From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Wed Jul 2 15:19:26 2014 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:19:26 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty News at Simmons GSLIS Message-ID: GSLIS welcomes two new Assistant Professors to the faculty this fall: Chaoqun Ni and Amber Stubbs. Chaoqun Ni has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in advanced statistics, logistics and supply chain management, evaluation resource and service, and quantitative analysis of information. Currently, Ni is finishing her doctorate in information science in the Department of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of science policy, science and technology studies and scholarly communication in the context of data-intensive science. http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/faculty/fulltime/ni.php Amber Stubbs teaches computer science and library and information science courses about data structures and algorithms, programming and theory of programming languages, and information retrieval. Stubbs received her doctorate in computer science from Brandeis University. Her doctoral dissertation involved creating an annotation methodology to extract high-level information ? such a hospital patient's medical diagnosis ? from narrative texts. She developed the Multi-Purpose Annotation Environment (MAE) and Multi-document Adjudication Interface (MAI) software, which is used at institutions around the world for natural language processing research. http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/faculty/fulltime/stubbs.php GSLIS also congratulates two members of the faculty who have been granted tenure, Associate Professors Lisa Hussey and Melanie Kimball. http://simmons.edu/gslis/for/current/news/blog/2014/02/gslis-faculty-lisa-hussey-and-melanie-kimball-receive-tenure.php -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, GSLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 For details about Alisa's young adult fiction, visit www.alisalibby.com. Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Jul 3 10:28:00 2014 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:28:00 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Chapters for Springer book on Collaborative Information Seeking Message-ID: CALL FOR CHAPTERS For a Springer Book in the CSCW Series on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) Springer Book series on CSCW seeks submissions for a 2015 book on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS). We are looking for original chapters on this topic - from scholars in academia and industry. For many years, information retrieval has focused on individual users searching for information. Algorithms have assumed that one person is reviewing the results, and user interfaces have supported the needs of individual searchers. CIS - also referred to as collaborative information retrieval and collaborative search - focuses on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity, and that people working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. CIS occurs in many contexts, including healthcare, business intelligence, technical fields, strategic research, information analysis, planning tasks, and everyday activities such as shopping and travel. While the submission could be a synthesis of some of the prior works, it should not be published before. Manuscripts may describe research, experiences, and software tools/algorithms/architectures focused on support for collaborative information seeking. Specific topics include ? CIS theories and models; ? Design experiences of CIS systems; ? User Interfaces for CIS systems and tools; ? CIS applications and use cases in different domains, such as e-learning environments, healthcare, office work, and intelligence analysis; ? Approaches for incorporating CIS with social search; ? Issues related to collaborators? awareness of actions, Team/group aspects and participants? roles; ? Evaluation measures for CIS systems; ? Methodologies for studying CIS; and ? Software tools and algorithms to support collaborative search. All chapter submissions are subject to double peer review based on both technical merit and relevance to Springer CSCW book series readership. Accepted chapters will be professionally edited for content and style. Direct inquiries to the guest editors: Dr. Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden, (preben at dsv.su.se) Dr. Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, USA; (chirags at rutgers.edu) and Dr. Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS, Germany (Claus-Peter.Klas at gesis.org) Timeline: ? 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URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Wed Jul 2 11:46:39 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:46:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline extended - SIGUSE Awards 2014 - July 15 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93208F6C@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> The deadline for this year's SIGUSE awards has been extended until JULY 15! Please consider submitting. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIGUSE AWARDS The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 15, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/ All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From jdownie at illinois.edu Tue Jul 1 18:19:19 2014 From: jdownie at illinois.edu (Downie, J Stephen) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:19:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Announcing MIREX Grand Challenge 2014: User Experience (GC14UX) Message-ID: <612008895BFFF74BB7C7A74B2681CE61692A2606@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Dear MIR Colleagues: We at MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) are very proud to announce that we have posted the official Grand Challenge 2014: User Experience (GC14UX) task description at: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2014:GC14UX =Purpose= Holistic, user-centered evaluation of the user experience in interacting with complete, user-facing music information retrieval (MIR) systems. =Goals= 1. To inspire the development of complete MIR systems. 2. To promote the notion of user experience as a first-class research objective in the MIR community. =Dataset= A set of music 10,000 music audio tracks is provided for the GC14UX. It will be a subset of tracks drawn from the Jamendo collection's CC-BY licensed works (http://www.jamendo.com/en/welcome). The Jamendo collection contains music in a variety of genres and moods, but is mostly unknown to most listeners. This will mitigate against the possible user experience bias induced by the differential presence (or absence) of popular or known music within the participating systems. As of May 20, 2014, the Jamendo collection contains 14742 tracks with the (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY license). The CC-BY license allows others to distribute, modify, optimize and use your work as a basis, even commercially, as long as you give credit for the original creation. This is one of the most permissive licenses possible. The 10,000 tracks in GC14UX will be sampled (w.r.t. maximizing music variety) from the Jamendo collection with CC-BY license and made available for participants (system developers) to download to build their systems. =Participating Systems= Unlike conventional MIREX tasks, participants are not asked to submit their systems. Instead, the systems will be hosted by their developers. All participating systems need to be constructed as websites accessible to users through normal web browsers. Participating teams will submit the URLs to their systems to the GC14UX team. To ensure a consistent experience, evaluators will see participating systems in fixed size window: 1024x768. Please test your system for this screen size. See the evaluation webform on the task wiki for a better understanding of our E6K-inpsired evaluation system design. ==Potential Participants== Please put your names and email contacts in the place provided on the task wiki page. It is encouraged that you give your team a cool name! =Evaluation= As written in the name of the Grand Challenge, the evaluation will be user-centered. All systems will be used by a number of human evaluators and be rated by them on several most important criteria in evaluating user experience. ==Criteria== Note that the evaluation criteria or its descriptions may be slightly changed in the months leading up to the submission deadline, as we test it and work to improve it. Given the GC14UX is all about how users perceive their experiences of the systems, we intend to capture the user perceptions in a minimally intrusive manner and not to burden the users/evaluators with too many questions or required data inputs. The following criteria are grounded on the literature of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX), with a careful consideration on striking a balance between being comprehensive and minimizing evaluators' cognitive load. Evaluators will rate systems on the following criteria: 1. OVERALL SATISFACTION: Overall, how do rate the experience of using this system? 2. LEARNABILITY: How easy was it to figure out how to use the system? 3. ROBUSTNESS: How good is the system's ability to warn you when you're about to make a mistake and allow you to recover? 4. AFFORDANCES: How well does the system allow you to perform what you want to do? 5. PRESENTATION: How well does the system communicate what's going on? (How well do you feel the system informs you of its status? Can you clearly understand the labels and words used in the system? How visible are all of your options and menus when you use this system?) 6. OPEN TEXT FEEDBACK: An open-ended question is provided for evaluators to give feedback if they wish to do so. ==Evaluators== Evaluators will be users aged 18 and above. For this round, evaluators will be drawn primarily from the MIR community through solicitations via the ISMIR-community mailing list. The evaluation assignment webform developed by the GC14UX team will ensure all participating systems will get equal number of evaluators. ==Task for evaluators== To motivate the evaluators, a defined yet open task is given to the evaluators: "You are creating a short video about a memorable occasion that happened to you recently, and you need to find some (copyright-free) songs to use as background music." The task is to ensure that evaluators have a (more or less) consistent goal when they interact with the systems. The goal is flexible and authentic to the evaluators' lives ("a recent, memorable occasion"). As the task is not too specific, evaluators can potentially look for a wide range of music in terms of genre, mood and other aspects. This allows great flexibility and virtually unlimited possibility in system design. Another important consideration in designing the task is the music collection available for this GC14UX: the Jamendo collection. Jamendo music is not well-known to most users/evaluators, whereas many more commonly seen music information tasks are more or less influenced by users' familiarity to the songs and song popularity. Through this task of "finding (copyright-free) background music for a self-made video", we strive to minimize the need of looking for familiar or popular music. ==Evaluation results== Statistics of the scores given by all evaluators will be reported: mean, average deviation. Meaningful text comments from the evaluators will also be reported. ==Evaluation Webforms== To facilitate the evaluators and minimize their burden, the GC14UX team will provide a set of evaluation forms which wrap around the participating systems. As shown in the following image, the evaluation webforms are for scoring the participating systems, with their client interfaces embedded within an iframe in the left side of the webform. Wireframe examples of the webforms are posted on the task wiki. =Organization= ==Important Dates== *July 1: announce the GC *Sep. 21st: deadline for system submission *Sep. 28th: start the evaluation *Oct. 20th: close the evaluation system *Oct. 27th: announce the results *Oct. 31st: MIREX and GC session in ISMIR2014 ==What to Submit== A URL to the participating system. ==Contacts== The GC14UX team consists of: J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois (MIREX director) Xiao Hu, University of Hong Kong (ISMIR2014 co-chair) Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington (ISMIR2014 program co-chair) Yi-Hsuan (Eric) Yang, Academic Sinica, Taiwan (ISMIR2014 program co-chair) David Bainbridge, Waikato University, New Zealand Kahyun Choi, University of Illinois Peter Organisciak, University of Illinois Inquiries, suggestions, questions, comments are all highly welcome! Please contact Prof. Downie or anyone in the team. ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 From klabarre at illinois.edu Sun Jul 6 11:54:18 2014 From: klabarre at illinois.edu (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 10:54:18 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Nominations for SIG publication of the year due July 15!! Message-ID: Reminder: Deadline is July 15th! Full details and the submission area is here: http://www.asis.org/awards/sigpublicationoftheyear.html What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. To be considered, a publication must be in a format that is readable/usable by the jury members. NOTE: You must submit/upload an electronic copy of the publication!! Publications must have been produced between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Criteria for evaluation: (a) Relevance for the SIG members; (b) Societal or scholarly significance of the topic discussed; (c) Creativity and originality of the content; (d) Clarity of expression; and (e) Presentation quality. Please contact the chair of the jury for this award or the SIG Cabinet chair if you have any questions: Kathryn La Barre (SIG Cabinet Chair) klabarre at illinois.edu Heather Pfeiffer, (Jury Chair and Deputy SIG Cabinet Director) heather at pfeifferfamily.net/sigpublicationoftheyear.html What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. To be considered, a publication must be in a format that is readable/usable by the jury members. NOTE: You must submit/upload an electronic copy of the publication!! 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URL: From kskim at slis.wisc.edu Mon Jul 7 02:38:22 2014 From: kskim at slis.wisc.edu (K.-Sun Kim) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 01:38:22 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <76208cb93580c.53ba3fa5@slis.wisc.edu> References: <76d0c4563622f.53ba377b@slis.wisc.edu> <76d093bd375a0.53ba37b8@slis.wisc.edu> <76d0cf0c33316.53ba37e6@slis.wisc.edu> <76d08fd134a71.53ba3822@slis.wisc.edu> <76e0935e36b5e.53ba3860@slis.wisc.edu> <7680a5ec33c23.53ba389d@slis.wisc.edu> <7680af313441e.53ba38da@slis.wisc.edu> <76809a5036dbd.53ba3917@slis.wisc.edu> <762090a833040.53ba3956@slis.wisc.edu> <7730dc3030cfd.53ba3993@slis.wisc.edu> <7600e95437ec6.53ba39d0@slis.wisc.edu> <7730deb730c46.53ba39d4@slis.wisc.edu> <76e0a8ae30143.53ba3a11@slis.wisc.edu> <76e0d6b536acf.53ba3a1a@slis.wisc.edu> <7620e25635c91.53ba3acf@slis.wisc.edu> <7740e59937107.53ba3ddf@slis.wisc.edu> <7740818f32c74.53ba3e1c@slis.wisc.edu> <7740a7e031e66.53ba3e95@slis.wisc.edu> <774083fa36626.53ba3ed2@slis.wisc.edu> <7620f5cd30f22.53ba3f66@slis.wisc.edu> <7620ef5732f0e.53ba3fa3@slis.wisc.edu> <76208cb93580c.53ba3fa5@slis.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <7730d58f33b00.53b9fa0e@slis.wisc.edu> Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research" Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: The importance of context in human information behavior research has been well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information behavior research. This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to: ? Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research, papers may explore questions such as the following: What does ?context? really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level) affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts? ? Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information behavior in a particular context? ? Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user characteristics)? ? Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information systems/services, etc.) and in what way? CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation (i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks). Proposals for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk. Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in information behavior research." Submission guidelines for Lightning talk proposals: - Author?s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at the top of the proposal. - Proposal text must be 500-1000 words. - Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as ?2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName". - Submission should be done by sending your draft to?sigusesym2014 at gmail.com?(Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor?sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by midnight Hawaii Time on September 1, 2014. - Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium. - Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. - If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still required. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides REGISTRATION FEES: * SIG-USE Members: $90 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100 * Non-Members: $120 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Please forward any questions that you have to K.-Sun "Sunny" Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu) or Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca). K.-Sun Kim & Lu Xiao 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs -------------------- Kyung-Sun Kim Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 4217 H.C. White Hall 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 Phone: (608)263-2941 From kimsch at illinois.edu Thu Jul 3 12:02:08 2014 From: kimsch at illinois.edu (Schmidt, Kimberly Rae) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:02:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] GSLIS welcomes nominations for annual intellectual freedom award Message-ID: The faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2014. Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resisted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals to read or view materials of their choice, the award may be in recognition of a particular action or a long-term interest in and dedication to the cause of intellectual freedom. The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award was established in 1969 by the GSLIS faculty to honor Dean Emeritus Downs, a champion of intellectual freedom, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as director of the School. Previous winners have included DaNae Leu (2013) for her efforts to keep a controversial picture book on the shelves of her elementary school library; Librotraficante (2012) for its efforts to oppose the censorship of ethnic and cultural studies materials in Arizona; Marianna Tax Choldin (2011) for her international work in educating librarians about intellectual freedom; the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (2010) for its consistent dedication to the active defense of First Amendment rights; and the West Bend (WI) Community Memorial Library for its steadfast advocacy on behalf of intellectual freedom in the face of a library challenge (2009). Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO Publishing Company, provides an honorarium to the recipient and co-hosts the reception in honor of the recipient. The reception and award ceremony for the 2014 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award will take place in January 2015 during the American Library Association?s Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Letters of nomination and documentation about the nominee should be sent by email to weech at illinois.edu with a copy to gslisdean at illinois.edu or in paper form to Terry Weech, Associate Professor, GSLIS, 501 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820 by October 1, 2014. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Terry Weech at weech at illinois.edu. -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics included performance evaluations and student learning objectives; ebooks and ereaders; iPads and apps for K-8 library instruction; and Google apps. The workshops were led by experts in the field, including librarians, media specialists, an assessment consultant from the Illinois State Board of Education, and a technology and classroom instructor. Since many school librarians serve as the only librarian for several schools or even for an entire district, opportunities for these educators to share resources and network with peers are few and far between. The Summer Getaway allowed participants to connect with other professionals in their field throughout the event and at a luncheon sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) on June 25. As a library resource center director and president of the Mt. Prospect Education Association, Michelle Waters-Walsh will take what she learned at the Getaway back to her district and launch an initiative to help educators implement student learning objectives. ?Now I have a better framework for how we?ll do that with our school librarians and I?ll be able to share that with them,? she said. ?Getting to know what other librarians are doing at other schools, being able to network with them and share ideas with them, is just an incredible opportunity. I?m the only librarian at our middle school and we?re only a four-school district, so I don?t get to meet a lot of other librarians. This is like one-stop shopping for networking with other librarians at other levels.? ?The Summer Getaway event brought together experts from the field and the expertise of the nation?s top school both for library and information science and for youth services to offer the kind of continuing professional development that is crucial for school librarians today,? said Georgeann Burch, GSLIS K-12 program coordinator. Burch co-organized the event with Tonyia Tidline, director for professional development. ?We were so pleased to welcome librarians from across Illinois, and we hope that the supportive, educational network that we built this week extends beyond the three-day workshop series and allows participants to continuing working together to apply what they learned here,? said Burch. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois is the premier LIS program in the nation, consistently ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report. We offer advanced degrees with areas of specialization including data curation, digital libraries, social and community informatics, socio-technical data analytics, and youth services as well as continuing professional development opportunities. Courses are available both on campus and online. More information can be found at www.lis.illinois.edu -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Thu Jul 10 11:55:53 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:55:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline approaching - SIGUSE Awards 2014 - July 15 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE9321A7AF@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> Do you have an accepted ASIST paper? Have you submitted a poster? Are you a Masters or PhD Student who could use some help defraying the cost of travel to the annual meeting? Check out the best paper, best poster and student travel award - and others! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIGUSE AWARDS The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 15, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/ All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From lkelly at computing.dcu.ie Tue Jul 8 07:42:39 2014 From: lkelly at computing.dcu.ie (Liadh Kelly) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:42:39 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP & IR Challenge Open: CIKM 2nd Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop Message-ID: <53BBD92F.30708@computing.dcu.ie> =================================================================================== The 2nd Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop @ CIKM 2014 7 November, 2014, Shanghai, China http://living-labs.net/ll14/ Call for Papers & Demos - Submission deadline: July 30 Challenge Track - Submission deadline: August 20 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/living-labs =================================================================================== ** IR CHALLENGE NOW OPEN ** Offering access to product/webpage information, usage and query log data through an API and facilities to test approaches in a live setting. Register at: http://living-labs.net/challenge/ =================================================================================== In the past few years, a new evaluation methodology known as living labs has been proposed as a way for researchers to be able to perform in-situ evaluation which involve and integrate users within the research process. The basic idea of living labs for information retrieval (IR) is that rather than individual research groups independently developing experimental search infrastructures and gathering their own groups of test searchers for IR evaluations, a central and shared experimental environment is developed to facilitate the sharing of resources in a live setting (most important of all: users). Living labs would offer huge benefits to the community, such as: availability of, potentially larger, cohorts of real users and their behaviours, e.g. querying behaviours, for experiment purposes; cross-comparability across research centres; and greater knowledge transfer between industry and academia, when industry partners are involved. The need for this methodology is further amplified by the increased reliance of IR approaches on proprietary data; living labs are a way to bridge the data divide between academia and industry. Progress towards realising actual living labs has nevertheless been limited. There are many challenges to be overcome before the benefits associated with living labs for IR can be realised, including challenges associated with living labs architecture and design, hosting, maintenance, security, privacy, participant recruiting, and scenarios and tasks for use development. The 1st Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL?13) workshop at CIKM 2013 was a first attempt to bring people, both from academia and industry, together to discuss challenges and to formulate practical next steps. The workshop was successful in identifying and documenting possible further directions. The goal of the second edition of the workshop is to continue our community building efforts around living labs for IR and to pursue the directions set out at LL?13. As part of this, a live challenge with shared tasks in the e-commerce space and local domain search is now running, offering access to product/webpage information, usage and query log data through an API and facilities to test approaches in a live setting (register at http://living-labs.net/challenge/ ). Possible use cases in this space include, but are not limited to: -The e-commerce domain (i.e., product search and recommendation) -Local domain search (e.g., university search engines) -The personal search space (search of personal computer files, emails, web pages looked at, etc.) -Medical information retrieval (e.g., patients searching for medical information on the Internet) -Searching Wikipedia (an open-source collection with fewer privacy concerns than, say, personal search) Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Privacy and security: -Hosting data on secure server -Gaining subjects trust -Coping with individuals need for privacy -Alternates when individuals will not share their data Legal and ethical issues: -User consent -Ethics approval -Legalities regarding release of data -Trust between parties -Copyright issues -Commercial sensitivity of interaction data Technical challenges: -Designing and implementing living labs architecture -Cost of implementation -Maintenance and adoption -Managing living labs infrastructure Practical challenges: -Forming living labs for IR partners within the research community -Obtaining commercial partners -Alternates when commercial partners cannot be obtained -Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes ----------------- Paper Submissions ----------------- The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages), position papers (2 pages), and posters (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas / challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014) no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on July 30, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. ---------------- Demo Submissions ---------------- We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes or practical developments in a dedicated demo track at the workshop. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented system that pursues one or more aspects relevant to the interest areas of the workshop. Authors are strongly encouraged to target scenarios that are rooted in real-world applications. One way to think about this is by considering the following: as a company operating a website/service/application, what methods could allow various academic groups to experiment with specific components of this website/service/application? In particular, we seek prototypes that define specific component(s) in the context of some website/service/application, and allow for the testing and evaluation of alternative methods for that component. One example is search within a specific vertical (such as product or travel search engine), but we encourage authors to think outside the (search) box. Demonstration papers (max. 4 pages) must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014), in PDF format and formatted using the ACM SIGS format (LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates; for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). Each submission should either include a URL for the web site of the system, or a URL of a shared code repository, or a URL to a 2-3 minute video demonstrating the system. The review process for demonstration submission is *not* double blind. Submissions should be made no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on July 30, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted demo papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. --------------------------- Challenge Track Submissions --------------------------- The workshop also features a living labs challenge. The challenge focuses on two use-cases: product search (on an e-commerce site) and local domain search (on a university?s website). For each of these tasks, challenge participants have access to product/webpage information, usage and query log data through an API and are able to test their approaches in a live setting. The challenge is now open and runs until August 15. During the first month of the challenge participants will have the opportunity to tune their system through the product and local domain search websites. The second month of the challenge will examine the performance of participants? systems on these search websites. Further details are available at: http://living-labs.net/challenge/. Challenge papers (max. 4 pages) should describe the participant?s system design approach and the results they obtained in the living labs challenge. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014), in PDF format and formatted using the ACM SIGS format (LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates; for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). The review process for challenge submissions is *not* double blind. Submissions should be made no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on August 20, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted challenge papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. --------------- Important Dates --------------- July 30, 2014 - Paper & Demo Track submission deadline (midnight Pacific Daylight Time) August 20, 2014 ? Individual challenge papers due (midnight Pacific Daylight Time) [Challenge runs from now ? August 15] August 30, 2014 ? Notification to authors September 10, 2014 ? Camera-ready papers due November 7, 2014 - Workshop ------------------- Further Information ------------------- Further information is available on the workshop website (http://living-labs.net/ll14/) or by emailing the workshop organisers. ------------------- Workshop Organisers ------------------- Krisztian Balog ? University of Stavanger, Norway (krisztian.balog (at) uis.no) Liadh Kelly ? Dublin City University, Ireland (liadh.kelly (at) computing.dcu.ie) Anne Schuth ? University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (anne.schuth (at) uva.nl) From klabarre at illinois.edu Thu Jul 10 16:25:22 2014 From: klabarre at illinois.edu (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:25:22 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Nominations for SIG publication of the year due July 15!! -- five days away! Message-ID: Reminder: The deadline is July 15th! Full details and the submission area is here: http://www.asis.org/awards/sigpublicationoftheyear.html What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. To be considered, a publication must be in a format that is readable/usable by the jury members. NOTE: You must submit/upload an electronic copy of the publication or the URL!! Publications must have been produced between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Criteria for evaluation: (a) Relevance for the SIG members; (b) Societal or scholarly significance of the topic discussed; (c) Creativity and originality of the content; (d) Clarity of expression; and (e) Presentation quality. What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. How do I nominate a publication? Apply now! http://www.softconf.com/asist2/SIG_PUB/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit Please contact the chair of the jury for this award or the SIG Cabinet chair if you have any questions: Kathryn La Barre (SIG Cabinet Chair) klabarre at illinois.edu Heather Pfeiffer, (Jury Chair and Deputy SIG Cabinet Director) heather at pfeifferfamily.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The author or authors will present their paper at the 10th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, November 1, 2014 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Seattle in November, 2014. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 15, 2014 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by August 30, 2014. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University From hrosenba at indiana.edu Fri Jul 11 08:53:37 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:53:37 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Award Message-ID: Call for nominations for the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2013 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 10th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, November 1, 2014 and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Seattle in November, 2014. Nominations letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 15, 2014 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by August 30, 2014. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University From agruzd at gmail.com Thu Jul 10 23:02:19 2014 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy Gruzd) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:02:19 -0300 Subject: [Asis-l] Keynote and Presentations Announced for the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference! Message-ID: <53BF53BB.6060303@gmail.com> (Apologies for cross-posting) We would like to invite you to attend the *2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE* to be held on September 27-28, 2014 in Toronto, Canada. We have a great line-up of presentations. The full list of accepted submissions (4 panels, 57 papers, and 58 posters) is now available at https://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=1048 This year's keynotes are . Dr. Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University, USA - https://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?p=922 . John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada - https://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?p=932 The general registration is now open, and the "early-bird" deadline is July 15, 2014: https://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=541 If you have any questions about the conference, please email to smsociety14 at easychair.org Hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! -- #SMSociety14 Organizing Committee http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com Twitter hashtag: #SMSociety14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Jul 10 17:39:46 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:39:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Legal Research Analyst / Washington, DC Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks a full-time, temporary Legal Research Analyst for our client, a global law firm, located in Washington, DC. This individual needs to be skilled in providing strong research expertise to support the firm's practice areas, ideally with a focus on legislative and regulatory areas of law. This assignment is for at least a 3 months, but has the potential to last longer. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position, and ideally the candidate will be able to work Saturdays in addition to 4 days during the week. Responsibilities: * As part of a firm-wide research team, provide substantive research expertise to support the firm's practice areas and business development efforts, including strategic research related to markets, industries, and competitors; * Create current awareness tools, newsletters, and alerts for ongoing monitoring of clients, industries, and events; * Proactively and independently assess research requests and ensure that research meets stated and anticipated needs; * Ensure that library services are effectively promoted to attorneys and timekeepers; * Educate and advise attorneys, paralegals, and staff on sources and strategies for research; * Provide assistance in collection development and maintenance and library space utilization; * Participate on projects that increase the value of library services to the Firm; * Track and record billable and non-billable time spent providing research services to library clients according to the Firm's library billing policy. Close time notes on a daily basis; * Consistently promote and model the Firm's Client Service Principles in leadership, teamwork, work product, and personal interaction; Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities * Master's degree in Library Science or Information Science or equivalent degree strongly preferred; plus a minimum of three years related experience, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience; * Substantive knowledge of the legal materials and databases used to support the Firm's practice areas and research needs for client work and for business development efforts; * Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective internal and external client relationships; * Strong writing skills and the ability to exchange information and to present ideas, report facts and convey information clearly and concisely; * Ability to effectively apply independent judgment and have a strong sense of urgency and professional dedication; * Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with all levels of personnel and to succeed in a teamwork environment; * Strong planning and organizational skills, including demonstrated ability to manage workloads effectively and meet all stated deadlines; * Proficient in Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and PowerPoint. Apply at: http://goo.gl/Vye5cn 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, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The fifth open, international HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, the Trust Challenge, will award $1.2 million to institutions and organizations that tackle these questions in real-life learning contexts. The Trust Challenge will fund successful collaborations or ?laboratories? that create scalable, innovative, and transformative exemplars of connected learning that bridge technological solutions with complex social considerations of trust. Awards: $10,000 to $150,000 year-long development grants; $1.2 million will be awarded in total. Timeline: Applications accepted September 3 to November 3, 2014. Final applications are due Monday, November 3, 2014 at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST. Who can participate: Successful proposals will include youth-serving organizations and institutions and institutions of higher learning anywhere in the world where challenges to trust in connected learning environments can be identified and addressed. Teams must include * institutional/organizational stakeholders and administrators that can provide and direct project objectives, inform design and implementation, and increase opportunities for scalability. Additionally, teams might also include * technologists, web developers, app developers, badge system designers, etc. that can design, build and implement the proposed digital solution; and * researchers, educators, learning experts, policy advisors, legal counsel, etc. that can give careful consideration to complex social and institutional/organizational considerations around trust and learning. Connect with the Trust Challenge to get the latest news and notifications Listserv: To receive notifications about the Trust Challenge, including reminders when the application opens, send a message to dmlcompnews-request at duke.edu with ?subscribe? in the subject line. Web: www.dmlcompetition.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/dmlComp and #dmltrust Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DMLcomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch the upcoming Webinar Series ?Building Trust in Connected Learning Environments? (a HASTAC/ConnectedLearning.tv collaboration) Why Trust Matters in Connected Learning Environments July 8, 11am PST/2pm EST (archived recording available) What do we mean by "trust" in relation to connected learning? Why we need to create connected learning environments that protect safety & privacy without compromising the ability to learn. Speakers: Cathy Casserly - Former CEO of Creative Commons, now a part-time Fellow at the Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program David Preston - English teacher at Righetti High School Sheryl Grant - Director of Social Networking, HASTAC Trust Challenges Across Connected Learning Environments July 15, 11am PST/2pm EST How trust is modeled in collaborative connected learning environments, and how we tackle serious issues--such as digital literacy and equity--so that people can take full advantage of learning opportunities. Speakers: Cathy Lewis-Long - Founding Executive Director of The Sprout Fund in Pittsburgh Nichole Pinkard - Co-Founder of the Digital Youth Network, and Co-Founder of YOUmedia Chicago Carla Casilli - Director of Design + Practice at the Badge Alliance Barry Joseph - Associate Director for Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History Doug Belshaw - Project lead for the Web Literacy Standard at the Mozilla Foundation Sheryl Grant - Director of Social Networking, HASTAC Social-Emotional Literacies and Digital Citizenship Best Practices July 22, 11am PST/2pm EST How to encourage multi-directional trust (from platforms to people) and empower learners of all ages to use learning resources confidently, effectively & safely. Speakers: Anne Collier - Youth/tech news blogger, and Editor of NetFamilyNews.org Janelle Bence - Educator at New Tech High @ Coppell in Dallas Jessie Daniels - Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), and FemTechNet supporter Anna Smith - Educational researcher, teacher educator & teacher; founder of #literacies chat on Twitter Sheryl Grant - Director of Social Networking, HASTAC Higher Education as a Trusted Environment for Learning July 29, 11am PST/2pm EST Trust in research, public scholarship, pedagogy and distributed learning environments. How are higher education institutions already embracing principles for creating safe, optimized and rewarding learning? Speakers: Jonathan Worth - Creator of the massive, open Photography & Narrative (#Phonar) course, and a renowned British portrait photographer Audrey Watters - Technology and education journalist, and self-described "rabble-rouser & recovering academic" Howard Rheingold - Author, virtual community expert, and self-described "online instigator & expert learner" Sheryl Grant - Director of Social Networking, HASTAC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Fri Jul 11 08:39:07 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:39:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Message-ID: First Call for Papers and Participation The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University Saturday, November 1st, 2014, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM Sheraton, Seattle Hotel, Seattle Washington, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu) School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington This year we are celebrating a decade of successful and vibrant SIG-SI Research Symposia. Since 2004, established scholars, young researchers and doctoral students interested in the study of people, ICT and work and play have gathered at the SIG-SI ASIS&T Annual Research Symposium to share their work and ideas. Approximately 100 papers, posters and panels have been presented and for the past three years, we have given awards for the best papers published by Social Informatics (SI) faculty and students in the preceding years. This year we gather to celebrate a decade of intellectually challenging and engaging work in SI and hope that you will join us. Our goal remains the same: to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIS&T. Building on the success of past years, the symposium includes members of many SIGs and defines ?social? broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. It also defines ?technology? broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium?s theme but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Papers that take social informatics further in theoretical conceptualization or empirical grounding are of particular interest to SIG-SI this year as we celebrate a decade of Symposia in ASIS&T. This year?s conference theme is ?Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities.? In keeping with this theme, the symposium is also soliciting work that focuses on the question of understanding and analyzing connections between social informatics and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities from a social informatics perspective. Some of the questions we ask include: ? What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain connections between SI and cognate intellectual communities? ? What are some of the ways in which we can begin to establish and maintain connections among SI and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? ? What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of the boundaries among SI and cognate epistemic communities? ? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in SI work? The schedule for the workshop will involve the presentations of papers and the best social informatics paper awards for 2013 (call to follow). We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. Deadlines: August 9, 2014: Submit a short paper (2000 words), a poster (500 words), or a panel (1000 words) by email to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) and Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu). September 2, 2014: Author notifications (in time for conference early registration (NOTE: this timeline may be adjusted when the registration dates are announced). Fees: To be determined -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajapzon at iupui.edu Fri Jul 11 12:03:45 2014 From: ajapzon at iupui.edu (Copeland, Andrea) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:03:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Cretsos Award Nominations Due by 7/15 Message-ID: Reminder-4 days left to nominate! Nominations for the Cretsos Leadership Award are being accepted until July 15. The Cretsos Leadership award recognizes a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities. Please find the complete award and submission information located here: http://www.asis.org/awards/leadershipaward.html If you know someone who has demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities, please consider nominating them. Individuals who have been members of ASIS&T for seven years or less are eligible. Thank you for your consideration and any questions, please contact the award jury chair, Andrea Copeland at ajapzon at iupui.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.labarre at gmail.com Mon Jul 14 10:48:44 2014 From: kathryn.labarre at gmail.com (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:48:44 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG Publication of the year deadline is TOMORROW [Tuesday] July 15th Message-ID: Reminder: The deadline is July 15th! Full details and the submission area is here: http://www.asis.org/awards/sigpublicationoftheyear.html What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. To be considered, a publication must be in a format that is readable/usable by the jury members. NOTE: You must submit/upload an electronic copy of the publication or the URL!! Publications must have been produced between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Criteria for evaluation: (a) Relevance for the SIG members; (b) Societal or scholarly significance of the topic discussed; (c) Creativity and originality of the content; (d) Clarity of expression; and (e) Presentation quality. What is an eligible publication? Any type of SIG Publication including newsletters, transactions, directories, or other publications. How do I nominate a publication? Apply now! http://www.softconf.com/asist2/SIG_PUB/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit Please contact the chair of the jury for this award or the SIG Cabinet chair if you have any questions: Kathryn La Barre (SIG Cabinet Chair) klabarre at illinois.edu Heather Pfeiffer, (Jury Chair and Deputy SIG Cabinet Director) heather at pfeifferfamily.net -- Kathryn La Barre Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jan.Hutar at dia.govt.nz Mon Jul 14 23:22:51 2014 From: Jan.Hutar at dia.govt.nz (Jan Hutar) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:22:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] VACANCY: Digital Preservation Process Administrator (Wellington, New Zealand) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please forgive our cross postings. Digital Preservation Process Administrator * Key opportunity to mix technical capability with strong business involvement * Leading-edge all-of-government initiative * Permanent, full time position at Archives New Zealand in Wellington Archives New Zealand has a statutory responsibility for the long-term storage, preservation and accessibility of digital records. Archives New Z ealand is transforming the way it conducts its business by developing the capability to transfer digital records and preserve them over the long term. The primary focus for the Digital Preservation Process Administrator is to provide business-focused technical support and specialist advice in relation to digital repository hardware and software infrastructure; and to the ingest of digital content into the digital repository. Our ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in system administration and be used to basic server management and diagnostics. The role supports the overall administration of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system and configuration, and involves collaboration with the National Library of New Zealand, our preservation partner within the Department of Internal Affairs,. The Digital Preservation Process Administrator supports deposits to the digital repository through the creation of business workflows, resolution and recording of issues relating to the ingest process, and provides technical assistance with preconditioning and preservation actions and analysis. The person in this role will work closely with a team which includes digital preservation and technical analysts, and with business staff managing transfers, restrictions and access. We're looking for a team player with a strong background working with data repositories, ingest and system configuration and management. You'll have excellent problem solving, analysis and communication skills, and enjoy working with different parts of the business to make sure that our infrastructure and processes are running smoothly. This is a busy role, which requires good organisation skills and flexibility, as you'll deal with both well established and emerging processes. Experience in digital preservation management and/or Ex Libris Rosetta long-term preservation system is a distinct advantage. In return, you'll get to work on an exciting, all-of-government digital preservation initiative, that will change the way New Zealanders interact with Government records. For more information and a job description, go to: http://www.bfound.net/detail.aspx?jobId=124679&CoId=164&rq=3 Closing date for applications: 5pm, Sunday 27 July 2014 NZ time 3pm Sunday 27 July 2014 Canberra time AEST 6am Sunday 27 July 2014 U.K. time BST 7am Sunday 27 July 2014 Central European time CEST 10pm Saturday 26 July 2014 US - Washington time PDT For more information please contact: Antony Moss, Director Client Capability on +64 27 476 0361 or anthony.moss at dia.govt.nz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Mon Jul 14 11:47:18 2014 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Dimitris Kontokostas) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:47:18 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd International DBpedia Community Meeting Message-ID: <53C3FB86.1000108@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ku26 at drexel.edu Mon Jul 14 16:36:28 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:36:28 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T '14 SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored workshop Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA3139FB6@MB1.drexel.edu> Hello everyone, It is with great pleasure that I put out this call for participation in our SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored pre-conference workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 8:30 to 4:00 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: * How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? * How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? * Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? * When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? * What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? * How does policy design build/undermine trust? * What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens's to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. Please send your submission by email to Kris Unsworth and Bryce Newell at unsworth at drexel.edu and bcnewell at uw.edu IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: tba - we will send an update. You will also be able to find this information on the main conference website! Scholarship opportunities will also be announced shortly. The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth at drexel.edu) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell at uw.edu). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Tue Jul 15 14:53:10 2014 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:53:10 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] User Experience Design graduate program -free online open house tonight (7/15) Message-ID: <82e2ad45ed29411e9531ced744022ae9@BLUPR0801MB577.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Please excuse multiple postings. This evening (Tuesday, July 15, 2014) at 7 p.m. Eastern, Kent State University will host an Online Open House so you can learn more about our User Experience Design (UXD) concentration in the Master of Science in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM) program. UXD at Kent State University is a unique program that blends human-centered thinking, design, and information architecture to equip you to make a difference in a fast-changing digital world. Whether you are already working in the UX industry and looking to advance, considering a career change, or just getting started in your career, this is a great opportunity to hear directly from UXD Director of Online Admissions, Chris Stahlberg, and from Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Dr. David Robins. Why attend? - Learn more about the steps of the admissions process and key deadlines for our fall start - See why user experience design matters and how it fits into your career path - Hear more about what it's like to learn online at Kent State - Understand more about program structure and details - Ask questions! The details Time and date: Tues., July 15th at 7:00 PM Eastern Format: Online webinar Registration: Register today by clicking on this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2667106605593572609 All the best, Flo <~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~> Flo Cunningham Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-0003 fcunning at kent.edu www.kent.edu/slis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis Twitter: @KentStateSLIS I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Tue Jul 15 18:38:45 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:38:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Reference Librarian / USAID Knowledge Services Center (KSC) in Washington, DC Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . LAC Group seeks a full-time Reference Librarian to work on a prestigious contract at the USAID Knowledge Services Center (KSC) in Washington, DC. The Reference/Interlibrary Loan Librarian provides reference services at the Reference Desk and through the KSC mailbox, manages the interlibrary loan processes, prepares research guides, contributes to the library's monthly e-newsletter, searches commercial databases, trains end users on effective search techniques, conducts copy cataloging, uses social media tools to promote library resources, and makes recommendations for new resources. US Citizenship is required for this position. Responsibilities: * Provides reference services through regular duty at the reference desk and by responding to virtual information requests using a wide variety of databases including Nexis, Factiva, EBSCO databases, and ScienceDirect. * Manages daily interlibrary loan functions, including selection of document provider; tracking ILL usage statistics and managing interlibrary loan invoices. Collaborates with library manager to suggest additions to the library collection based on ILL activities and needs. * Trains clients and staff in effective search techniques for e-resources. * Investigates, researches and participates in implementation of technologies that make it easier for clients to access information resources online without assistance (such as portals and CampusGuide sites). * Identifies and recommends relevant electronic resources for acquisition and serves as liaison for e-resource vendors. * Manages the KSC mailbox on a rotating basis by checking the mailbox hourly, acknowledging or forwarding requests, and carrying out due diligence research, database searches, book renewals and other actions in response to requests. * Participates in library outreach activities such as office presentations orientations for USAID staff and other user groups aimed at increasing the visibility of the Knowledge Services Center throughout the international development community. * Contributes to current awareness e-newsletter New This Month by writing abstracts of print materials, videos and e-books. Updates bibliographies each time New This Month is published. * Performs copy cataloging for input into OCLC using reconized standards * Uses social media tools such as blogs and wikis to promote Knowledge Services Center products and services. * Stays abreast of the information needs and trends within the areas of foreign assistance, economic development, and development organizations; stays abreast of trends in library and information science. * Contributes to the reporting requirements of the contract, including inputting monthly statistics into the management information system. * Other duties as assigned i.e. shelving materials, creating book displays, special projects Qualifications * Master's degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited program. * Minimum one year experience providing reference services, with the skills and ability to conduct in-depth reference interviews. * Experience with online database searching, including but not limited to Nexis, Factiva, EBSCO databases, and ScienceDirect. * Experience with customized information delivery and knowledge or/experience with portal services. * Experience using OCLC system including interlibrary loan functions and cataloging subsystem. * Copy cataloging and authority control experience a plus. * Experience with training end users in the effective use of e-resources. * Demonstrated experience with integrated library systems. * Experience with using social media tools such as wikis, blogs, and collaboration sites to share information. * Excellent oral and written communication skills. * U.S. citizenship required Apply at: http://goo.gl/QJzCUz 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, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xmyzhou at rutgers.edu Wed Jul 16 10:13:27 2014 From: xmyzhou at rutgers.edu (Xiaomu Zhou) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:13:27 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] [Asis-I] Call for Participation: WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE (WISH) 2014 Message-ID: For those who are interested in health informatics....... Let me know if you have any questions. Xiaomu Xiaomu Zhou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 185 College Ave., Room 302, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: xmyzhou at rutgers.edu Tel. 848-932-7159 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/xmyzhou/index.html ______________________________________________________________________________ *WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE (WISH) 2014: CROSSING THE BRIDGE* * Deadline Extended: July 25, 2014 * WISH 2014 will be held as a one-day interactive workshop that offers an exciting program including keynotes, panels, breakout sessions, paper presentations, and poster exhibition. The workshop (http://wish2014.wordpress.com/) will be co-located with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium ( http://www.amia.org/amia2014) on November 15, 2014, Washington DC, USA. * (1) Workshop Description * Addressing the complex interplay among human, technological, and organizational systems in healthcare is critically important. At the intersection of these systems lies a significant research area that has the potential to impact the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care. These issues are timely and of utmost priority to be addressed, given the recent emphasis on health information technology (HIT) solutions as part of the ongoing efforts towards the healthcare reform. However, biomedical informatics, human-computer interaction, medical sociology, anthropology, and other research areas related to HIT are often confined in their disciplinary silos, making significant and much-needed cross-disciplinary collaboration challenging. Discussions at highly specialized conferences or tracks within conferences can become too narrowed and disjointed: investigating particular issues in detail but sometimes missing the meta-context and issues from other relevant disciplines. At WISH 2014, researchers and practitioners with interests in HIT will come together to promote deeper and more profound connections among diverse communities by discussing collaborative research experiences and developing new collaboration opportunities. It is hoped that the interactions across these communities in a focused workshop will lead to the development of new methods, approaches, and techniques to improve the design, adoption, and use of HIT. WISH 2014 is designed to foster conversation and interactions, bridge communities, and develop a shared body of knowledge. * (2) Important Dates * Submissions due: July 25, 2014 (New deadline) Notification of acceptance: August 29, 2014 * (3) Submissions * * We are accepting three types of submissions: Technical Papers, Interactive Posters, and Panels. Technical papers should be submitted as maximum 4-page papers. Both interactive posters and panels should be submitted as maximum 2-page papers. All submissions must be in the AMIA submission format: http://www.amia.org/amia2014/call-for-participation . Technical Papers are intended to report completed research. Interactive Posters allow researchers to showcase exploratory or on-going research and to discuss their work with attendees during a poster exhibition session. Panel submissions should propose relevant topics in healthcare research that involves strategies and experiences in connecting and collaborating across disciplines, research design and methodologies, or evaluation of interactive systems in healthcare. Proposed panels are hour-long sessions that should include brief presentations by a maximum of five panelists and involve significant interactions with the audience. How to Submit: All submissions should be made via the WISH 2014 EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wish2014 . Once an author has created an account and logged into EasyChair, click the "Submissions" tab, click the "Add a Submission" link on the upper right. Complete the submission instructions and then click the "Submit" button in the bottom of the form. If you have questions or need further information, please email the workshop organizers at wish2014workshop at gmail.com . (4) Mentoring Program * Subject to availability of funding, WISH 2014 plans to offer a mentoring program for students and junior researchers in the fields of HCI, healthcare, biomedical informatics, and fields related to health information technology. The program will offer travel support for mentees accepted into the program and will pair them with steering committee members for one-on-one mentoring meetings during the workshop. Updates will be posted on the WISH 2014 website in due course. * (5) JAMIA Special Issue * We are calling for submissions to a JAMIA special issue on ?Interactive Systems for Patient-Centered Care to Enhance Patient Engagement.? The special issue is intended to highlight new research on patient-centered care and patient engagement that exemplifies the WISH theme of cross-disciplinary collaborations. Details of the special issue can be found on the WISH 2014 website ( http://wish2014.wordpress.com/jamia-special-issue/). 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URL: From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Wed Jul 16 13:12:10 2014 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:42:10 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP-International Journal of Civic Enagagement and Social Change, IGI Global, USA In-Reply-To: References: <003301ceb303$8106bfa0$83143ee0$@lbsim.ac.in>, Message-ID: 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'S 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.aspx PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Changeis 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 at lbsim.ac.in http://www.igi-global.com/IJCESC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ku26 at drexel.edu Thu Jul 17 10:45:52 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:45:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Updated CfP for ASIST SIG-IFP / SIG-III workshop! Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA313E70F@MB1.drexel.edu> Hi all, I just learned of the official time for our workshop as well as the registration fees. Please see below! ASIS&T SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" Date:October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: ? How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? ? How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? ? Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? ? When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? ? What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? ? How does policy design build/undermine trust? ? What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens?s to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Fees Early-bird: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $190, Members $200, Non-members $220 Regular: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $210, Members $220, Non-members $240 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth at drexel.edu) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell at uw.edu). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kamps at uva.nl Fri Jul 18 05:52:03 2014 From: kamps at uva.nl (Jaap Kamps) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:52:03 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP CIKM'14 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations: Deadline August 15 Message-ID: <53C8EE43.6060605@uva.nl> Seventh Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'14) CIKM 2014, November 7, Shanghai http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair14/ Submissions due: August 15 (extended!) Open for submissions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esair2014 * Call for Papers There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold the promise to significantly enhance information access, by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems. Currently, we have only started exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these valuable semantic cues can be put to fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard text search excels at shallow information needs expressed by short keyword queries, and here semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything. The main remaining challenge is on the user's side, and a more dynamic approach is emerging by exploiting new forms of query autosuggest. The potential of rich document annotations can only be realized if matched by more articulate queries exploiting these powerful retrieval cues. How can the query suggestion paradigm be used to encourage searcher to articulate longer queries, with concepts and relations linking their statement of request to existing semantic models? How do entity results and social network data in ?graph search? change the classic division between searchers and information and lead to extreme personalization -- are you the query? How to leverage transaction logs and recommendation, and how adaptive should we make the system? What are the privacy ramifications and the UX aspects -- how to avoid creeping out users? * Many Open Questions The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its users, and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of open questions: - Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from exploring these powerful search request? What impact has the web of data with more and more information in preprocessed form? - Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or instances ("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data and annotated text? What are the limitations of the current annotations schemes, and how to overcome them? - Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them. Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the mobile use case? - (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we reliably link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a messy world to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches? These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the way we understand information access today! * We Need Your Help! Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth of analysis of today's systems: - Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key wishes or key points, - and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop. What's a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment, project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text. The deadline is Friday August 15, 2014, further submission details are on http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair14/ We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful workshop day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join the discussion! Omar Alonso, Microsoft Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai & KTH Stockholm From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Jul 24 13:22:26 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:22:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Web Design Administrator / Atlanta GA Message-ID: Apologies for cross postings . . . LAC Group is seeking a Web Design Administrator, for an existing, long-term government contract working with a prestigious federal agency located in Atlanta, GA. This is a full-time, 40 hour week position which includes a full benefit package. Responsibilities: * Coordinates development of content structure and website appearance with teams; * Develops and updates websites' technical plan; * Sets up, maintains, and programs the web services; * Monitors website activity and analyzes user statistics Qualifications: * BS in Computer Science; * A minimum of five years of experience working directly with Internet sites, either in development or support; * Excellent familiarity with HTML, Perl, JavaScript, Scripting/CGI, APIs, and/or PHP; * Experience with UNIX and other operating systems. Apply at: http://goo.gl/uUR5tV LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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Please direct any questions regarding the contest or submission guidelines to Kim Powell at krpowel at emory.edu 2014 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest Are you tired of preparing papers which immediately migrate into your professors' files and have not been seen ever since? Recover your papers and give them a life and a great opportunity for yourself. Send your most promising papers to the 2014 ASIST SIG/MET Student paper contest where you have the chance to present your work in front of an interested audience, discuss it with established researchers, and win the ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Award. This is the fourth annual student paper contest for SIG/MET, the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html)of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). The contest is designed to recognize promising student research relating to the measurement of information, publication, and research and gives students a forum to meet the leaders of the field. Purpose SIG/MET seeks to encourage the development and networking opportunities of all those interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest to foster student growth and promote the generation of new ideas and research in metric-related topics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, altmetrics and other related domains. Eligibility The first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time student at the time of submission, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET membership. Only solo or first authored student manuscripts will be accepted, in order to ensure that the student made significant contributions to the work. SIG/MET reserves the right to request proof of enrollment as part of the submission and evaluation process. Submissions should not have been published work, although they may be submitted to a journal at the time of submission to the contest. Theme Papers should discuss theories, methods, policies, case studies, etc. on aspects of the measurement of information production and use. Topics could include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: ? Metric-Related Theory ? Methods and new techniques ? Citation and co-citation analysis ? Indicators ? Web metrics ? Information visualization ? Research policy ? Productivity ? Journals, databases and electronic publications ? Collaboration/Co-authorship ? Patent analysis ? Knowledge and topic diffusion ? Altmetrics Selection Papers will be reviewed by SIG/MET officers and advisors to the SIG/MET workshop. At least one winner will be chosen. In the past, we have also given commendation to other particularly outstanding papers. Selection criteria include those that would be considered in traditional peer review: that is, the quality of the research, the presentation of the results, and the originality of the research question. Prizes The winner will be awarded a one-year individual membership to ASIS&T and a cash prize, sponsored by Elsevier. If of sufficient merit and pending available funds, two winners may be announced: one for the best first-authored paper and one for the best sole-authored paper. Authors of highly rated papers will be invited to submit a short biographical piece to be featured on the SIG/MET website. In addition, these authors may be invited to present their research under their own expense at the SIG/MET pre-conference workshop at the 2014 Annual ASIS&T Meeting. Format Submissions can be of any length and format, but should ideally reflect typical standards of a journal article (i.e., approximately 6,000 words and in an appropriate citation style for the social sciences). Submission & Deadline Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by midnight EST on Wednesday, August 13 2014, to the following website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmetspc2014 The students will be notified about the results by September 1, 2014. For inquiries and further information please contact Kim Powell (krpowel at emory.edu). SIGMET, a Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use of the Association for Information Science & Technology. It is designed to foster student research in metric-related topics: bibliometrics, scientometrics, atlmetrics, etc. Best Isabella ......................................................................................................................................... PROF. DR. ISABELLA PETERS Professor of Web Science, CAU Kiel ZBW - German National Library of Economics Leibniz Information Centre for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 24105 Kiel Germany T: +49-431-8814-623 M: +49-172-6747771 F: +49-431-8814-520 E: i.peters at zbw.eu www.zbw.eu ......................................................................................................................................... Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DieZBW. ......................................................................................................................................... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to account for a significant proportion of the literature published in core LIS journals, there is also a large proportion of metrics literature published in general science journal as well as in medical journals. Recent workshops on the topics have been largely successful. For instance, on November 2nd 2013, SIG/MET held its third annual Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research, during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The full day event, sponsored by both Elsevier and Thomson Reuters, attracted 30 participants. The symposium consisted of two poster presentations and thirteen paper presentations by authors from nine countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States). As in previous years, the SIG recognized outstanding student contributions, with one session devoted to presenting these awards and presentations by the recipients. The 2014 workshop would continue in this vein and consolidate the work done in previous iterations of the workshop. We propose to include presentations from both established researchers and students, all done in an informal setting where genuine exchanges can be made. The topics covered would include the following but are not limited to: - New indicators and methods - Applications of indicators - Theories of the publication process and citations - Metrics in a library setting - Open access and metrics - Tool development - Limitations, misuses and adverse effects of metrics - Measurements and implications of interdisciplinarity - Visualizations of scholarly impact measures and analyses SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It encompasses not only bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and informetrics, but also measurement of the Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. Submissions Submissions should be in the form of a two-page structured abstract. Conceptual, empirical, and works-in-progress will be accepted for submission. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. Please indicate the type of submission in bold at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same. Submit in .pdf, .doc or .docx to : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2014 Peer-Review process Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in narrative format. Important Dates Submissions due: August 31, 2014 Notifications: September 15, 2014 Workshop: November 5, 2014 Registration fees The registration fee is $200 for ASIST members and will include wifi and two break meals. First 15 students who register will receive $100 back from their registration, courtesy of Elsevier. With questions, please contact Vincent Larivi?re Chair, SIG/MET vincent.lariviere at umontreal.ca Best Isabella ......................................................................................................................................... PROF. DR. ISABELLA PETERS Professor of Web Science, CAU Kiel ZBW - German National Library of Economics Leibniz Information Centre for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 24105 Kiel Germany T: +49-431-8814-623 M: +49-172-6747771 F: +49-431-8814-520 E: i.peters at zbw.eu www.zbw.eu ......................................................................................................................................... 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We achieve this using a paradigm called "Data Driven Synthesis,? which more effectively and efficiently allows humans to off-load mundane KM and Library Management work to computers, leaving more time for Knowledge Workers and Librarians to focus on higher value functions. The synthesis software uses computers and human generated rules to: 1. Automatically ?harvest? Acronyms from semi-structured data (both supplied by humans and/or computer systems), 2. Turn the Acronyms into semantically enriched structures that point/link back to things like their corresponding Data Types and the Data Entities/Instances which the Acronyms represent (e.g. Acronym ?P1? can represent BOTH ?Product 1? AND ?Project 1?), and 3. Curate the Acronyms into an HTML based Acronym Catalog (that is also linked into and made available via a Master Catalog ). Applying this paradigm results in a set of beneficial outcomes? 1. Enterprise end users have higher levels of satisfaction because they receive and gain access to a Knowledge Repository/Library that is considered far more comprehensive, with higher quality, in quicker delivery times, and with lower costs. 2. Knowledge Workers / Librarians are freed to perform higher value work, since they off-loaded a great deal of work to a computer. 3. Knowledge Workers / Librarians look better to their sponsors and/or customers because they can definitively deliver far more, faster, with higher quality, and with less investment. I'd be more than happy to receive your feedback (good, bad, or indifferent), on any of the above. My Best, Frank -- Frank Guerino, Chairman The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) http://www.if4it.com 1.908.294.5191 (M) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Exceptional CE Since 1975** *August 2014 Online* *(asynchronous ) Workshops * *August 1 - August 31, 2014* *$250 (GSLIS Alumni Price: $200)* *PDPs: 15* *CEUs: 15* -- *Connecting Readers to Books: Readers' Advisory for All Ages* *-- **Drug Information Rx: Sources and Strategies* *-- **Maker Spaces and Creative Areas* -- *Social Media and Youth Services* -- *Teen Lit Boot Camp: Fanworks and Teen Literature* -- *Usability Testing for Librarians* *September* -- *Apps for Librarians & Educators: Become an Expert in Mobile Apps for iPhones, iPads, or Android Smartphones* $275 (Simmons GSLIS Alunmi Price: $220) September 8 - October 10, 2014 - PDPs: 20 -- Please note: This is a five-week workshop. *************************************** Please check our full schedule for additional workshops! For additional information on workshops or to register see http://gslis.simmons.edu/ce or contact gslisce at simmons.ed *u* Linnea Johnson '04LS 2014 MBA Candidate Manager of Technology | Adjunct Faculty Graduate School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2834 Continuing Education Graduate School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2803 | fax 617.521.3192 email g slisce at simmons.edu Check out our most recent CE schedule ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kimsch at illinois.edu Fri Jul 25 11:29:15 2014 From: kimsch at illinois.edu (Schmidt, Kimberly Rae) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:29:15 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Lud=C3=A4scher_joins_GSLIS_faculty?= Message-ID: GSLIS is pleased to announce that Professor Bertram Lud?scher will join the GSLIS faculty in Fall 2014. Lud?scher is a leading ?gure in data and knowledge management, focusing on the modeling, design, and optimization of scientific work?ows, provenance, data integration, and knowledge representation. He is one of the founders of the open source Kepler scientific work?ow system project, and a co-lead of the DataONE Working Group on Provenance in Scientific Work?ows. DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) is one of the initial NSF-funded DataNets and develops a distributed framework and cyberinfrastructure for environmental science data. Lud?scher is also developing work?ow technology for quality control and data curation, e.g., of biodiversity data in natural history collections. He is leading the NSF-funded Euler project, where he is developing logic-based methods for the alignment and merging of biological taxonomies. At Illinois, Lud?scher will also have an appointment at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and an affiliate appointment at the Department of Computer Science. ?This is an exciting time for the computer and information sciences: Everybody talks about ?big data,? and the market for data scientists is burgeoning. But with all the excitement about the new challenges and opportunities in data analytics, we must also continue to improve our capabilities to organize and curate data,? said Lud?scher. ?To get valuable insights out of data at the end of analysis pipelines, we need to invest in the modeling, management, and curation of data further upstream. I?m excited to join the iSchool at Illinois, which has been the leader in information science research and education, emphasizing the importance of all phases of the data lifecycle. I?m also looking forward to collaborating with NCSA and working with colleagues in computer science on the many new challenges and opportunities in data science.? ?We are delighted to have attracted one of the world's leaders in scienti?c data management to GSLIS,? said Dean Allen Renear. ?Digital technologies have created exciting new opportunities to analyze vast quantities of diverse data, advancing science and addressing major societal problems?but supporting the use of this information presents deep challenges. For many years now Bertram has been leading the way in meeting these challenges.? ?NCSA is a nexus of big data, both from the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer and from massive observational projects like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. There are many issues involved in making meaning from?and ?nding, publishing, sharing, and archiving?these data,? said NCSA Director Ed Seidel. ?We look forward to working with Professor Lud?scher and bene?tting from his knowledge and expertise as we tackle these challenges together.? Lud?scher was most recently a professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, he worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego where until 2004 he was an associate research scientist, leading the Knowledge- Based Information Systems Lab. He received his MS in computer science from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1992, and his PhD in computer science from the University of Freiburg in 1998. -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Jul 25 06:27:45 2014 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Bernard Vatant) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:27:45 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Participation : Vocabulary Carnival at SEMANTiCS 2014 Message-ID: <53D23121.7090504@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Fri Jul 25 14:39:56 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:39:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Law Librarian (Cataloging & Technical Services) Los Angeles, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . LAC Group seeks a dynamic and experience Law Librarian (Cataloging & Technical Services) for our client, a prestigious international law firm, Downtown Los Angeles office. The Supervisor of Technical Services supervises the staff and workflows of the firm's information technical services function. This is an excellent opportunity for a technical services professional to work directly for a top organization and with creative and innovated information professionals. Experience in Academic Technical Services will be considered! Responsibilities: * Supervises the workflow, resources and priorities of Library Technicians; Supervises performance and sets goals, ensures continuous professional development; Performs quality assurance review of work product; * Liaises with vendors to ensure accurate completion of library maintenance tasks; * Oversees and develops standardized workflows within the Information Resource Management function and in collaboration with Finance to process invoices and cost recoveries and to generate audit reports; coordinates with vendors concerning account issues; * Oversees management of library print collections, including new acquisitions, renewals, and elimination of unused materials; collaborates with local staff in US offices on library relocations and print reduction initiatives; * Handle additional related projects as assigned. Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree; MLS degree preferred; * At least 4 years of experience in a professional services or law firm (preferred) library environment; Experience in Academic Technical Services will be considered! * At least 4 years of Library-related technical services experience, including vendor relationships, accounts payable and cost recoveries; * At least 4 years of supervisory experience, with remote team supervision preferred; * Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite applications, specifically MS Excel and spreadsheet/database applications; * Advanced abilities in coordinating workflows across various offices with Library Technician staff, and planning and executing projects within time and budget constraints through to completion; * Advanced knowledge of accounts payable standards, cost recoveries and associated procedures; * Advanced knowledge of law firm library technical services functions, particularly management of print collections; * Strong business acumen- have budget/expense tracking experience; * Open minded- not set on any one idea, make recommendations to improve processes, etc.; * Comfortable communicating with all levels both in person and through email; * Team oriented, very organized and articulate. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/o8brJD 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, National Libraries and prominent government agencies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Fri Jul 25 19:22:31 2014 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:22:31 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] iConference 2015 Submission Call Message-ID: iConference 2015 Now Accepting Submissions March 24-27, 2015 Newport Beach, CA USA http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ We are now accepting submissions for iConference 2015. Submissions may be made on our secure submissions site at https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/ The iConference is an international gathering of scholars and researchers concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society. The following submissions are invited: Submission Type Deadline Notification Papers Friday, September 5, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Posters Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Workshops Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT Monday, October 27, 2014 Interactive Sessions Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT mid-November Doctoral Colloquium Friday, September 12, 2014, midnight PDT Friday, October 24, 2014 Social Media Expo Participation commitment letter due October 14, 2014; submissions due December 15, 2014. Thursday, January 15, 2015 Dissertation Award Wednesday, October 15, 2014, midnight PDT Thursday, January 15, 2015 iConference 2015 takes place March 24-27 in Newport Beach, CA. It is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. All information researchers and scholars are welcome. Sample topics of past iConferences include the following: social computing human-computer interaction digital youth digital curation and preservation information retrieval bibliometrics and scholarly communication social, cultural, health and community informatics knowledge infrastructures computer-supported cooperative work data, text and knowledge mining computational social science digital humanities network science information and communication technology for development data science information economics information work and workers user experience and design information systems information policy? The Champion Sponsor of iConference 2015 is Microsoft Research. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ ************** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anoruzi at gmail.com Tue Jul 29 16:08:58 2014 From: anoruzi at gmail.com (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:08:58 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Webology: Volume 11, Number 1, 2014 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 11, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 11, Number 1, 2014 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - The Information Service Evaluation (ISE) Model -- Laura Schumann, & Wolfgang G. Stock -- Keywords: Information services; Technology acceptance; Evaluation -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a115.pdf - A metatheory integrating social, biological and technological factors in information behavior research -- Leon James, & Diane Nahl -- Keywords: Discourse analysis; Constructionism; Information behavior; Technological affordances -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a116.pdf - The cataloging of virtual communities of educational thematic -- Roman Korzh, Andriy Peleschyshyn, Yuriy Syerov, & Solomia Fedushko -- Keywords: Virtual community; Higher Educational Institution; Catalog; Web; Educational web community; Socio-demographic characteristic; Internet -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a117.pdf - Content marketing through data mining on Facebook social network -- Saman Forouzandeh, Heirsh Soltanpanah, & Amir Sheikhahmadi -- Keywords: Social networks; Marketing; Data mining; Decision tree -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a118.pdf - Webometric analysis of Iranian medical universities according to visibility, size and rich files -- Roghaye Tafaroji, Iman Tahamtan, Masoud Roudbari, & Shahram Sedghi -- Keywords: Webometric; Visibility; University ranking; Web Impact Factor; Rich files; Iran; External inlinks; Size; Web sites -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a119.pdf - Non-users of Internet in the information society -- Marina Viktorovna Zagidullina -- Keywords: Internet-using; Non-users; Media-behavior; Russia, Provincialism; Surveys -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a120.pdf - Improvement of methodical approaches to higher schools' marketing activity assessment on the basis of internet technologies application -- Elizaveta E. Tarasova, & Evgeny A. Shein -- Keywords: Marketing activity; Higher schools; Internet technologies; Integral evaluation of assessment indicators; Quality indicators; Functioning indicators -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a121.pdf - Google Patents: The global patent search engine -- Alireza Noruzi, & Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda -- Keywords: Google Patents; Patent analysis; Patentometric -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/a122.pdf ------------------------- Book Review ------------------------- - Visual indexing and retrieval -- Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh, & Elaheh Hosseini -- Keywords: Visual indexing; Image indexing; Image processing; Content indexing; Context indexing; Information retrieval -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n1/bookreview24.