euroCrisNews Edition #12 - 02 December 2001 |
(1) euroCRIS news(1.1) The euroCRIS Executive Board CERIF
TaskGroup: Andrei
Lopatenko On behalf of the euroCRIS Executive I welcome them all to the board and look forward to a dynamic and cooperative period of 2 years (at which time new elections are held) for euroCRIS. Keith (1.2) euroCRIS Member Profile At Bar-Ilan, Eric has served as a senior research administrator managing pre-award administrative activities in securing competitive grants in the sciences and humanities. Managing a staff of four, he has been active in streamlining and formalizing work processes, promoting best practices, and establishing clear lines of responsibilities in his section. Some two years ago, Eric was involved in a revolutionary project in Israel, the development of the Palestinian-Israeli Research Administration Network (PIRAN) WebSite. This project followed a successful series of workshops between research administrators of Bar-Ilan University and Al Quds University. The site may still be accessed at http://www.piran.org From 1996 till 1999 Eric oversaw the technical aspects of the establishment of the ISRAD website and INDARD national r&d database. His primary duties included: conceptually designing the systems; overseeing project development; monitoring milestones; evaluating development progress; organizing the technical working committee; liaising between the distributed data providers; preparing reports; coordinating seminars and information days; hiring of software developers; purchasing of hardware and software; and, overseeing the WebMaster/DBA. These sites are no longer live, unfortunately. On the European front, Eric was a member of the ERGO Working Group and Implementation Group, and the CERIF Working Group. He is still the Israeli national representative to the CORDIS Correspondents group and is a member of euroCRIS. Eric presently chairs the euroCRIS External Communication committee and edits the monthly newsletter EuroCrisNews. Recently, Eric had two papers/presentations published: INDARD: Israeli Academic Research, at International Perspectives on Current Research Information, September 30 - October 1, 1999, Baltimore, MD, USA and KeyMail: Select Dissemination of Information on Research Funding Opportunities to University Scientists at EUNIS: The 7th International Congress of European University Information Systems, March 28-30, 2001, Berlin, Germany. A paper on research administration at Israel's institutions of higher education will be published by RAGNet (UK) shortly. Much of Eric's time, these days, is spent on his Ph.D. studies. He is enrolled in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University, finishing his course work so he may begin the task of writing his research proposal. You can bet his topic will involve the world of CRIS. (If you have any good ideas for a thesis, Eric welcomes hearing from you.) Among his hobbies are: tending his garden, photography, hiking, music, drinking European beer and Single Malt Scotch, and reading. He is also active in his community, chairing the synagogue religion committee, running their online virtual community (Yahoo Group), and co-founding a charity fund for the needy. Contact Eric at zimmee@mail.biu.ac.il. Editor's note: In coming issues we hope to spotlight other board members. We welcome biosketches from all members. (1.3) CRIS2002 Conference Update CRIS2002 Websites: Find updated conference information at http://www.uni-kassel.de/CRIS2002/conferenceinfo.ghk The call-for-papers may be found at http://www.uni-kassel.de/CRIS2002/c4p_intro.ghk. Registration information is available at http://www.uni-kassel.de/CRIS2002/registration.ghk. Conference contact information is available at http://www.uni-kassel.de/CRIS2002/contact.ghk. (1.4) euroCRIS Task Groups (1.4.1) ExCom Update On the TG website, members will find information on the TG members, the work schedule, and documentation on the projects under discussion. Projects are the euroCRIS Logo, the euroCRIS Brochure, EuroCrisNews, the euroCRIS Homepage, the CRIS Portal, the Best Practice Database, and the euroCRIS Members Database. At this point, comments are especially welcome on the homepage design. At http://www.biu.ac.il/RA/www/rserch/eric/eurocris/eurocrisnews/index.html euroCRIS members will also find an archive of all EuroCrisNews newsletter issues, as they appeared in your in-box, give or take. (1.4.2) CERIF Update The CERIF TG has also established a BBS at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerif/ The TG action plan is published by Anne at http://www.ub.uib.no/avdeling/fdok/cris/taskgroups/actionplan.htm. CERIF publications and presentations are also nicely maintained. I would like describe in more details the CERIF TG. If you need more details, please, do not hesitate to ask me. Validation of the CERIF model Vocabularies (classification) Guidelines and an easy
introduction to CERIF Project proposal NOE project Definition of terms Data exchange (metadata, XML,) Regards Andrei http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/~andrei/ (1.5) CRIS Profiles We want to let you know about a new, exciting and easy-to-use Internet product which offers a single point of contact for on-line information and advice about EU research for SMEs. The SME TechWeb is a direct replacement for the previous CORDIS SME website and will be up and running from 30 October at the following CORDIS address: http://www.cordis.lu/sme/ It complements the existing range of information products aimed at SMEs (companies with fewer than 250 employees) and will be especially useful to those who want to innovate and forge international research inks. SME TechWeb provides information on the Specific Measures for SMEs of the Fifth Framework Programme. This site offers a clear, user-friendly design and structure with content that is written in a straightforward way to help busy SME owner/managers get the most from EU research. It will guide SMEs through all the steps of a research project, from initial identification of needs to the commercial exploitation of results. Content-wise, the Special Measures on offer to SMEs are clearly explained, and all the necessary forms and guidance notes needed to submit a research proposal are there, along with a database offering examples of successful projects. There is also a glossary of terms to help newcomers understand EU research. An advanced search facility will make it easy for users to find what they need – from inspiring success stories to details of exploratory awards and Economic and Technological Intelligence actions. SME TechWeb will be updated regularly to provide the latest news of events, calls, and regulatory developments. There are also links to other on-line sources of advice and information that are relevant to technology-oriented SMEs. <CORDIS©, European Communities - 2001> (1.5.1.2) Interactive feature for expert
application submission General Information : CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, has launched a redesigned interactive feature for expert application submission. The European Commission regularly uses experts and specialists to evaluate and assess research proposals or projects. Interested candidates are invited to submit their profiles on-line to be included in a roster. CORDIS now features a simplified interactive application form allowing registered candidates to modify and update their profiles online or via e-mail. The new interface aims to support the supply of specialists to assess proposed or on-going Commission projects. Data Source Provider : CIMS (1.5.1.3) New look for CORDIS international
cooperation interface General Information : CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, has launched a new-look interface for the 'Confirming the international role of Community research' programme. The new home page offers quicker access to relevant information on the programme, which covers a wide range of projects including participation of partners from outside Europe as well as scholarship schemes for young researchers. The interface provides a more user-friendly navigation system for accessing information on participation rules for different regions and countries with specific agreements, programme and related action overviews, calls, relevant documents and guidelines, links to assistance networks and international events. Descriptions of over 300 funded projects are also available and can be sorted according to country. Quick access to previous research programmes and results enable potential participants to get a good idea of the kind of measures supported and partnering opportunities to further promote international cooperation and scientific excellence worldwide. Data Source Provider : CIMS (1.5.2) Austrian tunes:
www.auris.ac.at No contribution, so far, is included from Austrian universities of music and the arts, from polytechnics (Fachhochschulen) and other institutions of higher education and research.) AURIS offers a selectable German/English search form. Information can be delivered by the authors in any language according to ISO standard, but few hits are on display if you ask for abstracts in French or Spanish. No data found in Urdu. AURIS was started as a joint, distributed project in late 1995, in order to promote the scientific co-operation of scientists in foreign countries, with particular focus on Europe, with their Austrian colleagues. In fact, the people of Austria had decided in June, 1994, with a majority of about 66%, to join the EU. The development of AURIS has been sponsored by the Austrian Ministry competent for universities and research at the time. The Project was jointly co-ordinated by Bettina Schmeikal (WU) and Franz Holzer (TUG); TUG was also prepared to volunteer for hosting the whole exercise (but since Austrian federal government is poised to change the legal basis and structure of universities altogether, this unilateral effort may well change within the months ahead). Eventually, AURIS became operative on the web in September, 1998. Data are collected locally at individual universities, and sent (once a month) to TUG, using an interchange data format agreed on in early 1998. (The alternative to this solution would have been a distributed data base. This, in turn would have required to opt for one common computer system, brand and product, a solution even to remote to think of it.) At the