Weblog Archive (March 2002)

March 29, 2002

The ADL Thesaurus Protocol: Draft of "an XML- and HTTP-based protocol for accessing thesauri" from the Alexandria Digital Library Project.

Against the Grain 14 (February 2002): Special report issue on the Tasini case includes "Libraries Continue to Take on Copyright Challenges," "The Politics of Librarianship and the Tasini Case," "Tasini: Did Authors Win?," "Tasini v. New York Times," and other articles.

EP Topic News, 27 March 2002: Electronic publishing news from El.pub.

Hoppin, Jason. "DMCA Still Faces Its First Criminal Test." Law.com, 28 March 2002: On Monday, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. will face charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for producing software to unlock Acrobat files.

Reuters. "Dutch Court OKs Kazaa's Software." CNET News.com, 28 March 2002: Kazaa is not liable for end-user copyright violations resulting from the use of its file swapping software. Buma Stemra, a music rights organization, is "stunned by the verdict."

March 28, 2002

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 25 March 2002: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Winter 2002): Includes "Assessing the Need for a Natural Resources Digital Library" and other articles.

Salkever, Alex. "Guard Copyrights, Don't Jail Innovation." BusinessWeek Online, 27 March 2002: Regarding the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, the BusinessWeek Online Technology editor says "the proposed cure is far worse than the disease."

March 27, 2002

"LC Seeks $7.5M Supplementary Copyright Appropriation." Library Journal 26 March 2002: Copyright registration fee revenue is down significantly as a result of a mail delivery freeze and irradiated mail.

Noble, Ivan. "Critics Attack Net Journal Initiative." BBC News, 25 March 2002: Sally Morris (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) critiques the Budapest Open Access Initiative; Harnad replies on the SEPTEMBER98-FORUM list.

Olsen, Stefanie. "Piracy-Prevention Bill Sparks Hot Debate." ZDNet News, 25 March 2002: The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act creates controversy at Esther Dyson's annual PC Forum.

The Pizza Chef: Now you can bake XML-compliant TEI DTDs using the Pizza Chef.

March 26, 2002

Berry, R. Stephen, and Anne Simon Moffat, ed. The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2001: Includes papers by Paul Ginsparg, Andrew Odlyzko, Ann Okerson, Ronald Wigington, and other authors.

McCullagh, Declan. "What Hollings' Bill Would Do." Wired News, 22 March 2002: More on the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.

Microform & Imaging Review 31, no. 1 (2002): Includes "Digitizing Special Collections Using the CONTENTdm Software Suite," "Strategies for Building Digitized Collections," and other articles.

Serials 15, no.1 (2002): Includes "Electronic Journal Usage Statistics in Practice," "E-Metrics: Measures for Electronic Resources," "How Does Your Library Handle Electronic Serials? A General Survey," "Measuring Up to Expectations?: Usage Data and Electronic Journals," "Review of ARL E-Metrics Phase II," "Think Links: Revisited a Year Later," and other articles.

March 25, 2002

EP Topic News, 21 March 2002: Electronic publishing news from El.pub.

McGuire, David. "Internet Filtering Trial Starts Monday." Newsbytes, 21 March 2002: The ACLU takes on the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

Musgrove, Mike. "Hollings Proposes Copyright Defense: Bill Would Require Electronic Products To Deter Piracy." Washington Post, 22 March 2002: Senator Ernest Hollings has introduced the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (formerly known as the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act). More at John Borland's CNET News.com article.

Reid, Calvin. "Selling E-books to Academic, Trade Markets." Publishers Weekly, 25 March 2002: McGraw-Hill and St. Martin's managers say that e-book sales are small, but "growing fast."

Samuelson, Pamela. "Digital Information, Digital Networks, and the Public Domain." Paper presented at Conference on the Public Domain, November 9-11, 2001, Duke Law School: In-depth examination of digital public domain issues by a noted legal scholar.

ShelfLife, 21 March 2002: A weekly e-newsletter from RLG. Click on "Read Past Issues" to access the current issue.

March 22, 2002

eBook Tools & Technologies List: Planet eBook resource directory.

Library Resources & Technical Services 46 (January 2002): Includes "Out-of-Print Digital Scanning" and other articles.

OCLC Systems & Services 18, no. 1 (2002): Includes "Creating an Integrated Periodicals Listing Using Microsoft Access and ASP Scripts," "Dublin Core Use in Libraries: A Survey," "Tracking the Use of E-Journals: A Technique Collaboratively Developed by the Cataloging Department and the Office of Libraries Technology at the University of Louisville," and other articles.

