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1) What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management: AAP and ALA Release
White Paper to Promote User-friendly DRM Products



2) FLEXSTOR TO RELEASE FLEX-db Digital Asset Management TECHNOLOGY INTO
OPEN SOURCE: The Air Traffic Control System for Digital Files



3) Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Releases:
"New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?"  by Abby Smith.



4) 1st Global Conference Higher Education, Copyright & Intellectual
Property 16th to 18th October 2003, Vienna, Austria



5) The Society for Scholarly Publishers (SSP) invites you to attend
their 25th Annual Conference in Baltimore.  May 28-30th.



6) CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Education and
Information Systems: Technologies and Applications Jointly with
International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control
Technologies: CCCT '03 July 31, August 1-2, 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA



7) Collecting, Connecting, and Creating Knowledge: Libraries, Archives
and Research in the C21st: June 20-22, 2003: Wellington, New Zealand:
http://www/humanz.org.nz



8) Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 66 (Winter/Spring 2003),
Numbers 1 & 2: The Public Domain.  James Boyle, Special Editor [James
will be the first plenary speaker at the DLF Spring Forum, May 14th].





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1) What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management: AAP and ALA Release
White Paper to Promote User-friendly DRM Products



http://www.publishers.org/press/releases.cfm?PressReleaseArticleID=140





Contact: Ed McCoyd

Ph: 212-255-0200 ext264

Email: [log in to unmask]



New York, NY, March 21, 2003: The Association of American Publishers
(AAP) and the American Library Association (ALA) have released a joint
White Paper promoting the usage capabilities in Digital Rights
Management (DRM) products for e-books that publishers, librarians, and
researchers say are most needed in order to satisfy consumer
preferences.



E-book DRM technology consists of encryption and other systems that
publishers and authors use to protect their works against unauthorized
copying, and to define the ways in which an e-book can be accessed and
used. DRM systems for e-books are currently offered by a number of
different software providers, and this White Paper is intended to
provide guidance to technology vendors as they build and improve DRM
products for the industry.



Title: What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (DRM): Making
Content as Widely Available as Possible In Ways that Satisfy Consumer
Preferences



Sponsor: AAP and ALA

Author: F. Hill Slowinski

DOI: 10.1003/whitepaper1



White paper available at:

http://www.publishers.org/press/pdf/DRMWhitePaper.pdf

OR:

http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/aap.jsp?doi=10.1003/whitepaper1



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2) FLEXSTOR TO RELEASE FLEX-db Digital Asset Management TECHNOLOGY INTO
OPEN SOURCE: The Air Traffic Control System for Digital Files



For further information contact:

Don J. Giacchetti

President & CEO

FLEXSTOR

952-983-3642

[log in to unmask]

website--- www.flexstor.biz





MINNEAPOLIS (April 28, 2003) -- FLEXSTOR today announced bold plans to
release its base FLEX-db Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology into
the Open Source community. The company plans to post the source code by
the end of the third quarter of 2003. This assertive move will enable
FLEXSTOR to utilize the creative talent of thousands of programmers in
the Open Source community by incorporating their best enhancements into
future versions of this enterprise-level software. This strategy is
designed to accelerate development enhancements with the associated high
level of software quality control that comes from increasingly popular
Open Source  initiatives.  "The time is right for us to make this
strategic move into Open Source," said Don J. Giacchetti, FLEXSTOR's
President and CEO. "The FLEXSTOR Technology Trident is already
recognized as the technology leader in the marketplace. Placing one of
the foundational legs of our trident into Open Source will establish the
de-facto standard for DAM as a critical infrastructure technology for
enterprise-level corporate and government organizations."



