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TCDL Bulletin Report on the Demonstration and Poster Session of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Denver, Colorado, June 7-11, 2005
Michael Khoo The 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries was held in Denver, Colorado, on June 7-11 2005. The afternoon and evening of June 8 was devoted to the conference poster and demonstration sessions. A total of 41 posters and 16 demonstrations were selected by the Demonstration and Poster co-chairs, Dr. Michael Khoo (DLESE Program Center) and Prof. Diane Kelly (School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). This year's submissions were high in both quality and quantity, and the acceptance rate, at 70%, was stricter than in previous JCDL conferences. The afternoon's activities commenced with the ever-popular Minute Madness session, in which presenters, kept in line by a beeping kitchen timer, had sixty seconds to present their work to the assembled conference-goers, in styles ranging from slides, to music and song. Minute Madness was followed by a buffet reception, in which there was a chance to view all the posters and for conference goers to vote for the best poster. The prize for Best Poster went to Downie, Ehmann and Hu for their work in developing a prototyping and evaluation environment to support research into machine learning techniques for music information retrieval. The poster awards, sponsored by Apple Computer Corp, were presented by Bud Tribble, Vice-President of Software Technology at Apple Computer.
Reference Downie, J. S., Ehmann, A. F., and X. Hu. (2005). Music-to-Knowledge (M2K): A Prototyping and Evaluation Environment for Musical Digital Library Research. In: Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2005), June 7-11, Denver, CO. New York: ACM Press, p. 376. © Copyright 2005 Michael Khoo Top | Contents |