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ADL'96
A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Monday, May 13: 12:00 - 5:30pm - 7:30 Reception
Tuesday, May 14: 8:30am - 5:30pm - 7:30 Banquet
Wednesday, May 15: 8:30am - 4:30pm

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ADL '96
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
MAY 13-15, 1996
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SPONSORED by: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and
The National Library of Medicine and
The IEEE Computer Society (Data Engineering TC and
Digital Libraries TF) and The Library of Congress

IN COOPERATION WITH: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University,
George Washington University,
National Institute of Standards & Technology;
Rutgers Center for Info. Mgt, Integration & Connectivity,
University of Milano,
University of Maryland Baltimore County and
The University of Texas at Austin

CORPORATE SUPPORT: AT&T, Bellcore, Comsat, IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp.,
MCI, Sony, Sun Microsystems

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Milton Halem, GSFC, NASA and Yelena Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS-NASA

STEERING COMMITTEE: N. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; A. Aho, Columbia Univ.;
D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; L. Holcomb, NASA;
M. Halem, NASA GSFC; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; H. Stone, NEC;
D. Tiedeman, AT&T; J. Ullman, Stanford Univ.;
Y. Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS

PROGRAM CHAIR: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.

INDUSTRIAL CHAIR: S. Naqvi, Bellcore

INTERNATIONAL CO-CHAIRS: E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany;
S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Aigrain, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France;
R. Bayer, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany;
P. Buneman, Univ. of Penn.;
D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center;
B. Edelson, GWU; S. Feldman, Cornell Univ.; L. Gomez, Northwestern Univ.;
H. Hansen, Wirtschafts Univ., Austria;
H. Hirsh, Rutgers Univ.; P. Hunter, NASA; H. Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs.;
W. Litwin, Univ. of Paris, France;
W. Lougee, Univ. of Michigan
H. Mark, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine;
R. Medina, Law Lib. of Congress;
M. Papazoglou,Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia;
A. Silberschatz, Bell Labs;
T. Smith, UCSB; G. Valle, Univ. of Milano, Italy;
H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; C. Zaniolo, UCLA
PUBLICITY CHAIR: Elke A. Rundensteiner, Univ. of Michigan

EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, Hughes STX

The forum will be held in the Library of Congress and will feature research
papers, panels, exhibits, and prototypes and applications of digital libraries
in science and industry. In addition, the focus of this year's panels will
be on issues related to global digital libraries for Medicine,
Environmental Monitoring, Law, and Electronic Commerce.
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MONDAY, MAY 13, 1996

12:00-1:15 Registration and Coffee

1:15-1:35pm Welcoming Remarks
The Honorable J. Billington, The Librarian of Congress
1:35-1:50 BREAK

1:50-2:30 Keynote Speaker:
"Innovative Technologies for Digital Libraries"
J. Gage, Director of Science Office, Sun Microsystems

2:30-3:00 Invited Speakers: Session 1.1:
"The Strategic Environment for Digital Libraries: Technology,
Markets, Laws, and Policy"
B. Kahin, JFK School of Government, Harvard Univ.


3:00-3:15 BREAK

3:15-4:00 Contributed Papers:Session 1.1 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL- I
Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany

"An Agent-Based Hypermedia Model for Digital Libraries"
M. Salampasis, J. Tait, and C. Hardy (Univ. of Sunderland, UK)

"GeoChange: An Experiment in Wide-Area Database Services
for Geographic Information Exchange"
P. Drew and J. Ying (Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology)

4:00-4:15 BREAK

4:15-5:30 Forum Discussion 1.1: Digital Libraries in Education:
Potential Roles and Impact
Chair: L. Gomez, Northwestern Univ.

Panelists:
D. Edelson, Northwestern University
M. Honey, Center For Children and Technology
E. Soloway, University of Michigan

6:30-7:30 Reception-Montpelier Room, Madison Bldg, The Library of Congress
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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00-9:10 Welcoming Remarks
M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, GSFC, NASA

9:10-10:00 Keynote Speaker:
"The NASA Information Technology Program - Opportunities
and Impacts on the Future"
H. McDonald, Director, Ames Research Center, NASA

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-11:15 Invited Speakers: Session 2.1:
"Global Legal Information Network"
R. Medina, Law Librarian, The Library of Congress

"Public Policy Issues in the Digital Age"
Andrew Magpantay, Director, Office for Information
Technology Policy, American Library Association.


