[SigLT-L] SIG-LT "disparate data" panel for Annual 2008

[Thornburg,Gail]

Disparate data sounds like a very timely topic

Gail 
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From: siglan-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:siglan-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Janet Arth
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:44 PM
To: siglan-l at asis.org
Subject: [SigLT-L] SIG-LT "disparate data" panel for Annual 2008

Hi all,
Here is a composite of the suggestions received for one of the SIG LT
panels a the 2008 ASIST annual meeting -

1) From the SIG LT Planning meeting:
  Local loading of data, managing disparate data
   Peter Murray (OhioLink)
   Los Alamos Lab
   OCUL - Peter at University of Toronto (Pascal knows the contact)

  The first two were sites where they might be using federated searching
across more traditional bib sources (e.g., marc catalog data and the
indexing and abstracting services records); the work at the third site
has a broader mix of materials.

2) From side conversations at the ASIST meeting:
   California Digital Library - including Calisphere and the Online
Archive of California
   OCLC's study of related data issues
   Cornell Libraries projects

3) Responses from you all:
   a) investigating foundational causes of "disparate data" in federated
searching and the need for ontological crosswalking (e.g., how different
databases process queries on the same topic, knowledge domains
structures, bridging the ontology gaps in multi-, inter-, and
trans- disciplinary research areas, optimizing searching in elearning
environments
   b) speaker idea: someone from the LC Working Group on the Future of
Bibliographic Control
   c) speaker idea: "expert" searcher like Mary Ellen Bates (does anyone
know if she, as a business research consultant does presentations with
no funding, i.e., paying her own way?)
   d) issues/application of federated search for scientific
data/datasets

Here is the conference "theme" -
People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People The
complete call for proposals is here: 
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM08/AM08_cfp.doc

So we definitely have a lot of ideas.  My current thinking is this:

1) Projects
   Reports from different projects/implementations on their particular
issues and how they hope to resolve them - we have a nice group of
suggestions (and, in my opinion, only seem to be only lacking in getting
a non-North America perspective).  I like the idea of hearing about the
NASA, the Canadian and the CDL projects.  That seems like a good balance
of sciences, humanities and social sciences, if my understanding of the
projects is correct.

2) Research Perspective and Reactors to the Projects
   A speaker that can discuss ontological crosswalking and more,
possibly ideas/models that might work with the type of
content/approaches described by the first group of speakers; the
information science perspective - tbd
   Someone on the LC committee (or someone very familiar with the work
of the group) who can address issues from the "current" library
perspective - tbd
   Getting an expert searcher as a reactor could work here, if no money
needs to change hands; or someone from another research perspective.

Hard to say if we can manage a panel with four or more presenters since
the times allowed are not explicitly addressed in the call for
proposals, but generally 1.5 hours has been the time allotted to a
session.  We could do two consecutive sessions, part one the projects
and part two a mix of research and feedback.  I see a couple of these
two part sessions each year.  Does that decrease our likelihood of
acceptance?

Does this sound interesting?  Informative?  I'm open to speaker
suggestions, esp. if we try to do the two part session, where we would
need folks that know their subjects and can think on there feet as the
reactors.

All for now, Janet

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