14 February 2012

9.30 – 10.00   Registration
10.00 – 10.20   Welcome speeches by:
Mantas Adomėnas, Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Raimundas Kirvaitis, President of the Association of Lithuanian Serials
Gintautas Tamulaitis, Conference Chair, Vilnius University

Session I
10.20 – 11.00   Creating a Scholarly Universe: The Importance of Asserting a Researcher’s Identity, Mike Taylor, Elsevier
11.00 – 11.40   Contributor Identification Is a Core Challenge in Data Publication, Gudmundur Thorisson, University of Iceland

11.40 – 12.00   Coffee break

Session II
12.00 – 12.40   Open Access to Scholarly Metadata: Author Claiming and Institutional Identification, Thomas Krichel, Long Island University, Novosibirsk State University, Open Library Society
12.40 – 13.20   ISNI – International Standard Name Identifier for Creators and Organisations, Janifer Gatenby, OCLC

13.20 – 14.00   Lunch

Session III
14.00 – 14.40   ORCID: Unique Identifiers for Authors and Contributors, Martin Fenner, Hannover Medical School, ORCID
14.40 – 15.20   Scientist Identification: The Russian Needle in the Haystack, Akhat A. Nabiullin, Central Scientific Library of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
15.20 – 16.00   The Survey on Data Gathering on Researcher Activities. Initial Findings, Eleonora Dagienė, The Association of Lithuanian Serials, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University