>> Community Calendars >> 1998 1998 CALENDAR JANUARY January 8-11 American Historical Association: Annual Meeting Seattle, WA January 9-14 American Library Association: Midwinter Meeting New Orleans, LA January 13 "INTO THE FUTURE: ON THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE" PBS Broadcast, 10pm (check local listings) January 17-18 Visual Arts Foundation: The Culture of Interactivity New York, NY Back to top       FEBRUARY Feb. 11-14 Music Library Association: Annual Conference Boston, MA February 16-20 VRML'98: 1998 Virtual Reality Modeling Language Symposium Monterey, CA February 24-27 Connecting All Americans for the 21st Century: Telecommunications Links in Low Income & Rural Communities Sponsored by United States Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) & The Public Utility Law Project (PULP) Washington, D.C. February 25-28 College Art Association: 86th Annual Conference Toronto, Canada Feb 26-28 Faxon Institute Second Annual Colloquium on Scholarly Communication Issues New Orleans Feb 26-28 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) K-12 School Networking '98 Washington, DC Feb 28-March 1 Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science DIMACS Workshop on Design for Values: Ethical, Social and Political Dimensions of Information Technology Princeton University, NJ MARCH March 3-8 Visual Resources Association 16th Annual Conference Philadelphia, PA March 5-12 ARLIS/NA: Art Libraries Society of North America 26th Annual Conference Philadelphia, PA March 6: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WOMYN.EDU: Storming the Technological Tower The 4th Annual Women's Studies and the Internet Roundtable Toronto, ON March 10-13 WORKSHOP The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access Archives II, College Park, Maryland March 23-27 XML: The Conference Seattle, WA March 25-27 IRISS'98 Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists Bristol, UK March 26-29 circuits@nys: The Arts in a Digital Age NYC/Palisades, NY Back to top       APRIL April 1-3 EP98, 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography Saint Malo, France. April 4-5 Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI): ArtSci98: Seeding Collaboration New York, NY April 11-18 PASSOVER April 12 EASTER April 14-15 CNI: Spring Task Force Meeting Washington DC April 15-17 ASSETS'98, the 3rd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies Los Angeles. April 15-17 Net'98 Sponsored by NTTF, Educom, CAUSE, the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, CRA, CNI, FARNET, ARL, ALA, and CREN Washington DC April 19-25 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK: "Kids Connect @ the Library" April 20 Networked Lifelong Learning: Innovative approaches to education and training through the Internet Sheffield, ENGLAND April 20-22 ICCC/IFIP Second Conference on Electronic Publishing Budapest, Hungary April 21-26 MUSEUMS & THE WEB: An International Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 23-25 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONTRACT LAW IN THE INFORMATION AGE: The Impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code on the Future of Transactions in Information and Electronic Commerce University of California at Berkeley April 30-May 2 National Association of Artists' Organizations: Annual Meeting Chicago, IL April 30-May 2 ACLS 79th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, PA Back to top       MAY May 4-6 WORKSHOP Association of Research Libraries Workshop on Publishing and Analyzing Data Sets on the World Wide Web Wayne State University Libraries, Detroit, Michigan. May 4-5 WORKSHOP Managing Metadata for The Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos Co-sponsored by: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Washington, DC May 7-10 Generating Surprises: The Post/Disciplinary University CIRLA 98 -- 3rd International Conference of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Liberal Arts Banff, CANADA May 10-12 Association for Computing (ACM) Annual Conference: POLICY98: "Shaping Policy in the Information Age" Washington, DC May 10-14 American Association of Museums Annual Conference: "Exploring Differences, Finding Connections" Los Angeles May 12-15 Association for Research Libraries Board & Membership Meeting Eugene, OR May 18 CONFU Meeting, Library of Congress Washington D.C. May 20-23 Association for Recorded Sound Collections: 8th Annual Conference Syracuse, NY Back to top       JUNE June 6-9 Americans for the Arts: 1997 Annual Convention Denver, CO June 6-9 European Commission: DELOS Workshop Preservation of Digital Information Lisbon, PORTUGAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 16, 