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.

Upcoming Events

Innovation and Relevance: Toward a Theory of the Problems

Sep 29, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Comparing the difficulty in measuring “relevance” in information science and “innovation” in economics.

From Whitewashing to Greenwashing: PR’s Approach to Climate Science

Oct 6, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Greenpeace recently declared that we are living in “the golden age of greenwashing.” Paul Duguid looks at how we got there.

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges

Oct 20, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.

Previous Events

Bringing Lives to Light: The Biography Project

Feb 26, 2010, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

E-Ris (E-Resources for Industry Studies)

Feb 12, 2010, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge

Nov 6, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China

Oct 30, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and blogger and the co-founder of CNBlog.org

Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace

Oct 23, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis

Oct 16, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Design for Future Reference Service

Oct 2, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata

Sep 25, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Creativity in Feist

Sep 18, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Julian Warner, of Queen's University, Belfast, presents an information science perspective on the famous Feist vs. Rural ruling.

Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users

Sep 11, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A discussion of new multilingual, cross-lingual, speech recognition, and machine translation applications, including a user-centered evaluation of cross-language information retrieval.

Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Aug 28, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Mining Events from Wikipedia

May 1, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Scholarly Journal and the 4th Paradigm of Science

Apr 24, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

"The Economics of Open Access" and "Metadata, Sex, and Amazon"

Apr 17, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The World According to grep: What Have We Been Searching For?

Mar 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Editing Historical Papers in a Digital Environment

Mar 13, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm