"Open Access - Open Data" Conference 2010
International specialists meet in Cologne.
Experts will be discussing "Open Access - Open Data" in Cologne, Germany.
Six years after the first Open Access conference in Cologne, the task at this year's gathering is to sum up development so far and set out the challenges for the next ten years. Another issue for discussion will be the increasingly important open data movement.
Whilst open access is already a part of everyday reality for academics from many disciplines, the issue of "access to research data" has only been on the agenda of libraries and information facilities for a short time. This is why the conference also plans to address the challenges which the issue of "open data" brings with it. A few projects are already underway in this area and include for example the international consortium DataCite.
The conference is organised by Goportis, the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information (Leibniz-Bibliotheksverbund Forschungsinformation). Open access is one of Goportis' fields of expertise.
Goportis is the name of the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information consisting of the three German central specialist libraries TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover), ZB MED (German National Library of Medicine, Cologne/Bonn) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel/Hamburg). Goportis is Germany's central point of contact for the specialist fields of full text service, licenses, non-text materials, digital preservation and open access.
Further information:
> www.oaod2010.de
