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For a bird’s eye view of the route that Lothar and I travelled across North America (mostly by bike), I have Welican-the-Pelican’s reports.
This is another post for my young friends and for everyone else that’s interested in a sneak peek of the cross continent part of our bicycle journey.
We rode our bikes out of our driveway in late spring 2015 with the birds singing along with us. We crossed the Canada-U.S.A. border to head south along the U.S.A. eastern coast in early fall 2015 with frost nipping at our heels. All along our journey, I’ve been furiously writing in my journal and taking photographs. So I have lots and lots of thoughts and ideas for more blog posts to come.
Smithers, British Columbia, is where Lothar and I live with around 5,500 other people. It’s a small town. Its our home town (the yellow star). I’m writing this post from Bay City, Texas (blue dot).
For now, I’ll just say that riding my bike across and down a continent is a busy adventure. There is so much to learn along the way. All kinds of interesting things pop up, change, or disappear as we travel along depending on what I’m noticing, experiencing (seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, or touching), thinking about, or talking to someone about.
I love looking at the world through different lenses, like putting on different colours of sunglasses. Maybe, I should try pink today. Or what about blue? How about green? I can look at the world around me in just one way or I can look at it in a rainbow of ways from paying attention to the physical geography, natural history (the plant, animal, and fungi species, and ecosystems that I see), human culture, human history and much more. It’s my choice whether I deeply experience something or I don’t. I also appreciate learning from the people we meet, experiencing how they live, and hearing about what they know and what they’re interested in. I try to connect with the people around me and our environment in lots of ways.
I feel very lucky to be doing a trip like this. I want to learn as much as I can. I hope that when you read about our journey, you’ll want to find your own way of adventuring and connecting with and understanding the world around you, whether its as mind boggling as a continent or as cozy as your favourite hiking trail. I think when people and communities feel more connected with each other and their environment, everyone lives better.
So kids, it’s time to drag out your atlases and blow the dust off them. I hope that you have fun following along our path across North America.
Note the distances that I have for each province are from me mapping our route on Google Maps so they’re just a rough estimate. I have the real distance that we rode from the odometer that Lothar has on his bike at the end of this post.
I’m deeply connected to British Columbia, my home province. I love the diversity (many types) of landscapes and ecosystems that I can enjoy in B.C., whether out on the water or out on the land. I can’t image wanting to live anywhere else. Even so, I have to say that I don’t think it’s very nice manners to call B.C. “the best place on earth.” I think there’s probably people that live in other places that think that where they live is pretty special too.
British Columbia: We set out on this journey from our driveway in Smithers, British Columbia and we rode our bikes all the way to the BC-Alberta Border, near Jasper, Alberta, and then we kept pedalling.
When I was first learning to ride my new (to me) recumbent bike, a HP Velotechnik Street Machine, some of my young friends cheered me on every time I rode by their house. When I left Smithers, I was still so wobbly that I had to walk my bike to get across the Bulkley River bridge on the edge of town.
We definitely smelled the wild roses of Alberta, in the mountains and on the prairie. I picked up Welican-the-Pelican, on my little orange flag, in Prince George. Now, he’s our official trip reporter.
Alberta: We pedalled from the BC-Alberta border near Jasper to Banff, Alberta.
We hitched a ride with Mike, my brother, and Monica to Drumheller and then we rode our bikes to the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
I have a young friend who goes to Saskatchewan to visit relatives. I was disappointed that we didn’t make it as far north as she goes. We had forest fires, scorching hot days, and visions of winter to come that kept us heading a little more directly east.
Saskatchewan: We pedalled our bikes from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to Melville, Saskatchewan, and then we took the Via Rail Train to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Welican found a new friend on a windy day at the train station in Melville. If this is you, send me a note. I am sorry but forgot your name. I would love to thank you here!
See Saskatchewan for our total distance by train.
No, the bugs in Manitoba were not almost as big as buffalo. In fact, we only had two days when the bugs got a bit nasty on our ride across North America. Both of those days were in British Columbia.
Manitoba: We got off the Via Rail train in Winnipeg. We had a wonderful visit there. Then we rode our bikes south to the Manitoba-Minnesota border where we crossed at Sprague.
Lothar’s been doing a great job of organizing the safe loading and unloading of the bikes. So far so good.
We started seeing coniferous (evergreen) forest in Manitoba again and I was happy to find it in Minnesota. Finally, we had some shade to rest in.
Minnesota: We decided to ride around the south side of Lake Superior, through the U.S.A., because we thought it would be easier and safer than riding on the north side through Canada.
I think this was the hardest day for me of the whole trip so for. It was so hot!
Wisconsin: I clawed my way around the corner of Lake Superior. But when we finally got around it, I was happy to be heading east again. Yippee. I did it.
Finally, when we got to Michigan I had the time and energy to focus more on learning the names of so many plant species that I was getting to know, starting with the trees.
Michigan: We rode our bicycles from the Wisconsin-Michigan border to the Michigan-Ontario border. Michigan has two parts that are connected by a bridge, the upper peninsula that borders on Lake Superior, which we rode through, and the lower peninsula that borders on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Weli insisted on a break at Christmas in Michigan.
We crossed from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario.
When we got to Ontario, we started thinking more about our need to be further south before the snow flies in the north. Lothar and I have both spent time in Ontario, so we decided that we wanted to spend more of our time in Quebec and the maritime provinces where neither of us have spent much time. We’re learning that we can’t do everything, even though we want to.
Ontario: We rode our bikes some of the way and then hitched a couple rides in northern Ontario. Then we rode down Mantoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula. Mike, my brother, and Monica picked us up again, taking us down to Niagara Falls and then back up to Ottawa.
When we crossed the Michigan-Ontario border and got onto the Trans Canada Highway, it was scary riding for me, too many big trucks and no paved shoulder to ride on.
So I asked some people at a restaurant for a piece of card board and a big, fat felt pen and made a sign. Before long we had a ride to a safer section of highway and another short hitch bike. I was happy!
We took a ferry from Manitoulin Island to the Bruce Peninsula.
We stopped to meet Wiarton Willie, the ground hog that announces if spring is coming early or not on Ground Hog Day (February 2).
Je t’aime (I love you) for being you Quebec!
Quebec: Just like we planned back home, we spent quite a lot of time riding our bicycles through Quebec. We took a ferry to Îles-de-la-Madeleine, also in Quebec, and then rode the lengths of these islands. We didn’t know it then but this is the furthest east we got on our journey.
Weli and Lothar wait patiently while I mail my young friends their post cards, one for each province, state and country, as often as I can find them without making too big a detour.
Weli with Lothar as we sail into Îles-de-la-Madeleine on the ferry.
When we arrived on Prince Edward Island, many of the campgrounds and other tourist facilities had just closed. From here, we tracked recently closed campgrounds all the way down through Maine.
Prince Edward Island: We took the ferry from Îles-de-la-Madeleine to Prince Edward Island and then we rode our bicycles along just over half of the length of the island.
From Prince Edward Island, we dipped our toes into New Brunswick, knowing we’ll be back again soon, and then headed on to Nova Scotia.
New Brunswick: We rode our bikes from the end of the Confederation Bridge from Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Area to Tidnish River bridge where we crossed into Nova Scotia.
Weli! Where are you! How could I let you down like this? There wasn’t a border crossing sign where we crossed the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border. Sadly, the day that I did find a Nova Scotia sign, Weli was stuck in a hotel room.
Nova Scotia: We spent lots of time wandering on our bikes across Nova Scotia. Our friends, Rick and Oly, drove us up to Cape Breton Island for Thanksgiving weekend and then Rick drove us to the ferry in Digby.
New Bruswick: We took the ferry from Digby, Nova Scotia to St. John, New Brunswick. Then we rode our bicycles on to cross the border between Canada and the U.S.A. from Saint Stephen, Nova Scotia to Calais, Maine.
October 17, 2015: The day after my birthday and two days after Lothar’s birthday, we woke up to our first heavy frost. We knew then that it was definitely time to be heading south. Now, where’s Weli?
When we were planning our trip, we wanted to ride north to the Yukon and then west. I was a bit sad when we decided that we didn’t have time to ride north because I think of Alaska and the Yukon as being in my backyard. As it turned out, we barely got across North America in time to head south to stay ahead of the snow. We definitely made the right decision but I hope that one day we can ride north and west from home and beyond.
