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``` ["Future of the Book" this Saturday in San Francisco, plus the announcement for the next "Genres of Digital Documents" workshop in Hawaii in January. Of course, some of us are stuck in boring old San Diego, but even so, it's useful to be aware of what the cool people are up to.]
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:36:08 PST
From: Nunberg
The Future of the Book: A Panel Discussion March 29, 1997 UC Extension, San Francisco
The book is dead. Long live the book. Technology, in the form of the printing press, has made the printed word our central form of communication. Will technology, in the form of the computer, kill the book? Is there a future for the book in the brave new multimedia world? Will books and libraries be replaced by hypertext and multimedia, instant global audio and video?
Join a distinguished panel as they consider the consequences of new technologies for communication and their impact on the book. They address the culture of reading and its future, and consider the cultural, social and legal impact of digital technologies on society.
Participants:
Geoffrey Nunberg, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University, Moderator
Michael Buckland, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, UC Office of the President Larry Masinter, Principal Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Pamela Samuelson, SIMS and Boalt Hall School of Law, Commentator
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1997.
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Place: Richardson Auditorium UC Berkeley Extension Center 55 Laguna Street San Francisco
Fee: $10
Enrollment: Please call 510/642-4111 to enroll (edp 176164)
or enroll online http://www.unex.berkeley.edu:4243
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:31:22 PST
From: Nunberg
HICSS-31 Call for papers
"GENRES OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS"
Part of the Digital Documents Track
of the Thirty-first Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Big Island of Hawaii, HI - January 6 - 9, 1998
http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
We invite papers for a minitrack on "Genre in Digital Documents" as part of the Information Systems track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
It is becoming increasingly clear that the succcessful use of digital media requires the emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication. By genres we mean not just particular technologies or modes of communication or presentation (e.g., hypertext, email, the Web, and so on), but complex communicative forms anchored in specific institutions and practices -- the digital analogues, that is, of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the how-to manual, the scholarly journal.
We invite papers that address digital genres from points of view like the following -- though this list is intended to be suggestive, not exhaustive:- Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form- Genres in digital search and classification- Genre theory and its application to digital documents- Investigations of genre in use- Analyses of particular document genres- Designing in support of genre
We invite two kinds of submissions: "position papers" that take on the broad questions of the role of genre in our understanding of digital documents, and case studies, designs, or reports that shed light on particular aspects of digital genres.
Please submit your paper to:
Geoffrey Nunberg Jan Pedersen Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Verity Inc 3333 Coyote Hill Road 894 Ross Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Sunnyvale, Ca 94089 nunberg@parc.xerox.com jpederse@verity.com fax: 415-812-4777
About HICSS
The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.
Instructions for submitting papers:
1. Submit 6 (six) copies of the full paper, consisting of 20-25 pages double-spaced including title page, abstract, references and diagrams directly to the minitrack coordinator.
2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
3. Each paper must have a title page which includes the title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).
4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a 300- word abstract.
DEADLINE:
April 20, 1997: 300-word abstract submitted to track chairs or minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 15, 1997: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chair Aug. 31, 1997: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. Oct. 1, 1997: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chair; author(s) must register by this time. Nov. 15, 1997: All other registrations must be received. Registrations received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space limitations.
The "Genres of Digital Documents" minitrack is part of the Digital Documents Track. There are several minitracks that focus on a variety of research topics in this track. For more information contact:
Track chair: Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. e-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu
Track Admiinistrator: Eileen Dennis E-mail: edennis@uga.cc.uga.edu (706)613-7807 FAX: (706)542-3743)
Other tracks included at HICSS this year are listed below. For more information about these tracks, please contact the Track Chair or check the HICSS web page for full listing of the minitracks.
COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY TRACK Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. e-mail: nunamaker@bpa.arizona.edu
DIGITAL DOCUMENTS TRACK Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. e-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TRACK Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. e-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu
INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY TRACK: Bob Blanning Dave King e-mail: blannirw@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu E-mail: dave@comshare.com FAX: +852-2358-2421
MODELING TECHNOLOGIES AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS TRACK: Dan Dolk Internet: 0541p@vm1.cc.nps.navy.mil
ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY TRACK: Hugh Watson E-mail: hwatson@uga.cc.uga.edu
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRACK Hesham El-Rewini e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu
For more information, visit the HICSS Web site at: http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. see address above
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR: CONFERENCE VENUE: HICSS-31 Conference Office The Orchid at Mauna Lani College of Business Administration One North Kaniku Drive University of Hawai'i Kohala Coast, Hawai'i , 96743 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-3251 FAX: (808) 956-9685 e-mail: hicss@hawaii.edu ```
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