[KMDG-L] ISKO UK/BCS IRSG: Search Solutions 2015, 26 November 2015, London, UK

Dear IFLA colleagues:

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2015

Thursday 26 November, Covent Garden, London, UK

(with tutorial programme on Weds 25 November)

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  *** Early Bird rates end 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015 ***

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Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval

Search Solutions is a joint event of ISKO UK and BCS IRSG (Information Retrieval Specialist Group).

Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. In contrast to

other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive, with attendance strictly limited.

The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.

Search Solutions includes a Tutorial Programme on Wednesday 25 November and the main event is on Thursday 26 November.

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09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

SESSION 1: WEB SEARCH CHALLENGES

10:00 - 10:10 Introduction

10:10 - 10:40 Behshad Behzadi, Google, Future of Search

10:40 - 11:10 Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo!, Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search

11:10 - 11:40 Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research/Bing, Vectorland: A brief look at text embeddings for Search

11:40 - 12:00 BREAK

SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING USERS AND USER NEEDS

12:00 - 12:30 Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs, User requirements for complex search strategies

12:30 - 13:00 Charlie Hull, Flax, Towards a new model of test-based relevance tuning

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

SESSION 3: THE CHANGING FACE OF SEARCH

14:00 - 14:30 Alison Weightman, Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group,Searching and screening efficiency: Emerging techniques for systematic review

14:30 - 15:00 Dave Clarke, Synaptica, Searching inside images: Innovations in visual information retrieval

15:00 - 15:30 Tom Crane, Digirati, New things to search

15:30 - 16:00 BREAK

SESSION 4: SEARCHING THE WORLD'S NEWS

16:00 - 16:30 Tessa Radwan, Newspaper Licensing Agency, Handling printed and online news content in one search solution

16:30 - 17:00 David Corney, Signal, Finding relevance in a real-time, large-scale stream of news articles

17:00 - 17:30 Panel Session (confirmed panellists: Miles Osborne (Bloomberg), Peter Wallqvist (RAVN))

17:30 - 20:00 DRINKS RECEPTION

   

TUTORIAL PROGRAMME (25 November)

   Designing Search

   Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs

   Crowdsourcing for Data Processing and Search

   Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield

   Text Analysis with GATE,

   Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield

   Evaluating Search

   Paul Clough, University of Sheffield

   

LOCATION

Search Solutions 2015 is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office:

BCS, 1st Floor

The Davidson Building

5 Southampton Street

London, WC2E 7HA

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8404

REGISTRATION

Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:

Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £99

* Non-member rate: £129

Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £119

* Non-member rate: £149

If signing up as an ISKO member, please quote your ISKO membership number in the appropriate box in the registration form to receive the member rates.

Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings.

Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening.

Tutorials are payable separately. The registration fees for tutorials are as follows:

Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £90

* Non-member rate: £110

Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)

* BCS and ISKO member rate: £110

* Non-member rate: £130

If signing up as an ISKO member, please quote your ISKO membership number in the appropriate box in the registration form to receive the member rates.

Closing Date for tutorial bookings is 23:59 on Wednesday 11th November 2015.

No more bookings will be taken after this date.

We are pleased to announce up to five fee waivers for students wishing to attend Search Solutions this year. See website for further details:

http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2015/sse2015.php

Hope to see you there

Liz Marley
Publicity, ISKO UK

[KMDG-L] Final Invitation : Classification & Authority Control - 29-30 October, Lisbon

[apologies for cross-posting]

=== Registration closes on 25 October ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting
controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery.
Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes.
These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the
linked data environment.

The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the
value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a
local perspective to the global environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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* International UDC Seminar 2015: Classification and Authority Control - http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/
* UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
* UDC Summary (over 50 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool
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[KMDG-L] Reminder: Classification & Authority Control - 29-30 October, Lisbon

[apologies for cross-posting]

=== Registration closes on 20 October ===

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority
Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National
Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting
controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery.
Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes.
These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the
linked data environment.

The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the
value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a
local perspective to the global environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel,
Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês
Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber,
Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon

Organizer: UDC Consortium

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* International UDC Seminar 2015: Classification and Authority Control - http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/
* UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
* UDC Summary (over 50 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool
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[KMDG-L] Registration Open – IFLA Agricultural Libraries Section

Registration Open � IFLA Agricultural Libraries Section

Dear Colleagues!!!
We need 15 more registrations to form the section.
It is said that everything else can wait but not agriculture.
Recognizing the activities of IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) in addressing emerging issues, trends, and issues of continuing interest for over a decade the IFLA Governing Board has granted permission to investigate interest to join the Agricultural Libraries Section. We need 15 more members expressing interest in joining the section. Your willingness to join the section will greatly benefit the farmers worldwide.

For Registration Form and other details please contact:

Deva E. Reddy, PhD
Associate Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-5000
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.edu