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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
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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
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:
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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