[1] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (124)
Subject: ALAWON v6, n45 - FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED
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[2] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (65)
Subject: Cross-domain use of metadata -- reports available for
comment
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dlg8x@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> (38)
Subject: Reminder of Registration
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dlg8x@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> (18)
Subject: Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise
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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: ALAWON v6, n45 - FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED (fwd)
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 7, 1997
Following up on my earlier report on the May 19 CONFU Meeting, I'm
forwarding a joint statement by library, cultural and educational
organizations that NINCH has endorsed on the future of the work,
discussion and collaborative endeavor embodied by the Conference on
Fair Use.
David Green
> =================================================================
> ALAWON Volume 6, Number 45
> ISSN 1069-7799 June 6, 1997
>
> American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
>
> In this issue: (108 lines)
>
> CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED
>
> As part of ALA's multi-faceted and ongoing efforts to preserve
> and promote balanced intellectual property policy, particularly
> the vitality of the Fair Use Doctrine in copyright law, the
> Association has actively participated in the "Conference on Fair
> Use," or "CONFU." After more than two years of productive
> discussions, these unofficial discussions and guideline
> negotiations ended recently without producing consensus as to the
> appropriate scope of fair use for librarians and educators in the
> digital environment.
>
> As technology and society's use of it continues to evolve, the
> need in the library, scholarly and educational communities for an
> appreciation of both information proprietors' rights and user
> privileges like fair use is expected to intensify. Recognizing
> its responsibility to meet this need, and to help assure that
> fair use and other privileges remain vital in the information
> age, ALA has joined 13 other major national library, scholarly
> and educational associations in supporting a joint statement
> regarding the CONFU process. Significantly, the statement not
> only looks back at CONFU, but ahead in outlining a set of
> precepts and goals that will guide ALA's future efforts in this
> important and controversial policy arena. Specifically,
> signatories committed themselves as follows:
>
> *We will share experiences concerning: the application of new
> technology in library and educational environments, "fair
> uses" made of copyrighted works, proprietors' responses to
> requests for permission to use copyrighted materials, and
> sources of helpful information regarding fair use and other
> privileges under copyright law;
>
> *We will participate in organized efforts to capture and
> disseminate such information;
>
> *We will assist in the development of "User Community
> Principles" and educator- and librarian-generated "Best
> Practices" concerning fair use, distance learning, and other
> activities supported by current copyright law;
>
> *We will work to extend the application of fair use into
> digital networked environments in libraries and educational
> institutions by relying on it responsibly to lawfully make
> creative use of information;
>
> *We will resist relying on any proposed code of conduct which
> may substantially or artificially constrain the full and
> appropriate application of fair use; and
>
> * We will encourage our members to reject any licensing
> agreement clause that implicitly or explicitly limits or
> abrogates fair use or any other legally conveyed user
> privilege.
>
> Endorsing organizations
>
> American Association of Law Libraries
> American Association of State Colleges and Universities
> American Council on Education
> American Council of Learned Societies
> American Library Association
> Association of American Universities
> Association of Research Libraries
> Medical Library Association
> National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges
> National Education Association
> National Humanities Alliance
> National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
> National School Boards Association
> Special Libraries Association
>
> Visit http://www.ala.org/washoff/confu.html for the full text of
> the joint statement and information about fair use and other
> intellectual property issues central to libraries and
> librarianship.
> _________________________________________________________________
>
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David Green Executive Director National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-5346 Internet: david@cni.org
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 10, 1997
REPORTS ON BRITISH WORKSHOPS ON CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE DISCOVERY/RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIAL
A particularly constructive component of the work of the British Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/> is in its work to construct a working model for the effective discovery and retrieval of digital materials from across a broad range of arts and humanities disciplines and practices.
The following notice from Paul Miller of the Archeology Data Service (one of the service providers of AHDS) announces the release of preliminary reports on the findings of a series of workshops held in the disciplines, or "domains" of: Archaeology, History, electronic text, digital sound resources, moving images and visual arts & cultural heritage.
Although this work is being conducted in a different, more highly centralized environment than that in which we work in the U.S., this should be of great interest to us all and I encourage your reading and commenting on the reports of those "domains" that most interest you.
David Green
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Paul Miller <apm9@YORK.AC.UK>
In an effort to explore the issues behind creating a cross-domain interdisciplinary service for the Arts & Humanities, the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and Office of Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) recently convened a series of workshops where participants addressed:
- requirements for resource discovery within the discipline - current resource description/discovery practices - fitness of Dublin Core for resource discovery within the discipline
In each domain-specific workshop, participants were drawn from within the domain, and were asked to consider likely needs, both within a service for the domain itself and for a domain-spanning service such as the AHDS, where the issues are slightly different.
These workshops addressed the important subject of resource discovery, and explored the issues behind use of metadata to describe electronic resources in such a way that they might effectively be located and retrieved within a cross-domain interdisciplinary environment such as that of the AHDS.
Although focussed upon the Arts & Humanities, it is intended that the workshop findings will have value more widely within the electronic libraries sphere, where several projects are concerned with describing or locating resources in an electronic environment.
DRAFT reports from each AHDS Service Provider are now available on the web:
<http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/res_dev_wrkshp1.html> (Archaeology)
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/metadata/draft_report01.html> (History)
<http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/reports/metarep1.html> (electronic text)
<http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mu_rep.html> (digital sound resources)
<http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mi_rep.html> (moving image resources)
<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html> (visual arts and cultural heritage).
Each report is available in draft form until the end of July, at which time comments will be incorporated into finalised versions of the reports.
AHDS would welcome comments from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible in the time available, and invites you to look at those reports of interest and submit comments to their authors.
Comments on the series as a whole should be addressed to me in the first instance.
Thanks,
Paul
== paul miller ================== collections@ads.ahds.ac.uk == collections manager, archaeology data service, king's manor york, YO1 2EP, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 43 3954 == http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ ==== fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3939 ==
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--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:17:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "David L. Gants" <dlg8x@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Reminder of Registration
>From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <ramesh@cobuild.collins.co.uk> >Received: (ramesh@localhost) by of.cobuild.collins.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) >id OAA13022; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:52:07 +0100 >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:52:07 +0100
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--[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "David L. Gants" <dlg8x@faraday.clas.virginia.edu> Subject: Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise
>From: Mark Olsen <mark@barkov.uchicago.edu> >Message-Id: <199706101828.NAA27337@barkov.uchicago.edu> >To: humanist@lists.Princeton.EDU >
The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the release of an alpha version of two on-line editions of the
DICTIONNAIRE de l'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE.
As part of an on-going project, we have started with the 1st (1694) and 5th (1798) editions. Both allow searches by headword and are available for general use at the following URL:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie We would appreciate reports of any difficulties that users may encounter. Jack Iverson ARTFL Project research assistant jack@gide.uchicago.edu