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Discovery, Capture and Creation

Knowledge Capture and Re-use (Contributed Papers)

Jay Budzik, Northwestern University. Q&A: A System for the Capture, Organization and Reuse of Expertise
James Falconer , Nortel Canada.  The Business Pattern: A New Tool for Organizational Knowledge Capture and Reuse

Track: Classification
and Representation

Analysis and Visualization (Contributed Papers)

Harry Hochheiser and Ben Shneiderman, both University of Maryland. Understanding Information Usage: Patterns through Interactive Visualizations
Gregory Leazer, UCLA. Quantitative Measures of Bibliographic Families Using Network Analysis Methods
Mark Rorvig, University of North Texas. The N-Gram Hypothesis Applied to Matched Sets of Visualized Japanese-English Technical Documents
Thomas Patrick, MaryEllen Sievert, James Andrews, Mihail Popescu, David Moxley, and Colleen M. Meyer, all University of Missouri - Columbia. Clustering Terms in a Locally Preferred Clinical Vocabulary

Track:
Information Retrieval

Interaction, Relevance and Design (Contributed Papers)

Tula Gianini, Pratt Institute. Rethinking the Reference Interview : From Interpersonal Communication to Online Information Process
Linda Schamber, University of North Texas. A General-Purpose Relevance-Based Evaluation Instrument: Development and Testing
Xia Lin, Drexel University. Design of a Visual Interface for Online Searching

Moderator: Linda Schamber, University of North Texas

Track:
Knowledge Dissemination

Digital Library Evaluation (Contributed Papers)

Paul Kantor and Tefko Saracevic, both Rutgers University.    Quantitative Study of the Value of Research Libraries: A Foundation for the Evaluation of Digital Libraries
Tefko Saracavic and Lisa Covi, both Rutgers University. Digital Libraries: Challenges for Evaluation

Track:
Cultural, Social, Behavioral

BONUS SESSION

Database Protection:  The Reality After the European Directive (SIGs IFP, III and PUB)

In 1997, the European Union approved a Directive that provides protection for previously uncopyrightable databases of compilations and collections.  The Directive also requires that reciprocity be granted only to countries with compliant legislation, causing concern among database producers in the U.S. To date several countries have enacted or drafted such legislation.  The EU Directive was the basis for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty and the U.S. Database Antipiracy Legislation.  These activities set off a whirlwind of speculation among various stakeholders including the information industry, research, and library communities, concerning the impact of database protection legislation on the price of databases, on the transborder communication of scientific data, on the cost of conducting research, and on the competitiveness of nonEU databases. The panelists, representing the various stakeholder communities, will discuss the reality of these speculations two years later.

Dr. John Rumble (President Elect of US CODATA), National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Ferris Webster, University of Delaware
Bonnie Lawlor, Chescot Publishing
Dr. James Neal, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Weiss, Office of Management Budget

Moderator: Bonnie Carroll, Information Intl. Assoc., Inc.

Machine Aided Indexing - Knowledge Management Tool

Machine aided indexing is not for everyone.  A thorough analysis of an organization's information framework is crucial to determining the overall information needs and directions of an organization.  Such a thorough analysis will reveal strengths and weaknesses, including the need for better, faster, more accurate retrieval.  More often than not, information needs better organization.  Machine aided indexing is a valuable tool in this environment.

Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., Access Innovations, Inc.
Alice Redmond-Neal, Data Harmony, Inc.
Tim Slager, McGraw Hill Companies

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Discovery, Capture and Creation

Telemedicine: To Mt. Everest and Beyond  (SIG MED)

Track: Classification
and Representation

Automatic Techniques for the Visualization of Semantics in Text.  (SIG ALP, HCI)

Statistical techniques have been developed to automatically extract patterns from text in an attempt to summarize the semantics of a corpus. The resulting abstractions are then used to facilitate organization and retrieval of documents in the collection.  Frequently these abstractions lend themselves to visualizations of the semantics of the collection. These visualizations include maps (Kohonen Maps), semantic clustering, multidimensional models (Latent Semantic Analysis), coword analysis and concept networks. These techniques may produce representations that can successfully be used to facilitate understanding of the semantics of a collection. These automatic techniques are intended to alleviate the need for detailed and time consuming human analysis of the data and to avoid some human limitations and biases. The panel will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the techniques and attempt to identify the aspects of semantics which are captured or not captured by each technique.  In addition the panel will discuss the relationship of these statistical techniques to more knowledge intensive modeling efforts.

