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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 12:59:59 -0400

The Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce the Vision
Speakers for the 2018 Annual NASIG Conference, “Transforming the
Information Community.”

Sören Auer

Sören Auer studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Dresden, Hagen
and Yekaterinburg (Russia). In 2006 he obtained his doctorate in
Computer Science from Universität Leipzig. From 2006-2008 he worked
with the database research group at the University of Pennsylvania,
USA. In 2008 he founded AKSW research group at University of Leipzig,
which he led till 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he held the chair for
Enterprise Information Systems at University of Bonn and led a
department at Fraunhofer Institute for Analysis and Information
Systems (IAIS). In 2017 he was appointed as professor for Data Science
and Digital Libraries at Leibniz University of Hannover and director
of TIB German National Library of Science and Technology. Sören has
made substantial contributions to semantic web technologies, knowledge
engineering, software engineering, usability, as well as information
systems. He received the ESWC 7-year best paper award and the
OpenCourseware Innovation award. He led several large-scale
collaborative research projects such as the European Union’s H2020
flagship project BigDataEurope. Sören is co-founder of high-impact
research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification
project DBpedia, the OpenCourseWare authoring platform SlideWiki.org
or the spatial data integration platform LinkedGeoData. He serves as
an expert for industry, the European Commission, the W3C and board
member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Lisa Macklin

Lisa Macklin, JD, MLS is the Director of Scholarly Communications
Office, Library and Information Technology Services at Emory
University. Lisa collaborated with the Library Policy Committee and
the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Open Access
Conversations at Emory. In March 2011, the Faculty Council endorsed an
Open Access Policy that led to the creation of OpenEmory, a repository
of Emory faculty-authored articles. In addition, an Open Access
Publishing Fund was launched with OpenEmory, and provides funds to
make it easier for Emory authors to publish in eligible open-access
(OA) journals and books when no alternative funding is available. Lisa
will continue working with faculty advisors as the Libraries implement
these and other OA initiatives.

Lauren Smith

Lauren Smith is the a Research Associate at the University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow. She co-founded Voices for the Library, a
UK-wide public libraries advocacy organisation, and she is involved in
the Radical Librarians Collective. Her research focuses on: political
information behaviour, political participation and citizenship;
information/news/media/digital literacy; critical approaches to
education and librarianship; social justice, access, equity and
inclusion in education and information.

The Conference will be held June 8-11, 2018 in Atlanta, GA. Please
watch the conference website for further information.
http://www.nasig.org/

NASIG is an independent organization working to advance and transform
the management of information resources. Our ultimate goal is to
facilitate and improve the distribution, acquisition, and long-term
accessibility of information resources in all formats and business
models. Visit http://www.nasig.org/ for more information.