From arubel at wisc.edu Fri Jan 2 13:23:09 2015 From: arubel at wisc.edu (Alan Rubel) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:23:09 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Information Ethics Roundtable at UW-Madison: Deadline January 5 Message-ID: <7580be1dd00ca.54a68dad@wiscmail.wisc.edu> This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2015 Information Ethics Roundtable at the University of Wisconsin, Madison is January 5, 2015. The theme of the conference is Transparency and Secrecy, and the goal of the conference is to bring together scholars and professionals to examine issues related to that theme (broadly construed) from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The keynote speakers for the IER are Louise Amoore, Professor of Geography, Durham University (UK) and Christopher Kutz, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley. Other confirmed speakers include Kay Mathiesen (SIRLS, University of Arizona), Don Fallis (SIRLS, University of Arizona), and Lucas Graves (Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison). Please submit an abstract of about 500 words to ier at slis.wisc.edu by January 5, 2015. Abstracts will be peer reviewed, and notification of acceptance status will be sent by January 20, 2015. For more information, please see the attached flier or visit the conference website at http://ier2015.org. For specific questions and inquiries, please contact organizer Alan Rubel at arubel at wisc.edu. -- Alan Rubel Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Program in Legal Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison arubel at wisc.edu alanrubel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Qualifications: * Master's Degree in Library Science (MLS/MLIS) from an ALA accredited university is required; * Previous experience working with a variety of reference requests; * Must be familiar with the USGS National Geologic Map Database. * Must be familiar with the USGS Reports Written for Congress, Congressional Testimonies, and News Releases * Must be familiar with the USGS Real-time, Continuous, and Historical Data * Excellent customer service skills * Ability to multi- task For consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/IySQwJ LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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The Reference Librarian will use advanced knowledge and exercise judgment while serving the public. Work hours will be Thursdays through Saturdays, with 21 scheduled hours per week. The term for this position is not fixed and may last until March 28, 2015. Responsibilities: * Provide research services to Research Center's audience of academic researchers, independent scholars, university and high school students, architects, community organizations, house historians, hobbyists, genealogists, and other individuals; * Provide appropriate guidance and supervision on the use and handling of materials; * Provide introductions to using the research collection and the Research Center's holdings and services to interns, Museum members, college classes, and area librarians; * Deal diplomatically and effectively with members of the public; * Work with fragile paper and film-based special collections materials; * Ascend and descend stairs as well as lift, carry, or otherwise move objects/boxes weighing up to 40 pounds. Qualifications: * Master's degree in Library and Information Science. Experience in a research setting highly preferred; * Knowledge of Chicago and its history; * Knowledge of the Library of Congress classification system; * Excellent verbal and written communication skills; * Ability to properly handle with fragile paper and film-based materials; * Ability to ascend and descend stairs; * Ability to lift and carry objects/boxes weighing up to 40 pounds; * Demonstrated commitment to excellent public service; ability to deal diplomatically and effectively with members of the public. Apply at: http://goo.gl/IBc09E LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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URL: From slis at ualberta.ca Mon Jan 5 18:23:27 2015 From: slis at ualberta.ca (- slis) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:23:27 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] New Chair Appointment at SLIS University of Alberta Message-ID: *Please excuse the error in the subject line of the the previous email.* Dear Colleagues, Based on an open search for Chair of the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta, and the excellent work of our Selection Committee in December, I am delighted to announce that Dr. Toni Samek emerged as the top candidate for this leadership position, and has agreed to take up the leadership role July 1st, 2015. Dr. Samek is currently a Professor at SLIS, where she began teaching in 1994. She holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998). Toni?s books include *Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship 1967 to 1974* and *Librarianship and Human Rights: A twenty-first century guide*. Her scholarship has appeared in translation in such countries as Japan, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Turkey. An award winning teacher, Toni received the debut *Library Journal *Teaching Award in 2007, has been acknowledged with a Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award, and in 2012, she received a 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - the first scholar in the field of library and information studies to receive the ?3M?. Toni?s professional citizenship includes serving as founding member and first chair of the Association for Library and Information Science Education?s Special Interest Group on Information Ethics. She twice chaired the Canadian Library Association?s Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom and she recently completed two consecutive three-year terms on the Canadian Association of University Teacher?s Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee. In recognition of her significant contributions, Toni was honoured with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) Distinguished Alumna Award in 2013. SLIS looks forward to Dr. Samek's leadership! Anna Altmann Interim Chair, School of Library and Information Studies University of Alberta 780-492-3932 ______________________________ *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the exclusive view of named recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Mon Jan 5 13:23:11 2015 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:23:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Library Technician / Beltsville, MD Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings LAC Group is seeking a Library Technician to work on a full-time contract position, subject to award, at a government agency in Beltsville, MD . The Library Technician's responsibilities include assisting with Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, Collection Maintenance, and Technical Services, when needed. Work hours will fall within regular business hours. Required Skills/Knowledge Include: * Experience searching library catalogs and interpreting bibliographic records. * Proficiency with Microsoft Excel. * Ability to lift and climb ladders to retrieve materials. * Ability to work independently following established procedures. * Ability to manage time and balance work on a variety of ongoing tasks according to set priorities. * Experience search Voyager Library Catalog and proficiency with Microsoft Access. * Ability to scan documents from the library collection. For immediate consideration, apply at: http://goo.gl/SS0BG0 LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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A successful candidate will have had previous meta-tagging experience especially with media assets and understand the role of standards, accuracy, structure, context and geography. Responsibilities: * Complete and accurate data entry of relevant metatags within a pre-defined format and style; * Perform captioning of videos * Timely completion of assigned work; * Ability to proof and quality control their own work and remain consistent with the rest of the project team; Qualifications: * 1 - 4 years previous metadata / meta tagging experience especially within a media / publishing environment; * Knowledge of digital and video image files and formats is preferred * Experience working within specific metadata style guidelines; * Excellent reading, analytically and communication skills; * Ability to read and summarize content succinctly; * Creative problem solving abilities; * Good organizational, time management and customer service skills essential; For immediate consideration, apply at: http://goo.gl/lWJfoa LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Wed Jan 7 10:17:15 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:17:15 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web In-Reply-To: <54757945.4080002@univ-amu.fr> References: <54757945.4080002@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <54AD4DFB.7040308@univ-amu.fr> Final call. *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/ ----------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------- 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... URL: From olof.sundin at kultur.lu.se Wed Jan 7 03:09:02 2015 From: olof.sundin at kultur.lu.se (Olof Sundin) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:09:02 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 4 yr fully-funded PhD position in Information Studies, Lund University, Sweden In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 4 year fully-funded PhD position in Information Studies at Lund University, Sweden. We are seeking applications for the position of one doctoral student in Information Studies, Lund University, Sweden to start 1st September 2015. The official call will open 1st of February and close 4 weeks later. However, we would like to encourage those interested to begin working on their project descriptions and to update their CVs already now. The PhD program is located at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities. The research environment is dynamic and growing with well-established national and international contacts. A Swedish PhD education lasts four years full-time. It is fully funded including wages, social security and entitlement to benefits. If you are interested, please contact me for more information. Best regards, Olof .............................. Olof Sundin Professor in Information Studies Assistant head of department (doctoral education) Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences Lund University, Sweden Tel: +46 46 2220966 email:olof.sundin at kultur.lu.se Home page: http://www.kultur.lu.se/en/the-department/staff/OlofSundin/ .............................. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Wed Jan 7 17:22:54 2015 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:22:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP iConference Workshop: Role of Engagement in Human Information Interaction In-Reply-To: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93F4216A@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> References: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93F4216A@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93F421B7@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 (DUE JANUARY 31, 2015; email to: ischool.engagementlab at ubc.ca) 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. 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 31, 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). Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CAIS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cais-info+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cais-info at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nicoleca at stanford.edu Wed Jan 7 13:47:32 2015 From: nicoleca at stanford.edu (Nicole Capdarest-Arest) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:47:32 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Job posting | Assistant/Associate Director of Resource Management | Stanford, CA Message-ID: <978D2B0D-5D5D-4E29-BDF3-18C7155F685B@stanford.edu> Apologies for the cross postings. Seeking qualified candidates to apply directly online via: https://stanford.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=64074 . Assistant Director of Resource Management - 64074 Description Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center (http://lane.stanford.edu/) at Stanford University Medical Center enables biomedical discovery by connecting people with knowledge. Through innovative means, we create, acquire, deliver and integrate information to support excellence in research, education and patient care. Lane Medical Library seeks qualified applicants to fill the position of Assistant Director of Resource Management. This position oversees acquisitions, collection development/serials, and interlibrary/document delivery areas, reporting to the Director for Resource Management. The position?s focus is to actively participate in facilitating Lane?s collaborative efforts to provide optimal access to the most appropriate resources when and where needed. This involves the many aspects of evaluation, selection, and activation of digital resources, management of their deployment for discovery and access, and ensuring ongoing availability and problem resolution. It includes the use of innovative technologies and procedures for effective management and to lessen or eliminate barriers to access, while considering fiscal, technical, and policy constraints. Document delivery informs collection development decisions, while serving users? needs for content not permanently collected. RESPONSIBILITIES: ? Supervise 3.5 directly, 2 indirectly FTE library specialists in the following areas: o Document delivery and interlibrary loan services o Acquisitions and related fiscal management o Initiating new subscriptions, renewals and cancellations o Initiating metadata records, detecting title changes, and related coordination o Maintaining serials and ebook holdings records o Managing data for physical materials sent to remote storage This position will also work closely with the Digital Materials Manager (licensing) and metadata librarians ? Facilitate communications regarding collection-related matters, including: o Users?by promotion of licensed content via CAP, Stanford?s social networking platform, etc.; triage of digital access problems, resolution of user request issues, etc. o Lane acquisitions and digital licensing regarding financial and legal compliance aspects of digital content o Lane metadata staff regarding bibliographic aspects of serials and analytics o Library staff - in liaisons to medical school departments and document delivery o Collection Development Committee re policy and major purchase decisions o Other campus libraries re coordination of collection development and licensing o NLM and OCLC in regard to serials holdings/SERHOLD o Publishers and vendors (generally and as digital licensing understudy) ? Evaluate, select and recommend resources with focus on EBooks and digital resource discovery, including detection of title and platform changes, grey literature, etc.; initiate service and bibliographic and holdings setup; monitor user access ? Actively participate in shared effort with other staff to: o Trouble-shoot digital access problems o Verify resource access currency and identify remedial actions as applicable o Maintain SFX OpenURL link resolver database o Maintain currency of proxy server data, including review of weekly turn-away reports ? Serve as Lane?s expert on scholarly publishing, especially in regards to copyright questions, licensing limitations, digital use permissions, fair use, and open access. ? Maintain collection development guidelines, including copyright and digital rights aspects; document associated processes on internal Wiki ? Collect and manage usage analysis statistics to support product evaluations, purchase decisions or recommendations, and budget justification: o Use Harrassowitz E-Stats, SUSHI, Google Analytics, etc. to create/convey consolidated views of usage trends o Organize and review data from ILL, SFX, and vendors to support new journal selection decisions ? Serve as departmental liaison (choice of department related to subject strengths) to the School of Medicine ? Keep current on relevant new technologies, developments in publishing industry, the Stanford environment, the open access movement, etc. Qualifications Demonstrated supervisory skills. Three or more years experience in resource management?collection development, serials control, digital content acquisition and management, interlibrary loan/document delivery, and related areas at the associate librarian rank. Five or more years experience at the librarian rank. Knowledge of current content delivery platforms and software products, user interfaces, and resource management systems related to the responsibilities indicated for this position. Strong communications skills, oral and written, and ability to work effectively with diverse constituencies. Knowledge of the information industry, scholarly communication, especially copyright, content delivery options, publishing models, and open access trends. Thorough understanding of the bibliographic apparatus, both from data management and user access perspectives, and how this relates to the design of system interfaces. This position is cross posted at the Associate Librarian and Librarian level. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Job: Library Location: School of Medicine Schedule: Full-time Job Grade: 3P2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sureshbabal at yahoo.com Thu Jan 8 00:27:35 2015 From: sureshbabal at yahoo.com (Suresh K Chauhan) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 05:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-l] CALIBER 2015 - Invite to participate and submit research paper In-Reply-To: <1420444239.82879.YahooMailBasic@web193701.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> References: <1420444239.82879.YahooMailBasic@web193701.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1679485491.3824676.1420694855087.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10929.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, We are pleased to invite you to participate and submit research articles in 10th International conference, i.e. CALIBER 2015 which will held from 12 ? 14 March 2015 at Shimla (India). The theme of this conference is ?Innovative Librarianship: Adapting to Digital Realities?. Two pre-conference Tutorials on ?Bibliometrics and Research Performance Measurement of Indian Universities? and ?Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism in Research? will also be held for the benefit of participants. The conference is being jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla in collaboration with Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET), Gandhinagar. Authors from outside India will be given free hospitality in Shimla including sightseeing of this famous tourist attractions of this lovely hill station.? Guidelines for paper submission are given at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2015/papersubmission.php. Following are the main theme and sub-themes of the conference which accommodating various cutting-edge issues of the librarianship and provide a platform to librarians, researchers, academics and IT professionals. Core Theme: Innovative Librarianship: adapting to digital realities Sub-theme 1: Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics Sub-theme 2: e-Learning and open online courses Sub-theme 3: Library 3.0 Important dates Receipt of full paper: 31st January 2015 Intimation to Authors: 15th February 2015 Registration: 25th February 2015 The Event: March 12-14, 2015 The complete details about the conference can be seen at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2015/. We do hope to see you in CALIBER 2015 at Shimla. Wish you and your family members a happy and joyful New Year. With warm regards, Yours sincerely, Prem Chand Librarian & Jt. Organising Secretary, CALIBER 2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rdubnic2 at illinois.edu Thu Jan 8 16:00:52 2015 From: rdubnic2 at illinois.edu (Dubnicek, Ryan C) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:00:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Updated Schedule Information - HTRC UnCamp, March 30-31, 2015 Message-ID: Save the Date! HTRC UnCamp, March 30-31, 2015 This year?s HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp will be held March 30-31, 2015 at the University of Michigan Palmer Commons (100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218). UnCamp is scheduled to take place 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on March 30 and 8:00 am to Noon on March 31. Mark your calendars. HTRC is hosting its third annual HTRC UnCamp in March 2015 at the University of Michigan. The UnCamp is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC infrastructure and tools. Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians of HathiTrust member institutions, and graduate students. Attendees will be asked for their input in planning sessions, so please plan to register early! Registration. The UnCamp will have a minimal registration fee so as to make the Uncamp as affordable as possible for you to attend. Registration will open the first week of February. Additional information about the UnCamp will be posted to http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2015 as it becomes available. Questions? Contact Ryan Dubnicek, HTRC Executive Assistant, at rdubnic2 at illinois.edu or 217-244-7260. We look forward to seeing you in Ann Arbor! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This international gathering of information scholars and researchers will push the boundaries of information studies, explore core concepts and ideas, and create new technological and conceptual configurations. All are welcome. The iConference 2015 program includes the following: Keynote addresses by noted luminaries Christine L. Borgman, Carole Goble, and Scott E. Page. 51 completed research papers offering new and interesting perspectives on key topics in the information field. 40 preliminary results papers that explore developing thinking and perspectives. Nearly 100 poster presentations by present and future thought-leaders in the field. 11 workshops providing a meaningful and immersive experience in specific areas of study. 8 thought-provoking sessions for interaction and engagement. Myriad socializing and networking opportunities, including our evening Opening Reception, and also our Banquet Dinner at the waterfront Newport Dunes. Special meetings for iSchools leadership, staff, and practitioners. The student Social Media Expo, presentation of the annual iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award, and much, much more! Visit the conference website for complete details: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ iConference 2015 is presented by the iSchools organization (www.ischools.org) and hosted by University of California, Irvine: The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Our champion sponsors are Microsoft Research, UCI Hana Lab, and the National Science Foundation; contributors include Facebook and Nokia; additional support provided by Google, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, the UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and UCI Newkirk Center. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ ******** 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 Katriina.Bystrom at hb.se Fri Jan 9 03:19:54 2015 From: Katriina.Bystrom at hb.se (=?UTF-8?Q?Katriina=20Bystr=C3=B6m?=) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:19:54 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CIS at Strathclyde seeks to appoint a Research Associate In-Reply-To: <5411533C02000086000214B9@gwis1.adm.hb.se> References: <5411533C02000086000214B9@gwis1.adm.hb.se> Message-ID: <54AF9D3A0200008600024FFE@gwis1.adm.hb.se> FYI >>> Ian Ruthven 2015-01-08 16:51 >>> The University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences seeks to appoint a Research Associate to a 2.5 year ESRC funded project, which seeks to better understand the information needs of young first time mothers (YFTM) aged 21 or under from areas of multiple deprivation. The project will comprehensively identify YFTM information needs, seeking preferences and challenges, and typologically map these and associated information requirements to existing public information services, incorporating gap analysis. Bringing together theories of social capital and social networks with theories and models of information behaviour and information poverty, we will also identify and investigate behavioural barriers, how they manifest in both the physical and digital space, and identify appropriate intervention points and strategies to inform future public policy and service provision. Conducted in collaboration with Glasgow City Libraries and Barnardo's, we see this as a major information poverty study, exploring how public information providers spanning (but not limited to) health, social care, education and the third sector can support YFTM and their children to prosper in the digital age. Candidates will have a PhD in the area of Information Seeking Behaviour or other relevant social science discipline, and previous ethnographic field experience involving young people. The Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde is home to a vibrant community of over 70 academic and research staff with a strong and diverse portfolio of research. CIS at Strathclyde holds international iSchool status and is part of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance SICSA. This project will be hosted in the iLab research group (http://www.ilab.cis.strath.ac.uk), an interdisciplinary information science research group investigating arising socio-techno phenomena and evolving information behavior. Informal enquiries may be made to the PI Dr Steven Buchanan (steven.buchanan at strath.ac.uk), and to the CI Professor Ian Ruthven (ian.ruthven at strath.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is Sunday 25th January 2015. 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Many public libraries are in underserved communities where patrons may not have personal access to the internet, so the use of the public libraries' resources is critical for them. Without net neutrality, those public libraries may not be able to cost-effectively provide such Internet service. For the scholarly and academic communities, scholarly resources could be resigned to the slow lane of the net, if content providers and libraries don't have the resources to pay for the "fast lane." As resources increasingly go multimedia, requiring greater bandwidth, will libraries and content platform providers be saddled with taking on added costs to ensure reliable access? In this webinar, presenters will help define Net Neutrality, what could happen without it, and how it can impact public and academic libraries, and the wider information community. Topics and speakers are: * Network Neutrality Principles and Policy for Libraries & Higher Education - Larra Clark, Deputy Director, Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association * Network Neutrality: The Public Library Perspective - Holly Carroll, Executive Director, Poudre River Public Library District * Academic Libraries and Net Neutrality - Jonathan Miller, Library Director, Olin Library of Rollins College REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on January 14, 2015 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance . If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/ Be sure to check out NISO's discounted subscription packages for webinars (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/#packages) and virtual conferences (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for 2015. New in 2015: NISO Training Thursdays. Three technical webinar training sessions directly related to the previous weeks' virtual conference. Registrants to the related virtual conference receive a free login to the Training Thursday. You can also register separately for just the training session. 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The Director, Library and Archives will report to the Deputy Director, Chief Curator and is responsible for the administration, operation and maintenance of the library, archives, and records management. Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The Guggenheim network that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has since expanded to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (opened 1997) and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (currently in development). Looking to the future, the Guggenheim Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that take contemporary art, architecture, and design beyond the walls of the museum. More information about the foundation can be found at http://www.guggenheim.org. Supervisory Responsibilities: This position manages department staff, including an Assistant Librarian and Associate Archivist; interns; temporary and grant employees; and volunteers. Key Responsibilities: ? Provides vision, leadership, innovation, and long range planning for fundraising, facilities, archival and library practices, technology, preservation, security, maintenance, and outreach. ? Develop and maintain all aspects and daily operations of the library and archives department including the budget, policies and procedures, library catalog, archives and records database, research services, department's web and social media content, and other day-to-day activities. ? Ensure the Museum's library and archives collections are cataloged and processed using current industry standards and maintained in the appropriate environment with the maximum amount of accessibility. Manage digital records preservation program. Update, maintain, and monitor Museum-wide records retention policy and schedules including compliance and annual destruction. ? Identify, propose, and draft narratives for grant opportunities through coordination and collaboration with Development. Manage funded grant projects. ? Provide essential leadership and guidance for team members to maximize productivity, set performance standards and evaluate performance, and implement professional development opportunities. ? Support the Museum's mission through development of collections, collaboration with museum staff, and promotion of history through exhibitions and other activities. Keep abreast of Guggenheim programming through ongoing contact with Curatorial, Education, Exhibition, Conservation, and administrative staff. ? Participate in planning task force for a future collection center that will consolidate its staff and storage into one efficient, multiuse building with a dynamic public component. Envision, propose, and plan expanded role that the library and archives will have in public research, programming, and outreach. ? Other duties as assigned. Qualifications and Requirements: ? 7+ years' experience as a Museum Librarian, Museum Archivist, or similar. ? MLIS with coursework in Art History or related. ? Demonstrated knowledge of research libraries, archives, and records management procedures including cataloging (MARC21), arranging and describing archives collections (EAD), managing digital repositories (OAIS), and records retention schedules. ? Experience with integrated library system (ILS), archives databases, open source software, and social media. ? Excellent oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated publication history. ? Excellent project management skills, ability and willingness to maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. ? Ability to work on a wide variety of projects concurrently, with concern for the tasks assigned and the goals of the department. ? Knowledge of Museum purposes, organization and procedures. ? Knowledge of additional languages a plus. The Guggenheim offers a competitive salary and excellent medical, dental, life, disability, and retirement plan coverage. Our staff also enjoys generous vacation, sick leave and personal days, access to a variety of cultural institutions, discounts to museum stores, and a stimulating and collegial work environment. Qualified applicants please send your resume and cover letter, including salary expectations, to employment at guggenheim.org. Indicate the job title "Director, Library and Archives" in the subject line. The Solomon R. 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Locations: There will be both an in-person (in NYC and DC) and online section of the fellowship. Dates: All sections will be from 2015-03-23 to 2015-05-01. The Deadline for applications is in Mid-January. Who should apply: Anyone within one year of graduating from a masters or PhD program or who has already obtained a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students welcome. There is a common application for both the online and in-person sections. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session. For additional information, checkout our website, blog, Venture Beat article, or Harvard Business Review piece. Sincerely, Michael Li Postdoc, Cornell Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Jan 12 13:06:43 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:06:43 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Message-ID: <044b01d02e92$933fa8b0$b9befa10$@asis.org> Please forgive cross-posting. For information scientists interested in making research and research methods more accessible across disciplines, particularly for complex social problems, the opportunity below may be of interest. (full RFP on SESYNC website ) I have worked with Professor Bammer in her efforts to collate, organize and develop theory and methods for transdisciplinary research. I outlined some of the philosophies that underpin this funding opportunity in an 2008 ASIST Bulletin article . Her book on Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods is an example of one kind of research methods synthesis. Professor Bammer is very keen to see a team of information scientists participate in this effort to synthesize research methods and has asked to share this RFP with ASIST members. The expectation is that multiple teams in different subject areas will generate aggregated transdisciplinary research methods toolkits, databases, and/or curricula for training inter-disciplinary research teams. An information science team should be able to assist with determining how to organize and distribute such information (the output of all the teams supported by this SESYNC project) for effective discovery and use by all researchers working on complex social problems. Information science teams may also be able to design strategies for finding and aggregating methods across disciplines generally or in support of the other teams in the project. This may be of particular interest to information scientists focused on scholarly communication, information needs/use, knowledge management, and science and technical information. There is also potential for classification and digital libraries specialists. Funding is for travel, accommodation & meals for teams to meet at SESYNC in Maryland multiple times over two years. Cheers, Caryn Anderson Research Information Specialist & PhD Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clndrsn2 at illinois.edu caryn.anderson at gmail.com ------------------------------ Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Details: http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio-environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. Effective team science is key to finding solutions to socio-environmental problems. Many tools have been developed for integrating ideas, data, and methods across the diverse disciplines involved when researching complex problems. Similarly, practices have been identified that facilitate the linkage of research results with informed policy decisions. Relatively few of these tools and practices have been assessed and optimized for addressing socio-environmental challenges. We invite proposals for synthesis and refinement of the tools and practices of team science from all disciplinary sources for use in socio-environmental applications. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years (approximately four three-day meetings per team) to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams? effectiveness at understanding socio-environmental problems and informing socio-environmental decisions. The focus may be on improving research methods, on educating new generations of researchers, or both. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio-environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of relevant disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. Purpose The aim of the synthesis teams to be established under this proposal is to aggregate and synthesize the tools, methods, and other practices used in action-oriented team research as applicable to socio-environmental science. We encourage proposals that address issues across all stages throughout the lifecycle of an interdisciplinary project from problem formulation to approach design, data gathering analysis and synthesis, publication and other dissemination, implementation, and assessment, although individual teams might only work on a subset of these. Many types or combinations of synthesis approaches are possible and many sources of data for aggregation and analysis are appropriate, including diverse case study examples, concepts, methodologies, procedures, protocols, computational applications, or theoretical foundations. Additional Info Visit http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education for complete details. Proposals must be received by March 9, 2015, at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Questions? For general inquiries, or contacts from individuals who are interested but are not currently part of a team, please contact Gabriele Bammer (Gabriele.Bammer at anu.edu.au ) or David Hawthorne (dhawthorne at sesync.org ). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Mon Jan 12 12:13:20 2015 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil P. Karadkar) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:13:20 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Extension -- JCDL 2015 - Full papers due Jan 23rd In-Reply-To: <54B3FFA3.90909@jcdl.org> References: <54B3FFA3.90909@jcdl.org> Message-ID: <54B400B0.2080701@austin.utexas.edu> Hi folks, *The JCDL 2015 full paper deadline has been extended by one week. Full papers are now due on January 23rd.** * Call for proposals - ACM/IEEE JCDL 2015 - Large, Dynamic and Ubiquitous ? The Era of the Digital Library Knoxville, TN, June 21-25 A web version of this call is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/jcdl2015/call-for-proposals Please submit proposals via the conference's EasyChair submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl15.All contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html , templates available for authoring in LaTex2e and Microsoft Word). 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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 proceed as applications are received and will continue until the position is filled. For full job description, consult https://fit.hiretouch.com/home/jobs-board/job-details?jobID=23233&job=research-data-specialist. To apply for this position complete an application form at https://fit.hiretouch.com/candidate-login?jobID=23233 including (1) a detailed cover letter addressing how your experience matches the qualifications, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) names and contact information, including email, mail, and phone number, of at least three references. Robert Sippel Data & Government Information Librarian Evans Library Florida Tech Phone: 321-674-7585 e-mail: rsippel at fit.