Dirk Lens (Member of the Executive Board, Swets, Lisse) and Dr. Paul Evans (Senior Vice President, International Publishing Development, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam) were talked about Multiplication of Impact through Simplification and The New Deal – Freedoms, Experiments, Sustainability – The road ahead, respectively. Dirk Lens spoke about mail functionalities of the SwetsWise product portfolio. Dr. Paul Evans governments of developed countries should help to development if innovations in publishing. But both of them underlined that there are different players in the publishing world that should co-operate and help each other to develop publishing, make it easier and faster. There were two very interesting presentations from Mr. Lens and Mr. Evans.
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Archive for March, 2009
Presentations from Dirk Lens and Paul Evans
Sunday, March 15th, 2009The Future is near with John Gardner and Robert Kelly
Thursday, March 12th, 2009The Future is near: Universally Usable Mainstream on-Line Publishing – is the topic that was presented by the President of ViewPlus Technologies – John Gardner and Director of Journal Information Systems of the American Physical Society – Robert Kelly. They presented IVEO® Hands-on-Learning-System. This system allows the combination of touch, sound and vision. John Gardner and Robert Kelly explained that IVEO® makes images like graphs or diagrams accessible to blind people. This system also reads values of data points and labels when you touch them. They hope it would be very useful system for visually handicapped people because it makes them to feel the image after printing it with an embossing printer or via a tactile touchpad.
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Second keynote from Professor Dr. Rudi Studer
Thursday, March 5th, 2009It was very interesting report from Professor Dr. Rudi Studer – the Immediate Past President of Semantic Web Science Association and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & FZI Research Center for Information Technologies about The Semantic Web. It was presentation about enabling innovative approaches for handling information and services. The main idea of his report was creation of Semantic Web that would help to connect people and information faster and more precisely and that’s why would raise the creation of online knowledge at a new level. It was the very first time on APE 2009 when somebody emphasized the idea of Semantic Web creation.
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Interesting report from Dr. Carlos Morais Pires
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Head of Sector – Scientific Data Infrastructures of European Commission Dr. Carlos Morais Pires underlined that speed of information transfer is the main thing that needs to be done in future in his report called “European Commission: e-Infrastructure for Europe – From Networks and Grids to Repositories and Scientific Data”. It was the main topic of his report. Dr. Pires told that it is impossible to imagine scientific work without access to Internet and that’s why it is important to develop e-infrastructures giving scientists an opportunity of getting new information about innovations as fast as possible. It really was one of the most interesting reports on APE 2009.
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