Conference Themes 2010

 

Linked data in action and semantic web techniques

  • The business case for linked data, including ROI
  • Examples of linked data and semantic technology creating new resources for improved service delivery
  • Licensing and business models in a world of linked data
  • Data quality issues with linked data: monitoring integrity and provenance of data
  • End user issues: accessing linked data from data stores
  • Open data initiative: challenges and opportunities
  • Examples of RDFa implementation
  • Taxonomies, folksonomies and enterprise semantics
  • Examples of enterprise mash ups


Implementing a social media strategy across the organisation

  • The business case and strategic roll out of social media across the organisation
  • Social media and the impact on organisational structures and hierarchies
  • Strategic social media and ROI
  • Enterprise 2.0 in action
  • Leadership skills: Information professionals leading from the bottom up and creating the conditions for success in 21st century organisations

Using social media in the workplace

  • Innovative applications of social media for collaboration and knowledge sharing
  • The value of Twitter as an organisational tool
  • Barriers to use of social media in the organisation
  • Metrics for measuring the value of social media
  • The evolution of communities: how will they grow and how can their value be measured?
  • Behaviours of young people using social media and how this can be transferred into the workplace

Challenges & opportunities for the information professional

  • Techniques for exercising power in the organisational information space
  • Issues in managing personal vs. public identities. Who can we trust?
  • Guarding online privacy (in light of new tools e.g. Google Buzz)
  • Risks and legal issues of using online tools
  • Justifying information services in tough times
  • Outsourcing of library and information services
  • Skill sets and capabilities for the semantic web
  • Exploiting personal learning networks for new skills and capabilities
  • The evolving role of the information professional
  • How to use freely available online resources to make up for cuts in public services

New platforms for delivering content

  • The rise of mobile apps and new models for delivering content
  • Opportunities in mobile search tools and location specific data
  • 'Accessing the cloud' with a mobile device
  • Delivering (academic) library services/applications via mobile devices
  • Sharing information across new platforms: risks and legal issues
  • Examples of moving to 'the cloud' in libraries/universities
  • Managing data in the cloud: access, security, reliability, trust, compliance
  • The iPad and the impact on eBooks

Libraries & publishing

  • Next generation libraries
  • 'The Library As A Place'
  • Innovation in library 2.0
  • Social networking in libraries
  • Library Apps: Developing library services for the iPhone
  • Tools and techniques for marketing libraries
  • Measuring the value of library services
  • Using open source software, open licences and open data in libraries
  • Progress with ONIX-PL for licences
  • Open access publishing and digital repositories
  • Online peer review processes
  • Future of book publishing
  • eBooks
  • Google Book Settlement

Information management in the public sector

  • Transforming government using web 2.0 and open data initiatives (such as data.gov.uk)
  • e-democracy and e-participation: using online tools to encourage user participation
  • Examples of information management and knowledge management projects delivering ROI
  • Delivering value in service provision in tough times/budget cuts
  • Outsourcing of information and library services by central and local government
  • Examples of cloud computing projects

Internet search 2010

  • The value of social media search vs. traditional search
  • Social and real time search tools and their impact on monitoring social media
  • Mining social media for competitive and business information
  • Searching images/multimedia: possibilities and challenges
  • Multimedia and rights management: Information professionals promoting/enforcing copyright
  • Personalisation of search results
  • Web search strategies: top tips and techniques for information professionals
  • New and alternative search engines
  • Opportunities with the real time web: discovery vs. search
  • Semantic search in action

Enterprise information management

  • Search enabled applications: embedding search into existing applications
  • Open source and cloud computing
  • Google vs. Microsoft
  • Implementing Google Apps
  • Deploying SharePoint: case studies

        

 

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