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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.

Download the agenda booklet (PDF, 363KB)

 

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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