time being (November 2001), there are data on 12,027 research projects available on AURIS, all supposedly including title and abstract in English as well; if not, the issuing university is to blame, Oracle can't read. I should add that in a recently completed project some multimedia add-on features have been developed to be included into AURIS in the near future. AURIS was invented to improve scientific research co-operation in European (specifically: framework) programmes. It is actually used mainly by Austrian industry eager to recruit young scientists in IT and engineering, and to find navigated scientific consultants. A special user fringe I would like to mention (few, but important): whenever a new issue appears on TV newsflash, earthquake, air pollution or terrorism, journalists click on their AURIS bookmark of their internet browser to find a competent professor in Austria, and his telephone number, for an instant interview, before their competitors do. (By the way: this is how innovation goes. Motorcar was invented to carry one driver plus 3 passengers, typically, on highways for inter-city traffic or holiday excursions. Look, how many people do we see, passing by on the sidewalk, inside a commuter‘s car jammed in the morning rush-hour traffic in downtown streets of Anycity, Anystate?) Editor: euroCRIS members, let's hear from you! Send me an update on your CRIS and it will be published in the following EuroCrisNews issue. (2) CRIS related events(2.1) Internet2 Virtual Meeting The Internet2 project held a
virtual meeting for its members on 2-5 October, 2001. The proceedings,
including preestations as html and PowerPoint
presentations (ppt) are available online. Internet2 is a US consortium
being led by over 180 universities working in partnership with
industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's
Internet. The primary goals of Internet2 are to: (2.2) Moving Beyond the Catalog: Bibliographic
Access in a Web World (2.3) EDUCAUSE NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS CALL FOR PROPOSALS The EDUCAUSE membership represents a broad spectrum of interests in higher education, so the Program Committee and EDUCAUSE staff have identified a relevant set of topics that will be of interest to our constituents. Your willingness to share your ideas and experiences with your colleagues is vitally important to this community. *** Proposals due January 18, 2002 *** CALL FOR PRECONFERENCE SEMINAR PROPOSALS EDUCAUSE is accepting proposals for its 2002 preconference seminars, which will be held Tuesday, October 1, at EDUCAUSE 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia. Among the most popular EDUCAUSE conference events, these seminars permit in-depth study of selected topics and feature lively discussions. Half-day (3.5 hours) and full-day (7.5 hours) seminars are offered. *** Proposals due December 31, 2001 *** Please consider submitting a proposal if you have focused interest and experience in one of the suggested topic areas listed at http://www.educause.edu/conference/e2002/ or another area that you feel is especially timely. With your submissions, we look forward to an excellent program for EDUCAUSE 2002 in Atlanta. (2.4) NetLab celebrates its 10 years anniversary
with a conference that will take place
10th - 12th of April 2002 in Lund, Sweden. NetLab
and friends The conference will comprise of
a number of sessions in areas that have been central digital library
development themes for NetLab and for the community as a whole over
recent years: Full details and registration
information at http://www.lub.lu.se/netlab/conf/
For further information please contact: Jessica
Lindholm, Conference Coordinator, NetLab (2.5) International Conference on Internet
Computing 2002 (IC'02) THE CONFERENCE: THE WEB MINING SESSION: The Web provides multi-dimensionality to information availability. However, search engines work in a linear manner. A search engine is basically an index, a collection of keywords and locations of documents represented by these keywords can be found on the Web. The search engines in the future will add multi-dimensionality similar to the multi-dimensionality of Web documents. Among the reasons why web searches do not work well are: (1) the users are not good at expressing their information need; (2) interfaces are not good at representing the need; (3) the indexes and spiders are poor at translating the document concepts into representational keywords; (4) there is not full exploitation of the data available about the documents on the Web. The Web itself and the search engine indices contain information about the documents. Documents have different types of relationships among themselves. Hyperlinks add depth to documents, providing the multi-dimensionality, which characterizes the Web. Documents have an address, a URL, which represents a logical location on a server, which may provide information about the relationship of this document to other on the server. Also, there is a relationship to other documents on the Web unknown to the document, the search engine index may discover such relationships. Web mining is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning across such fields as information retrieval, natural language processing, information extraction, machine learning, database, data mining, data warehousing, knowledge management, user interface design, and visualization. You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4 to 5 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. SCOPE: Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following: SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: The first page of the draft
paper should include: EVALUATION PROCESS: PUBLICATION: IMPORTANT DATES: SESSION CONTACT: (2.6) CFP - Electronic Publishing - ElPub2002 CALL FOR PAPERS ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. AUTHOR GUIDELINES Abstract submission must include: Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (using text-only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs) to the Programme Committee: programme-elpub@mail.uminho.pt The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by May, 2nd. The deadline for full papers will be June 28th, 2002. Speakers will be given 35
minutes total including time for questions. Papers
will be published in the conference proceedings (print and online
version). One author per paper (speaker)
will be charged a reduced conference fee. (2.7) EUROMEDIA 2002 Conference, April 15 - 17,
2002, Modena, Italy Co-organized by/Sponsored by DG INFSO BELGACOM Introduction For general information, contact the SCS Europe: c/o Philippe Geril University of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel. (Office) : +32.9.2337790; Fax: +32.9.2234941 E-mail: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/euromd2002/index.html (2.8) Budapest to host EARMA conference on EU research innovation management Record Control Number : 17675 General Information : The eight annual EARMA (European association for research managers and administrators) conference on 'Integrating European research innovation management' will take place in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 and 15 June 2002. The event, organised by EARMA and the Hungarian academy of sciences, hopes to bring together research managers, administrators and other interested parties. EARMA aims to improve the excellence and competitiveness of European research through improved research management and administration. Data Source Provider : EARMA (2.9) Twentieth International Unicode Conference (IUC20) Unicode and the Web: The Global Connection http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc20 January 28-31, 2002 Washington, DC, USA The Unicode Standard has become the foundation for all modern text processing. It is used on large machines, tiny portable devices, and for distributed processing across the Internet. The standard brings cost-reducing efficiency to international applications and enables the exchange of text in an ever increasing list of natural languages. New technologies and innovative Internet applications, as well as the evolving Unicode Standard, bring new challenges along with their new capabilities. This technical conference will explore the opportunities created by the latest advances and how to leverage them, as well as potential pitfalls to be aware of, and problem areas that need further research. Conference attendees will include managers, software engineers, systems analysts, font designers, graphic designers, content developers, technical writers, and product marketing personnel, involved in the development, deployment or use of Unicode software or content, and the globalization of software and the Internet. CONFERENCE DATES CONFERENCE VENUE (2.10) 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR
Research, CALL FOR PAPERS Relevant papers should address
(at the theoretical, methodological, system or application level) the
analysis, design or evaluation of functions
like: SUBMISSIONS The submission should include two copies of the paper in PDF or PostScript format: one full copy and one anonymous. Both files should be submitted by anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.strath.ac.uk under the /pub/ecir02/submission directory (not visible). The file names should be the surname of the first author and the anonymous copy should have the prefix "anon". (To protect author privacy it will not be possible to list files in this directory). For the anonymous copy, the first page must contain the title of the paper and abstract, but no indication about the author(s) and affiliation(s). In addition, authors must send an email message to ecir02@cs.strath.ac.uk containing the title of the paper, the name of the file that has been submitted, the author name(s), and the author affiliation(s), plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper should be sent at that address. PUBLICATION FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS FURTHER DETAILS IMPORTANT DATES (3) Technology(3.1) Terms (3.1.2) Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon (3.1.3) Search Engine Terms http://www.cadenza.org/search_engine_terms/ This glossary of search engine terms is designed to complement the discussions taking place on the I-Search Digest discussion list, which focuses on issues of particular concern to webmasters and online marketers. The glossary is also available in French, Dutch, German, Italian, Serbian and Spanish languages. (3.1.4) Glossary for Information Retrieval http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~weiss/glossary.html Scott Weiss provides an expanded list of terms and more technical definitions relating to search engines and information retrieval. This is the one to use if you really want in-depth knowledge of particular terms, phrases and concepts. (3.1.5) Search Engine Glossary http://www.searchengineworld.com/glossary/ A hyperlinked list of words associated with search engine promotion and optimization. Clicking on a word will display its definition. (3.2) FORTH has released a suite of open source
