electronic publication

Tue Apr 25 10:40:34 CDT 1995

Here's a rather long posting which those of you following this thread may
be interested in, as this conference *directly* relates to what is being
done presently with electronic publication:

>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:10:56 +0600
>Sender: bene at straylight.tamu.edu
>From: leland at straylight.tamu.edu (Leland Ellis)
>Subject: Digital Libraries '95: Advance program and registration info
>
>               Preliminary Program and Registration Information
>
>                             DIGITAL LIBRARIES '95
>
>                    The Second International Conference on
>                 the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
>
>                               June 11-13, 1995
>                              Austin, Texas, USA
>
>For the second year, this conference will bring together a multidisciplinary
>group, including computer scientists, librarians, and social scientists, to
>discuss technical and social developments and research results in digital
>libraries.
>
>Conference Highlights
>
>- Papers from leading research groups on the design, implementation, and use of
>  digital libraries
>
>- Keynote address, "Defining Digital Libraries: From Prototypes to Operational
>  Products," by Clifford Lynch, Director, Library Automation, University of
>  California
>
>- Expert forums featuring and encouraging conference-wide discussions with
>  experts in the areas of
>        - Naming documents on the Internet
>        - Digital libraries and intellectual property
>        - User-centered design and evaluation
>
>                           For information contact:
>
>Digital Libraries '95
>Hypermedia Research Laboratory
>Department of Computer Science
>Texas A&M University
>College Station, TX  77843-3112
>
>Phone:   409-862-3217
>Fax:     409-847-8578
>Email:   DL95 at bush.cs.tamu.edu
>http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl95/README.html
>
>                                 Sponsored by:
>
>     Center for the Study of Digital Libraries and the Hypermedia Research
>                       Laboratory, Texas A&M University
>  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Texas
>                                  at Austin.
>     W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences and
>                       Technology, Texas A&M University
>
>                             In cooperation with:
>              ACM SIGLINK, SIGBIT, SIGCAPH, SIGCUE, SIGIR, SIGOIS
>                American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
>                    Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
>                            Knowledge Systems, Inc.
>                              Syracuse University
>                        Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
>
>                             Preliminary  Schedule
>                             Digital Libraries '95
>                               June 11-13, 1995
>                                 Austin, Texas
>
>Sunday June 11, 1995
>
>12:00 N  -  1:30 PM     Registration (Mezzanine)
>
> 1:30 PM -  3:00 PM     Expert forum one: Naming on the Internet
>                        Organized by Bill Arms, CNRI
>
> 3:00 PM -  3:30 PM     Break
>
> 3:30 PM -  5:00 PM     Paper session one
>
>        Delivering Technology for Digital Libraries:  Experiences as Vendors
>        W. T. Crocca and W. L. Anderson, Xerox Corporation, Fairport, NY
>
>        InterPay:  Managing Multiple Payment Mechanisms in Digital Libraries
>        Steve B. Cousins, Steven P. Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke,
>        Hector Garcia-Molina, Scott W. Hassan, and Martin Roescheisen,
>        Stanford University, Stanford, CA
>
>        Providing Government Information on the Internet:  Experiences with
>        THOMAS
>        W. B. Croft and R. Cook, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
>        D. Wilder and H. Becker, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
>
>        A New Zealand Digital Library for Computer Science Research
>        Ian H. Witten, Sally Jo Cunningham, and Mahendra Vallabh,
>        University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
>        Timothy C. Bell, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
>
> 6:00 PM -  7:00 PM     Reception
>
> 7:00 PM -  9:00 PM     Banquet/Keynote
>
>        Clifford Lynch
>        Director of Library Automation, University of California
>
>        Defining Digital Libraries:  From Prototypes to Operational Products
>
>Monday June 12, 1995
>
> 8:00 AM -  8:30 AM     Continental Breakfast
>
> 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM     Paper session two
>
>        Cataloging in the Digital Order
>        David M. Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
>
>        Collection Maintenance in the Digital Library
>        Mark S. Ackerman and Roy T. Fielding, University of California,
>        Irvine, CA
>
