From beiyumm at gmail.com Tue Nov 4 08:50:48 2014 From: beiyumm at gmail.com (Bei Yu) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:50:48 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD Fellowships at Syracuse University Message-ID: Syracuse University?s School of Information Studies welcomes applicants for our doctoral program. Admitted students are assured of at least four year?s funding (including summers) along with tuition and other support. The interdisciplinary nature of our program is visible through the backgrounds of the 40 students currently pursuing their Ph.D. Students hail from ten countries and a range of academic backgrounds: communications and other social sciences, business, computer science, library science, information science, and others. This makes our doctoral program a welcoming and inclusive place for scholars from under-represented populations, something we see as a defining element of our program. Doctoral students pursue individualized course plans that are tuned to their particular research interests and needs. This means advising and, more importantly, close working relationships with faculty members is a cornerstone of the Syracuse University iSchool Ph.D. program. This is why it is both residential and full-time. We celebrate the success of our recent graduates who are taking up tenure-track positions in premier research institutions and exceptional liberal arts colleges, excelling in academic and policy think tanks, and pursuing entrepreneurial success! Current students are earning awards for their publications and dissertation work, continuing a long tradition of such recognition. For 2015, we are particularly interested in speaking with applicants and seeing applications from those whose interests align with one or more of the following research areas: + Text and data mining, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval + Data science and data analytics + Information policy, Internet governance, and telecommunications policy + Information technology policy and globalization + Librarianship + Mobile computing + Usability, accessibility, and universal design + Data infrastructure and services in support of research + Organizational impacts of ICTs (e.g., Citizen Science, FLOSS, Wikipedia, mobile work, distributed scientific collaboration, health IT) + Digitally-enabled research methods (e.g., Trace ethnography, socio-computational approaches) + Smart grids/energy informatics and Infrastructure studies + Information security and privacy (policies, management, and technologies) + Social Computing, social media, social networks, and crowdsourcing You can learn more about the Syracuse iSchool faculty and interests at http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/research_areas.aspx. You can learn more about the doctoral program and application (due 3 January, 2014) at http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/index.aspx. Please reach out to the program director, Steve Sawyer, at ssawyer at syr.edu, or our doctoral programs manager, Jennifer Barclay, at jabarcla at syr.edu, with questions! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Tue Nov 4 13:06:58 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 18:06:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'15 - Best papers published in JCR/SCI journals Message-ID: <201411041807.sA4I6xen000999@mail.asis.org> ------ WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Ponta Delgada, Azores *, Portugal 1 - 3 April 2015 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ ------ * Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. ------------ SCOPE The WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. Consisting of nine distinct islands, each of them special, is in fact a place in the world to be visited. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'15. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); E) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); F) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); G) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); H) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); I) Health Informatics (HIS); J) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). K) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 6th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.273) - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF: 1.962) - IEEE Intelligent Systems (IF: 1.92) - Online Information Review (IF: 1.443) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 1.372) - Building Research & Information (IF: 1.319) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.304) - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IF: 1.116) - Business & Information Systems Engineering (IF: 1.095) - Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 1.058) - Cluster Computing (IF: 0.949) - IEEE Security & Privacy (IF: 0.721) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.575) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.520) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0,483) - Journal of Web Engineering (IF: 0.444) - Journal of Internet Technology (IF: 0.418) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization - EAI Transactions on e-Learning - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence - Journal of Big Data IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 23, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: December 28, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 11, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 9, 2015. Best regards, WorldCIST'15 Organizing Committee http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ From mcmason at umd.edu Tue Nov 4 12:02:47 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 17:02:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Burn_the_Libraries_Free_the_Librarians?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_Talk_by_R=2E_David_Lankes_at_Maryland=92s_iSchool?= Message-ID: Burn the Libraries Free the Librarians, Talk by R. David Lankes at Maryland's iSchool When: Thursday, November 6, 4:30-5:30 pm EST Where: Special Events Room, 6137, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland Maps/Directions: http://www.lib.umd.edu/mckeldin/directions Contact: mlsprogram at umd.edu Streaming at?http://umdischool.adobeconnect.com/lankes/ RSVP: http://ter.ps/rsvpNov6 The University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, and the Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC) are pleased to welcome Dr. R. David (Dave) Lankes on November 6. The days when there was a single model for a library, if they ever existed, are gone. The idea that the library is a storehouse of books and materials is gone. The notion that a library can serve off to the side of the mission of a community is gone. What's left: the centrality of librarians in meeting the needs and aspirations of the community. This presentation presents a librarianship unencumbered by buildings or a fealty to traditions. It talks about librarians as facilitators of knowledge creation in libraries, and offices, and schools, and classrooms, and the wide reaches of the Internet. R. David Lankes is a professor and Dean?s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. Lankes is a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in today's society. He also seeks to understand how information approaches and technologies can be used to transform industries. In this capacity he has served on advisory boards and study teams in the fields of libraries, telecommunications, education, and transportation including at the National Academies. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada, the Harvard School of Education, and the first fellow of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy. His book, The Atlas of New Librarianship?won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. More information on Lankes is available at?http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/. This event is part of the Re-envisioning the MLS initiative at Maryland's iSchool; for more information on this initiative, visit: http://mls.umd.edu/2014/09/re-envisioning-mls/, or follow on Twitter at #hackMLS. From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Wed Nov 5 00:58:26 2014 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:58:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Register Today for "CurateGear 2015: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AF47B8D@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Registration Now Open for "CurateGear 2015: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections" Following the success of CurateGear 2012, 2013, and 2014, please join us for CurateGear 2015, a day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. See demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss applications in professional contexts. CurateGear will be an interactive event focused on digital curation tools and methods. The symposium will take place on January 7, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Homepage: CurateGear 2015 - http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2015.html Registration: http://tinyurl.com/pg2lvut. Registration Fee: $150; students: $50. Speakers will include: * Erika Farr, Emory University * Matthew Farrell, Duke University * Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee * Cal Lee, University of North Carolina * Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries * Don Mennerich, New York University * Peter Murray, LYRASIS * Alex Nelson, Prometheus Computing * Michael Olson, Stanford University * Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg * Doug Reside, New York Public Library * Dan Ryan, Carnegie Mellon University * Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute * Kari Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Angela Spinazz?, LYRASIS * Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina * Bradley Westbrook, ArchivesSpace * Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Carl Wilson, Open Preservation Foundation * Kam Woods, University of North Carolina See you in January! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Tue Nov 4 14:02:03 2014 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:02:03 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content for Public Comment Message-ID: *NISO Releases Draft Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content for Public Comment* Baltimore, MD ? November 4, 2014 ? The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on the draft recommended practice Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (PESC), NISO RP-23-201x. This Recommended Practice was developed to provide guidance on the best way to manage all of the elements of digital serial content packaging in a manner that aids both the content provider and the content recipient in understanding what has been delivered and received. ?As part of their missions, many different organizations?libraries, archives, indexing services, content aggregators, publishers, and content creators?need to exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content,? states Leslie Johnston, Director of Digital Preservation, National Archives and Records Administration, and Co-chair of the NISO PESC Working Group. ?When digital serial content is exchanged, the files that comprise a serial ?publication? are packaged together in some manner and these packages can be highly variable. Currently, there is no standardized packaging format that addresses the level of specificity and granularity needed and the PESC Recommended Practice was developed to fill this gap.? ?The recommendations in this document describe preferred practices for the packaging and exchange of serial content to enable the automation of processes to receive and manage serial content at scale,? explains Kimberly A. Tryka, Research Data Librarian, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), and Co-chair of the NISO PESC Working Group. ?By following these practices, organizations can make it clear what content has been transmitted, how it is organized, and what processing is required when a new package is received.? ?NISO is soliciting feedback on this draft Recommended Practice from any organization that needs to exchange serial publication information,? states Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. ?This feedback will be used to make any needed revisions to the document before final publication of the recommendations.? The draft recommended practice is open for public comment through December 5, 2014. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit the Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (PESC) Working Group webpage at: www.niso.org/workrooms/pesc/ *About NISO* NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org. *For more information contact:* Nettie Lagace Associate Director for Programs National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 Mobile: 617-863-0501 Fax: 410-685-5278 E-mail: nlagace at niso.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Important dates Extended abstracts by: 15 December 2014 Notification of acceptance by: 15 February 2015 Conference dates: 20-22 July 2015 Background DOCAM2015 is the 12th annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists, and professionals in various fields, who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic and professional work. The annual conference fosters a multidisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions, and experiences from the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and natural science, and from diverse fields, such as information, media, museum, archives, culture and science studies. Research presentations The DOCAM2015 Program Committee especially encourages completed research, research-in-progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: 1. conference papers (extended abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion); 2. brief abstracts for poster display and presentation. Proposal submissions Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations should be submitted through the DOCAM2015 EasyChair system located at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015. The conference language is English. Follow the submission template. Papers For papers include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of paper; 3. select the category type extended abstract; 4. 3 to 5 keywords. Do not complete the abstract box available in the EasyChair template; instead 5. upload your extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation; All abstracts should be submitted in Word document format (.doc .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations do not appear on the submitted Word document. Posters For posters include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of poster presentation; 3. an abstract or brief description of up to 250 words in the text box available in the template for abstracts; 4. 3 to 5 keywords; Submissions for posters do not require upload of any Word documents. All proposals should also include a brief statement providing: * an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software, video, performance, or other forms of demonstration); * preferred size of poster presentation; * any special equipment needs. Publication of Conference proceedings Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer-reviewed volume, Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. More Information DOCAM2015 website: http://ww.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/conferences-and-seminars/documents-unbounded DOCAM2015 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/docam2015 DOCAM2015 Twitter account: https://twitter.com/docam2015 -- Mary Anne Kennan, PhD | School of Information Studies | Charles Sturt University - Sydney | Locked Bag 450 | Silverwater NSW 2128 | Phone: +612 6933 4893 | Fax: +612 6933 2733 | email: mkennan at csu.edu.au | Web: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/staff/profiles/Info-Studies/mary-anne-kennan & http://maryannekennan.com | Twitter: http://twitter.com/MaryAnneKennan | Publications: http://tiny.cc/aqjt4 | Higher Degree Research and Honours Coordinator | Co-editor, Australian Academic & Research Libraries aarl.editor at alia.org.au [cid:csu-logo2cd6.bmp] | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | ________________________________ LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. 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The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Application deadline for fall 2015 enrollment: Jan. 15, 2015 Get to know the Rutgers iSchool at this link: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html And, join us virtual information session on Friday, November 14, at 3:30 pm, using the information as follows: 1. Please join my meeting, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:20 PM EDT. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/437495141 2. Use your keyboard and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. All questions will be taken as instant messages in text, within the GoToMeeting web environment. Or, call in using your telephone (however VoIP is preferred): United States: +1 (213) 493-0008 United States (toll-free): 1 877 309 2070 Access Code: 437-495-141 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 437-495-141 ***** Best, Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 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 Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk Fri Nov 7 09:56:45 2014 From: Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk (Joy Davidson) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:56:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?=91Understanding_and_comparing_digital_?= =?windows-1252?q?curation_costs_to_support_smarter_investments=92?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This may be relevant for any list members interested in costing digital curation activity. The 4C project submitted D3.3, its ?Curation Costs Exchange Framework? deliverable to the European Commission this week. ?To date there have been very few opportunities and, due to trust issues, little willingness for digital curation practitioners to exchange information relating to the cost of curation. The Curation Costs Exchange (CCEx) platform allows users to upload their curation costs and compare them with those of others in a secure, controlled fashion,? explains Alex Thirifays of the Danish National Archives who collated the report. The report, along with the CCEx and the Cost Comparison Tool make up the deliverable (D3.3?Curation Costs Exchange Framework) and address some of these issues of trust and unwillingness, and explains how organisations can use the CCEx to understand and compare digital curation costs to support smarter investments. "Transparency of digital curation costs will help organisations identify greater efficiencies and pinpoint potential optimisations,? Alex continues. ?Insight into how and why peers target their investments can lead to better use of resources, help identify weaknesses and drivers in current practices, and inspire innovations. Last but not least, a community such as that facilitated by the CCEx enables members to collaborate more, communicate more, exchange information and experiences and start addressing the taboo subject of sharing financial information." With volumes of data increasing, and budgets to manage these data unable to keep pace, investments in digital curation must be strategic and targeted to ensure the best value for money. The CCEx is designed to be used by anyone involved in digital curation - practitioners, researchers, users and re-users, managers and financial controllers, member organisations, policy makers and solutions providers, to help achieve this best value. The report outlines two key challenges which remain for the CCEx: to gather cost data, and to translate these into figures that organisations of all kinds find meaningful and engaging. The meaningfulness of these figures does not just depend on how results are presented, but on how many cost data sets the CCEx is able to attract in order to generate statistically reliable and useable figures. The meaningfulness of the results is the compelling argument for the submission of new cost data sets. In short, the CCEx needs community support, it needs digital curators, creators, vendors and funders to use it, add to it, take care of it ? and above all share their data with it to make it work. The full version of the CCEx will be launched at the 4C/DPC ?Investing in Opportunity: Policy Practice and Planning for a Sustainable Digital Future? conference on 17 ? 18th November at the Wellcome Trust in London, UK and participants will have an opportunity to comment and interact with the tool. The beta version of the CCEx is now available at: http://www.curationexchange.org Sarah Middleton Head of Communications and Advocacy Digital Preservation Coalition Innovation Centre, York University Science Park Heslington, YORK YO10 5DG http://www.dpconline.org/ Email: sarah at dpconline.org Phone: +44 (0) 1904 567654 Twitter: @Sarah_DPC [cid:image001.png at 01CFF766.8AF96A00] Who will win the Digital Preservation Awards 2014? Find out on 17th November #dpa2014 http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards/digital-preservation-awards-2014 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent and does not constitute legal advice. We cannot accept any responsibility for viruses, so please scan all attachments. 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 20855 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From rjhall at uwm.edu Fri Nov 7 10:53:02 2014 From: rjhall at uwm.edu (Rebecca J Hall) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:53:02 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: 3rd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization In-Reply-To: <1415319608442.29063@uwm.edu> References: <1414688975079.54394@uwm.edu>, <1414695061732.64085@uwm.edu>, <1414698522374.33559@uwm.edu>, <1414702646592.65048@uwm.edu>, <1415038832243.3340@uwm.edu>, <1415308631279.81891@uwm.edu>, <1415314051802.35280@uwm.edu>, <1415319608442.29063@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <1415375581591.63066@uwm.edu> ?Call for Papers The Big Deal: 3rd Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization May 28-29, 2015 Milwaukee, WI The role of ethics in knowledge organization has moved from the background to the foreground. Objectivity and literary warrant alone have been shown to be insufficient for ethical knowledge organization. Ethical concerns have been demonstrated in the roles of exclusivity and point-of-view, the relationship between literary and cultural warrant, in the creation of knowledge organization systems that embrace socio-political symbolism, and in the evolution of standards and professional best practices for the implementation of knowledge organization. Following the success of conferences held in 2009 and 2012, The Knowledge Organization Research Group joins with the Center for Information Policy and Research of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to present the Third Milwaukee Conference on Ethics in Knowledge Organization. We welcome papers and posters on any aspect of ethics and knowledge organization including but not limited to: bibliographic standards, cataloging and indexing best-practices, classification, controlled vocabulary, technology, the professions, cultural, economic, political, corporate, international, multicultural and multilingual aspects of knowledge organization. Keynote Speakers: Tina Gross, Catalog Librarian/Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University Joe Tennis, Associate Professor, University of Washington, and President, International Society for Knowledge Organization Call for Papers We invite submission of proposals which will include name(s) of presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact information and an abstract of 750 words for papers; 300-500 words for posters. All abstracts will be published on the website of the UWM, Knowledge Organization Research Group (KOrg). Full papers will be published in a special issue of Knowledge Organization. Submit proposals via email to Inkyung Choi: ichoi at uwm.edu Abstracts due: February 16, 2015 Notification of acceptance by: March 16, 2015 Full papers due: July 16, 2015 Poster: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/groups/sois/webdocs/events/EthicsInKO-CFP.pdf? The Program Committee: Melissa Adler, University of Kentucky, USA Jihee Beak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Allyson Carlyle, University of Washington, USA Jos? Augusto Chaves Guimar?es, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA Birger Hj?rland, The Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark Lynne C Howarth, University of Toronto, Canada Joyce Latham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto, Canada Hur-Li Lee, Conference Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Jens-Erik Mai, The Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark Steven J. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Hope A Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Sandra Roe, Milner Library, Illinois State University, USA Richard Smiraglia, Conference Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Joe Tennis, University of Washington, USA Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Sponsored by: UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies The Center for Information Policy Research The Knowledge Organization Research Group -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rebecca Hall Web Development & Marketing Director Instructor UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Ph: 414.229.2855 | F: 414.229.6699 ischool.uwm.edu ________________________________ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The research areas of informatics faculty in the College of Computing & Informatics includes library & information science, data curation, data science, data mining, visualization, GIS, smart health & healthcare informatics, human computer interaction and knowledge management. Applications in all the areas will be considered. Successful applicants will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, establish strong sponsored research programs, advise undergraduate and graduate students, and be involved in service to the College, the University and the global academic community. CCI's view of information is broad, multidisciplinary and practical. The College continues to evolve as an innovative leader in educating information professionals in the twenty-first century, combining high quality teaching and research in a broad, multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. As a result of the 2013 merger of The iSchool, College of Information Science & Technology; the Department of Computer Science; and the Department of Computing and Security Technology, we now offer six BS degrees, seven master's degrees, and two PhD degrees (in Computer Science and Information Studies). Full-time PhD students are supported either through faculty research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Services, NSF-sponsored research Center for Visual & Decision Informatics (CVDI) and other funding agencies. The ALA-accredited MS(LIS) degree is highly ranked, both overall and for specializations in health librarianship, information systems and digital librarianship. All academic programs emphasize applied research. We consider experience in industry a plus. Members of the Search Committee will be available at the ASIS&T and ALISE annual meetings, iConference and other venues to discuss these open faculty positions. Drexel is a private university committed to research with real-world applications. The University has over 25,000 students in 14 colleges and schools and offers about 200 degree programs. The College of Computing & Informatics is comprised of approximately 75 faculty and 2,300 students. Drexel has one of the largest and best known cooperative education programs in the country, with over 1,200 co-op employers. Drexel's University City campus is located on Philadelphia's "Avenue of Technology" in the University City District and at the hub of the academic, cultural and historical resources of the nation's sixth largest metropolitan region. Philadelphia is also the midpoint of a mid-Atlantic technology corridor that stretches from New York City (100 miles north) to Washington, DC (135 miles south). Evaluation of applications will begin as early as January 1, 2015, and will continue on a rolling basis until appropriate candidates are identified. Successful applicants must demonstrate potential for research and teaching excellence in the environment of a major research university. To be considered, apply at http://www.drexeljobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=79235, Requisition #6457. Your application should consist of a cover letter, CV and brief statements describing your research program and teaching interests. Letters of reference will be requested from candidates who are invited for a campus interview. Electronic submissions in PDF format are required. Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The College of Computing & Informatics is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. Background investigations are required for all new hires as a condition of employment, after the job offer is made. 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Kent State's portion is part of an overall $250,000 award shared with the University of Washington (lead) to advance library and archives practice by addressing challenges in the field and by testing and evaluating innovations. Other partners include Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), Sungkyunkwan University Institute of Information and Management (Korea), OCLC, Elsevier, Access Innovations, and Synaptica. With this grant, the University of Washington will lead the development of an "online Linked Data Exploratorium to provide students, professionals, and instructors in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) field with structured access to learning resources about Linked Data technology. Learning resources elucidating specific professional competencies will be described and indexed according to skills and knowledge, and will be clustered for discovery," according to a press release from the university. At Kent State, the grant will fund a research assistant position from Fall 2014 to Fall 2016 to work under the supervision of SLIS Professor Marcia Zeng, Ph.D., to identify and maintain a pool of interested Linked Data learning objects, create metadata descriptions, design and test workflow for Microtutorials, and test and improve the interface for accessing Microtutorials via Learning Objectives. "Libraries are changing to meet the evolving learning, social, and informational landscapes of their communities. These grants reflect truly creative thinking by library and archive professionals-along with their university, professional association, and local government partners-that will ensure the continued role of libraries as community anchors for generations to come," said IMLS Director Susan H. Hildreth. National Leadership Grants for Libraries supports projects that address challenges faced by the library and archive fields. Successful projects have the potential to improve library services nationwide. Grantees generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment. The projects were selected from 212 applications, requesting more than $14.6 million and matched with $7,154,135 in non-federal funds. IMLS awarded grants for 51 library projects, totaling $9,292,441. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. Its mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. Its grant making, policy development, and research help libraries and museums deliver valuable services that make it possible for communities and individuals to thrive. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov. The School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University offers a Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) and Master of Science in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM). In addition, the school participates in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the College of Communication and Information. With more than 700 students enrolled, SLIS has the largest graduate program at Kent State. Its M.L.I.S. is the only American Library Association-accredited master's program in Ohio, and is recognized by U.S. News and World Report among the nation's top 20 LIS programs, with a youth services program that is ranked 10th. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/slis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Mon Nov 3 13:32:23 2014 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:32:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: DOCAM 2015 Call for papers Message-ID: Forwarded message. Please excuse duplicate postings. Colleagues, the Australian members of the DOCAM 2015 Committee would appreciate you circulating the CFP for our forthcoming gathering far and wide within your networks etc., thank you, Paul CALL FOR PAPERS DOCAM2015 12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Jointly hosted by UTS and Charles Sturt University (CSU) July 20-22, 2015 Theme In 2015 the Document Academy will come together under the theme of "Documents Unbounded" and is calling for submissions that examine the challenges ahead, as our understanding of data, documents, records, artefacts, evidence and memory form in the continuously changing landscape of new media and communications. Important dates Extended abstracts by: 15 December 2014 Notification of acceptance by: 15 February 2015 Conference dates: 20-22 July 2015 Background DOCAM2015 is the 12th annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists, and professionals in various fields, who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic and professional work. The annual conference fosters a multidisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions, and experiences from the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and natural science, and from diverse fields, such as information, media, museum, archives, culture and science studies. Research presentations The DOCAM2015 Program Committee especially encourages completed research, research-in-progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: 1. conference papers (extended abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion); 2. brief abstracts for poster display and presentation. Proposal submissions Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations should be submitted through the DOCAM2015 EasyChair system located at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015. The conference language is English. Follow the submission template. Papers For papers include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of paper; 3. select the category type extended abstract; 4. 3 to 5 keywords. Do not complete the abstract box available in the EasyChair template; instead 5. upload your extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation; All abstracts should be submitted in Word document format (.doc .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations do not appear on the submitted Word document. Posters For posters include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of poster presentation; 3. enter an abstract or brief description of up to 250 words into the text box available in the template for abstracts; 4. 3 to 5 keywords; Submissions for posters are not required to upload any additional Word documents. All proposals should also include a brief statement providing: * an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software, video, performance, or other forms of demonstration); * preferred size of poster presentation * any special equipment needs. Publication of Conference proceedings Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer-reviewed volume, Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. More Information DOCAM2015 website: http://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/conferences-and-seminars/documents-unbounded DOCAM2015 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/docam2015 DOCAM2015 Twitter account: https://twitter.com/docam2015 [cid:csu-logobb3.bmp] | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ONTARIO | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | ________________________________ Consider the environment before printing this email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Fri Nov 7 17:25:01 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:25:01 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] DEGREE> New hybrid Masters of Data Science @ Indiana University Message-ID: <7D00B522-4198-4650-A311-0891AF3D82E0@indiana.edu> IU adds data science master's degree to keep pace with growing big data job demands Hybrid program allows for combination of online, on-campus course work Oct. 30, 2014 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new master?s degree in the rapidly expanding field of data science. The inaugural class of students will begin the program in January. The new degree program capitalizes on the existing breadth of research and study at the school, with courses coming from computer science, informatics, information science, library science and statistics. There are two paths through the degree -- a technical path and a decision-maker path -- allowing students to easily customize the program to meet their professional goals. ?The pace of data generation continues to escalate at unprecedented levels, and IU?s breadth and depth of faculty expertise in data science distinguishes our school and university,? Dean Bobby Schnabel said. ?This program will produce well-prepared graduates who will provide a competitive advantage to companies and organizations across Indiana and throughout the nation.? The demand for big data jobs is a major driver behind the creation of the program. A 2011 McKinsey Global Institute report predicted huge demand in data science positions, projecting up to 1.8 million jobs in the United States in the next five years across all industries. ?A high percentage of the school?s more than $18 million in annual research funding centers around big data, and our diverse faculty expertise in big data has shaped this degree,? said Geoffrey Fox, senior associate dean for research. The 30-credit program is available on campus, online or in a blended version with online and in-residence components. The online option provides an affordable, flexible opportunity for working professionals, while the residential program provides physical access to the school?s world-class faculty, opportunities to participate in cutting-edge research, and immersion in the vibrant Bloomington campus. The hybrid option allows students to take the first year of courses online and complete the second year on campus. ?The hybrid option provides maximum flexibility for students,? said Howard Rosenbaum, associate dean for graduate studies. ?This will be particularly appealing for students outside Indiana, especially international students.? Additional sequences will be available for those interested in specific domains, such as health, cybersecurity, life sciences and more. Courses will be offered in four broad areas: ? Data analysis and statistics, which gives students skills to develop and extend algorithms, statistical approaches, and visualization techniques. ? Data lifecycle, which helps students understand the data lifecycle, from digital birth to long-term preservation. ? Data management and infrastructure, which teaches students to manage and support big data projects. ? Big data application domains, which provides students with data analysis and decision-making experience in high-impact domain areas like health and security. The master?s degree deepens the school?s reach in this area, building on the affordable online data science certificate program, which will enter its second year in January. Visit the school?s Data Science degree site for more information and application details for both programs. http://www.soic.indiana.edu/graduate/degrees/data-science/index.html Related Links IU: Data science in demand http://www.soic.indiana.edu/graduate/degrees/data-science/ IU School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/ IU School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI http://soic.iupui.edu/ From alaninouye.lists at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 14:04:03 2014 From: alaninouye.lists at gmail.com (Alan Inouye) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:04:03 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Information Policy Event in Washington DC In-Reply-To: <70F416E73CB61E48B393AB9232982028422EC57C@ALAMail.alawash.internal> References: <70F416E73CB61E48B393AB9232982028422EC57C@ALAMail.alawash.internal> Message-ID: For those who will be in the Washington, D.C. area on November 18th and have an interest in information policy? The American Library Association hopes that you?ll join us for the program ?Too Good to Be True: Are the Courts Revolutionizing Fair Use for Education, Research and Libraries?? on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. We are delighted that Arent Fox in downtown D.C. will host the American Library Association?s inaugural symposium which promises to be a lively discussion about copyright policy in a digital and networked environment. The panel will be followed by a reception with wine, beer and appetizers and a chance to socialize with colleagues and meet new contacts. We hope you can attend!! DETAILS: The way we access and use information in the digital age is fundamentally mediated by copyright policy. For several decades, this policy has been largely shaped by commercial interests. However, in the last three years, several court decisions have been more protective of public access to information and accommodating to the needs of the education, research, and library sectors. Is this a real trend and will it continue? Come join us to hear a panel of experts make sense of key court cases such as *UCLA v. AIME, Authors Guild v. Hathi Trust*, and the high profile U.S. Supreme Court case* Kirtsaeng v. Wiley*. These experts will also talk about the prospects these decisions may create for public policy development over the next few years informed by the 2014 elections . . . and they?ll look ahead to 2016. MORE DETAILS AND RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/too-good-to-be-true-are-the-courts-revolutionizing-fair-use-for-education-research-and-libraries-tickets-13996063603 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at iccss2015.eu Mon Nov 10 04:54:12 2014 From: news at iccss2015.eu (news at iccss2015.eu) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:54:12 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] IMPORTANT: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO DECEMBER THE 7th Message-ID: <20141110115412.Horde.D0Id4e-O0F1P63ifH9dHmg7@box451.bluehost.com> ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: 7 December 2014 Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments. PROGRAM CHAIRS Karen Cook (Stanford) Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Michael Macy (Cornell) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell) Lada Adamic (Facebook) Sinan Aral (MIT) Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU) Nicholas Christakis (Yale) Robin Dunbar (Oxford) Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen) Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Matthew Jackson (Stanford) Jure Leskovec (Stanford) Alex Pentland (MIT) Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Santo Fortunato (Aalto University), Aristides Gionis (Aalto), Heikki H?mm?inen (Aalto), Kimmo Kaski (Aalto), Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca), Jari Saram?ki (Aalto), Juuso Valim?ki (Aalto) TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to) Social networks Social contagion Communication dynamics Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena Social influence Crowd-sourcing Popularity dynamics Smart cities Attention economics Social design and user behavior Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis Human mobility Mobility and context-awareness Economics of trust SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (www.easychair.org), the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages (A4). Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are exploring the possibility of having a special journal issue, where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till November 15th, 2014. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, there will be a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee. CONTACT For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato at aalto.fi) From frias at usal.es Fri Nov 7 13:16:01 2014 From: frias at usal.es (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Antonio_Fr=C3=ADas?=) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:16:01 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for papers. 2nd ISKO Spain-Portugal Conference Message-ID: <2538d81a00926215fa888eb807ad3bb3@usal.es> Dear Colleagues, The XII Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter and II ISKO Spain-Portugal Conference will be held at the University of Murcia on November 19-20, 2015. Special Focus for 2015: Knowledge organization: open information systems. Themes: - Models of knowledge organization. System and information life cycle modeling. - Environments and systems for knowledge organization. Design, standardization and interoperability of open information systems. - Instruments for the access and transparency of the information: management of documents, digital platforms and archives. - Users and uses of the information. Patterns related to transparency and open government. - Information governance and audit in knowledge organization. - Knowledge representation: processes and tools in open and multilingual systems. - Epistemology in knowledge organization. - Equality, gender and diversity in knowledge organization. On the website of Iskoib?rico have all the information about the event: http://www.iskoiberico.org [1] IMPORTANT DATES: January 31, 2015 - Deadline for abstracts submission. March 15, 2015 - Notification to author/s of abstracts acceptance. May 31, 2015 - Deadline for submission of full texts. June 28, 2015 - Notification to author/s of acceptance or request revisions. July 19, 2015 - Deadline for final texts. NOTE: On November 16-17 will be held the VII Iberian Meeting EDICIC 2015 at the Complutense University of Madrid. -- ********************************************* Jos? Antonio Fr?as Universidad de Salamanca Departamento de Biblioteconom?a y Documentaci?n Francisco Vitoria, 6-16 E-37008 Salamanca Tlf. 34-923-294-580 Fax 34-923-294-582 C.e. frias at usal.es ********************************************* Links: ------ [1] http://www.iskoiberico.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dpotnis at utk.edu Mon Nov 10 14:33:47 2014 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:33:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Distance_Learning_MSc_on_Info_Systems_i?= =?windows-1252?q?n_Developing_Countries_=96_Manchester_University_=96_Jan?= =?windows-1252?q?uary_start?