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_Brave New Word: Navigating Meaning in Digital Collections_
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Tue Aug 18 20:23:35 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:38:03 -0500
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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_Brave New Word:
Navigating Meaning in Digital Collections_
For a survey article I am currently preparing,
I would great appreciate learning of current efforts that
are investigating the application of thesauri or like systems of
Managed Conceptual Navigation for enhanced access
to Web/Net resources.
I am interested in services that have applied
controlled vocabulary in an indexing/cataloging process
for Web collection such as the Scout Report Signpost
(http://www.signpost.org/) or OMNI (http://omni.ac.uk/umls/)
as well as Web-accessible commercial databases that employ
versatile vocabulary access and manipulation
(e.g., NISC [http://wwww.nisc.com]).
I am greatly interested in alternative
presentation of thesauri (e.g., Xia Lin's
SiteMap SOM application to INSPEC descriptors
[http://lislin.gws.uky.edu/Sitemap/Sitemap.html] =20
or the visual thesaurus of Plumb Design
[http://www.plumbdesign.com].
I am most particularly interested in learning about the
availability of key reports and most importantly, copies of
papers prepared or in preparation for the forthcoming ISKO
and ASIS conferences that relate to Thesauri.
As always, Any Contributions, Comments, Queries, Critiques,
or Questions, etc. are Most Welcome!
Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
and
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It! / Alan Kay =
=20
