FYI: new NIDR initiative from CNI
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Jill ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 11:27:21 -0500 From: Paul Evan Peters <paul@cni.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-announce@cni.org> Subject: New Coalition Initiative: NIDR White Paper Dear cni-announce subscribers: I am very pleased to attach the "Call for Input" to a new Coalition initiative that will lead to a white paper that will explore architectures and standards for advancing net- worked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) in highly distributed heterogeneous environments Best, Paul Paul Evan Peters Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202-296-5098 Fax: 202-872-0884 Internet: paul@cni.org ARL / CAUSE / EDUCOM Coalition for Networked Information CALL FOR INPUT: COALITION NIDR INITIATIVE INTRODUCTION On October 1, 1994, the Coalition for Networked Information launched a new research initiative to explore architectures and standards for advancing networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) in highly distributed heterogeneous environments. Avra Michelson of The MITRE Corporation will be available full time during the next year to work on this project in conjunction with Clifford Lynch, University of California Office of the President and Craig Summerhill, Systems Coordinator at the Coalition. Cecilia Preston will serve as the project's research associate. The team will author a white paper on NIDR technologies and their relationship to existing and future networked data architectures, standards, and structures. BASIC APPROACH Among the reasons the Coalition envisions a need for this paper are: o to explore the suitability of existing networked information discovery and retrieval methods for handling large digital libraries, o to provide a cross-domain examination of the technical and information management issues involved in the development of robust information retrieval systems that are designed to handle large volumes of production digital data, o to develop a research (and hopefully development) agenda that can be used to advance NIDR work, and o to strengthen the theoretical foundations that currently inform standards and tools development. The white paper will focus on technical as opposed to policy issues. The scope will be limited to exploring problems associated with identifying, selecting, and retrieving resources and objects in a large distributed network. These problems include classic information retrieval issues, as well as new sets of issues related to performance management and retrieval in the distributed environment, the support of complex multimedia objects, large data archives, in addition to those posed by traditional text-based information resources. Metadata, loosely defined as "information about information" is one of the basic unifying concepts and tools that can be used for improving networked information retrieval. One of the goals for the white paper will be to establish a theoretical framework for considering the relationship between metadata structures and content, the organization of network objects, and NIDR within a distributed environment. The authors will consider these issues from the Internet perspective assuming that resources are available both for free and fee and can be both public and access-controlled. A CALL FOR INPUT The Coalition anticipates that an initial draft of the paper will be released for public comment in April 1995. Prior to that time the authors seek suggestions from the Coalition membership and the larger network community on sources, projects, and scholarship related to the scope of this research initiative. Comments and suggestions may be submitted to the entire project team via e-mail using a mail reflector designed especially for the public- input portion of the project. By using the e-mail address below, the project team will receive your input. These submissions for consideration will be reviewed by the entire project team, and the sender(s) will be contacted for additional information as needed. To communicate with the project team send your e-mail to: nidrcall@cni.org NOTE: this is not a discussion list, so we will not be accepting requests for subscription to this list. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Alternately, Avra Michelson, the initiative's full-time investigator, may be contacted via voice at 703-883-6379, or via e-mail at: avram@mitre.org ABOUT THE COALITION The Coalition for Networked Information was founded in March 1990 to help realize the promise of high performance networks and computers for the advancement of scholarship and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. The Coalition is a partnership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE, and EDUCOM. The Coalition pursues its mission with the assistance of a task force of over two-hundred institutions and organizations that provides focus and resources which are crucial to the ability of the Coalition to articulate and explore shared visions of how information management must change in the 1990s to meet the social and economic opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Members of the Coalition Task Force include higher education institutions, publishers, network service providers, computer hardware, software, and systems companies, library networks and organizations, and public and state libraries. ------- End of Forwarded Message
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