11:15-11:30 BREAK

11:30-12:30 Contributed Papers:Session 2.1 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine

"Creating, Organizing, and Distributing a Digital
Medical Library of Multimedia Consumer.."
M. D'Alessandro, J. Galvin, D. D'Alessandro, W. Erkonen, and
D. Curry, T. Choi (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City)

"High Speed Satellite Access to Bio Medical Text/Image Databases"
L. Long, M. Gill and G. Thoma (National Library of Medicine)

"A Medical Digital Library System using Agent-Based Technology
to Create an Integrated View of the Electronic Medical Record"
H. J. Lowe, W. K.Walker, S. E. Polonkey, F. Jiang,
J. Vries (Univ. of Pittsburgh), and A. McCray (NLM)

12:30-1:45 LUNCH

1:45-2:30 Keynote Speaker:
"Digital Libraries Meet Electronic Commerce: A Win-Win Situation"
M. Lesk, Chief Scientist, Bellcore

2:30-2:45 BREAK

2:45-4:15 Contributed Papers: Session 2.2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL- II
Chair: Shigeo Sugimoto, Univ. of Library and Info. Science, Japan

"Target Testing and the PicHunter Bayesian Multimedia Database
Retrieval System"
I. Cox, M. Miller, S. Omohundro, and P. Yianilos
(NEC Research Institute)

"Robust Retrieval of Noisy Text"
D. Lopresti (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.)

"SemaLink: An Approach For Semantic Browsing Through Large
Distributed Document Spaces"
S. Wiesener, W. Kowarschick, and R. Bayer
(Technische Universitat Munchen)

"A Digital Library System for Periodicals Distribution"
D. Choy, J. Lotspiech, L. Anderson, S. Boyer, R. Dievendorff,
C. Dwork, T. Griffin, B. Hoenig, M. Jackson, W. Kaka,
J. McCrossin, A. Miller, R. Morris, and N. Pass
(IBM Almaden Research Center)

4:15-4:30 BREAK

4:30-5:45 Forum Discussion 2.1: MUSEUMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Chair: S. Feldman, Datasearch, Ithaca, N.Y.

Panelists:
P. Brookman, Curator of Photography & Media Arts,
Corcoran Gallery of Art;
G. Gay, Cornell Univ., Director, Interactive Multimedia Group;
J. Trant, Manager, Imaging Initiative, Getty Art History
Information Program;

4:30-5:45 Forum Discussion 2.2: PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY:
CASE STUDIES FROM THE IAIMS CONSORTIUM
Chair: V. Florance, University of Rochester Medical Center

Panelists:
N.C. Broering, GWU Medical Center;
V. Florance, U of Rochester Medical Center;
S. Rauch, U of Washington, Network Information Management;
R. E. Lucier, UCSF

7:30- Banquet - Great hall, Jefferson Bldg, The Library of Congress

Senator Bob Kerrey, (D) Nebraska
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1996

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker
"Applying Knowledge in the Digital Landscape"
Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine and
founding Director of the National Coordination Office
for High Performance Computing

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-11:45 Forum Discussion 3.1: RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES OF DIGITAL
LIBRARY/HOSPITAL
Chair: S. Wong, Radiology and Bioengineering, UCSF

Panelists:
D. Bidgood, NLM and Duke University Medical School.
P. De Smedt, Electronic Medical Record Project, HP Labs.
L. Gasser, Program Director, CISE, NSF.
J. Reimer, DL Project, IBM Santa Teresa Lab.
E. Shortliffe, Professor and Associate Dean, Stanford University
G. Thoma, Communications Engineering Branch, NLM.

11:45-1:00 LUNCH

1:00-1:30 Invited Speakers: Session 3.1:
"Technology-based Protection: A Complement to Copyright"
P. Schneck, Director of Information Systems and
Mitretek Fellow, Mitretek Systems, Inc.

1:30-1:45 BREAK

1:45-3:15 Contributed Papers: Session 3.1 ACCESS TO SERVICES
Chair: Giorgio Valle, Univ. of Milano, Italy;

"Authorization in the Digital Library: Secure Access
to Services Across Enterprise Boundaries"
N. Ching, V. Jones and M.Winslett
(Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

"Query Previews in Networked Information Systems"
K. Doan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland)

"Data Compression Using Encrypted Text"
R. Franceschini and A. Mukherjee (Univ. of Central Florida)

Scalability Issues for High Performance Digital Libraries on
the World Wide Web
D. Andresen, T. Yang, O. Egecioglu, O. Ibarra, and
T. Smith (UC-SB)


3:15-3:30 BREAK

3:30-4:45 Forum Discussion 3.2 DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair: M. Chahine, Chief Scientist, JPL

Panelists:
A. Battin, Head, EPA's National Geographic Information
Systems Program;
J. Dodge, NASA Headquarters;
K. Hussey, Disney;
T. Pyke, Director, GLOBE;

4:45-5:15 Forum Issues and Responses: Recap
M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, GSFC, NASA
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