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ASIS Annual: Knowledge Creation, Organization & Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hill)
Mon Aug 9 20:04:01 1999
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:05:14 -0600
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ASIS 1999 ANNUAL MEETING
"KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION and USE"
October 31 - November 4, 1999
Washington, DC, Conference Hotel: JW Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue
Programs are being mailed, by why wait? It's all online at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM99/ Register online (secure form) or
print the form and fax/mail. For further information call (301) 495-0900.
Over 60 sessions, 2 plenaries, 6 pre-conferences,
and 236 individual presentations! Programming time has expanded. PLenary
starts at 2:00 pm on SUNDAY, October 31
The Technical Program is organized around five tracks:
* KNOWLEDGE Discovery, Capture and Creation: capturing tacit
knowledge, data mining, expert directories...
* CLASSIFICATION and Representation: Metadata, information
visualization, taxonomies, clustering, indexing...
* Information RETRIEVAL: Search engine design, evaluation,
navigation, browsing vs. searching...
* Knowledge DISSEMINATION: Communication, publishing, push vs. pull...
* Ethical, Cultural, Social and BEHAVIORAL Aspects: policies &
politics, knowledge seeking behavior, rights tracking, ...
PLENARIES:
* Knowledge Management: Harnessing the Human Dynamic.
Tom Sudman, President and Founder, Digital AV
* Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
Summary and discussion of a report to be released by the
National Academy's Computer Science & Telecommunications Board.
PRE-CONFERENCES:
* Information Product Development: Enabling Knowledge-based
Systems (2 day seminar/workshop: 10/29 & 10/30)
* Practical Text Mining (10/29)
* Thesauri for Indexing and Retrieval (10/29)
* Intro to XML (10/30)
* Metadata for Digital Libraries (10/30)
* Second Generation Intranet Development (10/30)
SEE YOU IN DC!
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Richard Hill
American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 495-0900
FAX: (301) 495-0810
http://www.asis.org
