Information Retrieval Facility Symposium May 31, 2010
Vienna, Vienna 1030
For the 3rd time, the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) organises a symposium with international experts from the Information Retrieval and Intellectual Property domains. The IRF Symposium is a forum to discuss the specific challenges of patent searching and analysis and exchange ideas on potential solutions, with the objective of making the latest IR technologies available to the industry.
This year's highlights include:
• Keynote speech by James Boyle, co-founder of Creative Commons and Science Commons
• 6 sessions: Evaluation, Interfacing, Multilingualism, Annotations, Image Retrieval, Chemistry
• More than 30 international speakers from science and industry
• Tutorials about visual workflows
• Strategic Seminar about using IP as an indicator of R&D strategy
• First IRF Scientific Conference
• PatOlympics - an evaluation class of patent retrieval prototypes
• Exhibition of novel technologies by commercial providers and research groups
The Online Registration for the 3rd IRF Symposium, June 1-4 2010, Vienna, is now open. Registrations made before March 31, 2010 will automatically benefit from an early-bird discount.
Official Website: http://www.irfs.at
Added by informationretrievalfacility on February 25, 2010
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Intellectual property versus open science: an unbridgeable gap?
James Boyle, Creative Commons founder, opens the IRF Symposium 2010 in Vienna.
On 2 June 2010 the 3rd Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) Symposium in Vienna starts with a highlight: The non-profit research organisation has successfully secured James Boyle, one of the Creative Commons co-founders, as a keynote speaker.
Complex data pools in corporate data bases, the internet and public media require new search technologies. This year’s symposium aims at fostering dialogue between industry and science on topics such as digital search engines, and presenting the public with concrete solutions. Often conflicting approaches to managing intellectual property arise. A seemingly unbridgeable gap exists between demanding an open access to knowledge and protecting intellectual property.
We anticipate the opening speech with great excitement. During the course of his multi-faceted activities, James Boyle has followed a critical approach to intellectual property and the information society’s social, cultural and scientific aspects. Within the scope of projects such as “Science Commons” and “Public Knowledge” he clearly advocates a free access to cultural and scientific content as furthering the development of innovative and open educational resources.
James Boyle’s presentation promises to be an unusual encounter: the principle of an open information society meets the paradigm of the commercial, or rather industrial use of intellectual property. The IRF thus once again lives up to expectations: by overcoming rigid patterns of thought and pointing towards alternative approaches it stimulates the innovation cycle of industry and research alike.