Sadly, we missed visiting Labrador and Newfoundland. I think letting go of our dreams to experience these areas was hard for both of us. Given our decision to drive less and fly less, we probably won’t make our way this far east again. Even so, I greatly appreciate and I am deeply grateful for the many colourful experiences we did have.
We’re learning that we need to find a balance between moving slow enough to experience the places and people we meet and fast enough to avoid challenges like winter. Plus, I want to make my way back home before my young friends grow up so much that I don’t recognize them or they forget who I am! I do miss my family, friends, and community. I feel lucky to be able to call northwestern British Columbia my home.
Now I can say, “Oh Canada, you are a big country!” And Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, U.S.A., I’m happy that you share beautiful Lake Superior with Canada.
I’m thrilled to report that we made it and that we both had a most rewarding and remarkable adventure. I’m so glad we did it!
O.K. kids: How many of these Canadian flags do you know?
Stay posted for my next posts!
I have two posts that tell the stories of all of the many people that have helped us along the way across North America and down the eastern coast and Gulf of Mexico in the U.S.A.


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Tom leads advisory services to the education technology and services sector and is head of the firm’s Dallas office. He has nearly 20 years of mergers and acquisitions experience, working on numerous transactions, primarily for private equity firms and privately held businesses. Tom’s experience includes buy-side and sell-side transactions, cross-border advisory and recapitalization transactions.
Tom has acquired a deep knowledge of education technology and services and effectively navigates the market shifts caused by the expansion and integration of technology into daily education operations. As mid-sized companies reach a size and growth stage that require new partnerships, Tom serves as a trusted advisor, providing unbiased advice through the complicated process of identifying and ultimately negotiating with potential new partners, whether strategic or financial.
Tom serves on the board of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.
Prior to joining Lincoln, Tom led the education group at MHT Partners. Previously, he was an Analyst with Bear, Stearns & Co.
Tom earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.
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Sound advice coupled with deep sector knowledge and international reach is how I add value and lead to successful outcomes for my clients.
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This project consists of the new construction of a 7-story parking garage with retail space on the ground floor. The total approximate footprint is 335,040-square feet. Also included in the construction is the extension of the pedestrian Paseo Ponti bridge north to 41st Street, anchored by Paradise Plaza. The parking garage is located in the Miami Design District.
GFA monitored the installation of compression load test piles, tension load test piles, and associated reaction piles, as well as monitored the installation of ACIP production piles, and summarized the results of the pile load tests in a Pile Load Testing Report.
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The marketing industry is being disrupted right before of our eyes, and the new technological revolution will transform our world. Artificial intelligence is set to change everything we know about marketing and how we interact with customers. Business leaders need to pay attention, or they risk being left behind.
Artificial intelligence will drive a massive shift in business models, and will profoundly change how businesses and customers communicate. Staying at the forefront of these changes is essential for any business to stay competitive.
Leveraging AI for ad targeting and audience segmentation are already two of its most popular applications, according to eMarketer research. These strategies will continue to grow in 2019, and become more sophisticated as they are applied to emerging channels.
Advanced television is one media channel that’s also coming of age in 2019. Expect to see advanced TV and AI form a capable partnership. That’s because the right AI methodology not only helps marketers improve one-to-one targeting accuracy on the data-driven channel but also delivers scale, which remains marketer’s number one complaint when it comes to advanced TV.
We’ll also see experimental marketers embrace AI across additional programmatic channels, such as programmatic radio and direct mail, which will help drive further education, development and adoption across the martech ecosystem.
As AI adoption and calls for martech transparency each increase, the two will undoubtedly coalesce. While any proprietary technology does require some level of confidentiality, too many companies are complacent in hiding behind black boxes.
In 2019, more technology companies will drive transparency initiatives while more brands and agencies will demand increased insight, ushering in a more transparent age of AI.
One way marketers can expect increased transparency to manifest is in the data insights shared by technology and data providers. Throughout 2018 we’ve seen providers—Roku, Placed, 4C—increasingly offer data insights as part of their solution packages. These industry captains are signaling a larger trend. Following this trend, more martech providers who play in data will open up the visibility of their databases and technology via client data, audience and artificial intelligence insights to help marketers understand what data is in use, how it’s being leveraged and how it’s working.
Automated data analysis does reduce the need for every brand, agency and platform to maintain their own data science department. However, as machines get smarter, the firms that employ this technology will need to be more educated on the types of AI and how they work.
According to the Harvard Business Review, many companies have been fiscally burned because they pursued the wrong type of AI for the project at hand. To avoid this, we’ll see marketers actively advancing in their understanding of AI methodologies, such as regressions, decision trees and neural networks. Further, marketers will gain a more nuanced understanding of how these methodologies align with business requirements including compliance, transparency, cost, goals and timing.
The theme of AI’s 2019 growth spurt will certainly be more, more, more, as we watch it thrive in many predictable, but swift ways. Advanced targeting, AI transparency and increased education are all trend lines that can be seen in 2018, but their upward trajectory will be exponential in the coming year.
As always, expect to hear of brand new, unseen applications of marketing AI as we outgrow the hype phase. Ultimately, real maturation will come through tried and true technology applications.
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Your audience is primarily looking for content that communicates value. Jeff Bulla says that you should use the 80/20 rule of creating and managing content.
Messaging is also taking the industry by storm. Neil Patel shared how Facebook Messenger marketing campaign lends a bright inlet to effective digital marketing.
Your audience will be more likely to follow a link received in Facebook Messenger than they would through email marketing campaign. Again, the content you create and the medium you choose to employ will greatly affect your business’ growth. Learn more about Facebook Messenger bots here.
Be consistent and regular in your social media strategy and maximise your growth. Good social media strategies can have a profound impact on lead generation and conversions, brand awareness and, of course, better search engine ranking.
And while social media platforms are effective and raging with success for startups and established brands, influencer marketing has seen a rise since 2016. This is like referrals that are convincing for the vast majority of social media users.
Keep a watchful eye on who could be your brand’s influencers. Get in touch with them and engage them in helping you build your brand’s visibility.
Resultantly, the conversion rates could be impacted positively as well. The consumer trend of trying new brands is growing if they are genuinely made to feel a connection with the brand values.
Being consistent and regular in your digital marketing strategy will help you to increase your startup’s visibility most effectively.
Moreover, engaging an effective, result-oriented team of SEO professionals will help you attract traffic to your brand’s online presence.
A good digital marketing strategy Salam Digital will do just that – attract the right kind of consumers to your business – and ensuring your survival in the fast-paced and dynamic industry.
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The first International Workshop on "Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries" was held at the first ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, on June 28, 2001. This one-day workshop drew an international audience of 37 researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the areas of information visualization, digital libraries, human-computer interaction, library and information science, computer science, and geography.
The primary aim of the workshop was to raise the awareness of several interconnected fields of research related to the design and use of visual interfaces to digital libraries, especially in information visualization, human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology.
The workshop started with Katy B�rner's introduction and overview, followed by an invited talk from Stephen Eick of Visual Insights, entitled "Visualizing On-line Activity". Eich explained how their eBizInsights software provides a rich visual interactive workspace for analyzing user access to a given website and discovering browsing patterns.
Eight papers were presented in two sessions. The topics ranged from literature visualization and spatial hypertext, to geographic information systems.
Workshop attendees enjoy one of the workshop demonstrations.
Time was provided for two interactive demonstration sessions. Demonstrations included one of VRCO's VGeo system and several others by workshop attendees. An expert panel discussed the future of research and development and started formulating top-ten research challenges for visual interfaces to digital libraries to help focus and guide research. In his concluding remark, Chaomei Chen outlined promising areas for future information visualization research: Visual Information Retrieval, Visual Information Exploration, Visual Information Organization, Accommodating Individual Differences, Supporting Collaborative Work, Information Visualization for Bibliometrics, Information Visualization for Scientometrics, Knowledge Tracking, Knowledge Discovery, Designing and Deploying Tangible and Meaningful Visual-Spatial Metaphors in Digital Libraries.
The workshop achieved its goal of bringing people together across disciplines and stimulating interest in this multidisciplinary research. In response to the enthusiastic audience, the high-quality inputs, and many promising works in progress, we plan to hold the workshop again at the next JCDL Conference in Portland, Oregon, US, July 14 - 18, 2002.
Papers, presentation slides, and other information are available from the workshop's homepage <http://vw.indiana.edu/visual01>.
The workshop was sponsored by Virtual Reality Software & Consulting. Their homepage is <http://www.vrco.com>.
The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) for universities and colleges in the UK <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/dner_desc.html> has set ambitious targets for the development of online resources, in a way that will be co-ordinated and collaborative, but not centrally controlled.
Project ANGEL (Authenticated, Networked, Guided Environment for Learning) is building essential infrastructure components to enable easier access to this wealth of learning resources. The project is led by the London School of Economics Library, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, De Montfort University, South Bank University, Sheffield Hallam University and the EDINA data service.
A tempting (but naive) approach that could have been taken to this task would have been to build "the ANGEL portal", and then waited for every university and college in Britain (...and tomorrow, the World?) to adopt and use it. However, this would simply have led to competition with leading commercial "Managed Learning Environment" products (which are being actively marketed as "primary portals" for students, and adopted as such by a number of institutions), and with the increasing number of in-house projects initiated by universities to develop their own institutional web portals (or "Interfaces To Everything", as ANGEL has broadly classified such developments). Instead, ANGEL will produce a layer of middleware services that can be used by such end-user portals to simplify and manage access by an increasingly diverse range of end-users, to an increasingly diverse range of online materials. Protocols supported by ANGEL services will range from the long-established Z39.50, to those just emerging such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol <http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP>).
The ANGEL project team will collate and develop unified or hybrid metadata standards and other methods of inter-operability for resource discovery and access, bridging the gap between the two domains of 'learning' (pedagogically guided) resources, and 'library' (unguided reference) resources to create a practical implementation of standards-mapping work such as that of Dan Brickley, Mikael Nilsson et al. < http://xml.coverpages.o rg/ni2001-03-30-a.html>. The most promising descriptive standard for the former is the IMS metadata proposal <http://www.imsproject.org/>, whilst RDF (Resource Description Framework) <http://www.w3.org/RDF> is now an accepted world standard for the latter, with the potential for further extension. ANGEL will also work with what has traditionally been thought of as 'management' information about participants in Further and Higher Education, extending the eduPerson < http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/ > LDAP specification so that portals using ANGEL services can offer a high level of personalisation and personal customisation to end-users.
Many of the resource collections involved restrict access to users from licence-holding institutions, and the number of licensed, income-earning, access-protected resource collections is certain to increase as more opportunities to exploit a market in learning materials are discovered by commercial players (old and new), and by education institutions under increasing pressure from government to replace subsidies with other revenue sources. The UK JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) <http://www.jisc.ac.uk>, which is the main funder of Project ANGEL, has recognised this impending problem, and tasked ANGEL to deliver a working implementation of its Sparta specification < http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pu b00/sparta_disc.html> - a national access management infrastructure which will eventually replace the currently successful Athens <http://www.athens.ac.uk/> service. The Sparta implementation is likely to be based on the model developed by RedIRIS for PAPI < http://www.rediris.es/ap p/papi/index.en.html>, with the aim of also being inter-operable with resource vendors who adopt the Internet2 Shibboleth < http://middleware.interne t2.edu/shibboleth/> system.
One particular problem that ANGEL faces is the speed of development and lack of coordination of all the commercial and public-sector initiatives that are exploiting these fields. We have dedicated project staff time to actively maintaining a technology-watch on standards and developments in the areas of Learning Resource Metadata, Education User Metadata, Authentication and Resource Access Authorisation. Of course, this is a problem shared with many fellow researchers so, rather than keeping this information to ourselves, in the spirit of Open Source development we will maintain it on the public side of our website and as a RSS news-feed. We would also appreciate email contact from those involved in relevant developments that we haven't yet found and listed.
Full information about Project ANGEL, including our Technology-watch updates is published at <http://www.angel.ac.uk>.
The City of Los Angeles has placed just over 600,000 images on the Internet. The 75 megapixel images are indexed using the City GIS (Geographic Information System). The images were scanned from 35 mm film at an optical resolution of 10,000 by 7,500 pixels. The project is scanning approximately 7,000 images per day and plans to reach the goal soon of putting 800,000 to 1,000,000 images on the Internet. In the scanning process, automatic index conversion is done using the existing integral metadata record in the aperture cards that hold the images. Most images are scanned at 1 bit per pixel, but the scanning system supports 8 bits per pixel and, in next month's planned ease-of-use site update, the storage and display system will support 24 and 36 bits per pixel as well as multispectral imaging.
The system has an extensive relational database that can be used in conjunction with the GIS system of over 250 layers of vector information for over 900,000 parcels to locate the images. The images are of City maps and blueprints of the existing infrastructure. Examples of layers of GIS information include: Graffiti Zones, Geologic Faults (Earthquake Faults), Hillside Grading (Landslide and Mudslide areas), High Potential Methane, High Wind Area, Liquifaction/Subsidence, Potential Methane, Fire Brush Clearance, Street Resurfacing, Flood Plains, Storm Pipes (Drains), Storm Drain Inlets, and Truck Routes (High and Heavy Loads). There is a more detailed description at <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/whitepapers/22031p.pdf>. Archival and disaster availability issues are addressed at <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/whitepapers/22025p.pdf>.
While the City GIS and the 600,000 images it indexes have evolved over time, and will continue to evolve, very substantial recent additions in both content and syndetic structure, as well as an expansion of the materials available on the Internet, establish a new qualitative level that provides a substantially complete expression of its final form.
The City of Los Angeles GIS (Geographic Information System) is a highly integrated set of spatial (geographic) indices, including a composite and digitally rectified (the pixels are in the right place) digital orthophoto <http://mapping.USGS.gov/www/ndop> to represent images of things (such as buildings) in their true location. (The City is using a specially flown and processed image rather than the USGS image.) (City image: 50 gigapixel 8 bit image, 316,000 by 474,000 pixels optical resolution, irregular border, 6 inch pixels, 468 square miles, 2 foot contour lines, virtual reality pan and zoom).
Like other forms of indexing, geographic indexing can be combined with other indices. For example, one might ask for all books of fiction that were written in the twentieth century, with stories that take place in upstate New York in the nineteenth century.
USC has a project on the Internet in which archival records are indexed geographically: <http://www.USC.edu/isd/locations/cst/IDA/prospectus.html>.
The website <http://navigatela.lacity.org/> gives everyone a chance to try out a fully developed spatial index. This index could be easily integrated with the USC project. For example, both systems use the same <http://www.ESRI.com> (Earth Sciences and Resources Institute 'esz-ree') software and cover approximately the same geographic area. Linking the two would be something like cataloging books by looking up the Library of Congress classification (that is, easy and deterministic, yielding the same results for almost anyone doing the process).
Unlike traditional library cataloging, spatial indexing receives funding from sources such as real estate, civil engineering, environmental planning, disaster planning, and tax collection. Spatial indexing provides a method of synergistically extending the benefits of indexing expenditures, provided by various business activities, into other areas such as the humanities.
The system catalog links extensive background information with interactive updates, creating a real-time library that can respond effectively to the information needs of emergency personnel, businesses, and the public during and after earthquakes, mudslides, floods, fires, and other urgent occurrences. Interactive redlining of stored documents and the GIS-based index allows field workers to input data, via the Internet, creating maps, descriptions, and catalogs of field incidents, events, and situation status that can be displayed on the Internet. Though not currently linked to the GIS system, similar real-time maps can be found at <http://www.lainsider.com/autos/traffic/latraffic.html?//x>, at <http://trafficinfo.lacity.org>, at <http://trafficinfo.lacity.org/html/4303880606.html> and at <http://www.scecdc.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html>. Because these maps are updated automatically, the maps respond to events in under one minute.
The websites presented are: Internet GIS indexed documents and digital orthophoto: <http://NavigateLA.LACity.org> and interactive Internet permitting and plancheck redlining: <http://Eng.LACity.org/demos>. There is a planned ease-of-use site update in the next month, so if you have any problems, please try back in a few weeks. The City of Los Angeles has a monthly meeting to coordinate GIS and document management plans. If you would like to get the meeting announcements, topics, websites presented, and meeting recaps via email, please send your email address to <SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com>.
Eric F. Van de Velde, PhD.
CAV2001 is the conference proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation. This repository contains 110 scholarly papers.
