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Information Today December 2003 Robin Peek	ASIS&T 2003 "Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back" was the theme of this year's annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). The meeting was held Oct. 19-22 in sunny Long Beach, Calif.
Information Today November 24, 2003 Barbara Quint	ShadowTV Delivers Searchable Video News to Web Consumers ShadowTV, the online monitoring service that offers full-text searchable access and delivery of television news, has expanded beyond its institutional sales with a subscription service for consumers.
Information Today November 24, 2003 Paula J. Hane	CCC Integrates Rights Licensing Within Vendor Applications The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is on a mission to increase the likelihood of copyright compliance. The latest CCC strategy consists of integration deals with third party vendors that extend CCC's rights licensing capabilities to the point of content, making it easier for users to gain copyright permissions.
Search Engine Watch November 19, 2003 Danny Sullivan	AOL Buys Singingfish, Rolls Out More Search Changes AOL has acquired Singingfish, a multimedia search engine, and unveiled additional features to the AOL Search service designed for its members.
Wired December 2003 Gary Wolf	The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever.
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident.
D-Lib November 2003 Kaiser et al.	New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information: The LEAF Project This article presents an overview of the LEAF project (Linking and Exploring Authority Files), which has set out to provide a framework for international, collaborative work in the sector of authority data with respect to authority control.
D-Lib November 2003 Bekaert et al.	Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library This article gives a brief insight into the MPEG-21 standardization effort and indicates its potential relevance to the Digital Library community.
D-Lib November 2003 Ronald Jantz	Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System This article provides an overview of the Eagleton Poll Archive, the website and, more specifically, the underlying preservation framework
D-Lib November 2003 Muller et al.	The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System DiVA, a publishing system, treats the electronic copy of a document as the "digital master" for both electronic and print versions and uses data originally entered by the document author as the basis for creation, reuse, and enhancement of all metadata.
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