HICSS-36
DIGITAL DOCUMENTS AND MEDIA
TRACK

 

Chair: Michael Shepherd
Dalhousie Univeristy
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA B3HIW5
Phone: (902) 494-3686 Fax: (902) 492-1517
Email: shepherd@cs.dal.ca

 

Creating the Experience of Media — From Media Design to Media

 

This minitrack will address issues regarding the design and use of media in many settings -- including the office and classroom. We are seeking high quality papers across a broad spectrum of media design, interfaces to media content, creation, media use and analysis. Specific topics include but are not restricted to:

Lynn Wilcox
FX Palo Alto Lab
Smart Media Spaces
3400 Hillview Ave., Bldg 4
Palo Alto CA 94304
Tel: 650-813-7574
Fax: 650-813-7081
wilcox@pal.xerox.com

Daniel M. Russell
User Sciences & Experience Research (USER) Lab
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd.
San Jose CA 95120
Tel: 408-927-1907
Daniel@us.IBM.com

 

Digital Library

A digital library is a collection of information objects and the services that support users in dealing with those information objects, and the organization and presentation of those objects. This topic fits in well with the Digital Documents and Media Track in that the digital library "information objects" are synonymous with the "digital documents and media" as presented over the years in this track.

Possible paper topics include:

James W. Cooper                                         Michael Shepherd
IBM T J Watson Research Center                   Dalhousie University
P.O. Box 704                                                  Faculty of Computer Science
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598                         Halifax Nova Scotia
Tel: 914-784-7285                                          CANADA B3G 3J5
Fax: 914-784-6307                                         Tel: 902-494-2572
jwcnmr@watson.ibm.com                          Fax: 902-494-5130
                                                                        shepherd@cs.dal.ca

 

Enterprise Content Management

The minitrack focuses on the management of textual and multimedia content across and between enterprises, emphasizing the coexistence of technical and social aspects within the content management. Methods and techniques applicable for managing textual and multimedia information with all sizes of content units, ranging from XML and database structures through web pages and documents to document collections, are welcome as well as approaches focusing on specific content structures.

Airi Salminen
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Computer Science
and Information Systems
P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351
Jyväskylä, Finland
Tel: +358-14-2603031
airi.salminen@jyu.fi

Pasi Tyrväinen
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Computer Science
and Information Systems
P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351
Jyväskylä, Finland
Tel: +358-14-2603093
pasi.tyrvainen@jyu.fi

Tero Päivärinta
Agder University College
Department of Information Systems
Serviceboks 422, N-4604
Kristiansand, Norway
Tel: +47 3814 1662
Tero.Paivarinta@hia.no

 

Information Retrieval and Applications

 

This minitrack would cover theoretical and application issues related to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering. Within the Digital Documenta and Media Track we will investigate methods applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and geographic information retrieval as well as distributed retrieval from digital libraries.

Topics would include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

-Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools
-Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering
-Web-based Information Retrieval
-Topic Detection and Tracking over time
-Geographic Information Retrieval, gazeteers
-Information Visualization
-Text Categorization and Summarization
-Cross Language Retrieval
-Speech and Broadcast Retrieval
-Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries
-IR Performance and Evaluation

Fredric C. Gey
Data Archivist and Assistant Director
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
University of California
2538 Channing Way, # 5100
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100
Tel: (Campus) 510-643-1298 (NEW PHONE 3/2000)
Fax: 510-643-8292
url: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/gey.html
gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu (examined several times daily)

Ray R. Larson
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
School of Information Management and Systems
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
Tel: 510-642-6046
ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu

 

Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organizational Learning

 

During the past nine years, this mini-track has evolved into a key international forum for knowledge management and organizational memory researchers and practitioners. We encourage paper submissions from researchers and practitioners exploring aspects of this topic including how knowledge management can be operationalized using information technology, how knowledge can be managed in organizations, and how knowledge management and organizational memory relate to organizational learning.

Possible Paper Topics:

  • Relationships among data, information, and knowledge
  • Exploring relationships among knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning
  • Exploring the impacts of the use of knowledge and organizational memory on the effectiveness of organizations or processes
  • Organizational culture impacts on the use of knowledge and organizational memory
  • Global issues for the design, construction, implementation, and use of knowledge management and organizational memory systems
  • Integrating organizational knowledge within the organization and across the organization’s value chain
  • Developing processes and systems for transferring, storing, integrating, and managing knowledge
  • Using the Internet, digital documents, XML, and other technologies to implement knowledge management and organizational memory systems
  • Methodologies, tools, processes, technologies for developing Knowledge Management and/or Organizational Memory Systems
  • Developing processes and systems for facilitating organizational learning
  • Describing case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory systems
     

    Murray E. Jennex                                         Dave Croasdell
    Information and Decision Science                     Accounting Information Systems &
    San Diego State University                               Business Law
    San Diego, CA                                                Washington State University
    Tel : (760) 966-0548                                       Pullman, WA
    Fax : (760) 722-2668                                      Tel : (509)335-7640
    Murphjen@aol.com                                         Fax:: (509)335-4275
    mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu                                   dcroasdell@wsu.edu
                                                                            http://www.cbe.wsu.edu/~croasdell/

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    XML and the Semantic Web: Implications and Applications

     

    The benefits that XML and the semantic web offer are vital in the push for improved Internet services across and between a variety of B2B and B2C communications. 

    This minitrack will look at the implications of XML and the semantic web on IT strategy and operations and how it has been used in real world business applications.  The minitrack will aim to provide IT managers with information on the benefits of XML and how it can be used as part of IT strategy development.  Practical knowledge will also be provided for systems developers through the presentation of case studies involving designs and implementations.

    Papers in the following broad areas would be welcome:

     

    ·         Business benefits of using XML and related tools and utilities

    ·         Semantic web representations

    ·         Implications on IT strategy

    ·         XML and semantic web design frameworks and models

    ·         Implementation experiences

    Joanne Curry                                                             

    Centre for Advanced Systems Engineering                  
    University of Western Sydney                        
    Locked Bag 1797
    South Penrith DC                                                      
    NSW Australia 1797                                                    
    Email: jm.curry@uws.edu.au

     

    Carolyn McGregor

    Centre for Advanced Systems Engineering                  
    University of Western Sydney                        
    Locked Bag 1797
    South Penrith DC                                                      
    NSW Australia 1797    
    E-mail: c.mcgregor@uws.edu.au

            

    Thomas Potok                                                                   
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory                               
    P.O. Box 2008, Mail Stop 6414                         
    Computer Science and Mathematics Division           
    Oak Ridge, TN  37831-6414                                          
    E-mail: potokte@ornl.gov                                               

     

    Mark Elmore

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory                               
    P.O. Box 2008, Mail Stop 6414                         
    Computer Science and Mathematics Division           
    Oak Ridge, TN  37831-6414

    E-mail: elmoremt@ornl.gov