Working session: Government Information and Libraries

12 May 2014: Programme

Working session: Government Information and Libraries

14:30-15:30 Welcome – Registration

Session A. Chair: Sarantos Kapidakis

15:30-15:40 Greetings

                        Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Secretary General of Mass Media (SGMM)

                        Stelios Agouridis, (Head) Directorate of Analysis and Documentation (SGIC)

                        Giorgios Glossiotis, (President) Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists

15:40-15:50 Klaus-Peter Böttger (EBLIDA) “EBLIDA’s role and how this relates to Governmental Information”

15:50-16:00 Jan Braeckman (NAPLE) “Role of Public libraries in giving access to Governmental Information”

16:00-16:20 Ioannis Sagias (European Commission) “ISA: Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations”

16:20-16:40 Andreas Dimitriou (Ministry of Administrative Reform and E- Governance) “The Data Economy: an opportunity for Greece”

16:40-16:50 Questions – Answers

16:50-17:10 Coffee break

Session B. Chair: Giorgos Glossiotis

17:10-17:25 Manolis Terrovitis (“Athena” Research Centre) “Big, Linked and Open Data in Greece”

17:25-17:40 Maria Monopoli (Bank of Greece) – Anna Mastora (Secretariat General of Mass Media – Secretariat General of Information & Communication) “Government libraries in Greece: current situation and future considerations”

17:40-17:55 Filippos Tsimpoglou (National Library of Greece) “Collaborative Library Networks: from the recent past to the visible future”

17:55-18:10 Christos Papatheodorou (Ionian University) “Some thoughts on Teaching about Public Sector Information”

18:10-18:30 Questions – Answers, Discussion, End of Working Session

Short CV’s of the speakers.

By invitation only.

A guided tour to the Hellenic Parliament’s Library will follow