ASIS Annual: Knowledge Creation, Organization & Use

[Richard Hill]

ASIS 1999 ANNUAL MEETING 
"KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION and USE"
October 31 - November 4, 1999
Washington, DC, Conference Hotel: JW Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue
          

Programs are being mailed, by why wait?  It's all online at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM99/  Register online (secure form) or
print the form and fax/mail.  For further information call (301) 495-0900.

Over 60 sessions, 2 plenaries, 6 pre-conferences, 
and 236 individual presentations!  Programming time has expanded.  PLenary
starts at 2:00 pm on SUNDAY, October 31
 
The Technical Program is organized around five tracks:
     * KNOWLEDGE Discovery, Capture and Creation: capturing tacit
	 knowledge, data mining, expert directories...

     * CLASSIFICATION and Representation: Metadata, information
	 visualization, taxonomies, clustering, indexing...

     * Information RETRIEVAL: Search engine design, evaluation, 
	  navigation, browsing vs. searching...

     * Knowledge DISSEMINATION: Communication, publishing, push vs. pull...

     * Ethical, Cultural, Social and BEHAVIORAL Aspects: policies & 
	 politics, knowledge seeking behavior, rights tracking, ...

PLENARIES:
* Knowledge Management: Harnessing the Human Dynamic. 
     Tom Sudman, President and Founder, Digital AV

* Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
      Summary and discussion of a report to be released by the 
      National Academy's Computer Science & Telecommunications Board.

PRE-CONFERENCES:
* Information Product Development: Enabling Knowledge-based
      Systems (2 day seminar/workshop: 10/29 & 10/30)
* Practical Text Mining (10/29)
* Thesauri for Indexing and Retrieval (10/29)
* Intro to XML (10/30)
* Metadata for Digital Libraries (10/30)
* Second Generation Intranet Development (10/30)

SEE YOU IN DC!

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Richard Hill
American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD  20910
(301) 495-0900
FAX: (301) 495-0810
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