IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 15, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 16 Issue 303 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Existing Implementations of User Profiling Subsystems in IR-Systems II. JOBS 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library: Electronic Database Professional 2. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research: Senior Analyst/Programmer III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop 2. ISKO 96 Registration Deadline Approaching ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Gerhard Moeller Re: Existing Implementations of user profiling subsystems in IR-Systems There are a few papers on how user profiles have a positive impact on retrieval quality in IR-Systems (all above the papers from Myaeng/Korfhage). However, I have seen no existing IR-System that really implemented user profiles other that something I would rather call "long time queries" than user profiles. So I wonder if there is some IR-System that has its own user model or profile subsystem. If so, it would be wonderful to get more information about those systems, especially what form of user model/profile they support (simple queries, index, semantic or neural net). Best, of course, would be if there was a system with WWW-access... Thank you very much for your help, Gerhard. ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Research Desk CIC-14 Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library: Electronic Database Professional The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Los Alamos, NM Series: TSM Organization: CIC-14 Job Title: STAFF MEMBER Clearance: Q Full Time Position Internal/External Job number:LiASIS-961476 JOB SUMMARY: The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library (http://lib-www.lanl.gov) has a career opportunity position opening for an electronic database professional. We offer a creative setting in which information technologies are applied to customer scientific productivity. We aggressively pursue new ideas, services, products, and approaches to satisfy our customers. The successful candidate will actively partner with Laboratory researchers to support our mission to facilitate access to and enhance the usability of information. We are seeking an individual who is prepared to make significant contributions in an exciting, fast-changing environment. This position requires a person with a strong interest in taking initiatives and risks, who adapts well to change, works cooperatively on a team, and has a strong interest in fostering customer relationships. Leading innovative projects in close collaboration with customers is an essential part of the job. Los Alamos National Laboratory is a research-intensive organization dedicated to developing world-class science and technology and applying them to the nation's security and well-being. DUTIES: As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, duties may include: Work on the electronic database process team to accomplish the following. Design, test, and develop search engines for Library bibliographic and full image database. Design user interfaces for electronic documents and databases. Assist in systems analysis for new and existing electronic databases. Create, map and integrate new data types including numeric and multi-media databases. Apply Z39.50 standards to database and interface development. Provide leadership in planning, developing and implementing new electronic databases for Lab customers. Manage electronic database products for the group. REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES: Electronic database experience, preferably in a scientific/technical library or information center or equivalent experience. Experience with designing and developing search engines for bibliographic, full text and/or relational databases. Demonstrated experience interpreting and implementing customers information needs into database features. Demonstrated experience effectively working a team environment. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated experience participating in the information profession. Demonstrated experience documenting processes and projects. Systems analysis experience. Demonstrated experience in software development. Programming experience in JAVA, HTML, PERL or CGI. DESIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES: Working knowledge of USMARC. Working knowledge of Z39.50 standards. ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent experience. EDUCATION, TRAINING, OR LICENSING: BS in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: To apply formally, interested candidates should forward a resume and cover letter, noting complete job number ( LiASIS-961476), to: Human Resources Division MS P286, LiASIS-961476 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer ********** II.2. Fr: Bob Bleimeyer Re: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research: Senior Analyst/Programmer Senior Analyst/Programmer Research Computing Facility and Mayo Medical Libraries Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Rochester, Minnesota We are seeking a Senior Analyst/Programmer to join a work team of computing professionals and librarians involved in the Mayo Integrated Library System project (Mayo ILS). The Mayo ILS encompasses a variety of proprietary electronic