School of Information Management & Systems
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
296a-3
Seminar: Information Access.
("The Friday Afternoon Seminar")
Spring 2000 Schedule
3 units. CCN# 42742. Fridays 3-5. 107 South Hall.
Spring 2000 instructors:
Clifford Lynch and
Michael Buckland.
Schedule subject to change.
Summaries of presentations.
Inquiries to
buckland@sims.berkeley.edu
Friday Jan 21:
Clifford LYNCH: Introduction. Report on HICSS:
Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, Jan 2000. Also:
Authenticity and integrity in a digital environment.
Jan 28: Brett BUTLER, INFOUR Intellectual Property Development, Foster City:
AnswerBase and how we restructure a query to
get closer to users' needs - and get an answer, not just a
citation or a text.
Feb 4: Fredric GEY & Ray LARSON: TREC8: Report on the 8th Text Retrieval
Evaluation Conference.
Feb 11: Jack L. XU, Senior Manager, Search Technology Group,
Excite@Home Corp: Internet Search Engines: Real World IR Issues and Challenges.
Feb 18: Fred GEY, UCDATA; Steve LUSSIER; John McCARTHY, LBL & Frank OLKEN, LBL:
Open Forum on ISO 11179 Metadata Registries, Jan 17-21,
Santa Fe.
Feb 25: Richard GEIGER, Library Director, San Francisco Chronicle: From
"Morgue" to Electronic Publisher -- The Evolution of Newspaper Libraries.
Mar 3: Michel BIEZUNSKI, Infoloom, Paris, France:
The Topic Maps International Standard (ISO/IEC 13250:1999).
Topic Maps.
Welcome to
Topic Map Land.
Mar 10: Progress reports:
-- Lincoln CUSHING: "Call for Paper: Paper permanency developments.
-- Karthik IYER: The application of XML in the e-commerce arena.
-- Sridarshan KOUNDINYA: Ontologies.
-- Kathryn KADA & Steve LUSSIER.
Environmental Informatics Portal Prototype.
See draft at
www.sims.berkeley.edu/~slussier/newmain2.html.
Mar 17: Patricia BREIVIK, Dean of the University Library, San Jose State U.:
Two Changing Faces of Libraries: Information Literacy
and Joint Libraries.
Apr 7: Fred GEY:
New DARPA grant
"Translingual Information Management Using
Domain Ontologies" and
DARPA TIDES kick-off meeting:
Translingual
Information Detection,
Extraction and Summarization.
Apr 14: John L. OBER, UC Office of the President:
Applied Research and Technology Transfer for the California Digital Library.
Apr 21: Clifford LYNCH: Collaborative filtering, popularity based
notification, and "how hits happen."
Apr 28: Ray LARSON: Cross-Domain Resource Discovery:
Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial
Data.
See
http://cheshire.sims.berkeley
.edu/proposal.html
May 5:
Sridarshan KOUNDINYA: Ontologies.
the use of "ontology" in the sense of a metadata language, such as a thesaurus.
-- Also
Lincoln CUSHING: Modern Industrial Papermaking and its Consequences
for Librarians.
May 12:
Karthik IYER:
XML Applications and related technologies.
-- Also
Michael GEBBIE: Preliminary Research on
Subdomain Indexes
Special Vocabulary for Special Information Needs.
Fall 1999 schedule.
Fall 2000 schedule.