Dagobert Soergel: Curriculum Vitae

         Books

         Journal Articles and Conference Papers

         Invited Workshops Involving Scholarly Contributions

         Book Reviews

       Reports, Unpublished Manuscripts, Projects

         Index Languages/Thesauri

         Publications on Preschools for At-Risk Children

Work in Progress

Personal data

Born January 7, 1940, in Freiburg i.Br., Germany
German citizen with resident alien status in U.S.
Married, one child

Education

1960	Diplom-Physiker-Vorprüfung (B.S., Physics), University of Freiburg
1964	Staatsexamen (M.S.), Mathematics and Physics, University of Freiburg
1967	Assessor des Lehramts (Teaching Certificate for high school/junior college), Mathematics and Physics, Staatliches Prüfungsamt Freiburg
1970	Dr.phil. (Ph.D.), Political science, University of Freiburg

The American degree roughly equivalent to the German degree is indicated in ().
Revised version of Master thesis published in Information Storage and Retrieval (see Publications, B4)
Doctoral dissertation published as book (see Publications, A2)

Positions held

1960 - 61	Deputy for relations to developing countries, Student government Association, University of Freiburg
1961 - 62	Founding secretary, Freiburg Office for Relations to Developing Countries (an office concerned with the dissemination of information about developing countries, particularly about the needs and opportunities for properly trained people willing to help in developing countries)
1963 - 65	Systems analyst, Forschungsstelle für Weltzivilisation, Abteilung Dokumentation (Research Center for World Civilization, Documentation Department), Freiburg
1966 - 67	Studienreferendar, Seminar für Studienreferendare, Freiburg
1967 - 69	Head, Documentation Department, Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik (Foundation Science and Politics), Ebenhausen
1969 - 70	Head, Documentation Department, DATUM (Documentation and Training Center for Theory and Methods of Regional Science), Bad Godesberg
1970 - 71	Visiting lecturer, College of Library and Information Services (since 2000 College of Information Studies), University of Maryland
1971 - 76	Associate Professor
1976-	Professor
1976, 1977	Visiting lecturer (Summer), School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
1985 - 89	Visiting Professor (Summer), Graduate Library School, University of Chicago
Sept., 1985-June, 1986	Visiting Professor, Chair for Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany.
1987 - 1994	Visiting Professor (Summer), Konstanz, Germany
May - July, 1997	Guest scientist, IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, German National Research Centre for Computer Science and Information Technology, Darmstadt
May - July, 1997	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Information and Documentation, Fachhochschule Darmstadt

Professional Activities

1969	Lecturer, Lehrinstitut für Dokumentation (Training Center for documentation), German Society for Documentation
1973 -	Consultant on Information Services to the Technical Operations Staff of the Bureau of Foods (Study of information systems, index language development; see Publications B3, D3, D8, E4)
1975 - 1976	Consultant, Smithsonian Institution (Study of information systems, see Publications D4)
1978 -	Consultant to various organizations (MITRE Corporation, JWK Corporation, Capital Systems Group, Kappa Corporation, Technology Services Corporation, Farm Credit Administration)
1985 - 1986	Consultant on chemical information systems and user-system interface, Gesellschaft für Information und Dokumentation, Heidelberg, Germany
1988 - 1989	Consultant and instructor of training courses for information management staff of the World Bank
1989 -	Consultant to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and to the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention and chair of the Advisory Committee for the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus
1993	Consultant to the Swiss National Library on multilingual subject access
2001 -	Consultant to the Harvard Business School Library on the development of the Harvard-Stanford Business Thesaurus.
2003 -	Consultant to the FDA Center for Drugs on development and use of thesauri and other knowledge organization systems and on intranet and Web design

Refereeing and membership in editorial boards and conference program committees

1974 -	Member, editorial board, Knowledge Organization (formerly International Classification)
1978 -	Referee, Journal of the American Society for Information Science
1978 -	Reviewer, Computing Reviews
1980 -	Proposal reviewer for NSF
1995	Referee, International Journal of Human Computer Systems
1996 -	Member, editorial board, Review of Information Science. Electronic Journal of the Hochschulverband fuer Informationswissenschaft
1996 - 1997	Member, organizing committee, AAAI Spring Symposium 1997, Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval
1997	Digital Libraries 1997, Reviewer and Chair of Session 4, Agents
1998	NSF SBIR review panel Sept. 11, 1998
2000	Referee for Journal of Digital Information
2000	Co-chair and primary proceedings editor, ASIS&T SIG Classification Research Workshop: Classification for User Support and Learning
2000/2001	Program Committee, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001
	Program Committee, 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Chaired the session Integration With User Communities.
	Program Committee, International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS-2001
2001/2002	Program Committee, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002. July 14-18, 2002
	COLIS 4 (Conceptions of Library and Information Science), Seattle, July 21 -25, 2002
	ISKO 7 (International Society for Knowledge Organization), Granada, Spain, July 10-13.
2002/2003	Program Committee, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2003. May 27-30, 2003 Program Committee, European Conference on Digital Libraries 2003. August, 2003
2003/2004	Program Committee, European Conference on Digital Libraries 2004. September 2005
2004/2005	Program Committee, COLIS 2005

