...more BOFs
Ed Vielmetti
emv at msen.com
Sun May 26 07:18:19 AEST 1991
In article <1991May21.022218.13168 at sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent at sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:
>If anyone is organizing a 2d archivist's bof, please let me know...
It did not take much effort to have an enjoyable and interesting evening.
Whoever does the coordination, could you please send me some email as well ?
I've had half a dozen mail messages in response (generally positive to
the idea), but no one to step forward to iron out the details.
The charter of this bof is real simple: talk about matters regarding
internet archives administration, to include but not be limited by
- ftp-by-mail services, their past present and future; or "mail based
archives servers are Evil and Rude;" hopefully someone from DEC and
from Princeton will be around, as well as the Toronto-area folks who
were worst affected.
- cataloging and indexing efforts, including "archie", comp.archives,
any other efforts going on; the likelihood of actual Federal funding
for any or all of these endeavors; private enterprise and its role.
- a discussion of the role of archive sites and archivists relative to
that of formal academic journals; I'd like to hear word from the
folks who run the Neuroprose archive at Ohio State on that one.
- mechanics of running an archive site - logging ftpd's, caching and
shadowing software, etc.
The scope of the discussion matches the proposed usenet newsgroup
'comp.archives.admin'; for some reason that group already exists at
this site :) so I've cross-posted there.
What's needed is a time and place at Nashville, an overhead projector
with foils or a whiteboard, someone to take copious quantities of
notes to post to comp.archives.admin, and someone to step forward to
take (minimal) responsibility to do it all.
Have fun in Nashville!
--
Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv at msen.com
"(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can
collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate
unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded
researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational
and training software; "
"High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"
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