Schedule for STIMULATE International Training Programme on Information

Schedule for STIMULATE International Training Programme on Information (most recently updated on 13/07/2007)

Web pages related to STIMULATE7 are located at http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/stimulate7

NOTE: This schedule is subject to changes.

All lectures and academic activities are compulsory for the participants with a VLIR scholarship. If a participant can not attend the class, then he or she should inform the organizers by sending an e-mail to stimulate@vub.ac.be

The extra activities in italic are not compulsory. They are mentioned for your information.

Day	Date	Hour	Location(s)	Person(s) taking part	Details of activities	Note
Tue	24 April	6:35	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Benjamin Butuk Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Wed	25 April	6:35 7:45	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Elizabeth Murugi Kahiga Teklemariam Haile Gebreyes Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Thu	26 April	6:10 6:10 7:45 8:59	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Ann Apio Geofry Magimbi Albert Nhawo Chikono Cham Thi Bich Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Thu	26 April	9:00	VUB campus Jette: studenthome/ VUB campus Etterbeek: Building M (go through the first door to the left after the entrance. Martine’s office is again the first door on your left)	The participants / Martine Gheysen / Sahdia Khan	The students entitled to a VLIR scholarship can go to Martine Gheysen to collect their voucher. Sahdia Khan will wait for the newly arrived participants in front of the entrance of the student home and will go with them to VUB Etterbeek. The participants should take their passport, a small picture and their ticket with them.
Fri	27 April	9:15 22:05	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Subhanee Priyangika Degurunnehelage Yuxian Liu Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Fri	27 April	10:00	VUB campus Etterbeek: Building M (go through the first door to the left after the entrance. Martine’s office is again the first door on your left)	The participants / Martine Gheysen / Sahdia Khan	The students entitled to a VLIR scholarship can go to Martine Gheysen to collect their voucher. Sahdia Khan will wait for the newly arrived participants and the accompanying participants in front of the entrance of Building M. The participants should take their passport, a small picture and their ticket with them.
Sat	28 April	11:00-16:00	Jette: Entrance of the Student home	Sahdia Khan (assistant for STIMULATE7 for Prof. Nieuwenhuysen) / The participants	Sahdia Khan will explain the cultural program, medical insurance, scholarship payments, user-id’s for accessing the computer network at the university, registration. The participants can enjoy a small guided tour of the city. The key metro stops will be shown as well as the way to reach the VUB campus in Etterbeek. A tour of both campuses will be given.
Sun	29 April	13:00	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Bernadetta Gill Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Mon	30 April			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants read the documentation provided in their welcome pack. The documentation includes information about the registration, the season pass, the study trips…
Tue	1 May				Public holiday
Wed	2 May	9:00	VUB campus Etterbeek: Building M (go through the first door to the left after the entrance. Martine’s office is again the first door on your left)	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The students entitled to a VLIR scholarship can go to Martine Gheysen to collect their voucher. Sahdia Khan will wait for the participants in front of the entrance of Building M. The participants should take their passport, a small picture and their ticket with them.
		14:00	VUB Etterbeek Building B Floor 2 room 2B112K (Sahdia Khan’s Office)	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The students receive their log-ins which enables them to access the VUB computers.
		15:00-17:30	VUB campus Etterbeek: Building D room 1.08	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	General Introduction and presentation of the course’s expectations and arrangements, presentation of the individual participant’s backgrounds and expectations.
		18:00	VUB campus Etterbeek: Convivium	The participants / the Steering committee / Sahdia Khan / some lecturers / other guests	Welcome reception with drinks and snacks. Paul Nieuwenhuysen and some other members of the steering committee welcome all the participants, the lecturers and the other guests. Q&A session. The participants are explained about the planned poster session and photo contest.
Thu	3 May	11:00-13:00	VUB campus Etterbeek University’s library	Frans Van Roy	Guided tour of the physical library of the university and a demonstration of the digital library of the university. The participants will receive their library cards.
Thu	3 May	14:00	City hall of Jette	The participants	The participants are going to make the registration in the city hall of Jette! (Follow the indications included in your welcome pack!) The participants need identification, their travel documents, proof of their staying place in Belgium (provided by the student Home), 4 small pictures and 6 to 7€ in order to make the registration!
Fri	4 May	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room 1.0.8	Lecturer Leo Egghe	Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management.
