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        Speakers

Open Access Digital Collections at Florida Gulf Coast University – A Case Study Anjana H. Bhatt Florida Gulf Coast University

A World of Information & Information for the World: Progress and Challenges Dr. Ann Shumelda Okerson Yale University

Reinforcing LIS Education in the Digital Age: Internationalisation, Cooperation, Collaboration for Educating the New Professionals Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro (Chair IFLA Education and Training Section) University of Parma, Italy

Semantic Web Technology: Its Applications in LIS Prof. ARD Prasad Documentation Research & Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

E-Training as New Frontier for LIS Profession in Thailand Prof. Chutima Sacchanand School of Liberal Arts, Sukhothaim Thammathirat Open University (Former President - Thai Library Association), Thailand

Faceted Knowledge Organization: from Classification to Web Categorization Dr. Devika P. Madalli Documentation Research & Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Health Information Quality: The Virtual Health Library Perspectives Dr. Eduardo da Silva Alentejo Universidade de Brasília

ABCD as a Tool for Digital Libraries Dr. Egbert De Smet University of Antwerp, Belgium

DERA: A Framework for Large Scale Entity-Based Knowledge Representation Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia Department of Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy

Culture in Knowledge Processing Dr. Fazlul Alam, Executive Director Bangladesh Research and Development Association (BRADA) University of Dhaka

Tools and Techniques for Managing the Digital Library at the Bavarian Digitization Centre (Focus: mass digitization, automated processes with open source software) Gabriele Messmer, Bavarian State Library, Germany

Toward Participatory Digital Libraries Prof. Gary Marchionini, Dean & Cary C. Boshamer Professor School of Information & Library Science, North Carolina University

Knowledge Organisation Through Knowledge Centres Dr. H K Kaul, Director DELNET-Developing Library Network

Synergies and Silos - The Links Between Digital and Traditional Preservation that Provide Opportunities for Knowledge Continuity and Re-Use Heather Brown, Assistant Director, Artlab Australia

Low-Cost Heritage Preservation Prof. Hussein Suleman Department of Computer science University of Cape Town, South Africa

Creating Metadata is a Costly Manual Process - Which can be Automated Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg Dept. of Computer and Information Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Digital Library Initiatives at INFLIBNET Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad

Regional Digital Library Support Networks: A Model for International Cooperation in Knowledge Organization Dr. John B. Rose, Honorary Research Associate University of Waikato, New Zealand

Changing Roles of Librarians as Knowledge Organizers Prof. Joyce Chao-chen Chen, Professor and University Librarian Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies National Taiwan Normal University

Mandate - Strategic Approaches - Innovative Projects of the Munich Digitization Centre at the Bavarian State Library Klaus Kempf, Bavarian State Library, Germany

OAI-ORE as a Possible Solution for an FRBR Data Model Dr. Maja Zumer University of Ljubljana

Creating a Culture of Librarian's Knowledge Sharing: A Trial in Japan Prof. Mitsuhiro ODA Department of Education, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

How to Improve Access to Information Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Development of Digital Repository of Indian Cultural Heritage: Initiatives at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA), New Delhi

Digital Preservation Strategies Dr. Ravinder Kumar Chadha Joint Secretary, Parliament of India

International Bureau of Education: Digital Library of National Education Reports on the Development of Education Ruth Creamer UNESCO International Bureau of Education, Geneva

Open Knowledge Movements: Where Does India Stand? Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore

Digitization of Local Information and Knowledge in Thailand Dr. Sujin Butdisuwan Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Building a DL for the Future: DataONE Dr. Suzie Allard School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee

Memory of Serbia in Memory of Europe and in Memory of the World Vesna Injac National Library of Serbia, Serbia