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Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References Committee
Inquiry into the Role of Libraries in the Online Environment
The Role of Libraries in the Online Environment (Word Format)
Sent by email to ecita.sen@aph.gov.au
Submission by the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488
33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria, 3158
Telephone/Facsimile: (03) 9754 3334
Email: wbu@bdcu.org.au
Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (Thailand), Associated Institute of the World Buddhist University (Thailand).
Our ref: LAN2 I:\seninq02.doc
16 August 2002
by John D. Hughes, Anita Hughes, Julian Bamford, Rilla Pargeter and Pennie White.
Our contact person: John D. Hughes
Our websites:
www.bdcu.org.au
www.bdcublessings.net.au
www.companyontheweb.com/buddhatext
www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap
www.bddronline.net.au
www.bsbonline.com.au
www.skybusiness.com/j.d.hughes
www.buyresolved.com.au
We are a peak Buddha Dhamma research library providing online resources. Originally we had eight websites, one of which was provided at no charge. This was www.companyontheweb.com/buddhatext. This free site is about to close on 31 January 2003. This website is copied onto Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol. 12 No.3 on both www.bdcu.org.au and www.bddronline.net.au websites.
1.0 Defining strategies to rate our library to meet the changing needs of Australians.
Some years ago we drafted an intelligible set of performance indicators. At the time we felt sure that “super” software being written would trickle down for library use. Accordingly we put our class one definition at a high level in 1998.
We supposed the eye could probably recognise data or an icon in context in 0.1 seconds. So we set up a definition of a first class library such that it could respond to 95% of queries in 1 second;
a second class library responds to 90% of queries in 10 seconds;
a third class library responds to 85% of queries in 100 seconds;
a fourth class library responds to 80% of queries in 1000 seconds;
a fifth class library responds to 75% of queries in 10,000 seconds (2.8 hours);
a sixth class library responds to 70% of queries in 100,000 seconds (28 hours); and so on.
At that time (1998) we rated ourselves as a seventh class library on our query scale. Our first website was set up in 1999. We are now between a second and third class library at our premises.
The scale had the major advantage that we did not have to compare ourselves with others to know where we were.
At the time, by our scale, there was no first class library in Australia. We like specified self-rating models for ease of practical use.
Because of our long-term plans for our library script, we could not find a local equivalent to what we said we would do.
The Australian Buddhanet website was just beginning, without a library function.
Since we found no other groups in Australia were competing in rivalry with this function of our Buddhist Library group, we could not find benchmark comparison figures.
Rating models which are extensions of the simple logistic model of items with more than two ordered categories provide important relationships to the Guttman scale.
2.0 Our need for an articulate interpretation for censorship.
It appears to us that the post industrial society in Australia presents a very complex world where the colour is basically grey. Seldom are issues black and white.
Because there is an unhealthy fascination with anything sexual from the Australian point of view, some persons might wish to practice tantra not knowing that being heedless can cause diminutive problems to become bigger by unwise dedication of merit.
To give some idea of what our e-library had available in 1999, by secret password we found 117 references to tantra in 28 documents - out of 598 selected documents searched containing some 1.6 million words. The set-up searched had a vocabulary of about 35,000 English, Pali, Sanskrit and other words.
We are familiar with classical admonitions that the diamond brothers and sisters ought not disclose tantric teachings to inferior persons as defined. As custodians, we choose not to act heedlessly and have devoted a lot of effort to provide censorship to save time in untangling incontrovertible issues.
Our policy is not to disclose exalted practices to childish, heedless persons mentioned by Shantideva because such persons may cause trauma to themselves. Our disclosure policies are prudent so we cannot be "suckered into trying to meet needs just because they are there".
It is generally held within the Western world that in the evolution of thought, magic represents a lower intellectual stratum (Sir J.G. Frazer, 1900).
This observation is not necessarily true for tantric paths; although there is no doubt they are dangerous for persons of dubious morality. By expedient means, we support this view to protect Buddhist practice, from falling into siddhis (Pali: iddhi). Our vajrayana "hidden" texts are available to selected persons.
"Hidden" texts require the inquiring end-user to be furnished initially with clarification texts; or to confirm the inquirer has a sealed set of Bodhisattva vows or another empowerment.
