From your 1997-98 OCLC Users' Council Delegates:
Benard Strong Marcia Talley
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OCLC AWARDS 1997 RESEARCH GRANTS
DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1997--The OCLC Office of Research has awarded two
Library and Information Science Research Grants to university
researchers for 1997.
* Francis Miksa, professor, the University of Texas at Austin, received
a grant for "Examining the Attributes of Information Resources on the
World Wide Web and Testing for Their Usefulness as Metadata." Dr.
Miksa's study will identify, compile and test for usefulness as metadata
the attributes found in information resources at two diverse kinds of
Web sites: information resources in Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC), the Web site of the Institute for Latin American Studies
at the University of Texas at Austin; and information resources found in
a sample of Web sites that feature software for acquisition.
* Jian Qin, assistant professor, University of Southern Mississippi,
received a grant for "Computational Representation of Web Objects in an
Interdisciplinary Digital Library: a Survey and an Experiment in
Polymer Science." Dr. Qin intends to investigate the current use of
metadata elements on the Web and experiment with one of the schemes, the
Dublin Core, in a subject domain--polymer science. On the basis of this
investigation and experiment, a framework for implementing the Dublin
Core in domain-specific digital libraries will be developed.
Theoretical and practical questions are to be explored in the
normalization of Web objects, breadth and depth of metadata scheme
expansion, and operability of expanded metadata. This study will
enhance understanding of current metadata use and implementation in
subject-specific domain digital libraries and enrich the methodology for
further studies in metadata.
"We are pleased to be able to support these projects," said Terry
Noreault, director, OCLC Research and Special Projects Division.
"University-based research adds an important dimension to our research
agenda, and these projects promise findings that should be of broad
interest to the library and information science community."
The OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant program awards
grants of up to $10,000 to help foster quality research by faculty in
schools of library and information science. Projects are generally
completed within one year, and findings are published in the _Annual
Review of OCLC Research_ and in the public domain. Application
materials for 1998 will be available in November. For more information,
contact the OCLC Office of Research by phone at +1-614-764-6487 or by
e-mail at [log in to unmask]
OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer
library service and research organization whose computer network and
services link more than 25,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories
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