Grants

1986	Grant from the German Federal Ministry for Research to the University of Konstanz (during my sabbatical there) Pilot project developing an intelligent database guide
1989	OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant An investigation into the structure of LCC and LCSH to support the development of a classification knowledge base
2001	Participated in writing the proposal for MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large spoken ArCHives A five-year NSF ITR/IM+AP grant for a total of $7.5 Million for four partners (Shoah Visual History Foundation, IBM, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Maryland) Serve as senior researcher for the UM part.
2004	NSA grant for preparing the MALACH test collection for wide distribution ($140,000)

Activities in Professional Societies

Member

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Dokumentation, 1962-

American Society for Information Science and Technology, 1964-
(Special Interest Groups: Classification Research; Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education for Information Science, Numeric Databases)

Association for Computing Machinery, 1969-

Association for Library and Information Science Education 1975-

SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists), 1990-

Secretary, Task Force for Information Retrieval in Data Archives of the Standing Committee for Data Archives of the International Social Science Council, 1968-1970

Technical Program Chairman, ASIS-SIG/ED, 1977-1978

Chairman, ASIS-SIG/ED and member, ASIS Education Committee (ex officio), 1978-1979

Member, ASIS Best Information Science Book Award Jury, 1987

Awards and Honors

FDA Commissioners Special Citation 1981 (for work on the Factored Food Vocabulary Committee)

American Society for Information Science, ASIS Best Information Science Book Award, 1986 (for Organizing Information)

Governor's Award for Volunteering Excellence (Virginia). Gold Medal, 1993.

American Society for Information Science, Award of Merit, 1997

American Society for Information Science, Best JASIS Paper Award, 1999
(for Wang, Peiling; Soergel, Dagobert. A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. Document selection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. February 1998; 49(2): 115-133.)

Courses Taught

College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Proseminar (instructor and coordinator)

With Marcia Bates: a course package consisting of Organization of knowledge in libraries I Introduction to reference and information services Introduction to data processing for libraries (an experimental course offered in Spring 1974)

A revised course package consisting of
Organization of knowledge in libraries
Introduction to reference and information services

Research methods in library and information studies

Introduction to information storage and retrieval systems

Advanced information storage and retrieval

Objectives and evaluation of information systems

Construction and maintenance of index languages and thesauri

Introduction to expert systems with illustrations in Prolog

Doctoral seminar in information storage and retrieval

Introduction to data processing for libraries

Database design

Communication and information transfer

Doctoral seminar in communication and information transfer

Seminar in the special library and information center

Software evaluation and usability

Information retrieval and analysis on the Internet

Information structure (core course replacing Organization of knowledge in libraries)

University of Western Ontario, London, Western Ontario

Introduction to data processing

Doctoral seminar in research methods

University of Chicago

Construction and maintenance of index languages and thesauri

Information retrieval and database management for microcomputers

Seminar in cataloging and classification

Introduction to expert systems with illustrations in Prolog

University of Konstanz

Introduction to information retrieval

Construction and maintenance of index languages and thesauri

Expert systems with Prolog

Systems analysis

Thesaurus software

Fachhochschule (Polytechnic) Darmstadt Summer1997

Database design

Expert systems

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised

1975	Katherine Packer - Methods used by chemists and chemical engineers in Canadian Universities to maintain current awareness with special reference to the use of SDI systems
1976	Karen Levitan - Function of scientific societies: Views of biomedical scientists
1979	Richard Lytle - Subject retrieval in archives: a comparison of the provenance and content indexing methods
1980	Sinikka Koskiala - The role of industrial information service in the information transfer chain from information producer to the ultimate user, with special emphasis on the information acquisition function in Finland
1981	Alexis Jamieson - Comprehension of entries in printed indexes
1982	Raya Fidel - The construction of a pattern model of man-machine interaction in online literature searching
1983	Randall Trigg - A network-based approach to text handling for the online scientific community (computer science dissertation; served as representative of the Dean of Graduate Studies on the dissertation committee)
1985	Brigitte Duces - The role of information in decision-making on agricultural innovations
1989	Rebecca Green - The expression of syntagmatic relationships in frame-based indexing (member of dissertation committee)
1989	Helen Tibbo - Abstracts, online searching, and the humanities: An analysis of the structure and content of historical literature
1990	Xinhua Wang - An algorithm for matching databases with queries in an intelligent guide to databases
1991	Paul Solomon - Explorations in information access and interface design for an online catalog in an elementary school library
1992	Mu-hsuan Huang - Pausing behavior of end-users in online searching (member of dissertation committee)
1993	Peter Liebscher - Information seeking in hypertext: Multiple access methods in a full text hypertext database (member of dissertation committee)
	Xia Lin - Self-organizing maps as graphical interfaces for information retrieval
	Peter Evans - The enabling and disabling effects of a hypermedia information environment on information seeking and use in an undergraduate course (member of dissertation committee)
1994	Peiling Wang - A cognitive model of document selection of real users of information retrieval systems
1998	Susan Boerner - A study of novice searcher's evolving task and topic knowledge.
	Huei-Chung Lee - Cognitive processes in document-oriented indexing of empirical journal articles. A case study
1999	Wei Ding - Cognitive processing of multimodal surrogates for video browsing
	Outside evaluator for a doctoral dissertation at the University of Mysore, India
2001	Anita Komlodi - Search history for user support in information seeking interfaces
2002	Emily Marsh - Rhetorical relationships between text and images in Web pages
	Ana Flavia Fonseca - The effect of an integrated knowledge management architecture on organizational performance and impact. The case of the World Bank
	Laura Slaughter - Concept exploration via semantic relationships: Improving access to consumer health information (Dec. 2002)
	Tony Tse - Identifying and characterizing a "Health Consumer Vocabulary" (Dec. 2002)
2003	Wiwat Puntai - An examination of instructional messages delivered via the World Wide Web from the perspective of instructional design
In progress	Jinmook Kim - User’s interaction with speech retrieval systems with particular emphasis on relevance judgments

	Also reader for many masters and doctoral theses and three Habilitationsschriften at the University of Konstanz and outside reviewer for two dissertations at the University of Mysore, India

Committees

University of Maryland, College of Information Studies

College Committees

Curriculum Committee (chair for 1 year)

Doctoral Committee (chair for many years)

Designed the process for the review of the CLIS PhD program and chaired subcommittee 1, Program (mission, general design, requirements, courses)

Admissions Committee (chair for 1 year)

Course Evaluation Committee

Research and Publications Committee

Personnel Committee (chair for 2 years)

Chair, Subcommittee for the Review of the Plan of Organization (major editing responsibility) (2000/2001)

Chair, Subcommittee 1 (Program structure and requirements) for the PhD program review (major editing responsibility) (2000/2001)

Many search committees

University Committees

Campus Senate (two 3 year terms)

Chair, Adjunct Committee on Libraries and Instructional Aids (1 year term)

Provost's Commission on Curriculum Collaboration, Division of Human and Community Resources

Faculty Development Committee, Division of Human and Community Resources (1982-1984)

Graduate Council (1999 - )

Civic Activities

1978 -	Member of the Outreach Committee of Immanuel-Church- on-the-Hill, Alexandria, VA. Conducting operation Christmas families (Christmas presents to needy children in families with danger of child abuse) for several years. Vestry member 1986-1989. Instrumental in establishing a church-supported small preschool in a public housing project.
1987 -	Co-convener, Virginia Citizens for Preschool Education
1988 - 1991	Chair, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia Region IV Preschool Committee
1989	Principal editor, Final report of the Alexandria Early Childhood Development Task Force.
1989 - 1994	Member, Alexandria Early Childhood Development Commission (Co-chair, 1989/1990, Vice-chair 1990/1991, Chair 1993/94)
1991 -	Secretary-Treasurer, Alexandria Community Network Preschool

Publications

A	Books
A1	Klassifikationssysteme und Thesauri. Eine Anleitung zur Herstellung von Klassifikationssystemen und Thesauri im Bereich der Dokumentation. (Classification systems and thesauri. A guide to the construction of classification schemes and thesauri for use in documentation.) Frankfurt/M: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Dokumentation; 1969. 244p.
A2	Dokumentation und Organisation des Wissens. Versuch einer methodischen und theoretischen Grundlegung am Beispiel der Sozialwissenschaften. (Documentation and organization of knowledge. An inquiry into the methodological and theoretical foundations with particular reference to the Social Sciences.) Berlin: Duncker und Humblot; 1971. 380p. (Ordo Politicus 13) (Doctoral dissertation)
A3	Indexing languages and thesauri: Construction and maintenance. Los Angeles, CA: Melville; 1974. 632p., 72 fig., ca 850 ref. (Wiley Information Science Series) (Based on A1, but completely revised and enlarged)
A4	Organizing information. Principles of data base and retrieval systems. Orlando, Fl: Academic Press; 1985. 450 p.
A5	Arbeitsplatzsysteme, on-line Handbücher, Datenmodellierung, Dialog-Gestaltung. Beiträge zum Entwurf von Informationssystemen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Chemie. (Work station systems, on-line handbooks, data modeling, user interface design. Contributions on the design of information systems with special reference to chemistry.) Frankfurt a.M.: Gesellschaft für Information und Dokumentation; December 1987.
A6	The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus. A guide to concepts and terminology in substance abuse and addiction (AOD Thesaurus). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). 1993. 3. ed. 2000 (Chief designer and development consultant, developer of the thesaurus management software used, and chair of the Thesaurus Advisory Committee.)
A7	Soergel, Dagobert; Srinivasan, Padmini; Kwasnik, Barbara, Editors Classification for User Support and Learning. Proceedings of the 11th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Silver Spring, Maryland: American Society for Information Science and Technology. Special Interest Group/Classification Research; November 2000 To be published as Advances in Classification Research 11 by Information Today

