WebWise 2006: Inspiring
Discovery, Unlocking Collections
To further extend the benefit of this conference, IMLS
presents here papers from presenters at the conference.
The papers are reprinted with the kind permission of the
authors and First Monday, and first appeared in the August
2006 issue of First Monday (volume 11, number 8) at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Pre–Conference session — Assessing
the Use of Digital Resources
Disciplining
Search/Searching Disciplines: Perspectives from Academic
Communities on Metasearch Quality Indicators
by Rohit Chopra, Emory University and Aaron Krowne, Emory
University and PlanetMath.org
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Keynote address
Scholarship
and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of
Google
by Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan
Project Demonstrations
IN
Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
by Kristine R. Brancolini, Stacy Kowalczyk, and Jenn Riley,
Indiana University
Session — Library/Museum Approaches to
Discovery
Thomas Clareson (Chair of session), PALINET
Automated Indexing
by Douglas Holland, Missouri Botanical Garden
Machine–assisted
Metadata Generation and New Resource Discovery: Software
and Services
by Steve Mitchell, University of California, Riverside
Organizing Chaos: Integrated Finding Aids and Interoperability
of Metadata
by Katherine Walter, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Session — The Metadata is the Message:
Issues and Challenges for Digital Projects
Murtha Baca (Chair of Session), Getty Research Institute
Getting
the Word Out: Making Digital Project Metadata Available
to Aggregators
by Diane I. Hillmann, Cornell University
Negotiating Metadata: Catalogers, Vendors, and, Oh Yes,
Users
by Elisa Lanzi, Smith College
Moving
towards shareable metadata
by Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,
Jenn Riley, Indiana University, and Liz Milewicz, Emory
University
Examining
MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization
Decisions
by William E. Moen, University of North Texas
Session — News Media Discovery: A Model
for Deep Resource Discovery
Taylor Surface (Chair of Session), OCLC
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive: Our Accessible
Video History
by Paul M. Gherman, Vanderbilt University
Developing Thematic Access to a Video Based Digital Library
by Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
Online Access to Newspapers: From Promise to Practicality
by Victoria McCargar, McCargar Consulting
Bringing the Threads Together
by Holly Witchey, Cleveland Museum of Art
Friday, 17 February 2006
Plenary address
Can We Talk? Business Decisions and Legal Constraints
by Kenneth Hamma, J. Paul Getty Trust
Session — Advances in Discovery: New Research
Liz Bishoff (Chair of Session), University of Colorado,
Boulder
FictionFinder: Don Quixote to Graphic Novels
by Diane Vizine–Goetz, OCLC Office of Research
Advances
in Discovery: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Experience
by Michael K. Buckland, University of California, Berkeley
and Lewis R. Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley
and University of the West
Sharing Collections Information: A Distributed Approach
by Jay Hoffman, Gallery Systems
Session — Inspiring Discovery — Reducing
Barriers: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Related
Issues
Kenneth Hamma (Chair of Session), J. Paul Getty Trust
Considerations for Cultural and Natural History Museums
by James R. Gilson, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County and Maureen Whalen, J. Paul Getty Trust
Archives
on the Web: Unlocking Collections While Safeguarding Privacy
by Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library
What Have We Learned Today?
Stuart L. Weibel, OCLC Office of Research
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