Inspired by Doug Engelbart's and John Leggett's keynote addresses at the Hypertext'98 conferences, SIGWEB is beginning to design a state-of-the-art digital library to support the community in most of its functions. The project's eventual goal is to transition SIGWEB into what Doug Engelbart calls a Networked Improvement Community (NIC), which focuses on continuous metaimprovement of services to the community. HyNIC eventually will contain a respository of the community's formal and informal documents, teaching materials and memorabilia; a process repository of the community's activities and workflows; a structured group communications environment, conceptual mapping tools, and of course, the full range of hypermedia features our community has been advocating. HyNIC also should serve as a testbed for the community's prototype systems.
- a Planning Workshop at the ACM Hypertext/Digital Libraries
Conference '00
- Saturday, June 3, 2000 - San Antonio, Texas
We would like to invite all members of the SIGWEB community and others interested in Digital Libraries to a planning workshop to coordinate the design and implementation of SIGWEB's Digital Library project: HyNIC. The workshop is growing out of an initial planning meeting held in April.
The workshop's goal is to generate an initial high-level design, a detailed design plan and schedule, and to form the teams who will assist various aspects of this effort. We welcome anyone interested, and especially hope to have representatives of all subfields of hypermedia research to foster compatibility with their concepts and systems.
Please submit a 1-3 page position paper (HTML, .doc or text) by May 23, 2000 to the workshop organizers:
Register for the workshop (we'll send you the authorization code) at the DL'00 conference registration site (http://www.dl00.org/registration.html).
In April, we held a preliminary HyNIC origanizational meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Anyone interested in HyNIC is welcome to be added to our WebBoard computer conferencing system. Please contact Michael Bieber (bieber@njit.edu) to be added to the discussion.
Log onto the WebBoard discussion area at: http://fire.njit.edu:8080/~HyNIC
We started working on the HyNIC ideas after the Hypertext'98 ideas. Our initial ideas and organizational structure are available at http://www.acm.org/sigweb/HyNic.html. Part of the goals of the current workshop and effort is to refine these initial ideas and get the project rolling!
ACM SIGWEB's site: http://www.acm.org/sigweb
ACM Hypertext'00 Conference: http://www.ht00.org
ACM Digital Libraries'00 Conference: http://www.dl00.org