Keynote Speakers
We are planning to invite 4 or 5 national and international keynote presenters to this years conference. As usual we will attempt to select keynote topics that cover a wide range of issues. In negotiating with presenters we discuss the make-up of the traditional AusWeb audience so that they can align their presentation to the expected audience.
We hope of announce the details an additional two international keynotes, one from Sun Microsystems and one from Blackboard, shortly.
Full details of the keynote program will appear here as and when
they are confirmed.
Presenter: Cindy Hill, Manager, SunLibrary, Santa Clara, USA, <cynthia.hill@sun.com>
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Title: Intersections and Transformations |
Outline: At Sun, we've been observing the rapid transformation that knowledge workers are going through as the Web becomes a more permanent and invasive part of their work and personal lives. And, like many organizations, we're facilitating that transformation as we see it as a critical aspect to working and living in a global society.
The emerging knowledge worker, such as the recent university graduate student and people entering into the workforce, and the exiting knowledge worker frequently have very different expectations, working styles and needs for web-based tools and digital content. The challenge for the library staff is how to identify and meet these disparate needs and to do so in a rapidly evolving world. This presentation will explore the intersection of the "new" web and the digital library environment, most recently coined the Web 2.0 and Library 2.0.
Biographical Details: Cindy Hill manages SunLibrary, Sun Microsystems' worldwide information center. As part of Sun's Chief Technology Office and Sun Labs, her group is responsible for providing information services, resources and knowledge collaboration support throughout Sun.
Prior to her current position, Cindy managed the information services at Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (now Exponent, Inc.) where her staff and she provided in-depth research and information in the scientific, legal and medical disciplines.
Cindy is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on the information profession, emerging trends, technology uses and management topics. She is a past president of SLA (2003-2004), a global organization for information professionals. She loves backpacking at high-altitudes, owns a motorcycles and attempts metric century (100 km) bicycle rides.
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Presenter: Tony Boston, Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing,
National Library of Australia, <tboston@nla.gov.au>
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Title: Libraries Australia: Find and get over 40 million items from
Australia's libraries |
Outline: The National Library of Australia has been running a National
Bibliographic Database since 1981. This service is used for shared
cataloguing of collection items and as the basis for interlending of
resources between Australian libraries and is supported by subscriptions
from Australian libraries. In 2004 and 2005 this service was redeveloped
and migrated to a higher performance technology platform.
In February 2006, the National Library launched a free Libraries
Australia Search service which is available at no cost to anyone with an
Internet connection. Through Libraries Australia you can access
information on over 40 million items held in around 800 Australian
libraries: national, state, university, public, government, health, law
and other special libraries. Libraries Australia provides access to a
world of information, not just books but newspapers, magazines,
pictures, music, manuscripts, maps and much more. This innovative
service is an Australian first, opening up the collections of
Australia's libraries to the public. This initiative has repositioned
the service moving it from the library space to the user space.
Using Libraries Australia you can instantly access over 600,000 items
which are online; borrow from a local library or order from another
library; copy selections of items for a small price; buy from online
bookshops; and find library locations nationwide.
Tony will discuss a broad range of issues related to Libraries
Australia: technology platform, content, Web design, usability, system
features, links to other services, impact on users; as well as
relationships with Internet search engines, projects like Google Book
Search, the Open Content Alliance and concepts like "Library 2.0".
Biographical Details: Tony is head of the Resource Sharing Division at
the National Library responsible for services to the library community
which support better sharing of and improved access to items held by
Australian libraries. The division runs a number of collaborative
services such as Libraries Australia, PictureAustralia and the
Australian Libraries Gateway as well as interlending and document
delivery services. Tony has worked at the National Library since 1999
and most recently was responsible for development of the Libraries
Australia Search service. Tony's background is in science, information
technology and management, and development of database and web
applications for the library, museum and government sectors.
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Presenter: Tony Palmer, Client Business Director, C4 Communication <tony.palmer@cfour.com.au>
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Title: Commercialisation of the Blog - BigPond BigBlog |
Outline: Since the beginning of the Internet and the Web, there has been an army of individuals and organisations collectively beavering away to create a diverse range of applications and environments that now see us at the precipice of an incredibly exciting new phase. Developers, service providers, scientists, researchers, lecturers, mums, dads and kids have been not so silently changing the world around us by developing and using the tools of the Internet and the Web to communicate on individual and mass levels at a rate which the world has never seen.
Fundamentally the applications on the Web responsible for driving change have been communication based. Email, messenger applications, groups, forums, IP telephony have all played their part in the Web's rapid evolution. However, one application more than any other seems to have cut right through the traditional heartland of mainstream media and has now secured a formidable place on the world media stage - the humble blog!
An incessant thirst for information, the relentless pursuit for truth, the intoxication of scandal, the ability to develop your own 'voice' in the world's global community or a highly visible stage on which to express yourself are all motivators that have lead to the boom of the blog! Since the development of tools that make creating and publishing a blog as easy as pressing a few buttons, we have seen an unprecedented rush to create personal spaces where literally, anything goes. Gone are the days where the average Web user needed to have a degree in mathematics and be fluent in a development language to create their own space on the Web. With blogging, it's a piece of cake.
