ELAG 2012 - Programme

Small changes to the programme are possible.

Venue for the whole ELAG 2012: Campus of Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Jovellanos Building, Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5. Palma (Illes Balears). MAP

The registration desk is located next to the Sala d'Actes (main auditorium) in the first floor hall on Jovellanos Building

Print version: Programme available as PDF file.

May 14. ELAG Open Planning Meeting

The Open Planing Meeting is scheduled at the Sa Riera Building meeting room, (Street Miquel dels Sants Oliver, 2), on Monday 14 May at 18:00. Please enter through the Reception (main entrance). The meeting is open to anyone who wants to contribute to the organisation of future ELAG meetings and their improvement.

May 15. ELAG PRE-CONFERENCE

The Pre-conference will have five full day tracks:

Before registering for a pre-conference bootcamp, you should read what you can expect from the participation in a bootcamp and also what are the prerequisites. Read below, clicking on the particular bootcamp title.

Tuesday 15. 5.

09:00	Pre-conference registration
10:00	Developing applications using REST web services / Karen A. Coombs
10:00	jQuery - the ultimative javascript library / Uwe Dierolf
10:00	Introduction to Linked Open Data / Felix Ostrowski and Adrian Pohl
10:00	An introduction to R / Harrison Dekker
10:00	Virtualization and automation of library software/machines + Puppet / Omar Reygaert
17:00	Pre-conference end (Pre-conference time may be extended if neccessary)

There will be 2 breaks during the day.

May 16.-18. ELAG 2012 CONFERENCE

Small changes to the programme are possible.

Workshops are a unique feature of ELAG. This year there are eight workshops to choose from. They run in parallel through the two days of the conference and there is a report of the workshop presented on the final day. The audience of each workshop is limited up to 30 people. More...

Lightning talks will be limited to 5 min./person. You can sign up at the registration desk (the list will be available from Wednesday morning). Please note, that lightning talks will be recorded and posted on the internet pending your approval.

Wednesday 16. 5.

09:00	Conference registration / LOCATION: Jovellanos Building first floor Hall
10:00	Welcome / Opening remarks by Dra. Montserrat Casas Ametller, Rectora de la Universitat de les Illes Balears and Drs. Peter J.C. van Boheemen, Chair of ELAG
10:15	Keynote Speaker: A Confluence of Opportunity and Risk: Recasting the Digital Library paradigm at the intersection of eResearch and Digital Preservation. / Rick Luce Presentation (PPT)
11:15	Morning break
11:45	Envisioning Social Applications of Library Linked Data / Jodi Schneider and Uldis Bojars Presentation (PPT)
12:15	Linking Data, Linking Lives: creating an end-user interface for biographical sources / Jane Stevenson Presentation (PPT)
12:45	Europeana Data Model (EDM) for libraries / Valentine Charles Presentation (PPT)
13:30	Lunch
14:30	Workshops, 1. Session
15:30	Afternoon break
16:00	Workshops, 2. Session
17:00	Building an editable, versionized LOD service for library data / Felix Ostrowski and Adrian Pohl Presentation (PDF)
17:30	Subject Repositories for Research Data: Learnings from the Dryad Project / Bram Luyten Presentation (PDF)
19:00	Visit to Palma historic city. More...

Thursday 17.5.

10:00	Lightning Talks 1
10:45	The Catmandu/LibreCat Project / Patrick Hochstenbach
11:15	Morning break
11:45	Under the hood of 3TU.Datacentrum, a repository for research data. / Egbert F. Gramsbergen
12:15	Increasing the transparency of research: connecting publications and research data / Katarina Boland and Dominique Ritze
12:45	Panel discussion 1 / authors panel disc 1
13:30	Lunch
14:30	Workshops, 3. Session
15:45	Afternoon break
16:15	Using Augmented Reality to enhance teaching and learning / Lorraine Beard and Ciaran Talbot Presentation (PPT)
16:45	Normalization, Enrichment, and Clustering on a European Scale. / Andreas Juffinger, Markus Muhr, Nuno Freire, Rene Wiermer Presentation (PDF)
17:15	Workshops, 4. Session
18:30	End of day 2
20:00	Meeting of Conference dinner participants in front of the of the Hotel Mediterraneo.
20:30	Conference dinner (Hotel Mediterraneo)More..

Friday 18.5.

10:00	Data, code, services - building discovery systems for a consortium of university libraries / Leander Seige, Frank Morgner
10:30	Lightning Talks 2
11:15	Morning break
11:45	Workshop reports
13:30	Lunch
14:30	Discovery tools: a rearguard action? / Lukas Koster
15:00	Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries / Petteri Kivimäki
15:30	SKOSify your library – how to bring your library classification into the linked open data cloud / Dierk Eichel
16:00	Closing presentation

MAY 19. ELAG Post Conference excursion

The Post-conference excursion starts on Saturday morning.

Guided trough the Tramuntana Mountain Range

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