[Sighfis-l] SIG/HFIS 2009 program ideas needed

[Wallace, Amy]

Trudi and all,

 

Excellent idea.  I also wonder if there is even a broader category.
Maybe a play on the old wedding saying: Something old, something new,
something borrowed, and do you have a clue?  What is really new anyway?
I hear talks on this or that and think didn't so and so write about
that, or isn't this just a new term for that? 

 

Amy

Amy Wallace
Interim Dean of the Library
University Library
California State University, Channel Islands
One University Drive
Camarillo, CA 93012
Phone: 805.437.8911
Email: amy.wallace at csuci.edu

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From: sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Trudi Hahn
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:05 PM
To: 'WILLIAMS, ROBERT'; sighfis-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sighfis-l] SIG/HFIS 2009 program ideas needed

 

Hi Bob - 

 

Don't know if you've received some good ideas and don't need anymore.
Here is one that is not even half-baked...it is just a raw lump of
dough.  But perhaps it could be shaped....

 

An odd and interesting thing happened to me this morning.  I received a
call from a patent attorney in New York City who is working on a case
from Texas involving a developer of a search engine who in 1993 claimed
to have invented a new way of "indirectly" linking Web pages-other than
through metadata or other subject links.  The lawyer himself is not an
expert in information retrieval, but he figured out enough to search the
literature and found the book that Charlie Bourne and I wrote on the
early history of online information retrieval.  In it he found a
description of TIP at MIT in the mid-1960's (Mike Kessler et al.)
including all its wonderful features such as bibliographic coupling
(which is what the patent applicant seemed to be claiming as a new
invention). The lawyer is trying make the case that the "invention" was
nothing new...it had been done already and was widely known in the
literature of the information science field.  He wanted a lead to some
TIP documents and other materials on information retrieval developments
in the 1970's and 80's.  I couldn't help him much (all my materials for
the book are in the information science archives at Michigan) but I
referred him to Charlie Bourne and other experts on newer developments.

 

Anyway, it occurred to me that occasionally our theories and our history
bump into the real world-they are used for "practical purposes" or get
written up in the mass media (e.g., Paul Otlet in the NYT last June),
and that perhaps a theme could be developed around that idea...history
and foundations meet the modern real world, or something like that.

 

As I said, it is not even ready for the oven, but perhaps you and others
can help develop it if you think it's worth pursuing.

 

Happy New Year to all!

Trudi

 

 

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From: sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of WILLIAMS, ROBERT
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:07 PM
To: sighfis-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sighfis-l] SIG/HFIS 2009 program ideas needed

 

Folks: This is to renew my appeal for specific program ideas for our
2009 Vancouver program. I am working on a couple of ideas that may
eventually come together but it would be good to have others in hand in
case they do not. I particularly need ideas focused around
theory/foundations of IS. 

 

Ideally, I would have abstracts of papers by Jan. 10 so we could have
them reviewed prior to submitting to meet the ASIST program deadline of
Jan. 21. 

 

So, while enjoying those holiday treats let them stimulate your
thinking.... 

 

Robert V. Williams, Distinguished Prof., Emeritus, and Chair, SIG/HFIS,
2009

School of Library and Information Science

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Ph: 803-777-2324

E-mail: bobwill at sc.edu

Home Web page: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/frontpg.htm 

 

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