Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
From: doolin@menkar.cs.utk.edu (David Doolin)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:44:13 GMT
In article <323DB1F3.2781@mae.carleton.ca>, Chad English writes:
|> Kirk Kerekes wrote:
|>
|> Agreed. But that's not quite the issue I was bringing up. A conference and a
|> journal issue are events that occur in time. Even with a medium change, you
|> can (hopefully) find information from either of those by referencing the
|> event. Using a URL is like referencing the library, not the event. If the
|> URL is permanently associated with the paper, which doesn't make sense down
|> the road when things change (URL's change, storage mediums change), then it's
|> not a problem. I was just looking for a way to permanently reference the
|> paper. Perhaps if we approached the archive as a series of journals, give it
|> a permanent name, etc, and then use the dates, it may be better.
|>
*We* have one good shot at doing this right, 'cause it will get done.
As an unpublished (no refereed pubs) grad student, I find the issue
particularly relevant and interesting. What I have done is convert
my stuff (conference offprints) to html and stick them on my web page.
I include the name of the copyright holder and that the documents are
offprints from such and such conference. Since I use LaTeX, html is
no extra effort, I just type a command and out pops the html, graphs, tables,
figures, references, etc.
What I am curious about is how the copyright holders are going to
deal with it.
In my opinion, ED's (electronic documents) ought to be archived by a dedicated
server similar to a library. The peer review system probably should
stay more or less intact. Publication would consist of periodic
collections of peer reviewed material available online under a
title. The geotechnical community is expecting it's first issue
of just such a `journal.'
This is going to be really interesting. As an interdisciplinary
effort, it had better include the library science folks as well
as the science and engineering community.
Dave D
|>
|> > How many 50-year-old academic papers have you _directly_ referenced?
|>
|> Well, I can think of at least 2 greater than 50, and quite a few in the 25-30
|> years ago range, from my Master's thesis alone. Some fundamental works will
|> be referenced for quite some time.
|>
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Subject: Geomatics'97-Call-for-paper
From: tyshih@cc.nctu.edu.tw ()
Date: 18 Sep 1996 11:58:43 GMT
CALL FOR PAPERS
GIS AM/FM ASIA'97 & GeoInformatics'97:
Mapping the Future of Asia-Pacific
May 26-29, 1997
World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Co-organized by
Chinese Geographic Information Society, Taipei, Taiwan
The Association of Chinese Professionals in GIS - Abroad
I. Introduction
The GIS AM/FM ASIA conference series are organized by Asia GIS
scholars in recognition of the growing GIS market in the Asia-Pacific
region. It provides the opportunity to discuss the latest development
in GIS theory and spatial analysis as well as hardware and software
development. The first GIS AM/FM ASIA conference was held at Hong Kong
in May 1994. The second conference was held at Bangkok, Tailand in
August 1995. During the meeting at Bangkok, The Chinese Geographic
Information Society (CGIS) in Taiwan was authorized to organize the
third conference in Taipei.
The Geoinformatics is an annual conference series organized by
CPGIS (The Association of Chinese Professional in GIS-abroad). The
first Geoinformatics conference was held at Buffalo, New York in 1992.
Since then, Geoinformatics conference has grown into a major
international conference which attracts several hundreds people to
attend. The Geoinformatics conference has the tradition of rotating
between North America and Asia region. Taipei was chosen by the CPGIS
Board of Directors as the site for Geoinformatics'97.
As both conferences are to be held at Taipei, it is natural to
combine them into a joint conference. It is our sole intention that
this joint conference will be a major GIS event in the Asia-Pasific
area and will exert a great impact on activities in GIS, AM/FM, and
other areas of Geoinformatics in the region. The Organizing Committee
and the Steering Committee of this joint conference encourage
participants from all over the world to give presentations on basic
research and pratical applications of Geoinformatics.
II. Conference Topics:
Proposals related to the broad spectrum of GIS and AM/FM are
welcome. Topics of this conference include, but not limited to:
GIS Applications
Agriculture
Business
Ecology and Conservation
Emergency Management and Response
Environmental Modeling
Forestry
Geology
Hazard Prediction and Control
Land Records and Cadastre
Oceanography, Coastal Zone, Marine Resources
Public/Environmental Health and Safety
Social Science
Telecommunications
Transportation
Urban Study
Utility and Public Works
Waste Management
Water Resources
Wildlife Management and Fisheries
Spatial Data
Data Structure
Data Capture, Surveying, Remote Sensing, and GPS
Data Accuracy and Data Quality
Geodata Policy
Spatial Data Standards
GIS Methods and New Techniques
Automated Generalization
Design and Implementation of GIS Applications
GIS Project Development Standards
Database Design and System Integration
Spatial-Temporal GIS
Integrated Multi-Source Spatial Data Analysis
Spatial Decision Support System
GIS and Artificial Intelligence
Visualization and Multimedia
Internet GIS
GIS Education
K-12 Education
Universities and Higher Education
Emerging Trends of GIS
III. Abstract submission
Important dates:
Deadline of abstract: October 1, 1996
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 1996
Deadline of Full Paper: February 1, 1997
Deadline for Pre-Registration: March 25, 1997
Format and submission of abstract
The official language of this conference will be English.
