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New Pricing and Titles from Project MUSE

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu) has added new journals, announced two new journal collections, and is introducing a new pricing model for U.S. institutions. For details see our news digest (http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd041129.shtml) and, for those of you in London, visit Project MUSE in the exhibit hall at stand 258.

Paula J. Hane, ITI News Bureau Chief

www.infotoday.com


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Set-Up Underway

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

It was set-up day at the Olympia exhibition hall. If you’re into blueprints, here’s the floor plan (PDF).

As trade show build-up goes, the hall was a sea of activity this morning, with fork lifts carting huge crates and palates loaded with boxes. There were ladders everywhere. And no matter what aisle I went down, there were construction crews working on half-built stands.

If you’ve never gotten to see a major trade show go up, it’s like watching a neighborhood of houses being built all at once. And to look at it today, you would never believe it will all be done by tomorrow.

Here, at Thomson’s stand, workmen installed overhead lights in a recessed nook.

Dick Kaser

ITI VP, Content


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How the Industry Classifies Itself

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

While waiting for the hotel’s LAN to come up this morning, I got to playing around with the advance information on exhibitors.

By my reckoning, there are 238 exhibitors on the advance list. Show sponsor, VNU Exhibitions Europe, gave exhibitors the option of classifying themselves into 13 categories.

Though some of the classifications seem dubious to me, the overall profile certainly shows how the industry thinks of itself and how the various players are positioning themselves. The average exhibitor classified itself into 2.4 categories, as illustrated above.

Dick Kaser
ITI VP, Content


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Google Scholar, to be the Buzz?

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

Had breakfast with Chris Sherman, who is teaching a pre-con workshop over at the Novotel hotel today.

Though Google is not among the 29 self-classified “enterprise search” companies on the advance exhibitors’ list here, Sherman and I got to wondering (over a cholesterol laden breakfast) whether Google Scholar might not be part of this year’s trade-show buzz.

As the popular search engine digs down into the invisible Web to find the good stuff, will the commercial vendors feel newly threatened from the competition they have learned to respect?

Stay tuned. I’ll have to ask around when the trade show opens tomorrow. Until then, read Barbara Quint’s recent news story on the Google Scholar product release.

Dick Kaser

ITI VP, Content


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Greetings from London

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

As you can see from the early posts, the blog team has arrived in London and we’re ready to (rock and) roll this conference.

Our home base, the Olympia Hilton, has not yet gone wireless, but since last year they have installed a high-speed network, which is available to guests at the very reasonable price of only 15 pounds sterling a day. Unfortunately the hotel network was down this morning. So we’ve gotten off to a slow start. But thanks to the time differential, we’re just in time for those of you arriving at work in the States. And we’ve already got lots of things to report.

Dick Kaser
ITI VP, Content


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Check out EContent 100 Winners

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

Good morning to all of you lucky enough to be at the London Online show from those of us back in the states. For those of you who subscribe to our RSS feeds or hit the site like clockwork, this won’t come as news. For the rest of the world: The fourth annual EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry is officially out. Copies of the print issue should be available at Information Today, Inc.’s booth and the list is live on EContent’s site. Not surprisingly, several of this year’s winners are exhibiting at the London Online show:

Alacra, anacubis, Arbortext, British Library, CAS, CSA, EBSCO, Ektron, Reed Elsevier (Reed, Scopus), EMC (Documentum), eMeta, Endeca, Euromonitor, Factiva, Fast Search & Transfer, HighWire Press, D&B (Hoover’s), Ingenta, IXIASOFT, Knovel, Ovid, Percussion, ProQuest, Questel Orbit, RedDot, Reuters, Springer, Swets, & Thomson (Dialog, Gale, Scientific) are among the 100 that made the list this year.

Stop by and make sure they’ve heard the good news and visit ITI’s booth or www.econtentmag.com to read the entire list.

Michelle Manafy

Editor, EContent & Intranets


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Registration Numbers Up This Year

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004

Speaking with conference organizer Kat Allen this morning, she says the conference registation numbers are up this year, and they are looking forward to a successful conference. Conference chair Martin White and his committee have worked hard to put together an attractive programme, which begins tomorrow morning with usability guru, Jakob Nielsen as the keynote speaker, followed by track keynotes and dozens of sessions in the formal conference programme and in the exhibit hall theatres.

Stay tuned, we’ll be there to bring you all the news…

Nancy Garman

Information Today, Inc.


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Workshops Begin Conference Week

ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2004


Lou Rosenfeld’s workshop on enterprise information architecture

Online Information 2004 kicked off on this sunny (how unusual in London!), crisp morning with pre-conference workshops at the Novotel. About 100-125 people were listening intently in 4 workshop rooms to Gary Price, Chris Sherman, Mary Ellen Bates, Lou Rosenfeld and James Robertson when I peeked in just after they began. The workshops are a chance to get in-depth information in a small group where it’s easy to ask questions and enter into informal discussions with the speaker and others.

Nancy Garman
Information Today, Inc.


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Join us in London

ITI Bloggers November 4th, 2004

Last year, we tried to paint the London meeting with a broad brush and bring home to our readers a taste for the experience of being there. What will we come up with this year? Ah, but that’s just the thing about a blog. You kinda have to be there.

Joining me to blog the Online Information show will be:

– Editor of ONLINE Magazine Marydee Ojala
– Columnist and ITI Conference Planning Executive Nancy Garman
– ITI News Bureau Chief and NewsBreaks Editor Paula Hane
– Editor of EContent Magazine Michelle Manafy
– EContent Xtra News Editor Kinley Levack

I also predict this year’s blog will include some cameo appearances by other ITI editors and industry observers.

So, if you can’t be in London for Online this year, let us be your eyes and ears.
Join us right here.

Dick Kaser
London Blog Color Man & ITI’s V.P., Content
"http://www.infotoday.com," "http://www.econtentmag.com"


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ITI Editors Blog On - Live from London II!

ITI Bloggers November 4th, 2004

ITI editors will be blogging live from the Online Information 2004 conference and expo, Nov. 30th through Dec. 2nd in London. http://www.online-information.co.uk/

Live coverage starts Monday, November 29th and runs through Dec. 3rd.

Check out our past ITI conference blogs on the archive pages (below). Last year’s Live from London coverage can be found in the archive files for 11/30/03-12/6/03. Our blog from SLA can be found in the archive files for 6/6/04-6/12/04.


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