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LISA III Conference Program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ESO Garching Librarian)
Fri Mar 27 20:24:05 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:03:26 -0600
From: ESO Garching Librarian <esolib@eso.org>
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The third international conference on
Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA III)
will be held in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, from April 21-24,
1998. The conference is partially supported by the European Union under
its programme of "Euroconferences" and will be hosted by the Instituto de
Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).
LISA III will provide an opportunity for librarians, publishers, and
scientists to examine the current state of the art of information
maintenance, delivery, and preservation, as well as to learn from invited
experts the directions in which our profession is moving. The conference
includes invited and contributed presentations, panel discussions and a
poster session. Enclosed please find the detailed program. The proceedings
will be published in the ASP (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
Conference Series <http://www.aspsky.org/html/confser/forthcoming.html>
and in electronic format on the World Wide Web.
Further information about the LISA III conference as well as registration
and accommodation forms are available at
http://www.iac.es/biblio/lisa/
Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the
organizers at lisa3@iac.es or one of the undersigned.
Uta Grothkopf and Sarah Stevens-Rayburn
<esolib@eso.org> <library@stsci.edu>
on behalf of the LISA III Scientific Organizing Committee
LISA III Program
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Tuesday, April 21, 1998
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9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 9:30 Conference overview (U. Grothkopf, ESO, Germany)
9:30 - 10:15 A. Okerson (Yale Univ., USA):
Managing change gracefully in an unruly environment: Traditional
library services and values in a
digital information environment.
(Keynote)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee / Posters
Session: US AND THEM: SO WHAT DO YOU WANT?
(moderator - M. Cummins, Univ. Toronto, Canada)
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10:45 - 11:15 M. Cummins (Univ. Toronto, Canada):
The symbiotic relationship: assessing user needs
11:15 - 11:45 H. Andernach (Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico):
User requirements: an astronomer's wishlist
11:45 - 12:15 V. Vasylyev (Inst. Radio Astron., Ukraine):
Following the road to effective sharing of
information: an end-user's view
12:15 - 12:45 B. Corbin (USNO, USA):
Helping the astronomer stay up-to-date
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch / Posters
Session: "ROBOTS R US": AUTOMATED INFORMATION DISCOVERY
(moderator - R. Albrecht, ST-ECF, Germany)
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14:15 - 14:45 F. Murtagh (Univ. Ulster, Northern Ireland):
Toolsets for handling online literature
14:45 - 15:15 S. Lesteven (Obs. Astron. Strasbourg, France):
Information extraction: New developments in
astronomical information retrieval for electronic
publications
15:15 - 15:45 J. Mothe (Univ. Toulouse, France):
Information mining in astronomical literature
with TETRALOGIE
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee / Posters
16:15 - 16:45 D. Dubin (Univ. Illinois, USA):
Addressing the heterogeneity of subject indexing
in the ADS databases
16:45 - 17:15 R. Albrecht (ST-ECF, Germany):
Knowledge discovery in literature databases
17:15 - 17:45 M. Cummins (Univ. Toronto, Canada):
The Astronomy Thesaurus and UDC -- present and
future (group discussion for users and potential users)
Wednesday, April 22, 1998
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Session: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: THE FUTURE IS NOW?
(OR VAPORWARE) (moderator - S. Stevens-Rayburn, ST ScI, USA)
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9:00 - 9:30 P. Boyce (AAS, USA):
The Urania coalition, a discipline-wide
interconnected resource
9:30 - 10:00 G. Youngen (Univ. Illinois, USA):
Citation patterns of electronic preprints in
the astrophysics literature
10:00 - 10:30 R. Hanisch (ST ScI, USA):
Incorporating electronic preprints into an
effective publishing system
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Posters
Session: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: REALITY CHECK
(moderator - B. Corbin, US Naval Obs., USA)
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11:00 - 11:30 U. Grothkopf (ESO, Germany):
Electronic publications and libraries --
issues to consider
11:30 - 12:00 A. Okerson (Yale Univ., USA):
Licensing and copyright issues in the
electronic environment
12:00 - 12:30 E. Owens (Univ. Chicago Press, USA):
Archiving electronic journals
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch / Posters
Session: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: TOOLS FOR UNLOCKING THE INTERNET
(moderator - H. Andernach, Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico)
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14:00 - 14:30 D. Rusch-Feja (Max Planck Institute for Human
Development, Germany):
Metadata -- standards for retrieving WWW documents
14:30 - 15:00 P. Poincot (Obs. Astron. Strasbourg, France):
Comparison of two "document similarity
search engines"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
Session: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: COHABITATION OF CITATIONS AND
FULL-TEXT?
(moderator - P. Boyce, AAS, USA)
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15:30 - 17:30 Linking References and Citations: Secondary Services
Facilitate Interoperability of Electronic Resources.
Panel discussion.
Panelists: A. Dixon (IoP, USA)
G. Eichhorn (ADS, USA)
E. Owens (Univ. Chicago Press, USA)
17:30 - 18:00 Poster session
20:15 Aperitif
20:30 Conference banquet
Thursday, April 23, 1998
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Session: USE AND ABUSE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
(moderator - U. Grothkopf)
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9:00 - 9:30 S. Stevens-Rayburn (ST ScI, USA) &
E. Bouton (NRAO, USA):
"If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist at all".
Electronic information resources -- myth and reality
9:30 - 10:00 V. Mata-Acosta (Inst. Astron., UNAM, Mexico):
Bibliometric behavior of the Revista Mexico de
Astronomia y Astrofisica (1989-1995)
10:00 - 10:30 W. Claspy (Case Western Reserve Univ., USA):
Information use in astronomy
10:30 - 11:00 J. Holmquist (Princeton Univ., USA):
Survey on use of electronic journals at
Princeton (1997)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee / Posters
Session: WHO NEEDS ALL THIS OLD STUFF?
(moderator - P. Hingley, RAS, UK)
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11:30 - 13:00 Historical documents for
- Real science
- History of astronomy
- Popularisation and teaching
Speakers: M. Hoskin (Editor, J. Hist. Astron.,
Churchill College, UK)
J. Beckman (IAC, Spain) [tentative]
P. Hingley (RAS, UK)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch / Posters
Session: WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THAT I CAN USE?
(moderator - E. Lastovica, SAAO, South Africa)
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14:30 - 15:00 K. Robertson (Univ. Hawaii, USA):
A clearinghouse for astronomy librarians:
the PAM Web site
15:00 - 15:30 I. Sens (State and Univ. Lib. Lower Saxony, Germany):
The SSG-S project - document delivery service
for astronomy, astrophysics and space research:
a function of a Sondersammelgebiet (special collection)
15:30 - 16:00 M. Vallet & A. Accary (Obs. Paris-Meudon, France):
CADIST astronomie: acquisition and distribution of
scientific and technical information in astronomy in
France
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee
16:15 - 16:45 A. Vagiswari (Indian Inst. Astrophys., India):
Networking of astronomy libraries and resource
sharing in India
16:45 - 17:30 J. Regan (MSSSO, Australia) &
S. Laloe (Obs. Astron. Strasbourg, France):
Open Forum on "Optimizing communication amongst
astronomy librarians in the digital age"
17:30 Closing
List of Abbreviations:
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AAS American Astronomical Society
ADS Astrophysics Data System
ESO European Southern Observatory
IAC Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
IoP Institute of Physics Publishing
ISI Institute for Scientific Information
MSSSO Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Pbservatories
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
RAS Royal Astronomical Society
SAAO South African Astronomical Observatory
ST-ECF Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
ST ScI Space Telescope Science Institute
USNO U.S. Naval Observatory
