General

The LANL archive

The big thing in electronic publishing is the LANL preprint archive, mirrored in Europe at Southampton. Also at LANL, amongst some other supporting materials, there's an excellent article (it's practically a revolutionary manifesto) about the LANL preprint archive, its claimed supplanting of traditional journals as the primary means of communication in physics, and the impact of all this on publishers and libraries. The article was written by Paul Ginsparg, the guy who was responsible for setting up the LANL archive. The issue of e-prints in general, and the LANL archive in particular was addressed at the APS e-print workshop.

Digital libraries, metadata and ontologies

A bit of a ragbag at present:

• Digital Libraries SunSITE and CurrentCites, and a useful collection of pointers in CurrentCites 9(5), 1998
• Ariadne
• The The Digital Library Tool Kit - document from Sun about building and running digital libraries.
• Not `digital libraries', but `electronic publishing': Open-source journalism online: fact-checking or censorship?: `Jane's Intelligence Review's recent decision not to publish an article before allowing Slashdot.com visitors to evaluate it has raised debate among journalists about using open sources on the Internet to check facts.'
• Digital libraries: Metadata links
• The Dublin Core Metadata set is now an ANSI standard, Z39.85-2001.
• Library of Congress standards:
  • METS: metadata encoding and transmission standard
  • MARC
  • Z39.50
  • EAD: Encoded Archival Description
• Roy Williams: providing meaningful access by people to scientific data
• See also the semantic web.

Other

The Information Society is a paper journal concerned with `information technologies and changes in society and culture'. Looks interesting, and is occasionally abstracted on RRE.

Search engines: note on the influence of weblogs on google (what is a weblog anyway)

Norman Created: 1 January 2001 Last modified: 14 September 2001