Preliminary Program

[Thursday, June 19] [Friday, June 20] [Saturday, June 21] [Sunday, June 22]

Thursday, June 19, 2003

• 7:30am - 7:30pm Registration
• 8:00am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast (for Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees only)
  
  Pre-Conference Morning Workshops
  
• 8:30am - 5:00pm Workshop 1 - Basic Indexing Workshop
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Workshop 2 - Facing the Text: Content Analysis and Entry Selection in Social Sciences and Humanities Indexing REPLACED * with Tracing the Themes
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Workshop 3 - You Say Cookies, I Say Biscuits: Or Why Controlled Vocabularies Are Important and How Indexers Can Expand Their Skills to Start Creating Them
• 10:15am - 10:30am Morning Refreshment Break
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break - On Your Own
  
  Pre-Conference Afternoon Workshops
  
• 1:30pm - 5:00pm Workshop 4 - CINDEXT™ for Windows
• 1:30pm - 3:00pm Workshop 5 - SKY Index™ Professional for Beginners
• 3:00pm - 3:15pm Afternoon Refreshment Break
• 3:30pm - 5:00pm Workshop 6 - Advanced Techniques for SKY™ Professional
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm Welcome Reception, sponsored by Coughlin Indexing Services, Inc.
• 7:00pm - 9:00pm Conference Dinner and Opening Keynote Address - Bill Richardson

Friday, June 20, 2003

• 7:00am - 6:00pm Registration
• 7:30am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast
  
  Morning Breakout Sessions
  
• 8:00am - 12:00pm Morning Breakout Sessions
• 8:00am - 8:45am Breakout Session 1 - Starting Your Indexing Business
• 8:00am - 9:45am Breakout Session 2 - CANCELLED* Speaking in Tongues: Indexing of Foreign Language Materials
• 8:00am - 9:45am Breakout Session 2 - Judging Excellence in Indexes: Demystifying the Process
• 8:00am - 9:45am Breakout Session 3 - Abstracting: From Basic Indicative Abstracts to Critical Abstracts
• 8:00am - 9:45am Breakout Session 4 - Managing a Multi-Volume Indexing Project: An Evolutionary Approach
• 8:00am - 6:00pm Exhibits Open
• 9:00am - 9:45am Breakout Session 5 - Writing Your Own Paycheck
• 9:45am - 10:15am Morning Refreshment Break
• 10:00am - 11:00am Breakout Session 6 - How to Build a Classification Scheme
• 10:00am - 11:00am Breakout Session 7 - Designing Indexes from Shared Content for Multiple Delivery Formats
• 10:15am - 12:00pm Breakout Session 8 - How to Develop a Style Guide
• 10:15am - 12:00pm Breakout Session 9 - Technical Indexing Progression
• 11:00am - 12:00pm Breakout Session 10 - User-Oriented Representation of Documents for Interactive IR: Connecting Beyond-Topical Criteria of User-Defined Relevance with the Surrogate Features of an IR Database
• 11:00am - 12:00pm Breakout Session 11 - Enhancing Productivity through Technology
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch - On Your Own
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch - SIG/Chapter leaders/Newsletter editors session
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch - IASC/SCAD Business Meeting
  
  Afternoon Breakout Sessions
• 1:30pm - 3:15pm Breakout Session 12 - Getting It Right: Indexing for Specific Audience and Text
• 1:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Session 13 - Mapping the Meanings
• 1:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Session 14 - Legal Indexing: Specialties within the Specialty
• 1:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Session 15 - Windows/MS Office: Skills for Indexers and Editors
• 3:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Refreshment Break
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Session 16 - REVIEW - Field Trip: Beyond Indexing Software
• 4:30pm - 6:00pm Software Fair in Exhibit Hall
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm Reception - Meet the Author, sponsored by ITI

Saturday, June 21, 2003

• 7:00am - 6:00pm Registration
• 7:30am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast
  
  Morning General Sessions
  
• 8:00am - 12:00pm Morning General Session
• 8:00am - 4:00pm Exhibits Open
• 8:00am - 8:45am Plenary Session 1 - An Index Comparison Project: The Effects of Two Indexers' Diverse Backgrounds on Creating an Index from a Software Manual
• 9:00am - 9:45am Plenary Session 2 - Indexes vs. Full-Text Search: A Usability Case Study
• 9:45am - 10:00am Morning Refreshment Break
• 10:15am - 11:00am Plenary Session 3 - How Can We Take a Socio-Cognitive Approach in Teaching Indexing and Abstracting?
• 11:15am - 12:00pm ASI Business Meeting
  
• 12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch - Hines and Wilson Awards presentations
  
  Afternoon General Sessions
• 2:00pm - 2:45pm Plenary Session 4 - Digital by Design: A Case Study in Creating a Web-Friendly Cumulated Journal Index
• 3:00pm - 3:45pm Plenary Session 5 - Getting Personal: Individualized Information Delivery
• 3:45pm - 4:15pm Afternoon Refreshment Break
• 4:15pm - 6:00pm Closing Keynote Address - Jody Urquhart
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm Closing Reception, sponsored by Indexing Research

Sunday, June 22, 2003

• All Day Post-Conference Trip arranged and escorted by Western Indexing of Victoria, BC
  For more details see Special Events.