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December 02, 2007

Forum professionals in Seville

On November 3 and December 1, 2007 took place the III Forum Specialist Information and Documentation of Andalusia, conferences, on an annual basis, the Association organizes Andaluza de Documentalistas (AAD). This year the common theme was The Social Web: new challenges and strategies in the information society, becoming the first professional meeting devoted entirely to the social and Web applications in the information centres. The framework paper was presented by Jose Antonio Merlo Vega, a professor at the USAL and vice president of APEI, who analyzed the characteristics of this new Internet, their bases and their applications. The web social libraries was the subject of the paper Dìdac Margaix, librarian at the UPV, who gave a detailed lecture on concepts Library 2.0, with abundant examples of services and practices. One of the panels was dedicated to blogs and their role in the professional field. This table was coordinated by Jorge Serrano, a pioneer in the blogosphere specializes in information and Spain participated in the same authors of some of the key logger on libraries and information: Alvaro Cabezas (Documentation, Library and Information), Miguel Calvillo (Nosololibros) , Nieves Gonzalez (Bibliotecarios_2.0, among others) and Catuxa Seoane (Deakialli). The officers returned to record the excitement surrounding weblogs in the profession, as a tool for communication and information. Interventions of participants and the public showed the time of maturity and consolidation in which the logs are already professional Spanish. Digital libraries were also the subject of attention being debated at this forum. Javier Alvarez gave a lecture in which he studied the content and social orientation of various electronic services Andalusians, particularly the Virtual Library of Andalusia, one of the oldest of its kind in Spain. In the last roundtable discussion on digital heritage conservation from eCollections, being present makers of digital libraries as Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library or Ilíberis Project at the University of Grenada. The table also participated Antonio Gomez, the BPE Huelva, who briefed the attendees of the project activity and Calimera orientation citizen of the site of the Provincial Library of Huelva, one of the few Spanish library entry own in Wikipedia. The presentations of this Forum III will be available on the website of the FMA and summaries of the speeches are now available in some of the blogs listed in this note.

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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