The "Austrian Librarian Day" is the biggest librarian conference in Austria and attracts up to 800 participants from all over the world. This year, the Know-Center is represented at the conference with two talks from the Social Computing Team.

This year, the 32nd Austrian Librarian Day runs under the motto „Offen(siv)e Bibliotheken: Neue Zugänge, neue Strukturen, neue Chancen“  (Open Libraries/Library Offensive: new approaches, new structures, new chances) and will take place from September 15 – 18, 2015 in Vienna.

Elisabeth Lex andPeter Kraker from the Social Computing Team at Know-Center will be holding a talk each on September 17, 2015 – these talks take place in the tracks called „New metrics and research data“ and „Open Science and Research Fostering“.

  • Research Data Explored according to three different metrics / Neue Metriken und Forschungsdaten: eine explorative Studie (Elisabeth Lex/Isabella Peters) – see the abstract here
  • Chancen kollaborativer Forschungsservices basierend auf offenen Daten (Peter Kraker) – see the abstract here

More information can be found on the official conference website.