= Message-ID: *******Posting On behalf of Prof. Richard Heeks******* Starting each year in late January, the MSc in Management & Information Systems aims to develop the "hybrid" mix of management and information systems skills that we know from experience is essential to the successful and strategic application of ICTs in socio-economic development. Applications are now being accepted, with a deadline of 15 Jan 2015, and links to this and other details of MSc M&IS DL can be found at: http://bit.ly/ManMISDL If you have any questions, please email the Programme Director, Prof. Richard Heeks: richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk With thanks! Richard ********************* _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, PhD, MPA, MS, BE Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 +1-865-974-2148; Twitter: DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ackerm at umich.edu Mon Nov 10 15:05:41 2014 From: ackerm at umich.edu (Mark Ackerman) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:05:41 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Health Informatics position at Univ of Michigan Message-ID: <54611A95.5070009@umich.edu> Position call: health informatics Faculty Position Posting Rank: Associate/Full Professor The School of Information and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan seek an outstanding faculty candidate at the Associate or Full Professor rank in the field of health informatics to be appointed in both Schools. For this position, we aspire to recruit an accomplished researcher and intellectual leader who will bring an active research agenda. We are particularly interested in faculty candidates whose research interests complement our existing health informatics expertise in a broad array of areas including, but not limited to: ? Human?computer interaction and community informatics; ? Mobile health; ? Healthcare management and health policy; ? Health behavior interventions and health communication. The individual will be expected to actively contribute to our professional master?s degree program in health informatics offered jointly by the School of Public Health and the School of Information (http://healthinformatics.umich.edu). This innovative master?s program combines the strengths of the School of Information with those of the School of Public Health, and adopts a broad approach that incorporates clinical, consumer, and population and public health informatics. This program is complemented by a certificate option for working professionals and for students enrolled in other programs at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan?s broader health informatics community is comprised of numerous faculty and students from the Schools of Information and Public Health and the College of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, Medical School, School of Dentistry, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and School of Nursing. Because one hallmark of the University of Michigan is its explicit efforts to foster cross-unit, interdisciplinary research, health informatics research regularly involves faculty and students from different units and disciplines. In addition, the University of Michigan Health System serves as a ?laboratory? used by many health informatics faculty as the setting for their research. The Schools of Information and Public Health have a particularly strong relationship and track record of collaborative research. Many health informatics faculty are cross-appointed between the School of Information and one of the five departments in the School of Public Health. This further enhances the strong reputations of the two Schools and their top-ranked academic programs. More information about the Schools can be found at: http://www.si.umich.edu and http://www.sph.umich.edu. Qualifications: Doctoral degree in a relevant field (e.g., biomedical and health informatics, information, public health, computer science, psychology, sociology, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, engineering); Recognized contributions as a scholar and expert in the fields of clinical, consumer, population, and/or public health informatics; Successful record of research support and an ability to foster a collaborative research enterprise; Demonstrated skill in educating and mentoring students or trainees; A strong commitment to teaching in the health informatics domain and interdisciplinary research. Review of applications will begin on November 15th, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. For more information or to apply, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/27369. For questions about potential fit and your application please contact Dr. Julia Adler-Millstein at juliaam at umich.edu and Dr. Kai Zheng at kzheng at umich.edu. From mcmason at umd.edu Mon Nov 10 18:32:51 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:32:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Re-envisioning the MLS with Maryland's iSchool Engagement Session: Libraries and Archives are Information Technologies on Nov. 12 Message-ID: Re-envisioning the MLS with Maryland's iSchool Engagement Session Libraries and Archives?are?Information Technologies Wikipedia tells us that "technology is the collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements, and procedures used by humans."? If we accept this definition, then both Library and Information Science and the study of Archives and Records Management are, and have always been, the study of technologies. As the first word in this abstract makes clear, we now live in an era with a vastly greater number and range of technologies to be harnessed in service of those who seek to keep, find and use information and evidence.? Harnessing that potential is, and always has been, the mission of what we today call an iSchool.? Where, then, does our Master of Library Science degree fit in this brave new world? How should we respond to new challenges and opportunities that emerging and evolving technologies provide? These questions are not just about how our profession will evolve, but also how we here at the University of Maryland will lead in that evolution. This session is led by Drs. Brian Butler and Douglas Oard. When: Wednesday, November 12 Where: 2119 Hornbake Building, South Wing, University of Maryland When: 4:30PM-5:30PM Maps/Directions: http://ischool.umd.edu/content/contact Contact: mlsprogram at umd.edu Please rsvp at?ter.ps/rsvpNov12 Streaming:?online via Adobe Connect at?http://umdischool.adobeconnect.com/r682raz8l7c Dr. Brian Butler is professor and director of the Master of Information Management program in the iSchool. He also serves as director of the?Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information. His research combines theories and methods from organizational theory, information systems, and information studies to better understand how emerging technologies affect teams, communities, and organizations.? Dr. Douglas Oard is a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with joint appointments in the College of Information Studies and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Dr. Oard earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. His research interests center around the use of emerging technologies to support information seeking by end users. Additional information is available at?http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~oard/. From ku26 at drexel.edu Wed Nov 12 08:24:43 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:24:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Webinar: The Geographic Information Librarianship Project Findings, Thursday, Nov. 13 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA3B4E0C5@MB2.drexel.edu> This may be of interest to some members! ************************************* Kristene Unsworth Assistant Professor The iSchool at Drexel College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Office: Rush Building #409 Phone: (215)895-6016 Fax: (215)895-2494 ________________________________________ From: CCI Faculty List for iSchool [CCIFACULTY at LISTS.drexel.edu] on behalf of Sheridan,Brenda [bas45 at DREXEL.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:52 AM To: CCIFACULTY at LISTS.drexel.edu Subject: Webinar: The Geographic Information Librarianship Project Findings, Thursday, Nov. 13 Good Morning, please pass along. This Thursday, Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. EST: Join the University of Tennessee (UT) and #Drexel for a webinar, "The Geographic Information Librarianship Project Findings," with CCI Professor Tony Grubesic and UT Assistant Professor Wade Bishop. The GIL project was a two-year curricular research collaboration between the University of Tennessee and Drexel University. In 2012, Professor Tony Grubesic, Ph.D., (Drexel University) and Assistant Professor Wade Bishop, Ph.D., (University of Tennessee) were awarded the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in their "Programs to Build Institutional Capacity" category. The GIL project objectives were (1) to create two online GIL courses that address the important GIL core competencies; (2) to implement a recruitment plan and deliver the two online GIL courses at both institutions; (3) to build a model using a survey validation study of the knowledge, skills, and abilities to inform LIS curricula; and (4) to increase GIS related research in LIS. This webinar will present finding from all phases of the project and invite discussion on the future direction for education in this growing area. Register at: http://tinyurl.com/gilwebinar2014 From jilloneill at nfais.org Wed Nov 12 15:40:42 2014 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:40:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Asis-l] Data Infrastructure: The Importance of Quality and Integrity Message-ID: <1415824842.923617334@webmail.emailsrvr.com> Data Infrastructure: The Importance of Quality and Integrity A One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:00 am - 4:30 pm http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_2014/index.html Hosted by NTIS at the US Patent and Trademark Office Madison Auditorium, USPTO, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This one-day workshop is a must for anyone involved in creating, managing, or using scientific data. The Open Data movement dramatically is changing the flows as well as the roles of all involved. This workshop will explore the technical, financial, political, and social/cultural forces that must be considered when assessing the quality and integrity of the data. We will investigate with major stakeholders how can we rely on the quality and integrity of the data that are becoming increasingly available. Mark your calendar now to reserve the date of this informative workshop. Registration is now open to accommodate those who need to pay before the new fiscal year begins. THE FOCUS OF THE DAY The day opens with a keynote on the current landscape of data quality and integrity, including a discussion of policies, major stakeholders, needs, and issues. This will be followed by in depth discussion of the laws and policies that impact data quality and a speaker panel of data creators, funders, and managers. After a hosted lunch, speakers from the publishing, aggregating and archiving communities discuss their roles and several of the tools and applications they use to support data quality and integrity, as well as an exploration of basic requirements and expectations, assessment of user needs, and establishing quality benchmarks. The day closes with a facilitated discussion of speakers and attendees of the day?s material, possible applications, and the envisioned future. Discussion will include the challenges, identified gaps and next steps in building a more robust data cycle. Some of our confirmed speakers: Dr. Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine, AAAS Dr. Jane Silverthorne, Deputy Assistant Director, BIO Directorate, NSF Dr. Isaac Kohane, CoDirector, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Megan Force, Digital Research Analyst for Physical Science, ThomsonReuters For more detail, on speakers and on logistics, click through at: http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_2014/index.html ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Heather Parrish CENDI Secretariat hparrish at iiaweb.com 865-298-1245 Jill O?Neill Director, Professional Development NFAIS (v) 443-221-2980 From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 11:44:32 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:44:32 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'15, Azores - Proceedings by Springer Message-ID: <201411141644.sAEGibqC000573@mail.asis.org> ------ WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Ponta Delgada, Azores *, Portugal 1 - 3 April 2015 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ ------ * Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. ------------ SCOPE The WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. Consisting of nine distinct islands, each of them special, is in fact a place in the world to be visited. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'15. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); E) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); F) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); G) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); H) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); I) Health Informatics (HIS); J) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). K) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 6th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.273) - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF: 1.962) - IEEE Intelligent Systems (IF: 1.92) - Online Information Review (IF: 1.443) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 1.372) - Building Research & Information (IF: 1.319) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.304) - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IF: 1.116) - Business & Information Systems Engineering (IF: 1.095) - Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 1.058) - Cluster Computing (IF: 0.949) - IEEE Security & Privacy (IF: 0.721) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.575) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.520) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0,483) - Journal of Web Engineering (IF: 0.444) - Journal of Internet Technology (IF: 0.418) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization - EAI Transactions on e-Learning - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence - Journal of Big Data IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 23, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: December 28, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 11, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 9, 2015. Best regards, WorldCIST'15 Organizing Committee http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ From heidijul at buffalo.edu Wed Nov 12 13:35:40 2014 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:35:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Online Master's Course in Legal Research Message-ID: <37bae5ac-18d4-4740-8bc4-d57df5fac382@CAS-NR1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> Are you interested in legal research? Do you have students who would like to take an online course in legal research? We are offering an asynchronous online course in spring 2015 that will be especially useful to students in New York State, but could also be of interest to students elsewhere. Please share the following information with your master's students. More information about our online courses open to non-matriculated students, and application information, can be found at: http://gse.buffalo.edu/nonmatric. LIS 503 - Special Topics: Introduction to Legal Research This online course introduces students to basic legal research in federal and New York state law. Primary and secondary legal resources will be explored. Online legal research will be the focus of this course, however, print research will be integrated when instructive. This is an introductory course. No legal knowledge is required. There is a required textbook. All other reading materials will be distributed or accessible online. Physical access to a law library is not required to be successful in this course. Prerequisite: None. Credits: 3. Instructor: Elizabeth Adelman, Director of the Law Library, SUNY Buffalo Law School For a list of all our "Special Topics" courses, please visit: http://gse.buffalo.edu/lis/special-topics. ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 526 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: 716-645-1474 Fax: 716-645-3775 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Leon Megginson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcmason at umd.edu Fri Nov 14 16:57:43 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:57:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Maryland's iSchool Doctoral Student Part of Winning Team in ASIS&T Student Design Competition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Maryland's iSchool Doctoral Student Part of Winning Team in ASIS&T Student Design Competition P. Kenyon Crowley, a doctoral student in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, and deputy director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems in the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, was a member of the winning team in the Student Design Competition at the 2014 Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. Crowley's team, which also comprised of Krista Parham, a master's student from the University of British Columbia, and Zach Frazier, a doctoral student from the University of South Carolina, won for their crises informatics design concept, Disaster Box, a rapidly deployable resilient, parallel, information infrastructure and communication system for use in disaster situations. The Disaster Box system is designed to solve one of the most pressing needs in the event of a disaster-the disruption of normal communication network and information infrastructures.? Combining lessons from social science, emergency management best practices, the natural sciences ("biomicry") and recent technological advances, Disaster Box would allow individuals to use mobile devices to transmit and receive information from loved ones, emergency responders and their fellow community members even when traditional cellular networks are down or overloaded. This drone, bicycle, by-foot or?automobile?deployable capability, which includes a specialized mobile application, would allow individuals impacted by disaster to help themselves in finding dispersed loved ones and locating necessary services, receive credible news, as well as provide emergency responders with the necessary information to deploy services more effectively and timely.? "It was a challenging and rewarding opportunity to apply the lessons from the iSchool towards an innovative yet feasible solution that could have real impact in times of crises," says Crowley. "In fact, Disaster Box is now working with interested partners to take next steps in forwarding the concept as an open source project." Now in its fifth year, the ASIS&T Student Design competition is judged by a jury of information science leaders and conference attendees. All members of Team Disaster Box will receive complementary registration to the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting.? From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Sat Nov 15 10:56:12 2014 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:56:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] High Level Training Course on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories, Pasadena 26 -30 Jan 2015 Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AF4EF61@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Apologies for any duplicate posts I am pleased to announce that the authors of the OAIS, ISO16363, and ISO16919 standards, including myself, have collaborated under the umbrella of PTAB (Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body) to hold a training course for Managers of Digital Repositories in Pasadena, USA from 26-30 January 2015. Please register your interest on the PTAB website (http://www.iso16363.org/courses/register-an-interest-in-a-course/) in this course as soon as possible if you or any of your colleagues wish to take part as places are limited - see details below. Regards ..Helen PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT High Level Training Course on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories Pasadena, USA - 26-30 January 2015 The Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body (ISO-PTAB) plays a major role in training auditors and repository managers. There are three important ISO standards: * ISO 14721 (OAIS - a reference model for what is required for an archive to provide long-term preservation of digital information) * ISO 16363 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories - sets out comprehensive metrics for what an archive must do, based on OAIS) * ISO 16919 (Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories - specifies the competencies and requirements on auditing bodies) These three standards form a closely-related family and an understanding of their principles and use will become increasingly important in establishing an internationally recognised and certified set of trustworthy digital repositories. The authors of these standards will be running a 5-day training course in Pasadena from 26-30 January 2015. The cost is $2000 with a 10% 'earlybird' discount available until 20 December 2014. Places for this course are limited so please register your interest on the PTAB web site as soon as possible and we will forward further information and logistics, including registration and payment details - see http://www.iso16363.org/. Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Research Institute Symposium Time is of the Essence: Organizing People, Data, Information and Knowledge as Memory and Participation University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario CANADA June 3?5, 2015 The conference theme can be interpreted from many perspectives (and that is our intention). The idea of time is embedded in all information work. It is an organizing idea, a variable to measure, a resource that we expend, a carrier of history, tradition, change, and innovation. As researchers we are familiar with the traditional distinction between longitudinal studies and cross-sectional or occasional studies. While implicitly understood and perhaps briefly acknowledged, how time works across information science research and practice is rarely highlighted as a dimension of study .... continued ***************************** 43e Congr?s annuel de l?Association canadienne des sciences de l?information et 2e Symposium de l?Institut de recherche des biblioth?caires Le temps comme facteur d?terminant : m?moire et participation dans la coordination des personnes et dans l?organisation des donn?es, de l?information et des connaissances Universit? d?Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario CANADA 3 au 5 juin 2015 Le th?me du congr?s peut ?tre interpr?t? de bien des points de vue (et cela est intentionnel). La notion de temps est partie int?grante de toutes les activit?s d'information. Le temps est une notion organisatrice, une variable ? mesurer, une ressource que nous d?pensons, le support de l?histoire, des traditions, du changement et de l'innovation. En tant que chercheurs, la distinction traditionnelle entre les ?tudes longitudinales et les ?tudes transversales ou ponctuelles nous est famili?re. Bien qu?elle soit comprise implicitement, et m?me parfois bri?vement reconnue, la fa?on dont le temps s?inscrit dans la recherche et la pratique scientifiques dans le domaine de l?information est rarement mise en ?vidence comme une dimension d??tude.Continue For further information, contact a Conference Co-Chair or a member of the Librarians' Research Institute here: Mary Cavanagh Conference Co-Chair Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada E: mcavanag at uottawa.ca Tony Horava Conference Co-Chair Associate University Librarian (Collections), University of Ottawa, Canada E: thorava at uottawa.ca Dominique Maurel Conference Co-Chair Associate Professor, ?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada E: dominique.maurel at umontreal.ca Heidi Jacobs Librarians? Research Institute Information Literacy Librarian, University of Windsor, Canada E: hjacobs at uwindsor.ca Selinda Berg Librarians? Research Institute Librarian, University of Windsor, Canada E: sberg at uwindsor.ca Catherine McGoveran Local Arrangements Chair Government Information Librarian, University of Ottawa, Canada E: catherine.mcgoveran at uottawa.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Tue Nov 18 14:35:32 2014 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:35:32 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers iSchool PhD Program Applicants: Virtual Info Session Message-ID: The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2015 The Rutgers University School of Communication & Information at invites creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for our interdisciplinary PhD Program, in the concentration area of Library and Information Science. Application deadline for fall 2015 enrollment: Jan. 15, 2015 Get to know the Rutgers iSchool at this link: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html And, join us virtual information session on Monday, November 24, at 2:00 pm EST, using the information as follows: 1. Please join my meeting, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM EST. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/682569925 2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone. Dial +1 (267) 507-0004 Access Code: 682-569-925 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 682-569-925 GoToMeeting? Online Meetings Made Easy? Not at your computer? Click the link to join this meeting from your iPhone?, iPad?, Android? or Windows Phone? device via the GoToMeeting app. ***** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 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 terriewheeler58 at yahoo.com Wed Nov 19 22:04:54 2014 From: terriewheeler58 at yahoo.com (Terrie Wheeler) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position - Associate Library Director of Content and Informatics - Weill Cornell Medical College Library Message-ID: <1439562800.1868391.1416452694077.JavaMail.yahoo@jws100163.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Position Announcement:? Associate Director,Weill Cornell Medical Library? The Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. StarrBiomedical Information Center is the information hub of the Weill CornellMedical Center.? The Associate Library Director for Content andInformatics is responsible for the strategic planning, management, budgeting,marketing, and administration of the Content and Informatics unit, as well asfor integration of content into workflows, and the expansion of innovative newlibrary services. This position will also be critical in leading the Librarythrough its transformation to a next generation facility. Reporting directly tothe Library Director, the Associate Director for Content and Informatics willpartner with other informatics thought leaders at WCMC in imagining, creating,and managing a dynamic, modern information research facility to supporteducation, research, and clinical care for the next generation and beyond. ? A Masters in Library Science is expected butcandidates with non-traditional backgrounds will be considered if theirexperience is consistent with the vision for a modern, digital medical library.? Candidates must have the ability to meet WCMCrequirements for appointment at the academic rank of Associate Librarian orLibrarian, including a record of professional achievement, research/scholarshipand service. ? A grasp of modern medical education, research,and clinical care and the information resources needed to support them iscritical. Most important, we are seeking a leader with strong semantictechnology and digital expertise, coding experience, and the ability tointegrate content into workflows, introducing value into daily processes andexpediting scientific discovery, collaboration and research impact.? Such a leader will have a mature sense ofpriorities and solid practical experience who can plan and execute within theframework of organizational resources and show the way beyond apparentlimitations. ? A complete job description can be found at PositionAnnouncement:? Associate Director, Weill Cornell Medical Library? The Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. StarrBiomedical Information Center is the information hub of the Weill CornellMedical Center.? The Associate Library Director for Content andInformatics is responsible for the strategic planning, management, budgeting,marketing, and administration of the Content and Informatics unit, as well asfor integration of content into workflows, and the expansion of innovative newlibrary services. This position will also be critical in leading the Librarythrough its transformation to a next generation facility. Reporting directly tothe Library Director, the Associate Director for Content and Informatics willpartner with other informatics thought leaders at WCMC in imagining, creating,and managing a dynamic, modern information research facility to supporteducation, research, and clinical care for the next generation and beyond. ? A Masters in Library Science is expected butcandidates with non-traditional backgrounds will be considered if theirexperience is consistent with the vision for a modern, digital medical library.? Candidates must have the ability to meet WCMCrequirements for appointment at the academic rank of Associate Librarian orLibrarian, including a record of professional achievement, research/scholarshipand service. ? A grasp of modern medical education, research,and clinical care and the information resources needed to support them iscritical. Most important, we are seeking a leader with strong semantictechnology and digital expertise, coding experience, and the ability tointegrate content into workflows, introducing value into daily processes andexpediting scientific discovery, collaboration and research impact.? Such a leader will have a mature sense ofpriorities and solid practical experience who can plan and execute within theframework of organizational resources and show the way beyond apparentlimitations. ? A complete job description can be found at http://library.weill.cornell.edu/About/AssociateDirectorContentInformatics.pdf or by writing?Terrie Wheeler at?tew2004 at med.cornell.edu. Interested parties are encouraged to send a cover letter and CVby early December, though applications will be accepted until the position isfilled. ? Terrie Wheeler Director? Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Avenue,?LC-106 New York, NY 10065-4896 tel:646-962-2469??fax: ?212-746-8375 email:?tew2004 at med.cornell.edu or by writing?Terrie Wheeler at?tew2004 at med.cornell.edu. Interested parties are encouraged to send a cover letter and CVby early December, though applications will be accepted until the position isfilled. ? Terrie Wheeler Director? Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Avenue,?LC-106 New York, NY 10065-4896 tel:646-962-2469??fax: ?212-746-8375 email:?tew2004 at med.cornell.edu ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Tue Nov 18 12:32:52 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:32:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] iConference workshop: Role of Engagement in Human Information Interaction, March 24, 2015 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93F03820@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> Dear colleagues, We are delighted to welcome the 1st workshop on engagement and emotion in Human Information Interaction, in the context of iConference ?15. This workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Library and Information Science, Informatics, and Social Sciences, to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between user engagement, emotions, and information interaction. The ultimate goal is to develop a better understanding of the above concepts not just as a technology, but also as human phenomena. To that end, we are inviting short interdisciplinary position papers that address the application of information technology in the study of engagement and emotion, and for informing the design of information and communication technologies that consider this context. Please refer to the workshop details below for more details: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop10 Regards, Ioannis Arapakis, Irene Lopatovska, Heather O'Brien --- iConference 2015, Newport Beach, California, March 24-27, http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Workshop: On the Role of Engagement in Human Information Interaction: From Research to Implementation Organizars: Ioannis Arapakis (Yahoo Labs), Irene Lopatovska (Pratt Institute), Heather O'Brien (University of British Columbia) Every day we spend a significant amount of time online accessing, interacting with, and sharing information using a broad array of information resources (e.g., Q&A forums, databases), applications (e.g., social networking) and devices (e.g., smart phones). This abundance of digital content is problematic for many users, but also information purveyors, such as libraries and other cultural heritage organizations, and online search companies, e-commerce firms, educational institutions, government, etc. Many are asking, ?How can information environments be designed to satisfy functional user and organizational needs, yet still be emotionally compelling and engaging?? This half-day workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, information and design professionals, and students interested in user engagement and emotion. It focuses on subjective experiences with broadly defined information systems (i.e., the web, digital libraries, museum interfaces). The format of the workshop includes in-depth and lightning talks and an interactive session to explore innovate ways to create engaging and affectively compelling information systems. We invite brief (1-2 page) position papers that address theory, measurement, and design in engaging and emotionally salient information interactions. Questions to be addressed may include: ? What is the value of developing engaging systems? What do they contribute to the user experience? ? What methods and measures are appropriate for evaluating subjective user experiences? How do we know if they are reliable and valid? ? How do we design for user engagement? What ethical, cultural, usability, and aesthetic concerns must be addressed? ? How do we prevent disengagement? ? How do we ?scale up? small-scale techniques for measuring engagement and emotion and connect them with large-scale web analytics? Please use the iConference paper template for your short papers: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/author-instructions/#template The paper should be submitted to: ischool.engagementlab at ubc.ca The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015 Workshop proceedings will be published in the University of British Columbia online institutional repository (https://circle.ubc.ca/). More information about the workshop can be found at: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop10 If you have any questions, please email Ioannis Arapakis (arapakis at yahoo-inc.com), Irene Lopatovska (ilopatov at pratt.edu) or Heather O?Brien (h.obrien at ubc.ca) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kamps at uva.nl Tue Nov 18 03:36:02 2014 From: kamps at uva.nl (Jaap Kamps) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:36:02 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CLEF'15: Call for papers on Experimental IR, deadlines April 12 (long) May 17 (short). Message-ID: <546B04F2.3010100@uva.nl> CLEF 2015: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction September 8-11, 2015, Toulouse, France http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/ Submission Deadlines: - Sunday April 12, 2015 (long papers) - Sunday May 17 (short papers) CALL FOR PAPERS The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The conference is teamed up with a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation. CLEF 2015 is the 6th year of the CLEF Conference and the 16th year of the CLEF initiative as a forum for IR Evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ?) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). TOPICS Relevant topics for the CLEF 2015 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis. - Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc. FORMAT Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2015 DATES - Submission of Long Papers: April 12, 2015 - Submission of Short Papers: May 17, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2015 - Camera Ready Copy due: June 30, 2015 - Conference: September 8-11, 2015 ORGANIZATION General chairs - Josiane Mothe, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France - Jacques Savoy, University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Program chairs - Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Labs chairs - Gareth Jones, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland - Eric SanJuan, University of Avignon, France Proceedings Chairs - Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy From KENDRAA at mailbox.sc.edu Wed Nov 19 07:23:08 2014 From: KENDRAA at mailbox.sc.edu (ALBRIGHT, KENDRA) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:23:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [IFLA-L] De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <510A263725F71048BDEDF1E3655B566F40B9E7BF@CAE145EMBP01.ds.sc.edu> From: tammaroster at gmail.com [mailto:tammaroster at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tammaro Anna Maria Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:15 PM To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [IFLA-L] De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 [IFLA] [De Gruyter Saur] De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 De Gruyter Saur and IFLA Invite submissions of papers for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 This is an annual award for the best research paper on a topic of importance to publishing and access to information. Deadline: 15 February 2015 Topic Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation and sharing Goal: Advance research on Digital Libraries as environment facilitating collaboration, creation and sharing of knowledge Submissions are invited to focus on one of several of the following subthemes: * Intersection of Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities * Linked Open Data in Digital Libraries * Open Data and re-use of data * User participation and crowdsourcing * Open Access * Use of Digital Library in information practices * The impact of Digital Libraries in user community and knowledge creation * Data curation * The role of Digital Libraries in sustaining access to information The award is aimed at encouraging original research and publication by those relatively new to the profession. Those with no more than eight years of professional experience in library and information services are eligible. The award is an amount of EUR 1,000 (one thousand Euros) The selected paper must have been written no earlier than January 2014 and not yet to have been published. The paper's maximum length should be approx. 5,000 words and should be submitted in English. The selection panel for the award comprises three members of the IFLA Library Theory and Research Section. All applicants will be required to sign a license for De Gruyter Saur to publish their submitted paper in one of De Grutyer Saur's journals. Both IFLA and De Gruyter Saur will announce and further publicize the award via their websites, relevant mailing lists, journals and newsletters, press conferences, news releases etc. The recipient of the award will be announced at the IFLA President's Lunch during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2015. If the recipient is attending this Congress s/he will also be invited to the President's Lunch. Papers must be submitted by 15 February 2015. Conditions Papers must not have been published in any form (including online) at the time of application, and must not be under consideration by any other award or journal. The decisions of the jury are final. The publisher reserves the right to determine which journal the winning paper will be published in, and also reserves the right not to publish the winning paper. Send submissions to: Anna Maria Tammaro, tammaroster at gmail.com. Anna Maria Tammaro, PhD Chair IFLA Library Theory and Research Section -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2443 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Deadline: 15 February 2015 Topic Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation and sharing Goal: Advance research on Digital Libraries as environment facilitating collaboration, creation and sharing of knowledge Submissions are invited to focus on one of several of the following subthemes: * Intersection of Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities * Linked Open Data in Digital Libraries * Open Data and re-use of data * User participation and crowdsourcing * Open Access * Use of Digital Library in information practices * The impact of Digital Libraries in user community and knowledge creation * Data curation * The role of Digital Libraries in sustaining access to information The award is aimed at encouraging original research and publication by those relatively new to the profession. Those with no more than eight years of professional experience in library and information services are eligible. The award is an amount of EUR 1,000 (one thousand Euros) The selected paper must have been written no earlier than January 2014 and not yet to have been published. The paper's maximum length should be approx. 5,000 words and should be submitted in English. The selection panel for the award comprises three members of the IFLA Library Theory and Research Section. All applicants will be required to sign a license for De Gruyter Saur to publish their submitted paper in one of De Grutyer Saur?s journals. Both IFLA and De Gruyter Saur will announce and further publicize the award via their websites, relevant mailing lists, journals and newsletters, press conferences, news releases etc. The recipient of the award will be announced at the IFLA President's Lunch during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2015. If the recipient is attending this Congress s/he will also be invited to the President's Lunch. Papers must be submitted by 15 February 2015. Conditions Papers must not have been published in any form (including online) at the time of application, and must not be under consideration by any other award or journal. The decisions of the jury are final. The publisher reserves the right to determine which journal the winning paper will be published in, and also reserves the right not to publish the winning paper. Send submissions to: Anna Maria Tammaro, tammaroster at gmail.com. Krystyna K. Matusiak, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Library & Information Science Program Morgridge College of Education University of Denver Portfolio: http://portfolio.du.edu/kmatusia E-Mail: Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu Phone: 303-871-6163 ADDRESS: Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall, Room 248, 1999 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Nov 19 07:12:53 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:12:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'15, Azores - Extended deadline: December 7 Message-ID: <201411191212.sAJCCwIq021446@mail.asis.org> ------ WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Ponta Delgada, Azores *, Portugal 1 - 3 April 2015 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ ------ * Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. ------------ SCOPE The WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. Consisting of nine distinct islands, each of them special, is in fact a place in the world to be visited. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'15. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); E) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); F) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); G) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); H) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); I) Health Informatics (HIS); J) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). K) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 6th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.273) - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF: 1.962) - IEEE Intelligent Systems (IF: 1.92) - Online Information Review (IF: 1.443) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 1.372) - Building Research & Information (IF: 1.319) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.304) - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IF: 1.116) - Business & Information Systems Engineering (IF: 1.095) - Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 1.058) - Cluster Computing (IF: 0.949) - IEEE Security & Privacy (IF: 0.721) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.575) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.520) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0,483) - Journal of Web Engineering (IF: 0.444) - Journal of Internet Technology (IF: 0.418) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization - EAI Transactions on e-Learning - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence - Journal of Big Data IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: December 7, 2014 (extended deadline) Notification of Acceptance: December 28, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 11, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 9, 2015. Best regards, WorldCIST'15 Organizing Committee http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ From mkennan at csu.edu.au Thu Nov 20 01:34:28 2014 From: mkennan at csu.edu.au (Kennan, Mary Anne) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:34:28 +1100 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP DOCAM2015 12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy Message-ID: [cid:image001.png at 01D004E8.3C75A0D0] CALL FOR PAPERS DOCAM2015 12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Jointly hosted by UTS and Charles Sturt University (CSU) July 20-22, 2015 Theme In 2015 the Document Academy will come together under the theme of "Documents Unbounded" and is calling for submissions that examine the challenges ahead, as our understanding of data, documents, records, artefacts, evidence and memory form in the continuously changing landscape of new media and communications. Important dates Extended abstracts by: 15 December 2014 Notification of acceptance by: 15 February 2015 Conference dates: 20-22 July 2015 Background DOCAM2015 is the 12th annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists, and professionals in various fields, who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic and professional work. The annual conference fosters a multidisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions, and experiences from the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and natural science, and from diverse fields, such as information, media, museum, archives, culture and science studies. Research presentations The DOCAM2015 Program Committee especially encourages completed research, research-in-progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: 1. conference papers (extended abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion); 2. brief abstracts for poster display and presentation. Proposal submissions Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations should be submitted through the DOCAM2015 EasyChair system located at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015. The conference language is English. Follow the submission template. Papers For papers include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of paper; 3. select the category type extended abstract; 4. 3 to 5 keywords. Do not complete the abstract box available in the EasyChair template; instead 5. upload your extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation; All abstracts should be submitted in Word document format (.doc .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations do not appear on the submitted Word document. Posters For posters include: 1. names and contact information for all contributors; 2. title of poster presentation; 3. an abstract or brief description of up to 250 words in the text box available in the template for abstracts; 4. 3 to 5 keywords; Submissions for posters do not require upload of any Word documents. All proposals should also include a brief statement providing: * an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software, video, performance, or other forms of demonstration); * preferred size of poster presentation; * any special equipment needs. Publication of Conference proceedings Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer-reviewed volume, Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. 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(301) 495-0810 -----Original Message----- From: dlib-subscribers-admin at dlib.org [mailto:dlib-subscribers-admin at dlib.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Wilson Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:25 AM To: DLib-subscribers Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The November/December 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. Guest editors for this issue are: Petr Knoth, Drahomira Herrmannova, Lucas Anastasiou and Zdenek Zdrahal, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK; Kris Jack, Mendeley, Ltd., UK; Nuno Freire, The European Library, The Netherlands and Stelios Piperdis, Athena Research Center, Greece. This special issue contains 14 articles on Mining Scientific Publications and a report on the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 4th Plenary Meeting. In addition, the 'In Brief' column presents seven short pieces as well as excerpts from recent press releases. You also can find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in D-Lib's 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features "Fundacion Juan March", an open repository of thematic collections that support the study of Art, Science and the Humanities. To see the titles, authors and abstracts of the 14 articles, go to: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november14/11contents.html. The conference report was authored by Yolanda Meleco, Research Data Alliance/U.S. The guest editorial is entitled: New Opportunities, Methods and Tools for Mining Scientific Publications. 