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asis at gwizdka.com Sun Jan 11 15:23:24 2015 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:23:24 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: JIS Special Issue on Recent Advances on Searching as Learning Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Information Science (http://jis.sagepub.com) ================================================== JIS Special Issue on Recent Advances on Searching as Learning ================================================== Full Paper Submissions Due: March 31, 2015 Publication date: December, 2015 ================================================== Motivation --------------- Search systems to date have been viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy information needs, than as environments in which humans interact with information content in order to learn. However, as full-text, information-rich search systems become the norm, there is growing recognition of the importance of studying and designing search systems to foster discovery and enhance learning during the search process outside formal educational settings. The research agenda of ?Search as Learning? (SAL) will provide opportunities and challenges for researchers to reconsider the value of search systems in providing support for learning directly and to pay more attention to broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. The Special Issue of ?Searching as Learning? aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. We are particularly interested in engaging researchers across the information retrieval, information studies, human computer interaction and learning science fields. Goal ----- The special issue on ?Recent Advances on Searching as Learning? is dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of Information Science + other areas) thereby presenting a consolidated view to the interested researchers in the aforesaid fields. The special issue looks for significant contributions to the intersection of Information Seeking and Learning in theoretical and practical aspects. List of topics -------------- This special issue seeks to explore current work in information seeking and searching as learning. Authors are solicited to contribute to the special issue by submitting articles that discuss research projects and results, survey past works and industrial experiences and describe significant advances in the following areas, but not limited to: * Understanding searching as a human learning process * When and how learning occurs in the search process * The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts * Features and functionalities to foster learning * Search interface design in support of learning * The implications of searching for learning for different populations: children, low literacy searchers, non-experts * The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching * Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience * Learning analytics for search contexts * Collaborative aspects of searching as learning * Implicit indicators of learning (while searching) * Interaction monitoring and optimization for learning outcomes Important dates --------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2015 First review notification: May 29, 2015 Revised paper submission deadline: June 30, 2015 Notification final acceptance: August 29, 2015 Expected publication: December, 2015 Author guidelines ------------------ Only original papers that are not or have not been submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Instructions for submission can be found at: http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201676/manuscriptSubmission The submitted papers should be formatted according to the journal style ( http://jis.me.uk/template), and submitted directly to the contact person of the guest editors by email (preben at dsv.su.se) with CC to the Editor-in-Chief (journal.information.science at gmail.com). The subject line of the email should be clearly marked with "JIS Special Issue ? Searching as Learning". All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to the journal's readership based on originality, quality and relevance. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors ------------- Preben Hansen Department of Computer and Information Systems Unit of Interaction Design and Design for Learning Stockholm University, Sweden http://hansen.blogs.dsv.su.se/ preben at dsv.su.se (contact person) Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics, Japan kando at nii.ac.jp Luanne Freund School of Library, Archival and Information Studies University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada luanne.freund at ubc.ca Jacek Gwizdka School of Information University of Texas at Austin, USA jgwizdka at acm.org Jiyin He CWI, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam, Netherlands jiyinhe at gmail.com Soo Young Rieh School of Information University of Michigan, USA rieh at umich.edu Jacek Gwizdka, PhD http://jsg.tel School of Information University of Texas at Austin *Make it simple, if not simpler* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Supporting Complex Search Tasks workshop aims at creating and fostering an interdisciplinary forum where researchers can exchange and contribute to the development of alternative experiments and prototypes. We invite position papers addressing open research questions related to: * Context: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? * Tasks: What are essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? * Heterogeneous sources: With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized, and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when to show what sources of information? * Search process: How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant differences between different stages? * UI/UX: What affordances are required and in what stage of the search process? How can we make the search process transparent to the user? How and when does the initiative shift between system and user? * Evaluation: How do we know that our approaches are any good? IMPORTANT LINKS * Workshop: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST15/ * Conference: http://ecir2015.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/wp/ * Call for Participation: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST15/#/cfp * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scst2015 SUBMISSION INFORMATION All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 3 pages and formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scst2015). Submission deadline: 02 February 2015, 23:59 GMT Notification of acceptance: 7 March 2015 Camera ready deadline: 14 March 2015 Workshop date: 29 March 2015 Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS). ORGANIZERS: Maria Gaede Humboldt University Mark Hall Edge Hill University Hugo Huurdeman University of Amsterdam Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam Marijn Koolen University of Amsterdam Mette Skov Aalborg University Elaine Toms Sheffield University David Walsh Edge Hill University -- Marijn Koolen Assistant professor of Digital Humanities University of Amsterdam Institute for Logic, Language & Computation Department of Media Studies Turfdraagsterpad 9 Room BG1 1.03 1012 XT Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 020 525 7256 E-mail: marijn.koolen at uva.nl Web: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/ From xh.gslis at gmail.com Sat Jan 10 02:43:52 2015 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:43:52 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] UIUC-HKU Data Curation Spring Institute Message-ID: Dear All, Happy New Year! And apologies for possible cross-posting! The Graduate School of Library and Information Science in University of Illinois and the Faculty of Education in University of Hong Kong are co-organizing a "Data Curation Spring Institute". This 3-day training on the latest development in data management for researchers will have library professionals from various parts of Asia to participate in it. The event tries to provide training for academic librarians in Asia to work with university researchers to come up with policies, strategies, procedures and techniques in preserving the data generated by university researchers and in making the best use of the data (Please find more details here http://ccmir.cite.hku.hk/DC_Spr_Institute_v2014-12-1.pdf). To date over 60 librarians in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and Mainland China have registered to join this 3-day training. If you know any colleagues in Asia, please kindly help spread the news. Interested parties please inform me or Dr. Sam Chu (samchu at hku.hk) as soon as possible. Thank you! Xiao -- Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building Tel: 22194722 Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk Webpage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/academic_staff.php?staffId=xiaoxhu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Mon Jan 12 08:15:48 2015 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:15:48 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Want to learn about auditing/improving digital repositories? Last few places left for ISO 16363 training - Pasadena, CA Jan 26-30, 2015 Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AFA2C16@ITS-MSXMBS5F.ad.unc.edu> Want to learn about auditing digital repositories? Gain skills and knowledge to assess your own repository according to international standards? In this workshop you will not only learn about relevant repository and auditing standards, you will also see how to assess your own repository and what steps might be necessary to bring your repository into compliance with ISO 16363. Act now - last few places left for High Level Training Course on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories Pasadena, USA 26-30 January 2015 The course will be taught by the authors of these standards The Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body (PTAB) was set up by the authors of ISO16363 and ISO16969 standards in order to ensure that a consultancy and training service would be provided to industry, finance, legal bodies, government, scientific, memory and archive institutions by world experts in the field ensuring consistency and accuracy to maintain the highest possible standards are put in place. All the training will be carried out by members of the PTAB team. There are three important ISO standards: * ISO 14721:2012 (OAIS - a reference model for what is required for an archive to provide long-term preservation of digital information) * ISO 16363:2013 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories - sets out comprehensive metrics for what an archive must do, based on OAIS) * ISO 16919:2014 (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 at The Athenaeum, Caltech, in Pasadena, CA from 26-30 January 2015. The course is divided into modules, each of which consists of a presentation, practical exercises and discussion. Registration for this High Level Training Course on ISO16363 is now open - please complete the form below. The cost is $2000 and there is an early-bird discount of 10% available until the 16 January 2015. There will be a dinner at The Athenaeum, Caltech on the evening of Wednesday 28 January, and also a tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the afternoon of Friday 30 January. An invoice, logistics information, recommended reading list and tutor profiles will be forwarded to you as soon as you have registered for the course. Please ensure you register as soon as possible to guarantee your place as numbers for this course are very limited. http://www.iso16363.org/courses/future-courses/pasadena-january-2015/ A number of rooms are available at the Athenaeum and also special rates at the Doubletree at Hilton. The special rate cut-off date is January 11, 2015. -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 hiris at uwm.edu Mon Jan 12 16:18:09 2015 From: hiris at uwm.edu (Iris Xie) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:18:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Research Assistantships @ Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - PhD in Information Studies In-Reply-To: <1414684812725.80525@uwm.edu> References: , <1414683534886.90224@uwm.edu>, <1414684370373.88951@uwm.edu>, <1414684812725.80525@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <1421097487221.49469@uwm.edu> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies Research Assistantships Available Newly admitted students to the UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies PhD program are eligible for Research Assistantships (RAships). These RAships are intended to provide research assistance opportunities for full-time students. Standard SOIS RAships will consist of a 33% appointment. The RAship covers tuition and benefits, and provides a stipend in return for approximately 13 hours of service per week. Appointments will be increased to 50% after the first academic year in the program. Teaching Assistantships (TAships) are available to more senior students in the program. RA/TAships can be renewed for four years pending successful completion of RA/TA assignments and maintaining good academic performance. All incoming students admitted to the PhD program are considered. Recipients must be admitted to the program and have full-time doctoral student status. Standard residency requirements apply. Application Deadline: January 31st, 2015 PhD in Information Studies Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies prepares graduates for academic and professional careers where an in-depth knowledge of research processes and evaluation is needed SOIS Ranked among the top five Library and Information Science schools nationally in terms of total research publications Faculty members bring a broad range of research expertise and are nationally and internationally recognized for their contributions Program offers a variety of research areas in Information Studies Doctoral students are offered research assistantships and teaching assistantships as well as excellent travel and research grant support The size of the PhD program allows for much more personal interaction with faculty both during and outside of class Dr. Iris Xie, Director PhD Program Ph: 414-229-6835 | Email: hiris at uwm.edu School of Information Studies NWQB 3rd Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53211 Ph: 414-229-4707 | Toll Free: 888-349-3432 | Fax: 414-229-6699 From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Mon Jan 12 14:01:37 2015 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:01:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?Come_join_us_on_January_30_for_=22Public_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Information_Stewardship=3A_A_360=B0_View=22_at_UNC-Chapel_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Hill?= Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163AFA3856@ITS-MSXMBS5F.ad.unc.edu> The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, School of Government, and the Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists (SCOSAA) invite you to attend the ESOPI2* public symposium held on January 30, 2015 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. The event is titled, "Public Information Stewardship: A 360? View." Topics for the day include emerging issues in public information management, changes in techniques for citizen engagement, necessary skills for a modern record-keeping workforce, and border-crossing collaborations between state archives to address electronic record preservation. The symposium will be held on UNC's campus at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, room 3411. The general registration fee is $50. This charge covers attendance of all lectures, continental breakfast, hot lunch, and snacks. The student registration fee is $25 for students who will be eating lunch at the event. For students not eating lunch at the event, the registration fee is $15. Visit http://tinyurl.com/l4p5egh for more information and to register. Public officials, archivists, records managers, librarians, and other data professionals face challenging issues with public information stewardship. Because of the growing importance of collaboration between subject-matter experts and public servants when tackling issues of information management, nearly everyone has become a steward of public information. Stewards must appreciate the varying interests involved in public information collection and preservation as well as continue educating themselves and attaining new skills that are required in such a fast-changing professional environment. This symposium will address many issues that the modern public information steward faces on a daily basis. Experts sharing their knowledge and experience in a series of presentations and panel sessions include (but are not limited to): * Sarah Koonts, State Archivist of North Carolina * Andrew Perrin, Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill * Matt Veatch, State Archivist of Kansas * Theresa Pardo, Director of Center for Technology in Government at University of Albany *The symposium is brought to you by the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded project "Educating Stewards of Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI2)." Hope to see you in Chapel Hill on the 30th! -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 jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Mon Jan 12 16:42:41 2015 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:42:41 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG-AH and SIG-VIS CfSP Message-ID: Please share with colleagues and students. Thanks! Jeremy ******************************* Jeremy L. McLaughlin Chair, SIG-AH jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Call for Student Papers: ?What do Information and Technology Mean to the Arts and Humanities?? *SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday, March 25, 2015* *FINALIST NOTIFICATION: Friday, April 10, 2015* *FINALIST PRESENTATIONS: Wednesday, April 22 or Thursday, April 23, 2015* The Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG-AH ) and the Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, & Sound (SIG-VIS ) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ) are seeking papers for a Master?s and PhD student research paper award. Finalists will be invited to present their research during a virtual Symposium in the spring (April 22 and 23) and two (2) winners will receive a Best Student Paper award and cash prize. Winners may also receive an invitation to present on a possible panel at the 2015 Annual Conference in St. Louis (November 6-10). *Theme* The contest theme ?What do Information and Technology Mean to the Arts and Humanities?? is open-ended to invite participation from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives on the topic. We encourage graduate-level submissions from a broad range of disciplines including arts, humanities, library and information science, and computer science. Papers should explore the role or application of information and technology in the arts and humanities and may include, but are not limited to, past research, case studies, and current projects in the areas of: ? eHumanities/arts and humanities eScience ? Digital reference and eResearch discovery platforms ? Text/data mining and the use of large-scale corpora ? Scholarly communications and digital publishing ? Data visualization ? The role of information technology in managing images and audiovisual resources ? The use of images and audiovisual resources in information practices ? Digital Humanities ? Technology implementation projects ? Research assessment and altmetrics (The list is meant to be illustrative, not prescriptive.) *Who is Eligible?