By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem ---- May 9, 2010 …. The annual Israel INFO 2010 Technology Conference and Exhibition which took place May 3 - 5 at the Tel Aviv Hilton broke 25 years of attendance records.

Israel INFO 2010, which was attended by a mass of participants from New York, London and Toronto to Paris, Hong Kong and Jerusalem, was organized by Teldan Information Systems, Israel's leading supplier of scientific, technological and business information.

This hi-tech, Web 2.0 event was honored by the presence of Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Israel Minister of Science and Technology and Michael Eitan, the Israel Minister for Improvement of Government Services.

Several unique events took place at Israel INFO 2010, including a Springer Digital Books event, Thomson Reuters' Science division prize awards and the launching of Financial Times 1888-2006 digital archive.

Israel INFO 2010 is a prestigious annual event in the global information industry and hosts dozens of professional seminars, attended by leading local and international lecturers. This year's conference was well attended, significantly increased over last year, with a more than 50 percent increase in exhibition area and participants.

The Springer event took place on the occasion of a special seminar "Digital books, Electronic Readers - towards the Breakthrough". The seminar discussed issues such as the position of several different digital consumer spaces, surveyed the various devices for reading e-books, examined the copyright issues of this medium and discussed the role of libraries in light of this reality.

Springer, the world's largest scientific publisher, hosted and led in this seminar a panel and discussion with the participation of senior Israeli researchers whose works have been published by Springer, as well as other researchers and writers in the field of electronic publishing.

The Thomson Reuters event followed the company's continued research into Israel's prolific scientific output. The research, carried out on the Web of Science platform, identifies leading scientists based on their citation statistics. The four most cited Israeli scientists were presented with a prize and a special plaque by Eric-Jan van Kleef, director of Academic and Government area.

Launching the FT Historical Archive by Gale (Cengage Learning) is the first official launch in Israel. The Financial Times is the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper. Distributed daily on its distinctive pink paper to more than a million readers worldwide, it is regarded as mandatory reading for the educated reader and the modern businessman.

The FT historical archive delivers the complete searchable run of the Financial Times. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2006, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page. It is an essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying the public affairs and financial history of the last 120 years.

The "Israel Info 2010" Conference and Exhibition offered a wide variety of unique and innovative seminars exposing participants to new products, technologies and tools. The event is held with the participation of Israel universities, public and private colleges as well as high-tech companies and startups.

Among the noteworthy seminars held at Info 2010: Mobile Platforms - content and information on mobile devices, i.e. - cellular phones, the required technologies and the social implications. The Competitive Intelligence Pendulum - The practical contribution of CI facing global changes, as a strategic tool for analyzing the competitive environment and competing in global markets. Search Engines in the Social and Semantic Web – Covering search technologies such as syntactic, semantic and visual, the required tools, trends and forthcoming techniques and a variety of specialized search engines, e.g. science, media, multimedia and social. Personalization of Knowledge - Web 3.0 techniques for tailoring content to individual preferences, based on the users' activities on the web, in social networks, with smartphones and offering appropriate recommendations.

Other Israel INFO 2010 seminars and presentations included: Social Networks - from Search Engines To "Social Searching" - the various types of social networks, searching information, moving from information to knowledge and the databases behind these networks. Information Overload - the phenomenon, electronic mail, social networks, organizational IO, information filtering systems and recommendation engines and "Using the Internet, Social Media to Save Lives" with case studies from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which included the IDF Humanitarian Field Hospital that was dispatched to Haiti in January after a devastating earthquake.

Participating organizations at Israel INFO 2010 included: Google Israel, Yahoo Israel, IBM, STKI, the Israeli Internet Society, IDF, Maccabi Health Services, Clalit Health Services, Israel Museum, Dead Sea Works, Elbit El-Op, Bynet Software Systems, Delta, Israel Archives and Information Association, the Yad Vashem Library, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael, Reuters Israel, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Open University, Weizmann Institute of Science, the National Library, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Mofet Institute, Holon Mediatheque Library, IsIt Fact Checking Software and the Leyden Digital PR, SEO, Internet Marketing Group.

Established in 1978, the Teldan Group is a leading supplier of business, scientific and technological information, offering a full range of information products and services to Libraries, Information Centers, Universities, Corporations, R&D, Hospitals and Medical Centers, Industrial Companies and Government and Defense Organizations. Teldan's subsidiaries produce databases, content and information management tools, eResource Access and Management systems, with activities in 15 countries.

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