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Update 2002
The Annual Conference of the Aslib IT & Communications Special Interest
Group, Danbury Park, Chelmsford, Essex, 15 - 17 May 2002
Update yourself in key areas of science and technology:
Taxonomies ~ Competitive Intelligence ~ Digital Libraries ~ Making
Yourself Essential ~ Semantic Web ~ E-Books ~ Information for Distance
Learners
Programme:
Wednesday 15th May 2002
Wednesday Evening:
Taxonomies are (probably) here to stay
Alan Gilchrist,
Senior Associate Consultant, TFPL Ltd
It is probably now accepted that taxonomies are new retrieval and
navigation tools; and while they have some aspects in
common with both classifications and thesauri, are fundamentally
different. The plural form is used here to indicate that
there are several different types of taxonomy, and that these will
develop further as new techniques and software tools
emerge. The next wave may involve ontologies, supported by taxonomic
components.
Thursday 15th May 2002
Thursday Morning
Competitive Intelligence for Information Professionals
Jonathan Gordon-Till, Information Manager (Research), Aon Consulting
(http://uk.aon.com)
Jonathan Gordon-Till will show how information professionals can build
Competitive Intelligence (CI) into their service,
and the strategic importance of CI for all organisations. As well as
showing how CI differs from traditional information
services, Jonathan will be examining the additional ethical issues
raised by this kind of research.
Making Digital Libraries Usable
Suzette Keith, Middlesex University
How can librarians see their web-sites through their users' eyes?
Suzette will describe how she has investigated the
usability issues of a large corporate digital library. Her research is
exploring the potential for known usability evaluation
techniques to identify these issues.
Thursday Afternoon
Essential, not just desirable.
Carol Ann Halliday. Emerald
Carol Ann will describe recent customer research at Emerald. Emerald has
been investigating what their readers thought
of their publications. The results of this research are now being used
to ensure their own journals seen as essential sources
of information safe from budget cuts. Although Carol Ann will be talking
from a publisher's perspective, her talk will have
direct relevance to librarians since they, too, need to be seen as
essential to their organisations if they are to flourish.
Semantic Web
Dave Beckett, Technical Researcher (Web Search Environments) Institute
for Learning and Research
Technology at University of Bristol
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web of pages written in
words for display in HTML, into a web of concepts and relationships
between them recorded in a way that can be read by software. These
concepts and relationships are identified by standard web URLs so that
they can be used and referred to by anyone, like for web pages.
This enables new tools and applications to manipulate, aggregate,
transform, use and reuse this recorded knowledge
better enabling people to locate, organise and share information.
Friday 17th May 2002
Friday Morning
E-Books in the real world
Hazel Woodward, University Librarian and Director of Cranfield
University Press
Hazel will discuss some of the issues involved in implementing E-Books,
based on her experience as Chair of the JISC/DNER Working Group. In a
period when economic realities must balance against technical promise,
what do librarians need to know when considering whether to offer
E-Books to their users?
Information Resources for Distance Learners
Sally Chambers, Electronic Library Project Coordinator, University of
London Library (http://www.ull.ac.uk/)
How can Virtual Library Services support remote users? Sally Chambers
will discuss the University of London Library's project to
develop a information and enquiry service via the internet for
potentially 28,000 students based in over 180 countries.
Key issues include access, authentication and ease of use.
Fees (No Vat Payable)
Aslib Members £359
Non-Members £419
(Fees include entry to the full Conference, including accomodation and
all meals, day rates are available on request).
Transport
Danbury Park is located about five miles from Chelmsford. Frequent
trains run from London Liverpool Street station. A
road map will be provided for delegates and there is ample car parking
space.
Facilities
Danbury Park Conference Centre is set in nine acres of gardens, with
adjoining parkland and lakes. Residential accommodation consists of 60
bedrooms, each with a private shower, direct dial phone, alarm radio and
tea and coffee making facilities.
Bookings
To book a place, or for further information, please contact:
Alison Matthews
92 Finchley Rd
Ipswich
IP4 2HT
Tel. 01473 417022
Fax 01473 417070
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Sally Patalong
Publicity, Aslib IT&C Group,
Lanchester Library
Frederick Lanchester Building
Coventry University
Gosford Street
Coventry CV1 5DD. Tel.: 024 7688 7537
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