October 20, 2008
NFAIS Humanities Roundtable VII
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: mailto:
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