From ppichappan at gmail.com Mon Jun 1 07:40:42 2015 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:10:42 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: ICDIM 2015 Message-ID: Tenth International Conference on Digital Information Management Jeju Island, South Korea October 21-23, 2015 (www.icdim.org) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013) and Thailand (2014) the tenth event is being organized at Jeju Island the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 2015. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 10th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held on October 21-23, 2015 at the Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (South Korea). The topics in ICDIM 2015 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Workshops ICDIM 2015 has the following co-located workshops Fourth Workshop on Emerging Problem- specific Crowdsourcing Technologies Fourth Workshop on Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization Third IEEE International Workshop on Data Management (IWDM 2015) First Workshop on Internet of Things First Workshop on Big Data Mining First Workshop on Cluster Computing First Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (SCOPUs/EI) 2. Journal of Electrical Systems 3. Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering 4. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) 5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) 7. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 8. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) 9. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 10. International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) 11. International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) 12 International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 13. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI Important Dates Full Paper Submission August 10, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 10, 2015 Registration Due October 10, 2015 Camera Ready Due October 10, 2015 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos October 22, 2015 Main conference October 21-23, 2015 2015 Main conference October 15-17, 2015 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Committee General Chair Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Program Chairs Xu Shuo, ISTIC, China Thomas Mandl, Hildesheim University, Germany Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan Program Co-Chairs Michaela Geierhos, Paderborn University, Germany Ing-Xiang Chen, Ericsson, Tiwan Imran Bajwa Sajwa The Islamia University of Bahawlpur, Pakistan Organizing committee Sa-kwang Song, KISTI, Korea Do-Heon Jeong, KISTI, Korea Seungwoo Lee, KISTI, Korea Young-Guk Ha, Konkuk University, Korea In-Su Kang, Kyungsung Univ. 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URL: From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Mon Jun 1 03:36:19 2015 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:06:19 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) 1(4) Message-ID: Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) 1(4)The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) Volume 1, Issue 4, October - December 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 A Civic Engagement Graduation Requirement on an Urban College Campus Christopher Chapman (Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA) As civic engagement is an essential part of a democratic society, many college educators believe that it should be encouraged or required of students. The survey reported here gathered information on past and present civic activities from 2,327 students at a large, very diverse urban community college. Results showed strong agreement with the proposition that the college had a responsibility to develop civically engaged students. Principal components analysis of responses revealed four distinct factors: general non-political civic engagement, and low-effort, high-effort, and unconventional political activities. Many students did not regard themselves as civically engaged yet reported extensive activity. More civically engaged students tended to be male, older, and not employed full-time. Ethnicity was related to engagement in complex ways. Students with a service-oriented program of study were expected to report more civic engagement, but evidence for this was minimal. Political party identification was a poor predictor of student responses. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/a-civic-engagement-graduation-requirement-on-an-urban-college-campus/129840 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129840 ARTICLE 2 Attitudinal Measures of Political Consumption as a Form of Civic Engagement in a Developing Country Emmanuel Adugu (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados), Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw (Science & Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI), Accra, Ghana) The use of the marketplace as a site for political action with social change motives is referred as political consumption. The phenomenon of political consumption has been widely studied in post-industrialized nations such as the United States of America but less is written about such social change-oriented behaviors in developing countries. This paper aims at determining the attitudinal measures of political consumption in Ghana, a developing nation in West Africa. The study is based on data collected in August 2013 from a total of 356 Ghanaians sampled from higher institutions of learning. Findings suggest that influence over government (political efficacy) is a consistent predictor of the respective attitudinal measures of political consumption. To some extent this pattern of behavior of engagement in political consumption contradicts findings in post-industrialized nations where it is consistently linked to variables such as: socio-demographics, political interest, and trust in institutions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/attitudinal-measures-of-political-consumption-as-a-form-of-civic-engagement-in-a-developing-country/129841 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129841 ARTICLE 3 Women Artisans' Information Needs, Sources and Seeking Behaviour and the Implication for Empowerment in a Semi-Urban Area in Nigeria M.C. Nwosu (Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria), K.N. Igwe (Department of Library and Information Science, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Nigeria), N.A. Emezie (Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria) This study examined the information needs, sources, information-seeking behavior of women artisans and the implications for empowerment in Offa, a semi-urban area in Kwara State of Nigeria. Survey research method was adopted with questionnaire as tool for data collection, involving 210 women artisans. Findings revealed that women artisans have information needs related to their work, but with information accessibility challenges due to unavailability of accessible information sources like libraries, as well as absence of empowerment programmes from government. It further revealed that the major sources of information for most women artisans were verbal or face-to-face mode of communications. The paper concludes that women constitute a vital asset of Nigeria and are a resourceful group with a good number practicing artisanship. Therefore, there is need to develop the information consciousness of the women artisans by the provision of efficient, effective and reliable formal information delivery mechanisms to them, such as community information centres. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/women-artisans-information-needs-sources-and-seeking-behaviour-and-the-implication-for-empowerment-in-a-semi-urban-area-in-nigeria/129842 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129842 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... URL: From zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Jun 8 11:24:27 2015 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:24:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?CFP_for_First_Monday_special_issue=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CA_Decade_of_Web_2=2E0=3A_Reflections=2C_Critical_Persp?= =?utf-8?q?ectives=2C_and_Beyond=E2=80=9D?