid "archie", no password required) or electronic mail (send mail to archie@ds.internic.net). Archie's online help facilities are available for the new user. X.500 DUA and NETFIND --------------------- The X.500 QUIPU Directory Service Agent (DSA) and an X.500 Directory User Agent (DUA) are implemented to allow searching for white pages listings of persons or organizations currently participating in Internet X.500 pilot projects. The DUA may be accessed via telnet by logging in as user "x500". No password is required and online help is provided. The DSA may also be accessed from any remote DUA. A NETFIND client is also available to get information about individuals. Telnet to ds.internic.net and login as user "netfind". Again, no password is required. Tutorial Telnet Client ---------------------- A special tutorial login is available to allow new users to access any of the online services on the Directory and Database server without the specific login id. Just telnet to ds.internic.net and login as "guest" (no password required). The tutorial will guide the user through the various services and connect him/her to the client they request. Anonymous FTP ------------- All files accessible through the telnet clients listed above are available using anonymous FTP. Electronic Mail --------------- An electronic mail application, developed by AT&T, is available which provides batch access to our services. To obtain user information, send mail to mailserv@ds.internic.net and include the command HELP in the body of the message. Additional access interfaces will be added in the future. For example, the Internet GOPHER will be implemented within a few months. If you are interested in more information about access to Directory and Database Services, contact the Directory and Database Administrator on (908) 668-6587 or send electronic mail to admin@ds.internic.net. ================================================================= From: /PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com InterNIC Directory and Database Services: Directory of Directories The Directory of Directories will enable users to obtain references to information resources, products and services associated with the Internet. It will include pointers to such resources as computing centers, network providers, information servers, white and yellow pages directories, library catalogs, data and software archives, training services and the like. In offering the Directory of Directories we will: . Store a listing for available information resources, including type, description, how to access the resource and other attributes. Initially, the listings will be in ASCII text format. We will support two types of listings in the Directory of Directories: standard and expanded entries. Standard entries will be maintained free-of-charge. They are allowed approximately 15 lines (at 79 characters per line) to contain a brief description of the resource and pointers to more detailed information. Expanded entries cost $100.00 per month, with a minimum charge of three months, and provide much more space to allow the resource owners to fully and flexibly describe their resources. In the future, expanded entries could include multi-media formatted information. . Provide several different methods to access the information. The Directory of Directories is freely accessible to all Internet users. Keyword searches and information download will be supported through the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) either directly from a user's WAIS client or through a WAIS client provided on the Directory server. To access the WAIS client, telnet to host ds.internic.net and login as "wais". No password is required. The Directory of Directories will be stored in UNIX file structure so archie may also be used to search for information, either from remote archie clients, the archie client maintained on the Directory server, or through electronic mail. To access the archie client, telnet to host ds.internic.net and login as "archie". No password is required. The archie email interface can be accessed by sending mail to archie@ds.internic.net. Directory entries may also be retrieved using electronic mail using our mailserver application or through anonymous FTP. To access the mailserver application, send email to mailserv@ds.internic.net. For instructions, send mail containing the word "help" as the body of the message. FTP users should access ds.internic.net and change directory to resources. . Strive to maintain the accuracy and relevance of the information in the database. We will constantly search for new listings to add to the Directory of Directories. And once an entry is loaded, we will maintain contact with the provider of the resource to continually revalidate and update the entry information. . Enable information providers to update and add to the database easily. After April 1st, an electronic order form for entries in the Directory of Directories will be available via anonymous FTP. Simply FTP to ds.internic.net and issue the following commands. cd pub/InterNIC-info get dirofdir_request.template If you are interested in more information about the Directory of Directories, contact the Directory and Database Administrator on (908) 668-6587 or send email to admin@ds.internic.net. ================================================================= From: /PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com InterNIC Directory and Database Services: AT&T Mail Server Information The AT&T Mail Server provides electronic mail access to the services provided on the Directory and Database Server. In order to use the Mail Server, send mail to mailserv@ds.internic.net. This sheet lists the information provided when the command "help" is included in the message body. Each command should be entered on a separate line and start in column 1. General Server Information -------------------------- The mail server ignores the Subject: field in the message header. Commands are case insensitive, parameters are case-sensitive. The following is a list of mail server commands: 1) help 2) person name, organization[, country] 3) institution name, country[, keyword, ...] 4) file path[, path, ...] 5) ls/dir path[, path, ...] 6) document_by_name name[, name ...] 7) document_by_keyword keyword[, keyword, ...] 8) resource_by_name name[, name, ...] 9) resource_by_keyword keyword[, keyword, ...] 10) limit value_of_max_msg_unit_size 11) encoding type(uuencode or btoa)[, mandatory] 12) return_to/path return_address_or_route 13) end/exit The mail server imposes the following service controls: - limits a user message to 15 queries and file transfer requests - limits the information returned by file transfer to 500K bytes - limits message processing to 15 seconds When a service control is exceeded, the response to that point is returned. The files available through the "file" command are the same files that can be retrieved via anonymous ftp to ds.internic.net. /pub/ls-lR and /pub/help are available to aid the user. Suggestions and problems can be directed to admin@ds.internic.net. Mail Server Commands -------------------- Directory Query Commands: ------------------------- HELP - Place a help message in the response message. It uses no arguments. example: help PERSON - Issue a white pages lookup for a person. It requires the person's name and organization as arguments and can optionally use country (which will default to US) example: person john doe, ATT, us Note - A white pages query is used to find information on a specific object. A yellow pages query uses a descriptive query to find information on objects that share a common description. INSTITUTION - Issue a white pages lookup for an institution. It requires the institution's name and country as arguments and optionally can use keywords that describe the institution as additional arguments. If the white pages lookup fails, the keyword(s) can be used to guide a directory of directories query. example: institution ATT, us, noc FILE - This command initiates a file transfer by email for each file specified. It requires a fully qualified pathname for each desired file. example: file /ftp/rfc/rfc1000.txt, /ftp/rfc/rfc1001.txt LS/DIR - This command initiates a directory listing for each directory specified. It requires a fully qualified pathname for each desired directory listing. example: ls /ftp/rfc, /ftp/fyi DOCUMENT-BY-NAME - Issue a white pages query for each document specified. It requires at least one document name. The domain of this search is limited to those documents in the NIS server document database. If the query results in only one document, the document is queued for file transfer by email. If more than one document is returned (ie .txt and .ps versions), the fully qualified pathnames of all these documents are included in the response message and the text (.txt) version will be queued for file transfer by email. example: document-by-name rfc822 DOCUMENT-BY-KEYWORD - Issue a yellow pages query for documents related to the specified keyword(s). At least one document keyword is required. The domain of this search is limited to the documents in the NIS server document database. The fully qualified pathnames of all documents returned are included in the response message. example: document-by-keyword ietf, directory RESOURCE-BY-NAME - Issue a white pages query for each resource specified. It requires at least one resource name. example: resource-by-name prospero RESOURCE-BY-KEYWORD - This command results in a yellow pages query for resources related to the specified keyword(s). It requires at least one resource keyword. It returns a list of resources. If only one resource is found, the information on that resource is returned. example: resource-by-keyword super, computers File Transfer Control Commands: ------------------------------- Note - File transfer control commands must be specified prior to any commands which will result in file transfers. LIMIT - Limit the segment size used for segmenting files too large for one message unit and specified in either bytes or "k" bytes (default is 64k). example: limit 40k ENCODING - Specify the encoding rule for non plain-text files (ie. binary, archive, or compressed files), both uuencode and btoa are supported (default is uuencode). An optional second parameter named "mandatory" forces all files transferred to be encoded. Postscript files, which can contain control characters, are treated as non plain-text files. example: encoding uuencode, mandatory Mail Control Commands: ---------------------- RETURN-TO/PATH - Explicitly sets the return path if the response address cannot be determined from the rfc822 mail header. If this command is included, it will override the mail header. This is very useful if you do not have direct access to the Internet or if you are not sure your mailer generates correct return addresses. It requires one argument which is the return path. example: path host2!host1!user1@host3.school.edu END/EXIT - The mail server stops processing the message and sends the response. This is very useful if your mailer appends trailing lines to user messages that would be treated as syntax errors. example: exit ================================================================= From: /PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com InterNIC Directory and Database Services: Directory Services We provide several methods of free access to X.500 and Netfind white pages data on the Internet. Public access Directory User Agent (DUA): ----------------------------------------- You can use an X.500 Directory User Agent by telnet to ds.internic.net - use userid "x500" with no password - and obtain information about persons and organizations participating in the X.500 pilot projects. The interface provides on-line help and asks for a person's name, the department or unit name, the organization or institution name, and the country name and then responds to the query. Electronic Mail: ---------------- You can send person and institution queries to a mail server that in turn queries the X.500 Directory and returns a response. Send mail to mailserv@ds.internic.net. For instructions on how to use the mailserver, send a message which includes the word "help" in the body of the message. For a person query, the body of the message must have the keyword "person" and a list of parameters in the format: person For an institution query, the body of the message must have the keyword "institution" and a list of parameters in the format: institution Directory System Agent (DSA): ----------------------------- We will run a QUIPU DSA named "Pied Tamarin" on the machine ds.internic.net that has the following presentation address: '0101'H/TELEX+00728722+RFC-1006+03+198.49.45.10+17003 Any DUA can connect to our DSA. We also run the Directory Assistant (DA) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) access protocols. The DSA "Pied Tamarin" presently stores InterNIC personnel listings. It will soon have WHOIS data collected by the Registration Services provider. We will also accept X.500 listings from interested organizations and individuals. If you are interested in an X.500 organizational or individual listing please send electronic mail to admin@ds.internic.net Public Access Netfind Client: ----------------------------- You can use our public access Netfind client by telnetting to ds.internic.net - use userid "netfind" with no password - to get information about an individual. The format of a search request is: name keywords where name is the last name of the individual and keywords are a list of words that specify the domain name. All the services will be generally available from April 1, 1993. For more information please send electronic mail to admin@ds.internic.net. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] "THE INTERNET COMPANION" ON-LINE Tracy LaQuey Editorial Inc. Software Tool & Die and The Online BookStore (OBS) Are Pleased To Announce Another Installment Of The Internet Companion The Online BookStore (OBS) continues with their first simultaneous electronic and print publication of a major new book: The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking by Tracy LaQuey with Jeanne C. Ryer (Addison-Wesley, $10.95). Online copies of Vice-President-elect Al Gore's Foreword and the first three chapters of this best-selling book are available via anonymous FTP from: world.std.com in the directory: /OBS/The.Internet.Companion/ Further chapters will be released in the future. See the README and COPYRIGHT files in that directory for more details. Direct comments and questions about the book to: internet-companion@world.std.com This pioneering effort is a step in bringing together the on-line electronic and print media, enabling authors to explore new avenues of publishing their works. Comments, inquiries, etc. welcome: Send to obs@world.std.com. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ANNOUNCING THE QK-MHS MANAGER'S GUIDE Announcing the QK-MHS Manager's Guide The QK-MHS Manager's Guide describes the procedures for setting up and managing the QK-MHS X.400 Messaging System for VM. This is a new manual, describing version 1.0 of QK-MHS and OSI/VM. The guide is intended for the experienced VM system administrator who must manage the QK-MHS X.400 Messaging System. General networking experience, especially with mail-based networks, is assumed. The guide was produced by GMD, Germany, under contract to EARN. The QK-MHS Manager's Guide is available from: LISTSERV@EARNCC.BITNET in plain text and Postscript format. Due to the size of the guide (over 12,000 lines) and its intended audience, the guide is available to Node ADministrators only. A listing of the table of contents is available to all. To get the QK-MHS documentation, send the command: GET file where 'file' is one of: QKMHS PS (Postscript) QKMHS MEMO (plain text) QKMHS CONTENTS (table of contents) David Sitman EARN [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] EARN HELP DESK - NET-CONSULTING SERVICE ANNOUNCED Users as well as system administrators throughout EARN often come across a problem in dealing with the network and have no local source of help to turn to. EARN has decided to address the problem offering a Net-consulting Help Desk service. THE SERVICE ___________ A Network Consulting Team (NCT) available via e-mail to handle ques- tions from users has been established. The service is free of charge and is limited to users at EARN sites. The NCT is mandated to handle questions and problems related to the realm of networking. An example of items the team would *not* handle would be general computer programming and debugging problems. In order to submit questions to the NCT the users shall send electronic mail written in English to: NETHELP@EARNCC.BITNET in order to obtain a quick and meaningful answer it is recommended to submit questions using the following template: -------------------------------------------------------------------- MY QUESTION IS: .................................................................... THE PROBLEM I HAVE IS: .................................................................... WHAT DO I WANT TO ACHIEVE IS: .................................................................... -------------------------------------------------------------------- The template should be filled like in the following example: -------------------------------------------------------------------- MY QUESTION IS: How can I write e-mail to users in Romania? THE PROBLEM I HAVE IS: I do not know any e-mail address in Romania and, as a matter of fact, I do not even know if Romania is connected at all. WHAT DO I WANT TO ACHIEVE IS: Collaboration with Romanian researchers working in the field of high energy physics. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The questions will be answered by the NCT following the first-in first-out logic. The service is established for a pilot period of 6 month. Questions can be submitted at any time, the NCT, however, will usually reply during working hours. d. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ///////////////////// / NETWARE TUTORIALS / ///////////////////// LISTSERV/LDBASE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cyberspace Monitor The CMS/VM Listserv Lists and Database Program Bob Zenhausern This section of the Monitor will deal with the latest developments in the Listserv software developed by Eric Thomas and the use of the database functions of that software. The information on the software will be sporadic, peaking when new versions are released with relatively little activity between releases. Digest and Index New Mail Options on Listserv The latest Listserv software has been installed on many Bitnet sites and two new mail options seem the most the relevant features. The first is digest. Send mail or a message to Listserv with the command: . From that point on the messages from the List will be sent to you in one file the next day. The advantage is only a single file needs to be sent and all the messages are neatly bound together in a "magazine". The disadvantage is similar to print magazines: do you ever get the time to sit down and read it? It may be a matter of personal preference whether you want to see the messages "on the fly" or as a neat package. The choice is yours. There is a third choice provided by the command . This results in an index of the files that have been sent to the List including number, sender, length, and topic. In terms of network congestion, it is clearly the most efficient. From the perspective of the user, again it depends on preference. It is one step further removed from "on the fly" but it is possible to request only those messages you want to read, eliminating requests for subscription, test messages, and announcements for conferences in Death Valley. The index file you receive has a very nice automatic request feature. At the bottom of the file is a statement asking for the numbers of the messages you want sent to you. Just fill in the numbers and forward it back to Listserv. These are important enhancements to Listserv that are worth your effort to explore. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] /////////////////////////////////////////// / MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS / /////////////////////////////////////////// PROJECTS ~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR CONSORTIUM MEMBERS OF U.S.-RUSSIA ELECTRONIC DISTANCE EDUCATION SYSTEM (EDES) Call for Consortium Members of U.S.-Russia Electronic Distance Education System (EDES) Russian Electronic University GLOSAS/USA has recently received a request from the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technology Policy of the Russian Federation to jointly establish a U.S.-Russia electronic distance education system via various telecommunication media. Russian colleagues will establish an International Distance Education Network (IDENET) which will be administered by the Association of International Education, a consortium of prominent educational institutions in Russia. Dr. Tak(eshi) Utsumi, Chairman of GLOSAS/USA, has been busy trying to get this project off the ground by raising the necessary funds and forming a consortium of members of American educational institutions and industries. Some of the institutions contacted are National Technological University, University of Colorado, George Washington University, University of Hawaii, State University of New York, Columbia University, Tufts University and Brown University, as well as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and INTELSAT. The World Bank will support Russia's establishment of a media center and electronic distance education activities, the latter of which will include the establishment of IDENET. The Bank may also utilize the system not only for their dissemination of bank policies and staff training, but also for educating the Russian public and educational institutions on the so-called "missing culture" of market economy. Tak hopes this system will later become a Russian branch of Global (electronic) University of GLOSAS/USA. Tak has also received inquiries and proposals to join in this project from Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Middle East, making this an international project to help Russia. Those interested in participating should contact Tak Utsumi by phone at 718-939-0928 or email at . Please distribute this to any networks. Thank you. Excerpted from: ********************************************************************** ISSN-1188-6307 GN/GE/Vol.III/No. 1 March 1993 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** * Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D. * * President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA) * * A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA * * (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) * * 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. * * Phone: 718-939-0928; EIES: 492 or TAK; * * SprintMail: TUTSUMI/GU.USA/ASSOCIATES.TNET * * INTERNET: utsumi@columbia.edu * ********************************************************************** [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ASPESA SIG IN RESEARCH IN DISTANCE EDUCATION ASPESA SIG IN RESEARCH IN DISTANCE EDUCATION The Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association (ASPESA) has a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Research. The SIG produces an annual publication (Distance Education Research News as a supplement to the ASPESA Newsletter) listing the different research projects members (individual and institutional) are engaged in. So far two such publications have been produced with major support from the Distance Education Centre of the University of Southern Queensland. The broad groupings of research activities within the SIG are as follows: A-Individual and Group 1. Theory, models and methods of distance education 2. Learner characteristics, equity and social justice 3. Open learning and the industrial context 4. Design and development of courseware 5. Media mix, instructional technology and telepedagogy 6. Administration and management of distance education 7. Student support, study skills and feedback systems 8. Discipline based contexts of distance education 9. Teacher education and professional development 10.Cognition and metacognition 11.Research and evaluation 12.Expert learning systems B-Institutional C-Inter-institutional >From 1993 we have decided to open it up to the international scene in order to publicise widely what is being done in distance education within Australia and the Pacific, and other regions of the world. Second, we intend to make the catalogue of research activities available via the electronic data base medium. To this end we would welcome all of you out there involved in one form of distance education related research activities or another, who wish to have their research activities listed in the ASPESA SIG Research news to do so by completing the following and forwarding it back to me as soon as possible. Olugbemior Jegede Coordinator, ASPESA SIG in Research in Distance Education C/-Research and Development Unit Distance Education Centre University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia Tel:076-312283 Fax:076-312868 Internet:jegede@zeus.usq.edu.au ============================================================ ASPESA SIG RESEARCH CURRENT AND PLANNED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (please complete separate forms for each research activity) (a) Principal Investigator(s) Name:...............................Address................................. ........................................................................... E-Mail Address................................ Name................................Address................................ ............................................................................ E-Mail Address................................ (b) Other Researchers Name:...............................Address................................. ............................................................................ E-Mail Address............................... Name:...............................Address................................. ............................................................................ E-Mail Address............................... Name:...............................Address................................. ............................................................................ E-Mail Address............................... (c)Research Topic:......................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... (d)Brief description of Project:........................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... (e)Timeline and stages:.................................................... ........................................................................... (f)Funding Sources and Amounts:............................................ ........................................................................... (g)Expected outcomes of the Project (e.g. Journal Article, PhD Thesis) ........................................................................... ........................................................................... Thank you for taking the time to complete this form. Please forward it back to me - jegede@zeus.usq.edu.au [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] COMPUTER NETWORKING IN K-12 EDUCATION: PROJECT KYBER-12 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" COMPUTER NETWORKING IN K-12 EDUCATION: PROJECT KYBER-12 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Project KYBER-12 is an intensive, systematic study of the leadership, management, and supervision of K-12 computer telecommunications and information retrieval. Scope: World-wide, global, international, all continents. Duration: Three years, August 1992 - August 1995. Project KYBER-12 seeks information on the following: 1. Exemplary K-12 computer networking initiatives, projects, programs, operations; 2. Purpose, vision, and/or futures of initiatives, projects, and programs in K-12 computer networking; 3. Policy on K-12 computer networking; 4. Funding, and budgeting, K-12 computer networking; 5. Planning K-12 computer networking: a. Strategic, b. Long range, c. Intermediate range, d. Short range; 6. Evaluation (including designs and reports) of K-12 computer networking; 7. Decision strategies/methods/techniques for resolving issues, problems, incidents involving K-12 computer networking; 8. Empowerment, motivation, in-service, and teacher education factors relative to K-12 computer networking; 9. Community, ethical, political, economic, and legal issues on K-12 computer networking; 10. Bios/profiles/characteristics of leaders of exemplary K-12 computer networking initiatives. Contribute any of the following forms of information about K-12 computer networking: 1. Copies of newsletters, newspaper stories, and magazine/journal/periodical articles; 2. Copies of official documents (if possible); 3. Names (with e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, and/or FAX numbers) of **key** contacts: leaders, superintendents, other school system administrators (directors, corrdinators), supervisors, principals, teachers, and/or community/organizational supporters/partners; 4; Computer files about K-12 networking projects; 5. Electronic mail about your personal viewpoints and and opinions about the leadership, management, and supervision of K-12 networking. Files may be submitted for consideration to be archived and distributed world-wide through the KYBER-12 FTP Archive. Submitted files must be in ASCII. Consent must be given to archive and distribute the files for a limited period of time. The files will be archived at byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in /pub/estepp/kyber-12/exemplars. Contributors will be kept informed on KYBER-12 in several ways. Progress reports of the study will be occasionally issued to electronic conferences, such as EDPOLYAN. Annual reports, the summative report, and the executive report will be available later by ftp. Articles will appear in scholarly journals. Contribute at least one item of information today, or as soon as possible. Send your contribution of information to one of the addresses in the signature. Thanks! """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Dr. Ermel Stepp BITNET m034050@marshall Director, Project KYBER-12 Internet m034050@marshall.wvnet.edu Marshall University FAX (304) 696-6565 Huntington, WV 25755-2440 VOICE (304) 696-2946 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" finger m034050@marshall.mu.wvnet.edu """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] PROJECT EASI, EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION Project EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, has just started a new electronic discussion list on disability access to libraries. Dick Banks from U. Wisconsin at Stout will be its moderator. Anyone wanting to join the list or get further information about it should contact Dick rbanks@uwstout.edu. EASI is starting the list to: 1. provide a forum to share questions and answers about how to make 2. provide a platform from which to reach libraries which are not yet considering seriously the question of access for users with disabilities. 3. provide a platform from which to lobby vendors of electronic library services to create tools that are already highly accessible. 4. encourage electronic networks and network information services to make their facilities as accessible as possible to users with disabilities. 5. create and provide EASI services to assist campus libraries and information providers with resources to assist them in becoming more disability accessible. The print handicapped have the possibility of making ready use of libraries for the first time. Mobility impaired persons have the possibility of making use of libraries without travel. It is important that these new electronic services be built from the ground up with access awareness rather than having to become modified later. Please join us in this important task. Norman Coombs Chair, Project EASI Professor of HIstory Rochester Institute of Technology. nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Dick BAnks easilibxs moderator Adaptive Technologist Library Learning Center University of Wisconsin-Stout rbanks@uwstout.edu For information about Project EASI: easi@educom.bitnet or easi@educom.edu A project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology Program (EUIT), EASI provides information and guidance on campus applications of adaptive computer technology for access to information resources, instruction, research and employment. EASI's membership includes professionals from throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] SURVEY QUESTIONS: CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE ACQUISITION, DELIVERY AND USE OF INFORMATION IN THE 1990'S SURVEY QUESTIONS Changing Patterns in the Acquisition, Delivery and Use of Information in the 1990's In an attempt to learn more about how people perceive the future directions of publishing -- the acquisition, delivery and use of information -- we've created this simple survey for you to complete. Please feel free to be creative in your answers. Thanks. ** Results will be summarized and emailed to all participants. ** o What are the three most significant technologies that you believe will impact publishing during this decade? Breaking that down, what is the most important technology you anticipate that will affect the acquisition of data? Most important regarding the delivery of data? o Do you anticipate the use of information to change dramatically in the next decade? How? o What affect do you think the following technologies will have on publishing in the 1990's? - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)? - Better laptops? - Wireless computer networks? - Cellular phone systems? - CD-ROM? - Higher quality LCD screens? - HDTV? - Higher capacity memory chips? - Object-oriented operating systems? - Audio-aware systems? - Hypertext and hypermedia? - Faster and more accessible national and international networks? - Compact Disk Interactive (CDI) and similar? - FAX machines? - ISDN, caller-id and other telephony technologies? - Video tape, video disk and other optical media? o Companies have changed over the last few years too, becoming more multinational, more global in scope, and being forced to learn how to do business in complex world economies. From a publishing perspective, the need to intelligently query and search data has become more important. But the conflict between a printed medium, which allows easy reading, and a digital medium, which allows fast browsing, is a fundamental dilemma. What are your thoughts on this? o What do you think magazines will look like in the late 1990's? What do you think newspapers will look like? How about books, and other printed media? o On-line Information systems like CompuServe and America Online offer an interesting possibility for the future of publishing. What advantages and disadvantages do you see in this media? o Ideally, publishing should be an interactive process. Can you conceive of any future publishing technologies that could offer a more interactive experience between writer, editor, designer, and reader? o What will a public library look like in the future? A bookstore? A magazine stand? o Printing on paper has accustomed us to specific frequencies of publication: weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. As publishing becomes more interactive, and as distribution becomes constrained by network speed rather than mailing, publications can be updated on a daily or even hourly basis. How do you anticipate that might change the definition of what comprises a magazine, newspaper, or newsletter? How would you differentiate between these a decade from now? Thanks for your cooperation: please EMAIL all responses to 'taylor@netcom.com' -- posted replies will not be seen. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] INTERNATIONALIZATION QUESTIONNAIRE ...................................................................... SC22WG20 Questionnair Head letter TKS-921215-1 This is a head letter to be attached to the questionair based on SC22WG20 N123 and N124. Sato ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TKS-921215-1 To: National Standards Bodies, ISO member countries From: Working Group for Internationalization (SC22WG20) Subject: (SC22WG20.546) Questionnairs about internationalization Attached please find two questionnaires, one is concerning cultural dependant items being (or to be) handled in computer systems, and another to investigate information about the organizations/activities for internationalization of information processing technologies. The ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22/WG20 has it's work scope of INTERNATIONALIZATION, and one of the start-up projects of the working group is to provide a technical report tentatively called "Framework, requirements and models for Internationalization". Brief summary and contents of the technical report are described in separated paper included in this package. (TKS-921215-4) To make the technical report as complete as possible, as an intial input, SC22WG20 appreciate very much for your contribution of information on to the sections for followings topics. - Cultural elements of each different cultures (TKS-921215-2) - List of internationalization related activities (TKS-921215-3) The cultural elements section is intended to explain the differences of ways to express varity of items among the cultures, so, the questionnair is to look for cultural element un-known to SC22WG20 yet. You may notice that you are receiving similar questionair from many organizations, the uniqueness of this questionnaire from others is that - Looking for richness of the list of cultural elements, not looking for detailed information about the elements. - The cultural elements are not only the elements that are supported by existing technologies, but cultural elements which to be the candidates for future support. The organizational information is to look for the people who are working on the internationalization of information technology in country and region, such that everybody including SC22WG20 benefit each other by exchanging experiences and ideas, and SC22WG20 likes to learn from those people as much as possible to make WG20's outcome, as well as the technical paper, as complete as possible. Not only replying to those questionnaires by yourself, please feel free to copy and forward the questionnaires to broader range of organizations which you think there are some relation with internationalization to make the result as rich as possible. SC22WG20 is expecting the reply to be returned to following address by 15th of March 1993, however, you can also provide an information anytime you find out the new cultural element. Returen Address is Takayuki K. Sato Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard 9-1, Takakura-cho, HAchioji, Tokyo 192 Japan Phone +81 426 42-1257 Fax +81 426 45-4312 e-mail takayuki_k_sato @ HP8900.desk.hp.com Regards Takayuki K Sato Project editor for the TR "Framework Paper" at SC22WG20 ================== --------------- Questinnair for Cultural Elements (TKS-921215-2)------------ TKS-921215-2 To: From: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22WG20 Subject: (SC22WG20.544) Questionnair concerning Cultural elements Below please find questionnair concerning about cultural dependant elements for internationalization of information technologies, the base of questions is Section 7.3 of Working Draft -1 of "Framework,requirements and models of internationalization" . SC22WG20 appreciate very much for your contribution on our mission of cultural elements collection for the Framework document. What SC22WG20 likes to know is the sensitivity of your culture on each cultural elements shown in this questionnair. What SC22WG20 is looking for is "the cultural elements" which are missing from current Working Draft. What SC22WG20 is NOT asking for is detailed functional specification of each "cultural element" (as of now). but looking for the elements as listed items on the "Framework Paper". Regards and Thanks in advance, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22WG20 ----------This part is an extruct of the section 7 of the working draft -1, hope you can understand the back ground of this questionnair well ---- 7 Taxonomy of Internationalization related functionalities (To be Section 4, Cultural dependant requirements in next working draft) In this clause, the discussion about differences of the requirements by cultures are discussed. The first discussion is to itemize the different original requirements, and second is a taxomony or relation between the requirements. (This questionnair is intending to look for missing items for this part) Methodologies to provide the solution to the requirements is described in different place of this document, ......... 7.1 Requirements for Cultural Dependencies It is necessary to adapt the system surface to handle the culture dependent representation and description. The list of cultural dependent items are described in section 7.3 of this Technical Report. Those items are to be installed in the internationalized and localized information systems. NOTE: This is just a list of the differences or requirements, which does not necessary to be supported under internationalization. Try to accommodate all (or any) of requirements to make system use friendly does mean DIVERSIFICATION which is some how contradict direction with STANDIZATION (which ISO is aiming to). 7.2 Script 7.2.1 Languages and scripts ------------- End of back ground text, start of questionnair ------------ ----------- Returning instruction ------------------------------- Mail, fax or e-mail to following address before 15 march 1993. Takayuki K. Sato Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard, 9-1, Takakura-cho, Hachioji, Tokyo. 192 Japan Phone +81 426 42-1257 Fax. +81 426 45-4312 e-mail takayuki_k_sato@hp8900.desk.hp.com 1, Please feel free to forward this questionnair to other groups within your country/region for more information. As of now, SC22WG20 does not care about inconsist reply from same country or cultural region, rather likes to see the difference as a real fact of the real world. And also, there is no intention that every cultural element reported are to be supported as it is described by countries, the screening work for the "real cultural elements" in international standards will be done after collection of all candidates from variety of sources. Therefore, please do not hesitate to write any cultural elements which you feel "that's your cultural elements" from your best knowlage. 2, If you need this questionnair in machine readable form, please do not hesitate to request FDD(MS-DOS format flat file) or e-mail form of this questionnair to Takayuki K Sato. ----------- Returning form -------------------------------------- Name and Address Telephone number Fax. number Electronic mail address (if available) Country/Region described Your back ground within the country standards activities If you are representing a group please give us the group name. 1, Beside the answering to the question, you can comment on each cultural elements listed in questionnair freely. 2, The form to add new cultural elements of country/regional activity is free, please use the description of other cultural element as a sample or templete to scribe your own addition. -----------------Start of questionnair -------------------------------------- Below please find a set of the "cultural elements" listed in working draft-1 of "Framework,requirements and models for internationalization", SC22WG20 appreciate very much if you provide an information follows. If you have NO IDEA on a specific item, please write NOTHING. The most important information for SC22WG20 is the NEW to SC22WG20 element. 1, Rate each cultural elements from 1(low) to 5(high) from the importance of support of the element in your culture. If it is DON'T CARE rate it as 0 (zero). For item 7.3.36, Just put any number you need. If "Undefined" or "Do not care", please write so. 2, Rate each cultural elements from 1(low) to 5(high) from the importance of support of the element for international use of IT products. 3, Guess how many peoples in your country would use the cultural element. (Plus minus 30% accuracy is good enough, do not take this question too seriously) 4, If you can think of anyone who might feel an importance of the element with in your culture. (person, application fields etc. ...) Please let us know the name(s). 5, If you can think of anyone who might feel an importance of the element out side your culture. (person, application fields etc. ...) Please let us know the name(s). 7.3 Culture Dependent Items Cultural dependent items relevant to internationalization are listed as follows. 7.3.1. Character encoding and handling Character sets used in data, literals, source code, search functions, and identifiers are varied in terms of contents (e.g., national characters), the container size (e.g., multi-octet), and coding (different codings of the same set of characters in containers of the same or different size). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.2. Collating sequence Collating sequence depends upon natural languages used. For example, German sharp-s sorts as ss, and Spanish ch sorts after cz. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.3. Transliteration of characters/Case conversion Translation of characters (including case conversion) is required to han- dle character data in some character sets, while it is not allowed in other character sets. [ The richest functionality possible must be taken into account: NormalizedCharacter Uppercase Lowercase FreeStanding (see Normalize) InitialForm MedialForm FinalForm Subscript Superscript SimplifiedForm (Hanzi/Kanji) TraditionalForm (CJK) and so on (if I forgot elements) ] --Alain LaBonte' 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.4. Character property classification Character property classification (e.g., alphabetic characters, numeric characters, and special characters in Latin alphabetic character sets; Kanji characters and Hangul characters in Korean character set) is different among locales. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.5. Hyphenation of words Hyphenation of words is applicable to some natural languages (e.g.,English), while it is not applicable to other natural languages (e.g., Chinese). The ways of hyphenating words differ from one natural language to another. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.6. Word representation of numbers Word representation of numbers may be different even though the num- ber formatting is same. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.7. Messages and dialogs Natural languages may be used for computer-human dialog. The ways of presenting headings, prompts, error messages, and warnings are different among national languages used. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.8. Documentation Documentation (e.g., user manuals) is written in a natural language of the users and is required to be translated when they are used by the users in other cultural regions. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.9. Character(Glyph) size, line size, and line spacing Printed/displayed character size, line size, and line spacing are different among cultures and character sets (e.g., Han character is wider than Latin character). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.10 Prefered Font style and font attribute Each culture may have it's prefered font style, and attributes of font are different each other. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.11 Writing directions Writing direction (e.g., right-to-left, top-to-bottom, right- to-left-left-to-right, embedded left-to-right in right-to-left text in Hebrew) is language and culture dependent. [Add mirrored characters here] 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.12 Letter presentation TBD [What does letter at here mean ? Document or Character ?] 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.13 Voice message (in Video) In Video information, should voice message in the video localized ? 