Ira A. Monarch , CarnegieMellon Software Engineering Institute.  Coword Analysis
Xia Lin, Drexel University. Kohonen Maps
Randall Rohrer, The George Washington University. Semantic Clustering
Peter W. Foltz, New Mexico State University, Latent Semantic Analysis

Moderator: P. Bryan Heidorn, University of Illinois

Track:
Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval from Speech  (SIG CR, VIS)

This session will present research and applications in the emerging field of speech retrieval.  The original corpus may be in the form of audiotape or videotape, made available for retrieval through transcription or speech recognition technologies.  Two of the papers deal with current research on speech retrieval.  Ellen Voorhees  of  NIST will present the results of the recently instituted TREC special interest Track for spoken document retrieval.  Douglas Oard  will discuss the potential of content based techniques for speech retrieval, and implications of work on interface design for support  of speechbased retrieval systems. Howard Wactlar will report on the Informedia Digital Video Library project at CMU, which has made  large corpora of video and audio data available for full content retrieval by integrating natural language understanding, image processing, speech recognition and information retrieval.    Finally, Bob Bruce and Lynn Connaway will discuss their work with netLibrary, a search engine for digitized scholarly materials which allows retrieval of multimedia resources, focusing on their work with audio resources.

Ellen Voorhees , NIST. The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland. User Interaction with Speech Based Retrieval Systems
Howard D. Wactlar, Informedia Digital Video Library Project, Carnegie Mellon University. Speech Recognition and Information Retrieval: Experiments in Retrieving Spoken Documents
Bob Bruce, NetLibrary. System for Organizing and Retrieving Multimedia Resources.
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, University of Denver

Moderator: Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh

Track:
Knowledge Dissemination

Information Dissemination Tools (Contributed Papers)

Peter Mikulecky and Jaroslava Mikulecka, University of Education (Czech Republic).  Active Tools for Better Knowledge Dissemination. 

Jorg Berkemeyer, Die Deutsche Bibliothek.  Electronic Publications at National Libraries--Now and in the Future
Z. Zhang, A. Heuer, Th. Engel, Ch. Meinel, Institut für Telematik, Germany. DAPHNE - A Distributed Tool for Web Authoring and Publishing

Moderator: Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University

Track:
Cultural, Social, Behavioral

Special Populations (Contributed Papers)

Dania Bilal and Peiling Wang, both University of Tennessee.  Cognitive Behaviors of Graduate and Middle School Students as Web Users
Ann Bishop, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Information Exchange Networks in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Zorana Ercegovac, University of California at Los Angeles.  Learning Portfolio for Accessing Engineering Information for Engineers: Project LEAP
Maxine Reneker, Ann Jacobson, and Linda Wargo, all  Naval Postgraduate School and Amanda Spink, Penn State University. Information Environment of a Military University Campus: An Exploratory Study

Moderator: Ann Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The Influence of Discipline/Domain on Information Seeking Behavior (SIG USE)

The session will consist of a discussion among panelists about the influence  of discipline/domain on information needs and information seeking.  Three disciplines/domains will serve as the focus of the discussion: business, humanities, and medicine.   In order to focus on the discipline as a factor, the setting will be held constant; panelists will describe the given discipline/domain within an academic or research environment drawing upon their research and on research findings reported in the literature.

The moderator will pose a series of questions to the panelists,  beginning with general information seeking behaviors and moving to concrete actions that can be taken to facilitate information seeking based on discipline/domain:

• How would you describe the unique characteristics of the  informationseeking behavior of humanists/ health professionals/entrepreneurs?
• How is or should the discipline/domain be reflected in  information sources available to the user group?
• How do queries reflect the unique characteristics of the discipline/domain?
• What obstacles do users in the discipline/domain encounter in their information seeking that are a result of the discipline/domain?
• What improvements can be made to existing resources and  tools (or what new tools can be created) to better facilitate information seeking?

Track: Classification
and Representation

Domain Specific Applications (Contributed Papers)

P. Bryan Heidorn, University of Illinois at Champaign.  The Identification of Index Terms in Natural Language Object Descriptions. 

Claus D. Hillebrand, IAEA.  A Model for Subject Scientometrics. 

Igor Jurisica, John Mylopoulos, and Eric Yu, all University of Toronto.  Using Ontologies for Knowledge Management: A computational Perspective.  

Richard Smiraglia, Long Island University.  Derivative Bibliographic Relationships Amongst Theological Works.