= References: Message-ID: <6A95997D-20F0-4B8A-878A-A433FF631F9E@uwm.edu> Call for Papers: Special Issue of First Monday (June 2016) ?A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond? Special Editors: Michael Zimmer and Anna L. Hoffmann 2015 marks 10 years since the publication of ?What Is Web 2.0?? [1], Tim O?Reilly?s influential declaration of Web 2.0?s practical and conceptual underpinnings. In the intervening years, the popularity of Web 2.0 as a descriptive term has waxed and waned. At the same time, however, the platforms, principles, and ideologies that ushered in the Web 2.0 Era have only grown in their relevance: concerns over labor and social production have persisted in, for example, critical discussions of personal data ownership or the ?sharing economy;? questions of exploitation and dominance are increasingly pressing in the face of the power and reach exhibited by companies like Google, Facebook, or Twitter; as knowledge platforms like Wikipedia have flourished, so have concerns over diminished critical-thinking skills and the monopolization of knowledge; and, finally, critical attention to the (often tenuous) relationship between democracy and participatory platforms remains vital to understanding the power of social media tools for facilitating social and political protest at the same time as it enables new opportunities for surveillance and political repression. In addition, while social networking sites and tools have provided unparalleled opportunities to connect, communicate, and share, they?ve also given rise to problems of identity management, cyberbullying, revenge porn, and (sometimes cruel) practices of trolling. Under various guises, Web 2.0 has retained an ability to expand social, political, and economic opportunity while at the same time fostering resistance and controversy in its reach and ideological commitments. In 2008, First Monday published a special issue on ?Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0? [2] bringing together a diverse group of scholars to ?expose, explore and explain the ideological meanings and the social, political, and ethical implications of Web 2.0?. These contributions addressed issues of labor, privacy, exploitation, and broader conceptual and practical implications of participatory platforms and social production online. In light of Web 2.0?s continued relevance and impact, we are pleased to edit a new special issue of First Monday ? A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond ? that aims to update and extend previous critical assessments of online social and participatory platforms and practices. We seek submissions from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives representing a diverse collection topics, including, but not limited to: ? identity and pseudonymity ? algorithms and the filter bubble ? exercise of power and protest ? social media and democracy ? privacy and data flows ? memes and virality ? labor and exploitation ? commodification and corporatization ? content production and appropriation ? cyberbullying and online harassment ? law and regulatory interventions ? social data and research ethics In addition, we especially encourage submissions that examine the above (or other) issues as they intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability, or socioeconomic status. Timeline: ? Extended Abstracts Due: September 1, 2015 ? Feedback from Editors: October 1, 2015 ? Full Submissions Due: February 1, 2016 ? Peer Review Feedback: April 1, 2016 ? Final Submissions Due: May 15, 2016 ? Issue Appears: June 2016 Logistics: Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract of 400-500 words to DecadeOfWeb20 at gmail.com for review by the editors. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper for the special issue, which will then undergo formal external peer-review. Final submissions must follow the Author Guidelines [3] for First Monday. Editors: ? Dr. Michael Zimmer, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ? Dr. Anna Lauren Hoffmann, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley References: [1] http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html [2] http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/263 [3] http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about/submissions#authorGuidelines -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From mkennan at csu.edu.au Mon Jun 1 19:04:25 2015 From: mkennan at csu.edu.au (Kennan, Mary Anne) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:04:25 +1000 Subject: [Asis-l] DOCAM2015 Registration has commenced! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: DOCAM2015 Registration has commenced! Registration for the 12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy is now open at https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/conferences-and-seminars/documents-unbounded/registration DOCAM 2015 is coming to Australia and will held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) from 20-22 July. The conference, jointly hosted by UTS and Charles Sturt University (CSU), explores the theme of "Documents Unbounded" brings together vibrant community of international researchers to examine the challenges ahead, as our understanding of data, documents, records, artefacts, evidence and memory form in the continuously changing landscape of new media and communications. This year we are joined by Keynote Speaker Professor Geoffrey Bowker, Director of the Laboratory for Values in Design in Information Systems and Technology from the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. Professor Bowker is among the notable alumni of the University of Melbourne and has recently held the positions of Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool and Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society, at Santa Clara University. Together with Susan Leigh Star he wrote the acclaimed book, Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences; his most recent book is Memory Practices in the Sciences, which won the ASIST Best Information Science Book Award in 2007. Conference registration rates in Australian dollars (AUD) Full registration: $220 Students / Emeriti professors / retired registration: $150 Day registration (for any single day): $80 Full registration (including discounted rates) includes pre-session coffee and pastries, morning and afternoon tea and lunch daily, the conference reception (Monday 20 July), plus all presentations, the keynote address and addresses from our distinguished speakers/guests. A conference dinner will be held on Tuesday 21 July with payment to be organised separately at a later date. Please indicate your interest in attending the dinner with the number of places required when you register. Family and friends are welcome to join us at this event. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney this July at DOCAM 2015. 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TEQSA Provider Number: PV12018 Charles Sturt University in Ontario http://www.charlessturt.ca 860 Harrington Court, Burlington Ontario Canada L7N 3N4 Registration: www.peqab.ca Consider the environment before printing this email. From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Tue Jun 2 01:05:25 2015 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:35:25 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP-International Journal of Civic Enagagement and Social Change, IGI Global, USA In-Reply-To: References: <003301ceb303$8106bfa0$83143ee0$@lbsim.ac.in>, , , , , Message-ID: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association DOI: 10.4018/IJCESC, ISSN: 2328-5494, EISSN: 2328-5508 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) DESCRIPTION OF IJCESC: Governments, corporations, individuals, and civic society play essential roles for worldwide growth and development. Management of resources for socioeconomic development of society requires design, development, and implementation of value driven civic engagement processes, practices, and frameworks. These initiatives create an environment of public accountability to distribute benefits of development for the overall benefit of society. The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) compiles theoretical and empirical works that significantly contribute to the unexplored field of how bringing social change through civic engagement can widened the ambience of public welfare activities. MISSION OF IJCESC: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change. The primary objective of IJCESC is to suggest value driven civic engagement practices, processes and frameworks to bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for individuals and society. IJCESC seeks to achieve its mission through research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of frameworks, collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: * Civic engagement and political reforms for development * Civic engagement for development and social change * Civic engagement for organization development * Civic engagement and urban development * Civic engagement reforms and capacity building * ICTs Engagement and Social Change * Leadership cases for civic engagement * Preservation of natural resources * Public policy and social change * Role of administrative competencies for civic engagement * Smart governance practices * Smart regulatory frameworks for civic engagement * Social accountability for individuals, government, and corporate sectors * Social networks and collaborations for bringing social change * Standards and benchmarks for civic engagement * Value-driven civic engagement * Women and child development * Civic Engagement and Rural Development SUBMITTING TO IJCESC: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All manuscript submissions to IJCESC should be sent through the online submission system:http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Changeis published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change E-mail: Susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com