Tuesday, March 7, 2006
9:00am - 10:30am

Seminar 1: Managing an Internship Program: Ideas and Strategies

This seminar is designed to inform potential interns and intern mentors about the various issues surrounding the mounting and management of successful internship programs. The presenters will discuss the expectations, deliverables and the professional and personal experiences from the distinct viewpoints of an educator, a mentor and an intern. If you are considering becoming a host, a mentor, an intern or developing and internship program at your institution, this seminar will be of great use.

Moderator: Jeanne M. Keefe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Speakers:
Dr. Hemalata Iyer, The University at Albany, SUNY, Internship Management
Christine Sundt, University of Oregon
Caitlain Devereaux Lewis, University at Albany, SUNY

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
2:00pm -3:30 pm

Seminar 2: Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) - Using CLiMB-2 at the University of Maryland

CLiMB-2 is a continuation of the CLiMB-1 project, funded by the Mellon Foundation at Columbia University from 2002-2004. CLiMB’s approach is to refine, develop, and apply computer-assisted approaches to the creation of descriptive metadata for digital library image collections. Specifically, it uses and adapts techniques from computational linguistics to mine metadata from scholarly publications. The CLiMB-1 team developed a prototype cataloguing toolkit that began to incorporate some of these techniques. The objects of the second phase, CLiMB-2, are: 1) to ensure the effectiveness of CLiMB’s Cataloging Toolkit for mining structured text, such as exhibit catalogs, for metadata; 2) to expand the toolkit’s capabilities to extract metadata from semi-structured and unstructured texts, such as textbooks and field notes; 3) to ensure that the toolkit is easy to use through formative feedback from actual users; 4) to partner with several institutions to test the toolkit in actual work settings; 5) to monitor its use to establish benchmarks and to identify its effect on cataloger’s work processes; and 6) to test the effect of CLiMB-generated index terms on real image searchers’ browsing and searching. The seminar reports on Phase 1 (October 2005-March 2006) of CLiMB-2, which has resulted in a CLiMB Cataloging Toolkit that can now be used by other catalogers.

Moderator: Judith Klavens, University of Maryland-College Park

Speakers: Angela Giral, Columbia University
                  Marilyn Domas White, University of Maryland-College Park
                  Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland-College Park
                  Judith Klavans, University of Maryland-College Park