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Dong-pil MIN
Professor, Seoul Nat'l University
"New
Horizon of the Academic Communication"
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Recently authors of academic institutes are required
to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in some institutes' digital
archives to make them freely available to the public. With some rules to
be respected, this open-access
policy favors the formation of the better integrated academic societies
and the personal interactions. The formation of the world knowledge
platform is quickly envisaged and will open new horizon of modern prosumer society. Some consequences
and required measures for the success are to be discussed.
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Biographical sketches of
Dong-Pil Min:
- He is a professor of physics in Seoul National University since 1980.
He got the French State Doctor degree from Universite de Paris-Sud on
theoretical nuclear physics.
- He has been the director of the Information Center for Physics Research
since 1995, an institute that is supported by the Korean government and
the Seoul National University. This institute maneuvers the Open Access
Policy in physics.
- He worked as the Secretary General of Korea Research Foundation and
participated in the governmental policy of funding the research
activities of Korea for all academic disciplines covering humanities to
sciences.
- He plays the important role in establishing the national project of
“International Science Business Belt” of the present government, which
envisages to construct the knowledge-based corridor of synergic towns in
Korea.
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Kirsi TUOMINEN Head of
Knowledge Solutions, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
"The
Finnish Innovation Environment and Future Challenges"
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The Finnish innovation environment and the
challenges of future will be discussed. VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland is taken as a case how a Finnish innovation actor is rising to the
future challenges.
- Education, science and know-how have been a conscious focus of the
industrial policy and the foundation of the Finnish economy and society
for a long time.
- The results of the policy can be seen today: the transformation from a
low-tech country to a knowledge based society.
- Investments in innovations are important, but as important is a
consistent long term focus on national facilitating conditions, as well
as operational measures to build up a well-committed, co-operative, confident
and dynamic innovation environment.
- Case: How VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is rising to the
future challenges.
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KIRSI
TUOMINEN
Head of Knowledge Solutions
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Vuorimiehentie 5, Espoo
P.O. Box 1000
02044 VTT
Phone +358 20 722 4370
GSM +358 40 741 9003
Fax +358 20 722 4374
Email kirsi.tuominen@vtt.fi
STUDIES
- Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Helsinki University of
Technology, 1981
- Information Specialist, Helsinki University of Technology, 1982
- KATE ´87, International Business and Technology, Helsinki University of
Technology, 1987
- International Business, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995
- MBA, Helsinki University of Technology, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- VTT, Knowledge Solutions, Espoo
- Head of IKnowledge Solutions 2003-
- Foundation of Finnish Inventions, Espoo
- Representative in Brussels, Belgium 1999-2000
- National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes, Helsinki Leave of absence
1999 - 2003 (Belgium)
- Planning Manager (Administrative Unit) 1995-1997, Head of Unit
(International Technology Transfer) 1998-1999
Finland Technology Center (affiliated with Tekes), Boston, MA, USA
Manager 1994-1995
National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes, Helsinki
Senior Technical Advisor 1985 (Industrial Attaches), Head of Unit
1985-1989 (Industrial Attaches), Deputy Director (Company Service
Department) 1989-1993
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Embassy of Finland, London, Great Britain
Assistant Scientific Attache 1983-1984
Teknos-Maalit Oy, Helsinki
Trainee, Research Engineer, Information Specialist 1979-1982, 1984-1985
POSITIONS OF TRUST
- The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK, Elected Council
1991-1993, 1996-1999, Board 1991-1993, 1996-1999, Committee for International
Affairs 1987-1991, Vice Chairman 1989-1991
- Finnish Foreign Trade Association, Board of Commercial Attaches
1987-1991
- Committee for Commercial Attaches and Industrial Attaches 1988-1989
- VTT Information Service, Advisory Board 1989-1991
- Finnish Information Specialists, Board 2004- 2007
- EUSIDIC (the European Association of Information Services), Council
2005-
-ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information),
Executive Board, representing VTT 2007-
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Finnish (native)
- Swedish (well)
- English (fluent)
- German (well)
- French (fair)
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Young-Mee CHUNG
Professor, Yonsei University
"Enhancing
the Use of National Scientific Information through Scholarly
Communication
on the Web "
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Scholarly communication on the Web has been one of
the major research topics in recent years. This research explores the
communication characteristics of scientific knowledge in a national
scholarly Web space comprising top ranking universities and government
supported research institutions in South Korea. Communication activity of
individual sites is measured by several webometric indicators such as
page and link counts, WIF, and WUF. Research results show that there are
institutional differences in scholarly communication activity on the Web
among the academic/research institutions and significant differences in
communication pattern among the three subspaces. In order to enhance
scholarly communication among the research performing institutions, more
active construction as well as maintenance of their Web sites is
required.
