CONFERENCE PROGRAM
19 August 2009
9:00-9:30
Opening of the IFLA satellite pre-conference
9:30-10:15
Keynote speaker: Stephen Abram, Vice President, Innovation, SirsiDynix, Canada
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:30
Chad, Ken: Disrupting libraries: the potential for new services
Benvenuti, Nicola & Pettenati, M. Chiara: Personal Information Environments pose challenges for Digital Libraries in a 2.0 Web
Shachaf, Pnina: Social reference and library reference services
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00
Yang, Sharon & Lee, Yan Yi, Xu Amanda: The semantic web and libraries in the United States : experimentation and achievements
Golub, Koraljka, Moon, Jim, Lykke Nielsen, Tudhope, Douglas: Enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system
Laura Rinnovati: Exploration of the use of Library 2.0 and its role in the transformation of personalised services in Italian libraries
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30
Bermes, Emmanuelle: Linking open data : a case of releasing library data on the semantic web
Malmsten, Martin: Exposing Library Data as Linked Data / Linking Authority Data to DBPedia
20 August 2009
9:00-10:30
Veen, Theo van, Sadilek, Christian, Fuegi, David: A proposed services infrastructure for The European Library
Hickey, Thom & Gatenby, Janifer: Opening library data for web scale use and re-mixing
Christensen, Anne: Next generations catalogs: What do users think? Conclusions from the beluga projekt in Hamburg
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Talk-show with special guests (TBA)
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00
Al Hayek, Heyam: My Electronic library 2.0 project: web 2.0 experiment in the Arabic libraries
Atefeh, Shari: Combining ontology and folksonomy: an integrated approach to knowledge representation
Robertson, Penny & Hanlon, Gillian: SLIC, SLAINTE and Web 2.0: an overview of the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies by professional library and information bodies in Scotland and a summary of practical projects involving Web 2.0 in Scottish public library services.
16:00-16:30
Conference wrap-up
Members of the Steering Committee:
Stephen Abram, Vice President, Innovation, SirsiDynix, Canada
Reinhard Altenhöner, Head of the Information Technology Departmetn, German National Library, Germany
Frank Cervone, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology, Northwest University, USA
Ivan Chew, Manager, Adult & Young People's Services, National Library Board Singapore (RamblingLibrarian.blogspot.com)
Karen Coyle, Open Library Project
Patrick Danowski, Berlin State Library, Germany
Alenka Kavčič-Čolić, Head of Library Research Centre, National and University Library, Slovenia
Martin Malmsten - Senior Developer, National Library of Sweden / LIBRIS
Eva Müller, EBSCO, Sweden
Joann Ransom, Horowhenua Library Trust, New Zealand
Ina Smith, Institutional Repository Manager & e-Application Specialist Digital Research Repository (UPSpace) Manager & eApplication Specialist Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Gwen Zilm, Associate Vice President, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada