WARNING: THIS IS A LONG MESSAGE. Note that some of the particulars in the printed program have been omitted here for brevity. ADVANCE PROGRAM DIGITAL LIBRARIES '96: 1st ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES March 20-23, 1996 Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Maryland USA AN INVITATION FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR Welcome to DL '96! Digital libraries meld the storage and retrieval power of computing, the communication capabilities of electronic networking, and the structures and practices of physical libraries and archives. Much of the excitement related to digital libraries comes as a result of the interactions among disparate communities of scholars coming together to address common problems of information organization, access, and use. This meeting builds on two conferences held in Texas in 1994 and 1995 and initiates a series of ACM-sponsored research conferences devoted to digital library research and development. Gary Marchionini CONFERENCE SPONSORS Digital Libraries '96 is sponsored by ACM through SIGIR and SIGLINK. Other ACM SIGs have joined in cooperation, including SIGAda, SIGART, SIGBIO, SIGCAPH, SIGCOMM, SIGCUE, SIGDA, SIGMIS (formerly SIGBIT), and SIGOIS. In-cooperation sponsors include: ASIS (American Society for Information Science) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) D-Lib (Digital Library Forum) IEEE CS (IEEE Computer Society) KSI (Knowledge Systems Incorporated) LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) LoC (Library of Congress) NAL (National Agricultural Library) NLM (National Library of Medicine) SLA (Special Libraries Association) IMPORTANT DATES February 5, 1996 --- Advance registration ends March 20, 1996 --- DL `96 Tutorials March 21-22, 1996 --- DL `96 Technical Program March 23, 1996 --- DL `96 Workshops CONFERENCE PROGRAM o Featured Speakers Opening Plenary Session Thursday, March 21, 8:00-9:30 am Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries" Dr. Leiner is a Senior Scientist with the Universities Space Research Association. He is currently on loan to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he is Assistant Director of the Information Technology Office, responsible for the area of Networked Systems. This area is developing the information technologies required to support widely distributed operation. Particular areas of focus are mobile information systems, high performance networking, and the technologies required to facilitate distributed applications that exploit the emerging ubiquitous network environment. Banquet Speaker Thursday, March 21, 7:00-9:30 pm Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" After 15 years of academic library and library management experience, particularly in serials and collections development, several years in the commercial sector, and service as a senior program officer for the Association of Research Libraries as its Director, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, Ms. Okerson became Associate University Librarian at Yale in September 1995, with responsibilities including making digital collections available. o Tutorials Wednesday, March 20, 1996 12:30 to 3:00 pm 1A. Information Retrieval and Hypertext Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, Inc Content: An introductory to intermediate tutorial intended for those desiring an introduction to information retrieval (IR) and hypertext (HT), which provides a background for: digital libraries as well as work in: content-based retrieval, hypermedia, networked information, educational courseware, and related technologies. 12:30 to 3:00 pm 1B. Foundations of the Organization of Information Elaine Svenonius, University of California, Los Angeles Content: A brief introduction to the foundations of Information Organization, which will cover: a) Principles which have been used to guide the design of systems for organizing information b) Examples of methods that have been used in the design of such systems, with a particular emphasis on automated methods c) current issues and problems in designing systems for organizing information in very large online databases. 3:30 - 6:00 pm 2A. Z39.50 Tutorial Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress Clifford Lynch, University of California Content: Z39.50 is an international standard client/server protocol for information retrieval. Z39.50-1992 is widely implemented, primarily for access to bibliographic databases. Z39.50-1995 is significantly richer and addresses search and retrieval of digital objects. Work is in progress to define a "Z39.50 Profile for the Access to Digital Collections". The Z39.50 tutorial will describe the background and history of Z39.50, its model, functionality, and technical aspects, and illustrate how Z39.50 addresses problems of access to digital collections. 3:30 - 6:00 pm 2B. Documents and Digital Libraries David M. Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Content: This tutorial will offer a conceptual framework that highlights the inseparable relationship between document technologies and social purpose (or use). Topics will include: (1) digital documents: how they are similar to and different from paper documents; (2) document genre as the nexus of form, content, and use; (3) the fixity of documents: how documents fix communication in a medium; (4) documents and change (fluidity); (5) how fixity and fluidity are orchestrated by genre; (6) the medium (in)dependence of documents. The framework will be applied to analyze one or more current issues, such as the future of cataloging. o Technical Program Wednesday, March 20 ------------------- 7:00-9:00 Reception (included with registration) Thursday, March 21 ------------------ 7:00-8:00 Breakfast (included with registration) 8:00-9:30 Opening Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries" 9:30-10:30 Paper Session 1: Multimedia Digital Libraries Chair: Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK "Building a Digital Library: The Perseus Project as a Case Study in the Humanities" Gregory Crane, Tufts University "Towards the Digital Music Library: Tune Retrieval from Acoustic Input" Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, Clare L. Henderson, and Sally Jo Cunningham University of Waikato, New Zealand "VISION: A Digital Video Library" Wei Li, Susan Gauch, John Gauch, and Kok Meng Pua University of Kansas 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:00 D-Lib Working Session 1A: Metadata to Describe Information in Digital Libraries Terence R. