2002

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a section within the larger list of OA-related Events.
• Chronological order.

May

• Toward New Economies of Information Access. (26th Annual Meeting of the AAP Society for Scholarly Publishing). (open access is among the topics). Boston, May 29-31, 2002
• Autour du Libre 2002. Paris, May 29-31, 2002
• Fair Use Seminar. Portland, Oregon, May 30, 2002
• Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections. Lexington, Massachusetts, May 30-31, 2002
• Multimedia Content and Tools: Towards Information and Knowledge Systems. London, May 30-31, 2002
• Advancing Knowledge: Expanding Horizons for Information Science. Toronto, May 30 - June 1, 2002
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2002. Provo, Utah, May 30 - June 1, 2002

June

• International Association of Technological University Libraries Annual Conference: Partnerships, Consortia, and 21st Century Library Science. Kansas City, June 2-6, 2002
• Digital Behavior: European Forum on Digital Content Creation, Management, and Distribution. Cologne, June 4-8, 2002
• DELOS Workshop on Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics. Budapest, June 6-7, 2002
• Social Implicatoins of Information and Communication Technology. Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6-8, 2002
• Electronic Resources and the Social Role of Libraries in the Future. Sudak, Ukraine, June 8-16, 2002
• First International Semantic Web Conference. Sardinia, June 9-12, 2002
• Frontiers of Ownership in the Digital Economy: Information Patents, Database Protection and the Politics of Knowledge. Paris, June 10-11, 2002
• IASSIST 2002: Accelerating Access, Collaboration, and Dissemination. University of Connecticut, June 11-15, 2002
• Joint Conference of EARMA and EuroScience: Integrating European Research and Innovation Management. Budapest, June 14-15, 2002
• Open Access to Scholarship: Paths for Libraries. (part of the ALA annual meeting). Atlanta, June 15, 2002, 1:30-3:30
• Converging, Emerging Standards for Digital Preservation. (part of the ALA annual meeting). Atlanta, June 16, 2002
• Building our Cultural Heritage --Electronically. Atlanta, June 17, 2002
• The Commons in an Age of Globalisation. Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, June 17-21, 2002
• Informing Science and IT Education. Cork, June 19-21, 2002
• 8th International Conference of European University Information Systems. Porto, June 19-22, 2002
• Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: Exploiting the Online Environment for Maximum Advantage. Birmingham, June 20-21, 2002
• Creating Digital Facsimiles and Scholarly Editions using TEI . Sydney, June 20-22, 2002
• Transforming Serials: The Revolution Continues. Williamsburg, Virginia, June 20-23, 2002
• Delivering Content to Universities and Colleges: The Challenges of the New Information Environment. Sponsored by JISC, PA, and ALPSP. London, June 21, 2002
• The Public Voice in Internet Policy Making. (including a session on The Future of the Public Domain: Intellectual Property Protections and Other Restrictions on Access to Information). Washington, D.C., June 22, 2002
• Digitisation, Conservation, and Preservation Workshop. Toledo, Spain, June 23-25, 2002
• Choices and Strategies for Preservation of the Collective Memory. Bolzano, Italy, June 25-29, 2002
• CIG Seminar: REVEALed: The Truth Behind the National Database of Resources in Accessible Formats. London, June 26, 2002
• 4th International JISC/CNI Conference. Edinburgh, June 26-27, 2002
• Digitisation Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals. Glasgow, June 30 - July 5, 2002

July

• World Summit on the Information Society. (PrepCom-1). Geneva, July 1-5, 2002
• The Role of Science and Technology in the Information Society. Geneva, July 2, 2002
• Library and Information Services in Astronomy. Prague, July 2-5, 2002
• Libraries as Portals to Information. 31st Annual LIBER conference. Graz, July 2-6, 2002
• The Digital Revolution: An Overview of the New Communication Realities. Maastricht, July 3-5, 2002
• Handling Electronic Communication in Higher and Further Education. London, July 4, 2002
• Digital Library IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium.Beijing, July 8-12, 2002
• DELOS, 2nd International Summer School on Digital Libraries. Pisa, July 8-12, 2002
• Networked Virtual Museums and Memory Institutions. Digital Cultural Heritage IV. Maastricht, July 10-13, 2002
• Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries. Granada, July 10-13, 2002
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002. Portland, Oregon, July 14-18, 2002
• Licensing Review and Negotiation. (An ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum Course). July 15 - August 16, 2002
• Copyright Term Extension: Opposing Views on the Eldred Case. New York, July 17, 2002
• Usability for Digital Libraries. (Part of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Portland, Oregon, July 18, 2002
• Workshop on Developing Digital Libraries Education and Training Programs. (Part of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Portland, Oregon, July 18, 2002
• Workshop on Document Search Interface Design and Intelligent Access in Large-Scale Collections. (Part of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Portland, Oregon, July 18, 2002
• Mapping the Journey to E-Journal Access. Starkville, Mississippi, July 19, 2002
• Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Emerging Frameworks and Methods. Seattle, July 21-25, 2002
• Digital Literacy: Re-Thinking Education and Training in a Digital World. Portland, Oregon, July 22-26, 2002
• Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Edmonton, July 23-26, 2002
• 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. Edinburgh, July 24-26, 2002
• Fourth International JISC/CNI Conference. (plus two pre-conferences, one on "Open Access to Scholarship: New Solutions" and the other on "Electronic Theses and Dissertations"). Edinburgh, July 26-27, 2002
• International Summer School on the Digital Library 2002: The Management of Change. Tilburg, July 28 - August 1, 2002
• Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing. Los Angeles, July 29 - August 1, 2002
• Open Publish 2002. Sydney, July 29 - August 1, 2002
• Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet. L'Aquila, Italy, July 29 - August 4, 2002
• Reading: The Digital Future. An OCLC Seminar with Jason Epstein and Michael Smolens. Dublin, Ohio, July 30, 2002

August

• International Summer School on the Digital Library, Course 2: Digital Libraries and Education. Tilberg, August 4-9, 2002
• FM 2 Speed Demons, Contemplative Places: The Digital Importance of Momentum and Meditation. (Two of the questions to be addressed: How can we organise knowledge when knowledge creation is in a flux? What cultural heritage will be left for future generations?). Aarhus, Denmark, August 5-6, 2002
• 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Tampere, Finland, August 11-15, 2002
• The Impact of Alternative Scholarly Publishing and the Budapest Open Access Initiative. (part of the IFLA Preconference). Glasgow, August 15, 2002
• Workshop on Distributed Computing Architectures for Digital Libraries. Vancouver, August 18-21, 2002
• Creating Electronic Texts and Images. (Esp. in the Humanities). Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 18-23, 2002
• 68th IFLA General Conference and Council: Libraries for Life: Democracy, Diversity, Delivery. Glasgow, August 18-24, 2002
• Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Birmingham, Alabama, August 19-25, 2002
• Global Science Communication in the New Century --The 11th International Conference for Science Editors. Beijing, August 24-29, 2002
• The Connexions Open Content Licensing Workshop. Houston, August 25-26, 2002
• Gaining Insight from Research Information --6th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems. Kassel, Germany, August 29-31, 2002

September

• International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web. Aix-En-Provence, September 3, 2002
• Symposium on the Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain. Washington, D.C., September 5-6, 2002
• Digital Resources for the Humanities. Edinburgh, September 8-11, 2002
• Sixth East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Bratislava, September 8-11, 2002
• Rethinking the digital divide. (ALT-C 2008). (OA is among the topics). Leeds, September 11, 2008
• Heritage, New Technologies and Local Development. Ghent, East-Flanders, September 11-13, 2002
• Information Seeking in Context: The Fourth International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. Lisbon, September 11-13, 2002
• 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Rome, September 16-18, 2002
• International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques. Crema, Italy, September 16-18
• Intellectual Property in Academia 2002: The Shrinking Public Domain. (a web-based workshop). September 16 - October 4, 2002
• Fears and hopes in copyright: challenges for library and information managers. New York, September 18, 2002
• Open eBook Forum Fall Working Group Summit. (including a meeting with the AAP Emerging Technologies Committee). New York, September 18-20, 2002
• 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving. Rome, September 19, 2002
• WebSearch University. Washington DC, September 23-24, 2002; Chicago, October 22-23, 2002; Dallas, November 19-20, 2002.
• The Consortium Site License --Is It a Sustainable Model?. (Sponsored by the Ingenta Institute). London, September 24, 2002
• Information Technology in Tertiary Education. Durban, September 25-27, 2002
• Third International Conference on Data Mining Methods and Databases for Engineering, Finance and Other Fields. Bologna, September 25-27, 2002
• Biomedical Information on the Internet. London, September 26, 2002
• CODATA 2002: Frontiers of Scientific and Technical Data. Montreal, September 29 - October 3, 2002
• International Summer School on the Digital Library, Course 3: Electronic Publishing. Florence, September 29 - October 4, 2002
• Copyright Strategies for Culture & Education. Atlanta, September 30, 2002
• International Conference on Scientific Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries. Valparaiso, Chile, September 30 - October 2, 2002

