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Thursday, October 29
8:30 - 10:00
 Taxonomies and Automatic Classification - Contributed Papers
Gregory B. Newby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An Information Access Model with a Unified Approach to Data Type, Retrieval Mechanism and Information Need.
Stephanie W. Haas and Erika S. Grams, both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Link Taxonomy for Web Pages.
Susanne Humphrey, Natl. Library of Medicine, A New Approach to Automatic Indexing Using Journal Descriptors --Added 8/18/98
8:30 - 10:00
Political and Social Implications of Information Access: Contributed Papers
Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh. Global Access and its Implications: The Use of Mailing List by Systems Librarians.
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University. Web-based Community Networks: a Study of Information Organization and Access.
Kim Gregson, Indiana University. Conversation & Community or Sequential Monologues: an Analysis of Politically Oriented Newsgroups.
José Pino, University of Chile, Information Access for Deep Democracy --Added 8/18/98
8:30 - 10:00
Contributed Papers: Genre and Description
P. Bryon Heidorn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prototypes and Idealizations in Natural Language Shape Descriptions.
Misha Walker Vaughan and Andrew Dillon, both Indiana University. The Role of Genre in Shaping Our Understanding of Digital Documents.
10:30 - 12:30
Accessing Full-text: Integrating Electronic Resources (SIG LAN)
Many libraries are increasing the A&I databases available to patrons while at the same time expanding access to electronic fulltext. Linking the bibliographic citation and the fulltext improves patron ease of use. These links can be created through collaborative relationships between database producers and publishers, or created locally based on the local library's electronic holdings. Database vendors and academic libraries will present reports of implementation of linking projects. The usefulness of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in providing linkage to content held by various rights holders will be considered.
Margery Tibbetts, California Digital Library
Anita Cook, OhioLINK
Helen Atkins, Institute for Scientific Information
Chip Niles, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Myron E. Schirer, Edmund Stanley Library at Friends University
Jacqueline Trolley, ISI --Added 8/18/98
10:30 - 12:30
Advances in Social and Organizational Informatics: Implications for Information Science
There has been a long standing interest in Information Science (IS) in the relationship between Information Technology (IT) and social change. One approach which overlaps with IS in its focus on this relationship is Social Informatics (SI), defined as "the interdisciplinary study of the design and uses of information and information and communication technologies and their interactions with institutional and cultural contexts." Recently, there has been interest among information scientists in building and strengthening the visibility of SI as an area of inquiry. The purpose of this panel is to discuss current understandings of SI and their relevance for the IS community. The Social Informatics home page is at: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI
Howard Rosenbaumm, Indiana University
Rob Kling, Indiana University
Carol Hert, Indiana University
Ann Peterson Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
10:30 - 12:30
Improved Internet Access: Guidance from Research on Indexing and Classification (SIGs CR, CRS, ALP and IAE)
How well the potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web can be tapped for providing information access in the global information economy depends, in the first place, on whether information on the global network is accurately and consistently represented via indexing and classification. In addition, it depends on whether the search tools and the interface to these tools adequately support exploration of the semantic space defined by the indexing. This panel will present research reports on Internet indexing and classification by hyperlinks, file/directory names, domain names and digital objects.
It will also discuss the implications of findings regarding the design of search tools and the interface to these tools. The different perspectives of Internet indexing and classification discussed by the panel should enable Internet users to better understand how they can effectively organize and access information in this global environment, and to help designers of search systems develop more effective designs.
Heting Chu, Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University
Shaoyi He, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marisa Urgo, KRA Corporation
Janice P. McDonnell, Information International Associates, Inc.
Wallace Koehler, Consultant
Philip J. Smith, Ohio State University
Reactor: Bella Hass Weinberg, St. John's University
Wallace Koehler, Consultant, Moderator |
