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2004 95th SLA Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee

Saturday, Jun 05, 2004 - Thursday, Jun 10, 2004

Great programs, open houses, and continuing education! Many thanks to Heather Kotula. Presentations are linked where available.

IT 2004 Continuing Education

IT CE: Taxonomies for Indexing - A Hands-On Approach

IT 2004 Conference Programs

Mining the Invisible Web for Competitive Intelligence

Speaker: Mary Ellen Bates

Sponsors: Factiva; Information Today, Inc.

Learn new tactics, tools and techniques for ferreting out the wealth of invaluable CI information located on the invisible web, including specialized search engines, methods for finding specialized data, and resources for images, streaming media and other non-HTML content.

 

Developing a metadata Strategy

Speaker: Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries

Sponsor: Factiva

This presentation will provide an overview of metadata, or "data about data"-data used to organize, manage and provide access to an organization's information resources. Attendees will learn the current state of the art for metadata development, as well as the components of a basic metadata strategy for organizations.

Non-Traditional Careers: A Star Track to the Future

Speaker: Dan Trefethen, Boeing Company

Are you drifting to a "blackhole" in your career? Are you a Nova (old star brightening temporarily) or do you anticipate Super Nova status (massive star exploding)? Learn what industries are seeking Librarians/Information Specialist in Non-Traditional roles. See, Hear and meet colleagues in Non-Traditional Careers who are on a track to the future. Kick off the Non-Traditional Careers Caucus.

Data Visualization - Imaging Information

Speakers: George Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Katherine Hancox, Thomson Scientific

Sponsors: Dialog, the Information Professional Partner; Thomson Scientific

How can we make sense of large amounts of data? Data visualization is one possible solution. By visualizing data in diagrams or pictures, researchers can detect patterns that enable them to better analyze information. Science, business, and industry can all profit from this data analysis technique.

Annual Diversity Breakfast - Accent on Religious, Cultural, and Ethnic Issues

Speakers: Bob Conrad, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Cynthia Manley, ORNL; Al Zink, Thomson Dialog

Sponsors: Dialog, the Information Professional Partner

Is diversity working for you in career and professional development? Hear professionals describe how Corporate America is addressing various aspects of diversity. Learn to be a diversity asset in your organization. "Have a Mentoring Moment," meet the Diversity Leadership Development Program Award Winners, and collect some valuable handouts.

Creating Useful Taxonomies?

Speakers, Marcia Morante, KCurve, Inc.; Kathy Nordhaus, Raytheon Company

Sponsor: Dialog, the Information Professional Partner

Getting through your information overload can only happen with a useful, practical, and applied taxonomy. But where do you start? Join us to get a taxonomy orientation from professionals who do this everyday.

The Semantic Web: Modeling the new web with Librarian input

Speakers:

John Robert Gardner, Ph.D., Sun Microsystems;

Dav Robertson, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Sponsor: Dialog, the Information Professional Partner

The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages. The father of the Web - Tim Berners Lee - is leading an effort to redefine the web and is holding a spot for librarians everywhere at the forefront of the project. Join Eric Miller, activity lead for the Semantic Web project and Dav Robertson, Chief Of Library and Information Services Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, in discussing the active role librarians will play in the future of the web.

Content Management Standards

Speakers: Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.; Amy Warner, Lexonomy, Inc.

In a networked environment, knowledge organization structures such as taxonomies, thesauri, and other semantic tools make the data, information, and knowledge alive. This popular annual session, Standards Updates, covers the activities in standards and what activities are in progress that will affect special librarianship in the workplace. This year the session focuses on the standards for content management, including: (1) NISO's recent activity of developing a standard for the construction of controlled vocabularies such as pick lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri; (2) W3C's activities on Semantic Web, an extension of the current Web, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation; and (3) W3C's new candidate standard, Web Ontology Language (OWL), to be used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.

 

Up All Night - The 24x7 Librarian

Speakers: Diane Kresh, Library of Congress; Susan McGlamery, 24/7 Reference

Sponsor: LexisNexis

Online chat and digital reference are the latest advances in reference today, offering the user convenience and the information provider the chance to connect to users beyond the library walls. Join the experts of 24x7 reference as they discuss best practices and future enhancements.

 

Is the Thinking back in Linking? An update on the Open URL

Speakers: Matt Dunie, CSA, Inc.; Paul Owen, NERAC; Oliver Pesch, EBSCO, Inc.

Sponsor: EBSCO Information Services

Industry-wide collaboration in support of reference linking is essential to managing the flow of scholarly communication. Reference linking provides a seamless navigation between bibliographic and full text databases, speeding the research process and ultimately accelerating discovery across all scholarly disciplines as well as in business. Linking to full text is rapidly changing the way that we access information and the rights we need to negotiate to implement the linking locally. NFAIS made a declaration of Linking Guiding Principles in October 2003. The NISO Open URL committee has been active in creating documenting and presenting standard-based techniques to support linking. These standards support the implementation of interoperability standards to define the possible levels and permissions in support of linking across many heterogeneous systems. This panel brings together those creating systems, publishers implementing the standards, and those creating the standards. Each will present the opportunities and challenges from their own perspective, the current status of linking and how it will affect their customers - SLA members! Come hear how your job will be eaiser with the implementation of linked resources and how to use them.

Board and Business Meetings

IT 2003 - 2004 Board Meeting

Open Houses

ITE Welcome To Nashville! Open House

Join the Information Technology Division to celebrate SLA's arrival in Nashville. Greet your friends and colleagues and meet some new ones. Fun and games - with prizes! Relax a little before the conference rush begins. Mystery Night with Jane Kelly at the ITE Open House

Sponsor: Factiva

Mystery, murder, and mayhem! Join the Information Technology Division and ITE's own mystery author Jane Kelly. Jane, the author of three mystery novels, will be our hostess for the evening.

Stars of Music and Starships

Sponsor: Thomson Scientific

Join ITE for a fun-filled evening of Science Fiction and music industry idols! You never know who will show up, but this is one Open House you don't want to miss - especially since we will be having a drawing for a Palm Pilot, donated by Thomson Scientific. You must be present to win.

ITE Goes Native Open House

When in Nashville, dance! Join ITE for some line dancing instruction, and then stick around for a little practice.