[Irtalk] Invitation to "New Frameworks for Improved Web-based access to Scholarship" with Prof Herbert van de Sompel

[Ina Smith]

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"New Frameworks for Improved Web-based access to Scholarship" with Prof Herbert van de Sompel

HELIG invites you to a mini seminar by Prof Herbert van de Sompel, to be presented at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Bellville) on 2 December 2014 from 09:30 - 12:00.

Prof van de Sompel is a librarian and computer scientist, known for his role in the development of the OpenURL framework which led to the development of link resolver software widely used in academic libraries; Open Archives Initiative (OAI); Object Reuse and Exchange; and the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Currently at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, he leads the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team. More recent efforts that he has been working on include Memento (time travel for the web, version access) and ResourceSync (resource discovery and synchronization).

If you are a LIASA member and if the work you do is web related, scholarly information environment, then this seminar is a unique and the perfect opportunity for you to learn even more about time travel for the web, version access, resource discovery and synchronization.and to meet with this well renowned expert.

Date: 2 December 2014

Time: 09:30 am - 12:00

Venue: Cape Peninsula University of Technology Library, Bellville Campus

Costs: Free to all paid up LIASA members, including institutional members. R200 for non-LIASA members.

RSVP by 28 November 2014.

Please complete the online form at http://goo.gl/forms/hnJOkdXLA7

Ina Smith
Planning Manager - Scholarly Publishing Unit
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<http://www.assaf.org.za/>
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Tel.: +27 12 349 6641
E-mail: ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:ina at assaf.org.za>

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