This cannot be done on our websites.
Our present policy involves selective censorship which means we would not supply such documents on our Internet site.
Our policy is an issue of not sanctioning "new age thinking".
We have no intention of allowing displacement of classification of any of our "traditional" texts.
We do not intend that censorship in the degree of knowledges needed by the end-users of our systems be extreme. For the few persons who may be interested in Vajrayana teaching, they undertake a five year probation period of keeping tantric precepts and not slandering women.
We only mention this information as an example of how a special interest group can be ministered to, because we provide more strata of assistance for users, in the form of catalogue surrogates useful for suggested headings when machine searching.
3.0 The types of thinking skills we wish to promote
Buddha Dhamma teaching becomes feasible for the individual who recognises that his or her present thinking patterns do not entail critical thinking.
When present thoughts are inadequate to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, claims or reasons, you are ready to learn to search for better types of minds.
These have precise names in Pali. Superior language checklists of many types of minds abound in Abhidhamma documents.
Librarians have familiarity with a non-Buddhist list of thinking skills compiled by Herri and Dillon, published in The Australian Library Journal Vol.41 No.2 - May 1992.
These include: Connecting Arguing Convincing Generating Analysing Capitulating Relating Composing Retracting Associating Sequencing Suggesting Sorting Imagining Comparing Intuiting Predicting Contrasting Projecting Questioning Reconciling Suspending Wondering Rejecting Hazarding Modifying Including Inventing Extending Accommodating Proving Hypothesising Refining Improving Rehearsing Testing Clarifying Reflecting Judging Disrupting Co-Operating Synchronising Harmonising Speculating Contradicting Assimilating Empathising Compromising Refuting Internalising Abstracting Inducing Approximating Selecting Deducing Generalising Alluding Solving Matching
Probing Eliciting Soliciting Synthesising
We spent three years and three moons teaching Prajna Paramitta to classes every Tuesday evening and much of this material has been recorded on audio and video tapes. Over time we intend to transcribe those set of teachings in a style suitable for English as a second language readers with a view to placing these on our website.
We are now planning to spend nine years teaching Abhidhamma. Learning Abhidhamma requires students to use their own energy to learn. Internally, they examine the content of their own mind, not their Teacher’s mind nor the mind of others. The student’s key reference for the Teachings of Abhidhamma is ‘The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma’ by Dr. Tin Mon.
4.0 The present extent of our e-library
The information available to our present e-library extends across: two Local Area Networks - LAN1 and LAN2; two internal emails systems, and some reaches into the superhighway through our websites. Our ISYS search engine and other CGI based search engines give good retrieval time to our internal data warehouses.
Our response time on an ISYS search is a matter of one or two seconds.
The software ISYS was developed in Australia.
We have electronic cataloguing of our library using Organise 6.0 windows version. This has search capabilities. This is a stand alone from the ISYS search engines. It is not on our LAN system.
This organisation site has a search engine with a one second retrieval and summary of record. The name of the CGI script search engine is Entrophy Search.
5.0 The present extent of our library’s tutor managers.
It is enjoyable to work in the ambience of our library that contains an image of the Sarasvati (the Devata of Learning).
We introduced the concept of Tutor Managers who administer the tactics of our organisation sum gains for the next few years.
Tutor Managers read voraciously, trust and re-evaluate our heritage information, build our future by substantial analysis, understand why we favour a rationale of using similar tactics to those trail blazing managers of the past who found how to capitalise on opportunities of their time and place and proved themselves to be superior antecedent emotionally mature Tutor managers. These produce research papers, such as weekly radio broadcasts.
Our Founder considers there are four emotionally mature Tutor Managers who practice positive sum games theory at present.
As we intend that other types of our management persons sail through their work with extended assignments, optimum administration suggests we must provide a plethora of fast work stations located at a safe anchorage.
The final public relations goal (our benchmark) of our Tutor managers in image and style is directed to long term accord with other suitable organisations within positive sum theory.
We have met our benchmark with a series of the World Fellowship of Buddhists Regional Centres.
Long term accord with positive sum theory is our glossed translation of the Buddhist ideal of kalyamitrayana (Pali).
Tutor managers train our other managers in positive sum theory tactics.
They are our webmasters.
The empowering thought driving our Tutor managers is expressed in the following Chinese proverb:
IF WE DO NOT CHANGE OUR DIRECTION, WE ARE LIKELY TO END UP WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
6.0 Our Web Site Publications Development
Our web sites are part of our “library-without-walls” project.
Our teachers and web masters have developed much savoir-faire regarding our web sites’ publications this year.
Our major web masters are Evelin Halls, Pennie White and Julian Bamford. We have another three webmasters in full training of our style of operations: Leanne Eames, Helen Appleyard and Kamfatt Lin. Most webmasters are graduates or post graduates.
In the case of our flagship publication the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review, we have found how to increase the depth of knowledge fields online we present to our readers in our publications.
New translations of Suttas from Pali to English by Sister M. Uppalawanna have been added to our Internet sites. The Suttas Majjhima Nikaaja 1 – 101, Majjhima III, Anguttara Nikaaya I – Ruupaadii Ekaka Vagga I are on our websites:
http://www.bddronline.net.au/bddr12no3/
http://www.companyontheweb.com/buddhatext/
We are about to load an English Translation of a French publication about the History of Pureland Buddha Dhamma.
In the case of the Brooking Street Bugle, we have found how to increase the very human approach online of our publication.
Now we understand we can illustrate an article with 200 colour photographs or more on our web site, whereas if we were to print it we would have to limit the range of illustrations because of physical space and economic considerations.
During the year we published 18 print issues of the Brooking Street Bugle, averaging 30 to 40 A4 pages, and publishing these online at www.bsbonline.com.au with over 580 colour photographs to give a pictorial account of the many meritorious activities our Centre’s Members have generated.
We have around 2800 colour photographs online on our seven websites.
When selection is made from arrays of photographs, the potential depths of knowledge fields are diminished.
Our webmasters put their time, effort and expertise into running our seven web sites and the extent of our success can be seen by:
Total visits for all sites since counters have been put on are: 10,147.
Average number of visitors per day for all sites: 20
Aggregate visitor traffic predicted in the next month for all sites: 478
7.0 Our Five Year e-Resource Target
We want to distribute and store more branded information in various modern media.
To help us become more widely known we have instituted a new policy for branding digital data as the Chan Academy Australia.
We aim to be the fifth most popular Buddha Dhamma e-resource in the world by 2008. By that year, a new fast Internet service ought to be operating .......? in this country.
It helps that we are a Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, and an Associated Institute of the World Buddhist University, both headquartered in Bangkok Thailand.
To keep in touch, this year we sent out New Year and Versak blessing cards to other Regional Centres and friends.
We receive many international publications and messages electronically from around the world. More and more we use email to deliver our key papers in Australia and globally, as well as communications with our Members. Our total external emails, sent and received, for 2001 – 2002 was 3460.
We have an internal e-mail on LAN2 for select Members.
We are learning to systematise the handling and preservation of captured data in digital form. We have hundreds of colour photographs from three digital cameras that we have backed up to CD’s for storage and use by our webmasters.
8.0 Possible strategies that would enhance the wider use and distribution of our resources.
A paper titled ‘Examination of Training Issues at our Centre for the next nine years by John D. Hughes, Dip. App. Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE. is uploaded on our website at www.bddronline.net.au, Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online Vol. 12 No.4., It contains two lists titled ‘ISYS Index of Words on our LAN1 Occurring More Than 1,000 times (edited)’ (see Appendix 1) and Occurring More Than 10,000 times, as listed below.
0 occurs 13654 times
1 occurs 13809 times
2 occurs 13621 times
3 occurs 14048 times
AU occurs 52026 times
BUDDHA occurs 16696 times
BUDDHIST occurs 21261 times
CENTRE occurs 13343 times
DATE occurs 12327 times
DHAMMA occurs 10250 times
MAY occurs 10867 times
MEMBERS occurs 11235 times
ORG occurs 51625 times
PERSONS occurs 16489 times
The “proof” of authenticity emerges from the most rigorous biography that we can assemble.
We must familiarise ourselves with the social, religious and philosophical attitudes of other periods and countries, in order to correct any subjective feeling we might have for content. Edgar Wind states that participation is very much the historian’s role, “the investigator intrudes into the process that he is investigating. This is what the supreme rule of methodology demands... otherwise, there would be no contact with the surrounding world that is to be investigated.”