		20:20 22:05	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Muhammed Asif Lea Marra Jalon Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
			Various locations in Brussels city	The participants	Start of the KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS. The festival presents a unique selection of international contemporary performing arts in Brussels. More information is available on www.kfda.be
Sat	5 May	7:50	Zaventem airport: arrival hall / Jette: Student home	The taxi driver / Arriving participants	Arrival of: Ireen Namoonga Gunduza Arriving participants are picked-up by a taxi service arranged by the organizers in order to facilitate the participants’ journey to the student home. THE DRIVER WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU NEXT TO THE STELLA ARTOIS CAFE (BAR) WITH A COLOURED PANEL WITH ‘STIMULATE’ WRITTEN ON IT. Welcome packs are handed over to the participants. These packs contain: a map of Brussels, bloc note, pen, notes of main courses, a city guide, Belgian chocolate…
Sat	5 May			The participants	Participants who wish to purchase a monthly pass for public transport can follow the indications included in the welcome pack. The participants need 45€, identification and four small pictures in order to make the pass. (Do not forget to renew your pass every month during your stay!)
Sun	6 May
Mon	7 May	13:00-18:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library (take the white door next to the library to go one floor up)	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Internet overview
Tue	8 May			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Wed	9 May			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Thu	10 May	9:00-12:00 13:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Internet overview Internet exercise
Fri	11 May	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Ronald Rousseau	Citation analysis and research performance: Principles of citation analysis, citation indexes as retrieval instruments, citation indexes as a database for evaluation purposes, citers’ motivations, problems involving the use of citations, i.p. self-citations, co-authorship, manipulation by editors, citation networks, bibliographic coupling, co-citation analysis, the h-index, the g-index, description of the Web of Science, description of the JCR, science evaluation: a real-life example, possibilities for local evaluations. Practical exercises on the Web downloading and manipulating data in Excel file, finding citation data, calculating h-indices (possibly also g-indices).
Sat	12 May
Sun	13 May
Mon	14 May	13:00-18:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Design of web pages intro
Tue	15 May			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Wed	16 May	13:00-18:00	VUB campus Jette Building B room 0.10, 0.11	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Design of web pages exercises
Thu	17 May				Public holiday
Fri	18 May	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room 1.0.8	Lecturer Leo Egghe	Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management.
Sat	19 May
Sun	20 May
Mon	21 May	9:00-13:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Putting information on-line
Tue	22 May	8:20	Train station Brussels North	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The group STIMULATE 7 meets at the train station of Brussels North. Meeting point in the main hall in front of the timetable panel. STIMULATE 7 offers transport.
		10:00-13:00	New Scientific Library	Ludo Holans	Guided tour of the New Scientific library of KULeuven.
		14:00-17:00	New Scientific Library	Lecturer Ludo Holans	Methods of internet searching.
		18:00	Train station Leuven	The participants / Sahdia Khan	Our group takes the train back to Brussels.
Wed	23 May	11:00-13:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building B room 002	Lecturer Paul Nieuwenhuysen	Presentation of scientific information: an introduction.
		17:00-18:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building E room 3.05	The participants / Supervisor Paul Nieuwenhuysen	Presentation of the poster by each participant.
		19:00	VUB campus Etterbeek GalerY’ KultuurKafe	The participants / Paul Nieuwenhuysen / other members of the steering committee	Vernissage: opening of the exhibition of Oswald Kuijken.
Thu	24 May	8:20	Train station Brussels North	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The group STIMULATE 7 meets at the train station of Brussels North. Meeting point in the main hall in front of the timetable panel. STIMULATE 7 offers transport.
		10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	New Scientific Library	Lecturer Ludo Holans	Methods of internet searching. Ludo Holans will evaluate the students’ performance by giving them an assignment involving Internet searching.
		18:00	Train station Leuven	The participants / Sahdia Khan	Our group takes the train back to Brussels
Fri	25 May		Various locations in Brussels city	The participants	Start of the Brussels jazz marathon. The marathon will last till the 27th of May. Free jazz concerts at different places in the city. More information on http://www.brusselsjazzmarathon.be
Sat	26 May
Sun	27 May
Mon	28 May				Public holiday
Tue	29 May	9:00-12:00 14:00-18:00	VUB campus Jette Building B Room B 0.10, B 0.11	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	XML and exercises XML
Wed	30 May			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Thu	31 May	9:00-12:00 14:00-18:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Marc Nyssen	Exercises session
Fri	1 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room 1.0.8	Lecturer Leo Egghe	Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management.
