[12388] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
_Brave New Word: Navigating Meaning in Digital Collections_ -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (GAYLE PALMER)
Thu Aug 20 20:04:40 1998
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:57:05 -0500
From: GAYLE PALMER <GPALMER@statelib.wa.gov>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Gerry: I believe you may be aware of Washington State's Government
Information Locator Service program (http://www.wa.gov/wsl/gils.htm)
and our Find-It! Washington site at (http://find-it.wa.gov) from earlier
communications with project director Phillip Coombs. We are using a
controlled vocabulary (http://www.wa.gov/wsl/gils/gilstree.htm) in
connection with the WAGILS attribute set
(http://www.wa.gov/wsl/gils/metadesc.htm).
Currently WAGILS participating government organizations have indexed
2513 web pages using our attributes. We also have used the controlled
vocabulary to automatically classify about 35,000 pages based on
content recognised by our robot spiders. For example look at
(http://www.wa.gov:80/sec/voting.htm) this page has been metatagged
with WAGILS attributes, see the document source. It also is automatically
classified under the category "Voting, Elections:Voting, voter
registration" by our grapeVine software.
Please contact the WAGILS technician, Mike Nelson,
mnelson@statelib.wa.gov with questions about the mechanics of the
program.
Gayle Palmer, WAGILS Program Manager
Washington State Library
360/704-5210
gpalmer@statelib.wa.gov
>>> Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> 08/18/98
12:38pm >>>
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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]
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
