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Draft Agenda

Macdonald Manchester Hotel & SpaLondon Road, Manchester, M1 2PG GB

8th June 2010

10.00 10.30 Arrival / RegistrationCoffee

10.30- 11.00 Welcome and Context

Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLNRachel Bruce, JISC, Acting Director e-Infrastructure

JISCs Strategic aims and activities infrastructure for content

11.00 -11.45. Opening Keynote:Dan Greenstein, Vice Provost, University of California.

An overview of trends, issues, challenges and opportunities.

Making efficient and effective use of the network and digitallibrary content within it; at local, national and global levels.

How do we meet the needs of users?

Contributing to the knowledge economy

11.45 to 12.00 Questions12.00 12.30 Set Content Free

Mike Ellis, Eduserv

What are the strategies for opening up content?

What does this allow for? For example in terms of aninnovative economy, learning, teaching and research.

12.30-12.40 Questions

12.40 13.00 Questions and Discussion

13.00 14.30 Lunch and Demos

14.00 14.15 Web Scale Making your content work in a web environment.Speaker TBC

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14.15 14.45 From Information to Knowledge

WolframAlpha (TBC)

14.45 15.15 Geo-spatial as an organising principle: the new black?An analysis of geo-spatial developments

James Reid, Business Development Manager Geo services,EDINA.

What is happening now, future trends

How you apply it? how can we overcome the barriers

How it can improve research, learning and citizenknowledge?

Value it offers?

Costs and benefits?

15.30 16.00 Semantic Web/Linked Data

Tom Heath, Talis

What is happening now, future trends

How you apply it?

How it can improve research, learning, citizen knowledge?

Value it offers?

Costs and benefits?

16.00-16.15 Questions and Discussion

16.15 16.30 Tea Coffee

16.30 17.30 Digital New Zealand making content available in alightweight and cost effective way nationally.Video Cast (TBC)

19.00 Dinner

9th June 2010

9.00-9.30 Coffee

9.30-9.35 Welcome and Introduction

Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN

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9.35 -10.05 Advanced Text Mining Tools and Resources for KnowledgeDiscovery

Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Director, NaCTeM

What is happening now, future trends

How you apply it?

How it can improve research, learning, citizen knowledge?

Value it offers?

Costs and benefits?

10.05 10.15 Questions

10.15 10.35 Working the Crowd

Chris Lintott and Arfon Smith, Galaxy Zoo

10.35 10.45 Questions10.45 11.15 Coffee

11.20 11.45 Getting your Attention

Paul Walk, Deputy Director, UKOLN.

11.45 -12.30 can thenmake this longer so it is20 mins?

Questions and Discussion

12.30 14.00 Lunch and Demos

14.00 15.00 Breakout Groups

1. Web scale- crowd

2. Linked Data/Semantic Web

3. Geo-spatial

4. Information to knowledge / Text-mining

5. Attention data/working the crowd6. Multi-media

What actions do we need to take to make our content intelligent?(short term, medium term and long term)

15.00 15.15 Coffee

15.15 15.50 Feedback: Key points from each group.

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15.50 16.15 Way Forward and Next Steps discussion

Rachel Bruce, JISC, Acting Director e-Infrastructure

Paul Walk?, Deputy Director, UKOLN

16.15 Close

* Please note that this is a draft agenda and will be subject to some change before theevent.