Information Access Seminar

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar explores topics relating to digital libraries, with special emphasis on access to networked resources, use of two or more resources in conjunction, combined use of two or more retrieval systems (e.g., use of pre- or post-processing to enhance the capabilities), and the redesign of library services.

The seminar is hosted by Clifford Lynch and Michael Buckland and can be taken for credit as Info 296A. Information Access.

Previous Events

Studies in Collective Memory: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining

Mar 2, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Multilingual Social Tagging of Art Images: Cultural Bridges and Diversity

Feb 17, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Update on the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project

Feb 10, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Scholarly Notes and Digital Humanities

Feb 3, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Classical and Textual Case-based Reasoning

Jan 27, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Surveying the Changing Cultural Record

Jan 20, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Biomedical Libraries in the Next Decades: Open, Diffuse, and Very Personal

Dec 2, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Europeana and Beyond: User Interaction and Collaboration in Multilingual Cultural Heritage Information Systems

Nov 18, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Old and New

Nov 4, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Nineteenth-century information-access techniques (indexing, cataloging, classification), implemented successfully in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.), now seem outmoded and irrelevant in the Web 2.0 era. Are today's techniques just old wine in new bottles? Or really new and different?

Three Social Studies

Oct 28, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Three doctoral students present research projects about information systems and Chinese migrant workers, the politics of information sharing in disaster relief, and what happens when online communities meet in real life.

Nuclear Forensics: A Scientific Search Problem

Oct 21, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Editors' Notes and Humanities Scholarship

Oct 14, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year Mellon Foundation–supported project to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible.

Names and Lives In the Cultural Record

Oct 7, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm