ASIS 1999 Annual Meeting Schedule: Monday

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Track: Discovery, Capture & Creation	The Net Benefits of KDD: Converting Commercial Applications into Research Tools I (SIG STI, CRS) (2 part session; continues at 11:00 am) Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) involves extracting useful knowledge from volumes of data. In business, KDD uncovers knowledge about critical markets, competitors, and customers; in manufacturing, KDD helps discover performance and optimization opportunities. What can KDD do for document representation and information retrieval? How can we use KDD techniques and methods to discover knowledge about information and its users? The panel speakers will report findings from their new research projects that used KDD techniques and methods to explore linguistic patterns in documents, semantic relations in metadata, and knowledge networks buried in research publications. Through presentations of KDD applications, we will discuss two major issues in KDD related to information retrieval systems: What are the unique problems in applying KDD in IR research? This question addresses the uniqueness of text data, including bibliographic data (or metadata) types and the complexity of knowledge networks as represented in documents and their metadata. What other techniques and methods, besides statistics, can we use to discover useful knowledge for improving or innovating IR systems? While the KDD field is still in its infancy, this panel will offer a different view on what has been done in IR research and in improving and innovating IR systems. Henry Small , Institute for Scientific Information. Extracting Knowledge from Citation Networks. Don Swanson, University of Chicago. Implicit Text Linkages in MEDLINE as an Aid to Scientific Discovery Moderator: Linda Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Track: Classification and Representation	Knowledge Management in Three Institutional Settings (SIG CR) The creation, representation and organization of different kinds of knowledge within different institutional cultures has evolved from different assumptions and responds to different kinds of user needs. Nevertheless, in today's information intensive world, information professionals need to recognize commonalities and to integrate ideas from new sources into all our information organizations and systems. This session brings together the diverse information worlds of archives, museums, and libraries. The three presenters represent culturally distinct institutions with long and healthy histories of knowledge management techniques and theories. Their papers complement each other and provide energizing ideas for all areas of information work. Barbara Craig , University of Toronto. Archaeology, Sociology and PhilosophyPerspectives on Archives as Knowledge Hope Olson, University of Alberta. The Culture of Library Catalogues: Classification and Subversion Steven Shubert, North York Public Library, Toronto. Elements of Museum Classification Moderator: Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto
Track: Information Retrieval	How we Search: The Web (Contributed Papers) Marilyn Domas White , University of Maryland, and Mirja Iivonen, University of Oulu (Finland). Factors Influencing Web Search Strategies Chun Wei Choo , Brian Detlor, and Don Turnbull, all University of Toronto. Information Seeking on the Web An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching Craig Scull, Allen Milewski, and David Millen, all City University of New York. Envisioning the Web: User Expectations about the Cyber-experience Moderator: Paula Galbraith, Solutia
Track: Knowledge Dissemination	Digital IDs and Codes (Contributed Papers) David L. Austin, University of Illinois at Chicago. A Proposal for an International Standard Object Number Ari Palttala, VTLS. Unicode Support in Integrated Library Systems Moderator: Peter Noerr, EduLib
Track: Cultural, Social & Behavioral	Digital Library (DL) Use: Social Practice in Design And Evaluation Effective DLs must be designed and evaluated with a sensitivity to how knowledge is created and understood, and work is done, in a context of knowledge communities, which share practices and tools. DL use is a sociallyembedded process. DL creation is likewise a complex social process. The DL world is a dynamic and inherently tense combination of designers, users, and social scientists. Institutional forces shape the role that each group plays in DL creation and use and, conversely, DLs impact the institutional circuitry through which knowledge flows. How can we understand knowledge production, knowledge and work communities, and DL creation and use in ways that will help us better articulate design and use of DLs? Panelists in this session will present social perspectives on DL design and evaluation, based on their own research on information systems and social practice. This panel will take a socially grounded approach to understanding DLs; to identify and discuss major issues that arise from this approach, and, more generally, from the social nature of DLs; and consider implications for the design and evaluation of DLs. Creating a DL requires more than engineering a pivotal question guiding the panel will be: how can details of social practices related to DLs be articulated? And how do these details help developers move systems into general use? Ann P. Bishop, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Christine L. Borgman , University of California, Los Angeles Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley Vicki O'Day, University of California, Santa Cruz Bonnie A. Nardi, AT&T Labs West Moderator: Ann Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BONUS SESSION	The Sound of Information: Auditory Browsing and Audio Information Retrieval (SIG VIS) Audio documents and files can act as an aid in information retrieval and data exploration. Research in intelligent interactive systems to support auditory information seeking and browsing has great potential for persons with visual disabilities and for the sighted. Such systems transform information across modalities, allowing visual attentiveness to be used elsewhere and allowing the audio to convey information in addition to the graphical display. This panel session will provide a broad perspective on the challenges and potential embodied in audio information. The panelists will discuss facets of the retrieval of audio information as well as the use of audio for data exploration and browsing. Topics to be covered will include the current state of audio retrieval and audio navigation as well as properties and characteristics of sound which may be exploited for retrieval, browsing and exploration. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois. Access to Music Information:The State of the Art Marilyn Tremaine, Drexel University. Audio Browsing Tools and Audio Interfaces Myke Gluck, Florida State University Use of Sound for Data Exploration. Moderator: Abby Goodrum, Drexel University

