D-Lib Magazine (January 2002)

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	Serendipity by Bonita Wilson To the Editor: Letters From Richard Hill, ASIST Beyond the Scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Suzana Sukovic, University of Sydney, Australia	Photograph: Rhey Cedron, Sculpture Detail, Washington National Cathedral. Copyright 2002 Earthlore. Used with permission. Earthlore Explorations is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.
	A Spectrum of Interoperability: The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL William Y. Arms, Diane Hillmann, Carl Lagoze, Dean Krafft, Richard Marisa, John Saylor, and Carol Terrizzi, Cornell University; and Herbert Van de Sompel, The British Library Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content Tony Gill, Research Libraries Group, and Paul Miller, UKOLN Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell's Project Prism Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Peter Botticelli, Richard Entlich, Carl Lagoze, and Sandra Payette, Cornell University Safekeeping: A Cooperative Approach to Building a Digital Preservation Resource Hilary Berthon, Susan Thomas, and Colin Webb, National Library of Australia Object Persistence and Availability in Digital Libraries Michael L. Nelson and B. Danette Allen, NASA Langley Research Center Illinois Digital Cultural Heritage Community - Collaborative Interactions among Libraries, Museums and Elementary Schools Nuala A. Bennett, Beth Sandore, and Evangeline S. Pianfetti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries: Digital Libraries: Dynamic Landscapes for Knowledge Creation, Access and Management December 10 - 12, 2001, Bangalore, India Suzie Allard, University of Kentucky, and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
	Earthlore Explorations Mark Nelson, Earthlore THADL - A Successful Digital Library Pilot Project Jinfang Niu, Tsinghua University Cuneiform for Everyman Robert K. Englund, University of California, Los Angeles TONIC - The Online Netskills Interactive Course Juliet Schroeder, Netskills, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Collection Management Initiative Cecily Johns, University of California In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements
	*In Print* IMLS Issues Two Digital Library Forum Reports for Comment E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study Archiving in the Digital Age: There's a Will, But Is There a Way? Global E-Government Survey 2001 *Point to Point* Portals to the World LIBDEX, the Library Index PADI: Legal Deposit *Calls for Participation* Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme, JISC Call for Proposals Pre-announcement. Expected closing date, late February 2002. Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH), 8-11 September 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 1 March 2002. Sixth East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, 8 - 11 September 2002, Bratislava, Slovakia. Call for Submissions. The submission deadline for abstracts is 25 February 2002. Papers are due 4 March 2002. Digital Library -- IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, An International Conference, 9 - 11 July 2002, Beijing, China. Call for Papers. Papers must be received by 31 March 2002. ISMIR 2002 - 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 13 - 17 October 2002, Paris, France. Call for participation. The submission deadline for proposals is 19 April 2002. The First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 29 - 31 October 2002, Tehran, Iran. Call for Submissions. The submission deadline for abstracts is receipt by 22 April 2002, with papers due before 1 May 2002." *Goings On* OCLC Institute to present "Steering by Standards" videoconference series, 26 March, 19 April, and 29 May, 2002. 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 1 - 3 April 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. New Developments in Digital Libraries, the Second International Workshop, 2 - 3 April 2002, Ciudad Real, Spain. 3rd European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (OKLC 2002), 5 - 6 April 2002, Athens, Greece. Thesaurus Design for Semantic Information Management, 6 April 2002, Manhattan, New York, USA. IVETA - TEND 2002: Bridging the Divide - Strategies for Change, 7 - 9 April 2002, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. NetLab Conference, 10 - 12 April 2002, Lund, Sweden. Content Management for Information Professionals, A Joint LITC/LAMIT Conference, 11 April 2002, London, United Kingdom. Museums and the Web 2002, Archives & Museum Informatics, 17 - 20 April 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. INFO'2002 - Information, Knowledge and Society: Challenges of New Era, 22 - 26 April 2002, Havana, Cuba. *Deadline Reminders* NLII 2002 - Innovative Practice, Policy, and Partnerships: A New Alignment 25th ACM SIGIR 2002: Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval BOBCATSSS 2002 - Human Beings and Information Specialists SAINT-2002: Sharing an Internet Vision OCLC Systems & Services, an Online Computer Library Center journal Trans-European Telecommunication Networks for Access to Europe's Cultural Heritage ALA 2002 Annual Meeting Poster Sessions Super Conference 2002, Ontario Library Association National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Institute of Museum and Library Services ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting: Knowledge, Connections and Community High Quality Information For Everyone and What It Costs, 6th European Bielefeld Colloqium VALA2002: e-volving Information Futures 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2002) The Fifth International Conference on Virtual Communities Seminar on Digital Preservation of the Record of Science - state of the art, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2002) National Award for Library Service ELPUB2002: Technology Interactions, ICCC/EFIP 6th International Conference on Electronic Publishing International Conference on Multimedia & Expo EduTex Regional Conference: IT-Through HE** or High Water Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining LITA Regional Institute: "Proxy Web Servers and Authentication" 2001 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference, Integrating @ Internet Speed: Strategies for the Content Community
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