[nfais-l] NFAIS Conference hotel discount ending soon

[Bonnie Lawlor]

REMINDER:  THE HOTEL DISCOUNT ENDS FEBRUARY 3RD FOR THE 2014 NFAIS ANNUAL
CONFERENCE - REGISTER NOW


 

The 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning
the Business of Information, will take place February 23 - 25, 2014 at the
historic Hyatt at the Bellevue
<http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp>  in
Philadelphia, PA.  Hotel discounts are available until February 3rd (next
Monday).  If you have not already registered, do so soon! (for details, see
http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530).

 

This three-day meeting will take a look a new information mindset that is
emerging. The ability to unearth or create new layers of knowledge using big
data techniques such as data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics is
challenging content providers and librarians to look at their information
from a new perspective, considering its value in terms of all the possible
ways it can be deployed in the future, not merely how it is used in the
present.  This new mindset provides an opportunity to ensure their relevance
in a highly-competitive digital information world by re-envisioning their
content and developing the policies, practices, and business models that
will facilitate - not inhibit - its use.

 

Highlights Include: (program details can be accessed at:
http://nfais.org/event?eventID=537)

 

*         A thought-provoking keynote by Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in
Residence at Accel and Scientist Emeritus at bitly, on the application of
big data techniques to extract new insights or create new forms of value
that can potentially change information markets and the organizations that
serve them.

 

*         A look at "datafication," the generation of data and visualization
from social and environmental processes, data that can then be quantified
and measured to create new understanding or the world around us.

 

*         John Blossom's view of the Signal Economy, a global shift in how
value is created in all markets across manufacturing, media, marketing and
services. 

 

*	A look at how  innovative publishers such as The New York Times,
OCLC, and Elsevier are applying data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics
to create smart content.

 

*	New technologies for collecting, enhancing, and managing
information, including crowd-sourcing and the use of mobile devices for data
collection.

 

*         A discussion of the issues that content providers and librarians
must address as the new information mindset takes hold, issues such as the
re-use and sharing of content, privacy, content ownership, attribution, and
others which if they are to be resolved require moving beyond the comfort
zone of current practices, policies, biases, and business mindsets.   

 

*         A closing keynote by Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and Chief
Technology Officer, IBM SOA Center of Excellence, on the impact of "SMAC" -
social, mobile, analytics, and cloud - that will combine with cognitive
systems to have a major impact on 21st-century business, government, and
society in general.

 

To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director
of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org
<mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org>  or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site
at: http://nfais.org/.

 

 

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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