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Professor
Young-Mee Chung, Ph.D., has been teaching at the Dept. of Library and
Information Science, Yonsei University in Korea since 1977. She earned
her Master's as well as Doctoral degree in information science from the
Case Western Reserve University in the United States. She served as the
Director of the Main Library of Yonsei University from 1998 to 2002 and
implemented a state-of-the-art digital library upgrading the level of Korean
digital libraries. She also served as the president of the Korean Society
for Information Management from 1998 to 1999. Professor Chung has been
playing the role of a pioneer in the information science education in
Korea by publishing many significant research articles and books in the
areas of information retrieval, digital libraries, and informetrics.
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Richard
Boulderstone Senior Director, British Library
"Information
Service Strategy for STM Researchers in the Web Age"
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The British Library has an
increasing number of visitors and researchers using its facilities,
products and services which are increasingly accessed digitally.
Support for UK scientific research is a continuing strategic objective
for the Library.
Researcher's needs, as well as the ways that they access and use
information, are changing primarily driven by digital technology.
The British Library has an extensive Science collection and is a key part
of the Scientific infrastructure.
British Library projects with external partners are exploring new ways to
support research.
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Richard Boulderstone
joined the British Library as Director of e-Strategy in July 2002.
Formerly a CTO and Product Development Director at a number of
international information providers, he has led the creation of many
information based products both in the USA and UK. Between 1984 and 1993
he worked at Knight-Ridder Financial where he was Senior Vice President
responsible for Technology. Subsequently he worked at Dialog, Reed
Elsevier plc and Thomson Financial before spending two years as Senior
Vice President Engineering at Looksmart Ltd, the world's largest search
and web directory business.
Richard is currently
leading the British Library's efforts to create a large-scale digital
object management system that will become the primary repository for the
Library's, and hence the UK's, legal deposit collection of electronic
resources.
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Robert L. Jay
Jordan President and CEO, OCLC
"The
Role of the Library in Scholarly Communication in the Web Age"
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The author discusses current trends that are
affecting digital libraries and scholarly communication and how libraries
are responding to these trends. OCLC initiatives and programs with
academic/research libraries are described.
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• President and Chief Executive Officer
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center
• Dublin, Ohio
• Jay Jordan became
the fourth president in OCLC's 41-year history in May 1998. He came to
OCLC after a 24-year career with Information Handling Services, an
international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key
positions in top management, including president of IHS Engineering.
• Jay graduated from
Colgate University in 1965 with a B.A. in English literature and served
as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. He has spent more than seven years
living and working outside the United States.
• Jay has overseen a
period of remarkable growth for OCLC. Since 1998, the number of libraries
participating in the OCLC cooperative has grown from 30,000 to more than
60,000. The number of participating institutions outside the U.S. has
increased from 3,200 in 64 countries to 11,900 in 111 countries.
WorldCat, the OCLC bibliographic database, has grown from 38 million
records to more than 100 million, and the number of library location
listings attached to those records has increased from 668 million to 1.2
billion.
• Under Jay's
leadership, OCLC has built a new technological platform, introduced new
services, created a library advocacy program, and introduced new
initiatives to make library holdings and libraries more visible on the
open Web.
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Helle LAURIDSEN
Product Manager, ProQuest
"Trends in Secondary Publishing"
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For a long time indexing of defined text fields in
academic articles have been the recognized way of managing the ever
increasing amount of scientific information. Only very few, clearly
defined subject areas, have indexed anything but text based information.
Machine indexing can handle large amount of text data cheaply, and large
free search engines such as Google Scholar and Academic Live can retrieve
vast amounts of information very quickly.
But even with so much information freely available, there is still a need
for in depth searching into research articles and data. Because: is “vast
amounts” really always desirable? Is it not better to be able to drill
down to the information quickly and painlessly (i.e. without too many
clicks) get to the relevant
full text article?
The success of Elseviers recently launched Scopus and the continuing
well-being of ISI's Web of Science and of many other bibliographic
databases proves that even purely text based searches in well structured
carefully indexed databases are necessary for the serious researcher to
find not just “something” about a subject, but “everything” about it - in
order not to spend countless hours in the laboratory finding something
which has already been found. The newly developed method of indexing
images, graphs, tables and illustration will bring enable researchers to
search directly into the illustrations of an article, focusing on the
data and not the theory.
