From cattd614 at yahoo.com Fri Nov 1 00:03:17 2013 From: cattd614 at yahoo.com (Catherine Dumas) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Asis-l] Open Rank Faculty Position with a specialization in Information, Government, and Democratic Society Message-ID: <1383278597.87750.YahooMailNeo@web163001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> ?Open Rank Faculty Position with a specialization in Information, Government, and Democratic Society The Informatics Department of the College of Computing and Information, University at Albany seeks candidates for an open rank, tenure-track faculty position with a specialization in Information, Government, and Democratic Society beginning fall 2014. The University at Albany is ranked third in ?public affairs ? information and technology management? and its Center for Technology in Government (CTG), is recognized worldwide for research in digital government. We seek to leverage these strengths with an additional faculty member who could make significant contributions to the research and innovation project portfolios at the Center for Technology in Government as well teach courses at all levels in the Informatics Department. This position will be posted shortly on our faculty vacancy website: http://www.albany.edu/hr/vacancy.php. Applicants are encouraged to apply online once the posting is available. The University at Albany is making a major investment in its capacity to conduct research, educate the next generation of information professionals, and prepare early career students to find excellent employment in the areas of cyber security, ?big data? analytics, and government information strategy and management through a total of nine faculty hires at the assistant, associate, and full professor rank. These hires, located in the Departments of Informatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Public Administration and Policy will build on UAlbany?s international reputation for excellence in this area reflected in the University?s number three ranking for Information Technology and Management in US News and World Report?s public sector rankings.? The successful candidate with develop and teach graduate courses that emphasize relevant analytical information science approaches such as system dynamics, network analysis, systems integration, or cyber-security and undergraduate courses that introduce these themes to Informatics students in their junior and senior years.? The Information, Government, and Democratic Society specialization within the interdisciplinary Information Science doctoral program in the Informatics Department focuses on the role, use, influence, and consequences of information and ICTs (information and communication technologies) in government and democratic society. Researchers in this area study how people interact with government, public institutions, political associations, and other citizens through ICTs, focusing on the social and political impacts of technology-enabled discourse. Researchers also study the information management and public communication policies and practices of government, as well as governmental use of information and technology to provide services, impose requirements, and monitor the activities of individuals and groups. Information policy in a variety of areas is a core component of the undergraduate program as well. The successful candidate will have an established record of scholarship in this area with demonstrated potential to develop programs that cross over multiple units in a comprehensive research university. This faculty will jointly lead the specialization area and coordinate activities and relationships with CTG and across the University to enhance the curriculum, engage in outreach to potential students, engage other interested faculty for part of their teaching or research work, and maintain linkages with related academic programs.? The candidate must demonstrate an ability to engage in research partnerships with social scientists, computer scientists and/or government practitioners. In addition, candidates must have a strong interest in teaching Informatics/Information Science courses at all levels.? Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Informatics, Information Science, Political Science, Public Administration, Management Information Systems, or a closely-related discipline from a college or university accredited by the U.S. Department of Education or an internationally recognized accrediting organization. Candidates who expect to receive their Ph.D. by August 2014 may also apply. To be considered for the senior ranks, candidates will have a proven track record of significant external funding for salient work. In addition to appointment to a tenure-track or tenured faculty position, the successful candidates will be appointed as Faculty Fellows at the Center for Technology in Government and will receive a reduced teaching load for the first two years in order to help expand CTG?s research portfolio. Applicants must submit a complete CV, including a list of publications, a research statement, and a teaching statement, along with the names and contact information for at least 3 references.? The Informatics Department at the University at Albany offers a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Faculty-Initiated Interdisciplinary Major in Information Science) and an interdisciplinary Doctoral program in Information Science. We have currently around 260 students in our undergraduate program and 33 students in the Ph.D. program. Current research areas include technology-mediated teaching and learning, women in information technology, electronic information access technologies and their users, inductive inference and inquiry, source separation of mixed signals, information processing in the brain, identification of relevant causal interactions, astrobiology, intelligent instruments and robotics, analysis and reform of economics and social policy, games for learning, community in asynchronous learning networks, and cyber-security. Undergraduate program concentrations will include interactive user experience, computer networking, cyber-security, information technology, data analytics, social media, and software development. Specializations in the interdisciplinary doctoral program include knowledge organization management, information in organizational environments, information in government and democratic society, geographic information science, decision and policy sciences, information assurance, and information in technology and learning. Informatics faculty actively collaborate with researchers from the departments across the College, the University, local industry, and beyond.? The University at Albany supports a student ACM chapter and a student ASIST chapter. The College of Computing and Information is also a member of the National Center for Women and Information Technology's Academic Alliance and is building an ACM-W chapter. Questions regarding the position may be addressed to igdssearch2014 at albany.edu.? Dr. Jennifer Goodall will be at the conference on November 4. To schedule a conversation with her, email jgoodall at albany.edu Catherine Dumas PhD Student - Informatics? College of Computing & Information University at Albany, State University of New York Co-Chair Advisory Board ASIS&T, UAlbany Student Chapter http://www.facebook.com/groups/ualbanyasist/ Cell: 518-935-8064 CCI Women in Technology on FB:?http://www.facebook.com/groups/cciwit/ Cyber Behaviors in Information Seeking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From heidijul at buffalo.edu Sun Nov 3 07:22:30 2013 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:22:30 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Canadian Association for Information Science - Call for Papers Message-ID: 42nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science & Inaugural Librarians? Research Institute Symposium Connecting Across Borders: Globalization and Information Science Research Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario May 28- 30th 2014 The conference theme Connecting Across Borders: Globalization and Information Science Research reflects both the international make-up of our conference program committee (chaired by three Canadian ex-pats) and the global reach of information science as a discipline. New technologies, an increasing focus on international and interdisciplinary research collaborations, and a complex, internationalized policy and practice landscape affect the research questions we ask and the research activities we pursue. As researchers, we place our work within a framework of international scholarship and scholarly communication; as practitioners, we explore the nature of services, programs, and organizational vision within contexts of increasing complexity across disciplines and cultural spaces. The research landscape in information science explores a diverse range of populations, settings and contexts; we are a global discipline, connected by shared interests and concerns, and drawn together by the latest technologies. The conference theme points to the increasing need to recognize, explore, and question the social and cultural assumptions of information science as a discipline, and of our chosen research problems and methodologies, in this global context. We seek papers and presentations that address this broad theme, but may also explore strategies for: ? Conducting information science research with global partners and collaborators; ? Setting research priorities in a global, knowledge-based society; ? Building a global evidence base to guide information science practice; ? Addressing the challenges of digital and virtual research and practice environments; ? Exploring diversity, marginalization and information inequality across borders. We welcome studies that explore any of these issues, or analyses that more broadly address the theme of connecting across borders in information science research. In 2014 CAIS is partnering with the CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) Librarians? Research Institute (LRI) to present the Inaugural Librarians' Research Institute Symposium alongside the CAIS conference. We are pleased to be hosting these events together at Congress for the first time. Call for proposals. Proposals may be submitted in English or French. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from professional and academic researchers. Types of submissions include: CAIS Papers: 20-minute oral presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of an extended abstract (approximately 1000-1500 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. CARL LRI Papers: Participants of the Librarians? Research Institute are invited to identify their LRI affiliation when submitting papers, to be considered for two dedicated program sessions highlighting LRI research projects. These papers will be reviewed by members of the LRI conference panel. CAIS Posters: Visual presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (with a limit of 750 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. CARL LRI Posters: Participants of the Librarians? Research Institute are invited to identify their LRI affiliation when submitting posters, to be considered for a dedicated poster session highlighting the work of LRI researchers. These posters will be reviewed by members of the LRI conference panel. Student- and Practitioner-to-CAIS/ACSI Awards Submissions by graduate students and by practitioners for CAIS Papers (only) will be considered for these awards. The awards include a monetary prize as well as publication of the full manuscript in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La Revue Canadienne des Sciences de L?information et de Biblioth?conomie. Students and practitioners should submit full papers by April 14th to be considered for this award. Details of the award, including previous winners, can be found at the CAIS/ACSI website at www.cais-acsi.ca. Submission Deadline for all proposals is January 13, 2014. CAIS and LRI submissions will be reviewed using the online EasyChair system. Further instructions and guidelines will be available on the conference website at www.cais-acsi.ca and on the CARL website at http://www.carl-abrc.ca/en/research-libraries/librarians-research-institute.html. Conference proposals will be refereed by the CAIS or LRI Program Committees. Authors will be notified of the decision no later than February 24th, 2014. All presenters must register for the conference. Abstracts will be published on the CAIS/ACSI Website once registration has taken place. Final versions must be submitted no later than April 24th, 2014. Participants are also encouraged to submit full papers to the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne des sciences de l?information et de biblioth?conomie. Registration The conference will take place as part of the 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Registration will be available online through the Congress website (http://congress2014.ca/register). For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI & LRI 2014 Conference Co-chairs. Matthew Griffis Conference Co-Chair Assistant Professor SLIS, U of Southern Mississippi USA E: matthew.griffis at usm.edu Heidi Julien Conference Co-Chair Chair, Department of LIS, Graduate School of Ed, University at Buffalo, USA E: heidijul at buffalo.edu Lisa Given Conference Co-Chair Professor, School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University Australia E: lgiven at csu.edu.au Heidi Jacobs Librarians? Research Institute Information Literacy Librarian University of Windsor, Canada E: hjacobs at uwindsor.ca Selinda Berg Librarians? Research Institute Librarian University of Windsor, Canada E: sberg at uwindsor.ca Karen Bordonaro Local Arrangements Chair Liaison Librarian/Teaching and Learning Librarian Brock University, Canada E: kbordonaro at brocku.ca 42e congr?s annuel de l?Association canadienne des sciences de l?information et premier symposium annuel de l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires Dialogues sans fronti?res : La mondialisation et la recherche en sciences de l?information Brock University St. Catharines (Ontario) 28 au 30 mai 2014 Le th?me de notre congr?s, Dialogues sans fronti?res : La mondialisation et la recherche en sciences de l?information, est ? l?image de son comit? organisateur (form? de trois Canadiens en exil!) et de la port?e mondiale de la discipline des sciences de l?information. Les nouvelles technologies, l?importance grandissante des collaborations interdisciplinaires et internationales ainsi qu?un contexte mondial de plus en plus complexe en mati?re de politiques et de pratiques influencent autant nos questions de recherche que nos activit?s. En tant que chercheurs, nous situons nos publications et nos communications scientifiques dans un cadre mondial; en tant que professionnels, nous explorons ou proposons des services, des programmes et des visions institutionnelles ancr?s dans des contextes de plus en plus complexes, toutes disciplines et tous espaces culturels confondus. Les recherches en sciences de l?information portent sur une vari?t? de communaut?s, de milieux et de contextes. Notre discipline nourrit des dialogues portant sur de nombreux champs d?int?r?t, ainsi que sur les questions que ces derniers suscitent et les nouvelles technologies qui en sous-tendent les diff?rentes dynamiques. Le th?me du congr?s souligne le besoin grandissant de reconna?tre, d?explorer et de remettre en question, dans ce contexte mondial, les perceptions sociales et culturelles portant sur les sciences de l?information en tant que discipline ainsi que sur nos sujets de recherche et sur nos m?thodologies. Nous invitons la communaut? des sciences de l?information ? soumettre des propositions de communications portant sur ce th?me ou sur : ? la recherche en sciences de l?information en collaboration avec des partenaires internationaux; ? les domaines prioritaires en mati?re de recherche dans une soci?t? mondiale et ax?e sur la connaissance; ? le partage de donn?es empiriques pouvant guider les pratiques en sciences de l?information; ? les d?fis de la recherche et de la pratique dans des environnements num?riques et virtuels; ? la diversit?, la marginalisation et l?absence d??quit? en mati?re d?information ? l??chelle internationale. Tous les chercheurs dont les projets de recherche explorent ces th?mes ou portent, plus largement, sur la notion de dialogues et de partenariats internationaux en sciences de l?information sont invit?s ? soumettre une proposition. L?ACSI est heureuse de s?associer ? l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires (IRB) de l?Association des biblioth?ques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) pour pr?senter, dans le cadre du Congr?s 2014 des sciences humaines, le premier symposium annuel de l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires, en parall?le du congr?s de l?ACSI. Appel de propositions Les propositions peuvent ?tre soumises en fran?ais ou en anglais. Le comit? organisateur encourage ? la fois les professionnels et les chercheurs ? soumettre des propositions. Nous acceptons les types de propositions suivants : Communications (ACSI) : Des communications de 20 minutes pr?sentant des travaux de recherche pouvant ?tre publi?s dans des revues savantes. Les propositions portant sur des projets termin?s ou en cours de r?alisation recevront une attention particuli?re. Nous acceptons les propositions pr?sentant divers points de vue (th?oriques et appliqu?s) et diverses approches m?thodologiques. Les propositions de communications doivent ?tre pr?sent?es sous forme d?un r?sum? long (entre 1000 et 1500 mots, excluant les r?f?rences) d?crivant un projet de recherche, des d?veloppements th?oriques ou des pratiques novatrices. Communications (ABRC) : Nous invitons les participants de l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires ? signaler leur affiliation ? l?IRB au moment de soumettre leur proposition, car leurs propositions seront ?valu?es par des pairs membres de l?IRB. Les communications s?lectionn?es seront pr?sent?es dans le cadre de deux s?ances d?di?es aux projets des chercheurs de l?IRB. Affiches (ACSI) : Des pr?sentations visuelles portant sur des travaux de recherche pouvant ?tre publi?s dans des revues savantes. Les propositions portant sur des projets termin?s ou en cours de r?alisation recevront une attention particuli?re. Nous acceptons les propositions pr?sentant divers points de vue (th?oriques et appliqu?s) et diverses approches m?thodologiques. Les propositions doivent ?tre pr?sent?es sous forme d?un r?sum? (maximum de 750 mots, excluant les r?f?rences) d?crivant un projet de recherche, des d?veloppements th?oriques ou des pratiques novatrices. Affiches (ABRC) : Nous invitons les participants de l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires ? signaler leur affiliation ? l?IRB au moment de soumettre leur proposition, car leurs propositions seront ?valu?es par des pairs membres de l?IRB. Les affiches s?lectionn?es seront pr?sent?es lors d?une s?ance d?di?e aux projets des chercheurs de l?IRB. Prix ?tudiant ? l?ACSI/CAIS et Professionnel ? l?ACSI/CAIS Les propositions de communication des ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs et des professionnels seront ?valu?es en vue de la remise des prix ?tudiant ? l?ACSI/CAIS et Professionnel ? l?ACSI/CAIS. Ces prix comportent une somme en argent ainsi que la publication du texte int?gral de la communication dans la Revue canadienne des sciences de l?information et de biblioth?conomie / Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. Les versions d?finitives des articles devront ?tre soumises au plus tard le 14 avril 2014. Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements sur les prix et consulter la liste des laur?ats, visitez le site Web de l?ACSI/CAIS. Date limite pour la soumission des propositions : le 13 janvier 2014 Les soumissions pour l?ACSI et l?IRB seront ?valu?es au moyen de la plateforme EasyChair. Les modalit?s de soumission seront publi?es sur les sites Web de la conf?rence, au http://www.cais-acsi.ca/index_fr.htm, et du symposium, au http://www.carl-abrc.ca/fr/bibliotheques-de-recherche/institut-de-recherche-des-bibliothecaires.html. Les propositions seront ?valu?es par les comit?s scientifiques de l?ACSI et de l?IRB, respectivement. Les auteurs seront avis?s de la d?cision du comit? au plus tard le 24 f?vrier 2014. Tous les participants doivent s?inscrire au Congr?s des sciences humaines. Les r?sum?s des communications seront publi?s sur le site Web de l?ACSI/CAIS apr?s la p?riode d?inscription. La version d?finitive des r?sum?s doit ?tre soumise au plus tard le 24 avril 2014. Nous encourageons les participants ? soumettre le texte complet de leur communication ? la Revue canadienne des sciences de l?information et de biblioth?conomie / Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. Inscription Le congr?s annuel de l?ACSI/CAIS s?inscrit dans le Congr?s 2014 des sciences humaines qui aura lieu ? St. Catharines (Ontario). Pour vous inscrire, nous vous invitons ? visiter le site Web du congr?s (http://congres2014.ca/inscriptions). Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le comit? organisateur du congr?s de l?ACSI 2014 et du symposium de l?IRB. Matthew Griffis Copr?sident Professeur adjoint SLIS University of Southern Mississippi (?tats-Unis) matthew.griffis at usm.edu Heidi Julien Copr?sidente Directrice Department of LIS Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo (?tats-Unis) heidijul at buffalo.edu Lisa Given Copr?sidente Professeure School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University (Australie) lgiven at csu.edu.au Heidi Jacobs Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires Biblioth?caire Universit? de Windsor (Canada) hjacobs at uwindsor.ca Selinda Berg Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires Biblioth?caire Universit? de Windsor (Canada) sberg at uwindsor.ca Karen Bordonaro Coordonnatrice Biblioth?caire, sciences humaines, et coordonnatrice des services en comp?tences informationnelles Brock University (Canada) kbordonaro at brocku.ca ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 534 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1020 USA Ph: 716.645.2412 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mradford at rutgers.edu Fri Nov 1 20:56:57 2013 From: mradford at rutgers.edu (Marie Radford) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:56:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] Invitation to Rutgers Reception & Presentations in Montreal Message-ID: <1eee2a9fa9b7384286047b094b4b0c03.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu> Greetings ASIST Colleagues: You are warmly invited to Rutgers University's reception at ASIST. Date: Monday, November 4th Time: 7:45 - 9:45pm Location: Caf? Bar on the Lobby Level - Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Refreshments will be served. Please come and join the fun! Please join us in congratulating and celebrating our two recipients of ASIST awards this year: Chirag Shah, Assistant Professor, won the James Kretsos Leadership Award, and Carol Kuhlthau, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the LIS Department and Director of the School Library Media Specialist program at SC&I, won the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the lifetime career achievement award. Also, please plan to attend presentations given by our faculty, PhD students, and Phd alumni: Saturday, November 2nd ?Preconference ? 1:30-6:30pm- Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan (PhD alumna) and Denise Agosto (PhD alumna) with others, presenting and leading discussions on ?Information Behavior on the Move: Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in the Era of Mobile Technologies.? Sunday, November 3rd ? 3:30pm o Chirag Shah (LIS faculty), Vanessa Kitzie (PhD student), and Erik Choi (PhD student) presenting paper: Analyzing Question Quality through Intersubjectivity: World Views and Objective Assessments of Questions on Social Question-Answering. o Soo Young Rieh (PhD alumna) with other presenting paper: The Value of Social Search: Seeking Collective Personal Experience in Social Q&A. o Heather Lea Moulaison (PhD alumna) with others on panel: ?Spanning Boundaries and Disciplines: Linked, Open, and Could-based Community Data.? Monday, November 4th ? 8:00am- Panels: o Nicole Cooke (PhD alumna) and Barbara Kwasnik (PhD alumna) with others on panel: ?Preparing for the Academic Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students.? o Mei-Mei Wu (PhD alumna) with others on panel: ?Use of Mobile Apps in Information Seeking: An International Viewpoint.? ? 1:30pm- Papers: o Nicholas Belkin (LIS faculty), Jingjing Liu (PhD alumna), and Chang Liu (PhD alumna) presenting paper: Examining the Effects of Task Topic Familiarity on Searchers? Behavior in Different Task Types. o Xiaojum Yuan (PhD alumna) and Jingjing Liu (PhD alumna) presenting paper: Relationship Between Cognitive Styles and Users? Task Performance in Two Information Systems. ? 3:30pm- Carol Kuhlthau (LIS Professor Emerita) with others on panel, ?Enabling Systems for Inquiry-Based Learning.? ? 6:30pm- Poster sessions: o Chirag Shah (LIS faculty), Vanessa Kitzie (PhD student), and Erik Choi (PhD student): ?10 Points for the Best Answer!?