On March 22-25, a group of 5 teachers and 8 PhD and undergraduate students, led  by Prof. Li Yuelin, Associate Dean of Nankai Business School, attended the  iConference 2017 at Wuhan, China.

As the Annual Meeting of  the iSchools, iConference is one of the major academic conferences in the  information field. This session was the first time that it was held outside  Europe or America. With the theme of Effect • Expand • Evolve: Global  collaboration across the Information Community, the meeting was attended by  over 500 experts and scholars around the world. A diversity of exchanges was  available: presentation of research papers, workshops, dean forums, sessions for  interaction and engagement, doctoral colloquium, etc. And The presentations at  the meeting cover many subjects, such as human-computer interaction, information  behavior, information retrieval, social media, and so on.

The teachers and students  from NBS delivered 8 presentations on subjects of Information Seeking and  Retrieval、Data Curation &  Service、Users’ Information Behavior、Knowledge Management & Service、Library  Service & Education、Information Service & Evaluation, and displayed the  poster in Juried Poster Session. What’s more, the paper of Dr, Fan Zhenjia,  title”Roles  in Enterprise R&D Data Curation from Perspective of Data Governance”, was  awarded Best Chinese Paper Award Nomination, one of the 5 winners in  China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan included).