E-books and E-content
2007
University College London: 8 May
2007, 10.00 to 16.30
Putting Content in
Context
E-books have finally become accepted in many
organisations and licensed e-content is proliferating through library catalogues
and web portals. How do we exploit this growing body of quality e-content to
best effect; how do we ensure that it connects to our other offerings and
services; how do we exploit our own information assets and how can we
differentiate from Google driven web sites, often of poor quality and
potentially even misleading? Indeed, should we even be talking about e-books
when studies suggest that what comes across the Web is not seen by users as
books per se or as anything other than just "stuff"?
This one-day conference will bring together
participants from all sectors and provide presentations from the library,
publishing and systems communities to look at current practices in e-book
delivery and how they might develop in the near future. Expert speakers will
provide assessments of market trends and technologies and researchers will look
at current evaluative studies on the take up of, and user reaction to, e-books
and e-content generally.
The event, which follows similar successful
one-day events in 2001 and 2003 will be of value to:
- Librarians and information specialists in
academic and public and other libraries
- Publishers seeking to identify trends and the potential for
exploitation;
- Booksellers and content aggregators
-
Library and information system developers looking to understand how they
integrate content to best effect.
E-books and E-content
2007 will be hosted by UCL's Centre for Publishing, part of the School of
Library Archive and Information Studies.
Venues: UCL, Chadwick
Lecture Theatre and North Cloisters
Conference fee: £110.00 per
person
Rich Rosy
Vice President, Content
Management, OCLC will provide an analysis of e-content issues from library and
publisher perspectives.
Theory and
Context
E-books:
Context and Futures
Chris Becket, a publishing consultant formerly of Scholinfo.com
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http://scholinfo.com/> will discuss economic models for content delivery and likely
futures. He has considerable senior executive experience in product development,
sales and marketing for industry intermediaries, including Blackwell Information
Services, CatchWord, and Ingenta. Chris speaks extensively on issues surrounding
electronic content, intermediaries and libraries, and is a qualified medical
librarian. He is a member of UKSG, and ALPSP.
The Academic Vision: the work of the UK JISC in
promoting and developing e-book usage
Caren Milloy, the ebooks lead for
JISC, will explain the UK academic perspective on ebooks and its vision for the
future in the academic context.
E-books and E-content: linking up through technology
Leigh
Dodds is an information architect with Ingenta and has written and spoken
widely on emerging technologies and how they might affect the information
change.
The strategic ACAP project (Automated Content Access
Protocol): which provides for permissions information relating to access and
re-use of all types of web content. Mark Bide, the Director of Rightscom
and well-known in the standards arena will discuss the development of licensing
over the web.
Practice and
Research
Users and
Usage
Chris Armstrong is founder and Managing Director of Information
Automation Limited. At the point that the company was formed, he was already an
established figure in the world of library and information science research
having worked for ten years as a research officer in the College of
Librarianship Wales Chris Armstrong's research interests centre on electronic
access to information - online and CD-ROM databases and Internet resources - and
this is reflected in some of the company's major projects. He is also Vice-Chair
of the UKeIG: the UK eInformation Group.
The Superbook project:
e-book usage in practice
Dr. Ian Rowlands is Director of Research at
UCL's Centre for Publishing and published authority in trends in scholarly
publishing. He will outline the new agenda for evaluating e-content usage in
practice.
Exploiting
Public Sector Information; the experiences and ambitions of local government to
exploit their e-content
Mary Rowlatt of Essex County Council has been
heavily involved in initiatives to exploit e-content owned by the local
authority and the ramifications and legal structure surrounding that. Mary will
talk through their experiences and ambitions.
Panel
Chaired by Anthony Watkinson, UCL
Centre for
Publishing
