Speaker Biographies

Presentation Abstracts

Meeting Summary

09:30-10:00           Registration and new member coffee


10:00-10:45           Corporate Annual Meeting, Board Election, and Strategy Overview
                                 Anthony Durniak, Chair, CrossRef Board of Directors
                                 Robert Campbell, Treasurer, CrossRef Board of Directors (Presentation (pdf) 108KB)
                                 Ed Pentz, Executive Director (Presentation (pdf) 1098KB)


10:45-11:30           Business Development and Committee Updates
                                 Amy Brand, Director of Business Development (Presentation (pdf) 698KB)
                                 Craig Van Dyck, Chair, Search Committee (Presentation (pdf) 80KB)
                                 Bernard Rous, Chair, Institutional Repositories Committee


11:30-12:00           System Update, New Services, and Data Quality Initiative
                                 Chuck Koscher, CrossRef Technology Director (Presentation (pdf) 897KB)


12:00-12:20           Publisher Case Study: How Japan Science and Technology Agency uses DOIs
                                 Soichi Kubota, Electronic Journals Division, JST
                                 (Q&A to include Noriko Arakawa, Chief of Electronic Journals Division, JST,
                                 and Asako Omi, Consultant for J-Stage) (Presentation (pdf) 2418KB)


12:20-13:15           Lunch


13:20-14:30           Digital Preservation Panel
                                 o KEYNOTE: Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library
                                 "The challenges of digital preservation to support research in the digital age"
                                         (Presentation (pdf) 70.1KB)
                                         o Eileen Fenton, Executive Director of Portico
                                 "Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service" (Presentation (pdf) 48KB)
                                 Moderator: Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO


14:30-15:00           Innovation in Scientific Publishing
                                 Vitek Tracz, Chairman, Current Science Group


15:00-15:20           Coffee and tea break


15:20-15:50           The Revenge of "Browse"
                                 Geoff Bilder, Consultant, Scholarly Information Strategies


15:50-17:00           The Future of Academic Search
                                 o Ammy Vogtlander, Director of Search, Elsevier Strategy
                                 Finding published journal articles and books in the age of Web Search
                                 o Kristian Hammond, Founder, Intellext
                                 Frictionless Information Systems: Using context to free users from the burden
                                         of search (Presentation (pdf) 3789KB)
                                         o Sumir Meghani, Content Acquisition Manager, Yahoo
                                 Yahoo! Search & Content Providers: Working Together "To Enable People to
                                         Find, Use, Share, and Expand All Human Knowledge."
                                         Moderator: Phil Bradley, Internet Consultant


17:00-17:15           Closing remarks


17:15-18:30           Cocktail reception