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.