Technical Program
Newcomer's Breakfast
All newcomers (either new ASIS members or first time
conference goers) are invited to a free Continental Breakfast and
orientation program. During the program you will get acquainted
with other newcomers, talk about ASIS with members, meet leaders
in the field, and find out how ASIS is organized. This is an
excellent way to jump right in and "Be a part of it all," so be
sure to arrive by 7am.
Projections of complete electronic access and the death of
print pose clear and present dangers to our libraries.
Projections of complete electronic access in the near term also
pose present dangers to our libraries. But can these dangers be
avoided? Is the severe problem of scientific, technical, and
medical journals (and the admitted reliance of top scientific
scholars on electronic means for much of their information) the
first sign that print is dying? The speakers will debate this
point, pulling in issues relating to print, electronic
communications, economics and libraries.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Non-traditional learners and students as well as faculty
expect information and instruction on demand--at any time and at
any place. Panelists will provide case studies illustrating
the variety of skills and configurations information and
instructional technology can take on campus. Information
technology organizations not only coordinate a host of systems,
services, and technologies of tenuous compatibility, but also
focus the efforts of personnel who have different education,
training, and cultures. Each panelist plays a leadership role
campus-wide in this changing field and directs an information
science education program and faculty. Participants will outline
and analyze various strategies, and the panel will discuss how
various approaches can achieve similar ends.
Raymond F. Vondran, University of North Texas
The Community Health Information Network (CHIN) is a rapidly
emerging development made possible by advances in electronic
technology. The basic vision of a CHIN is a seamless electronic
communication system that allows for the electronic exchange of
clinical and financial information between hospitals, physicians,
insurers and other providers, with the goal of improving
healthcare quality and reducing costs. The goal of this session
is to provide an understanding of what CHIN's are intended to do,
how they're going to achieve their goals, and what the practical
problems are.
Diane Conrath, First Consulting Group, "Overview of Community
Health Information Networks (CHIN's): the variety, the potential,
the reality"
Digitized Art Images, Samantha Kelly Hastings, University of North Texas
What opportunities and challenges do converging technologies
offer for the field of automated language processing? The panel
session will explore this question by describing and evaluating
the integration of natural language processing facilities into
systems encompassing a variety of technologies: image retrieval
in multimedia databases, information extraction from free text
documents, online assistance, and computer-assisted language
instruction. Some presentations will focus on research findings;
others, on demonstration systems and work in progress.
P. Bryan Heidorn, University of Pittsburgh, "Shape Language
Processing and Visual Feedback for Image Indexing and Retrieval"
The potential of high capacity telecommunications networks,
digital compression, electronic publications, dissemination
technologies, encryption and voice recognition capabilities can
dramatically alter traditional patterns and the very concept of
information access, how we live and work. Is access to
information threatened by deals between the content providers and
carriers? Our industry experts on this provocative panel will
address three aspects of the impact of technological developments
and joint ventures on widespread access to information:
7:00am - 8:30am
8:45am Delivery
Greg Newby, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Merri Beth Lavagnino, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
Moderator
8:45am Access
Philip M. Turner, University of Alabama
Ann E. Prentice, University of Maryland
Jose-Marie Griffiths, University of Tennessee
8:45am Delivery
Jane Grad, Ingalls Memorial Hospital, "The Chicago Community
Health Information Network: The vision and the process"
J. Roger Guard, University of Cincinnati, "The Ohio Valley
Community Health Information Network: a tri-state consumer health
information network"
Elaine Martin, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Moderator
8:45am Navigation
Current Applied Research in Natural Language Processing (SIG ALP)
8:45am Navigation
Patrick Jost, U.S. Department of the Treasury, "Multilingual
Document Processing in Financial Crimes Law Enforcement"
Paul Buchheit, Harold Washington College, "A Natural Language
Interface for File Management"
Noriko Nagata, University of San Francisco, "The Instructional
Effectiveness of Natural Language Processing"
10:30am - 12:30am
Robert Lucky, Corporate Vice President, Applied Research,
Bellcore
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy
Information Center
Vinton Cerf, Vice President, MCI Corp. (invited)
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval: Findings from the CNI White Paper
Clifford Lynch, Avra Michelson, Craig Summerhill and Cecilia
Preston are collaborating on a Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI) initiative to prepare a white paper that
examines some of the problems associated with identifying,
selecting, and retrieving information in a widely distributed
heterogeneous environment. This special session will explore
their findings with the members of ASIS and seek recommendations
for further research.