At our Centre, our library contains most of our sources of research information. During the last three decades the library collection has been assembled by our Teacher. This is called the John D. Hughes Collection at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey 3158 Victoria Australia. These central sources of information are used to help us practice one method of researching called triangulation.
The method of triangulation is to look at a number of different sources and view points to authenticate the data you are looking at and come to a balanced and accurate picture of what you are looking at.
By the methods, the spurious documents will be revealed.
Internally, we use search engines to find good information for researching our position papers, reports, documents for the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review, the weekly Buddhist Hour Broadcast Scripts as well as, for example, searching for web site addresses and matters of administration and corporate governance.
Internally we use ISYS software for searching our LAN1 (Local Area Network 1) text files and databases. For our LAN2 (Local Area Network 2) we use a CGI (Common Graphics Interface) search script, written by Matt Wright.
Our Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Database, built on Microsoft Access, may be searched for Members, contacts, supplier and organisation details; our Essential Services Inspection System software may be searched for reporting and tracking our Fire and Essential Service Maintenance.
In the library, our Organise 6.0 software is used for searching the John D. Hughes Collection.
Members’ internal searches using these packages can exceed 40 searches a day.
Other internal search functions appear in our word processing and spread sheet packages, Microsoft Windows ‘95, ‘98, Star Office and Lotus Smart Suite.
These can be used to find words, phrases and names.
For our financial data and reports we search our Quickbooks Accounting software Version 7.
Internally, our Members use the Internet to find web sites that may provide information or references we need.
External search engines often used include www.google.com and www.yahoo.com, which search the world wide web to find specific search engines in sites, such as the Victorian Government web site at www.vic.gov.au and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission at www.asic.gov.au.
Our Members use external Internet search engines up to ten times daily on site. Off site each of our web masters may use search engines up to a dozen times a day at their workstations.
Members enrolled in tertiary studies are able to access their university web sites for research purposes, such as Monash University at www.monash.edu.au to search the library databases across university campuses.
Our Members also use the search engines on four of our web sites. The bdcu.org.au site uses a search called Entrophy Search. The Entrophy Search is set up to index the words contained in the documents on the web site.
Members can use Entrophy Search by typing in a Keyword and then a hyperlinked list of files and an abstract of the documents containing the Keyword are displayed.
On the blessings, bddronline and bsbonline web sites we use a CGI (Common Graphical Interface) script search engine developed by Matt Wright. This search engine works in a similar fashion to the Entrophy Search.
Presently we have nine members who are skilled at exploiting the resources for our purposes by internal searches and through external online search engines. We aim over the next three months to skill another twenty Members in the use of internal and external search engines to do research for our purposes.
We use our text retrieval system ISYS, which uses Keywords to find the information we are looking for.
This process of using Keywords is like a librarian: He/she will provide us with books only on request. This process also applies if we wish to enter the Sphere of Infinite Knowledge; we must know what to ask and what the Keywords are in order to obtain the information.
Persons should acquire a vocabulary of at least 80,000 Keywords that appear in our ISYS index.
See Appendix 1 for ISYS Index of Words on LAN1 Occurring More Than 1000 times.
In Appendix 2 of this document is a list of Keywords from the Foreword of ‘The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma’ by Dr. Tin Mon. These were compiled by Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.
We want to use the new technologies to help us read and learn faster with minimum strain.
New software will enable us to bring up text or photographs fast on the computer screen.
We will build PHOTOLAN (our third LAN) that may enable us to view as many as 3000 photographs within half an hour (100 per minute).
Researchers need to get ready for faster learning experiences as best they can.
9.0 Meeting community demands for public information in the online environment
We have found the first point of contact for most of our newer Members are our websites. Buddhists from overseas who are coming to Australia have selected our Temple as their family Temple after examining the plethora of information available on our website.
As a result of our websites we receive requests for teaching from many countries including countries where you would like to think the local Buddhists could provide adequate information to our enquiries (such as Japan and Bhutan).
Within the Australian continent many interstate queries regularly have been answered for many years.
