2009 Conference Themes

SEMANTIC WEB
 - Practical examples of semantic web applications
 - Advantages, disadvantages and risks
 - Mash ups - formulating your information for embedding elsewhere
 - Using Yahoo Pipes
 - The role of open content APIs
 - Licensing and business models in a world of linked data
 - Semantic search
 - Software as a service (SaaS)
 - Managing data in the cloud (potential issues for - access, security, reliability, compliance, trust)
 - Managing information created outside the firewall - e.g. Google Apps
 - Google apps vs. Microsoft
 - Digital continuity, digital persistence
 - Open linked data movement
 - Taxonomies, folksonomies and enterprise semantics
 - Annotating realtime discussion with linked data
 - Spimes and real time telemetry data - whose problem is it?
 - Sentiment mining
 - RDF and web 3.0


ORGANISATIONAL 2.0
 - The personal web: creating a customised web environment
 - Personal management of web 2.0 tools in the workplace
 - Workplace 2.0 - information management for a mobile workforce
 - A strategic approach to rolling out web 2.0 in organisations
 - Banning of tools in the workplace: Twitter & Facebook


PRACTICAL WEB 2.0
 - Public sector perspectives on using Twitter and other web 2.0 applications
 - Using web 2.0 for internal and external communications
 - Using web 2.0 tools to market services 
 - Managing and monitoring your reputation online
 - Legal concerns of web 2.0: managing privacy, copyright and accessibility
 - Privacy versus Knowledge and information - Google Street View issues
 - Twitter: value, pitfalls and impact on the information professional


DEMONSTRATING VALUE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
- Linking metrics to money
- Identifying small initiatives that make money (creative partnerships)
- Information professionals adding value in a recession
- Preparing for the upturn
- Financing information innovation - alternatives to venture capitalists
- Organisational development - HR in a Web 2.0 World


NEW ROLES FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
- Responding and managing customer communications
- Convergence of media and journalism roles
- Technological and visual literacy: determining the credibility and authenticity of data
- New search skills
- Librarians as champions of change
- Librarians as knowledge curators
- Community Management
- Using social media to recruit new members to the workforce
- Information ethics and data privacy
- Training for information professionals: country comparisons
- Training skills matching business needs


SEARCH
- What's new in search engines
- Visualisation/patterns
- Metasearch
- Visual search engines
- Search engine analytics
- Implications of geotagging and GIS Online - combining search and geo search
- Discovery vs. search
- From search to intelligence
- Real-time search
- Microcontent, microblog search and using microblogs for intelligence
- Searching the social web
- Open source search
- Searching multimedia content: image, audio and video search
- Search as a platform
- Developments at Google and implications for the Information Professional
- Google vs. Microsoft


CONTENT MANAGEMENT
- How the ECM market is maturing to take over from EDRMS
- ERP systems taking over the role of EDRMS
- Death of the intranet
- Challenges and opportunities of Sharepoint as an information management tool
- New applications of metadata
- CMS vs ECM vs EDRMS vs Office 2.0
- Growth of information - storage, systems and networks not keeping pace (e.g. Exatorrent)


LIBRARIES
- Next generation libraries
- Digital libraries
- The use of Open Linked Data services in libraries
- Innovation in libraries
- Academic library 2.0 initiatives
- eLearning projects
- Building and managing institutional repositories
- Managing electronic resources in academic and corporate libraries
- ROI on technology investment
- Managing digital projects
- Working with suppliers and negotiating the best deals (from a librarian's point of view)
- Death of the monolithic LMS
- LMS as a service
- Links between library management systems and virtual learning environments


PUBLISHING
- eBooks
- The future of book publishing
- Delivering content onto new devices and mobile platforms
- Online peer review processes
- Tools for online publishing
- Information seeking behaviour and usage
- The user as publisher
- Licensing and the open linked data movement
- How electronic publishers are (or should be) responding to the downturn in purchasers' budgets(from the suppliers' point of view).