[KMDG-L] No more tickets for BOBCATSSS 2012!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!


Unfortunately there are no more tickets left for next year's BOBCATSSS conference in Amsterdam!

Thus it is not possible to register anymore!

At the moment, we are having a look at all of our lists to see if there are any mistakes and if people who have registered but haven't paid yet are still willing to attend.


With best regards,
Your BOBCATSSS 2012 Team

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[KMDG-L] BOBCATSSS 2012 - 1st Call for Participation

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are cordially invited to Amsterdam between January 23 and 25, 2012
to celebrate the 20th anniversary of BOBCATSSS together with us!

In keeping with the theme "information in e-motion", there will be
lectures, workshops and poster sessions on:

... "E-media in motion", the rise of mobile devices as e-book-readers
and their usability for you and me

... "My information" and if telling our everyday-details to a social
network instead of a diary is really as benign as we think

... "Organizations 2.0" and the best ways to archive and spread
information in big companies

... "Access to public information" and whose task it is to provide it
most adequate: authorities, libraries or someone completely different?

Register until December 1st and you'll save up to 15 % with our
Early-Bird price!
To register now just follow this link:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/registration/

More detailed information on the conference programme can be found on
our website:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/

In addition we'd like to introduce our Keynotes:

- Geert Lovink, a Dutch-Australian media theorist, will hold a speech
about a world beyond Facebook
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/about/staff/

- Karin Spaink, a dutch feminist and writer will inform us about our
personal privacy and its relation to safety
http://www.spaink.net/who=me.html

To learn more about our special guests please see:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/keynote-speakers/

Sincerely,

Your BOBCATSSS 2012-Team
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Stuttgart Media University (GER),
Hanze University Groningen (NL) -

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[KMDG-L] UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) [http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap], aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members.

The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:

• Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access
• Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States
• Thematic focus areas of OA
• Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world
• Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country
• Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States
• Funding and deposit mandates
• Links to OA initiatives in the world

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment and to view their country's status, and understand where and why Open Access has been most successful.

Development of the Global Open Access Portal has been made possible with support received from the Governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This GOAP will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.

Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO's mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.

Source: UNESCO

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067, India
www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
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[KMDG-L] 979 information literacy contents-resourses from different Ibero-American countries (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal)

This October 25th marks the second anniversary of the blog and resources
"Information Literacy / Ibero-America (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal)":
http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com/

Considering this anniversary and with the goal to continue contributing to the
growth and recognition of information competencies training in educational
institutions and different types of libraries in the Iberoamerican context, we
launched the resource:

Wiki: "Information Literacy / Ibero-America. State of the Art":
http://alfiniberoamerica.wikispaces.com/

In this space you will find, to date, 979 contents-resources (journal
articles, papers, books, chapters of books, works of degree, graduate theses,
declarations, models, presentations, videos, audios, events, web resources
...) organized taking into account the 22 countries of Ibero-America.

We invite you to visit this Wiki, to add it to your websites and references to
information literacy, and waiting for your comments.

Regards,

Alejandro Uribe Tirado
Candidato Doctorado Documentación Científica Universidad de Granada
Docente / Investigador - Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología
Grupo Información, Conocimiento y Sociedad
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín-Colombia
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auribe@bibliotecologia.udea.edu.co
auribe@correo.ugr.es
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http://alfincolombia.blogspot.com
http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com
http://ci2-colombia.blogspot.com
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http://bit.ly/dkxuDd (Currículo)
http://bit.ly/kv8kef (Publicaciones en acceso abierto)

[KMDG-L] Reminder - ISKO-UK afternoon meeting on Tuesday 1 November: Health Information - please don’t miss it!

 

Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector
Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00)
Marlborough Theatre, King's Fund W1G 0AN

In this ISKO UK meeting, held appropriately on the premises of The King's Fund, we will be looking at several important emerging areas of Health Informatics practice. The focus will be on how clinical information is recorded, encoded for storage and retrieval, purged of ambiguity, imbued with relevance to patient and practitioner alike, and linked up to the universe of biomedical knowledge.

You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm . Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.  

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Please note the venue is not UCL this time - it is the King's Fund, Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.45 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m.

The programme includes these topics: 

• joining up knowledge and information to deliver better, safer, more convenient and cost-effective healthcare;
• using codes and controlled vocabularies to embed unambiguous definitions of medical conditions and procedures in the patient record;
• how real projects use metadata in practice;
• Knowledge Management when the patient is in control of the records;
• interoperability and the NHS using the Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) and opening it to greater engagement from potential users and suppliers;

As speakers we welcome Ewan Davis, a health informatics consultant; Ian Herbert, Vice-Chair of BCS Health; Ann Wrightson of the NHS Wales Informatics Service who since 2009 has chaired the HL7 UK Technical Committee; Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a clinician and researcher in medical software; Martin Whittaker of Touchstone Consultancy and Ian Lewin, a text mining specialist, working for the European Bioinformatics Institute.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm ) earlier this year.

 

 Please accept our apologies for cross and repeat posting.

We look forward  to seeing you there.

[KMDG-L] ISKO UK: Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector

Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00)

King's Fund W1G 0AN

 Registration has now opened for our ISKO-UK afternoon meeting on Tuesday 1 November:

The complexity of managing information and knowledge in health is astonishing. As budgets tighten in the public sector, all of us are affected - with patients at the really sharp end. Users and providers of information face huge demands for increased efficiency and effectiveness. Records must be shared and reused, while being accurate and confidential. We hope you can join us to hear about lessons and challenges for seamless and reliable flows of medical and care information. The emphasis will be on clinical information directly relevant to patients, but parallels can be drawn across the public and private sectors.

You can find out more details of the event and register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm. And please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Please note the venue is not UCL this time - it is the King's Fund, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.30 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m.

The provisional programme includes these topics from leading speakers: 

• joining up knowledge and information to deliver better, safer, more convenient and cost-effective healthcare;
• using codes and controlled vocabularies to embed unambiguous definitions of medical conditions and procedures in the patient record;
• how real projects use metadata in practice;
• Knowledge Management when the patient is in control of the records;
• interoperability and the NHS using the Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) and opening it to greater engagement from potential users and suppliers;

As speakers we welcome Ewan Davis, a health informatics consultant; Ian Herbert, Vice-Chair of BCS Health; Ann Wrightson of the NHS Wales Informatics Service who since 2009 has chaired the HL7 UK Technical Committee; Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a clinician and researcher in medical software; Martin Whittaker of Touchstone Consultancy and Ian Lewin, a text mining specialist, working for the European Bioinformatics Institute.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) earlier this year.

[KMDG-L] BOBCATSSS 2012 in Amsterdam - EXTENDED DEADLINE!

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Apologies for cross-posting.

Please forward to interested parties.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

once more, we would like to invite you to participate in the 20th BOBCATSSS Symposium on information management taking place in Amsterdam from January 23 to January 25, 2012.

 

Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts.

You are now welcome to upload your proposal on our special topic "information in e-motion" until Saturday, October 8, 2011.

Please note that the upload function of our conference management tool will definitely be disabled for submissions after this date.

For further information, please see our website:

http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/

 

We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Ilka Schiele

BOBCATSSS 2012 Programme Team

 

and

 

Selina Chadde

BOBCATSSS 2012 Marketing Team

 

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