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GL14 Chair and Opening SpeakersTracking Innovation through Grey LiteratureFourteenth International Conference on Grey LiteratureNational Research Council, CNR Rome, 29-30 November 2012

Opening Address

Dr. Carlos Morais Pires (European Commission)is Head of the Sector of the 'Scientific DataInfrastructure' in the unit dealing with e-Infrastructures in the EU 7th FrameworkProgramme (Capacities Programme). He has beenwith the European Commission (InformationSociety DG) since 1998, dealing with the

development of a large number of R&D projects on Information andCommunication Technologies and has been actively involved inbringing output from research into policy and regulatory activities.He holds a Ph.D. from Telecom Italia Lab/University of Lisbon, inElectrical Engineering in the field of Telecommunication andBroadcasting Technologies. Before joining the EC, he was with thedepartment of Computer Science of ISCTE University in Lisbon.

Keynote Address

Dr. Jan Brase (TIB Hannover) has a degree inMathematics and a PhD in Computer science. Hisresearch background is metadata, ontologies anddigital libraries. Since 2005 he is head of the DOI-registration agency for research data at theGerman National Library of Science andTechnology (TIB). He is furthermore ManagingAgent of DateCite that has set itself the goal of

making online access to all kinds of information for scientists easierby promoting the acceptance of research data and grey literature asindividual, citable scientific objects. Jan is Chair of the InternationalDOI foundation (IDF), Vice-President of the International Council forScientific and Technical Information and Co-Chair of the CODATAData Citation task group.

Chair Opening Session

Dr. Stefania Biagioni (ISTI-CNR) is aresearch staff member and Head librarianand member of the ISTI NetworkedMultimedia Information SystemsLaboratory. She has been involved indigital library projects since 1996. Stefaniais Co-Chair of the GL14 ProgramCommittee and longstanding author in the

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GL14 Chair and Opening SpeakersTracking Innovation through Grey Literature

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About GreyNet NewsletterThis serial publication endeavors to keep information professionals abreast of developments in the field of grey literature.The quarterly newsletter gives exposure to GreyNet’s information resources and frontline activities with special emphasis onthe International Conference Series on Grey Literature. The GreyNet Newsletter is licensed by EBSCO Publishing and canalso be accessed via the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) full-text database. This serialpublication is made possible through the support of GreyNet’s Associate Members and Corporate Authors: FLICC-FEDLINKof the Library of Congress (USA), INIST-CNRS (France), New York Academy of Medicine (USA), EBSCO Publishing (USA),National Technical Library (Czech Republic), and the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (Slovak Republic)

Grey Literature is a field in library and Information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access tomultiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic andprint formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing

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