This paper will provide a grounding of the issues currently
facing the networked information community and provide
recommendations for further research. Therefore, we hope to
stimulate those in a position to advance research to explore new
topics that can further the development of tools for networked
discovery and retrieval.
For additional information on the project see the Call for
Input: Coalition NIDR Initiative available from CNI at
Avra Michelson, The MITRE Corporation, "Why a CNI white paper?
Framing the problem"
Technological advances and the widespread use of CD-ROM
databases, OPACs and Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) have
resulted in an explosion of "end-user searching". How effective
are the end-users in their searching? Since "end-users" do not
have the formal training that "intermediaries" have, it is
important to study their searching behavior in order to identify
patterns, styles, and especially problems. The knowledge gained
from such studies can then be used to suggest methods for
improving the existing systems and, therefore, make the end-user
searching process less frustrating to the end-user during the
interaction, as well as more efficient in terms of retrieval.
The research presented in this two-part session reports on
the user searching behavior of children, elementary and high
school students (k-12), undergraduate and graduate university
students and researchers in different end-user searching
environments. Methodological issues and emerging models are
discussed.
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of California at Los Angeles,
"End-User Understanding and Use of Knowledge Structures in
Database Searching"
The Digital Library Initiative (DLI) is jointly funded
through the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The four
year projects, granted in the Fall of 1994, are taking place at
six sites. Representatives from all six sites will talk about the
scope of their projects, their progress to date and future plans.
Bruce Schatz, Research Scientist, National Center for
Supercomputer Applications, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, "Building the Interspace: Digital Library
Infrastructure for a University Engineering Community"
Do you need to create a print or electronic newsletter, report,
or Mosaic home page? Topics to be covered in this tutorial
session include: known principles of legibility and readability,
"the rules" and when to break them, relating design to intended
use and audience, and graphic appeal vs. readability. Design
aspects to be discussed include typefaces, the page and the
spread, publication integrity and headings, white space,
consistency, and diversity. Examples of "good" and "bad" print
and electronic designs will be shown and discussed. (This
tutorial will not be oriented to any particular machine or
software program.)
Walt Crawford is a senior analyst at The Research Libraries
Group, Inc., and was president of the Library and
Information Technology Association in 1992/93. He has
published a dozen books and hundreds of articles and columns
on various aspects of current and future libraries and
technology. He is the 1995 recipient of the LITA/Library Hi
Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing
Education in Library and Information Technology.
West Publishing evaluated a number of automatic indexing
programs and the output from a rule-based, thesaurus-driven
automated indexing program was evaluated in detail. The
investigator concluded that rule-based programs would be unable
to produce useable output in their environment. The focus of the
session will not be on the specific automatic indexing programs
at West but rather on the conclusion that the results obtained
point to generalized difficulties in ruled-based automatic
indexing that makes it problematic when used for large document
collections. Panel respondents will consider questions about
problem identification, problems endemic to a class of automatic
indexing strategies, workarounds; areas in which further research
and development are needed; and other indexing technologies which
might obviate difficulties.
Tom Curran, West Publishing Company, "Automatic Indexing
Machines: The Failure of Rule-Based Programs in Large Document
Environments"
Some educators and practitioners advocate highly
differentiated academic programs, often leading to distinctive
credentials (such as Master of Archival Studies or Master of
Telecommunications). Others urge unification under such broadly
inclusive degree programs as the generic Master of Information
Studies. The latter find support for the multi-purpose
curriculum in the convergence of technologies, which is breaking
down barriers among specializations in the information field.
Underlying this tension are such issues as striking the
optimal balance between theory and application in professional
curricula; the appropriate place, if any, in the curriculum for
skills training in such areas as programming or bibliographic
description; and whether the most important obligation of the
professional school is to give its students the practical skills
needed for their first, entry-level jobs or to provide a
theoretical base for lifelong career development. This program
will offer a lively dialogue between educators and practitioners
holding different points of view on these fundamental issues of
curriculum design.
Miriam A. Drake, Georgia Institute of Technology
The International Federation for Information and
Documentation (FID) is creating links between new information
professionals (those anticipating or entering any branch of
information work) and opportunities in the present and future.
Panelists will discuss results of an international baseline
survey on the Modern Information Professional (MIP) sponsored by
FID, and ways information workers may prepare for challenges of
the market.
Bed G. Goedegebuure, FID, "A Global Role in Reaching Out to New
Information Professionals"
2:00pm Access
FTP Site at CNI
Gopher Site at CNI
WWW Site at CNI
Clifford Lynch, University of California, Office of the
President, " Identifiable issues and the remaining research
questions"
Craig Summerhill, Coalition for Networked Information
Cecilia Preston, Emeryville, CA, "The metadata study"
2:00pm Delivery
2:00pm Navigation
Raya Fidel, University of Washington, "Is Protocol Analysis
Sufficient?"
