As of January, 2012, this site is no longer being updated, due to work and health issues
These are old links to conferences about searching, site design, web site user experience, information retrieval and other related topics. For current conferences, see the main Conferences page.
Many of these may be bad links or abandoned pages.
| Conference | Date (most recent years first) |
Location |
|---|---|---|
| European Information Archtecture Summit - "Translating Information Architecture" | September 21-22 | Barcelona, España (Spain) |
| ASIST 2007 American Society for Information Science and Technology, academic conference covers Information Retrieval, Information Architecture, Libraries and related topics. | October 19-24, 2007 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
| Enterprise Search Summit West - focused on larger site and intranet search engines, also covers taxonomies, clustering, etc. Many enterprise search developers, CIOs, CTOs, search managers and intranet admins. | November 6-7, 2007 | San Jose, California, USA |
| IA Konferenz 2007 - German Information Architcture Summit | November 9-10, 2007 | Stuttgart, Deutschland (Germany) |
| WebBuilder2.0 - fairly general Web 2.0 conference, with Avi Rappoport of SearchTools presenting on Web Site Search and the User Experience. | December 3-5, 2007 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| Online Information UK 2007 - general event for information managers | December 4-6, 2007 | London, UK |
| ECIR (Europan Conference on Information Retrieval) - somewhat academic but often with practical applications | March 30 - April 3, 2008 | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| IA Summit 2008 "Experiencing Information" - great meeting for information architecture. Attendees are mainly practitioners, some very concerned with IA theory. CFP closes October 31. | April 10-14, 2008 | Miami, Florida, USA |
| Infonortics Search Engines Meeting - a mix of webwide search engine developers, academics, researchers, enterprise search companies, search administrators, and web site managers. CFP closes October 18, 2007. | April 28-29, 2008 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Enterprise Search Summit East - focused on larger site and intranet search engines, also covers taxonomies, clustering, etc. Many enterprise search developers, CIOs, CTOs, search managers and intranet admins. | Mid May, 2008 | New York City, New York, USA |
| Search and Retrieval (Australia): Improving Information Discovery and Access | February 5-7, 2007 | Sydney, Australia |
| IA Summit 2007 - Enriching IA: Rich Information, Rich Interaction, Rich Relationships | March 22-26, 2007 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| Search Engines Meeting (Infonortics) - a mix of academics, researchers, commercial developers, and web site managers. | April 23-24, 2007 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Query Log Analysis Workshop - part of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference. CFP deadline 12 February. | May 8, 2007 | Banff, Alberta, Canada |
| Enterprise Search Summit - Case studies, new technologies and expert analysis. | May 14-16, 2007 | New York, New York, USA |
| Semantic Technology Conference - focused on the application of Semantic Technologies to Information Systems and the Web. | May 20-24, 2007 | San Jose, California, USA |
| SIGIR 2007 - ACM SIG for Information Retrieval and classification research. CFP deadline Jan. 28 2006, Posters Feb. 25, 2006 | July 23-27, 2007 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| KMWorld & Intranets - Knowledge Management and Intranet Management, including search engines and taxonomies | November, 2006 | San Jose, California, USA |
| ASIST 2006 American Society for Information Science and Technology, academic conference covers Information Retrieval, Information Architecture, Libraries and related topics. | November 3-9, 2006 | Austin, Texas , USA |
| SIGIR 2006 - ACM SIG for Information Retrieval and classification research. CFP deadline Jan. 30 2006, Posters Feb. 27, 2006 | August 6-11, 2006 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Search Engines Meeting (Infonortics) - a mix of academics, researchers, commercial developers, and web site managers. | April 24-25, 2006 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Enterprise Search Summit - Case studies, new technologies and expert analysis. | May 23-24, 2006 (workshops May 22) | New York, New York, USA |
| ECIR - 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval - mainly academic and technical | April 10-12, 2006 | London, UK |
| Information Architecture Summit 2006 - Learning, Doing, and Selling IA | March 23-27, 2006 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Semantic Technology 2006 case studies and vendor presentations for semantic technologies such as taxonomy development, metadata, and unstructured data management. | March 6-9, 2006 | San Jose, California, USA |
| Information Retrieval Seminar 2005 - interesting IR papers, including presentations by NIST and Doug Cutting, sponsored by IBM | December 5, 2005 | Haifa, Israel |
| Online Information 2005 - international meeting on information and content management, search and libraries. | November 29 - December 1, 2005 | London, UK |
| SIGIR 2004 - ACM SIG academic information retrieval and classification research. | July 25 - 29, 2004 | Sheffield, UK |
| Search Engine Strategies - search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing conference | August 2 - 5, 2004 | San Jose, California, USA |
| Hypertext 2004 | August 9 - 13, 2004 | Santa Cruz, California, USA |
| KDD-2003 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) | August 22 - 25, 2004 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Seybold Conference - Content Management Track - includes information on taxonomies and metadata | August 16 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Information Seeking In Context - academic research on models of information seeking and managing information to respond to user needs. | September 1 - 3, 2004 | Dublin, Ireland |
| KMWorld & Intranets - Knowledge Management and Intranet Management, including search engines and taxonomies. (Avi Rappoprt of SearchTools.com will be speaking) | October 26 - 28, 2004 | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| ASIST 2004 American Society for Information Science and Technology, academic conference covers Information Retrieval, Information Architecture, Libraries and related topics | November 13 - 18, 2004 | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Internet Librarian - library-oriented discussion of web information access, online catalogs, and more. (Avi Rappoprt of SearchTools.com will be speaking) | November 15 - 17, 2004 | Monterey, California, USA |
| Online Information 2004 - international meeting on information and content management, search and libraries. | November 30 - December 2, 2004 | London, UK |
|
JCDL 2004 (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) |
Junes 7 - 11, 2004 | Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| WWW 2004 (World Wide Web conference) | May 17 - 22, 2004 | New York City, New York, USA |
| Enterprise Search Summit - Practical information on implementing site and enterprise search. | May 11 - 12, 2004 | New York City, New York, USA |
| CHI 2004 (ACM, Computer-Human Interface conference) | April 24 - 29, 2004 | Vienna, Austria |
| Search Engines Meeting (Infonortics) - search engine developments, theory and practice. | April 19 - 20, 2004 | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Information Architecture Summit 2004 (ASIST) | February 28 - 29, 2004 | Austin, Texas, USA |
WWW2003 - Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference |
May 20-24, 2003 | Budapest, Hungary |
| Internet World Spring - Internet and digital media | April 14-17, 2003 | San Jose, California, USA |
| ECIR-03 European Conference on Information Retrieval Research | April 14-16, 2003 | Pisa, Italy |
| AIIM 2003 - Enterprise Content Management conference and exposition | April 7-10, 2003 | New York City, New York, USA |
| Infonortics Search Engines Meeting - a mix of academics, researchers, commercial developers, and web site managers. | April 7-8, 2003 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| DUX 2003 - Joint SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH and AIGA Experience Design conference | April 5-7, 2003 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Best Practices
and Future Visions for Search User Interfaces at CHI
2003 - A workshop will provide a forum for presenting research on user interfaces for search engines and discussing current issues in search interfaces. |
April 5-10, 2003 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA |
| IA Summit 2003 - Information Architecture "Making Connections" | March 21-23, 2003 | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| IDEAL'03 - International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning | March 21-23, 2003 | Hong Kong, China |
| SAC 2003 - Information Access and Retrieval Systems Track, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing | March 9-12, 2003 | Melbourne, Florida, USA |
| HICSS - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | January 6-9, 2003 | Big Island, Hawaii, USA |
| KBCS - International conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems | December 18-21, 2002 | Mumbai, India |
| EuroWeb 2002 - 2nd European World Wide Web Conference | December 17-18 2002 | Oxford, UK |
| ICDM '02 - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining | December 9-12, 2002 | Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan |
| ACM Multimedia 2002 - all aspects of multimedia including indexing and retrieval. (Paper submissions due April 15, 2002.) | December 1-6, 2002 | Juan Les Pins, France (near Nice) |
| User Search Behavior Seminar covers results from usability tests, sponsored by the STC. | November 19, 2002 | Telephone seminar |
| ASIST 2002 - American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting | November 18-21, 2002 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 | November 8-9, 2002 | McLean, Virginia, USA |
| CIKM - Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 4-9, 2002 | McLean, Virginia, USA |
| Internet Librarian 2002 - combines traditional libraries on the Net with Intranet information management, search engines, taxonomies, content management, etc. | November 3 - 7, 2002 | Palm Springs, California, USA |
| Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing Federated Conference: CoopIS - Cooperative Information Systems; ODBASE - Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics; DOA - Distributed Objects and Applications |
October 30 - November 1, 2002 | Irvine, California, USA |
| Intranets/KMWorld 2002 | October 29 - 31, 2002 | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| UI7 East - User Interface conference | October 14 - 17, 2002 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Human Factors Conference - includes a panel on best practices in search engine UI design (October 2). | September 30 - October 4, 2002 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| KES: Sixth
International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering
Systems |
September 16 - 18, 2002 | Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy |
| Information Seeking in Context: the Fourth International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts | September 11-13, 2002 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Search Engines Strategies - Enterprise Search track on the third day, the first two are mainly optimization and marketing. | August 12 - 14 | San Jose, California, USA |
| IDEAL 2002 - Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - includes document analysis, data mining and agents. | August 12-14, 2002 | Manchester, UK |
| SIGIR - 2002 - Information Retrieval Theory conference, mainly academic, covering everything from formal models through machine learning, collaborative filtering, web IR, video access and NLP. | August 11-15, 2002 | Tampere, Finland |
| KDD-2002 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | July 23 - 26, 2002 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| ECAI European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - including search, "knowledge acquisition" and "information extraction from web documents". | July 21 - 26, 2002 | Lyon, France |
| JCDL 2002 - joint conference on Digital Libraries | July 14-18, 2002 | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| InfoToday 2002 - knowledge management, information content, libraries and technology | May 14 - 16, 2002 | New York, New York, USA |
| WWW2002 - the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference. | May 7 - 11, 2002 | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| CHI 2002 - computer-human interface and much more | April 20 - 25, 2002 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Knowledge Management 2002 | April 16 - 17, 2002 | London, UK |
| Search Engine Meeting 2002 - the premier academic / commercial search engine meeting. | April 15 - 16, 2002 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Visual Information Systems 2002 | March 11 - 13, 2002 | Hsin Chu, China |
| ECIR 2002 European colloquium on information retrieval research. | March 25 - 27, 2002 | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Information Architecture Summit 2002 (sponsored by ASIST) | March 16 - 17, 2002 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Search Engine Strategies, Boston - Danny Sullivan's web search marketing and optimization conference. | March 4-5, 2002 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Multimedia Computing and Networking - academic conference on all aspects of multimedia computing including search engines. | January 18 - 25, 2002 | San Jose, California, USA |
| Search Engine Strategies, Denmark - Danny Sullivan's web search marketing and optimization conference. | December 12, 2001 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| InternetWorld Fall 2001 including a presentation on Site Search That Doesn't Stink by SearchTools.com's Avi Rappoport (Tuesday December 11, 2:45 to 3:45). | December 10 - 14, 2001 | New York City, New York, USA |
| ICDM 2001 - International Conference on Data Mining | November 29 - December 2, 2001 | Silicon Valley, California, USA |
| TREC (TExt Retrieval Conference): the premier information-retrieval evaluation and academic testbed conference. | November 13-16, 2001 | Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
| Internet Librarian 2001 - including a presentation on Enterprise Information Portals by SearchTools.com's Avi Rappoport | November 6-8, 2001 | Pasadena, California, USA |
| ACM CIKM 2001 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. | November 5 -10, 2001 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| ASIST 2001 American Society for Information Science and Technology - excellent academic and commercial research on all aspects of information retrieval and search engines. | November 4-8, 2001 | Washington D.C., USA |
| K-CAP 2001 - First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (knowledge acquisition and information repositories). | October 22-23, 2001 | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Infotech Oulu International Workshop on Information Retrieval | September 19-21, 2001 | Oulu, Finland |
| SIGIR 2001 - ACM's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. | September 17-19, 2001 | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| ECDL 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. | September 4-8 2001 | Darmstadt, Germany |
| Web2001 Conference including a presentation on Implementing Effective Site Search by SearchTools.com's Avi Rappoport. | September 4-8, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| CLEF Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - Workshop on 2001 Tasks | September 3-4, 2001 | Darmstadt, Germany |
