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Daily Nebraskan 11/28/00
Daily Nebraskan considers legal action against U. Nebraska for not disclosing
records
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/001127/university-24

by Josh Funk
Daily Nebraskan
(U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln student code of
conduct outlines academic and behavioral standards to preserve an
"educational environment" and make campus safe.
The university publishes its crime statistics twice a year in its schedule of
classes to make all students aware of crimes the campus police have
investigated.
Yet the actions of the campus body tasked with enforcing the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln's student code of conduct remain secret. "We're bound by the
code (of conduct), which says these records are confidential," Judicial
Affairs Director Rosemary Blum said.



Bergen Record 11/28/00
Florida law assures openness
http://www.bergen.com/campaign/sun2820001128.htm

by Tom Brune
Special from Newsday
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- When county elections supervisor Theresa LePore
arrived at her office at 7 a.m. Monday, she found a large stack of Freedom of
Information Act requests regarding the election.
"The county attorney put together a matrix of the requests, and it takes
several pages," said LePore, who by state law must try to honor them all.
In putting their spin on the repeated recounts of computer-card ballots,
Republicans and Democrats have accused each other of trying to steal the
election, but if there is any larceny under way, it is being carried out in
broad daylight.
Under Florida's liberal "Sunshine Law," most of the recount has been open to
public view, surrounded by reporters, and even wired for sound, videotaped,
and broadcast by Palm Beach County's public access television station.



New York Times 11/28/00
Flattery will win'em over, no matter how big the star.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/arts/28ARTS.html

by Julie Flaherty
BOSTON - There should be a sign on Howard Gotlieb's desk that reads: Flattery
will get you everywhere.
But there is not, mainly because his desk and office are too crammed with
Oscars, Emmys and Tonys to fit even a stray scrap of paper. They are not his
awards, but those of Rex Harrison, Dan Rather, Myrna Loy and others. As
curator of special collections at Boston University, Dr. Gotlieb has made a
career out of cajoling the talented and famous to donate their manuscripts,
letters, diaries and the occasional Academy Award to his vaults.
How convincing is he? Housed in seven miles of shelves within the
university's Mugar Library are Groucho Marx's jokes, George Bernard Shaw's
correspondence, Ella Fitzgerald's sheet music, and collections from nearly
1,800 other personalities of the last 100 years. These diverse treasures are
on view in the library in small selections in rotating exhibits. Serious
researchers willing to wear white gloves may get a look at the rest of the
archives.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/26/00
NIU sets up Internet collection related to Abraham Lincoln
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/EF17FFA4910EFDF18625

69A400155620?OpenDocument

Associated Press
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) -- A project at Northern Illinois University has put the
Land of Lincoln as close as the nearest computer.
Lincoln/Net (http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/) includes thousands of pages of
text, sound files and images concerning Lincoln and his life before the Civil
War.
The site includes many of Lincoln's pre-Civil War writings and other primary
documents, said Drew VanderCreek, director of the school's Lincoln
Digitization Project.



Fortune 11/27/00
Without Metadata, Content is just bits
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/alsop/0,5238,88063,00.html

by Stewart Alsop
I know this may sound obscure but, dear reader, I simply must tell you about
metadata! Metadata presents the biggest challenge the tech industry faces in
delivering the ubiquitous, ever present, networked future. Whether it's the
seamless integration of data into your cell phone, downloading digital music
at home or in your car, or getting your bank and brokerage house to cooperate
online, it doesn't work without metadata. In fact, if you understand the
value of metadata, you'll know why Bertelsmann's offer to lend $50 million to
Napster won't necessarily save Napster.
Metadata is information about information. Let's say you have an MP3 file on
your hard disk. The information in that file is the bits that represent the
music in a way that allows the computer to play it back accurately. The
metadata is the information associated with the file, information that you
and the computer want to know: the name of the file, its size, its length,
the name of the song, the genre the song belongs to, and so on.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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