adjustments to ZIG meeting schedule

There are some changes and adjustments to the ZIG meeting schedule; see
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zig/meetings/dc2000/agenda.html

Here is a summary of the changes:

The Opening Plenary meeting will begin at 11:30, Wednesday, December 6 (change
from preliminary schedule which said 12:30).  We will break at 1:30 for 45
minutes, so either eat lunch before 11:30, or wait until 1:30.  We will plan to
meet until 6:30 Wednesday, with a 15 minute break sometime between 2:15 and 5.
The plenary will end at 5, and during the latter 90 minutes (5-6:30) there will
be a focus session on profiles and a breakout session on the U.S. National
Profile (change from preliminary schedule which listed these for the morning).

For Thursday sessions: the Z39.50/XML session will be shortened to 2 hours. The
Virtual Library session will be lengthened to 2 hours and will incorporate
distributed searching (which will otherwise be dropped), and it will be moved to
Thursday -- after discussion and consideration it seems that both the Z-URL and
Explain sessions should follow the more application-oriented sessions, Virtual
Libraries and Digital Libraries, because these sessions may produce requirements
for the url and for Explain. So the URL session will be moved to Friday (the
Explain session is already scheduled for Friday).

The schedule is still subject to change and if you have comments, they are
welcome.

--Ray


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Ray Denenberg
Library of Congress
rden@loc.gov
202-707-5795

Received on Saturday, 18 November 2000 15:05:59 UTC