We have been asked to provide papers for Regional Centres overseas and papers for key cultural conferences both locally, interstate and overseas.
Before our internet presence we spent enormous efforts to publish good information globally.
Five years have elapsed since we setup our first website www.bdcu.org.au as text only.
Since then, we have added around 2800 photographs to our websites, video clips and sound bytes.
In our library we estimate we have a backlog of about 12,000 historical photographs and these are being scanned with a view to enter onto our internet e-library websites and our internal platforms when classified.
This will help future researchers write a more definitive role of the early history of Australian Buddha Dhamma Practice.
10.0 How we plan to ensure the most effective use of our library as a public information resource in the online environment.
A report by the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group, A Metadata framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects was produced in June 2002, and is copyright by Online Computer Library Inc. 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395 USA. Their website address for the report is: http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg.
Membership of the Working Group includes: Kevin Bradley and Colin Webb of the National Library of Australia.
The importance of preservation of metadata has been underscored by the efforts of a number of organisations to develop metadata of this type in support of their own digital preservation activities. While these efforts constituted pioneering work, they were conducted largely in isolation, lacking any substantial degree of cross-organisational co-ordination.
As a result, each preservation metadata element set tended to reflect the particular needs and requirements of the organisation that authored them.
In this sense, the digital preservation community, while benefiting immensely from this work, nevertheless still lacked a metadata framework for digital preservation that represented a consensus of leading experts and practitioners, and could be readily applied to a broad range of digital preservation activities.
Since the development of these preservation metadata element sets, several factors have emerged within the digital preservation community that suggest that consensus-building activity in the area of preservation metadata is not only desirable, but practicable.
First, there is wide spread recognition that digital preservation poses issues and challenges shared by organisations of all descriptions, with the attendant implication that extensive scope may exist to address these challenges co-operatively.
Second, a conceptual framework for a generic digital archiving system emerged in the form of the OAIS reference model, offering shared concepts and terminology, and representing common ground to serve as the starting point for discussion and collaboration.
The OAIS model has proliferated rapidly through the digital preservation community, and has been explicitly adopted by, or at least informed, many prominent digital preservation initiatives.
The OAIS framework currently enjoys the status of a de facto standard in digital preservation.
The development of our new Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. database has enabled the consolidation of three contact databases onto one PC.
The basic database was designed by our Members Evelin Halls and Lainie Smallwood, and is being developed by Mr. Arthur Lipscombe, our IT Software Developer.
Two seconds retrieval times are available to automate with each search.
Because of the privacy act, we do not think it legal to shift our extended database to public access although it is potentially very valuable.
The Victorian information privacy act is fully effective from 1 September 2002.
We are not certain if we must comply with the act but intend to comply in the same manner as state and local government organisations must comply with the privacy of information principle. For further information, see the website www.privacy.vic.gov.au
We are examining the issues this month. We have not developed a firm written policy as yet.
Preservation metadata is an essential component of most digital archiving strategies. It is the information necessary to carry out, document and evaluate the processes that support the long-term retention and accessibility of digital content.
While the importance of preservation metadata is widely recognised, standards and best practises for its use and implementation have yet to emerge. This poses a serious obstacle to the growth and development of digital archiving activities, especially those involving co-operative or third-party relationships among multiple stakeholders.
The OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group is:
jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG
a response to the need for consensus and convergence in the development, use and implementation of preservation metadata
composed of leading experts from a variety of institutional and geographical backgrounds
tasked with examining current practice in the use of preservation metadata, and developing comprehensive preservation metadata framework applicable to a broad range of digital preservation activities.
The results of the Working Group’s activities are publicly available and are intended to guide and inform future digital preservation initiatives.
The preservation metadata framework described in this document makes the implicit assumption that certain aspects of a digital objects environment will remain static for the foreseeable future - for example, the fact that the Software Environment is composed of Rendering Programs and Operating System, or that microprocessors supply the computational power for the Hardware Environment.
Clearly, if these assumptions are overturned by new advances in digital technology, the preservation metadata framework and elements discussed here will become obsolete.
However, the focus on the Working Group is to provide practical recommendations for organisations intending to develop or that are in the process of developing digital repositories. In this sense, developing preservation metadata broad enough to anticipate future changes in digital technology is beyond the scope of the Working Group.
