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ICIC


The International Conference for Science & Business Information

Sitges, Spain 18-21 October 2009

This page last updated 30 October 2009

PROGRAMME

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  Monday 19 October 2009  

Victor Camlek
Thomson-Reuters, USA
An Overview of the Geographic Shift in Economic Power 

Martin O'Malley
Elsevier, USA
Challenges facing the STM Industry 

Sabine Brünger-Weilandt
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
Quality: A Key Factor in the Professional Information Workflow 

Antony Williams
Chemspider, USA
How Internet Resources are Providing a Collaborative Community for Chemistry 

Christopher Southan
ChrisDS Consulting, Sweden
An Updated Comparison of Selected Public and Commercial Bioactive Chemistry Databases 

Karen Blakeman
RBA Information Services, UK
Blogs and Twitter: Is there Gold amongst the Dross? 

David Walsh, Andrew Berridge and Ben Gardner
Pfizer, UK
Pfizerpedia Patents Semantic MediaWiki – The How, What, When, Who and Why of Patents 

William Town (Kilmorie) and Deborah Kahn (Publishing Directions) UK
A Study of Scholarly Communication between Chemists and of their Uptake and Use of Web 2.0 and other New Technologies 

Richard Kidd
Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, UK
Find and Use: New Standards Link Information to Provide New Answers 

 

 Tuesday 20 October 2009  

David A Evans
JustSystems Evans Research, USA
E-Discovery: A Challenge for Search 

Christiane Wolff
Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany
Development of an Intranet in a Worldwide Operating Company – a Case Study  [Not available online]

Fabienne Berthet
IPSEN Pharma, France
Too Many Choices: How Information Departments Evaluate and Choose New Information Tools 

Jean-Yves Legendre and Frédérick Caillaud
L'Oréal, France
Building a Market for Intellectual Property 

Valentina Eigner-Pitto and Heinz Saller    Prize Presentation
InfoChem, Germany
Progress in Automated Chemical Structure Recognition in Text and Images

Monika Hanelt
Agfa Graphics, Belgium
When does a search in full-text and chemical databases fail? 

Anton Heijs
Treparel Information Solutions, The Netherlands
Visualisation of Statistical and Text Mining Results from Large Document Collections 

Szabolcs Csepregi
ChemAxon, Hungary
Representation, Searching and Enumeration of Markush Structures: From Molecules Towards Patents 

Marc Zimmermann
Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany
Chemical Depictions – The Grand Challenge in Patents 

  Wednesday 21 October 2009  

Ian Pearce and Ron Kaminecki (Dialog, UK)
Dialog, UK
Patent Research: How a Patent Document Resists Searching 

Brian Bartell
Notiora Inc, USA
(co-authors Robert Brown, Eddy Vande Water and Andrew LeBeau, Accelrys Software, inc)
Characterising Pharmaceutical Patent Space Using a Combined Text and Chemical Analysis Approach 

David Milward
Linguamatics, UK
Semantic Insights using Agile Natural Language-based Text Mining 

Mihai Lupu
 Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
Evaluation of Information Retrieval Tools for Chemical Patents and Scientific Articles 

 

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