>        Requirements for the Digital Research Library
>        Peter S. Graham, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ
>
>        Management of the NHSE---a Virtual Distributed Digital Library
>        Shirley Browne, University of Tennessee
>        Jack Dongarra and Tom Rowan, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge
>        National Lab
>        Ken Kennedy, Rice University
>
>10:00 AM - 10:30 AM     Break
>
>10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon   Paper session three
>
>        Digital Library Research at Loughborough:  the last 15 years
>        Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University of Technology, UK
>
>        User Needs Assessment and Evaluation for the UC Berkeley Electronic
>        Environmental Library Project
>        Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley, CA
>
>        A Hypertextual Interface for a Searcher's Thesaurus
>        Eric H. Johnson and Pauline A. Cochrane, University of Illinois at
>        Urbana-Champaign
>
>        Automatic Extraction of Hypermedia Bundles from the Digital Library
>        Hugh Davis and jessie Hey, The University of Southampton, UK
>
>12:00 N  -  1:30 PM     Lunch (on your own)
>
> 1:30 PM -  3:00 PM     Expert forum two: Digital Libraries and Intellectual
>                        Property
>                        Organized by Pamela Samuelson, U. Pittsburgh
>
> 3:00 PM -  3:30 PM     Break
>
> 3:30 PM -  5:00 PM     Paper session four
>
>        Automatic Creation and Maintenance of an Organizational Spatial
>        Metadata and Document Digital Library
>        Charles Kacmar and Dean Jue, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
>        David Stage, State of Florida
>        Christie Koontz, Florida State University
>
>        Use of Z39.50 to Search and Retrieve Spatially-referenced Data
>        Douglas D. Nebert, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
>        James Fullton, Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery
>        and Retrieval, Research Triangle Park, NC
>
>        Enhancing Usability of Network-based Library Information
>        System---Experimental Studies on User Interfaces of OPAC and
>        Collaboration Tool for Library Services
>        Shigeo Sugimoto, Seki Gotou, Yanchuan Zhao, Tetsuo Sakaguchi,
>        and Koichi Tabata, University of Library and Information Science,
>        Japan
>
>        Early Prototypes of the Repository for Patterned Injury Data
>        Prasun Dewan, Kevin Jeffay, John Smith, and David Stotts,
>        University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>        William Oliver, Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC
>
>Tuesday June 13, 1995
>
> 8:00 AM -  8:30 AM     Continental Breakfast
>
> 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM     Paper session five
>
>        Digital Libraries and Sustainable Development
>        Amanda Spink, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
>
>        Using Online Information Resources:  Reaching for the *.*'s
>        Roberta Lamb, University of California, Irvine
>
>        Digital Libraries:  Issues and Architectures
>        Peter J. Nuernberg, Richard Furuta, John J. Leggett,
>        Catherine C. Marshall, and Frank M. Shipman III,
>        Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
>
>10:00 AM - 10:30 AM     Break
>
>10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon   Expert forum three:  Studying Digital Library Use and
>                        Users
>                        Organized by Ann Bishop, U. Illinois
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>REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
>
>Name:
>
>Address:
>
>Email:
>
>Phone:
>
>Fax:
>
>Name and affiliation for badge (if different from above):
>
>
>Registration (Includes banquet, sessions, panels, and proceedings):
>
>Registration      $155.00
>
>Extra Proceedings $ 20.00 (after conference $25.00)
>
>Total $ ________
>
>I will pay my conference registration by:
>
>MasterCard
>Visa
>American Express
>
>Credit Card Number:
>
>Exp. Date:
>
>Name as it appears on card:
>
>Signature:
>
>Please make check or money order (in U.S. dollars drafted on a U.S. bank)
>payable to "TEES" and return to:
>
>Digital Libraries '95
>Hypermedia Research Laboratory
>Department of Computer Science
>Texas A&M University
>College Station, TX  77843-3112
>
>Phone:   409-862-3217
>Fax:     409-847-8578
>Email:   DL95 at bush.cs.tamu.edu
>http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl95/README.html
>
>Hotel
>
>The conference will be held at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas.  The
>deadline for hotel reservations is May 21, 1995.
>
>The Driskill
>6th and Brazos Streets
>Austin, Texas  78701
>Telephone:  1-800-252-9367 or 512-474-5911
>Fax:  512-474-2214
>
>Rates:  Single $65, Double $95, Triple $105, Quad $115.

Doug Yanega      Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr.
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