Symposium Program

International Symposium on
Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in
Networked Information Society
DLKC'04

March 2 - 5, 2004
Kasuga Campus, University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Sponsored by: University of Tsukuba

In cooperation with:
National Science Foundation (USA)
DELOS: Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (EU)
Japan Society of Library and Information Science


March 2

Registration Desk Open: 16:30 (Media Union, 3rd Floor)

Reception: 17:00 (Media Union, 3rd Floor)

March 3 (Wed), venue: Auditorium

9:00

Registration Desk Open

9:30

Opening

  • Hideaki Takagi, Vice President for Research, University of Tsukuba

  • Koichi Tabata, Symposium Chair, DLKC'04, University of Tsukuba

  • Shigeo Sugimoto, Program Chair, DLKC'04, University of Tsukuba

9:45

Session 1: Keynote Address. Session chair: Shigeo Sugimoto (U.Tsukuba, Japan)

  • Daniel E. Atkins (University of Michigan, USA)
    "Transforming Knowledge Communities through Cyberinfrastructure"

10:45

Break

11:15

Session 2: Invited Talk. Session chair: Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA)

  • Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA)
    "The Interaction of Community and Individual Practices in the Design of a Digital Library"

12:00

Lunch on your own

13:30

Session 3: Invited Talks. Session chair: Edie Rasmussen (UBC, Canada)

  • Y.T. Chien (WTEC, USA)
    "Disruptive Technologies, Innovation, and Digital Libraries Research - the case of a billion dollar business"

  • Takeo Kanade (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
    "Context-Free Image Retrieval"

  • Peter Willett (University of Sheffield, UK)
    "Digital Libraries in Chemistry: Providing Access to Chemical Structure Information"

15:30

Break

16:00

Session 4: Contributed Paper Presentations. Session chair: Makiko Miwa (NIME, Japan)

  • K. Y. Chan and S. H. Kwok (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
    "Information Seeking Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Networks: An Exploratory"

  • Tomoko Yaginuma, Teresa Susana Mendes Pereira, Cesar E. Ariza Avila, Ana Alice Baptista (University of Minho, Portugal)
    "Implementation of Metadata for OmniPaper RDF Prototype"

  • Mathew Weaver, Lois Delcambre (Oregon Health & Science University, USA), Timothy Tolle (USDA Forest Service, USA)
    "Metadata++: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for Digital Libraries"

17:30

18:30

Banquet (Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba)

March 4 (Thu) venue: Auditorium

9:30

Registration Desk Open

9:30

Morning Coffee session for free discussion

10:00

Session 5: Contributed Paper Presentation and Invited Talks. Session chair: Thomas Baker

  • Yuka Egusa, Masao Takaku, Hidehiro Ishizuka (University of Library and Information Science & University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    "Network Community Oriented Information Sharing System for Databases"

  • John Bertot (Florida State University, USA)
    "Assessing Digital Library Services: Approaches, Issues, and Considerations"

  • Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
    "Social Intelligence Design and Communicative Intelligence for Knowledgeable Community"

12:00

Lunch on your own

13:30

Session 6: Invited Talks. Session chair: Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

  • Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA)
    "Back to the past: rediscovering (digital) libraries as interactive spaces"

  • Ian Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
    "Creating and Customizing Digital Library Collections with the Greenstone Librarian Interface"

  • David Seaman (Digital Library Federation, USA)
    "Aggregation, Integration, and Openness: Current Trends in Digital Libraries."

15:40

Break

16:10

Session 7: Invited Talks. Session chair: Christine Borgman (UCLA, USA)

  • Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
    "Digitizing Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Taiwan"

  • Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
    "Cultural Heritage Online : Information Access across Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage in Japan"

17:30

March 5 (Fri) venue: Auditorium

9:00

Registration Desk Open

9:30

Session 8: Invited Talks. Session chair: Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)

  • Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    "Developing Community Oriented Metadata Vocabularies: Case Studies"

  • Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany)
    ”Maintaining a vocabulary: Practices, policies, and models around Dublin Core”

  • Wei Liu (Shanghai Library, China)
    "The Development of Digital Collections and Metadata Applications in Chinese Libraries"

11:30

Lunch on your own

13:00

Session 9: Panel "Digital Library Showcase"

Panelists:

  • Hsueh-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan),

  • Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

  • Ee-peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),

  • Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia, Canada)

  • David Robins (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

  • Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA),

  • Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand),

15:00

Closing

DLKC'04