[nfais-l] Information Discovery and the Future of A&I - forthcoming meetings

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS Webinars and Workshops on Improving Information Discovery and the
Future of Abstracting and Indexing Services.  Register Now for All Three
sessions.

NFAIS will be holding a series of webinars and workshops in the coming
months on topics related to improving information discovery and the future
of abstracting and indexing services. All of the sessions offer the option
of virtual attendance and 15% discounts are available for attending both
one-day workshops.  

October 25, 2012: NFAIS Webinar:  Linked Data:  What it is, What it Does,
and the Future of Information Discovery

Speakers: Bradley Allen, Vice President, Elsevier Labs, will provide the
perspective of a content provider and Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist,
OCLC, will provide the viewpoint of the library community.

 

This is a 90 minute webinar that will provide an overview of how linked data
can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content
providers, librarians, and users.  Some of the topics to be covered are what
is meant by "linked data;" how it is a step forward from previous mechanisms
used to expose information on the web; if and how it is being used by the
scholarly/research community in a fruitful way; how it fuels the semantic
web predicted for the future; and why, with the increasing power of
technologies that can make sense of unstructured data, linked standards are
necessary

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Fees and registration form are available at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/381-linked-data-webinar-october-2012.

November 30, 2012: NFAIS Workshop: Indexing and Indices: An Essential
Component of Information Discovery.  This one-day workshop, to be held in
Philadelphia, Pa, will look at some of the indexing approaches that can be
used to ensure the discovery of scholarly and scientific content; e.g.,
natural language vs. controlled vocabulary, faceted indexing and
classification systems; image indexing and retrieval; and indexing of the
web. Publishers, as well as librarians responsible for the indexing of their
institution's digital information assets and other intellectual property,
will discuss the approaches that they have taken, what works, what doesn't,
and why. The importance of controlled vocabularies will be discussed as will
the pros and cons of manual indexing versus machine-generated indexing
versus a hybrid approach.  The indexing of non-textual content will be
discussed and the meeting will close with a conversation with librarians who
will voice their perspective on what is needed to improve information
discovery. The agenda and registration forms are available at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012. (Attend
the March 15, 2013 session and get 15% off the registration fees for both).

March 15, 2013: NFAIS Workshop: The Future Role of Abstracting and Indexing
Services.  This one-day workshop, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, will
provide an overview of the history and current status of today's Abstracting
& Indexing Services (A&I's) and the challenges that they face to remain
relevant in a rapidly changing information environment. Librarians will
discuss how well these services meet the needs of their users and will offer
insights as to how the role of A&I's may change as libraries - and their own
services - continue to evolve. The workshop will also look at the new
competitors who are emerging and what unfilled needs they are attempting to
address. A&I providers will offer their perspective on the current
environment and will discuss what initiatives they are planning to keep pace
with change.  And the meeting will close with a look at the future of
information discovery and the role that both new and traditional information
providers may play. The agenda and registration forms are available at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/379-the-future-of-abstracting-and-indexing-m
arch-2013. (Attend the November 30, 2012 session and get 15% off the
registration fees for both).

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mail to
Jilloneill at nfais.org or go to Http://www.nfais.org.

 

 

 

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