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- Graduate from Royal
Danish School of Librarianship 1981. Librarian Department of Chemistry,
University of Aarhus, Denmark from 1983-2000, focus Online searching, the
development of online resources, journal management and investigation of
the first online journals.
- From 2000-2005 Head of Serials and Online resources of the State and
University Library in Denmark. Facilitating the move from print to online
of all resources from bibliographies to e-journals and e-books as well as
enhancing user access to these resources.
- 2006-2007 Technology Manager for CSA now Proquest - working with
library adaptation of online management resources, usability of online
products, development of CSA Illustrata and library consultant and
speaker at numerous national as well as international conferences.
- From 2008 Product Manager for CSA Illustrata, working internationally
with developers, publishers and libraries.
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Choonshil LEE
Professor, Sookmyung Women's Univercity
"Globalization of Korean Medical Journals"
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Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors
(KAMJE)'s efforts over the last 12 years for the globalization of Korean
medical journal information are introduced. Three major medical databases
developed and operated by KAMJE are currently in service. KoreaMed (http://koreamed.org), an
abstract database of Korean medical journal articles began operation in
1997. KoMCI (http://komci.org)
are composed of two databases: KoMCI Web provides the citing and cited
information among Korean medical journal articles, and KoMCI Journal Web
provides the annual citation analysis data of Korean medical journals.
Synapse (http://synapse.koreamed.org)
which began service in November 2007 is a digital archive and reference
linking platform of Korean medical journals. All information in the
databases is in English and freely available. The databases use the
international standards such as NLM Journal Publishing XML DTD and DOI,
and allow robots of major search engines including Googlebots. The
intention is to provide the “language, log-in, and technological”
barrier-free access to Korean medical journals to facilitate a wider
dissemination and hence a greater international visibility of Korean
medical journal information.
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She is a Professor of
Library & Information Science at Sookmyung Women's University in
Korea. She served as the Director of the University Library from
2004-2006. She graduated from Yonsei University with a B.A. and the
University of Chicago with a M.A. and Ph.D. in Library & Information Science.
As an active member of
Information Management Committee of the Korean Association of Medical
Journal Editors (KAMJE), she has been a key figure in the creation,
development and operation of three major medical databases of Korean
medical journals: KoreaMed (http://koreamed.org),
KoMCI (http://komci.org)
and Synapse (http://synapse.koreamed.org).
She is an executive board
member of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (http://jkms.org) published by Korean Academy of
Medical Science and an editor of the Journal of Information Management
published by KISTI.
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Inseok SONG Project
Manager, KISTI
"R&D Navigator : National Technical Information
System"
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NTIS, National Technical Information Service, is a
mid-term project driven by Korean Government to build a information and
service portal which harvests R&D information from 11 major funding
agencies representing for each belonging ministry and combines into
structured and value-added information to share. The main goal of NTIS is
to provide to the stakeholders with high qualitative and comprehensive
R&D information infrastructure in order to support decision-making
for efficient R&D management and to improve national R&D
productivity. A standardized data model which covers R&D business
activities like policy making, process management, result evaluation etc
is introduced based on the agreement of participating different
institutes and organizations. Various types of R&D information are
interlinked based on the R&D business logic so that all the
stakeholders can navigate NTIS to search necessary information required
for their R&D activities.
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Inseok SONG Project
Manager, KISTI
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Toshiro MINAMI
Professor, KIIS
"Library as Partner of Research"
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Due to popularization of the Internet, people's need
to information resources has changed. As a consequence their requirements
to libraries has also changed. Consideeing such changes, terms many
libraries have started providing new services under the term like
"library 2.0" and "u(ubiquitous)-library."
In this presentation we will strat with reviewing the library's mission
and its services provided so far, followed with introducing some cases
for on-going and planned library services by the Kyushu University
Library, which I am involved in as a researcher, and by other libraries.
Lastly, we will discuss some other services such as high level researh
assistant and library marketing as important services in the next
generation libraries.
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Professor Toshiro Minami
is working for Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences in Japan. He is
working also for Kyushu University Library as research fellow. (He
learned electronics as an undergraduate student, then studied mathematics
and computer science as a graduate student. He involved in artificial
intelligence for the fifth generation computer project organized by
Japanese government in 1980s. In 1990s his major research topic was
software agent system.) Since 1999 his major research topic has been
digital library including application of RFID technology to library.
* Please
eliminate the parenthesized part if this introduction is too long.
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Rudzhero
GILYAREVSKIY Professor, VINITI
"Integration of Knowledge Systems"
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Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) include all types of schemes
for organizing information and promoting knowledge management, such as
classification schemes, subject headings, authority files, and
less-traditional schemes, such as semantic networks and ontologies.