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.14 Date,time calendar Presentations of date, time, and calendar are culture dependent (e.g., sequence of presenting day, month, and year), and different presentations can be used in a single culture (e.g., 09/18/90 and September 18, 1990, 2:00pm and 14:00). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.15 Era name Some of the countries have their own way to express the name of year, such as Heisei, Showa of Japan. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.16 Currency Presentation of currency symbols might be at the beginning (e.g., $145.25 in US), in the middle (e.g., 145$25 in Portugal), and at the end (e.g., 145,25 F in France). [Is Monetary field size here ? Ref. to IBM doc.] --TK Sato 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.17. Number formatting Presentations of numbers are culture dependent (e.g., 99,999.99 in Japan and 99.999,99 in France). [ "99.999,99" form is prohibited in schools in France: there should always be a space or special space instead of the period, as in "99 999,99". This corresponds to the SI system. ] --Alain LaBonte' [ Is Cardinal number shape here ?] --TK Sato 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.18 Number Rounding TBD 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.19 Phone number formatting Presentations of phone numbers are dependent upon the location of the phone number and not the location of user(e.g., 111-111-1111 in US, 11 (1111) 1111 in Japan, and +11 11 111111 in Belgium). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.20 Postal address formatting Presentations of postal addresses vary across countries (e.g., state-town- street sequence in China and street-town-state sequence in UK). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.21 Measurement systems Measurement systems (e.g., distance, weight, speed) used are culture dependent. [And traditional units too] --TK sato 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.22 Icons and symbols Icons and standard symbols are different among countries and cultures (e.g., icon for trash cans). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.23 Color usage Usage of color are different among cultures (e.g., use of blue (green) for presenting a normal state). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.24 Paper sizes There are many standard paper sizes among different cultures (e.g., ISO standard A4 size and North-American letter size). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.25 Page dimension TBD 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.26. Input mechanism In some natural languages, two or more methods for entering characters (e.g., Kana to Kanji conversion in Japanese) are available and selected by users based on their preferences. Culturaly specific Input/Out put conversion(s) should be here also. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.27 Object names Spaces require to store object names, and different character sets occupy different size of spaces. Special characters (e.g., '/' in POSIX) also causes difficulties of representation. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.28 Function names There are cases in which words of a natural language are used as function names. The names may be required to carry the meaning within each culture and appropriately translated. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.29 Cultural tagging of data Tagging of culture dependent data (e.g., font, text) is required. For ex- ample, data tagging is required in simultaneous spell checking of English and French even if the same character set is used. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.30 Format of business letter letter style is culture dependent at least for name and address (e.g. top-left in French, top-right in UK) and for date (e.g. right in France, left in UK). 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.31 Page Layout [i.e. Fukurotoji of Japan] --TK Sato 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.32 Programming languages Some programming languages are required to support natural languages used in literals, identifiers, comments, and data. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.33 Legal/Regulatory requirements TBD [Added by Sato on ROOT-2] 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.34 Taboo items (added after Quebec meeting) 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.35 Addressing method of persons names. (Added after Quebec meeting) The way to address persons name is different between cultures. For example, XXXXX-san is Japanese style, and Mr. XXXXXX is English. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3.36 Number of colours in rainbow (added after Quebec meeting) Please give me a favour of yours for personal interest of project editor. The number of colours in rainbow are different from culture to culture, and some culture does not care about the number. California rainbow has 6 colours and Japanese says it is seven. One answer Editor had before was 4 thouthand and something including BLACK !!. 1, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 Your own opinion 2, Importance 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 International 3, Population concerning [ ] 4, Name, application [ ] in your culture 5, Name, application [ ] out side your culture Any comment ? 7.3. XYZ Add cultural element not listed above. Thanks for your coorporation -------------- End of questionnair (TKS-921215-2)------------ [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] INFOSHARE WANTS FOREIGN STUDENTS AND STUDENT SPONSORS ASIS SIG/III (American Society for Information Science, Special Interest Group/International Information Issues) INFOSHARE WANTS FOREIGN STUDENTS AND STUDENT SPONSORS Dear Colleague: ASIS believes strongly in encouraging students to discover the interdisciplinary nature of information science and to participate in the society. SIG/III believes that important networking relationships can be formed between foreign students, sponsors and SIG/III members while they attend school, and hopes that these relationships will continue when the student graduates and returns to the home country. While ASIS seeks to bridge the gap between disciplines, SIG/III seeks to bridge the gap between continents! Foreign students from developing countries enrolled as full-time students in information science, or a related discipline, are invited to apply for sponsorship under the INFOSHARE program. There must be at least one instructor on the faculty of the applicant's school who is a current ASIS member. SIG/III will award memberships on a first-come, first-served basis, to qualified applicants (see below). Sponsors are also sought to add to the pool of funds available for this program. ASIS SIG/III will sponsor a minimum of 10 students; a private donor has already pledged to sponsor another 5 and challenges readers of ASIS-L to become a sponsor under this program. Sponsors are not required to be members of ASIS. The cost to be a sponsor is US$20 per student, and may qualify for a tax deduction in certain jurisdictions. (The student recipient will be responsible for the remaining $5.) You may request to sponsor a particular student of your acquaintance, if he/she meets submission requirements and qualifications (outlined below). Please submit a check to the address at the bottom of this notice, together with any special requirements, by June 1st, 1993. A student sponsored under this program will receive a one-year student membership in ASIS. This entitles the student to one-year subscriptions for each of: > JASIS (the society's journal) > ASIS Bulletin (the society's newsletter) > ASIS SIG/III Newsletter > ASIS Jobline > ASIS Handbook and Directory and to membership in SIG/III, as well as the nearest student chapter. (Membership in various other Special Interest Groups is available for an additional fee, payable by the INFOSHARE recipient.) Also available to student members of ASIS are enrollment in ASIS-L (the society's LISTSERVER) and VIFLIS (SIG/III's LISTSERVER for faculty and students worldwide). [Please note that LISTSERVERs are also available to non-members.] To be considered for student membership under this program, submit a supporting letter on school letterhead, signed by the head of the school or an ASIS Student Chapter Advisor, to the address at the end of this notice by June 15, 1993. (Fax submissions will be accepted; electronic mail will not suffice for this purpose.) This letter should be accompanied by a short personal statement from the student about why they came abroad to study, and their aspirations upon return to their home country. The personal statement of successful applicants will be published (in whole or in part, space permitting) in the SIG/III Newsletter. The signator of the letter of recommendation must state that the student meets the following qualifications: - citizen of a less developed country (indicate nationality) - enrolled as a full-time student in a relevant discipline for a period commencing in 1993 - needs financial assistance (indicate any fellowships or other forms of financial assistance awarded to the student for the enrolled period) Preference will be given to applicants who have demonstrated their potential for success in the field or who are engaged in relevant research, and who have the greatest financial need. (Supporting evidence is not required, but will be carefully considered.) The judgement of the SIG/III INFOSHARE judges will be final. The judges are all ASIS members of SIG/III without affiliation to any university: Diane Hopkins, Ione Auston, and Jeanne Tifft. Upon receipt of acceptance under the program, the student will be required to submit US$ 5.00 as evidence of commitment to the program, and a completed copy of the ASIS Individual Membership form, to the INFOSHARE Program Coordinator (address below). Prior to termination of the membership year, INFOSHARE participants will be asked to submit a one-page summary of the benefits that they received from their ASIS membership. The best of these submissions will be published in the SIG/III Newsletter. Foreign students who are accepted under the INFOSHARE program will be welcome to reapply for one subsequent year of study, subject to availability of funds. INFOSHARE recipients under this program who graduate during the year of membership, and who return to their home countries, will continue to receive all benefits until the membership expiry date. Upon receipt of proof of employment as an information professional in the home country, an INFOSHARE graduate may be eligible for sponsorship for an additional year by SIG/III (or another sponsor) as a regular member, subject to availability of funds. In such a case, the regular membership INFOSHARE recipient is expected to share the ASIS publications that they receive with other colleagues at their affiliated organizations. Thereafter, it is hoped that the member will find other means to sustain the membership into the future. Please pass this notice along to anyone you feel might be interested, and encourage your chapter or parent organization to sponsor a student, even if you cannot do so yourself. Sincerely, Diane Hopkins INFOSHARE Coordinator c/o Information Utility, ITF Dept. World Bank 1818 H St. NW Washington, DC 20433 USA fax: (202) 676-1380 INTERNET: DHOPKINS@WORLDBANK.ORG (enquiries only; submissions must be in writing) [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: SUNY PRESS SERIES IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN EDUCATION, WORK, & SOCIETY Call for Manuscripts: SUNY Press Series in Computer-Mediated Communication in Education, Work, & Society Timothy D. Stephen & Teresa M. Harrison, Editors Possibly the most important technological innovation of the latter half of the 20th century, "computer-mediated communication" is revolutionizing communication in the global village. Through an exploding assortment of technologies (personal computers, fax, international computer networks, bulletin board systems, conferencing systems, etc.) individuals are now able to communicate with others that, due to geography, time, or financial constraints, they might never otherwise meet. Beyond the convenience of