Keynote Presentations

Web Search and Web Search Engine Overlap- What’s the Deal?
Session Chair : David Lowe

Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology Introduction

Commercialisation of the Blog - BigPond BigBlog
Session Chair:  Andrew Treloar

Tony Palmer
Client Business Director
C4 Communication

Why Web Standards are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions
Session Chair : Ross Ackland, CSIRO ITC

Ivan Herman
Head of Offices
World Wide Web Consortium
Centre of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Amsterdam

Intersections and Transformations
Session Chair: Marilyn Jones

Cindy Hill
Manager, SunLibrary, Santa Clara, USA

Libraries Australia: Find and get over 40 million items from Australia’s libraries
Session Chair: Joanna Richardson

Tony Boston
Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing
National Library of Australia

Refereed Papers

WEB SEARCH
Session Chair: Andrew Treloar

Institutional vs Generic Web Search: A Results-Centric Comparison
Baden Hughes

Topic estimation of web search transaction log queries using monte-carlo simulation
Seda Ozmutlu

Investigating Usage of the Vivisimo Clustering Search Engine Interface
Amanda Spink

Scoped web site search: an Australian university case study
Sue Steele

SERVICES, ONTOLOGIES AND METADATA
Session Chair: David Lowe

Semantic Service Dissemination Architecture
Mark Nolan

Ontology Driven Concept Modeller for Urban Development
Hans Schevers

Web Services: yesterday's hype or tomorrow's promise?
Madeleine Wright

Web Metadata Compared: Institution, Community, Internet
Baden Hughes

eLEARNING INNOVATION
Session Chair: Ian Reid

Connectivity of Threads: The meeting of traditional art with technology in supporting life-long learning
Kathy Lynch

Changing horses in mid-stream: a new LMS plus improved teaching
Russ Pennell

Online Automated Essay Assessment
BH Tan

CONTENT ENVIRONMENTS
Session Chair: Andrew Trelor

Ultra Lightweight Web Applications: A Single-Page Wiki employing a Partial Ajax Solution
Michael Rees (Winner of the Paul Thistlewaite Award for BEST PAPER)

Pocket RikWik: A Mobile Wiki Supporting Online and Offline Collaboration
Paul Roe

The Integrated Content Environment
Peter Sefton

AUDIO ELLUMINATED
Session Chair: Ian Reid

What's the Web doing for Audio Engineers?
Alan Anderson

Audiographics moves to the Web
Steve Rowe

Potentials for Writing Development
Peter Virtartis

INNOVATIVE USE OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
Session Chair: David Lowe

The Australian Plant Pest Database: A national resource for an expert community
Michael Kearney & Emma Lumb

Internet Technology and Airport Economic Performance
George Jiang

An Economic Model of Software Development Approaches
Xiaoying Kong

WEB MARKETING AND RETAILING
Session Chair: Marilyn Jones

University Web-Marketing: A Report Card
Lynne deWeaver

Future of online retailing
Bishnu Sharma

WEB MANAGEMENT
Session Chair: David Lowe

One site – multiple users: Designing a portal for multiple user groups
Kathy Lynch

How a very small web team can support many clients
Maria Moore

Link Rot. URI Citation Durability in 10 Years of AusWeb Proceedings
Baden Hughes

REPOSITORIES AND THE LAW
Session Chair: Marilyn Jones

The Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility, and Annotation e-Research Technologies (DART) Project
Andrew Treloar

Research Quality Framework as a catalyst for open access
Joanna Richardson

Searching for trouble: when search terms and trade marks collide
Jani McCutcheon

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION
Session Chair: Ian Reid

Do Game-based Study Tools Enhance the Learning of Complex Theoretical Subject Matter?
Cheryl Howard

Online Gaming and Online Gaming Communities: Ten Reasons Why They Matter
Richard Webb

Support for End-User Programming in a Cooperative Environment
Ivan Tomek

Poster Presentations

Poster 1
Creating a keyword search vocabulary for Course Finder.
Dey Alexander, Scott Rippon, Guy Sangwine

Poster 2
Media Triggered Collaborative Activities.
Aneesha Bakharia

Poster 3
Collecting Low-Density Language Materials on the Web
Timothy Baldwin, Steven Bird, Baden Hughes (BEST POSTER)

Poster 4
RapidPrint TM – The Rapid growth of a distributed printing and copyright compliance system.
Karey Patterson

Poster 5
Flexiprint – Web Based Print-On-Demand System.
Ben Starr

Poster 6
A process for enterprise-wide web strategy development.
Sue Steele

Poster 7
Indigo Indigenous Visual Culture Network.
Patrick Tan

Poster 8
Collaborating on Collaboration
Kelsey van Haaster, Michael Shimmins

Poster 9
Reducing Spam with Best Practice
Luke Haber

Plus late submissions
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