School of Information Management & Systems
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
296a-1
Seminar: Information Access. Fall 1998.
Instructors:
Clifford Lynch and
Michael Buckland
3 units. CCN# 42733. Fridays 3-5. 107 South Hall.
or (510) 642 3159.
Aug 28: Clifford LYNCH: Introduction. Recent developments.
Sept 4: Clifford LYNCH: Recent developments (Cont.).
Sept 11: Jacek PURAT: North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board Library Usability Study.
Also: Michael BUCKLAND: The Landscape of Information Management.
Sept 18: Jon BOSAK, Sun Microsystems: XML: The Universal Publishing Format.
(Jointly with the The Townsend Working Group for Computers and the Humanities).
Sept 25: Bernd FROHMANN, Univ. of Western Ontario:
Epistemology versus Practice: How to think about the formal literature
of science.
Oct 2: Marie TEIXIERA: Introduction of an online
information system into a computer company support center.
Students'
topics.
Lin EVERSTZ, School of Education, & Michael BUCKLAND:
A "Teacher's
Curriculum Workstation"?
Oct 9:
Guest: Ben GROSS,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana;
Clifford LYNCH: Recent developments; and
Michael BUCKLAND: Update
on "A Teacher's Virtual Curriulum Worskstation."
Oct 16: Aitao CHEN & Barbara NORGARD: Computational
Linguistics and Information Retrieval, incl.
report on COLING-ACL'98
(International Conference on Computational Linguistics).
Jason CHANG, Taiwan: A Concept-based adaptive approach to word
sense disambiguation.
Oct 23: No seminar meeting.
Oct 30: Kazuaki KISHIDA, Howard Besser & Michael BUCKLAND:
Reports on the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting.
Nov 6: Daniel McMAHON: Public Library websites & Michael ROBERTS: Intranets.
Nov 13: John KUNZE, UCSF & National Library of Medicine: Evaluating
persistent identifier schemes, e.g. URNs, DOIs, PURLs.
Nov 20: Chair Ray LARSON: Aitao CHEN, Fred GEY, Ray LARSON: Report on TREC and CIKM.
Nov 27: THANKSGIVING. No meeting.
Dec 4: Chair Clifford LYNCH: Avi RAPPOPORT:
Web Site Search Tools: How to Choose the Best One for You.
Jacek PURAT on Geographical Information Systems.
To be rescheduled: Frank OLKEN and John McCARTHY, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Databases on the Web: The Role
of Metadata and Data Registries.
Spring
1998 schedule.
Spring
1999 schedule.