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Reportlinker at the Online Information 2007

Nicolas — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:20:00 +0200

We are happy to inform you we will be exhibiting at the Online Information 2007 in London, from the 4th to the 6 of December. The Online Information conference is the world's no.1 conference for the information industry. The 2006 conference attracted over 800 delegates from over 45 countries, across all continents.

The 2007 conference theme is Applying Web 2.0: Innovation, Impact and Implementation. Nicolas Bombourg will speak up during one of the conference. More info to come soon.

You can already visit our exhibitor page here.

SLA 2007 Begins on Sunday

Nicolas — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:19:00 +0200

The Special Libraries Association Annual Conference begins this Sunday in Denver. The organizer offer this year to the attendees the opportunity to listen to Vice President Al Gore (Opening General Session Speaker) !

The event can be follow over the Internet on Infotoday's blog..

I-expo 2007 tries to save the French information industry !

Nicolas — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:00:00 +0200

Worldwide Information industry : $ 365 billion in 2006, $ 458 billion in 2009 ? French information industry less than $ 2 billion in 2006 !!!

If the Information Industry plays a strategic role worldwide, its importance on the French market is clearly limited. - Financial market information player is a strongly consolidated industry (Thomson Corp takes Reuters over for more than $17 B) !!! - Coface is the only international player. The French giant bought this week Dafaslien, a French database weighting less than 1 M€ of revenues. - Information is key in Competitive Intelligence market, French players provide services and software - Scientific and medical information ??? No French actor among leaders.

Many explanation can be given to this situation. The language barrier is the most obvious : French language information service are rarely used outside France And the limited potential of this market pushes French information industry specialists to launch services in English, as Reportlinker does.

In this singular landscape, one of the most important event will open its doors in less than a month. I-expo will gather 6000 visitors (!!) among 70 exhibitors between the 12 and 14 of June.

Workshop are organised beside the show, and one can be really interesting to French information industry players : "Climate change? Market & Technological Forces that will impact the Professional Information Industry over the Next Five Years" This conference aims at analysing the future evolution of the industry. Speakers are Anglo Saxons specialists. The smallest of the warranty attendees can have !

Conference on Wednesday the 13th of June 2007, 14h30-16h00, Salle Dürer.

Inforum 2007 begins on Tuesday

Nicolas — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:44:00 +0200

The 13th annual conference of INFORUM that deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes will be held from May 22 to May 24, 2007 in Prague.

Since 2003 the original territorial focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been expanded to the other Central and Eastern European countries and it has become the main event in this field in the region. The conference is attended especially by information professionals from special and public libraries, private corporations and state agencies, IT managers, physicians, lawyers, university teachers and students.

Entreprise Search Summit begins on Monday

Nicolas — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:09:00 +0200

ENTERPRISE SEARCH SUMMIT is a highly intense, in-depth, 2-day conference that covers how to develop, implement and enhance cutting-edge internal search capabilities. I ENTERPRISE SEARCH SUMMIT targets information manager or IT or search professional.

During this two days, on specific conference can be really interesting : "In Search of the Next Google: The Upstart Panel" Since 2004, venture capitalists have poured more than $350 million into almost 80 Internet search startups. Many are convinced they can become the next Google of consumer search, or that they can challenge the leaders in the enterprise and site search space. Hear directly from several of these “upstarts,” and get an inside glimpse how they are pushing into the next generation of search technology.

WWW2007 begins on Tuesday

Ben — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:22:00 +0200

The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the University of Calgary organize the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).

Organized by the IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is the annual gathering place of the international community to discuss and debate the future evolution of the Web.

Two interesting things this year :

Tim Berners-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, has been confirmed as a plenary speaker. He will speak about the "Two Magics of Web Science"
A workshop is organised on "Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization", during which Semkey, a semantic collaborative tagging system, will be analysed.

22nd SIIA Annual Codie Award Winners Announced

Nicolas — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:05:00 +0200

The Codie Awards, established in 1986 and given each year by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) utilize both journalist and peer-company reviews to identify the leaders and innovators in 75 categories across the software, digital content and education technology industries.

Intuit products gathered the largest number of awards for a single firm, with four Codie winners: QuickBooks Merchant Services for Web Stores won in Best eCommerce Solution; QuickBase won in Best Project Management Solution; Quicken Medical Expense Manager won in Best Medical and Health Information Product and Quicken Home Inventory Manager was judged Best Home Productivity Solution.

An aggregator has been awarded for the third time in the row ! HighBeam Research Engine just received the SIIA’s 2007 Codie Award for “Best Online General Reference Service," which it also won last year. In 2005, HighBeam won the “Best Content Aggregation Service” Codie Award.

HighBeam combines research tools with a collection of 35 million premium articles from quality publications, including 3,000 respected newspaper, magazine, book, journal and transcript publishers, updated daily and going back 20 years.

Scip International Annual Conference begins on Monday

Nicolas — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:19:00 +0200

SCIP’s 2007 International Annual Conference & Exhibition is your opportunity to enhance your skills and increase your value. You can select from over 70 sessions divided among five key tracks of education necessary for the competitive intelligence professional. In addition, you will have access to 22 pre- and post-conference workshops for more intensive and hands-on professional development.

Search Engine Meeting 2007 begins on Monday

Nicolas — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:47:00 +0200

The Search Engine Meetings bring together commercial search engine developers, academics and corporate professionals to learn from each other.

This annual meeting provides a forum and point-of-reference for all those interested in the intricacies of Search and Retrieval. The meeting draws those with a professional interest in search engines (such as search engine designers and developers) and those interested in applying search engines in their own professional environments. Search is at the heart of information retrieval; and the Search Engine Meeting provides an annual point of reference as to what is happening in this fast-moving and exciting field.

18th annual Library + Information show begins on Thursday

Nicolas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:24:00 +0200

The Library and information Show is organised by VNU Exhibitions Europe. This unique show offers something for everyone who works in the library and information professions. This year free seminar programme offers the opportunity to learn more about the information industry future. We advise you to visit the session named "The Corporate Need for the Information Professional".

4th annual SIIA Content Forum conference begins on Monday

Nicolas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:15:00 +0200

The 4th annual SIIA Content Forum conference is beggining Monday the 15th April. This summit will deliver the tools, tactics, and best practices necessary to build, enable and sell content. Among speakers, you will find leading and emerging information industry companies like Factiva, Hoovers or Highbeam.

Digital Velocity begins on Thursday

Nicolas — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:03:00 +0200

Digital Velocity is organised by American Business Media, the association of business information providers. This conference will have technical, business, and thought-leaders address the following hot topics :

Web 2.0 editorial content approaches
Digital media product development,
Effective selling to changing buying habits.

All information about this information industry conference can be found here.

The eighth annual Buying & Selling eContent conference begins on Sunday

Nicolas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:06:00 +0100

Buying & Selling eContent is an executive-level conference where the key players in the information industry gather to learn, listen, and exchange ideas and solutions. Don't forget t have a look to their summit wiki.