Article 1105 of comp.ai.nat-lang: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.nat-lang:1105 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!nobody From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-lang Subject: Workshop on "Digital Libraries: Current Issues" Date: 24 Jan 1994 22:33:52 -0500 Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County Lines: 75 Message-ID: <2i23v0INN4vr@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: topdog.cs.umbc.edu Summary: May 19-20, Rutgers, Newark NJ Workshop on Digital Libraries: Current Issues Thursday, May 19 and Friday 20, 1994 SPONSORS: Rutgers University, Purdue University, Bellcore, and AT&T LOCATION}: Rutgers University, Ackerson Hall 180 University Ave, Newark, NJ WORKSHOP Co-CHAIRS: Nabil R. Adam, Bharat K. Bhargava, Yelena Yesha PROGRAM COMMITTEE: S. Amarel, Rutgers Univ; T. Finin, UMBC; P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ; S. Naqvi,Bellcore; G.Schlageter, Fern Univ.; B. Wah, Univ. of Illinois-UC Digital libraries are destined to be the first true archives of integrated multimedia data. Currently, we have corpora of text, image, and sound files. Soon we expect to have corpora of electronic books which are capable of subsuming most of the media we use today and have the potential for added functionality by being interactive. A digital library is a unification of all available data repositories through a single interface. That interface should be expected to cope with whatever kind of data, e.g., text, image, and sound that is being retrieved. Furthermore, this interface should serve as an effective access means for scientists, engineers, managers as well as everyday individuals. With the new initiative to build a better information infrastructure, it has become even more important to develop better means for managing, locating, and retrieving information and knowledge bases. We believe that the technologies of Parallelism, Networking/ Communications, Multi-media, User-interfaces, Database Management, and Information Management will play an important role in making digital libraries a reality. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the workshop is to provide an international forum to discuss evolving research issues and applications in digital libraries. Invited speakers from industry, universities, and government will present their experiences and vision for the future. The following are among the invited speakers and panelists. - Ron Ashany, Program Director, Database and Expert Systems, NSF - Ed Fox, Virginia Tech - Milton Halem, Chief of Space Data and Computing Division, NASA - Mike Lesk, Bellcore - William Steele, Director, Business Development, GTE - Don Tiedeman, Vice-President, AT&T INFORMATION TO AUTHORS: Authors interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit a 3 page abstract by Feb. 28, 1994 to: Prof. Nabil R. Adam Rutgers University 180 University Ave. Newark, NJ 07102 (201) 648-5239 adam@adam.rutgers.edu Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 15, 1994. An edited book and special issue of a journal are planned. ACCOMMODATION: All attendees are welcome to stay at the Hilton and Towers (Gateway Center, Raymond Blvd., Newark, NJ) (201) 622-5000. A block of rooms will be reserved and a special rate will be arranged for the attendees (ask for the Rutgers Group. For a Courtesy bus from Newark Airport call the Hilton).