Program
	Wednesday 16.6.		Thursday 17.6.		Friday 18.6.
		08.00-09.00	Registration open in Hanken main building, ground floor	09.00-10.30	session 5 (Assembly hall) & session 6 (Futurum)
		09.00-09.30	conference opening in Assembly hall	10.30-11.00	coffee break
		09.30-10.30	Keynote: Prof. Carol Tenopir: Building the Future by Understanding the Past:  Scholarly Use Patterns and E-Pubs	11.00-12.30	session 7 (Assembly hall) & session 8 (Futurum)
		10.30-11.00	coffee break	12.30-13.30	lunch
		11.00-12.30	session 1 (Assembly hall) & session 2 (Futurum)	13.30-14.30	Plenary session (Assembly hall)
		12.30-13.30	lunch	14.30-15.00	Conference closing (Assembly hall)
		13.30-14.30	Keynote: Dr. Pirjo-Leena Forsström: Science and the digital data deluge (Assembly Hall)
16.00-17.00	Registration open in Hanken main building, ground floor	14.30-15.00	coffee break
17.00-19.00	Reception in Aula, main building, ground floor	15.00-16.a30	session 3 (Assembly hall) & session 4 (Futurum)
		19.00	Ferry trip to restaurant Klippan
		19.30	Conference dinner

ElPub 2010 Keynote speakers

 

Carol Tenopir

Chancellor’s Professor and Director of Research,

College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, USA

Building the Future by Understanding the Past:  Scholarly Use Patterns and E-Pubs, presentation slides here (PDF)

Access to scholarly information has long been important to scientific progress. The use of e-publications is both evolutionary—building on a long tradition of information access--and revolutionary-- changing and reacting to changes in the way scholarship and science is done.  This talk will describe research that has looked at patterns of scholarly information use over three decades and discuss both evolutionary and revolutionary implications for e-publications.

Carol Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies and Director of Research, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee. She is the author of over 200 journal articles and five books, including Communication Patterns of Engineers and Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers, both with Donald W. King. In 2009 she was honored with the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science & Technology and in 2004 the International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.  Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. In 2005 and 2006 she was a visiting researcher in Finland—at both the University of Oulu and HANKEN.

(web.utk.edu/~tenopir/)

Pirjo-Leena Forsström

Ph.D., Director for data services at CSC

Science and the digital data deluge, presentation slides here (PDF)

The research paradigm in almost all disciplines has shifted exceedingly to data-driven methods and research questions. Research data is no longer used merely to verify a predefined hypothesis. Large or unconventionally combined datasets may, per se, suggest new hypotheses and create novel research. The evolving computational models and the growing computer power boost this development by enabling faster analysis of large datasets, which again are material for new research.

Currently, huge amounts of scientific data are stored in isolated repositories, or even on researchers‟ desk-top computers. This poses a difficult dilemma, as data accessibility is crucial for all research, regardless the focus and scale. On the other hand, fundamental global challenges, such as improving health conditions or boosting sustainable development under the pressure of the environmental changes, are dependent on timely access to various and often unconnected data repositories. Thus, the problem lies not only inthe accessibility of data, but also in the interconnectivity and interoperability of these resources.

The third important dimension is the curation and preservation of these data sets. Once created, they are part of the scientific knowledge base. Proper preservation exceeds the data life cycle and saves costs as the same data set need not be created twice. 

Finally, the sheer volume of data complicates the challenge: how to manage data repositories of Petabyte scale? 

Pirjo-Leena Forsström 

Ph.D., Director for data services at CSC

Background in data acquisition systems, data analysis and visualization, now working with challlenges of large data sets and long term storage.