...more BOFs

[Ed Vielmetti]

In article <1991May21.022218.13168 at sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent at 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 at 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"