CoLIS 3 Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science

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CoLIS 3Third International Conference on
Conceptions of Library and Information Science

• Digital Libraries
• Interdisciplinary conceptions,challenges,opport
  unities
• Dubrovnik, Croatia 23 - 26 May 1999

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Purpose

• critically explore and analyze library and
  information science as a discipline and as a
  field of research from historical, theoretical
  and empirical perspectives
• Theme digital libraries
• several of these perspectives present
• but as yet no meta theory
• but elements present
• here is a historical perspective

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Some statistics

• Participants
• 114 registered plus some 5 guests
• from 19 countries
• Proceedings
• 23 research papers
• 12 short papers
• foreword, preface, indexes
• 400 pages

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Contributing

• Book exhibit
• 270 books
• 71 journal titles
• Book seller
• Data base vendor

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Content part

• Tutorial
• Opening closing
• 20 presentations
• Panel
• Posters and demo
• Workshop

• 6 hours
• 1 hour
• 11.5 hours
• 2 hours
• 3.5 hours
• 3.5 hours
• TOTAL 27.5 hours

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Important part

• Reception
• Coffee breaks
• Concert
• Banquet

• 2.5 hours
• 4 hours
• 2 hours
• 5 hours
• TOTAL 13.5 hours

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Ratio

• Content vs. Important
• 21
• By the way - the winner is
• THE BLUE TEAM!!!!!!!!!

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Scientific translationMETA THEORY CONTRIBUTION

• Content part 28 hours
• 2080 minutes at 100 words/minute
• 200, 000 words
• at 5 bytes/word 1 GB
• Important part 14 hours
• incl. Coffee breaks, banquet, my remarks
• AND Perttis talk 1 Tera byte

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More META THEORY

• Drank coffee, tea
• Drank wine, travarica
• Ate dinner
• Listen to chamber concert students singing

• 6 GB
• 12 GB
• 60 GB
• . 89 TB
• TOTAL .908 TB

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Conclusionnew meta theory for conceptions of
libray inf. science

• Content has the least amount of bytes

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and now on to some views and happy faces

• Compliments of Jadranka Stojanovski