B	Journal articles and conference papers
B0	Mathematical analysis of documentation systems. Paper presented at the International Federation of Documentation (FID) Congress 1965 Oct. 10-15. Washington, DC. p. 88 (abstract). Based on master thesis, see B3).
B1	Problems of documentation in sociology. Requirements and possibilities as seen from the point of view of a documentalist. Paper for the 6th World Congress of Sociology, Evian, Switzerland, 1966. 9.4-11.
B2	Bericht über das International Symposium on Relational Factors in Classification, University of Maryland, USA. 8.-11 June 1966. Nachrichten für Dokumentation. 1966.8; 17(4): 137-138.
B3	Mathematical analysis of documentation systems. An attempt at a theory of classification and search request formulation. Information Storage and Retrieval. 1967.7; 3(3): 129-173. (Revised version of master thesis)
B4	Some remarks on information languages, their analysis and comparison. Information Storage and Retrieval. 1967.12; 3(4): 219-291. (Paper presented at the International Symposium on Relational Factors in Classification, University of Maryland. 1966.6.8-11) [ Abstract ] [ Full Text PDF 319KB ]
B5	Vorschläge zu einem universellen Daten-Erfassungs-Schema für die Literatur-Dokumentation. (Proposals for a universal scheme for the recording of bibliographic data.) Nachrichten für Dokumentation. 1969.10; 20(5): 205-11.
B6	With Katharina Hubben. Dokumentation. Staatslexikon, Ergänzungsband l. Freiburg: Herder; 1969: 593-602.
B7	With Karl Furmaniak. The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. American Society for Information Science. Proceedings. 1970; 7: 331-336. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B8	Invited comments on Andreae et.al. GEOCODE: A computer code system for administrative divisions with a boundary correcting analysis program. Social Science Information. 1970.4; 9(2): 75-81.
B9	A general model for indexing languages: The basis for compatibility and integration. Subject Retrieval in the Seventies - New Directions New York: Greenwood; College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, School of Library and Information Services; 1972: 36-61. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B10	Mathematical models in the theory of classification: An illustration. Demonstration lecture at the American Library Association Conference/LED Teachers Section Program, Dallas, Texas, June 22, 1971.
B11	A universal source thesaurus as a classification generator. J. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1972.9; 23(5): 229-305. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B12	Theoretical problems of thesaurus construction with particular reference to concept formation. In: Petoefi et.al. ed. Fachsprache - Umgangssprache. Kronberg, Ts: Scriptor; 1975: 355-381. (Invited paper presented at the Symposium "Fachsprachliche Texte-Umgangssprachliche Kommunikation", Bad Homburg, Germany. 1974.1.) [ Abstract ][Full Text PDF]
Bl3	Automatic and semi-automatic methods as an aid in the construction of indexing languages and thesauri. International Classification. 1974; 1(1): 34-39. Revised version of Chapter H of A3.
B14	With Valery Leonov. Compressing and abstracting of information and information utilities. American Society for Information Science. Proceedings. 1974.10; 11: 46-49.
B15	With Marcia Bates. A modern integrated introduction to library and information services. American Society for Information Science/SIG-ED News. 1974.11; (ED-1): 7-11. (Presented at the ASIS meeting. 1974.10.15. Technical Session of SIG/Education for Information Science.)
B16	Trends in dissertation research. Paper presented at the Meeting of the American Association of Library Schools, Research Interest Group. Chicago, IL: 1976.1.
B17	Is user satisfaction a hobgoblin? J. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1976.7; 27(4): 256-259. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B18	An automated encyclopedia -- a solution of the information problem? International Classification. 1977; 4(1): 4-10. 1977; 4(2): 81-89. (Based on some sections of the dissertation.) [ Abstract ] [ Full Text PDF ]
B19	With Katherine Packer. The importance of SDI for current awareness in fields with severe scatter of information. J. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1975.5; 30(3): 125-135.
B20	The Broad System of Ordering -- A critique Int. Forum on Information and Documentation. 1979.7; 4(3): 21-24.
B21	A systems approach to automated information storage and retrieval in archives. McCrank, Lawrence J. Automating the archives. White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications; 1981: 253-261.
B22	Joint editor (with Charles Claydon) of Drexel Library Quarterly special issue on Numeric Data Bases, 1982 Summer/Fall; 19(3-4): 1-219.
B23	Structure and Construction of Numeric Data Bases. Drexel Library Quarterly. 1982, Summer/Fall; 19(3-4): 135-146.
B24	Data models for integrated thesauri. Invited paper presented at the Pre-conference workshop on Compatibility of Index Languages at the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Oct. 17, 1982, Columbus, Ohio.
B25	With Raya Fidel. Factors Affecting Online Bibliographic Searching. J. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1983.5; 34(3): 163-180.
B26	Logo Illustrations. Washington Apple Pi. 1983.5; 5(5): 10-11, 17.
B27	A Program of Logo Instruction: Objectives and Methods. Washington Apple Pi. 1983.5; 5(5): 20-21.
