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Monday, October 26
8:30 - 10:00
 PLENARY SESSION Moved from Wednesday
HERBERT A. SIMON's research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics, and philosophy. The thread of continuity through all his work has been his interest in human decisionmaking and problemsolving processes, and the implications of these processes for social institutions.
In 1978, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1986 the National Medal of Science; in 1969, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, in 1975 the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery (with Allen Newell), in 1988, the John von Neumann Theory Prize of ORSA/TIMS, and in 1995, the Research Excellence Award of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
He is recognized as partfounder of Artificial Intelligence (though he thought "complex information processing'' a better name at the time), of cognitive science and of computer science.
Hal Varian Moved to Wednesday
10:30 - 12:30
Research on New Interfaces for Information Visualization (SIG VIS)
Moved to Wednesday
10:30 - 12:30
UNICODE: Present Standards, Implementation Issues, and Future Directions
The digitization of information and its international distribution has been one of the driving forces behind the effort to develop an international character set that can be used as a universally recognized means of representing information. This session will describe such a character encoding scheme called Unicode.
The speakers will discuss its development, problems discovered in implementing it, how it was implemented in MARC, and present a survey of vendor implementation of the standard.
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago Library. NISO Information Standards Activity: Review and Preview.
Mark Leisher, New Mexico State University. Unicode and How it Got that Way
Sally H. McCallum, Library of Congress. Unicode in MARC: Issues and Decisions
David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh. Academic Applications of Unicode
Kurt W. Kopp, University of Missouri. Vendor Implementations of Unicode: Results of a Survey by Karen Anspach.
Kurt W. Kopp, University of Missouri, Moderator.
10:30 - 12:30
Relevance Contributed Papers
Amanda Spink, Howard Griesdorf, and Judy Bateman, all University of North Texas. Examining Different Regions of Relevance: From Highly Relevant to Not Relevant.
Steven L. MacCall, University of Alabama. Relevance Reliability in Cyberspace: Toward Measurement Theory for Internet Information Retrieval.
Judy Bateman, University of North Texas. Changes in Relevance Criteria: A Longitudinal Study.
Terrence Brooks, University of Washington. The Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment.
10:30 12:30
Contributed Papers: Children and Educational Information Usage
Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee. Children's Search Process in Using World Wide Web Search Engines: An Exploratory Study.
Stuart A. Sutton, David Lankes, Ruth Small and Michael Eisenberg, all Syracuse University. Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval for Educational Materials on the Internet: Metadata Development, Deployment, and Evolution.
Sandra Hirsch, University of Arizona. Relevance Determinations in Children's Use of Electronic Resources: A Case Study.
Wei Ding and Gary Marchionini, both University of Maryland. Overviews and Previews for Multimedia Instructional Resources.
R. David Lankes, Syracuse University. The Virtual Reference Desk: Building Human Expertise into Information Systems.
1:30 - 3:00
Theories of Information Science. (SIG HFIS, ED)
There are intermittent complaints that Information Science lacks theory. This session, the fifth annual session on theories of Information Science, provides a forum for theoretical work in Information Science. "Intellectual property: An oxymoron" by Thomas Froehlich will challenge a fundamental assumption about the global information economy. In "Cultural studies of Information Science," Bernd Frohmann explains why the generally assumed distinction in discussions of information access between technical advances and social and cultural constraints is fundamentally mistaken and counterproductive. Pertti Vakkari, in "Theoretical growth in Information Science," will analyze the growth of our theoretical understanding of information seeking.
Thomas Froehlich, Kent State University. Intellectual Property: An Oxymoron?
Bernd Frohmann, University of Western Ontario. Cultural Studies of Information Science.
Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere. Growth of Theory in Information Science.
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley, Moderator
1:30 - 3:00
Using the Web for Global Business Intelligence (SIG MGT)
Company data are now being replicated in the Webbased, multimedia hypertext format. This format enlarges the information scope (e.g., the same piece of data can convey different information in print than in the Web format). Webbased company data can be updated more regularly and are more accessible. The same companies that generate data find themselves retrieving Web data regularly to learn about competition, customers, potential trading partners that is, business intelligence (BI). In addition, the Web integrates the old communication channels, such as discussion forums for business purposes, providing, in effect, access to this source of BI as well. The Web is becoming a vehicle for global BI.
Just how useful is the Web as a source of company and other business data? What are the perspectives of users in different parts of the world regarding information, technical and other issues that pertain to collection of business data in the Web? What is the quality of business data that are located in/accessible thorough the Web? What should information seekers be aware of, given the complexity of the global cyberspace? What should information managers do once these data are collected; what validity tests are needed; what are the other issues specific to the Web data with regard to ordinary usual stages of information life cycle; is there anything extraordinary in the life cycle of information based on Web data? What are the technical capabilities and opportunities regarding the management of Web sites that have to do with collection and exposure of business data in the Web? The panel will shed light on the these issues, approaching them from the practitioner and academic perspective.
