Kevin Cohn (Director of Product Development and Client Services, Atypon Systems, Inc. Santa Clara) was the third in “The Impact of Technology” chaired by Anthony Watkinson with his report about Serendipity of Online: Information Discovery amidst Information Overload. He asked the question what would happen with serendipity in case of online content because benefits of physically accessible media like books in bookstores allow customers to flip though single pages of a book enabling him to find content he could not find – so called serendipity. Mr. Cohn believes that serendipity could exist in the Internet. He says that Interfaces will continue to develop and would be based mostly on visual cues.
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Archive for February, 2009
Presentation about Information Overload with Kevin Cohn
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Travis Brooks with interesting report on APE 2009
Monday, February 16th, 2009Travis Brooks (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford) was the second in session Information Discovery and Access: Repositories, Infrastructures, Libraries, How Everything Comes Together with his report about Organizing a Research Community with SPIRES. He told that SPIRES is much more useful and productive than SLAC. SPIRES attracts 25 thousand searchers a day. It is 100% open access to scientific information. There are mainly pre-prints with links to full text from all known resources. It helps researchers to find information they need faster losing minimum time for searching. Brooks thinks that SLAC should migrate with SPIRES to INSPIRE that would help to remove barriers between research fields, repositories and the researchers and curators.
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Keynotes from Professor Georg Winckler
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009President of European University Association, Rector of University of Vienna; Professor Dr. Georg Winckler presented his report about Universities in the 21st Century. He told that originally universities were a community of teachers and students dedicated to learning. But now he tells that universities in the 21st Century should make junior researchers more independent and that he hopes on open science, on fast and open publication. He underlines that researches should give up their rights to research results to give students rights to get latest researchers and knowledge. Professor Dr. Georg Winckler thinks that it would be very useful for future innovations.
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New Business Models from Wim van der Stelt
Monday, February 2nd, 2009The first presenter on The Road Ahead that was chaired by Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director, IOS Press, Amsterdam) was Wim van der Stelt. Mr. Van der Stelt – the Executive Vice President Business Development of Springer. He told that it is better to use Google or Google Scholar if you are searching for background research (new area research) but you should use SpringerLink acts if you are looking for Springer’s published researches. SpringerLink is one of the top content sites in the Internet. And then Wim van der Slelt talked about the future of books and threats to publishers that are connected with electronic Books (eBooks).
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