We use in VINITI the Rubricator, which is a classification scheme for
organizing our abstract journal Referativniy
Zhurnal, and Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) for
identification of the abstracts themselves. The rubricator is the special
organized hierarchical classification, intended for arrangement of the
current publications in abstract journals or in systems of information
service. Special researches have shown that the rubricator is the best
means for information navigation, i.e. for search in various KOS of the information necessary
for experts.
VINITI (created in Russian Academy of Sciences in
1952) is a largest abstract center (about 1 million abstracts a year
selected from 5 thousand scientific journals). It serves as the center of
navigation for scientific institutes, universities and experts of all
fields of knowledge. The data necessary for them contains not only in
books and journals, but also in databases (DB) of the most different
forms of knowledge organization. Our task consists in to make the Rubricator an instrument for
information search in a DB of various KOS.
A special computer programs are created in VINITI
for this purpose to display various KOS
in Rubricator, i.e. to
establish correspondence between divisions and/or headings of these KOS and headings of the Rubricator corresponding to them.
Certainly, this equivalence cannot be full and unequivocal, but it allows
carrying out search not only in abstract journals, but also in others KOS.
Now such correspondence is
established between Rubricator
and other hierarchical classifications: UDC, the International Patent
Classification, and the Russian Nomenclature of specialties of science
officers, and also the headings of the Mathematics Subject
Classification, rubricators of such abstract services, as Chemical
Abstract Service, Library and Information Science Abstracts. We understand
that it is the first step in integration of KOS. Further it is supposed to cover the largest
abstract services on all branches of science and engineering.
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Rudzhero
Gilyarevskiy, born 1929 in Moscow.
Master in Spanish Literature of the Moscow State University (1953), PhD
in Library Science of the Moscow State Institute of Culture (1958), and
ScD in Information Science of the All-Russian Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information (VINITI) in 1989. Since 1966 till now works in
VINITI now as Head of Information Science Dep't. In 1990 became Professor
of the Journalistic Dep't of the Moscow State University where is still
teaching.
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Walter WARNICK Director,
OSTI
"WorldWideScience.org: Accelerating Global Scientific
Discovery"
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WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway
designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating
the sharing of scientific knowledge. Through a multilateral partnership,
WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with internet access to launch a
single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals in 44
countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and nearly
half of the world's population. From a user's perspective,
WorldWideScience.org makes the databases act as if they were a unified
whole.
First envisioned by a member of the International
Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) in 2006, the
concept was formalized in January 2007 when the British Library and the
United States Department of Energy signed a Statement of Intent to
partner in the development of a Global Science Gateway. Later officially
named “WorldWideScience.org,” the gateway was developed by the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information and
unveiled to ICSTI members and the public at the June 2007 ICSTI meeting
in Nancy, France.
During the past year, WorldWideScience.org has
transitioned from bilateral management to a multilateral governance
structure, called the WorldWideScience Alliance. The first meeting of the
Alliance is being held at this conference, and founding members will be
participating in a ceremony to officially launch the Alliance. The
Alliance welcomes new members, and other organizations are invited to
join.
Since its release a year ago, WorldWideScience.org
has more than doubled the number of data sources searched and quadrupled
the number of countries participating as information providers.
WorldWideScience.org implements federated searching to provide its
encompassing coverage of global science and research results. Federated
searching technology allows the information patron to search multiple
data sources with a single query in real time. It provides simultaneous
access to deep web scientific databases, which are typically not
searchable by commercial search engines.
WorldWideScience.org is well timed to other trends
in global scientific communication. National research organizations
recognize the importance of increasing the visibility of their R&D
outputs, even in very small countries. At the same time, full-text
information accessibility has increased. Through the innovative
combinations of federated search and other technologies, scientists and
citizens throughout the world now have unprecedented access to scientific
knowledge.
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Walter L.Warnick, Ph. D.,
Director, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (Operating Agent for WorldWideScience.org)
As Director of the U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
(OSTI), Dr. Warnick directs the agency's scientific and technical
information operations. He embraces the opportunities offered by the Web
to accelerate the spread of knowledge about science and technology. By
accelerating the spread of knowledge, OSTI helps to accelerate science
itself. To this end, he has championed aggressive efforts to capitalize
on technological advances to develop and provide state-of-the art
products and services for sharing knowledge. Dr. Warnick and his
colleagues work to further advance Web search technology.
Dr.
