IEEE ADL '97: Call for Participation

IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries IEEE ADL '97: May 7 - 9, 1997, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl97/adlcall.html Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The National Library of Medicine, and The Library of Congress. In Cooperation with: Columbia Univ., George Washington Univ., Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, The Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore County, and The Univ. of Texas at Austin. Advance Program - as of 2/21/97 Wednesday, May 7, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 1: Robert Harriss, Director of Science Division, NASA ``Mission to Planet Earth,'' Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University 10:15 a.m. Forum Discussion 1: Very Large Digital Libraries Chair: Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 1:15 p.m. Keynote 2 : Peter House, Smithsonian Institution Chair: Burt Edelson, George Washington University 2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 1: Images in Digital Libraries Chair: Terry Smith 4:00 p.m. Forum Discussion 2: Digital Libraries in Europe Chair: Rudolf Bayer, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany Thursday, May 8, 1997 9:00 a.m. Keynote 3: Jay Sanders, M.D., President and CEO Global Telecommunications Group, and American Telemedicine Association "Future Health," Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine 10:15 to 12:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 2: Digital Library Projects Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Labs 1:15 p.m. Keynote 4: Bruce Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age," Chair: Milton Halem, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 3: Technology for Digital Libraries, Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Darmstady, Germany 4:00 Forum Discussion 3: Content for the Digital Library: What the Professional Societies Are Doing, Chair: Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University 7:00 Banquet Invited Speaker: Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for "Communications and Information" Friday, May 9, 1997 9:00 Keynote 5: Deanna Marcum, President, Research Library Associaton and National Digital Library Federation "The Current Agenda and Further Directions of the National Digital Library Federation," Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University 10:15 Forum Discussion 4: Digital Libraries, Electronic Commerce, and Law Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University 11:15 Forum Discussion 5: Making the Internet Safe for Electronic Commerce Chair: Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore 12:45 Forum Wrap-up Discussion Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University. 1:00 Adjourn Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu.