Hi- a program that might be of interest to some ARLIS members. Please
excuse any cross-posting.-Thanks,
Ted
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An NFAIS one-day program, Building the Base for Authoritative Content:
Digital Resources in the Humanities, is scheduled for October 20, 2008
at the state-of-the-art Graduate Center of the City University of New
York in Manhattan, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. Whether you are a provider of
humanities information products and services or a librarian responsible
for offering access to humanities resources, this meeting will provide
you with a better understanding of the digital initiatives and
newly-emerging web-based resources in this field. And, while the meeting
has a humanities information context, the program content is applicable
to all information providers and librarians (see final program at:
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=52)
The meeting will begin with Julia Flanders, Brown University, providing
an overview of the humanities digital initiatives that are emerging from
academic institutions across the United States. The presentation will
touch on such issues as the impact of collaboration and social
scholarship, the rise of new information tools, and efforts in digital
modeling, text mining and the visualization of search results. The
results of a two recent surveys will be discussed: one from ProQuest on
student use of information products and services and their expectations
of such services in a Google environment, and a second from the Getty
Research Institute on the user-perceived value of abstracts as a
contribution to the body of authoritative content. Kate Wittenberg,
Columbia University, will discuss leveraging user input for product
development. Oxford University Press will discuss their utilization of
new publishing platforms for rapid release of new products. And
representatives from the Encyclopedia Britannica, InsideHigherEd, and
PALINET will discuss the incorporation of Web 2.0 features and
user-generated content to create information products for the 21st
century. The day will close with look at the future of authoritative
information products and services and how they need to evolve to meet
the expectations of the digital natives who are now assuming the roles
of faculty, scholar, researcher and business leader.
The final program, directions to the meeting facility, and registration
information are now available on the NFAIS Web site at:
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=52 .
Register soon, as seating is limited. Registration for this one-day
session, including lunch and two refreshment breaks, is only $95. For
more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:
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Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a premier membership organization of more than
60 of the world's leading producers of databases, information services,
and information technology in the sciences, engineering, social
sciences, business, and the arts and humanities.
Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS
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