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara D-Lib Working Session 1B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation Nancy A. Van House, University of California, Berkeley 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:15 Paper Session 2: Library and Information Science Perspectives Chair: David Levy, Xerox PARC "The Role of Intermediary Services in Emerging Digital Libraries" Allen Brewer, Wei Ding, Karla Hahn, and Anita Komlodi University of Maryland, College Park "Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in an Online Union Catalog" Gregory H. Leazer, University of California, Los Angeles Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University 2:30-3:30 D-Lib Working Session 2A: Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Christine L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles D-Lib Working Session 2B: Repository Interactions William L. Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Paper Session 3: Human-Computer Interaction: Browsing and Visualization Chair: Catherine Marshall, Texas A&M University "Graphical Table of Contents" Xia Lin University of Kentucky, Lexington "Visual Relevance Analysis" Nikos Pediotakis and Mountaz Zizi Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS-URA410, Univ. Paris-sud, France "A Browsing Tool of Multi-lingual Documents for Users without Multi-lingual Fonts" Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Koichi Tabata University of Library and Information Science, Ibaraki, Japan 5:00-7:00 Posters To be announced 7:00-9:30 Banquet Banquet Speaker: Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" Friday, March 22 ---------------- 7:00-8:00 Breakfast (included with registration) 8:00-8:45 Paper Session 4: Human-Computer Interaction: Images and Spatial Organization Chair: Su-Shing Chen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human" Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, and Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park "A Spatial Approach to Organizing and Locating Digital Libraries and Their Content" Jason Orendorf and Charles Kacmar Florida State University 9:00-10:00 D-Lib Working Session 3A: Digitization and Conversion M. Stuart Lynn, University of California, Office of the President D-Lib Working Session 3B: Naming Objects in the Digital Library William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:30 Paper Session 5: Documents Chair: Henry Gladney, IBM Almaden Research Center "Index Structures for Structured Documents" Yong Kyu Lee, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyoungro Yoon, and P. Bruce Berra Syracuse University "Toward Active, Extensible, Networked Documents: Multivalent Architecture and Applications" Thomas A. Phelps and Robert Wilensky University of California, Berkeley "Physical Objects in the Digital Library" Richard Furuta, Catherine C. Marshall, Frank M. Shipman III, and John J. Leggett Texas A&M University 11:30-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Paper Session 6: Information Retrieval Chair: Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Natural Language Information Retrieval In Digital Libraries" Tomek Strzalkowski, GE Corporate Research & Development Jose Perez-Carballo, Rutgers University Mihnea Marinescu, New York University "Interactive Term Suggestion for Users of Digital Libraries: Using Subject Thesauri and Co-occurrence Lists for Information Retrieval" Bruce R. Schatz, Eric H. Johnson, and Pauline A. Cochrane, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona "Information Product Evaluation as Asynchronous Communication in Context: A Model for Organizational Research" Lisa D. Murphy Indiana University 2:00-3:00 Paper Session 7: Document Indexing and Analysis Chair: Nancy Ide, Vassar College "Text to Hypertext: Can Clustering Solve the Problem in Digital Libraries?" Robert B. Kellogg, PRC., Inc., Reston, VA Madhan Subhas, Virginia Tech "Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching" R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, and W. B. Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Building a Scalable and Accurate Copy Detection Mechanism" Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-4:30 Panel: Digital Library Research at the U.S. National Libraries Representatives from the Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, and National Library of Medicine. D-Lib Working Sessions are based on continuing activities by the working groups. Before coming to the sessions, conference participants need to read the working group materials. They are available at: http://www.dlib.org o Workshops All workshops are scheduled for Saturday, March 23, from 9:30 am through 3:30 pm and include a box lunch. Each workshop is intended for researchers or practitioners with an active interest in the subject matter. Workshop A: Text Encoding Initiative Nancy Ide, Vassar College Judith Klavans, Columbia University Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence, France Please send a brief statement of interest to ide@cs.vassar.edu if you would like to attend Workshop A. Workshop B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation Ann Bishop, University of Illinois Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley David Levy, Xerox PARC People interested in participating in Workshop