Warnick was elected Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005 “for leadership in the federal
scientific information community and for contributions to the
conceptualization, development and implementation of innovative programs
that significantly advance access to government information." He
achieved his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of Maryland and his Bachelor of Engineering Science from The Johns Hopkins
University.
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Kum Won CHO Team
leader, KISTI
"Scientific Data Mangement on Global e-Science
Environment"
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Most research activities related to e-Science in
many countries often include massive, computationally expensive and data
intensive processes in astrophysics, particle physics, biology,
chemistry, engineering application, environmental engineering and medical
science.
Korea national e-Science project is started in 2005, by the support from
Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(MEST). Currently,
problem solving environments, are being constructed in five application
areas(remote imaging service of an electron microscope, climate
information system, molecular simulation, bioinformatics and virtual wind
tunnel). Each application will be developed using common application
support software(data management, visualization and etc) and
infrastructures that was built by the KISTI.
In this presentation, the current status and activities of the e-Science
in Korea are introduced. Specially, the scientific data management
system(AMGA) on scientific applications(Biomedical, engineering and etc)
is describe. AMGA (ARDA Metadata Grid Application) is a metadata
catalogue service which offers access to metadata for files stored on the
Grid. We evaluated the performance of AMGA to analyze whether it is
suitable to store metadata describing docking results and the status of
jobs with WISDOM experiment. In the final section, we summarize
international collaboration works such as USA, EU, UK and Asia-Pacific.
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Team leader of e-Science
Applcations and technology development
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Alex Wade Senior
Research Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.
Lee-Ann Coleman head of STM team, BL
"The Research Information Centre - a virtual research
environment for scientists"
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In this talk, we introduce the Research Information
Centre (RIC), a virtual research
environment being developed jointly by the Technical
Computing Group at Microsoft and The British Library. We view researchers
as extreme information workers who
need to find, organise, and extract information from a wide variety of
sources and share it with a range of collaborators and colleagues.The RIC
has been designed to support researchers in managing the increasingly
complex range of tasks involved in carrying out their work during the
entire lifecycle of a project. Our first implementation of the RIC is
focused on the biomedical researcher, leveraging commercial off-the-shelf
software where possible, and focussing on resources of value to this
group. We have worked closely with the biomedical research community
during the development of the RIC and will present the results of beta
testing the product on a group of laboratory-based researchers.
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Alex Wade is Senior Research Program Manager for Scholarly
Communications for the Technical Computing Initiative within Microsoft
Research, where he manages a variety of research programs related to open
access to research data, interoperability of archives and repositories, and
the preservation of digital information. Alex holds a Masters of
Librarianship degree from the University of Washington.
During his career at
Microsoft, Alex has lead the Knowledge Access team - responsible for
intranet-wide hosted search and taxonomy management services, as well as
the business information and corporate intranet portals, has delivered a
SharePoint-based document and workflow management solution for
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; and, most recently, served as Senior Program
Manager for Windows Desktop Search and the integrated Instant Search
functionality in Windows Vista.
Webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/science
Lee-Ann Coleman
trained as a neuroscientist, completing her PhD at the University of
Western Australia, where she studied the development of the visual
system. Further research was undertaken during postdoctoral positions in
the United States and at Oxford. She started a career in research
administration with a move to the UK Medical Research Council, where she
was responsible for the neuroscience grants committee, and then returned
to the higher education sector where she became the Director of
Scientific Administration at King's College London. A move to the charity
sector, as Head of Policy at the Association of Medical Research
Charities, led to greater involvement in the issues affecting charitable
funders and she worked with medical charities to devise policies on peer
review, grant administration, interaction with industry and dissemination
of scientific publications.
Lee-Ann joined the Library
in 2007 and began to build the Science, Technology and Medicine team to
complement existing staff skills. The team will be responsible for taking
forward a strategy based on closer involvement with science researchers
and a more complete understanding of the research environment.
Webpage: http://www.bl.uk/science
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Peter STOEHR Head of
Literature Service, EBI
"Connecting Biomolecular Databases and the Literature"
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There are many successful efforts to curate
biological databases which underpin modern biology. However, much
important descriptive annotation remains solely in the free text of the
scientific literature. Text-mining techniques have been applied to the
biomedical literature in recent years to extract biological terms,
entities and 'facts', although primarily based on MEDLINE abstracts. This
is an very active research field, and the increasing availability of
full-text for computational access is opening the door for greater
integration of literature with curated biological databases. EBI is
contributing to these developments, and implementing solutions in reliable
public services.
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Peter Stoehr is Head of
Literature services at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
He graduated in Botany/Zoology at Nottingham University, followed by a
Masters in Applied Genetics at
Birmingham. Several years as a statistician and programmer at Newcastle
University Agriculture Department, Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge,
and the AFRC Computing Centre in Harpenden. He joined EMBL in Heidelberg
in 1988 as an analyst/programmer to develop the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence
Database. He has been an integral part of the establishment and
development of the EBI in Hinxton UK since 1994, principally within in
the Sequence Database, External Services and IT service activities. He
now leads a new group focussed on providing services absd on the
integration of scientific literature with the
underlying biological databases.
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Hyung-Seon Park Project
Manager, KISTI
"Biological Diversity Information Flow in KBIF"
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The Biodiversity and Ecosystems information domain
is vast, complex, and critically important to society. Most existing
information, however, is not yet dynamically accessible and therefore not
fully useful. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an
international scientific co-operative project based on a multilateral
agreement (MoU) between 50 countries and 38 international organizations.
GBIF Data Portal (http://data.gbif.org) serves 145 million biodiversity
records of the world through GBIF network at present, and is expected to serve
1 billion records within couple of coming years. Stable and fast access
to this data service should be assured to researcher, policy-maker, and
general public in global, therefore, GBIF established Data Portal mirror
sites on 3 continents: American region by NBII, the U.S. node for GBIF,
European region by BGBM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany and Asian region by
KISTI, Daejeon, Korea. Korean GBIF Node, Korean Biodiversity Information
Facility (KBIF), is hosting GBIF Data Portal and this mirror site has
securing the system and performing seamless data service all around the
world. Recently, New GBIF Data Portal has opened by fully functional,
providing access to the types of data which are already being shared
through the GBIF Network: Taxonomic names and Specimens and Observations,
and it has enhanced with Georeferencing data.
KBIF (http://www.kbif.re.kr) has established in
early 2003 and has being performed its activity since with support of
government ministry of education, science and technology (MEST). KBIF does
actively participate and communicate through GBIF network and now
contribute the data case of nearly 1.6million records which devoted by 14
data providers (institutions) sharing to GBIF Data Portal and its total
record ranked at 17th amongst GBIF participant at present (April. 2008).
The missions in KBIF are to establish a Korean data network in order to
make national biodiversity data to be used freely and universally through
internet, and importantly to represent Korea in GBIF Network. Also it is
included that to establish the information infrastructure for
facilitating the usage of data, it leads to serve as the gateway from the
data providers to the network, both technologically and organizationally.
Main activities are to support research and implement on data exchange
standards and protocols, so the national biodiversity information
management system is evidently required. KBIF operates KBIF national
biodiversity data portal system (NABIPOS) and KBIF national biodiversity
data repository (KDR). It also includes that to become a liaison between
the national actors and data holders, and to provide technical assistance
to other data providers in order to ease data sharing and work more
efficiently, and to carry out training or mentoring activities, particularly,
organize serious of training workshop and promote 'Becoming a GBIF Data
Provider'. In this short communication, the activity, mission, role,
operations of data node and achievements of the KBIF, and the flow of
biodiversity data in Korea national biodiversity information network will
be delivered and discussed.
ICSTI Public Conference, 11th of June, 2008, COEX,
Korea.
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Hyung-Seon (Howard) PARK,
Ph.D
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Daejeon,
Korea.
KBIF national node manager for GBIF.
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Oliver Pesch Chief
Strategist, EBSCO
"SUSHI: A beginner's guide to NISO'S Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting Initiative"
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With the growing importance of online information
comes the need for accurate measurement of its usage. And, associated
with the distributed nature of the content being accessed, is the need
for simple ways of gathering the usage data. This session will examine
two standards efforts: the COUNTER guidelines, which enable content
providers to supply consistent, credible and comparable usage data; and,
SUSHI, which automates the retrieval of that usage data. Attendees of
this session will come away with an appreciation of how these standards
work together and the benefits they bring to both publishers and
libraries.
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Oliver Pesch works as
chief strategist for EBSCO Information Services in Birmingham Ala where
he helps set direction for EBSCO's e-resource access and management
services initiatives. Oliver has over 25 years experience in designing
and developing automated solutions for librarians. Oliver is a strong
supporter of standards - currently he serves on the NISO board of
directors and the Executive Committee for Project COUNTER as well as
frequently speaking and writing on topics such as standards, usage
statistics, OpenURL and e-resource management. Oliver also writes a
regular column, “Spotlight on standards”, for Serials Librarian.