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Track:
Discovery, Capture and Creation

The Net Benefits of KDD: Converting Commercial Applications into Research Tools II (SIG STI, CRS)

(Continued from 9:00)

Helena Ahonen, University of Helsinki. Knowledge Discovery in Documents by Extracting Frequent Word Sequences
Desai Bipin, Concordia University, Montreal. A Discovery System Based on the Semantic Header
Michael D. Gordon, University of Michigan Business School. Using Textual Information for Discovery and Inspiration

Moderator: Linda Smith, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Track: Classification and Representation

Digital Libraries (Contributed Papers)

Steven MacCall and Ian E. Gibson, both University of Alabama; and Ana Cleveland, University of North Texas. Development and Preliminary Evaluation of the Classical Digital Library Model
Steve Weiss, Utah State University. The Seamless Library: A Web Filter in the 21st Century
Linda Hill, University of California at Santa Barbara. Indirect Geospatial Referencing Through Place Names in the Digital Library; the Alexandria Digital Library Experience with the Developing and Implementing Gazetters: Analysis and Preliminary Evaluation of the Classical Digital Library Model

Moderator: Judy Watson, Chemical Abstracts Service

Track:
Information Retrieval

Studying Students Searching (Contributed Papers)

Dania Bilal , University of Tennessee. Web Search Engines for Children: A Comparative Study and Performance Evaluation of Yaholligans!, Ask Jeeves for Kids and Super Snooper™
Andrew Large and James Beheshti, both McGill University. Information Seeking on the Web: Navigational Skills of Grade Six Primary School Students
Louise Su and Hsin-liang Chen, both University of Pittsburgh. Evaluation of Interaction with Web Search Engines by College Students

Moderator: Karla Peterson, Loyola University, Chicago

Track: Knowledge Dissemination

XML What it Is and How it Will Affect Current Web Practices and Future Directions (Standards Committee)

This session will explain what XML is and how it will change web applications. Participants will present an overview of XML, its history and how it relates to SGML, HTML and supporting standards. In addition they will discussion how XML is affecting database development and web authoring.

Betty L. Harvey, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.
Bryan Caporlette, Sequoia Software Corporation
Barry Schaeffer, Information Strategies
Kurt W. Kopp, Sr. Computer Programmer/Analyst, University of Missouri and Chair, ASIS Standards Committee

Track:
Cultural, Social, Behavioral

Knowledge Management (Contributed Papers)

Adeline du Toit, Rand Africaans University (South Africa). Developing a Framework for Managing Knowledge in Enterprises
Christine Dugdale , University of the West of England. Co-operation, Co-ordination and Cultural Change for Effective Information Management in the Hybrid Academic Library
Sanda Erdelez and Philip Doty , both University of Texas at Austin. Adapting Knowledge Management to a Heterogeneous Information Environment: A Case Study of County Judges and Clerks in Rural Texas Courts

Moderator: Jay Ven Eman , Access Innovatins, Inc.