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Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From sun3 at buffalo.edu Thu Nov 20 10:21:01 2014 From: sun3 at buffalo.edu (Sun, Ying) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:21:01 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Research Scientist position on Online Learning Analytics (University at Buffalo) Message-ID: The University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York seeks a scholar in online learning analytics to join its newly formed Office of Educational Innovation & Assessment (OEIA). Reporting to Senior Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, OEIA has a mission to support and guide the campus on issues related to teaching, learning and assessment, and at the same time serves as a nexus for campus wide efforts to further elevate the scholarship of and research support for pedagogical advancement and improved learning. The Research Scientist in online learning analytics will work in the area of Online Learning within OEIA and join a campus-wide network of faculty and researchers working on ?big data?. This position is a 12-month 3-year appointment, renewable pending availability of fund and performance. The position may start as early as Jan. 1, 2015 and the search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants with a demonstrated expertise in data mining, machine learning, statistics and online learning analytics are encouraged to apply. Responsibilities include: 1. Developing a viable research program that attracts external funding and generates peer-reviewed publications; 2. Conducting data mining of the growing online learning database at UB; 3. Develop an annual report or White Paper on status of online learning at UB as well as national and international trends on online learning to inform university policies and directions on online learning. Minimum Qualifications 1. An earned doctorate or ABD in learning analytic, data mining, machine learning, statistics or a relevant field; 2. Experiences working on externally funded projects; 3. Strong communication skills particularly in writing. Preferred Qualifications Preference will be given to applicants who have university teaching experiences. For the full position profile and desired qualifications, please visit: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp. The posting number is 1400714 Review of applications will start on Nov. 15th and will continue until the position is filled. Direct questions to Renee Crandall, reneecra at buffalo.edu, tel. 716-645-1801. best, -Ying Ying Sun, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science University at Buffalo, SUNY 548 Baldy Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This task includes establishing vendor contacts, evaluating products, planning product demos and trials, negotiating terms and pricing, managing licensing renewal, deploying products and evaluating usage; * Promoting the use of information and library resources through training and outreach activities and through the Library's intranet SharePoint site; * Providing secondary research through a variety of commercial databases, both business and scientific/technical, especially in the fields of earth sciences and oil and gas literature; * Tracking topics of strategic interest through industry news monitoring service using online databases, industry information sources, and the Internet; * Maintaining the Library's SharePoint site; * Assisting in maintaining the Library's physical collection, including original and copy cataloging of materials; * Assisting in the acquisition of published information as requested by scientists, engineers, technologists and other professionals. Qualifications: * Must have a Master's degree in library and/or information science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent experience; * Knowledge of relevant science and technology resources through coursework or work experience; * Understanding of data and information and their use in research; * Prefer 1-5 years of demonstrated experience preferably in a corporate library, especially in the oil and gas industry; * Self-starter with ability to work independently within a fast paced environment; * Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; * Proficient in Microsoft Office, OCLC, and relevant research databases: Knovel, Dialog, Factiva, EBSCO, EDS (Discovery); * SharePoint experience preferred; * Strong commitment to customer service. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/n4859d LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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Libraries, publishers, and content providers are challenged with finding and implementing appropriate standards to implement identity management across platforms and among varied institutions. Guest editor, Andy Dale, CTO Respect Network, has compiled articles that discuss Privacy By Design, OCLC's vision for identity management, JSON standards, and identity management for the Internet of Things. A detailed table of contents is below. The full issue and individual articles are available for download at: http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2014/v26no3/ ISQ is also available in print format to subscribers, NISO members who opt in, or by print-on-demand purchase. Information Standards Quarterly, Fall 2014, vol. 26, no.3 Letter from the Guest Content Editor by Andy Dale FEFEATURES * Privacy by Design and the Online Library Environment by Dan Blum IPIN PRACTICE * From the Library of Congress to the Library of Me by Don Hamparian OPOPINION * The Intention Publishing Economy: When Patrons Take Charge by Doc Searls SPSTANDARD SPOTLIGHT * A JSON-Based Identity Protocol Suite by Michael B. Jones NRNISO REPORTS * Pre-Standards Initiatives: Bibliographic Roadmap and Altmetrics by Nettie Lagace NWNOTEWORTHY * Linked Content Coalition Sets Ten Targets for a Digital Future * W3C Provides Best Practices for Linked Data * BISG Issues Revised and Updated Guide to Identifiers SSSTANDARDS IN DEVELOPMENT, September 30, 2014 Cynthia Hodgson ISQ Managing Editor National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Primary Responsibilities: * Interacts with faculty to develop an on-going information literacy education program for the University community; * Develop formal and informal undergraduate and graduate information literacy activities that will strengthen the number of students graduating from the University with increased life-long learning information skills; * Provide user-centered library instructions; provide general and specific reference, information, research assistance, and services to individual and groups within the University; * Develop information literacy tutorials; assists in the development and documentation of library policies and procedures; * Collect statistics, and participate in collection development activities; * Serves as liaison to the academic departments and works with faculty; * Contribute to the profession through librarianship; and performs other duties, as required. Qualifications: * Masters of Library Science (MLS) from an ALA accredited program; * Two years of reference and teaching experience in an academic library setting requiring familiarity with current library technologies; * Knowledge of information literacy technology and learning management systems; * Knowledge of the latest technology and trends in the field of academic librarianship; * Practical experience with emerging technologies; * Must have skills in collection development and program assessment and evaluation; * Ability to provide excellent customer-service by performing special research requests; * Ability to work in a collaborative, rapidly changing environment; * Must have excellent communication skills. Apply at: http://goo.gl/CeWYHS LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Mon Nov 17 18:19:23 2014 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:19:23 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: IEEE BigDataService 2015 Message-ID: *IEEE BigDataService 2015* http://www.big-dataservice.net/ March 30 - April 2, 2015 San Francisco Bay Area Abstract Submission: November 24, 2014 Full Paper Submission: November 30, 2014 Big Data computing and services have received significant attention recently. The IEEE BigDataService2015 conference aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, latest research results, as well as practice experience and lessons on this topic. Its major objectives include big-data applications in various domains such as healthcare, business and financing, education and learning, social networks and media, smart environment, sensors and Internet of things as well as technology aspects such as computing services and architecture, modeling, data mining and analytics, and databases. In particular, please consider submitting papers to the *Big Data Information Banking *track, which is specifically designed for the library and information science field. This track includes the papers focusing on big data-related research in library and information science, including big data information banking projects, policies, standards, business services & cost models, data sharing, exchange & management, data-intensive computing and services, data classification/indexing, retrieval, storage & search solutions for digital libraries, and supporting infrastructures. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE BigDataService Proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers (extended versions) will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDL - http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijbdi). We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you soon in the near future. Best, Michelle -- *Hsuanwei Michelle Chen, Ph.D.*Assistant Professor, School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192 http://ischool.sjsu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcmason at umd.edu Tue Nov 18 13:59:46 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:59:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Position Opening: Dean, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland Message-ID: Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. DEAN, COLLEGE OF INFORMATION STUDIES University of Maryland The University of Maryland invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the College of Information Studies. Maryland's iSchool is a recognized leader in the field, with highly respected scholarship and programs in information management, libraries and archives, and human-computer interaction.? The College offers three masters programs, a PhD degree in Information Studies, a post-masters certificate program, and is planning an undergraduate major.? Additional information about the College is available at its web site http://ischool.umd.edu. The Dean is expected to provide innovative and visionary leadership to build on the outstanding interdisciplinary research, educational, and service programs within the College. Candidates should have a compelling vision for the College, the ability to serve as a university leader, demonstrated administrative ability, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and service, demonstrated ability to obtain external funding, a commitment to diversity, and a distinguished record of scholarly achievement appropriate for an appointment as full professor in the College. The Dean is responsible for recruiting and retaining faculty of the highest caliber; promoting exceptional research that is recognized in the field; fostering and leading strong collaboration with industries, government, the information profession, and other agencies that make this region internationally recognized as a center for information research and entrepreneurship; and maintaining and enhancing relations with alumni. The Dean of the College reports directly to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. The University of Maryland is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities.?A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, Maryland is ranked 38th?in the world, 29th?in the nation, and 13th?among U.S. public institutions in research by the Institute of Higher Education.?Its faculty includes three Nobel laureates, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and 49 members of the national academies.? Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and names and affiliations of at least four potential references who can be contacted by the search committee. Nominations are encouraged. The committee will begin its confidential review of applications and nominations in November and continue until the position is filled.? For best consideration, all materials should be received by December 8, 2014.? All materials should be sent to?ischooldeansearch at umd.edu, or:? ??????? Search Committee for Dean, College of Information Studies Room 1119, Main Administration University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-5031 Tel (301) 405-7211? Fax (301) 405-8195 The University of Maryland subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against any applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University has a policy of being responsive to dual-career couples. From mcmason at umd.edu Wed Nov 19 18:36:38 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:36:38 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New Professional Certificate in Digital Curation from Maryland's iSchool In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: New Professional Certificate in Digital Curation from Maryland's iSchool Beginning in June 2015, the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, is offering an exciting new professional education opportunity for digital curation professionals. The Curation and Management of Digital Assets (CMDA) certificate is a four-course, fully online post-master's certificate that provides training for professionals in next-generation cloud computing technologies, tools, and resources to help them evaluate, select, and implement digital curation solutions. This is the iSchool's first professional certificate program. The CMDA certificate focuses on instruction about the creation, management, and use; the long-term preservation; and the current and future access to digital assets in a variety of disciplines and sectors of the economy. It is designed for digital curation professionals from a wide variety of information management backgrounds, and it is flexible enough to accommodate students working full or part time. Courses will be taught by the University of Maryland's world-class faculty and other experts in the digital curation field. Students enrolled in the CMDA certificate will complete their coursework together as a cohort, beginning their instruction at the same time and proceeding through the program as a cohesive unit. The CMDA certificate will run in four, 12-week segments over the course of twelve months. The initial cohort of students will receive full tuition remission for the four certificate courses, from grant funds awarded to Maryland's iSchool by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Cohorts for the CMDA certificate will be capped at 15 students. Applications for the CMDA certificate will be accepted beginning in January 2015. For more information, please attend the iSchool?s first online information session, to be held on December 3, 2014, from 4 to 5 pm EST at https://webmeeting.umd.edu/cmda-certificate-info-session. For more information, visit: http://ter.ps/cmdacert, or contact the CMDA Certificate Program Coordinator at cmda-cert-info at umd.edu. From mcmason at umd.edu Thu Nov 20 12:23:49 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:23:49 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Paul Jaeger of Maryland's iSchool Named Top LIS Educator of the Year In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Paul Jaeger of Maryland's iSchool Named Top LIS Educator of the Year Paul T. Jaeger, associate professor and co-director of the Information Policy and Access Center in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, has been named the first recipient of the Library Journal/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award. This new award, sponsored by ProQuest, combines two individual awards offered by Library Journal (LJ) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) to recognize "the top LIS educator of an ALISE-member program or an ALA-accredited master's program." Jaeger was unanimously selected by a panel of judges appointed by Library Journal and the Executive Committee of the ALISE Board, as well as a representative from ProQuest. Four of Jaeger's current or former students wrote letters in support of his nomination, submitted by iSchool doctoral student Natalie Greene Taylor. The students all cite Jaeger's commitment to mentorship, and his ability to tie his scholarship to his teaching and meld theory with practice, as well as his ability to inspire them to be leaders in the information profession and advocates for the disadvantaged and disenfranchised. Former student Elizabeth Larson says of Jaeger, "He dreams big, he acts on his convictions, and he takes you along for the adventure..After joining the [E-government] degree concentration he headed, I began to view being a librarian as something so much more. More radical, but also more integrated with the communities we serve. I began to see how librarians can be advocates for their communities and how civil rights issues play out in libraries every day." Jaeger is a noted scholar on the ways in which law and public policy shape information behavior, particularly for underserved populations. He is the author of more than 150 journal articles and book chapters, as well as 12 books, and his research has been funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and others. Jaeger is editor of?Library Quarterly, co-editor of the?Advances in Librarianship?Book Series?from MIT Press, and associate editor of Government Information Quarterly. He also serves as the iSchool's diversity officer and the faculty advisor for the iDiversity student group and American Library Association student chapter at the iSchool. Jaeger also heads the iSchool's Symposium on Diversity in LIS Education and was recognized by the iSchool with the 2011 Award for Contributions to the Curriculum. "We are so proud of Paul and so pleased that his outstanding work is being recognized by the larger LIS community," says Jennifer Preece, dean of the iSchool. "Students at the iSchool benefit from our strong tradition of scholar-teachers, and Paul Jaeger is exemplary of the very best the iSchool has to offer. His ability to inspire, as well as instruct, students will have an impact on the information profession for many years to come." This award comes with a $5,000 cash prize, sponsored by ProQuest. Jaeger has elected to donate the prize money back to the iSchool in support of the 2015 Symposium on Diversity in LIS Education. He will be honored during a celebration at ALISE's annual conference in January. From agruzd at gmail.com Thu Nov 20 23:17:12 2014 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy Gruzd) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:17:12 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] #SMSociety15: Social Media & Society Conference - Call for Submissions Message-ID: <546EBCC8.3010200@gmail.com> (Apologies for cross-posting) ------------------------------------ 6th Annual International Social Media & Society Conference Toronto, Canada July 27-29, 2015 Website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ ------------------------------------ Call for Submissions Academic research on social media is growing exponentially across various disciplines including: Communications, Information / Library Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology, Education, Psychology, Health and others. The Web of Science alone indexed nearly 5,000 journal and conference publications over the last decade. This growing body of research revealed many interesting factors about social media platforms, their users, and a glimpse of our society at large. But are we any closer to understanding the broader implications of social media on our increasing networked society? The 2015 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety15) invites scholarly and original submissions that build on the previous work and critically evaluate the role of social media for social and political change, community engagement, marketing, new forms of governance, support of individuals and organizations in domains such as business, information, management, public administration, academia, health, and journalism (just to mention a few). We are also calling for submissions that develop and apply novel methods and theories to collect, analyze, and visualize social media data as well as those that discuss ethical and privacy implications of using big and small data. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work in the broad area of Social Media & Society that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media. Whether you are just starting a new research project or ready to report on the final results, you will find that #SMSociety15 is a great venue for you! The 2015 conference invites a wide range of submissions: - short papers on completed or well-developed projects (Due: March 2, 2015) - work-in-progress paper abstracts (Due: April 10, 2015), - panel discussions (Due: March 2, 2015) - poster presentations (Due: May 1, 2015). New to this year, we are also calling for proposals to host: - half-day workshops (Due: February 2, 2015) on a well-defined area or technical tutorials that will examine a particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data in more detail MORE INFORMATION AT http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES All accepted short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full papers to the special issue of the Information, Communication & Society journal (published by Taylor & Francis). BACKGROUND The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 6th year, the 2015 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 27 to 29, 2015. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, the conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present their original research, learn about recently completed and work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers. The 2014 conference hosted over 200 attendees, featured research from 238 authors across several fields from 21 different countries. TOPICS OF INTEREST Social Media & Small Data ? Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media ? Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media ? Sampling Issues ? Value of Small Data Social Media & Big Data ? Visualization of Social Media Data ? Social Media Data Mining ? Scalability Issues & Social Media Data ? Social Media Analytics ? Ethics of Big Data Social Media Impact on Society ? Private Self/Public Self ? The Sharing/Attention Economy ? Virality & Memes ? Political Mobilization & Engagement ? Social Media & Health ? Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) ? Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) ? Social Media & Public Administration ? Social Media & the News Theories & Methods ? Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches ? Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis ? Social Network Analysis ? Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Online/Offline Communities ? Trust & Credibility in Social Media ? Online Community Detection ? Influential User Detection ? Online Identity Social Media & Mobile ? App-ification of the Society ? Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World ? Apps for the Social Good ? Networking Apps PROGRAM COMMITTEE The list of the Program Committee members is available at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1346 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anatoliy Gruzd Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University, Canada Twitter: @gruzd Barry Wellman Professor & Director, NetLab University of Toronto, Canada Twitter: @barrywellman Philip H. Mai Manager of Academic Communications Ryerson University, Canada Twitter: @phmai Jenna Jacobson PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto, Canada Twitter: @jacobsonjenna MORE INFORMATION AT http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd at ryerson.ca From dbworld at sizov.de Fri Nov 21 10:36:29 2014 From: dbworld at sizov.de (Sergrej Sizov) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:36:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Asis-l] ESSIR 2015: invitation to tender for hosting Message-ID: <376386788.519288.1416584189967.JavaMail.open-xchange@omgreatgod.store> INVITATION TO TENDER FOR HOSTING ESSIR 2015 ------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host ESSIR in 2015. INTRODUCTION ESSIR is a five-day summer school (Monday to Friday) which has significantly increased in size over time and is now organised every two years. ESSIR gives participants a grounding in the core subjects of Information Retrieval (IR): architectures; algorithms; formal theoretical models; evaluation theory and practice, as well as a coverage of recent topics and trends in the field. ESSIR also provides an opportunity for participants to discuss a wide variety of IR topics with each other and the lecturers. ESSIR is aimed at: advanced undergraduate students; PhD students; post-doctoral researchers; academic and industrial researchers; developers. Traditionally, ESSIR is co-located with several accompanying events (such as Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA) that give the participants an excellent opportunity for focused discussions on recent emerging topics in Information Retrieval. ESSIR 2015 will be the "anniversary" 10th ESSIR. Further details on ESSIR can be found at http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/essir/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Summer_School_in_Information_Retrieval PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND SELECTION Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2015 are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to both the ESSIR Steering Committee co-chairs Sergej Sizov [sizov at hhu.de] and Steffen Staab [staab at uni-koblenz.de] by 10 January 2015 Proposals will be evaluated by the ESSIR Steering Committee. Evaluation will take into account: - venue and timing: attractiveness of the location, hosting facilities, transportation options, accommodation, social program options, targeted event week, key dates, avoidance of timing conflicts with other relevant IR events and large-scale local public events. - scientific program: foundational IR topics, special lectures, accompanying events (podium discussions, poster sessions, etc.), strategy for acquiring and organizational support of high-quality IR lecturers. Proposals should also take into consideration the scheduling of relevant co-located events (symposiums, workshops) like FDIA. - support for student participants: grants, special conditions for participation and/or accommodation, opportunity to collect ECTS credit points, networking events, opportunities for personal dialogue with ESSIR lecturers. - financial viability: initial draft of the financial plan including major fixed and variable costs, budget cut-off points, strategy of sponsoring acquisition. - plans for organisation: local organizer consortium and its expertise in event/hosting management, key roles and initial responsibility assignments. Analysis of major risks (such as appropriate number of participants, commitment of key lecturers, sufficient amount of sponsoring) and reasonable fallback options. - dissemination and publicity: plans for reaching the target audience through mailing lists, direct contacts to IR groups, scientific social networks, Web 2.0 channels, Web presence. Opportunities to share ESSIR materials within IR community: slides, video lectures, scripts, post-proceedings, etc. Supplemental information for proposal preparation can be found at: http://www.web-science.eu/essir Best regards ESSIR EC team From zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Nov 24 13:23:11 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:23:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Seeking Assistant Professor in Information Technology Message-ID: <37FDEC07-1A7C-42E7-9FFE-633EE26D1B84@uwm.edu> Dear colleagues - The UW-M School of Information Studies, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is hiring an assistant professor in Information Technology, with a broad range of approaches considered. The official posting is at https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017, and the priority deadline is February 1, 2015. I?ve shared the text below. Please forward as appropriate, and my apologies if you?ve received multiple copies of this solicitation. Thanks, Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org ==== University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Information Technology Faculty Position The School of Information Studies (SOIS), the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Information Technology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The selected applicant will be expected to maintain an active research agenda in their field of interest, and teach courses in the School?s undergraduate and graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. Ideal candidates will be interested in research and pedagogy in information technology from a variety of possible perspectives, including technical, user-centered, social, historical, or humanistic approaches. Preferred emphases include, but are not limited to: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & human?computer interaction (HCI), web and mobile development, or science & technology studies/digital humanities. Required Qualifications: ? PhD in Information Studies or related discipline by the beginning of the contract term. ? Evidence of ability ? or potential ? for teaching in the School?s undergraduate and/or graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. ? Excellent research promise in relevant area. Preferred Qualifications: ? Experience or demonstrated ability in the design and delivery of courses in a variety of formats, including onsite and online. ? Ability to teach an advanced elective undergraduate or graduate courses in her/his areas of expertise, with preference for: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & HCI, web and mobile development, or STS/digital humanities The nationally ranked School of Information Studies offers several educational programs: a Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Technology (BSIST); an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS); several coordinated graduate degree programs, including History and Anthropology; transcript-designated concentrations within the MLIS Archival Studies, Digital Libraries, Public Library Leadership, Information Organization, and Information Technology; post-masters Certificates of Advanced Study in Archives and Records Management and Digital Libraries; and a PhD in Information Studies. A new Masters of Science in Information Science and Technology (MSIST) degree is currently under development in partnership with the Department of Computer Science. The School has a strong research faculty, more than 900 students, and state-of-the-art informational technology laboratories. SOIS houses the Center for Information Policy Research, and its faculty organizes three research groups: the Research Group for Information Retrieval, Information Organization Research Group, and the Social Studies of Information Research Group. The School?s research and instructional programs are designed to be a resourceful blend of the University?s mission with the School?s information focus, international scope, and interdisciplinary mindset. Situated in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake Michigan, UWM is a research university committed to academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting institutions in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student enrollment of over 29,000. The School offers a competitive salary for an academic year (9 month) appointment, plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching, and generous fringe benefits. SOIS also provides extensive research support in the form of travel funding, research assistance, and internal research grant programs. First priority will be given to applications received by February 1, 2015. The starting date is August 24, 2015, or negotiable. To apply, candidates must submit a Candidate Profile through the UWM Employment website (https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017), and electronically submit the following: a cover letter of interest that describes the candidate?s fit for the position, research agenda, and teaching experience; a curriculum vitae; names and contact information of three references that can speak to the candidates research and/or teaching excellence. Also, under separate cover by e-mail please arrange for one of the references to send a confidential letter of recommendation to Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm at uwm.edu. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm at uwm.edu. For questions regarding submission of your materials, please contact Laura Meyer at Lauram at uwm.edu or (414)229-5409. For more information about the School of Information Studies, please visit http://ischool.uwm.edu. UWM is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. For the UWM Crime Statistics Annual Report and the Campus Security Policy, see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/OSL/CleryAct/, or call the Office of Student Life, Mellencamp Hall 118 at (414) 229-4632 for a paper copy. From liliana.bounegru at digitalmethods.net Fri Nov 21 07:56:12 2014 From: liliana.bounegru at digitalmethods.net (Liliana Bounegru) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:56:12 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd call: Show Me Your Dashboard - Digital Methods Winter School 2015 - Univ. of Amsterdam Message-ID: This is the second call for participation in the Digital Methods Winter School at the University of Amsterdam, 12-16 January 2015. The deadline for applications is 8 December 2014. Together with Nathaniel Tkacz on dashboard critique (Univ Warwick) and Carolin Gerlitz on social media metrics (Univ Amsterdam), new speakers have confirmed from SumOfUs, UNICEF, TckTckTck, Climate Action Network and the Dutch design agency Clever Franke. We are also joined by the Density Design Lab, Milan. SHOW ME YOUR DASHBOARD New Media Monitoring and Data Analytics as Critical Practice Digital Methods Winter School, Data Sprint and Mini-Conference *12-16 January 2015 | Digital Methods Winter School * *Digital Methods Initiative | http://www.digitalmethods.net/ **Media Studies | University of Amsterdam* *https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2015* The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its 7th annual Winter School, on New Media Monitoring and Data Analytics as Critical Practice. The format is that of a data sprint, with hands-on work on media monitoring with data analytics, and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars and advanced graduate students present short papers on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants. Participants need not give a paper at the Mini-conference to attend the Winter School. The focus of this year's Winter School is on how online media monitoring is currently done by non-governmental (NGOs) such as treealerts.org, and it seeks to identify practices that could fill in the notion of critical data analytics. For the occasion we have invited academics to present on the state of the art of online media monitoring by focusing on three areas where there is both innovation as well as repurposing of techniques normally associated with marketing, business intelligence and the work of digital agencies: issue discovery and language placement (who's carrying the conversation), engagement and public fund-raising (when do images and other engagement formats ?work??) and crisis communication (who is making the calls when there is a breakdown?). At the Winter School social media analysts and communications specialists from NGOs will present on the state of the art of media monitoring, their current analytical needs and what the Internet can continue to add with respect to new data sources as well as monitoring techniques. We will also ask each of the organizations to show us their dashboards. The first day kicks off with Nathaniel Tkacz from the University of Warwick who will talk about Dashboards and Data Signals , and the desire to control the data deluge. The second keynote speaker is Carolin Gerlitz from the University of Amsterdam who will talk about new media metrics critique. Next a series of online media monitoring dashboards and methods will be presented. The Dutch design agency Clever Franke will show TrendViz . Soenke Lorenzen of Greenpeace International, Eoin Dubsky of SumOfUs , Dounia Kchiere of UNICEF, and Christian Teriete of TckTckTck will be talking about media monitoring at their respective organisations. Next will be project pitches by Ria Voorhaar of the Climate Action Network, Danie Stockmann of Leiden University, Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Alberto Abellan of Social Alto Analytics. After the the first day of talks as well as dashboard show and tell, the data sprint commences, whereupon the attendees, including analysts, designers and programmers, undertake empirical projects that address the state of the art in NGO online media data analysis. We work on projects that seek to meet the current analytical needs. The week closes with presentations of the outcomes as well as a festive celebration. During the week there is also an evening of talks and a debate with Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia, at the nearby Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science . The theme of the 2015 Winter School furthers the analytical collaboration between the Digital Methods Initiative and NGO media analysts, including Soenke Lorenzen of Greenpeace International . Previously workshop facilitators and collaborators have included representatives from Human Rights Watch , Association for Progressive Communications , Women on Waves , Carbon Trade Watch , Corporate Observatory Europe and Fair Phone . In preparation for the sprint we also have developed how-to worksheets on New Media Monitoring and Tooling that take as their case studies NGO issue mappings with digital methods. Upon conclusion we aim to compile the Sprint projects from the Winter School, and combine them with the how-to sheets to produce an open access publication on NGO media monitoring. All participants are invited to contribute. Digital Methods Winter School Data Sprint A data sprint is a workshop format for intensive, empirical project work, where analysts, programers, designers and subject matter experts collaborate to output research. This year's data sprint is devoted to new media monitoring with data analytics, and particularly its critical practice. Broadly speaking, media monitoring is understood as the process of reading, watching or listening to the editorial content of media sources on a continuing basis, and then identifying, analyzing and saving materials that contain specific themes, topics, keywords, names, forms or formats. Monitoring the editorial content of news sources including newspapers, magazines, trade journals, TV shows, radio programs and specific websites is by far the most common form of media monitoring, but most organizations increasingly monitor social media online, and its impact on the diffusion of news in all media or in online conversation (including the comment space) more generally. Most companies, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations utilize media monitoring as a tool to study the "meaning of mentions" of their organization, its campaigns and slogans, and gain some sense of the composition of their audiences, and what animates them (or keeps them quiet). During the first day of the data sprint academics studying online media monitoring will present the state of the art of the field, focusing on three areas: issue discovery and issue language placement (who is the carrying the conversation, and which voices are continually elided?), engagement and fundraising communication (how are audiences and funders reacting to so-called 'faces of need' and other formats and calls for engagement?) and crisis communication (when there is a breakdown, who makes the calls?). Representatives from leading NGOs will present to the attendees how they practice online media monitoring, the look of their dashboards and the analytical needs that drive them. What are these experts able to accomplish with the techniques available to them, and which questions remain unanswered? What are the critical media monitoring practices and questions that are specific to NGOs? How to conceptualize and operationalize issue discovery, engagement for fundraising and crisis monitoring? We will ask the NGO communications experts to address these questions. We also will ask them what they think digital methods and issue mapping may add to the outputs of media monitoring. The conversations with the experts will serve as starting points for winter school attendees - including analysts, designers and programmers - to develop into empirical projects that aim to answer research questions, and develop further techniques for media monitoring online.Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School The annual Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School, normally a one-day affair, provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. Key dates The deadline for application is 8 December 2014. To apply please send along a letter of motivation as well as your CV to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net, with DMI Winter School in the subject header. Notifications will be sent on 9 December. If you are participating in the Mini-conference the deadline for submission of paper titles, abstracts and bios is also 8 December, with DMI Mini-conference & Winter School in the subject header. Please send your materials to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net . To attend the Winter School, you need not participate in the Mini-conference. Deadline for submission of complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) is 6 January 2015. The program and schedule are available on 7 January. Fees & Logistics The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2015 is EUR 295. Bank transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 9 December 2014. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful). During the week there is an evening at the Royal Academy with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. The Winter School closes on Friday with a festive event, after the final presentations. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene . For further questions, please contact the organizers, Liliana Bounegru, Natalia Sanchez and Saskia Kok, at winterschool at digitalmethods.net. About DMI The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (eight to date), which are intensive and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2015 Summer School will take place 29 June - 10 July 2015. The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede (PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Liliana Bounegru is the managing director. Digital methods are online at http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a substantive introduction, and also a list of Digital Methods people, with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops, such as recent ones on mapping climate change and vulnerability indexes as well as on studying right-wing extremism and populism online. There is also a Digital Methods book (MIT Press, 2013), papers and articles by DMI researchers as well as Digital Methods tools . See you in the winter time in Amsterdam! Image credit: Online resonance of the international climate change issue agenda , EMAPS data sprint, Amsterdam, April 2014. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Research Data Specialist will join a team of librarians developing initiatives to assist faculty and students in managing the lifecycle of data resulting from research projects of all types, and develop a data services program to support use, curation and reuse of data by engaging with the research practices of faculty and students at appropriate points in the research process. He or she will have the aptitude to stay abreast of scientific research trends, data documentation tools, and standards important for data exchange, reuse, and interoperability. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science or other data intensive discipline, excellent problem solving and analytical skills, ability to work well in a collaborative team-based environment and excellent oral and written communication skills. Consideration of candidates will begin December 1, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. 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Aldrich, deputy secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries; Siobhan A. Reardon, president and director, Free Library of Philadelphia; Adam Townes, doctoral candidate, CCI, Drexel University; and Veronica Britto, vice-president/president-elect, Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Click here to watch the CSLIS Inaugural Lecture online CSLIS brings together faculty from Drexel's CCI with faculty from other institutions, industry representatives and local and global community members to translate theory into practice, educate, inform policy and meet the library and information needs of modern society. Under the motto of "connecting people and information through technology," the Center strives to accomplish this through five core areas of focus including information policy and information ethics; human information behavior; community informatics; digital preservation and digital curation; and knowledge management. For more information about CSLIS, please visit drexel.edu/cci/cslis ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Tue Nov 18 09:05:21 2014 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:05:21 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] News from Simmons SLIS Message-ID: Prof. Mary Wilkins Jordan: Libraries on the Lewis and Clark Trail http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/lewis-and-clarks-expedition-in.php Lewis and Clark's expedition in search of a water route to the Pacific has a near-mythic place in American history. In 1803, on the heels of the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson charged his personal secretary, Merriweather Lewis, with a mission to explore the newly acquired territory. Lewis enlisted skilled frontiersman William Clark, who would co-command the group known as the Corps of Discovery. The team spent the next two years traversing the western half of the country, a journey that would irrevocably impact U.S. expansion policy and relationships with Native Americans. Faculty Profile: Rong Tang http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/usability-testing-ux-user-behavior.php Usability testing, UX, user behavior research: these terms may not have originally been a part of the Library and Information Science lexicon, but these concepts are inescapable these days--and with good reason. In a field focused on meeting users' needs, using the right tools to test the end results is crucial. Lucky for Simmons School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), we have preeminent usability scholar and educator Rong Tang. Interview: Kendra Giannini '04UG, Capstone Coordinator http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/interview-kendra-giannini-capstone-coordinator.php Kendra Giannini, Simmons alum and now SLIS staff-person, talks about her role as Capstone Coordinator, provides some insight into the curriculum changes and Simmons' internship and alumni network, and offers advice to students on the wealth of professional opportunities for Simmons SLIS' graduates beyond traditional library positions. MLIP/Ph.D. Candidate: Kimberley Bugg http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/library-services-for-the-21st-century.php Like many in the LIS field, MLIP (Managerial Leadership in Library Professions) Ph.D. student Kimberley Bugg didn't set out to be a librarian when she began her college career. A Communications and Media Studies major at Georgia State University (GSU)--she said, "I like to talk about Spike Lee a lot." Her sights were originally set on law school. As an intern at the Fulton County Courthouse, Bugg researched cases and prepared witnesses for pretrial testimony, but found herself discouraged by the environment. She expressed this concern to one of the lawyers she worked with, who complimented her research zeal and suggested she might find law librarianship rewarding. UNBOUND: Libraries, GitHub, and Open Source Software http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/unbound/2014/10/06/libraries-github-open-source-software/ Last week, the Knight Foundation held a competition to find and fund new proposals on the prompt: ?How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?? The Knight News Challenge is now closed for entries, and their site has offered up the submissions they received for the public?s perusal. Browsing through them, I noticed a common goal: furthering use of open-source programming by LIS professionals. 