DESIRE
II Web Indexing Workshop 2000
Preliminary Information
1. Duration - 2 days.
2. Date - May 13-14, 2000 (Saturday-Sunday) at Delft Technical
University, Delft
There is an opportunity to hold adjacent meetings of WGs or Special
Interest Groups on Monday May 15, 2000 in the TERENA Offices in Amsterdam.
3. Next events
4. Topics
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Search and Indexing Techniques
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Relevant searching, adaptive searching
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Cooperative Indexing
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SE Evaluation techniques
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Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues
in indexing and searching)
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Large Scale Directory and Indexing Service Deployment
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Standardisation (current and necessary)
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Metadata and XML/RDF, Semantic Web
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Pre-index Summarisation and filtering of data
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Automatic and Learning Classification
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Information/Knowledge mining
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New SE developments, NREN Search and Indexing Service examples
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Resource developer recommendations for better matching Automatic Indexing
and Search technologies
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Legal issues (copyright - web information, scientific publication, caching,
indexing, etc.)
5. Workshop audience
Who should attend:
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implementers and managers of NREN's Subject Gateway, Directory, Indexing
and Searching Innovation
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those who are planning their (SG) DIS innovation
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Information retrieval and automatic classification specialists
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Networked information developers, Digital libraries specialists
6. Workshop goals
The workshop targets both dissemination of information about DESIRE
II Indexing, Searching and Subject Gateways technologies and development
of a community consensus on key issues of large scale National Indexing,
Searching Innovation.
Questions to be answered in the workshop
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Implementation question: Start now or wait? Just do it!
Information Resources and their consistent access have an increasing
influence on Global/International Society
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Is Indexing and Searching an end service or an infrastructural component
for Value Added Innovation for the A&R community?
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How to create A&R professional communities in the open information
space of the WWW?
7. Program structure
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Number of presentation slots - 12-15 (possible parallel sessions)
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Length of presentation - 30 - 60 min.
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Panels - 2 (first day and closing)
8. Provisional speakers list
| USA speakers |
Andrew MacCallum |
Cora Search Engine of Scientific
papers/resources |
Automating the Construction
of Domain-Specific Internet Portals with Machine Learning |
| Stuart Weibl |
OCLC, Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative |
Dublin Core Qualifiers: Managing the Complexity
Continuum for Resource Discovery |
| European speakers |
| Roland Hedberg |
Norway Directory (NDD) |
The Nordic way of doing large-scale
directory integration |
| Traugot Koch |
NetLab,
Lund University |
Automatic Classification,
applied to Subject gateways and robot-generated subject indexes. |
| Michael Lew |
Leiden University |
Visual WebSearching |
| Marc Kuester |
Tuebingen University |
TUSTEP Project, Fuzzy language
searching, Standards in strings matching, fallback rules |
| European projects and NRENs |
Phil Cross |
Bristol, ILRT |
DESIRE 2 Indexing and SBIG
technologies |
| Rachel Heery |
UKOLN, UK |
Metadata Registry |
| Peter Gietz |
Univ. Tuebingen, Germany |
The implementation of the
TIO-Referral-server and its possible use for metadata enhanced web-indexing |
| Sigfrid Lundberg |
Lub NetLab |
Metadata harvesting |
Peter Valkenburg
(TBC) |
SURFnet |
NREN Search Service example,
Implementation strategy |
| Yuri Demchenko |
TERENA |
Multilingual issues in Information
and Searching |
9. Important dates
| Action |
Date |
| Preliminary Workshop Programme and Call for
Participation |
January 15, 2000 |
| Application for participation dead-line |
February 25, 2000 |
| Participants selection, sending invitation |
March 15, 2000 |
| Forming final program |
March 30, 2000 |
| Producing master-copy of hand-out materials |
April 15, 2000 |
| Hand-outs printed |
April 25, 2000 |
| Workshop dates |
May 13-14, 2000 |
Additional information
DESIRE2 Project
DESIRE Information
Gateway Handbook
REIS Project/Initiative information page - http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/
Recent developments in Indexing, Searching and Information Retrieval Technologies.
Overview, August 1999 - http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/reisnews9908sendex.html
Contact: Yuri Demchenko <demch@terena.nl>
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