[Sigdl-l] Items of Possible Interest

[Richard Hill]

[Forwared message from Cliff Lynch.  List is CNI-Announce.  Dick Hill]

There are several things that may be of interest to CNI-announce readers 
which I have gathered up in this message.

Over the past year, I was fortunate to be able to serve on a joint 
DARPA/NASA/NSF panel on information management technology requirements 
which has now completed its work. Larry Lannom of CNRI has done a brief 
overview of the report for the December D-lib magazine (this includes a 
pointer to the full report). 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/12inbrief.html#LANNOM

Sun Microsystems has issued a report on technology trends in digital 
libraries. This was actually prepared over the summer of 2002 and came out 
in the fall, but I just recently got the actual URL. See
<http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_trends.pdf>http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/pdf/digital_library_trends.pdf

The ACM held a workshop in November on Digitial Rights Management. The 
papers are now linked to the workshop web site, at 
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/prog.html . Several of these are very 
interesting reading for those concerned with DRM issues.

Finally, I've prepared a piece titled "The Afterlives of Courses on the 
Network: Information Management Issues for Learning Management Systems" as 
part of the Educause ECAR subscription service (for more information see 
http://www.educause.edu/ecar ). However, unlike other ECAR reports, this 
one is also publically available on the CNI web site.

Happy holidays

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI




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