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BooksOnline 2011

Preliminary Program

 8.50-9.00

Welcome

 

 9.00-10.00

Keynote
Adam Farquhar (The British Library): "From Digital as Print to Print as Digital”

 

 10.00-10.30 Session: Tools, Communities and Crowds

Tools for Whom: Readers, Fans, or Authors?
Tim Regan (Micrososft Research Cambridge)

 

Quality Assurance in Document Conversion: A HIT?
Christoph Becker (Vienna University of Technology)

 

 10.30-11.00  

Coffee

 

 11.00-12.00

Session: Reading with a Purpose

 

Evidence Finding using a Collection of Books
Marc-Allen Cartright, Henry A. Field and James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

 

New trends for reading scientific documents
Hélène De Ribaupierre and Gilles Falquet (University of Geneva)

 

How to carry over historic books to social networks
Heimo Müller (Medical University of Graz) and Hermann Maurer (Graz University of Technology)

 
 12.00-12.30

Session: Authors, Links and Relations (also as posters)

 

The Impact of Author Ranking in a Library Catalogue
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)

 

Mining Relational Structure from Millions of Books
David A. Smith, R. Manmatha, and James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

 

Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References in Digital Humanities Books, Articles and Blogs
Young-Min Kim, Patrice Bellot (University of Avignon), Elodie Faath and Marin Dacos (CLEO, Centre for Open Electronic Publishing)

 

 12.30-13.30

Lunch and posters 

 

 13.30-14.30  

Keynote

Ville Miettinnen (CEO of Microtask): "Digitalkoot: Electrifying the Finnish Cultural Heritage"

 

 14.30-15.00

Session: Behind the Reading Experience

 

Changes in Reading Research Proposition: Some Psychological Aspects of Reading 2.0
Adam Sofronijevic (University of Belgrade)

 

Towards an engaging e-Reading experience
Luca Colombo and Monica Landoni (University of Lugano)

 

 15.00-16.00

 

 16.00-16.30

 

 16.30-17.30

 

 17.30

Bring-a-Challenge-Discussion

 

Coffee

 

Discussion and Reporting back

 

Close and Best paper award