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From ml at ischool.utexas.edu Mon Jul 28 18:10:06 2014 From: ml at ischool.utexas.edu (Matt Lease) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:10:06 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline extension: AAAI HCOMP 2014 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: <53D6CA3E.8010005@ischool.utexas.edu> Submissions for the HCOMP 2014 Doctoral Consortium are now open until Monday, August 4 If you are a PhD student, we encourage you to consider applying. If you know someone who is a PhD program doing HCOMP work, please encourage them to consider applying. The Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with a unique opportunity to meet each other and experienced researchers in the field. It will take place on November 2, 2014, immediately before the main HCOMP Conference. Please see http://www.humancomputation.com/2014/dc.html for complete details and submission instructions. Thanks to generous funding from the National Science Foundation, we will support most expenses associated with attendances (e.g., airfare, one night of hotel expenses, conference registration, and meals on the day of the Consortium) for all accepted students. Students will be mentored by a group of faculty who are leaders in the diverse specialties that make up the HCOMP field. Co-Chairs Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota) Program Committee Laura Dabbish (Carnegie Mellon University) Elizabeth Gerber (Northwestern University) Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research) Henry Kautz (University of Rochester) Siddarth Suri (Microsoft Research) Haoqi Zhang (Northwestern University) Doctoral Consortium Details: http://www.humancomputation.com/2014/dc.html For more information, contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs. -- Matt Lease Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin Voice: (512) 471-9350 ? Fax: (512) 471-3971 ? Office: UTA 5.442 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml From chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg Wed Jul 30 05:24:22 2014 From: chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg (Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof)) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:24:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ISIC2014 Workshop on "Information Behavior on Social Media" -- Call for participation Message-ID: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A206FDCC@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *Workshop on "Information Behaviour on Social Media"* 1/2 day pre-conference workshop of ISIC: Information Behaviour Conference at Univ of Leeds (UK) 2nd Sep 2014, 1:00-5:00pm (preceded by lunch from 12:00-1:00pm) URL: http://isic2014.com/workshops/information-behaviour-on-social-media/ *About the workshop* Social media applications have encroached into all areas of our lives, and is having a major impact on how we live, work, play, learn, socialize and vote! Social media in its various manifestations present a golden opportunity and rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the information (in text, image and video format) are recorded and stored in publicly accessible repositories or on personal devices. *Fundamental questions that need to be answered* - How does information behaviour on social media differ from other online and offline information behaviour? - Do social media applications promote particular kinds of information behaviour, and even engender new kinds of behaviour? - How does social media information behaviour interact with or complement other online and offline behaviour? - What research methods can be used to study social media information behaviour, and how should they be adapted to handle and exploit the characteristics of social media? Information behaviour research has traditionally focused on: - Models of information behaviour, including the information search process and interactive information retrieval - Information seeking, searching, browsing and encountering - Task-based user evaluation - Concepts of information need, serendipity, relevance, etc. - Information behaviour in particular contexts and of particular communities - Everyday life information behaviour. Do previous research findings on the above issues apply to social media use? The Workshop will seek to address the above questions through short paper presentations and a panel discussion. *Programme* 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-2:30pm: Session 1 - Information Behavior on Social Media: Survey of the Literature Chris Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Young Learners' Use of Social Media for Information: Exploring Core LIS Journals From 2010-2014 Jette Hyldeg?rd, Royal School of Library and Information Science - Search Delegation, Synthesists and Expertise on Social Media Paul Matthews, University of the West of England 2:30pm-3:45pm: Session 2 - e-information vs e-learning: Using Social Tools to Traverse Analog/Digital Boundaries and Transform Distributed Communication to Collective Production Theresa Anderson, University of Technology, Sydney - Collectively Figuring It Out: Foreign-Trained Health Professionals and Labour Market Integration Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto Anita Komlodi, Univ. of Maryland B.C. Aline Lima Abrao, University of Brasilia - Relevance Judgement When Browsing a Health Discussion Forum: Content Analysis of Eye Fixations Wenjing Pian, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 3:45pm-4:00pm Tea break 4:00pm-5:00pm: Panel Discussion *Workshop registration fee* Early rate registration: ?50. Registration site: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=93 *Organizers* Dr Chris Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr Theresa Anderson, University of Technology, Sydney *************************************** ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Thu Jul 31 11:36:09 2014 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:36:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_Conference_Announcement_-_5th_Infor?= =?iso-8859-1?q?mation=3A_Interactions_and_Impact_=28i=B3=29=2C_23-26_June?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_2015?= In-Reply-To: <39597B265A934B4FB534F1D369583A49921987EE13@EXBE2.rgu.ac.uk> References: <39597B265A934B4FB534F1D369583A49921987EE13@EXBE2.rgu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EF93757FD7@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> [Posted on behalf of Katie Cooper. --ranti] ***Apologies for Cross-posting*** Don't miss out on the opportunity to attend i? 2015 - June 23-26, 2015 at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. i? focuses on the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change. Conference themes include: * the quality and effectiveness of user/information interactions (e.g. information literacies); * patterns of information behaviour in different contexts (e.g. creativity, ethics, surveillance, ownership, information recycling/reuse); * the social, cultural and economic impacts of engagement with information, including the assessment of impact; * the value of information and knowledge as enablers of resilience and change in organisations and communities. Further details are available on our i? 2015 website - http://www.rgu.ac.uk/i3conference2015. If you would like to register your interest and receive further alerts, please email the conference team at i3information at rgu.ac.uk. Katie Cooper on behalf of Professor Dorothy Williams, i? 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Challenge Track - Submission deadline: August 20 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/living-labs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the past few years, a new evaluation methodology known as living labs has been proposed as a way for researchers to be able to perform in-situ evaluation which involve and integrate users within the research process. The basic idea of living labs for information retrieval (IR) is that rather than individual research groups independently developing experimental search infrastructures and gathering their own groups of test searchers for IR evaluations, a central and shared experimental environment is developed to facilitate the sharing of resources in a live setting (most important of all: users). Living labs would offer huge benefits to the community, such as: availability of, potentially larger, cohorts of real users and their behaviours, e.g. querying behaviours, for experiment purposes; cross-comparability across research centres; and greater knowledge transfer between industry and academia, when industry partners are involved. The need for this methodology is further amplified by the increased reliance of IR approaches on proprietary data; living labs are a way to bridge the data divide between academia and industry. Progress towards realising actual living labs has nevertheless been limited. There are many challenges to be overcome before the benefits associated with living labs for IR can be realised, including challenges associated with living labs architecture and design, hosting, maintenance, security, privacy, participant recruiting, and scenarios and tasks for use development. The 1st Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL?13) workshop at CIKM 2013 was a first attempt to bring people, both from academia and industry, together to discuss challenges and to formulate practical next steps. The workshop was successful in identifying and documenting possible further directions. The goal of the second edition of the workshop is to continue our community building efforts around living labs for IR and to pursue the directions set out at LL?13. As part of this, a challenge with shared tasks in the e-commerce space and local domain search is planned. Possible use cases in this space include, but are not limited to: -The e-commerce domain (i.e., product search and recommendation) -Local domain search (e.g., university search engines) -The personal search space (search of personal computer files, emails, web pages looked at, etc.) -Medical information retrieval (e.g., patients searching for medical information on the Internet) -Searching Wikipedia (an open-source collection with fewer privacy concerns than, say, personal search) Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Privacy and security: -Hosting data on secure server -Gaining subjects trust -Coping with individuals need for privacy -Alternates when individuals will not share their data Legal and ethical issues: -User consent -Ethics approval -Legalities regarding release of data -Trust between parties -Copyright issues -Commercial sensitivity of interaction data Technical challenges: -Designing and implementing living labs architecture -Cost of implementation -Maintenance and adoption -Managing living labs infrastructure Practical challenges: -Forming living labs for IR partners within the research community -Obtaining commercial partners -Alternates when commercial partners cannot be obtained -Defining tasks and scenarios for evaluation purposes ----------------- Paper Submissions ----------------- The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages), position papers (2 pages), and posters (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas / challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014) no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on ?August 16? , 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. ---------------- Demo Submissions ---------------- We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes or practical developments in a dedicated demo track at the workshop. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented system that pursues one or more aspects relevant to the interest areas of the workshop. Authors are strongly encouraged to target scenarios that are rooted in real-world applications. One way to think about this is by considering the following: as a company operating a website/service/application, what methods could allow various academic groups to experiment with specific components of this website/service/application? In particular, we seek prototypes that define specific component(s) in the context of some website/service/application, and allow for the testing and evaluation of alternative methods for that component. One example is search within a specific vertical (such as product or travel search engine), but we encourage authors to think outside the (search) box. Demonstration papers (max. 4 pages) must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014), in PDF format and formatted using the ACM SIGS format (LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates; for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). Each submission should either include a URL for the web site of the system, or a URL of a shared code repository, or a URL to a 2-3 minute video demonstrating the system. The review process for demonstration submission is *not* double blind. Submissions should be made no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on ?August 16? , 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted demo papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. --------------------------- Challenge Track Submissions --------------------------- The workshop also features a living labs challenge. The challenge focuses on two use-cases: product search (on an e-commerce site) and local domain search (on a university?s website). The challenge will run from June 15 ? August 15. During the first month of the challenge participants will have the opportunity to tune their system through the product and local domain search websites. The second month of the challenge will examine the performance of participants? systems on these search websites. Further details are available at: http://living-labs.net/challenge/. Challenge papers (max. 4 pages) should describe the participant?s system design approach and the results they obtained in the living labs challenge. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ll2014), in PDF format and formatted using the ACM SIGS format (LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates; for LaTeX, use the ?Option 2? style). The review process for challenge submissions is *not* double blind. Submissions should be made no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on August 20, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted challenge papers will be included in the CIKM 2014 Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation Workshop proceedings, which will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. --------------- Important Dates --------------- ?August 16? , 2014 - Paper & Demo Track submission deadline (midnight Pacific Daylight Time) August 20, 2014 ? Individual challenge papers due (midnight Pacific Daylight Time) [Challenge runs June 15 ? August 15] August 30, 2014 ? Notification to authors September 10, 2014 ? Camera-ready papers due November 7, 2014 - Workshop ------------------- Further Information ------------------- Further information is available on the workshop website ( http://living-labs.net/ll14/) or by emailing the workshop organisers. ------------------- Workshop Organisers ------------------- Krisztian Balog ? University of Stavanger, Norway (krisztian.balog (at) uis.no) Liadh Kelly ? Dublin City University, Ireland (liadh.kelly (at) computing.dcu.ie) Anne Schuth ? 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