systems and resources which must be integrated into an intuitive, easily navigable electronic library environment linked to key Foundation resources, most notably the electronic medical record (EMR). The Senior Analyst/Programmer will be involved in important development and support activities aimed at optimizing existing and planned electronic resources and systems as important knowledge resources and decision support tools. The current electronic environment includes Ovid Technologies bibliographic search system, Micromedex suite of full-text databases, and the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. library management system. Development and support activities will include: development of a common interface to multiple proprietary systems; forms based Web access to library resources and services; implementation of Z39.50 data exchange among proprietary vendors; development of a management information system including SQL interfaces to selected systems; development of a plan to achieve functional integration of the EMR and knowledge resources. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Facilitate development of a web based common interface to multiple proprietary systems and with other internal or external electronic resources including full-text/image resources. Support the development of Web based forms for access to library resources and services. Develop CGI scripts to enable forms to serve as an interface to the library systems including electronic mail, application program interfaces and protocol gateways. Support implementation of Z39.50 data exchange among proprietary components of the Mayo ILS and external electronic resources as applicable. Support the development of a management information system for components of the Mayo ILS including implementation of an SQL interface to the Library Management System. Participate in planning related to achieving functional integration of knowledge resources with the Mayo electronic medical record including a plan for data exchange of the EMR and the MEDLINE database. Participate in planning technical approaches for the incorporation of additional electronic resources into the Mayo ILS, such as CD-ROM based resources, on-line gateway services and other relevant resources as they are identified. Maintain an awareness of new emerging software development methods as well as information exchange gateways and search technologies, employing them when appropriate in projects. Candidate qualifications and requirements include: PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES: Excellent communication and listening skills when interacting with colleagues and vendors. The ability to proceed through the software deployment cycle and perform all of the roles required of an Analyst/Programmer. These include: Interviews and requirements gathering, application prototype, educational document preparation, and presentations on the use of the resulting software. A demonstrated ability to work independently including committing to and meeting deadlines, taking initiative, and exhibiting excellent follow-through on tasks. A desire to perform at a level of excellence individually and as a member of a work group. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A baccalaureate level degree in computer science or closely related field. A masters degree in Library Science and/or significant experience in the field of applying information technology to library systems is highly recommended. Recent history of successful software development in complex environments which included attributes from all of the areas below. - Multi-platform desktops and servers. - Client-Server applications. - Database applications design. Demonstrated skills in interactive design techniques, multimedia design processes, as well as an appreciation of technology constraints. SPECIFIC IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE. Practical and demonstrated ability in: - Process or systems analysis techniques. - HTML and or SGML markup languages. - Scripting language development in Unix using Perl and or Bourne shell. - WWW CGI script development. - Relational database utilization via SQL. Conceptual understanding of: - Library Management Systems - Z39.XX protocols and specifically Z39.50. - TCP/IP networking protocols. - Unix system tools and utilities. Beneficial but not required: - Application development within Unix systems using C or C++. Mayo job posting number: 96-1138, please reference this number in all correspondence. Mayo aspires to provide the best medical care through practice, education and research, in a unified, multi-campus system. Mayo is an internationally respected private, not-for-profit, group practice of medicine providing comprehensive clinical, research and education programs in Jacksonville, Florida; Rochester, Minnesota; and Scottsdale, Arizona. This position is available now for a limited time. Candidates must be legally qualified and authorized to work in the United States. (Individuals apply; no agencies please.) We provide an exceptional compensation package, including a generous personal security and benefits program. For confidential consideration, please forward resume with earnings history, available transcripts and credentials to: Blenda Yee Personnel Section Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 DIRECT ELECTRONIC INQUIRES MAY BE SUBMITTED TO: Robert R. Bleimeyer Mayo Clinic Research Computing Facility 200 SW First Street Rochester, MN 55905 Internet: bleimeyer.robert@mayo.edu (MIME mail welcome) Fax: (507) 284-5231 (If electronic mail is not possible) Mayo is an affirmative action equal opportunity educator and employer. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Gregory Grefenstette Re: Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop Call for Participation SIGIR'96 Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop August 22, 1996 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As more and more information sources are becoming available on the Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted information with queries expressed in a language different from the source language of the documents will become more widespread. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on this problem of cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval. We invite papers describing implementations of cross-linguistic retrieval; use of bilingual dictionaries, of parallel corpora, or of non-parallel comparable bilingual corpora applied to the retrieval problem; or providing answers to any of the following questions: Does automatic translation solve the problem? Are word-to-word correspondances sufficient? How should ambiguity in translation be dealt with? What kind of user interaction can help resolve ambiguities? How can test collections be built for multilingual information retrieval? How can retrieved documents in different languages be scored and ranked in a comparable fashion? What unique features are required by multilingual user interfaces? What can be learned from four decades of machine translation for the cross-linguistic retrieval problem? WORKSHOP FORMAT: A limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation. Accepted papers will be alloted a 20-30 minute presentation followed by 20-30 minutes of questions and discussion. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Extended abstracts (max 5 pages) in plain ascii should be e-mailed to grefen@xerox.fr Final version: For the final version to be distributed to workshop participants, a camera-ready uuencoded postscript file will be necessary. DATES: Submission Deadline: June 7, 1996 Notification Date: July 1, 1996 Full paper due: July 22, 1996 Workshop date: Aug 22, 1996 ********** Fr: Rebecca Green Re: ISKO 96 Registration Deadline Approaching !!! *** Note that early registration is due MAY 2. *** !!! This preliminary program and registration information is also available at: http://www.hud.ac.uk/ISKO96 An electronic registration form is accessible at: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/cedar/isko96.registration.html Additional information about ISKO is available at: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/cedar/isko.html PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION MATERIALS INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "Knowledge Organization and Change" July 15-19, 1996--Washington, DC, USA Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Conference activities will take place in the James Madison Memorial Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, except where otherwise indicated. The registration/information desk will be staffed 8:30am-3:30pm, Monday-Wednesday; on Monday it will be located outside the Digital Library Visitors' Center (ground floor, Madison Building), and on Tuesday and Wednesday, outside the Mumford Room (6th floor, Madison Building). Exhibits will be open 8:30am- 3:30pm, Tuesday-Thursday. MONDAY, JULY 15 Tools of Knowledge Organization: Discussions and demonstrations of online classification systems (Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal) and other digital initiatives and products. Indicate session preference on registration form. (9:00am- 4:00pm) Dewey 120th Anniversary Address, Fran Miksa, and Reception (5:00- 8:00pm) Conference sessions will be held Tuesday-Thursday, 8:45am-5:00pm, in the Mumford Room. Morning and afternoon breaks occur between sessions 1 and 2 and sessions 4 and 5. A lunch break separates sessions 2 and 3. TUESDAY, JULY 16 Session A1a: Opening . Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Sarah Thomas, Ingetraut Dahlberg . Keynote Address, Roland Hjerppe Session A1b: Library of Congress Classification . Bringing the Library of Congress Classification into the Computer Age: Converting LCC to Machine-readable Form, Rebecca S. Guenther . Library of Congress Classification: Classification for a Library or Classification of Knowledge?, Jolande Goldberg Session A2: Management of Change in Knowledge Organization Schemes . Change as a Problem of Classification System Development, Eduard R. Sukiasyan . New Wine in Old Bottles: Problems of Maintaining Classification Schemes, Ia C. McIlwaine Session A3: Knowledge Organization in Cross-Cultural and Cross- Linguistic Settings . Towards A Unified Medical Language in a Diverse Cultural Environment, Marcia Lei Zeng . Concept-based vs. Word-based Measures of Medical Information Transfer via English-Chinese and Chinese-English Translations of Medical Titles, Shaoyi He . Terminology Organization and Change, Faina Citkina Session A4: The Role of Relationships in Knowledge Organization . Standardization of Inter-Concept Links and Their Usage, Pat Molholt . Development