CaltechCSTR is a repository of technical reports of the Caltech Computer Science option. The repository currently contains 237 reports, but this is an ongoing effort, and we expect to continue adding reports as they become available.
Both OAI-registered repositories can be found at <http://library.caltech.edu/digital>.
Educated various library staff in a variety of electronic-publication skills.
Identified faculty, options, and research groups willing to be pioneers in freeing the research literature.
In addition to the two repositories just registered, we are currently preparing technical-report repositories for several other options. We are also well under way to make available our first batch of Electronic Theses.
INSPIRAL (INveStigating Portals for Information Resources And Learning, (http://inspiral.cdlr.strath.ac.uk) is a six-month JISC / DNER funded project running from 1 May to 31 October 2001 to investigate the issues surrounding the linking of virtual learning environments (VLEs) / managed learning environments (MLEs) and digital libraries. The research is being carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Library Research (http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk) and the Centre for Educational Systems (http://www.strath.ac.uk/ces/). INSPIRAL's focus is on institutional and end-user perspectives, with the aim of identifying priority areas for future JISC strategic planning and investment within the higher and further education sectors. INSPIRAL events are an integral part of the final analysis and consist of three half-day forums and two full-day workshops to be held at locations around the United Kingdom.
On June 12, 2001, INSPIRAL held its first forum at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. A specific aim of the forum was to discuss, identify, and gather information on the problems and barriers to successful linkage of VLEs / MLEs and digital libraries. The topics discussed gave particular attention to the considerations of the learner and the institution. Attendees represented institutional departments that are likely to be involved with VLE / MLE and digital library linkage, providing library, academic, and technical perspectives in the identification of barriers, problem areas, and possible solutions.
The forum began with a presentation by Sarah Currier (INSPIRAL Research Fellow) who gave an overview and update of INSPIRAL's research to date. Participants were then invited to introduce their own and their institution's involvement in VLEs / MLEs and digital library integration. These discussions provided important information on the current situation in various institutions around Scotland, including Caledonian, Edinburgh, Stirling and Strathclyde universities, regarding linkage, as well as identifying some of the more specific problems and barriers to linkage at the institutional level. The forum continued with group and general discussions on the chosen topic and also identified ideal situations that could solve the barriers to linking VLEs / MLEs and digital libraries within the higher and further education sectors.
Issues raised at this forum have already proved valuable to INSPIRAL's research objectives, and have indicated three areas that require further and more detailed investigation, namely institutional, technological and social levels, within the teaching and learning environment. A full report on these findings is included on the INSPIRAL web site at <http://inspiral.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/documents/forumrep1.html>.
The UK Collection Description Focus launched on 1 June 2001 (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/) is a national post, jointly funded for a twelve-month period by the Joint Information Systems Committee/Distributed National Electronic Resource (JISC/DNER), the Research Support Libraries Program (RSLP) and the British Library.
The Focus aims to improve co-ordination of work on collection description methods, schemas and tools, with the goal of ensuring consistency and compatibility of approaches across projects, disciplines, institutions and sectors. The Focus intends to provide support both for UK projects actively involved in collection description work and for those investigating or planning such work.
The Focus is located within UKOLN, (The UK Office for Library and Information Networking) which is based at the University of Bath.
The Focus will be run jointly by Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson with support from their partners in the CD Focus initiative, the Archives Hub and the mda. The Focus will be informed by work carried out by other members of UKOLN, including the work of Andy Powell on the RSLP CLD schema, and the broader work on the effective exchange and reuse of information resources carried out by Paul Miller as Interoperability Focus. The Focus will also liase with the Collection Description Working Group within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
The Focus will look into the development of simple tools to facilitate the creation and management of collection descriptions including: tools to support transformations between different collection description schemas; enhancements to data creation interfaces; the use of a schema registry to publish and share CD schemas; and mechanisms for "harvesting" distributed descriptions.
The CD Focus team will draft a questionnaire that will be sent out to relevant projects and stakeholders within the UK. The questionnaire will be used to gather information on project activity, standards and metadata schema adopted, implementation issues, software in use and areas where guidance is needed. The data gathered will inform subsequent visits, briefing papers, event agendas and other Focus activities.
Three regional workshops will be held during the project. There will also be two briefing days. The first one will be held in the autumn and then a second briefing day will be held at the end of the project.
The CD Focus website can be found at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus>.
The UK Data Archive has recently released a number of major datasets that are available for browsing, exploring and downloading via a suite of Internet-based tools, known as NESSTAR.
Many government departments, research institutes, companies, and other kinds of organisations collect social and economic data. Many of these data are available for re-use, particularly for research and education, typically via data archives and libraries. The UK Data Archive is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. The full UKDA catalogue can be searched at: <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/ourDataHoldings.asp>.
together with some other individual popular UK-based datasets such as the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey. This online service will be extended to other data collections within the UKDA on a continuous basis, with more datasets being mounted on the system over the coming months.
Who can access these data?
Anyone can search for and view full information about the survey and the data (metadata in the form of a catalogue record and codebook in XML). Non-commercial users registered with UK Data Archive can also explore, analyse and download the data. If you are interested in becoming a registered user, please see the UKDA Web pages at: <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/orderingData/introduction.asp>.
NESSTAR is a set of internet-based tools providing an enhanced online service for data providers and data users, that gives easier and quicker access to data and information about that data.
A common scenario for a user of a data archive is identification of a dataset of possible interest through an Archive's online catalogue, through which the user can also read about the survey design and contents, and possibly view the codebook and associated user guides. However, at this stage the user does not usually have immediate access to the data or to any frequencies or percentages. She may then need to contact the archive to ascertain its suitability, order the data and then wait to receive it, for example on a CD. NESSTAR radically facilitates the data access process, allowing users immediate access to frequencies and percentages and allowing registered users to perform exploratory online analyses (at no cost) and then download the data for offline analysis immediately.
The three screen shots below show that from browsing the metadata at the variable level (i.e., the questions asked in a survey) a user can quickly carry out a basic tabulation and then display this as a graph with only 4 clicks of a mouse. The table can be added to an existing list of favourites or bookmarks in the user's Web Browser, where the user can refer to it later or mail it to a colleague.
Screenshots from NESSTAR. Copyright 2001 UKDA. Used with permission.
The NESSTAR project was funded by the European Commission to the sum of �2 million under the 4th and 5th Framework IT Programmes. The three main partners collaborating in this innovative R&D project have been the UK Data Archive, the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), and the Danish Data Archive (DDA). NESSTAR Explorer also provides the option of simultaneous access to catalogues from the Danish and Norwegian data archives. It is planned that catalogues from other data archives will be available in the near future.
Finally, NESSTAR is also being used by other data communities as a powerful Intranet service for accessing their own data sources.
Further instructions on using NESSTAR to access datasets at the UK Data Archive can be found at: <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/usingData/nesstar.asp>, and there is an online guide to using NESSTAR light at <http://www.nesstar.org/light/userguide/1-1.asp>. More about the R&D and technical developments of NESSTAR may be found at: <http://www.nesstar.org>. Specific enquiries are handled by the User Support team at <archive-userservices@essex.ac.uk>.
Bethesda, Md., USA � (June 29, 2001) During the ALA 2001 Annual Convention, NISO, the National Standards Information Organization and BASIC, the Book and Serial Industry Communications, jointly presented a forum on the challenges of integrating electronic journals into library collections and the standards now in development that will enable publishers and librarians to deliver better access and more information about these resources. These presentations are now available on the NISO web site at <http://www.niso.org/Ejournal-web.html>.
In a presentation entitled "Rights & Content: Full Text Databases", Deborah Loeding, VP Sales & Marketing for the H.W. Wilson Company provided an overview and introduction to the challenges and opportunities that electronic journals bring by allowing us to connect to content and a variety of supporting information about that content.
The presentation by Brian Green, Managing Agent BIC/EDItEUR (Book Industry Communication) entitled "Developments in Metatdata: ONIX for Serials" reported on Onix for serials, an international standard for communicating a variety of metadata elements including comprehensive product description and bibliographic detail, reviews, author biographies, extracts pricing and availability in different markets and more as it relates to e-serials.
Eric Van de Velde, Director of Library Information Technology, California Institute of Technology and Chair of NISO's OpenURL Standards Committee, explained how the OpenURL can connect information seekers to the appropriate copy of any chosen resource by passing along bibliographic or descriptive information about the resource in his presentation "Developments in Linking: OpenURL".
NISO is the only U.S. group accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop and promote technical standards for use in information delivery services providing voluntary standards for libraries, publishers and related information technology organizations. All NISO standards are developed by consensus under the guidance of experts and practitioners in the field to meet the needs of both the information user and the producer. For information about NISO's current standardization interests and membership possibilities, please visit the NISO website at <http://www.niso.org>.
For additional information contact NISO Headquarters at (301) 654-2512. Email: <nisohq@niso.org>.
Special Projects Associate Council on Library and Information Services Washington, DC USA.
Pioneers who once experimented with solitary digital-access projects at the campus library's periphery are increasingly building systems for managing online information at its core. Increasing chunks of library budgets are spent on digitizing collections, acquiring such computer-accessible research materials as e-journals, and maintaining online public access catalogs. Moreover, campus librarians are applying electronic-information technologies to the management of their holdings in all formats -- books, manuscripts, and other traditional materials as well as digital collections. And by relating rather than separating traditional and electronic resources, they are developing more efficient and economical services for students and faculty. More on such changes is available in a report from the latest forum of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues22.html#digital>.
Increasingly the Web is full of material of value for higher education and research that can be accessed for free. Why shouldn't campus libraries pull it into their own digital collections for use by scholars and students? No reason not to -- but don't imagine that there won't be costs. For one thing, staff investment is needed in identifying, evaluating, and selecting Web material of real worth for study. Origin, site integrity, ease of navigation, and rights restrictions also must be considered, and investments must be made in cataloging, data management, and search functions. How libraries can recognize and deal with the problems and opportunities in using "free" Web resources is explained in a new publication from the Digital Library Federation and the Council on Library and Information Resources, Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources, is available in print and at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub98/pub98.pdf>.
Will all the scholarly journals now published electronically stay accessible electronically over time? Can the property rights of publishers, the long-term access responsibilities of libraries, and the reliability assurances that scholars need be reconciled in agreements to create archives of electronic journals? Seven major research libraries -- Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Stanford, Yale, and the New York Public -- have received grants from the Mellon Foundation to find out. The Digital Library Federation, which helped develop the program, is tracking progress at <http://www.clir.org/diglib/preserve/presjour.htm>.
Building in part on work on imaging practices conducted with the Research Libraries Group (RLG), the Digital Library Federation is investigating methods for evaluating the quality of digital images. Such methods will help assess claims that are made about images by their producers or vendors. A report from a meeting convened to identify standard criteria for assessing the quality of digital images and digital imaging systems is available at <http://www.clir.org/diglib/standards.htm>.
The DLF has initiated a process to identify standard structural, administrative, and technical metadata needed for the successful, consistent, and interoperable management of digital objects. The process builds upon and extends the work of the Making of America II project, which developed a documented set of metadata elements for a limited range of digital objects. The draft scheme is available from <http://www.clir.org/diglib/standards/mets.xsd>. A report on the meeting is at <http://www.clir.org/diglib/standards/metssum.pdf>.
Universities are investing heavily in digitization to make information from and about their library collections available to scholars and students by Internet. But the limitations of commercial search engines, and the uneven quality of what they turn up, often make it difficult for researchers to find all the important material that's pertinent to their projects. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is working with the Open Archives Initiative to make possible Internet gateway services through which scholars can find more material more readily in their specialties: <http://www.clir.org/diglib/architectures.htm>.
Everyone knows that digital technologies are enabling scholars and students to find, evaluate, and use information in new ways, but what are they? A concerted effort to find out has been called for by a group of college and university library directors convened by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) to scrutinize changing patterns in the operations and use of campus libraries. The proposed study would cover all resources, not just those of libraries, consulted by students and faculty when they need information. For more information please see the May/June 2001 issue of CLIR's newsletter, CLIR Issues, in print or at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues21.html>.
While not directly related to digital libraries, two additional new books just published by the Council on Library and Information Resources will be useful to librarians: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis, a report on a conference and a survey, and A Collaborative Approach to Collection Storage: The Five-College Library Depository, may be purchased in print through CLIR's Web site, <http://www.clir.org>, or located online through <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>.
The University of Maryland, College Park, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Inc., (FFH&S) of Princeton, NJ, signed a far reaching agreement earlier this month (June 6, 2001) enabling the campus libraries to distribute approximately 1,000 selected titles from the FFH&S collection of educational videos over the university's state-of-the-art digital video-on-demand delivery system.
Signing the agreement at a ceremony held in the new Performing Arts Library at the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts were Charles Lowry, Dean of Libraries at the University of Maryland, and Betsy Sherer, President and CEO of FFH&S.
Commenting on the significance of the agreement at the signing, Dean Lowry said: "Since I installed my first mainframe library system 20 years ago, we have been talking about how to build digital or virtual libraries. In that time the world of information technology has been transformed. As I look around the landscape of academic and research libraries today, I find that they too have been transformed. With the opportunity presented by our partnership with FFH&S, we take a giant step in 'multi-mediation' and the use of digitized audio and full motion video which is an integral part of our sense of content for teaching and research."
In her remarks, FFH&S's Sherer said: "This is an age in which education's needs are increasingly diverse and specialized. Films for the Humanities & Sciences will continue to seek ways to provide quality programs in formats that are compatible with new learning environments. We are pleased and proud to participate with the University of Maryland in this pioneering and exciting effort."
What this agreement means, according to Allan C. Rough, Manager of the University's Nonprint Media Services Department, is that students and faculty will soon be able to access a wide variety of video programming, much of it in the performing arts area, from almost any location on campus. This includes libraries, classrooms, offices and dormitory rooms. Rough explained that the goal is to allow users to instantly access a program directly from the Libraries' online catalog.
He added: "Digital video-on-demand systems have been a reality for a number of years, but copyright and intellectual property constraints have made most academic institutions reluctant to purchase expensive video server technologies. Universities were faced with a classic dilemma: if we purchase a server, will we be able to find video programming we can legally put on the system? This agreement answers that question with a resounding �yes'!"
Carleton Jackson, Nonprint Media Reference Librarian, noted that "until recently, universities were divided by buildings and campuses; collections were segregated by subject, discipline, format and walls. This agreement breaks down those walls to unleash the full potential of sound and image for teaching."
A Primedia company, Films for the Humanities & Sciences is the leader in distributing high quality video and multimedia programs to colleges, schools and libraries. Their collection of more than 9,000 titles represents the best from the most prestigious producers from around the world, including the BBC, ABC News, the Discovery Channel, and many others. This agreement with the University of Maryland Libraries marks their first collaboration with a Higher Education institution.
With many of the 1,000 selected titles related to theatre, dance and music, a sampling of the collection includes the following: "Shakespeare's Plays", performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company; "Glenn Gould on Gould"; "Georg Solti; Making of a Maestro"; "Edward Elgar: Hope & Glory"; "Art of Conducting" series; "Empire of Dreams: Bolshoi Ballet"; and "Great Arias" series. Bruce Wilson, Head of the Performing Arts Library, said that "thanks to this agreement, we now have access to some of the most relevant and exciting programming to go with one of the most technologically advanced Performing Arts libraries in the country."
The FFH&S collection of documentaries secured by the UM Libraries also contains a number of titles related to world history, literature, education, computer science, art, communications, science, business, etc. The University of Maryland Libraries expect to launch a pilot project in the fall, enabling users to access a limited number of titles in the collection, according to Jeff Bridgers, Head of Digital Libraries.
June 22, 2001, Library of Congress, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress and Alexa Internet announce the Election 2000 Collection, the first large-scale collection of date-searchable Web sites to be archived and made available online.
The Election 2000 Collection <http://www.archive.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html> developed for the Library of Congress by the Internet Archive, Alexa Internet, and Compaq Computer, is an Internet library containing archived copies of more than 1,000 election-related Web sites. The collection, searchable by date, by Web site, and by category via Alexa's new "Wayback Machine" technology, contains more than 2 million megabytes of election-related information gathered between August 1, 2000, and January 14, 2001, including what was published on the candidates' Web sites, political party sites and major news sites.
