Workshops

Workshops will be held Saturday, May 31 from 9-5. Unless otherwise noted, workshops are open. Just register for the workshop and contact the organizer(s) responsible for the one you want.

Workshop 1
Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries

Organizers:
Nadia Caidi
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3G6, Canada
caidi@fis.utoronto.ca

Anita Komlodi
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250
komlodi@umbc.edu

Workshop web page: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/faculty/caidi/JCDL03.html

Workshop 2
International Workshop on Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA)

Organizers:
Katy Börner, Indiana University, Bloomington
katy@indiana.edu

Javed Mostafa, Indiana University, Bloomington
jm@indiana.edu

Workshop web page: http://vw.indiana.edu/ivira03/
Email contact: jm@indiana.edu (Javed Mostafa)

Participation
You are invited to submit a position paper by May 5th, 2003. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. No late submissions will be accepted. IVIRA will accept electronic submissions in PDF format only. Papers should be no
longer than 2-6 pages and conform to the format specified in the template (see ). Please submit your paper as an attachment to: jm@indiana.edu.

Workshop 3
Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools
The 6th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop

Organizers:
Gail M. Hodge
Information International
Associates, Inc.
gailhodge@aol.com

Marcia Lei Zeng
Kent State Univ.
mzeng@kent.edu

Dagobert Soergel
Univ. of Maryland
ds52@umail.umd.edu

Workshop web page:
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu

Workshop 4
OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop

Organizer:
Simeon Warner
Computing and Information Science
Cornell University
301 College Ave
Ithaca, NY 14850-4623, USA
simeon@cs.cornell.edu
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/simeon/

Workshop web page: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/simeon/workshops/JCDL2003

Participation
Participation is open to those who have OAI harvesting experience. Participants will be expected describe their OAI harvesting experience in a brief (1 or 2 paragraph) position statement, and to propose a topic or topics for discussion. Selected participants will be invited to present a short paper to describe and seed discussion on a topic they proposed.

Participants must register though the JCDL registration system. Both the position statement and any suggested topic or topics for discussion should be submitted to simeon@cs.cornell.edu at the time of registration. There will be a limit of 30 participants to ensure that focused discussion is possible.

last modified 3/28/2003 by JCDL2003@rice.edu