of a Relational Thesaurus, Rebecca Green . Analysis of Explicit Non-Hierarchical Associative Relationships Among Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): Anatomical Terminology, Carol Bean Session A5: Knowledge Organization in the Online Environment, I . Online Classification: Implications for Classifying and Document [-like Object] Retrieval, Diane Vizine-Goetz . Classification to the Rescue: Handling the Problems of Too Many and Too Few Retrievals, Karen M. Drabenstott . Visual Dewey: DDC in a Hypertextual Browser for the Library User, Pauline A. Cochrane and Eric Johnson Software demonstrations (5:00-6:00pm) Lecture, Douglas Bennett, and Banquet, held at the Supreme Court of the United States (7:00-9:00pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 Session B1: Knowledge Organization in the Online Environment, II . Hypertext and Indexing Languages: Common Perspectives and Challenges, Javier Garcia Marco . A Library-Organized Virtual Science and Technology Reference Collection, Gerry McKiernan . Ontology-based Information Capturing from the Internet, Michiaki Iwazume, Hideaki Takeda, and Toyoaki Nishida Session B2a: Impact of Technology on Bibliographic Elements . The Impact of Cultural and Technological Changes on Titles Content and Their Use in the Process of Information Retrieval, Snunith Shoham and Moshe Yitzhaki . Description in the Electronic Environment, Rebecca Green Session B2b: Knowledge Organization in the Economic Environment . The World Bank's Information Management Architecture: A Blue Print for Building the World Bank's Institutional Information Services, Harold C. Steyer, Jr., Ana Flavia Fonseca, Diane D. Hopkins, Marc Nodell, Irene L. Travis, and William S. Wahl . Business Productivity and Organization of Knowledge: A Look at the Emerging Requirements, Philip C. Murray Session B3: User Focus in Knowledge Organization . Empowering Users for Improved Database Access and Analysis through the Application of Knowledge Structure Views, Progressive Refinement Techniques and a Design Approach Driven by Usability, A. Steven Pollitt, Patrick Braekevelt, Geoffrey P. Ellis, Janet E. Finlay, Martin P. Smith, Mark Treglown, and Steven J. Wade . User Education Librarians: Teaching for Every Level, Michelle M. Foss . Selection of Search terms as a Meeting Place of Different Discourses, Mirja Iivonen Session B4: Thesauri and Metathesauri, I . Preparing Terminological Definitions for Indexing and Retrieval Thesauri: A Methodology, Michle Hudon . Building a Multilingual Thesaurus Based on UDC, Victoria Francu . Deriving a Thesaurus from a Restructured UDC, Nancy Williamson Session B5: Knowledge Organization and Images . Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Classification and Graphic Symbol Systems, Elin Jacob and Debora Shaw . The University of Michigan Art Image Browser Project, C. Olivia Frost . The Applicability of Selected Classification Systems to Image Attributes, Corinne Jorgensen ISKO Business Meeting (5:15-6:00pm) THURSDAY, JULY 18 Session C1: Interplay of Epistemology and Knowledge Organization . Dewey Thinks Therefore He Is: The Epistemic Stance of Melvil Dewey as Manifested in the Dewey Decimal Classification Past and Present, Hope A. Olson . Ontology and Knowledge Organization, Roberto Poli . L'Apparition du Computer: Epistemology and the Impact of Networked Computers on Society, Thomas D. Walker . Critical Notes on the Use of Knowledge in Knowledge Management, J.F. Schreinemakers and J.P.J.M. Essers Session C2: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Organization . An Exploratory Study into Requirements for an Interdisciplinary Metathesaurus, Lynne C. Howarth . Evolution of a Concept System. Some Reflections and Study Cases, Giliola Negrini and Giovanni Adamo . An Inductive Approach towards Integration of General Information Systems for Agriculture. The Case of CERETHES, with Particular Examples, Massimo Ragucci . Controlled Vocabulary and Classification Scheme for HIV/AIDS: An Evolving Nosological Record of a Diseased Body of Knowledge, Jeffrey T. Huber and Mary L. Gillaspy Session C3: Natural Language Processing . PROMETHEUS: An Automatic Indexing System, A.R.D. Prasad . Intelligent Support for Construction and Exploration of Advanced Technological Information Space from Technical Papers in Metallurgy, Toshiyuki Matsuo and Toyoaki Nishida . Evaluation of Terminological Database Building Tools Using Linguistic Knowledge, Widad Mustafa-Elhadi and Christophe Jouis Session C4: Thesauri and Metathesauri, II . A Generalized Model for Thesaurus-aided Searching, Ron Davies . Library Catalogs in the Internet: Switching for Future Subject Access, Ingetraut Dahlberg . SemWeb: Proposal for an Open, Multifunctional, Multilingual, Integrated Knowledge Base of Concepts and Terminology : Exploration and Development of the Concept, Dagobert Soergel Session C5: Dewey Decimal Classification . The Dewey Decimal Classification at 120: Edition 21 and Beyond, Joan S. Mitchell . Revising Life Sciences in Dewey Edition 21, Gregory R. New . Dewey for Windows, Julianne Beall Concluding Remarks, Robert Fugmann (5:00-5:30pm) Reception, German Embassy (6:30-8:30pm) FRIDAY, JULY 19 Post-Conference Excursions: National Library of Medicine or National Agricultural Library (morning); indicate preference on registration form. 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