Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following:
Challenges of Information Management in the Digital Age
- Developing digital information services
- Semantic information management
- Information management in the cloud
- Distributed collection management and licensing
- Innovative information management
- Collaborative information management
- Infrastructures and networks for information management
- Systems, tools and services for information management
- Virtual research environments and information management
- Community of practices
- Data ownership
- Data security
- Long-term stability of data
- Privacy
- Economies of scale
Cloud-based Information Services
- Web-based services
- Data-centric services
- Services lifecycle management
- Information management in the cloud
- Web scale information discovery through the cloud
- Data aggregation and data repositories in the cloud
- Innovative uses of cloud-based information services
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Information Management
- Platforms as a Service (PaaS) for Information Management
- Applications as a Service (AaaS) for Information Management
- Software as a Service (SaaS) for Information Management
- Storage as a Service (SaaS) for Information Management
- Everything as a Service (EaaS) for Information Management
Information Discovery, Organization, and Retrieval Beyond the Cloud
- Information discovery and identification
- Information representation
- Information search, indexing and retrieval
- Curation, preservation and long-term access
- Mobile information retrieval
- Metadata harvesting
- Metadata extraction
- Metadata management
- Metadata interoperability and standards
- Ontology development
- Ontology mapping
- Mining large data sets
Information Architecture for Cloud-based Information Services
- Information architecture and web design for the cloud
- Grid Networks, services and applications
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Designing usable cloud services
- Information usability
- Interaction design for cloud services
- Information visualization tools
Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and Institutional Repositories
- Scholarly publishing process
- Open access
- Institutional repositories beyond the cloud
- Digital libraries beyond the cloud
- Data warehouses and federated databases beyond the cloud
- E-publishing
- Open science
- Open access to publicly funded scientific information
- European Infrastructure for e-Science Digital Repositories (e-SciDR)
Digital Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage Beyond the Cloud
- Digitization of scientific and cultural heritage
- Digital science museums and digital exhibitions
- Digitization of 2-D and 3-D scientific and cultural heritage objects
- Digital re-discovery of culture
- The European Digital Library, Europeana, beyond the cloud
- Permanent archiving of digital scientific and cultural heritage beyond the cloud
Social and Cultural Issues Beyond the Cloud
- Digital information policies
- Intellectual property rights
- Digital rights management
- Legal and cultural issues
- Value of information (VOI)
- Information quality standards
Education for Information Management
- Blended librarianship
- Cloud librarianship
- E-science librarianship
- Data curation education
- Information stewardship
- Biomedical informatics
- Environmental informatics
- Bioinformatics
- Digital humanities, arts and e-social sciences
- Support services for researchers, students and general public
- Life-long learning
- Information literacy