future topics to consider covering more closely: Resouce discovery: content routing, query routing Agents DL Metrics: recent developments, issues Resource discovery: issues Human factors, interface issues, usage, retrieval analysis Mass Storage: trends, technologies, and implications XML/RDF see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gravano/Courses/f97_E6998/ for ideas, including: - multimedia - multilingual - natual language processing Whois++ CIP http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/0/in-drafts/files/draft-ietf-find-cip-arch-01.txt RDM (netscape?) LDAP URLs for American Memory? http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/semdigdocs/carl.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/04c-arms.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may96/loc/05c-arms.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html TULIP http://www.elsevier.nl/info/projects/trmenu.htm http://www1.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/resproj/trmenu.htm CS-TR http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n2/ande7n2.html DMSS Juliet guest lecturer, also Lesk's how much info is there in the world paper