Beverly Colby, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Sanda Erdelez, University of Texas, Autsin
John Fieber, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bob Travica, Indiana University, Moderator
1:30 - 3:00
Designing DisciplineOriented Information Systems Two Models: Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) and the Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies (CERAS) PART 1
The session provides two different subject-oriented models of webbased collaborative development in designing and building distributed information systems, AgNIC and CERAS.
The Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) is a distributed formation system created by an alliance of five institutions. Alliance members will discuss the history, management and funding of AgNIC, the process undertaken to create phase two, and the specific characteristics of this final design.
Keith Russell, National Agricultural Library
Barbara Hutchinson, Arid Lands Information Center, The University of Arizona
Greg McClellan, Cornell University
Reactor: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Nancy L. Eaton, The Pennsylvania State University, Moderator
(Session continues at 3:30)
3:30 - 5:30
Classificatory Structures and the Construction of Reality: Applications and Integration into LIS Schemes
The very activities involved in representing information for later retrieval differ from the activities involved in developing the content of a field through that field's internal discourse. The LIS classification, consequently, must both effectively draw on the world view and conceptualization of the field being described, and also add its own unique shaping and design of the material for effective information retrieval. That different mix of requirements necessarily produces retrieval classifications different in character from disciplinary content classifications. A fundamental question for our field is how can we design the best classification to resonate with the understanding of the disciplinary member, while at the same time achieving the desired good retrieval?
Lynne Howarth, University of Toronto. Dialogical Aspects of Mapping Interdisciplinary Concepts in Classification Schemes
Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto. Reading Classifications: Society, Values, and Classificatory Structure
Hanne Albrechtsen, The Royal School of Librarianship (Denmark) Webs of Meaning: the Role of LIS Classification Schemes in a New Sociology of Information Systems
Marcia J. Bates, University of California, Los Angeles The Unique Knowledge Domain That Is Classification for Retrieving Information.
Elin K. Jacob, Indiana University, Moderator
3:30 - 5:30
Intellectual Property Hearings (SIG PUB)
Tom Kalil, National Economic Council, posed a question to ASIS at the '97 Annual Meeting whether the membership of ASIS has a consensus on what the unrestricted property protection initiatives should contain. This is the second of two sessions for the purpose of hearing the viewpoints of ASIS members and other interested parties, to instigate productive discussions between possible disparate opinions, and to gather ideas that can be used in formulating a white paper on ASIS views on data base protection.
Hearings Panel:
Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations
Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates
Debora Shaw, Indiana University
Dick Kaser, National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services
Witnesses to be announced.
3:30 - 5:30
Digital Libraries in the K12 Environment (SIG CR, VIS)
The session will focus on developments in digital libraries for the K12 environment. A number of projects have recently been undertaken, funded by governments, to help educators make effective use of these materials. These projects address issues such as structure and organization of a multimedia database, retrieval issues associated with multimedia, user issues related to sharing materials in a curriculum development environment, and student use of web materials for their schoolwork.
Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland. The Baltimore Learning Community.
Darin Stewart, University of Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Education Network Digital Object Repository System (PENDOR).
Howard D. Wactlar, Carneigie Mellon University. The Informedia Project in the Classroom.
Raya Fidel, University of Washington. Web Searching Behavior of High School Students.
Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh, Moderator
3:30 - 5:30
Contributed Papers: Information Retrieval of Non-text Documents and IR
Visualization
Uta Priss and John Old, both Indiana University. Information Access Through Conceptual Structures and GIS.
Abby Goodrum, Drexel University. Representing Moving Images: Implications for Developers of Digital Video Collections.
James M. Turner, Universite de Montreal. Some Characteristics of Audio Description and the Corresponding Moving Image.
Min Song, Indiana University. Can Visualizing Document Space Improve Users' Information Foraging?
Mark Rorvig, Terry Sullivan, and Guillermo Oyacre, University of North Texas. A Visualization Case Study of Feature Vector and Stemmer Effects of TREC TopicDocument Subsets
3:30 - 5:30
Designing DisciplineOriented Information Systems Two Models: Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) and the Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies (CERAS)
The session provides two different subjectoriented models of webbased collaborative development in designing and building distributed information systems, AgNIC and CERAS.
The University of Iowa Center for Electronic Resources in African studies is a virtual space of scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive format. Presenters will focus on structural, technical, and operational aspects of the Center's development within the context of collaborative crossdisciplinary partnerships. Special projects in various stages of development will be highlighted as well as funding strategies for developing specialized digital centers such as CERAS.
Barbara I. Dewey, University of Iowa
Toby Lyles, University of Iowa.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Iowa
Rijn Templeton, University of Iowa
Reactor: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Nancy L. Eaton, The Pennsylvania State University, Moderator
6:30
Alumni Reception |
