SLA 2015 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO

Understanding the user experience on the Web and for mobile apps requires special skills and methodologies. Join this introductory session to understand how to take your information professional skill set one step further, and learn how you can contribute to effective and intuitive user interfaces.

Program Takeaways

• Designing intuitive user interfaces


• Principles of information architecture 

The Medical devices market was revolutionized by the European Union’s new rules for submissions in 2010.  The Clinical Evaluation Plan/Reports have been a challenge for companies to get a handle on for submissions.  This is a great opportunity for information professionals to be a part of the process to make the submission successful.  In this presentation, an overview of the regulations and approaches to compliance from literature searching to document review and reporting will be discussed in a panel that will include experts from three different organizations.

Program Takeaways

1. Participants will understand Clinical Evaluation Report (CER) requirements and also the geographies where CERs are required


2. Participants will become familiar with how to search the literature to support CER preparation

Session Presentation - Crumlish
Session Presentation - Hana Vegher

 

Images are becoming more and more important in our inter-connected world, and finding an image that you've seen before can often be quite a challenge. Can you classify images in the same way that you classify text? Are there any really useful automated techniques? Join this panel of experts to learn about best practices for classifying images. Our experienced speakers include Joy Banks, from the MAHD Division, as well as an experienced practitioner from Corbis, a company that specialize in providing digital image content to news and advertising organizations.

Program Takeaways

• Practical techniques for classifying images.


• Differences between classifying images and classifying text.

Session Presentation

This advanced session will discuss various methods and tools that info pros can use to enhance the search experience on the Intranet. Techniques include developing facets, how to best use auto-complete and "did you mean" functionality, and how to use your search analytics to the best advantage. Moderated by Gary Kahn of Earley and Associates, speakers include accomplished practitioners from IBM and Google, as well as experienced search consultants.

Program Takeaways

1. Participants will be able to implement taxonomies and filters in their search user interface.


2. Participants will be able to interpret search logs and metrics to improve result sets. 

Two of the foremost data management experts will discuss current data management trends that focus upon open data, data sharing, data policies and associated issues of importance to scientists as well as information professionals. This session also showcases reputable, easy-to-adopt, free/low-cost tools and services that support data management and are available to anyone around the world.

Program Takeaways

1. Participants will learn how scientists enable their data, including software, to be open using various data management services and tools


2. Participants will learn how data policies can encourage or restrict the sharing of open data and open science practices


3. Participants will learn about opportunities and roles for information professionals to support and promote open data practices

Session Presentation

Ask questions and provide feedback while Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) are all in the same room! Meet representatives from many SDOs; learn about their latest and greatest innovations. New for 2015, learning how standards are developed. Come early, grab a seat…this session fills up fast!

Program Takeaways

• Participants will learn about the latest developments from SDOs.


• Participants will about standards development. 

What does it mean to be a leader? It is a question that is asked throughout the private and public sectors and has filled entire departments of bookstores and libraries. But how do we learn to act, think and interact with people in order to exercise our own leadership? As professionals who understand research and data, we can and should turn to the experiences which have been recorded in libraries and archives to help answer these questions. Military history offers many examples. With illustrations from his own research, and informed by his experience serving with Sailors and Marines across the world, Navy Commander BJ Armstrong will help us recognize some of the fundamental concepts and the particular role which librarians and researchers play in helping us all learn to be better leaders.

Program Takeaways

• Recognize the fundamental concepts and ideas about leadership.


• Understand the role librarians and researchers can play in helping us all learn to be better leaders. 

Listen as Dr. Brian Wardle, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, discusses what nanotechnology is and how it's being applied to engineered materials and structures. Reference will be made to efforts over the past decade in using nanoscale materials to enhance performance of advanced aerospace materials and their structures through the industry.

Program Takeaways

• Participants will learn about nanotechnology and how it's being applied to engineered materials and structures.