The Election 2000 Collection is important because it contributes to the historical record of the U.S. presidential election, capturing information that could otherwise have been lost. With the growing role of the Web as an influential medium, records of historical events such as the U.S. presidential election could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper. Because Internet content changes at a very rapid pace, especially on those sites related to an election, many important election sites have already disappeared from the Web. For the Election 2000 Collection, rapidly changing sites were archived daily, or even twice and three times in a day, in an attempt to capture the dynamic nature of Internet content.
"This was the first presidential election in which the Web played an important role, and there would have been a gap in the historical record of this period without a collection such as this," said Winston Tabb, Associate Librarian for Library Services of the Library of Congress. "The Library of Congress worked with the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building digital libraries, to create this digital collection for researchers, historians and the general public."
Compaq Computer undertook the major task of collecting and archiving sites for the collection. "Compaq Research was able to "deep crawl" hundreds of Web sites each day to build an unprecedented record of the changing nature of the Web. It was tricky, because finding all the images, videos and computer scripts associated with each page required developing specialized technology," said Brewster Kahle, President of Alexa Internet.
Alexa Internet created Wayback Machine technology, which allows users to browse this huge collection and other Internet libraries like it. "By enabling users to retrieve Web sites out of the past, Alexa's Wayback Machine technology adds a time dimension to the Internet and creates the first 'time browser' for the Web," said Mr. Kahle.
The Library of Congress's mission is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. Founded in 1800 to serve the reference needs of Congress, the Library of Congress is the world's largest library, containing nearly 121 million items in all formats on which information is recorded. It serves Congress and all Americans through its 21 reading rooms on Capitol Hill as well as through its popular Web site at <http://www.loc.gov>.
Alexa Internet, the Web Information Company, gathers, stores, indexes and makes available multi-terabyte digital libraries, collections of Web sites and other Internet information. The company's Archive of the Web has been growing since 1996, and now contains more than 40 terabytes of data. Alexa also offers a free Web navigation service (available at <http://www.alexa.com>), which gives Internet users access to the Archive as they surf, as well as detailed information about Web sites such as related links, contact information, site statistics and reviews. The company donates a copy of its Archive of the Web on a continuing basis to the nonprofit Internet Archive, which is endowed to preserve the digital heritage for scholarly access. Alexa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, is located on the Web at <http://www.alexa.com>.
The Internet Archive (<http://www.archive.org>) is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit organization that was founded to build an "Internet library," with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others.
British Library, June 13, 2001: "This week the British Library launches New Strategic Directions, which outlines our plans for the next five to seven years. The responses of staff, readers, customers, visitors and all those who use library services in the UK will be sampled to give us an insight into the balance of opinion among our user and stakeholder groups. There is a survey at the Library's website www.bl.uk, which we hope that our users (and potential users) will complete. All respondents will be entered in a draw to win �20 Amazon vouchers to spend on books and music."
"The consultation survey is being widely promoted into all UK libraries by mail-shots, posters, information leaflets and e-mails to users. There will be a PC dedicated to the web survey in the Front Hall of our London building and PCs for access in the Reading Room at Boston Spa in Yorkshire."
"One of the Library's core values is that access to knowledge and information empowers and enriches people. From that belief comes the Library's vision of 'making accessible the world's intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage. The collections of the BL and other great collections will be accessible on everyone's virtual bookshelf- at work, at school, at college, at home.'"
"In order to realise the vision, the Library will concentrate on understanding the changing needs of users, creating opportunities to work in partnership with other libraries, and bringing the Web centre stage in our activities."
Access strategy: making the collections more accessible to a wider audience, reshaping services where there are alternative sources of supply, and contributing to making library provision more effective in the UK."
"The text of New Strategic Directions and the survey are available on the Library's website www.bl.uk. Users and stakeholders without their own PC can use one of the Open Access PCs in the Library's main buildings to complete the survey. If you would prefer print copies of either document, please email <survey@bl.uk>.
"If you have further questions about New Strategic Directions, please e-mail <ann.clarke@bl.uk> or <jonathan.purday@bl.uk>. "
The British Library, 2 July 2001: "The British Library has appointed its first e-Director as part of a wider restructuring of its top tier of management."
"The appointment of Dr Herbert Van de Sompel as Director of e-Strategy and Programmes was announced today and he will join the Library on 1 September 2001 completing the BL's new streamlined senior management team."
"Charged with extending access to resources, both for customers and members of the public, the team will implement strategy across a broad range of activities of the UK's national library. The post of e-Director in particular will be central in taking forward the British Library's vision of a digital future for its collections and services."
"'Our e-Strategy will be at the core of the Library's work and will underpin many of our priority developments,' said the British Library's Chief Executive, Lynne Brindley. 'As Director of e-Strategy and programmes, Herbert will be the driving force behind the development of the British Library's e-strategy, pushing forward the role of electronic media and services in providing public access, opening up collections, creating productive partnerships with the library and scholarly network and developing new enterprises.'"
"Lynne Brindley continued, 'Herbert Van de Sompel brings an international reputation in the digital library field, a deep understanding of what is technically possible, combined with a real sense of service mission. With his European and North American links he will ensure that the British Library plays a leading role internationally in creating our digital future.'"
"Dr Van de Sompel joins the Library having spent the past year as Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. For 17 years he was head of the library automation department at the University of Ghent, Belgium where he led an ambitious programme to create an outstanding electronic library and planned and implemented a range of innovative services."
"More recently he worked at the renowned Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, on a PhD focusing on open reference linking (OpenURL and SFX) and the Open Archives Initiative. The Ph.D. was awarded in Spring 2000, following examination by two key figures in digital library developments: William Y. Arms (Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University) and Clifford Lynch (Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, USA)."
"Dr Van de Sompel's work has received much recognition in both the digital library community and in the academic world. He has also acted as a consultant to many key information industry companies on strategy and on the conceptualisation or evaluation of new digital services."
"As e-Director he will lead the BL's transformation to an e-centric organisation, pulling together historically discrete and disparate programmes, acting as champion and advocate for e-strategy and leading an integrated Digital Library development programme. Major transformational developments to be supervised and driven forward by the e-Director include the digitisation of many of the Library's collections as well as the archiving of materials that are 'born digital'. Working in close collaboration with the rest of the executive team, Dr Van de Sompel will ensure the implementation of a fully integrated e-programme across all Directorates � adding the essential e-ingredient to the British Library's strategies for progress."
"Commenting on his appointment, Dr Van de Sompel said: 'Research libraries around the world are trying to define their identity in the digital domain. With its recently released New Strategic Directions document, the British Library has made a clear statement regarding the e-position it wants to be in; I am very excited about being able to play a role in the genuinely challenging process of getting there. Currently, www.bl.uk welcomes users to the website of the British Library. A few years from now, the same URL should welcome them to the whole British Library.'"
"Offering Dr Van de Sompel warm congratulations on his appointment, Lynne Brindley added, 'This new role represents a more coherent and strategic approach towards the various strands of activity that comprise the British Library's programme of digitisation. It will also lead the way in the development of the Library's wider e-strategy. The e-Director will oversee the transformational changes to the Library's culture and working practices that are necessary in order for us to fully embrace the digital and wider e- revolution � adapting our collections and services to remain at the leading edge of research and reference worldwide.'"
"For further information, please contact Ben Sanderson at the British Library Press Office on 01937 546126, or email <ben.sanderson@bl.ukp>."
"DUBLIN, Ohio, June 19, 2001--The OCLC Users Council unanimously ratified changes to the OCLC Articles of Incorporation and Code of Regulations recommended by the OCLC Board of Trustees following a year-long study of strategic directions and governance."
"Under new bylaws adopted May 21, Users Council changed its name to Members Council and added six new delegates from outside the United States to better define its role in strategic planning and extend global representation."
"Action came May 20-22 during the third and final meeting of the 2000/01 Users Council with the dual themes of 'The Library as a Virtual Place' and 'OCLC Strategic Directions and Governance Study.'"
"The OCLC Board of Trustees retained the Arthur D. Little consulting firm in January 2000 to conduct an independent study of OCLC's strategic directions and related issues of governance. An advisory council of distinguished librarians and other leaders in the information professions and academe interacted with the consultant and prepared recommendations. The Users Council spent a great deal of time during its 2000/01 meetings discussing these issues before the May vote."
"In addition to changing its name, council bylaws were amended to read that the 'Members Council shall advise the Board of Trustees and OCLC management of emerging, critical issues that require OCLC tracking, planning, or other responses so that OCLC's own strategic planning is informed by this input.'"