* Submissions can be made as a single author or a group of authors, including collaborations between students from different institutions. All submitted works should be previously unpublished. Authors do NOT need to be members of ASIS&T. All research is expected to be purely the students? work. Research undertaken as part of a course, an internship experience, or a thesis project is eligible. Authors are required to secure any necessary permissions related to research findings from internships and thesis projects being used in this research competition. *Requirements & Selection Criteria* While the contest theme and eligibility are open, papers should show an appropriate level of writing and should include an advanced theoretical or empirical discussion, methodology or analysis. Paper submissions must adhere to the following guidelines: ?Word .doc or .docx format ?10 single-spaced pages or less (approximately 4,000 words), 12 pt. font, and must follow a standard citation style (APA preferred). Tables, graphs, images, etc?may appear within the body of the text. ?Author names should not appear anywhere in the main text ?Separate cover page with title, author names, institutional affiliations, and abstract of 250 words or less Submission details should be made via electronic form and final papers emailed by the March 25, 2015 deadline (details below). Papers will be selected based on the following criteria: relevance of topic to the contest theme, originality of research and approach, and quality of student writing. Papers not meeting these requirements may be excluded from the contest. *Spring 2015 Symposium* Finalists will be invited to present their research during a virtual Symposium on April 22 and 23, 2015. The Symposium will highlight student research projects amidst the larger discussion of the applications and uses of information and technology in the arts and humanities. Finalists will be selected based on the selection criteria above, as well as the possible contribution of the research to the Symposium. *Awards* Two (2) finalist papers may be awarded for Best Master?s/MLIS Student Paper or Best PhD Student Paper, including a monetary prize. Based on the quality of submissions, additional awards may be made for merit-worthy papers. Award monetary prize amounts will be announced in February. Winners may be invited to present on a possible panel at the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Conference in St. Louis, MO, November 6-10, 2015 (pending panel acceptance on the Conference schedule). *Submission and Deadline* Authors are invited to submit papers, based on the requirements and selection criteria above, by filling out the form at http://goo.gl/forms/tSFJjckVId and emailing the final paper to ASIST.SIGAH {at} gmail.com before 11:59 pm PST, March 25, 2015. Please ensure the information submitted on the web form matches the final paper submission cover page. Finalist and Best Paper selections will be made by a panel of judges. If you have any questions, please email Jeremy McLaughlin at jeremy.mclaughlin {at} sjsu.edu *Student Research Paper Award details: **http://bit.ly/SIGStudentRsrch* *Student Research Paper Award Submission Form: * *http://goo.gl/forms/tSFJjckVId* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Moreover, they can perform different tasks and address distinct goals, like image restoring, image enhancement, image segmentation, classification and description, 3D reconstruction, deformation or motion analysis, and assisted diagnosis. Medicine has been one of the several application domains in which these computational methods can be more often found; particularly, in supporting the medical diagnosis, facilitating the follow-up of pathologies, assisting surgery procedures, expediting medical training, and aiding the design of superior treatment plans and procedures. The main goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to Computational Methods for Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis, in order to provide a scientific space where the researchers can show the novel works developed and applications tackled, and set the major lines of development for the near future. As such, the workshop will consist of investigators representing various fields related to Biomedical Engineering, Computational Vision, Mathematics, Medical Imaging, among others, aiming to establish a network between developers and end-users from these fields. *Suggested Topics* The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - 3D Reconstruction and Visualization; - Biomedical Image Analysis and Processing; - Computational Simulation and Animation; - Grid Computing in Biomedical Image Analysis and Processing; - Image Acquisition, Enhancement, Restoring, Compression, Segmentation and Description; - Medical Imaging; - Motion Analysis; - Physics of Biomedical Imaging; - Software and Applications for Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis; - Surgical Simulation; - Real-Time Image Processing and Analysis. *Paper Submission and Formatting Guidelines* Authors interested in participate and present their works in the ?2nd Workshop on Computational Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis? are encouraged to submit original contributions reporting on either work under development or concluded projects about theoretical aspects or practical applications related to the topics of the workshop. Contributions can be submitted in one of the following formats: full paper (6 pages) or short paper (4 pages). The contributions can be written either in English, Portuguese or Spanish, and should be submitted in PDF format, through the conference webpage ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cisti-workshops2015). All papers must follow the formatting rules of the Conference ( http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2015/index.php/en/call-for-papers). Please note that, the contributions to be evaluated by the Scientific Committee should not include authors? identification, e-mail or affiliation (blinded submission). *Publication* To ensure that the contribution (full paper or short paper) is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended modifications must be addressed by the authors before they submit the final version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Full papers will be published in both book and CD formats, with an ISBN. Short papers will be published in CD only, with an ISBN. Published full papers will be sent to EBSCO, EI, IEEE XPlore, INSPEC, ISI and SCOPUS. Published short papers will be sent to EBSCO, EI, IEEE XPlore, INSPEC e SCOPUS. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at CISTI 2015 website: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2015. Authors of the best papers presented in the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to the Taylor & Francis journal: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv). *Important dates* Paper submission: February 14, 2015; Author Notification: March 28, 2015; Submission of accepted papers: April 11, 2015; Conference: June 17-20, 2015. *Organizing Committee* Jo?o Manuel R. S. Tavares (main organizer) - Universidade do Porto, Portugal Alex F. de Araujo - Funda??o Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul ? Campus do Pantanal, Brazil Daniela Iacoviello - Universit? degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Yongjie Jessica Zhan - Carnegie Mellon University, USA *Program Committee* Aledir Silveira Pereira, Universidade Estadual de S?o Paulo, Brazil Alexandre Cunha, California Institute of Technology, USA Alexandre Xavier Falc?o, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil Ana Mafalda Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Arrate Mu?oz Barrutia, University of Navarra, Spain Bego?a Calvo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Da-Chuan Cheng, China Medical University, Taiwan Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Djemel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Eduardo Borges Pires, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA Fiorella Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy Francisco Perales, Balearic Islands University, Spain Ghassan Hamarneh, Simon Fraser University, Canada Gustavo Rohde, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hanchuan Peng, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA H?lder C. Rodrigues, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Hemerson Pistori, Dom Bosco Catholic University, Brazil Huiyu Zhou, Brunel University, UK Igor Yanovsky, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Jason Corso, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Javier Melench?n Maldonado, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Jo?o Paulo Papa Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil Jorge M. G. Barbosa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Jorge S. Marques, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Jose M. Garc?a Aznar, University of Zaragoza, Spain Jun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Luminita Vese, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Mahmoud El-Sakka, The University of Western Ontario London, Canada Manuel Gonz?lez Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain Mario F. Montenegro Campos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Metin N. Gurcan, Ohio State University, USA Michael Liebling, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Norian Marranghello, Universidade Estadual de S?o Paulo, Brazil Reneta P. Barneva, State University of New York, USA Roberto Bellotti, University of Bari, Italy Sabina Tangaro, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy Susana Branco Silva, Instituto Polit?cnico de Lisboa, Portugal Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA *Additional Information on the Workshop* Please contact Prof. Jo?o Manuel R. S. Tavares: tavares at fe.up.pt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Mon Jan 12 20:13:34 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:13:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015) Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015 Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A621D55@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> Happy New Year! And apologies for possible cross-posting! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015) Conference and Exhibition Affiliated with the People?s Forum of CHoGM 2015 Malta Valletta, 24-25 June 2015 First Call for Papers OBJECTIVES The Commonwealth is one of the most striking examples of extensive relocation and migration on a world-wide scale. This proposal aims to bring together two ways of exploring the topic of Diasporas, Identities and Memories ? as a subject for academic study and discussion, and as a theme captured in artistic expression. The concept behind the conference is to bring for discussion state-of-the-art research related to the theme which will inspire the exhibition taking place during the CHoGM forum. The conference aims to bring together academics specializing in social history, history, information science, art history as well as curators, archivists and librarians interested in the theme. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The conference welcomes contributions that focus on, but are not limited to the following themes: - What role do researchers have in the capturing and articulation of diasporas, memories and identities? - How do memory institutions support engagement with researchers and the general public? - How the artistic expression captures identity and changes and conflicts related to it? - How to capture and convey trans-generational and community memories? - How does the right to forget manifest in the diasporas? memories? - What are the specific issues around capturing memories and experiences of children and young people? - What has been the role of Commonwealth institutions or Commonwealth-based supra-national organisations in the formation of memory/identity/diasporas? - How do memory institutions contribute to the development and management of heritage? - How memory institutions across the Commonwealth countries could cooperate better to serve diasporas? - What educational activities targeting memory institutions across the Commonwealth could help cooperation? - How social media are transforming engagement and participation in archival processes? - How is transnationalism influencing the transmission of cultural values? - How much can technologies be of help in capturing memories/nostalgia and in representing identities? SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: - regular papers (8 to 12 pages) - short papers (2 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer?s LNCS format (www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim2015. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted for the conference should be presented during the event. Papers will be published in open access proceedings, with selected papers will be published as a special issue of a journal (currently negotiated with The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs). IMPORTANT DATES: - Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015 - Acceptance Notification: 20 March 2015 - Camera-ready papers: 30 April 2015 - Conference: 24-25 June 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Selenay Aytac (Long Island University, USA) Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai, India) Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta) Joanne Evans (Monash University, Australia) Neil Forbes (University of Coventry, England) Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Wales) Marinos Ioannides (Technical University Cyprus, Cyprus) Gabriella Ivacs (Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary) Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta) Triantafillia Kourtoumi (Archives Thessaloniki, Greece) Alice Nemcova (OSCE Archives, Czech Republic) Gillian Oliver (Victoria University, New Zealand) Seamus Ross (University of Toronto, Canada) Maria Roussou (Hellenic Diaspora Archive, KCL, UK) Daniela Sime (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Beverley Wood (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Prof. Milena Dobreva, milena.dobreva at um.edu.mt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From slis at ualberta.ca Tue Jan 13 17:55:53 2015 From: slis at ualberta.ca (- slis) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:55:53 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Alberta SLIS Faculty Awarded SSHRC Grants Message-ID: *Dr. Ali Shiri and Dr. Dinesh Rathi Awarded SSHRC Insight Grant* University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) faculty members Dr. Ali Shiri (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Dinesh Rathi (Co- Principal Investigator) have been awarded $295,817 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)'s Insight Grant for 2014-2017 for their research project titled: *Digital Library North: Creating a Path for Information Access in Canada's North. * The goal of the project is to develop and evaluate a digital library infrastructure for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in Canada?s North to serve as a model for the digital delivery of scholarly and cultural heritage information in northern and remote regions. This goal will be achieved through: a) identifying the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories; b) developing an evidence-based and community-led digital library of resources, c) creating a culturally appropriate metadata framework; d) designing specifications for multilingual user interfaces that support the dominant languages used; e) and conducting a user-centred evaluation of the digital library platform. The award notification can be found on the SSHRC website here: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/recipients-recipiendaires/2013/insight-savoir-eng.aspx *Dr. Michael B. McNally and Dr. Dinesh Rathi Awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant* In addition to Dr. Shiri and Dr. Rathi?s SSHRC Insight Grant, SLIS faculty members Dr. Michael B. McNally (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Dinesh Rathi (Co- Principal Investigator) have been awarded $73,777 by SSHRC?s Insight Development Grant for 2014-15 for their project titled: *Implications of Broadband Policy on the Digital Divide between Communities*. The project aims to identify which policies are most effective for increasing broadband penetration rates in rural and remote communities, with the aim of developing policy recommendations for reducing the digital divide in Canada. Facets of the project include: a) analyzing past, present and proposed Canadian federal and provincial broadband policies aimed at connecting rural and remote Canadians; b) comparative policy analysis with a purposively selected group of countries (Australia, Argentina, India, South Korean and the United States); and, c) interviews with rural internet service providers to gain understanding of what policy mechanisms are most effective for encouraging rural broadband service delivery. 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Guided by a faculty of national experts, join colleagues from institutions large and small for two and a half days of instruction on best practices and practical strategies for the creation, curation, and use of digital collections. Network with colleagues who have similar challenges, interact with faculty one-on-one, gain a comprehensive introduction to digitization, and visit historic Raleigh. CONFERENCE FEE: $525 ($485 early-bird, valid through April 14, 2015) $350 Student (copy of current student ID required) NEW - reduced student rate this year! LEARN MORE: http://bit.ly/DigDir15 Join the NEDCC E-News List to receive all the latest conference updates. QUESTIONS? 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On February 1st, 2014, approximately 600 participants, convened in 31 locations in 6 countries to edit Wikipedia articles on women and the arts. During this day, at least 101 new articles were created, and at least 90 articles improved. Highlights from the over 40 press stories include an LA Weekly feature story, the most shared article in ARTnews history, and a 30 minute podcast from Bitch Magazine. This year, we want your help! The 2nd Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA, 4 West 54 Street, on Saturday, March 7, 2015. Do you want to join participants in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Brussels, Vancouver, Paris and Amsterdam in organizing your own satellite event? Please contact info at art.plusfeminism.org if you want to get involved! This year, we're able to provide funding for food and childcare on a first-come, first-serve basis, so don't hesitate to be in touch. We look forward to hearing from you! The Art+Feminism team (Si?n Evans + Dorothy Howard + Jackie Mabey + Michael Mandiberg) PS Can't organize your own event but still want to be involved? Here are five other things you can do now: Save the date | 2nd Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, March 7-8, 2015, online + worldwide. Funds are available for satellite events. Get in touch to learn more. Learn the basics | In New York City? Join us for Train the Trainers, a series of editing workshops for the beginner Wikipedian. Outside of the city? Email us to learn more about how to plan a training event in your town. Like us on Facebook | Join the conversation on our Facebook page. Join the mailing list | Keep up-to-date by joining our mailing list. Learn more | Review our Wikipedia Meet Up page for more details. 