Online Information 98 - 9 December 1998

Brian Kelly took part in a panel session on Enabling the user in the quest for quality at the Online Information 98 conference which was held at Olympia, London on 8-10 December 1998.

Presentation on "Technical Developments Related to Quality Issues"

Slides

[Powerpoint format] - [Powerpoint 97 format] - [HTML format] - [HTML format]

Relevant URLs

The following resources are referred to in the presentation:

The Future of Search Engines

See <URL: http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,1826,00.html>

Google

See <URL: http://google.stanford.edu/>

Clever

See <URL: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html>

Direct Hit

See <URL: http://www.directhit.com/>

Session Details

The abstract for the session follows:

Exponential growth in the number of information resources available via the Internet and online demands that information professionals and end users face up to the complex problem of assessing information quality. How can you determine the quality of the information you use? Are there accepted guidelines available to help in this monumental task? What role must information vendors and those responsible for information gateways play? How else can end-users be empowered to find quality?

The panelists were:

• Alison Cooke, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
• Chris Armstrong, Centre for Information Quality Management, UK
• Brian Kelly, UKOLN, UK
• Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom, University of Bristol, UK
• Roddy MacLeod, Herriot-Watt University, UK
• Ted Caris, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, USA

The session was chaired by Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services, UK.