B28	With E.C. Smith, J.H. Holden, A. McCann, and R.C. Wiley The FDA's Factored Food Vocabulary (FFV). Poster presented at the 9th National Nutrient Data Bank Conference. 1984.
B29	Organizing information for problem solving. Bull. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1986.12; 13(2): 24-25. (Invited note with material from A4.) [Full Text PDF]
B30	Thesaurus project survey. Currents (American Society for Information Science. Potomac Valley Chapter). 1987.3;:4-5
B31	A course in knowledge representation as the foundation of the new information studies curriculum. A proposal. Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Boston, MA, October 4-8, 1987. SIG-ED Session on Tuesday, October 6.
B32	A. McCann, J.A.T. Pennington, E.C. Smith, J.H. Holden, D. Soergel, and R.C. Wiley. Development of the Food and Drug Administration's Factored Food Vocabulary. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 1988.3; 88(3): 336-341.
B33	How does one design a database? Paper presented at the New York Library Association Conference, Academic and Special Libraries Section, Buffalo, NY, October 13, 1988. [Outline] [Full Text PDF]
B34	Improved access to the LC Classification and the LC Subject Headings for online searchers and catalogers through conceptual analysis Presented in the Distinguished Seminar Series, OCLC, Dublin, OH, March 14, 1989. [Abstract]
B35	Investigating the structure of LCC and LCSH. Developing a knowledge base. Annual Review of OCLC research. July 1989 - June 1990. Dublin, OH: OCLC; 1990. p. 54-55.
B36	Beyond facets: Semantic roots and modifiers. Proceedings of the 2nd American Society for Information Science/SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop. Held at the 54th ASIS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Oct. 27, 1991. Washington, DC: ASIS. p.149-158. (Advances in Classification Research. v. 3) [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B37	On the structure of hypertext and retrieval systems: A unifying view. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, Oct. 27 - 31, 1991.
B38	D. Soergel, J.A.T. Pennington, A. McCann, J.H. Holden, E.C. Smith, and R.C. Wiley. A network model for improving access to food and nutrition data. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 1992.1; 92(1): 78-82.
B39	D. Soergel, A. McCann, J.A.T. Pennington, J.H. Holden, E.C. Smith, and R.C. Wiley. Improving access to food and nutrition data. 2. A language for the description of foods in databases. To be submitted to the Journal of Food Composition Data. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B40	Xia Lin, Dagobert Soergel, and Gary Marchionini A self-organizing semantic map for information retrieval. Proceedings of the 14th International ACM/SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM Press; 1991. p. 262-269.
B41	New vistas for knowledge-based support for complex organizations. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, PA,, Oct. 25 - 29, 1992. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B42	Soergel, Dagobert; Helfert, Samantha. The AOD thesaurus: A new tool for organizing resource files in RADAR and other agencies. Paper presented at the 15th Annual SALIS Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1993 Oct. 3-6. (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists)
B43	Lin, Xia; Marchionini, Gary; Soergel, Dagobert. Category-based and association-based map displays by human subjects. American Society for Information Science/SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop. 1993; 4: 147-164.
B44	Wang, Peiling; Soergel, Dagobert. Beyond topical relevance: Document selection behavior of real users of IR systems. American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting Proc. 1993; 30: 87-92.
B45	Information Structure Management. A unified framework for indexing and searching in database, expert, information-retrieval, and hypermedia systems. Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images. Medford, NJ: Learned Information; 1994. Chapter 7, p. 111 - 156. A much expanded version of B37. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B46	Indexing and retrieval performance: The logical evidence. J. Amer. Soc. for Info. Sci. 1994.9; 45(8): 589-599. (Invited paper) Reprinted in From classification to "knowledge organization": Dorking revisited or "Past is prelude" / Edited by Alan Gilchrist. - The Hague: FID, 1997. - xiv, 186 p. - (FID pub. no. 714; FID Occasional paper 14). - ISBN 92 66 00 714 5 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B47	The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT): A critical appraisal. Visual Resources. 1995; 10(4): 369-400. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF Long Version] [Full Text PDF Short Version]
B48	The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: a tool for collaboration. Paper presented at the 6th Annual ELISAD meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 7, 1994. (ELISAD = European Association of Libraries and Information Services on Alcohol and Other Drugs)
