NISO Virtual Conference, Transforming Search - What the Information Community Can and Should Build - 8.26.20

These half-day events cover a range of important and timely topics in more depth than our monthly webinars. With expert speakers from across the information community, they include a mix of formats — keynotes, case studies, perspectives, and vision interviews. Recordings are shared immediately with registered participants, and made openly available after two years.

Jim Hahn is an Associate Professor in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois. His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois. He founded and manages the Minrva project (https://minrvaproject.org) and currently serves as project PI for a research & development grant funded through the University of Illinois Campus Research Board, entitled, “Information and Environment: Integration of an IoT-powered recommender system within the FOLIO open source platform,” the aims of which are to incorporate Internet of Things functionality into a FOLIO Wayfinder application ( https://github.com/minrva/ui-wayfinder) and make the resulting software available in the open source.

Johnny Boursiquot is a multi-disciplined Software and Cloud Engineer with 22+ years of industry experience. In his current role as the CTO of Skilltype, a professional development platform tailored to the needs of Library and Information professionals, he leads the development of technology that aims to propel these individuals in their careers without sacrificing their data privacy and security.

Joyce Valenza is an Associate Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information and coordinator of the School Library Concentration. She earned a Ph.D. in Information Science from University of North Texas and Masters degrees from Queens College and Villanova University. She has 25 years of experience as a school librarian, and also served as a public, reference, and special librarian. A frequent keynote presenter and author, she writes the NeverendingSearch Blog for School Library Journal, contributes to several other library and edtech publications, and speaks globally about the thoughtful use of technology in learning and the power of librarians to lead. Her research interests include: search, youth information-seeking, educational technology, social media curation, OER, emerging literacies, social media, and online communities of practice.

Keri Mattaliano is Director of Corporate Solutions for the RightFind Suite in CCC’s Corporate Business Unit. Keri develops go-to-market strategies, conducts market research and competitive analysis, creates customer personas, and develops product positioning and sales training and tools to drive demand for our products. Keri started with CCC in 2011 and has had roles in customer service, account management and client engagement, including managing the client services team in Cologne, Germany in 2014 & 2015.

Markus Kaindl works as Senior Manager in Springer Nature’s Product and Platform Group, focussing on smart and meaningfully connected data to foster a data-driven way of working. He is responsible for the internal analytics solution SN Insights based on Digital Science’s Dimensions. Previously he released the Linked Open Data knowledge graph SN SciGraph. His publishing engagement started in 2013 with big data consolidation for the Springer Book Archive, followed by major metadata migration projects due to mergers. With an M.A. degree in Computational Linguistics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 2010, he was also involved in various text & data mining and natural language processing efforts dealing with document structuring, enrichment, and classification.

Ray Gilmartin is Director of Corporate Solutions for Copyright Clearance Center. He is responsible for knowledge management products within the Corporate Business Unit including RightFind Navigate, RightFind Professional, and XML for Mining. Ray has diverse experience in providing innovative tools for the management and distribution of information across multiple industries. Before joining CCC, he served in several leadership roles at Akamai, Avid Technology, and HP after beginning his career in TV journalism roles at Hearst Broadcasting and the Christian Science Monitor.

Sebastian Kohlmeier is the Sr. Manager of Program Management and Business Operations at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a non-profit AI research institute based in Seattle. At AI2, Sebastian leads program management for applied research, data science and partner development for Semantic Scholar (a free academic search and discovery tool).