========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:53:43 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Steve Cloyd Subject: Hello! Is anybody out there familiar with full text indexing? ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am a grad student at UW Madison considering doing a project on full text indexing and need to know if there is anybody out there who's done something similar. (Something along the lines of, if full text retrieval is possible, why bother indexing at all?) I'm not even sure if this question is narrow-scoped enough. There must be some software pkgs. out there that do full-text indexing but I've never used one. Please respond. Thanks in advance. secloyd@students.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:54:12 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: American Society for Information Science Subject: ASIS Annual Meeting Update ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- PROGRAM UPDATE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE The Economics of Information Annual Meeting October 17 - 20, 1994 Alexandria, VA For more information or details contact asis@cni.org, call (301) 495-0900, or fax (301) 495-0810 President Clinton regrets that he cannot present the keynote address. We are delighted to announce that Anne Wells Branscomb will more than adequately replace him as our keynote speaker. KEYNOTE: The Economics of Information, Anne Wells Branscomb Monday, October 17, 9:00am - 9:45am John Naisbit has said, "For brilliantly sorting out the issues and complexities of the information era, Anne Wells Branscomb should be declared a national treasure." Anne Wells Branscomb, a communications and computer lawyer, is a legal scholar in residence at Harvard University's Program in Information Resources Policy. She has served as chair of the Communications Law Division of the American Bar Association's Science and Technology Section and as a member of the steering committee of the National Academy of Sciences Project on Rights and Responsibilities of Users of Computerized Information Networks. Her most recent book, "WHO OWNS INFORMATION? From Privacy to Access," was published in June, 1994. OTHER HOT TOPICS ADDED: State and Local Government Information Dissemination Tuesday, October 18, 1:15pm - 2:30pm Should government sell information your tax dollars have paid to collect? Should it be free? Free to whom? In what format? This session explores the issues of dissemination of information from the state and local government level. Numerous courts and other government entities are now providing access to information databases as a result of their internal organization and management of information. Questions about the cost, the price, the access, etc. will be explored. Susan Laniewski, National Center for State Courts Joseph Piatt, the ExLIBRIS Group Copyright Wednesday, October 19, 10:30am - Noon This session is a mediation of the issues of copyright from the points of view of the information user, the creator, the publisher/distributor, and the re-seller. It begins from the premise that there is no copyright law at all and explores the issues of the interests which are competing as well as complementary from all of the parties. Sam Beatty, Doc, Inc. Ron Dunne, Consultant Bruce Stein, Dept. of Defense Mickie Voges, Chicago Kent School of Law, Mediator QUIT