October

• STIMULATE 2: Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: An Active Training Environment. Brussels, October-December, 2002 (precise dates unclear).
• Making the Most of Medline. London, October 2, 2002
• Information Policy Summit: Government and the Digital Content Era.Washington, D.C., October 2, 2002
• Fourth International Conference on Law via the Internet. Montreal, October 2-4, 2002
• The Open Knowledge Initiative. (a session within Educause 2002). Atlanta, October 3, 2002
• Sights and Sounds in Scholarly Communication. Canberra, October 3-4, 2002
• Developing Country Access to Online Scientific Publishing: Sustainable Alternatives. Trieste, October 4-5, 2002
• The Constitutionality of Protecting Factual Compilations. Dayton, October 4-5, 2002
• Information Quality Conference 2002. Denver, October 7-11, 2002
• Workshop on Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarization. Tokyo, October 8-10, 2002
• Workshop on XML as a Preservation Strategy. Urbino, October 9-11, 2002
• Euricom Project: Electronic Networks and Democratic Life. October 9-12, 2002
• LITA National Forum: Making Connections. Houston, October 10-13, 2002
• International Research 3.0: Net / Work / Theory. (Sponsored by the Association of Internet Researchers). Maastricht, October 13-16, 2002
• DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities: Supporting Diversity and Convergence. Florence, October 13-17, 2002
• Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Paris, October 13-17, 2002
• School for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets. The Hague, October 16-18, 2002
• Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI. (Sponsored by SPARC, JISC, OSI, and ESF). Geneva, October 17-19, 2002
• Institutional Repositories: Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Institution Partnerships. (Sponsored by ARL, SPARC and CNI). Washington, D.C., October 18, 2002
• Personalisation and Digital Libraries Seminar. Milton Keynes, England, October 18, 2002
• Free access to truth? Scientific publication in the internet era. Brussels, October 21, 2001
• Data Management and Information Quality Conferences Europe 2002. London, October 21-23, 2002
• Access 2002: Delivering the Promise. ("on the successful uses of technology to help libraries empower individuals, organizations, and communities"). Windsor, Ontario, October 21-23, 2002
• First Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication. Lund, October 22-23, 2002, Copenhagen October 24, 2002
• International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics. October 28 - November 1, 2002
• Intellectual Property in Academia 2002: Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses. (a web-based workshop). October 28 - November 15, 2002
• Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems. Irvine, California, October 30 - November 1, 2002
• The Consortium Site License --Is It a Sustainable Model?. (Sponsored by the Ingenta Institute). Charleston, October 30, 2002

November

• Grampian Information Annual Conference 2002: "Electronic Delivery: Progress or Decline?". Aberdeen, November 1, 2002
• International Summer School on the Digital Library, Course 1: The Management of Change. Leeds, November 3-7, 2002
• Scholarly Communication in the Digital World. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4, 2002
• IST 2002: Partnerships for the Future. ("help build the European Research Area for the Information Society within the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development"). Copenhagen, November 4-6, 2002
• Making the Most of Medline. London, November 5, 2002
• Access Management. (sponsored by JISC, UCISA, and UKERNA). London, November 6, 2002
• International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, November 6-8, 2002
• International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management. McLean, Virginia, November 8, 2002
• ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. McLean, Virginia, November 8-9, 2002
• Intellectual Property of Digital Processes. (with an emphasis on the information commons, public domain, and fair use). Vienna, November 8-10, 2002
• European Research 2002: The European Research Area and the Framework Programme. Brussels, November 11-13, 2002
• Research, Collaboration and the Digital Library: Visions for 2010. Vancouver, November 14-15, 2002
• Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems. Philadelphia, November 16-17, 2002
• Winds of Change: Libraries in the 21st Century. Wellington, New Zealand, November 17-20, 2002
• 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. Singapore, November 18-22, 2002
• Biomedical Information on the Internet. London, November 21, 2002
• Research Innovation and Scholarship: the Role of Open Access Publishing. (Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries). Ottawa, November 21-22, 2002
• European Expert Seminar on Methods of Digital Archival Description and Access. Copenhagen, November 21-22, 2002
• The 5th International Conference on Discovery Science. Lübeck, November 24-26, 2002
• Digital Preservation: Experiences and Strategies. Lisbon, November 25, 2002
• Open Archival Information System Training Seminar. Copenhagen, November 28-29, 2002
• Archiving --Whose Problem Is it?. (9th "Publishing and the Internet" Seminar, sponsored by ALPSP). London, November 29, 2002

December

• PubMed and the NLM Gateway. London, December 3, 2002
• Online Information 2002. London, December 3-5, 2002
• Information for all: Culture and Information Society Technologies. Moscow, December 2-7, 2002
• Open Access to Hidden Resources. Lisbon, December 6-7, 2002
• Copyright and Universities: from Principles to Practices. Zwolle, the Netherlands, December 6-7, 2002
• Building the Digital Commons. Amsterdam, December 7, 2002
• Défis de la publication sur le web. Hyperlectures, cybertextes et méta-éditions. Lyon, December 9-11, 2002
• Safeguarding our Patrons' Privacy: What Every Librarian Needs to Know about the USA PATRIOT Act and Related Anti-Terrorism Measures. Washington, D.C., December 11, 2002
• Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge and Technology. 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Singapore, December 11-14, 2002
• Convergence of Web Services, Grid Services, and the Semantic Web for delivering e-Services?. (Sponsored by the IST Diffuse Project). Brussels, December 12, 2002
• 2002 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies. Taipei, December 19-20, 2002