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Jiachang CHEN Deputy
Director, ISTIC
"S&T information service and support system in
China"
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1. Background
The development of information society in China
2. STI service and support system
- Scientific literature
- Scientific data
- Natural science and technology resources
- Large-scale scientific instrument
- Consulting services for Decision-making
3. Conclusions
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Jiachang
CHEN Deputy Director, ISTIC
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Yukiko SONE Director,
Department of literature of information, Japan Science and Technology
"Access to and Dissemination of STI in Japan"
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The role of S&T in Japan has become increasingly
crucial to boost its economy and to pursue sustainable development at the
same time as the nation faces a declining population with a shrinking
younger generation and global R&D competition.
As Japan is ranked second in scientific paper production, access to and
provision of STI (scientific and technical information) constitutes a
very important priority in R&D infrastructure.In the presentation, an
overview of current national S&T polices now with more emphasis on innovation
is described followed by some bibliometric statistics of Japan's S＆T papers.
Current status of Japan's e-journals and journal archiving projects along
with OA(Open Access) and new movement of institutional repositories are
introduced. In addition, recent trend of legacy A&I information
service such as bibliometric analysis and visualization is introduced
along with associative searching functionality and a comprehensive
dictionary of author affiliation, author, terminology and other information.
Further, major STI organizations and their roles and products are
explained briefly and new services made available by cooperation of
plural STI organizations are also introduced. The final summary deals
with future and emerging moves in STI and international collaboration.
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Director
Japan Science and Technology Agency
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Tae-Sul SEO Senior
Researcher, KISTI
"Innovation of S&T Information Services in Korea"
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KISTI was founded as a national S&T information
center named KORSTIC in early 1960's. While going through several
unifications with and saparations from different organizations, KISTI's
S&T information services have been changed. At the end of the first
decade of 21st century, KISTI is facing new challenges. To cope with these
challenges KISTI has performed a project since last year. In the project
some new approaches were adopted such as linking between information
objects, One Source Multi-Platform policy, globalization of Korea STI,
collaboration with other providers,Web 2.0 paradigm and so on.In this
presentation the new concepts of S&T information services of KISTI
will be introduced.
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He has been worked for
KISTI since 1986 and is a senior researcher as of now. He has been
involved in standardization and construction of bibliographic databases
in KISTI. Now he is in charge of the KoreaScience, which is the gateway
to Korea S&T information for the world. He also serve as a member of
Data Management and Interchange Committee(SC32) and the chair of Metadata
Crosswalk Forum in Korea.
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In Soo KO Senior
Adviser, PAL
"Scientific Data Management at Pohang Light Source"
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Pohang Light Source (PLS) is the largest research
facility in Korea covering broad range of research areas from basic
science to biomedical and engineering applications. The PLS consists of
two major accelerators - 2.5 GeV electron linac and 2.5 GeV synchrotron
called the storage ring, and 27 beamlines. The 160m-long linac generates
a series of electron bunches and accelerates them to 2.5 GeV. The storage
ring of 280m-circumference captures these electrons and maintains their
orbit within a few microns in the transversal direction. When the
accelerated electrons enter the strong magnetic fields produced by
electromagnets or a series of permanent magnets called undulators or
wigglers, the electron loses a fraction of their energy. This lost energy
becomes a strong synchrotron radiation in tangential direction, which
covers wide range of spectrum from visible light up to strong X-rays.
There are two major research applications: using X-rays to study inner
property of various materials and using vacuum ultraviolet light to study
the characteristics of various surfaces and interfaces. There are more
than 2,000 users in each year and they are carrying out more than 700
different experiments by using 27 beamlines. In order to operate PLS
properly and to support various users, the PLS control system has a large
sets of databases. Since the information of the beam orbit is very
important, all settings of magnet power supplies (about 400 units) and
all readings of various diagnostic monitors including 108 beam position
monitors are recorded. Moreover, since we have adapted orbit feedback and
feed-forward systems, every correction in every 2 seconds (0.5 Hz) is
continuously recorded and later retrieved to analyze some peculiar
behaviors of the orbit. Fastest data handling is done by the longitudinal
feedback system. The energy offset of each electron bunch (e.g. total 300
bunches in typical run) is measured and corrected if necessary by
accelerating or decelerating the particular electron bunch within 7
micro-second. The data size of PLS is an order of 3 GB, which is not big.
However, this data must be taken in realtime and used as an input to
various feedback systems. This makes PLS data system unique.
