At the same time there is an emerging need for publishers to address
the issue of how they make their content discoverable in this increasingly
digital world. Ideas and applications such as semantic enhancement, linked data,
taxonomies and recommender systems are being touted as solutions but need work
and investment to bring about. Publishers have also implemented their own
discovery systems with enhanced or domain specific functions. So what lessons
are to be learned from those providing discovery engines and what must
publishers do to ensure their content achieves both prominence and relevance in
the digital environment?
This seminar will bring together specialists in providing and
supporting discovery engines and publishers experience and guidance in
delivering content. Delegates will understand more about discovery engines, how
they are being deployed and used and how publishers are making their content
findable in these environments. Speakers have already been agreed from the
University of Huddersfield, the Publishers Licensing Society, Taylor and
Francis, the Architectural Association, OCLC, 67Bricks, Editeur
and UCL.