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CENDI Conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ I recently learned about the availability of the PowerPoint presentations made at the CENDI conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ held September 29, 1999. CENDI is an governmental interagency Working Group composed of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from major programs in several U.S. federal agencies [http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/ ]. The presentations are available at http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pres_arc.html The following is a listing of the conference presentations and their authors: Joseph A. Busch, DataFusion, Inc. - From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowledge Management in a Networked Environment (PowerPoint File, 298 KB) Patricia Harpring, Vocabulary Program Senior Editor, The Getty - Documenting & Access: Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies (PowerPoint File, 980 KB) Stuart J. Nelson, MD, National Library of Medicine - The Role of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) in Vocabulary Control (PowerPoint File, 185 KB) Dagobert Soergel College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland - Enriched Thesauri as Networked Knowledge Bases for People and Machines (PDF File, 350 KB) Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy Center for Natural Language Processing School of Information Studies Syracuse University - Whither Come the Words? (PowerPoint File, 116 KB) Larry Fitzwater EPA/OIRM/EIMD, Linda Spencer EPA/OIRM/EIMD - EPA Terminology Reference System (TRS) (PowerPoint File, 533 KB) Joyce Ward, Northern Light Technology, Inc. - Indexing and Classification at Northern Light (PowerPoint File, 356 KB) Quin J. Hart, University of California at Davis - The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project (Project Web Site) Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation - DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE An Interagency Program of Research and Applications (PowerPoint File, 728 KB) In addition these presentations, the site contains the PowerPoint presentations from other CENDI programs including: REFERENCE/CITATION LINKING: THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE - A JOINT CENDI/FLICC WORKSHOP held June 21, 2000; GovTechNet 99 held in June 99; and Open Source Solutions 97: Global Security and Global Competitiveness held in June 1997. I believe that MyWebColleagues will find each of great value and interest! /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu "Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans"Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 06:48:26 EDT