Richard Niemiec, CEO of TUSC and President of the International Oracle
Users Group Americas, regarding FLEXSTOR stated "This is an impressive
application that leverages the Oracle database. When placed in the Open
Source community, the Total Cost of Ownership of managing digital files
can be substantially reduced using this technology. This is another
example of the paradigm shift that Open Source is creating."  Michael
Moon, CEO of GISTICS Incorporated, commented that "Open Source asset
repositories such as offered by FLEXSTOR will change the market for
digital asset management (DAM) and enterprise content management (ECM)
in two significant ways. First, Open Source DAM forcefully acknowledges
that basic repository functions -- thumbnails, check-in/checkout,
version control, and routing and

approval -- have become fully commoditized. This means that DAM and ECM
vendors must add new, distinctive value to differentiate their offerings
or fail to win new customers. Second, Open Source DAM shifts the balance
of power away from DAM and ECM vendors, whose solutions include high
licensing fees. With Open Source Dam, dedicated vendors of media servers
(Adobe, Equilibrium, TrueSpectra) and

expert delivery technical integration/support services (small, tightly
focused VAR, consultants, and system integrators) will make it hard for
product-oriented DAM and ECM firms to compete."



The two founding sponsors with FLEXSTOR on this Open Source initiative
are Fort Dearborn Company and Rorke Data, Inc., a subsidiary of Bell
Microproducts, Inc.. FLEXSTOR is in current discussions with potential
Sponsors from the business and government communities. FLEXSTOR seeks
other Sponsors to solicit advice and support on the future direction of
the FLEX-db Open Source initiative.

The FLEXSTOR architecture is designed to provide users with an
extensible core of functionality built around open standards. It can
serve as both an application infrastructure to be extended, or
alternatively, can be deployed in its simplest form as a turnkey
solution. The FLEXSTOR product suite is an enterprise-wide, digital
asset management solution built upon JAVA and object-based extensible
Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) architecture. The software is composed of
internally developed software modules and integrated foundation
technology products including other Open Source products. FLEXSTOR
offers its users a high performance, multi-tiered J2EE application
architecture designed for Internet-based, multi-platform workstation
clients, and utilizes the robustness and scalability of proven server,
database and transaction processing technologies. The software provides
local and remote access, automatic identification, distributed
multi-level hot-folder capability, as well as management of the import,
indexing, export, archiving and distribution of digital files.



Like an air traffic control system, the FLEXSTOR technology monitors and
manages digital file assets on a global level. The FLEXSTOR Technology
Trident is comprised of 3 separate technologies that complement each
other and provide customers with solutions to manage distributed files
and enable remote processes to be triggered at any location.



FLEX-db: Digital Asset Management technology which ingests digital
files, updates metadata tables, creates thumbnails, and processes files
according to business rules and logic. FLEX-db is currently comprised of
70 services like: archive, cut, copy, paste, convert, check in, check
out, update, move, delete etc.



FLEX-dbLink: Allows digital files stored on any server to be made part
of a virtual global repository using peer-to peer technology. Digital
files do not have to be collected up and stored on one central server
but can instead remain where they are originally stored, and made
available to any user logging in to FLEXSTOR. This technology is unique
to FLEXSTOR.



FLEX-si: Service Initiated technology allows processes within FLEXSTOR
and other applications to be linked together, and triggered by changes
in metadata to create custom workflows without requiring custom code to
be written. FLEX-si processes are defined by a simple XML file.



FLEXSTOR is a leading developer of enterprise content and digital file
asset management software technology that enables customers to
effectively store, retrieve, present and manage large volumes of digital
information, wherever it resides. These "digital assets" may be in the
form of videos, images, logos, documents, marketing collateral,
articles, web pages, photos or other digital files. FLEXSTOR's
Technology Trident solution operates as The Air Traffic Control System
for Digital Files.  FLEXSTOR and The Air Traffic Control System For
Digital Files are registered trademarks of FLEXSTOR. FLEX-db,
FLEX-dbLink, FLEX-si and Technology Trident are trademarks of FLEXSTOR.



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3) Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Releases:
"New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?"  by Abby Smith.

http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html.



Article on "New Model Scholarship" in CLIR ISSUES #3, by Abby Smith.

http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues33.html#symp



A new report from CLIR, entitled New-Model Scholarship: How Will It
Survive?, explores the following types of emerging scholarship:



*  experimental: designed to develop and model a methodology for
generating recorded information about a historical event or an academic
discipline that might otherwise go undocumented. The History of Recent
Science and Technology program at the Dibner Institute has initiated
several projects of this nature.



