International Conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age
All speakers accepted except if indicated differently
Monday 30th of June : morning sessions
- 8: 15 Registration
- 8: 45 Introduction and Welcome
Plenary key-note speakers
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break
Parallel sessions 1 (based on the call for papers)
11:30 - 12:50 Digital libraries and Scientific Information
- Bozena Bednarek-Michalska, “Digital Libraries in Poland. Status in 2008”, (Nicolaus Copernicus University Library, Poland)
- Ruth Iñigo and Anna Rovira, “UPCommons: an institutional repository and the public domain”, (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- María Iglesias “Digital libraries and silent works”, (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium)
- Karen Van Godtsenhoven, “The DRIVER project: on the road to a European Commons for scientific communication", (DRIVER project, University of Ghent, Belgium)
12:50 – 14:00 lunch
Monday 30th of June : afternoon sessions
Plenary key-notes speakers
16:40-17:00 coffee break
Parallel sessions 2 (based on the call for papers)
17:00 - 18:00 Public Sector Information
- Paul Uhlir, "Measuring the economic and social benefits and costs of public sector information online: a review of the literature and future prospects", (International Scientific and Technical (S&T) Information Programs, The National Academies, Washington, U.S.)
- Robert Davies, “ePSIplus: Towards the 2008 Review of the Directive on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use”, (ePSIplus Co-ordinator, MDR Partners, United Kingdom)
- Jordi Graells, Joana Soteras & Betlem Verdejo, “The Use of Creative Commons Licenses in the Ministry of Justice of the Government of Catalonia”, (Ministry of Justice, Government of Catalonia, Spain. Paper to be presented by Ignasi Labastida (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
17:00 - 18:00 Creative Works
- Prodromos Tsiavos, “Towards a model of Commons Based Peer Regulatory Production: the Creative Commons Case”, (LSE/ Oslo University)
- Giuseppe Mazziotti, “Building digital commons through open access management of copyright-related rights”, (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, Senior associate at Studio Legale Nunziante Magrone, Italy)
- Roland Alton Scheidl, Joe Benso and Martin Springer “The Value of Registering Creative Works”, (Internationaler Medienverbund reg.Gen.m.b.H., Austria)
Tuesday 1st of July : morning sessions
Plenary key-notes speakers
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 11:30 Rishab Gosh (Senior Researcher, UNU-Merit, The Netherlands)
Use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the public sector : lessons from the UNU-MERIT Surveys
- 11:30 – 12:30 Plenary panel session to discuss on the relationship between the terms of the recent public debates on OA initiatives and the considerations posed by the assessment exercise of OA initiatives at this conference
Moderator : Philippe Aigrain (Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces, France)
Panelists : Javier Hernández-Ros (Head of Unit Digital Libraries and Public Sector Information, Information Society and Media DG, European Commission)
Juan Carlos de Martin (President of the Politecnico's libraries and member of EurOpenScholarship, Italy)
Charles-Henry Nyns (Bibliothécaire en chef "Service central des bibliothèques", Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
12:30 – 14:00 lunch
Tuesday 1st of July : afternoon sessions
- 14:00 – 15:00 Synthesis of the 4 conference streams by appointed rapporteurs
Synthesis : Tom Dedeurwaerdere (Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Director of research at the Centre for the Philosophy of Law (CPDR), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium )
Moderator : Ed Steinmueller (Professor at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
- 15:00 – 18:00 Communia General Assembly
The program and abstract book can be downloaded here
