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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS
2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS WEEK</span></u></b><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Registration
will close at 12:00pm EST this coming Friday (February 22, 2013) for the 2013
NFAIS Annual Conference, <i>In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from
Content. </i>The meeting is scheduled to take place from February 24-26, 2013
at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. The final program
and registration form can be accessed at: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From
an opening keynote by <b>David Weinberger</b> on creating knowledge in an age
of connectedness all the way through to the closing keynote by Frank Stein who
will look at <b>IBM’s Watson</b> and the future role that artificial
intelligence and big data will play in transforming content into knowledge, the
conference will provide an interesting look at how far we have progressed from
delivering information to the ultimate goal of providing actionable amswers.
The special members-only event this year will feature Michael Cairns,
President, Information Media Partners, who will present his annual predictions
for publishing and media (prior registration required).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just
a few of the organizations that will be discussing how they are unlocking new value
through data aggregation and mining and through the application of analytics,
metrics, visualization tools and artificial intelligence are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Elsevier
</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(smart
content), <b>Gale-Cengage</b> (analytics), <b>Outsell, Inc.</b> (New Survey
results on creating value with metrics and analytics), <b>Oxford University (</b>unlocking
the value of audio collections), <b>University of Hertfordshire </b>(text
mining the humanities), <b>Thomson Reuters IP & Science </b>(data citation
index)<b>, McGraw Hill Construction (</b>from data to business intelligence<b>),
JSTOR </b>(the challenge of big data), <b>Harvard University</b>
(visualizing astronomy articles in the sky), <b>Narrative Science</b>
(automated narrative generation), <b>TEMIS</b> (semantics), and <b>Thomson
Corporate R&D</b> (computational approaches to intelligent information).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tools
for the measurement of value will also be discussed by <b>Plum Analytics</b>
(alternative metrics), <b>Macmillan’s Digital Science</b> (metrics for
context), and<b> OpenX</b> (maximizing content value in digital networks) while
a panel of experts from the <b>University of Michigan, Elsevier, Drexel
University</b> and <b>Mendeley </b>will discuss how </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>publishers,
librarians, and users need to work together to develop reasonable and practical
policies on privacy, intellectual property and security that will support
efforts required to create new value.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To
register or obtain more information c</span></b><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>ontact:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning (<a
href="mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org">jilloneill@nfais.org</a> or 215-893-1561) or
visit the NFAIS Web site at <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference</a>.</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (<i>NFAIS</i>), 1518
Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. phone: 215-893-1561;
fax: 215-893-1564; email: <a href="mailto:nfais@nfais.org">nfais@nfais.org</a>;
web site:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.nfais.org/">http:www.nfais.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS: Serving the
Global Information Community<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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