Nîmes, France, 21-24 October 2001

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Opening Keynote

Arnoud de Kemp, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
An Information Community Overview with Reference to the Potential Impact of Peer-to-Peer Networking on Scientific and Technical Information

Session One: The Old and the New: Coexistence?

Jonathan Goodman, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Evaluating Chemical Information Sources on the World Wide Web

Peter Hoever, Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany
The Bayer Virtual Library

Pierre Buffet, Questel-Orbit, Paris, France
Virtual Databases: Integrating Web and Internal Data Searching

Session Two: Challenges to the Scientific and Technical Information Community

Martin Tanke (Elsevier, New York, USA)
Robert Massie (Chemical Abstracts Service, Ohio, USA)
Jacques Michel (European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Michael Tansey (Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, USA)

Session Three: And Now the User ...

Deborah Kahn, DK Associates, London, UK
Information at the Desktop: What have we learned?

Frank Cooke and * Helen Schofield, GlaxoSmithKline, Pennsylvania, USA and * UMIST, Manchester, UK
Mining for Education Nuggets: Assessment of End-Users' Search Techniques to Assist with Training and Purchase Decisions

Tuesday 23 October 2001

Day Two Keynote

Stephen E Arnold
AIT, Kentucky, USA
Content Management: A Matter of Discontent

Session Four: Data Exploration & Integration

Jean Marie Devès and Isabelle Morelon, Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Text Mining: Ali Baba's Cave?

Thérèse Vachon, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
Interactive Exploration of Patent Data for Competitive Intelligence: Applications in Ulix (Novartis Knowledge Miner)

Anthony Trippe, Aurigin Consulting, California, USA
A Comparison of Ideologies: Intellectually Assigned Co-Coding Clustering vs Themescape Automatic Themematic mapping

Session Five: Indexing, Analysis & Categorisation

Valery Tsourikov, Invention-Machine, New York, USA
Semantic Processing with Causal Reasoning: Applications in Patent Intelligence and Text Mining

Marc Krier and Francesco Zaccà, European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands
Automatic Categorisation of Patent Data

Session Six: Information Acquisition & Management

Matthew Toussant, Chemical Abstracts Service, Ohio, USA
The Changing Landscape of Chemical Patent Information and Its Impact On Chemical Research: from Gene Sequences and Biotech Property to Application Publication Changes

William G Town & Jan Kuras, ChemWeb Inc, London, UK
An analysis of information portals for the chemical community

Wednesday 24 October 2001

Session Seven: Information Management

John Murray
Oracle EMEA, UK
Information Management Infrastructure for Life Sciences Discovery

Alfred Steinhardt
Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
New Information Management Technologies to Improve the Drug Development Process

Session Eight: Data Search & Management

Rudolph Potenzone
LION Bioscience Inc, California, USA
Integrating Disparate Databases to Support the Drug Discovery Process

* Erno Pretsch, P. Portmann, M.E. Munk, and E. Zass, * ETH, Zürich, Switzlerland
A New Versatile Structure Search System

Paul Fretwell
Accelrys, Leeds, UK
Commercial Reaction Databases in Oracle