School of Information Management & Systems
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
296a-1
Seminar: Information Access. Spring 1999.
Instructors:
Clifford Lynch and
Michael Buckland
3 units. CCN# 42742. Fridays 3-5. 107 South Hall.
or (510) 642 3159.
Jan 22: First seminar meeting: Michael BUCKLAND: Introduction.
Discussion on the research possibilities of the topic
"Cultural Identity and Information Technology."
Jan 29: Andrew ODLYZKO, AT&T Labs - Research: Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals.
Feb 5: Fred GEY & Clifford LYNCH: Report on the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences, Jan 1999. www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
Also Clifford LYNCH: Recent developments: Identifiers and metadata,
ebooks, and the funding picture.
Feb 12: Michael BUCKLAND: Update on the DARPA project on Access to
Unfamiliar Metadata.
Feb 19: Clifford LYNCH: The NSF-ERCIM project; and more on metadata.
Feb. 26: Jocelyn BERGEN: Octavo Digital Rare Books.
Mar 5: Fred GEY: Japanese and Japanese-English retrieval.
Clifford LYNCH: Recent developments.
Mar 12: Michael BUCKLAND: Robert Gitler and the Founding of the Japan Library School.
Mar 19: John KUNZE, NLM & UCSF: Metadata.
Mar 26: Spring Break.
Apr 2: Frank OLKEN and John McCARTHY, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory: Databases on the Web:
The Role of Metadata and Data Registries.
Apr 9: Prof Ellen LIU, National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan.
Library and Information Science
Programs in Taiwan.
Apr 16: Fred GEY, UCDATA: Cross-language Information Retrieval:
An Overview of Approaches and Research Problems.
Apr 23: Hui-Min CHEN: An Introduction to Intelligent Agents.
Avi RAPPOPORT: Search Engines and Beyond:
Report on Infornortics conference.
See
http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/boston99.html
Apr 30:
Maxine BRODIE, State Library of New South Wales:
Internet access,
client-focused content,
and renewing a sense of place.
Michael BUCKLAND: Short report: Developments in patent classification.
May 7: Last Friday of instruction: Pamela PRESCOTT: Knowledge Management.
July 19: Ronald ROUSSEAU, Belgium: Informetrics: Problems in counting;
Percolation theory.
Aug 4: Steve LAWRENCE, Research Scientist, NEC Research
Laboratory:
Indexing Scientific Literature on the Web.
Fall
1998 schedule.
Fall
1999 schedule.