Sat	2 June
Sun	3 June
Mon	4 June	6:30	Jette (Entrance) Student home / Den Haag National Library of The Netherlands	The participants / Sahdia Khan	A bus is arranged to pick the participant up and to drive them to Den Haag. Transport and registration to the conference are offered by STIMULATE.
		9:30	Den Haag National Library of The Netherlands	The participants	Registration More information on the conference can be found on: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2007.htm
		11:00		The participants	SESSION 1 – Welcome & Introduction •Patricia Alkhoven, UDCC Director, The Netherlands •Maria Inês Cordeiro, UDC Editor-in-Chief, Portugal •Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia Mathematics Department, Italy •Maria Balikova, National Library of the Czech Republic
		12:30		The participants	Lunch break
		14:00		The participants	SESSION 2 – User Experiences & Applications •Wouter Schallier, Biomedische Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium •Jiri Pika, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Switzerland •To be announced
		15:15		The participants	Coffee break
		15:45		The participants	SESSION 3 - UDC Publishers & Products •BSI - British Standards Institution, United Kingdom •VINITI - All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia •Céfal, Belgium •UDCC - Universal Decimal Classification Consortium, The Netherlands
		17:00		The participants	Drinks reception
		18:00	Den Haag	The participants	The participants are free to visit Den Haag.
		20:00	Den Haag / Jette Student home	The participants / Sahdia Khan	Return to Brussels to the student home by bus.
Tue	5 June			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Wed	6 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	ISIS Formatting Language basics with exercises, Multimedia applications.
Thu	7 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	ISIS Formatting Language basics with exercises, Multimedia applications.
Fri	8 June			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Sat	9 June
Sun	10 June
Mon	11 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	Multi-media applications with WinISIS, Multi-database applications with WinISIS: a loans application, for libraries with advanced techniques: using Pascal-programs.
Tue	12 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	Defining an ISIS database with WinISIS, the Formatting Language continued.
Wed	13 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Ronald Rousseau	Citation analysis and research performance: Principles of citation analysis, citation indexes as retrieval instruments, citation indexes as a database for evaluation purposes, citers’ motivations, problems involving the use of citations, i.p. self-citations, co-authorship, manipulation by editors, citation networks, bibliographic coupling, co-citation analysis, the h-index, the g-index, description of the Web of Science, description of the JCR, science evaluation: a real-life example, possibilities for local evaluations. Practical exercises on the Web downloading and manipulating data in Excel file, finding citation data, calculating h-indices (possibly also g-indices).
Thu	14 June	14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building B room 002	Lecturer Paul Nieuwenhuysen	Presentation of scientific information: Q&A session. The participants show their progress on the given assignment followed by a discussion.
Thu	14 June	18:00	VUB Campus Etterbeek Convivium	The participants / Paul Nieuwenhuysen / other members of the Steering committee / Sahdia Khan / some lecturers / other guests	Beer tasting evening: Paul Nieuwenhuysen explains about the Belgian beer tradition. Afterwards you can measure your skills in a tasting competition. Along with the Beer, you can taste some fine Belgian cheese (dairy product). Non-alcoholic drinks and vegetarian food are also available.
Fri	15 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room 1.0.8	Lecturer Leo Egghe	Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management.
Sat	16 June
Sun	17 June
Mon	18 June		VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library		PC room is booked for STIMULATE7. A lecture can take place. This will be detailed later.
Tue	19 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	Publishing ISIS-databases on the WWW with GenISIS.
Wed	20 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room D.1.07	Lecturer Raf Dekeyser	The role of the library as carrier of scientific communication.
Thu	21 June	10:00-13:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Workshop planner Françoise Devillard	CSA Illumina
Fri	22 June			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Sat	23 June
Sun	24 June
Mon	25 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	Publishing ISIS-databases on the WWW with GenISIS continued.
Tue	26 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Francesco Dell'Orso	Bibliography management software Using microcomputer software applications to manage personal bibliographic and textual databases. Introduction, description, and use with practice. Examples with commercial and open-source free software. Computer room is needed. Video projecting equipment required as well.
Wed	27 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Francesco Dell'Orso	Bibliographic description standard for books, articles, electronic resources etc. (IFLA's ISBDs)	You will not need your laptops for this session
Thu	28 June	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Francesco Dell'Orso	Thesaurus structures with reference to ISO 2788-1986 standards.
