Day 2: Wednesday, May 15
Breakfast with Barbara
8:15 AM - 8:45 AM
Barbara Quint, outspoken online champion and editor of Searcher: The
Magazine for Database Professionals, will enlighten and entertain her
early morning audience with comments and observations on the state of
the database universe. Enjoy some coffee and danish while listening to
one of the most knowledgeable and colorful personalities in the world
of online information.
Plenary Session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
The Serious Information Explorer's Not-So-Serious Guide to the Web:
Will it Change Your World or Just Make You Way Cooler?
- Bob Duffy, Strategic Communications
- Jenny Yacovissi, Communication & Systems Specialists, Inc.
- Chair: Martha E. Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tutorial
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
- What You Always Wanted to Know About In-House CD-ROM Recording
- Péter Jascó, University of Hawaii
- The price of the hardware and system software needed for in-house
CD-ROM recording just reached the magic $999 street price level at the
end of 1995. The technology has become so reliable and affordable
that in-house creation of a CD-ROM database, or archiving of
mega-files on CD-ROM, can be as easy as making file backup to magnetic
media -- if you know what features to look for. This workshop will
explain the meaning and importance of multisession, incremental and
hybrid recording, transfer speed, buffer underrun prevention,
simulated burning, file staging and layout control that can make
in-house CD-ROM recording easy and painless.
Surfing, Searching, Browsing, and Retrieving on the Net
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
- Chair: Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
- Virtual Hypertext Searching of the Virtual World Wide Web
- Tamas Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine
- Cyberspace Cartography: Mapping Web Spaces
- Rory Stark, NetCarta Corp.
- Hierarchical Support for Browsing
- Caroline M. Eastman and John Rose, University of South Carolina
- Information Encountering on the Internet
- Sandra Erdelez, University of Texas at Austin
Product Reviews
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
- Taking Your Existing CD-ROM Applications onto the Internet with NetAnswer
- Bill Phelan, Dataware Technologies
- The Ovid Technologies Client/Server Solution: Sharing and Integrating Diverse Resources
- Bette Brunelle, Ovid Technologies
- CD-ROM and Online Integrated Products: The NewMedia Edge
- Brad Warnick, Metatec Corporation
- PacData Corporation Update
- Michael Jones, PacData Corporation
Product Reviews
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
- What's New at AP
- Lisa Bosik, Associated Press Information Services
- The Intelligent News Filter--Powerful Personalized News to the Desktop
- David Waxman, CompassWare Development, Inc.
- What's New at West
- Speaker to be announced, West Publishing
- Introducing FirstSearch via the World Wide Web
- Speaker to be announced, OCLC
Client/Servers & Integrating Technologies
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Chair: Davis McCarn, Online Information International, Inc.
- The Digital Library as a Personal Library
- Victor Rosenberg, Personal Bibliographic Software
- Client/Servers and IR
- Elizabeth Morley, SilverPlatter Information
- An Analyst's Desktop: Integrated Tools for Research Management
- Edwin R. Addison, Judith Feder, and Paul Nelson, Excalibur Technologies Corporation
Improving Reference Services and Searching on the Internet: Research
and Models
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Chair: David Raitt, The Electronic Library
- Internet-based Reference Services and the Community Library:
A Need for New Models and Strategies
- Sean Devine, Information Access Company
- The Internet Challenge Accepted
- Elisabeth Logan, Florida State University
- Modeling the Efficient Access of Full-Text Information
- Bob Kero et al., Argonne National Laboratory
- The Value versus Cost of Precision and Accuracy
- Don Wilson, Excalibur Technologies Corp.
Product Reviews
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- DataTimes Update
- Brad Watson, DataTimes
- NewsBank Product Update
- Chuck Palsho, NewsBank, Inc.
- The Chambers of Commerce's Electronic "Business Shopping Mall" in Cyberspace
- Georges Fischer, Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Data Conversion Technology Revolution--OCR Pricing/99.995% Accuracy
- Tom O'Brien, Apex Data Services, Inc.
Product Reviews
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- What's New at PsycINFO
- Charlotte D'Orsaneo, PsycINFO/American Psychological Association
- SilverPlatter Information Update
- Speaker to be announced, SilverPlatter Information
- General Reference Center
- Judy Horn, Information Access Company
- Congressional Quarterly, Inc. Update
- Diane Hill, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Tutorial
3:40 PM - 5:10 PM
- How to Select a Genuinely Multimedia PC
- Péter Jascó, University of Hawaii
- Databases that include top-notch multimedia elements require
high-quality, powerful hardware and system software resources to
display high-resolution images, play back hi-fi audio, and smooth
video. For an educated choice of the appropriate PC, you need to have
an understanding of what components have the most impact on multimedia
performance. Should it be a Pentium or a P-6 processor, or would an
Intel 486 running at 100 Mhz do? Do you need Windows '95 or will
Windows 3.1 suffice? Do quadruple speed CD-ROM drives really
guarantee smooth video playback? Can you expect decent performance
from software-only playback, or do you need to invest in an MPEG
board? Is a 17-inch monitor worth the extra over a 15-inch one?
Would a more expensive speaker produce better sound quality? The
workshop will discuss these and similar questions.
Improving Retrieval Through Indexing, Classifying and Using Thesauri for Internet and Other Net-Based Resources
3:40 PM - 5:10 PM
- Chair: Ev Brenner, Consultant
- Yahoos and Houyhnhnms: Order and Disorder on the Internet
- Geoffrey W. McKim, Indiana University
- Generous Tools: Thesauri in Digital Libraries
- Celia D. Shapiro, The MITRE Corporation
- Machine-Aided Indexing: European Parliament Study and Results
- Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.
Richard Hainebach, EPMS bv Ellis Publications
- Varieties of Access: A Comparison of Databases Available via Z39.50, CD-ROM, and FirstSearch
- Gregory A. Crawford, Penn State Harrisburg
Product Reviews
3:40 PM - 5:10 PM
- Online Access to Japan and Asia
- Jennifer L. Vazzane, Nikkei America
- McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Onine Update
- Speaker to be announced, McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online
- IAC Express
- Eric Swartz, Information Access Company
- Oxbridge Communications Update
- Speaker to be announced, Oxbridge Communications
Product Reviews
3:40 PM - 5:10 PM
- What's New at CorpTech
- Speaker to be announced, CorpTech
- New Directions in Electronic Publishing
- Barry Rutizer, Economist Intelligence Unit
- The Freedonia Group, Inc.--Providing Essential Market Research Online
- Ramune Kubiliunas, Freedonia Group, Inc.
- LIVEDGARAccess to EDGAR Filings
- Phillip Brown, Global Securities Information, Inc.
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