Subject: CONFERENCE & EVENTS ROUND-UP
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:26:24 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011707b1f669a20b32@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:26:24 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: CONFERENCE & EVENTS ROUND-UP
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 6, 1998
1. American Association of Museums Seminar
CURRENT ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
December 3-5, 1998; San Francisco, California
<http://www.aam-us.org/profed.htm>
2. SOUTHEAST COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE 1998
VISUAL RESOURCES SESSIONS
October 29-31: Miami Beach
<http://www.valdosta.edu/secac/conference.html>
3. ASIS 1998 ANNUAL MEETING
October 24-30: Pittsburgh
<http://www.asis.org>
4. Fourth Digital Storytelling Festival
September 17-20: Crested Butte, Colorado
<http://www.dstory.com/>
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1. American Association of Museums Seminar
CURRENT ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
December 3-5, 1998; San Francisco, California
<http://www.aam-us.org/profed.htm>
As creators, owners, and users of intellectual property, museums today are
grappling with an array of issues surrounding copyright, trademark, trade
dress, trade secret, and patents. This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on
clarifying some of the confusion and misinformation associated with
copyright and trademark law and the appropriate uses of such materials,
managing intellectual property in the digital environment, illuminating the
fair use debate, reviewing new copyright developments in Congress and the
courts, and other intellectual property issues of interest to the museum
community.
Confirmed speakers:
* Howard Besser, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Information and Management
Systems, University of California, Berkeley
* Kenneth D. Crews, Associate Professor of Law and of Library and
Information Science, Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana
University Purdue University Indianapolis
* Leslie Kurtz, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California,
Davis
* Karren M. Shorofsky, Partner, Member of the Intellectual Property,
Multimedia, and Litigation Groups, Steinhart & Falconer, LLP, San Francisco
* Stephen E. Weil, Senior Scholar Emeritus, Center for Museum Studies,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Registration fees:
$300 AAM Member-early registration (received by October 26, 1998)
$350 AAM Member-standard registration
$425 Non-member
Host hotel:
Radisson Mikayo Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
(800) 533-4567 or (415) 922-3200
$129 per night single/double occupancy (plus applicable taxes)
special negotiated rate available until November 11, 1998
TO REGISTER (or for more information on registration fees, agendas, travel
discounts, etc.,) please contact Professional Education Programs, American
Association of Museums, 1575 Eye St. N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005,
202/289-9114; fax 202/289-6578; or email: <mailto: seminars@aam-us.org>
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2. SOUTHEAST COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE 1998
VISUAL RESOURCES SESSIONS
October 29-31: Miami Beach
<http://www.valdosta.edu/secac/conference.html>
>Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:16:24 -0400
>Sender: Visual Resources Association <VRA-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
>From: "Updike, Christina B" <updikecb@jmu.edu>
>Subject: SECAC: Visual Resources Sessions
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Thursday, October 29:
VRC Lunch/Business meeting at a local restaurant (TBA).
P.M. session: VRC Tour of the Wolfsonian Institution-FIU on Miami Beach,
housing diverse collections of decorative and propaganda art.
Friday, October 30:
A.M. SESSION: (2 hours)
*VRC PAPERS: "Into Hot Water? The Digital Dilemma: Issues and Answers"
Chair: Christina B. Updike, James Madison University
Speakers:
>"The Checchi Classroom: The Evolution of a State of the Art Multimedia
>Classroom," Bonita Billman, Visual Resources Curator, Georgetown University
>"What's the Dilemma? Teaching Art History on the Web," Christopher L.C.E.
>Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College
>"Weaving a Website: It Takes a Team," Sandra C. Walker, Visual Resources
>Specialist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
>"Image Databases: The Big Picture," Monika Hoffmann, Director, EmbARK
>Sales and Marketing; Digital Arts & Sciences
NOON SESSION: VRC networking meeting for members of the Associated
Colleges of the South
Organizer: Robert Craddick, Rollins College
P.M. SESSION: (2 hours)
VRC ROUNDTABLE: "VISION, REACH, and the Core: Implementing
a National Cultural Heritage Database."
Discussion Leader: Linda McRae, University of South Florida
A description of the VRA Core Categories Version 2.0 will be followed by a
discussion of the joint Research Libraries Group (RLG)/Visual Resources
Association VISION project.