- Baiting for Explicating Knowledge Contributions within Online Q&A and From Bad to Good: An Investigation of Question Quality and Transformation. Winner of the SIG USE Best Poster Award. o Rebecca Reynolds (LIS faculty) and Xiaofeng Li (PhD student): An Exploritory Study of Middle School Students? Sensemaking in a Collaborative Game Design Educational Project. o Rebecca Reynolds (LIS faculty) and Eun Baik (PhD student): Analysis of Wiki Trace and Resource Use Survey Data to Predict the Quality of Game Design in the Guided Discovery-based Collaborative Learning Program. o Shahe Sanentz (PhD student): NLP Tools as Editorial Aids. o Iris Xie (PhD alumna) with others: User Engagement and System Support in the Search Process: User Dominated, System Dominated and Balanced Tactics. o Irene Lopatovska (PhD alumna) with others: Exploring Requirements for Online Art Collections. o Sung Un Kim (PhD alumna) with others: The Impact of Source Credibility on Young Adults? Health Information Activities on Facebook: Preliminary Findings. o Jingjing Liu (PhD alumna) with others: Why Do Users Feel Search Task Difficult? o Yi-Fan Chen (PhD alumna) with others: Citation Functions in Social Sciences and Humanities: Preliminary Results from a Citation Context Analysis of Taiwan?s History Research Journals. o Heather Lea Moulaison (PhD alumna) with others: Exploring Interface Effect on Skimmin Comprehension: Comparing Low-Clutter and No-Clutter Documentation Presentation Environments. Tuesday, November 5th ? 10:30am- Marie Radford (LIS faculty) and Chirag Shah (LIS faculty) with others on panel, ?Research Roadshow: Research Design Beyond the Ordinary.? ? 10:30am- Rebecca Reynolds (LIS faculty), Eun Baik (PhD student), and Xiaofeng Li (PhD student) presenting paper: Collaborative Information Seeking in the Wild: Middle-Schoolers? Self-Initiated Teamwork Strategies to Support Game Design. ? 1:30pm- Rebecca Reynolds (LIS faculty) and Denise E. Agosto (PhD alumna) with others on panel, ?Teens and Social Media: Where Are We Now, Where Next?? ? 3:30pm- Heather Moulaison (PhD alumna) with others on panel, ?High-Stakes Information: Deciding What Constitutes Quality in Our Products of Communication.? From Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk Mon Nov 4 06:48:03 2013 From: Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk (Joy Davidson) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:48:03 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Last chance to register! Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II (Barcelona) Message-ID: <0515B6DC47214248AF63862E2FB1CCB3A69C2FE164@CMS01.campus.gla.ac.uk> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II November 18-20, 2013 Biblioteca de Catalunya (Barcelona) http://educopia.org/events/ANADPII Hashtag: #anadp13 Registration closes November 4! About the ANADP II Event: ANADP II seeks to align digital preservation efforts internationally between communities-including national libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, research centers, archives, corporations, and funding agencies. ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which digital preservation stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a set of concrete outcomes for the extended digital preservation community in three areas: Community Alignment, Resource Alignment, and Capacity Alignment. Keynotes: Opening Keynote: Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Closing Keynote: Adam Farquhar (The British Library) Panel Chairs: Joy Davidson (Digital Curation Centre) Rachel Frick (DLF) Neil Grindley (JISC) Martin Halbert (University of North Texas) Tyler Walters (Virginia Tech) Speakers include: Llu?s Anglada (Consorci de Biblioteques Universit?ries de Catalunya/MetaArchive Cooperative) Juan Bicarregui (Research Data Alliance) Tom Cramer (Stanford/DuraSpace Foundation) Luciana Duranti (InterPARES/CISCRA) Chris Greer (RDA, NIST) Cathy Hartman (International Internet Preservation Consortium, UNT) Ross King (SCAPE, OPF) Christopher (Cal) Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill) Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Nancy McGovern (MIT, DPM Workshop) Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech) Mr. Ferran Mascarell (Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia) Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky, DPOE/NDSR) Laura Molloy (DigCurV) Maureen Pennock (The British Library) Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University) Eug?nia Serra (Director of Biblioteca de Catalunya) Matt Schultz (MetaArchive Cooperative) Sabine Schrimpf (nestor) Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute) Aaron Trehub (Auburn University/ADPNet) Paul Wheatley (SPRUCE Project) Martha Whitehead (Education and Training Sub-Committee of Research Data Canada) Tom Wilson (The University of Alabama/ADPNet) Jeremy York (HathiTrust/University of Michigan) Eld Zierau (Royal Library of Denmark) Registration and conference information: http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII/registration -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org @metaarchive matt.schultz at metaarchive.org http://www.mattgschultz.com @mattgschultz 616-566-3204 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Information is used in direct proportion to how easy that information is to obtain." Summit, R.K. (1993). With the increasing impact of information science constructs in an growing array of areas from web analytics to big data, we are offering you the chance to read some of our most poignant articles on this topic for free in this Internet Research virtual special issue. Read now! The following articles are all from different journal issues of Internet Research Information Science Perceptions of the Internet: what people think when they search the Internet for information? Harry Bruce World-wide web: the information universe Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Jean-Fran?ois Groff, Bernd Pollermann Theories into practice: a content analysis of anti-smoking websites Hye-Jin Paek, Beom Jun Bae, Thomas Hove, Hyunjae Yu A holistic approach to the analysis of online profiles Helena Bukvova Mining consumer dialog in online forums Carolin Kaiser, Freimut Bodendorf Exploring interaction: print and online news media synergies Gary Graham, Anita Greenhill Are you attending ASIS&T? Jim Jansen the editor of Internet Research is attending ASIS&T on 1-5 November. If you are also attending and would like to meet up with Jim to discuss your research, simply pop in to see him at the Emerald stand or tweet Jim at http://twitter.com/jimjansen Tell us what you think It would also be great to hear your thoughts on the key issues raised in this research. 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These workshops are a new addition to this year's summit and provide an opportunity to build skills that will help you jumpstart research data efforts at your institution or take your existing program to the next level! See below for workshop descriptions and more information about RDAP14. Building Capabilities for Sustainable Research Data Management Practices Friday, March 28, 8:00am-12:00pm Kevin Crowston & Jian Qin School of Information Studies, Syracuse University As more organizations invest in Research Data Management (RDM), it has become increasingly important for administrators, researchers, and managers to be able to evaluate RDM process for sustainability, efficiency, and effectiveness, which requires a baseline for comparison. The goal of this workshop is to raise the awareness of process management and assessment for RDM and to learn how to apply the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for RDM for the purpose of process assessment. As a tool to increase the reliability of RDM, since 2011 we have been developing a CMM for RDM by gathering evidence from literature and empirical observations and identifying and clustering key RDM practices. The current draft CMM for RDM includes five specific RDM practice areas: 1) Data management in general; 2) Data acquisition, processing and quality assurance; 3) Data description and representation; 4) Data dissemination; and 5) Repository services and preservation. The CMM for RDM framework will provide guidelines that are much needed in data policy making, personnel training, and performance assessment. Learning to Teach, Teach for Learning: Instructional Practices for Data Services Friday, March 28, 1:00pm-5:00pm Lisa Hinchliffe University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Data services specialists are increasingly called upon to provide instructional sessions for users and colleagues. This workshop provides pragmatic approaches to developing and delivering instruction using proven and efficient strategies. The workshop will particularly draw on Understanding by Design, the Experiential Learning Cycle, and Classroom Assessment Techniques frameworks. Clarify learning outcomes, implement engaging teaching techniques, and document evidence of your learners learning! Register for Workshops Here: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP14/rdap14regform.php RDAP14 Important Dates November 25, 2013 Panel Presentations Submissions Due December 16, 2013 Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks Submissions Due February 14, 2014 Early Bird Registration Ends March 26-28, 2014 RDAP14 Conference and Workshops View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits' programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. 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This position oversees several duties, including: order library materials from various vendors; check the library catalog for duplication; select bibliographic records for all ordered titles; manage purchase orders using the acquisitions module; check in serials and standing orders; manage serial orders, cancellations, and claims; assist with technical services projects; and supervise student workers. This position is full-time, 40 hours per week, includes an excellent benefit package. Must have previous experience working in a library setting, preferably with acquisitions or cataloging/technical services. Starting salary is commensurate with qualifications. QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS: Required: * Minimum of two years of college; * Experienced in Cataloging a must! * Excellent computer skills including keyboarding; * Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; * Excellent organizational skills; * Knowledge of bibliographic data; * The ability to perform detailed work; * The ability to work independently and as a team member; * The ability to lift up to 40 lbs. and move loaded book trucks. Preferred: * Bookkeeping experience; * 4-year college degree; * Previous library experience; * Reading knowledge of a foreign language; * Knowledge of MARC 21 and AACR2/RDA; * Experience with OCLC Connexion, EBSCONET, and a library automation system. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/pmfOwO LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visit http://www.temple.edu. Description Reporting to the Senior Digital Library Applications Developer and working closely with others in the Digital Library Initiatives Department, help develop and maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple University?s digital library initiatives and services, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects, and supporting digital humanities and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the Library. Under the guidance of supervisor, architect, implement, test and deploy new tools and services primarily based on open source project software, such as Omeka, Fedora Commons, Hydra, and Open Journal Systems (OJS), potentially contributing code to those projects. Perform other duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience * BS in Computer Science or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Required Skills and Abilities * Demonstrated experience with application development in at least one major programming language such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java * Demonstrated experience with MySQL or other database management systems. * Demonstrated knowledge of the LAMP stack or similar technology stacks. * Demonstrated ability to perform effective code testing. * Experience with project requirements gathering. * Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team-based environment, and to communicate well with IT and non-IT staff. Commitment to responsive and innovative service. * Demonstrated ability to write clear documentation. Preferred * Experience with a repository system such as Fedora/Hydra, Fedora/Islandora, or Dspace. * Familiarity with a Content Management System like Drupal or an exhibit curation system like Omeka would be a plus. * Experience working with Open Source software; experience with version control, test-driven development, and continuous integration techniques. * Experience with QA testing of web applications. * Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, including scripting and commands. * Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols, including LDAP. * Knowledge of XML/XSLT. * Familiarity with digital library standards, such as Dublin Core, MARC, METS, EAD, and OAI-PMH. To apply: To apply for this position, please visit http://www.temple.edu/hr/departments/employment/jobs_within.htm, click on "Non-Employees Only," and search for job number TU-17222. For full consideration, please submit your completed electronic application, along with a cover letter and resume. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to cultural diversity. -- Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu) Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.lynch at temple.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Wed Nov 6 21:45:39 2013 From: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk (Eric Meyer) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 02:45:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <7B20F8B67F0AB44DBC01992D28122CCF1447FB@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org * @WebSciConf * #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci 12 in Evanston, and WebSci13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Full and short paper submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (WebSci archive format at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Posters (up to 6 pages, ACM abstract template, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 6 pages, and should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG abstract template (extended abstract format at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pl130rtd134fxu6/hiyzXgWwTs). Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Instructions for all types of submissions will be posted on the WebSci14 conference website soon. Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair,to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can opt out of the proceedings). Deadlines (tentative) Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Call for Workshops TBA - more information will be made available on the conference website soon Conference calendar and rough program - 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote - 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception - 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event - 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs - Fil Menczer, Indiana University - Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs - Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) - Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) - Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) PC: TBA Eric T. Meyer, PhD Senior Research Fellow & DPhil Programme Director Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Email: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/meyer/ Blog: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer/ SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385 Twitter: @etmeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Fri Nov 8 08:59:14 2013 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:59:14 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for "CurateGear 2014: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A6451637E477EB@ITS-MSXMBS2M.ad.unc.edu> Registration Now Open for "CurateGear 2014: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Following the success of CurateGear 2012 and 2013, please join us for CurateGear 2014, a day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss applications in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive event focused on digital curation tools and methods. The symposium will take place on January 8, 2014 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration fee includes lunch, breaks, and parking. Regular Registration Fee: $125 Student Registration Fee: $50 Homepage: CurateGear 2014 - http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2014.html Registration: http://tinyurl.com/o8u6let Speakers will include: * Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute * Lori Donovan, Internet Archive * Kelly Eubank, State Archives of North Carolina * Dan Gillean, Artefactual Systems * Andrea Goethals, Harvard Library * Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee * Greg Jansen, UNC Libraries * Leslie Johnston, Library of Congress * Howard Lander, Renaissance Computing Institute * Cal Lee, University of North Carolina * Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries * Don Mennerich, New York Public Library * Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina * Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia * Ryan Scherle, Duke University * Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute * Carissa Smith, DuraSpace * Mike Thuman, Tessella * Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina * Dirk von Suchodoletz, University of Freiburg * Michelle Underhill, State Library of North Carolina * Brad Westbrook, ArchivesSpace * Doug White, National Institute for Standards and Technology * Kam Woods, University of North Carolina See you in January! Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Wed Nov 6 15:48:57 2013 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:48:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] REMINDER CFP: Conference on Information & Religion -- Information Management in Religious Organizations Message-ID: <91622401DA33BF47A943E7C7A779201A1BDB65A2@BL2PRD0810MB373.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Please excuse duplicate postings. Call for Papers and Posters: Fourth Annual International Conference on Information & Religion "Information Management in Religious Organizations" June 5 & 6, 2014, at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Featuring a keynote address by Kenneth Inskeep, Ph.D., Director, Research and Evaluation, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and co-author of Chasing Down a Rumor: The Death of Mainline Denominations The Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR) will host its Fourth Annual International Conference on Information and Religion in spring/summer of 2014. This call for papers and posters seeks original contributions in a variety of areas in which scholars are exploring the intersections of religion and information. Topics related to information management in religious organizations might include (but are not limited to) research in the following areas: * The use of information for strategic planning, policy development, congregational support, to add value to membership, etc., in religious organizations; * The application of information science/management principles for efficient, timely, and accurate research; * Uses of information technology for management of information in religious organizations and/or within the religious service; * Information management, database management and/or content management in church libraries; * The use of social media in youth ministry; * Privacy and security issues in information management for religious organizations; * Uses of information by congregation members; * Dissemination of information by religious organizations; * Defining and interpreting data and information in communicating about the organization; * Autoethnography as a research method in religious organizations; * The use of investigative or observational research and its impact on the religious service; Prospective participants are encouraged to submit abstracts that report on recent research and scholarship. Contributions to this call for papers should not have been previously published. Poster presentations are also welcome. There are no restrictions on research methodology. Abstracts will be considered for acceptance only when they are submitted on the PROPOSAL FORM before the deadline. Forms should be completed per instructions and emailed to csir at kent.edu. * Nov. 30, 2013: Deadline to submit proposals * Jan. 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance * May 1, 2014: Deadline to submit final, completed papers in order for them to be considered for publication in ASIR: Advances in the Study of Information and Religion. Papers must be in proper APA style. Additional details regarding submission of full papers will be sent to those whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. Once selected, presenters are responsible for their own expenses related to the conference, including but not limited to registration fees, lodging, transportation and meals. For more information, visit http://www.kent.edu/slis/research/csir/annual-conference-on-information-and-religion.cfm. ________________________________ * For guidelines on participation, subscribing, and unsubscribing please refer to http://www.kent.edu/slis/students/slis-listserv.cfm To unsubscribe send the following message: To: listserv at listserv.kent.edu Subject: Unsubscribe Body: signoff KSUSLIS-L -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Nov 8 09:21:25 2013 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:21:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'14 - World Conference on IST; Submission deadline: November 29 Message-ID: <201311081421.rA8ELUWO017964@mail.asis.org> Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once... ********************************************************************************** WorldCIST'14 The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies April 15 - 18, Madeira Island, Portugal http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ ********************************************************************************** The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'14. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); G) Health Informatics (HIS); H) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 24th of January 2014, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be submitted for indexation by EI-Compendex and EBSCO. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: Journal of Information Technology (JIT) Social Science Computer Review (SSCR) Information Processing & Management (IPM) Information Technology & People (ITP) Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) Information Development (IDV) IEEE IT Professional (ITPro) Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (CMBBE-IV) Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) International Journal of Health Information Systems & Informatics (IJHISI) International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) EAI Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning (EAI-TEL) INPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 29, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 19, 2014 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 24, 2014. Regards, WorldCIST'14 Team http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ _______________ From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Nov 11 05:53:05 2013 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:53:05 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Call Paper III FORUM ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT In-Reply-To: <1907322357.80310.1384125197955.JavaMail.zimbra@idict.cu> References: <1907322357.80310.1384125197955.JavaMail.zimbra@idict.cu> Message-ID: <5280B711.4050009@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call Paper III FORUM ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:13:17 -0500 (EST) From: Yudayly Stable Rodriguez To: micheljmenou at gmail.com ** *III FORUM ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT* In the framework of the *XIII International Congress on Information*, */Info'2014/*, which will be held from on *April 14th-18th, 2014*, in the Havana International Conference Center, Cuba, We invite you to participate in the */III Forum on Information and Knowledge Management/*. The latest editions of the International Congress on Information had dedicated sessions that have addressed the issues of information management and knowledge management in independent modalities , which have allowed the exchange of experiences in different areas of the organizations , so that the Congress Organizing Committee is considering including in a forum both topics and matters relating to social networks and applications that facilitate the process of information and knowledge management , with the goal of national and international exchange experiences , and to meet the challenge the proper use of information and knowledge for the development of society and all its actors. The topics, that are considered relevant for the Forum are: * The management of information and knowledge in organizations for information (libraries, archives and other information organizations ). * Different actors of the information and knowledge society. * Models of information management and knowledge management as sources for the organizational innovation. * Participation of users in the creation of information management systems and knowledge management. * Organizational learning and communities of practice for information and knowledge management. * Vocational training in information management and knowledge management to meet the needs of organizations of knowledge. * Computer softwares for the representation of information and knowledge. * Experience in implementing information and knowledge management models. * Social networks as a strategy for the information and knowledge management. * Evaluation and measurement of information management and knowledge management. * Interdisciplinary aspects related to the management of information and the knowledge. The Forum will be held on *April 14th-18th, 2014*. The Organizing Committee will receive the research papers, review, or case studies, specifically those related to the practical application of information and knowledge management in the topics above mentioned. The topics willbe addressed in conferences, workshop sessions and panel discussions which will present scientific papers developed by the speakers. To colleagues interested in participating as speakers are asked to submit full papers with abstracts of 250 words, including clear sections on: (1) background of the study, (2) the purpose of the work, (3) the methodology/approach used and (4) the main results achieved or expected from established guidelines for the presentation of papers at the Congress, which will be evaluated by peer review system. *Important Dates**:* *Full Paper submission:* **until January 15th, 2014 ** *Notification of acceptance of papers**:* until February 28th, 2014 The papers should be sent electronically to the General Coordinator of the Forum, with a copy to the coordinators, to the email addresses listed below. The *delivery date of the final version* of the work to be included in the proceedings of the event is the *March 10th, 2014*. For more information on papers specifications and the general program of Congress, registration, etc., visit the official congress website at the following addresswww.congreso-info.cu .For online payment, booking of rooms, etc. please refer to the site www.congreso-info.com *Organizing Committee* *General Coordinator* *PhD**. Yudayly Stable Rodr?guez* Institute of Scientificand Technological Information 18th A Streetbetween41 and47 Havana, Cuba Tel53 7 2078894 53 7 2078884* * yuly at idict.cu ; yudayly at ceniai.inf.cu *Coordinators* *PhD.Guillermo Correa Uribe* University of Antioquia. University City Street 67 # 53-108 block 12-313, Medellin, Colombia, Tel 574 2195938 guillermocorrea07 at gmail.com *PhD.Jorge Salazar Cant?n* Autonomous University of Yucatan,Mexico jsalazar at uady.mx *BSc. Jania Cabrera Gato* Institute of Scientificand Technological Information 18th A Streetbetween41 and47 Havana, Cuba jania at idict.cu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slais.ssc at ubc.ca Fri Nov 8 12:30:22 2013 From: slais.ssc at ubc.ca (slais.ssc at ubc.ca) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 17:30:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position - University of British Columbia - SLAIS, the iSchool at UBC Message-ID: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Faculty position (tenure-stream) Library and Information Studies The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at The University of British Columbia invites applications for a full-time position to begin July 1, 2014, subject to final budgetary approval. The position is expected to be filled at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates should demonstrate achievement of, or potential for, excellence in teaching, research, and service in an interdisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and conduct research in the area of library and information studies, broadly interpreted. Applications are encouraged from candidates with research and teaching interests relating to digital collections, including specialization in areas such as: digital libraries; data and information management; data/text mining and analytics; information retrieval; systems design, programming, evaluation and implementation; health informatics; digital humanities; digital media, social media; or semantic web technologies. We are seeking applicants who complement the strengths of the faculty at the School, demonstrate a strong research record appropriate to their experience, and have the ability to forge interdisciplinary research and/or teaching relationships within the School and beyond. As the School builds and strengthens its identity as an iSchool, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a dynamic community of scholars shaping the future of the School and to work with outstanding Masters and doctoral students. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or solid indication of imminent completion) in a field related to the teaching and research areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate excellence in research and scholarly activity; have a publication record commensurate with their experience; and provide evidence of teaching effectiveness. The University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, Canada, one of the world's most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The iSchool offers an ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), a Master of Archival Studies (MAS) (both with an optional First Nations Concentration), a Dual MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. Further information about the School can be found at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline date for receipt of applications is January 10, 2014. Application materials should include: a cover letter stating the candidate's qualifications for the position, projected research agenda, and teaching philosophy; current curriculum vitae; the names and contact information of a minimum of three referees; and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applications should be addressed to Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, Chair, Faculty Search Committee and documents should be sent as separate files (in .pdf of Word format) via email to: slais.recruit at ubc.ca. Enquiries may be addressed to: Caroline Haythornthwaite, Director and Professor Chair, Faculty Search Committee School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) The iSchool at The University of British Columbia The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Suite 470, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA Email: c.haythorn at ubc.ca The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Nov 1 05:40:11 2013 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:40:11 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] "Web Science and the Mind" UQAM, Montreal, 7-18 July 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <527376FB.20000@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SIGMETRICS] "Web Science and the Mind" UQAM, Montreal, 7-18 July 2014 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:38:26 -0400 From: Stevan Harnad Reply-To: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html *Theme of the Summer Institute:* Web Science and the mind http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php?lang_id=2 *Dates: *7 to 18 July 2014 *Language: *Owing to its international character, the Summer Institute will be held entirely in English. *The Institute is intended for:* * graduate and post-graduate students from the participating disciplines: cognitive science, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, computer science, psychology, philosophy * scientometrics, informatics, library science, network science -- faculty members, scholars, engineers, and professionals *Academic activities: *Contents will be presented through lectures, group discussions, and poster sessions. *Academic credit*: For students who wish to take part in the Summer Institute for credit,click here . *Partial list of speakers:* * Katy Borner (graphic webs of science) * Simon Dedeo (Wikipedia collective dynamics) * Sergey Dorogovtsev (network evolution) * Peter Gloor (collaborative networks * Jennfer Golbeck (social web) * Deborah Gordon (collective behaviour) * Wendy Hall (web science) * Jim Hendler (data web) * Tony Hey (science web) * Francis Heylighen (global brain) * Kaivan Kousha (webmetrics) * Richard Menary (extended mind) * Alexandre Monnin (web philosophy * Neylon Cameron (open science data-minin * Takashi Nishikawa (community structur) * Filippo Radicchi (network communities) * Rob Rupert (extended mind ) * Judith Simon (socio-technical epistemology) * Mark Steyvers (wisdom of crowds) * Jeff Stibel (web & brain) * Phil Tetlow (web life) No virus found in this message. 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Register now for the lowest available rate! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. This is our ninth annual conference and the first to be held in Europe. Organized under the banner ?Breaking Down Walls | Culture, Context, Computing?, iConference 2014 will provide an inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement. All information field practitioners are welcome; affiliation with a member-iSchool is not required. Highlights include: ? ********** A compelling program of peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, and Posters. ? ********** Thought-provoking Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. ? ********** Keynote addresses from Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. ? ********** Myriad opportunities for socializing and networking with premier thinkers in the information field. Social events include our Opening Reception at Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, private gala dinner at the world-renowned Naturkunde Museum Berlin, two networking-oriented Poster Sessions, a Farewell Reception, and multiple shared meals and breaks throughout. ? ********** Unique opportunities for career mentoring and growth, including a Doctoral Colloquium (invitation only), an Early Career Colloquium (open to all) and a Professional Development Seminar (also open to all). ? ********** A Social Media Expo presented by iSchool student teams and sponsored by Microsoft Research. ? ********** The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from De Gruyter and Springer. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Mon Nov 11 16:04:54 2013 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:04:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Message-ID: Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Suggested title: LIS Perspectives on Privacy and Information Management Guest editors: Jacquelyn Burkell and Alexandre Fortier Proposed aim and scope: Information professionals have the difficult task of managing information and supporting others to do the same in an increasingly complex environment where issues of information protection, control, and ownership are of paramount importance. These issues present challenges to the practice of information professionals: for example, how can libraries adequately protect the privacy of patron information? They also invite a discussion of the role of information professionals in public education and literacy: should information professionals be responsible for public education on issues such as privacy, intellectual property, and copyright? This special issue focuses on the role of information professionals with respect to these aspects of information management. We are seeking submissions that address these issues, examining questions including (but not limited to): 1) Among information professionals, what is the state of knowledge regarding information protection, control and ownership? What do information professionals know and need to know about issues such as privacy and information management? What training do we offer, and what should we offer, to information professionals with respect to these issues? 2) How are information professionals responding to the policy issues that arise with respect to privacy and information management? How are these issues affecting service delivery? What policies are being developed, and what are the challenges to effective policy responses? 3) What is the role of information professionals in helping people to become more literate and able to respond to privacy and information management challenges? What programs are being developed? Are interventions effective? Proposed timeline: Deadline for submission: March 15, 2014 First round of review (results): May 15, 2014 Final manuscript submission: June 30, 2014 Planned publication date: September 2014 Num?ro sp?cial de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de biblioth?conomie Titre sugg?r? : Perspectives des sciences de l'information et de la biblioth?conomie sur la gestion de l'information et les questions li?es ? la vie priv?e Directeurs scientifiques invit?s : Jacquelyn Burkell et Alexandre Fortier Objectif propos? et cadre de recherches : Les professionnels de l'information ont la t?che ardue de g?rer de l'information et d'aider le public ? faire de m?me dans un environnement de plus en plus complexe o? les questions de protection, de contr?le et de propri?t? de l'information sont d'une importance primordiale. Les d?fis que pr?sentent ces questions sont multiples. Comment les biblioth?ques, par exemple, peuvent-elles prot?ger ad?quatement la confidentialit? des renseignements personnels de leur client?le ? Les professionnels de l'information devraient-ils ?tre responsables de l'?ducation du public concernant les questions de vie priv?e et la gestion de l'information ? Ce num?ro sp?cial porte sur le r?le des professionnels de l'information ? l'?gard de ces aspects de la gestion de l'information et se concentre sur les questions suivantes (sans toutefois s'y limiter) : 1) Quel est l'?tat des connaissances des professionnels de l'information en mati?re de protection, de contr?le et de propri?t? de l'information ? Que savent les professionnels de l'information et qu'ont-ils besoin de savoir ? Quelles sont les formations que nous offrons et celles que nous devrions leur offrir concernant ces questions ? 2) Comment les professionnels de l'information r?agissent-ils aux probl?mes qu'occasionnent les politiques g?n?rales en mati?re de vie priv?e et de gestion de l'information ? Comment ces probl?mes de politique g?n?rale affectent-ils la prestation des services ? Quelles politiques sont mises au point, et quels sont les d?fis ? surmonter afin d'obtenir des r?actions efficaces aux probl?mes ? 3) Quel est le r?le jou? par les professionnels de l'information quand ils aident leur client?le ? devenir plus comp?tente et capable de r?pondre aux d?fis de la gestion et de la confidentialit? des informations ? Quels sont les programmes en cours d'?laboration ? Calendrier propos? : Date limite de remise des propositions : 15 mars 2014 Premi?re s?rie d'examens (r?sultats) : 15 mai 2014 Soumission finale des manuscrits : 30 juin 2014 Date provisoire de publication : Septembre 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Today, electronic documents are enabling paperless reading supported by eReading technologies such as Kindles and Nooks, yet a high proportion of users still opt to print on paper before reading. This persistent habit of "printing to read" is one sign of the shortcomings of digital documents -- although the popularity of eReaders is one sign of the shortcomings of paper. How do we get the best of both worlds? Read More This title is available online and can be freely downloaded by students, staff, and faculty of institutions that that have licensed the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science. The text may also be downloaded after a one-time fee of $20.00 by individuals and members of institutions without access to Synthesis. To find out whether or not your institution is licensed, visit http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/licensed or follow the links above and attempt to download the PDF. Print copies of this book can also be purchased directly from Amazon.com and other booksellers worldwide. You can purchase an individual subscription to Synthesis for just $99.00 per year. This subscription will provide you with unrestricted access to all Synthesis titles. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing an individual subscription. Please write to request review or desk copies today! Thank you and best regards, David Schlangen -- David Schlangen Morgan & Claypool Publishers E-mail: schlangen at morganclaypool.com Fax: 206.323.6501 Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Web Science is the emerging field that studies the structure, function and evolution of the WWW to ultimately unravel the social potentials and consequences of this ubiquitous network. The Web Science conference will start with a number of workshops that will promote in-depth discussions with the goal of understanding how people, organizations, applications, and policies shape and are shaped by the Web. In agreement with the spirit of the conference, the workshops are intended to create opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion around themes that are central to the study of the Web.The list of themes includes, but are not restricted to, 1. Methods for data mining and network research; 2. The study of social dynamics (i.e. political campaigns, censorship) using Web data; 3. The relationship between technical design and individual behaviour (i.e. the impact of by-default design on privacy); 4. The future of the Web in an era of increasing mobile applications; 5. The incentives and limits of regulation; 6. Participatory systems and crowdsourcing; 7. The dynamics of information creation (supply) and consumption (demand) and its relation to real world events. We will give priority to proposals that approach their topic from the perspective of various disciplines, spanning the divide between the social and computer sciences. Workshops can be designed as half or full day events, and they can have a mixture of panel presentations and invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the diversity of approaches that characterize the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. Submission Workshops proposals should contain the following information: 1. Title summarizing the theme of the workshop. 2. Details of the organizing committee, including names and institutional affiliations. 3. Max two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals of the workshop. 4. Schedule of panels and talks (half or full day). 5. Names of potential invited speakers. 6. Selection criteria for papers to be presented. 7. Workshop website URL (advisable). It is the prerogative of workshop organizers to decide whether to have an open call for papers or arrange panels by invitation only, as well as deciding the duration (full or half-day event) of the workshop. Proposals should include as many details as possible about speakers and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and ability to address the stated goals. Is is the organizers? responsibility to advertise their event, constitute a workshop program committee to review and select papers, manage the review process and possibly arrange for selected papers to be published in a special issue of a to-be-identified journal. We advise proposals to have, at the time of submission, a website describing the workshop and, if applicable, information about similar events held in the past. Selected workshops will be linked from the main conference site. Proposals should be submitted in pdf format through Easychair to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014ws . Review The Web Science workshop chairs will review each submission and select those with the higher scores on originality and relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity, rigor of the review process, coherence with the conference aims, and potential to attract a large audience . Deadlines * January 17th 2013: Proposal Submissions * January 31st 2013: Notification of acceptance * February 15th 2013: final website due Workshop Chairs Sandra Gonz?lez-Bail?n, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), USA Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy For information, please contact websci2014ws at easychair.org -- Alessandro Flammini School of Informatics - Indiana University http://sites.google.com/site/aflammin/ 919 East Tenth st. 47405 Bloomington IN tel +1-(812)-856 1830 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schlangen at morganclaypool.com Tue Nov 12 18:12:41 2013 From: schlangen at morganclaypool.com (David Schlangen) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:12:41 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] (New Book) Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 2 Message-ID: <00d001cedffc$b0701090$115031b0$@com> I am pleased to announce the latest title in Morgan & Claypool?s series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services: Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 2 William Jones, University of Washington Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Paperback: 9781598299373 / $40.00 / ?24.99 eBook ISBN: 9781627050173 October 2013, 179 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00532ED1V01Y201308ICR028 With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the "great migration" of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and, through these practices, the way we lead our lives. Read More This title is available online and can be freely downloaded by students, staff, and faculty of institutions that that have licensed the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science. The text may also be downloaded after a one-time fee of $20.00 by individuals and members of institutions without access to Synthesis. To find out whether or not your institution is licensed, visit http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/licensed or follow the links above and attempt to download the PDF. Print copies of this book can also be purchased directly from Amazon.com and other booksellers worldwide. You can purchase an individual subscription to Synthesis for just $99.00 per year. This subscription will provide you with unrestricted access to all Synthesis titles. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing an individual subscription. Please write to request review or desk copies today! Thank you and best regards, David Schlangen -- David Schlangen Morgan & Claypool Publishers E-mail: schlangen at morganclaypool.com Fax: 206.323.6501 Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Thu Nov 14 09:43:51 2013 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:43:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Message-ID: I apologize for the double posting, unfortunately the first post did not include information on where to submit the papers to. Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Suggested title: LIS Perspectives on Privacy and Information Management Guest editors: Jacquelyn Burkell and Alexandre Fortier Proposed aim and scope: Information professionals have the difficult task of managing information and supporting others to do the same in an increasingly complex environment where issues of information protection, control, and ownership are of paramount importance. These issues present challenges to the practice of information professionals: for example, how can libraries adequately protect the privacy of patron information? They also invite a discussion of the role of information professionals in public education and literacy: should information professionals be responsible for public education on issues such as privacy, intellectual property, and copyright? This special issue focuses on the role of information professionals with respect to these aspects of information management. We are seeking submissions that address these issues, examining questions including (but not limited to): 1) Among information professionals, what is the state of knowledge regarding information protection, control and ownership? What do information professionals know and need to know about issues such as privacy and information management? What training do we offer, and what should we offer, to information professionals with respect to these issues? 2) How are information professionals responding to the policy issues that arise with respect to privacy and information management? How are these issues affecting service delivery? What policies are being developed, and what are the challenges to effective policy responses? 