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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:08:55 -0500

NISO/NFAIS December 2 Virtual Conference: Semantic Web: What's New and Cool

Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in
webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for
participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a
conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar.

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Time: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern

Event webpage:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/sem_web/

ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Everything about information resources and tools seems to be in a
transitional state. We are building a new kind of digital information
environment, dubbed the Semantic Web. This event looks at a spectrum
of approaches adopted in developing semantically-enhanced information
resources and provides attendees with a better sense of the rate of
speed at which this community is moving to achieve the Semantic Web.

Presenters will talk about the semantic web landscape, the role linked
open data plays in this environment, and current projects underway
that demonstrate how the semantic web impacts the library and
information community, and what experts in the wider communities are
doing to achieve those goals.

CONFIRMED TOPICS & SPEAKERS

* Keynote Address: Matt Turner, Chief Technical Officer, Media and
Entertainment, MarkLogic Corporation

* International Cultural Informatics Collaborations: Crossing Borders
Without Crossing Swords -
J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

* Semantic Web, Linked Data: the Europeana case(s)- Antoine Isaac, R&D
Manager, Europeana

* Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault - Jeff Mixter, Software
Engineer, OCLC; Bruce Washburn, Software Engineer, OCLC

*  Getty Vocabularies and the Semantic Web - Joan Cobb, Principal IT
Project Manager, Information Technology Services, J. Paul Getty Trust

* Building Smarter Books in Browsers with RDFa, Schema.org, and Linked
Data: Leveraging Standards & Tools in the Creation of
Semantically-Enhanced Reading Systems - Jason A. Clark, Associate
Professor and Head of Library Informatics and Computing, Montana State
University Libraries

* Roundtable Discussion - Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 4:00
pm Eastern on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 (the day before the virtual
conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students.
All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded
version for one year.

Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants
receive access to the recorded version for one year.

Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription)
for all six of the 2015 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously
held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.)

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/sem_web/

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