Issue #8:   Issues in Large Scale Digital Archives
  Announcing the Internet Moving Images Archive  Rick Prelinger <footage@...>
  Second Call for Papers DLIB 2001              Rauber Andreas <andi@...>

Number of addresses on this list: 868
Amount of data in the Internet Moving Images Archive: over 300GB
   I hope the advertisement is now gone from this list-- we have now paid off yahoo and hopefully it worked.  -brewster

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From: Rick Prelinger <footage@...>
Subject: announcing the Internet Moving Images Archive

The Internet Moving Images Archive is now online and available for your use.

This noncommercial resource contains high-quality digitized versions of
archival films available for free downloading and reuse.  Never before
available online, these "ephemeral" films document many aspects and events
of 20th-century American culture and society, including media and media
production, communication, technology, landscape, urban history, economics,
political science, warfare, the New Deal, and many other areas.  Most were
originally released as advertising, educational, industrial, documentary,
amateur or government films.

At present, over 800 out of a planned total of 1001 titles are available,
all from Prelinger Archives.  All may be downloaded and reused for free,
with no restrictions other than that the films cannot be resold or licensed
by anyone in their entirety or as stock footage.  Our intention is that
these titles should circulate freely as "open-source" content.

We encourage you to download this material for your own use and for the use
of others.  You may also wish to make videotape copies of these films for
exhibition or reuse.  We hope that easy access to these films will assist
mediamakers, scholars, teachers, students, exhibitors and members of the
general public in coming to terms with the complex and diverse audiovisual
history of the 20th century.  Further, we hope that easy access to a
diverse collection of copyright- and restriction-free content will
encourage more people to be moving image authors in their own right.

The digitized video files are in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats.  Information on
downloading and players is available on the site.

Please visit the Archive at http://www.moviearchive.org.

An article on the background and rationale for this project may be found at
http://eserver.org/bs/52/prelinger.html.

The Internet Moving Images Archive is a project of the Internet Archive
(http://www.archive.org) in collaboration with Prelinger Archives
(http://www.prelinger.com).

Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives   http://www.prelinger.com
P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622
+1 415 750-0445      Fax: +1 415 750-0607
footage@...

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:36:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rauber Andreas <andi@...>
To: archivists-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Second Call for Papers DLIB 2001

Please find below the Second and Last Call for Papers for the
International Workshop on Digital Libraries - DLIB 2001 focusing on all
issues related to the preservation of Web content.
Hard submission deadline for papers: April 8th 2001
Our apologies if you receive this message more than once.
Please distribute this call to any of your colleagues who might be
interested.
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International Workshop on
Digital Libraries (DLib2001)
(http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ifs/events/dlib2001/)
in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2001)
Munich, Germany, September 3-7, 2001
Workshop Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
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Topics of Interest
The International Workshop on Digital Libraries (DLib2001), immediately
preceding the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for
Digital Libraries (ECDL2001), is inviting participation from all parts of
the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved
in digital library research and practice, including computer science,
information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum
studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences, and
humanities. All domains - academia, government, industry, and others - are
encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees.
The information present in the World Wide Web is increasingly recognized
as an important contribution to the world's cultural heritage.
Consequently, a growing number of research projects is addressing issues
related to the preservation of Web content. Apart from the immediate
challenges regarding the acquisition and storage of Web-based information,
long-term preservation and the availability of such archives provide
fascinating research areas.
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to
* Archivation: Harvesting, Internet Cataloging, Content Selection
* Preservation: Migration, Emulation, Storage Architectures, Media,
durability
* Interfaces: Navigation in Large Document Archives, User Models,
Usability Studies
* Information Retrieval: Classification, Cross-Language, Document
Genres, Collection Analysis
* Frameworks: Metadata, Interoperability
* Case Studies: Systems, Applications
* Policy Issues: Economics of Information, Intellectual Property
Rights, Privacy
* Social Issues: Challenges and Caveats of Internet Archives, Scenarios
and Visions
Program Committee
* Workshop Chair:
Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria, merkl@...
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Ross.Wilkinson@...
* Program Chair:
Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, Austria, rauber@...
* Program Committee:
o Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde, UK)
o Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
o Erich J. Neuhold (GMD-IPSI, Germany)
o Jan Paralic (Technical University Kosice, Slovakia)
o Christian Schlögl (University of Graz, Austria)
o Erich Schweighofer (University of Vienna, Austria)
o Ah-Hwee Tan (Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
o Werner Winiwarter (SCCH, Austria)
Submission Details
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully
evaluated based on originality, significance, and relevance to the
workshop. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2001 workshops. All submitted
papers must not exceed 5 pages in IEEE style (two columns; about 5000
words). The IEEE author guidelines and formatting instruction can be found
at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Templates for LaTeX
(latex8.sty, latex8.bst, latex8.tex, latex8.bib) as well as MS Word
(ieee_template.doc) are available.
Authors should submit full papers electronically by email to
dlib2001@... listing DLib2001 Paper Submission as subject of
the mail. The title page must include the name and email address of the
contact author, and 3-4 relevant keywords. Submissions should be in PDF
(preferred) or Postscript format, either as plain attachment or using any
of the following compression formats: Winzip (.zip), gnu-zip (.gz) or
Compress (.Z), with the name of the first author as filename (e.g.
rauber.pdf.gz)
The e-mail must further contain in plain ASCII-Text the following
information:
* Title of the Paper
* Keywords
* Name of Contact Author
* Contact Address
* Telephone and Fax Numbers
* e-mail Address
* File Format and Compression Technique used for Submission
* Filename and Size in Bytes
* Abstract in Plain Text
If these format requirements are a hardship, please contact the program
chair.
Important Dates
* Submission: April 8, 2001
* Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2001
* Final Version: May 25, 2001
* Workshop Date: September 3, 2001
Related Conferences
* ECDL2001, September 4-8, 2001, Darmstadt, Germany
(http://www.ecdl2001.org)
European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital
Libraries
There are hourly trains connecting Munich and Darmstadt, travel time
approx. 4 hrs. (for timetables, see Deutsche Bahn)
* RCDL2001, September 11-13, 2001, Petrozavodsk, Russia
(http://rcdl2001.krc.karelia.ru/)
All-Russian Scientific Conference "Digital Libraries: Advanced
Methods And Technologies, Digital Collections"
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Andreas Rauber |
Dept. of Software Technology | Tel: (+43) 1 58801 18826
Vienna Univ. of Technology | Fax: (+43) 1 58801 18899
Favoritenstr. 9 - 11 / 188 | e-mail: rauber@...
A - 1040 Wien | http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi/
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Leonard DiFranza http://www.sirius.com/~lenny
lenny@... web design / internet audio
sf: 415.824.5557 slc: 801.484.3499
cell: 415.235.0214
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