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Minutes - HARTS Working Group, June 26, 1996

Participants were asked to review the latest draft of the document, 
tentatively titled: "Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the 
Internet", to ensure that it is inclusive of key information and issues 
regarding the arts and humanities on the Internet.  Participants 
suggested the following:

Reference other related IETF documents (rfc's, fyi's, etc) at appropriate 
places in the HARTS document, including the Site Security Handbook, and 
the Internet User's Glossary. It will be important in the Introduction to 
recommend the use of the "Glossary" as a supplement to this document.

Ensure an even balance of references to related research projects and 
reports produced by organizations, based on the needs of the arts and 
humanities communities (e.g. work underway by museum professionals 
related to cataloguing, imaging, etc.).  Ask the coordinators/writers of 
the aforementioned projects to review and respond to the HARTS document.

Intersperse examples throughout the document and include them as an Appendix 
rather than developing a separate section entitled "Examples of Projects."

Participants then discussed each section of the document.

Section 1 (Introduction) -- reference and point to the IETF User's 
Glossary (as indicated above).  Describe the WWW in more detail.

Section 2 (What does the Internet mean to the Artist?) -- add a section: 
2.4 Communicating about the arts (to provide the opportunity for 
professional discourse about criticism, aesthetics, etc.).

Section 3 (Electronic Forums) -- include MOOS as part of the MUD 
discussion and focus on the concept of "shared construction" -- that this 
enables information and ideas to accrue over time.

Also, organize the "Whiteboard Systems" section to include "commercial vs 
non-commercial", "Net vs Non-Net", and information about VRML.

Be more specific about Indexing (classifying data in categories) vs 
Searching (looking for information).

Section 4 (Accessing the Internet) -- provide basic information about the 
process for locating ISP's (including internationally) (e.g. artists 
might start with electronic arts organizations or sites).  Include 
pointers to providers lists -- include a discussion about Free-Nets and 
public access sites (e.g. libraries, community centers, etc.).

Add video equipment and appropriate software needed, to the hardware 
list.  Add a section regarding Extensions that are needed for accessing 
multi-media resources.

Section 5 ( Creating Content) -- add a section on "How to Design" and 
another on "Publicizing."

Delete Section 6 (Examples/Projects on the Internet...)

Section 7 (Issues and Challenges) -- discuss Security issues separately as
the section following the References section, and include the discussion
of Viruses as part of the Security section -- reference EFF documents
regarding Rights issues

Delete Section 8 (Glossary) -- in addition to referencing the IETF User's 
Glossary as part of Introduction, develop a brief glossary (to be 
determined after the rest of the document is written) for arts-humanities 
related terms. 

Section 9 (Resources) -- reference the publications and/or sites of key 
arts and humanities organizations (e.g. Getty, NINCH)

Add an Appendix

After the review of the document was completed, participants identified 
and volunteered to follow-through with key tasks necessary to complete 
the document as a first draft to be made available for review by IETF 
members prior to the next IETF meeting in December.