We can live with that.
If libraries work co-operatively on the framework suggested by the Working Group economies of scale could be achieved.
11.0 The roles of various levels of government in ensuring the most effective use of libraries as a primary public information resource in the online environment
We would like government advice to give details of the Privacy Act to guide us in the legality or otherwise of placing our extensive private databases into the public domain.
We did not ask for consent about sharing information from the persons on our database over the past twenty years.
Privacy notices on websites forms would assist.
Answering questions such as “Is the research work in the public interest?”, is problematical.
Obviously our prime information database contains “sensitive information” about individuals, about racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs and affiliations, and philosophical beliefs.
This information is necessary for given advice on many of our Centre’s functions and activities.
We are not sure how the Act applies to the photographs at festivals we have taken over thirty years or groups of people (we do not know the names of many or where we could contact them or if they are still alive).
As Victoria Privacy Legislation evolved it narrowed its scope from covering both in public and private sectors to only in the public sector specifically state and local government as service providers under contract to them.
Over many years we have provided many information services free of charge to local, state and federal government sectors because they seek our help at regular times.
We are wondering if we are in some contractual arrangement with them as expert service producers.
This is likely because we keep our replies private.
If we disclosed some of our sought advice, it might give one or other government parties technical advantage in electioneering.
So we maintain privacy in such communications.
Since we deal with advice with all major parties change of government does not seem to affect our relationship.
There is no doubt that we provide services to government. We have difficulty knowing for certain whether that puts us under the Act.
We suspect it might and as a prudent step we are going to attempt compliance with the Act from 1 September 2002 until we clarify our position, but this means potentially good information we could give to researchers for the moment is held under censorship of our own making.
We would like in writing some sort of indemnity statements from local, state and federal governments that we could release select data for research purposes and to help the general public locate like minded persons.
We need to fund our third very fast LAN3 which would operate one hundred times faster than our LAN 2, with a view to transferring our photographs from a file server we will build to a fast reading website.
We have the technology for fast uploading packets of colour photographs onto our websites. This may be viewed in operation at The Private Museum in Upwey on www.buyresolved.com. where thumbnails of geological specimens can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail to view an enlarged version.
This software is very fast, 50 times faster than normal website methods we have employed.
We would like a Government grant to fund elements of PHOTOLAN.
12.0 The role of the corporate sector to ensure the most effective use of libraries as a primary public information resource in the online environment.
Persons training at our Centre can enter key positions in the corporate sectors.
We would welcome government funding so that our key tutor managers could visit the National Library of Australia in Canberra and have discussions with the two National Library of Australia members of the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group. So we can better implement its recommendations into our systems.
We are a self-help organisation.
We would like a one-off government establishing grant to sponsor two very large 20 gigabit websites to allow us to place our PHOTOLAN, audio and video records content online.
We need to update our computers and software, for example (Pentium IIII and Windows XP) with large hard discs and CD drives, reader and writer, and DVD drives to enable a rapid update of existing work stations.
Our present equipment is one and one-half generations behind the leading edge on the market and we would like to update it but lack the immediate funds to do so are not available.
We would like corporate funding to do this as soon as possible.
All Members of our organisation are voluntary and are trained in computer skills that enhance their jobs in the commercial sector and get greater public knowledge and skills in using library resources.
We welcome the inquiry and look forward to the final report.
We are prepared to make more detailed information available at request.
Thank you very much.
References:
1. BUDDHA DHYANA DANA REVIEW Volume 9 No. 2 1999
2. President’s Annual Report 2001 – 2002. by Julian Bamford, B.A. App. Rec. Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Annual General Meeting, 10 August 2002. www.bddronline.net.au Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol. 12 No.4
3. Examination of Training Issues at our Centre for the next nine years by John D. Hughes, Dip. App. Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE. (including comments on Prajnaparamita Teachings from Versak 1999 to Versak 2002. Taught by John D. Hughes) 9 July 2002. www.bddronline.net.au Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol. 12 No.4
4. Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model. A Metadata framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. A report by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/ June 2002
5. Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Guideslinesed.cn.01, Victoria’s Information Privacy Principles, May 2002
Appendix 1.