March 21, 2002

"Copyright War: Find a Truce" Los Angeles Times, 19 March 2002: Editorial says: "Both sides have it wrong."

Digital Talking Book Standard Approved: NISO Press release about ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002.

DLF Endorses Two New Aids For Developing Digital Library Collections: The Digital Library Federation gives the nod to Benchmark for Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials as Endorsed by the DLF and A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections.

Mirapaul, Matthew. "They'll Always Have Paris (and a Scholarly Web Site)." Yahoo! News, 18 March 2002: American Film Institute will work with the Georgia Institute of Technology to build a "Casablanca" Web site.

March 20, 2002

Bowman, Lisa M. "AOL Not Liable for Unauthorized E-books." CNET News.com, 18 March 2002: AOL is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from a lawsuit by Harlan Ellison.

D-Lib Magazine 8 (March 2002): Includes "Digital Division is Cultural Exclusion. But Is Digital Inclusion Cultural Inclusion?," "Whose Rules? Intellectual Property, Culture and Indigenous Communities," and other articles.

March 19, 2002

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 18 March 2002: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Krebs, Brian. "Senate Won't Act On Digital Content Bill—Lawmaker." Newsbytes, 14 March 2002: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leah says that entertainment and technology companies must resolve their differences before SSSCA legislation is passed.

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Digital Age: Is the Marketplace Working to Protect Digital Creative Works? 107th Congress, 2nd Session, 5 March 2002: Testimony of technology companies and a legal scholar.

March 18, 2002

Albanese, Andrew Richard. "An LJ Round Table with the Aggregators," Library Journal,15 March 2002: Round table discussion moderated by Ann Okerson.

Bowman, Lisa M. "Tech Execs Oppose Anti-Piracy Plan." ZDNet News, 14 March 2002: AOL Time Warner, Excite, and Intel oppose the SSSCA.

British Columbia Digital Library: Extensive directory of digital library resources.

EP Topic News, 14 March 2002: Electronic publishing news from El.pub.

McAllister, Neil. "Emerging Standards in Rights Management." New Architect (March 2002): Discusses ODRL, XMCL, and XrML.

March 15, 2002

DTDGenerator Frontend: Give it an XML document and it generates a DTD.

Mossberg, Walter S. "Consumers Must Protect Their Freedom to Use Digital Entertainment." The Wall Street Journal, 14 March 2002, B1: Discusses DigitalConsumer.org, a new consumer advocate group supporting digital media fair use.

Sandburg, Brenda. "Defining Ruling in Key Internet Case." Law.com, 14 March 2002: Initial ruling in British Telecommunications Inc. v. Prodigy Communications hyperlink patent case.

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875: E-text collection of "19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875."

March 14, 2002

First Monday 7 (March 2002): Includes "Self-Selection Strategies for Information Goods" and other articles.

Hu, Jim. "AOL wants to Lock Up Its CDs." ZDNet News, 12 March 2002: AOL Time Warner is recruiting a senior project manager for a CD copy-protection effort.

"JISC-ProQuest Agreement for Early English Books Online": JISC-E-COLLECTIONS message from Philip Pothen says: "In one of the largest agreements of its kind, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), acting on behalf of all the funding bodies for further and higher education in the United Kingdom, has signed an agreement with ProQuest Information and Learning which will provide access to its enormous electronic database of Early English Books Online for universities and colleges throughout the UK."

TEI Newsletter, no. 1 (2002): News from the Text Encoding Initiative.

March 13, 2002

Defining and Certifying Electronic Publication in Science: Mark S. Frankel (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Roger Elliott (International Council for Science, UK) are the co-chairs of a working group that, at the request of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, has prepared a paper on "what constitutes 'publication' in science in the electronic environment." Comments are welcomed.

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 11 March 2002: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Italie, Hillel. "E-Publisher Wins Round in Court." The Washington Post, 11 March 2002: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholds a prior decision denying an injunction against RosettaBooks, which publishes e-versions of old Random House books.

"Patent Binds Up Ebook Development": A futureofthebook.com posting says that EBook Systems has a patent that covers the simulation of book characteristics, such as flipping pages.

March 12, 2002

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 2 (April 2002): Walt Crawford continues his incisive commentary on the evolving e-book scene, new articles worth reading, and other topics. Highly recommended.

Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776: The University of Connecticut Libraries have digitized public records from the Colony of Connecticut.

EP Topic News, 7 March 2002: Electronic publishing news from El.pub.

Flynn, Laurie J. "The BT Group Stakes a Patent Claim on Hyperlinking." The New York Times, 11 March 2002: British Telecommunications says its Hidden Page patent covers hyperlinks.

The University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office has just released online versions of Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture and the Michigan Quarterly Review.

March 11, 2002

Baroni, Michael L. "Photos and Fair Use Online: From Penthouse Pets to Kelly's Thumbnails." GigaLaw.com, March 2002: Discuses the ruling on the Kelly v. Arriba Soft case.

McCullagh, Declan. "House Rep's Rap: Unshackle the CD." Wired News, 7 March 2002: Rep. Rick Boucher will introduce legislation to ban copy-protected CDs.

Sprigman, Chris. "The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain: Disney, the Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred V. Ashcroft." FindLaw's Writ, 5 March 2002: Discusses the Eldred V. Ashcroft case, which challenges the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Tasini, Jonathan. "Extending Copyright Helps Corporations, Not Artists." Los Angeles Times, 3 March 2002: Tasini, who is the President of the National Writers Union, opposes the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

March 8, 2002

Bandler, James. "The Story So Far." The Wall Street Journal, 5 March 2002, R6-R7: A recent survey shows that only 4% of respondents are "very likely" to buy an e-book; 20% are "somewhat likely." This overview article says that "e-books remain a struggling niche business."

Librarian's eBook Newsletter 2 (February 2002): Includes "Long-Awaited ebrary Has Arrived" and other articles.

MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship has ceased publication. The final issue is volume 8, Winter 2002. Many thanks to Lori Widzinski and her colleagues for producing this fine e-journal. For more information on MC Journal see:

: Widzinski, Lori J. "The Evolution of MC Journal: A Case Study in Producing a Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal." Serials Review 23, no. 2 (1997): 59-72.; ________. "MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship." Ariadne, no. 5 (1996). [HTML file]

Usher, Nicole B. "Scientists Try Free Journal Access." Harvard Crimson, 1 March 2002: Three Harvard scientists who supported BioMed Central and the Public Library of Science discuss the limitations of these reform efforts.

March 7, 2002

Digital Library Research Laboratory: Edward A. Fox's research unit at Virginia Tech. Includes the Open Digital Libraries Web site.

Italie, Hillel. "E-Book Sales Still Rising." AP, 27 February 2002: Small sales numbers, but some publishers report "double-digit growth over the past year."

McCullagh, Declan, and Robert Zarate. "House Cool to Copy Protection." Wired News, 4 March 2002: The U.S. House of Representatives' take on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act.

March 6, 2002

Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 4 March 2002: Interesting news about scholarly electronic publishing.

Lazinger, Susan S. Digital Preservation and Metadata: History, Theory, Practice. Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001: Examines digital preservation, including costs, example programs, metadata, and methods. Lazinger is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Library Science, Archive & Information Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The New Review of Information Networking 7 (2001): Has sections on "Interoperability" and "Network Resources and Access Tools." Includes "Better Interoperability Through the Open Archives Initiative," "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework," "Reclaiming Academic Output Through University Archive Servers," "Rethinking EAD: Balancing Flexibility and Interoperability," and other articles.

March 5, 2002

eCulture 3 (January-February 2002): Newsletter of the Digital Heritage and Cultural Content area of the Multimedia Content and Tools—Key Action 3 of the Information Society Technologies program.

Mariano, Gwendolyn. "Senators Talk Tough on Digital Piracy." CNET News.com, 28 February 2002: In this update to the story previously posted here, Senator Fritz Hollings gives media and computer technology companies a deadline to come up with a copy protection solution.

March 4, 2002

Current Cites 13 (February 2002): Annotated references for information technology literature written by a team of librarians.

Green, Heather. "A Library as Big as the World." BusinessWeek Online, 28 February 2002: Discusses the Internet Archive.

March 1, 2002

DLF Newsletter 3 (January 2002): Activity reports from Digital Library Federation members.

Mariano, Gwendolyn. "Senate Group to Consider Copy Controls." CNET News.com, 28 February 2002: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold hearings on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act.

Suber, Peter. Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement: Landmark FOS events.

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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2004. <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>.