faster and more efficient message exchange, this technology has created a demonstrably novel form of communication, transcending the distinction between written and oral discourse and posing interesting possibilities for dialogue. Furthermore, computer-mediated communication invites us to reconceive existing social relationships and forge new relationships between individuals at school, at work, in political life, and in our increasingly global community. Computer-mediated communication will affect our lives in dramatic and profound ways; our efforts to understand this new invention defy segmentation by disciplinary boundaries. This series therefore seeks the best research across the academic spectrum addressing three sets of questions. First, we seek manuscripts that consider questions about how individuals use and respond to computer-mediated communication. What are the differences between this new medium and other more traditional media and face-to-face interactional settings? Second, we encourage manuscripts that explore the changes that computer-mediated communication is stimulating currently and those that may evolve in various social contexts. Teaching and learning, academic and commercial research, commercial and scholarly publication, organizational life, politics, the law, entertainment, consumerism, and international cooperation are already experiencing some of the effects of this new medium. In short, how will computer-mediated communication change our lives? Finally, we invite manuscripts that chronicle the development of computer-mediated communication and provide pragmatic advice about how to access material and human resources available through the medium. The technology is new; its development and use already highly dynamic. The configuration of networks, services, uses, audiences, organizations, and finances will no doubt continue to grow and become more complex as we invent increasingly varied applications. Contact Timothy Stephen (Stephen@vm.its.rpi.edu) or Teresa Harrison (Harrison@vm.its.rpi.edu) for more information about the series, to discuss ideas for book proposals, or to send proposals or manuscripts. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] INET'93 - TOWARDS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION INET'93 - Towards a Global Community International Networking Conference Internet Society San Francisco, CA 17-20 August 1993 The International Networking Conference is the annual conference of the Internet Society, a new professional society serving the Internet community. Following the very successful INET'92, INET'93 will be held on 17-20 August 1993 in San Francisco. Focusing on worldwide issues of research and academic networking, the goal of INET'93 is to bring together individuals from university, industry and government who are involved with planning, developing, implementing, managing and funding national, regional and international research, academic, and commercial networks. The official language of the conference is English. The conference agenda will include plans and status reports on research and academic networks throughout the world. In addition, possible topics for conference sessions include but are not limited to the following: Network Technology: Advances in the Network Technology Base -- Progress toward international open network protocols -- Security, management and authentication in managing networks -- Transmission, routing, and transport technologies -- Technologies of the '90s and 21st century -- Very high speed networks Network Engineering: Building the Global Infrastructure -- Application of network technology to provide networking services -- Interoperability among existing national and international networks -- Network management systems and methods -- Reliability and performance engineering -- Issues related to scaling Application Technology: Enabling Technologies for Distributed Applications -- Collaboration technologies -- Multimedia issues -- Networked information retrieval -- Mail and directory services -- Workstation teleconferencing -- Computer supported collaborated work -- Interoperability of application services User Applications: Support for International Communities of Interest -- Support of international collaboration -- Access to scientific papers and data across national boundaries -- Supercomputing -- High energy physics, atmospheric modeling, and other scientific applications -- Education/distance learning -- Medical research and clinical applications -- Libraries -- Work and play in Cyberspace: How networks are changing the social nature of work and play -- Networking and the arts -- High payoff application areas to support national and international development Regional Issues: Networking Around the Globe -- Unique regional issues and approaches such as multilingual and national character set accommodation -- Asia-Pacific Rim -- Latin America -- Eastern Europe -- North America -- Europe -- Africa -- Former Soviet Republics -- Special Issues for the Third World Policy Issues: Governance, Management, and Financing of International Networks -- Globalization of services -- Commercialization, privatization and public access -- Coordination of international resources -- Copyright and intellectual property rights -- Appropriate use and speech restrictions -- International security policy -- Privacy and data protection -- Telecommunications policy The conference will be held immediately preceding INTEROP 93 Fall, the leading conference and exhibition for Internet technologies. This will make possible attending both events as well as tutorials given as part of INTEROP 93 Fall. The conference will be held in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Social events will be arranged during the conference to take advantage of the unique environment San Francisco provides. In addition, assistance will be provided to attendees wishing to see more of this unique area. Information for Paper Submission Submission of papers for review by electronic mail is preferred. These papers should be in ASCII (text-only) format, and should be sent to Submission@inet93.stanford.edu Papers may also be submitted in hard copy. Please submit 6 copies (in English) of double-spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 20 pages) with an abstract to: USRA ATTN: INET'93 625 Ellis Street, Suite 205 Mountain View, CA 94043 Important dates: -- March 1, 1993 Manuscript due -- May 1, 1993 Notification of acceptance to authors -- June 10, 1993 Camera-ready papers due Workshop for Developing Countries A workshop designed to assist developing countries in their installation and use of networking technology and services is being organized and will take place during the week before the conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. INET'93 Points of Contact: Conference Chair: Eric Benhamou Regional Coordinators: Dennis Tsichritzis (Western Europe) John Demco (North America) Haruhisa Ishida (Asia Pacific) Ahmed Abdel-Bassit (Africa) Xavier Baquero (Latin America) Geoff Huston (South Pacific) Other regions to be announced Program Co-Chairs: Barry Leiner & William Yundt Program Area Organizers: Christian Huitema&Phill Gross(Network Technology) Elise Gerich&Francois Fluckiger(Network Engineering) Eric Hood & John Hine (Application Technology) Laura Breeden & Rolf Nordhagen (User Applications) Haruhisa Ishida & Steve Goldstein (Policy Issues) Richard Mandelbaum & Tomaz Kalin (Regional Issues) George Sadowsky & Enzo Puliatti (Workshop) David Farber (Tutorial Coordination) Internet Society Liaison: Larry Landweber General Inquiries To be added to the conference mailing list or for other requests, send mail, fax or E-mail to: USRA ATTN: INET'93 625 Ellis Street, Suite 205 Mountain View, CA 94043 tel: +1 415 390-0317 fax: +1 415 390-0318 Request@inet93.stanford.edu --------------------- INET'93 Interest Form International Networking Conference Internet Society San Francisco, CA 17-20 August 1993 To assist us in planning for the upcoming INET'93 Conference, we would appreciate your filling in the following. Last Name: First Name: Preferred Title (e.g. Prof., Ms.): Organization: Street Address: City: State/Zip/Zone/Region: Country: Email address: Telephone: Fax: Please return to: Request@inet93.stanford.edu Thank you for your assistance. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 10TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & OPEN HOUSE OF THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION LABORATORY Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Center for Automation Research University of Maryland, College Park, MD 10th Annual Symposium & Open House on Thursday, June 10, 1993 in Skinner 0200 8:30am - 5:00pm NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: In addition to our annual hour-long videotape of projects, recent technical reports, and copies of the morning lecture slides, attendees will receive our new book that contains 25 key papers from our ten years of work and unpublished stories and essays such as Ben Shneiderman's declaration in the Apple vs. Microsoft/Hewlett-Packard case: Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction (published by Ablex, Norwood, NJ, 1993). COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT / INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS RESEARCH: During the past year our work has focused more sharply on information visualization methods that give users x-ray vision into their mountains of data. Our treemap representation of hierarchical and categorical information is now available for browsing Macintosh directories, searching sports or business information in Open Look, and for general use on MS-DOS. Dynamic queries with direct manipulation input and spatial presentation of results are being applied to an ever widening set of applications. Work continues on Programming in the User Interface, Layout Appropriateness, creation of new widgets, evaluation of User Interface Management Systems, and browsing large spatial databases. PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT: The Department of Psychology hosts the Laboratory for Automation Psychology, a part of the HCIL. Lab facilities are designed for empirical studies of the human-computer interface and for usability research. Research designs are used to focus on the effects of specific variables (e.g., menu structure and layout) while controlling for nuisance variables (e.g., materials and individual differences). User's performance is recorded online and with video equipment. Reactions are assessed using the QUIS, the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction, developed in our lab and currently licensed to several dozen usability labs. COLLEGE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES: The College of Library and Information Services pursues research to understand and improve information seeking in electronic environments. As science, business, and government increase their dependence on computing to manage their information resources, our abilities to access, filter, and manipulate this information becomes increasingly important. CONFERENCE TOPICS TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING: AT&T TEACHING THEATER: A COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM. NAVIGATION, HYPERCOURSEWARE, AND BEYOND. A STUDENT EVALUATION OF THE AT&T TEACHING THEATER. PERSEUS: EVALUATION OF AN HYPERMEDIA CORPUS ABOUT THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD. INTERFACE DESIGN: SEARCH AND SELECTION IN VAST MENUS WITH STRUCTURE. GRATEFUL MED INTERFACE PROTOTYPE: IMPROVING ACCESS TO MEDICAL ABSTRACTS. LAYOUT APPROPRIATENESS: GUIDING INTERFACE DESIGN WITH SIMPLE TASK DESCRIPTIONS. EVALUATION OF PLATFORM INDEPENDENT USER INTERFACE BUILDERS. PROGRAMMING IN THE USER INTERFACE WITH TRIGGERS. INFORMATION BROWSING/VISUALIZATION: ACCESS METHODS OF NOVICE HYPERTEXT USERS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. BROWSING LARGE SPATIAL INFORMATION SPACES: DYNAMIC QUERIES, NEW ALGORITHMS. TWO DIMENSIONAL BROWSERS, SPECIFICATION METHODS. TREEMAPS FOR VISUALIZING HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT: HCIL, c/o