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The
Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter For Librarians &
Information Specialists
CBIR
research and development in the UK
Unveiling
of EDINA's remodelled web site
Nordic
metadata final project report now available in HTML format
Conference:
Information Ecologies: the impact of new information 'species'
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As part of an initiative on content-based image retrieval (CBIR), JISC
has commissioned research from the Institute for Image Data Research at
the University of Northumbria. The Institute will review the current state
of the art for CBIR research and development in the UK, and is consulting
with researchers and users on a world-wide basis. They are particularly
interested in researchers' views on what questions the research should ask
and what the technical and human barriers are. They also want
practitioners' ideas on the capabilities of existing CBIR systems and how
useful the techniques might be for managing image data.
Anyone interested is invited to contact:
Dr. John Eakins: john.eakins@unn.ac.uk
or
Margaret Graham at margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk
As well as recently unveiling its remodelled web site, EDINA (the JISC
funded national Datacentre based at Edinburgh University Data Library),
has also combined with Ovid Technologies to host INSPEC, again as a JISC
Authorised INSPEC Service Provider (JAISP). INSPEC, produced by the
Institute of Electrical Engineers, is the premier database for access to
the world's leading scientific and technical literature in a very broad
range of disciplines.
http://www.iee.org/publish/inspec/
The new arrangement strengthens EDINA's position as a host for
specialised databases for many academic fields.
http://edina.ed.ac.uk/
For further information contact Ovid Technologies contact Alex Lankester
at alexl@ovid.com or for EDINA
contact Margaret Tubby at m.tubby@ed.ac.uk
The Nordic metadata project has been completed, and the final project
report is now available in HTML format at
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm
A printed version will be published in September.
Information Ecologies: the impact of new information 'species' 2-4
December 1998 Viking Moat House Hotel, York. This 3 day, 2 night
residential conference, organised by the Electronic Libraries (eLib)
Programme and UKOLN, will look at the impacts of the new 'information
ecologies' on libraries and universities today, at the nature and
economics of some of these, and at how we should plan in order to cope
with our new environment in the future. Such issues will be addressed with
particular reference to the experiences of eLib projects, and set in the
wider context of the international community. To be held in York, this
international conference features a range of distinguished speakers.
Further information is available at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/elib-conf-98/
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