interactive Internet videoconferences

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Dear colleagues

We are issuing an important invitation.

As part of the tasks for the development of the next version of ABCD, we will have next week (21-25 May) a workshop in the University of Antwerp, organized by Egbert de Smet. About 10 experts from different countries will participate, part of the team working on the update of ABCD.
As one of the activities of that week, we will have about 4 technical presentations, which will be offered as interactive Internet videoconferences, using the Elluminate Live software, thanks to the co-operation with BIREME/OPS/OMS.
Due to organizational and technical capacity, we have restricted the number of participants who can enroll for these online session, but the presentations will be recorded by BIREME and later on will be available both for the BVS/BIREME network and the ISIS users-list.
We can invite up to 50 participants from the ISIS users-list to attend the videoconferences. See the invitation rules below here. BIREME will invite from its side experts from the BVS/LILACS network, so in total there will be more than 100 participants from various countries.
PROGRAM OF PRESENTATIONS
All presentations will be broadcasted from Tuesday 22 at the same time :
Brazil / Argentina      11:00 – 12:30
Chile   10:00 – 11:30
Ecuador 09:00 – 10:30
Spain / Belgium 16:00 – 17:30
India   19:30 – 21:00

Day                Topic                                                                                Presented by                    language
Tuesday    ISIS-OAI-Provider
                  ISIS databases available by the OAI-PMH protocol             Renato Mursaki
                                                                                                        Vinicius Andrade       Spanish
Wednesday       J-ISIS & Digital Libraries
                       Advances and new feautures of J-ISIS                           Jean-Claude Dauphin
                                                                                                          Egbert de Smet       English
Thursday            iAHx: A search/retrieval interface based on Apache Solr/Lucene        Renato Mursaki
                                                                                                                 Vinicius Andrade      Spanish
Friday          ABCD – general introduction
                       New features                                                            Guilda Ascencio
                                                                                                       Egbert de Smet             Spanish
Vinícius Andrade - senior system engineer BIREME/OPS/OMS
Renato Murasaki – Chief of information technology BIREME/OPS/OMS

INVITATIONS
-         To register send your request to: spin...@adinet.com.uy detailing :
o        Name, e-mail, institution and country.
-         Persons from institutions already using ABCD at any stage will have priority
-         For viewing the presentations in real-time, only a PC with audio and with good bandwidth Internet connection is needed.
-         Registration is possible until Friday 18 evening up to a maximum of 50 participants.
-         On Monday 21 the participants will receive the URL address to connect to for attending the presentations, together with instructions to register for the videoconferences.

Regards
Ernesto Spinak