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A conference for the information industry

20-21 April 1996
Ranelagh House, Robertson NSW

Day One Saturday, 20 April 1996

Key Issues

bulletThe electronic age: key issues for indexers - Lynn Farkas, Datascape Information
bulletIndexing the Internet : pinning jelly to the wall? - Roxanne Missingham, Div. of Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO

Current Initiatives: A Multimedia Viewpoint

Case study presentations on indexing for multimedia and CD-ROMs, by representatives of organisations which have produced such products
bulletHelen Routh, CCH Australia Ltd;
bulletLindsay Parsons, Scantext;
bulletRichard Barber, ACEL;
bulletGeraldine Triffitt for David Horton, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies - The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia (CDROM)

Current Initiatives: Publishers' Viewpoints

Publishers' panel on the role of electronic indexing in their organisations, and the impact on publishers' use of indexers
bulletPaul Mullins, AGPS;
bulletHelen Routh, CCH Australia Ltd;
bulletRichard Barber, ACEL;
bulletEvan Predavec, Butterworths

Current Initiatives: An Indexer's Viewpoint

bulletConceptual indexing on CD-ROMs: beyond free-text searching - Garry Cousins
bulletInformal demonstrations and displays in Conference Exhibition area

Conference Dinner

Awarding the Australian Society of Indexers medal - ASI Medal Committee

Day Two Sunday, 21 April 1996

Internet and its Impact

bulletWhat contribution can indexing make to the Internet? - Tony Barry, Australian National University
bulletIndexing the Web: an exercise in hypertext navigation - Dwight Walker, Australian Society of Indexers
bulletConverting indexed information to the Internet: a case study of a dictionary conversion - David Nathan, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies

Automating the Indexing Process

bulletIndexing registry and word processed documents - Peter Eden, RIMS Australasia
bulletUsing fuzzy retrieval and relevance ranking in library catalogues - Rick Clark, Contec Data Systems
bulletAutomatic indexing and abstracting - Glenda Browne
bulletFuture indexing developments for World 1 - Sandra Henderson, National Library of Australia
 

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