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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

From: Gary Marchionini <march AT ils.unc.edu>

Open Information Week at UNC - October 16 - 20

Digital information raises exciting and perplexing possibilities for
creators, publishers, libraries and people at work and play.  Separating
content from object challenges publishers and instantaneous distribution and
collaboration challenge traditional production models for software and other
intellectual products.  The Open Source and Open Software movements have
brought these issues to the public consciousness by providing alternative
models for the production of software infrastructure.  Less prominent in the
public eye yet, but equally important is the cautious dance that libraries
and publishers have engaged in around issues of ownership of intellectual
property versus licensing access to property.   The issues run the gambit
from economics to individual privacy and we are at a generational crossroads
where policies and precedents are shaping the very nature and roles
information plays in people's lives.  UNC and the SILS have a long history
of studying how information and human existence interact at personal and
social levels.  Recent events have catalyzed this tradition in several ways.
First, the emergence of several digital library projects at UNC and the
larger research triangle community have brought together theoreticians and
practitioners to discuss and build alternatives and extensions to physical
libraries.  Second, the ibiblio project has recently been launched as a
hands-on testbed and development environment for studying the issues related
to open source software.  These streams of work will advance aggressively
over the coming decade and we aim to energize thinking and participation
with a week of events devoted to the general concept of OPEN INFORMATION.
Join us for public lectures and discussions October 16-20, 2000 on the
UNC-CH campus.  The following schedule of events are planned and additional
sessions will be added in the coming week.

Monday, October 16.
Metadata:  Providing infrastructure for information sharing
2:00-4:00; Room 307 Manning Hall
Eric Miller, Research Scientist OCLC.
        Topic:  Resource Description Framework  (RDF)
Hugh Cayless, Academic Web Developer, UNC College of Arts and Sciences 
Project Manager, UNC Digital Library Project.
        Topic:  Metadata developments underlying the Triangle Digital
        Library project.
Jane Greenberg, Assistant Professor, SILS
        Topic:  LSMs and Creator Generated Metadata.
Miles Efron, Ph.D. Student, SILS
        Topic:  Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF)

Tuesday, October 17
Contributor run libraries
1:00-2:00; Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library
Paul Jones, ibiblio Director, will discuss the challenges and issues of
contributor operated digital  libraries

Wednesday, October 18
Licenses and Legalities for Open Information
12:30-2:00 in the Pleasants Room, Wilson Library
Don Rosenberg, author of  "Open Source: the unauthorized white papers" will
discuss open source licenses

Thursday, October 19
Open Information in the scholarly community
1:00-2:30  In the Pleasants Room, Wilson Library
Gregory Crane, Editor in Chief, The Perseus Project will present the 2000
SILS Henderson Lecture:

Friday, October 20
The economics of open information
12:30-2:00, Room 208 Manning (tentative)
David Zlotchenko, SILS PhD student will lead a discussion of the economics
of open source

We will provide light refreshments for the discussions.  Please RSVP to
Marcia Tauber (tauber AT ils.unc.edu) which events you will join so we can plan
accordingly.

Visitor parking at UNC is available at the Swain and Route 54 parking lot
near the Institute of Government on a first-come basis.  Car-pooling is
encouraged whenever possible.