B49	Software support for thesaurus construction and display. Proceedings of the 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Held at the 57th ASIS Annual Meeting, Oct. 16-20, 1994, Alexandria, VA. Silver Spring, MD: American Society for Information Science. Special Interest Group / Classification Research. 1994.10; 5: 157-184. (Advances in Classification Research. v. 5) [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B50	A multifunctional, multilingual thesaurus (Panel Non-traditional Uses of Classification) Invited paper presented at the 36th Allerton Institute. New Roles for Classification in Libraries and Information Networks. Oct. 23-25, 1994, Allerton Park, Monticello, IL (Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B51	with Kathleen Mullen The NIAAA and CSAP Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A conceptual map and a tool for communication. 25th International Congress of the ICAA (International Council on Alcoholism and Addiction), San Diego, CA, August 22-24, 1995
B52	with Kathleen Mullen The structure of the NIAAA and CSAP Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus. 25th International Congress of the ICAA (International Council on Alcoholism and Addiction), San Diego, CA, August 22-24, 1995
B53	with Kathleen Mullen and Andrea Mitchell The AOD Thesaurus as a tool in research, writing, and program planning and evaluation. A tutorial. 25th International Congress of the ICAA (International Council on Alcoholism and Addiction), San Diego, CA, August 22-24, 1995
B54	Data models for an integrated thesaurus database. Paper presented at the Research Seminar on Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems, Warsaw, Poland, September 13-15, 1995. Published in Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar. Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting. Issued by International Society for Knowledge Organization; Polish Library Association; Society for Professional Information. Warsaw: Wydaw. SBP; 1996. p. 47-57. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B55	Framework for data element standardization. Proceedings of the 6th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Held at the 58th ASIS Annual Meeting, Oct. 8, 1995, Chicago, IL. Medford, NJ: Information Today; 1998. p. 115-126. (Advances in Classification Research. v. 6) [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B56	Samantha Helfert and Dagobert Soergel Adapting the AOD Thesaurus to a Small Collection 17th Annual SALIS Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 12 - 15, 1995
B57	Kathleen Mullen and Dagobert Soergel Changes Made to the AOD Thesaurus. 17th Annual SALIS Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 12 - 15, 1995
B58	SemWeb. Proposal for an open, multifunctional, multilingual system for integrated access to knowledge base about concepts and terminology. Proceedings of the Fourth International ISKO Conference, 15-18 July 1996, Washington, DC. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks Verlag; 1996. (Advances in Knowledge Organization, v. 5). p. 165-173 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B59	Software support for semantically well-structured thesauri. Paper presented at the invitational Getty Workshop on Semantic Systems, Los Angeles, CA, October 10-11, 1996. [Full Text PDF]
B60	Multilingual thesauri in cross-language retrieval. Paper presented at the AAAI-97 Spring Symposium Series. Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval. Stanford, CA March 24-26, 1997. Published in the Symposium Technical Report. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B61	Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries. Paper, DL97 Workshop on Thesauri and Metadata, Philadelphia, PA, July 26, 1997 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B62	SemWeb. An environment for integrated access to distributed ontological and lexical knowledge bases and their collaborative development and maintenance. A proposal. Presented (by videotape) at the 2nd Workshop on Multilinguality in Software Industry: The AI Contribution (MULSAIC 97). August 25, 1997 (Workshop W21, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), Nagoya, Japan) [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B63	Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries. Tutorial. European Digital Library Conference, Pisa, August 31, 1997; European Digital Library Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Sept. 20, 1998; Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 99), Berkeley, CA Aug. 11, 1999; DL 00 /HT2000 is San Antonio, TX, June 4, 2000; JCDL 2001, Roanoke, VA; ECDL 2002 Rome, Italy [Abstract] [Full Text PDF] New version of this tutorial, expanded by a second part Thesauri and ontologies in digital libraries Part 1. Structure and use in knowledge-based assistance to users Part 2. Design, evaluation, and development JCDL 01, Roanoke, VA, June 24, 2001; JCDL 2002 Portland, OR [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B64	An information science manifesto. Remarks at the acceptance of the ASIS Award of Merit, American Society for Information Science, Washington DC, November 1997. Published in Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. December 1997/January 1998; 24(2): 10-12. [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]
B65	Wang, Peiling; Soergel, Dagobert. A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. Document selection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. February 1998; 49(2): 115-133. (Best JASIS Paper Award 1999)
B66	Problems and prospects in thesaurus construction. Report from Working group 4, 8th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop , November 2, 1997, Washington D.C. USA. Reported, arranged, and edited by D. Soergel. Published in the proceedings. [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]
