
The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture)**
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The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture), organized by the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, is a series of biennial international conferences aimed at researchers and professionals from the broad field of information studies and related professions. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform for discussing both theoretical and practical issues in information organization and information integration. INFuture explores how developments in information and communication technology influence the future of the field of information studies. Education and research in information science and its interdisciplinary scope and application is of particular interest to this conference.
Conference themes of special interest:
- 2019: Knowledge in the Digital Age
- 2009: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing
Conference sessions of special interest:
- 2013, 2009: Knowledge Management
Conference History:
7th INFuture2019, 21-22 November 2019, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Knowledge in the Digital Age
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Keynotes:
Language in the Age of Dataism
Co-creating Digital Heritage: What is the Impact of Cooperation and Re-use?
Conference Session Topics:
Digital Heritage (DH)
Information Systems and Management (IS&M)
Language and Data Technologies (L&DT)
Integration of ICT in Education (ICTiE)
Media and Communication (M&C)
6th INFuture2017, 8-10 November 2017, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Integrating ICT in Society
(Co-organizer: Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography)
Note: INFuture is under high auspices of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and the Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society, Government of the Republic of Croatia
Keynotes:
Digital Society – Challenge of the Future
e-Estonia – What will the future of a digitised society be?
The Encyclopaedia in the Digital Era: A New Beginning or just the Beginning of the End
Language Technologies for Social Media
Information Retrieval and Semantic Annotation of Scientific Corpora
Conference Supporter Presentations:
Big Data Trends
Future Essentials of the Networked Society
“Integration of ICT in Society”: how to turn it from “INFuture” to “INPresent” – practical view
Conference Session Topics:
Governmental and Business Sector Informatics (G&B)
e-Health Applications and Solutions (e-H)
Human-Computer Interaction and Language Technologies (HCI<)
Digitisation, Records Management and Digital Preservation (D-RM-DP)
Personal Digital Information Management (PDIM)
e-Science (eSCI)
Her.IT.age (HIT)
Community Informatics and Service-learning (CI-SL)
Integration of ICT in Education (ICT-E)
e-Encyclopaedia (e-E) – with The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography
Post.conference Workshop Day: (Nov 10)
The data dilemma: a risk or an asset? (European Association for Banking and Financial History)
5th INFuture2015, 11-13 November 2015, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: e-Institutions – Openness, Accessibility, and Preservation
Keynotes:
University of Zagreb and Open Access Initiatives adobe reader icon
Cyberspace: A Communal Place or a Place of Separation?adobe reader iconpptx icon
Croatian Strategy for the Development of Public Administration for the period from 2015 to 2020
Building trust and confidence through sustainable information systems research: towards a common futureadobe reader iconpptx icon
National Identification and Authentication System
Approximate sentence matching and its applications in corpus-based research
Conference Session Topics:
Big Data Analytics and Applications (BD)
Mobile Solutions (MS)
Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA)
Human-Computer Interaction, Language Technologies and Applications (HLT)
Health Informatics (HI)
e-Institutions (EI)
Technological Solutions for Society and Education (TSSE)
Trust in the Digital Environment (TDE)
Modern Information Systems (MIS)
Project presentations
Conference Workshops:
How to maintain authenticity and integrity of electronic information without utilizing electronic certificates?
Post-conference Workshops Day: (Nov 13)
Initial Maturity Model for Information Governance Arrangements in Organizations
4th INFuture2013, 6-8 November 2013, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Information Governance
Note: INFuture is under the high auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia Professor Ivo Josipović, Ph.D.
Keynotes:
Recordkeeping and Archiving in the Cloud: Is There a Silver Lining?
“To the Tasks and the Skills”: Considerations and Competencies for Designing Glocal Archival Access Systems
From Translation Machine Theory to Machine Translation Theory – some initial thoughts
Conference Session Topics:
Theory and Methodology of Information Governance (IG)
Knowledge Management (KM)
EU Infrastructure Integration
Applications for e-Society and e-Government
Enterprise 2.0
Cloud Services
Language Technologies
Semantic Web
Digital Curation
New Challenges in Interdisciplinary Education
Project presentations
Conference Workshops:
Corpus-based research with the Sketch Engine
Post-conference Workshops Day: (Nov 8)
Trados – the Past, the Present, the Future
3rd INFuture2011, 9-11 November 2011, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Information Sciences and e-Society
Note: INFuture is under the high auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Keynotes:
Digital Preservation – Business As Usual
Children and e-Society: European Research Findings on Opportunities and Risks
Translation as a Business Migration Tools
Croatian Digital Library Initiatives Migration Tools
Heading Towards 50 Billion Connections
Conference Session Topics:
e-Society
E-services, e-government and business applications
e-Learning
Visual communication
Communicating heritage
Natural language processing
Language technologies
Digital preservation
Special session: doctoral colloquium
KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) Project Track
Project presentations
2nd INFuture2009, 4-6 November 2009, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing
(Co-organizer: IBM Croatia; Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia, Government of the Republic of Croatia)
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Keynotes:
Sharing Knowledge and Information: Three Views of the Future
DigitalPreservationEurope: a Way Forward in the Long Term Curation of Digital Materials
CLARIN: Where We Stand and Where We Need Your Input
A Progress Report on Bitext Parsing
IBM Information Agenda
Knowledge Architecture: A Vision for the 21st Century
Conference Session Topics:
Virtual Environment in Education
Using Open-Source Solutions in Cultural Heritage
Knowledge Management
Using Information Resources in Research, Education and Presentation
Digitization and Preservation
Language Technologies
e-Services and e-Government
Project presentations
Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 3)
Knowledge: Making it Work
The use of Web 2.0 Tools in the Design and Implementation of Pedagogical Activities for e-Learning
1st INFuture2007, 7-9 November 2007, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Conference Theme: Digital Information and Heritage
(Co-organizer: Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia, Government of the Republic of Croatia)
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Keynotes:
e-Croatia 2007 – Fostering the Development of Information Society in Croatia
CLARIN: A Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Curriculum 2.0? Changes in information science education for a Web 2.0 world
Konceptualna i primijenjena okosnica studija informacijskih znanosti na Filozofskome fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Je li informacijska znanost još uvijek društvena znanost?
Information Search and Retrieval in the Virtual World
Addressing Digital Memory Preservation Challenges in Europe
Conference Session Topics:
Digitisation
3D Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
e-Heritage and Preservation
e-Infrastructure
Identity in Electronic Environment and its Preservation
Information Science Education
Document Management in Business Applications and e-Government
Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 6)
Crossing Language Barriers for Under-resourced Languages and Translation Tools in the EU