Join
us at this first ever evening meetup event to celebrate the
launch of Facet Publishing's new "A Handbook for Corporate
Information Professionals". It gives a cutting-edge overview of
the issues and opportunities for information professionals in
rapidly-changing environments, and contains contributions from a
wide range of sectors and specialisms.
The
meetup brings together the book's editor and three contributors,
who will each introduce their particular chapters, followed by
an audience Q&A and time for networking. Refreshments will
be provided courtesy of Facet Publishing, and there will be a
prize draw to win a copy of the book. This meetup is a new
format for an ISKO UK event and is a chance for attendees to
learn from their peers in a post-work, informal yet focused way.
See
the programme and register by 20th March at the ISKO UK website
http://www.iskouk.org/content/meet-findability-and-information-management-corporate-workplace
Speakers
Dr
Katharine Schopflin is
a corporate information professional with more than 15 years’
experience. She has worked in various sectors including media,
government and non-profit, in a range of knowledge and
information management and research roles. She speaks regularly
on information issues, is the editor of A Handbook for Media
Librarians (Facet Publishing, 2008), and publishes regularly in
the library and information press. She recently completed her
PhD on the nature of the encyclopaedia as a form of the book at
University College London’s Department of Information Studies.
Helen
Lippell is
an experienced data and information professional. She started
out doing text analytics at the Financial Times, and has also
delivered search and metadata projects for the BBC, Nature,
Directgov, Time Out and the Press Association. These have ranged
from delivering a customer-facing, evidence-based taxonomy to
developing the prototype of a next-generation metadata curation
and management tool. She is a regular conference speaker,
recently delivering papers at ISKO UK and DAM (Digital Asset
Management) EU, both major events in the taxonomy and media
asset management world.
James
Mullan
joined European law firm Fieldfisher in 2009 as Knowledge
Management Systems Manager. Prior to that, he was at CMS Cameron
McKenna LLP where he was an information officer based in the
Knowledge and Information Services Team. At Fieldfisher he is
responsible for the management and development of the firm’s
intranet. He is also responsible for the firm’s precedent
collection (Knowledge Bank), the Knowledge Search which uses the
Recommind MindServer product, and the development of blogs,
wikis and other social media tools. James is a regular
conference speaker and has contributed articles to a number of
legal and knowledge management journals. He maintains his own
blog (the Running Librarian) and is an active member of the
British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). In 2009
he won the WILDY-BIALL Librarian of the Year award.
Danny
Budzak has
been working with digital technologies for over 30 years, in
fact, from the days when they were described as ‘new’. He
started by building community information databases in libraries
using Videotext running on Unix. This was obliterated by the
world wide web, but it taught him how to organize information
and that technologies do not necessarily improve in a linear
way. He smartly adapted to change and became one of the UK’s
first local authority web editors. He remains fascinated and
infuriated in equal measure with information systems and the
never-ending number of devices that can be used to access them.
He finds no purpose for smartphones and, having an encyclopaedic
knowledge of London’s pubs, has no clear idea of what other apps
might be of use. However, he is intrigued by the development of
big data, smart data and the internet of things, but wonders how
one opts out of them. In his spare time he reads a lot of books,
always paper, with hardback covers, and has recently become
involved in a project to record medieval graffiti in churches.
We hope you can join us for an informative and entertaining evening with ISKO UK
Best wishes