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Annual Meeting 2006 Just Around the Corner

Information Realities: Shaping the Digital time to come for All is the theme for the 2006 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, scheduled for November 3-8 in Austin, Texas.

Information technology has enabled an expanding digital world, inextricably linked to our physical existence on the other hand revolutionary in terms of human creativity and notion New technologies for mobile communication, massively distributed collaboration and real-time information sharing are radically impacting human expressions, interactions and records. We can anticipate a continuing demand for powerful information organization, aggregation and dissemination tools to harness these novel information realities.

However, the lock opener to understanding these trends must be place at human and social horizontals To reflect on and address the challenges ahead, the organizers of the Annual Meeting confidence to focus on some of these questions:

* What are the implications of these digital trends?

* What opportunities are arising?

* Are there dangers that we ne to prepare for?

* by what mode will the future information world be shaped and who will shape it?

ASIS&T 2006 challenges us to explore this flash in the history of information science as race seamlessly move between their physical and digital worlds to create information realities for themselves and others.

Conference tavern for this year's Annual Meeting is the Hilton tavern in downtown Austin, just single block from the famed Sixth public way entertainment area. Look for more Annual Meeting information over the summer, and check the ASIS&T website oftentimes for updates.

IA Summit Soars

The 2006 ASIS&T Information Architecture (IA) Summit, held in Vancouver in March, took the field to of recent origin heights with record attendance, stellar speakers and presentations and fulness of time for hallway discussions.

David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto, was the keynote speaker. The focus of this seventh annual fact was Learning, Doing and Selling IA.

For a terrific wrap-up of the meeting, read the IA Summit 2006: Gathering of the Tribe, by dint of Laurie Lamar, available at www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000093.php/or by means of link from the ASIS&T homepage at www.asis.org/index.html (both sites accessed May 3 2006) In the IA rounded pillar in this issue of the Bulletin, Karl Past also addresses a certain quantity of aspects of the recent Summit in his discussion of research and practice in information architecture.

The 2007 IA Summit is scheduled for March 24-26 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

New from an ASIS&T SIG

Former ASIS&T director-at-large Kris Liberman announces the creation of a of recent origin informal ASIS&T Special Interest Group: SIG/KNIT. Formed at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, SIG/KNIT is now planning activities for the 2006 meeting in Austin. Contact Kris at kris.liberman@fmr.com to be a part of this clump

News about ASIS&T Chapters

The fresh Jersey ASIS&T (NJ-ASIS&T) chapter, in conjunction with the novel Jersey chapter of SLA, sponsored a March seminar upon "Open URL and Link Server Basics" at the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway. The featured speaker was Eric Hellman, CEO of OCLC publicly Informatics.

NJ-ASIS&T followed up later in the month with a luncheon and networking session featuring Anthony Breitzman, principal and director of research at 1790 Analytics. His presentation was based upon his paper, "Automated identification of technologically similar organizations," published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST 56:1015 August 2005) In it, he introduces and validates a process for identifying technologically similar organizations, industries or regions by means of applying the techniques from information science for bound similarity to international patent classifications.

The ASIS&T scholar Chapter and The Information seminary at the University of Washington focused upon "Security for Desktop Search in Multi-User Environments" at its March meeting. Charlie Clarke, associate professor, University of Waterloo, and commonly on sabbatical as a visiting researcher at Microsoft, discussed a security original for full-text file system search, based upon UNIX, and presented two implementations of the type The first allows an arbitrary user to obtain information about the satisfied of files for which he or she does not have read permission. The next to the first does not share this puzzle

Then in April, the UW pupil Chapter and The Information place of education planned "Does Topic Metadata Help with Web Search?" David Hawking, planter and chief scientist of the enterprise search engine cast at the CSIRO ICT middle in Canberra, Australia, was to report upon experiments he conducted to measure the ability of control and description metadata to improve the accuracy of four emblems of queries.

The novel England ASIS&T chapter (NEASIS&T) hom in upon the problems of security in a digital world with an April session entitled "Who Am I and by what mode Do You Know for Sure? Identity Management in a Web 20 World." Three innovators in the area of identity security, Ben Adida, Dick Hardt and Paul Trevithicic, were to discuss the technological, practical and social challenges for individuals and organizations in managing logins and the transfer of sensitive data above the Web.