[nfais-l] NFAIS Webinar available for viewing

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS FULL DAY WEBINAR ON LEVERAGING CONTENT TO IMPROVE DISCOVERABILITY AND
USE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING


If you wanted to attend the NFAIS Workshop, Improving the User Search
Experience Part II: Leveraging Content to Improve Discoverability and Use,
but could not because of time restrictions or other commitments, you now
have another opportunity to "attend."  The full day webinar has been
successfully archived and, for a limited time, is now available for viewing.
The meeting was well-received and you can see from a few of the comments
below, attendees found it worthwhile:

 

"Kudos on a fantastic seminar yesterday - it was a top-notch group of
speakers and the virtual hosting was expertly executed. Well done!"

 

"Thanks again for the great workshop on Wednesday. I much enjoyed it. Great
line-up of speakers."

 

"Extremely useful and a good mix of topics and speakers."

 

The diverse agenda attracted attendees from a broad range of organizations -
content providers (Elsevier, Sage, Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science,
Modern Language Association, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, etc.),
corporate and university libraries (DuPont Co., Tufts, Stanford, Drexel,
University of Florida, etc.) and technology providers (Temis, Silver Chair,
etc.). 

 

The workshop opened with an overview on how content can be enhanced to in
order to increase its discoverability, highlighting the importance of
content organization and structure, the effective use of taxonomies,
thesauri, indexes, and metadata, and the importance of semantic tagging to
create "smart" content.  This was followed by case studies on the effective
use of taxonomies from Wolters Kluwer and The H.W. Wilson Company, as well
as on the leveraging of metadata as demonstrated by OCLC's WorldCat Genres.
The afternoon covered such topics as indexing and tagging to improve
discovery, the incorporation of multimedia and user-generated content to
enhance content, and a case study on the use of automated indexing.  The day
closed with a presentation on new initiative for the development of best
practices to ensure the discoverability and preservation of supplemental
materials that are included as part of many scholarly and scientific
journals.

 

To access the program go to:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/280-improving-the-user-experience-part-ii.

 

To register to view the archived webinar go to:
http://info.nfais.org/info/Reg_ArchiveVideo_form.pdf.

 

 

Bonnie Lawlor

Executive Director

National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)

1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004

Philadelphia, PA 19102

 

1-215-893-1561 Phone

1-215-893-1564 Fax

blawlor at nfais.org

www.nfais.org

 

 

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