1998 June 11-12 White House Internet Summit: Digital Media Content for Children and Teens Conference Los Angeles June 14-18 NATIONAL HISTORY DAY June 20-24 Hypertext '98: The 9th ACM Conference on Hypermedia and Hypertext Pittsburgh, PA June 23-26 Digital Libraries '98, "Towards the Millennium" Pittsburgh June 25-July 2 American Library Association: Annual Conference Washington, DC June 29-July 1 UKOLN Conference: INFORMATION LANDSCAPES FOR A LEARNING SOCIETY: Networking and the future of libraries 3 The University of Bath, ENGLAND June 30-July 1 TEI and XML in Digital Libraries Digital Library Federation Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Back to top       JULY July 5-18 WORKSHOP DIGITIZATION SUMMER SCHOOL The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute GLASGOW, SCOTLAND July 5-10 ALLC/ACH'98 Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computers and the Humanities Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, HUNGARY July 19-24 SIGGRAPH 98: The 25th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Orlando, FL Back to top       AUGUST August 13-14 IFLA PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR: CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES Amsterdam, Netherlands August 16-21, 1998 International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA) General Conference On Crossroads of Information and Culture Amsterdam, Holland August 16-21 WORKSHOP CREATING ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES: Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada August 24-28, 1998 ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Melbourne, Australia August 25-29, 1998 The Fifth International Conference of The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO 5) Lille, France August 31-September 2, 1998 Understanding Metadata WORKSHOP Dublin, Ohio --also offered September 9-11; September 21-23; November 2-4; November 9-11; and December 7-9 August 31-September 6, 1998 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting Orlando, Florida Back to top       SEPTEMBER September 7-9 Literature, Philology and Computers Edinburgh, Scotland September 9-12 Digital Resources in the Humanities: DRH '98 Glasgow, Scotland September 13-16 The Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference Bristol, UK Sept. 21-22 ROSH HASHANAH September 21-23 Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries/European Digital Library Conference in conjunction with the 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 23-26 Museum Computer Network Conference: Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Preservation Santa Monica, CA September 22-24: Visual Representations & Interpretations: Multidisciplinary Workshop Liverpool, England September 24-25 Computers & the History of Art (CHArt) 14th Annual Conference COMPUTING AND VISUAL CULTURE: Representation and Interpretation London, UK September 25-28 The Future of the Humanities in a Digital Age Bergen, Norway September 28-30 Guidelines for Digital Imaging: International Working Conference University of Warwick, UK September 29-October 3 Cultural Studies, Databases & Europe Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies Debrecen, Hungary. Sept. 30 YOM KIPPUR Back to top       OCTOBER October 8-11 Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies: State of the Arts: Production, Reception & Teaching in the Digital World College Park, MD PROPOSAL DEADLINE: JANUARY 8 October 9-11 Commision for Arts and Humanities in Education, New York University School of Education "Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and Humanities" PROPOSAL DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1 New York University, NYC October 13-16 Association for Research Libraries Board & Membership Meeting Washington, DC October 16-18 Video History: Making Connections Syracuse, NY. October 22-23 Communicating Culture The Getty Center Conference Los Angeles, CA October 26 NINCH Board & Members Meeting Washington, DC Back to top       NOVEMBER Nov. 15-21 AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK Back to top       DECEMBER December 7-8, 1998 CNI: Fall Task Force Meeting Seattle, WA December 7-9, 1998 WORKSHOP SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: Issues of Preservation & Access for Paper-Based Collections New Orleans, LA December 7-12, 1998 Association of Moving Image Archivists: Annual Conference Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, FL Back to top         Thanks to calendar information provided by NINCH members, HUMANIST, D-Lib Magazine, MCN's e-SPECTRA, the American Library Association, IEEE Digital Library News, and Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.