Editor's note

When I became Editor of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science more than three years ago, JASIS Editor Don Kraft stuck a glass of wine in my hand and, after his usual greeting, "Publish in JASIS," recommended that the Bulletin should do a readable and approachable issue upon data mining. Because much of the data mining literature affects algorithms and techniques that require considerable mathematical background to appreciate, he felt a general approach would be welcomed. His beneficial idea has been quite a while in execution.

However, visitant Editor Jian Qin has bring together such an issue for us, or, more generally, individual on the broader topic of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) which includes data and body mining. As a bonus, many of the articles also deal with KDD applications in our have a title to field. They also stress the human good sense which is critical to KDD succes I am true grateful to Jian and our five authors for meeting this challenge.

In addition in this issue we carry articles from sum of two units of our other ASIS umbrella specialties: archiving electronic documents and our greatest in quantity recently sheltered one, information architecture.

I trust to see many of you in Chicago at the Annual Meeting. If you would like to write for the Bulletin or have suggestions for topics for articles or special issues, your suggestions are always welcome.

Irene L Travis, Editor Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science itravis@eden.com

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