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ICCC/IFIP CONFERENCE on ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING 97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fytton Rowland)
Wed Jan 8 21:02:33 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 18:47:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Fytton Rowland <J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk>
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ICCC/IFIP CONFERENCE on ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING =9197
New Models and Opportunities
14-16 April 1997 - The University of Kent at Canterbury
Advance Programme and Registration Form
The ICCC (International Computer Communications Council) in=20
conjunction with IFIP (International Federation for Information=20
Processing) is pleased to announce a new conference on Electronic=20
Publishing to be held at the University of Kent at Canterbury,=20
14-16 April 1997. The title of this year=92s conference is=20
Electronic Publishing - New Models and Opportunities. There will=20
be two parallel streams: one on technical issues; and the other=20
on socio-economic issues. There will also be plenary sessions=20
for papers and discussions that cover the whole of electronic=20
publishing.
A major underlying theme of the conference is the promotion of an=20
'exchange of experience' between the participants - especially=20
between academics researching in the area and publishers and=20
others with practical experience. All papers have been refereed=20
to ensure high quality.=20
We are particularly pleased to welcome our two invited speakers:=20
Professor David Brailsford, Department of Computer Science,=20
University of Nottingham, and Editor of the journal Electronic=20
Publishing; and Dr Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Research Labs, and=20
author of Tragic Loss or Good Riddance - The Demise of=20
Traditional Scholarly Journals.
Professor Jack Meadows of Loughborough University, Chairman of=20
the Programme Committee, said of the conference "We intend that=20
this conference be a stimulating experience, with a great deal=20
of cross fertilisation of ideas. The combination of practical=20
experience and the latest discoveries of academic research will=20
undoubtedly lead to new models of academic and other publication=20
in the near future."
Further information is available at the conference's WWW site,
http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC/index.html
Advance programme
Monday 14 April
1400 Opening of conference: Dr Pramode Verma, President, ICCC
Plenary session with keynote speakers:
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Professor David Brailsford, Department of Computer Science,=20
University of Nottingham, and Editor of the journal Electronic=20
Publishing; and Dr Andrew Odlyzko, Research Mathematician, AT&T=20
Research Labs, and author of Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? --=20
The Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals
Track 1 =20
1600 Approaches to electronic publishing (1)=20
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Dr Miles Ellis -- The role of electronic and publishing in the=20
development of international standards =20
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Lisa Freeman -- Lessons from the scholarly publishing arena --=20
why we still need publishers in the electronic age =20
Track 2
1600 Electronic journals -- technical factors
Dr Judith Wusteman -- The evolving use of SGML in electronic=20
journals
Steve Hitchcock -- Linking everything to everything -- publishing=20
myth or reality?
Tuesday 15 April
Track 1
0900 Approaches to electronic publishing (2)=20
Dr J. Scott Bentley -- The Image Directory, electronic publishing,=20
and the changing socioeconomic position of art museums =
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Christine Dugdale -- Information spoon-feeding in an electronic=20
environment =20
Track 2
0900 Electronic journals -- case studies
Professor Brian Whalley -- Developing a flexible structure for a=20
pure e-journal
Dr Jim Whitman -- A resource that contains a journal -- the first=20
two years of the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
Geoffrey Elliott -- Breaking the barriers of resistance to=20
electronic journal entry -- experiences of BIToday =20
Track 1 =20
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1100 Electronic publishing and readers =20
Nathalie Pinede -- Electronic publishing -- avatar or metamorphosis=20
for information access of university publics =20
John Buschman -- The challenges of electronic publishing -- a=20
critical and skeptical review =20
Track 2
1100 Technical specification (1)
Jacco van Ossenbruggen -- Stylesheet support for structured=20
hypermedia documents
Jaime Delgado -- Using multimedia document communication=20
services on top of T-120 protocols=20
Track 1
1400 Virtual libraries =20
Taylor Fitchett -- The librarian's role in building the virtual=20
library =20
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Arlene Moore Sievers -- The new virtual library and serials --=20
a kaleidoscope of options =20
Track 2
1400 Technical specification (2)
Anna Bruggemann-Klein -- Design by example -- a user-centered=20
approach for the specification of document layout
Michael Breu -- The McDoc distributed electronic library --=20
accounting and security aspects
Track 1
1600 Electronic services =20
Paula Kingston -- Issues for libraries, publishers and=20
subscription agents posed by the development of an electronic=20
short loan collection of high demand journal articles in a=20
university library
Line Poullet -- A semantic model for information retrieval in=20
documents -- an experiment with patient medical records=20
Track 2
1600 Electronic monitoring
Daniel Manchalla -- An intelligent arbitrator associate (IAA) for=20
electronic commerce
Nathalie Minard -- CopySMART -- a trusted monitoring system for=20
electronic works and documents
Wednesday 16 April
Track 1
0900 Subscription agents =20
Albert Prior -- Electronic intermediation -- new challenges for=20
the subscription agent =20
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Susan Hillson -- Roles in the new information age -- the evolution=20
of the superagent-library partnership =20
Carryl Allardyce -- Information management in the information age
Track 2
0900 Archives and electronic publishing
Agata Brusegan -- The VENetIan virtual archive project -- cultural=20
heritage and online publishing
Sylvie Calabretto -- Modelling a medieval manuscript database=20
with HyTime
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1100 Final plenary session
Reviews of the two channels by Professor Jack Meadows and Fytton=20
Rowland, both of the Department of Information and Library Studies,=20
Loughborough University
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ICCC/IFIP ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING CONFERENCE, 14-16 April 1997
University of Kent at Canterbury
REGISTRATION FORM
YOUR DETAILS
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We will send details later.
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CHARGES
Conference fee 200 UK Pounds or 50 UK Pounds/half day
Accommodation 14 April 60 UK Pounds inc. all meals =20
Accommodation 15 April 60 UK Pounds inc. all meals =20
Daytime meals (Non-residential ONLY) 15 UK pounds/half day =
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TOTAL PAYMENT: ..............
On-campus accommodation cannot be guaranteed for bookings received after 15=
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February
1997
The following cancellation charges will apply:
Cancellations received before 14 Feb 1997 - 10 UK pounds
Cancellations received between 14 Feb 1997 and 14 March 1997 - 45 UK pounds
Cancellations received after 14 March 1997 - 55 UK pounds
Method of payment -- delete as not applicable:
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