| Search Engine Strategies 2001 - Danny Sullivan's conference on both webwide and local search engines, with a Web Developer Track run by Avi Rappoport. | August 16 - 17, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Hypertext 2001: transforming information, entertainment and culture - short papers due May 10, 2001. | August 14-18, 2001 | Århus, Denmark |
| SCI'2001 - Fifth conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics | July 22-25, 2001 | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| IC'2001 - International Conference on Internet Computing, Web Mining track. | June 25-28, 2001 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| Taxonomy applications & usability round table sponsored by the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers, hosted by the Montague Institute | June 20, 2001 | Enfield, CT |
| CIMA 200 - Computational Intelligence; Methods and Applications | June 19-22, 2001 | Bangor, Wales, UK |
| Agents 2001 - 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents. | May 28 - June 1, 2001 | Montreal, Canada |
| SIGMOD - ACM SIG on Management of Data. | May 21-24, 2001 | Santa Barbara, California, USA |
| Taxonomy creation: man vs. machine | May 16, 2001 | Bedford, Massachusetts, US |
| InfoToday conferences for NationalOnline, KnowledgeNets and E-Libraries - strong search track with presentations from academics, researchers and software developers. | May 15-17, 2001 | New York, New York, USA |
| Terena Networking Conference 2001 - advanced networks and services in Europe | May 14-17, 2001 | Antalya, Turkey |
| WWW10 - 10th World Wide Web conference, often has search topics. | May 1-5, 2001 | Hong Kong, China |
| 18th Unicode Conference: Unicode and the Web: the Global Connection, including topics on web search engines. | April 24-27, 2001 | Hong Kong, China |
| Search Engine Meeting 2001 - the Infonortics conference tends to draw a nice variety of search engine developers, academics, and search administrators. It's the major conference in the field. | April 9-10, 2001 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Nielsen-Norman Group Web Usability World Tour Disclosure: SearchTools.com will get an affiliate fee if you sign up using this link. |
April 9-10 | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| April 12-13 | Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA | |
| International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web | April 9-11, 2001 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nielsen-Norman Group Web Usability World Tour Disclosure: SearchTools.com will get an affiliate fee if you sign up using this link. |
April 6-8 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| SIAM Conference on Data Mining - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | April 5-7, 2001 | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| European Colloquium on IR Research | April 4-6, 2001 | Darmstadt, Germany |
| CHI 2001 Computer-Human Interface conference | March 31-April 5, 2001 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Search Engine Strategies 2001 - Boston Danny Sullivan's conference on web search engines, including site promotion, page optimization, and submittal. Second day caters to web searchers with special tracks for technology and tips. | March 20 - 21, 2001 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| DAMA (Data Management Association) International Symposium | March 4-5, 2001 | Anaheim, California, USA |
| Nielsen-Norman Group Web Usability World Tour Disclosure: SearchTools.com will get an affiliate fee if you sign up using this link. |
February 18-20, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan |
| February 21-23, 2001 | Hong Kong, China | |
| February 28-March 2,2001 | Sydney, Australia | |
| Search Engine Strategies 2001 - London Danny Sullivan's conference on web search engines, including site promotion, page optimization, and submittal. | February 15 | London, UK |
| TREC (TExt Retrieval Conference): the premier information-retrieval practical and academic testbed. | February 2001 (start testing) - November 13-16 (conference) | Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
| ACIA Advanced Seminar Series on Thesaurus Design | February 2, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| ASIS & ACIA: Practicing Information Architecture - case studies on information architecture experiences | February 2-4, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Bot2001 - search bots and other online robot technologies | January 25, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| ACIA Advanced Seminar Series on Thesaurus Design | January 19, 2001 | New York, New York, USA |
| Nielsen-Norman Group Web Usability World Tour Disclosure: SearchTools.com will get an affiliate fee if you sign up using this link. |
January 7-9, 2001 | Austin, Texas, USA |
| January 17-19, 2001 | San Francisco, California, USA | |
| OZCHI 2000 (Australian Computer Human Interface): Interfacing reality in the new millennium. | December 4-8, 2000 | Sydney, Australia |
| 2nd Schemas Workshop: Publishing and sharing your metadata application profile |
November 23-24, 2000 | Bonn, Germany |
| ACM Conference on Universal Usability | November 16-17 | Washington DC, USA |
| ASIS SIGIR Classification Research Workshop | November 12 | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Internet Librarian 2000 | November 5-9 | Monterey, California, USA |
| ACIA Advanced Seminar Series on Thesaurus Design | October 25 | La Jolla, California, USA |
| Information Architecture 2000 | October 25-27 | La Jolla, California, USA |
| Intranets 2000 - Content Management and Best Practices | October 15-17 | Reston, Virginia, USA |
| ACL-2000 SIGDAT - Empirical methods in NLP and very large corpora | October 7-8 | Hong Kong |
| SPIRE: String Processing and Information Retrieval - research in string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, etc. | September 27-29, 2000 | A Coruña, Spain |
| infodesign 2000 | July 10-11, 2000 | Coventry, UK |
| Web Design World 2000 (including Web Usability) | July 17-21, 2000 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Information Visualization in Digital Libraries Symposium (part of IV2000 conference) | July 19-21, 2000 | London, UK |
| SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval In Context | July 24-28, 2000 | Athens, Greece |
| Internet World Chicago | July 11-13, 2000 | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| IIID Vision Plus 8. Turning Information into Corporate Knowledge / Innovative Information Management: A Design Challenge | July 13-15, 2000 | Wien/Vienna, Austria |
| Text and Speech Triggered Information Access - European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication | July 15-30, 2000 | Chios Island, Greece |
| Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search (at AAAI-2000 conference on artificial intelligence) | July 30, 2000 | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) (papers accepted until March 15) | August 10-13, 2000 | Long Beach, California, USA |
| Extreme Markup Languages 2000 technical conference on information models and markup. | August 13-18, 2000 | Montreal, Canada |
| Sixth Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining - database access and extracting knowledge from data | August 20-23, 2000 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Ontology Learning Workshop (#24), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence | August 22, 2000 | Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany |
| Unicode and the Web: The Global Connection - 17th International Unicode Conference | September 5-8, 2000 | San Jose, California, USA |
| DEXA / LUMIS 2000 - Database and Expert Systems Applications, Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems | September 6-8, 2000 | Greenwich, London, UK |
| Evaluation of Information Management Systems. | September 15, 2000 | University of London, London, UK |
| European Conference On Digital Libraries | September 18-20, 2000 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link covering search results as dynamically-created hypertext | May 30, 2000 | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| AVI 2000 (Advanced Visual Interfaces): International Working Conferences | May 24-26, 2000 | Palermo, Italy |
| 9th International World Wide Web Conference | May 15-19, 2000 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval - academic conference on all aspects of image retrieval. | May 4-5, 2000 | Brighton, UK |
| User Interface 2000 West presented by User Interface Designs and featuring their founder, Jared Spool | April 17-19, 2000 | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Infonortics Search Engines Meeting 2000: Search Engines... and Beyond | April 10-11, 2000 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Defining Information Architecture (ASIS Summit 2000) | April 7-9, 2000 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, 22nd Annual meeting | April 5-7, 2000 | Cambridge, UK |
| Spring Internet World 2000 | April 3-7, 2000 | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Unicode and the Web: 16th International Unicode Conference | March 27-30, 2000 | Amsterdam, Holland |
| Open Forum on Metadata Registries - explore the capabilities, uses, content, development and operation of metadata registries. | January 17-21, 2000 | Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| Markup Technologies '99 - technical conference on markup theory and practice in XML, SGML, etc. | December 7-9, 1999 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| XML '99 - comprehensive XML event | December 6-9, 1999 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Searching for Information: Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval Approaches - bridging the gap between the two disciplines. | November 11-12, 1999 | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| TREC 8 (Text Retrieval Conference) and the new Web Track | November, 1999 | Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
| Using Layout for the Generation, Understanding or Retrieval of Documents (AAAI Fall Symposium) | November 5-7, 1999 | North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| ASIS (American Society for Information Science) "KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION and USE" | November 1-4, 1999 | Washington DC, USA |
| European Conference on Cognitive Science (ECCS'99) | October 27-30, 1999 | Certosa di Pontignano, Italy |
