emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May21.022218.13168@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@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@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"