Abstract should include:
1. Name and affiliation of authors
2. Address(es) (both of mail and E-mail)
3. Title of the presentation
4. Abstract no longer than 250 words
Address:
Submit a paper copy of abstract to:
Chinese Geographic Information Society
P.O. Box 23-76, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: 886/2/362-1499; Fax: 886/2/362-2911
Or, send a text file via Internet to
tyshih@cc.nctu.edu.tw.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Jinn-Guey Lay at jglay@ccms.ntu.edu.tw (for general information)
Dr. Tian-Yuan Shih at tyshih@cc.nctu.edu.tw (for abstract and paper)
IV. About Taipei
Taipei City, lying at the center of Taipei Basin in the northern
part of Taiwan, is the home of almost all major administrative,
legislative and judicial authorities of Taiwan. Besides, it is also
the principal cultural and economic center and transportation hub of
the region. The city was first built in 1885 and cultural signs can
be seen everywhere. Certainly no visitors to the city will ever
overlook the world renowned The National Palace Museum with the wealth
of more than 600,000 priceless Chinese treasures, some dating back
4,000 years. Today, the city area has been expanded to cover 27,517
hectares to accommodate more than 2.7 million registered residents.
In fact, more than 4.7 million people are busy and bustling in the
Greater Metro Taipei. The average low and high temperatures of May
in Taipei are 21C to 29C. For more information, please visit the
Web site at: http://www.tcg.gov.tw/index_e.html
VI. Organizing Committee:
Chairs:
Jinn-Guey Lay, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Lin Liu, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA
Members:
Tsu-How Chu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Hsueh-Cheng Chou, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Feng-Tian Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Hui Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pao-Hsu Shih, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan
Tian-Yuan Shih, National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Yiyi Sun, East China Normal University, Nanjing, China
Qiming Zhou, University of New South Wales, Australia
A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin, USA
VII. International Steering Committees
Chairs:
Bin Li, University of Miami, Miami, USA
Chin-Hong Sun, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Members:
Jicheng Cheng, Peking University, Beijing, China
YueMin Ding, NYNEX Science & Technology, White Plains, USA
Manfred M. Fischer, Vienna Univ.of Economics and Business
Administration, Vienna, Austria
Jianya Gong, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping,
Wuhan, China
Peng Gong, University of California, Berkely, USA
Michael Goodchild, NCGIA, Santa Barbara, USA
Jyh-Sheng Ke, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan
Peter N. King, Asian Development Bank Mania, Manila, Philippines
Deren Li, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping, Wuhan, China
Matthew McGranaghan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Santiago Carcia de Juan, Instituto Geografico Nactonal, Spain
Shunji Murai, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Chris Webster, University of Wales, UK
Jian Kang Wu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ahris Yaakup, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Kai Yang, Chinese Association of GIS, Beijing, China
Anthony Yeh, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chenghu Zhou, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Subject: New UK based Virtual Library for Engineering
From: Roddy MacLeod
Date: 18 Sep 1996 11:07:05 GMT
EEVL, the new free UK based virtual library for Engineering, now
live!
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) went live
on Friday 13th September. The EEVL gateway to Internet resources
in Engineering will be extremely popular with the engineering
community and will solve one of the main problems facing users of
the Internet - locating useful resources from the millions
available.
Earlier in the summer EEVL launched two useful services for
engineers, the EEVL Engineering Newsgroup Archive, and the
Offshore Engineering Information Service, both of which have
proved successful. Now EEVL's Main Service, its searchable
database of high quality engineering networked resources, will be
freely available to anyone anywhere in the world with an Internet
connection and appropriate World Wide Web browsing software.
The database, containing descriptions and links to over 1300
Internet resources in engineering, has an extremely user friendly
interface, and allows practising engineers, academics,
researchers, students, and information specialists to search or
browse for engineering resources by title, keyword, or subject.
The database is actively managed by a team of engineering
information specialists, with headquarters at Heriot-Watt
University Library, in Edinburgh, UK. Resource
descriptions and links are checked regularly, making EEVL the
premier site on the Internet for locating UK engineering sites.
Resources in the EEVL database include Web sites for engineering
e-journals and electronic newsletter, engineering
companies, professional societies and institutions, engineering
departments within higher education, government sources,
engineering email lists, resource guides and directories,
research centres, recruitment services, software, and more.
EEVL fills a large gap for engineers and industrialists as far
as Internet resources are concerned and it is likely that EEVL
will become the first port of call for anyone looking for
Engineering information on the Internet.
EEVL is funded through the Electronic Library Programme (eLib),
managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) on
behalf of the UK Higher Education funding councils. The EEVL
Project lead sites are Heriot-Watt University Library, and the
Heriot-Watt Institute for Computer Based Learning
(ICBL). Partner sites are the University of Edinburgh, Napier
University, Cambridge University, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, the Nottingham Trent University, and the
Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
For more information, see the Web site at: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
or
email eevl@icbl.hw.ac.uk