| OnlineWorld 99 - searching, information retrieval, libraries, with a site search presentation by Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting | October 24-27, 1999 | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Web Design World - general web design conference, with a site search presentation by Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting and an entire day of Usability presentations. | September 29 - October 1, 1999 | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| IEEE Meta-Data Conference | April 6-7, 1999 | Bethesda, Maryland USA |
| Web Design '99 + Web Site Usability Conference | April 6-8, 1999 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Using Metadata for Knowledge Management | April 12-14, 1999 | Hull, Ontario, Canada |
| Infonortics
Search Engines Meeting |
April 19-20, 1999 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 21st Annual Colloquium on IR Research | April 19- 20, 1999 | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Intranets '99 | April 26-28, 1999 | San Francisco, California USA |
| XML Europe '99 | April 26-30, 1999 | Granada, Spain |
| WWW8 (Eighth International World Wide Web Conference) | ||
| CHI 99 (Computer-Human Interface SIG of the ACM) | May 15-20, 1999 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries | May 19-21, 1999 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| ASIS (American Society for Information Science) Mid-Year Conference | May 24-26, 1999 | Pasadena, California, USA |
| Special Library Association Conference | June 5-10, 1999 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Using Metadata for Knowledge Management | June 14-16, 1999 | Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Association for Computational Linguistics | June, 1999 | College Park, Maryland, USA |
| Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems. | July 5-6, 1999 | London, England |
| Infodesign 99 | July 11-13, 1999 | Cambridge, England |
| Web Design World - general web design conference, with a site search presentation by Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting, and an entire day of Usability presentations. | July 19-23, 1999 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration | July 31, 1999 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) | July 31-August 2, 1999 | Uppsala/Stockholm, Sweden |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Text Mining | August 2, 1999 | Stockholm Sweden |
| Digital Libraries 99 | August 11-14, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (ACM SIG KDD) | August 15-18, 1999 | San Diego, California, USA |
| Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) | August 15-19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Post-Conference Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval | August 19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| MetaStructures '99 - structures and standards for information management. |
August 17-18, 1999 |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| XML Developers' Conference (presented with MetaStructures '99) | August 19-20, 1999 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Web Design World - general web design conference, with a site search presentation by Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting, and an entire day of Usability presentations. | July 19-23, 1999 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration | July 31, 1999 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) | July 31-August 2, 1999 | Uppsala/Stockholm, Sweden |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Text Mining | August 2, 1999 | Stockholm Sweden |
| Digital Libraries 99 | August 11-14, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (ACM SIG KDD) | August 15-18, 1999 | San Diego, California, USA |
| Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) | August 15-19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Post-Conference Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval | August 19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| MetaStructures '99 - structures and standards for information management. |
August 17-18, 1999 |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| XML Developers' Conference (presented with MetaStructures '99) | August 19-20, 1999 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Web Design World - general web design conference, with a site search presentation by Avi Rappoport of Search Tools Consulting, and an entire day of Usability presentations. | July 19-23, 1999 | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration | July 31, 1999 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) | July 31-August 2, 1999 | Uppsala/Stockholm, Sweden |
| IJCAI-99 Workshop on Text Mining | August 2, 1999 | Stockholm Sweden |
| Digital Libraries 99 | August 11-14, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (ACM SIG KDD) | August 15-18, 1999 | San Diego, California, USA |
| Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) | August 15-19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Post-Conference Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval | August 19, 1999 | Berkeley, California, USA |
| MetaStructures '99 - structures and standards for information management. |
August 17-18, 1999 |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| XML Developers' Conference (presented with MetaStructures '99) | August 19-20, 1999 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for DIGITAL LIBRARIES (Information also available in French) | September 22-24, 1999 | Paris, France |