[Asis-l] 2018 NFAIS Blockchain For Scholarly Publishing Conference

[Benjamin Maverick Turley]

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 2018 NFAIS Blockchain For Schlarly Publishing Conference

Date: May 15 - 16, 2018

Location: Embassy Suites Old Town Alexandria

Link: https://nfais.memberclicks.net/blockchain-call-for-presenters

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The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) invites the entire information services community to come together in Old Town Alexandria on May 15 - 16, 2018 to explore blockchain's potential application for scholarly publishing.  Our lineup of esteemed experts have been asked to address the following:

  *   What changes can be expected of existing architectures and business models?
  *   How will horizontal access between publishers change discovery?
  *   What impact will blockchain have on existing workflow tools?
  *   What type of investment should libraries, publishers, and discovery services anticipate?
  *   What new skills will your staff require?
  *   What roles might funders play?
  *   How will different stakeholders come together to achieve interoperability of a decentralized system?
These are just some of the questions we'll answer so you can begin to build your strategy.

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Meet our experts:

·          Christopher E. Wilmer, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, and Managing Editor of Ledger, University of Pittsburgh

·          Sönke Bartling, Founder, Blockchain for Science

·          Petr Novotny, Research Staff Member, Thomas J. Watson Research Center

·          Lambert Heller, Head of Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover

·          Jason Barkeloo, Founder and Chair, Knowbella Tech



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NFAIS would like to thank the following sponsor of this event:

ATLA<https://www.atla.com/Pages/default.aspx>

For information about becoming a sponsor, contact Benjamin "Maverick" Turley at bturley at nfais.org<mailto:bturley at nfais.org> or call 443-221-2980 ext. 103

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