The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar on October 25, 2012 to provide an overview of how linked data can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content providers, librarians, and users. Bradley Allen, Vice President, Elsevier Labs, will provide the perspective of a content provider and Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, OCLC, will provide the viewpoint of the library community.
The topics to be covered in the webinar are, what is meant by "linked data;" and how it is a step forward from previous mechanisms used to expose information on the web. It will also cover if and how it is being used by the scholarly/research community in a fruitful way; how it fuels the semantic web predicted for the future; and why, with the increasing power of technologies that can make sense of unstructured data, linked standards are necessary.
NFAIS members pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay $125. An unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organisations can participate for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organisation is $295. The registration form can be downloadable from: http://info.nfais.org/info/Linked_Data_Regform.doc.
