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for industry to make investments in education 5.1.1. Adoption programs
5.2. It might be useful to look at the issue of NDL to support education along the
following three dimensions: 5.2.1. New media
5.2.2. New practice 5.2.3. New types of communities
5.3. We need more participation from the electronic publishing community.
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NSF Workshop on Digital Libraries Xerox Palo Alto Research Center PARC
December 9-10, 1992
Notes by Christine Borgman These notes cover the general sessions, with summaries from small group presenta-
tions. They are fairly comprehensive but not complete. All omissions and interpre- tations are the responsibility of the notetaker. Interpretative comments are marked
with initials CB.
December 9, 1992 Wednesday
9:00 Welcome by David Levy 9:15 Mark Weiser, Welcome to PARC
Brief summary of work at PARC related to digital libraries. He is head of computer science lab, former professor and entrepreneur.
His interests are in social science support for computer science, i.e., a different kind of research:
reverse technology transfer -- from industry to university
December 1992 Workshop
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PARC: 20 yrs of pioneering basic research individual change, innovation continues
Reinforce Xerox commitment to long range research labs ranging from physics to anthropology, all working together
Digital libraries as a nexus for the future of research Four dimensions: technical + social + educational + political
technical: database, filtering, distribution social: collaboration, help, reference, editing, communities, psychology, linguistics
education, teaching, browsing political: copyrighting, intellectual property, international data flow, competitive-
ness
domains of research at PARC: forms
conversion content
Form domain Cornell -- CLASS and bookstore
highspeed portable print service work practice
scanning and printing hardware
Conversion domain OCR
understanding image processing
System 33 -- conversion among multiple forms
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