Strategic Technology Demonstration Series
Strategic Technology Demonstration Series

SUNDAY, 3 JUNE 2007

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Title: New Enhancements to NetAdvantage
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Standard & Poor's will highlight the new features & content in NetAdvantage. This includes the new Global Information Package, which contains Global Industry Surveys, Global Reports and CSR Reports, and Comparative Company Analysis, which formats all data into Excel for easy downloading.

Speaking: Thomas Finn, Director of Product Development, Standard & Poor's

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1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Title: The Merck Index - New Edition, New Features
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Introducing the new 14th Edition of The Merck Index -- Now a complete reference set including the book and companion CD! Search the CD for names, registry numbers, properties and uses. Look to the monographs for key references and in-depth information. New supplemental tables give hard-to-find answers in one easy-to-use place. Join us to learn how to best leverage this powerful reference set in your research.

Speaking: Patricia Heckelman, Sr. Associate Editor, The Merck Index
Kristin Roman, Assistant Editor, The Merck Index

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2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Title: Integrated Collections Require Integrated Systems
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Would you like to manage electronic collections and physical collections in one place with one tool? Creative information professionals are using their integrated system to build and manage hybrid collections where books and journals happily coexist with documents, images, reviews, archival content, electronic resources, and even media. Users are comfortable and successful with a consolidated catalog and their success reinforces the library as the best source of authoritative information.

Speaking: Carol Knoblauch, Product Manager, Open Text, Inc.
Kyla Whitt, Head Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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MONDAY, 4 JUNE 2007

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Title: Turning The Pages - "Bringing our Treasures" to Life Through Technology
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Find out how we have brought some of our most valuable manuscripts to life, in a 3D environment through Turning The Pages, and how we are now helping other libraries do the same.

Speaking: Barry Smith, The British Library
Michael Stocking, Armadillo

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12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Title: Best Practices: How to Implement Audience-centric Taxonomies for the Semantic Web
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

The proliferation of information has created many challenges for today's enterprise knowledge manager. Harnessing information and business intelligence that enables collaboration and encourages audience participation - all in an efficient and timely manner is critical for a successful enterprise taxonomy strategy. How do organizations enable community defined taxonomies that support a diverse and multi-lingual user community without sacrificing governance, precision and recall? Learn best practices and discover new technologies that blend audience-centric taxonomies for the Semantic Web with global enterprise taxonomies in order to leverage the best of both worlds.

Speaking: Dave Clark, Global Taxonomy Director - Dow Jones

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2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Title: Learning to Unleash the Full Power of RSS Information Feeds
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Are you overwhelmed by unfiltered information sources? Tired of managing bookmarks and looking for a more proactive way to capture information from your favorite websites? Are you struggling to find a way to easily fulfill your end users? reporting demands? Could your organization benefit from a comprehensive, pre-filtered industry-specific RSS feed catalogue and a customized taxonomy structure?

Attend this session and learn about a new RSS news tracking service that gives you the individual production tools you need to create your own RSS catalog and turn web content into publishing reports.

Speaking: Tanya Sewell, Marketing Manager, Cipher Systems
Kathy Reese, MLS, Senior Research Analyst, Cipher Systems

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3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Title: Supercharge your Reference Desk
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Karen Muller, Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist for the American Library Association (ALA) will speak about how ALA's uses software wizards to automatically route reference questions to subject experts. Staff immediately reply using an expanding knowledge base of previous responses to similar questions. Key features where;

  • Automatic routing and delivery of questions
  • Automatic assignment of questions to subject expert teams
  • Knowledge base to recycling common answers
  • Alert and review of unanswered questions

Speaking: Karen Muller, Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist for the American Library Association (ALA)

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TUESDAY, 5 JUNE 2007

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Title: Industry Standards Made Simple: Using the Power of Web Technologies to Make Your Job Easier
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367
Learn how to use simple Web technologies to access, share, and manage industry codes and standards easily and efficiently across your entire organization.

Speaking: Andrew Bank, Director of Business Development, Thomson Scientific - Techstreet
Philip Virta, Product Manager, Thomson Scientific - Techstreet

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11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Title: Introducing the New Face of Research: ISI Web of Knowledge - Creating Innovative Research Pathways
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

ISI Web of KnowledgeSM presents a new face of research through the development of innovative research pathways. Designed to address the unique demands and research workflow needs of a diverse, global user base, it proves easy for novices to navigate, while continuing to provide an extensive array of applications seasoned users appreciate.

Speaking: Jeff Clovis, Director, Global Sales Support, Thomson Scientific
Jeff Dougherty, Manager, Strategic Global Sales Support, Thomson Scientific

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12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Title: How to Provide Knowledge Management Services Using EOS.Web Enterprise
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

Attend this informative session to learn how scalable, customizable EOS.Web can be used to improve & expand knowledge management services at your organization helping you to demonstrate your library's value. Attendees will see how easy it is to build specialized content catalogs with no programming, complete with the ability to create custom taxonomy & folksonomies for your structured & unstructured information.

Speaking: Tony Saadat, CEO, EOS International
Guy St. Clair, President, SMR International

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1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Title: Driving Stakeholder Productivity with Enterprise RSS
Location: INFO-EXPO - Booth 367

RSS has quickly emerged as the ideal vehicle for delivering higher value business information. This session will include discussions and demonstrations of how RSS works, different ways of delivering RSS content, and prevalent use cases. The speakers will also describe how to build a business case and win support for projects.

Speaking: Brian Stern, Vice President of Sales, NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
Todd Berkowitz, Director of Marketing, NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

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