School of Information Management & Systems
 Previously School of Library & Information Studies

  296a-1 Seminar: Information Access.
 ("The Friday Afternoon Seminar")
 Fall 2000 Schedule


3 units. CCN# 42733. Fridays 3-5. 107 South Hall. Fall 2000 instructors: Clifford Lynch and Michael Buckland. Schedule subject to change. Summaries of presentations.

Sept 1: Clifford LYNCH: Introduction. Ebooks and Digital Books.
Sept 8: Clifford LYNCH: Identity, Identity Management and Trust in the Networked Information Environment.
Friday Sept 15: Warren SACK: Building Codes: How are Online Conversations Designed?
Sept 22: Michael BUCKLAND and others. Progress report on vocabulary and metadata projects.
Friday Sept 29: Lewis LANCASTER & Ruth MOSTERN: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/ecai/
Friday Oct 6: Students and Clifford LYNCH: Reports.
- Lincoln CUSHING: Protection of Digital Images on the Web.
- Bibi EPHRAIM: Medical Information for and from Remote Corners in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Joan GARVIN & Deborah RANDOLPH: Cross disciplinary multi-media Web displays.
- Alvin KURNIAWAN: An analysis of Data Mining in e-commerce.
- Kirsten SWEARINGEN: Disintermediation in the news media.
- Clifford LYNCH: Selected Recent Developments.
Oct 13: Richard J. GOODRAM: Life After Conversion: Digitized Collections.
Oct 20: Clifford LYNCH: Benchmark Databases for Image Retrieval.
  Also students' progress reports, including:
Allen Giles: The International Light and Magic Stock Elements collection.
Oct 27: Clifford LYNCH: Reports of recent developments.
  Also students' progress reports, including: Joan GARVIN & Deborah RANDOLPH: Cross disciplinary multi-media Web displays. Alvin KURNIAWAN: An analysis of Data Mining in e-commerce. Kirsten SWEARINGEN: Disintermediation in the news media.
Nov 3: Roger SUMMIT: DIALOG as a Case Study in the Development of a Commercial Online Service; and Current Trends. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/summit2.htm.
Nov 10: Veteran's Day: No seminar.
Nov 17: Fred Gey, UCDATA: Recent Developments in Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Nov 24: Thanksgiving: No seminar.
Dec 1: Lincoln CUSHING: Protecting Digital Images on the Web.
  Clifford LYNCH: Open Archives Initiative, Metadata Harvesting & other Recent Developments.
Dec 8: Seminar postponed to Dec 15.
Dec 15: Students' Reports:
- Bibi EPHRAIM: Medical Information for and from sub-Saharan Africa.
- Joan GARVIN & Deborah RANDOLPH: Multi-media Displays of Information.
- Alvin KURNIAWAN: Data Mining: Knowledge Finding in Information Access.
- Kirsten SWEARINGEN: The New News Intermediaries.
  The Seminar will resume on January 19.
Spring 2000 schedule.   Spring 2001 schedule.