Sunday, 31 October 1999 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Washington, DC

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and preliminaries

9:00-10:30 Opening and presentations

Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University Business School, Edinburgh:
Implicit orders: documentary genres and organizational practice

Judy Weedman, San Jose State University, Fullerton:
Local practice and the growth of knowledge: decisions in subject access to digitized images

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Presentations

Miguel E. Ruiz & Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa, Iowa City:
Combining machine learning and hierarchical indexing structures for text categorization

Terrence A. Brooks, University of Washington, Seattle:
Relevance auras: macro patterns and micro scatter

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 Presentations

Hope Olson, University of Alberta, Edmonton:
Cultural discourses of classification: indigenous alternatives to the tradition of Aristotle, Durkheim and Foucault

Jack Andersen & Frank Sejer Christensen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen:
Wittgenstein and indexing theory

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 5:00 Presentations

Victoria Francu, Central University Library, Bucharest:
A universal classification system going through changes

Elin Jacob & Uta Priss, Indiana University, Bloomington
Application of faceted classification structures in electronic knowledge resources.

5:00 - 5:10 Conclusion

10/23/1999