Thought some members of the DC community might be interested in this. Is
anyone using tokens in DC? Has a standard, or best practice been decided on?
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
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Lunar & Planetary Institute
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> From: Philip Coombs[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:59 PM
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> Subject: [state-gils] Token pilot testing
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> Friends:
>
> At long last two events have happened that allow me to proceed with the
> IMLS-funded Tokens Project:
>
> 1. I have carved out some time to dedicate to the project, and
> 2. A vendor has developed token compatibility in their indexing / search
> application.
>
> I would like to move forward on this project by:
>
> - Forming a Stakeholder Committee to test and refine the methodology,
> - Setting up pilot testing of the attachment of token values in Webpages
> and subsequent crawling, and
> - Documentation of the results and presentation of the Committee's
> recomendation at the GILS conference in March.
>
> In addition to the normal exchanges by telephone (or VOIP), perhaps the
> committee needs to meet at, say, Denver sometime in February or early
> March to discuss the merits of Attribute Tokens. The project has about
> $10,000 for such reimbursable travel if needed.
>
> I have written a white paper on Tokens at
> http://www.statelib.wa.gov/projects/imls/tokens.htm. The IMLS project
> runs through September of this year. No long term commitments are
> expected for Committee participants.
>
> If you have already embedded Tokens in some of your Webpages I would like
> to hear from you. In addition, if you are interested in participating in
> the project, send a message to me directly at [log in to unmask]
> (Fight the urge to respond to the GILS listserv by replying to everyone).
>
> I set up the Earthlink account to isolate library messages from the 50 or
> so emails I receive daily as the Washington State Archivist.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Phil Coombs
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