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NEWS

DBTA General Assembly 2009

This year's Generaly Assembly will take place immediately after the General Assembly of SI on Friday 13th November at the University of Berne. The location will be Room 101 (first floor east), Hochschulstrasse 4, Berne.

Following the panel discussion at the ICOODB 2009 conference held at ETH Zurich in July 2009, Roberto Zicari has published an interview with the panel members on the ODBMS.ORG portal.

What is DBTA?

DBTA aims to promote exchanges between professionals in Switzerland with interests in all aspects of information systems. It is a special interest group of the Swiss Informatics Society.

Topics of Interest

Here we list just some of the topics of interest to our members:

• database technologies and applications
• information integration
• XML data management
• web information systems
• ontologies and semantic web
• information retrieval
• mobile and ubiquitous information systems
• information interaction

DBTA Mailing List

To promote the flow of information between members of the Swiss Information Systems community, we have established a new dbta mailing list to allow subscribers to send and receive emails about events in Switzerland. The list is open so you don't have to be a DBTA member to subscribe. The list will be moderated to ensure that you will only receive emails relevant to the community. To sign up please go to http://mail.dbta.ethz.ch.

Discussion Groups on Networking Portals

As an official member of DBTA, you can join the DBTA discussion groups on Xing and LinkedIn. These groups are intended for members of DBTA as a forum to network, discuss and exchange information. If you do not have a Xing or LinkedIn profile, you need to create one before you can join the discussion groups. Basic membership for both Xing and LinkedIn is free of charge.