The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), a membership association for organisations that create, organise and facilitate access to authoritative information, has announced the programme for its forthcoming 2011 Annual Conference. The event is scheduled for February 27 - March 1, 2011 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.
The three-day meeting will look at today's world of information overload and how publishers and librarians are navigating the exponential growth of digital information to provide scholars and researchers with reliable, relevant information - no matter what the source, language or medium. The programme will bring together publishers, librarians and technology developers representing all market sectors from around the globe. The aim is to discuss how they are responding to the challenge of identifying, acquiring, processing, transmitting and storing vast amounts of digital content across all media and across a growing amount of foreign languages - a challenge that will continue into the foreseeable future as the volume of information continues to escalate.
Practical approaches currently being implemented will be discussed along with emerging technologies that hold promise for the future, such as augmented reality, machine thinking, semantic search, cloud computing and automated translations.
Speakers include journalist and author Dan Gillmor, We the Media; Steven Berlin Johnson, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine; Miles Conrad Awardee Dr. Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland; David Ferriero, Archivist of the US; John Blossom, Shore Communications Inc.; Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, Search and Discovery Technologies, IDC; Dr. Moshe Pritkser, CEO, Journal of Visualized Experiments; Dan Pollock, Nature Publishing Group; Martha Anderson, Library of Congress; Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, Thomson Reuters R&D; Dr. Thomas Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine; David Barnes, IBM; Adam Farquhar, British Library; Rafael Sidi, Elsevier; and Victor Camlek, Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science, among others.
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