VALA2014 Conference Strands & Themes


Data

  • Archives
  • Big
  • Linked
  • Local
  • Open
  • Semantic
  • Visualisation

Publishing

  • Copyright
  • Creative Commons
  • Digital rights management
  • ePublishing
  • Open access
  • Open resources

Stewardship

  • Archiving
  • CLOCKSS
  • Collaboration
  • Curation
  • Green
  • Migration
  • Preservation
  • Sustainability

Maker / Hacker

  • Augmented reality
  • Creation
  • Geo (tagging / locating)
  • Future librarianship
  • Internet of things
  • Mashups
  • New librarianship
  • Post library
  • Ubiquitous computing

Bigger data

  • Data life cycle
  • Data science
  • eResearch
  • Folksonomies
  • Harvesting
  • iResearch
  • Ontologies
  • Research
  • Tagging
  • Topic maps

Discovery

  • ILMS
  • Mobile
  • Mobile services
  • Remote access
  • Tablets and similar devices

PD / Future-Proofing
Our Profession

  • Career development
  • Change management
  • Metrics
  • Performance measurement
  • Recruitment
  • Training
  • Workflows

Patron / End user

  • Accessibility
  • Environment
  • Ethics
  • Language
  • Patron-driven acquisition
  • Usability

Social

  • Gaming
  • Life streams
  • Privacy
  • Virtual reference

Collaboration

  • Crowd sourcing
  • New business models
  • Partnerships
  • Vendors
  • Workflow

Cloud

  • Apps
  • National broadband network
  • Personalisation
  • Social data aggregation