2002

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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