9:00 am

Welcome
Kent Smith
Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine
CENDI Principal

9:30 am

The Internet: the Challenge of Meaning and Organization (PowerPoint Presentation - 728 KB)
Steve Griffin
National Science Foundation
Digital Library Program

10:45 am

Whither Come the Words? A continuum from Human to Statistical Indexing (PowerPoint Presentation - 116 KB)
Elizabeth Liddy
Syracuse University/TextWise, LLC

PRESENTING AND NAVIGATING YOUR VOCABULARY ON THE WEB
Moderator: Lori Starr, National Agricultural Library

11:00 am

Documentation and Access: Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies (PowerPoint Presentation - 96 KB)
Patricia Harpring
The Getty Institution

11:30 pm

Thesauri in Metadata Creation, Searching, and Web Presentation: The CERES Experience (Project Web Site - 491 KB)
Quinn Hart
California Environmental Resrouces Evaluation System
UC Davis

THE VOCABULARY BEHIND THE SCENES
Moderator: John Dickert, DTIC

1:15 pm

Indexing and Classification at Northern Light (PowerPoint Presentation - 356 KB)
Joyce Ward
Northern Light

1:45 pm

The Role of UMLS in Vocabulary Control (PowerPoint Presentation - 185 KB)
Dr. Stuart Nelson
National Library of Medicine

2:15 pm

Automatic Categorization of Internet Resources Using a Controlled Classification System
Diane Vizine-Goetz
OCLC

MAKING MORE FROM YOUR VOCABULARY
Moderator: Mike Genuardi, NASA Center for Aerospace Information

3:00 pm

The Role of Thesauri in Metadata Registries (PowerPoint Presentation - 533 KB
Larry Fitzwater and Linda Spencer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

3:30 pm

From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowlege Management in a Networked Environment (PowerPoint Presentation - 298 KB)
Joseph Busch
Datafusion, Inc.

WRAP UP

4:00 pm

Enriched Thesauri as Networked Knowledge Bses for People and Machines - (PDF 350 KB)
Dagobert Soergel
University of Maryland, College Park

4:30 pm

Final Questions and Answers