3) What is the role of information professionals in helping people to become more literate and able to respond to privacy and information management challenges? What programs are being developed? Are interventions effective? Proposed timeline: Deadline for submission: March 15, 2014 First round of review (results): May 15, 2014 Final manuscript submission: June 30, 2014 Planned publication date: September 2014 Authors are invited to visit the journal's website for presentation guidelines and send their submissions in electronic format - an e-mail attachment in Word is preferred - to one of the following addresses: jburkell at uwo.ca Jacquelyn Burkell afortie at uwo.ca Alexandre Fortier Nous nous excusons pour cette rediffusion, mais nous avions malheureusement oubli? d'inclure l'information ? propos de l'exp?dition des propositions. Num?ro sp?cial de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de biblioth?conomie Titre sugg?r? : Perspectives des sciences de l'information et de la biblioth?conomie sur la gestion de l'information et les questions li?es ? la vie priv?e Directeurs scientifiques invit?s : Jacquelyn Burkell et Alexandre Fortier Objectif propos? et cadre de recherches : Les professionnels de l'information ont la t?che ardue de g?rer de l'information et d'aider le public ? faire de m?me dans un environnement de plus en plus complexe o? les questions de protection, de contr?le et de propri?t? de l'information sont d'une importance primordiale. Les d?fis que pr?sentent ces questions sont multiples. Comment les biblioth?ques, par exemple, peuvent-elles prot?ger ad?quatement la confidentialit? des renseignements personnels de leur client?le ? Les professionnels de l'information devraient-ils ?tre responsables de l'?ducation du public concernant les questions de vie priv?e et la gestion de l'information ? Ce num?ro sp?cial porte sur le r?le des professionnels de l'information ? l'?gard de ces aspects de la gestion de l'information et se concentre sur les questions suivantes (sans toutefois s'y limiter) : 1) Quel est l'?tat des connaissances des professionnels de l'information en mati?re de protection, de contr?le et de propri?t? de l'information ? Que savent les professionnels de l'information et qu'ont-ils besoin de savoir ? Quelles sont les formations que nous offrons et celles que nous devrions leur offrir concernant ces questions ? 2) Comment les professionnels de l'information r?agissent-ils aux probl?mes qu'occasionnent les politiques g?n?rales en mati?re de vie priv?e et de gestion de l'information ? Comment ces probl?mes de politique g?n?rale affectent-ils la prestation des services ? Quelles politiques sont mises au point, et quels sont les d?fis ? surmonter afin d'obtenir des r?actions efficaces aux probl?mes ? 3) Quel est le r?le jou? par les professionnels de l'information quand ils aident leur client?le ? devenir plus comp?tente et capable de r?pondre aux d?fis de la gestion et de la confidentialit? des informations ? Quels sont les programmes en cours d'?laboration ? Calendrier propos? : Date limite de remise des propositions : 15 mars 2014 Premi?re s?rie d'examens (r?sultats) : 15 mai 2014 Soumission finale des manuscrits : 30 juin 2014 Date provisoire de publication : Septembre 2014 Les auteurs sont invit?s ? consulter le site web de la revue afin de prendre connaissance du protocole de r?daction. Les propositions doivent ?tre envoy?es par voie ?lectronique (id?alement un fichier Word en pi?ce jointe ? un courriel) ? l'une ou l'autre des adresses suivantes : jburkell at uwo.ca Jacquelyn Burkell afortie at uwo.ca Alexandre Fortier -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Thu Nov 14 17:41:52 2013 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:41:52 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] NEWS> Indiana University offering affordable online certificate in data science Message-ID: <26D120C2-1E06-44E3-A742-ABAEAB556119@indiana.edu> Indiana University offering affordable online certificate in data science Nov. 13, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new online program in data science. The program, which will launch in January, is designed to lead to a Certificate in Data Science that is anticipated to be available by spring, pending approvals by the Indiana University Board of Trustees and Indiana Commission for Higher Education. ?We?re excited to launch one of the first and broadest online data science programs in the nation,? Dean Bobby Schnabel said. ?The breadth of the School of Informatics and Computing -- with faculty expertise in computer science, informatics and information/library science -- is ideally suited to creating a successful program in this burgeoning area.? The program will teach concepts and skills essential for success in this rapidly emerging field: data collection, data management and infrastructure, data analysis, and data visualization. Three-credit courses available in the 12-credit certificate program include: ? Big Data Applications and Analytics ? Cloud Computing for Data Intensive Sciences ? Information Visualization ? Big Data in Drug Discovery, Health and Translational Medicine ? Data Management: Volume, Variety, Velocity, Veracity ? Big Data Software Tools and Project ? Big Data Analysis for Web and Text ? High-Performance Computing The program provides maximum flexibility for students, who can choose courses based on their interest area and career needs, as well as complete the courses at their own pace. The first four courses will be available for enrollment in January; the rest will be available by August. ?We?ve worked hard to make the program affordable for students, with total fees for the full certificate initially set at approximately $4,500. We feel it provides great value, particularly given the wide range of opportunities in this area,? said Howard Rosenbaum, associate dean for graduate studies and Data Science Program co-director. The program responds to a high need by employers. According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, by 2018 the U.S. alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills, as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions. Examples of jobs in this field include big data analyst, data solutions architect, and director of data science and analytics. ?Big data can provide a unique competitive advantage to organizations across a range of areas, including tech companies, health care organizations, government and defense, manufacturers and retailers,? said Geoffrey Fox, associate dean for research and co-director of the Data Science Program. ?It will take people skilled in data science for those organizations to realize that competitive advantage. We?re pleased to provide an opportunity for individuals to develop these skills in an online environment.? The program is designed for students with an applicable bachelor?s or master?s degree, including but not limited to computer science, informatics, information science, information systems, mathematics or statistics, and some relevant professional work experience. Students seeking enrollment information should contact Rhonda Spencer at 812-855-2018 or datasci at indiana.edu Program information http://www.soic.indiana.edu/graduate/programs/data-science/index.shtml School of Informatics and Computing http://www.soic.indiana.edu/graduate/programs/ From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Fri Nov 15 11:26:12 2013 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:26:12 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: RDAP14 CFP and Registration Open Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A01652BE634EC4@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> REMINDER: RDAP14 Call for Proposals and Registration Open Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 March 26-28, 2014 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA RDAP14, the fifth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, is accepting proposals (max. 300 words) for two panels, interactive posters, and lightning talks. Themes for RDAP14 were selected by this year's planning committee with input from previous years' attendees and RDAP community members. Important Dates November 25, 2013: Panel Presentations Submissions Due December 16, 2013: Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks Submissions Due February 14, 2014: Early Bird Registration Ends March 26-28, 2014: RDAP14 Conference and Workshops Panel Presentations We are seeking panelists for the following topics: * Developing and implementing institutional policies for research data: ownership, preservation, and compliance. This panel will discuss approaches institutions have taken to develop and implement policies for a variety of issues related to research data, including ownership, copyright, commercialization, privacy, embargoes, access controls, sharing, reuse, and preservation. * Building data curation/management services on a shoestring budget. This panel will discuss how to quickly start up data curation/management services with limited resources from the perspective of institutions that have recently done so in response to funding agency policies and/or other external factors. Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks We are soliciting posters and lightning talks on any of the following themes: * Institutional policies for research data * Building/expanding research data services * Collaboration or tension between units involved with research data * Institutional responses to government policies/guidelines concerning research data * Systems/strategies for full-lifecycle research data curation * Tools developed and/or used for data curation/management * Digital preservation * Data citation and reuse * Data repositories (institutional/disciplinary/other) * Education and training for research data management/curation Submit your 300 word (maximum) summary or abstract, along with any supplementary documentation, for Panel Presentations by November 25, 2013. Submissions for Interactive Posters and (Seven Minute) Lightning Talks are due December 16, 2013. Submit your proposals for RDAP14 here: http://www.softconf.com/asis/rdap-14/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit In addition to the topics covered in the call, the RDAP14 program will include keynote speakers, hands-on workshops, and curated panels on: * Inter-unit collaboration and tension around research data services * Responses to the OSTP public access memo * NSF DataNet project updates More details on the program coming soon! View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits' programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. Keep up with RDAP news by joining our Listserv, following us on Twitter or visiting our Facebook page. For questions, contact rdapinfo at asis.org. We look forward to hearing from you! ---------------------------------- Andrew Johnson RDAP14 Program Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rutgers LIS faculty members are defining an evolving field in an interdisciplinary environment, close to the world's largest media and information centers, and within a highly interactive research university. Areas of particular interest to the department include (but are not limited to): *Health and wellness information for professionals, patients and the general public; *Big data science, including curation, preservation and analytics; *Interaction with information at individual, social, and cultural levels; *Human computer interaction and the use of information in design; *Social media, crowdsourcing, and collaboration technologies; *Game technology and instructional applications; *Libraries in the 21st century, including public, academic, special, school, and digital libraries; *Information organization and exploration, including databases. The School of Communication and Information values a climate of cross-department collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in a world changed by technology and information. The School is committed to four problem-based research foci: health and wellness; global media and democracy; organizations, policy, and leadership; and social media interaction & collaboration. We embrace Rutgers$B!G(B goals of diversification of its communities and programs and encourage applicants who would address these goals. For more about the Department of Library and Information Science and the Rutgers-School of Communication and Information, including school-wide research interests and active faculty searches in the school (Communication and Journalism and Media Studies departments, see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu. Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field no later than May 2014. The ideal applicant$B!G(Bs program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding. Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate$B!G(Bs fit to specific departmental and school-wide research interests. Responsibilities of the successful applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching assignments, an active program of research in the candidate$B!G(Bs area of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for tenure-track appointments. Submissions: Applications must be received no later than December 1, 2013. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references (no letters at this time please). Submit to: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/lis-search/faculty. For more information, contact the Chair of the Department, Marie L. Radford (mradford at rutgers.edu). Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America and of the CIC (Big Ten). We have 65,000 students and $400M in total Federal research funding. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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New partnership helps patients take ownership of their health records while helping with clinical research http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Data2Action%20Announcements.pdf CHAPEL HILL, NC - The national goal of building a Learning Health System, which may lower health costs and improve patient care for people in all areas of the country, will be enhanced through a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the Center for the Advancement of Health Information Technology at RTI International (RTI) and Our Health Data Cooperative (OHDC). The three organizations are responding to the Obama Administration?s call to harness the power of data by forging new partnerships around data innovation. The Obama Administration highlights today a high-impact collaboration promoting ?Data to Knowledge to Action.? The SILS, OHDC and RTI are planning to work together to develop the largest data set of anonymous health records for clinical research in the world, with a goal of including 50 Million member patient health records. As part of the partnership, OHDC is a newly established cooperative, owned by patients, that has been developed to help patients better manage and benefit directly from the use of their health data while providing it anonymously for use in clinical research studies. Patients participating in the cooperative will have their health information collected anonymously using their OHDC ?stock number.? All collected data will be made available to health researchers and clinicians to help them ?determine the best treatment options for each disease or condition.? Fees paid by subscribing health organizations to OHDC for access and use of the data for research purposes will be shared among the patients who submit their health information anonymously. The knowledge gained will benefit all. ?Our Health Data Cooperative expects to provide economic benefit to individuals who share their information with third parties,? said Tom Caruso, Ph.D., RTI Health Informatics Liaison with SILS at UNC-CH. ?Compensation for the anonymous health records drive growth of a big data warehouse that can be used to provide improvements in personalized care,? said Dr. Caruso. One of the goals of the collaboration of SILS at UNC-CH, CAHIT at RTI and ODHC is to help build and design database access, as well as the evidence-based educational infrastructure for members that will help them understand the research uses of their data. To the collaboration, funding of up to $12 million is being provided by Touchstone Energy Cooperative to enlist its more than 30 million existing members. This funding will support a goal of enrolling 10 million members in the next 24 months. Membership in OHDC is free and open to all United States residents. Those interested in participating may sign up for membership at http://www.ourhdc.com. Privacy is assured. ##### The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the nation's top-ranked schools of library and information studies by U.S. News & World Report. SILS consistently takes a leadership role in today's ever-changing information and library science landscape. Our Health Data Cooperative is a national patient owned cooperative that is committed to lowering the cost of health care for the United States and improving the health care for disparate patient groups by gathering health related data anonymously for each member via their individual cooperative stock number, which allows the data to stay in the patient?s doctor?s office. The Center for the Advancement of Health IT (CAHIT) at RTI International uses evidence-based methods to encourage the use of health IT and eHealth in safe, appropriate ways. RTI's multidisciplinary teams of experts provide high-quality and innovative research and development, technical services, and policy analysis to governments and businesses worldwide. ******************************* Wanda Monroe Director of Communications School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 04 Manning Hall, CB#3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 919.843.8337 sils.unc.edu Follow us on Twitter at UNCSILS Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/uncsils -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tuf15651 at temple.edu Sat Nov 16 10:53:37 2013 From: tuf15651 at temple.edu (Katherine Lynch) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:53:37 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Job: Digital Library Applications Developer @ Temple University, Philadelphia Message-ID: ** Please excuse any cross-posting ** We have an exciting development to add to the job posting below. As of last week, we have made the decision to start using and developing on Project Hydra at Temple University Libraries. Hydra is a Ruby-on-Rails based Open Source project with an active community of contributors. You can learn more about Hydra at this link: http://projecthydra.org/about-hydra-2/ So if you are interested in working with Hydra or love Ruby on Rails (or know someone who does), please apply/spread the word! Temple University is a 10 minute ride from Center City, Philadelphia, PA. The Temple University Libraries are seeking a creative and energetic individual to fill the position of Digital Library Applications Developer. Temple?s federated library system serves an urban research university with over 1,800 full-time faculty and a student body of 36,000 that is among the most diverse in the nation. For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visithttp://www.temple.edu. Description Reporting to the Senior Digital Library Applications Developer and working closely with others in the Digital Library Initiatives Department, help develop and maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple University?s digital library initiatives and services, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects, and supporting digital humanities and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the Library. Under the guidance of supervisor, architect, implement, test and deploy new tools and services primarily based on open source project software, such as Omeka, Fedora Commons, Hydra, and Open Journal Systems (OJS), potentially contributing code to those projects. Perform other duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience * BS in Computer Science or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Required Skills and Abilities * Demonstrated experience with application development in at least one major programming language such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java * Demonstrated experience with MySQL or other database management systems. * Demonstrated knowledge of the LAMP stack or similar technology stacks. * Demonstrated ability to perform effective code testing. * Experience with project requirements gathering. * Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team-based environment, and to communicate well with IT and non-IT staff. Commitment to responsive and innovative service. * Demonstrated ability to write clear documentation. Preferred * Experience with a repository system such as Fedora/Hydra, Fedora/Islandora, or Dspace. * Familiarity with a Content Management System like Drupal or an exhibit curation system like Omeka would be a plus. * Experience working with Open Source software; experience with version control, test-driven development, and continuous integration techniques. * Experience with QA testing of web applications. * Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, including scripting and commands. * Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols, including LDAP. * Knowledge of XML/XSLT. * Familiarity with digital library standards, such as Dublin Core, MARC, METS, EAD, and OAI-PMH. To apply: To apply for this position, please visit http://www.temple.edu/hr/departments/employment/jobs_within.htm, click on "Non-Employees Only," and search for job number TU-17222. For full consideration, please submit your completed electronic application, along with a cover letter and resume. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to cultural diversity. -- Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu) Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.lynch at temple.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Nov 15 13:14:17 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (rhill at asis.org) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:14:17 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] [Pasig-announce] Resend with URL - November 21 PASIG Webinar: The Essential Elements Of Intelligently Managed Tiered Storage Infrastructures In-Reply-To: <5282F52A.9090504@oracle.com> References: <5282F52A.9090504@oracle.com> Message-ID: <9E4CA9ECB58F438CAAF7D3C24BC68354@asist.local> The next PASIG webinar will be given by Raymond Clarke, one of the founding PASIG committee members. Ray has consistently been one of the top-rated PASIG presenters on tiered storage and related storage standards. Now as an independent consultant, Ray will be offering deep, practical advice from his years of experience developing architectures for tiered storage for preservation. PASIG Webinar: The Essential Elements Of Intelligently Managed Tiered Storage Infrastructures Webinar Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 11:30am-12:30pm (EST) http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-11-21-2013-register.h tml Various concepts and applications of tiered storage have been employed for over 20 years. First in the mainframe space and later in the open system space. During the past 20 years, the prevalence of the open systems enterprises have grown along with the explosive growth of unstructured data, with requirements for that data to be preserved, in many cases indefinitely, yet remain readily accessible. The tiered storage model provides benefits of lower overall cost, lower energy, and lower floor space requirements. However, maximum environmental impact and ROI will now be achieved through expanded use of cloud technologies and intelligent tiered storage management. This talk will focus on the essential elements of successful intelligent tiered storage management, in the context of long-term digital information retention and preservation. Presenter Biography Raymond A. Clarke is a lecturer and consultant with expertise spanning twenty-five+ years in storage management, performance, capacity planning and architecting storage infrastructure solutions. Ray helped develop the Storage Network Industry (SNIA) Data Management Forum and served on the forum's board of directors at its inception. Ray held several positions focused on technical storage solutions and long-term digital information archive and preservation solutions development with Sun Microsystems over a 15 year period. Most recently, Ray contributed to Oracle's Hardware and Engineered Systems Infrastructure Team, within the Enterprise Solutions Group as a Senior Enterprise Storage Solutions Consultant, with a focus on both field sales enablement and support and technical training. 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This is a full-time position at a renowned Federal library located in Washington, D.C. Qualifications: * Demonstrated experience reviewing the completed work of others for quality control; * Previous experience working in a library environment; * Experience using Voyager ILS is preferred; * Knowledge of online catalogs, MARC records and basic cataloging; * At least six (6) months experience working in a research library; * Skill in operating keyboards and computers; * Strong attention to and ability to work with great detail. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/vKBDLr LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features The Portal to Texas History, a fascinating array of rare and invaluable items that document Texas's history created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. The articles include: Growing Institutional Support for Data Citation: Results of a Partnership Between Griffith University and the Australian National Data Service By Natasha Simons, Griffith University, Brisbane, Karen Visser, Australian National Data Service and Samantha Searle, Griffith University, Brisbane A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in the Archives By Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project By Sonoe Nakasone, District of Columbia Public Library System and Carolyn Sheffield, Smithsonian Institution Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo By Joachim Schoepfel, Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3 and Maebena Soukouya, University Library of Kara, Togo Schema for the Integration of Web Applications By Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands 2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding By Paul Vierkant, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin The conference reports are: Building Global Partnerships ? Second Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance By Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute An Overview of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) By Vittore Casarosa, Institute for Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy and Ana Pervan, Intern at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Meyrin, Switzerland D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November/December 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Nov 14 12:24:17 2013 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:24:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Government Documents Librarian / Washington, DC Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group is seeking a Government Documents Librarian for a long-term, 5-year, contract with a prestigious federal library, focused on education, located in Washington, DC. This is a full-time, benefited, position on a recently awarded contract to run the library and information services. The library serves the agency's department, public, education community and other government agencies. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: * Select and acquire documents for selective depository library following FDLP guidelines * Participate in providing reference and research services through regular duty at the reference desk and by responding to requests using the full range of available resources, with focus on government documents * Participate in liaison and outreach programs, with focus on government documents * Stay abreast of the information needs and trends within the agency * Stay abreast of trends in library and information science * KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: * Understanding of Government Printing Office Federal Depository Library Program guidelines and standards * Ability to manage a government documents collection * Ability to use automated library systems such as Catalog of U.S. Government Publications * Understanding of the role of the Library and the needs of its customers * Provide general and specialized reference and research services on issues relating to education and educational policy * Strong public/customer service orientation * Understanding of the role of technology in library functions and services; ability to apply technology in functional area * Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate with a diverse community * Ability to work independently and as part of a team QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: * MLS from an ALA-accredited library/information science program * Background in education or a related social science * Demonstrated experience in managing a library or information service function * Familiarity with government documents For consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/jDAf0E LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer who values diversity in the workplace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mfsense2 at illinois.edu Mon Nov 18 13:27:19 2013 From: mfsense2 at illinois.edu (Senseney, Megan Finn) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:27:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute: Now Accepting Applications Message-ID: Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of three-day workshops, will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the humanities. Workshops are aimed at humanities researchers ? whether traditional faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals ? as well as librarians, archivists, cultural heritage specialists, other information professionals, and advanced graduate students. Applications are now being accepted for the third Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at Northeastern University, April 30-May 2, 2014. Visit the Institute Web site (http://dhcuration.org/institute) to complete an application by January 31, 2014. Workshops are limited to 20 participants, and applicants will be notified regarding acceptance in mid-February. As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science ? which come together in the research, and practice of data curation ? will become more vital to humanists. Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data over its entire lifetime of interest. At the least, individual scholars must be able to document their data curation strategies and evaluate those of collaborators and other purveyors of humanities data. More fully integrating data curation into digital research involves fluency with topics such as disciplinary research cultures, policies and plans for information sharing, metadata standards and repository systems, and the technical characteristics of digital data. An overview of the content is available by browsing the schedules of our past workshops, which can be found online at http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/schedule/. Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, limited funding will be available to offset the cost of attending the institute and will be awarded based on need. Support may not cover all costs associated with attendance. Email: mfsense2 at illinois.edu Visit the website at http://dhcuration.org/institute -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: mfsense2 at illinois.edu http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Wed Nov 20 12:22:42 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:22:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Asis-l] Discovery, Scholarly Communication and the Print to Electronic Transition, NFAIS Webinar Message-ID: <1384968162.309415656@webmail.nfais.org> ?NFAIS Webinar: Faculty Survey: Discovery, Scholarly Communication, and the Print to Electronic Transition - a report from Ithaka S+R During the last decade the academic landscape has changed significantly. Library holdings are digital rather than physical, campuses are networked, and technology has invaded the classroom. As a result, the attitudes and practices of faculty as they relate to information discovery, research, publishing, and teaching have changed and continued to evolve ? requiring that the information products and services created by publishers and offered by librarians evolve in parallel. On December 5, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) that will look at the results of a recent survey undertaken by Ithaka S+R to better understand how these faculty attitudes and practices have altered over time. Our expert speaker will be Roger C. Schonfeld?, Program Director for Libraries, Users, and Scholarly Practices, Ithaka S+R?. Since 2000, the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey has triennially surveyed U.S. faculty members in their roles as researchers, authors, and teachers. In addition to its ability to track change among faculty members for such a long period of time, the survey also allows for analysis at the disciplinary level in many arts and sciences fields, as well as selected professions. Drawing from this dataset, and focusing especially on the most recent findings from fall 2012, this webinar will focus on three key areas of interest to libraries and content providers alike: ? The discovery of scholarly information, ? The audiences that faculty members wish to reach and the mechanisms they value to help them to do, and ? The print to electronic transition for journals and scholarly monographs. In addition, some selected comparisons will be presented from a parallel survey of UK academics, which was fielded in partnership with JISC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) in 2012. If you or your staff want to get to get up to speed on current faculty member research processes, teaching practices, publishing and scholarly dissemination, and their perceived role of the library register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $125, Sister Society members (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP, NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) pay $150, and non-members pay $195. Three or more staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $295. The group fee for three or more staff members from any Sister Society is $350, and from a non-member organization is $450. The registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.org/event?eventID=536. For more information contact Jill O?Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community ? From chodgson at niso.org Wed Nov 20 13:47:26 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:47:26 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events - ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics Message-ID: <010501cee620$f71b8180$e5528480$@org> Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events - ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics NISO will be holding free virtual events related to three projects underway. Please be sure to RSVP (as noted for each) if you plan to participate so that you will be sent the login and access information. All three events will be recorded, with the recording posted on the NISO website, but we encourage your live participation. _____ Event: ResourceSync Standard Training Webinar Date: December 3, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/ RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/resourcesync-webinar About the Event The ResourceSync Framework Specification (NISO Z39.99-201x) is in the final stages of editing and approval to become an American National standard. It describes a synchronization framework for the web consisting of various capabilities that allow third party systems to remain synchronized with a server's evolving resources. The capabilities can be combined in a modular manner to meet local or community requirements. This specification also describes how a server can advertise the synchronization capabilities it supports and how third party systems can discover this information. The specification repurposes the document formats defined by the Sitemap protocol and introduces extensions for them. In this webinar, ResourceSync core team members Bernhard Haslhofer and Simeon Warner will review the standard and provide practical examples and scenarios for its application. There will be time allotted for a Q&A discussion. ResourceSync is a joint NISO and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) project that is partially funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. _____ Event: NISO Bibliographic Development Roadmap Project Discussion Webinar Date: December 5, 2013 Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/ RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FH2V23B About the Event NISO is developing a community roadmap that will help support movement toward a future bibliographic information exchange ecosystem. A two-day in-person meeting was held on April 15-16 to kick off the project with input from experts around the world about needed areas of focus, research, and standards development to effectively transform how bibliographic data is created, exchanged, and managed in the linked web world. The input from this meeting-some 40 project ideas in 15 categories--has been compiled at NISO 's IdeaScale Input Forum. (Community members are encouraged to visit the forum and "vote" on the ideas.) Obviously, in an environment of limited resources, not every one of these projects can be acted upon or pursued. This next phase of the project will be to collectively prioritize these potential activity streams. The December webinar will focus on this prioritization and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and give feedback on the ideas. This feedback will be used to shape the recommendations in the final Bibliographic Roadmap report. The NISO Bibliographic Roadmap project is funded with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. _____ Event: NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project Second In-person Meeting and Livestream Date: December 11, 2013 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/ RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HCX8BGY About the Event NISO is undertaking a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. The first phase of the project involves several in-person meetings (which are also livestreamed) to identify and prioritize potential standardization projects. In the second phase, the prioritized and approved standards/best practices will be developed by appointed working groups of volunteers. This event is the second in-person meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC. (There are still a few slots for in-person attendees, available on a first come-first serve basis.) The event will be livestreamed to interested virtual attendees who will also have opportunities to participate directly. The agenda of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing of proposed work items. This project is funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. _____ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Colleen.Cool at qc.cuny.edu Mon Nov 18 18:17:57 2013 From: Colleen.Cool at qc.cuny.edu (Colleen Cool) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:17:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Queens College/CUNY Faculty Position in Information Science Message-ID: Assistant Professor in Information Science ? Fall 2014 Queens College, City University of New York, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the area of Information Science. Qualified candidates are sought with research and teaching expertise as well as applied knowledge in two of the following areas: Data Management and Curation Content Management Systems Information/Systems Architecture Usability Metadata PhD in library/information science or a related field at the time of appointment. An earned graduate degree in library science is required. Preference will be given to applicants who have familiarity with the ALA accreditation process. For detailed information visit: www.cuny.edu/employment.html (Job #9136) Completed application packets, including cover letter describing scholarly interests, curriculum vitae and 500 word essay addressing ?Future Directions in LIS Education? must be submitted online, as one document. 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URL: From kb633 at drexel.edu Tue Nov 19 15:28:55 2013 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:28:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Adjunct Faculty Positions Available at Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics Message-ID: <8A3EE63B361E364EA41B10DE3FBE64FD04AAC960@MB3.drexel.edu> Adjunct Faculty Positions Available at Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics is accepting applications for adjunct faculty to teach in the undergraduate programs in the Department of Computing and the Department of Informatics. We particularly welcome experienced applicants who are available to teach on-campus courses in the day or evening. Selected sections of some courses may be offered online. Courses * Computer Networking courses o INFO330 Computer Networking Technology I * Database Management Courses o INFO153 Applied Data Management o INFO210 Database Management Systems o INFO365 Database Administration I * Programming-related Courses (teaching experience with Python, Java or C++ preferred) o CS140 Introduction to Multimedia Programming o INFO151 Web Systems & Services I o INFO152 Web Systems & Services II. * Software Engineering Courses o SE410 Software Evolution Basic course information can be found on the University's Catalog (CS courses are currently listed in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering; INFO and SE courses are listed in the College of Information Science & Technology) * http://catalog.drexel.edu/coursedescriptions/quarter/undergrad/cs/ * http://catalog.drexel.edu/coursedescriptions/quarter/undergrad/info/ * http://catalog.drexel.edu/coursedescriptions/quarter/undergrad/se/ Requirements: MS degree and relevant industry/professional experience. 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Massive changes in how large collections of data are created, disseminated, analyzed, and used have increased the role that information plays in industry, science, scholarship, government, and our every-day lives. The flexible program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. Faculty work on data from many domains including science (MEDLINE, EPA, STAR METRICS), business (health, energy, media), humanities (HathiTrust, Google Books), and everyday life (social media) and develop new methods in: ? Text and Data Mining ? Informetrics and Data Analytics ? Information Retrieval ? Social Computing ? Digital Humanities ? Social Network Analysis ? Digital Libraries ? Computer Supported Cooperative Work ? Data Curation and Linked Data ? Information Trust and Privacy ? Digital Youth GSLIS supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, data curation and information organization. Additional information about research at GSLIS is available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/projects. For specific information about the PhD program, please visit http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd or contact lis-apply at illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otmorey at buffalo.edu Wed Nov 20 15:59:47 2013 From: otmorey at buffalo.edu (Morey, Ophelia) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:59:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship In-Reply-To: <1F49F7B25BACEC42854269EB9AC24527062974@mb-ls1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> References: <1F49F7B25BACEC42854269EB9AC24527062974@mb-ls1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: <1F49F7B25BACEC42854269EB9AC24527062997@mb-ls1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> FYI From: UB Libraries Distribution List [mailto:UBLIB-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Morey, Ophelia Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:59 PM To: UBLIB-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Institute for Research Design in Librarianship The William H. Hannon Library has received a three-year grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to offer a nine-day continuing education opportunity for academic and research librarians. Each year, 21 librarians will receive instruction in research design and a full year of support to complete a research project at their home institutions. The summer Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) is supplemented with pre-institute learning activities and a personal learning network that provides ongoing mentoring. The institutes will be held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. For more information about the project, including the project partners, the School of Library and Information Science at San Jos? State University and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), please see the project website: http://irdlonline.org. The first institute will be held on June 16-26, 2014, with arrival on campus on Sunday, June 15, and departure on Friday, June 27. We are now issuing a call for applications for the IRDL 2014. We are seeking novice librarian researchers who are employed by academic libraries, or research libraries outside an academic setting in the United States to participate in the institute. We define novice researchers as those who may have conducted research but have not yet had an article published or a presentation accepted by a peer-reviewed publication or conference; librarians who have presented peer-reviewed poster sessions will be eligible. Librarians of all levels of professional experience are welcome to apply. We seek librarians with a passion for research and a desire to improve their research skills. The project is designed to bring together all that the literature tells us about the necessary conditions for librarians to conduct valid and reliable research in an institutional setting. The cohort will be chosen from a selective submission process, with an emphasis on enthusiasm for research and diversity from a variety of perspectives, including ethnicity and type and size of library. The Advisory Committee, comprised of librarians with research experience in a variety of settings, will use an open review process to select participants who will travel to Los Angeles, California, participate in all institute activities, and conduct a research project during the 2014-2015 academic year. The online application requests a proposed research project that will be revised at the institute and will be the basis for the study to be completed in the coming year. Selection criteria: * Significance of the research problem to the operational success of the applicant's library or to the profession of librarianship; * Clarity of the proposed methodology; * Enthusiasm for research and desire to learn; * Commitment to the year-long process of communicating with other participants and conducting the proposed study. We will be accepting applications from December 1, 2013 to February 1, 2014. Scholars accepted to the Institute will be notified by March 1, 2014. Please contact Project Directors with any questions about the Institute or the application process: Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University brancoli at lmu.edu Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Loyola Marymount University marie.kennedy at lmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From VChapman at emeraldinsight.com Tue Nov 5 08:42:03 2013 From: VChapman at emeraldinsight.com (Virginia Chapman) Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:42:03 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Virtual Issue putting spotlight on Impact of Information Science on Web Research In-Reply-To: <5FF0B2D02A284043A75D79D131D9AF6B85B25809@em-appl013.Emerald.Net> References: <5FF0B2D02A284043A75D79D131D9AF6B85B251FA@em-appl013.Emerald.Net> <5FF0B2D02A284043A75D79D131D9AF6B85B257B9@em-appl013.Emerald.Net> <5FF0B2D02A284043A75D79D131D9AF6B85B25809@em-appl013.Emerald.Net> Message-ID: <5FF0B2D02A284043A75D79D131D9AF6B85B25823@em-appl013.Emerald.Net> Apologies for re-posting but I've been alerted to the fact that these links were not working over the weekend. So I'm reposting, so you can access the correct links. What is the impact of Information Science on Web research? Free Access Only until 5 December 2013! Access the virtual issue now and save it as a favourite so you can access whenever you like while access is available. "Information is used in direct proportion to how easy that information is to obtain." Summit, R.K. (1993). With the increasing impact of information science constructs in an growing array of areas from web analytics to big data, we are offering you the chance to read some of our most poignant articles on this topic for free in this Internet Research virtual special issue. Read now! The following articles are all from different journal issues of Internet Research Information Science Perceptions of the Internet: what people think when they search the Internet for information? Harry Bruce World-wide web: the information universe Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Jean-Fran?ois Groff, Bernd Pollermann Theories into practice: a content analysis of anti-smoking websites Hye-Jin Paek, Beom Jun Bae, Thomas Hove, Hyunjae Yu A holistic approach to the analysis of online profiles Helena Bukvova Mining consumer dialog in online forums Carolin Kaiser, Freimut Bodendorf Exploring interaction: print and online news media synergies Gary Graham, Anita Greenhill Tell us what you think It would also be great to hear your thoughts on the key issues raised in this research. You can do this tweeting Jim Jansen the IR editor at http://twitter.com/jimjansen or contact Emerald IKM Twitter @EmeraldIKM or contact emerald IKM Publisher at walderton at emeraldinsight.com We'd love to hear from you! 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Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 845 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Nov 20 09:22:25 2013 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:22:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies; Submission: Nov. 29 Message-ID: <201311201422.rAKEMZQX006559@mail.asis.org> Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once... ********************************************************************************** WorldCIST'14 The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies April 15 - 18, Madeira Island, Portugal http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ ********************************************************************************** The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'14. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); G) Health Informatics (HIS); H) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 24th of January 2014, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be submitted for indexation by EI-Compendex and EBSCO. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: Journal of Information Technology (JIT) Social Science Computer Review (SSCR) Information Processing & Management (IPM) Information Technology & People (ITP) Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) Information Development (IDV) IEEE IT Professional (ITPro) Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (CMBBE-IV) Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) International Journal of Health Information Systems & Informatics (IJHISI) International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) EAI Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning (EAI-TEL) INPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 29, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 19, 2014 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 24, 2014. Regards, WorldCIST'14 Team http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ From srichards at lac-group.com Wed Nov 20 11:56:35 2013 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:56:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Temporary Librarian / Chicago, IL Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . LAC Group seeks a short-term, Temporary Librarian to work on 3-5 week project for our client, a government institution, located outside of Chicago in Lemont, IL. This position will work with the client's library staff and be responsible for reviewing and updating metadata, performing data entry of metadata and performing a variety of administrative tasks associated with library operations and tracking scholarly publications. This person is required to have knowledge and skills in library and information science and US citizenship is required. Knowledge and Skills: * Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLS) or equivalent experience in an academic or research library setting required; * Good knowledge of standard cataloging rules, concepts and authority control; * Good knowledge of integrated library systems including experience using cataloguing, acquisitions and circulation modules; * Some knowledge of PC business applications such as Microsoft Office and citation management tools such as EndNote; * Some knowledge of the scholarly communication and publishing process; intellectual property and copyright as it applies to libraries; * Strong attention to detail Other: * Due to this position's responsibilities to have full access to the networking and databases of the Research Library, U.S. citizenship is required. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/2lTSGn LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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The Advances in Library and Information Science (ALIS) Book Series aims to expand the body of library science literature by covering a wide range of topics affecting the profession and field at large. The series also seeks to provide readers with an essential resource for uncovering the latest research in library and information science management, development, and technologies. Introduction The Digital Humanities is an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. Digital humanities embrace a variety of topics, from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital humanities (also known as DH) currently incorporates both digitized and born-digital materials and combine the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines and social sciences with tools provided by computing (such as data visualization, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, text mining) and digital publishing. Objective of the Book Research in the digital humanities relies on knowledge of data management and on collaboration across a range of disciplines. Libraries and Library Professionals are situated to be both supporters and participants in digital humanities research. This publication will bring together current research in the discipline of digital humanities, focusing on the role of libraries and library staff in the research, creation, and dissemination of the information. Target Audience The book will be an asset to librarians navigating the beginnings of a digital humanities project as well as a guide for researchers in the DH process exploring potential partnerships with libraries. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Overview of DH and current scholarship Role of librarians in DH Role of libraries and research centers in the DH process Digital methods and modes of knowledge acquisition Research methodology Current pedagogy Role of libraries in supporting the DH instructor Future directions in the discipline Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be release in 2015. Important Dates February 28, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline March 15, 2014: Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2014: Full Chapter Submission June 30, 2014: Review Results Returned August 30, 2014: Final Chapter Submission October 15, 2014: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be sent to: Sara Parme, M.L.I.S. Daniel A. Reed Library SUNY Fredonia 280 Central Ave. Fredonia, NY 14063 716-673-3606 sara.parme at fredonia.edu Katie Sacco ============================================== Kathleen L. Sacco Assistant Director Daniel A. 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Each time a user encounters a paywall, he simply clicks the button in his bookmark bar, fills out an optional dialogue box, and his experience is added to a map alongside other users. Then, the user receives a link to search for free access to the article using resources such as Google Scholar. The Open Access Button initiative hopes to create a worldwide map showing the impact of denied access to research. [more] Source and Full Text Available Via [ http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/11/launch-of-open-access-button.html ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. After the first phase, which will expose areas for potential standardization, the community will collectively prioritize those potential projects. The second phase will be to advance and develop those standards/best practices prioritized by the community and approved by the membership NISO will host the second of three meetings meant to further engage the community in this project. The second in-person meeting in support of this work will take place on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) at the Capitol Hilton, Federal Room A, in Washington, DC. This meeting is made possible by the generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the objectives of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing proposed work items. **The meeting is free for all attendees, but room capacity is limited. Please RSVP here, which will assist in planning and logistics.** [snip] FREE LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE: For those interested in this work, but unable to attend in-person, NISO will be live streaming this event. Credentials for login will be provided closer to the event date; please make sure to designate your attendance as "virtual" in the RSVP form so that we may be sure to communicate that information to you. Source and Links Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2013/11/niso-alternative-assessment-metrics.html /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Nov 21 19:06:41 2013 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:06:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Legal Research Services Librarian / San Francisco, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks a Legal Research Services Librarian to provide legal and business development research for our client, a global law firm's San Francisco, CA office. The Research Services Librarian will provide legal and business development research and support attorneys and business development and marketing personnel. Representative Key Responsibilities * Using appropriate online and print resources: * Provide support for attorneys and paralegals with research into local, State and Federal law. This requires exploration into all areas of the firm's fields of practice. Including, but not limited to: Litigation, Tax, Corporate and Securities, Intellectual Property, Employment, and Real Property and Construction Litigation. * Develop a knowledge of practice areas and specific projects, and work proactively to provide information and news as it develops * Assist with training Summer Associates in legal research tools and strategies, and help familiarize newly minted attorneys to the practice of law and expectations of a large law firm environment. * Assist in the evaluation and selection of business and news information resources. Legal Research Key Responsibilities * Using appropriate online and print resources: * Research and retrieve primary and secondary local, state and federal materials * Research other materials not in legal databases that support attorney strategies and requirements * Identify and provide practice guide materials as appropriate to specific issues and needs * Research both past and ongoing legislative developments in a variety of industries * Assist in the evaluation of information resources that support the firm's practice areas. Business Research Key Responsibilities * Using appropriate online and print resources: * Synthesize various types of search results and types of documents into a coherent and concise package. * Identify and provide materials as appropriate to specific business development issues and needs * Evaluate current events and news for existing and potential business development opportunities * Monitor clients, competitors, industries, economic projections and trends. Required Education, Knowledge, Experience and Skills: * Master's degree in Library or Information Science; * Proficiency with online legal, business and industry resources such as Lexis, Westlaw, Monitor Suite and Bloomberg is strongly preferred; * Ability to evaluate and prioritize duties and requests; * Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a diverse set of personalities and needs; * Excellent research and analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy; * Ability to work quickly and handle requests that require immediate resolution; * Applicant must be an independent self-starter, but also be able to work in a virtual team environment; * Excellent written and verbal communications skills; * Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple time-critical assignments; * Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite of applications; * Ability to work comfortably in a virtual team environment; * Strong client service orientation and the ability to exercise discretion, exhibit tact and professionalism at all levels. Please apply at: http://goo.gl/uYLq5t LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlorince at indiana.edu Fri Nov 22 00:12:39 2013 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:12:39 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM Web Science 2014 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely] CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci?14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org ? @WebSciConf ? #WebSci14 Deadline for workshop proposals: January 17th, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: January 31st, 2014 Workshops Date: June 23 2014 Call for Workshops and Tutorials The Web is the largest information network ever devised. It opens a universally accessible space for communication and knowledge sharing, with vast effects on society that we are just starting to grasp. Web Science is the emerging field that studies the structure, function and evolution of the WWW to ultimately unravel the social potentials and consequences of this ubiquitous network. The Web Science conference will start with tutorials and workshops that will promote in-depth training and discussions with the goal of understanding how people, organizations, applications, and policies shape and are shaped by the Web. In agreement with the spirit of the conference, the tutorials and workshops are intended to create opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion around themes and methods that are central to the study of the Web. The list of themes includes, but is not restricted to, 1. Methods for data mining and network research; 2. The study of social dynamics (i.e. political campaigns, censorship) using Web data; 3. The relationship between technical design and individual behaviour (i.e. the impact of by-default design on privacy); 4. The future of the Web in an era of increasing mobile applications; 5. The incentives and limits of regulation; 6. Participatory systems and crowdsourcing; 7. The dynamics of information creation (supply) and consumption (demand) and its relation to real world events. We will give priority to proposals that approach their topic from the perspective of various disciplines, spanning the divide between the social and computer sciences. Tutorials and workshops can be designed as half or full day events. Workshops can have a mixture of panel presentations and invited speakers, but presentations should reflect the diversity of approaches that characterize the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. Submission Tutorial and workshop proposals should contain the following information: 1. Title summarizing the tutorial goals or workshop theme. 2. Details of the organizing committee, including names and institutional affiliations. 3. Max two-page description about the relevance, motivation and goals of the tutorial or workshop. 4. Schedule of sessions, panels, and talks (half or full day). 5. Names of instructors and potential invited speakers. 6. For workshops, selection criteria for papers to be presented. 7. Tutorial or workshop website URL (advisable). It is the prerogative of organizers to decide whether to have an open call for participants and papers, or arrange panels by invitation only (for workshops), as well as deciding the duration (full or half-day) of the event. Proposals should include as many details as possible about sessions, speakers, and talks: they will be evaluated by their coherence and ability to address the stated goals. Is is the responsibility of organizers to advertise their event, and (for workshops) constitute a program committee to review and select papers, manage the review process, and possibly arrange for selected papers to be published in a special issue of a to-be-identified journal. We advise proposals to have, at the time of submission, a website describing the event and, if applicable, information about similar events held in the past. Selected tutorials and workshops will be linked from the main conference site. Proposals should be submitted in pdf format through Easychair to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014ws. Review The Web Science workshop chairs will review each submission and select those with the higher scores on originality and relevance of the proposed topic, its interdisciplinarity, rigor of the review process, coherence with the conference aims, and potential to attract a large audience . Deadlines * January 17th 2013: Proposal Submissions * January 31st 2013: Notification of acceptance * February 15th 2013: Final website due Workshop Chairs Sandra Gonz?lez-Bail?n, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), USA Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA Daniela Paolotti, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy For information, please contact websci2014ws at easychair.org -- Jared Lorince PhD student, ABC West Lab Cognitive Science // Psychological & Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington https://mypage.iu.edu/~jlorince Co-Founder, motivateplay.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Fri Nov 22 13:55:26 2013 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:55:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for DigCCurr Professional Institute 2014-2015 Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A6451637E51D20@ITS-MSXMBS2M.ad.unc.edu> Please excuse cross postings************************************ Registration Now Open! DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle May 11-16, 2014 & January 5-6, 2015 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute2014.html for more information. REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/ncgy367. The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2014 and a two-day follow-up session in January 2015. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on "lab" components. A course pack and a private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, Continental breakfast, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Tuesday will also be included. This institute is designed to foster skills, knowledge and community-building among professionals responsible for the curation of digital materials. Registration: * Regular registration : $1,150 * Late registration (after April 1, 2014): $1,300 If you are a grant recipient working on a digital project, we recommend that you check with your program officer to request approval to use available grant funds to attend the institute. Institute Instructors Include: * From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Dr. Cal Lee, Dr. Helen Tibbo, and Dr. Kam Woods. * Dr. Nancy McGovern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. * Dr. Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. * Dr. Lorraine Richards, Drexel University. May 2014 Institute Components include (order and session titles may vary somewhat from those listed): *Overview of digital curation definition, scope and main functions *Where you see yourself in the digital curation landscape *Digital curation program development *Digital curation stakeholders and digital curation landscape *Case Study on developing a digital repository *Procedural accountability - policies, submission agreements, rules *LAB -Transforming policy statements into rules *Overview of digital preservation challenges and opportunities *Roles and responsibilities for curation *LAB - Matching skills and roles *Characterization of digital objects *Overview and Characterization of Existing Tools: Placing the Tools in a Larger Industry Context *File formats *LAB - File format robustness *Managing in response to technological change *Digital forensics *Ethical issues *LAB - Media and content *Workflows, humans, and tools *Lab - Workflows *Evaluating curation programs requirements and assessment *LAB - Evaluating curation programs: TRAC/ISO 16363 Review * Characterizing, analyzing and evaluating the producer information environment *Economics of digital curation - costs and resource commitments *LAB - Economics of digital curation *Cloud computing *Web archiving * Formulating your six-month action plan - task for each individual, with instructors available to provide guidance * Summary of action plans * Clarifying roles and expectations for the next six months January 5-6, 2015 Participants in the May event will return to Chapel Hill in Jan. 2015 to discuss their experiences in implementing what they have learned in their own work environments. Participants will compare experiences, lessons learned and strategies for continuing progress. Accommodations for January will be the responsibility of the attendee. For more information, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo at email.unc.edu) for Institute questions or Tiffany Harris (tjharris at email.unc.edu) for payment or registration questions. The Digital Professional Institute was initiated as part of the DigCCurr II project, supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-08) and is partially supported by the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LODGING: Participants are responsible for their own lodging. A DigCCurr 2014-15 room block has been reserved at the Hampton Inn and Suites for $129/night. Please indicate "DigCCurr" and group code "CUR" when making reservations. Reservations must be received by 04/01/2014. After this date reservations will be accepted on a space a rate available basis only. You may reserve your hotel room by calling the hotel at 919-969-6989 or by clicking on this link: http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/groups/personalized/R/RDUCOHX-DGG-20140511/index.jhtml We look forward to seeing you there! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From becker at gseis.ucla.edu Fri Nov 22 13:38:53 2013 From: becker at gseis.ucla.edu (Snowden Becker) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:38:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty opening in Moving Image Archive Studies - UCLA In-Reply-To: <1864679107.52196.1385145488922.JavaMail.root@gseis.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <222163294.52268.1385145533423.JavaMail.root@gseis.ucla.edu> (This announcement has been distributed to multiple listservs; our apologies to those who receive duplicate posts.) The Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, in partnership with the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media in UCLA?s School of Theater, Film, and Television, and with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor specializing in audiovisual archival studies. Full details and instructions for applicants may be viewed online: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/resources/jobs/mias_2013.pdf Highest consideration will be given to applications received by November 29, 2013. For informal inquiries, please contact Jonathan Furner, chair of the search committee, at furner at gseis.ucla.edu, or Snowden Becker, MIAS program manager, at becker at gseis.ucla.edu. --------------------------------------------- Snowden Becker - becker at gseis.ucla.edu Program Manager, Moving Image Archive Studies UCLA Department of Information Studies 229 GSE&IS Building, Box 951520 Los Angeles CA 90095-1520 PH: (310) 206-9231 FAX: (310) 206-4460 From hrosenba at indiana.edu Mon Nov 25 10:44:56 2013 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:44:56 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] IU School of Informatics and Computing> Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Data Science, Fall 2014 (all levels) Message-ID: <3E2BC4E2-26C4-4735-8881-1E236562B288@indiana.edu> Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Data Science beginning Fall 2014 (all levels) Data science applications are invited from candidates in all areas including data analytics and information extraction; data life cycle; data management, semantics, and infrastructure; data policy and security; data science foundations; and Big Data, including candidates with a record of achievement in industrial research. The IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating the full breadth of computing and information technology. It includes the Dept. of Computer Science and Informatics and the Dept. of Information and Library Science, which comprise over 85 faculty and 850 graduate students. Its graduate degrees include Master?s degrees in Computer Science, Security Informatics, Bioinformatics, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, LIbrary Science, and an emerging degree in Data Science. Ph.D. degrees are in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. It is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. IU is renowned for its top-ranked Jacobs School of Music, high performance computing and networking facilities, and performing and fine arts. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged. IU Bloomington is vitally interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. More information about the positions https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/375 More information about the school http://www.soic.indiana.edu/index.php http://www.soic.indiana.edu/about/hiring/index.