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NEASIS&T  

Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:30am - 4:00pm
Kotzen Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA

This event is co-sponsored by NEASIS&T and the Simmons College Student Chapter of ASIS&T

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While devices like PDAs, portable phones, and digital music players have been on the scene for almost a decade, mobile devices have now reached an unprecedented level of popularity. Devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, and Kindle, are no longer simply tools for communication--they are now a primary channel through which everyday people interact with news, music, blogs, wikis, television, video, books, academic content, the world wide web, and more. Platforms like Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and the new Google Android will continue to challenge information service organizations to deliver content in new ways, and embed services within these virtual environments.

This day-long NEASIS&T event will provide a context and vision for delivering information through mobile devices. The program will begin with an overview of the current state of mobile platforms and devices, and then describe the use of mobile devices within academic libraries, hospitals and medical schools. The program will highlight innovative mash-up applications for mobile devices to connect people to Wikipedia information about geographical locations in real-time using mobile-readable barcodes, geo-tagging, Flickr.com and GoogleMaps (Semapedia.org). The speakers and lively panel discussion will explore the development of mobile technologies and how they can help us connect the physical and virtual realms. We will address the successes and challenges of developing mobile applications for information environments like libraries, academic institutions, medical environments, and more.

SPEAKERS:

  • Andrew Yu is the Mobile Devices Program Manager for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Ellyssa Kroski is an Information Consultant, Reference Librarian, writer and speaker in the field. She blogs at iLibrarian and InfoTangle. Ellyssa is the author of On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies (Library Technology Reports).

  • Michelle Kraft a Senior Medical Librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library, and author of "The Krafty Librarian," a blog for medical librarians discussing medical library technologies and applications.

  • Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stan Wiechers are the founders of Semapedia.org, a non-profit, community-driven project that connects the physical and virtual worlds. Semapedia-Tags which are cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia (or any of Wikipedia's sister projects such as Wikibooks and Wikinews).


SCHEDULE:

8:30-9:00 ---- Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 ---- Welcome & Introduction
9:15-10:15 ----Andrew Yu
10:15-10:45 -- Networking break
10:45-11:45 -- Ellyssa Kroski
11:45-1:15 --- Lunch (included with registration)
1:15-2:15 ---- Michelle Kraft
2:15-3:00-----Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stan Wiechers
3:00-4:00 ---- Panel

LOCATION: Kotzen Center, Simmons College

The Kotzen Center is located on the first floor of Lefavour Hall/Beatley Library. The easiest entrance to use is the one closest to the corner of the Fenway and Avenue Louis Pasteur. See also: Campus Map / Public Transit / Driving Directions + Parking

REGISTRATION INFO: Registration is now closed.