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Dong-pil MIN
Professor, Seoul Nat'l University
"New
Horizon of the Academic Communication"
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Recently authors of academic institutes are required
to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in some institutes' digital
archives to make them freely available to the public. With some rules to
be respected, this open-access
policy favors the formation of the better integrated academic societies
and the personal interactions. The formation of the world knowledge
platform is quickly envisaged and will open new horizon of modern prosumer society. Some consequences
and required measures for the success are to be discussed.
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Biographical sketches of
Dong-Pil Min:
- He is a professor of physics in Seoul National University since 1980.
He got the French State Doctor degree from Universite de Paris-Sud on
theoretical nuclear physics.
- He has been the director of the Information Center for Physics Research
since 1995, an institute that is supported by the Korean government and
the Seoul National University. This institute maneuvers the Open Access
Policy in physics.
- He worked as the Secretary General of Korea Research Foundation and
participated in the governmental policy of funding the research
activities of Korea for all academic disciplines covering humanities to
sciences.
- He plays the important role in establishing the national project of
“International Science Business Belt” of the present government, which
envisages to construct the knowledge-based corridor of synergic towns in
Korea.
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Kirsi TUOMINEN Head of
Knowledge Solutions, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
"The
Finnish Innovation Environment and Future Challenges"
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The Finnish innovation environment and the
challenges of future will be discussed. VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland is taken as a case how a Finnish innovation actor is rising to the
future challenges.
- Education, science and know-how have been a conscious focus of the
industrial policy and the foundation of the Finnish economy and society
for a long time.
- The results of the policy can be seen today: the transformation from a
low-tech country to a knowledge based society.
- Investments in innovations are important, but as important is a
consistent long term focus on national facilitating conditions, as well
as operational measures to build up a well-committed, co-operative, confident
and dynamic innovation environment.
- Case: How VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is rising to the
future challenges.
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KIRSI
TUOMINEN
Head of Knowledge Solutions
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Vuorimiehentie 5, Espoo
P.O. Box 1000
02044 VTT
Phone +358 20 722 4370
GSM +358 40 741 9003
Fax +358 20 722 4374
Email kirsi.tuominen@vtt.fi
STUDIES
- Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Helsinki University of
Technology, 1981
- Information Specialist, Helsinki University of Technology, 1982
- KATE ´87, International Business and Technology, Helsinki University of
Technology, 1987
- International Business, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995
- MBA, Helsinki University of Technology, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- VTT, Knowledge Solutions, Espoo
- Head of IKnowledge Solutions 2003-
- Foundation of Finnish Inventions, Espoo
- Representative in Brussels, Belgium 1999-2000
- National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes, Helsinki Leave of absence
1999 - 2003 (Belgium)
- Planning Manager (Administrative Unit) 1995-1997, Head of Unit
(International Technology Transfer) 1998-1999
Finland Technology Center (affiliated with Tekes), Boston, MA, USA
Manager 1994-1995
National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes, Helsinki
Senior Technical Advisor 1985 (Industrial Attaches), Head of Unit
1985-1989 (Industrial Attaches), Deputy Director (Company Service
Department) 1989-1993
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Embassy of Finland, London, Great Britain
Assistant Scientific Attache 1983-1984
Teknos-Maalit Oy, Helsinki
Trainee, Research Engineer, Information Specialist 1979-1982, 1984-1985
POSITIONS OF TRUST
- The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK, Elected Council
1991-1993, 1996-1999, Board 1991-1993, 1996-1999, Committee for International
Affairs 1987-1991, Vice Chairman 1989-1991
- Finnish Foreign Trade Association, Board of Commercial Attaches
1987-1991
- Committee for Commercial Attaches and Industrial Attaches 1988-1989
- VTT Information Service, Advisory Board 1989-1991
- Finnish Information Specialists, Board 2004- 2007
- EUSIDIC (the European Association of Information Services), Council
2005-
-ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information),
Executive Board, representing VTT 2007-
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Finnish (native)
- Swedish (well)
- English (fluent)
- German (well)
- French (fair)
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Young-Mee CHUNG
Professor, Yonsei University
"Enhancing
the Use of National Scientific Information through Scholarly
Communication
on the Web "
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Scholarly communication on the Web has been one of
the major research topics in recent years. This research explores the
communication characteristics of scientific knowledge in a national
scholarly Web space comprising top ranking universities and government
supported research institutions in South Korea. Communication activity of
individual sites is measured by several webometric indicators such as
page and link counts, WIF, and WUF. Research results show that there are
institutional differences in scholarly communication activity on the Web
among the academic/research institutions and significant differences in
communication pattern among the three subspaces. In order to enhance
scholarly communication among the research performing institutions, more
active construction as well as maintenance of their Web sites is
required.
