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Monday, October 6

Location:  Joseph B. Jones Room, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University

8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction: Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, Emory University

9:15-10:45 Keynote speaker:  Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

“Scholarly Assessment in the Digital Era”

10:45-11:00 Morning Break

11:00-12:30 Session 1:  Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Introductions: Joan Smith, Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries

  • Judith L. Klavans , University of Maryland, College Park, ''Collaboration?  Communities?   Where do Digital Libraries Belong?''
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  • Ann S. Zimmerman, University of Michigan, ''Collaboration Across Distance and Disciplines: Issues of Success''


  • 12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own

    2:00-3:30 Session 2:  Mining Texts for New Knowledge
    Introductions: Joan Smith, Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries

  • Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, "Mining User Generated Content''

  • Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, ''Text Mining for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Digital Libraries”


  • 3:30-3:45 Break

    3:45-5:00 New Partnerships and Possibilities
    Introductions: Joan Smith, Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries

    Roundtable Panel:
  • Santa Ono, Emory University (responder)

  • Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Eugene Agichtein, Emory University

  • Judith L. Klavans , University of Maryland, College Park
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  • Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • Ann S. Zimmerman, University of Michigan  


  • Tuesday, October 7

    Location:  Ballroom, Cox Hall, Emory University

    7:30-8:00 Continental breakfast

    8:00-8:15
    Opening remarks: Rick Luce, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries, Emory University

    Welcome and Introduction: Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Emory Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and Chairman of Emory Healthcare

    8:15-9:45 Keynote speaker: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences & Technology, Co-Director of the HMS Center for Biomedical informatics, Director of the Countway Library of Medicine
                                  
    “Instrumenting the Enterprise for Discovery Research: Patient Data to Biomedical Knowledge”

    9:45-10:00 Break

    10:00-11:30 Informatics at Work:  Connections that Complete the Cycle
    Introductions: Sandra Franklin, Director, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University

    Roundtable Panel
  • Dennis Choi, MD, PhD, Executive Director of Emory Neuroscience Initiatives  (responder)

  • Timothy J. Cain, PhD, Assistant Director, Center for Knowledge Management, Prior Health Sciences Library/Center for Knowledge Management, The Ohio State University

  • Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

  • Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Chief Medical Information Officer, Emory Healthcare

  • Nila Sathe, MA, MLIS, Associate Director for Research, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University

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