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_Current Cites_
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Volume 7, no. 5
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May 1996
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1996/cc96.7.5.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, John Ober, Margaret Phillips,
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David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Networks and Networking
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James-Catalano, Cynthia N. "The Virtual Wordsmith"
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Internet World 7(6) (June 1996):30-31. -- A descriptive,
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narrative list of more than 25 URL's (mostly Web sites)
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that provides an interesting variety of dictionaries,
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encyclopedias and thesauri. -- DR
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Kalfatovic, Martin R. "Internet Resources in the Visual
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Arts" College & Research Libraries News 57(5) (May 1996):
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289-293. -- The Web's ability to display images means
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that it has attracted many artists, museums and galleries
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to its realm. Among the sites listed in this article are
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indexes and general resources, sites devoted to artists
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and artistic movements (check out !Surrealisme!), online
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exhibitions, museums (the Smithsonian, the Met, the Andy
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Warhol Museum, etc.), and commercial galleries and auction
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houses (find out just how much those fake Jackie-O pearls
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went for at the Sotheby's web site). Also listed are
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definitive e-journals in the art world as well as
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discussion lists, newsgroups, and usenet groups. The list
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is very selective but offers a good representative sample
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of international resources. -- MP
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Maddox, Kate. "Masters of the Web" Information Week
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[http://techweb.cmp.com/iw] 577 (April 29, 1996): 46-54.
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-- This article is not about technology per se, but about
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technology managers - especially WebMasters. The article
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explains some of the difficulty in integrating newly formed
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"WebMaster" positions into the larger enterprise and how
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some companies are doing it. Although written from the
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corporate point of view, many of the same issues overlap
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with educational institutions. -- RR
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Pack, Thomas. "Electronic Words: A Word Lover's Guide to
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Digital Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Other Cyberplaces"
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Database 19(2) (April/May 1996): 25-31. -- Yet another
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offering for logophiles. Pack describes the variety of
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electronic resources available on consumer online
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systems, the Internet, and CD-ROM. -- TR
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Steinberg, Steve G. "Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe)"
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Wired 4(5) (May 1996): 108-114, 172-182. -- To ponder
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the question of how to organize the rapidly growing and
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ever-chaotic Web, is really to explore age-old attempts
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to organize human knowledge. But efforts to classify the
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Web have been developed anyway in the form of search
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engines. An exploration of Yahoo!, Inktomi and Excite
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and a still-under development project at Oracle called
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ConText, illustrated for Steinberg the essential
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conundrum of classification: a catalog (which some may
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consider Yahoo! to be) in which a human being analyzes
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an object of human knowledge (such as a book or, in
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Yahoo!'s case, a Web site), then categorizes it under a
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prescribed classification scheme will always be
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subjective; automated indexing systems (found in various
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forms in Inktomi, Excite and ConText) lack the ability
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to provide context (something that, so far, only humans
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can provide). While Steinberg didn't find an answer to
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the question of how to classify human knowledge (or at
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least how to better organize the Web) he did discover
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that while humans, (i.e. librarians and information
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scientists) may not have figured out how to organize human
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knowledge, neither have the computer scientists. -- MP
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Young, Jeffrey R. "'Indecency' on the Internet: Court
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Hearing Stirs Fears of Censorship of Student and College
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Web Pages" Chronicle of Higher Education XLII(33)
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(April 26, 1996): A21, A25-A26 -- Surely among the first
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of many articles on how the "Decency in Communications"
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rider to the 1996 Telecommunications Act will affect the
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sharing of scholarly and cultural knowledge, both in the
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academic sphere itself, and with the outside world. Among
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the cases cited are a university art museum identified as
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showing potentially "indecent" images of nude greek statues
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in their WWW site. Of course more contemporary art and
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discourse will be seen as even more dangerous. Though the
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Internet started largely as a way to freely share scholarly
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information, this component of law poses a serious
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reconsideration of just that use. -- RR
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Query Based on Image Content [http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com]
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-- This WWW site is a demonstration of a new tool for
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content-based retrieval (searching the images themselves,
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rather than textual meta-data). These tools are almost
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ready for commercial use, and are being demo'd on the
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vendors' WWW sites: Query by Image Content, from IBM
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[http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com] and Visual Information
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Retrieval System, from Virage Inc. [http://www.virage.com].
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Even the old demo of QBIC (for HTML 2.0 browsers) works
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with a surprising degree of accuracy, searching from one
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image for similar images based on color percentage or
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layout. These types of tools have profound implications
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for content provision and research in visual disciplines,
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from Art History and Architecture to Archaeology and
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Paleontology. The fact that they are integrated with the
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Web increases their potential usefulness. -- RR
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Optical Disc Technology
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Guenette, David R. "Document Imaging, CD-ROM, and CD-R: A
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Starting Point" CD-ROM Professional 9(4) (April 1996): 32-
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44. -- Guenette begins with the dream of the paperless
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office and the concurrent irony of contemporary office
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culture: as more documents are digitally generated, we
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continue to produce and handle more paper-based documents
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each year. The answer to this irony may be CD-Recordable
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technology with increasingly affordable scanner devices,
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document imaging systems and OCR technologies combined with
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cheap, networkable high-storage media devices such as CD-ROM
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and CD-R. This article provides a comprehensive overview of
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the document imaging process as well as the important
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questions you need to ask before designing a system. -- TR
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Current Cites 7(5) (May 1996) ISSN: 1060-2356
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