speakers
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Rahul Agarwalla
CEO & Co-Founder, Knimbus.com India
Topic: Libraries: The Node-Zero for Knowledge Networks
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P Anandan
Managing Director
Microsoft Research, India -
Jagdish Arora
Director
INFLIBNET Centre,
Gujarat, India -
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
Topic: OA is gaining momentum and now the question is how soon will we reach universal OA -
B S Baswan
Former Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of HRD and Chairman Delhi Library Board -
Sudha Bhattacharya
Professor, Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India -
Alejandro Bia
Professor
CIO, DEMI, Miguel Hernández University, Spain
Topic: Metaservices
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Frédéric Blin
Head
Heritage Collections and Preservation, National and University Library of Strasburg, France
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Scientific Knowledge, Public Information: Digital Libraries and Identity -
José Borbinha
Faculty
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lisbon Technical University , Portugal
Topic: Digital Preservation -
Heather Brown
Assistant Director of Paper and Books at Artlab Australia -
Raju Budhdharaja
Consultant, National Library Board, Singapore and Consultant, Contentra -
J K Chandira Deputy Director General (E), Doordarshan Kendra, Ahmedabad
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Deepa Chandra Additional Director General, Doordarshan, New Delhi
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Niladri Chatterjee Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Topic:Role of Natural Language Processing in Knowledge Management -
Subroto Chattopadhyay Chairman The Peninsula' Foundation New Delhi
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Jean-Marc Comment Head
Technology Information Unit , Swiss Federal Archives, Switzerland
Topic: Open Government Data: Swiss example of a pilot portal -
Denise Troll Covey
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Topic: Changes in Publisher Support for Open Access: Laudatory or Predatory
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Ramesh C Gaur
University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India -
Sudha Gopalakrishnan,
Executive Director, Sahapedia, New Delhi -
Dion Goh Associate Professor
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Topic: Oppurtunities and Challenges in Gamifying Mobile Information Sharing
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Namita Gupta Topic: Building Digital Repository of NSTMIS Research Publications: A Case Study
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Dinesh K. Gupta
Director (Research), Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University India
Topic: Universal principles of marketing and digital library services -
Matthias L Hemmje FTK-Forschungsinstitut für
Telekommunikation e.V
Germany -
Debal C Kar
University Librarian
Ambedkar University, Delhi, India
Topic : Digital Library of India -
H K Kaul
Director, DELNET, New Delhi -
Hildrun Kretschmer
COLLNET Coordinator & Honorary Professor Henan Normal University Xinxiang, China
Topic: Foundation and Development of the Global Interdisciplinary Research Network "COLLNET": The Leading Role of India and China -
Mangala Krishnamurthy
Associate Professor
Sarah & Eric Rodgers Library for Science & Engineering Library, University of Alabama, USA
Topic: Impact of Library instruction in E-learning platforms : Faculty-Librarian collaboration -
Anil Kumar
Librarian and Head NICMAN, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India -
Alberto Laender Professor
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Topic: Problem of Author Name Ambiguation in Digital Libraries -
Yan Quan Liu Professor
Information and Library Science Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, USA
Topic: Data Librarian, Its Education in ILS School -
Akira Maeda Professor,
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Topic: Multilingual Access to Diverse Digital Libraries and Archives: A Linked Data Approach -
Nalini Mahajan
Medical Library Director & Web Master
Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital US
Topic: Role of Medical Librarians in Building Digital Communities
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Kavi Mahesh Professor
Department of Computer Science, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Topic: Ontology based Contents
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Sanjaya MishraDirector
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi, India
Topic: Role of Library and Information Professionals to Promote Quality of Teaching and Learning
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Atsuyuki MorishimaProfessor
Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Topic: L-Crowd: A Library Crowdsourcing Project by LIS and CS Researchers in Japan
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Paul Nieuwenhuysen Professor
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan, Belgium
Topic: Information discovery systems for scientific organizations -
Vinay K Pathak Vice Chancellor, VMO University, Kota, India
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A R D Prasad Head
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)
Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, India
Topic: Open Data Repositories & Linked Data -
Michele Reilly Head of Digital Services
University of Houston Libraries Houston, TX , USA
Topic: We Built It Now What? Exploring users of University of Houston Digital Library Content
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Gurdish Sandhu
Associate Director
(E-strategy & Information Services) University of East London UK
Topic: Digital strategies for academic libraries in a rapidly changing information landscape -
Ratna Sanyal
Coordinator Universal Digital Library Project
IIIT, Allahabad, India
Topic: Natural Language Processng and Information Retrieval Techniques for Aggregative Digital Repositories -
Francesca Schulze Metadata Specialist
German National Library
Frankfurt, Germany
Topic: The “Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek” – Single access to digital cultural heritage in Germany. -
Anna Maria Di Sciullo Head
Department of Linguistics
University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Topic: Natural Language Processing and Digital Libraries Prospects for the Future
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Michael Seadle
Professior & Director
Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt Universitat, Germany
Topic: 1. Permission to Archive: The Long Term of Orphaned Works.
2. Inventing Knowledge: From Database to Semantic Web
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Melissa Shaffer
Director, Baker 2.0 Strategy and Infrastructure/Digital Content Programs
Topic: Benefits of Forging Industry/Institutional Collaborations in Building Digital Library Collections -
Subrata Sinha Director, National Brain Research Centre, India
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K Srinivas
Director
IT Services
Ambedkar University, Delhi, India
Topic: Semnatic Web and Information Retreival -
Ricardo da Silva TorresAssociate professor
University of Campinas (UNICAMP) Brazil
Topic: Large-Scale Multimedia Digital Library Collections: Challenges and Research Opportunities -
Felix N Ubogu University Librarian University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg , South Africa
Topic: Building Digital Libraries in Africa: Current Developments -
K Vageesh Deputy Director General, Programme, Music & Archives, AIR, New Delhi
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Hannelore Vogt Director of the Public Library Cologne - The Mayor
City Library of Cologne Germany
Topic: "Social Computing, Digital Knowledge Management and the Transformation of Space Best Practice in Cologne Public Library, Germany "
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Gulshan Wadhwa Professor
Joint Director Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology New Delhi - 110003
Topic: Integrating Digital Libraries for Networking in Bioinformatics -
Ian Witten Professor
Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand
Topic: Semantic document representation: do it with Wikification
Guest speakers
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Heather Brown
Assistant Director of Paper and Books at Artlab Australia -
Dilara Begum
Head of Library
East West University, Bangladesh
Topic: Digital Library Network in Suth Asia: A Model for regional Cooperation -
Dr. B. Sutradhar
Librarian
Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur,India