Re: ASIS Bulletin articles on Digital Libraries

Steve Dossick (sdossick@cs.columbia.edu)
Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:34:14 -0500 (EST)


One of the reasons they went so public with the program (and they're
trying to attract media attention, believe it or not) is because the
DLI-II stuff is funded partially by the presidential initiative in
information tech (whatever it's called this week). Perhaps they need some
real PR :)

-s

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Jim Whitehead wrote:

> This month's ASIS Bulletin <http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-99/index.htm=
l>
> has three articles detailing the US Digital Libraries Initiative, Phase 2
> (DLI-2).
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> In "Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) Projects 1994-1999",
> <http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-99/fox.html>, Edward A. Fox provides an
> overview of the program, and a breakdown of the program in several ways,
> showing which PIs received what funding (table 1), the kinds of disciplin=
es
> that are involved (anthropology, fine arts, history, sociology, and more,
> listed in table 2), the kinds of content studied, and who is studying the=
m
> (table 3), and which universities are investigating which topics within t=
he
> program (table 4).
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> In Digital Libraries Initiative =96 Phase 2: Fiscal Year 1999 Awards,
> <http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-99/griffin.html>, Stephen M. Griffin gi=
ves
> a precis of each major program funded under DLI-2. In summary, they prov=
ide
> an overview of the program.
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> In my experience, it is fairly unusual to have such a public description =
of
> the PIs and their funding levels for a major program.
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> - Jim
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