Salvatore Mele (Featured Speaker)
Salvatore Mele is Head of Open Access at CERN and Strategic Director for INSPIRE, the digital library for the worldwide High-Energy Physics community. His team of software developers and information scientists is exploring innovative ways to disambiguate authors; text-mine the literature for relevant metadata; build citation networks; publish high-level research data and crowd-source curation. Salvatore leads the SCOAP3 initiative to convert High-Energy Physics journals to Open Access, through a global partnership of publishers and thousands of libraries.