SCTA Minutes for March 15, 1995 The meeting began at 7:25 with 67 attendees with Michael Masterson emceeing. Michael brought up Senate Bill 314 which would hold ISPs responsible for illegal content transmitted through their network. Dale Taylor has brought some information from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation.) Please send a form letter to our senator, Barbara Boxer. Last year the FPI Digital Telephony Bill passed, which forces providers to provide taps to the FBI for spying. "This crap sometimes passes so take it seriously!!" The executive director of the SB Chamber of Commerce has proposed a conference for Nov 16 called Communications 2000, a Futurists Conference. Any correspondence to them would be good. Michael suggested to the Chamber that SCTA take this on, but they want to do it. With proper suggestions, it is likely they will listen. Send e-mail on this to michaelm@silcom.com. Dave Oster, our de-facto treasurer was out of town, Nancy Oster made the report on current SCTA funds. Dave, has discovered that his not-so-mathematical wife had made an addition error, corrected the previous balance to $151.44. Donations at the January meeting came to $95.17. Eric Andresen was reimbursed for the $161.63 that he paid in rental for the projection equipment for the meeting. That brought the balance to $84.98. Nancy also made the announcement that the Steering Committee is open to anyone who wishes to participate. To participate in the online discussion of upcoming meetings, subscribe to the scta-org-list. Face-to-face steering committee meetings will be announced on that list as well. The steering committee for SCTA is open to anyone. Just join the list! The info for all lists is at: scta-list@silcom.com. Jan Ballard anounced an economic development cooperative. This will be discussed on sbed-l@ucsb.edu. Contact Jan for info on joining (jwb@rain.org) Alexandria Library Project--Featured Presentation Terry Smith presented Larry Carver assisted- director of map and imaging lab. The digital library has been going on for 4 or 5 months. Terry will talk about it and Larry will show video. Ron Dolen will talk about what they will be doing on the Web. There was a call for proposal from NSF to set up metacenter regional alliances. 5 supercomputing centers in the US. There is interest in setting up more of these. At UCSB, there is a desire to work with the community, too. Anyone interested in getting involved, please get in touch. Jill Charboneau mentioned that there is tremendous potential here in Santa Barbara. It will take a collaborative effort between UCSB and the community. --------------- Final Announcements ------------------- April 17- Mind/supermind Spiritual aspects as it relates to humanity Communication as the spiritual connection to technology. At the Lobero. Bruce Francis of the Seybrook institute. Adult Ed schedule Sund April2 (it's in there) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Presentation notes. [OK, here's where I only was able to get things as fast as I could type-ja] Digital Library Initiative What is a digital library? Current Libraries Accessible collections of items- a knowledge base for society only limited types of material easily accessible only limited facilities for processing materials Redefining what a library can be Increse accessiblity to all items Make greater range of materials accessible Increase ability ot process items The NSF Digital Library Initiative The six digital library site and their projects: Carnegie Mellon video movies w/ soundtracks-content addressing Illinois continuing dev of computer tools. Michigan General purpose engineering lib Stanford protocols, info bus UCB EIRs UCSB Digitized maps, spatial integration Interactions between the projects Santa Barbara hosting meeting in November Basics Goal Create a Distributed Library for Spatially indexed info Approach Rapid Prototype 6 month Development Cycle 42 Month Building/Testing/Deploying GIS technology main Test Bed 6 Month design Cycle 42 month Development Cycle General Technology Fully Distributed>>>> Query Examples Scientist find datasets of specif geologic information witha given eaccuracy and help me predict wher the next earthquake will ocur. Business Person find ma-based information showing income distribution by urban area, and ehlp me decide the best location formynew business School Child Find a book with a picture of Amelia Earhart as a girl and a map of her last Flight Government Official Find the housing development in my district that was inundated in the last 50-year flood. NSF views the grant as seed money to be used with professional partners UCSB Library - Map and imagery Lab (MIL) National Center of Geographic Info and Analysis (NCGIA) Computer Sciendce Depoartm (CS) Center for Coputaion Modeling and Sys Laboratory for Paralled Computation Electrical ^ Computer Engineering Center for Image Procesin R3esearch [2 others I missed-ja] Project - Alexandria Digital Library Computer Science, ECE , Geo, map & Imagery Library, NCGIA, Buffalo, Engineers, Many Others Organization Structure Director- Associate Director- Board of Advisors- Design Review Panel - Executive Commitee Many issues including legal/ economic, parallel processing, info systems, image procesing, Lib interface, etc. Partnerss- DEC, etc. Arch & Developmental Approach Focus on acces to library items and processing of items Architecture Graphical user interface Agents/assistants components Evolutionary approach Rapic Prototype Initial version of testbed as "Web Presence" at various sites GUI entry- Personal profile supported- work area/status- (Electronic?) assistant can help them navigate. Guts- Storage (terabyte stores), Catalog- much more sophisticated than what we have now (content dependent-thumbnail of library contents) Checkin/checkout Ingest-adding items & extracting metadata, automating entry Digital Assistant-(interactive) Browsing works differently. Ability to "re-shelve" books for later browsing. You can build your own personal library- cut/paste -Important to have interoperablity w/ other libraries.- Storage medium - there is talk of some innovative tape mechanism ---- "Tend your own garden" philosophy for content. C-M has fee for use software. In-place service centers may be needed to disseminate info. Constraints- Alexandria Digital Libarry Build it in 6 months Use (almost all off-the -shelf tech >> 2 kinds of Queries What's Here? Where's This? OKto toggle between these modes during single query Query Results Logical Architecture Library User Interface Analysis tools<--ArcView 2.0c (map queries) Tcl/tk Sybase, etc. Physical Architecture Holdings: Data Multiple sources native digital scanned analog (paper & film) Multiple representations Concentrate on Southern California Load data into Unix files Holdings Holdings:Metadata Holdings: Specific Functional Accomplishments Geographically search library holdings Item-level search Visual Feedabck Programmatic accomplishments Benchmark current spatial data technology Help refine testbed specs Start loading data NEXT MEETING IS WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1995 AT THE GRC MEETING ROOM Joe Alvarez --> jalvarez@silcom.com ["finger" for PGP, URL, VISACard #, etc.]