Call For Posters at RDAP12 Issued

A Call for Posters at the 3rd Annual Research Data Access & Preservation Summit (RDAP12, New Orleans, LA, March 22-23) has recently been issued.  Here is a description of RDAP12, taken from its website:

The RDAP summit will explore the following topics: data management plans and policies; training data management practitioners; discovery of research data; data curation service models; sustainability of data management; and data citation.

RDAP will be highly participatory, providing ample opportunities for every attendee to get involved, e.g. “topic tables” at lunch, a “dine-around” dinner, a round of lightning talks, poster sessions, and demonstration sessions.”

RDAP12 will be held in cooperation with the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012)

The 2nd Annual ACM IHI Symposium is where the application of computer science principles, information science principles, information technology, and communication technology to healthcare will be discussed.  The 2012 conference, opening next week, will feature tracks devoted to 9 broad subject areas:

1. Information technologies for healthcare delivery and management
2. Health data acquisition, management, and visualization 
3. Healthcare knowledge management and decision support
4. Healthcare modeling and simulation
5. Data analytics, data mining, and machine learning
6. Health information system engineering
7. Health information systems
8. Healthcare communication networks and environments
9. Interactions with health information technologies

Healthcare informatics has blossomed into a large and very relevant subject in recent years; this conference will provide a good look at it.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

8th Annual Data Harmony Users Group

The 8th Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting (Albuquerque, NM, February 7-9) will help users get the most from the Data Harmony knowledge management platform.  The first day will be a training session on the 3 components of Data Harmony; the second and third days will present new features and case studies from users.

Users group meetings are specialized events and are good places to network with others interested in a subject and who have made a significant investment in a product, get training, interact with the developers, and keep updated with product advances.  This one is no exception.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

Digital Book World Opens Next Week

The Digital Book World 2012 conference opens next week in New York.  It will feature a lineup of executives and other experts in digital publishing discussing all aspects of e-books.  Even the children’s market will be looked at; a co-located all-day conference, Children’s Publishing Goes Digital will be sponsored by the Publisher’s Launch Conference. on Monday, January 23.  A panel of CEOs discussing lessons learned in digital publishing will feature the following speakers:

• David Nussbaum, Chairman and CEO, F+W Media
• John Ingram, Chairman, Ingram Content Group
• John Donatich, Director, Yale University Press
• Dominique Raccah, CEO and Publisher, Sourcebooks
• Ellen Archer, President, Hyperion

Personal Information Management Conference Preliminary Program Now Available

The preliminary program for the 2012 Personal Information Management conference (San Francisco, CA, February 23-24) is now available.

Mike Ashenfelder

The keynote speaker will be Mike Ashenfelder, from the Library of Congress; his topic is “The Library of Congress: Personal Digital Archive Advice for the General Public”.  Here is an extract from his biography:

Mike Ashenfelder joined the Library of Congress in 2002. Initially he worked for the Library’s Music Division, developing online presentations. In 2003 he began working for the Office of Strategic Initiatives, first on the Web Archiving team and then for the Communications team. He writes feature stories for digitalpreservation.gov about digital preservation leaders, institutions and developments of interest. He also produces public information videos and podcasts featuring interviews with digital preservation leaders. “

Bewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive will also make a keynote presentation entitled “A Data Archiving Service”, and Cathy Marshall from Microsoft (last year’s opening keynote speaker) will return to speak on “Ownership, aggregation and re-use of Personal Data”.

If you are interested in the currently hot topic of personal information management, this is one conference you should definitely consider attending.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor