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Fifth Southern African Online Information Meeting
Eskom Conference Centre, Midrand, South Africa
8 - 10 June 1999
WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE 1999
08:00 Registration
SESSION ONE: 09:00 - 12:30
Chair Glenda Myers, Chairman:Southern African Online User Group
09:00 Welcome
09:05 Keynote address: Beyond 2000: Information technology today, where it is going, and major implications for all businesses. Dr David Jacobson, ALTRON
09:50 Questions
10:00 - 10:30 Tea
10:30 University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre. David Seaman, Alderman Library, University of Virginia
11:15 Questions
11:30 The virtual book. Anne Strauss. International Colleges Group
12:15 Questions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
SESSION TWO: 14:00 - 17:15
Chair Glenda Myers, Chairman:Southern African Online User Group
14:00 Keynote address: Information a mouse-click away: The integration of scanning technology, tracking and printing for interlibrary loans. Reinder Jan Zwart, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
14:45 Questions
15:00 - 15:30 Tea
15:30 Empowering clientele: Current awareness on the Internet. Dr Ina Fourie, Unisa
16:00 Library on your desk: An overview of website architecture, electronic information service integration and automated usage tracking and billing. Tony Carozza, Hewlett Packard, US
16:30 Spaza shops: Food for thought on providing commercial services through the Internet. Martie van Deventer, CSIR Miningtek
17:00 Questions
18:00 Entertainment
THURSDAY 10 JUNE 1999
8:00 Registration
SESSION THREE: 09:00 - 12:30
Chair Glenda Myers, Chairman:Southern African Online User Group
09:00 The Digital Object Identifier system, the Dublin Core Community and the INDECS Project: Converging metadata initiatives for information as intellectual property. Jean Maree, Unisa
9:30 Electronic copyright: A lawyer's viewpoint. Frank Verardi, John & Kernick
10:00 Questions
10:15 - 10:45 Tea
10:45 The next generation Online Information Solution: Using Adaptive Pattern Recognition (APRP) and Semantic Expansion for extremely accurate information delivery on full-text and Multimedia sources. Piet Dempsey, Grintek
11:15 Using push technology/web casting in a contract research organisation. Elize Potgieter, CSIR Defencetek
11:45 Information superhighway and traffic jam. Speaker from The Internet Solution
12:15 Questions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
SESSION FOUR: 14:00 - 15:00
Chair Glenda Myers, Chairman:Southern African Online User Group
14:00 Keynote address: Where do we go from here? Information services ... knowledge discovery. Dr. Edna Reid, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
14:45 Questions
15:00 - 15:30 Tea
15:30 - 16:30 AGM & Closing
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