Tony will take us on an insightful journey into the creation of the BigBlog application which C4 Communication developed in conjunction with BigPond. He will share insights from the project that will touch on the strategic, technical, marketing and social challenges faced through its development. The presentation will use real life examples and case studies to illustrate the challenges faced in developing a truly integrated application that now makes it possible to send a picture or video directly from your mobile phone to your blog. Tony will relate his experiences to the rapidly changing landscape of the Web and will share his thoughts on how applications like the blog will shape the economic and social landscape of the Internet in the future.
Biographical Details: Tony is one of the founding partners at C4 Communication <http://www.cfour.com.au/> . C4 communication is an interactive agency who specialise in developing virtual and physical applications and environments for a wide range of organisations. Prior to starting C4, Tony studied at The University of Western Sydney where is completed his Bachelor of Arts in Communications. While there he developed a fascination with the embryonic Internet under his lecturer Ray Archee. Tony was particularly interested in the predicted impact the Internet would have on business and society and focused his attention on the commercial applications of the Internet within business.
After leaving UWS he had a successful seven year career in advertising working on strategic development and account direction for some of Australia's biggest accounts including Westpac and Commonwealth Bank. While there, Tony actively pursued a number of initiatives that dealt with organisational communication and process improvement through technology applications. In 1999 Tony was finally lured to the dot com boom when he left his career in advertising to pursue a job as strategic business development manager of an Internet start-up backed by Macquarie Bank called K*Grind. K*Grind was loosely defined as a youth entertainment portal. A place where kids of all ages could come and watch cool videos of surfing, skateboarding, music etc. The business model was (as so many were) predicated on advertising revenue from banner ads. After a year of unsustainable growth and cost blow outs, K*Grind was disbanded and Tony left to develop marketing based websites for the likes of Coca Cola. In his short time working with a company called Hyro New Media, Tony drove the team that developed a website for Coca Cola that ended up winning a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Advertising Awards as well as Best of Show, Peoples Choice and Best Strategic Integration at the Yahoo! AWWWARDS.
After leaving Hyro, Tony started a company called Capisco with his current partner Adam Goodrich. Together they managed to secure Telstra as a founding client delivering one of the first integrated on-demand video streaming and presentation applications, which is still being used today. In 2002, two more partners joined C4 - Richard Gills, an analyst from www.consult.com (later bought out by A.C. Neilsen) and Mark Dalgleish, a highly respected and awarded journalist and video producer. Since the final two partners joined C4, the company has grown in size and reputation for delivering creative interactive solutions. Other than BigBlog, C4 has also recently developed a large 'Discovery Centre' for Telstra to showcase its latest products and services during the Commonwealth Games, they have re-developed the National Rugby League website, developed an event management portal for the Federal Government and is currently managing a 1,500 screen point of sale and digital media kiosk network on behalf of BigPond.
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Presenter: Ivan Herman, Head of Offices, World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI), Amsterdam, <ivan@w3.org>
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Title: Why Web Standard are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions. |
Outline: In the words of its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, the W3C's raison d'aitre is to "To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web". This presentation will outline the history of the W3C and how it operates to achieve its goal through its 400+ members in 28 countries, including Australia.
Biographical Details: I graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI I joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where I worked for 6 years. I left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, I joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where I have a tenure position since 1988. I received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. I joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining my position at CWI. I am also member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group at W3C. As part of my work at W3C, I regularly give presentations on W3C technologies, as well as tutorials for example on SVG or the Semantic Web.
Before joining W3C I worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but I spend most of my research years in computer graphics and visualization. I also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. I was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and vice-chair of Association between 2000 and 2002. I was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000. I am also member of IW3C2, the committee responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series. Finally, I am member of the management board of Accessibility.nl, a non-profit, Dutch organization dedicated to the accessibility of Web sites.
Recently, I have also developed some software (in Python) that might be of interest, particularly a SPARQL (RDF Query Language) API implementation on the top the RDFLib package. This package has recently been added to the latest release of RDFLib.
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Presenter:Amanda Spink, Professor of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology <ah.spink@qut.edu.au>
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Title:Web Search and Web Search Engine Overlap – What’s the Deal? |
Outline:Topics to be covered include: the current state of Web searching, including how people Web search, what they search for on the Web, and trends in Web search behavior; and the current state of Web search engine overlap for query results – how much do Web search engine results overlap for any given query?
Biographical Details:Amanda Spink is Professor of Information Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her qualifications include an M.B.A. in Information Technology Management (Fordham University) and a Ph.D. in Information Science (Rutgers University). She was previously a Professor at The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Spink’s research focuses on theoretical and applied modeling studies of human information behavior, interactive information retrieval (IR) and Web studies. The National Science Foundation, Andrew R. Mellon Foundation, NEC, Excite.com, AlltheWeb.com, AltaVista.com, Infospace.com, Vivisimo.com and Lockheed Martin have sponsored her research.
Amanda has published over 230 journal articles, refereed conference papers and book chapters with many in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Documentation, Interacting with Computers, IEEE Computer, Cyberpsychology and Behavior, and Internet Research,. Her recent book Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, published by Springer, is the first research monograph detailing human interaction with Web search engines. She recently co-edited the books New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval and New Directions in Human Information Behavior - Springer.
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