2002

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 * 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