VALA2012 Conference Strands & Themes

 

Apps and Applications

  • Application of new technologies
  • Mashups
  • Open source development and application

 

Collaborations across cultural institutions

  • Archives
  • Exhibitions
  • Galleries
  • Libraries
  • Museums

 

Digital inclusion

  • Accessibility
  • Media literacy
  • Using IT to engage with your communities

 

Digital / electronic publishing / eBooks

  • Archiving / preservation of electronic resources
  • Digital collections, archives and repositories
  • Digitisation and managing digital objects
  • Licensing
  • Open archives
  • Rights management, intellectual property and copyright

 

Discovery layers

  • Federated searching
  • The future of the ILMS / the future of the management system for libraries, galleries, archives, museums
  • The future of the library portal
  • Portals, personalisation and intranets

 

Internet of things

  • Augmented realities
  • Everything’s been tagged?
  • Gadgets / Widgets / Gizmos
  • Geographic information systems
  • Geolocation
  • Location-based services
  • RFID
  • The sensory space

 

Knowledge management

  • Cloud computing
  • Crosswalks
  • Data management
  • Harvesting client content
  • Information ethics
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Metadata harvesting and management
  • Visualisation of data (topic maps)

 

Mobile technologies

  • Mobile devices
  • Mobile Services
  • Portable
  • Wireless technologies

 

Recruitment and training for technology and the future

  • Performance measures and statistical data
  • PD competencies
  • Sustainability in the virtual environment
  • Sustainable libraries in the virtual environment

 

Semantic Web

  • Library 3.0
  • Linked data
  • Mark-up languages and XML
  • Ontology and semantic technologies
  • Open data
  • Subject-centred computing

 

Social connections

  • Crowd computing
  • Gaming
  • Life streams
  • Privacy and information ethics
  • Social networking and peer-based production systems
  • Tagging, folksonomies, social bookmarking

 

User environment

  • Architectural
  • Information / learning commons and library design
  • Managing the balance between internal and external users
  • Multi-lingual systems
  • Physical spaces
  • Remote access
  • Teaching and learning environments / spaces
  • User authentication, registration and privacy issues
  • User behaviour and changing expectations
  • Virtual communities
  • Virtual reference

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