Advances
in Classification Research, Volume 12 Proceedings of
annual ASIST workshop are published
January
8, 2004, Medford, New Jersey—Information
Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced
the publication of Advances
in Classification Research,
Volume 12, comprising the proceedings
of the 12th annual American
Society for Information Science
and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR
classification workshop. The
volume is the latest release
in the ASIST Monograph Series—a
scholarly series published
by ITI on behalf of ASIST.
Beginning with the keynote
presentation by Professor Dagobert
Soergel of the College of Information
Studies, University of Maryland,
Advances for Classification
Research, Volume 12 includes
all the papers presented at
the workshop, which was held
in Washington, D.C. on November
4, 2001. Each paper concludes
with a transcript of the question-and-answer
session and discussion that
followed the live presentation.
The papers presented at the
workshop and included in the
new volume are:
• “The Many Uses
of Classification: Enriched
Thesauri, Ontologies, and Taxonomies
as Knowledge Sources,” by
Dagobert Soergel
• “Facilitating
Retrieval of Fiction Works
in Online Catalogs,” by
Allyson Carlyle and Sara
Ranger
• “Constructing
an Ontology for WWW Summarization
in Bone Marrow Transplantation
(BMT),” by Brigitte
Endres-Niggemeyer, Bernd
Hertenstein, Claudia
Villiger, and Carsten Ziegert
• “Defining Clinical
Similarity Among ICD-9-CM Diagnosis
Codes: Diagnosis Cluster Schemes,” by
Stephanie W. Haas, Debbie
A. Travers, Anna E. Waller,
Brian
Hilligoss, Molly Cahill,
and Patricia F. Pearce
• “Multilevel
Approaches to Concepts and
Formal Ontologies,” by
Uta Priss
• “Layers of
Meaning: Disentangling Subject
Access Interoperability,” by
Joseph T. Tennis
The volume, edited by associate
professor Efthimis N. Efthimiadis,
includes a preface by the
editor and a comprehensive
index. Efthimiadis, of The
Information School at the
University of Washington,
is also the editor of Volume
8 in the series.
“The rationale for the
workshop from the beginning
has been to showcase the multidisciplinary
bases of classification research,” Efthimiadis
said. “The diversity
of viewpoints represented in
these papers successfully continues
this tradition.”
Advances in Classification
Research, Volume 12 (136 pp/softbound/$31.60
ASIST member/$39.50 nonmember/ISBN:
1-57387-198-2) is published
by Information Today, Inc.
on behalf of the American Society
for Information Science and
Technology (ASIST). For more
information or to order, contact
the publisher directly at (800)
300-9868 [outside the U.S.
call (609) 654-6266]; fax (609)
654-4309; e-mail custserv@infotoday.com;
or log on to the ITI Web site
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