*  open-ended: generates digital objects that are intended to be added
over time. An example is George Mason University's 9/11 Project.



*  interactive: gathers content through dynamic interactions among the
participants. The creators intend that the interactions, as well as the
content, are part of what is to be preserved. The Dibner Institute's
Physics of Scales project is an example.



*  software-intensive: stipulates that the tools for using the data are
as important to preserve as is the content. The variety of software
needed to render dynamic three-dimensional models in the University of
Virginia's Monuments and Dust project illustrates the importance of
preserving such tools.



*  multimedia: creates information in a variety of genres-texts, time
lines, images, audio, and video-and file formats. George Mason
University's Center for New Media and History has developed several such
sites for research and teaching.



*  unpublished: designed to be used and disseminated through the Web,
yet not destined to be published formally or submitted for peer review.



Libraries must determine what of this content has long-term value for
teaching and research. They must define the parameters of objects that
describe themselves as "open-ended" and "changing," decide what must be
done to make a complex digital object ready to place in a repository,
and determine how to support digital preservation over time.



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4) 1st Global Conference Higher Education, Copyright & Intellectual
Property 16th to 18th October 2003, Vienna, Austria



Key Note Speaker:

Professor James L Wood

San Diego State University



Call for Papers



Issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property are increasingly
affecting the future development of higher education and the delivery of
teaching programmes. Tensions continue to emerge between the needs of
learning communities for easy access to knowledge and information and
competing developments in technology, law and finance. Changes in the
structure, staffing and delivery of higher education are inevitably
taking place as a consequence. The project aims to provide a forum in
which the issues can be examined, the tensions explored, and members
from all contexts can share insights and perspectives on the possible
ways forward.



Papers, reports, presentations, and workshops are invited on any of the
following key themes:



* the history of copyright and intellectual property

* definitions of copyright and intellectual property

* the language of copyright and intellectual property

* who owns what? And when? And for how long?

* the contexts in which copyright and intellectual property apply

* creativity and ownership

* copyright, intellectual property and distance learning

* copyright, intellectual property and new technologies

* the challenges on online academic publishing (eBooks, eJournals, etc)
and the sharing of research necessary to writing books and articles

* copyright, intellectual property and the law

* copyright, intellectual property and financial issues

* policies, directives and agreements

* international agreements and treaties

* the work of organisations and associations

* future trends in copyright and intellectual property development



Papers will be considered on related themes. 300 word abstracts should
be submitted by Friday 27th June 2003. Full draft papers should be
submitted by Friday 19th September 2003.



300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.



Dr Rob Fisher

c/o Learning Solutions

Priory House

149B Wroslyn Road

Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

Email: [log in to unmask]



Dr David Seth Preston

BRG

92 Colney Hatch Lane

London N10 1EA

Email: [log in to unmask]



The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, BRG, and Learning
Solutions as part of the 'At the Interface' programme of Higher
Education projects. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which
are innovative and exciting.



All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be
published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume. The project is also to be
supported by an e-mail discussion group and ISSN e-journal.



For further details and information please see

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/hecip/hecip.htm



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5) The Society for Scholarly Publishers (SSP) invites you to attend
their 25th Annual Conference in Baltimore.  May 28-30th.
http://www.sspnet.org/public/articles/index.cfm?Cat=5



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Librarians are invited to register for the SSP Annual Meeting for $250,
almost half the member rate.  SSP is the Society FOR Scholarly
Publishing, not OF Scholarly Publishers, and librarian viewpoints and
input are welcomed.  Our conference theme this year is "Navigating
Change".  If you want to learn more about the business environment of
publishers and are interested in influencing publishers' decisions as an
informed customer, this meeting is a great opportunity to meet the
publishers who want to meet you.  If you are working in digital library
initiatives, preparing scholarly portals, or planning institutional
repositories, you'll find many areas of practical advice.

