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
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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