Speaker:
"The South Carolina Botanical Garden Site-Specific, Nature-Based Sculpture
and a Critique of the MARC Mapping of the VRA Core Categories," Phyllis
Pivorun, Media Resources Specialist II, Clemson University
>>snip>>
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3. ASIS 1998 ANNUAL MEETING
October 24-30: Pittsburgh
<http://www.asis.org>
>Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:31:17 -0400
>From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
>Subject: ASIS Annual Meeting, Oct. 24-29, Pittsburgh
ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting
October 24-30, 1998
Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA
For complete conference description, schedule and registration information,
see <http://www.asis.org>, email meetings@asis.org, call (301) 495-0900, or
write to the address below.
Information and knowledge are rapidly becoming available to anyone, located
anywhere, at any time. Information science has provided many of the key
elements in making global information accessible to those who need it. The
ASIS 1998 Annual meeting will examine information access and what it means
in a global information economy.
* Featured Sessions *
HERBERT A. SIMON. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences, the National Medal of Science; the A.M. Turing Award
of the Association for Computing Machinery (with Allen
Newell)... recognized as part-founder of Artificial
Intelligence, of *cognitive science and of computer science.
HAL R. VARIAN, Dean of the School of Information Management and
Systems at the University of California at Berkeley; also
Professor in the Haas School of Business & the Department of
Economics.
PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE: MYTHS, REALTIES, AND MADNESS.
Charles McClure, John Carlo Bertot, Jean-Claude Burgelman
(invited), Andrew Magpantay, Milton Mueller and others.
SAMPLE TOPICS:
* New Interfaces for Information Visualization
* UNICODE: Standards, Implementation Issues, & Future Directions
* Using the Web for Global Business Intelligence
* Designing Discipline-Oriented Information Systems
* Classificatory Structures: Applications & Integration
* Intellectual Property
* Digital Libraries in the K-12 Environment
* Retrieval of non-Textual Documents
* The Ethics of Access: Global Perspectives
* Knowledge Discovery in Databases -- Tools & Techniques for
Collaboration
* User Modeling Research & IR Systems Design
* Information Retrieval Technology
* Organizing Images/Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval: From
Indexing to Metadata
* Web Effects on Global Economies
* Electronic Scholarship
* International Classification and Subject Analysis Research
* Web Searching
* Economics of Web Link Collections
* Cross Language Applications & Large Scale Vocabularies
* Evaluating Services
* Accessing Full-text: Integrating Electronic Resources
* Social and Organizational Informatics
Pre Conference Seminars (All courses 9-5 unless specified. Separate
registration required.)
Saturday, October 24
* Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search
Engines (Half Day, 9:00am - 1:00pm)
* Vocabulary Management and Thesaurus Development
Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML)Part 1: JavaScript
(Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.)
Sunday, October 25
* Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Part 2: Cascading Style
Sheets (Presented in cooperation with the University of
Pittsburgh.)
* Delivering Databases via the World Wide Web
* Introduction to Image Databases
* Digital Libraries: Computer Concepts & Technologies for Managing
Library Collections
* Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center
* The Role of Information Management In Knowledge Management -
Stimulating Creativity and Innovation Through Information.
* Statistics for Practitioners and Readers of Research:
A Practical Update (Half day, 9:00am - Noon)
* 9th Classification Research Workshop ( 8:30 am - 5:00 pm)
Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501
Silver Spring, MD 20910
http://www.asis.org
rhill@asis.org
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4. Fourth Digital Storytelling Festival
September 17-20: Crested Butte, Colorado
<http://www.dstory.com/>
Hosted by the Center for Digital Storytelling, the FOURTH DIGITAL
STORYTELLING FESTIVAL celebrates current and the future digital
storytelling -- with Joe Lambert & Nina Mullen: "Stories from the
Digital Boot Camp"; "Interactive Campfire Stories" by Dana
Atchley; Magdalena Donea: "COLORS: bedtime stories for big kids";
a Digital Story Bee and scheduled presentations from Mark
Bernstein, EastGate Systems; Brenda Laurel, Purple Moon; Abbe
Don, Abbe Don Interactive; Nathan Shedroff, Vivid Studios and many
others.
For more information, visit http://www.dstory.com/
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