1. Bringing It All Together: An Academic Viewpoint (What is needed and what is likely to come next?) Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Conference New Orleans March 22, 2005 Don Kraft

2. Journals + Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) –Wiley – Trade and Publications Journal –JASIST Online http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home ?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 –ASIST Digital Library JASIST, BASIST, ARIST, Proceedings CrossRef Access to Members (Society, Institutional) –Full text Access to Nonmembers –Search, Title, Abstract, Authors –Pay-for-View

3. Open Journals Electronic Journals –(ejournals, e.g., Libres) Electronic Journal Management –Manuscript Central from Scholar One JASIST and Others (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems) –Need for Security Refereeing

4. Academic Web Sites Open Access (Usually) Incomplete Information –Tracking Down People To Contact Downloading Systems Textbooks –Disks, Websites –Customized Texts (Mix and Match)

5. Retrieval - Future Research Directions: Are We Working on the Right Problems? Nonprint Media - Images (content-based), Sound (and music), Multimedia Digital Libraries and Portals –Digitization, Desktop Search. Remote Access, Wireless Cross-Language Retrieval –Translation, Multilingual Systems Parallel/Distributed and Mobile/Wireless Retrieval Systems Web retrieval –Web Mining Natural Language Processing –Summarization Fusion, Compression, Mobile Retrieval, Models –Latent Semantic Indexing –Duplication

6. Metadata, XML, Citation/Link Analysis Agents, Question/Answering, Web and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Semantic Web –Ontologies, Taxonomies, Classifications, A&I –Artificial Intelligence – Text Mining, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets Filtering –Recommender Systems Special Applications –Genomes, Chemical Structures, Extraction –Software Reuse, GIS, Control, Security Informatics Digital Libraries, User and Usage Models Evaluation – Metrics Usability Information Architecture Software Engineering

7. Visualization Adversarial Retrieval Clustering Users –Usage –Relevance (Topical, Nontopical) –Personalization Knowledge Management

8. A Brief Commercial How to Get ASIDIC People To Talk To Academics (e.g., ASIST)? And, Vice Versa? Librarians Should Be on the IRS Team - All the Way

9. Donald H. Kraft Department of Computer Science 298 Coates Hall Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020 (225) 578-2253 Voice(225) (225) 578-1465 Fax kraft@bit.csc.lsu.educsc.lsu.edu /~kraftcsc.lsu.edu /~kraft Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler – Questions and Kvetches