Fri	29 June		Brussels: Tour&Taxi	The participants	Start of festival Couleur Café. More information on http://www.couleurcafe.be/cc07/index.html
Sat	30 June
Sun	1 July
Mon	2 July			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Tue	3 July	7:45	Train station Brussels North	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The group STIMULATE 7 meets at the train station of Brussels North. Meeting point is in the main hall in front of the panels with the timetable. STIMULATE 7 offers transport.
		10:00-…	Ostend UNESCO	The participants	Presentation on the project office on the Ocean Data and information Networks. Marine information (library) management. Tour of the library of VLIZ.
			Ostend	The participants	Lecture free afternoon. The participants can visit Ostend.
		16:30	Train station Ostend	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The group STIMULATE 7 returns to Brussels STIMULATE 7 offers transport.
Wed	4 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Luz M Quiroga	Building digital libraries using Greenstone (theory and practice)
Thu	5 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Luz M Quiroga	Building digital libraries using Greenstone (theory and practice)
Fri	6 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Luz M Quiroga	Building digital libraries using Greenstone (theory and practice)
Sat	7 July
Sun	8 July
Mon	9 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Luz M Quiroga	Building digital libraries using Greenstone (theory and practice)
Tue	10 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Luz M Quiroga	Building digital libraries using Greenstone (theory and practice)
Wed	11 July				Public Holiday
Thu	12 July			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Fri	13 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building D room 1.0.8	Lecturer Leo Egghe	Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management.
Sat	14 July
Sun	15 July
Mon	16 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Ronald Rousseau	Introduction to web information retrieval I. Basic information about the structure of the Internet, the World Wide Web and search engines II. Types of information searches III. General topic search IV. Direct information searches V. Advanced subjects Field searching Search terms and how they can be modified: adjacency and proximity searching VI. Derived information searches VII Assessing websites for accuracy and bias
Tue	17 July			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Wed	18 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Ronald Rousseau	Introduction to web information retrieval I. Basic information about the structure of the Internet, the World Wide Web and search engines II. Types of information searches III. General topic search IV. Direct information searches V. Advanced subjects Field searching Search terms and how they can be modified: adjacency and proximity searching VI. Derived information searches VII Assessing websites for accuracy and bias
Thu	19 July			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants work on the assignments.
Thu	19 July			The participants	Grant participants who want to take advantage of a taxi service for their departure should transfer 35€ and send a mail to confirm to stimulate@vub.ac.be	Please note that a taxi will only be arranged, to bring you to your place of departure, AFTER payment is received and you have confirmed by e-mail.
Fri	20 July	8:30	Train station Brussels North	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The group STIMULATE 7 meets at the train station of Brussels North. Meeting point in the main hall in front of the timetable panel. STIMULATE 7 offers transport.
		10:00-13:00	Antwerp City library	Peter Rogiest	Guided tour of the library.
		13:00-14:00	Antwerp	The participants	Participants are free for lunch.
		14:00-18:00	Antwerp	The participants / Paul Nieuwenhuysen / Sahdia Khan	Visit to Antwerp with Paul Nieuwenhuysen.
		18:15	Train station Brussels North	The participants / Sahdia Khan	The Stimulate group takes the train back to Brussels
Sat	21 July
Sun	22 July
Mon	23 July	10:00-13:00 14:00-16:00	VUB campus Jette Building A PC-room above the library	Lecturer Egbert de Smet	Feedback on ISIS-exercises and evaluation.
Mon	23 July			Photo contest organized by Paul Nieuwenhuysen / Sahdia Khan	Deadline for photo contest: send your digital pictures to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen@vub.ac.be or stimulate@vub.ac.be or bring your pictures to the STIMULATE secretariat.
Tue	24 July	14:00-16:00	VUB campus Etterbeek Building B room 002	The participants / Supervisor Paul Nieuwenhuysen	Presentation on information: final presentations by students and evaluation of the students’ work by the lecturer.
Wed	25 July			The participants	Lecture free day. The participants prepare for their departure.
Thu	26 July	18:00	Central station (main entrance of the big hall)	The participants / the Steering committee / Sahdia Khan / some lecturers / other guests	Farewell gathering. A walk through Brussels with some surprises for theparticipants.
Fri	27 July
Sat	28 July
Sun	29 July
Mon	30 July
Tue	31 July