ACP 08 Sessions
Plenary sessions
Thursday 6 November 09:50 - 10:15
Keynote speech
Mainstreaming adaptive information processing; achievements and lessons of the DAISY for All Project
Hiroshi Kawamura - President of the DAISY Consortium
The DAISY Consortium was given the ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008 in recognition of its good practices to implement the WSIS Plan of Actions and strong support for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The speaker will address the achievements and challenges of the global implementation of DAISY standards for equitable access to information by persons with disabilities with special reference to critical global issues to be most effectively tackled by mainstreaming of accessible contents processing, such as promotion of indigenous peoples’ language and culture, disaster preparedness of the community as a whole, and combating against illiteracy.
Thursday 6 November 10:15 - 10:45
The Future of eBook Publishing and Mainstream Applications of New Technologies
Sander van Kempen - Pinion, NDC/VBK Publishers, The Netherlands
Sander van Kempen has been involved in eBook publishing for many years and is currently director of eBook.nl (part of NDC/VBK publishers). Though eBooks did not live up to the high promises some people did have at the start, recent developments as the Amazon Kindle, iRex Iliad and the Sony eReader have brought new attention to eBooks. Sander will put these developments into perspective and tell about the actual efforts needed to produce eBooks from the material publishers use for the printed versions. He will highlight the practical issues he encounters, when getting material from publishers and rights issues to solve. He will also talk about how current efforts to make eBooks for the mainstream market can help to produce adapted versions for the visually impaired.
Friday 7 November 10:00 - 10:30 keynote speech
Speaker to be announced.
Plenary 14:00 - 17:00
Round Table: A discussion of the Green Paper
This round table discussion is centered on the recent EC Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (available here). This discussion will cover the latest developments and proposed changes to legislation, digital delivery, rights and exceptions.
The Green Paper focuses on the role of copyright in fostering dissemination of knowledge for research, science and education. The Green Paper is intended as the starting point for a structured debate on the long-term future of copyright policy in these fields. Copyright policy has increasingly emerged as a transversal issue, involving not only the internal market and cultural policies but also information society, competition and consumer interests. The Green Paper is an attempt to organise this debate and point to future challenges in fields that have not been a focal point up to now, e.g. scientific and scholarly publishing, and the role of libraries, researchers and the persons with a disability.
Introduction
Anne Bergman-Tahon - Federation of European Publishers, Belgium
Participating in the Round Table discussion will be, among others:
Hiroshi Kawamura - President of the DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher - Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium
Anne Bergman-Tahon - Federation of European Publishers, Belgium
Cristina Mussinelli - Associazione Italiana Editori, Italy
Erik Timmermans - Nederlands Uitgevers Verbond, The Netherlands
Koen Krikhaar - IFLA Libraries for the Blind section, The Netherlands
Andy Heath - Open University, United Kingdom
Roel van Houten - Viziris, The Netherlands
Dr. Thomas Kahlisch - Director German Central Library for the Blind Leipzig (DZB), Secretary IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section
Plenary 17:00 – 17:05
Concluding remarks
Thematic sessions