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Wednesday, October 28
8:30 - 10:00
 PLENARY SESSION Moved From Monday
HAL R. VARIAN is the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Haas School of Business, a Professor in the Department of Economics, and holds the Class of 1944 Professorship. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA (mathematics) and Ph.D. (economics) from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world.
Herbert Simon Moved to Monday
10:30 - 12:30
Doctoral Forum
Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Ingrid HsiehYee, The Catholic University of America, Moderators
Moved from Monday 10:30 - 12:30
 Research on New Interfaces for Information Visualization (SIG VIS)
In their 1997 ARIST article, White and McCain regarded visualization techniques as the latest technology to help create "the interface between people and literatures." In this session, four research groups will present their recent research results and implementation on how they apply visualization techniques to connect users with the information. Each group will describe their research backgrounds, approaches, and results and will demonstrate the latest implementation of their visual interfaces.
Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland
Howard White, Katherine McCain and Xia Lin, Drexel University
Robert Korfhage, University of Pittsburgh
Henry Small, Institute for Scientific Information
Howard White, Drexel University, Moderator
10:30 - 12:30
Theory and Practice in the Organization of Images and Other Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval: From Indexing to Metadata (SIG VIS, CR)
Image retrieval in the age of digital collections presents several major challenges to systems designers, among them being heterogeneous user groups, sheer numbers of images in these collections, and the need for new descriptive methods for digital images. There remains a great need for theory from which to proceed in the development of image retrieval systems. Two panel sessions will report on advances and explorations in the development of theory for the indexing and retrieval of both still and moving images (image typologies and ontology) and on utilization of this knowledge in practice (metadata for images and other types of visuo-spatial data), with particular emphasis on new organizational structures being proposed, developed and tested.
Session 1: Indexing and Retrieval of Images and other Visuo Spatial Data: Image Typologies in Theory and Practice
James Turner, Université de Montréal. Mapping the visual universe: toward a typology of picture collections
Brian O'Connor, Emporia State University. Image Typologies: Functional Representation
Andrew Gordon, Northwestern University. Accessing Image Collections by Browsing Through Standard Thesauri
Elizabeth Bellas, Corbis Corporation. Typologies of Images and Image Uses
Andrew S. Grove, CORBIS, Moderator
10:30 - 12:30
Contributed Papers: Global Economies and Electronic Commerce
Sheila Webber, University of Strathclyde. The Global Electronic Information Industry: Squeezing out the Middle Ground?
Brian Deltor, University of Toronto. Facilitating Organizational Information Access in Global Network Environments: Towards a New Framework for Intranet Design.
Paul B. Kantor, Kyunghye Kim and Gary Golden, all Rutgers University. Variable Pricing of Information Resources in the Networked Environment.
Marilyn White, Eileen Abels, and Laura Gordon-Munnane, all University of Maryland. What Constitutes Adoption of the Web: A Methodological Problem in Assessing Adoption of the WWW for Electronic Commerce.
Bob Travica and Rebecca Olson, both Indiana University. Web as Global Virtual Library: Usability of Business Sites in East and Central Europe.
10:30 - 12:30
Electronic Scholarship Part I. Contributed Papers
Soo Young Rieh and Nicholas J. Belkin, both Rutgers University. Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW.
Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull, all University of Toronto. A Behavioral Model of Information Seeking on the Web Preliminary Results of a Study of How Mangers and IT Specialists Use the Web.
Carol A. Hert, Indiana University, and Gary Machionini, University of Maryland. Information Seeking Behavior on Statistical Websites: Theoretical and Design Implications.
Alicia Abramson, American University. Monitoring and Evaluating Use of the World Wide Web in an Academic Library an Exploratory Study.
1:30 - 3:00
International Trends and Issues in Classification and Subject Analysis Research. (SIG CR, III, ISKO)
As the global information economy expands, solving problems needs increased international collaboration in both practical and theoretical research. Structures necessary for information management and access in the global arena need to be determined. Clearly, traditional classification and subject analysis systems need rethinking. This session brings together internationally known and active speakers to discuss issues of access and structure for documents in all information environments and for all kinds of users. The session is sure to generate a lively and fruitful discussion.
Joan C. Mitchell, OCLC Forest Press, Library of Congress Decimal Classification Division "Worldwide Dewey"
Ian Mcilwaine, Editor, Universal Decimal Classification, Chair, FID/CR, University College London and Nancy Williamson, University of Toronto Ten Years of International Subject Analysis Research.
Hanne Albrechtsen, and Birger Hjorland, both The Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) "Current Trends in International Classification Research: Implications and Recommendations for Future Developments"
Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto, Moderator
1:30 - 3:00
Contributed Papers: Information Usage and Bibliometrics
Laura J. Neumann and Emily N. Ignacio, both University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Trial and Error as a Learning Strategy In Systems Use.
Steven L. MacCall, William B. Edgar, and Susan D. Herring, both University of Alabama. Patterns of Professional Practice in the Digital Collections of U.S. Public Libraries.
