CENDI Conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_

[Gerry Mckiernan]

                         CENDI Conference on  _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_

   I recently learned about the availability of the PowerPoint presentations made at the CENDI conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ held September 29, 1999. CENDI is an governmental interagency Working Group composed of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from major programs in several U.S. federal agencies [http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/ ]. 

   The presentations are available at

                                    http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pres_arc.html 

   The following is a listing of the conference presentations and their authors:

  Joseph A. Busch, DataFusion, Inc. - From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowledge Management in a Networked Environment (PowerPoint File, 298 KB) 

      Patricia Harpring, Vocabulary Program Senior Editor, The Getty - Documenting & Access:
Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies (PowerPoint File, 980 KB) 

      Stuart J. Nelson, MD, National Library of Medicine - The Role of the Unified Medical
Language System (UMLS) in Vocabulary Control (PowerPoint File, 185 KB) 

      Dagobert Soergel College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland -    Enriched Thesauri as Networked Knowledge Bases for People and Machines (PDF File, 350 KB) 

      Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy Center for Natural Language Processing School of Information Studies  Syracuse University - Whither Come the Words? (PowerPoint File, 116 KB) 

      Larry Fitzwater EPA/OIRM/EIMD, Linda Spencer EPA/OIRM/EIMD - EPA Terminology Reference System (TRS) (PowerPoint File, 533 KB) 

      Joyce Ward, Northern Light Technology, Inc. - Indexing and Classification at Northern Light
(PowerPoint File, 356 KB) 

      Quin J. Hart, University of California at Davis - The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership
Project (Project Web Site) 
      
       Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation - DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE An
Interagency Program of Research and Applications (PowerPoint File, 728 KB) 


   In addition these presentations, the site contains the PowerPoint presentations from other CENDI programs including: REFERENCE/CITATION LINKING: THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE - A JOINT CENDI/FLICC WORKSHOP held June 21, 2000; GovTechNet 99 held in June 99;  and 
Open Source Solutions 97: Global Security and Global Competitiveness held in June 1997.

   I believe that MyWebColleagues will find each of great value and interest!

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian 
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

                               "Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans"