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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers and
Maintainers
ASIS 1997 Annual Meeting
November 2-6, 1997
Washington, DC
Preliminary Program
The ASIS 1997 annual meeting will deal broadly with the emerging phenomenon
of collections of digital objects -- text, image, sound, and multimedia --
accumulated in central as well as distributed repositories or virtual
collections. Following are representative topics.
For up-to-date information, session descriptions, schedule, registration
information, and more, please see the ASIS Web site at
<http://www.asis.org/annual-97/schedule.htm> or contact ASIS at the address
below.
Sunday, November 2, 1:00 pm- Thursday, November 6, Noon
Plenary Sessions:
* Tom Kalil, Director of Science and Technology for the National Economic
Council, The White House
"Clinton-Gore Policies and Networked Information
* Funders' Forum: Private/Public Support for Digitization Projects.
The 1997 Funding Forum is a platform for representatives of a variety of
programs to discuss their expectations for projects to be funded, currently
funded initiatives, the relative success of past projects, and hopes for
future collaborative efforts.
Technical Program
* Digital Library Evaluation
* Digital Collections for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
* Linking Government Data Producers to the Intermediary User Communities.
* Search Engines as Intelligent Agents (Knowbots)
* Web User Assessment
* Interfaces for Digital Special Collections
* Multilingual Databases In the Networking Age
* Networked Distribution of Electronic Publications
* Retrieval Designs Affecting Digital Collections
* Organizing and Representing Knowledge Graphically
* Image Retrieval
* Library Resources via the World Wide Web: User Studies
* Electronic Publication in the Sciences
* Metadata, the Uniform Resource Characteristic, and Access
* Classification and Indexing for Image Collections
* Interface Design
* Demonstration of Iterative Prototyping.
* Diffusion Theory & Electronic Publishing
* Semiotic Approaches to Information Science
* Networking in Less-Developed Countries
* Communities & Electronic Networks
* Faculty Transition To the Use of Electronic Information Resources
* Time as a Factor in the Evaluation of Information Quality
* Public Interest and Fair Use
* Classificatory Structures
* Information Retrieval Interaction
* Information Technology Projects at the National Library of Medicine
Continuing Education/Professional Development Seminars
Friday, October 31 (all courses 9:00am - 5:00pm)
* Delivering Databases via the World Wide Web
* Thesauri for Indexing and Retrieval
Saturday, November 1 (all courses 9:00 - 5:00)
* Copyright in an Electronic World
* Introduction to Computer and Network Security
* Data Communications: Understanding the Basics
* Introduction to Image Databases
* Harnessing New Technologies for Collaboration
* Digital Libraries: Concepts & Technologies for Managing Library Collections
* Introduction to SGML
* Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center
Sunday, November 2 (9:00 am - 1:00pm unless noted)
* Beyond HTML: Cognition, Information Design, and the Computer Interface
* Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search Engines
* Law and the Internet
* 8th SIG CR Classification Research Workshop (8:30am - 5:00pm)
* ASIS Leadership Development Program: Meeting Facilitation (10:00am - Noon)
* Pamoja: A Training Simulation for International Information Flow.(1:00pm
- 5:30pm)
Meeting Venue
JW Marriott Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 393-2000 Fax: (202) 626-6991
1-800 228-9290
http://www.marriott.com/marriott/dc-042.htm
Contact the American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD 20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
VOICE: (301) 495-0900
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Richard Hill
Executive Director, American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD 20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
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