GENERAL
FOR ATTENDEES
Schedule by Track
Tracks
ASIS&T 2010 will consist of six tracks that span the breadth
of information science:
Track 1 –
Information Behavior
Information needs, information seeking, information gaps and sense-making in
various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by
individuals or groups.
Track 2 –
Knowledge Organization
Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction,
terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert,
user-based, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information
architecture.
Track 3 –
Information Systems, Interactivity and Design
The design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and
systems, including interfaces and algorithms.
Track 4 –
Information and Knowledge Management
Information and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group,
organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems
that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or
knowledge.
Track 5 –
Information Use
How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a variety of sources (scientific,
humanities, news, family, friends, colleagues), forms (articles, books, video,
audio, tweets), locations (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones,
PDAs, digital libraries) to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve
information literacy, and learn.
Track 6 –
Information in Context: Economic, Social, and Policy Perspectives
Copyright issues, policies and laws; information policy; privacy; personal
rights vs. freedom of information; surveillance; regulation; international
information flow& issues; spam.
Industry Track
Finding the Right Information: Search Industry Trends
With so many different search tools and experiences, how will search evolve and
innovate? A panel of search industry experts will discuss the latest issues,
trends, and opportunities for search.
Because each of these tracks represents a generic aspect of information science,
each may be focused by additional elements such as types of:
- Organizations
- Information (by topic, genre, scale, medium, etc. )
- Technology
- Information consumers
- Contexts
- Research theories and paradigms
- Methods
Evaluation and measurement may be associated with almost any track. The size of each track will depend on the quality of submissions.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Sept. 17: | Early Registration Ends |
| Sept. 10: | New Leaders Award Deadline |
| Oct. 5: | Conference
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Call 1-412-560-1751, Code: SAT |