"Council voted to add delegates from the Netherlands, Japan, South Africa, France, Mexico and China to serve for the next three years while a group of representatives from council, the Board of Trustees, regional networks and service centers continue work on a new algorithm to help define new standards for membership and council representation..."
For the full press release, see <http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20010615a.shtm>.
"June 16, 2001 - Inwood, WV. TLC/CARL � a leader in library automation and personalized web portal services announced today that the company�s state-of-the-art interlibrary loan toolkit has been selected by Ex Libris."
"The TLC software, named Library�Connect, is a middleware solution that powers ILL management functions. The product allows developers to build ISO standard ILL applications on heterogeneous platforms with hardware, operating system, network and protocol level independence. Library�Connect enables the fast and efficient development and deployment of ILL management, document delivery and resource sharing applications."
"The Ex Libris group is a leading worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The company is known for using advanced technologies and innovative programming techniques to create a system that accommodates any language, script and directionality. Ex Libris� approach is flexible, scalable and based on open standards -- making it extensible to other systems."
"Users of TLC�s ILL toolkit range from major libraries to other automation vendors, notably The National Library of Medicine, The National Library of Canada, CISTI, and Mankato State University (MNSUC-PALS), and automation vendors Pigasus and RLG."
For the full press release, see <http://www.exlibris-usa.com/news1.asp?categoryId=118&admin>.
"June 16, 2001 - Los Angeles, CA: Infotrieve, a global leader in commercial document delivery, today announced an arrangement with Ex Libris Inc. to provide access to Infotrieve's document delivery services through links from Ex Libris' SFX context-sensitive linking software. As Infotrieve's newest Platinum-level service partner, SFX users can request articles directly from Infotrieve's pay-per-view, complete-text delivery service."
"SFX permits context-sensitive linking within a library's entire electronic collection, providing seamless integration of heterogeneous resources for management by the librarian. The librarian defines the conceptual relationships between different information resources to enable users to fully exploit the collection and link to appropriate services, such as Infotrieve."
"Templates for creating links between SFX and Infotrieve are included with the SFX server software, making it easy for librarians to offer Infotrieve document delivery services across a wide range of the library's resources. These Infotrieve links can be selectively provided when an article is not available from the library's collection, for delivery either in electronic or print formats."
For the full press release, see <http://www.exlibris-usa.com/news1.asp?categoryId=115&admin>.


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The study below is one that appeared in the Quantifinder yesterday afternoon. There were a few like it. This study looks at big gaps up from 50-day lows that go unfilled and close above the open.
The suggestion here is that the overwhelming 1-day bullishness (big gap and move higher) immediately after a new low is probably overdone, and unlikely to carry through for a 2nd day. I believe this study deserves some consideration, but I would also keep in mind that based on other indicators (like the elevated CBI, which closed at 67 on Wednesday) the bounce should have further to go over the course of the next several days.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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GSMArena is an online website that offers comprehensive and up-to-date mobile phone information.
The website offers information about various mobile brands, including Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony, LG, and more. It enables its users to get to know about latest and real-time mobile phone trends and other related information. GSMArena’s blog offers its users with articles about mobile phones and software, gaming applications, operating systems, social networks, web browsers, network operators, and many others.
GSMArena provides a comparison service that enables its users to compare mobile phones, photos and videos, battery life tables, and many other features. It also helps amateurs catch up with technical terms by providing a mobile terms glossary page.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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One of the little mysteries of life.
How come the first cup of coffee always tastes SO DANG GOOD but each subsequent cup doesn't?
And those single cup brewers don't do it for me either, so it's not because the coffee sits around disconsolately oxidizing.
I guess I just need a bigger mug.
you need to come to my house. we have everything from peruvian to columbian to honduran coffee.
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industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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AirVenture to feature “PT6 Engine Day” with special events.
The Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA’s) AirVenture is one of the highlights in the calendar year for shows important to P&WC’s PT6 engine. The company has been attending the Oshkosh, Wisconsin, event for more than 10 years as it provides the ideal venue to showcase the PT6 engine, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary.
AirVenture will be held from Monday, July 29, to Sunday, August 4. The “pioneers” video, created to commemorate the original engineers who developed the PT6 engine, will be shown on a daily basis at the event’s popular Sky Theater. It will also be shown at venues throughout the show, including the P&WC booth, where several PT6 engines will be on display. P&WC will also be supplying display PT6 engines to several of its aircraft manufacturers and STC partners (companies that use P&WC engines to retrofit existing aircraft).
P&WC will have activities at the KidVenture pavilion (see Teens and Turbines ), including an interactive game in which young people “assemble” an engine using a massive puzzle. In addition, the company will sponsor a table and provide items for the fundraising auction at the Young Eagles Gala Dinner on Thursday, August 1.
On PT6 Engine Day, the company has arranged for 10 PT6-powered aircraft – examples of the remarkable range of what the PT6 engine powers – to be on display in a prominent showcase location called Conoco Phillips Plaza. P&WC will also host a PT6 engine history seminar given by its engine experts. Finally, the day will be capped off by a customer event hosted by P&WC representatives.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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What an incredible whirlwind of a trip BlogTour was. Design 24 hours a day with nonstop visual inspiration. Thanks to Heathrow and the good people at Virgin Atlantic, I have my laptop back and am ready to share some of this amazing experience.
As I just returned yesterday evening, I am still in the throes of processing all that I saw but one theme was abundantly clear – the juxtaposition of old and new. This was especially evident at the beautiful Victoria and Albert museum, where the London Design Festival had several stunning installations.
One of the most publicized was iconic design purveyor Murray Moss’ curated “Industrial Revolution 2.0: How the Material World Will Newly Materialise.” Working in conjunction with eight designers, he commissioned 3D printed projects to be created (printed) in one piece by Belgian 3D printing pioneers Materialise. Although 3-D printing has evidently been used for years by the medical profession, this show presents the artistic potential for the concept.
This magnificent melding of old and new is perfectly illustrated above by millinery designer Stephen Jones‘ ode to Lady Bellhaven, a bust from 1827 in the V&A sculpture court. Inspired by her supposed relationship with Chopin, his “tra la la tiara” has musical notes woven into its ornate design. And it’s not just the hat that is printed, but the entire bust!! Materialise scanned and made a digital clone of the bust, then printed it in one piece with Jones’ imagined hat – amazing!!
In our ultra speedy tour of the museum with the BlogTour team, we didn’t get to see the whole exhibit, but my other favorite piece was this extraordinary Escapism Dress created by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, part of a continuing collaboration with London architect Daniel Widrig. Juxtaposed with the ornate, I believe 18th century, mirror in the background, it’s an elaborate fashion statement of our times – timeless baroque detail created with cutting edge (pun intended) technology.
Here is the dress on the runway at Iris’s fashion show in January. As 3D printing becomes more ubiquitous, stores who purchase such collections will have no shipping costs – they will receive the new designs by USB to print out at their shop!!
The item that first sparked Moss’ interest in this technology was Patrick Jouin’s “One_Shot” stool, in the entrance to the architecture room in the V&A. If his name sounds familiar to readers, it might be because he designed the spectacular installation of the Van Cleef & Arpels Set in Style exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt that so entranced me!!
Laser printed in one piece (hence the name One_Shot), it has articulated legs that fold up like an umbrella or open easily to form the stool.
As Moss points out, there is a plaque at the V&A stating “The central intention of the Museum’s collections was to improve the quality of the “industrial arts” – designed and manufactured objects – in Britain, by placing the finest historical and contemporary examples before the public”. Even then they knew – the juxtaposition of old and new is the future of design!!
He continues, “That’s what I think the purpose of museums is; to inspire, challenge, redirect and question. You should go through a museum questioning your whole life. That would be a good museum.” I couldn’t agree more!!
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Such a great trip you had! Was following along with your adventures via Twitter!
Wow almost unheard of to get something back let alone a laptop, congratulations! Sounds like you had a very whirlwind holiday. I love museums and if they get you thinking they’ve done their job! Welcome home!
“That’s what I think the purpose of museums is; to inspire, challenge, redirect and question.” Love that.
Those pieces were so amazing to see. I love having more of the background info thanks to your post! And thank goodness for those Virgin Atlantic/Heathrow folks!!
What amazing art using the most unusual materials! Glad to have you back and blogging.
Inspiring designs, thank you for taking us on the trip with you! Couldn’t agree more that the juxtaposition of old and new is what it’s all about right now. Great post!
What an experience! The 3 D creations are out of this world. So happy you got the laptop back and cannot wait to hear more in the coming days!
Great photo’s can’t wait to see the rest of your trip!
how interesting, love that dress. I can’t wait to see more! Welcome home.
Sounds like a whirlwind of a trip. Love the visuals and can’t wait to hear more. Lucky you to sneak a trip in at this time of the year!
Thank you for sharing Stacy! So beautiful.
Welcome back, Q! Sounds like an amazing trip. Can’t wait to hear more. I love your perspective on the old and the new. Isn’t the V&A one of the most wonderful places in the world? I don’t think I could ever grow tired of it.
Hope you are rested and settled and glad you have your laptop in hand so that we can take a virtual tour of London through your eyes!
What a fun trip! I agree we should all visit museums, learn from history and new ideas and see what we can take from that in to our lives.
This trip sounded Amazing!!! What wonderful new ideas and images to put in your head. Thank you for sharing some of what you saw with us. I want to learn more about Murray Moss.
What an amazing collection of images, I can only imagine how remarkable it was to see pieces from the Design Festival in person. I love Stephen Jones‘ “Ode to Lady Bellhaven,” he is incredible, actually all of it is! I’m so glad your laptop is back, that must be an immense relief.
These are stunning works of art. The printing process intrigues me completely I would love to see this creativity in action. That table is also a fine piece. What an exciting trip.
WOW what a great blog post – the mind-boggling Escapism Dress is just extraordinary.
So happy you got your laptop back – must have been a real relief.
whenever I’m in a foreign country I make sure that I get to go on their famous museums. They say a lot about the country and its people.
What an interesting and lovely post you have here.
what a fabulous trip and opportunity to be part of such an event..
always wonderful to see what’s new at these museums when one travels..
can’t wait to discover more about your trip and the event..
Sound like you had a wonderful trip. This museum is a must see. It’s so nice to take the tour with your eyes and knack for getting great information. Great post, I’m looking forward to more!
A tour with Murray Moss! I want to go next year!
I’m going to have to continue moving backwards as I am hearing of a lost laptop and all sorts of inspirational and beautiful exhibits. You must have had a fabulous experience and I can’t wait to read more!
Loved reading all about this amazing event, and viewing the museum through your lens.
Great post and pictures. Glad to hear that you enjoyed Murray Moss’s installation and the tour with him (he has a gift with words). I was also there for the installation and had never been more proud of the company I work for, Materialise. Just wanted to let you now that the installation was such a success that its stay at the V&A has been extended. Instead of ending on the last day of the London Design Festival, it will be in place until the end of October. So, all those that missed out during LDF, can still check these pieces out.
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I am a British national and I would like to register my child as a British citizen, even though her mother is not British. Is my child eligible? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
There are different ways that persons can become a British citizen. Some people can 'register' as a British citizen. Persons should be aware that registering as a British citizen is usually simpler than becoming naturalised. However, those persons must be eligible.
d. they were born in the United Kingdom on or after January 1, 1983.
Furthermore, apart from belonging to one of the above groups, there are other eligibility rules that must be met for each category. Please note that the rules are different for those persons who may have previously renounced their British citizenship.
c. are of 'good character' - persons should look at the guidance in form UKF for details, which can be found online.
Please note that children will not automatically become British if they are born outside of the United Kingdom. However, persons may be able to apply for naturalisation instead if they are already resident in the United Kingdom.
With respect to making the application, persons will need to fill in application form UKF and pay the £80 citizenship ceremony fee using the payment slip.
Persons should send the completed application form and pay slip to the correct address for the country where they reside.
After making the application, persons will also need to provide biometric information - fingerprints and a photo - and they will be sent a letter explaining how to get this done. The costs associated with this is £19.20.
Just for completeness, please be aware that there will be no change to the rights and status of EU nationals living in the United Kingdom, nor United Kingdom nationals living in the European Union with reference to the above, while the United Kingdom remains in the European Union. hope this helps.
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industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Warning, this is a technical post for Solidity developers, others can probably skip it.
Here's a pop quiz I failed today: does this "singleton" construct work?
Actually, I got this part right. This does not work. a is a copy of the value in doOnce, and so we don't ever get true saved to the mapping.
This does work(!) because a is a reference variable, essentially a pointer to the struct data.
So, the same construct for mutex or other recursive call protection can work or not work, depending on the mapping type.
This sort of behavior is pretty common in many languages. Python or Go will both occasionally cause some cursing due to syntax sugar which automatically dereferences some sorts of pointers.
We are not in such a world. We are in a world where a tiny code error may not be easily fixable.
In that world, this is a very annoying language feature, one that could cause real problems.
to re-save into the mapping. This sort of re-store is required in go; go by default does not treat map values as addressable. That's a sane decision, and one I think solidity should adopt.
This is tough. My gut is that you should train yourself to re-save the mapping item, regardless of type. But, this could lead to the mistaken belief that if you don't do this, you won't have mutated storage, a belief which is very false in the second case.
For now, it has to go on the list of things on your mental list of stuff to not forget.
My preferred languages keep that list short, so this is a bummer.
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industry_corpus2: Programming


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Peter Drucker was wrong when he said the only goal of a business is profit. Profit is absolutely essential to success, but it’s only an outcome driven by a broader vision. Communicating a clear mission and purpose is one of the most important things a CEO can do to ensure lasting success.
Most organizations adopt a mission statement. It’s announced with great fanfare, hung in the breakroom, and quickly forgotten. If a mission isn’t lived and purpose isn’t reinforced, employees feel unfocused and directionless, unable to see the bigger picture. People want to feel like their organization and their day-to-day work makes a difference.
Mission statements only tell what organizations do, but purpose-driven cultures show why they do it. With purpose, employees have meaning and connection. Employees don’t need specific direction for every action because they understand their role on the team and are motivated to deliver real value to the organization.
“To Sell is Human” author Daniel Pink got it right when he said leaders only get their people’s best efforts if they’re connected to purpose and meaning. It brings clarity to what an organization does, the impact it has and where the business is headed. That can be a big differentiator, and it can also drive innovation.
Just look at Nike. Internally, Nike talks about bringing inspiration and innovation to every athlete. When Nike defined its purpose, they asked, “Who’s an athlete?” Nike decided an “athlete” is not just someone with world-class physical talent — it’s anyone who engages in sports. That clarity has led to inspiration, promoted innovation and sustained the company’s place in the Fortune 100. Employees around the world know the project they work on will help one of those athletes.
Leaders who want to build a purpose driven-culture should think about four key principles: authenticity, gradual change, repetition, and alignment with values.
Go for authenticity – When you sit down to describe your organization’s purpose, be authentic. Companies often exaggerate or try to differentiate themselves in disingenuous ways. For example, if a toothpick manufacturing company states its purpose is “to save lives,” stakeholders will immediately spot that insincerity. An authentic purpose feels collective and aspirational. It respects people. It tells them who an organization is, and it gives them a chance to decide if they want to be part of it. Employees are free agents and can leave an organization at any time. But if they are engaged behind a purpose, it drives excitement and makes them want to stay.
Establish purpose gradually – Often, organizations try to drive change too quickly through a traditional change management process. Leaders have, and need, the flexibility that time brings. You can’t just have one meeting, put your purpose up on a wall and expect overnight change. Employees at every level have to see the organization consistently making decisions in support of its purpose. When you lead by example again and again, employees believe it. The executive team has to consistently demonstrate its alignment with the purpose, and that also takes a while. If senior leaders aren’t on-board, why should employees be? CEOs build purpose-driven cultures in years, not weeks.
Repeat the purpose often – Purpose isn’t an organization’s secret code. Broadcast your purpose through every channel at every opportunity. Whether it’s a supplier, partner, member or coworker, everyone should know what an organization’s purpose is. It’s not a marketing gimmick. It’s not something that only applies to certain situations. The purpose is why an organization exists. Reinforce it time and again to make it stick.
Author and motivational speaker Earl Nightingale said, “You become what you think about.” This is true for organizations too, and organizations that think about their purpose become it. Everyone stays focused on getting the organization there. Executives make the right decisions. Employees treat customers well because they know their actions make a difference. The best talent wants to work there. Ultimately, that all leads to growth and profit.
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