(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Annual Conference 2010 will take place for the first time in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. From Information to Innovation has been chosen as the main theme of the conference and will highlight the significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments and point to to elements of success in building the future. There are three inspiring sub-themes:
Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation - Finnish cases
Intelligent information solutions and services
Creating the future - towards the global innovation economy
Usage data, still an active research area, can address many shortcomings of citation analysis. A state-of-the-art in usage-based informetrics, the article can inspire the development of usage metadata for DPLA system. .