B should email a statement of their experience and interest to Nancy Van House by February 5. Please do not register for this workshop until you have been invited to attend. REGISTRATION Last Name: _______________________ First Name: __________________ Title: ___________________________________ Organization:__________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ City: ___________________ State/Province: ____________________ Country: ____________________ Zip: __________ Telephone:______________________ Fax: _____________________ Email: ________________________________________ Special Needs (e.g., Dietary): ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Early registration rates are available only for registrations received by February 5, 1996. Member rates require your membership number for ACM or one of the other sponsors below. Full-time student rates require a copy of your valid student ID. Membership: ACM ASIS IEEE/CS LITA SLA Member Number: _____________________________________ Student: University: ________________________________ ID Number: ____________________________ The full registration fee includes a copy of the proceedings, a banquet ticket, breakfast on Thursday and Friday, and an invitation to the reception. The workshop fee covers a box lunch. One day registrations do not include banquet tickets nor proceedings. Proceedings will be available at the conference for $25 each. Space for tutorials is limited and enrollments will be processed in the order in which they are received. ---MEMBER---- -NON-MEMBER- STUDENT Early Late Early Late Full Time TUTORIALS (Wednesday, March 20) ___1A IR&Hyprtxt 12:30-3:00 $150 $200 $180 $230 $100 ___1B Info Org " " " " " " ___2A Z39.50 3:30-6:00 " " " " " ___2B Docs & DL " " " " " " REGISTRATION (Thursday & Friday, March 21-22) ___Full Registration $240 $280 $280 $320 $100 ___One Day Registration $155 $175 $175 $175 $100 WORKSHOPS (Saturday, March 23) ___A Text Encoding $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 $ 50 ___B User Needs Assessment " " " " " Extra Banquet tickets @ $50 each X # ____ = $_____ TOTAL FEES $________ PAYMENT INFORMATION Registration fees must accompany registration and be paid in full in U.S. funds. If payment is made by check or money order, make payable to ACM/DL96. Enclose your Check or Money Order, or Please charge to my: AMEX VISA MasterCard Credit Card Number: __________________________________________ Expires: _____________ Cardholder Signature:___________________________________________ Refund Policy: Refund requests must be received in writing by February 12, 1996. Refunds are subject to a $25 processing fee. Refunds will be issued six to eight weeks after the conference. SEND YOUR REGISTRATION TO: ACM DL '96 University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services Hornbake Library Building, Room 4105 College Park, MD 20742-4345 Email: acmdl-96@umail.umd.edu Fax: 301-314-9145 Registrations submitted via email or fax must include complete credit card billing information. The registration desk at the conference will be open on Wednesday, March 20 from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm Thursday, March 21 from 6:30 am until 6:30 pm Friday, March 22 from 6:30 am until 5:00 pm Saturday, March 23 from 8:00 am until noon HOTEL INFORMATION The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Bethesda One Bethesda Metro Center Bethesda, MD 20614 Voice: 800-233-1234 or 301-657-1234 Fax: 301-657-6453 Telex: 6716016 Room rates: $113.00 single or double, $133 triple, $153 quad. Subject to 5% sales tax plus 7% occupancy tax. You must reserve your room by February 20 to qualify for the conference rates. Discounted airfares (domestic and international) are available on TWA and US Air by making your travel reservations through Omega World Travel and mentioning ACM Digital Libraries '96. Phone: 800-229-6634 (office hours: 8am-6pm EST) Fax: 301-345-8090 Email: omega@umdacc.umd.edu Hotel parking is $10/day. Public parking is available nearby for $6/day and metered parking is also available for 50 cents/hour. Special needs can be accommodated at the hotel. Getting to the Hotel: >From Baltimore-Washington Airport (BWI) Airport Connection (301-441-1345) $25 first passenger Taxi (about $45, one hour) Royal Airport Shuttle (800-653-0888) $27 first passenger SuperShuttle (800-809-7080) $21 >From Dulles International Airport Royal Airport Shuttle (800-653-0888) $17 first passenger Taxi (about $35, one hour) >From National Airport Royal Airport Shuttle (800-653-0888) $17 first passenger Taxi (about $25, one hour) Metro (under $4) Both MARC and Amtrak trains connect with the Metro. MARC 800-325-7245 Amtrak 800-872-7245 Driving: The hotel is 2.5 miles inside the Capital Beltway (Route 495) on Wisconsin Avenue (Route 355). CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Conference Chair: Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland Program Chair: Ed Fox, Virginia Tech Treasurer: Larry Fitzpatrick, Open Text Corporation Registration: Linda Hill, University of Maryland & CESDIS Publicity: Nancy Van House, UC Berkeley Local Arrangements: Lida Larsen, University of Maryland Tutorials: Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh Workshops: Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation Panels: Charles Kacmar, Florida State University Posters: Beth Davis-Brown, Library of Congress Conference Evaluation: Phil Doty, University of Texas Industry Liaison: Roberta Rand, National Agricultural Library Organizing Committee: Bill Arms, Corp. for National Research Initiatives Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University Ed Fox, Virginia Tech David Levy, Xerox PARC Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Further information is available at: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/ or contact Linda Hill, Registration Chair, email: lhill@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov