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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:53:43 ECT
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From: Steve Cloyd <secloyd@students.wisc.edu>
Subject: Hello! Is anybody out there familiar with full text indexing?
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I am a grad student at UW Madison considering doing a project on full text
indexing and need to know if there is anybody out there who's done something
similar. (Something along the lines of, if full text retrieval is possible,
why bother indexing at all?) I'm not even sure if this question is
narrow-scoped enough. There must be some software pkgs. out there that do
full-text indexing but I've never used one. Please respond. Thanks in
advance. secloyd@students.wisc.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:54:12 ECT
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From: American Society for Information Science <asis@cni.org>
Subject: ASIS Annual Meeting Update
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PROGRAM UPDATE
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
The Economics of Information
Annual Meeting
October 17 - 20, 1994
Alexandria, VA
For more information or details contact asis@cni.org,
call (301) 495-0900, or fax (301) 495-0810
President Clinton regrets that he cannot present the keynote
address. We are delighted to
announce that Anne Wells Branscomb will more than adequately
replace him as our keynote
speaker.
KEYNOTE: The Economics of Information, Anne Wells Branscomb
Monday, October 17, 9:00am - 9:45am
John Naisbit has said, "For brilliantly sorting out the issues
and complexities of the information era, Anne Wells Branscomb
should be declared a national treasure."
Anne Wells Branscomb, a communications and computer lawyer, is
a legal scholar in residence at Harvard University's Program in
Information Resources Policy. She has served as chair of the
Communications Law Division of the American Bar Association's
Science and Technology Section and as a member of the steering
committee of the National Academy of Sciences Project on Rights and
Responsibilities of Users of Computerized Information Networks.
Her most recent book, "WHO OWNS INFORMATION? From Privacy to
Access," was published in June, 1994.
OTHER HOT TOPICS ADDED:
State and Local Government Information Dissemination
Tuesday, October 18, 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Should government sell information your tax dollars have paid
to collect? Should it be
free? Free to whom? In what format?
This session explores the issues of dissemination of
information from the state and local government level. Numerous
courts and other government entities are now providing access to
information databases as a result of their internal organization
and management of information. Questions about the cost, the
price, the access, etc. will be explored.
Susan Laniewski, National Center for State Courts
Joseph Piatt, the ExLIBRIS Group
Copyright
Wednesday, October 19, 10:30am - Noon
This session is a mediation of the issues of copyright from the
points of view of the information user, the creator, the
publisher/distributor, and the re-seller. It begins from the
premise that there is no copyright law at all and explores the
issues of the interests which are competing as well as
complementary from all of the parties.
Sam Beatty, Doc, Inc.
Ron Dunne, Consultant
Bruce Stein, Dept. of Defense
Mickie Voges, Chicago Kent School of Law, Mediator
QUIT