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In 1 1/2 days this May, you'll be able to select topics from 12
concurrent sessions and enjoy 3 carefully selected keynotes that
include:



1st - Scholarly Publishing 25 Years from Now

David Seaman, Director of the DLF will set the stage for 3 industry
leaders to share their vision of the future. Jim Neal, VP Information
Services at Columbia University Mike Tansey, CEO, Thomson Scientific
Sara McCune, Founder, Sage Publications



2nd - Designing for the Scent of Information

Always entertaining, Jared Spool will provide insights that demonstrate
how design impacts the use of content. Jared Spool - Founding Principal
at User Interface Engineering



3rd - The Great Debate:  Is It Time to Kill Print?

Organized by Deb Debruijn in formal debate style, there will be 2 teams
each of a publisher and librarian presenting the pros/cons of the
potential demise of print. Adrian Alexander, Treasurer BioOne Steve
Moss, VP Institute of Physics David Kohl, University of Cincinnati Press
Keith Seitter, American Meteorological Society



Concurrent Sessions cover topics on:



Competing Models of Online Access

The Career Doctor

Understanding Usage and Abusage

Research Patterns of Scholars

Now that We're Online, Where is the "Value Added"

Online Learning - Tips from Those Rrunning Program that Work Tools &
Strategies for Content Management Tales from the Front - How to Survive
the Dog-Eat-Dog World of Scholarly Publishing Digital Delivery in a Post
DMCA World: Challenges and Opportunities for Publishers Emerging Sources
of Revenue in Book Publishing - e-Books databases, POD Library Funding:
Issues and Trends Through 2010 Tools and Strategies for Managing Digital
Assets



Over 20 exhibitors to answer questions on tools and technologies for
managing the digital environment.



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6) CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Education and
Information Systems: Technologies and Applications Jointly with
International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control
Technologies: CCCT '03 July 31, August 1-2, 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA



http://www.confinf.org/eista03



EISTA '03 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original
and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking,
problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in
the fields of Education/Training and Information/Communication
Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their
research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present
case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to
present education/training information systems and software based
solutions. Teachers and University professors are invited to present
case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and
innovative ideas and designs. Educational scientist and technologists
are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the
future possibilities of ICT in educational systems and training
processes and methodologies. Manager of educational organizations and
training consultants are invited to present problems that might be
solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different
approaches and design in ICT.



All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions
with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and
teachers/professors.



Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must
not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed
proceedings.



You can find complete information about the conference in our web page
http://www.confinf.org/eista03



* EISTA '03 ORGANIZATION



General Chair: Professor Freddy Malpica

Organizing Committee Chair: Professor Andres Tremante



Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and
Systemics



* CONFERENCE AREAS AND TOPICS



. Education and Training Systems and Technologies

     Industrial/Corporative Training.

     Higher Education.

     Instructional Design.

     Reinventing the Training Organization.

     Knowledge Management.

     Education for working Culture.

     Synergy between Education and Development.

     Synergy between Education and Industry/Business.

     Learning to Learn.

     Organizational Learning.

     Cybernetics of Education.

     Teacher Education.

. Applications of Information and Communication Technologies in
Education and Training

     Multimedia-based Instructional Design.

     Computer-Based Training.

     Web-Based Training.

     Internet-Based Teaching.

     Distance Learning.

     Distance Broadcast Training.

     Application of simulation in Training and Education.

     E-Learning.

     Integrating e Learning and Classroom Learning.

     Online Teaching and Learning.

     Internet-Based Learning Tools.

     Internet-Based Adult Learning.

     Virtual Classroom.

     Virtual Universities.

. Application of Education Technologies

     Education of science and Engineering.

     Education of Informatics and Communication Technologies.

     Corporative Training in Informatics and cybernetics.

     Information Science Education.



* ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM



Papers might be submitted via web page:
http://www.confinf.org/eista03/WebSite2003/Submission.asp as extended
abstracts (500-2000 words) or as full papers drafts (2000-5000 words).



Reviews will be done for both kinds of submissions.



Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling the form given in the web
page http://www.confinf.org/eista03/InvitedSession2003/organizer.asp



More information about Invited Sessions Organization could be found at
the http://www.confinf.org/eista03/WebSite2003/ISOrganization.asp



* IMPORTANT DATES



May 09, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper
drafts (2000-5000) words.