Carol A. Hert, Indiana University, "User Knowledge and
Uncertainty in Online Public Access Catalog Searching"
Delia Neuman, University of Maryland, "High School Students' Use
of Online and CD-ROM Databases: Competing Conceptual Structures"
Paul Solomon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
"Children, an OPAC, and time marches on: How can the results of
user-based research inform design and institutional policy?"
Virginia Walter, University of California, Los Angeles ,
"Metaphors and Mice: Designing Information Retrieval Systems for
Children to Search"
2:00pm
Dr. Michael L. Mauldin , Carnegie Mellon University, "Informedia:
Integrated Speech, Image, and Language Understanding for Creation
and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries"
Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley, "An Electronic
Environmental Library Project"
Vicky Reich,Stanford University, "The Stanford Integrated Digital
Libraries Project"
Karen Drabenstott or Amy Warner, University of Michigan, "The
University of Michigan Digital Libraries Research Proposal"
Larry Carver , University of California at Santa Barbara, "The
Alexandria Project: Towards a Distributed Digital Library with
Comprehensive Services for Images and Spatially Referenced
Information"
Merri Beth Lavagnino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Moderator
2:00pm
4:00pm Navigation
Dan Dabney, West Publishing Company, respondent
Martin Dillon, OCLC, respondent
Jessica Milstead, The JELEM Company, respondent
4:00pm Access
Timothy L. Ericson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thomas J. Galvin, University at Albany--SUNY
F. William Summers, Florida State University
James G. Williams, University of Pittsburgh
Samantha Hastings, University of North Texas, Moderator
4:00pm
Molly Wolfe Hayes, Knowledgeware Systems, "The Modern Information
Professional: Report on an International Survey"
Anthony Debons, University of Pittsburgh, "Future Implications of
the FID Survey and Global Role for New Information professionals"
Jian Qin, Wuhan University (China), "International Cooperation of
New Professionals: A Personal View."
Adeyemi Adekoya, Virginia State University, "New Roles for
Information Scientists in the International Business Environment
Marta Dosa, Syracuse University, Moderator
4:00pm
Overview and Update on the NSF Digital Library Initiative (SIG LAN, VIS) Part II
4:00pm
Academic institutions share the sponsorship of this informal opportunity to renew relationships with faculty, colleagues, classmates, staff and others.
Tuesday, October 10
Content and Conduits: Is There a Public Interest in Competition?
Exciting but controversial partnerships, particularly among media
magnates, have dominated the airwaves, the net bandwidth, and
even the printed page. Policy makers are re-thinking what might
previously have been considered unfair advantage in the
communications marketplace. Current ideas about privacy,
entertainment and personal security are fast being challenged.
New technologies are creating tremendous opportunities for
enhanced information transport and interpersonal communication
capabilities. Will vertical integration and intercorporate
alliances create efficiencies that stimulate these developments?
Or will they retard competition, consequently raising costs and
lowering innovation and quality? What role should public policy
play in promoting competition? Will the increasing convergence
of technologies ensure competition regardless of the choices made
by business and government decision makers?
Michael Katz, Chief Economist of the Federal Communications
Commission, is on detail from the University of California at
Berkeley, where he is Professor of Economics and Business.
This session will focus on current and future tools for the
access and use of information over the internet. What do users
need in order to help them navigate the internet, retrieve and
use needed information? The speakers will present an outline of
tools to support those needs, based on specifications
implementing such a tool set. Details provided on specific
approaches available to help meet these needs will include: a) a
description of the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) technology
in terms of its history, indexing/ relevance ranking, and natural
language processing capabilities, and its potential to approach
natural language processing capabilities; b) a discussion of the
issues associated with using the World Wide Web to search various
types of collections (a prototype system will be presented that
organizes WWW pointers to reference tool like WWW documents); c)
an overview of the process and challenges of designing search
tools for the Internet.
Philip J. Smith, The Ohio State University, "Functional
Specifications for an Advanced Toolset for the Access and Use of
Information"
Technological advances linking previously disparate
activities are forcing cooperative efforts in every sphere. This
panel will present three relationships resulting from the
convergence of technology. First, image modeling experiments
could yield maps to future technological links and highlights the
relationship between converging and emerging technologies.
Second, the combination of different technologies requires team
management; how does this affect the developing technology and
management; who will drive, the technology or the team? Third,
territories must be surrendered to the necessity of integrating
multiple technologies into the classroom and the administration,
is delivery still limited by territorial imperatives?
Teresa O. Grose, University of North Texas
8:30am - 9:30am
9:45am Navigation
George H. Brett II, Center for Networked Information Discovery
and Retrieval, "Internet Tools and Natural Language Processing:
Current State of the Art"
Maurice Leatherbury, University of North Texas, "Using WWW
Browsers for Information Exploration"
Robert France, Virginia Tech, "Designing Navigation Tools for the
Internet"
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Catholic University of America, Moderator
9:45am Access
Deborah Barnes, University of North Texas
Melanie J. Norton, University of Southern Mississippi
Vivian Hay, California Institute of Technology, Moderator
Partnerships Between Academic and Business Worlds: What Works
(SIG ED, BSS)
This forum will look at partnerships between academic and
business worlds from an internal perspective (within Academe) and
across academe and business. The "What works" approach will
include discussion of types of relationships, expectations,
administrative attitudes, fiscal arrangements, and results.
Bill Snyder, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Getting and
Keeping Business Partnerships"
This session aims to stimulate discussion on
interdisciplinary research and its contribution to our
understanding of human computer interaction. Its time for us to
reflect on the types of interdisciplinary research that have been
conducted, assess the progress we have made, and identify
directions for future HCI research. Four established researchers
who have conducted interdisciplinary research will share their
experiences. The panel will present perspectives from information
science, cognitive psychology, and communication. Dr. Ingwersen
will present a response to the first three speakers. The
speakers will describe how theories and models in a particular
field have been applied to the study of HCI, the challenges in
conducting the type of research they did, and explore new
directions of human computer interaction research.
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
9:45am Delivery
Jose-Marie Griffiths, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
"Schools and Partnerships: The Winning Combination"
Raya Fidel, University of Washington, "Finding the Right
Combination of Business Interests and Academic Programs"
9:45am Navigation
Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland
Michael Nilan, Syracuse University
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark
Contributed Papers: Indexing
9:45am Navigation
Lunch Break and Committee Meetings
Mark Needleman, University of California
To build systems which support sharing of scientific
resources on a large scale, it is necessary to combine the
interests of the scientific community with those of computer
scientists, information specialists and engineers. The word
collaboratory (a blend of the words collaboration and laboratory)
has been used to describe emerging information systems which
interconnect scientists, data, and other resources to each other.
This session, which is planned as a double session, proposes to
discuss the scientific, technical and sociological aspects of
Collaboratories. In this first session, three specific projects
which provide access to diverse and distributed data will be
described.
Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois, "The Worm Community
System"
Many Information Services departments (ISs) are being
eliminated or dismembered while others are strengthened and their
activities expanded. Information managers who were successful in
shifting the orbit of IS in their organization will discuss the
issues involved and share their experiences. What steps have ISs
taken to be active participants in the change process? What kind
of working relationships must be developed? What kind of
partnering is taking place in the new corporate environment?
Kristin Oberst, 3M Corporation, "Revitalizing Information
Services to Better Meet Client Initiatives"
11:45am - 1:00pm
1:00pm
Pat Harris, National Information Standards Organization
1:00pm Access
Roberta Rand, National Agricultural Library, USDA, "A Joint
Venture with the Government and Commercial Sector: The Global
Change Data and Information System: Assisted Search for Knowledge
(GCDIS-ASK)"
Kerryn Brandt, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Welch Medical Library, "Distributed Data Access in the Human
Genome Project: The Genome Data Base and a Federation of
Biological Databases"
Katherine W. McCain, Drexel university, Moderator
1:00pm Delivery
Bibi Patel, Bell-Northern Research, Ltd., "Synchronicity Re-
Visited: BNR's Next Generation of Information Services"
Corinne Campbell, The Boeing Company, "Product strategies for
information services"
Zdravka Pejova, International Center for Public Enterprises in
Developing Countries (ICPE), "Information management problems and
challenges in transitional economies"
Irene Farkas-Conn, Arthur L. Conn & Associates; Irmgard Fischli,
Moderators
Advanced Information Retrieval Systems: System Design and Significance of Interfaces (SIG HCI)
This session aims to present sophisticated information
retrieval systems and examine the significance of their
interfaces for exploration and retrieval of various types of
data. Ron Larson will describe an online catalog that uses
probabilistic retrieval and graphic user interface. Robert
France will present the interfaces of MARIAN which uses weighted
retrieval and ENVISION which uses graphs and clusters to report
retrieval results. Sam Oh will introduce a system that allows
users to search information by empirical variables and their
associated statistical values. William Mischo will present an
NSF Digital Library project and the interfaces they design for
full-text and graphic databases. Bob Korfhage will introduce an
array-based display and a vector-based interfaces to discuss how
visual interfaces can enhance information exploration and
retrieval.
Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, "Cheshire II: The Next-generation Online
Catalog"
1:00 pm Navigation
Robert France, Virginia Tech, "MARIAN and ENVISION: Graphic
Interfaces for Weighted Retrieval"
Sam Oh, U. of Washington, "Graphic Interface for an Empirical
Fact Retrieval System"
William Mischo, U. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, "Full-text
Retrieval at Digital Library"
Robert Korfhage, U. of Pittsburgh, "Visualizing the Relationships
Among Documents"
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Catholic University of America, Moderator
1:00pm Navigation
Re-Inventing Information Services -- Linking IS to Business
Strategies (II) (FID)
Partnerships in navigation and interfaces affect information
services deeply. How can ISs best interface with outside
organizations and with information technologies? As standalone
information utilities are being replaced with interconnected
sources a new work environment must be established. What are
the major technical, management and political challenges? How
can we measure the success of the implementation?
Irmgard Fischli, Sandoz Pharma, "Outsourcing--a New Management
Tool or Just a Trend?"
In the second session on Collaboratories, a panel of social
scientists who have studied the creation of Collaboratories will
address the process of collaboration itself and the issues which
arise when people from different research communities come
together to attack a problem.
S. Leigh Star, University of Illinois, and Karen Ruhleder,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, "Work and Infrastructure:
Pragmatic and Theoretical Issues in Information Modelling"
Nine information system prototypes with advanced retrieval
methods and interfaces will be demonstrated at this session.
Prototypes include online catalogs, databases, Web pages, and
interfaces for Internet resources. Design and testing of these
products are covered in separate sessions ("Advanced Information
Retrieval Systems: System Designs and Significance of
Interfaces").
Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, Cheshire II
This session addresses new roles for classificatory
techniques and classification systems in the age of converging
technologies. As we learn to use classification as an electronic
technique, we become increasingly aware of the potential power of
classification in creating and communicating information and in
expediting its efficient transfer and retrieval. This session
views these new capacities of classification from three
perspectives: 1) as a research technique in our pursuit of
information about information, its processing, management, and
application; 2) combined with verbal access to create
sophisticated, flexible, structured analytic systems for all
media; and 3) re-engineered for the new technologies to
revitalize them for expanded roles in information analysis,
organization, and retrieval.
Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University, "Classification as an
Information Research Technology"
Increased use of electronic information via the Internet has
generated unexpected challenges. Current methods for accessing
these resources make little use of principles of information
organization and retrieval, relying instead on informal and ad
hoc approaches. This presents problems in terms of the volume of
information retrieved and with respect to the precision with
which those materials meet user needs. This panel discussion
focuses on the results of several research projects undertaken to
organize Internet resources.
Martin Dillon, OCLC, "Building a Catalog of Internet Resources"
3:00pm Navigation
David Anderson, Abbott Laboratories, "Integration of Internet
Information into the Corporation"
Sandra Tice, MIP Corp, "Management Information Warehouse
Client-Server Environment"
Irene Farkas-Conn, Arthur L. Conn & Associates; Irmgard Fischli,
Moderators
3:00pm Access
Judy Weedman, University of Illinois, "Incentive Structures and
Multidisciplinary Research: The Sequoia 2000 Project"
Natalie Schoch, University of Maryland ,Moderator
Robert France, Virginia Tech, MARIAN and ENVISION
Sam Oh, U. of Washington, An Empirical Fact Retrieval System
William Mischo, U. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Interfaces
for full-text (+ graphics) databases on the Internet
Robert Korfhage, U. of Pittsburgh, GUIDO, BIRD, VIBE
Maurice Leatherbury, U. of North Texas, WWW for a reference
collection
3:00pm Navigation
Pauline Cochrane, Univ. of Illinois, "Convergence in Access
Vocabularies for Information Retrieval: Thesauri and
Classification Systems Combine"
Nancy Williamson, Univ. of Toronto, "Traditional Classification
Systems and Their Role in Converging Technologies"
Clare Beghtol, Univ. of Toronto, Moderator
3:00pm Access/Navigation
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, University of Missouri - Columbia, and
Danny P. Wallace, Louisiana State University, "Organized Access
to Engineering Internet Resources Using Indexing Principles"
Timothy B. Patrick, University of Missouri - Columbia, "From
Subject Heading to Server Class Identifier to Network Address:
Organizing Internet Access to Biomedical Information Sources"
Peter R. Young, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science, "Internet Resource Access and Retrieval: In
Search of the New Digital Library Paradigm"
Philip J. Smith, Ohio State University, Moderator
Presiding: James E. Rush, ASIS President
All ASIS members are encouraged to attend. All motions to be presented to the membership at the Annual Business Meeting must be in writing and be presented to the ASIS President or Executive Director before or during the meeting. The name of the individual seconding a motion must be stipulated and recorded by the presiding officer.
Agenda:
Converging Universes:Forging Users into Relevant Submission
(SIG CON)
8:00pm
Wednesday, October 11
Plenary Session: The Trouble with Groupware
This presentation will discuss, particularly from an
information science point of view, some of the benefits and
problems with groupware. One of the principal benefits of
groupware is that it enables the members of a group to
electronically create, distribute, and manage information for
other members of the group. Most groupware products allow
individuals with no information science background to create
information systems. This leads to many problems, some of which
will be discussed and illustrated.
Where there are problems, there are also opportunities; and
groupware provides some opportunities for information science
professionals. The proliferation of groupware provides a need
for cross-discipline information science education. In addition,
compared to many professionally- managed information systems,
most groupware products are very immature and would greatly
benefit from the experience and knowledge of information
scientists.
Len Kawell has been designing and developing what is now called
groupware for the last 19 years. He received his B.S. in
Computer Science at University of Illinois where he worked on the
Plato project. Len designed and developed VMS Mail and the
original versions of VAX Notes at Digital Equipment. Len has
been working on the design and implementation of Lotus Notes for
the last 10 years at Iris, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM
Corp, where he is the founder and Vice President.
Participants from the ISI Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship
and Doctoral Forum competitions will present and discuss their
research.
Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University, Moderator
This session will review legal, trade, tariff and other
barriers to scientific enhancement and business development in
the context of transborder information interchanges. The session
features corporate and public sector speakers with both national
and international credentials. They will discuss the increasing
interdependence of the scientific community in addressing
emerging intellectual, legal, trade and tariff barriers to
efficiently and cost effectively interchanging information
transglobally.
Margarita Almada de Ascensio, VP of FID (Mexico)
This session will review selected information sector ongoing
and planned R&D programs and projects, worldwide, with an
emphasis on current political, economic and social impacts on
such initiatives. Speakers will address specific problems and
barriers being encountered within their respective geographic
domains, including governmental, legal, technical,
administrative, policy and other areas. Opportunities for
multi-donor and multi- sponsor R&D initiatives will be
identified, with special emphasis on North American institutional
participation.
Brian Perry, R&D Dept., British Library (UK)
This session will discuss how information providers are (or
are not) working to redesign current pricing models for
electronic distribution. Vendors will explain how they make
pricing more flexible for users in both large and small
organizations and still make their bottom line. Attendees will
become more savvy about how providers make pricing decisions and
how users can influence decisions so that both sides are winners
in negotiations for information redistribution, multiple usage,
just-in-time database searching, real-time news feeds,
pre-filtered information.
Steve Brand, Lotus Development Corp.
8:45am Navigation
10:30am
10:30am Access
Mike Nelson, Executive Office of the President (U.S.)
Carol Collins, CARICOM Secretariat (Guyana)
Patricia Harris, National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) (U.S.)
Frank Mellis, GII Staff, AT&T Europe (The Netherlands)
Rahman Khan, National Technical Information Service, Moderator
10:30am Access
Martha Stone, IDRC (Canada)
Maury Brown, Agency for International Development
Anna Maria Prat Trabal, Council for Scientific and Technical Information, (Chile)
Kaoru Yonetani, Corporate Planning and Research Center, SUMIKA
Technical Information Service (Japan)
Michel Menou, CIDEGI (France), Moderator
10:30am Delivery
Jackie Stepek, Knight Ridder Information, Inc.
Josie Ottman, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Kris Liberman, Lotus Development Corp., Moderator
10:30am Navigation
Lunch Break and Committee Meetings
"Help Desk" software has made supporting technical problems
for companies considerably easier. Why haven't more
libraries/information centers/resource centers made use of this
technology. In this session presenters will speak about why (or
why not) they utilize this software.
Corinne Jorgensen, University of Buffalo, "HyperRef" Software; a
standalone application designed to answer questions at the
reference desk.
