IC-ININFO 2011: International Conference on Integrated Information

IC-ININFO-2011 is an international interdisciplinary conference covering research and development in the field of information management and integration. Furthermore, IC-ININFO-2011 aims to bring together scientists, engineers and product designers in order to fill the gap between research and development.

The conference will be held from 29 September to 3 October on the Greek island of KOS. Sessions will include:

• 4th Symposium on Business and Management and Dynamic Simulation Models supporting management strategies
• Information content preservation as outcome of Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Ethics, Methodology and Tools
• Graph Motifs in Information Networks
• Artists’ Responses to the Museum after 1900 and the Writing of Art History
• Contemporary issues in Management: Organisational Behaviour, Information Technology, Education & Hospital leadership
• Electronic Publishing: A developing landscape
• Open access repositories: self-archiving, metadata, content policies, usage
• Evidence-Based Information in Clinical Practice
• Information and Knowledge Management
• 2nd AMICUS Workshop: "Motifs in Cultural and Scientific Narratives"
• Symposium on Advances Information for Strategic Management
• Symposium on Business Management and Communication Strategies supporting Decision Making Process in Tourism Sector
• Information History: Perspectives, methods and current topics
• Divergence and convergence: information work in digital cultural memory institutions

Co-organisers of the last-mentioned session, Dr. Susan Myburgh (University of South Australia) and Dr Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma), have issued a Call for Papers (6 August 2011) with a deadline of 7 September. Authors of accepted papers do not necessarily have to travel to KOS.

Further information...

(Via Conrad Taylor and the KIDMM list)

Recordings & presentations available "Recording the Living World" (ISKO UK Event)

Slides and mp3 recordings of two talks from the ISKO March event Recording the Living World - available from the event website.

• Diane Tough "Collection description at the Natural History Museum "
• Graham Higley "Encyclopedia of Life"

ISKO UK event "Recording the Living World"

30 March 2010 - 15.30-19.00

VENUE: University College London, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE

FEE: £5 (ISKO members and students FREE)

Creepy-crawlies, mammoths and lotus blossom, all have a place at the Natural History Museum. Today the data painstakingly collected over centuries by naturalists and other scientists are being liberated from their institutional archives, made available in rejuvenated catalogues
and published on the Web.

Diane Tough & Rita Dockery will talk about recent developments in the methods of collection description at the Museum whose library is one of the foremost resources for researchers in molecular biology, biodiversity, systematics, taxonomy, and the history of science, and consists of over one million books and half a million artworks.

Graham Higley will tell us about the Encyclopaedia of Life - an ambitious project that aims to build an online resource in which every species on earth will have its own web page. This international enterprise consists of five major projects: the Species Pages Group, the Biodiversity Informatics Group, the Scanning and Digitization Group, the Learning and Education Group, and the Biodiversity Synthesis Group. Together they are creating an unparalleled resource for the life sciences that covers every aspect of the study, research, recording and documentation of
living creatures.

This ISKO UK Seminar is organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies.

To read more and to book your place go to the event page.

We look forward to seeing you on 30 March!

Information work in museums - articles

A collection of articles on information work and research in museums and implications of introducing new technologies into the museum environment (2005, 2006, 2007) by Paul F. Marty are now available in dLIST open archive.