Infozdroje.cz - an Intelligent Portal to Electronic Information Resources

Author: Vladimír Karen,  Albertina icome Praha s.r.o.

Abstract

The infozdroje.cz ("infosources") service was launched at INFORUM 2003 and has been in use for it's first year. What is the experience? What has changed? What is going to stay? And what is going to happen in the future?

About the author

Vladimir Karen (born in 1963) graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1988. Then he joined the first Compact Disc manufacturer Gramofonove zavody in Lodenice near Prague, where he was initially co-responsible for starting up the premastering studio and then for the introduction of CD-ROM production and publishing the first Czech demo CD-ROM.

Vladimir Karen became a co-founder of a private company ICOME s.r.o . in 1991, which was a pioneering company in the CD-ROM business in the former Czechoslovakia. The company later transformed into Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., where he is now the Managing Director.