School of Information Management & Systems .
 Formerly School of Library & Information Studies

  296a-1 Seminar: Information Access.
 ("The Friday Afternoon Seminar")
 Fall 2001 Schedule


Fridays 3-5. 107 South Hall. Instructors: Clifford Lynch and Michael Buckland. Schedule subject to change. Summaries of presentations.

Aug 31: Clifford LYNCH: Introduction: Overview of the Issues.
Sept 7: Michael BUCKLAND: Metadata Research Update.
Sept 14: Michael BUCKLAND: Discussion based on Ron Day's The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001).
Sept 21: Tom LEONARD, University Librarian: Strategic Planning and the Library.
    Also Clifford LYNCH will report on recent developments.
Sept 28: Avi RAPPOPORT, Search Tools Consulting, Integrating Question-Answering into Web Site Search. Also: Ruth MOSTERN, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, and Michael BUCKLAND: Designing Better Gazetteers.
Oct 5: Students Preliminary Reports:     Hua AI: Comparisons of Distributed Information Retrieval Protocols.     Margo E. DUNLAP: The Internet Archive: The vision of an Entrepreneur.     B. Hoon KANG: The Challenges and Solutions Toward the World of Self-Administrating Data.     Kyungmin KIM, Yueh-Ying HSU, Mengzhi HU: When MARC meets GIS.     Xiaojun PENG: Distributed Information Retrieval.
Oct 12: Mike KIM & Chan Jean LEE: Atypical product search.     Nan ZHOU: Search Engines for Online Stores.     David S. BLUNDELL, Taiwan National University: Creating an Austronesian Linguistic Atlas.
Oct 19: Marti HEARST: Incorporating Faceted Metadata into Web Site Search. See Flamenco
Oct 26: Nancy VAN HOUSE: Who do You Trust? Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects.
Nov 2: Mike KIM & Chan Jean LEE: Atypical product search: Lessons Learned and Future Work. Also: ByungHoon KANG: Hash-history based Approach for Management of Weakly Consistent Replicas.
Nov 9: Additional Students' Progress Reports:     Hua AI: Comparisons of Distributed Information Protocols.     Kyungmin KIM, Yueh-Ying HSU, Mengzhi HU: When MARC meets GIS.     Xiaojun PENG: Distributed Information Retrieval.
Friday Nov 16: Clifford LYNCH:Personalization in a Distributed Environment. See www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DelNoe02/index.html
    Also: Nan ZHOU: Search Engines for Online Stores; and Margo E. DUNLAP: Internet Archive: Documenting Ourselves to Death.
Nov 23: No seminar. Thanksgiving.
Friday Nov 30: Aitao CHEN and Ray LARSON: Retrieval Evaluation Conferences: TREC and CLEF.
Friday Dec 7: Students' Presentations.
    Margo E. DUNLAP: Internet Archive: Documenting Ourselves to Death.
    Nan ZHOU: A Study on Search Engines.
    Xiaojun PENG: Distributed Information Retrieval Client-Server Model.
    Kyungmin KIM, Yueh-Ying HSU, Mengzhi HU: When MARC meets GIS.
    Hua AI: Distributed Computing and the Design of CHESHIRE.
    ByungHoon KANG: Harnessing P2P for multiple writers: Challenges and Solutions.
    Mike KIM & Chan Jean LEE: Combining multiple information resources to provide a more unified search capability.
Summaries of Fall 2001 presentations. Spring 2001 schedule and Summaries. Spring 2002 schedule and Summaries.