BONUS SESSION

Two Techniques of Natural Language Processing:
Statistical and Knowledge-Based (SIG ALP)

Eugene Charniak, well known author and professor in the area of Statistical NLP will present an overview of the statistical techniques used in parsing, lexical semantics, anaphora resolution and word-sense disambiguation. Jerry Hobbs, senior researcher at SRI and head of the NLP group there will examine interpretation, including anaphora resolution, as abduction and methods of encoding commonsense knowledge

James F. Allen, University of Rochester
Eugene Charniak Professor, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at Brown University
Jerry Hobbs, Natural Language Processing Group, SRI
Ray S. Jackendoff, Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Doug Metzler, University of Pittsburgh

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Track: Discovery, Capture and Creation	Rule Learning, Text Mining s & Virtual Communities (Contributed Papers) Douglas Metzler, University of Pittsburgh. Knowledge Guided Inductive Rule Learning Edwin Cortez, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Planning and Implementing a High Performance Knowledge Base Edna Reid, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Exploratory Study of the Y2K Problem: Analysis of Knowledge Creation & Diffusion Processes in Y2K Virtual Communities Moderator: Edwin Cortez, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Track: Classification and Representation	Metadata (Contributed Papers) Frederick Gey, Barbara Norgard, and Aitao Chen, all University of California at Berkeley. Using Ordinary Language to Access Metadata of Diverse Types of Information Resources Yan Ma and Virgil Diadato, both University of Rhode Island. Icons as Visual Form of Knowledge Representation on the World Wide Web: A Semiotic Analysis Thomas Pole , Thomson Labs. Contextual Classification in the Metadata Object Manager Uta Priss and Elin Jacobs, both Indiana University. Utilizing Faceted Structures for Designing Information Systems Moderator: Jessica Mistead, The Jelem Company
Track: Information Retrieval	System and User Oriented Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. (SIG ALP) Information retrieval is a critical functionality in everyone's daily environment. The marketing of IR products and tools would lead us to believe that each and every one of them solves all of our individual IR needs. How are the products and tools to be evaluated? How do system and user oriented evaluations vary. The panel of presentations will discuss evaluative studies conducted at Oregon Health Sciences University, City University of New York, Rutgers University, and TREC. William Hersch, Oregon Health Sciences University Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University Frederic C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Denise A. D. Bedford, The World Bank Group
Track: Knowledge Dissemination	Electronic Publications (Contributed Papers) Maureen (Reenie) Prettyman , National Library of Medicine, and Robert Antonucci, Paul Lynch, and Lee Mericle, all Apnet, Inc. Electronic Publication of Health Information in an Object-Oriented Environment Eileen Pritchard, California Polytechnic State University. Retrospective Conversion of Journal Titles to Online Formats: Which Disciplines Make Good Choices? Christina W. Sharretts, E. Jackie Shieh, and James C. French, all University of Virginia. Electronic Theses and Dissertations at the University of Virginia Moderator: Roy Tally, CFL Data Management
Track: Cultural, Social and Behavioral	Knowledge Organization and Use as Viewed by Caregivers (Aka Librarians) The panel will discuss notable efforts to improve access and use from the point of view of library policy makers, subject catalogers handling metadata, reference librarians trying to map library resources, and intranet developers. Myopia will not be one of the failings of this panel as the reports will be realistic appraisals from operational units. Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Professor Emeritus UIUC-GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign William Wheeler, Yale University Sandy Roe, South Dakota University Vinh-The Lam, University of Saskatchewan Vivian Bliss, Microsoft
BONUS SESSION 1:30-5:00pm	Doctoral Research Forum (SIG ED) Junior researchers who have completed or are conducting their dissertation research will be invited to attend a half day workshop during the Annual Meeting. Participants will be selected by award juries from those students being considered for the ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship and the UMI Doctoral Dissertation award. An established researcher will be invited to work as a mentor for each student. At the seminar, the students will present their current research and have the opportunity for indepth discussion of their current research, research plans and career interests with their mentors. The seminar will start with individual conversations and conclude with a large group discussion. This program is intended to develop junior researchers and cultivate new leaders for ASIS and the field of information and library science. Session Organizers: Louise T. Su, University of Pittsburgh Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Ingrid HsiehYee, Catholic University of America

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Track: Discovery, Capture and Creation	Historical Perspectives on Knowledge Dissemination (SIG HFIS) The session is concerned with contrasting approaches to information storage, retrieval and dissemination, covering a range of historical periods and disciplines. It reexamines some of the widely acknowledged antecedents of modern information science (for instance, Bradford and Lotka) and their less well-known medieval precursors. Lawrence J. McCrank, Davenport College. The Medieval Intellectual Foundations of Modern Information Science Stephen J. Bensman, Louisiana State University. The Probability Structure of Human Knowledge: A Historical and Practitioner Viewpoint Mikel Breitenstein, Long Island University. From Revolution to Orthodoxy: A History of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science Eugene Garfield , Publisher, The Scientist. ISI's Activities in the Chemical Information Area
Track: Classification and Representation	The Metadata Architecture: Issues, Problems, and Future Research (SIG CR, STI) The metadata architecture refers to the standards and technology that are used to create machine understandable data about data. It forms the foundation upon which the metadata is created, transmitted, and understood by various participants and information systems. To design a functional metadata architecture requires experts from different domains to work together. In the domain of organizing information and knowledge, we have had traditional metadata architecture represented in MARC format. We now have Web based metadata architecture comprising of a wide variety of metadata schemas and tools. While we seek out better ways for representing information and knowledge in digital form, it is critical for us to build upon our past accomplishments and seek out improved metadata representation schemes and tools. The purpose of this panel is to bring experts in metadata and the enabling technology related to metadata to our audience and share their experience in deploying metadata. This panel emphasizes several major areas of the metadata architecture, including domain specific name space and vocabulary control, schema mapping among metadata architectures, and RDF/XML and metadata. It is hoped that through their presentations and interaction with the audience, we will be able to identify issues, problems, and future research areas in metadata. This panel will begin with an introductory presentation to the audience, so that we can clarify the concepts and terminology related to the metadata architecture, and so that those who do not have a working knowledge of metadata can also follow the presentations. Next, presentations on metadata projects from different domains will be given to the audience, with a focus on methods, issues, and problems. Finally, a concluding wrapup will generalize a list of future research areas and their impacts on networked information organization and resource discovery. Linda Hill, Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California at Santa Barbara. The Alexandria Digital Library Metadata Solutions Marcia L. Zeng, Kent State University. The Metadata Structure for a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection: A Comparison of MARC, Dublin Core, and VRA Jian Qin, University of Southern Mississippi. Discipline and Industry-wide Metadata Schemas: Semantics and Name space Control Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Defining the Metadata Research Agenda Moderator: Ray Denenberg, The Library of Congress
Track: Information Retrieval	Interaction, Navigation and Visualization (Contributed Papers) Peiling Wang , University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Users' Interaction with the World Wide Web: Processes and Problems C. Scott Roberts and Jay Ven Eman, both Access Innovations. Knowledge Navigation Using Thesaurus and Machine Aided Indexing Chandra Harris, Robert B. Allen, and Catherine Plaisant, all University of Maryland. A Visualization for Legal Histories Moderator: Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Track: Cultural, Social Behavioral	Web Policies (Contributed Papers) Scott Lapinski, Medical College of Ohio. The "Inappropriate" Polices and Politics of Unrestricted Web Access Rodney Marshall, University of Tennessee. Rhetoric and Policy: How Is IT Being Used Regarding Pornography on the Internet? Shelly Warwick, Queens College, and Hong (Iris) Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Copyright Management Information in Electronic Forms: User Compliance and Modes of Delivery Moderator: Shelly Warwick, Queens College

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8:00
	International Reception


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