[Sigcr-l] Upcoming SIG CR Events at ASIST Annual Conference

[dbedford at worldbank.org]

Good afternoon, everyone!

SIG CR has several events planned for the Annual Conference in Long Beach
starting this weekend.  Details are provided below -- hope to see all of you at
one or all of these events!  Just a note of special thanks to Micki
Breitenstein, incoming Chair of SIG CR, for all her work on putting the programs
together his year.

Best regards,
Denise Bedford
SIG CR Chair

SIG CR Workshop - Saturday, October 18 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm   -- We have several
very interesting papers on automated approaches to classification.   See the
attached agenda for details.   (See attached file: SIG CR Workshop Agenda.doc)

Two SIG CR Planning Meetings, Monday, October 20, 4-5 pm and Tuesday, October
21, 4-5 pm, both held in the Redondo Room, 4th Floor in the Conference Hotel.
Please be sure to attend these planning sessions if you are interested in being
a candidate for Chair-Elect, or would like to contribute to SIG CR in another
official capacity.   We always welcome volunteers to assist in organizing
programs, assisting with future workshops, or other creative ways to serve the
interests of the SIG CR members.   Bring your ideas -- they will be welcome!  As
you can see from the programs and workshop agenda, this is a very rich and
diverse group.

And, seven SIG CR Programs -- check the conference program for location details.

1.  Metadata for the description of Broadcast Assets - presenters Efthimiadis,
Mai, Burrows, Leones, Agnew -- Monday, October 20, 4:00 pm

2.  Visual Containment of Cultural Forms: An Examination of Visual
Epistemologies and Scopic Regimes - presenters Mikel Breitenstein (Breitenstein
Medical Associates, Inc.), Marija Dalbello (Rutgers), Ron Day (Wayne State
University), Ann Simonds (University of Toronto), Morris (Muhchyun) Tang
(Rutgers) -- Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 am

3.  Genres and Knowledge Organization -- presenters Charles Bazerman, Rene De
Los Santos, Mats Dahlström Rune Dalgaard -- Tuesday, October 21, 10:30 am

4.  Humanizing Information Retrieval: Organizing "Works" - presenters Richard P.
Smiraglia, Allyson Carlyle, Edward P. O'Neill, Patrick LeBoeuf, Anita Coleman --
Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am

5.  BioMedical Taxonomies/Ontologies - Current Status, Ongoing Challenges --
presenters Philip Schreur, Ph.D., HighWire Press/Stanford University; Barbara
Peters, Ph.D. Wyeth Research; Hitomi Ohkawa, Ph.D. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc; Mary
Chitty, Cambridge Healthtech Institute -- Wednesday, October 22, 10:30 am

6.  Classification Across Disciplines: The Same, Only Different -- presenters
Shawne Miksa, University of North Texas - Moderator and Organizer; Barbara
Kwasnik, Syracuse University; Francis Miksa, University of Texas at Austin;
David Crabbe, Cycorp, Inc. -- Wednesday, October 22, 1:30 pm

7.  The Impact of HIPAA on the development of Electronic Medical Record Systems
-- presenters Hari Ramachandran, UCA Computer systems Inc; Sridhar Obilisetty --
President & CEO, Vianeta Communications; Sanjay Bajaj - Executive Vice
President,Vianeta Communications -- Wednesday, October 22, 3:30 pm

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