3D Printer and Scanner in SLIS Collaboratory http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/3d-printer-and-scanner-in-slis-collaboratory.php Thanks to a generous gift from one of our trustees, SLIS has a MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printer and a MakerBot Digitizer 3D scanner available for faculty, staff, student, and alumnae/i usage. Workshops will be held to see the MakerBot in action. We are collaborating with SLIS faculty on ways to incorporate usage of the 3D printer and scanner for hands-on activities in classes this fall. -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 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 marialemos72 at gmail.com Mon Nov 24 12:54:26 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (M. Lemos) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:54:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call For Papers - Workshops at WorldCIST 2015 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Message-ID: <201411241754.sAOHqHw3028071@smtp.dei.uc.pt> - This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. - WorldCIST Conference WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic and known by its amazing landscapes, natural wonders and excellent food. Azores is easily accessible, by cheap direct flights, from both Europe and America. WorldCIST Workshops The following workshops will take place at WorldCIST 2015: ? Applied Statistics and Data Analysis using Computer Science - ASDACS ? Big Data Systems and Technologies - BDST ? Business Intelligence in Organisations - BIO ? Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis - CSQA ? Educational and Serious Games - ESG ? Healthcare Information Systems: Interoperability, Security and Efficiency - HISISE ? Intelligent Systems and Machines - ISM ? Internet of Things - IoT ? Pervasive Information Systems - PIS ? Safety, Ergonomics and Efficiency in Human-Machine Interfaces - HMInSafe ? Stealth and Anti-Forensics Techniques ? SAFT Submission and Paper Format Submissions must be of one of two types: Full paper: finished and consolidated R&D works - these papers are assigned a 10-page limit; and Short paper: ongoing works with relevant preliminary results open to discussion - these papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Submitted papers must be written in English and comply with the format of Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. All submissions must be original work, not published before, not under review for any other conference, workshop or publication. Submissions must not include any information leading to the authors? identification and, therefore, the authors? names, and affiliations should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by two/three members of each of the Workshops Program Committee. Papers must be submitted using the EasyChair system, available in the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist-ws2015 Publication and Indexing Workshop papers will be published in the Springer Conference Proceedings. To ensure that a paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by 11th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing .. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in renowned international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP (see WorldCIST conference website for more details). Important Dates ? Deadline for paper submission: December 14 th , 2014 ? Notification of paper acceptance: January 4 th , 2015 ? Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 11 th , 2015 ? Conference dates: April 1 st -3 rd , 2015 Workshops Description and Topics Workshop on Applied Statistics and Data Analysis using Computer Science ? ASDACS Applied Statistics and Data Analysis are areas that include a vast number of techniques developed in Computer Science such as numerical analysis, database methodology, computer graphics, software engineering and human-computer interface. A research, based on a certain theory regarding the topic under investigation, can propose some statements or hypothesis about the reasons of certain behaviour. The next step consists in testing some predictions with suitable experiments where several questions must be answered in order to obtain data. Depending on the outcomes of the experiment, the theory on which the hypotheses and predictions were based will be supported or not. By the nature of this line of scientific investigation the statistical methods assumes a major importance to determining the validity of empirical research. It is also important to quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement. Several areas such as Medicine, Therapies, Biochemical Technology, Engineering and Economics relate Statistical Knowledge and Computer Science in order to analyse data obtained in the context of empirical research. This workshop will provide researchers and practitioners a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, problems understanding and visions for the future. The workshop will also provide a platform for researchers and developers to present results using the available tools and software packages for data analysis and to identify the problems in the theory and practice of empirical research recognizing future developments. ASDACS Topics: ? Applied Statistics and Data Analysis ? Computer Science ? Data collection strategies and methods ? Selection and type of data ? Strategies to enhance Quality of Data ? Databases ? Applicability for theory development and practice ? Machine Learning and Automatic Scientific Discovery ? Data Visualization ? Decision based on Evidence ? Empirical Research ? Statistical and Data Analysis Software Workshop on Big Data Systems and Technologies ? BDST Big Data is transforming the way we think about Computing and Information Systems. It influences science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and all of the society itself. This workshop provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications, as well as how Big Data changes the way we create, deploy and use Information Systems. We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity): big data science and foundations, big data infrastructure, big data management, big data searching and mining, big data privacy/security, and big data applications. BDST Topics: ? BigData Architectures ? Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data ? Big Data Open Platforms ? Big Data Quality and Provenance Control ? Big Data Protection, Integrity and Privacy ? Security Applications of Big Data ? Big Data Search and Mining ? Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics ? Big Data for Business Model Innovation ? Big Data Toolkits ? Big Data in Business Performance Management ? SME-centric Big Data Analytics ? Big Data for Vertical Industries (including Government, Healthcare, and Environment) ? Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments ? Big Data in Enterprise and Government Management Models and Practices Workshop on Business Intelligence in Organisations ? BIO BIO workshop has the goal to discuss the academic research and practical findings on all aspects of managing business intelligence in organizations. It will provide a global forum for the investigation and reporting of diverse issues that affect business intelligence: the role, scope, and impact of BI on decision making and strategies of organizations. The workshop will include all aspects of the business intelligence, including organizational issues, technological developments, educational issues, and analytical techniques that foster or inhibit evidence-based decision-making in organizations, promoting submissions that address the theories and practices that impact the field of business intelligence. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the Workshop Business Intelligence in Organizations. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of Business Intelligence. BIO Topics: ? Business intelligence applications ? Business intelligence and CRM ? Business intelligence education ? Business intelligence in small and medium enterprises ? Business intelligence technology utilization in organizations ? Business intelligence training issues ? Data warehousing and data mining strategies for business intelligence ? Development of business intelligence architectures ? Knowledge transfer and sharing behaviors in business intelligence ? Methodologies and processes for managing business intelligence activities ? Metrics and their effectiveness in business intelligence analyses ? Organizational culture and its impact on business intelligence ? Relationship between knowledge management and business intelligence ? Theories that enlighten business intelligence & decision-making ? Trends in business intelligence research Workshop on Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis ? CSQA CSQA focusses on the fast growing area of computer supported qualitative analysis. It is intended to discuss research results and new trends on this area, including new qualitative research/analysis software packages and new features available on these software packages. Also of interest is the relation between qualitative and quantitative analysis and the computer support for developing mixed studies. Case studies and practical applications of computer supported qualitative analysis are also of interest with emphasis on those in the engineering, information systems and education areas. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis ? CSQA2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of Quality Analysis. CSQA Topics ? Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis/Research; ? Qualitative Analysis Software (NVivo, Atlas.ti, webQDA, MaxQDA, C.T.A, Dedoose,?); ? Computer Supported Cooperative Work; ? Data types, formats and organization for qualitative software; ? Coding schema and processes; ? Searching and querying qualitative data bases; ? Charting and outputting results with qualitative software; ? Teamwork for qualitative analysis; ? Usability Studies and User Experiences; ? Case studies and practical applications of computer supported qualitative analysis; ? Impact of software on the quality of research and analysis; ? Mix studies (qualitative/quantitative) supported by software; ? Qualitative Research in Web Context (eResearch, virtual ethnography, interaction analysis, latent corpus on the internet, etc.); ? Artificial Intelligence applied to qualitative analysis software; ? Interaction Design applied to qualitative analysis software; ? Quality of integration of software in human and social science. Workshop on Educational and Serious Games ? ESG The ESG workshop focusses on the fast growing area of Educational and Serious Games. The aim of the Workshop on Educational and Serious Games ESG2015 is to bring together researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on educational and serious games research and development with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to ESG2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the field of educational and serious games. ESG Topics ? Applications of Games for Society and Sustainability ? Case Studies and Applications ? Collaboration and Competition in Multiplayer Educational and Serious Games ? Educational and Serious Game Design and Development ? Game Engines and Enabling Technologies ? Games for Decision Making Support ? Games for Education, Training and Healthcare ? Gaming with Virtual and Augmented Reality, Mobile and Online Worlds ? Graphics, Interaction and Visualization ? Intelligent Agents, Gamebots and AI for E&S Games ? Laws, Regulations, Certifications, Policies and Intellectual Property Rights for Games ? Methodologies for Research on and Assessment of E&S Games ? Methodologies for Gaming Simulation in E&S Games ? Natural User Interfaces, Hardware and Accessories for E&S Games ? Social & Psychological Impact of E&S Games ? Usability, Evaluation and User Studies Workshop on Healthcare Information Systems: Interoperability, Security and Efficiency ? HISISE The Workshop on Healthcare Information Systems Interoperability, Security and Efficiency at WorldCIST 2015, intends to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives have the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and latest research results of meaningful contributes and systems for healthcare information systems. The workshop intends to cover several dimensions of the original research as regarding to theoretical, methodological and technological developments and also new applications. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the Workshop on Healthcare Information Systems Interoperability, Security and Efficiency HISISE?2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of interoperability in healthcare. HISISE Topics ? Healthcare Information Systems Integration & Interoperability; ? Electronic Health Records (EHR); ? Standards for interoperability; ? Data Security and Protection; ? Semantic Interoperability; ? Interoperability Standards; ? Interoperability scenarios and case studies; ? Semantic Mapping of Clinical Data; ? Recommendation Systems; ? Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS); ? Medical Ontologies; ? Clinical Terminologies; ? mHealth; ? Clinical Business Intelligence (BI). Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Machines ? ISM The ISM workshop focusses on the application of artificial intelligence methodologies for creating intelligent systems and machines. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and industry on the areas of intelligent systems and robotics in order to exchange ideas on research and development with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to ISM 2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and system/machine demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the field of intelligent systems and machines. ISM Topics ? Agent Technology and Multi-Agent Systems ? Artificial Intelligence ? Assistive Technology ? Cognitive Systems ? Complex Systems ? Computer Vision and Image Processing ? Cooperative Systems ? Human-Machine Interaction ? Hybrid Intelligent Systems ? Industrial/Manufacturing Applications ? Knowledge-Based Systems / Knowledge Management ? Learning and Adaptation ? Localization, Mapping and Navigation ? Machine Learning ? Modelling and Simulation ? Planning and Control ? Sensor Fusion ? Soft Computing ? Uncertainty in Intelligent Systems Workshop on Internet of Things ? IoT Internet of Things (IoT) only take off if combined with cloud computing and with a big ?mountain? of sensors and actuators embedded in the environment able to collect, monitor and transfer data from real objects to databases or caches and vice-versa. This huge quantity of information generated by sensors, or targeted at actuators, should be streamed to any number of devices and services just in time. This means that there will be a lot of data navigating in the network infrastructure that needs to be promptly processed so that operators and companies can ensure that information is always updated. Also, privacy and security issues must be properly addressed. The cloud computing can help to handle massive volumes of data while remaining accessible from anywhere for any device. Information can be extracted from massive data using Big Data and Cloud technologies, in a secure and safe way, and clouding is one technology capable of handling this data and delivering in real time. The Internet of Things is becoming a reality, however it still has some way to go before it reaches maturity, but is getting there and cloud computing will certainly be one driver force to get there. The Workshop will primarily focus on IoT enabling technologies that advance the research in the area of Internet of Things. IoT Topics ? Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things ? IoT Middleware ? Internet of Things Applications ? Cloud and Grid computing for IoT ? IoT Network management and Monitoring ? Privacy and Security in Internet of Things ? Internet of Nano-Things ? Privacy and security in Cloud Computing ? Social Networks for Internet of Things ? IoT in Smart Cities and Smart Grids ? IoT in Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop on Pervasive Information Systems ? PIS Pervasive Information Systems (PIS) extend the Information System paradigm by introducing a set of novel characteristics into the society. This workshop aims to discuss topics related to PIS, evaluate the importance for the society and the creation of new knowledge overcoming temporal and local barriers. This workshop is focused on demonstrating how to take advantages from this new sort of information systems and which kind of solutions can be developed in order to support the decision making process anywhere and anytime. PIS 2015 is the ideal place for bringing together the researchers who are working in this particular area of information systems in order to promote discussion and explore new scope of scientific contributions. Having conscience of the most recent situation in Europe and the Horizon 2020 strategy, a deeper analysis should be made on this emerging topic. Authors are invited to submit unpublished work, contributing with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of PIS. Authors should present new trends, discuss future challenges and understand how information affects the way humans interact with the built environments occupied by them. PIS Topics ? Ubiquitous Data Mining; ? Pervasive Intelligent Systems; ? Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems; ? Pervasive Systems Based on Cloud Computing; ? Decision Support Systems; ? Interoperability and Pervasiveness; ? Pervasive Business Intelligence; ? Sensor-based systems; ? Life-styling pervasive solutions; ? Pervasive environments and software architectures; ? Pervasiveness and Security in Information Systems; ? Mobile and ubiquitous solutions; ? Pervasive Information Systems Applied to society solutions (e.g. Healthcare, Finances, Education, Government); ? Usability and acceptability of pervasive system; ? Ubiquitous devices in the storage, update, and transmission of data. Workshop on Safety, Ergonomics and Efficiency in Human-Machine Interfaces ? HMInSafe The aim of the Workshop on Safety, Ergonomics and Efficiency in Human-Machine Interfaces at WorldCIST 2015 is to provide an international forum for experts and researchers working in the area of Human-Machine Interface contexts, in order to explore the state-of-art as well as to present new advanced concepts and results. The Human?Machine Interface (HMI) design plays very important role in different branches of industry. Human?machine interface is an integrated or independent element of the machine that provides communication between human and machine. Human-Machine Interface is used in IT, automation, robotics and/or mechatronics applications as well as in the technical education. We encourage authors to submit unpublished work to the Workshop on Safety, Ergonomics and Efficiency in Human-Machine Interfaces ? HMInSafe 2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of serious games. HMInSafe Topics ? Human-Machine Interface applications ? Software and Information Technology in HMI applications ? Ergonomics in Human-Machine Interface ? Safety of HMI systems ? Specific algorithms used in HMI systems ? Reliability of control systems ? Human Media Interaction ? Control and monitoring systems ? Networks in HMI ? Educational aspects of HMI ? Diagnostics of HMI ? HMI hardware ? Estimation of human error probability in HMI systems ? Interactive control issues ? Autonomous systems and their reliability Workshop on Stealth and Anti-Forensics Techniques ? SAFT The Workshop on Stealth and Ant-forensics Techniques at WorldCIST 2015, intends to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives have the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and latest research results of Stealth and Ant-forensics Techniques. The workshop intends to cover several dimensions of the original research as regarding to theoretical, methodological and technological developments and also new applications. We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the Workshop in Stealth and Anti-forensics Techniques - Anti-Forensics?2015. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of Computer Forensic. SAFT Topics: ? Concept about Stealth and Anti-forensic Techniques ? Data Hiding in file system ? Manipulation Metadata information ? Manipulation Block data information ? Data Hiding in Slackspace ? Data Hiding in network communication ? Cover Channel ? Wipe Techniques ? Polymorphic variation (obfuscation/deobfuscation) ? Anti-forensic applied to operating systems ? Anti-forensic vs Virtualization for protection and/or analysis ? Anti-forensic in memory ? Anti-debug Techniques ? Anti-forensic applied to internal operating system ? Anti-forensic protection -- WoldCIST 2015 Team http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2015/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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_chhabra at hotmail.com http://www.igi-global.com/IJCESC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Tue Nov 25 12:45:24 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:45:24 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing Message-ID: <3EA50881-8C71-4A7E-86F9-F402F0E1EA58@indiana.edu> Faculty Position in the Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington Indiana University The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2015 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Applications from senior leaders are especially encouraged. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-library-information-science-programs/library-information-science-ranking The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of over 85 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,100 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; science studies; semantic web, social informatics; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master?s degrees in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, Library Science, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant area (or for junior level, expected before August 2015) and an established record (senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence in research and teaching (junior level). Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level) using the University?s online system below (preferred): http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/971 or to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 15, 2014. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu), or to any of the members of the search committee: Katy B?rner (katy at indiana.edu), Susan Herring (herring at indiana.edu), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenbau at indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ???????????? Howard Rosenbaum Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Co-Director, Master of Information Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.soic.indiana.edu/about/directory/profile.html?profile_id=286 ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.ccma.csic.es/dpts/suelos/hidro/issi/home.html ---------------------------------------------------- From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Wed Nov 26 01:55:01 2014 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:55:01 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web Message-ID: <54757945.4080002@univ-amu.fr> *Call for Papers* *NEW DEADLINE: 31^st JAN 2015* *Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web* Special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ *Guest editors* Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, School of Journalism and Communication, Aix-Marseille University, France Elaine M?nard, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Qu?bec, Canada *Themes* The term "Web 2.0" refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible -- and intensified -- global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers. This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web's massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors. This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes under way within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. The guest editors of this special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ invite researchers from different disciplines to submit original unpublished work in connection with the changes brought about by Web 2.0 in these sectors. Contributions may cover different aspects: epistemological, technological, sociological, economic and political impact of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries, archives, museums and new media. More specifically, contributions should address the following questions: 1.How can institutional repositories (nomenclatures, classification languages, catalogues, thesauri, controlled vocabulary indexing) produced by professionals (librarians, archivists, journalists, curators) accommodate the participatory culture of the social Web and content generated by users? 2.How do Web 2.0 digital devices transform (or not) the relationship that libraries, museums and archives have with the public and vice versa? To what extent are the concepts/phenomena of participatory libraries or museums becoming a reality? Are we moving away from non-participatory past practices toward new practices that are rather participatory? 3.How does the public receive the innovative applications of Web 2.0 technology in libraries, archives and museums? 4.Do technical participatory tools (such as mashups, podcasts, blogs, social tagging/folksonomies, social bookmarking, use of social networks including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn or museum informatics, etc.) create new gateways or new modes of interaction with documentary, archival or museum artifacts? 5.How do physical institutions (museums, libraries, archives) coexist alongside their virtual platforms? Will this coexistence continue (e.g., the threatened closure of libraries in some countries) or will the multiplication of virtual forms of libraries, museums and archives not result in the disappearance or deterritorializationof these institutions as physical places? 6.Is the institutional and historical distinction between archives, libraries and museums challenged by digital phenomena? Are the boundaries between them becoming porous due to new needs generated by the public social Web (e.g., "museo-libraries")? 7.What socio-professional changes or epistemological repositioning under way among stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and media are caused by these new digital devices? 8.What is the impact of opening up public data for these institutions? Proposals will be evaluated by two blind reviewers according to the standard practice of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/. * The journal* Established in 1976, the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. *Languages* Submissions are accepted in either English or French. *Deadline* ?March 2014: Call for submissions ?November 30, 2014*31^st JAN 2015*: Deadline for submission of the first draft of the article ?March 15, 2015: Decision of the review committee sent to authors ?June 1, 2015: Submission of the final version of the article ?Fall 2015: Publication of the special issue *Submission* For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editors. Send your manuscripts in electronic format (Word or RTF) to: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Full Professor School of Journalism and Communication Aix-Marseille University France fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Elaine M?nard Associate Professor School of Information Studies McGill University Montreal, Canada elaine.menard at mcgill.ca Guidelines for authors are available online on the journal's website at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm. Please indicate at the beginning of your submission which point(s) or theme(s) your paper will address. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Whether mobile or at home, children use search interfaces to explore personal interests, complete academic assignments, and have social interaction. However, engaging with search also means engaging with an ever-changing and evolving search landscape. There are continual software updates, multiple devices used to search (e.g., phones, tablets), an increasing use of social media, and constantly updated Internet content. For young searchers, this can require infinite adaptability or mean being hopelessly confused. This book offers a perspective centered on children's search experiences as a whole instead of thinking of search as a process with separate and potentially problematic steps. Reading the prior literature with a child-centered view of search reveals that children have been remarkably consistent over time as searchers, displaying the same search strategies regardless of the landscape of search. However, no research has synthesized these consistent patterns in children's search across the literature, and only recently have these patterns been uncovered as distinct search roles, or searcher types. Based on a four-year longitudinal study on children's search experiences, this book weaves together the disparate evidence in the literature through the use of 9 search roles for children ages 7-15. The search role framework has a distinct advantage because it encourages adult stakeholders to design children's search tools to support and educate children at their existing levels of search strength and deficit, rather than expecting children to adapt to a transient search landscape. Read More Series: Synthesis Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Series Editor: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/icr/1/1 Use of this book as a course text is encouraged, and the texts may be downloaded without restriction by members of institutions that have licensed accessed to the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science or after a one-time fee of $20.00 each by members of non-licensed schools. To find out whether your institution is licensed, visit < http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/licensed> or follow the links above and attempt to download the PDF. Additional information about Synthesis can be found through the following links or by contacting me directly. This book can also be purchased in print from Amazon and other booksellers worldwide. Amazon URL: http://amzn.to/1BKbhdd Individual subscriptions to Synthesis are available for just $99.00 per year. This subscription will provide individuals with unrestricted access to all Synthesis titles: http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/subscribe Available titles and subject areas: http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp Information for librarians, including pricing and license: http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/librarian_info Please contact info at morganclaypool.com to request your desk copy -- Shane Clyburn Marketing Associate Morgan & Claypool Publishers E-mail: shane at morganclaypool.com Fax: 415.785.2507 Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will provide leadership in the area of library information technology, build consensus among various constituents in the consortium, investigate and recommend library information technology solutions, and actively participate in the creation of a contemporary, user-centered information environment. The focus of the position will be the direction of CONSORT library systems used by four of the colleges (Oberlin excluded). The Associate Director will play an important role in the provision of training and development for our library staffs and in the growing library systems collaborations among all five colleges. For more information or to apply visit: http://employment2.kenyon.edu/postings/1893 -- Amy E. 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With this global development, the diversity of user languages on the Web has increased dramatically, leading to new challenges and opportunities for information access providers and consumers. The MWA workshop will bring together researchers working on Cross-/Multilingual Search & Discovery, the Multilingual Social Web, as well as the Multilingual Semantic Web, in order to promote the exchange of complementary ideas and applicable/transferrable techniques between these areas. The goal of the workshop is to advance the current state of the art in Multilingual Web Access techniques, and, most importantly, to increase the adoption of multilingual techniques, methods, and tools in real-world Web applications. -------- Themes of interest -------- Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Multilingual Web search & discovery - Multilingual recommender systems - Multilingual news systems - Cross-/multilingual information retrieval - Multilingual Web user needs & behavior - Interactive MWA systems & interfaces - Personalized multilingual search systems - Multilingual social network analysis - Methods & tools for information & community linking - Multilingual semantic knowledge extraction, representation, and annotation - Multilingual ontology mapping & data linking - Sharing multilingual language resources as open web data - Integration of language technology with multilingual Web content, e.g. automated translation, automated text annotation for topic detection, named entity recognition and disambiguation - Evaluation: methods, collections, and metrics for MWA - Language resources for MWA - Cultural aspects of MWA - Risk-aware MWA - Privacy and Data Protection of multilingual Web content and data across jurisdictions ----------- Submissions ----------- We solicit submissions of long (up to 6 pages) and short papers (up to 3 pages) from diverse backgrounds, with the aim of promoting the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page athttp://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/MWA2015/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. *** Accepted papers will be included in the WWW conference companion volume that is published together with the main proceedings by ACM. *** --------------- Important dates --------------- Feb 11, 2015: Submission Deadline Feb 27, 2015: Notification to Authors Mar 8, 2015: Camera-ready Due May 19, 2015: Workshop -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - ben.steichen at ubc.ca Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy) - ferro at dei.unipd.it Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Dave.Lewis at scss.tcd.ie Ed H. 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UMAP 2015 will have the theme "Contextualizing the World", highlighting the significance and impact of User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies on a large number of everyday application areas such as: intelligent learning environments, recommender systems, ecommerce, advertising, personalized information retrieval and access, digital humanities, eGovernment, cultural heritage, and personalized health. UMAP2015 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following topics: Techniques in User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - Personalizing information access - Recommending products - Adapting/Contextualizing search - Enhancing learning outcomes - Adapting interfaces - Personalizing search and information retrieval - Adapting activities and workflow Innovative Applications for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - E-commerce - E-learning - Cultural heritage - Digital libraries - Social media, digital TV, advertisement - Assistive technologies and healthcare - Entertainment and games - Recommender systems User Characteristics for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - Knowledge and skills - Interests and preferences - Special needs - Affective states, personality - Goals & Plans - Contexts of use, roles - Cultural characteristics Environments for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - Web-based systems - Desktop systems - Virtual or immersive environments - Mobile and wearable systems - Smart objects - Groupware systems Design, Usability and Evaluation issues for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - Ensuring user adequate control, understanding and & predictability - Preserving privacy, security and diversity - Avoiding excessive narrowing of experience - Requirements capture - Formative evaluation - User testing and validation Computational methods for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies - Data collection - User model construction & representation - Algorithms for personalization & adaptation - Mediation of user models - Architectures for user modeling & adaptive technologies UMAP 2015 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above topics and is organized into three main tracks: research track, experience track and industry track. Research track Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Papers will be assessed based on the originality and significance of the presented contribution to the research field, as well as their technical soundness and overall readability. Experience track Peer reviewed papers showcasing innovative use of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, exploring the benefits and challenges of applying user modeling techniques and adaptation technology in real-life applications and contexts. Papers will be assessed based on the novelty of the application, the potential impact from the utilization of user modeling and adaptation technologies in the specific case, and the usefulness of the presented experience for extending the UMAP research and application. Industry track Peer reviewed papers showcasing mature and solid use of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, clearly illustrating the benefits and challenges of applying user modeling techniques and adaptation technology in commercial contexts. Papers will be assessed based on the maturity and the robustness of the solution, and the economic and social impact. The Research and Experience track will accept the submission of both "long" papers (12 pages) and "short" papers (6 pages). Submissions to the Industry track should be of a maximum 8 pages with a specific commercial focus. In order to maintain the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper in all three tracks will have three reviews by program committee members. The program chairs will coordinate the review process. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2015 They must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style guidelines http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and not exceed the page length, as specified above. The long and short paper categories will be strictly kept apart in the submission and review process. Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees, and also published by Springer in both online and printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 30th 2015 Papers submission: February 6th 2015 Notification to authors: 23rd March 2015 Camera-ready submission: 13th April 2015 The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. CONFERENCE CHAIRS General Chairs: Owen Conlan and S?amus Lawless Program Chairs: Kalina Bontcheva and Francesco Ricci CONFERENCE WEB SITE http://um.org/umap2015/ ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ah mailing list ah at listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/ah -- Dr. Kevin Koidl Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. M.Sc. (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. TU) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From huatongs at gmail.com Wed Nov 26 13:09:15 2014 From: huatongs at gmail.com (Huatong Sun) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:09:15 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] ATTW 2015 Research Methods Workshops: Scholarships Available! Message-ID: *Deadline extended to Dec 15 for ATTW 2015 Research Methods Workshops* *March 17, 2015 12:30-4:30* *Scholarships Available!* The Research Methods Workshops are an initiative of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) aimed at providing an opportunity for those entering the profession and those less trained in research to develop more sophisticated research skills. This year, ATTW is sponsoring two Research Methods Workshops: - Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University, and Ryan Omizo, University of Rhode Island, on* Analyzing Large-Scale Datasets in Writing Studies*, and - Huatong Sun, University of Washington Tacoma, on *Analyzing Digital Writing in a Cross Cultural Framework.* These two half-day workshops will be held in Tampa on Tuesday afternoon, March 17, 12:30-4:30. This is the day preceding the ATTW conference (March 18) and the CCCC conference (March 18-21). Each workshop focuses on a methodology for data analysis and is designed to help researchers devise and try out an analytic approach. *Analyzing Large-Scale Datasets in Writing Studies* with Bill Hart-Davidson and Ryan Omizofocuses on methods for using machine-learning algorithms to assist in the rapid analysis of a large text corpus. *Analyzing Digital Writing in a Cross Cultural Framework* with Huatong Sun focuses on how to use a dialogic view of local culture to examine cross-cultural data and articulate local technology-mediated practices as uptakes in the age of globalization. Complete descriptions of these workshops can be found at: Hart-Davidson and Omizo: http://attw.org/node/188623 Sun: http://attw.org/node/188624 Registration for each workshop is $100. Ten scholarships of $200 each are available to graduate students to defray the cost of the workshop and hotel. Participation in these workshops is awarded on a competitive basis and constitutes a place on the ATTW program. To apply for a place in one of these workshops, complete the application form found at http://attw.org/sites/default/files/ATTW2015WorkshopApplication.pdf Send it along with a 1-page description of your project to cgeisler at sfu.ca. Applications are due December 15, 2014 and acceptances will emailed to you by Jan 2. Questions about these workshops can be directed to Cheryl Geisler ( cgeisler at sfu.ca), Chair of the ATTW Committee on Research. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huatong Sun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington Tacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/ Book: Cross-Cultural Technology Design (Oxford UP) http://global.oup.com/academic/product/cross-cultural-technology-design-9780199744763 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Deng, Shengli / Yang, Lina / Zhang, Yin Page 327 ________________________________________ Leveraging Personal Networks to Support Knowledge Management in a Public Sector Organisation in Kuwait Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar Page 341 ________________________________________ Children and Young Adults - Hospital Patients, Prisoners, and with Developmental Disorders - Who Cannot Come to Slovenian Public Libraries: A National Survey Vilar, Polona / Bon, Milena Page 350 ________________________________________ Status of Prison Library and Information Resources and Facilities in Nigeria: A Focus at the East Eze, Jacintha Ukamaka / Dike, Virginia W. Page 369 ________________________________________ Transforming South African Libraries through Leadership Education: A Programme Evaluation Hart, Genevieve C. / Hart, Mike Page 381 ________________________________________ Trends and Developments in the Literature on Community Libraries in Africa Stranger-Johannessen, Espen Page 396 ________________________________________ Acquisition of Audiovisual Materials on the Tiv Tyumbun Magic Rite by the Public Libraries in Benue State of Nigeria Agber, Tim Cuttings / Ugbagir, Nancy Ngunan / Mnguty?, James Ngushin / Amaakaven, Fabian G. 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Name: message.footer URL: From news at iccss2015.eu Thu Nov 27 15:28:26 2014 From: news at iccss2015.eu (news at iccss2015.eu) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:28:26 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] UPDATES ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE (ICCSS 2015) Message-ID: <20141127222826.Horde.DSZds2P7EV-WdxmCu2pcEA1@box451.bluehost.com> ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** Dear Colleagues, here are some news on ICCSS 2015 (www.iccss2015.eu). 1) We are proud to announce that the City of Helsinki has offered to host a reception in the evening of the opening day of the event, June the 8th. The reception will be at City Hall http://www.visithelsinki.fi/en/sights-and-attractions/city-hall 2) We are seeking continuously funds for the conference, but we can anticipate that the conference fee for early registration will be of about 350 euro for regular participants and around 200 euro for students. 3) Participants who need support are encouraged to send an email to santo.fortunato at aalto.fi to get an update on the situation. Best regards, the ICCSS Team From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Fri Nov 28 05:36:50 2014 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:36:50 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] IEEE BigDataService 2015 CFP (deadline extended!) - Big Data Information Banking Track Message-ID: *IEEE BigDataService 2015: Call for Papers* March 30 - April 2, 2015 Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, USA *Important Dates* Full paper submission: December 15, 2014 Review notification: January 12, 2015 Final camera-ready version: January 19, 2015 Paper registration: January 26, 2015 Big Data computing and service is becoming a very hot research and application subject in academic research, industry community, and government services. Today, with the fast advance of big data science, analytics and technology, big data researchers and application professionals are able to access to diverse data mining and machine learning algorithms, open-source platforms & tools, and cloud DB technology and big data access technologies. Unlike the other venues, this international conference is established to address the above needs for big data computing service researchers, domain-specific researchers, government agencies, and practitioners. The major objective is to provide a big platform for them to exchange innovation ideas and research results, and share application experiences and lessons. The three major objectives of this conference include: - *Big Data Innovation *of big data computing and service models, theories, tools, solutions and technologies. - *Big Data and Service Sharing* in big data banks and resources, portals, platforms, and open-sources, technology and tools. - *Big Data Application *in real world big data application service projects for major application domains, including energy and environment, medical and healthcare, library, social media and networking, and education. In particular, please consider submitting to the "*Big Data Information Banking*" track, which is specifically designed for the library and information science field. This track includes the papers focusing on big data-related research in library and information science, including big data information banking projects, policies, standards, business services & cost models, data sharing, exchange & management, data-intensive computing and services, data classification/indexing, retrieval, storage & search solutions for digital libraries, and supporting infrastructures. This conference will include a three-day program with a well-defined track program, plus a number of invited keynote speeches from well-known speakers from the real world, as well as a CLOUD TECH SUMMIT with big data sessions. For more information, please see the following site: http://www.big-dataservice.net/ We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you soon in the near future. 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