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SIG/III International Paper Competition: Papers on Practical Collaborative Applications of Digital Libraries

2001; Association for Information Science and Technology; Volume: 27; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/bult.199

2163-4289

Irene L. Travis,

Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Editor's Note: Last year the ASIST Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) held an international competition for the best papers on practical collaborative applications of digital libraries or information science and technology in advancing communications, information and knowledge in the developing world. To be eligible, the principal author had to be a citizen of a developing country. In this issue of the Bulletin we present the winner of the first place honors in the competition. The paper was written by Kyiho Lee of the Republic of South Korea. Our congratulations to Mr. Lee and his colleagues for their outstanding effort. In subsequent issues of the Bulletin we will publish a number of other entries, including the second and third place papers. Under the leadership of Sue O'Neill Johnson of the World Bank and Nathalie Leroy of the United Nations, SIG/III was delighted to receive 35 papers representing 20 developing countries. Six were awarded prizes and presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting. ASIST, with help of Academic Press and other donors, was able to fund some of the winning authors to come to Washington to present their work. Contest judges were Dr. Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland; Dr. Ben-Ami Lipetz, State University of New York at Albany; and Dr. Bahaa El-Hadidy, Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida. As editor of the Bulletin, I also read all of the entries and offer my own congratulations to all the contestants. There were many very fine papers submitted although not all the winners and other publishable papers were suitable for the Bulletin. As an alternative, the International Information and Library Review is preparing a special issue that will include many of the ones I was unable to accept. SIG/III is planning a similar competition for 2001. For more details and entry information, please contact Sue O'Neill Johnson ( sjohnson3@worldbank.org) or Nathalie Leroy (leroyn@un.org). Irene L. Travis Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 1. Kyiho Lee (Republic of South Korea). Construction of a Full-Text Database and Service System for Korean Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2. Aashish Sharma (India) and William Yurcik. The Emergence of Rural Digital Libraries in India: the Gyandoot Digital Library Intranet. 3. Chao-chen Chen, et al (Taiwan). The Design of Metadata Interchange for Chinese Information and Implementation of Metadata Management System. 4. Goswani (India). Statistical Databases in India: Toward a Better Dissemination. 5. Yan Quan Liu and Jin Zhang (China). Digital Library Infrastructure – A Case Study on Sharing Information Resources in China. 6. Duncan Wambogo Omole (Kenya). Information Science and Technology in Developing Countries.