8:30 AM Coffee and Danish, registration
9:00 AM Welcome
Prosser Gifford, Director for Scholarly Programs, and Carl
Fleischhauer, Coordinator, American Memory, Library of
Congress
9:l5 AM Session I. Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What
Will They Do?
Broad description of the range of electronic information.
Characterization of who uses it and how it is or may be used.
In addition to a look at scholarly uses, this session will
include a presentation on use by students (K-12 and college)
and the general public.
Moderator: James Daly
Avra Michelson, Archival Research and Evaluation Staff,
National Archives and Records Administration (Overview)
Susan H. Veccia, Team Leader, American Memory, User Evaluation,
and
Joanne Freeman, Associate Coordinator, American Memory, Library
of Congress (Beyond the scholar)
10:30-
11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM Session II. Show and Tell.
Each presentation to consist of a fifteen-minute
statement/show; group discussion will follow lunch.
Moderator: Jacqueline Hess, Director, National Demonstration
Lab
1. A classics project, stressing texts and text retrieval
more than multimedia: Perseus Project, Harvard
University
Elli Mylonas, Managing Editor
2. Other humanities projects employing the emerging norms of
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): Chadwyck-Healey's
The English Poetry Full Text Database and/or Patrologia
Latina Database
Eric M. Calaluca, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
3. American Memory
Carl Fleischhauer, Coordinator, and
Ricky Erway, Associate Coordinator, Library of Congress
4. Founding Fathers example from Packard Humanities
Institute: The Papers of George Washington, University
of Virginia
Dorothy Twohig, Managing Editor, and/or
David Woodley Packard
5. An electronic medical journal offering graphics and
full-text searchability: The Online Journal of Current
Clinical Trials, American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Maria L. Lebron, Managing Editor
6. A project that offers facsimile images of pages but omits
searchable text: Cornell math books
Lynne K. Personius, Assistant Director, Cornell
Information Technologies for Scholarly Information
Sources, Cornell University
12:30 PM Lunch (Dining Room A, Library Madison 620. Exhibits
available.)
1:30 PM Session II. Show and Tell (Cont'd.).
3:00-
3:30 PM Break
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