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From 123module at gmail.com Tue Nov 26 21:02:03 2013 From: 123module at gmail.com (g m) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:02:03 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Dodson Visiting Professorship of Archival Studies at SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC Message-ID: [please excuse cross postings] Dodson Visiting Professor of Archival Studies Deadline: March 1, 2014 The University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, Canada, one of the world's most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at UBC, is pleased to invite applications for the Dodson Visiting Professorship named in honour of Suzanne and Earl Dodson. This is a competitive position that provides funds to enable the successful candidate to spend an extended period of time, normally an academic term, engaged in research and teaching with the iSchool and UBC Community. Academics at all levels from all countries are encouraged to apply. Applicants will normally hold a doctoral degree, and currently be employed in an institution of higher education. This year's call is for a Visiting Professor in Archival Studies, who will bring expertise and an active record of scholarship in archival studies, intended as a broad area of research covering all different aspects related to creation, management and preservation of documents. Preference will be given to candidates who have a proven track record of high quality research and experience in teaching and mentorship. This is an opportunity to work with well-known senior scholars at the iSchool as well as an outstanding group of junior faculty members active in areas such as digital diplomatics, digital records forensics, records management, visual analytics, and information risk management. While all applications will be considered, preference will be given to candidates whose research interests align with those of one or more faculty members within the iSchool. This Visiting Professorship offers the opportunity to interact with the talented and engaged students in the MAS Program by teaching up to two courses. The Professor will be fully integrated into the research culture at the iSchool and will be expected to attend research talks and events, interact with doctoral students and present his or her research at a colloquium, open to members of the iSchool and the community. The Dodson Visiting Professorship funds this position for one term in the amount of $15,000, which can be supplemented through teaching (up to two 3-credit courses) to reach $30,000. Kindly address all enquiries and applications, comprising a letter of interest and a current CV, to: Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite Director - SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC The University of British Columbia The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Suite 470, 1961 East Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA Closing date: Review of applications will begin on March 1st 2014 and continue until the visiting professorship has been awarded. Start date: Either September 2nd 2014 or January 5th 2015. ****************************** Giovanni Michetti Acting Chair and Assistant Professor | Archival Studies School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The iSchool at The University of British Columbia Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 484 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1 t: +1 604 827 3927 f: +1 604 822 6006 e: giovanni.michetti at ubc.ca w: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/ ***************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The CLEF 2014 conference is next year's edition of the popular CLEF campaign and workshop series which has run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. In 2010 CLEF was launched in a new format, as a conference with research presentations, panels, poster and demo sessions and laboratory evaluation workshops interleaved during three and a half days of intense and stimulating research activities. Each lab focuses on a particular sub-problem or variant of the retrieval task as described below. Researchers and practitioners from all segments of the information access and related communities are invited to participate, choosing to take part in any or all evaluation labs. Eight labs are offered at CLEF 2014. Labs will follow a "campaign-style" evaluation practice for specific information access problems in the tradition of past CLEF campaign tracks: NEWSREEL ? News Recommendation Evaluation Lab --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWSREEL offers two tasks: - Task 1: Predict the items a user will click in the next 10 Minutes based on the offline dataset. A sliding window approach is used for the evaluation of the recommender algorithm?s quality. The main emphasis is here on the reproducible, deep analysis of the user?s behavior. - Task 2: Predict the articles users will click. The prediction algorithms are evaluated in an online scenario based on live user-interactions. The main focus is on providing real-time recommendations for current news articles. Participants will be allowed to fine-tune their algorithms before submission starts in the weeks leading up to CLEF 2014. Lab Coordination: Technische Universit?t Berlin, plista GmbH, Berlin. Lab website: http://www.clef-newsreel.org/ CLEF eHealth - ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The usage scenario of the CLEF eHealth lab is to ease patients and next-of-kins? ease in understanding eHealth information. The lab contains three tasks: - Visual-Interactive Search and Exploration of eHealth Data - Information extraction from clinical text - User-centred health information retrieval Lab Coordination: Dublin City University; Universities of Arizone, Konstanz, Canberra, Utah, Pittsburgh, Melbourne, Turku; Australian National University; SICS and Stockholm University; NICTA; DSV Stockholm University; Columbia University; KTH and Gavagai; Karolinska Institutet; Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital; Vienna University of Technology; HES-SO; Charles University; and the Australian e-Health Research Centre. Lab website: http://clefehealth2014.dcu.ie/ QA Track ? CLEF Question Answering Track ------------------------------------------------------------------- In the current general scenario for the CLEF QA Track, the starting point is always a Natural Language question. However, answering some questions may need to query Linked Data (especially if aggregations or logical inferences are required); whereas some questions may need textual inferences and querying free-text. Answering some queries may need both. The tasks are: - QALD: Question Answering over Linked Data - BioASQ: Biomedical semantic indexing and question answering - Entrance Exams Lab Coordination: INRIA, NCSR, Carnegie Mellon, University Leipzig, UNED, University of Limerick, CITEC Lab website: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa ImageCLEF ----------------- ImageCLEF aims at providing benchmarks for the challenging task of image annotation for a wide range of source images and annotation objective, such as general multi-domain images for object or concept detection, as well as domain-specific tasks such as visual-depth images for robot vision and volumetric medical images for automated structured reporting. The tasks address different aspects of the annotation problem and are aimed at supporting and promoting the cutting-edge research addressing the key challenges in the field, such as multi-modal image annotation, domain adaptation and ontology driven image annotation. The tasks are: - Robot Vision - Scalable concept Image Annotation - Liver CT Annotation - Domain Adaptation Lab Coordination: University of Rome La Sapienza, University of Castila-La Mancha. Lab website: http://www.imageclef.org/2014 PAN Lab on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAN centers around the topics of plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse. The goal is to foster research on automatic detection and uncovering. People increasingly share their work online, contribute to open projects and engage in web-based social interactions. The ease and anonymity with which this can be done raises concerns about verifiability and trust: Is a given text an original? Is the author the one who she claims to be? Does a piece of information come from a trusted source? Answers to such questions are crucial to deal with and to rely on information obtained online, while the scale at which answers should be given calls for an automatic means. The tasks are: - Author Identification - Author Profiling - Plagiarism Detection Lab Coordination: Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, University of the Aegean Lab website: http://pan.webis.de INEX ? Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INEX builds evaluation benchmarks for search in the context of rich structure such as document structure, semantic metadata, entities, or genre/topical structure. INEX 2014 runs four tasks studying different aspects of focused information access: - Social Book Search Task: investigates the relative value of authoritative metadata and user-generated content. The test collection is from Amazon and LibraryThing, and user profiles and personal catalogues. - Interactive Social Book Search Task: investigates user information seeking behavior when interacting with various sources of information for realistic task scenarios, and how the user interface impacts search and the search experience. - Linked Data Task: investigates complex questions to be answered by DBpedia/Wikipedia, with the help of SPARQL queries and additional keyword filters, aiming to express natural language search cues more effectively (in collaboration with the QA Lab). - Tweet Contextualization Task: investigates tweet contextualization, helping a user understand a tweet by providing a short background summary generated from relevant Wikipedia passages aggregated into a coherent summary (in collaboration with RepLab). Lab Coordination: Queensland University of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University of Passau. Lab website: https://inex.mmci.uni-saarland.de/ RepLab ------------ The aim of RepLab is to bring together the Information Access research community with representatives from the Online Reputation Management industry, with the ultimate goals of (i) establishing a roadmap on the topic that includes a description of the language technologies required in terms of resources, algorithms, and applications; (ii) specifying suitable evaluation methodologies and metrics to measure scientific progress; and (iii) developing of test collections that enable systematic comparison of algorithms and reliable benchmarking of commercial systems. The tasks are: - Task 1. Annotating company-related tweets according to the dimension(s) of the company affected by their content (social, financial, etc.) - Task 2. Generating brief pseudo-summaries of each of the topics (tweet clusters) that may serve as surrogate of a set of tweets for the purposes of reputation management. Lab Coordination: UNED, University of Amsterdam, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Llorente & Cuenca Lab website: http://www.limosine-project.eu/events/replab2014 LifeCLEF ------------- LifeCLEF aims at evaluating multimedia analysis and retrieval techniques on biodiversity data for species identification. The tasks are: - BirdCLEF: a bird songs identification task based on Xeno-Canto audio recordings - PlantCLEF: an image-based plant identification task based on the data of Tela Botanica social network - FishCLEF: a fish video surveillance task based on the data of thr Fish4Knowledge network Lab Coordination: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, University of Toulon, INRIA, TU Wien, Xeno-Canto, Cirad ? AMAP, University of Catania, University of Edinburgh Lab webpage: http://www.lifeclef.org DATA The training and test data are provided by the organizers, which allow participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic way. You must register to obtain the data (see: http://147.162.2.122:8888/clef2014labs/) TIMELINE The expected timeline for 2014 Labs is as follows (dates vary slight from task to task, see the individual task pages for the individual deadlines): Labs registration opens: 22nd Nov. 2013 Labs registration closes: 7th May 2014 Evaluation cycle: Dec. 2013 - May 2014 Working notes papers due: 7th June 2014 Lab overview papers due: 30th June 2014 Review of Lab overviews: 30th June to 7th July 2014 CLEF 2014 Conference: 15th to 18th September 2014 WORKSHOPS The lab sessions will take place at the site of the conference in Sheffield. The labs will present their overall "overview presentations" during the plenary scientific paper sessions to allow non-participants to get a sense of where the research frontiers are moving. The workshops will be used as a forum for presentation of results (including failure analyses and system comparisons), description of retrieval techniques used, and other issues of interest to researchers in the field. Some groups will be invited to present their results in a joint poster session. PUBLICATION All participating institutions to the evaluation labs are asked to submit a paper (Working Notes) which will be published in the Online Proceedings. All Working Notes will be published with an ISBN, on the conference website. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wmonroe at email.unc.edu Mon Nov 25 18:50:17 2013 From: wmonroe at email.unc.edu (Monroe, Wanda G.) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:50:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Oakkar Oakkar, SILS Alumnus, Wins $100K at Allscripts Open App Challenge Message-ID: Oakkar Oakkar (MSIS '13), alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, recently won second place and $100,000 at the 2013 Allscripts Open App Challenge at the Allscripts Client Experience in Chicago, IL for his program Keona Health. In Phase 1 of the Allscripts Challenge, more than 98 developers answered the call to "Start a Revolution" by creating innovative apps that integrate directly with Allscripts Open Electronic Health Records (EHR) software. Thirty-two participants moved on to Phase 2 of the Challenge to complete their integration and install it at a client site to demonstrate the most positive outcomes. Challenge judges selected Keona Health for the app Online Health Advice, which makes it easy for patients to get advice from their physicians online. "Keona Health is an app that helps caregivers effectively respond to medical phone calls. A physician will spend an estimated 250 hours every year answering these calls, and this time is not reimbursed. Using the app, patients ask health questions online. Keona's automated interview can save time for physicians and their staff. In 27 percent of cases, Keona directed the patients to care they would not have selected for themselves." Using Keona Health, patients are able to privately ask questions and fill out their medical histories through a clinic's Web site. The program then automatically creates a summary clinic note for nurses to review, along with information on assessment and educational content. The nurse is then able to review this information and respond to patients more quickly and easily, saving patients and healthcare providers' time and money. "Doctors using Allscripts face the same challenges every physician faces today - to deliver better care to more patients with less," said Oakkar, CEO of Keona Health. "We bring automation to one of the most painful areas of healthcare: remote patient communication. Online health advice reduces costs, improves patient satisfaction and can boost revenue. For Allscripts Open App Challenge, we were fortunate to fit today's trends in value-based care as we help practices improve patient engagement and direct patients to the right care. We're honored to receive this award as a partner to one of the largest innovators in healthcare." "Our Open App Challenge award recipients, and all of the participants, are well on the way to improving healthcare," said Stanley Crane, Chief Innovation Officer of Allscripts. "By combining Allscripts open architecture with their innovative problem-solving ideas, these participants are making Open a reality." Oakkar co-founded Keona Health with Dr. Javed Mostafa, SILS profesor and director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) whi is the scientific advisor for Keona Health. Oakkar developed Keona Health while working on his Master's degree in Information Science at UNC Chapel Hill. "Keona is striving to apply an innovative solution to a very costly part of office based practice-the patient calling in for advice," said Dr. John Thorp, Division Director of UNC Women's Primary Care. "We are beginning to see evidence that their approach can improve response time, reduce cost and increase patient and staff satisfaction. Their service has the potential of becoming the standard of care for phone triage in ambulatory care around the world." ******************************* Wanda Monroe Director of Communications School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 04 Manning Hall, CB#3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 919.843.8337 sils.unc.edu Follow us on Twitter at UNCSILS Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/uncsils -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wmonroe at email.unc.edu Tue Nov 26 14:50:16 2013 From: wmonroe at email.unc.edu (Monroe, Wanda G.) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:50:16 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?=93From_Bitstreams_to_Heritage=3A_Putti?= =?windows-1252?q?ng_Digital_Forensics_into_Practice_in_Collecting_Institu?= =?windows-1252?q?tions=94_-_White_Paper_Now_Available?= Message-ID: CHAPEL HILL, NC ? Out of the blue, an archivist gets a call from the husband of a famous scientist who has recently passed away. He wants to donate materials to the archives that can help people to understand and learn about her research. The archivist visits their home and is handed a cardboard box. Inside are not sheets of paper but a stack of floppy disks, CDs, Zip disks and a hard drive. What?s the archivist to do? Researchers at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland are investigating methods and developing tools for these sorts of situations. A new white paper titled, ?From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics into Practice in Collecting Institutions? examines the application of digital forensics methods to materials in collecting institutions ? particularly libraries, archives and museums. It is a product of the BitCurator project and is written by Drs. Christopher A. Lee, Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor and research associate, Kam Woods of SILS; Matthew Kirschenbaum, associate director of MITH; and SILS doctoral student Alexandra Chassanoff. ?The landscape has changed quite dramatically in the past few years,? said Lee. ?The white paper reflects a great deal of energy and progress around the work of extracting, securing and describing information that?s been stored on computer disks and drives.? The BitCurator project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is ?an effort to build, test and analyze systems and software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the workflows of a variety of collecting institutions.? Procedures and tools for acquiring and validating data from physical media are well established in the field of digital forensics. There is a rich and growing body of open source tools that can be used to process, manage and disseminate forensically acquired data. While the primary target for many of these tools and methods is the law enforcement community, there is great potential for connecting these two streams of activity in order to support the work of collecting institutions. BitCurator is developing and disseminating a dedicated open-source software environment that can be used to apply digital forensics methods to collections. The software and associated guidance documents are freely available from the project?s wiki: http://wiki.bitcurator.net According to the white paper, ?Forensic methods identify, capture and retain various forms of contextual information, which can be vital for users making meaningful use of digital materials.? It explains those processes, along with many associated challenges and opportunities "BitCurator now moves into a critical next phase, with a full-time dedicated Community Lead based at MITH whose mandate is outreach to collecting institutions,? said Kirschenbaum. ?We look forward to working with a wide variety of archives, special collections, museums, and other constituencies to create a robust user community around our platform." The white paper is now available at: http://www.bitcurator.net/docs/bitstreams-to-heritage.pdf ******************************* Wanda Monroe Director of Communications School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 04 Manning Hall, CB#3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 919.843.8337 sils.unc.edu Follow us on Twitter at UNCSILS Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/uncsils -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abc1900 at tiscali.it Mon Nov 25 14:59:29 2013 From: abc1900 at tiscali.it (abc1900 at tiscali.it) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:59:29 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Dodson Visiting Professorship of Archival Studies at SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC Message-ID: <461ed08b1db9973768f5f253d1eb2d54@tiscali.it> [please excuse cross postings] Dodson Visiting Professor of Archival Studies Deadline: March 1, 2014 The University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, Canada, one of the world's most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at UBC, is pleased to invite applications for the Dodson Visiting Professorship named in honour of Suzanne and Earl Dodson. This is a competitive position that provides funds to enable the successful candidate to spend an extended period of time, normally an academic term, engaged in research and teaching with the iSchool and UBC Community. Academics at all levels from all countries are encouraged to apply. Applicants will normally hold a doctoral degree, and currently be employed in an institution of higher education. This year's call is for a Visiting Professor in Archival Studies, who will bring expertise and an active record of scholarship in archival studies, intended as a broad area of research covering all different aspects related to creation, management and preservation of documents. Preference will be given to candidates who have a proven track record of high quality research and experience in teaching and mentorship. This is an opportunity to work with well-known senior scholars at the iSchool as well as an outstanding group of junior faculty members active in areas such as digital diplomatics, digital records forensics, records management, visual analytics, and information risk management. While all applications will be considered, preference will be given to candidates whose research interests align with those of one or more faculty members within the iSchool. This Visiting Professorship offers the opportunity to interact with the talented and engaged students in the MAS Program by teaching up to two courses. The Professor will be fully integrated into the research culture at the iSchool and will be expected to attend research talks and events, interact with doctoral students and present his or her research at a colloquium, open to members of the iSchool and the community. The Dodson Visiting Professorship funds this position for one term in the amount of $15,000, which can be supplemented through teaching (up to two 3-credit courses) to reach $30,000. Kindly address all enquiries and applications, comprising a letter of interest and a current CV, to: Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite Director - SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC The University of British Columbia The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Suite 470, 1961 East Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA Closing date: Review of applications will begin on March 1st 2014 and continue until the visiting professorship has been awarded. Start date: Either September 2nd 2014 or January 5th 2015. ****************************** Giovanni Michetti Acting Chair and Assistant Professor | Archival Studies School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The iSchool at The University of British Columbia Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 484 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1 t: +1 604 827 3927 f: +1 604 822 6006 e: giovanni.michetti at ubc.ca w: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/ ****************************** Invita i tuoi amici e Tiscali ti premia! Il consiglio di un amico vale pi? di uno spot in TV. Per ogni nuovo abbonato 30 ? di premio per te e per lui! Un amico al mese e parli e navighi sempre gratis http://freelosophy.tiscali.it/ [1] Links: ------ [1] http://freelosophy.tiscali.it/ Invita i tuoi amici e Tiscali ti premia! Il consiglio di un amico vale pi? di uno spot in TV. Per ogni nuovo abbonato 30 ? di premio per te e per lui! Un amico al mese e parli e navighi sempre gratis http://freelosophy.tiscali.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal is that people anywhere can curate and maintain a list of open resources and then share them with the world, allowing different communities and organisations to be express how they want to use open content. We?ve aimed to take the spirit of openness in this sense, and try to extend it to everything we do. Source and Link Available Via: http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/11/solvonauts-open-search-engine.html BTW: Watching Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNWByUk22sI Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mfsense2 at illinois.edu Mon Nov 25 16:53:59 2013 From: mfsense2 at illinois.edu (Senseney, Megan Finn) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:53:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] RFP: Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center Message-ID: The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered to each of four successful respondents to be conducted over a nine-month period beginning April 2014. Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project (WCSA) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A complete copy of the RFP is attached to this email and available online at: http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu/worksets/?page_id=20. RFP Schedule: RFP Available: 22 November 2013 Letters of Intent Due (preferred): 16 December 2013 Final Proposals Due: 13 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting Invitations Issued: 20 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting: 20 February 2014 Award Notification: No later than 15 March 2014 Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail): The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. To tap the analytic potential of this large and diverse corpus, to tame it and make it useful to them, many researchers need the wherewithal to gather together, into a kind of personal digital carrel, cohesive and coherent subsets of HT texts (potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of volumes or parts of volumes) amenable to the in depth forms of analysis they want to do. The attributes on which they seek to collocate digitized texts are not always recorded in standard bibliographic descriptions. The HTRC will collaborate with four independent sub-awardees in conducting individual prototyping projects to develop and validate the potential of specific algorithms, services and/or tools that can enable the creation of large and small scale worksets of digitized texts and parts of digitized texts for scholarly analysis in ways not currently feasible. We are seeking proposals from engaged teams of digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. We anticipate that the proposals received will approach the problem in a variety of different and complementary ways. Proposed prototype experiments must respond to real scholar needs and requirements. Respondents are urged to contact htrc.wcsa at gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support with a member of the project team. Prime award project PIs are: J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Tim Cole, University Library, University of Illinois Beth Plale, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: mfsense2 at illinois.edu http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at iastate.edu Mon Nov 25 20:22:19 2013 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:22:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Altmetric Pilots Help Elsevier Authors Understand the Impact of Their Articles In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C67437D@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> References: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C67437D@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C674394@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ FYI > Altmetric Pilots Help Elsevier Authors Understand the Impact of Their Articles The colorful donut indicating impact in news and social media is now featured on various journal homepages and ScienceDirect By Linda Willems | Posted on 25 November 2013 Almetric pilot for Journal of Experimental Social Psychology The academic community has traditionally looked to citation analysis to measure the impact of scientific and medical research. But with journal articles increasingly disseminated via online news and social media channels, new measures are coming to the fore. Alternative metrics ? or altmetrics ? represent one of the innovative ways the reach of articles is now being assessed, and Elsevier has just launched two pilots featuring the highly-recognizable altmetric "donut." Almetric pilot for Journal of Experimental Social PsychologyAlmetric pilot for Journal of Experimental Social Psychology The first pilot will feature donuts for a journal's top three rated articles displayed on the Elsevier.com homepages of 33 Elsevier titles. This rating is based on a social media traffic score given by Altmetric.com; an article must have received at least one social media mention within the last six months to qualify. By clicking on the "view all" option beneath this list, visitors can review altmetric donuts for the top 10 articles. An example of the pilot altmetric pod on the Elsevier.com homepage of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [snip] Source and Full Text Available Via [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2013/11/altmetric-pilots-help-elsevier-authors.html ] BTW: Listening Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPRrEbUqazY&list=RDQYTnzNeTWmE Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Among others, Docear offers: A single-section user-interface that allows the most comprehensive organization of your literature. With Docear, you can sort documents into categories; you can sort annotations (comments, bookmarks, and highlighted text from PDFs) into categories; you can sort annotations within PDFs; and you can view multiple annotations of multiple documents, in multiple categories ? at once. A ?literature suite concept? that combines several tools in a single application (pdf management, reference management, mind mapping, ?). This allows you to draft your own papers, assignments, thesis, etc. directly in Docear and copy annotations and references from your collection directly into your draft. A recommender system that helps you to discover new literature: Docear recommends papers which are free, in full-text, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs. Source and Link Available Via: http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2013/11/docear-academic-literature-suite.html BTW: Listening Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-e3_31sdM Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Boyd Rayward >From the index card to the World City: knowledge organization and visualization in the work and ideas of Paul Otlet 1. Challenges in visualization of knowledge * Scott B. Weingart / From trees to webs: uprooting knowledge through visualization * Charles van den Heuvel; Richard Smiraglia / Visualizing knowledge interaction in the multiverse of knowledge * Xia Lin; Jae-wook Ahn / Challenges of knowledge structure visualization 2. Categorisation for retrieval, exploration and learning * Lev Manovich / Looking at one million images: how visualization of big cultural data * helps us to unlearn our cultural categories * Kathryn La Barre / Sempre avanti? Some reflections on faceted interfaces * Nathalie Pin?de; V?ronique Lespinet-Najib / How can users get the gist of a taxonomy using tag clouds? 3. Classification, interfaces and information architecture * Luca Rosati / How to design interfaces for choice: Hick-Hyman law and classification for information architecture * Andrea Resmini Ghost in the shell: navigation, meaning and place-making * in information space 4. Visualization and navigation of knowledge structures * Bin Yang; Jean-Gabriel Ganascia / Memory Islands: an approach to cartographic visualization * Daniel Hienert; Dennis Wegener; Siegfried Schomisch / Exploring semantically-related concepts from Wikipedia: the case of SeRE Dario Rodighiero; Giorgio De Michelis * The Homer?s list or How classifications can be displayed on tablets 5. Indexing languages, relationships and visualization * Rebecca Green; Diane Vizine-Goetz; Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja ?umer / From modelling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes * Wei Fan; Shuqing Bu; Qing Zou / Semantic visualization for subject authority data of Chinese Classified Thesaurus * ?pela Razpotnik; Alenka ?auperl / Enhancing user browsing success through visualization of indexing terms 6. Visualization in collection searching and browsing * Claudio Gnoli; Alberto Cheti / Sorting documents by base theme with synthetic classification: the double query method * Fabrice Papy / Classification and visualization: augmenting user independence and enhancing collections use * Marcel Worring / Easy categorisation of large image collections by automatic analysis and information visualization 7. Visualizing analytics of classification and collection metadata * Matthew Battles; Yanni Loukissas / Data artefacts: tracking knowledge-ordering conflicts through visualization * Richard Smiraglia; Andrea Scharnhorst; Almila Akdag Salah, Cheng Gao / UDC in action Posters - Short papers * Veslava Osinska; Joanna Dreszer-Drogorob; Grzegorz Osinski; Michal Gawarkiewicz / Cognitive approach in classification visualization: end-user study * Nuno Freire / Visualization and navigation of knowledge in pan-European * resources: the case of The European Library Source and A/V Links and Purchase Link Available At: [ http://sensory-information-navigation.blogspot.com/2013/11/av-now-available-classification-and.html ] BTW-1: Looking Forward to Revisiting InFoViz > See My "Regarding The-3-Click-Dilemma" > [ http://sensory-information-navigation.blogspot.com/2013/08/regarding-3-click-dilemma.html ] BTW-2: IMHO > A Great Collection [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-e3_31sdM ] Enjoy ! Happy Thanksgiving ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrymck at iastate.edu Tue Nov 26 14:51:40 2013 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:51:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Google Scholar Library In-Reply-To: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C674C2B@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> References: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C674C2B@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> Message-ID: <31F366253C635746A73718A84BF5F9A83C674C4D@ITSDAG5A.its.iastate.edu> *** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ >From the Google Blog > I discovered it a few days ago and have begun to play with it ... Thanks to Gary Price for reminding me about it ! /Gerry Tuesday, November 19, 2013 | 11:30 PM Today we?re launching Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library and we?ll provide all the goodies that come with Scholar search results - up to date article links, citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university?s subscriptions, and more. And if you have a public Scholar profile, it?s easy to quickly set up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import all the articles in your profile as well as all the articles they cite.[Link] [Screen Shoot] Here?s how it looks. Click ?Save? below a search result to save it to your library. Click ?My library? to see all the articles in your library and search their full text. You can also use labels to organize your articles. To get you started we?ve created two labels, ?My Citations? and ?Cited by me?, based on your Scholar profile, if you have one. ?My Citations? contains your profile articles and ?Cited by me? contains articles you?ve cited.[Link] Source and Links Available Via: [ http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/11/google-scholar-library.html ] Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 "It's Not The Journey; It's The Detours." http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-not-journey-its-detours.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rgb695 at iva.ku.dk Thu Nov 28 03:32:09 2013 From: rgb695 at iva.ku.dk (Jack Andersen) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:32:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] iConference 2014 Registration Call Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING The registration call for iConference 2014 is now out: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/registration/ Jack Andersen Program chair, iConf 2014 ? Jack Andersen Lektor, phd Associate Professor, PhD Redakt?r af/Editor of Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling ? IVA Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi Royal School of Library and Information Science K?benhavns Universitet/University of Copenhagen Birketinget 6 2300 K?benhavn S ? TLF 32 58 60 66 DIR 32 34 13 62 MOB 32 34 14 90 FAX 32 84 02 01 rgb695 at iva.ku.dk www.iva.dk ? ? ? ? From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Thu Nov 28 09:54:46 2013 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:54:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference In-Reply-To: <1D089CBA0793A545B7FF1CEC90ECB74B0372AE64A5F5@HERMES8.ds.leeds.ac.uk> References: , <1D089CBA0793A545B7FF1CEC90ECB74B0372AE64A5F5@HERMES8.ds.leeds.ac.uk> Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EF739BD5CF@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> (Forwarded by request. --ranti) Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. 2-5 September, 2014. The field of human information behaviour and practice is multi-disciplinary in scope: researchers from information science, information management, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, information systems, computer science, and other disciplines all contribute to this field of investigation. ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference intends to reflect this interdisciplinary character through attracting papers from researchers in all of these areas. The issues of common interest include the relationship between the needs or requirements of the information user, the means for the satisfaction of those needs and the uses to which those means are put in practice by organizations or disciplines. Thus, papers that deal solely with technological aspects of system design, for example, will not be appropriate for the conference. Themes of the conference include the following: 1. Theories and models of information behaviour and information practice, including conceptualizations of the cognitive, affective, social and situational aspects of information needs, seeking, searching, use and sharing. 2. Research approaches and methodologies, both interpretative and positivist, employing either qualitative or quantitative methods. 3. Information behaviour and information practices in specific contexts: e.g., in different sectors and organisations (health care, education, business, industry, the public services and government, the emergency services); in everyday life, and in virtual social networks (including social media, gaming and virtual worlds as arenas for information exchange). 4. Collaborative information practices: communities, boundary spanning and innovation practices. 5. Information use and value: the nature of information and how information is used to help solve problems, aid or support decision making 6. Information behaviour and analytics (social media and enterprise analytics). 7. Organisational structures and processes and information behaviour and practices. 8. The role of information in building and enhancing the adaptive capacity of organisations: strategy and information absorption, transformation and integration. 9. The mediation of information behaviour: how human or software agents can respond to information needs. 10. The design of information delivery systems to meet information needs generally, or in organizational or disciplinary contexts, including social media and Web 2.0 developments such as blogs, wikis, e-learning platforms and open access information resources. 11. The communication of information to users: relationship between communication theory and information behaviour, including, for example, the relationship of information architectures to information seeking behaviour and the design of information products based on sound communication principles. 12. Cross-disciplinary contributions: integrating studies on information seeking and interactive retrieval; integrating information science, management science and information systems. For this forthcoming conference we are particular eager to see research papers engaged with virtual communities as well as communities that are currently under-represented or considered marginal (socially and/or culturally). Also, analytical, rather than descriptive investigations, will be sought, with strong connections to previous work and to theoretical or conceptual frameworks. Important Dates Paper and poster preparation and submission deadline is February 15, 2014. Paper Format The maximum length of a paper is 5500 words (excluding references). Paper presentation format in the conference includes full presentations (30 minutes) and short presentations (20 minutes). Author Guidelines Your paper should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the http://isic2014.com/call-for-papers/submission-procedure/ Submit your paper through the ISIC2014 paper submission site http://isic2014.com/ Doctoral Workshop We also invite doctoral students to submit an application for participation in the Doctoral Workshop held in conjunction with the Conference on 2nd September 2014. Conference Location ISIC is a biennial conference. The last ISIC conference was held in 2012 in Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and the earlier conference in 2010 in the Universidad de Murcia, Spain. We are delighted that in 2014 it will be hosted by Leeds University Business School. The Business School is internationally renowned for the quality of its teaching, its research and its facilities. The City of Leeds is a modern vibrant city which has excellent transportation links but is also provides access to the beautiful countryside and heritage of Yorkshire. Conference Organsation The conference is being jointly organised by the University of Leeds Business School, University of Sheffield iSchool and the Department of Information Studies, University of Aberystwyth. -- Ranti Junus, Michigan State University Libraries From susheel at lbsim.ac.in Thu Nov 28 11:42:19 2013 From: susheel at lbsim.ac.in (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:12:19 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP-International Journal of Civic Enagagement and Social Change, IGI Global, USA In-Reply-To: <003301ceb303$8106bfa0$83143ee0$@lbsim.ac.in> References: <003301ceb303$8106bfa0$83143ee0$@lbsim.ac.in> Message-ID: <075f01ceec58$d0b0fbe0$7212f3a0$@ac.in> International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association DOI: 10.4018/IJCESC, ISSN: 2328-5494, EISSN: 2328-5508 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) DESCRIPTION OF IJCESC: Governments, corporations, individuals, and civic society play essential roles for worldwide growth and development. Management of resources for socioeconomic development of society requires design, development, and implementation of value driven civic engagement processes, practices, and frameworks. These initiatives create an environment of public accountability to distribute benefits of development for the overall benefit of society. The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) compiles theoretical and empirical works that significantly contribute to the unexplored field of how bringing social change through civic engagement can widened the ambience of public welfare activities. MISSION OF IJCESC: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change. The primary objective of IJCESC is to suggest value driven civic engagement practices, processes and frameworks to bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for individuals and society. IJCESC seeks to achieve its mission through research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of frameworks, collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: * Civic engagement and political reforms for development * Civic engagement for development and social change * Civic engagement for organization development * Civic engagement and urban development * Civic engagement reforms and capacity building * ICTs Engagement and Social Change * Leadership cases for civic engagement * Preservation of natural resources * Public policy and social change * Role of administrative competencies for civic engagement * Smart governance practices * Smart regulatory frameworks for civic engagement * Social accountability for individuals, government, and corporate sectors * Social networks and collaborations for bringing social change * Standards and benchmarks for civic engagement * Value-driven civic engagement * Women and child development * Civic Engagement and Rural Development SUBMITTING TO IJCESC: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All manuscript submissions to IJCESC should be sent through the online submission system:http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.a spx PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change E-mail: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com http://www.igi-global.com/IJCESC From andreas.nuernberger at ovgu.de Fri Nov 29 08:47:26 2013 From: andreas.nuernberger at ovgu.de (Andreas Nuernberger) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:47:26 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: JODL Special Issue on Semantic Digital Archives Message-ID: <52989AEE.1000602@ovgu.de> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special Issue on Semantic Digital Archives International Journal on Digital Libraries *** Extended Deadline until December 31, 2013 *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archival Information Systems (AIS) are becoming increasingly important. For decades, the amount of content created digitally is growing and its complete life cycle nowadays tends to remain digital. A selection of this content is expected to be of value for the future and can thus be considered being part of our cultural heritage. As soon as these digital publications become obsolete, but are still deemed to be of value in the future, they have to be transferred smoothly into appropriate AIS where they need to be kept accessible even through changing technologies. This focused issue arises from issues covered by the SDA workshop series (http://sda2013.dke-research.de/) and invites submissions from all researchers. The workshop series has shown that both the library and the archiving community have made valuable contributions to the management of huge amounts of knowledge and data. However, both are approaching this topic from different views which shall be brought together to cross-fertilize each other. The Semantic Web is another research area that provides promising technical solutions for knowledge representation and management. At the forefront of making the semantic web a mature and applicable reality is the linked data initiative, which already has started to be adopted by the library community. Semantic representations of contextual knowledge about cultural heritage objects will enhance organization and access of data and knowledge. In order to achieve a comprehensive investigation, the information seeking and document triage behaviors of users (an area also classified under the field of Human Computer Interaction) are also important to provide a comprehensive investigation of the research topic. This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate exceptional achievements on Semantic Digital Archives, including but not limited to: - Archival Information systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures (AII) in general - Architectures and Frameworks for AIS and AII - Contextualization of digital archives, museums and digital libraries - Ontologies & linked data for AIS, AII, museums and digital libraries - Logical theories for digital archives & digital preservation - Knowledge evolution - Semantic temporal analytics - (Semantic) provenance models - CIDOC CRM and extensions - Semantic long-term storage & hardware organization for AIS & AII & digital libraries - Semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for AIS & AII & digital libraries - Implementations & evaluations of (semantic) AIS, AII, semantic digital museums & semantic digital libraries - Preservation of scientific and research data - Preservation of work flow processes - Appraisal and selection of content - Semantic search & information retrieval in digital archives, digital museums and digital libraries - User studies focusing on end-user needs and information seeking behavior of end-users - User interfaces for (semantic) AIS, AII, digital museums & semantic digital libraries - formalizations for changes in (designated) user communities - Semantic multimedia AIS, AII, multimedia museums & multimedia libraries - Web Archives - Specialized AIS & AII for specific services like Twitter, etc. - (Semantic) Preservation Processes and Protocols - Semantic (Web) services implementing AIS & AII - Information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) - Trust for ingest & data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records - Migration strategies based on Semantic Web technologies - Legal issues SUBMISSION DETAILS Important Dates Paper Submission deadline: December 31, 2013 (Deadline Extended) First notification: March 31, 2014 Revision submission: May 31, 2014 Second notification: July 31, 2014 Final version submission: August 31, 2014 GUEST EDITORS Thomas Risse, University of Hannover & L3S Research Center, Germany (contact person) Livia Predoiu, University of Oxford, UK Annett Mitschick, University of Dresden, Germany Andreas N?rnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada PAPER SUBMISSION Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/799. At the beginning of the submission, under ?Article Type?, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process. The PDF version of the cfp can be found on http://mt.inf.tu-dresden.de/sda2013/CfP_SI_Semantic_Digital_Archives.pdf Please address inquiries to risse at L3S.de . From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sat Nov 30 20:14:27 2013 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 01:14:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'14 - Submission deadline: December 7 Message-ID: <201312010114.rB11EWWu028186@mail.asis.org> * Proceedings published by Springer. ** Papers submitted for indexation by ISI, SCOPUS, DBLP, etc. *** Extended versions of best papers published in ISI/SCI/JCR journals. ********************************************************************************** WorldCIST'14 The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies April 15 - 18, Madeira Island, Portugal http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ ********************************************************************************** The 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'14. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); G) Health Informatics (HIS); H) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 24th of January 2014, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be submitted for indexation by EI-Compendex and EBSCO. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: Journal of Information Technology (JIT) Social Science Computer Review (SSCR) Information Processing & Management (IPM) Information Technology & People (ITP) Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) Information Development (IDV) IEEE IT Professional (ITPro) Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (CMBBE-IV) Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) International Journal of Health Information Systems & Informatics (IJHISI) International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) EAI Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning (EAI-TEL) INPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 7, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 19, 2014 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 24, 2014. Regards, WorldCIST'14 Team http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist14/ _______________