UCLA Boelter Hall Penthouse
Los Angeles ,
CA 90095 United States
2009 CISTA Award Recipient & Featured Speaker Professor Dagobert Soergel of the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland will give his talk on "The task-centric revolution. Weaving information into workflows." Systems should be centered around tasks, not applications. This talk will present ideas and techniques towards the design of task-centric systems.
Event Details
Date and Time:
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 2:45pm - 4:45pm
Location:
UCLA Boelter Hall Penthouse
Los Angeles ,
CA 90095 United States
Program Information
Speaker Information:
Dagobert Soergel is a professor at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, where he teaches in the areas of knowledge organization, information retrieval, and thesaurus construction (since 1970). He holds a Masters in mathematics and physics and a PhD in political science, both from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is best known for his textbooks Indexing Languages and Thesauri: Construction and Maintenance (1974) and Organizing Information (1985), which received the Best Information Science Book Award in 1986. Recently he guided the development of the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus (3rd edition, 2000), for which he has developed software that produces both the print and the Web version. In 1997 he received the highest award of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the Award of Merit. He is currently involved in the development of a joint Harvard and Stanford Business Thesaurus and in the MALACH project.
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