tools for the semantic web (3.3) XML for Not Yet Techies VBXML.COM Comparing
content management systems (3.4) ANSI approves Dublin Core (4) Publications and web sites(4.1) Library Link Newsletter (4.2) JILT latest issue (4.3) Wiley launches OnlineBooks (4.4) Scientific, Technical & Medical Information Content Market, $13.9 Billion worth http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e27913202&e=2989 (4.5) The Invisible Web (4.6) Researchers probe Net's 'dark address space' (4.7) THE VLDB JOURNAL - query processing for XML Special Issue Guest Editors Submission Guidelines The deadlines for the special
issue are as follows: (4.8) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (TKDE) CALL FOR PAPERS For this special issue, we invite original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of Web mining and searching. Topics that are of interest include but are not limited to: * Web information extraction Special Issue Guest Editors Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages and should conform to the guidelines for the authors printed inside the back cover of the issues of IEEE TKDE. Deadlines for the special issue: (5) Europe(5.1) Two
new developments on Internet use - but will they make it more
user-friendly? General Information: The European Parliament and the Council of Europe have both voted on new acts which will affect the rules of use for Internet in Europe. While the European Parliament voted to accept an amendment to the data protection and privacy bill that tackles the use of 'spam' (unsolicited e-mails) on 13 November, the Council of Europe had just adopted a treaty to define what constitutes cybercrime. The Parliament bill would mean that Internet users could opt in or opt out of receiving spam. Opt in would mean only receiving messages from financial permitted to send out such information. Opt out would mean the user would have to sign up with a register which collates all the names of those not wishing to receive spam. The amendment would also mean that 'cookies' (the files placed on users' computers by certain websites, often without the users' knowledge) could only be used by sites if the user gives their permission. This last element has caused concern among advertisers, particularly as one of the main uses of cookies is to help identify the way users navigate through a site, and in particular which advertisements they click on. Advertisers have pointed out that without cookies, re-registration of details would be necessary on some sites every time a user visited them. The Interactive advertising bureau (IAB) has already said it will lobby against the amendment before it gets a second reading at Parliament. Meanwhile, the Council of Europe's adoption of a treaty which standardises what constitutes cybercrime has been welcomed, but has also aroused concern over the powers it will give to police forces and the possible dangers to online privacy. It highlights fraud and child pornography among the crimes, and allows national police forces to ask their overseas counterparts to assist in investigations and even detain suspects. Member States will sign the treaty at a cybercrime conference taking place in Budapest on 23 November. Once at least five Council of Europe countries add their signatures to it, it comes into force, but will take years to be formally adopted and even longer to be fully integrated into national legislation. User groups representing hackers and online liberty groups claimed that it threatened democracy and asked for a revision of it - even though this final version is the 27th draft. Data Source Provider :
Parliament and Council of Europe (5.2) EU votes to restrict cookies (Source:
ZDNet - 13 Nov 2001) (6) Project funding(6.1) eContent second call (7) Suggestions and general comments to: cris@uib.noPlease send Eric information you want to see published in this newsletter. Information may include: reports on conferences attended, new and emerging CRIS technologies, best practices, trends and news regarding your CRIS, and the like. Mail
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(9) EuroCRIS InformationEuroCRIS Executive Board (2002-2004) President: Prof. Keith G. Jeffery Secretary: Mrs. Marga van Meel Treasurer: Mr. Walter Niedermayer EuroCrisNews Editor: Eric Zimmerman EuroCRIS WebSite: http://www.eurocris.org EuroCrisNews Archive: http://www.ub.uib.no/avdeling/fdok/cris/archived_newsletters_page.htm |
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