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TAF Workshop Agenda
[Last updated: January 08, 1999]
DAY ONE: Monday, June 22nd
| Welcome And Introduction |
08:00 –
08:30 |
Workshop Premise And Charge To
Participants |
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Stanley D. Blum, Natural History
Museum, University of Kansas [PI, Taxonomic Authority File Workshop; Co-Chair, Association
of Systematics Collections, Computerization and Networking Committee]; and
John N. Mitchell, Cooperative Cataloging Team, Library of
Congress [Chair, Task Force on a Forum for Natural History Cataloging Issues, Cataloging
and Classification Section, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services]
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| Session
I: |
Examples Of
Taxonomic Authority Compilation Projects |
08:30 –
09:00 |
The Catalog Of Fishes Project. |
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William Eschmeyer, Curator, Department of
Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. [Principal Investigator for
the Catalog of Fishes project.] |
09:00 –
09:30 |
The IOPI Global Plant Checklist Project. |
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Nancy Morin, Executive Director, American
Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. [Council Member, International Organization
for Plant Information] |
09:30 –
10:00 |
The Integrated Taxonomic Information
System. |
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Roy McDiarmid, USGS-BRD /
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution |
10:00 –
10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
10:30
– 11:00 |
The Combined Plant Name
Index: A Cooperatively Developed And Replicated Database Of Plant Names. |
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Greg Whitbread,
Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra, and
Sally Hinchcliffe, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.
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11:00 –
11:30 |
The Species 2000 Programme. |
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Frank A. Bisby, Centre for Plant Diversity
& Systematics, University of Reading [Chairman, Project Management Team, Species 2000
Programme] |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Discussion |
12:00 – 01:30 |
LUNCH |
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Session I:
(Cont'd) |
Examples Of Taxonomic Compilation Projects |
01:30 -
02:00 |
Economic And Practical Aspects Of
Constructing And Maintaining Insect Name Authority Files: Nomina Insecta Nearctica And The
ICIPE Insect Biodiversity Project. |
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Robert Poole, Entomological Information
Services. |
02:00 –
02:30 |
The Economics Of Authority File
Compilation: A Perspective From A Self-Sustaining Literature Indexing Enterprise. |
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Michael N. Dadd, Managing Director,
BIOSIS-UK. [TRITON, the Taxonomy Resource & Index To Organism Names] |
02:30 – 03:00 |
Discussion |
03:00 –
03:30 |
Coffee
Break |
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| Session II: |
A
Framework For Authority Control: From Shared Vocabularies To The Cooperative Cataloging Of
Common Data Objects |
03:30 –
04:00 |
An Overview Of Authority Control In
Cataloging. |
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Karen Calhoun, Head of Cataloging, Central
Technical Services, Cornell University. |
04:00 –
04:30 |
The Program For Cooperative Cataloging
(PCC). |
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Beacher J. E. Wiggins, Director for
Cataloging, Library of Congress. [Member, Steering Committee, Program for Cooperative
Cataloging] |
04:30 –
05:00 |
An Overview Of Training Activities And
Resources In The Program For Cooperative Cataloging. |
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Joan Swanekamp, Chief Catalog Librarian,
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. [Chair, Standing Committee on Training,
Program for Cooperative Cataloging] |
05:00 – 05:30 |
Discussion |
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END OF DAY ONE SESSIONS... |
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06:00 – 07:30 |
Reception
(Radisson Barcelo Hotel; In room: "National Gallery B") |
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DAY TWO: Tuesday, June 23rd
| Session
III: |
Authorities,
Gazetteers, and Thesauri |
08:00 – 08:30 |
Overview Of Library Authority File Record
Structure, Format, Content & Processes. |
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John Riemer, Assistant Head, Cataloging
Department, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia. |
08:30 – 09:00 |
Developing Authorities For Places-Names
And Spatial Objects: A Content Standard For An Internet-Accessible Gazetteer. |
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Linda Hill, Alexandria Digital Library
Project, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
09:00 – 09:30 |
NISO Z39.19: The Content Standard For
Thesauri And Lexicons. |
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Jessica L. Milstead, The JELEM Company,
Brookfield, CT. [Independent consultant; expert on thesaurus construction and indexing] |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): A
Multi-Thesaurus System. |
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Stuart Nelson, Head, Medical Subject
Headings, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD. |
10:00
– 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session
IV: |
Data Structures
for Taxonomic Names and Classifications |
10:30 –
11:00 |
Data Structures For Taxonomic Authority
Files: Taxon Versus Name-Based Models Of Names And Classifications. |
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Walter Berendsohn, Botanical Garden and
Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, GERMANY. [Chair, Information Systems Committee,
International Organization for Plant Information] |
11:00 –
11:30 |
Relational Data Structures For Extensible
Thesauri. |
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Randy Ballew, Museum Informatics Project,
University of California, Berkeley. |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Discussion |
12:00 – 01:30 |
LUNCH |
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| Session
V: |
Technologies for
Accessing and Replicating Authorities |
01:30 –
02:00 |
Mechanisms For Accessing/Distributing
Authority Files In The Library Community. |
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Gary Strawn, Northwestern University
Library. [Member, Standing Committee on Automation, Program for Cooperative Cataloging] |
02:00 –
02:30 |
Java And Distributed Object Technologies
For Replicating Data: Sharing Authoritative Records Of Plant-Name Authors In The Combined
Plant Name Index. |
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Noel Cross, Harvard University
Herbaria, and Sally
Hinchliffe, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. |
02:30 – 03:00 |
Discussion |
03:00 – 03:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session
VI: |
Recommendations |
03:30
– 05:00 |
Presentations By Recorders
And Summary Discussion |
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END OF WORKSHOP |
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