[OAI-general] JCDL Tutorials Advanced Registration Deadline Extended

[Lisa M. Spiro]

JCDL 2003 Tutorials

(apologies for cross-posting)

An impressive range of tutorials will be offered at the 2003 Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which will take place in Houston,
Texas on May 27-31.  Tutorials will cover compelling topics such as
usability testing, XML & XSL, SRW, geospatial and AV digital libraries,
open content licenses, and the Open Archives Initiative, and are given by
experts in the field.  For more information or to register, please see the
conference web site at http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/

Please note that the deadline for advanced registration for JCDL has been
extended to Friday, May 2.  One may register for a tutorial without
registering for the conference.  A complete listing of tutorials appears
below.

Full Day Tutorials, May 27, 2003

	* Usability Evaluation of Digital Libraries  [Ann Blandford, Bob
Fields & Suzette Keith]

	* Overview of Digital Libraries [Ed Fox]

Morning Tutorials, May 27, 2003

	* How to Build a Digital Library Using Open-Source Software
(paired with Build Your Own Digital Library Collections: Hands-On Session)
[Ian H. Witten & David Bainbridge]

	* Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (paired with Advanced Tutorial on Open Archives
Initiative)  [Timothy W. Cole, William H. Mischo & Thomas G. Habing]

	* Introduction to Georeferencing in Digital Libraries (paired with
How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library) [Linda Hill & Michael Freeston]

	* Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries I (paired with
Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries II) [Dagobert Soergel]

	* Social Change, Digital Libraries, and the Inquiry Page [Carey
Thomas Campbell]

	* XML (paired with XSL) [David Durand]

Afternoon Tutorials, May 27, 2003

	* Build Your Own Digital Library Collections: Hands-On Session
(paired with How to Build a Digital Library Using Open-Source Software)
[Ian H. Witten & David Bainbridge]

	* Advanced Tutorial on Open Archives Initiative (paired with
Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting) [Michael L. Nelson, Simeon Warner & Herbert Van de Sompel]

	* How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library (paired with
Introduction to Georeferencing in Digital Libraries) [Gregory Jane, Rudolf
Nottrott, James Frew & Catherine Masi]

	* Open Content Licenses and Copyright [Chris Kelty]

	* XSL (paired with XML) [David Durand]

	* Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries II (paired with
Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries I) [Dagobert Soergel]


Full-Day Tutorial, May 31, 2003

	* Audio/Video Digital Libraries: designing, searching for
documents, and generating Metadata [Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro &
Pasquale Savino]


Morning Tutorial, May 31, 2003

	* SRW (Search Retrieve WebService): Z39.50 Next Generation
[Matthew J. Dovey, Robert Sanderson, Ralph LeVan]


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Lisa Spiro, Ph.D.
Director, ERC & ETRAC
Fondren Library
Rice University
(713) 348-2594
lspiro@rice.edu