It has long been recognized in the sciences that rapid and
convenient access to current information is crucial for
successful R&D. Recent advances in computer technologies have
resulted in better and less expensive tools for storing,
accessing and manipulating data and information. Using new
technologies, scientific publications can contain or provide
pointers to information routinely used by scientists (e.g.,
graphics, satellite images, large data sets, computer
simulations) and allow data to be manipulated. Much of this
information has been formerly sacrificed because of the
constraints of the printed page. This session will present and
discuss three innovative projects that are currently providing
electronic information to scientists.
Keith L. Seitter, American Meteorological Society, "An
all-electronic, peer-reviewed, scientific journal published as a
collaboration of five societies and delivered via the Internet"
This session will review international efforts to put in
place global information infrastructures. Speakers will address
efforts on all six continents to develop key regional national
and global information superhighways, and discuss both the risks
and opportunities already being confronted or anticipated. A
special report will be made on the U.S. NII efforts to date,
including the work of the Vice President's National Information
Infrastructure Advisory Council. Another special report on the
status of the so-called "Tokyo Resolution" or "Global Information
Alliance" of international NGOs will also be presented."
Ben Goedegebuure, Executive Director of FID (The Netherlands)
Margarita Almada de Acensio, VP of FID (Mexico)
Noon - 2:00
2:00pm Navigation
Peter Jorgensen, University of Buffalo, Call tracking software
for help desks developed at Colgate
Kathleen Dykstra, North Carolina State University Libraries,
"InControl" and "CustomerQ" software designed to work with
technical support and help desk operations.
Tom Kinney, Amigos Bibliographic Council, "Help Desk"
Richard M. Page, University of Pittsburgh, Moderator
2:00pm Access
William B.F. Ryan and Benno Blumenthal, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, "WWW Data Libraries Serving
Oceanographers and Climate Modelers: Design, Implementation,
Demonstration and User Feedback"
Ann Bishop, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, "Evaluating User
Needs for a Digital Library for Engineers"
Natalie Schoch, University of Maryland, Moderator
2:00pm Delivery
Michael Middleton, Queensland University of Technology
Carol Collins, CARICOM Secretariat, (Guyana)
Karl Kalseth, FID Councillor (Norway)
Wendy White, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Brian Perry, British Library, Moderator
2:00pm Navigation
Contributed Papers: Information Technology
4:00pm Access
Partnerships Through Global Multimedia Networking (FID)
Based on historical insights and worldwide experience, the
International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)
is facilitating the formation of electronic and traditional
networks in numerous domains of information transfer. The use of
multimedia is deemed especially applicable to international
cooperation where different cultures and ways of visual
perception are at work. Panelists report on research and
experience of recent projects and discuss future directions of
FID.
Ritva Launo, FID President, ALKO, Finland
4:00pm Delivery
Ann P. Bishop, University of Illinois
Joseph Squier, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Makiko Miwa, Epoch Research Corporation, Japan
Marta Dosa, Moderator
4:00pm Navigation
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere: Health Information in the Fourth
Dimension (SIG MED)
For many areas of the nation, adequate access to a reliable
source of biomedical information does not exist. With advances
in telecommunications technology comes the ability to offer
services, such as continuing education and patient consultations
over distance. It enables the exchange of biomedical
information previously unavailable in remote areas of the
country. Medical consumers also benefit from this boon in
technology which results in better informed practitioners who are
able to offer state of the art care and a readily accessible
method of getting second opinions.
The presenters will discuss: the current state of biomedical
information access in rural America; Opportunities that distance
learning will provide to the practitioner as well as the
consumer; Patient health information and the leading-edge
technology utilizing the full range of a multimedia environment
to provide an individuals healthcare data; and the virtual
hospital.
E. Sonny Butler, University of North Texas, "The Virtual Health
Care Record"
4:00pm Access
Sharon Jenkins, University of North Texas, "Rural Health
Information Systems "
Tim Stettheimer, Childrens Hospital, "The Virtual Hospital"
Lyle Vance, Irving Public Library, "Rural and Home Health Care"
Sharon D. Jenkins, University of North Texas, Moderator
Visit with friends--old and new-- at this gala reception. Then celebrate the major accomplishments in the field of information science as ASIS bestows its prestigious annual awards at the banquet. (Note: One ticket to the banquet is included with a full conference registration fee; tickets may be purchased at the registration desk.)
Thursday, October 12
Internet Interfaces to Harness Health Sciences Sources (SIG MED)
This session will focus on tools under development to
provide efficient access to important health sciences resources
on the Internet. On the one hand the burgeoning number, variety
and uneven quality of Internet accessible resources daunt many
users. On the other hand Internet has become the desirable
universally available route through which to provide access to as
many useful resources as possible. The three projects address
both concerns.