B67	Large multilingual vocabularies: structure and software requirements. Paper presented in the session Cross-Language Applications and Large-Scale Vocabularies at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998 October 25-29. Abstract in Proceedings, p. 572. [Full Text PDF]
B68	SemWeb: integrated access to distributed classifications and lexical resources. Paper presented at ALA Annual Conference/LITA/Intelligent and Knowledge Based Systems Interest Group. New Orleans, LA, June 27, 1999.
B69	Multimodal surrogates for video browsing. With Wei Ding and Gary Marchionini. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 99), Berkeley, CA Aug. 11, 1999, p.85-93. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B70	The rise of ontologies or the reinvention of classification Journal of the American Society for Information Science. September 1999; 50(12): 1119-1120. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B71	Enriched thesauri as networked knowledge bases for people and machines. Paper presented at the CENDI Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet. Bethesda, MD; 1999 September 29 A similar presentation at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Jan. 27, 2000 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B72	Performance of visual, verbal, and combined video surrogates. With Wei Ding and Gary Marchionini Proceedings of the 62. ASIS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 1999. Medford, NJ: Information Today. p. 651-664.
B73	The need for (and feasibility of developing) a standard set of tools which show semantic relationships among terms, as aids to text and information analysis and retrieval. Invited presentation at the NISO/ASI/ALCTS Workshop on Electronic Thesauri: Planning for a Standard. Washington, DC Nov. 4-5, 1999.
B74	ASIST SIG/CR Classification Workshop 2000. Classification for user support and learning. Report. [A 3500 word substantive summary, followed by an analysis into 8 themes in classification research.] Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. April/May 2001; 27(4): 15-21 and Knowledge Organization. 2000; 27(3): 165-172. [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B75	The representation of Knowledge Organization Structure (KOS) data. a multiplicity of standards Paper presented at the JCDL 2001 NKOS Workshop Roanoke, VA 2001-6-28. [Full Text PDF]
B76	TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies. D-Lib Magazine. September 2001; 7(9). [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B77	Concept analysis in thesaurus construction. The example of prevention in the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus 3rd edition. Paper presented at the ELISAD Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, October 25-27, 2001 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B78	The many uses of classification: Enriched thesauri as knowledge sources. Keynote address, ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop 12. 2001-11-4 [Full Text PDF]
B79	Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, Elizabeth Proffen, and Theresa Sartori. The many uses of digitized oral history collections: Implications for design. Technical report, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 2002.
B80	Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, and Douglas Greenberg Supporting Access to Large Digital Oral History Archives Joint Conference on Digital Libaries, Portland, OR, July 14-18, 2002. Proceedings p. 18-27.
B81	Douglas W. Oard, Dina Demner-Fushman, Jan Hajic, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Samuel Gustman, William J. Byrne, Dagobert Soergel, Bonnie Dorr, Philip Resnik, and Michael Picheny Cross-language access to recorded speech in the MALACH project Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopecek, Karel Pala (Editors): Text, Speech and Dialogue. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Text, Speech, Dialogue --- TSD 2002, Brno, Czech Republic, September 9--12, 2002. Heidelberg: Springer; 2002. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 2448) ISBN 3-540-44129-8. p. 57-64
B82	Anita Komlodi, Dagobert Soergel Attorneys Interacting with Legal Information Systems: Tools for Mental Model Building and Task Integration ASIST Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 2002 [Abstract] [Full Text PDF]
B83	A Framework for Speech Retrieval ASIST Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 2002. Panel on Access to Large Spoken Archives: Uses and Technology. (Also panel moderator)
B84	The structure of taxonomies: Facets and hierarchy Presentation at Practical Taxonomies, New York, NY, Nov. 18-20, 2002 [PowerPoint]
B85	A framework for digital library research: Broadening the vision. D-Lib Magazine 8(12): (2002 December) (7 screens) [Web page]
B86	Jinmook Kim, Dagobert Soergel, Doug Oard User Interaction in Speech and Video Retrieval: Relevance Judgment and Query Reformulation. Paper presented at the HCIL Annual Symposium and Open House, May 30, 2003.
B87	Dagobert Soergel, Katy Newton From legacy KOS to full-fledged ontologies Paper presented at the JCDL 2003 NKOS Workshop, Houston, TX, 2003-5-31
B88	Dagobert Soergel Standards for KOS. Present status and future requirements Presentation at the NKOS workshop, ECDL 2003, August 21, 2003
B89	Dagobert Soergel Brief report on NKOS at JCDL2003 Presentation at the NKOS workshop, ECDL 2003, August 21, 2003
B90	Jinmook Kim, Doug Oard, and Dagobert Soergel Searching large collections of recorded speech. A preliminary study Proc. of the 66. ASIST Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, Oct. 19-22, 2003. Medford, NJ: Information Today. p. 330-339.
B91	Tony Tse and Dagobert Soergel Procedures for mapping vocabularies from non-professional discourse. A case study: Consumer Medical Vocabulary Proc. of the 66. ASIST Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, Oct. 19-22, 2003. Medford, NJ: Information Today. p. 174-183.
B92	Laura Slaughter and Dagobert Soergel How physicians' answers relate to health consumers' questions Proc. of the 66. ASIST Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, Oct. 19-22, 2003. Medford, NJ: Information Today. p. 28-39.
B93	Supporting access to large digital oral history archives Presentation. School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, 2003-10-24
B94	William Byrne, David Doermann, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, Jan Haji¡c, Douglas Oard, Michael Picheny, Josef Psutka, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dagobert Soergel, Todd Ward and Wei-Jing Zhu Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives. Submitted to: IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. Special Issue on Spontaneous Speech Processing (to be published March 2004)
B95	Building a more meaningful Web: from traditional knowledge organization systems to new semantic tools. Report on the 6th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, JCDL 2003, May 31, 2003 in Houston, TX SIGIR Forum. 2003 Fall; 37(2): 65-72. [ Full Text PDF 360KB ]
B96	Tony Tse and Dagobert Soergel Exploring Medical Expressions Used by Consumers and the Media: An Emerging View of Consumer Health Vocabularies AMIA Symposium 2003; p. 564-8 http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/lhc/docs/published/2003/pub2003025.pdf
B97	Dagobert Soergel; Boris Lauser; Anita Liang; Frehiwot Fisseha; Johannes Keizer; Stephen Katz Reengineering thesauri for new applications. The AGROVOC example Journal of Digital Information, Volume 4 Issue 4, Article No. 257, 2004-03-17 http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/
B98	The many uses of enriched thesauri and ontologies in the ATOD field SALIS meeting Berkeley, California, April 23, 2004 [PowerPoint]
B99	Building a rich ontology from AGROVOC FAO Agricultural Ontology Server Workshop Beijing, April 27-29, 2004 [Abstract] [PowerPoint]
B100	Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, Martin Franz, David Doermann, G. Craig Murray, Jianqiang Wang, Bhuvana Ramabhadran ,Samuel Gustman Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech Accepted by SIG-IR 2004 (July 2004)
B101	Xiaoli Huang, Dagobert Soergel Relevance judges' understanding of topical relevance types: An explication of an enriched concept of topical relevance Accepted for ASIST 2004 (November 2004)
B102	Dagobert Soergel Information organization David Bainbridge, ed. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire; July 2004. ISBN: 0-9743091-2-5
B103	Dagobert Soergel Information retrieval David Bainbridge, ed. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire; July 2004. ISBN: 0-9743091-2-5
B104	Dagobert Soergel, Tony Tse, Laura Slaughter Helping healthcare consumers understand: An "interpretive layer" for finding and making sense of medical information Accepted for Medinfo 2004 (September 2004)
B105	William Byrne, David Doermann, Martin Franz, Samuel Gustman, Jan Haji¡c, Douglas Oard, Michael Picheny, Josef Psutka, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dagobert Soergel, Todd Ward and Wei-Jing Zhu Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. Special Issue on Spontaneous Speech Processing. July 2004; 12(4): 420 - 435
B106	Dagobert Soergel Das MALACH Projekt. Zugang zu mündlich überlieferter Geschichte durch verbesserte Methoden im Sprachretrieval. Spracherkennung, Sprachverarbeitung, Retrievalmethoden, Benutzerschnittstelle Presentation. University of Saarbruecken 2005-2-11
B107	Asanee Kawtrakul, A. Imsombut, A. Thunyakijjanukit, D. Soergel, Anita Liang, M. Sini, G. Johannsen, J. Keizer Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC Proceedings of the EFITA/WCCA 2005 Joint Conference, p.1146-1154
B108	Soojung Kim, Dagobert Soergel Selecting and Measuring Task Characteristics as Independent Variables Proceedings ASIST 2005 (pdf): 163 - 186
B109	Katy Newton Lawley, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang Relevance criteria used by teachers in selecting oral history materials Proceedings ASIST 2005 (pdf): 421 - 448
B110	Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Dagobert Soergel Text analysis for ontology and terminology engineering Applied Ontology. 2005; 1{1): 35 - 46
B111	Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Dagobert Soergel Text analysis for ontology and terminology engineering Applied Ontology. 2005; 1{1): 35 - 46
B112	Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Gareth J. F. Jones, Dagobert Soergel and Xiaoli Huang, Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track, Working Notes for the CLEF-2005 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 2005 September, p. 744-759 To be published by Springer