[nfais-l] NFAIS Annual Conference - Mrk you Calendar

[Bonnie Lawlor]

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE 2013 NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 

 

February 24 - 26, 2013

 

Hyatt at the Bellevue

Broad and Walnut Streets

Philadelphia, PA 19102

 

 

In Search of Answers:  Unlocking New Value from Content

 

 

Each new generation of information products and services has slowly
progressed along the path from delivering information towards the ultimate
goal of delivering answers.  Now at last the keys to unlocking much greater
value from content may be at hand.  The convergence of existing and emerging
technologies for the mining, linking, analysis, measurement, and management
of large quantities of global information across multiple media and data
formats has produced an unprecedented toolkit which, if creatively applied,
empowers publishers, librarians and users to develop new products and
services and to expose, enhance, and create new layers of value along the
entire information distribution chain. 

 

But how are these tools being used?  How are content providers and
librarians applying analytics and metrics to find the answers they need to
improve the quality and relevance of all aspects of their business -
products, services, client outreach, and business models?  What new skill
sets and infrastructures are required to leverage product opportunities in
the world of textual, non-textual, and user-generated content?  How is
content being combined, mined, and analyzed to unearth new information and
reveal the nuances of existing information?  Can the overlay of tags,
ontologies and links help unlock the value of content? What value-adds are
users and other third parties creating and why are they creating them?  To
what extent are publishers making their content available to those who want
to add value and what are the resulting business models?  How are search
technologies, user interfaces, and visualization tools evolving to engage
users and provide answers at their point of need? Can tools such as
sentiment and predictive analytics, the Internet of Things, and expert
recommendations be more effectively used to provide targeted, relevant
search results? How do advances in mobile and cloud computing influence the
creation of added value? And will unlocking the value of content ultimately
impact business models and practices?



The 55th NFAIS Annual Conference will discuss these issues and more. No
matter what role you play in the information community - content or
technology provider, librarian, educator, or other information professional
- this meeting is for you. It will provide you with an ideal opportunity to
network with peers who are experimenting with content and technologies with
the ultimate goal of unlocking new value from content and making the global
delivery of quantifiable information for decision-making a reality!

 

Save the date.  Registration will open soon!  

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