JCDL Conference 2008

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Conference Schedule
Last updated: June 24, 2008

JCDL 2008 Proceedings were distributed on a complimentary USB drive at the on-site registration.  General descriptions and/or abstracts are provided on this website for your planning convenience.

SUNDAY, June 15th - REGISTRATION
4:00pm-8:00pm Registration, 17th floor lobby
MONDAY, June 16th - TUTORIALS
7:30am-8:00pm Registration, 17th floor lobby
8:00am-8:30am Continental Breakfast
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
8:30am-12:00noon

Tutorial 1: Creating and Enabling Data Mashups
Location: Conference C, Conference Level

8:30am-12:00noon Tutorial 2: Semantic Digital Libraries
Location: Carnegie III, Conference Level
8:30am-12:00noon Tutorial 6A: DSpace 1.5: Moving towards the DSpace of the future
Location: Oliver, Conference Level
8:30am-12:00noon Tutorial 8A: Planning Digital Curation and Preservation Activities Using the DCC (Digital Curation Centre) Curation Lifecycle Model
Location: Vandergrift, Conference Level
8:30am-12:00noon Doctoral Consortium
Location: Conference A, Conference Level
10:00am-10:30am Beverage Break
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
12:00noon-1:00pm Lunch for Participants in Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2, and the Doctoral Consortium
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Tutorial 1, continued
Location: Conference C, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Tutorial 2, continued
Location: Carnegie III, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Tutorial 5B: Object Reuse and Exchange: The OAI-ORE Framework
Location: Oliver, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Tutorial 6B: Teaching (Learning about) Digital Libraries
Location: Phipps, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Tutorial 7B: BibApp: Rapidly Fill Your Repository
Location: Vandergrift, Conference Level
1:00pm-4:30pm Doctoral Consortium
Location: Conference A, Conference Level
3:00pm-3:30pm Beverage Break
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
TUESDAY, June 17th - CONFERENCE
7:30am-6:30pm Registration, 17th floor lobby
7:30am-8:30am Continental Breakfast
Location: 17th floor
8:30am-10:00am Keynote: Bill Buxton, Senior Research, Microsoft Research
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
10:00am-10:30am Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
10:30am-12:00noon Session 1: Automatic Tools for Digital Libraries
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 2: Users Lost in Information
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
12:00noon-1:30pm Conference Lunch
Location: William Penn Ballroom, William Penn Level
1:30pm-3:00pm Session 3: Education
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 4: Geography and Trust on the Web
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
3:00pm-3:30pm Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
3:30pm-5:00pm Panel 1: NSDL:  Past, Present, Future
Location: William Penn Ballroom, William Penn Level
Session 5: Preservation and Archiving
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
5:30pm-6:30pm One Minute Madness
Location: William Penn Ballroom, William Penn Level
6:30pm-8:30pm

Poster/Demos Reception
Sponsored by Microsoft Research            Microsoft
Cash Bar and entertainment by Three Rivers Jazz Trio
Location: Grand Ballroom and Urban Room, 17th floor

WEDNESDAY, June 18th - CONFERENCE
7:30am-5:00pm Registration, 17th floor lobby
7:30am-8:30am Continental Breakfast
Location: 17th floor
8:30am-10:00am Keynote: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Visual Communication Lab, IBM
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
10:00am-10:30am Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
10:30am-12:00noon Session 6: It's the Metadata, Stupid
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 7: Expanding Search
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
12:00noon-1:30pm Conference Lunch
Location: Urban Room, 17th floor
1:30pm-3:00pm Panel 2: Digital Libraries and the Global Economy: National and International Perspectives on the Knowledge Universe
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 8: Video by the People, for the People
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
3:00pm-3:30pm Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
3:30pm-5:00pm Session 9: Best Paper Finalists
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
6:00pm-9:00pm

Riverboat Banquet, The Majestic
Cash Bar, dinner, entertainment by Resonance Percussion
Boarding at 6:00 pm, departure at 6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Digital Research Library of the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Directions to the Convention Center Dock

THURSDAY, June 19th - CONFERENCE
7:30am-5:00pm Registration, 17th floor lobby
7:30am-8:30am Continental Breakfast
Location: 17th floor
8:30am-10:00am Keynote: Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
10:00am-10:30am Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
10:30am-12:00noon Session 10: Content from Documents
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 11: Data from the Web
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
12:00noon-1:30pm Conference Lunch and Town Meeting
Location: Urban Room, 17th floor
1:30pm-3:00pm Session 12: Platforms and Users in Digital Libraries
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 13: Beyond Text
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
3:00pm-3:30pm Beverage Break
Location: 17th floor
3:30pm-5:00pm Session 14: Archiving and Web Tools for Digital Libraries
Location: Grand Ballroom, 17th floor
Session 15: Interfaces and Navigation
Location: Monongahela Room, 17th floor
5:00pm-6:00pm

SIGWEB Reception for JCDL and Hypertext
Location: Urban Room, 17th floor

Pittsburgh is proud to play host to both the JCDL and Hypertext conferences in 2008. You can meet with the attendees of Hypertext at the SIGWEB Reception. Thanks to SIGWEB for hosting this event.

FRIDAY, June 20th - WORKSHOPS
7:30am-10:00am Registration, 17th floor lobby
8:00am-8:30am Continental Breakfast
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
10:15am-10:30am Beverage Break
8:30am-4:30pm Workshop 1: Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval
Location: Conference C, Conference Level
12:00noon-1:00pm Lunch (workshop participants only)
Location: Conference B, Conference Level
2:30pm-2:45pm Beverage Break
8:00am-4:30pm Workshop 2: Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators?
Location: Conference Level, Phipps