ISYS Index of Words on our LAN1 Occurring More Than 1000 times (edited)
0 occurs 13654 times
00 occurs 4825 times
000 occurs 1333 times
01 occurs 1533 times
03 occurs 1628 times
04 occurs 1011 times
05 occurs 1070 times
06 occurs 1089 times
07 occurs 1079 times
08 occurs 1415 times
09 occurs 1226 times
1 occurs 13809 times
10 occurs 5394 times
1000 occurs 3169 times
11 occurs 6480 times
12 occurs 4189 times
13 occurs 3041 times
14 occurs 2993 times
15 occurs 3264 times
16 occurs 3376 times
168 occurs 1650 times
17 occurs 1984 times
18 occurs 2191 times
19 occurs 2230 times
192 occurs 1669 times
1980 occurs 3732 times
1983 occurs 1157 times
1992 occurs 1007 times
1993 occurs 1136 times
1994 occurs 1578 times
1995 occurs 1577 times
1996 occurs 1753 times
1997 occurs 1932 times
1998 occurs 2357 times
1999 occurs 2509 times
2 occurs 13621 times
20 occurs 2995 times
2000 occurs 5731 times
2001 occurs 2286 times
21 occurs 1956 times
22 occurs 2084 times
23 occurs 1726 times
24 occurs 1725 times
25 occurs 2060 times
26 occurs 1454 times
27 occurs 1853 times
28 occurs 3363 times
29 occurs 1510 times
294 occurs 7271 times
3 occurs 14048 times
30 occurs 2724 times
31 occurs 1465 times
32 occurs 1366 times
33 occurs 1943 times
34 occurs 1662 times
4 occurs 6895 times
5 occurs 8946 times
50 occurs 1086 times
6 occurs 7758 times
7 occurs 4099 times
8 occurs 5658 times
9 occurs 7019 times
97 occurs 1260 times
983 occurs 1169 times
ABLE occurs 1784 times
ACADEMY occurs 1715 times
ACCESS occurs 1178 times
ACCORDING occurs 1066 times
ACT occurs 1192 times
ACTION occurs 3079 times
ACTIONS occurs 1416 times
ACTIVITIES occurs 2155 times
ADDRESS occurs 8246 times
AGE occurs 1509 times
AJARN occurs 1976 times
AM occurs 1123 times
AMOORE occurs 1648 times
ANALYSIS occurs 1133 times
ANCIENT occurs 1047 times
APPEAR occurs 1116 times
APRIL occurs 1127 times
AREA occurs 1590 times
ARISE occurs 1138 times
ARISING occurs 1023 times
ART occurs 1446 times
ASCII occurs 1511 times
ASSOCIATION occurs 1566 times
ASVENSSO occurs 1554 times
ATTEMPT occurs 1743 times
AU occurs 52026 times
AUSTRALIA occurs 5897 times
AUSTRALIAN occurs 3340 times
AUTHOR occurs 8903 times
AVAILABLE occurs 2175 times
AWARE occurs 1015 times
AWAY occurs 1282 times
BAD occurs 1011 times
BANGLADESH occurs 1610 times
BASE occurs 1220 times
BASED occurs 1230 times
BDDM occurs 3646 times
BECOME occurs 3258 times
BECOMES occurs 1308 times
BEE occurs 1958 times
BEINGS occurs 3864 times
BENEFIT occurs 1242 times
BEST occurs 1381 times
BETTER occurs 1414 times
BHALL occurs 1461 times
BHIKKHU occurs 1304 times
BINDING occurs 7416 times
BIRTH occurs 1427 times
BODHI occurs 1014 times
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Appendix 2 Keywords from the Foreword of ‘The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma’ by Dr. Tin Mon. These were compiled by Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.
Abhidhamma
Myanmar (Burma)
prophecy
revered
Patthana
Yamaka
science
western philosophy
natural sciences
chemistry
mundane
human sciences
divine
ultimate
supramundane
historical
philosophical
religious
universality
analysis
mind
detail
realities
enlightens
pondering
treatise
compendium
Abhidhammattha
augmented
extraordinary
superb
patrimony
wisdom
predecessors
conjecture
theological
convinced
lucidity
conception
meaningfulness
subject
profound
scholars
unanimously
sincerely
welcome