[Sigia-l] [Amsterdam IA Cocktail Hour] The Battle of the Interfaces! (Feb 15)

[Peter Boersma]

[This is an announcement of an IA Cocktail Hour in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. It is mostly of use to Dutch IAs and those in the neighborhood.
Are you visiting The Netherlands around Feb 15 and do you want to connect?
Let me know! PB]

Quick! What is better: browse or search?
Well?
Let me guess: "It depends...?"
Not good enough!

Find out in The Battle of the Interfaces at the next Amsterdam IA Cocktail
Hour in the IJ-Kantine on Wednesday, February 15, 2006!

In the red corner, our hosts and sponsor Medialab Solutions
(http://www.medialab.nl) have developed their Aquabrowser solution to
support visual browsing of large information spaces, using a "word cloud".
They target their product at libraries, amongst others.

In the blue corner, Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.com) is a
scientific publishing house that has embraced the web as a delivery medium.
They have spent the last couple of years developing Scopus, their flagship
search product. They too see librarians as their market.

On Wednesday, February 15 from 18:00 onwards, these two heavyweights will
showcase their respective solutions by explaining their products' history,
supported content, target users, design approaches, and of course their
interfaces. Afterwards you should be able to determine what solution suits
your needs, and you can fight about the specifics over a snack and a drink.
Because IAs are friendly people, right?

So, the details:
What:  Amsterdam IA Cocktail Hour
When:  Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Time:  18:00 onwards, battle starts around 18:30
Where: IJ-Kantine
(http://www.ijkantine.nl/, take the ferry at Central Station)
Hosts: Medialab Solutions
Theme: Battle of the interfaces!

If you intend to come, please let me know (mailto:peter at peterboersma.com) so
we can make proper arrangements food/drinkwise.

As always, feel free to contact me if you have questions about these events.

Peter
P.S.: Rule #1 about The Battle of the Interfaces? Talk to all your IA
friends about The Battle of the Interfaces!
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