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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Jill Foster/University of Newcastle upn Tyne
and George Brett/MCNC-CNIDR
Minutes of the Networked Information Retrieval Working Group (NIR)
The Networked Information Retrieval Working Group was convened by Jill
Foster and Jane Smith (substituting for George Brett). The Agenda was
discussed and approved as presented.
Updates of Other Projects
Updates on other related projects were presented by Jane and Jill. Jane
presented material on the Clearinghouse for Networked Information
Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR), funded by the National Science
Foundation and directed by George Brett. Jill presented an update of
the RARE ISUS NIR activities.
Review of the Draft Status Report on NIR Tools and Groups (Version 3.0).
The Draft was reviewed and discussed. The Draft has been submitted as
an Internet-Draft, to eventually become an FYI document. Some
formatting work remains to be done to qualify as an official draft, but
essentially the document is now in draft status.
Additional tools and groups were suggested and discussed, and some tools
will be moved from the ``coming attractions'' appendix to the regular
listings section. In particular, there was discussion about
individually listing implementations of X.500 and Z39.50. Tim
Berners-Lee will submit listings for X.500, and Jill suggested that
someone from the ZIG submit listings for Z39.50. Additional groups
suggested were: OCLC, USMARC, MARBI, LC, NLM and Paradise.
The Group voted to omit listings in Appendix F, ``Other Interested
Parties,'' but to provide a pointer to where such information might be
obtained.
Review of the Templates in Light of Experience in Completing Them.
There was little discussion about this. It was suggested that perhaps,
if and when more people become involved in completing the templates,
more feedback will be forthcoming.
Schedule Next Revision.
The document as a whole will continue to be updated three times a year
just prior to IETF meetings. CNIDR will split the document into logical
pieces and make it available on-line both for retrieval and for more
frequent updating.
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Next Stage: ``Evaluation'' of the Various Tools.
There was much discussion about the definition and depth of the
``evaluation'' portion of the report. Suggestions ranged from a simple
checklist to a formal study of user interactions with the various
programs. Volunteers were solicited to begin work on some of the basic
elements of the evaluation portion.
o Checklist of features and capability.
o Glossary/definition of terms.
- April Marine
- Jim Fullton
- Jill will solicit UK and European volunteers.
It was suggested that after this Group makes a first pass a separate
group should review the work.
o Evaluation criteria
There was a lot of discussion about how to establish evaluation
criteria. Some of the consensus is shown below in the breakdown of
tasks.
o Document current, advanced, and innovative uses of the tools,
giving 5-10 examples of each. Get information from tool developers
and from mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.
- April Marine (tentative)
- Jane Smith
- Lenore Jackson
- Jill will solicit UK and European volunteers.
o Evaluations, both from the information consumer and the information
provider points of view, will be approached first on an anecdotal
basis, then perhaps on formal studies should they become available.
- Erik Jul
- Jill Foster
- Chris Weider
All tasks listed above may be discussed on the mailing list and
preliminary results will be compiled and issued as a *separate* Report.
Identifying Other Tasks (need for documentation, training materials
etc.)
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It was noted that this task overlaps the Training Materials Group
somewhat, but that compiling a bibliography of documentation and
training materials specific to NIR would be valuable. CNIDR will be
collecting such materials and will assist both in distribution and in
compiling a bibliography. Such a document will also be considered a
separate part of the Report.
Update Goals and Milestones in the Light of Current Discussion.
Jill will be making suggested changes to this part of the NIR Charter,
pursuant to discussions with the IESG. It was noted that the current
list is more like an Agenda, when what is basically required is a
schedule for publications.
Attendees
Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov
Paul Barker p.barker@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Robert Beer r-beer@onu.edu
Tim Berners-Lee timbl@info.cern.ch
John Boatright bryan_boatright@ksc.nasa.gov
Fred Bohle fab@interlink.com
Corinne Carroll ccarroll@bbn.com
Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Henry Clark henryc@oar.net
David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net
Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
Brent Curtiss bcurtiss@magnuss.ocs.ohio-state.edu
Thomas DeWitt tdewitt@osi.ncsl.nist.gov
Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Steven Foster foster@cs.unr.edu
Marcello Frutig frutig@rnp.impa.br
Gwen Funchess funchess@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Greg Gicale gicale@ohio.gov
Robert Gutierrez gutierre@nsipo.nasa.gov
Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
Susan Horvath shorvath@merit.edu
Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Thomas Johannsen Thomas.Johannsen@ebzaw1.et.tu-dresden.de
Dale Johnson dsj@merit.edu
Erik Jul jul@oclc.org
Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com
John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu
Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
Samir Malak malaks@alice.uncg.edu
Glenn Mansfield glenn@aic.co.jp
Janet L. Marcisak jlm@ftp.com
April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
Michael Mealling michael@fantasy.gatech.edu
Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu
Jim Naro jnaro@nic.near.net
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Mark Needleman mhn@stubbs.ucop.edu
Bruce Nelson bnelson@novell.com
Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
Bill Norton wbn@merit.edu
William Nowicki nowicki@legato.com
Marsha Perrott mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu
Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
Steven Richardson sjr@merit.edu
Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca
Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
Chris Shaw cshaw@banyan.com
Sue Smith smiths.es.net
Larry Snodgrass snodgrass@bitnic.educom.edu
Craig Todd ctodd@desire.wright.edu
Matt Tuttle snodgras@cren.net
Hung Vu hungv@fonorola.com
Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
Les Wibberley lhw24@cas.org
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