Jim Fullton, Clearinghouse for Networked Info. Discovery and
Retrieval (CNIDR), "Sourcer and Apprentice:Tools for a
Mosaic-based Information Sources Map"
While access (information retrieval) tools are widely
available, browsing (navigation) tools are still in their
infancy. Several efforts underway combine principles from
information retrieval scientometrics, and interface design to
create two-dimensional maps of the concepts in a document or
database of documents. The maps display the spatial
relationships between concepts and allow the user to navigate
between the map and the database contents. These tools work on
large numbers of documents and typically use words to generate
layouts of relatedness on a computer screen. It is also possible
to simultaneously examine a word used in several databases and
analyze concepts.
The potential for such tools is not only to quickly
summarize concepts in document collections and allow the user to
navigate in them but also to add a time element to these analyses
and a new dimension to bibliometric and scientometric
investigations. This session brings together the authors of the
three most developed tools to describe the characteristics of
their information maps and provide demonstrations.
Robert Korfhage, University of Pittsburgh, "VIBE, A Visual
Information Browsing Environment"
Distance education, using technologies including video
teleconferencing, electronic mail, and digital libraries with
remote online access, is becoming an important part of education
in many fields. This session will examine distance education for
Information Science and how it is being implemented in an number
of universities. Discussion will include examination of the
changes in educational philosophy, pedagogical methods, and
problems of administration, as well as descriptions of current
and future support technologies for distance education.
Stuart Sutton, San Jose State University
Along with new information products, many new information
systems and services have arisen that promise to tame the
firehose of uncontrolled information. Some systems employ
sophisticated retrieval algorithms to achieve a tight fit with
user profiles while others cast a broad net with simple Boolean
queries. This panel session will look at the theory and practice
of information filtering. The theoretical questions to be
discussed include what do we know from research in information
retrieval, what are the likely avenues for systems development,
what are the trade-offs between traditional approaches (e.g.,
online searching, SDI services) and newer developments (e.g.,
intelligent agents, user profiles running on local systems), how
automated systems compare with human collaborative filtering,
Boolean retrieval engines vs. probabalistic engines in filtering
systems, etc. The underlying question is whether these systems
eliminate the need for human intermediaries to scan and filter
information for other users.
Kate Ehrlich, Lotus Development Corp., "Active Collaborative
Filtering"
There are intermittent complaints that Information Science
lacks theory. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum
and showcase for theoretical work within Information Science.
Three theoretical papers will be presented: on composition
studies and information science; on exactness in speech, writing
and computing; and on the inherent deficiencies of a cognitive
approach to IR.
Birger Hjorland, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark
This panel of leading information specialists from Mexico
will discuss their experiences related to the convergence of
information technologies in Mexico and Latin America. The panel
will specifically discuss the social, professional and political
changes brought by the convergence of new technologies to the
demand for information and information specialists in Mexico.
Margarita Almada de Ascencio, University Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico, "A General Panorama of the Evolution, Application and
Future of Information Technology in Mexico After NAFTA"
8:30am Delivery
James Shedlock, Northwestern University, "A multi-institutional
cooperative effort to provide efficient Internet access to
evaluated health sciences sources"
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, "Issues in
Adapting the World Wide Web for Clinicians"
Nina Dougherty, University of Utah, Moderator
8:30am Navigation
Matthew Chalmers, Union Bank of Switzerland, "BEAD: An
Information Visualization System"
Xavier Polanco, SDOC: Mapping Knowledge for Infometric Means
Albert Tabah, Moderator
Charlie Hurt, University of Arizona
Dan Barron, University of South Carolina
Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley, Moderator
8:30am Navigation
Steve Gant, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Results of a Research Project
Investigating User Behaviors with an Internet Filtering System"
Janet Reed, Bank of America Illinois.
Janet Vratny, Apple Computer (tentative)
Walter Stine, Lotus Development Corp., Moderator
10:30am Delivery
10:30am Navigation
Theories of Information Science (SIG FIS)
10:30am
Julian Warner, Queens University, Northern Ireland
Soren Brier, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark
10:30am
Julio Zetter Leal, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - CICH,
"Mexican Information Policies: Government Incentives in
Relation to Information Technologies"
Rosalba Cruz-Ramos, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico -
CICH, "Converging Technologies for Education and Training
Information Specialists in Mexico "
Frederico Turnbull Munoz, Asesores Especializados, "The Impact of
Access to Worldwide Information Services on the Mexican End-User"
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University, Moderator
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