Lian Arrow AV Williams Building: University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-3255 e-mail arrow@cs.umd.edu [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC93, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1993. Listed below are the keynote speeches and the papers and panels accepted for presentation at the conference. The conference announcement/registration form and the provisional program can be obtained in several ways: 1. by email request to ACH_ALLC93@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU 2. by anonymous FTP to GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU in directory ACH_ALLC93 3. by gopher to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY in directory ACH_ALLC93 4. by surface mail from Paul Mangiafico, Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 USA =============================================================== ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Keynote Speeches: Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, Office of the President, University of California Hugh Kenner, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English, University of Georgia Accepted Papers: Douglas A. Kibbee (University of Illinois) The History of Disciplinary Vocabulary: A Computer-Based Approach to Concepts of 'Usage' in 17th-Century Works on Language Terry Butler, Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Computer Aided Analysis of Jules Valles' Trilogy Jacques Vingtras John Lavagnino (Brandeis University) Hypertext and Textual Editing Risto Miilumaki (University of Turku) The Prerelease Materials for Finnegans Wake: A Hypermedia Approach to Joyce's Work in Progress Catherine Scott (University of North London) Hypertext as a Route into Computer Literacy Thomas B. Horton (Florida Atlantic University) Finding Verbal Correspondences Between Texts David Holmes (The University of the West of England), Michael L. Hilton (University of South Carolina) Cumulative Sum Charts for Authorship Attribution: An Appraisal Lisa Lena Opas (University of Joensuu) Analysing Stylistic Features in Translation: A Computer-Aided Approach Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Jean Veronis (GRTC/CNRS) An Encoding Scheme for Machine Readable Dictionaries Peter Flynn (University College, Cork) Spinning the Web - Using WorldWideWeb for Browsing SGML Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) MECS - A Multi-Element Code System Wilfried Ver Eecke, Marvin Needell (Georgetown University) Computer Analysis of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan) The Verbal Structure of Romantic and Serious Fiction Thomas Rommel (University of Tuebingen) An Analysis of Word Clusters in Lord Byron's Don Juan Daniel C. Jacobson (University of North Dakota) Multi-Media Environments for the Study of Musical Form and Analysis John Morehen (University of Nottingham) Computers and Authenticity in the Performance of Elizabethan Keyboard Music Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege) Computational Linguistics from 500 BC to AD 1700 Catherine N. Ball (Georgetown University) Automated Text Analysis: Cautionary Tales Jean-Jacques Hamm, Greg Lessard (Queen's University) Do Literary Studies Really Need Computers? John Burrows (University of Newcastle, Australia) Noisy Signals? Or Signals in the Noise? Hans van Halteren (University of Nijmegen) The Usefulness of Function and Attribute Information in Syntactic Annotation R. Harald Baayen (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics) Quantitative Aspects of Lexical Conceptual Structure Elizabeth S.Adams (Hood College) Let the Trigrams Fall Where They May: Trigram Type and Tokens in the Brown Corpus Greg Lessard, Michael Levison (Queen's University) Computational Models of Riddling Strategies Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University), Steven Gilles, Gert Durieux (University of Antwerp) Learning Linguistic Mappings: An Instance-Based Learning Approach Michael J. Almeida, Eugenie P. Almeida (University of Northern Iowa) NewsAnalyzer - An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Discourse Kazys Baniulis, Bronius Tamulynas, Kestutis Pocius, Saulius Simniskis, Daiva Dmuchovska, Jolanta Normantiene (Kaunas University of Technology) Computer-Based Lithuanian Language Learning System in Humanities Programs Eve Wilson (University of Kent at Canterbury) Language of Learner and Computer: Modes of Interaction Floyd D. Barrows, Elaine Cherney, James B. Obielodan (Michigan State University) An Experimental Computer-Assisted Instructional Unit on Ancient Hebrew History and Society Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ting-Chuan Chung (National Taiwan University) Proper Treatments of Ellipsis Problems in an English-Chinese Machine Translation System Jorge Hankamer (University of California, Santa Cruz) keCitexts: Text-based Analysis of Morphology and Syntax in an Agglutinating Language Juha Heikkila, Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki) ENGCG: An Efficient and Accurate Parser for English Texts Wen-Chiu Tu (University of Illinois) Sound Correspondences in Dialect Subgrouping Ellen Johnson, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia) Using Linguistic Atlas Databases for Phonetic Analysis Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga (National Institute of Japanese Literature) On the Full-Text Database of Japanese Classical Literature Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) A Textbase of Early Modern English Dictionaries, 1499-1659 Dionysis Goutsos, Ourania Hatzidaki, Philip King (University of Birmingham) Towards a Corpus of Spoken Modern Greek Yannis Haralambous (Lille, France) ScholarTeX Kathryn Burroughs Taylor (McLean, Virginia) Transferring Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) Performance Improvement Technology to Optical Character Recognition David J. Hutches (University of California, San Diego) Lexical Classification: Examining a New Tool for the Statistical Processing of Plain Text Corpora Espen S. Ore, Anne Haavaldsen (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) Computerizing the Runic Inscriptions at the Historic Museum in Bergen Daan van Reenen (Free University, Amsterdam) Early Islamic Traditions, History and Information Science Angela Gilham (Tyne and Wear, UK) Knowledge-Based Simulation: Applications in History Malcolm B. Brown (Dartmouth College) Navigating the Waters: Building an Academic Information System Charles Henry (Vassar College) The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Global Library, and the Humanities Christian-Emil Ore The Norwegian Information System for the Humanities Michael Strangelove (University of Ottawa) The State and Potential of Networked Resources for Religious Studies: An Overview of Documented Resources and the Process of Creating a Discipline-Specific Networked Archive of Bibliographic Information and Research/Pedagogical Material Andrew D. Scrimgeour (Regis University) Cocitation Study of Religious Journals Accepted Panels: Documenting Electronic Texts Annelies Hoogcarspel (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities), Chair TEI Header, Text Documentation, and Bibliographic Control of Electronic Texts Richard Giordano (Manchester University) Panelist TBA Preserving the Human Electronic Record: Responsibilities, Problems, Solutions Peter Graham (Rutgers University), Chair Barry Neavill (University of Alabama) W. Scott Stornetta (Bellcore) Networked Electronic Resources: New Opportunities for Humanities Scholars Christine Mullings (University of Bath), Chair HUMBUL: A Successful Experiment Richard Gartner (Bodleian Library) Moves Towards the Electronic Bodleian: Introducing Digital Imaging into the Bodleian Library, Oxford Jonathan Moffett (Ashmolean Museum) Making Resource Databases Accessible to the Humanities Developing and Managing Electronic Texts Centers Mark Day (Indiana University), Chair and Participant Anita Lowry (University of Iowa) John-Price Wilkin (University of Virginia) Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Integrating the Uses, Users and Developers Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities), Chair Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University) Elaine Brennan (Brown University) Robin Cover (Dallas, TX) What Next After the TEI? Call for a Text Software Initiative Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Chair Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Jean Veronis (CNRS, Marseille) Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica, Pisa) Representative of GNU Free Software Foundation Issues in Humanities Computing Support Charles D. Bush (Brigham Young University), Chair Peter Lafford (Arizona State University) Terry Butler (University of Alberta) Donald Spaeth (University of Glasgow) Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) The Scholar's Workbench and the "Edition:" Legitimate Aspiration or Chimera Frank Colson (University of Southampton) The Debate on Multi-Media Standards Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck-Instit t f r Geschichte) Exploiting Datasets Using Kleio under Microcosm Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna) Masters and Books in Fourteenth Century Bologna Frank Colson, Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) Towards a Multi-Media Edition Interrogating the Text: Hypertext in English Literature Caroline Davis (Oxford University), Chair Patrick W. Conner, Rudolph P. Almasy (West Virginia University) Corpus Exegesis in the Literature Classroom: The Sonnet Workstation Mike Best (Victoria University) Of Hype and Hypertext: In Search of Structure Stuart Lee (Oxford Univ.) Hypermedia in the Trenches: First World War Poetry in Hypercard -- Observations on Evaluation, Design, and Copyright The Computerization of the Manuscript Tradition of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette" Joel Goldfield (Plymouth State College), Chair and Reporter Karl D. Uitti (Princeton University) Old French Manuscripts, the Modern Book, and the Image Gina L. Greco (Portland State University) The Electronic Diplomatic Transcription of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot):" Its Forms and Uses Toby Paff (Princeton University) The 'Charrette" Database: Technical Issues and Experimental Resolutions The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen), Chair Claus Huitfeldt, Ole Letnes (University of Bergen) Encoding Wittgenstein Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) Manuscript Encoding: Alphatexts and Betatexts Alois Pichler (University of Bergen) What Is Transcription, Really? Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies -- New Responses Paul A. Fortier (University of Manitoba), Chair Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Implementation of Text and Discourse Theory in Computer-Aided Analysis Paul Fortier (University of Manitoba) Babies, Bathwater, and the Study of Literature Joel D. Goldfield (Plymouth State College) An Argument for Single-Author and Other Focused Studies Using Quantitative Criticism: A Collegial Response to Mark Olsen Gina L. Greco and Peter Shoemaker (Princeton University) Computer-Aided Literary Studies: Addressing the Particularities of Medieval Texts Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University) Have It Your Way and Mine: The Theory of Styles Invited SIGIR Panel on Information Retrieval Edward Fox (Virginia Technical University), Chair and Presenter Electronic Dissertation Project Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse University) Use of Extractable Semantics from a Machine Readable Dictionary for Information Tasks Robert P. Futrelle (Northeastern University) Representing, Searching, Annotating, and Classifying Scientific and Complex Orthographic Text The British National Corpus: Problems in Producing a Large Text Corpus Gavin Burnage (Oxford University Computing Service), Chair Roger Garside (Lancaster University) Ray Woodall (Oxford University Press) The Academical Village: Electronic Texts and the University of Virginia John Price-Wilkin (University of Virginia), Chair Kendon Stubbs (University of Virginia) David Seaman (University of Virginia) David Gants (University of Virginia) [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] ED-MEDIA'93: WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA +*************************************************************+ * * * E D - M E D I A 9 3 * * * * WORLD CONFERENCE ON * * EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA * * * * June 23-26, 1993 * * Orlando, Florida, USA * * * * Final Call for Work-In-Progress Proposals * * (Short Papers & Posters/Demonstrations) * * * * Preliminary Program/Registration Information * * * +*************************************************************+ Work-in-Progress Final Call --------------------------- The ED-MEDIA 93 Conference invites proposals for Work-in-Progress sessions. These sessions may be in the form of a Short Papers (15 minutes) or a Posters/Demonstrations (60 minutes) and are offered for participants who were unable to meet the first deadline for ED-MEDIA 93 submissions or decided that they were not ready to present a finished paper or project. To be considered for an ED-MEDIA 93 Work-in-Progress session, submit a one-page outline or abstract of your paper or current project. This page should be sent directly to the address (e-mail or P.O. Box) at the end of this message by April 30, 1993. Your proposal will be reviewed and if accepted you will be scheduled for either a Short Paper presentation or a 60 minute Poster/Demonstration (please indicate preference) which will be listed in the ED-MEDIA 93 Final Program. Preliminary Program/Registration Information -------------------------------------------- ED-MEDIA 93--World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia is one of a series of annual international conferences (formerly International Conference on Computers and Learning, ICCAL) designed to report on the best research, development, and applications of multimedia and hypermedia for all levels of education. The Conference is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), a non-profit international organization. ED-MEDIA 93 offers you opportunities to share your ideas, research, experience and learn from fellow professionals around the world. o Pre-Conference Workshops o Keynote General Sessions o Invited Speakers o Panels o Paper Presentations o Demonstrations and Posters o Student Research Forum o Exhibits Over 150 Presentations in 14 Major Topic Areas ---------------------------------------------- Authoring Navigation Language Learning Learning by Doing Media in Education Pedagogical Issues Hypermedia Applications Small Dedicated Applications Improving Classroom Teaching Interactive Learning Environments Computer Supported Cooperative Work Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence Novel Applications/Approaches and Ideas Distance Education and Large Hypermedia Systems To request the ED-MEDIA 93 Preliminary Program/Registration brochure or submit a Work-in-Progress proposal, contact: +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education | | | | ED-MEDIA 93 | E-Mail: AACE@virginia.edu | | AACE | Voice: (804) 973-3987 | | P.O. Box 2966 | Fax: (804) 978-7449 | | Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) MINI-TRACK ON DISTRIBUTED GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS HICSS REQUEST FOR PAPERS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Mini-Track on Distributed Group Support Systems Maui, Hawaii - January 4-7, 1994 Twenty-seventh in a series of conferences devoted to advances in information, computer, and system sciences, HICSS will encompass developments in both theory and practice. HICSS is sponsored by the University of Hawaii and the College of Business Administration in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society. A broad range of papers organized around "mini-tracks" will be presented at HICSS. This is a request for papers for a new mini- track at HICSS entitled Distributed Group Support Systems. Original and innovative papers are being solicited for this HICSS mini- track. Submissions may be empirical, conceptual, tutorial, theoretical or descriptive in nature. However, papers that employ novel, multi-disciplinary or multi-methodological approaches and address interesting practical questions and/or important theoretical issues in the area are particularly welcome. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - dispersed collaborative systems - distributed meeting systems - asynchronous meeting systems - audio conferencing - video conferencing - computer conferencing - electronic mail - local area network applications - wireless network systems Instructions for submitting papers: Submissions should include six copies of the full paper. Manuscripts should be 12-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length, including figures and tables. The first page of the manuscript should include the title, author name(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic addresses and telephone number(s). The second page should include the title and a 300-word abstract. Important dates are: June 5, '93 Submit six copies of full paper to Mini-Track chair August 31, '93 Authors will receive notification of acceptance October 1, 93 Camera ready copies are due for accepted papers* Please direct all correspondence to: Laku Chidambaram, Mini-Track Chair University of Hawaii Phone: (808) 956-7368 College of Business Administration Fax: (808) 956-9889 2404 Maile Way Bitnet: cbadlch@uhccvm Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (Internet:laku@dscience.cba.hawaii.edu) * Please note that at this time at least one author must register for the conference. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT PROPOSALS: COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY Call for Manuscript Proposals: Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st Century University a collection of essays edited by Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen Dept. of Language, Literature, & Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute In the past decade, we have glimpsed the beginning of a revolution in scholarly communication, which, it is now widely acknowledged, will be comparable only to the invention of the printing press in its impact upon research and education. The availability of international computer networks and the widespread proliferation of computer-mediated communication within the academy signifies a radical break with forms of scholarly communication of the past and promises that a diverse set of electronic research, educational, and publication practices will comprise scholarship in the twenty-first century university. This collection of essays will explore how computer networking and other forms of computer-mediated communication will change research, teaching, publication, and other professional activities in the university of tomorrow. In addition to examining the changes that computer-mediated communication is already stimulating in research and education, the essays in this volume will speculate about the processes, the forms, and the products of scholarly communication in the decades to come. The core of the collection will be essays that present an array of computer networking applications in research, teaching, disciplinary or professional organizations, publication, or other scholarly contexts. In this section (see tentative table of contents below), we envision that essays may focus on the history, evolution, successes, and/or challenges of a particular project, research technique, or teaching/learning strategy, together with recommendations or implications suggested by the application. Attention will be devoted to featuring scholarly practices across a wide range of disciplines. Beyond these chapters, the collection will include two additional sections: one that addresses broader issues in higher education policy and one that focuses on supportive roles played by information technology in the future. Essays in the policy section should examine broader, trans-disciplinary questions related to electronic scholarly communication (e.g., economic issues, planning the evolution of the network, the academic status of electronic scholarship, etc.). Essays in the information technology section will consider how the university library of the future will exploit the potential of the network and accommodate the development of new electronic textual products as well as how networking hardware and software can best support and enhance the potential for scholarly communication and information exchange. We invite interested authors to submit a proposal for a contributed essay relevant to one or more of the topics described above or identified in the tentative table of contents that appears below, or related to some other aspect of scholarly communication as it is or will be influenced by computerized communication technologies. Proposals should be brief (3 or 4 pages) descriptions of the projected essay and should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and information about where the author may be contacted during June, July, and August. These materials may be submitted electronically or on paper to one of the following addresses: Teresa M. Harrison Dept. of Language, Literature, & Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 USA Harrison@Vm.Its.Rpi.Edu (Internet) Harrison@Rpitsvm (Bitnet) Deadline for RECEIPT of proposals is: June 4, 1993. Authors will be notified of decisions regarding their proposals by July 15, 1993. Authors of accepted manuscripts must submit the completed drafts of essays by Nov. 30, 1993. Completed manuscripts should be approximately 20 but no more than 25 pages (at 350 words per page) and conform to the citation style of the Publication Manual of the APA (3rd edition). We expect that the completed volume will consist of approximately 25 essays. The collection of essays is under contract to SUNY Press and, pending favorable review by content experts and the SUNY Editorial Board, will appear in the SUNY Press Book Series on Computer Mediated Communication in Education, Work, and Society. For more information about the Series, send the following command to Comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu (Internet) or Comserve@Rpitsvm (Bitnet): Send SUNYCMC Announce Tentative Table of Contents and Sample Topics I. Policy -- Sample Topics: -- Design and evolution of a national network -- Access to networking across the disciplines -- Credit for networking in the academy -- Internationalization of academic disciplines -- Economic and structural inducements to electronic publication II. Scholarship A. Research Applications across the Disciplines -- Sample topics: --Use of networking by disciplinary organizations --Research collaborations --Textual research --The development of new scholarly communities B. Teaching and Learning -- Sample topics: --Classroom applications --CMC and learners with special needs --Distance education --Internationalizing education C. Electronic Publication -- Sample topics: -- Design, delivery, future of electronic journals -- Text encoding -- Electronic scholarly monographs III. Information technology -- Sample topics: -- Librarians as information managers -- The electronic library -- Cataloging and/or navigating the network -- Network information and discovery tools [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] _____ Articles and Sections of this issue of the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ ;_CyberSpace Monitor_ may be retrieved via anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu or via e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (instructions below) Papers may be submitted at anytime by email or send/file to: Algirdas Pakstas _Editor_ _CyberSpace Monitor_ Algirdas.Pakstas@idt.unit.no or Ermel Stepp - Editor-in-Chief, _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ M034050@MARSHALL.WVNET.EDU _________________________________ *Copyright Declaration* Copyright of articles published by Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture is held by the author of a given article. 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