INFORUM 2010

Where are the search engines going? Is it different from where they’ve been? Where are they putting their emphasis? What’s up with personalized, specialty, vertical, blended and federated/universal search? Chris Sherman, whose long established relationships with search engine companies gives him a good sense of what’s coming and how new features will affect our working lives offers insight to what to expect in 2010. The workshop will focus on new developments of the major search engines, discuss the dozens of specialized tools available that can help you speed up your searching and uncover new and valuable information sources, and take a considered look at maps, which are becoming the new information visualization power tools. Next, a look at multimedia search – YouTube has become the world's second largest search engine, but more and more high quality content, academic lectures and courseware, research findings and more are being made available in multimedia format on the web. Finally, a look at a major but largely unnoticed trend enabled by search: personalization and targeting of advertisements tied to searcher behavior.

The workshop is organized in cooperation with CERGE-EI.

This workshop will be held in Czech language only, no translation facilities will be available.

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The INFORUM social evening, which is co-organized by the Czech National Library, will take place in the historical Klementinum Palace – the seat of the Czech National Library – in the evening of Wednesday May 26.
Please register for this event as soon as possible.

The Infoparty – a buffet reception – The Infoparty is held in Klementinum Courtyard, Marianske square 190, Prague 1 (photographic map). Beginning at 7:30 pm.

The INFORUM Awards for the best local projects, products and services will be announced at the Infoparty.

The Infoparty is organized in cooperation with the National Library of the Czech Republic.