IFLA (1) - satellite de Florence
(source: Figoblog, 20/08/09)

IFLA (2) - La valeur des données
(source: Figoblog, 24/08/09)

IFLA (3) - Impressions du congrès
(source: Figoblog, 28/08/09)

IFLA (4) - User generated content, tagging sémantique et Web 2.0
(source: Figoblog, 09/09/09)

IFLA reports: Libraries driving access to knowledge
(source: ILW, 26/08/09)

IFLA reports: E-learning
(source: ILW, 09/09/09)

Voir aussi le site officiel

La conférence "Open Access Scholarly Publishing", qui se déroulera en Suède du 14 au 16 septembre, sera visible en webcast à l'adresse suivante, à partir du lundi 14, 12h30:

http://www.river-valley.tv/

Au sommaire, notamment, du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 15, n° 7-8, juillet-août 09):

Articles:

• Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive

"This article will discuss how to measure the accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) output in a way that is relevant to the needs of the end users of digital resources. A case study measuring the OCR accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Newspapers Database provides a clear example of the benefits to be gained from measuring not just character accuracy but also word and significant word accuracy. As OCR primarily facilitates searching, indexing and other means of structuring the user experience of online newspaper archives, measuring the word and significant word accuracy of the OCR output is very revealing of a resource's likely performance for these functions. Having such data is therefore extremely helpful for planning and quality assurance assessment. After briefly discussing the role of OCR in the text capture process and how OCR works, we give a detailed description of the methodology, statistical data gathering techniques and analysis used in this study. Our conclusions point the way forward with suggested actions to assist other mass digitization projects in applying these techniques."

• Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile

"This article is motivated by the demand for unified access to the wealth of distributed digital cultural collections, allowing users to make queries and discover information about them through integrated processes. Our effort originates from the semantic interoperability perspective and considers CIDOC/CRM as the mediating schema, which integrates in an optimal way the semantics of the collection-level metadata schemas and application profiles. The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM."

Comptes rendus de conférence:

• JCDL 2009 Workshop Report: Lightweight User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians

• Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009)

• Doing So Much More: The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09)

• ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies

La conférence m-Libraries s'est déroulée du 21 au 24 juin à Vancouver:

"This conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments."

Programme et documents disponibles sur le blog Mobile Libraries

L'International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) organise les 22 et 23 juin (à Londres) une conférence intitulée "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources".

• Voir le programme

• Voir les proceedings (pre-prints et slides) (*)

"In our networked world, enabling easy access to multiple services and resources is often reliant on a team effort involving specialists from very different backgrounds – website design, knowledge engineering, audio and video engineering, linguistics, computer science, etc. This Conference aims to bring together people from all the diverse specialisms that contribute to integrated information systems and services and everyone interested in this topic is invited to attend. It will take place on 22-23 June 2009, in London.

It is the first biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources", and is organized in cooperation with the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, University College London. Among the highlights will be keynote addresses from Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, and Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster.

Important themes running through the "Content Architecture" Conference include:

• Integration and semantic interoperability between diverse resources – text, images, audio, multimedia

• Social networking and user participation in knowledge structuring

• Image retrieval

• Information architecture, metadata and faceted frameworks"

(*) Les actes complets seront publiés dans les Aslib Proceedings

Le congrès de l'ABF (Association des Bibliothécaires de France) débute demain 11 juin: "Des Bibliothèques à vivre : Usages, Espaces, Architectures".

• Voir le programme complet

• Suivre le congrès via le blog de l'ABF

• Suivre le congrès via Twitter

• Voir aussi ce billet sur affordance.info

• Voir aussi ce billet sur Bibliobsession 2.0

• Voir aussi les actes du congrès 2008

La conférence ELAG 2009 s'est tenue en avril dernier:

"Web 2.0, social networking applications, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, facetted searching, semantic linking and digital documents are just some of the new developments that are rapidly changing the systems environment in libraries and what users expect from the systems that they use. To respond to these challenges, systems librarians and developers need to "re-tool": they need to discover and master new ways of developing and applying informatics to solve information problems. The ELAG 2009 Conference is calling for presentations on new tools including:

• innovative software, applications and environments
• emerging formats, protocols and standards or new ways of applying existing standards
• new procedures and techniques"

Programme et présentations

(source: Metalogue, 01/05/09)

La conférence WWW2009 s'est déroulée la semaine passée à Madrid. Les contributions sont accessibles ici.

Leslie Carr (aka RepositoryMan) signale dans ce billet une initiative qui certainement fera des émules: présenter les abstracts d'une conférence à venir sous forme de fichiers mp3. C'est par ici. Bon, évidemment, faut arriver à suivre...

DigitalKoans signale que les documents relatifs à l'événement qui s'est déroulé en septembre dernier - Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation - sont disponibles (source: CLIR-Council on Library and Information Resources).

- Rapport final
- Tools for thinking: ePhilology and Cyberinfrastructure
- Social Attention in the Age of the Web
- Art History and the New Media; Representation and the Production of Humanistic Knowledge
- A Whirlwind Tour of Automated Language Processing for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Information Visualization: Challenge for the Humanities