[nfais-l] early bird discounts ending soon for nfais annual conference

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS END FRIDAY, JANUARY 11TH


 

The 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, In Search of Answers:  Unlocking New Value
from Content, will take place February 24 - 26, 2013 at the historic Hyatt
at <http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp>  the
Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.  Early bird registrations are available until
Friday, January 11, 2013. Until then savings of up to $200 off the full
registration fee are available and NFAIS members registering three or more
staff at the same time receive even greater savings (for details see the
registration page at
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference.

 

Continuing this year: 

 

.         50% discounts for staff of member organizations that are in the
early stages of their career (5 years or less). Call/ e-mail for details
(215-893-1561 or mailto:nfais at nfais.org)

.         30% discount on daily rates for all government employees

.         20% discount on full/daily rates for first time non-member
attendees

.         Use of audience-response devices throughout the conference to
capture audience opinions - all registrants will be sent a copy of the
results

 

This three-day meeting will take a look at how 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. The program is available
at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. 

 

Highlights Include:

 

*	A thought-provoking keynote by David Weinberger, author of Too Big
to Know, on the information explosion and how technology in combination with
global collaboration and the shared wisdom of the crowd is reshaping
knowledge creation.

 

*	Hot off the press qualitative survey results from Outsell, Inc.
showing the extent to which tools such as metrics and analytics are being
used by publishers and librarians to unlock new value from existing content

 

*	The perspective of scholars and researchers on the ability  of
existing information resources to provide the answers they need and what
they believe needs to be done to extract new value

 

*	A look at how  innovative publishers and librarians are applying
data mining , linking, analytics, and metrics not only to create smart
content, but also to better understand user needs and behavior

 

*	New and emerging metrics for measuring the value of information in
an  inter-tangled world of scholarly publishing, social media and
information sharing 

 

.          Publisher and Librarian perspectives on how data mining,
analytics,  the re-use and sharing of content and  collaborative research
are forcing a re-evaluation of privacy, intellectual property, and data
ownership policies

*	A look at IBM's Watson and the future role of technology in
extracting answers from reams of information 

 

To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director
of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or
visit the NFAIS Web site at
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. The
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut
Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. NFAIS:  Serving the Global
Information Community

 

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