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

[Julian Warner]

In support of this - does address the question of what is the real world value of our deliberations.

Would one way of approaching the issue be to take the broad issue as a theme for a session or sessions and encourage individual contributors to adapt their work in progress to sufficient congruence with the overall theme?

And, Happy New Year!

Julian


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From: sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Wallace, Amy
Sent: 06 January 2009 18:17
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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
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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
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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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