22 May 2013 - 2013 General Assembly will be hosted by National Research Canada in Ottawa on 14 October. The meeting will be followed on 15 October by two ICSTI member-only mini workshops and the annual meeting of the WorldWideScience Alliance. In addition, on the morning of 16 October ICSTI will hold a half-day workshop on ’Data and Non-Data Integration – A Journey Across Disciplines’ , a description of which you can find on the Upcoming Events page. This event is part of the 2nd Annual CASRAI Conference on 16-18 October, the central theme for which is ’Big Data : The Advance of Data-Driven Discovery’ . The ICSTI Workshop and CASRAI Conference programs and speakers will be announced in due course.
20 Mar 2013 - ICSTI’s 2013 Annual Members’ Meeting was hosted by the German National Library of Science and Technology - TIB in Hannover on 16-17 March, in conjunction with a Conference on Non-Textual Information on 18-19 March. The Conference programme featured 7 prominent ICSTI member speakers and both events took place at one of the most beautiful places in the center of the historic Old Town of Hannover, the Leibnizhaus.
More on Past Events page.
27 Feb 2013 - As a partner of LAMMS ( Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites), a group within IFLA, ICSTI supports the CDNL (Conference of Directors of National Libraries) Statement of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives. See webversion
May 2013 - ICSTI notes with great sadness the death of colleague ELEANOR FRIERSON
Feb 2013 - We are delighted to announce that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has joined the ICSTI community.
Jan 2013 - Welcome to our new Chinese member : the Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Science