May 09, 2003: Invited session proposals.

May 30, 2003: Notifications of Acceptance.

June 20, 2003: Submission of final versions: hard copies and electronic
versions.

July 31, 2003: Conference Starts

August 2, 2003: Conference Ends



Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its
organizer and chair



* PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION



Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not
exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of
paper and electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must sign a
copyright release form.



* REGISTRATION FEES



The conference fees will be USD 330 before the deadline, and USD 380
after the deadline.



This fee will include exclusively:



* A CD-ROM version of the Proceedings

* One volume of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceedings

* Coffee breaks

* Welcome Reception



Each registration fee might include just one paper, which presentation
will be included in the conference program and published in the
conference proceedings.





* AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT



The only audiovisual equipment provided for most meetings will be an
overhead projector and a screen. Video projection or any other
equipment, if needed, will have to be supplied by the presenter.





* CONFERENCE CONTACT



Details can be found at the Conference web page:
http://www.confinf.org/eista03



Answers to specific questions can also be requested by e-mail:



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We are looking forward to meeting you at EISTA '03 conference, in
Orlando.



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7) Collecting, Connecting, and Creating Knowledge: Libraries, Archives
and Research in the C21st

June 20-22, 2003: Wellington, New Zealand: http://www/humanz.org.nz



A conference organized by the Friends of the Turnbull Library and the
Humanities Society of New Zealand.



National Library of New Zealand, Molesworth Street, Wellington, 20-22
June 2003



The purpose of this conference is to explore the topic of libraries,
archives  and research in the multiple contexts of national, university,
specialist and public libraries and archives, new and old media, and the
changing environment for research and new knowledge creation, especially
in the humanities and arts.



The conference aims to bring together researchers and representatives of
the principal components of the New Zealand library system, broadly
interpreted to include all repositories of information sources.



Exploring the topic will require assessing the principal changes
occuring in the conception and functions of information repositories and
the different ways in which research can be understood as a
characteristic of the knowledge society.



FRIDAY 20 June

8.00pm: Conference Opening by Hon Marian Hobbs followed by the 2003
Turnbull Founder Lecture: Dr Charles Henry, Vice President and CIO at
Rice University in Houston, Texas, and President of NINCH, the National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage in the USA "Transcending
the Material: the Library of the 21st Century"



Full programme information and registration details can be found under
"Conferences" on the HUMANZ website: http://www/humanz.org.nz



A reduced rate for the conference is available for members of the
Friends of the Turnbull Library and HUMANZ.



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 Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 66 (Winter/Spring 2003), Numbers
1 & 2

 The Public Domain

 http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/



The Winter/Spring Issue of Duke University's Law and Contemporary
Problems Journal is devoted to papers delivered during the November 2001
conference on The Public Domain, organized by James Boyle at the Duke
University Law School.



LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

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Volume 66       Winter/Spring 2003      Numbers 1 & 2

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The Public Domain

James Boyle, Special Editor



* James Boyle, "Foreword: The Opposite of Property?"



* James Boyle, "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of
the Public Domain"



* Mark Rose, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: The English Copyright Debates and
the Rhetoric of the Public Domain"



* Carol M. Rose "Romans, Roads, and Romantic Creators: Traditions of
Public Property in the Information Age"



* Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, "Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities:
Information as a Common-Pool Resource"



* Pamela Samuelson, "Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and
Opportunities"



* Yochai Benkler, "Through the Looking Glass: Alice and the
Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain"



* William K. Van Alstyne, "Reconciling What the First Amendment Forbids
with what the Copyright Clause Permits: A Summary Explanation and
Review"



* Negativland, "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain"



* David Nimmer, "'Fairest of them All' and Other Fairy Tales of Fair
Use"



* Arti K. Rai and Rebecca S. Eisenberg  "Bayh-Dole Reform and the
Progress of Biomedicine"



* J. H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, "A Contractually Reconstructed
Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist
Intellectual Property Environment"



* David Lange, "Reimagining the Public Domain"







David Seaman

Director, Digital Library Federation

1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500

Washington, DC 20036

tel: 202-939-4750

fax: 202-939-4765

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