Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is the sponsor of the Knowledge Economics conference I mentioned earlier today.
It has a rich history (see below) and just as importantly, free access to its proceedings back to 2005, via the CS Digital Library (ignore the wording that you need to login).
I did have to locate the new page which is: HCISS Proceedings 1995 –.
The proceedings illustrate why a topic map that captures prior experience can be beneficial.
For example, the entry for 1995 reads:
- 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
- 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
- 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
- 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
Those are not duplicate entries. They all lead to unique content.
The entry for 2005 reads:
- Volume No. 5 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 5
- Volume No. 7 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 7
- Volume No. 3 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 3
- Volume No. 6 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 6
- Volume No. 9 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 9
- Volume No. 2 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 2
- Volume No. 1 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 1
- Volume No. 8 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 8
- Volume No. 4 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 4
Now that’s a much more useful listing. 😉
Don’t despair! That changed in 2009 and in the latest (2011), we find:
- 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
OK, so we follow that link to find (in part):
- David J. Nickles, Daniel D. Suthers, “A Study of Structured Lecture Podcasting to Facilitate Active Learning,” hicss, pp.1-10, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011
- J. Lucca, R. Sharda, J. Ruffner, U. Shimp, D. Biros, A. Clower, “Ammunition Multimedia Encyclopedia (AME): A Case Study,” hicss, pp.1-10, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011
(emphasis added)
Do you notice anything odd about the pagination numbers?
Just for grins, 2008, all the articles are one page long – pp 28, pp 29.
BTW, all the articles appear (I haven’t verified this) to have unique DOI entries.
I am deeply interested in the topics covered by HICSS, so if I organize the proceeding into a more useful form, how do I make that extensible by other researchers?
That is I have no interest in duplicating the work already done for these listings but rather adding value to them and at the same time, being open to more value being added to my work product.
Here are some observations to start a requirements process.
The pages with the HTML abstracts of the articles have helpful links (such as more articles by the same author and co-authors). Could duplicate the author/co-author links but why? Additional maintenance duty.
Conferences should have a one page display, 1995 to current year, with each conference expanding into tracks and each track into papers (with authors listed). Mostly for browsing purposes.
Should be searchable across these proceedings only. (A feature apparently not available at the CS Digital Library site.)
Search should include title, author, exact phrase (as CS Digital Library does) but also subjects.
What am I missing? (Lots I know so be gentle. 😉 )
BTW, be aware of: HICSS Symposium and Workshop Reports and Monographs (also free for downloading)