[Sigcr-l] ASIST AM 2006: accepted SIG/CR panels

[klabarre at uiuc.edu]

I'm pleased to announce that the following five panels with CR
sponsorship or co-sponsorship have been accepted for the
upcoming annual meeting. 

Full abstracts and speaker bios will be posted on the SIG/CR
website soon.
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Panel 1: (co-sponsored with SIG/HFIS): Paul Otlet,
Documentation and Classification. 

Organizer: Boyd Rayward, Professor in the Graduate School of
Library and
Information Science at the University of Illinois
wrayward at uiuc.edu

Moderator and Reactor: Julian Warner,   School of Management
and Economics The Queen's University of Belfast j.warner at qub.ac.uk

Presenters:
(1) Boyd Rayward (University of Illinois), Paul Otlet
(2) Jonathan Furner (Assistant Editor of the Dewey Decimal
Classification), The Universal Decimal Classification
(3) Kathryn La Barre (University of Illinois) The
Documentalist Groups.
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Panel 2: Theoretical Topics In FRBR  
Organizer and moderator: Allen Renear Associate Professor,
University of Illinois

Presenters:
(1) Allen Renear, Yunseon Choi (University of Illinois),
Abstraction Issues in FRBR 
(2) Jonathan Furner (Assistant Editor of the Dewey Decimal
Classification), The ontology of works 
(3) Jerome McDonough, (University of Illinois) Is a METS File
a Bibliographic Record, and if so, for what — FRBR, Structural
Metadata, and the Design of Digital Library Objects.
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Panel 3: Toward a General Approach to Information Organization

Organizer: Francis Miksa, Professor, The University of Texas
at Austin School of Information 
Moderator: Jonathan Furner, Assistant Editor of the Dewey
Decimal Classification

Presenters:

(1) Francis Miksa (University of Texas, Austin): A General
Approach to Knowledge Organization
(2) William Moen  (University of North Texas): A Common Thread
in the Traditions and Practices of Information Organization. 
(3) Frank (Little Bear) Exner, (North Carolina Central
University): Fugmann’s Five Axioms and Bibliographic Databases
(4) Joseph Tennis (University of British Columbia): Purpose,
Function, and Context of Information Organization Frameworks
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Panel 4: Everyday Classification: How Information is
Categorized for Use and Re-use in Organizations

Organizer: Joseph A Busch, Founder and Principal, Taxonomy
Strategies,
Moderator, Reactor: Barbara Kwasnik, Associate Professor,
Syracuse University

Presenters:
(1) Kathryn La Barre, (University of Illinois): Website Taxonomies
(2) Ron Daniel Jr, (Taxonomy Strategies):  Location Terminology
(3) Ann Rockley, (The Rockley Group): Content Types
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Panel 5 (joint with SIG/IA, and CM PROs): Everyday
Classification: How Products are Categorized so You Will Buy
Them Today and Tomorrow

Organizer and Moderator: Joseph A. Busch, Founder and
Principal, Taxonomy Strategies
Reactors: Barbara Kwasnik (Syracuse University), Kathryn La
Barre (University of Illinois)

E-Commerce sites:
(1) Jeremy Gunn, Dell.com: Global E-commerce
(2) Joel Arabia, Microsoft.com, Next Generation Network
(Confirmed) 
(4) Amazon.com, (Not Yet Confirmed)
(5) A9.com (Not Yet Confirmed) 
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