Information Access in a Global Information Economy
ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting
October 24-30, 1998, Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA
Information Access in a Global Information Economy
ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting
October 24-30, 1998, Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA
[Note: Hotel reservations must be made by 10/2 to get the best rate.]For complete conference description, schedule and registration information,
see <http://www.asis.org >, email meetings@asis.org, call (301) 495-0900, or
write to the address below.
* Featured Sessions *
HERBERT A. SIMON. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the National Medal of Science; the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery (with Allen Newell)... recognized as part-founder of Artificial Intelligence, of cognitive science and of computer science.
HAL R. VARIAN, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley; also Professor in the Haas School of Business & the Department of Economics.
PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE: MYTHS, REALTIES, AND MADNESS. John DeReuck, Johannes Bauer, Charles McClure, John Carlo Bertot, Andrew Magpantay, and Mickey Revenaugh.
SAMPLE TOPICS:
* NCLIS Hearings on Journal Pricing, Publishing, and Copyright ÷ NEW SESSION* New Interfaces for Information Visualization
* UNICODE: Standards, Implementation Issues, & Future Directions
* Using the Web for Global Business Intelligence
* Designing Discipline-Oriented Information Systems
* Classificatory Structures: Applications & Integration
* Intellectual Property
* Digital Libraries in the K-12 Environment
* Retrieval of non-Textual Documents
* The Ethics of Access: Global Perspectives
* Knowledge Discovery in Databases -- Tools & Techniques for Collaboration
* User Modeling Research & IR Systems Design
* Information Retrieval Technology
* Organizing Images/Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval: From Indexing to Metadata
* Web Effects on Global Economies
* Electronic Scholarship
* International Classification and Subject Analysis Research
* Web Searching
* Economics of Web Link Collections
* Cross Language Applications & Large Scale Vocabularies
* Evaluating Services
* Accessing Full-text: Integrating Electronic Resources
* Social and Organizational Informatics
Pre Conference Seminars (All courses 9-5 unless specified. Separate registration required.)
Saturday, October 24
* Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search Engines (Half Day, 9:00am - 1:00pm)* Vocabulary Management and Thesaurus Development Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML)Part 1: JavaScript (Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.)
Sunday, October 25
* Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Part 2: Cascading Style Sheets (Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.)* Delivering Databases via the World Wide Web
* Introduction to Image Databases
* Digital Libraries: Computer Concepts & Technologies for Managing Library Collections
* Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center
* The Role of Information Management In Knowledge Management - Stimulating Creativity and Innovation Through Information.
* Statistics for Practitioners and Readers of Research: A Practical Update (Half day, 9:00am - Noon)
* 9th Classification Research Workshop ( 8:30 am - 5:00 pm)