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E-books
and E-content 2007
University
College London: 8 May 2007, 10.00 to 16.30
Putting Content in Context
E-books have finally become accepted in many organisations and licensed
e-content is proliferating through library catalogues and web portals. How do we
exploit this growing body of quality e-content to best effect; how do we ensure
that it connects to our other offerings and services; how do we exploit our own
information assets and how can we differentiate from Google driven web sites, often of poor quality and potentially even misleading? Indeed, should we even be
talking about e-books when studies suggest that what comes across the Web is not
seen by users as books per se or as anything other than just "stuff"?
This one-day conference will bring together participants from all sectors and
provide presentations from the library, publishing and systems communities to
look at current practices in e-book delivery and how they might develop in the
near future. Expert speakers will provide assessments of market trends and
technologies and researchers will look at current evaluative studies on the take
up of, and user reaction to, e-books and e-content generally.
The event, which follows similar successful one-day events in 2001 and 2003 will
be of value to:
- Librarians
and information specialists in academic and public and other libraries
- Publishers
seeking to identify trends and the potential for exploitation
- Booksellers
and content aggregators
- Library
and information system developers looking to understand how they integrate
content to best effect.
E-books and E-content 2007
will be hosted by UCL's Centre for Publishing, part of the School of Library
Archive and Information Studies.
Venues: UCL, Chadwick Lecture Theatre and North Cloisters
Conference fee: £110.00 per person
www.econtent2007.com
Full programme:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/e-books/
Registration form:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/e-books/ebooksregistrationform.doc
Provisonal Programme
Rich Rosy
Vice President, Content Management, OCLC will provide an analysis of
e-content issues from library and publisher perspectives.
Theory and Context
E-books: Context and Futures
Chris Becket, a publishing consultant formerly of Scholinfo.com
<http://scholinfo.com/>
will discuss economic models for content delivery and likely futures. He has
considerable senior executive experience in product development, sales and
marketing for industry intermediaries, including Blackwell Information Services,
CatchWord, and Ingenta.
Chris speaks extensively on issues surrounding electronic content,
intermediaries and libraries, and is a qualified medical librarian. He is a
member of UKSG, and ALPSP.
The Academic Vision: the work of the UK JISC in promoting and developing
e-book usage
Caren Milloy, the ebooks lead for JISC, will explain the UK academic
perspective on ebooks and its vision for the future in the academic context.
E-books and E-content: linking up through technology
Leigh Dodds is an information architect with Ingenta and has written and
spoken widely on emerging technologies and how they might affect the information
change.
The strategic ACAP project (Automated Content Access Protocol): which
provides for permissions information relating to access and re-use of all types
of web content. Mark Bide, the Director of Rightscom and well-known in
the standards arena will discuss the development of licensing over the web.
Practice and Research
Users and Usage
Chris Armstrong is founder and Managing Director of Information Automation
Limited. At the point that the company was formed, he was already an established
figure in the world of library and information science research having worked
for ten years as a research officer in the College of Librarianship Wales Chris
Armstrong's research interests centre on electronic access to information -
online and CD-ROM databases and Internet resources - and this is reflected in
some of the company's major projects. He is also Vice-Chair of the UKeIG: the UK
eInformation Group.
The Superbook project: e-book usage in practice
Dr. Ian Rowlands is Director of Research at UCL's Centre for Publishing and
published authority in trends in scholarly publishing. He will outline the new
agenda for evaluating e-content usage in practice.
Exploiting Public Sector Information; the experiences and ambitions of local
government to exploit their e-content
Mary Rowlatt of Essex County Council has been heavily involved in
initiatives to exploit e-content owned by the local authority and the
ramifications and legal structure surrounding that. Mary will talk through their
experiences and ambitions.
Panel
Chaired by Anthony Watkinson, UCL Centre for Publishing with
representatives of major ebook suppliers and aggregators.
There will be a parallel exhibition (open to all) at UCL during the event
including Dawson Books, Macmillan, OCLC Pica and Elsevier.
Per
ulteriori informazioni scrivere a: amerlo@cenfor.it
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