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Program
| Tuesday, 23 April |
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8:00-5:00
Bonsai |
State Documents Conference (continued).
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| Wednesday, 24 April |
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8:00-12:00
Bonsai |
State Documents Conference (ends at Noon).
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1:00-5:00
Bonsai |
GILS Pre-conference workshop: Ramping Up.
Gayle Palmer (Washington State Library, Olympia)
A chance for first-time attendees to get up-to-speed and for individuals who want a basic introduction to GILS programs. Free for those registered for either the State Documents conference or the GILS conference.
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8:00-5:00 |
GILS Pre-conference workshop: Implementing and Managing MS Find It.
Tom Martin (Washington State Library, Olympia)
Free for those registered for the GILS conference.
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5:30-7:00
Plaza |
GILS Round Up!
An informal get together with light snacks. Catch up with old friends and meet new ones!
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| Thursday, 25 April |
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7:30-9:00
Plaza |
Breakfast
Included in hotel registration.
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8:00-9:00
Banyan |
Registration
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9:00-9:15
Bonsai |
Welcome and Call to Order
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9:15-10:15
Bonsai |
Keynote Plenary: The Disintermediation of Information.
Steve Worona (Educause, Washington, DC).
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10:15-10:45
Plaza |
Break |
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10:45-Noon
Bonzai |
Indexing the Web: Finding the Right Words.
Sally Drew (Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library, Madison)
Bruce Mcleod (Spirit Software, Erindale, ACT, Australia)
Julie Schwartz (Connecticut State Library, Hartford)
Anne Craig (Illinois State Library, Springfield)
An effective thesaurus is essential to ensure the best search results. What factors should you consider when choosing an indexing vocabulary? Should you create your own thesaurus or adopt a standard, such as the Jessica Tree used by many state GILS programs? The syntax and structure of the thesaurus may have implications on retrieval in different systems.
Mcleod will describe his work with Telstra Australia and the Center for Disease Control. Schwartz, with the Connecticut GILS. Drew, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Craig, with use of the Jessica Tree at the Illinois GILS.
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Noon-1:30
Plaza |
Lunch (included in conference registration) |
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1:30-3:00
Bonzai |
Collaboration Between Portals and GILS.
Tom Martin (Washington State Library, Olympia)
Gene Martel (Arizona Government Information Technology Agency, Phoenix)
Many states have begun portal projects to unify access to public information. How do portals, which often grow out of an information technology agency, differ from GILS? How can portal and GILS projects work together to maximize resources?
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3:00-3:30
Plaza |
Break |
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3:30-5:00
Bonzai |
A Day in the Life of the New Mexico GILS: A Case Study.
Robert Mascareñas (New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe).
The New Mexico GILS program presents an instrument for understanding and managing the daunting challenge of designing and implementing an enterprise-wide government information location and retrieval system. The GILS operational model provides end-to-end system structure and breaks the system into discrete, manageable elements. The objective of the model is to highlight core processes and create a higher level of understanding relating to the design, implementation and maintenance of a world-class GILS program.
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Evening |
Dinner on your own. Enjoy the many great restaurants within walking distance of the hotel. Most art galleries are open late.
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| Friday, 26 April |
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7:30-9:00
Plaza |
Breakfast (included in hotel registration)
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9:00-10:15
Bonsai |
Webmasters' and Systems Administrators' Perspectives.
Mike Totherow (Arizona Secretary of State's Office, Phoenix)
Peter Sundholm (Washington State Library, Olympia)
Robert Mascareñas (New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe)
What can we learn from the folks who build web pages and manage web sites? How can GILS and metatagging tools be tweaked to make their job easier and results more effective?
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10:15-10:45
Plaza |
Break
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10:45-Noon
Bonzai |
Choosing a Metadata Standard.
Anita Coleman (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson)
Gayle Palmer (Washington State Library, Olympia)
GILS projects can choose from a number of metadata standards, suhc as WAGILS, Dublin Core, or MARC. They can design their own or adapt a standard. What factors should you consider in choosing a metadata standard? How should you balance compliance with standard against tweaks to improve performance? Coleman will address the topic from a theoretical perspective. Palmer will talk about the ultimate objectives that any metadata scheme should enable a GILS project to meet. |
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Noon-1:30
Plaza |
Lunch |
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1:30-3:00
Bonzai |
Knowledge Management to Meet Customer Needs.
Dr. Rahman Khan (Intel, Phoenix)
Understanding the world view and the business processes of knowledge producers and users; some effective approaches to capture and display knowledge. |
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3:30
Lobby |
Buses leave for reception at Arizona Capitol. |
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3:30-7:00 |
Reception at the Arizona Capitol Museum.
Hosted by the Arizona State Library and Archives. |
| Saturday, 27 April |
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7:30-9:00
Plaza |
Breakfast (included in hotel registration)
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9:00-9:45
Bonzai |
Preserving the Web.
Connie Frankenfeld (Illinois State Library, Springfield)
Richard Pearce-Moses (Arizona State Library and Archives, Phoenix)
The Illinois State Library and OCLC are working independently to find ways to preserve web documents permanently. Find out about these research efforts. |
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9:45-10:30
Bonzai |
GILS, UDDI, and the Next Generation Internet.
Eliot Christian (United States Geological Survey, Washington DC)
Most major information technology vendors are working on the next
generation Internet that will emphasize machine-to-machine services rather than the machine-to-human orientation of the current Web. The GILS search service definition is well positioned for this next generation Internet. GILS can play a major role in the service discovery mechanism known as UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration). UDDI itself builds on widely accepted components including SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
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10:30-11:00
Plaza |
Break
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11:00-12:30
Bonzai |
Future Technologies.
Tom Martin (Washington State Library, Olympia)
Eliot Christian (United States Geological Survey, Washington DC)
What's the future for search engine software? Martin will talk about changes resulting from Microsoft's abandoning Site Server. Christian, about USGS's work with Satyam Computer Services to support MS Find It.
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12:30 |
Adios, Amigos!
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