From: SMTP%"@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:LISTSERV@BINGVMB.BITNET" 15-JAN-1995 19:55:03.72 To: SOLIBJA CC: Subj: File: "INDEX-L LOG9411B" Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 19:53:37 +0000 From: BITNET list server at BINGVMB (1.8a) Subject: File: "INDEX-L LOG9411B" To: Julius Ariail ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:29:32 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: RAlston454@aol.com Subject: I Need A Transcribing Machine! ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- November 8, 1994 Hello Members, I am looking for a Transcribing Machine , I am in dire need of this piece of equipment. I have accidentally thrown mine s into a trash compactor, if there is anyone out there in the New York City area who can help me please let me know by day s end. Please, I am looking for reasonabe price. Thank you, RAlston454 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:32:10 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Michele Berkes 615-576-2352 Subject: Proceedings from PCOC 18 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the 18th Annual Practical Conference on Communication (Oak Ridge, Tennessee, November 3-4, 1994) was a great success! It was good to meet some of you in person at the conference (including our own Lori Lathrop, who was a speaker). For those of you who could not attend and have asked about a proceedings, _Proceedings: 18th Annual Conference on Communication_ is now available. The contents for the proceedings is included at the end of this message. If you are interested, here are the details. Cost: Proceedings: US$10.00 Postage: 2.90 (in the continental United States; contact ------- Mike Morrison for other rates) Total: US$12.90 Send a check made out to PCOC 18 to Mike Morrison Conference Manager, PCOC 18 Society for Technical Communication East Tennessee Chapter P.O. Box 5556 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 A limited supply of proceedings from PCOC 14, PCOC 16, and PCOC 17 are also available for US$3 each (plus postage). For further details, send electronic mail to mmorrisn@utkvx.utk.edu or write to the address above. **************** _Proceedings: 18th Annual Practical Conference on Communication_ Sponsored by the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication CONTENTS Foreword Acknowledgments Bill Horton, keynote speaker Barry Hudson, keynote speaker "How Medical Writers Can Communicate More Effectively: A Readability Analysis of Selected Medical Journals" Amy L. Burdan, Florida Institute of Technology "Issues in Translation of Medical Terminology" Clove Lynch, Private Consultant, and Brenda Rudder, Family Health International "Anatomy of a Book" Eric Bergman, SAIC "Internationalization and Translatability" David Kumhyr, Carla Merrill, and Karin Spalink, Internationalization and Translation Services "Improving Technical Proposals" Brett D. Ayotte, NUS "The Value of Meeting Minutes to a Technical Program: Some Preparation Guidelines" Burton Alexander, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University "Task-Oriented Documentation and the Decade of the User" Lori J. Sawicki, Private Consultant "Managing the Monster; Managing the Zoo" Dan Wise, Wise Words "Using Desktop Publishing to Automate Frequently Revised Documents" Judith M. Pearson, Tennessee Valley Authority "Computer-Assisted Indexing Tutor" Holly Berry Irving, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library "Index Evaluation Workshop" Lori Lathrop, Lathrop Media Services "Case Work for Technical Writing Students" Ed Hara, Oakland Community College "Certificate Programs in Technical Communication" Thomas Brownell, Ferris State University "Mercer University's Graduate Certificate in Interactive Multimedia" David C. Leonard, Mercer University "Learning and Teaching Through Faculty Internships in Technical Communication" Russel Hirst, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville "The Part-Time Technical Writer: A Myriad of Opportunities" Jodie Gilmore, Freelance Technical Writer "Managing Your Career" Gene Belcher, Hayes Microcomputer Products "Track That New Job" Bruce D. Sechrist, NIRSystems "Graphic Design for Writers" Dana Michaels, Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin "Creating a Synergistic Writing Team ... When the Team Members Are Nonwriters" Diana Penning, The Computer Group, and Lisa Pappas, PDR Automated Systems and Publications "Criteria for Choosing Information Retrieval Engines for CD-ROM Titles" Barry Hudson, Westinghouse Savannah River Co. "Making Computer-Mediated Communication Useful as a Democratic Medium" Marilyn R.P. Morgan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "After Words: A Rhetoric of Multimedia Communication" Gary Heba, Bowling Green State University "Internet Access for STC/ETC" F.M. O'Hara, Jr., Private Consultant, and Ann Wilson Buttram, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Designing Online Documents According to User Functions" Randy M. Brooks, Millikin University "Strategy or SNAFU? The Virtues and Vulnerabilities of SGML" George Hayhoe, Westinghouse Savannah River Co. "How to use the WWW to Distribute Scientific and Technical Information" Donna G. Roper, NASA Langley Research Center "Converting Hard Copy Documents for Electronic Dissemination" Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Six Steps to Creating Effective Documents Using SGML" Rhonda S. Lunemann, Unisys Corporation "Electronic Publishing with WinHelp" Jack DeLand, Adam Charles Consulting "Concept Maps: A New Visual Communication Strategy" Fred Burggraf, Documentation and Communication Specialist "Managing Your Documentation Monster" Judy Glick-Smith and Karen Steele, Integrated Documentation ************************* Michele Berkes Writer/Editor, Labat-Anderson Incorporated, OSTI Support Operations DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, Tennessee berkesm@a1.osti.gov ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:40:38 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Joseph Galron Subject: Workshop on Thesaurus Design ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- St. John's to Offer Workshop on Thesaurus Design in New York City New York, N.Y. (Oct. 14, 1994)-- "Thesaurus Design for Information Systems" is the theme of a Professional Development Seminar to be taught by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg, Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John's University, On Friday, May 12, 1995, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sixty East Club, 60 East 42nd St., New York City (the Lincoln Building, opposite Grand Central Station, 27th floor). The fee for the Seminar is $110, including lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts. There will be discounts for preregistration and students. The seminar will introduce the design of controlled vocabularies, covering concepts of formulation of descriptors, term relationships, thesaurus format, and screen display. Computer-assisted techniques of thesaurus development will also be discussed. Continuing Education Units (.6 CEU) will be available to those attending. Information scientists, librarians, and indexers should benefit from the seminar. Dr. Weinberg chaired the committee of the National Information Standards Organization that developed the revised American National Standard on thesaurus construction. She is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers, and is active in the American Society for Information Science. Prof. Weinberg teaches graduate courses in Information Science as well as Indexing and Abstracting at St. John's, and consults on the design of indexes and thesauri. She has done research on thesaurus structure under a grant from the National Science Foundation and has published extensively on linguistics and information science. For further information, contact: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, NY 11439 Phone: (718) 990-6200; Fax (718) 380-0353 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:42:07 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Philip E. Kaveny" Subject: Re: your mail ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am wondering about a paper called "Indexing the Earth" presented at a www in Geneva Last fall. As get farther into what I am doing I will define my terms a little more clearly. One thing I will say. I think that the term "Internet object" obscures more than it clarifies. Any one seen the Brugger Paper on cataloging the Internet. I hope my posting does not seem too opportunisic. We used the Milstead book for my indexing course and I found it fascinating Philip Kaveny ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 13:32:27 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: lwegner@calvin.usc.edu Subject: position available - Los Angeles ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- VACANT POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post September 12, 1994 POSITION: PROJECT MANAGER INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR LOS ANGELES (ISLA) POSITION #29294 LOCATION: CENTER FOR SCHOLARLY TECHNOLOGY LEAVEY LIBRARY POSITION SUMMARY: The University of Southern California seeks an innovative and enthusiastic Project Manager to lead the planning for and implementation of the "Information System for Los Angeles (ISLA)." ISLA will become a comprehensive, integrated multimedia database of texts, photographs, maps, data, and other information formats which will allow students, scholars and community leaders to analyze the history and social dynamics of Los Angeles in new ways. This new type of library research collection will be based upon networked state-of-the-art computer hardware and software including database, search- and-retrieval, and analytical systems; it will require the development of new kinds of data structures allowing readers to understand the relationship of multimedia archival documents within a subject/space/time indexing system. The Project Manager will play a key role in developing the collaboration between the Library, University Computing Services (UCS) and a faculty committee from 14 disciplinary departments. The Project Manager reports operationally to the Director of the Center for Scholarly Technology (CST) within the University Library and programmatically to a faculty executive committee which is responsible for planning the direction, content, curricular, and research aspects of the system. Initially, public access to the ISLA system will be centered in USC's Leavey Library. The Project Manager will supervise a small staff of programmers and assistants, and will directly oversee many aspects of ISLA, from system design and data acquisition to grant preparation, research management, and curriculum development. The project is conceptualized and now requires a highly motivated individual to coordinate its further development, funding, and implementation. DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: USC's Library serves one of the largest private universities in the country. As a major research library, it houses a collection of more than 2.6 million volumes, has 14 specialized subject libraries, and a total of 172 FTE of which 58 are Library faculty positions. It has adopted a strategic goal to develop networked information services, including the on-line catalog, 11 locally mounted databases, full-text versions of the ClariNet News Service, and Gopher and Mosaic servers. The Leavey Library, an innovative teaching library, serves as a gateway to the collections of the University Library and worldwide sources of information. The Library is a major component of the University's academic mission through instruction of students in how to identify, locate, and evaluate information in print and digital formats; though fostering partnerships with faculty in evaluating and developing information technologies for teaching; and through the promotion of life-long learning skills. The University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Research Libraries Group. DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The ISLA Project Manager reports to the Director of the CST and participates in, and takes direction from, a Project Executive Committee (initially, faculty from Geography, History, and Urban and Regional Planning) which provides direction and priorities for ISLA's content, program and strategic goals. The Committee will set priorities for the integration of ISLA resources within various curricular activities and provide guidance on their implementation. The ISLA Project Manager works with the Library Collection Development Division and Faculty in identifying and locating appropriate content for the ISLA system; manages design of appropriate database, textual, and image structures for the differing formats; assists in the design of interface and content linkage capabilities; and identifies appropriate analytical and manipulation tools for the different information formats. The ISLA Project Manager participates in USC's larger automation development environment; this includes working closely with librarians and technical professionals in both the CST and UCS on system architecture, interface and database design, and Network connectability. The Manager participates in other automation planning committees, supervises an applications programmer, clerical assistant, and student assistants, designs procedures and work flow for database creation, data entry, and incorporation of information resources into the system, designs both on-line and print documentation for the system, and designs system output (print, download, analysis, etc.) capabilities. In collaboration with the Project Executive Committee and the Director of CST, the Manager identifies project budget requirements and funding opportunities, develops and writes grant and foundation funding proposals, and administers operations and grant budgets. The Manager is responsible for training appropriate staff and librarians in using the system, collaborating with them on development of library service programs using the system, developing the service and support program for student use of ISLA, and, in collaboration with the Project Executive Committee, developing and conducting faculty outreach programs to make other members of the teaching faculty aware of ISLA's uses. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Applicants should describe their qualifications from among the following: strong commitment to and demonstrated experience in collaborating with teaching faculty in designing information resources in support of innovative teaching programs and research; advanced working knowledge of the Internet, Internet information resources, and the leading tools for location and retrieval of networked information (e.g. Gopher, Mosaic, etc.); experience with GIS system and analytic tools used with census and numeric data; teaching skills and experience sufficient to collaborate effectively with project faculty in integrating ISLA information tools into the curriculum; ability to work comfortably and effectively in a project team environment and the ability to coordinate activities with technical staff, content specialists, and teaching faculty; grant writing and budgeting skills; a minimum of one year demonstrated project management experience; MLS from an ALA accredited program; advanced degree in one of the social or natural sciences. BENEFITS: Health, dental, and life insurance, 10 vacation days and 12 sick days per year, tuition remission, disability and retirement plans. SALARY RANGE: $38,600 - $65,640 APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Qualified applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of three current professional references to: Gloria J. Donaldson, Personnel Director, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182. Please refer to Project Manager, ISLA, Center for Scholarly Technology, Position #29294 on correspondence. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. The University of Southern California is an AA/EOE, ADA-compliant institution strongly committed to the principle of diversity. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 13:32:52 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Stephen E. Bach" Subject: 'meta-information' protocols ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In a newsletter for computer programmers, Dr. Dobb's Developer Update, in the Dec '94 issue, there is a report on the World Wide Web Workshop held at Stanford (apparently recently, but no date given). Here is a quote from the report which caught my attention: "[Terry Winograd, chair of the workshop] and his students are involved with an NFS[sic]-funded research project related to digital libraries. Part of their work will be to help define Internet-related "meta-information" - that is, information about information. Whereas the information of the pre-digital era may have filled up the card catalog in a typical library, making it a reasonable task to find the information desired, this research effort hopes to make it even easier to navigate through the digital sea of information by defining a common protocol for meta-information." I would say indexes are the most important component of meta-information for any given information domain. It seems Winograd and his students are seeking to establish conventions for the form of indexes and the way indexes will be accessed. If so, do indexers have anything to contribute here? I think our expertise is most important in creating the content of indexes, but we also know that indexes lacking a good set of cross-references can fail searchers. And indexes with lots of scattering can fail searchers. And indexes improperly formatted and presented can confuse searchers. Was anyone on this list at the conference ? "For a complete overview of the two-day workshop, go to http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/workshop/workshop.html." Stephen Bach sbach@well.sf.ca.us