Paul Kantor and Wonsik Shim, both Rutgers University. Library Circulation as Interaction between Readers and Collections: The Square Root Law.
Thomas E. Nisonger, Indiana University, Journal Self-Citeness in 'Journal Citation Reports' Library and Information Science and Genetics Journal Rankings --Added 8/18/98
1:30 - 3:00
Contributed Papers: User Information Interaction
David B. Robins, Louisiana State University. Dynamics and Dimensions of User Information Problems as Foci of Interaction in Information Retrieval.
Dennis B. Ward and Hope A. Olson, both University of Alberta. A Shelf Browsing Search Systems for Marginalized User Groups.
Louise T. Su, Hsinliang Chen and Xiaoying Dong, all University of Pittsburgh. Evaluation of Web-based Search Engines from the Endusers Perspectives: A Pilot Study.
Tula Giannini, Pratt Institute, Information Receiving: A Primary Mode of the Information Process --Added 8/18/98
3:30 - 5:30
Accumulation Economics: Issues in the Economics of Web Link Collections
One of the methods for establishing and fortifying a World Wide Web presence is shopping for links to sites that complement or supplement an organization's site. Usually this involves one or more staff surfing the WWW seeking 'interesting ' sites. At issue is the economic value of such activities. When there is no established policy to guide collection, how are they selected and how beneficial are such accumulations? In cases where there is a collection policy, how effective is it and how is it monitored?
The economics of a site collection policy or lack of it and its implications will be examined. A discussion of the type of criteria and the retrospective fit of a policy to an established site collection will be undertaken.
M. J. Norton, University of Southern Mississippi
Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovation, Inc.
Douglas Kaylor, Wright State University
Vivian Hay, The Getty Information Institute
M. J. Norton, University of Southern Mississippi, Moderator
3:30 - 5:30
Theory and Practice in the Organization of Image and Other VisuoSpatial Data for Retrieval to Metadata.
Session II: Indexing and Retrieval of Images and other Visuo Spatial Data: The Role of Metadata.
Howard Besser, University of California, Berkeley. Structural & Administrative Metadata for Digital Libraries
Jane Greenberg, University of Pittsburgh. Current and Future Metadata Standards for Visual Images
Myke Gluck and Bruce Fraser, Florida State University. Usability of Geospatial Metadata OR SpaceTime Matters
Corinne Jorgensen, University at Buffalo, Image Metadata: Relating Research to Practice, Typologies to Ontology
Mark Rorvig, University of North Texas, Moderator
3:30 - 5:30
Cross Language Applications and Large Scale Vocabularies. SIG CR, III, and ALP
Increasing attention is given to multilingual resources such as multilingual thesauri and terminologies and the construction of such resources; their underlying ontologies; problems in updating; challenges in dealing with ambiguities of various kinds; the evaluation of such resources and finally their effective integration into various applications. This panel will focus on reports and demonstrations for works in progress; current issues and problems; as well as innovations and strategies for further research.
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland. Large multilingual vocabularies. Structure and software requirements
Noriko Kando, NACSIS (Japan). Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Automatic Construction of Multilingual Lexicons.
Gertrud G. Champe, Director, Translation Laboratory. Terminology in a Translation Context.
Michele Hudon, Universite de Montreal. Logical Relations of Eequivalence and Inclusion in a Multilingual/multicultural Thesaurus
Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa, Moderator
3:30 - 5:30
Evaluating Services. Contributed Papers
Robert Ward and David Robbins, both Louisiana State University. The Emergence of Dissipative Structures within Information Provider Organizations.
Peiling Wang, Carol Tenopir, Elizabeth Layman, David Penniman, and Shawn Collins, all University of Tennessee, Knoxville. An Exploratory Study of Usersearching of the WWW: a Holistic Approach.
Wonsik Shim and Paul Kantor, both Rutgers University. A Novel Economic Approach to the Evaluation of Academic Research Libraries.
Tekfo Saracevic and Paul B. Kantor, both Rutgers University. Studying the Value of Library and Information Services in Corporate Environments: Progress Report.
3:30 - 5:30
Electronic Scholarship, Part II. Contributed Papers
Shaojun Lu, University of California, Los Angeles. A Cross Sectional Study of the Impact of the Internet on Formal Scholarly Communication.
Stephen P. Harter and Taemin Kim Park, both Indiana University. Effects of Electronic (Pre) Publication on Scholarly Journal Publishing: Emerging Manuscript Consideration Policies.
Ann Peterson Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Digital Libraries and Knowledge Disaggregation: The Use of Journal Article Components.
Herbert Snyder and Howard Rosenbaum, both Indiana University. How Public Is the Web? Robots, Access, and Scholarly Communication.
Yin Zhang and Leigh Estabrook, University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana, Accessibility to Internet-based Electronic Resources: Dimensions and Implications for Electronic Scholarship --Added 8/18/98
6:30 - 7:30
President's Reception
7:30 - 9:30
ASIS Annual Banquet |
