ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
Dick’s post about spotting Harry Collier from above (the photo is of him and Diane Hoffman) sent me looking for Harry to confirm that he’d actually attended all 30 conferences. I found him in the press room and he has indeed been to all of them.
Chatting later with Charles Oppenheim, I discovered that he, too, has been to all the Online shows. A bit abashed (abashed?? Charles??), he confessed that the first one was so small, he didn’t think it would survive. Must be one of the few times he’s been wrong.
Marydee Ojala
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ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
FIZ Chemie Berlin’s Rene Deplanque was a busy guy yesterday. In addition to his talk in the morning, he signed a cooperative deal with TIB Hannover in the afternoon. They will cooperate in the archiving and providing of multimedia elements. "Digital media have become the most important carriers for current scientific knowledge," he said. Uwe Rosemann, Director of TIB Hannover, added that the task for librarians has expanded well beyond the traditional archiving of printed materials into digital image, video, 3-D, audio and simulation data. FIZ Chemie will be responsible for developing concepts and standards for the central archiving and verification system, while TIB will collect the digital materials, register them by DOI code, verify them in catalogs and databases, and provide them via the TIB portal.
Marydee Ojala
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ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
HighWire celebrated the addition of its 1000th journal at the show. It’s the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, published by Oxford University Press. I had a most interesting discussion with them about metrics. How do you determine exactly what is a journal title? You have to distinguish between Web sites and journal titles, for one thing, according to HighWire. Then there’s the matter of title changes. When Journal X becomes Journal Y but doesn’t really change much else, is it one title or two? Would it depend on whether or not the ISSN changes? Ok, for many of you blog readers out there, this perhaps isn’t the most fascinating of discussions. In fact, it’s probably only a discussion an ex-periodicals librarian (which is where I started) could love!
Marydee Ojala
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ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
In a crowded session called Winning Opportunities for Information Professionals, Rene (yes, I know there should be an accent over the final e in Rene, but even the conference’s badge printer couldn’t handle it; his badge read Ren??) Deplanque from Fiz Chemie Berlin told us about the European Laser Labs project and its reliance on collaborative technologies like wikis and discussion forums. His words of advice included some real gems, including how to get people to accept open access: "Keelhaul them." He also warned that scientists shouldn’t rely on Google because science is too complex and stressed the importance of flexibility. The exchange of information within the Laser Labs project demonstrates a new form of production, publication and distribution.
SLA’s CEO, Janice LaChance, had her own words of wisdom. She said, "You must adapt to the pace of change, not just change itself." Information professionals, according to her, sit at the hub of the organization, at the intersection of information gathering, analysis and decision making. Above all, your values should align with those of your organization. She then advised us to "think like the CEO." What would you do if you were in charge?
Marydee Ojala
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ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
Here they come to save the day . . . VNU selected these two icons of information management as the show mascots and symbolic symbols of the gist of what’s going on here. Appearing on exhibit signs, but also emblazoned on the official show guides and conference programs, these Info-Dudes clearly demonstrate why we’re here and what it’s all about. No wonder they say a picture’s worth a thousand words.
Dick Kaser
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ITI Bloggers November 30th, 2006
London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel rolled out the red carpet last night for the fourth annual International Information Industry awards, hosted by Online Information 2006 and Information World Review. Congratulations to the winners:
PROJECT AWARDS
Innovation in Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management Programme, ARUP
Innovation in Content Management: Highlands and Islands Enterprise Portal, SiteKit Solutions
Best Intranet/Extranet Project: Addenbrooks NHS eMR, Addenbrooks NHS Trust and OITUK
PRODUCT/VENDOR AWARDS
Best User Experience: TNA Global Search, The National Archives & Autonomy
FreePint Award for Best Customer Service Team: PreNax
Best Business Information Product: ISI Emerging Markets
Best STM Information Product: Springer eBooks Collection
Best Specialist Search Product: Trexy.com
Best Product for Libraries: Scholarly Stats, MPS Technologies
BEST INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE TEAM AWARDS
Best Team in Academic/Public Sectors: Business & IP Centre Team, The British Library
Best Team in a Business Environment: IoD Information & Advisory Services Team
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
CILIP/Online Information Personal Development Award: Stella Wisdom, The British Library, Boston Spa
IWR Information Professional of the Year: Rachel Kolsky, AIG
Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Eugene Garfield, Chairman Emeritus of Thomson Scientific
The awards were sponsored by IET/Inspec, American Psychological Association, Swets, ICC, Bureau van Dijk, and VeriSign. Thanks to Emma Harris for her assistance.
Barbara Brynko
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Jeff Pache, Publishing Services & Product Development Manager, for inspec (left) posed today with conference chair Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus, Ltd.
Pache says he missed a meeting in the past (but we’ll say, close enough).
When asked what the big topic of discussion was at the early conferences, Martin said it in a word, "Americans."
In the early days of online computing, they explained, it was actually illegal for users in Europe to connect their terminals over phone lines other than those owned by the national PTT authorities.
The online backbones of the day were operated by Telnet and Tymnet, which were outside the national systems. So to dial a computer in California from the UK was theoretically against the law.
They did it anyway.
Dick Kaser
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