HICSS-37

Digital Documents
and Media Track
 

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

 

Enterprise Content Management and XML Minitrack 

Content management in contemporary enterprises concerns a variety of information resources: documents in different forms, databases, and metadata such as ontologies, annotations, and indexes. XML and the web are important technologies used to support both resource integration and distribution. The main objective of the minitrack is to discuss the problems and novel solutions in the management of content, and for covering the technical and social aspects alike.   

Topics can include: 

·        novel applications of XML for content management
·        content management in work processes and organizational contexts
·        content management on diverging / converging media (web, mobile, Digi-TV)
·        text transformations
·        advances in functionality of applications
·        managing multilingual and multicultural content
·        metadata and ontologies
·        role of communicative / document genre
·        information security on content management
·        approaches, methodologies and techniques for the development and modelling justification and evaluation of initiatives and implementations
·        content management in specific areas like e-business, e-government, arts, or education.
 
Tero Päivärinta  (Primary Contact)
Agder University College
Department of Information Systems
Serviceboks 422
N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway
+47 3814 1662
E-mail: Tero.Paivarinta@hia.no
 
Airi Salminen,
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
P.O. Box 35
FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
+358-14-2603031
E-mail: airi.salminen@jyu.fi
Pasi Tyrväinen
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
P.O. Box 35
FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
+358-14-2603093
E-mail: pasi.tyrvainen@jyu.fi

 

The Experience of Media — From Design to Use 

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:
Ø      Content analysis, Video and document summarization
Ø      Content authoring, Multimedia document browsing
Ø      User interfaces for new media types, Content-based retrieval
Ø      Teleconferencing, remote meeting collaboration media
Ø      Audio analysis, Media use applications
Ø      Media literacy
Ø      User studies and design for specific populations
Ø      Coordinating video with other media types
Ø      Use of multimedia documents over a variety of displays (from PDAs to broadband workstations)
Daniel M. Russell
User Sciences & Experience Research (USER) Lab
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd.
San Jose, CA 95120
(W) 408-927-1907
E-mail: Daniel2@us.IBM.com
Andreas Dieberger
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA 95120
ph: 408.927.1470
fax: 408.927.3030
AndreasD@us.ibm.com

 

Genres of Digital Documents 

Document genres are communicative actions with socially recognized communicative purpose and common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Genres are situated in communicative practices; they are anchored in specific institutions and processes. Recognizing the genre of a document is useful because it makes communications more easily recognizable and understandable by recipients and more easily generated by senders. Thus, the study of genres, besides enhancing our understanding of information searching and use, may provide insights into organizational or community structures. As well, the successful use of digital media implies the emergence of new or transformed genres. In a digital environment, documents have functionality as well as form and content, but the contextual clues by which functionality can be ascertained are missing. For this reason, genre provides fixity in communication and is an increasingly important resource for the interpretation of the content, role, and function of a digital document.

For more information:  http://crowston.syr.edu/hicss/
 

Kevin Crowston  (Primary Contact)
Syracuse University
School of Information Studies
4–206 Centre for Science and Technology
Syracuse, NY 13244–4100
Phone: +1 (315) 443–1676
E-mail: crowston@syr.edu
Barbara Kwasnik
Syracuse University
School of Information Studies
4–206 Centre for Science and Technology
Syracuse, NY 13244–4100
Phone: +1 (315) 443–4547
E-mail: bkwasnik@syr.edu

 

Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications 

This minitrack will cover theoretical and application issues related to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering as well as the applications of these technologies in Digital Libraries. 

We hope to include papers that investigate IR methods applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and geographic information retrieval as well as internal and distributed retrieval from digital libraries. 

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

Ø      Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools -Fact-based Open-domain
Ø      Question Answering -Web-based Information Retrieval -Topic Detection and Tracking over   time
Ø      Geographic Information Retrieval, gazeteers -Information Visualization
Ø      Text Categorization and Summarization
Ø      Cross Language Retrieval
Ø      Speech and Broadcast Retrieval
Ø      Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries
Ø      IR Performance and Evaluation
 
Fredric C. Gey
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
University of California
2538 Channing Way, # 5100
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100
Phone:  Campus: (510) 643-1298 (NEW PHONE 3/2000)
FAX     (510) 643-8292
www:            http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/gey.html
e-mail:         gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu  (examined several times daily)
 
Ray R. Larson
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
Phone: (510) 642-6046
WWW:   http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/
Email: ray@sims.berkeley.edu

 

Persistent Conversation 

Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, chat, email, bulletin boards, MOOs, graphical VR environments, document annotation systems, text messaging on mobile phones, etc. Their persistence affords new uses (e.g. searching, replaying, restructuring) and raises new problems. This multi-disciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our ability to understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation systems. 

We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following general areas:

Ø      Understanding Practice.
Ø      Design
Ø      Analytical Tools
Ø      Social Implications
Ø      Historical Parallels
 
Thomas Erickson [Primary Contact]
Research Staff Member
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
3136 Irving Ave. (Remote office)
Minneapolis MN 55408-2515
tel: 612-823-3663 (normally); 914-784-/6659 (Tu-Thu, every few weeks)
fax: 612-823-1576
E-mail: snowfall@acm.org
 
Susan C. Herring
Indiana University
Information Science and Linguistics
School of Library and Information Science
10th St. and Jordan Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
tel: (812) 856-4919
fax: (812) 855-6166
E-mail: herring@indiana.edu

 

The Semantic Web: Structure and Critical Information Issues 

Before a ubiquitous Semantic Web can be realized, issues in a number of divergent disciplines must address how it will be built, who will build it, and once built, what will we do with it?  This mini-track seeks to explore these and other broad issues in establishing the Semantic Web 

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

-         Semantic Web Infrastructure
-         Agent frameworks and architectures
-         Security
-         Usability
-         Textual, image, and remote sensing data analysis
-         Scientific, business, and military data analysis
-         Distributed Information fusion and federation
-         Grid Computing
-         Data visualization
 
Mark T. Elmore (primary contact)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008 MS6364
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6364
Phone: 865-241-6372
Fax: 865-574-6275
E-mail: elmoreMT@ornl.gov
 
Thomas E. Potok, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008 MS6359
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6359
Phone: 865-574-0834
Fax: 865-574-6275
E-mail: potokte@ornl.gov