Moderator: Julie Hurd , University of Ilinois at Chicago

Track:
Information Retrieval

Digital Library Searching (Contributed Papers)

Paul Kantor,  and Koray Atasoy, all Rutgers University.  Statistical Estimation of the Number of Relevant Document in Enormous Collections. 

Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley. Information Access for a Digital Library: Cheshire II and the Berkeley Environmental Digital Library Collection.

Paul B. Kantor, Endre Boros, Benjamin Melamed, Vladimir Menkov, all Rutgers University.  The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs.

Moderator: Ray Larson , University of California at Berkeley

Track:
Knowledge Dissemination

Emerging Trends in Library Service for Distance Education (SIG PUB, LAN)

This panel will examine provision of library and learning resources across the gamut of higher education models: established institutions with traditional noncampus programs that are expanding their academic program offerings into the distance learning arena (FDLLI); nonprofit, primarily distance education oriented institutions (Athabasca University); and forprofit universities offering a combination of distance learning and distributed academic campuses (University of Phoenix).  Additionally, the accreditation representative on this panel will address:

1. accreditation and governance issues: how does not having a "physical" library affect program accreditation?  How are accreditation bodies responding to these new program delivery modalities?
2. library and information science education: how are graduate LIS programs responding to the need for new skills to support these new program delivery modalities?

Track:
Cultural, Social, Behavioral

The Transformation of Scientific Communication: Behavioral and Organizational Determinants.  (SIG STI)

The system of scientific communication that has evolved over several centuries is now undergoing a transformation catalyzed by information technology and computerbased communication networks, particularly the Internet, that support instantaneous global transmission of text, images, and data.

The capabilities of information technologies provide one type of limitation to the evolving communication system. Such factors as storage capacity, transmission speed, bandwidth and more impose upper bounds on possibilities. Another set of determinants that will play an equally important role in the system that emerges are based in human behavioral and organizational realities. Innovations, once operational, must be adopted by scientists. The value systems, reward structures, and daytoday work habits of scientists will influence their willingness to explore new developments and incorporate them into their behavior. While value systems and reward structures can change, they are deeply imbedded in the organizational cultures of individual disciplines, professional associations, universities, and more.

This session will bring together panelists who will explore the behavioral and organizational aspects of the changing communication system of science. The speakers will address such issues as the adoption of computermediated communication by scientists, the changing role of professional associations, emerging publication patterns, and the impact of electronic publishing on the peer review system. New models are suggested to support the future dissemination and organization of scientific information.

These individuals are currently preparing manuscripts for a special issue/section of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science on this topic. Their remarks will based on material gathered for those papers.

Lisa Covi, Rutgers University. Use of Information Technology by Scientists
Rob Kling and Geoffrey McKim, Indiana University. Disciplinary Differences in Use of Electronic Media
Marcel C. LaFollette, The George Washington University. Scientific Fraud in an Electronic Environment
Katherine McCain, Drexel University. Changing Publication Patterns in an Electronic Environment
Ann C. Weller, University of Illinois at Chicago. Peer Review in an Electronic Environment

Moderator: Julie M. Hurd, University of Illinois at Chicago

Quick Summary
The creation, organization, and use of knowledge in a networked world has necessitated the implementation of new methods for controlling access to resources. This control requires some method of first identifying positively who the requester is (authentication) and ensuring that they are allowed to enter that resource (authorization.)

Clifford Lynch , Coalition for Networked Information
Eric Ferrin, Pennsylvania State University
John Barclay  EDUCOM NLII Instructional Management System (IMS) project
Dennis Krieb, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center Library

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ASIS Annual Business Meeting

Officer Reports and Open Forum

Join the Society in Action

Candy Schwartz, ASIS President, Presiding
Officer Reports
Inaugural Address of Eugene Garfield, President-elect, and Open Forum Discussion

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BONUS SESSION

User Modeling: One Mind, One Interface (SIG CON)

In the last several years, interest in the user has increased.  The focus in particular has been on identifying the unique characteristics, motives, actions and beliefs that users bring to their interaction with information systems.  But why do we care?  What do users know anyway?

Mark Rorvig, Who is the User?  Identifying the elusive centroid for requirements analysis
Llewellyn C. Puppybreath, Beliefs, Organization, Responses & Goals: A model for the next generation of user studies
Stehpen Downie, Ghosts in the machine: How user studies gum up the works

Moderator: Abby Goodrum, Drexel University

Last Updated: Friday, September 03, 1999