The University of Salamanca will hold the Open Knowledge International Conference

It is the largest library related event held in Spain.

Salamanca will host the International Conference on the Ecosystems of Open Knowledge, ECA 2017. Specialists from all over the world will gather at this outstanding event. It will be made possible thanks to the joint effort of members from the Library Service and the Department of Library and Information Science from the University of Salamanca.

I had the opportunity to present the Congress to be held in 2017, at the annual Assembly of the Spanish Academic Libraries Network (REBIUN), sector of libraries of the CRUE which integrates all public and private Spanish Universities. ECA 2017 has emerged as a congress holder which allows for different academic events to take place. They are normally held independently, however, this time they will come together in order to analyse open knowledge from different perspectives. Library professionals, specialists in resources and open data, repository managers and researchers from national and international centres will gather in Salamanca to discuss the developments and tendencies of open information. The University of Salamanca is a national and international leader in the field of open knowledge.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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