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Professor
Young-Mee Chung, Ph.D., has been teaching at the Dept. of Library and
Information Science, Yonsei University in Korea since 1977. She earned
her Master's as well as Doctoral degree in information science from the
Case Western Reserve University in the United States. She served as the
Director of the Main Library of Yonsei University from 1998 to 2002 and
implemented a state-of-the-art digital library upgrading the level of Korean
digital libraries. She also served as the president of the Korean Society
for Information Management from 1998 to 1999. Professor Chung has been
playing the role of a pioneer in the information science education in
Korea by publishing many significant research articles and books in the
areas of information retrieval, digital libraries, and informetrics.
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Richard
Boulderstone Senior Director, British Library
"Information
Service Strategy for STM Researchers in the Web Age"
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The British Library has an
increasing number of visitors and researchers using its facilities,
products and services which are increasingly accessed digitally.
Support for UK scientific research is a continuing strategic objective
for the Library.
Researcher's needs, as well as the ways that they access and use
information, are changing primarily driven by digital technology.
The British Library has an extensive Science collection and is a key part
of the Scientific infrastructure.
British Library projects with external partners are exploring new ways to
support research.
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Richard Boulderstone
joined the British Library as Director of e-Strategy in July 2002.
Formerly a CTO and Product Development Director at a number of
international information providers, he has led the creation of many
information based products both in the USA and UK. Between 1984 and 1993
he worked at Knight-Ridder Financial where he was Senior Vice President
responsible for Technology. Subsequently he worked at Dialog, Reed
Elsevier plc and Thomson Financial before spending two years as Senior
Vice President Engineering at Looksmart Ltd, the world's largest search
and web directory business.
Richard is currently
leading the British Library's efforts to create a large-scale digital
object management system that will become the primary repository for the
Library's, and hence the UK's, legal deposit collection of electronic
resources.
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Robert L. Jay
Jordan President and CEO, OCLC
"The
Role of the Library in Scholarly Communication in the Web Age"
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The author discusses current trends that are
affecting digital libraries and scholarly communication and how libraries
are responding to these trends. OCLC initiatives and programs with
academic/research libraries are described.
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• President and Chief Executive Officer
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center
• Dublin, Ohio
• Jay Jordan became
the fourth president in OCLC's 41-year history in May 1998. He came to
OCLC after a 24-year career with Information Handling Services, an
international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key
positions in top management, including president of IHS Engineering.
• Jay graduated from
Colgate University in 1965 with a B.A. in English literature and served
as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. He has spent more than seven years
living and working outside the United States.
• Jay has overseen a
period of remarkable growth for OCLC. Since 1998, the number of libraries
participating in the OCLC cooperative has grown from 30,000 to more than
60,000. The number of participating institutions outside the U.S. has
increased from 3,200 in 64 countries to 11,900 in 111 countries.
WorldCat, the OCLC bibliographic database, has grown from 38 million
records to more than 100 million, and the number of library location
listings attached to those records has increased from 668 million to 1.2
billion.
• Under Jay's
leadership, OCLC has built a new technological platform, introduced new
services, created a library advocacy program, and introduced new
initiatives to make library holdings and libraries more visible on the
open Web.
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Helle LAURIDSEN
Product Manager, ProQuest
"Trends in Secondary Publishing"
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For a long time indexing of defined text fields in
academic articles have been the recognized way of managing the ever
increasing amount of scientific information. Only very few, clearly
defined subject areas, have indexed anything but text based information.
Machine indexing can handle large amount of text data cheaply, and large
free search engines such as Google Scholar and Academic Live can retrieve
vast amounts of information very quickly.
But even with so much information freely available, there is still a need
for in depth searching into research articles and data. Because: is “vast
amounts” really always desirable? Is it not better to be able to drill
down to the information quickly and painlessly (i.e. without too many
clicks) get to the relevant
full text article?
The success of Elseviers recently launched Scopus and the continuing
well-being of ISI's Web of Science and of many other bibliographic
databases proves that even pur | |
