XML 2003 Program Packed with Industry Leaders, Insights; Premier XML Industry Event Slated for Dec. 7-12 in Ph. XMLMania.com Sep 30 2003 1:49PM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news]
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Info Uniform Resource Identifier. The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces is a new Internet-Draft.

This document defines the "info" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for information assets that have identifiers in public namespaces that are not part of the URI allocation. By information asset this document intends any information construct - i.e. any abstraction or manifestation - that has identity within a public namespace.

There exist many information assets with identifiers in public namespaces that are not referenceable by URI schemes. Examples of such namespaces include Dewey Decimal Classifications [DEWEY], Library of Congress Control Numbers [LCCN], NASA Astrophysics Data System Bibcodes [BIBCODE], and Open Archives Initiative identifiers [OAI].

NISO is to be the registry. [Catalogablog]
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Interview with Herbert Van de Sopel
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Electronic Databases and Google How do we promote quality. Anonymous Patron writes "With libraries paying more and more each year in subscription fees for on-line databases, what are librarians doing to drive traffic to these resources rather than to Google and the web? Even more pressing, what are you doing to accomplish this when at least one of the major database vendors (Gale) is now including a direct link to Google in its major periodical databases? (No link, but go check out the search results of any Infotrac database.)" [LISNews.com]
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OAI-rights. From the OAI-general listserv:

"The Open Archives Initiative and Project RoMEO announce the formation of OAI-rights. The goal of this effort is to investigate and develop means of expressing rights about metadata and resources in the OAI framework. The result will be an addition to the OAI implementation guidelines that specifies mechanisms for rights expressions within the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

The area of rights expressions is wide-open with many organizations proposing languages and mechanisms. Therefore, the OAI-rights effort will aim to be extensible, providing a general framework for expressing rights statements within OAI-PMH. These statements will target both the metadata itself and the resources described by that metadata. In the context of this broader framework, OAI-rights will use Creative Commons licenses as a motivating and deployable example.

A white paper describing the scope and issues in OAI-rights is available at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/OAIRightsWhitePaper.html."

[inSilico - A Princeton University Library metadata and digital library blog]
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MIT Launches Free Online Access to Class Materials [ResourceShelf]
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Time Wild West Web was tamed. John Duncan writes spotted A Toronto Star Column that says it's time for the Wild West we once proudly called the Internet to grow up. I can't quite figure out his point, but he says the pursuit of order and safety on the Internet is why Canada is considering anti-spam legislation and why California just introduced one of the toughest can-spam laws in the world. It's why dozens of privacy commissioners from around the world met in Sydney, Australia, earlier this month and unanimously condemned the use of spyware. [LISNews.com]
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