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Professor, Department of
Physics and
Senior Adviser, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
Pohang University of Science and technology (POSTECH)
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Sang-Ho LEE Project
Manager, KISTI
"Factual Databases Developed in KISTI"
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KISTI in Korea started to develop the factual
database since 2000. The strategy of developing the factual database is
focused on the cooperation with research institute because the persistent
data updating activity is considered to be most important in developing
the factual database. During nearly 8 years, 5 factual databases is
developed by cooperating with corresponding research institute. These
databases are plasma property, chemicals, Korean human information, Korean
traditional knowledge such as Korean traditional medical/foods and
inorganic crystal structure. The new data is updating regularly per year
and the gate website of these databases is http://fact.kisti.re.kr that is
written in Korean. The Korean traditional knowledge database has also
English version. In this lecture, we will introduce these factual
databases mainly focused on the main contents and in case of Korean human
information, the data production procedure is also described.
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He graduated the Chungbuk
National University in 1982 and got the master degree of industrial
chemistry in 1984. During the 1989-1993, he took the full-scholarship
from the Japan government and got the Doctor degree of polymer
engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1993.
He has been working at
KISTI from 1983 to present. Until 2000, his major works is searching the
technical information from foreign databank, writing the technical report
and analyzing the patent information. From 2001, he started to develop
the factual database in KISTI and now is working at the building of
several factual databases such as chemicals, digital human information,
plasma property and so on. Recently, he started to collect the Korean traditional
knowledge such as Korean oriental medicine, related Korean scholarly
journals and Korean food data that is supported by Korean Intellectual
Property Office.
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Jan BRASE Project
Manager, TIB
"DOI registration for Scientific Primary Data"
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Knowledge, as published through scientific
literature, is the last step in a process originating from primary
scientific data. /These data are analysed, synthesised, interpreted, and
the outcome of this process is published as a scientific article.
Only a very small proportion of the original data are published in
conventional scientific
journals. Existing policies on data archiving notwithstanding, in today's
practice data are primarily stored in private files, not in secure
institutional repositories, and effectively are lost. This lack of access
to scientific data is an obstacle to interdisciplinary and international
research. It causes unnecessary duplication of research efforts, and the
verification of results becomes difficult, if not impossible (Dittert,
Diepenbroek & Grobe, 2001). Large amounts of research funds are spent
every year, while already existing data remain underutilised (Arzberger,
Schroeder, Beaulieu, Bowker, Casey, Laaksonen et al., 2004).
To enable citations of data that encourage good
scientific practice and acknowledgement of scientific work, the German Research Foundation (DFG)
started the project Publication and
Citation of Scientific Primary Data.
Starting with the field of earth science the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
is now established as a DOI-registration agency for scientific primary
data as a member of the International
DOI Foundation (IDF).
Primary data related to geoscientific, climate and
environmental research is stored locally at those institutions which are
responsible for its evaluation and maintenance. In addition to the local
data provision, the TIB saves the URL where the data can be accessed
including all bibliographic metadata. When data are registered, the TIB
provides a Digital Object Identifier
(DOI) as a unique identifier for content objects in the digital
environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on digital
networks. They are used to provide current information, including where
they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet.
Information about a digital object may change over time, including where
to find it, but its DOI will remain stable.
All information about the data is accessible through
the online library catalogue of the TIB.
The entries are displayed with all relevant metadata and persistent
identifiers as links to access the dataset itself.
The registration of any scientific content that is a result of community
funded research shall is a primary task for the TIB. This includes the
registration of various different content types like crystal structures,
earth samplings, 3-D models, etc.Until now (april 2008) the TIB has
registered 555,567 data sets, 6,302 radiological case studies, 1,342
technical reports and 11,312 learning objects.
At the ICSTI conference the TIB will furthermore
promote the creation of a new independent DOI registration agency open
for any information institute or library in the future.
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Jan
Brase graduated in Mathematics and has a doctoral degree in Computer
Science.
His research background is metadata, ontologies and digital libraries.
Since September 2006 he is coordinating the DOI registration agency at
the TIB.
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Haimin LEE Product
Manager , Google
"Google Scholar"
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• Name : Haimin Lee
• Affiliation :
Google Korea
• Position : Product
Manager
• A brief profile :
BS. Sogang Univ. Computer Science
MS. Sogang Univ. Computer Science
Researcher, KERIS
Ph.D. Student, University of
California, Irvine
Product Manager, Google Korea
• Talk Subject :
Google Scholar
Google's Philosophy
Mission of Google Scholar
Services of Google Scholar
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Beom-Seok SEO Division
Head, NHN
"Knowledge Search, Present and Future"
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i. Present of Knowledge Search
ii. User Behavior in Knowledge Search
iii. Change of Knowledge Search
iv. Future of Knowledge Search
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NHN
Corporation
Search Service Management Division
Head of Division
Seo Beom Seok
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