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In connection with the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries conference in
Santa Barbara, April 21-24 (http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/conferences/ADL98/)
there are two tutorials on the afternoon of Tuesday April 21st. Either
of these may be attended with or without registration at the full
conference.
The tutorials are:
(1) Building Geospatial Collections: Metadata Creation
/Ingest Procedures; and
(2) Software Agents for Information Retrieval.
The tutorial registration fee is $135 for
IEEE members and $165 for non-members.
Contact Melissa Mullen at [log in to unmask] to get your name on
the list for one of the tutorials. You may register and pay on-site.
Registration opens at noon on April 21st; the workshops are 1:30-5:30.
Here are descriptions of the two tutorials:
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TITLE: Building Geospatial Collections: Metadata Creation / Ingest
Procedures
INSTRUCTORS: Linda L. Hill and Mary L. Larsgaard
Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB
DESCRIPTION:
This tutorial will build on the basic principals of collection building
(selection, acquisition, metadata creation, object processing, and
quality control) to address in detail the characteristics of
georeferenced information objects. Collection building will be viewed
in terms of the purpose of the collection - who will use it and what
objects will be in it. The process of metadata design and creation
will be linked to the purposes of the activity - for retrieval, initial
evaluation for suitability, and access. Cataloging practices, concept
representation systems, and processing steps that are particularly
suited to spatial information representation will be reviewed. The
presenters will incorporate into the workshop the lessons learned from
building the collections for the Alexandria Digital Library.
Tutorial workbook will be provided.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Librarians, data center operators, and others who are creating
collections that contain georeferenced information objects such as
maps, aerial photos, remote sensing images, and georeferenced texts,
reports, articles, pictures, etc., both digital and hardcopy.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Linda L. Hill Computer Science / Alexandria
Digital Library Project 1205 Girvetz University of California, Santa
Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [log in to unmask]
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill Voice: 805-893-8587 Fax:
805-893-3045
Mary L. Larsgaard Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106
[log in to unmask] Voice: 805-893-4049 Fax: 805-893-8799
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. Linda L. Hill has a Ph.D. in library science from the University of
Pittsburgh. She has conducted research into the retrieval effectiveness
of spatial representations of geographic "aboutness" of earth science
research articles to the use of geographic names from established
thesauri. She has worked with georeferenced information as head of a
petroleum exploration and production research library, assistant
director of Petroleum Abstracts which indexes petroleum exploration and
production literature, consultant with the federal government's Global
Change Data and Information System, and as a research specialist with
the Alexandria Digital Library. She is also an active participant in
metadata-related standard activities.
Mary L. Larsgaard has an M.A. in library science from the University of
Minnesota, a M.A. in Geography from the University of Oregon, and a
B.A. in Geology from Macalester College. She is the author of "Map
Librarianship: An Introduction", now in its second edition. She is the
assistant director of the Map and Imagery Laboratory of the Davidson
Library at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the person
most directly responsible for the building of the Alexandria Digital
Library collection. She is also an active participant in the Dublin
Core and professional map librarian activities.
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TITLE: Software Agents for Information Retrieval
INSTRUCTORS:
Tim Finin and Charles Nicholas
University of Maryland Baltimore County
James Mayfield
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:
This tutorial will provide an introduction to software agents concepts
and technologies and their applications in information retrieval
systems and digital libraries. The tutorial will be divided into three
sections of roughly one hour each followed by a short conclusion.
The first will present concepts which underlie the software agents
paradigm and illustrate them with a range of example applications. The
second part will cover agent software architectures, agent
communication languages, and cooperation protocols. The third segment
will present a number of examples of agent-based information retrieval
systems and discuss the techniques used in them. Course material will
include hardcopy of presentation slides and additional material which
is available via the web at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/abir.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This tutorial is aimed at an general audience of practicing computer
scientists and managers of information technology R&D projects. We will
not assume any detailed knowledge of information retrieval or
artificial intelligence.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tim Finin
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250
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http://umbc.edu/~finin/
Voice: 410-455-3522, Fax: 410-455-3969
James Mayfield
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel MD 20732
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http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~mayfield/
Voice: 301-953-6944
Charles Nicholas
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250
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http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~nicholas/
Voice: 410-455-2594, Fax: 410-455-3969
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. Timothy W. Finin is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has had
over 25 years of experience in the applications of Artificial
Intelligence to problems in database and knowledge base systems,
intelligent information systems, natural language processing,
intelligent interfaces and robotics. He is currently working on the
development of technology to support intelligent information agents.
Prior to joining the UMBC, he was a Technical Director at the Unisys
Center for Advanced Information Technology, a member of the faculty of
the University of Pennsylvania, and on research staff of the MIT AI
Lab. He holds an SB degree in EE from MIT and a PhD in Computer Science
from the University of Illinois. Finin is the author of over one
hundred publications and has received research grants and contracts
from a variety of sources. He has been the past program chair and
general chair of the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for
Applications, the general chair of the first two ACM Conferences on
Information and Knowledge Management and the program co-chair of the
Second ACM Autonomous Agents conference. He is currently on the
editorial board of three journals. Finin is a former AAAI councilor and
AAAI's representative on the CRA board of directors.
Dr. Charles Nicholas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
He received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science
from The Ohio State University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He has
been at UMBC since August 1988. Nicholas served as the general chair of
the fourth and fifth ACM Conferences on Information and Knowledge
Management and Co-Chair of the 1996 Principles of Document Processing
Workshop. His areas of interest include information retrieval,
electronic document processing, and software engineering.
Dr. James Mayfield is an Associate Professor in the UMBC CSEE
Department currently on leave at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory. He received the A.B. degree from Harvard College in
1979. His Ph.D. degree in Computer Science was awarded by the
University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Mayfield's dissertation,
which was part of the Unix Consultant project, explored how a
consultant system can recognize the plans and goals of its users based
on their English queries, so as to more effectively address their
needs. Mayfield has organized four seminal workshops in the area of
"Natural Language text Retrieval", "Intelligent Hypertext Systems" and
"Intelligent Information Agents".
Mary Lynette Larsgaard
Map and Imagery Lab, Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
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