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A ZING Information Forum, organized by the SRW Editorial Board, will be held June 22-23 at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) -- Wednesday, June 22, 8:30-4, and Thursday, June 23, 8:30-noon. See: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/zif.html The forum will include presentations on ZING (Z39.50 International, Next Generation) components: SRU, SRW, CQL, ZOOM, ZeeRex, Update; related projects and protocols: Metasearch, OpenSearch, DSpace, OAI; implementation: toolkits, implementing SRU in Perl; technical details: CQL/advanced searcc for specific communities e.g. GEO, schemas, wsdl ...... higher-level presentations earler in the program, more-technical content later, ending with a business meeting, to conduct outstanding Z39.50/ZING business, proposals, etc. You can attend all or part of this program, it is open to anyone interested, no charge. However we request that you register as seating might be limited. See the preliminary list of presenters. The program is still in development and if you would like to suggest a topic or agenda item, or volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me [log in to unmask] My thanks to Slavko Manojlovich for arranging a host, and to UIC (Linda Naru, Jackie Buckner) for hosting this forum. --Ray Denenberg [apologies for multiple postings]