HICSS-38
DIGITAL DOCUMENTS
AND MEDIA TRACK

Chair: Michael Shepherd
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3HIW5
Phone: (902) 494-3686
Fax: (902) 492-1517
shepherd@cs.dal.ca

Minitracks:

Enterprise Content Management and XML Minitrack (Airi Salminen, Pasi Tyrväinen, Tero Päivärinta)
Genres of Digital Documents (Kevin Crowston, Barbara Kwasnik)
Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications (Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson)
Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Digital Forms ( Daniel M. Russell, Andreas Dieberger)
Persistent Conversation( Thomas Erickson, Susan C. Herring)
 The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence(Thomas E. Potok, Mark T. Elmore)

Enterprise Content Management and XML Minitrack

Content management in contemporary enterprises concerns a variety of information resources: documents in different forms, databases, and metadata such as ontologies, annotations, and indexes. XML and the web are important technologies used to support both resource integration and distribution. The main objective of this minitrack is to provide a forum for discussing the problems and novel solutions in the management of content, and for covering the technical and social aspects alike.  

Topics relevant to the ECM and XML minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following areas from the above-mentioned viewpoints:

      ·        novel applications of XML for content management

·        content management in work processes and organizational contexts

·        content management on diverging / converging media (web, mobile, Digi-TV)

·        text transformations

·        advances in functionality of ECM applications (content capturing, storage, personalization, internationalization, localization, publishing, document formatting, content configuration management, digital rights management, etc.)

·        managing multilingual and multicultural content

·        metadata and ontologies for ECM

·        role of communicative / document genre in ECM

·        information security on content management

·        approaches, methodologies and techniques for the development and modelling of ECM

·        justification and evaluation of ECM initiatives, investments, and implementations

·        content management in specific areas like e-business, e-government, arts, or education.

Minitrack Co-chairs
                Airi Salminen
                University of Jyväskylä
                Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
                P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
                airi@it.jyu.fi
                +358-14-2603031

                Pasi Tyrväinen,
                University of Jyväskylä
                Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
                P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
                +358-14-2603093

                pasi.tyrvainen@jyu.fi

               
                Tero Päivärinta
                Agder University College
                Department of Information Systems
                Serviceboks 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway
                +47 3814 1662
                Tero.Paivarinta@hia.no

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Genres of Digital Documents
 This minitrack addresses digital document genre, i.e., communicative actions with socially recognized communicative purpose and common aspects of form. Possible topics include:

• Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form
• The evolution of genres of digital documents
• Genre theory and its application to digital documents
• Emergent genres
• Investigations of genre in use
• Analyses of particular document genres
• Genres in digital search and classification
• Genres in non-text digital documents
• Genres for electronic commerce
• Designing systems in support of and using genre

Minitrack Co-chairs

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Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications
This minitrack will cover theoretical and application issues related to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering as well as the applications of these technologies in Digital Libraries. We hope to include papers that investigate IR methods applied to Web documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and geographic information retrieval as well as internal and distributed retrieval from digital libraries.

 Topics would include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

• Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools
• Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering
• Web-based Information Retrieval
• Topic Detection and Tracking over time
• Geographic Information Retrieval, gazeteers
• Information Visualization
• Text Categorization and Summarization
• Cross Language Retrieval
• Speech and Broadcast Retrieval
• Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries
• IR Performance and Evaluation

            University of California

            2538 Channing Way, # 5100

            Berkeley, CA 94720-5100

            Phone:  Campus: (510) 643-1298 (NEW PHONE 3/2000)

            FAX     (510) 643-8292

            gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu   (examined several times daily)

            www:     http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/gey.html

Ray R. Larson
Associate Professor
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
Phone: (510) 642-6046
ray@sims.berkeley.edu
www:   http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/

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 Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Digital Forms
 This minitrack addresses issues regarding the design, creation and use of media in many settings -- the office and classroom, at home and informally. We are seeking high quality papers across a broad spectrum of media design, interfaces to media content, creation, media use and analysis.  Specific topics include but are not restricted to:

• Media literacy – writing in the large; reading across genres
• Changes in notions of literacy based on computational media
• Content analysis, Video and document summarization
• Content authoring (especially as it changes ease-of-use)
• Multimedia document browsing
• User interfaces for new media types, Content-based retrieval
• Real-time video as a media type
• Audio analysis, Applications
• User studies and design for specific populations
• Use of multimedia documents over a variety of displays
  (from PDAs to broadband workstations)

Minitrack Co-chairs
            Daniel M. Russell
            User Sciences & Experience Research (USER) Lab
            IBM Almaden Research Center
            650 Harry Rd. 
            San Jose, CA 95120
            (W) 408-927-1907
            Daniel2@us.IBM.com

 Andreas Dieberger
 IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA 95120
 ph: 408.927.1470
 fax: 408.927.3030
AndreasD@us.ibm.com

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Persistent Conversation
Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, chat, email, blogs, bulletin boards, MOOs, graphical VR environments, document annotation systems, text messaging on mobile phones, etc. Their persistence affords new uses (e.g. searching, replaying, restructuring) and raises new problems. This multi-disciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our ability to understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation systems.

 We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following two general areas:
            * Understanding Practice
            * Design

 Ideally, papers for the minitrack should also address the implications of their analysis or design for one or more of the following areas:
            * Analytical Tools
            * Social Implications
            * Historical Parallels

Minitrack Co-chairs
           Thomas Erickson [Primary Contact]
            Research Staff Member
            IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
            3136 Irving Ave. (Remote office)
            Minneapolis MN 55408-2515
            snowfall@acm.org
            tel: 612-823-3663 (normally); 914-784-6659 (Tu-Thu, every few weeks)
            fax: 612-823-1576

Susan C. Herring
Professor of Information Science and Linguistics
School of Library and Information Science
10th St. and Jordan Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
herring@indiana.edu
tel: (812) 856-4919
fax: (812) 855-6166

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The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence
Before a ubiquitous Semantic Web or “intelligent web” can be realized, there are a number of challenging issues in a number of divergent disciplines that must be addressed. For example, how can we better gather, fuse, interpret, analyze, and visualize information on the Web.  In other words, how can we gain a better understanding of the information that is available on the Web. This mini-track seeks to explore novel, multidisciplinary research in these and other broad issues related to the Semantic Web.

Papers describing unpublished, original work are solicited on any topic from state-of-the-art research to practice in software development and its application in industry.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
            §         Semantic Web
            §         Web Intelligence
            §         Software Agents
            §         Ontologies
            §         Information retrieval
            §         Semantic Markup, i.e., DAML, RDF, and XML
            §         WSDL and Web services
            §         Machine Learning
            §         Security and trust issues
            §         Usability
            §         Textual, image, and remote sensing data analysis
            §         Grid Computing
            §         Data visualization and presentation

Minitrack Co-chairs
            Thomas E. Potok, Ph.D.
            Oak Ridge National Laboratory
            PO Box 2008 MS6359   
            Oak Ridge TN 37831-6359
            Phone: 865-574-0834
            Fax: 865-574-6275

            Mark T. Elmore   
            Oak Ridge National Laboratory
            PO Box 2008 MS6364
            Oak Ridge TN 37831-6364  
            Phone: 865-241-6372
            Fax: 865-574-6275

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