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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: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:45 AM To: DLib-subscribers Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The January/February 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The January/February 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. Guest editors for this special issue on the topic of data publishing are: Lukasz Bolikowski, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland; Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece; Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy and Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany. The guest editorial is entitled: Data as "First-class Citizens". This special issue contains 10 articles on research data publishing. In addition, the 'In Brief' column presents six 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 the "Archive on Digital Art", a cost-free scholarly database and online community dedicated to the research on digital art. To see the titles, authors and abstracts of the 10 articles, go to: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january15/01contents.html. D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jan 15 03:56:36 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:56:36 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2015, Vienna, Call for Research & Innovation Papers Message-ID: <54B780C4.1070706@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Research & Innovation Papers Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2015 Transfer // Engineering // Community 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 15-17, 2015 http://www.semantics.cc Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015 * Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015 * Notification of Acceptance:June 26, 2015 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 15 , 2015 SEMANTiCS proceedings will be published by ACM ICP. Submissions via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research The calls for ?Industry & Use Case Presentations? and ?Posters and Demos?at SEMANTiCS 2015 can be found here:http://www.semantics.cc/ The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year?s conference in Leipzig with more than 230 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2015 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. The following ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) topics are of interest: * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Data Integration & Enterprise Linked Data * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Media, Publishing & Advertising * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunications * Energy, Transport & Environment Research / Innovation Papers The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ) and must not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.: 978-1-4503-1972-0. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research . Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word) will also be needed. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015 * Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015 * Notification of Acceptance:June 26, 2015 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 15 , 2015 Research and Innovation Chairs: Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, Universit?t Leipzig Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG ?sterreich Programme Committee: to be announced SEMANTiCS 2015 Organisation Committee: * Axel Polleres, Conference Chair * Tassilo Pellegrini, Conference Chair * Christian Dirschl, Industry Chair * Sebastian Hellmann, Research & Innovation Chair * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Research & Innovation Chair * Agata Filipowska, Poster and Demo Chair * Ruben Verborgh, Poster and Demo Chair * Anna Fensel, Workshop Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML 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 | Assistant Professor Library and Information Science Program Morgridge College of Education | University of Denver 1999 East Evans Avenue | Denver, CO 80208-1700 303.871.6163 | krystyna.matusiak at du.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Sat Jan 17 00:22:37 2015 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil P. Karadkar) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:22:37 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Request_for_participation_in_NSF_iSampl?= =?windows-1252?q?es_stakeholder_survey_=97_on_geoscience_physical_sample_?= =?windows-1252?q?data?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <54B9F19D.80807@austin.utexas.edu> *Memorandum* *To: * Scientists, curators, cyberinfrastructure experts and others working with geoscience physical samples *Fm: *Kerstin Lenhnert (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory-Columbia) *Dt: *January 15, 2014 *Re:* Request for participation in NSF iSamples stakeholder survey ? on geoscience physical sample data The NSF-sposored iSamples research coordination network (RCN) is committed to advancing the sharing of physical geoscience samples and data on samples by engaging a broad array of geoscience fields and disciplines, along with museums, data repositories, and others. To develop a clear baseline understanding of current practice and views, iSamples has developed a stakeholder survey for geoscientists, curators, cyberinfrastructure experts, and others as appropriate. Participation is voluntary and confidential -- no individual identifying information will be reported. The survey should take 15-20 minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate in this survey, please use the following link: http://maps.waymarksystems.org/s3/iSamples-Stakeholder-Survey-2014-consent This survey is part of a broader data collection process associated with the NSF EarthCube initiative. Later in the first quarter of 2015 there will be a general EarthCube stakeholder alignment survey and your participation in that will be requested as well. Thank you in advance for your consideration and, hopefully, your participation. _______________________________________________________ Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER), 223A National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 3102C University of Illinois 504 East Armory Avenue Champaign, IL 61820 217.333.1454 (office) 217.979.3771 (cell) joelcg at illinois.edu Invest in LER Professor (fractional) Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies (WOS) John Grill Centre for Project Leadership University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Mon Jan 19 19:54:11 2015 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil P. Karadkar) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:54:11 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Final CfP: JCDL 2015 - Full papers due Jan 23rd, all other submissions- Jan 30th. In-Reply-To: <54BDA716.5080000@jcdl.org> References: <54BDA716.5080000@jcdl.org> Message-ID: <54BDA733.1000604@austin.utexas.edu> The extended deadline for JCDL full papers is this Friday, Jan. 23rd. All other proposals are due a week later, on Jan 30th. Details below: > Call for proposals - ACM/IEEE JCDL 2015 - Large, Dynamic and > Ubiquitous ? The Era of the Digital Library > > Knoxville, TN, June 21-25 > > A web version of this call is available at: > https://sites.google.com/site/jcdl2015/call-for-proposals > > Please submit proposals via the conference's EasyChair submission > page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl15.All > contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM > formatting guidelines > (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html , templates > available for authoring in LaTex2e and Microsoft Word). > > Important submission deadlines: > ---------------------------------------------- > January 23 - Full paper submissions(Extended--was Jan. 16) > January 30 - Short paper, panel, poster and demonstrations > February 6- Tutorials and workshops > March 20th - Doctoral Consortium > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Tue Jan 20 11:59:33 2015 From: sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu (Scoville, Sheila L) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:59:33 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New Issue of Information & Culture Message-ID: Edited at the School of Information at UT Austin, Information & Culture publishes historical studies of topics that fall under information studies as it is practiced by the interdisciplinary information schools. Information & Culture Volume 50, Issue 1, 2015 ARTICLES The Many Histories of Information William Aspray Broker of Information, the ?Nation?s Most Important Commodity?: The Library of Congress in the Neoliberal Era Melissa A. Adler A Case Study of Collaboration in the Building of China?s Library and Information Infrastructure Zhixian Yi and Kim M. Thompson Human Computing Practices and Patronage: Antiaircraft Ballistics and Tidal Calculations in First World War Britain Anna Carlsson-Hyslop Genetic Information in the Age of DNA Sequencing Miguel Garc?a-Sancho utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/journals/information-culture Sheila Scoville Journals Promotion Coordinator University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 | Austin, TX 78731-7819 P: (512) 232-7618 | F: (512) 232-7178 sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Visit the UT Press website. Follow us on Twitter, and friend us on Facebook. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From becker at gseis.ucla.edu Tue Jan 20 15:43:28 2015 From: becker at gseis.ucla.edu (Snowden Becker) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:43:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Asis-l] New ALA eCourse on Managing Copyright in Digital Collections Message-ID: <484191048.89066.1421786608730.JavaMail.root@gseis.ucla.edu> This message is being posted to multiple lists; apologies to those who receive duplicate copies. >> ALA Editions announces a new facilitated eCourse, Managing Copyright in Digital Collections. Linda Tadic will serve as the instructor for this three-week facilitated eCourse starting on Feb. 16, 2015. When you?re creating a digital collection or digitizing materials for preservation and access, you face a whole new set of copyright questions. In this three-week eCourse, you will learn how to apply copyright to a variety of media and formats and make decisions with a project manager?s sensibility, enabling you to keep your projects on track. Tadic, experienced in film, art and cultural object archives, will lead discussions, provide related readings and resources and will also present three live webinars as part of the eCourse. By the end of this eCourse, you will be able to: determine whether a work is truly in the public domain by examining the metadata that should be used to make copyright determinations; identify potential third-party (underlying) rights, research rights holders, and gain permissions; assertively apply the four factors of fair use to works in all media. Save the date to attend the live webinars! (Please note that all sessions will be recorded and archived for those who cannot attend the live events.) Session One: Friday, Feb. 20 from 2:30 - 4 p.m. Eastern/1:30-3 p.m. Central Session Two: Friday, Feb. 27 from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern/1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Central Session Three: Friday, March 6 from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern/1:30-2:30 p.m. Central eCourse outline Week 1: Overview of copyright law sections applicable to libraries and archives? digital projects Overview of recent case law, with its contradictory or finely distinguished rulings Discussion of Copyright law sections Section 106: Essential rights of the creator Section 107: Fair use Section 108: Reproduction by libraries and archives Section 110: Use of copyrighted material in face-to-face and long-distance instruction Section 1201: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and anti-circumvention exceptions Public domain: definitions and special considerations Live Session: Friday, February 20 from 2:30-4:00pm Eastern Week 2: Third-party rights How to analyze underlying or third-party rights based on a work?s form: text, still image, sound recording, moving image, and web-based content Recommended online resources for finding rights holders and to clearing rights Considerations for student theses and school yearbooks Live Session: Friday, February 27 from 2:30-3:30pm Eastern Week 3: Other applicable rights, orphan works, and due diligence Privacy and publicity rights Cultural sensitivities Orphan works due diligence Due diligence metadata. Live Session: Friday, March 6 from 2:30-3:30pm Eastern About the Instructor Linda Tadic has more than 30 years of experience working with and managing audiovisual and digital collections. She was principal investigator for developing and writing the business plan for the Audiovisual Archive Network, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is an adjunct professor in UCLA?s Moving Image Archive Studies graduate degree program, teaching courses in Access (including copyright) and Digital Asset Management. Her past positions include manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO), and director of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, one of the largest collections of broadcasting in the United States. She was director of operations for ARTstor, a subscription-based digital library of nearly 1,000,000 images of art, architecture and cultural objects with contributions from around the globe. She holds an MLIS degree from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from University of California, San Diego. Registration for this ALA Editions facilitated eCourse, which begins on Feb. 16, can be purchased at the ALA Store. Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files. --------------------------------------------- Snowden Becker - becker at gseis.ucla.edu Program Manager, Moving Image Archive Studies UCLA Department of Information Studies 229 GSE&IS Building, Box 951520 Los Angeles CA 90095-1520 PH: (310) 206-9231 FAX: (310) 206-4460 **All opinions expressed are my own, and not those of my employer or any organizations with which I am affiliated.** From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Tue Jan 20 16:32:24 2015 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:32:24 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] The Future of LIS, LIS Education, and the Information Professions Message-ID: Apologies for duplication. +++++++++++++++++ *Are you interested in the future of LIS, LIS Education, and the Information Professions? Then add your voice to the dialogue...* We are seeking your input ahead of an Opening Session at the annual meeting of ALISE (to be held on January 28, 2015). The session will bring together leaders of key information associations to explore new ways of working together, thinking out of the box and into the future, and advancing our field through constructive and collaborative problem-solving. A collective Agenda for action will begin to emerge from this session. We would like to hear your opinion and suggestions regarding such issues as: - How can we move beyond siloization of the field/profession and shape our future in a way that expresses our professional, scholarly and educational commonalities? - How can accreditation better present and serve this broad community? - How can our information associations better reflect how our discipline(s) is/are changing? Could there be a more appropriate and collaborative model, and what would it look like? - How can we best raise our presence, and highlight our value to to academe and to society at large? - What concrete measures could your organization commit to undertake, in the spirit of community-building, collaboration, public engagement, and a more democratic representation? *We count on diverse perspectives and viewpoints to enrich the dialogue. So, make your voice heard.* HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE? - Check us out at http://sched.co/27uA for more information about the panel and the speakers. - Tell us what you think, using *#ALISE2015speakup* - Attend the session at the annual ALISE meeting (Wed Jan. 28, 2015, 10:30-Noon) - Following the session, comment on the notes and Agenda for Action that will be posted. We want to hear from you. Drs. Nadia Caidi and Tula Giannini, session organizers and moderators. 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It recognizes that access to information and the skills to use it effectively are required for sustainable development. The KM Open Session will provide an opportunity to share projects that support the goals of the Lyon declaration and address the ways in which KM is being used to make the future open. | ? | | ? | | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | | IFLA Knowledge Management Open Session August 2015...The?Lyon Declaration?was launched at the IFLA congress in Lyon in August 2014. It recognizes that access to information and the skills to use it effecti... | | | | View on www.ifla.org | Preview by Yahoo | | | | ? | ? The IFLA KM Section provides an international platform for professional communication and understanding of the significance of KM for libraries. It gives a voice to KM on a global scale and follows the developments in KM, promoting its practical implementation within the global library community. Papers presenting innovative projects, experience, initiatives or services with a strong collaborative cross-border or international dimension are preferred. Papers should reflect the 2015 IFLA Cape Town conference theme ?Dynamic Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation?.?Wilda Wilda B NewmanInformation CoordinatorIFLA Knowledge Management Standing Committee Wilda B NewmanKnowledge Associates Resources, LLC5964 Rosinante RunColumbia, MD 21045 USAPhone: 1-410-730-7583Email: wildanewman at yahoo.comSkype: wildanewman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lisa.Schiff at ucop.edu Wed Jan 21 12:25:31 2015 From: Lisa.Schiff at ucop.edu (Lisa Schiff) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:25:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] JLSC Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sharing, Publication and Citation of Research Data (Summer 2015) Message-ID: <1399A14C25A2514C9C3290964F0135B940221727@p-irc-exmbx02.AD.UCOP.EDU> [Apologies for duplicate postings.] For those who may have missed the first announcement, the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications has put out a call for papers for a special issue on research data sharing, publication and citation, scheduled for publication in the summer of 2015. The submission deadline is March 1, 2015. Further details regarding submissions can be found here: http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/cfp.html Lisa ----------------------------------------------- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library Office of the President University of California 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981 Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lisa.Schiff at ucop.edu Wed Jan 21 14:09:09 2015 From: Lisa.Schiff at ucop.edu (Lisa Schiff) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:09:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] URL CORRECTED! JLSC Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sharing, Publication and Citation of Research Data (Summer 2015) Message-ID: <1399A14C25A2514C9C3290964F0135B940224338@p-irc-exmbx02.AD.UCOP.EDU> Please note that there was an error in the URL that has now been corrected! 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URL: From z665.a4 at gmail.com Wed Jan 21 16:52:41 2015 From: z665.a4 at gmail.com (Jean Amaral) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:52:41 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP Deadline extended - LACUNY Institute on Privacy and Surveillance Message-ID: *Deadline Extended* *Privacy and Surveillance: Library Advocacy for the 21st Century* John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York May 8, 2015 *Submission Deadline: January 23, 2015* Keynote Speaker: Rainey Reitman (Activism Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Freedom of the Press Foundation) Historically, librarians have defended patron privacy on the grounds that it is crucial to free speech, freedom of thought, and equal access to information. These core values, which occasionally have led librarians to confrontation with law enforcement, are embedded in our professional ethics. The American Library Association?s Privacy Toolkit demarcates a broad territory for the profession to safeguard: ?In libraries, the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one?s interest examined or scrutinized by others? (Privacy and Confidentiality: Library Core Values ). Nevertheless, patron data can now be scrutinized not just by FBI agents with secret warrants, but also by database and e-book vendors, social media companies, and Internet marketers. The digital nature of today?s information sources has allowed for mass collection of patron data--as demonstrated by the NSA?s covert collection of telephone and Internet records. Our profession has been slow to respond. In this new technological and political landscape, which privacy violations pose a threat to our mission of promoting free speech and free thought? How can librarians convince those in power that patron privacy is crucial to our institutions and our communities? Can we negotiate contracts with vendors that protect reader privacy? How should we talk to our students about these issues, and what can we learn from them about the future of privacy? The LACUNY Institute seeks proposals that explore all aspects of privacy in libraries, with a special emphasis on academic settings. We welcome proposals from those inside and outside the profession. This year, we will feature two kinds of presentations: *Paper Presentations* (20 minutes) The Institute will include several moderated panel presentations, which may be historical, theoretical, legal, or practical in nature. Please include time for questions and discussion. A few examples include: ? Library Code of Ethics and its relevance today ? Current laws and precedents relating to privacy ? The information economy and user data ? Predictive analytics ? Assessment and student privacy ? The Dark Web *Lightning Presentations* (10 minutes) At the close of the Institute, attendees will disperse to a number of simultaneous lightning presentations. These should be highly practical in nature and focused on a single, specific issue. The goal is to provide attendees with concrete steps for action. Please build in substantial time for questions and discussion, and plan to bring handouts or other takeaways. A few examples include: ? Lesson plans for teaching students about privacy ? How to read vendor contract*s* and negotiate for privacy rights ? Privacy-protecting alternatives to common tools and websites (e.g., ownCloud, DuckDuckGo) ? Setting up a Tor relay ? Proven steps for promoting privacy initiatives among faculty and administrators Please submit proposals for paper and lightning presentations, including a 300-500 word abstract, to http://lacuny.org/institute-call-for-proposals/ by *January 23, 2015*. Questions may be directed to Jennifer.Poggiali at lehman.cuny.edu. 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All interested applicants should apply through the USAJOBS website, located at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/389615400. Additional information about the program, the hosting organizations and application requirements can be found on the NDSR website. All application requirements, including recommendation letters, must be submitted by the deadline. Residents of the NDSR program have the opportunity to develop, apply and advance their digital stewardship knowledge and skills in real-world settings. Five candidates will be selected to participate in one of five paid, year-long residencies in Washington, D.C. area institutions starting in June 2015. Please distribute this message widely through your channels. Thank you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristopher F. 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With exciting projects currently in development and on the horizon for Temple University Libraries, this is an opportunity to work as part of a dynamic and passionate team on highly-active Open Source projects like Hydra, Fedora Commons, and Blacklight. *NOTE: For this position, we are willing to consider a telecommuting arrangement of up to 80% (4 days a week) depending on candidate's experience and qualifications.* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katherine Lynch Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM Subject: Job Posting / Digital Library Applications Developer, Temple University Libraries To: asis-l at asis.org ** Please excuse any cross-posting ** The Temple University Libraries are seeking a creative and energetic individual to fill the position of Digital Library Applications Developer. This position is an opportunity to engage with the active Hydra/Fedora community and other Open Source communities. Temple?s federated library system serves an urban research university with over 1,800 full-time faculty and a student body of 36,000 that is among the most diverse in the nation. For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visit http://www.temple.edu. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Reporting to the Senior Digital Library Applications Developer and working closely with others in the Digital Library Initiatives Department, the DLAD helps develop and maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple University?s digital library initiatives and services, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects with the Hydra repository framework, and supporting digital scholarship (including digital humanities), and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the Library. As part of the development team, the DLAD architects, implements, tests and deploys new tools and services primarily based on open source project software, such as Hydra, Fedora Commons, Omeka, VIVO, Scalar, and Open Journal Systems (OJS), potentially contributing code to those projects. The DLAD advances professional skills through engagement with the active Open Source community via training and participation at national and regional conferences/meet-ups. Performs other duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience: Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or related field, and at least one year of experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Required Skills and Abilities: * Demonstrated experience with application development in at least one major programming language such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java. * Demonstrated experience with MySQL or other database management systems. * Demonstrated knowledge of the LAMP stack or similar technology stacks. * Demonstrated ability to perform effective code testing and QA testing. * Experience with project requirements gathering. * Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team-based environment, and to communicate well with IT and non-IT staff. * Commitment to responsive and innovative service. * Demonstrated ability to write clear documentation. Preferred Skills and Abilities: * Experience with a repository system such as Hydra. * Familiarity with a Content Management System like Drupal or an exhibit curation system like Omeka would be a plus. * Experience working with Open Source software, including multi-platform integration. * Experience with version control, test-driven development, and continuous integration techniques. * Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, including scripting. * Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols, including LDAP. * Knowledge of XML/XSLT. * Familiarity with digital library standards, such as Dublin Core, MARC, METS, EAD, and OAI-PMH. Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits package. To apply: To apply for this position, please visit http://www.temple.edu/hr/departments/employment/jobs_within.htm, click on "Non-Employees Only," and search for job number TU-18555. For full consideration, please submit your completed electronic application, along with a cover letter and resume. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to cultural diversity. -- Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu) Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.lynch at temple.edu -- Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu) Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.lynch at temple.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Jan 26 08:13:49 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:13:49 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS 2015 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201501261313.t0QDDnDJ032082@mail.asis.org> CENTERIS 2015 Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-9, 2015 http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 3, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 17, 2015 Final Submission due date: June 12, 2015 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 3, 2015. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science series (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker Conference chairs: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Advisory Board Chair: - Jo?o Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal Keynote speaker: - Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, Universit? Lille Nord de France, France ---------- From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Mon Jan 26 08:06:37 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:06:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories Conference: 24-25 June 2015 Old University Campus, Valletta, Malta Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A623992@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories Conference and Art Exhibition Affiliated with the People's Forum of CHoGM 2015 Conference: 24-25 June 2015 Old University Campus, Valletta, Malta Exhibition: November 2015, Valletta, Malta Web: www.um.edu.mt/events/dim2015 Facebook: www.facebook.com/dmi2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Selenay Aytac (Long Island University, USA) Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai, India) Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta) Joanne Evans (Monash University, Australia) Neil Forbes (University of Coventry, England) Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Wales) Marinos Ioannides (Technical University Cyprus, Cyprus) Gabriella Ivacs (Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary) Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta) Triantafillia Kourtoumi (Archives Thessaloniki, Greece) Alice Nemcova (OSCE Archives, Czech Republic) Gillian Oliver (Victoria University, New Zealand) Anthony Ross-Hellauer (Vienna, Austria) Seamus Ross (University of Toronto, Canada) Maria Roussou (Hellenic Diaspora Archive, UK) Daniela Sime (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Beverley Wood (The University of the West Indies, Barbados) OBJECTIVES The Commonwealth is one of the most striking examples of extensive relocation and migration on a world-wide scale. This proposal aims to bring together two ways of exploring the topic of Diasporas, Identities and Memories - as a subject for academic study and discussion, and as a theme captured in artistic expression. The concept behind the conference is to bring for discussion state-of-the-art research related to the theme which will inspire the exhibition taking place during the CHoGM forum. The conference aims to bring together academics specializing in social history, history, information science, art history as well as curators, archivists and librarians interested in the theme. INVITED SPEAKERS: Terry A. Barringer (Cambridge University Library, UK) Dr John Ashley Burgoyne (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Professor Stanley Fiorini (Malta) Professor Daniel Paul O'Donnell (University of Lethbridge, Canada) TOPICS OF INTEREST: The conference welcomes contributions that focus on, but are not limited to the following themes: - What role do researchers have in the capturing and articulation of diasporas, memories and identities? - How do memory institutions support engagement with researchers and the general public? - How the artistic expression captures identity and changes and conflicts related to it? - How to capture and convey trans-generational and community memories? - How does the right to forget manifest in the diasporas' memories? - What are the specific issues around capturing memories and experiences of children and young people? - What has been the role of Commonwealth institutions or Commonwealth-based supra-national organisations in the formation of memory/identity/diasporas? - How do memory institutions contribute to the development and management of heritage? - How memory institutions across the Commonwealth countries could cooperate better to serve diasporas? - What educational activities targeting memory institutions across the Commonwealth could help cooperation? - How social media are transforming engagement and participation in archival processes? - How is transnationalism influencing the transmission of cultural values? - How much can technologies be of help in capturing memories/nostalgia and in representing identities? EXHIBITION: The conference will help with the concept and coverage of an art exhibition which will address the emotional fabric of communities, their memories and expressing identities. The exhibition will be one of the highlights of the social programme of CHOGM. Those interested in the exhibition component should contact Mr Alexander Debono,, National Museum of Fine Arts, alexander.debono at gov.mt. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: - regular papers (8 to 12 pages) - short papers (2 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim2015. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted for the conference should be presented during the event. Papers will be published in open access proceedings, with selected papers will be published as a special issue of a journal (currently negotiated with The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. IMPORTANT DATES: - Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015 - Acceptance notification: 20 March 2015 - Camera-ready papers: 30 April 2015 - Conference: 24-25 June 2015 FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Prof. Milena Dobreva, milena.dobreva at um.edu.mt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rossjd at syr.edu Mon Jan 26 14:09:35 2015 From: rossjd at syr.edu (John David Ross) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:09:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Syracuse_iSchool_Announces_MLIS_=93Expe?= =?windows-1252?q?ct_More=94_Scholarship_Program?= Message-ID: Syracuse iSchool Announces MLIS ?Expect More? Scholarship Program A new initiative at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University offers an enriched graduate education experience to students who want to become leaders in librarianship and to develop skills that are applicable to a wide range of 21st-century careers that are redefining what it means to be a librarian. ?The Expect More Scholarship program is designed to provide promising students with all the graduate education experiences that will lead directly to career success,? said Jeff Stanton, Interim Dean at the iSchool. The program offers one-on-one pairing of students with iSchool library faculty, experts who are some of the profession?s most compelling and innovative educators; two years of applied, pertinent work/research experience; industry networking and professional development opportunities; and significant scholarship and financial support. A select group of students in the entering class of Summer/Fall 2015 Master?s in Library and Information Science degree program will become the inaugural Expect More Library Scholars. This program is designed ?to provide students with the opportunity to work with expert library educators who are leading and shaping innovations that are refocusing libraries ? and librarians ? in the 21st century,? said R. David Lankes, Professor and Dean?s Scholar for New Librarianship at the iSchool, and one of the library profession?s leading thinkers, noted speakers, and innovative voices in the field today. Read more... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kpearl at email.unc.edu Tue Jan 27 11:14:55 2015 From: kpearl at email.unc.edu (Perales, Katherine Pearl) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:14:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] SILS International Seminars Message-ID: The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) invites you to apply for our 2015 Prague or London Summer Seminars! Now is the time to secure your place in one of our international programs. Don't miss out on these exciting opportunities! The deadline to register is March 1. 1. The Prague Summer Seminar Offered in Partnership with Charles University May 17 - May 30, 2015 3 hours of graduate credit (optional) Open to students, faculty, staff, and professionals * Participants experience firsthand how the democratization of the Czech Republic, formerly a communist state, has affected the accessibility of information, in both print and electronic forms. * The program features visits to museums and libraries, as well as day trips and other planned excursions. View a sample schedule here: http://sils.unc.edu/sites/default/files/Prague-Sample-Schedule.pdf. * For more information: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/prague * To register: http://tinyurl.com/kzbdcsw * Registration deadline: March 1 2. The London Summer Seminar Offered in Partnership with University College London May 17 - May 30, 2015 3 hours of graduate credit (optional) Open to students, faculty, staff, and professionals * Participants will tour behind the scenes at the British Library, the National Archives, the Imperial War Museum (including its library), the Wellcome Library (including the History of Medicine Collection), and more. * The program also features day trips to Oxford and Cambridge. View a sample schedule here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/conferences/UNC_summerschools/UNC_summerschool_2014. * For more information: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/london * To register: http://tinyurl.com/mdj73kz * Registration deadline: March 1 Please contact SILSAbroad at unc.edu with any questions! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Tue Jan 27 12:38:52 2015 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:38:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP Jan 31: iConference workshop Engagement & Emotion in HII Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93F48C3D@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. We are inviting short (1-2 pp.) position papers (DUE JANUARY 31, 2015; email to: ischool.engagementlab at ubc.ca) 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. 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. Please refer to the workshop details below for more details. 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 31, 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). Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He was the Founding Director of Oxford Internet Institute and the first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford. 2) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - Due February 2 Do you work with social media data? We invite you to submit a proposal for a half-day Workshop or Tutorial on July 27, 2015 that examines a particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data. See more info at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483 * Workshop/tutorial hosts will receive a complimentary conference registration. 3) Call for Submissions - Various Due Dates We welcome various submission types: Short Papers, Work-in-Progress Papers, Posters, and Panels. See more info at https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1483 4) Conference Publishing Opportunities * All accepted short papers will be published in the ACM Proceedings http://dl.acm.org/ * Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full papers to a special issue of Information, Communication & Society published by Taylor & Francis http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20 * Authors of accepted short and WIP papers will be invited to submit their full papers to a special theme issue of Big Data & Society published by SAGE (open access). http://bds.sagepub.com/ 5) Interested in Hosting #SMSociety in 2016? If you are interested in hosting the conference in 2016, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd to discuss: gruzd at ryerson.ca For more information about the Social Media & Society Conference, Programme Committee and the CfP: https://socialmediaandsociety.com/?page_id=1315 And follow us on Twitter @socmediasoc We look forward to seeing you in Toronto, The Conference Organizing Committee Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University @gruzd Barry Wellman, University of Toronto @barrywellman Philip H. Mai, Ryerson University @phmai Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto @jacobsonjenna From ecorrado at ecorrado.us Wed Jan 28 13:44:31 2015 From: ecorrado at ecorrado.us (Edward M. Corrado) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:44:31 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Initiatives Librarian Message-ID: The following position is available at Binghamton University. A full job description with more details and requirements is available at the link below. One of the duties this person will have is working with our digital preservation system (Rosetta). Incidentally we also have an opening for a Fine Arts Librarian as well. Details can also be found at the link below. Applications will be reviewed startling the beginning of March for both positions. Please free to share with anyone who you think might be interested... Edward Digital Initiatives Librarian Binghamton University Libraries, Binghamton, New York, are currently accepting applications for a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Binghamton University is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is located in upstate New York. This tenure-track library faculty position will collaborate in the planning, implementation and monitoring of digital projects including digital curation, preservation and digital exhibits. Required Qualifications include an ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent and knowledge of and experience with current trends in digital preservation, experience developing web applications, and strong UNIX or Linux skills. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Applications Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. For full qualifications, application instructions, and additional information, visit our website at: http://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/about/employment/faculty.html Binghamton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Tue Jan 27 15:02:41 2015 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015) at WWW2015, 18/19th May, Florence, Italy - Submit until 31 Jan (main track, extended) or 8 Feb (social science track) Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D15559CBFD@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ===================================================================== the 5th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2015) at WWW 2015 http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2015 18th May 2015 ===================================================================== THEME: Big things come in small packages ------------------- The #Microposts workshops aim to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to debate current, leading edge effort toward analysing and understanding Microposts - "information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like, Google +1)". Although individual Microposts are small and therefore typically focus on a single thought, message or theme, collectively they provide a rich source of information and opinion about a range of topics. The workshop aims to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content of Micropost data; and discuss application of this knowledge content in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, mass communication, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Microposts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and that are able to handle the very high rate at which Microposts are published. Despite advances in the development of tools to tackle the specific challenges inherent in Micropost data, applications and approaches for analysing Microposts for different tasks still rely on the use of third party text extraction tools. Such tools are typically applied to extract entities and concepts contained in Microposts. One issue here is the lack of formal evaluation of the accuracy of text extraction tools specifically for Micropost data; instead, comparative assessment using corpora of well-formed, normal length, natural language documents is reported. To address this issue, starting with #MSM2013, the workshop hosted an entity extraction challenge in which participants detected named entities typed with corresponding concepts (e.g. 'Barack Obama' is a Person). In 2014, the challenge was extended to require also the linking of entities extracted to relevant DBpedia sources. For #Microposts2015 we propose to go one step further and extend the challenge by not only testing the accuracy of entrants' systems in extracting entities and linking them with DBpedia, but also assessing the runtime efficiency of the submitted systems. Evolution of the challenge each year addresses a current need of researchers and others who rely on the output of text extraction tools, where reliability and computation time are important when dealing with large-scale datasets. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- #Microposts2015 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below: UNDERSTAND: With a focus on the human in Micropost data generation and analysis, we encourage submissions that look at understanding how situation and context drive individual and collective generation of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work and that driven by research in the Social, Information & Web Sciences, that lead to deeper understanding of the content of Microposts, and how this content influences the contribution of Micropost data to, among others: - Collective awareness - Education & citizen empowerment, data & citizen journalism - Civil action, media & politics - Political and polemical aspects of Microposts - Ethics, legal and privacy issues - Psychological profiling and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interaction - Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use - Impact of effortless posting and wearable devices on communication DISCOVER: The extraction of information content from Micropost data and its subsequent analysis contribute to the discovery of patterns and trends in the data. This information is key to further knowledge discovery and application, using a number of approaches including: - Emergent semantics - Data mining from Microposts - Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis - Network analysis and community detection - Influence detection and social contagion modelling - Prediction approaches - Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e. entity extraction and URI disambiguation) APPLY: Applications papers and case studies describing systems related, but not limited, to: - Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation - Business analytics & market intelligence - Event & topic detection and tendency tracking - Microposts as second screen to television - Geo-localised, Micropost-based services - Public consensus & citizen participation - Security, emergency response & health - Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK ---------------------- To foster collaboration between Computer Science and Social Sciences, and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve on 'Making Sense of Microposts', there will be a special track dedicated to Social Science papers. This track will be chaired by Katrin Weller (GESIS, Germany) and Danica Radovanovi? (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), long-time members of the #Microposts workshop program committee. Details of this track will be sent out in a separate call for papers. NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION AND LINKING CHALLENGE ----------------------------------------------- On the back of two very successful challenges in 2013 and 2014, that saw widespread interest, we have already obtained sponsorship from SPAZIODATI for a financial award for the highest ranking submission. Each year the challenge has allowed a valuable overview of the state of the art and has received expressions of interest and submissions from both industry and academia. We have also seen continued interest after publication of the results in each year. We expect this to continue in 2015, with the extension of the challenge to recognize entities, and type them before linking to the corresponding DBpedia entities. We will also measure the runtime computation efficiency of submitted systems. In line with the overall workshop goals, we envisage that the outcomes of the challenge submissions will continue to advance work in the domains of named entity recognition and entity disambiguation, with a specific focus on function over the short length information snippets in Microposts. A detailed description of the challenge will be published in a separate call. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE ------------------- A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day, and followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected submissions to the Challenge. The workshop will close with the presentation of awards. SUBMISSIONS ------------ Full papers: 8 pages Short and position papers: 4 pages Demos & Posters: 2 pages Social Sciences track: 2/4 pages Challenge extended abstracts: 2 pages (with challenge results) All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Submission is via EasyChair, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2015. Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews. The #Microposts2015 proceedings will be published as a single volume containing all three tracks, via CEUR. The same publication conditions however apply as for other workshop proceedings included in the WWW conference companion: "Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference." Note this caveat does not apply to extended abstracts submitted to the special Social Sciences track summarising or discussing previously published work or presenting position statements. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Main Track submission deadline: *31 Jan 2015* (extended) Social Sciences Track submission deadline: *07 Feb 2015* Notification: 22 Feb 2015 Camera-ready (hard) deadline (Main & Social Sciences tracks): 8 Mar 2015 Challenge timeline: Intent to participate: *20 Feb 2015* Challenge submission deadline: *28 March 2015* Other dates (incl. release of datasets) TB (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) Workshop - 18 May 2015 (registration open to all) CONTACT ------- E-mail: microposts2015 at easychair.org Mailing list: microposts2015 at googlegroups.com Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910 Twitter persona: @microposts2015 Twitter hashtag: #microposts2015 W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts ORGANISERS ----------- Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK Milan Stankovic, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne & S?page, France Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK Program Committee ------------------ Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Ghent University, Belgium John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland Amparo E. Cano, KMi, Open University, UK Marco Antonio Cassanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil ?scar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK Guillaume Er?t?o, Vigiglobe, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, Open University, UK Andr?s Garc?a-Silva, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Mathieu Lacage, Alcm?on, France Philippe Laublet, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, France Jo?o Magalh?es, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jos? M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de M?xico, Mexico Fabrizio Orlandi, University of Bonn, Germany Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Danica Radovanovi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Giuseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, Austria Sean W. M. Siqueira, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rapha?l Troncy, Eurecom, France Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Andrea Varga, Swiss Re, UK Shenghui Wang, OCLC Research, The Netherlands Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK -------------------------------- CHAIRS: Danica Radovanovi?, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Katrin Weller, GESIS, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BEST PAPER AWARD: sponsored by GESIS, Germany ( http://www.gesis.org ) Award: ?250 to highest ranking submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Tim Davies, University of Southampton, UK Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech, USA Fabio Giglietto, Universit? di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Simon Hegelich, Universit?t Siegen, Germany Kim Holmberg, University of Turku, Finland Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK Raquel Recuero, Universidade Cat?lica de Pelotas, Brazil Bianca C. Reisdorf, University of Leicester, UK Luca Rossi, Universit? di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Saskia Vanmanen, The Open University, UK Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Taha Yasseri, Oxford Internet Institute, UK CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE: -------------------------------- CHAIRS: A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, Open University, UK Giuseppe Rizzo, Eurecom, France Andrea Varga, Swiss Re, UK -------------------------------------------------- SPONSOR: SpazioDati ( http://www.spaziodati.eu ) Award: ?1500 to highest ranking submission -------------------------------------------------- Program Committee -------------------------------- Gabriele Antonelli, SpazioDati, Italy Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Gr?goire Burel, KMi, Open University, UK Leon Derczynski, The University of Sheffield, UK Milan? Dojchinovski, Czech Technical University, Prague Guillaume Er?t?o, Vigiglobe, France Andr?s Garc?a-Silva, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Signal, London, UK Jos? M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de M?xico, Mexico Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton, UK Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Daniel Preo?iuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ermir Qeli, Swiss Re, Switzerland Giles Reger, Otus Labs Ltd, Sheffield, UK Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Rapha?l Troncy, Eurecom, France Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Residents will work closely with colleagues to develop specialized expertise, build leadership experience, and foster collegial relationships within the university learning community. Residents will also provide meaningful contributions to the diversity and intercultural goals of the university, participate in library committees, and become involved with professional associations. In the first year, the Residents will rotate through three functional areas to be determined mutually by the Residents and the Libraries. In the second year, the Residents will develop specialized expertise by focusing on one service area. Emphasis will also be placed on developing a research agenda and program of scholarship. The third year will be spent bringing research and creative projects to completion. Priority areas include: ? Assessment ? Cataloging and Metadata ? Collection Development and Resource Management ? Digital Libraries Initiatives ? Diversity and Intercultural Initiatives ? Instructional Services and Student Engagement ? Marketing and Communication ? Research Assistance and Liaison & Scholars Services ? Scholarly Communication ? Special Collections and Archives MENTORING Following orientation, residents will participate in a formal mentoring program. Residents will receive guidance from their mentor and other UT Libraries faculty with the expectation of completing a specialized project or publication by the end of their residency. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS A graduate degree from an ALA accredited master?s program earned between May 2013 ? June 2015; ability to work effectively in a team environment; a commitment to advancing the Libraries? and University?s diversity goals as demonstrated by past experience or through leadership activities; excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrated interest in scholarship and professional growth; strong service orientation; knowledge of issues and trends in academic libraries. Must have authorization to work in the United States for duration of the program (3 years). The UT Knoxville campus seeks candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University (http://www.utk.edu/diversity/). To find out more about the Libraries? commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/diversity/ PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Expertise in one of the priority areas. ENVIRONMENT The University of Tennessee Libraries serves the flagship campus of the state university system. The UT Libraries supports the teaching, research, and service mission of the university and enhances the academic experience of each student at the Knoxville campus ? through outstanding print and electronic collections, reference and instructional services, and top-notch facilities and technological resources. The UT Libraries serves as an intellectual, cultural, and social center for the university and community. We are a national leader in the creation of regionally significant digital collections; in support of open access though our digital repository Trace; and through a rich history of designing innovative spaces and building key partnerships that enhance the teaching/learning enterprise. The University of Tennessee Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, Lyrasis, and the Center for Research Libraries. The UT Libraries collaborates actively at the state level with the other UT System Libraries as well as the libraries in the Tennessee Board of Regents system. The University of Tennessee is committed to creating a welcoming environment. More information about how we continually strive to put our principles of civility and community into action here in Knoxville is available at http://www.utk.edu/diversity/. Additional information about this position and the UT community is available at http://www.lib.utk.edu/employment/diversity-residents/. BENEFITS Three-year appointment as non-tenure track Research Assistant Professor with the salary of $48,000. There is financial support for attending conferences, seminars, and workshops. Relocation assistance will be provided. Excellent benefits include 24 annual leave days; choice of state retirement plan or ORP (Voya (ING), TIAA-CREF, and Valic) with nonrefundable contributions paid for the employee by the University; optional group health and life insurance plans. Tuition remission is available for all university employees and partial undergraduate tuition remission is available to dependent children and spouses of UT employees. Faculty rank and status; twelve-month, tenure-track appointment. APPLICATION PROCEDURES A background check and official transcripts are required prior to hiring. 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URL: From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Tue Jan 27 23:34:55 2015 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:04:55 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] Abstract Announcement 1(3) for International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) Volume 1, Issue 3, July - September 2014 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 2328-5494; EISSN: 2328-5508; Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA www.igi-global.com/ijcescEditor(s)-in-Chief: Susheel Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, India) Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.ARTICLE 1 Synchronizing Indian CSR Endeavor of Industry: Water Sector Sabyasachi Nayak (Confederation of Indian Industry, Jaipur, India) Through the prism of CSR industry can take a stride in evolving its relationship with the stakeholders. CSR in India is currently compulsory and statutory for certain industry, excluding activities undertaken in pursuance of the normal course of business of a company. A FGD conducted with select industry and subsequent SWOT Analysis focuses on the role of industry in effective management of water resources by using CSR funds for better results. The proposed 3C- Community Concern Consensus principle is based on FGD that should be explored further to address the issue of water management holistically. This paper contributes to the existing literature and advocates the industry to prioritized water management in their plentitude of CSR endeavor. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/synchronizing-indian-csr-endeavor-of-industry/122437 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=122437 ARTICLE 2 Severing Corruption from Everyday Life: Some Reflections from Nigerian Political Space Babatunde Joshua Omotosho (Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria) One of the challenging scenarios regarding political landscape in developing countries has to do with corruption and Nigeria is not an exception. Politicians often tow the paths of corrupt practices (while preparing for election and upon assumption of political offices) due to a number of social and economic factors. Attempts have been made by different administrations in this country to severe these twin brothers (corruption and politics) in order to ensure a lasting democracy in Nigeria. In spite of these efforts, the success story is nothing to write home about. The questions therefore are: is there any tie between corruption and culture? At what point did corruption become an identifiable feature of Nigerian politics? What are the steps taken so far to address this menace and what are the achievements over time? All these issues and others become critical as this paper examines the place of culture in corruption in Nigeria. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/severing-corruption-from-everyday-life/122438 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=122438 ARTICLE 3 Organizational Culture and Gender Minority: A Case Study of State Bank of India Richa Vij (Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management Studies, Delhi, India) Organizational culture has long been shaped and dominated by male orientations and therefore focus on change in the organizational culture can help in addressing the issue of discrimination and isolation of women in organizations. The present paper aims at identifying the attributes of organizational culture in respect of which the perceptions of female employees differ significantly from those of male employees in State Bank of India. The study is based on the data relating to 54 variables for measuring the attributes of organizational culture. The results indicate that though there were differences between the perceptions of Female group employees and Male employees of State Bank of India regarding many of the attributes of organizational culture, they were not statistically significant. The study points out that despite the compelling evidence in support of the belief that gender discrimination does exists in most firms, some firms have been able to develop an organizational culture that is perceived to be non-discriminatory in nature by the gender minority. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/organizational-culture-and-gender-minority/122439 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=122439 ARTICLE 4 Boycott and Buycott as Emerging Modes of Civic Engagement Emmanuel Adugu (Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, University of West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados) Citizens in post-industrialized societies such as the United States are becoming dissatisfied with some public policy decisions on the provisioning of food, prompting engagement in buycotts and boycotts as means to influence policy change. Such politically motivated consumptive behavior with social change motives is referred as political consumption. Using data from Ohio 2007 Survey of Food, Farming and the Environment, this research examines the attitudinal and demographic correlates of engagement in buycott and boycott. Findings reveal that engagement in boycott and buycott are shaped by food safety concern and knowledge of food production respectively. Both boycott and buycott behaviors are positively associated with conventional political action and organic labels. Those with greater political efficacy and high incomes are more likely to engage in buycott. These emerging forms of consumer-oriented political engagement may constitute an important force in setting the agenda for social change with respect to the issues targeted. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/boycott-and-buycott-as-emerging-modes-of-civic-engagement/122440 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=122440 ARTICLE 5 Performing Arts for Effective Civic Engagement: Developing Creative Civically Engaged Student Leaders Miriam Chitiga (Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, USA) There is a dearth of civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and interest among pre-and post-secondary students and the general public. Many people are not equipped with the necessary knowledge of American political history, democratic institutions, processes, and civic life needed to allow them to become active, effective, responsible, and empowered citizens and leaders of the future. The traditional mode of incorporating civics in the lecture format in social studies and political science curricula is ineffective. The Performing Arts for Effective Civic Engagement (PAECE) program is a cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort that was created to address this problem through creative, entertaining performance-based content delivery that is designed by students. This paper describes the details on the program implementation, evalution, as well as its outcomes, in an effort to disseminate pertinent information for possible replication or adaptation of the model by other institutions. The paper concludes with some implications for higher education institutions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/performing-arts-for-effective-civic-engagement/122441 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=122441 For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.igi-global.com/isj. CALL FOR PAPERS Mission of IJCESC: The mission of the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) is to discuss and explore value driven civic engagement practices, processes, and frameworks to bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for individuals and society. The journal promotes cutting edge research on various issues of civic engagement as an integrated platform for researchers, scholars, academic institutions, and civic society. IJCESC achieves its mission through research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of frameworks, and collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide. Coverage of IJCESC: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: Civic engagement and political reforms for developmentCivic engagement and rural developmentCivic engagement and urban developmentCivic engagement for development and social changeCivic engagement for organization developmentCivic engagement reforms and capacity buildingICTs engagement and social changeLeadership cases for civic engagementPreservation of natural resourcesPublic policy and social changeRole of administrative competencies for civic engagementSmart governance practicesSmart regulatory frameworks for civic engagementSocial accountability for individuals, government, and corporate sectorsSocial networks and collaborations for bringing social changeStandards and benchmarks for civic engagementValue-driven civic engagementWomen and child development Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-civic-engagement-social/75851 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From slc at publicus.net Wed Jan 21 16:12:56 2015 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:12:56 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: mySociety's new $3.6M investment from Omidyar Network, seeks to grow Poplus civic tech collaboration Message-ID: I addition to the research conference announcement from mySociety I shared - http://bit.ly/1umvWLO - recently, I wanted to alert the research/academic community to Poplus and the fact that mySociety should be unleashing some pretty important work of likely interest to researcher over the next few years. See: http://bit.ly/mysocomidyar Normally I only post a few times a year, but this is a pretty big deal. And please read on below and join here: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup - Thanks! Steve From: Steven Clift Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:58 PM Subject: Fwd: mySociety's new $3.6M investment from Omidyar Network, seeks to grow Poplus civic tech collaboration This is very exciting news for the civic technology and open government movement. You'll note that Tom Steinberg references Poplus in his post below. Poplus website: http://bit.ly/poplus In my view, Poplus represents the next generation of collaborative and shared civic tech development. Think code "components" or Lego building blocks you can use to adapt code across borders and different political systems. If you want to tap into mySociety's very global momentum _combined_ with other orgs like FCI in Chile, g0v in Taiwan, Sinar in Malaysia, SimSim in Morocco, etc. and forward thinking coders/companies/governments/etc., I strongly encourage you to join the Poplus Google Group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup And join in our fresh round of introductions: http://bit.ly/poplusintros E-Democracy is excited to further announce we've been commissioned by mySociety to lead an effort to boost global Poplus participation via online engagement. So join in! Congrats mySociety! Thank you Omidyar Network. Steven Clift Poplus.org and E-Democracy.org P.S. We just had a Poplus Meetup teleconference today with updates spanning the global. See the raw notes and listen to the recording: http://bit.ly/poplusmeetup The next virtual Meetup is on Feb. 18: http://bit.ly/poplusFeb2015calRSVP (this will be geared toward people *new* to Poplus, definitely join the online group for details: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup ) See: http://bit.ly/mysocomidyar Omidyar Network backs mySociety Posted by Tom Steinberg 21st January 2015 Much of mySociety?s work is only possible thanks to generous funding from a number of philanthropic foundations. Today, we are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a major strategic investment from Omidyar Network totalling up to $3.6m over three years. This is the third time we?ve been supported by Omidyar Network, and this represents the biggest investment we?ve ever had. Alongside organisations like the Open Society Foundation, Google.org and the Indigo Trust, Omidyar has been central in our transformation from a tiny UK-focused non-profit, to a global social enterprise of nearly 30 staff. Being supported by Omidyar Network means more than just vital financial support. It means access to their amazing networks of other investees, and advice and guidance from a range of sources. And, also crucial for an organisation that seeks technical excellence, it means the stamp of support from an organisation that ultimately traces its DNA back to the giant internet successes that are eBay and Paypal. What is the money for? mySociety?s main ambition, over the next three years, is to help a couple of dozen other organisations, spread around the world, to grow popular citizen empowerment tools that are big enough to really matter to the citizens of a wide range of countries. This means building and growing tools that help people to check up on politicians, demand information and answers, or report and track problems, in hugely varying contexts. In addition to this, we will continue to maintain and grow the network of users of our technology and support the growing Poplus - http://bit.ly/poplus - federation. It?s a tough goal, and one that will require even more from the organisations we partner with, than from our own colleagues. But the very fact that we can even try to help groups at this scale, is because Omidyar Network enables us to imagine it. Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy From mcunha at ipca.pt Fri Jan 30 08:06:22 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:06:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ProjMAN 2015 - International Conference on Project MANagement | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201501301306.t0UD6L3Z001332@mail.asis.org> ---------- ProjMAN 2015 International Conference on Project MANagement an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-9, 2015 http://projman.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 3, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 17, 2015 Final Submission due date: June 12, 2015 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://projman.scika.org) until April 3, 2015. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science series (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://projman.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker Conference chairs: - Albert Boonstra, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Jo?o Eduardo Quintela Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal Advisory Board Chair: - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Keynote speaker: - Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, Universit? Lille Nord de France, France ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Vilamoura, Algarve, next October. Kind regards, The conference chairs From mcunha at ipca.pt Fri Jan 30 08:07:31 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:07:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS 2015 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems | CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <201501301307.t0UD7SvV001434@mail.asis.org> CENTERIS 2015 Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems an AIS affiliated conference ---------- Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-9, 2015 http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 3, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 17, 2015 Final Submission due date: June 12, 2015 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 3, 2015. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science series (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Committees and Keynote speaker Conference chairs: - Petra Schubert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Advisory Board Chair: - Jo?o Varaj?o, University of Minho, Portugal Keynote speaker: - Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, Universit? Lille Nord de France, France ---------- We look forward to welcome you in our beautiful Vilamoura, Algarve, next October. Kind regards, The conference chairs From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Fri Jan 30 09:09:59 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:09:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The winners of the InfoShare awards for 2015 Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A623F60@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> Dear Colleagues, On behalf of all our fellow officers of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), we are pleased to announce the winners of the InfoShare awards for 2015. Information professionals from developing countries, where the cost of ASIS&T membership would be a burden, are eligible to receive one year of membership. SIG-III officers vote on a roster of candidates nominated by ASIS&T colleagues or others. 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URL: From ndsr at loc.gov Thu Jan 29 09:44:04 2015 From: ndsr at loc.gov (National Digital Stewardship Residency) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:44:04 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] NDSR-DC Deadline Extended to Friday, February 6, 2015 Message-ID: --please excuse cross postings- Good afternoon, The application deadline for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program in Washington, D.C. has been extended for one week. Applications for the program must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 6, 2015 through USAJOBS. The NDSR program was created by the Library of Congress in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The year-long program will start in June 2015 and will provide recent graduates the opportunity to gain hands-on, professional experience in one of five different agencies in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. Residents participating in the program will receive a stipend of $40,000 and additional funding for training and/or conference attendance over the course of the year. Agencies hosting residents for the 2015-2016 program include: The American Institute of Architects DC Public Library Government Publishing Office National Library of Medicine U.S. Senate Historical Office Recent graduates with a strong interest in digital stewardship are encouraged to apply. 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The Supporting Complex Search Tasks workshop aims at creating and fostering an interdisciplinary forum where researchers can exchange and contribute to the development of alternative experiments and prototypes. We invite position papers addressing open research questions related to: * Context: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? * Tasks: What are essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? * Heterogeneous sources: With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized, and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when to show what sources of information? * Search process: How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant differences between different stages? * UI/UX: What affordances are required and in what stage of the search process? How can we make the search process transparent to the user? How and when does the initiative shift between system and user? * Evaluation: How do we know that our approaches are any good? IMPORTANT LINKS * Workshop: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST15/ * Conference: http://ecir2015.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/wp/ * Call for Participation: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST15/#/cfp * Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scst2015 SUBMISSION INFORMATION All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 3 pages and formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scst2015). *Submission deadline: 12 February 2015, 23:59 GMT * Notification of acceptance: 7 March 2015 Camera ready deadline: 14 March 2015 Workshop date: 29 March 2015 Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS). 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URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Jan 31 05:51:57 2015 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:51:57 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Multilingual Web Access Workshop @ WWW 2015 Message-ID: --------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Multilingual Web Access (MWA 2015), May 19, 2015 http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/ held In conjunction with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference, Florence, Italy. -------- Motivation and Goals -------- Over the past 25 years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has developed into a truly transnational information medium for users from across the globe. As of July 2013, Asia accounts for the largest share of online users in the world at 48.4%, followed by 21.8% from the Americas, and 19% from Europe. 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 Web user needs & behavior - Multilingual recommender systems - Multilingual news systems - Cross-/multilingual information retrieval - 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 at http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/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. Chi (Google, USA) - chi at acm.org For further questions please contact a member of the organizing committee.