INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS



EUROCONFERENCE

LISA III Conference - Managing Change Gracefully

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
April 21st-24th, 1998


Final Programme


    Tuesday, April 21, 1998

    9:00 - 9:15

Welcome

    9:15 - 9:30

Conference overview (U. Grothkopf, ESO, Germany)

    9:30 - 10:15

A. Okerson (Yale Univ., USA)
Managing change gracefully in an unruly environment: Traditional library
services and values in a digital information environment. (Keynote)

    10:15 - 10:45

Coffee / Posters

    Session
    US AND THEM: SO WHAT DO YOU WANT?
    (Moderator - M. Cummins, Univ. Toronto, Canada)

    10:45 - 11:15

M. Cummins (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
The symbiotic relationship: assessing user needs

    11:15 - 11:45

H. Andernach (Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico)
User requirements: an astronomer's wishlist

    11:45 - 12:15

V. Vasylyev (Inst. Radio Astron., Ukraine)
Following the road to effective sharing of information: an end-user's view

    12:15 - 12:45

B. Corbin (USNO, USA)
Helping the astronomer stay up-to-date

    12:45 - 14:15

Lunch / Posters

    Session
    "ROBOTS R US": AUTOMATED INFORMATION DISCOVERY
    (Moderator - R. Albrecht, ST-ECF, Germany)

    14:15 - 14:45

F. Murtagh (Univ. Ulster, Northern Ireland)
Toolsets for handling online literature

    14:45 - 15:15

S. Lesteven (Obs. Astron. Strasbourg, France)
Information extraction: New developments in astronomical information
retrieval for electronic publication

    15:15 - 15:45

J. Mothe (Univ. Toulouse, France)
Information mining in astronomical literature with TETRALOGIE

    15:45 - 16:15

Coffee / Posters

    16:15 - 16:45

D. Dubin (Univ. Illinois, USA)
Addressing the heterogeneity of subject indexing in the ADS databases

    16:45 - 17:15

R. Albrecht (ST-ECF, Germany)
Knowledge discovery in literature databases

    17:15 - 17:45

M. Cummins (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
The Astronomy Thesaurus and UDC -- present and future
(Group discussion for users and potential users)


    Wednesday, April 22, 1998


    Session
    ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: THE FUTURE IS NOW? (OR VAPORWARE)
    (Moderator - S. Stevens-Rayburn, ST ScI, USA)

    9:00 - 9:30

P. Boyce (AAS, USA)
The Urania coalition, a discipline-wide interconnected resource

    9:30 - 10:00

G. Youngen (Univ. Illinois, USA)
Citation patterns of electronic preprints in the astrophysics literature

    10:00 - 10:30

R. Hanisch (ST ScI, USA)
Incorporating electronic preprints into an effective publishing system

    10:30 - 11:00

Coffee / Posters

    Session
    ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: REALITY CHECK
    (Moderator - B. Corbin, USNO, USA)

    11:00 - 11:30

U. Grothkopf (ESO, Germany)
Electronic publications and libraries -- issues to consider

    11:30 - 12:00

A. Okerson (Yale Univ., USA)
Licensing and copyright issues in the electronic environment

    12:00 - 12:30

E. Owens (Univ. Chicago Press, USA)
Archiving electronic journals

    12:30 - 14:00

Lunch / Posters

    Session
    ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: TOOLS FOR UNLOCKING THE INTERNET
    (Moderator - H. Andernach, Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico)

    14:00 - 14:30

    14:30 - 15:00

    15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee

    Session
    ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: COHABITATION OF CITATIONS AND FULL-TEXT?
    (Moderator - P. Boyce, AAS, USA)

    15:30 - 17:30

    17:30 - 18:00

    Poster Session

    20:15

    Aperitif

    20:30

    Conference banquet


    Thursday, April 23, 1998


    Session
    USE AND ABUSE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
    (Moderator - U. Grothkopf, ESO, Germany)

    9:00 - 9:30

    9:30 - 10:00

    10:00 - 10:30

    10:30 - 11:00

    11:00 - 11:30

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      Coffee / Posters

    11:30 - 11:55

    Dr M. A. Hoskin (Churchill College, Cambridge; Editor, Journal for the History of Astronomy)
    Archives for the History of Astronomy

    12:00 - 12:10

    P.D. Hingley (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
    Science from the Archives; an Overview

    12:15 - 12:25

    12:30 - 12:40

    12:45 - 12:55

    P. D. Hingley (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
    Archives and Rare Books for Popularisation and Education; Achievements and Potential

    13:00 - 14:30

    Lunch / Posters

Session
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THAT I CAN USE?
(Moderator - E. Lastovica, SAAO, South Africa)

    14:30 - 15:00

    15:00 - 15:30

    15:30 - 16:00

    16:00 - 16:15

    Coffee

    16:15 - 16:45

    16:45 - 17:30

    17:30

    Closing


    List of Abbreviations:

    AAS
    ADS
    ESO
    IAC
    IoP
    ISI
    MSSSO
    NRAO
    RAS
    SAAO
    ST-ECF
    ST ScI
    USNO

    American Astronomical Society
    Astrophysics Data System
    European Southern Observatory
    Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
    Institute of Physics Publishing
    Institute for Scientific Information
    Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    Royal Astronomical Society
    South African Astronomical Observatory
    Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
    Space Telescope Science Institute
    U.S. Naval Observatory

Monique Gómez
Email: lisa3@iac.es
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