http://www.igi-global.com/IJCESC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Tue Jun 2 08:55:46 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:55:46 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science In-Reply-To: <554B9870.6060802@univ-amu.fr> References: <554B2477.7030406@univ-amu.fr> <554B9870.6060802@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <556DA7D2.4010905@univ-amu.fr> *Please note Deadline extension till 15th June* * Reminder*.Please circulate this to your colleagues, students, virtual and physical communities of peers. I'm sure many will have hilarious, funny and witty encounters with information to share. *+++++++ Call for I-Stories **+++++++ ** * ** ** ** ** ** **** *SIG History & Foundations of Information Science * http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/ ** Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we think we?ve pinned or penned them down nicely with a few well chosen phrases, we discover that those phrases are inadequate, that others disagree with our definitions or that many other conceptions abound. Not to bore you with the many varied conceptions of information, the aim of this call for I-Stories is to bring forth, through everyday experience, the many different things information can mean to different people or to the same person in different circumstances in a lively and entertaining manner. The SIG History & Foundations of Information Science solicits stories on how information and its understanding affect our daily lives, be it in work situations, in our private lives, in our research. The stories of information and around information should showcase how effective or ineffective the concept may be, how it can mean different things to different people, how that may have got you into misunderstandings//and how that has got you thinking about information in general. The stories may concern an event, something that happened to you or to someone you know, a talk you heard or involve well known scholars and how they have grappled with this open-ended question. We encourage scholars, practitioners, and especially students to send us a text of at most, 1000 words which can be illustrated with drawings. A jury chosen from SIG HFIS members will choose 5 stories that shed startling, informative and unexpected insights into our understanding of the phenomenon we call information and of the field we call information science/studies. Stories by students will receive particular attention and if selected, their authors will receive a 1 year free membership to ASIST and to HFIS. Membership benefits are varied and can be consulted at http://www.asis.org/. Stories written by practitioners or faculty members if selected will receive a gift card of $30 as well as 1 year free membership to SIG HFIS. Please send your stories to fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr by ^15th june. The jury will render the result of its deliberation by 30^th June. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan HFIS chair (2014-2015) > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) > Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) > School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) > http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ > Aix-Marseille University - France. > Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ > IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ > ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Join us to learn more about DataONE; network with informatics, data management and domain science colleagues; and provide feedback on the prioritization and development of DataONE tools and services. We look forward to seeing you -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library From susie.slais at ubc.ca Thu Jun 4 18:23:56 2015 From: susie.slais at ubc.ca (Stephenson, Mary) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:23:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 1-Year Term Appointment: Lecturer - SLAIS the iSchool@ubc Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND INFORMATION STUDIES 1-Year Term Appointment: Lecturer The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS the iSchool at ubc) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a 12-Month Lecturer position for a 1-year term appointment commencing as early as August 1, 2015. The successful candidate will have a teaching and research interest/experience in the area of technology and information. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. (or expect to have successfully defended prior to the start date of the appointment), or a combination of extensive professional experience and a master?s degree in a field related to the teaching areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and must provide strong evidence of their teaching ability and effectiveness. Applicants with experience teaching in one or more of the following areas will be given preference: web programming, web design, social media management, database design, data analysis, data science/analytics, systems analysis, information systems. This is a full-time position that carries a teaching load of six (6) 3-credit courses per year plus administrative and service responsibilities as appropriate, including contributions to curriculum development. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children?s Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. Further information about the School can be found on its Web site at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, July 6, 2015 Application materials should include a cover letter stating the candidate?s qualifications for the position, teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a complete CV, and the names and contact information for 3 referees. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations or gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Applications should be sent to: Connie Wintels SLAIS the iSchool at ubc, The University of British Columbia Suite 470 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Email: ischool.admin at ubc.ca Questions should be directed to: Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS the iSchool at ubc Email luanne.freund at ubc.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The capability of the web sites needs to keep pace with the changing market both in terms of rendering content on devices and managing the access to the content. One of the first waves of design called for using custom Apps for mobile devices. Many of the early adopters learned quickly that App maintenance consumed more resources that anyone had predicted. Access management is another consideration for the mobile experience. Simply put, publishers want be sure that users are authorized to have access to content. In the academic environment, the task is particularly troublesome because students are transient and very mobile. Rather than setting up onerous, session based manual login processes, content providers, usually enabled by hosting companies, have developed techniques to ?pair? devices with authentication systems to ensure that access is available when requested, but not extended past a designated time frame. Management of this capability should be transparent intermediaries, such as librarians, but available for management should the need arise. In this NISO Webinar, speakers will discuss multiple form factors including responsive web design and responsive design with service side components, that help institutions deliver a great experience to their users. Topics and speakers are: ? *RESS*: *Responsive Web Design + Server Side Components - **Marty Picco*, Vice President of Product Management, Atypon ? *Providing Information across Multiple Devices to the Public Health Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities - Hathy Simpson*, MPH, Public Health Information Specialist, Project Coordinator, Public Health Partners Website Project, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region (NN/LM NER), University of Massachusetts Medical School and *Lisa Sedlar*, Librarian, National Information Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), National Library of Medicine ? *Meeting Your Customer Where They Are with Responsive Design** -* *Bobby Foster*, Director of User Experience & Design, Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on May 13. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. 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ECIR encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results. With the rapidly increasing amount of data produced in the world and the increasing adoption of IR techniques beyond the traditional search for documents, papers on IR applied to eScience and to the Internet of Things are particularly encouraged. ECIR has a strong student focus, hence papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student are especially welcome. Through the student mentoring programme, PhD students can request the assistance of a mentor, who can give advice and suggest improvements to an almost complete paper. More details on the student mentoring programme are on the website. Full Papers and Short Papers ---------------------------- We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original full papers, short papers and demos. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR. Short Paper submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results. Demonstrations -------------- Demonstrations present research prototypes or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert users. Demonstration submissions are welcome in any of the areas related to aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), as identified in the call for papers on the ECIR website. The demonstration submission should address clear research questions like: What problem does my system solve? Who is my target user? Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged. We ask all authors to either provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo. Tutorials --------- Tutorials inform the community on recent advances in core IR research, related research, or on novel application areas related to IR. They may focus on specific problems or specific domains in which IR research may be applied. Tutorials can be of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks) duration. Tutorials are encouraged to be as interactive as possible. The information required for a tutorial proposal is on the conference website. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial committee. A summary of the tutorial will be published in the conference proceedings. Workshops --------- The purpose of workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in a focused and more interactive way. Workshops can be of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks) duration. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of a summary paper and/or workshop proceedings. The information required for a workshop proposal is on the conference website. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the workshop committee. A summary of the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings. Reproducible IR Research Track ------------------------------ We are happy to announce the Reproducible IR Research Track introduced at ECIR 2015 will continue for ECIR 2016. Reproducibility is key for establishing research to be reliable, referenceable and extensible for the future. Experimental papers are therefore most useful when their results can be tested and generalised by peers. This track specifically invites submission of papers reproducing a single or a group of papers, from a third-party where you have *not* been directly involved (e.g., *not* been an author or a collaborator). Emphasise your motivation for selecting the paper/papers, the process of how results have been attempted to be reproduced (successful or not), the communication that was necessary to gather all information, the potential difficulties encountered and the result of the process. A successful reproduction of the work is not a requirement, but it is important to provide a clear and rigid evaluation of the process to allow lessons to be learned for the future. Submission guidelines --------------------- All submissions must be written in English following the ECIR guidelines (http://irsg.bcs.org/proceedings/ECIR_Draft_Guidelines.pdf ) and the LNCS author guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 ) and submitted electronically through the conference submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2016 selecting the proper track. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages, short papers must not exceed 6 pages, demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages, reproducible IR track papers must not exceed 12 pages, including references and figures. Full paper, short paper and reproducible IR track paper submissions will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Demonstration papers will undergo single-blind review. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and reproducible IR track papers will be published in the conference proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and reproducible IR track papers will have to be presented at the conference. Short papers and reproducible IR track papers will either be presented as a poster or as an oral presentation. Accepted workshops and tutorials will have a 4 pages summary published in the conference proceedings. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Papers ------ 09 October 2015 - Full/Short Paper submission deadline 09 October 2015 - Reproducible IR Track submission deadline 23 October 2015 - Demo submission deadline 04 December 2015 - Notification on Full Papers, Short Papers, Demos, Reproducible IR Track Papers 11 January 2016 - Camera-ready Mentoring --------- 07 August 2015 - Request for mentoring deadline 21 August 2015 - Mentor assignment deadline Workshops / Tutorials --------------------- 11 September 2015 - Workshops / Tutorials submission deadline 19 October 2015 - Notification on Workshops / Tutorials ======= TOPICS ======= Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * IR Theory and Practice - Searching, browsing, meta-searching - Data fusion, filtering and indexing - Language models, probabilistic IR, neural network based models - Learning to rank - Content classification, categorisation, clustering - Relevance feedback, query expansion, faceted retrieval - Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection - Recommender systems - Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering - Spam detection and filtering - Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR - Adversarial IR - Privacy in IR - Contextual IR - Mobile, Geo and local search - Temporal IR, time-based modelling - Entity IR * Web and Social Media IR - Link analysis - Query log analysis - Advertising and ad targeting - Spam detection - Trust, authority, reputation, ranking - Blog and online-community search, microblogs - Social search - Social tagging - Social networking and Web based communities - Trend identification and tracking - Time series and forecasting * User aspects - User modelling, user studies, user interaction and history - Interactive IR - Task-based IR - Click models - Novel user interfaces for IR systems - Visualisation of queries, search results or content - Multimodal aspects, multimodal querying * IR system architectures - Distributed and peer to peer IR - Cloud IR - Federated IR - Aggregated Search - Fusion/Combination - Open, interoperable and flexible systems - Performance, scalability, efficiency - Architectures and platforms - Crawling and indexing - Compression, optimisation - Map/Reduce for IR * Content representation and processing - IR for semi-structured documents - IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search - Reasoning for IR - Meta information and structures, metadata - Query representation, query reformulation - Text categorisation and clustering - Text data mining - Opinion mining, sentiment analysis, argumentation mining - Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval - Machine translation for IR - Question answering - Natural language processing - Summarization for IR * Evaluation - Evaluation methods and metrics - Building test collections - Experimental design - Crowdsourcing for evaluation, human computing - User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation - Metric comparison and evaluation - Offline vs online evaluation * Multimedia and cross-media IR - Speech retrieval - Image and video retrieval - Entity retrieval - Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval - Virtual reality and information access - Cross-modal processing and search * Applications - Digital libraries - Enterprise and intranet search - Desktop search - Mobile IR - Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures - Medical IR - Legal IR, patent search - eScience - The Internet of Things =========== ORGANIZERS =========== General Chair: - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Programme Chairs: - Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland - Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Short Paper Chairs: - Josiane Mothe, ESPE, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo! Labs, London Student Mentor Chairs: - Jaana Kek?l?inen, University of Tampere, Finland - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Workshop Chairs: - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Demo Chairs: - Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy - Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, The Netherlands Industry Day Chairs: - Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing, USA - Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia Tutorial Chairs: - Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy Local Organization Chair: - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy Sponsorship Chair: - Emanuele Di Buccio, University of Padua, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From silvello at dei.unipd.it Mon Jun 8 06:05:16 2015 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:05:16 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ECIR 2016: Call for Papers, Demos, Workshops and Tutorials Message-ID: <81599B0B-D7EE-4238-B196-B4C4F44B645E@dei.unipd.it> * 1st Call for Contributions * * Papers, Demos, Workshops and Tutorials * The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval 20 - 23 March, 2016 Padua, Italy http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ https://twitter.com/ecir2016 ########################################################### The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) will take place in Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). ECIR encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results. With the rapidly increasing amount of data produced in the world and the increasing adoption of IR techniques beyond the traditional search for documents, papers on IR applied to eScience and to the Internet of Things are particularly encouraged. ECIR has a strong student focus, hence papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student are especially welcome. Through the student mentoring programme, PhD students can request the assistance of a mentor, who can give advice and suggest improvements to an almost complete paper. More details on the student mentoring programme are on the website. Full Papers and Short Papers ---------------------------- We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original full papers, short papers and demos. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR. Short Paper submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results. Demonstrations -------------- Demonstrations present research prototypes or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert users. Demonstration submissions are welcome in any of the areas related to aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), as identified in the call for papers on the ECIR website. The demonstration submission should address clear research questions like: What problem does my system solve? Who is my target user? Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged. We ask all authors to either provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo. Tutorials --------- Tutorials inform the community on recent advances in core IR research, related research, or on novel application areas related to IR. They may focus on specific problems or specific domains in which IR research may be applied. Tutorials can be of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks) duration. Tutorials are encouraged to be as interactive as possible. The information required for a tutorial proposal is on the conference website. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial committee. A summary of the tutorial will be published in the conference proceedings. Workshops --------- The purpose of workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in a focused and more interactive way. Workshops can be of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks) duration. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of a summary paper and/or workshop proceedings. The information required for a workshop proposal is on the conference website. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the workshop committee. A summary of the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings. Reproducible IR Research Track ------------------------------ We are happy to announce the Reproducible IR Research Track introduced at ECIR 2015 will continue for ECIR 2016. Reproducibility is key for establishing research to be reliable, referenceable and extensible for the future. Experimental papers are therefore most useful when their results can be tested and generalised by peers. This track specifically invites submission of papers reproducing a single or a group of papers, from a third-party where you have *not* been directly involved (e.g., *not* been an author or a collaborator). Emphasise your motivation for selecting the paper/papers, the process of how results have been attempted to be reproduced (successful or not), the communication that was necessary to gather all information, the potential difficulties encountered and the result of the process. A successful reproduction of the work is not a requirement, but it is important to provide a clear and rigid evaluation of the process to allow lessons to be learned for the future. Submission guidelines --------------------- All submissions must be written in English following the ECIR guidelines (http://irsg.bcs.org/proceedings/ECIR_Draft_Guidelines.pdf ) and the LNCS author guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 ) and submitted electronically through the conference submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2016 selecting the proper track. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages, short papers must not exceed 6 pages, demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages, reproducible IR track papers must not exceed 12 pages, including references and figures. Full paper, short paper and reproducible IR track paper submissions will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Demonstration papers will undergo single-blind review. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and reproducible IR track papers will be published in the conference proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and reproducible IR track papers will have to be presented at the conference. Short papers and reproducible IR track papers will either be presented as a poster or as an oral presentation. Accepted workshops and tutorials will have a 4 pages summary published in the conference proceedings. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Papers ------ 09 October 2015 - Full/Short Paper submission deadline 09 October 2015 - Reproducible IR Track submission deadline 23 October 2015 - Demo submission deadline 04 December 2015 - Notification on Full Papers, Short Papers, Demos, Reproducible IR Track Papers 11 January 2016 - Camera-ready Mentoring --------- 07 August 2015 - Request for mentoring deadline 21 August 2015 - Mentor assignment deadline Workshops / Tutorials --------------------- 11 September 2015 - Workshops / Tutorials submission deadline 19 October 2015 - Notification on Workshops / Tutorials ======= TOPICS ======= Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * IR Theory and Practice - Searching, browsing, meta-searching - Data fusion, filtering and indexing - Language models, probabilistic IR, neural network based models - Learning to rank - Content classification, categorisation, clustering - Relevance feedback, query expansion, faceted retrieval - Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection - Recommender systems - Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering - Spam detection and filtering - Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR - Adversarial IR - Privacy in IR - Contextual IR - Mobile, Geo and local search - Temporal IR, time-based modelling - Entity IR * Web and Social Media IR - Link analysis - Query log analysis - Advertising and ad targeting - Spam detection - Trust, authority, reputation, ranking - Blog and online-community search, microblogs - Social search - Social tagging - Social networking and Web based communities - Trend identification and tracking - Time series and forecasting * User aspects - User modelling, user studies, user interaction and history - Interactive IR - Task-based IR - Click models - Novel user interfaces for IR systems - Visualisation of queries, search results or content - Multimodal aspects, multimodal querying * IR system architectures - Distributed and peer to peer IR - Cloud IR - Federated IR - Aggregated Search - Fusion/Combination - Open, interoperable and flexible systems - Performance, scalability, efficiency - Architectures and platforms - Crawling and indexing - Compression, optimisation - Map/Reduce for IR * Content representation and processing - IR for semi-structured documents - IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search - Reasoning for IR - Meta information and structures, metadata - Query representation, query reformulation - Text categorisation and clustering - Text data mining - Opinion mining, sentiment analysis, argumentation mining - Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval - Machine translation for IR - Question answering - Natural language processing - Summarization for IR * Evaluation - Evaluation methods and metrics - Building test collections - Experimental design - Crowdsourcing for evaluation, human computing - User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation - Metric comparison and evaluation - Offline vs online evaluation * Multimedia and cross-media IR - Speech retrieval - Image and video retrieval - Entity retrieval - Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval - Virtual reality and information access - Cross-modal processing and search * Applications - Digital libraries - Enterprise and intranet search - Desktop search - Mobile IR - Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures - Medical IR - Legal IR, patent search - eScience - The Internet of Things =========== ORGANIZERS =========== General Chair: - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Programme Chairs: - Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland - Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Short Paper Chairs: - Josiane Mothe, ESPE, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo! Labs, London Student Mentor Chairs: - Jaana Kek?l?inen, University of Tampere, Finland - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Workshop Chairs: - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Demo Chairs: - Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy - Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, The Netherlands Industry Day Chairs: - Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing, USA - Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia Tutorial Chairs: - Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy Local Organization Chair: - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy Sponsorship Chair: - Emanuele Di Buccio, University of Padua, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdownie at illinois.edu Sat Jun 6 00:39:08 2015 From: jdownie at illinois.edu (Downie, J Stephen) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 04:39:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] MIREX 2015: Announcing the 2015 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange Message-ID: <612008895BFFF74BB7C7A74B2681CE61754AA599@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Dear Friends and Colleagues: The 2015 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) wiki is now up and running. This will be eleventh year of MIREX and we hope for the best one yet! Over the past ten years, MIREX has evaluated nearly 2,400 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. MIREX has rolling deadline from July to September, please refer to the list at the bottom of this email for the submission data for your task. We will announce the submission system open in a few weeks. This year we have 22 possible tasks; 19 existing tasks and 3 new ones, but if you and your colleagues wish to propose new tasks or new data, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. We strive to keep MIREX a community endeavor. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three teams involved in a task, we will run that task. We wish to thank our volunteer Task Captains who will be running each task. Their names can be found below in the Deadlines section. BACKGROUND INFORMATION More information can be found at the MIREX 2015 wiki, including details on submitting: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2015:Main_Page TASK CAPTAIN LIST http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2015:Task_Captains CONTACT INFORMATION: The EvalFest mailing list is our primary point of communication. To subscribe, visit https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. For personal questions, please contact the MIREX 2015 Team . We will announce three possible Grand Challenge 2015: User Experience (GC15UX) tasks in a few weeks. This year marks the first MIREX that is not funded by external grants. If you are interested in sponsoring the great and exciting work that MIREX, please contact us at . Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved! Cheers, J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MIREX 2015 Team DEADLINES # July 16th 2015 - Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks (TC: IMIRSEL) # August 16th 2015 - Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (TC: IMIRSEL) - Audio Offset Detection (TC: David Heise) - Audio Tag Classification (TC: Mohamed Sordo) - Audio Tempo Estimation (TC: Aggelos Gkiokas) - Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking (TC: Li Su, Yujia Yan) - Music/Speech Classification/Detection (TC: Tillman Weyde) - Set List Identification (TC: Ming-Chi Yen, Hsin-Min Wang, Ju-Chiang Wang, Yi-Hsuan Yang) - Structural Segmentation (TC: IMIRSEL) - Symbolic Melodic Similarity (TC: Nikhil Narasimha Kini) # September 9th 2015 - Audio Beat Tracking (TC: Sebastian B?ck, Florian Krebs, Fu-Hai Frank Wu) - Audio Chord Estimation (TC: Johan Pauwels) - Audio Cover Song Identification (TC: Chris Tralie) - Audio Downbeat Estimation (TC: Florian Krebs, Sebastian B?ck) - Audio Key Detection (TC: Johan Pauwels) - Audio Melody Extraction (TC: KETI (Dalwon Jang)) - Audio Onset Detection (TC: Sebastian B?ck) - Audio Fingerprinting (TC: Chung-Che Wang) - Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections (TC: Tom Collins) - Query by Singing/Humming (TC: KETI Dalwon Jang)) - Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (TC: Chunta Chen, Yujia Yan, Julio Carabias) - Singing Voice Separation (TC: Tak-Shing Chan, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Li Su) ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Sun Jun 7 01:13:45 2015 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 05:13:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Seeking lecturer at the iSchool, UBC, Vancouver Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND INFORMATION STUDIES 1-Year Term Appointment: Lecturer The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS the iSchool at ubc) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a 12-Month Lecturer position for a 1-year term appointment commencing as early as August 1, 2015. The successful candidate will have a teaching and research interest/experience in the area of technology and information. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. (or expect to have successfully defended prior to the start date of the appointment), or a combination of extensive professional experience and a master?s degree in a field related to the teaching areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and must provide strong evidence of their teaching ability and effectiveness. Applicants with experience teaching in one or more of the following areas will be given preference: web programming, web design, social media management, database design, data analysis, data science/analytics, systems analysis, information systems. This is a full-time position that carries a teaching load of six (6) 3-credit courses per year plus administrative and service responsibilities as appropriate, including contributions to curriculum development. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children?s Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. Further information about the School can be found on its Web site at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, July 6, 2015 Application materials should include a cover letter stating the candidate?s qualifications for the position, teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a complete CV, and the names and contact information for 3 referees. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations or gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Applications should be sent to: Connie Wintels SLAIS the iSchool at ubc, The University of British Columbia Suite 470 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 Email: ischool.admin at ubc.ca Questions should be directed to: Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS the iSchool at ubc Email luanne.freund at ubc.ca Luanne Freund Associate Professor iSchool, UBC Luanne.freund at ubc.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Jun 8 02:55:04 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 08:55:04 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM MEDES 2015 (submission deadline approaching): Call for papers (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Message-ID: * Submission Deadline is approaching * The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence ??????????????????????in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) ??????????????In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 ??????????????????????http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ ????????????????????????????October 25-29, 2015 ??????????????????????Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline:? June 10th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: July 3rd, 2015 Camera Ready: July 08th, 2015 Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 8 13:23:39 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:23:39 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] 2015 Awards Deadlines Message-ID: <385-22015618172339887@LEN-dick-2011> Furthwe Information at https://www.asist.org/about/awards Awards Nomination Deadline Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book July 1 History Fund Research Grant June 20 History Fund Research Paper Award June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership July 15 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation June 15 Research in Information Science June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher August 1 Watson Davis July 15 Chapter Awards Nomination Deadline Chapter of the Year August 15 Chapter Member of the Year August 15 Chapter Event of the Year August 15 Chapter Publication of the Year August 15 Chapter Innovation August 15 Student Chapter of the Year July 1 Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards Nomination Deadline SIG of the Year August 15 SIG Member of the Year August 15 SIG Publication of the Year July 15 Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From ecorrado at ecorrado.us Mon Jun 8 16:22:17 2015 From: ecorrado at ecorrado.us (Edward M. Corrado) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:22:17 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: LRRT Mentorship Program: Applications Closing Soon! (due June 10, 2015) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thinking about or starting to work on a library-related research project? Could you use some help from an experienced scholar? Consider the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Mentorship Program! Whatever your topic, your LRRT mentor will offer support and advice while you develop skills like creating research designs, conducting surveys, collecting and analyzing data, writing your paper and disseminating the results to both the research and practitioner library communities. Interested? You can learn more about the criteria for mentees, details about the mentors plus information about the LRRT Mentorship Program Forums at ALA Annual 2015 and 2016 on the LRRT Initiatives webpage: *http://www.ala.org/lrrt/initiatives* The introductory LRRT Mentorship Program Discussion Forum will be held at the ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 1:00pm ? 2:30pm. If you are interested in becoming a mentee in the LRRT Program, please complete the mentee application by June 10, 2015 (application available here: *http://goo.gl/forms/F1OJd6TWNj* ), and an LRRT Mentorship Program Committee member will contact you in June. Questions about the LRRT Mentorship Program? Contact Stephanie Alexander, LRRT Mentorship Program Subcommittee chair at *stephanie.alexander at csueastbay.edu* . LRRT-MEM is the official discussion listserv of the ALA Library Research Round Table. The list's address is *lrrt-mem at lists.ala.org* . When posting messages to this discussion list, please be sure they are sent from the email address recorded in your member profile. Messages intended for distribution to everyone on the discussion list should be sent to *lrrt-mem at ala.org* . When responding to an individual please reply to that individual in order to reduce unnecessary email traffic for others on the discussion list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 15 15:05:09 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:05:09 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Claire Kelly Schultz, 1924-2015 Message-ID: <0a2b01d0a79e$340f6580$9c2e3080$@asis.org> Claire Kelly Schultz, 1924-2015: In Memoriam Claire Kelly Schultz, former president of the American Documentation Institute (ADI), predecessor of ASIST, died in her home town of Line Lexington, PA on May 28 at the age of 90. The cause of death was Alzheimers disease. She was president of ADI in 1962 and received the Award of Merit in 1982. She was active in many different aspects of the life of ADI and was perhaps the first member to take a keen interest in the history of ADI and information science. She was a 1944 graduate of Juniata College and attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1945-46. She received the MS degree from Drexel Institute in 1946. After a brief time working for the Wistar Institute as a research associate she worked as the librarian at Merck, Sharp and Dohme Labs, from 1949 to 1957, where she began some of her early explorations of machine literature searching using Remington Rand's electronic sorters. This work brought her to the attention of John W. Mauchley, developer of the Univac computer, who hired her to work for him on information retrieval problems from 1958 to 1961. She was a research scientist for the Institute for Advancement of Medical Communications in Philadelphia from 1961 to 1970. From about 1972 to her retirement she was the Director of Libraries at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, a free-lance consultant and part-time teacher of documentation at Drexel University, where she developed one of the first courses in the U.S. on documentation. She authored a number of articles on special libraries, documentation, information retrieval, indexing, and thesaurus construction. A short biographical statement and links to photographs may be found at: https://www.asist.org/pioneers/claire-kelly-schultz/ A complete bio-bibliography of her works may be found in her oral history at the Chemical Heritage Foundation: http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/schu ltz-claire-k.aspx Her papers are on deposit at the Babbage Institute of the University of Minnesota. Robert V. Williams Univ. of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. 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The project will involve building on an existing body of research to develop and study how families can more productively engage with digital media. Research, design, and writing will be conducted as part of a collaborative team effort with principle investigators and others involved in the research network. Requirements - Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and research experience with contemporary developments concerning youth, digital media and learning. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in ethnographic and online research with families and youth and expertise in learning theory, Internet research, and design research. Fluency in Spanish is desirable. Evidence of collaborative and mixed methods research will also be valued. Travel may be required in this position to perform research and meet with collaborators. Position is dependent on extramural funding. Initial appointment is for one year and renewal is based on performance and is contingent on receipt of project funding. Review of applications will begin May 11, 2015, and will continue through application deadline of July 1, 2015. The appointment may begin as early as January 1, 2016 and would continue until December 31, 2016, renewable for an additional year, pending review and available funding. Annual salary ranges from $52,000 to $56,243 depending on experience. Application Procedure: Applications should be submitted online at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF02800 and must include: 1. Letter of Interest (including research skills) 2. Curriculum Vitae 3. Three Letters of Reference 4. Writing Sample The call for applications is at http://dmlhub.net/job-opportunities/. More information about the Connected Learning Research Network can be found at CLRN.dmlhub.net. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.nuernberger at ovgu.de Tue Jun 9 07:53:20 2015 From: andreas.nuernberger at ovgu.de (Andreas Nuernberger) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:53:20 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP - 5th international Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2015) Message-ID: <5576D3B0.8020003@ovgu.de> Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties. *************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2015) in conjunction with the 19th Int. Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2015) 18th September 2015 in Poznan, Poland http://sda2015.dke-research.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives (SDA) workshop series fosters innovative discussion of knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures (AII). Novel applications of semantic Web technologies and Linked Data offer possibilities to advance approaches to digital curation and preservation. During the last quarter of a century the explosion in digital content creation and use has transformed the relationship individuals and society have with information. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation approaches to our digital cultural heritage are essential. Handling digital content in secure ways poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are a couple of examples. Addressing the obstacles to curation and preservation is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Preservation and the Semantic Web community. A closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institu! tions is encouraged. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * Architectures and Frameworks for semantic Archival Information Systems (AIS) and Archival Information Infrastructures (AII) * Semantic (Web) services implementing AIS & AII * Contextualization of digital archives, museums and digital libraries * Linked data for AIS, AII, museums and digital libraries * Ontologies for AIS, AII, museums and digital libraries * Semantics of complex content (e.g. Social Media, Multimedia) * Information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * Semantic search & information retrieval in digital archives, digital museums and digital libraries * User interfaces for (semantic) AIS, AII, digital museums & semantic digital libraries * Semantics for Preservation Processes and Protocols * Preservation of work flow processes * Data & Workflow Provenance for AIS & AII * Semantics for the appraisal and selection of content * Evolving semantics in long-term archives * Trust for ingest & data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * User studies focusing on end-user needs and information seeking behavior of end-users * Implementations & evaluations of (semantic) AIS, AII, semantic digital museums & semantic digital libraries * Semantic long-term storage & hardware organization for AIS & AII & digital libraries 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=sda2015 All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. Papers presented at the Workshop will be published in the Workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for submissions: June 22, 2015 * Acceptance Notification: July 27, 2015 * Camera-ready papers: August 24, 2015 * Workshop: September 18, 2015 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at http://sda2015.dke-research.de/index.php/committees Further Details: http://sda2015.dke-research.de From Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu Tue Jun 9 09:02:23 2015 From: Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu (Alemneh, Daniel) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 13:02:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline is Approaching: 15th, JUNE: ICKM 2015 (General Session) In-Reply-To: <347BF599-BBB6-4801-8DF0-0A1B2F0E404E@mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp> References: <347BF599-BBB6-4801-8DF0-0A1B2F0E404E@mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015 ICKM'15 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management November 4-6, 2015, I-Site Namba, Osaka, JAPAN http://ickm.kis.osakafu-u.ac.jp Important Dates [General Session] Full / Short Papers due: June 15, 2015 Poster Papers due: June 15, 2015 Notification (Full / Short / Poster papers): July 15, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: July 31, 2015 [CFPs of Theme-based Organized Sessions appear in the conference Web. Deadline is set independently by each Session Organizers: OS-1: Learning and Teaching Support in Knowledge Management OS-2: Learning Analytics for Organizational and Individual Knowledge and Learning OS-3: Trend of Data Science Methodology and Techniques for Big Data/IoT Era OS-4: Information Networking Architecture for Knowledge Management ] Publications All the accepted papers will be published in proceedings. Authors of accepted distinguished full papers will be invited to submit extended versions of the papers for consideration of publication ?Journal of Information and knowledge management (JIKW)? or ?International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence (IJKWI)?. Paper categories (Note the revised page limits): - Full paper (8-10 pages) - Short paper (4-6 pages) - Poster paper (2-3 pages) All the accepted papers are eligible for the competitions of: - Best Overall Paper Award - Best Young Researcher Paper Award (restricted to papers whose first authors are under 35 years old) In addition, all the accepted poster papers are eligible for the competition of - Best Poster Award(s). Topics of Interests Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Innovation and the Knowledge Economy - Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management - Knowledge in Innovation Processes - Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation - Knowledge Management for Social Change and Innovation - Open Innovation - Ethical Issues in Knowledge Economy - Knowledge Workers - Operating in the Knowledge Economy - Ranking Knowledge Economies Knowledge Management Tools and Technologies - Knowledge Discovery and Data Warehousing - Knowledge Management Taxonomies - Knowledge Relationship Discovery - Knowledge and Information Visualization - Emerging Web Technologies and Web 2.0 Tools - Knowledge Management and Game Theory - Mobile Technology - Semantic Technologies and Ontology - Social Networking Software - Wikis, Twitter, Blogs and Social Tagging Services Competitive Intelligence - Collective Intelligence - Competitive Analysis Techniques - Competitive Intelligence Education - Competitive Intelligence Methodologies and Applications - Competitive Intelligence Organizational Models - Competitive Intelligence Tools - Competitive Strategies - Synergy between Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence Collaboration, Knowledge Creation and Sharing - Collaborative ICT in the Knowledge Society - Communities of Practice - Knowledge Caf?s - Knowledge Management and Collaboration - Knowledge Networks - Narratives, Stories and Anecdotes for Knowledge Transfer Knowledge Management Strategies & Implementations - Creating Knowledge for Decision Making - Competitive Advantage of Knowledge Management - Evaluation of Knowledge Management - Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management - Inter-organizational Knowledge Flow - Just-in-Time Knowledge Management - Knowledge Audits - Knowledge Management Models - Knowledge Management Strategy Formulation - Organizational Learning - Adaptation of Knowledge Management in different industries - Case studies of Knowledge Management Implementation - Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration Knowledge Management Education - Knowledge Management Concepts - Knowledge Management Curricula - Knowledge Management Philosophical Underpinnings - Knowledge Management Theories ICKM 2015 will be a flagship conference in the research area of knowledge management. It consists of the General Session and Organized Sessions on specialized themes, each of which is organized by a program committee. In addition, the conference will include invited speakers and keynote speakers. Researchers, practioners, graduate or undergraduate students and businesspersons are invited to participate in all aspects of the conference. International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) provides researchers and practitioners from all over the world a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical and practical aspects of Knowledge Management. History Since the first ICKM was held in Singapore in 2004, subsequent conferences have been held in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A. (2005); Greenwich, London, U.K. (2006); Vienna, Austria (2007); Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. (2008); Hong Kong (2009); Pittsburgh, U.S.A (2010); Johannesburg, South Africa (2012); Montreal, Canada (2013); and Antalya, Turkey (2014). PC Chairs Suliman M. 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The following awards are open for competition: The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for ?best research proposal that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $1000 https://siguse.wordpress.com/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/ The Innovation Award for ?innovative work that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $200 https://siguse.wordpress.com/phd-student-conference-travel-award/ The Student Conference Travel Award to ?assist student in a Master?s or doctoral program in attending the ASIST annual conference by defraying travel expenses.? Value: $500 https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-masters-student-conference-travel-award/ The Interdisciplinary Conference Travel Award to ?provide financial support for members to attend non-LIS specific conference.? Value: 3 awards of $200 https://siguse.wordpress.com/interdisciplinary-conference-travel-award/ Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200 https://siguse.wordpress.com/best-information-behavior-conference-paper-award/ Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200 https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-best-information-behavior-conference-poster-award/ Please note the application requirements and procedures for the various awards, which can be found though the URLs provided above. Please encourage your faculty and student colleagues to apply. 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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. The Data Specialist will also manage the Digital Scholarship Lab (open Jan. 2015). S/he 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. A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in data related processes is required. To apply for this position, complete an application form at https://fit.hiretouch.com/home/jobs-board/job-details?jobID=23233&job=research-data-specialist and send a detailed cover letter addressing how your experience matches the qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and names and contact information of at least three references to: Angela Taylor Director, Enabling Infrastructure Evans Library Florida Institute of Technology 150 West University Boulevard Melbourne, FL 32901-6975 321-674-7725 libadmin at fit.edu Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and will be accepted until the position is filled. Holly Miller, PhD MLIS Assistant Dean for Scholarly Content & Faculty Engagement The Evans Library Florida Institute of Technology Tel: 321-674-8871 Email: hmiller at fit.edu Web site: lib.fit.edu [cid:image001.jpg at 01CA3784.202ECFF0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Information Ethics and Policy (SIG-IEP) Best Student Paper Award Call for Submissions SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2015 The Special Interest Group for Information Ethics and Policy (SIG-IEP) (formally SIG-IFP) is proud to announce its first Best Student Paper Award. The winner will receive a Best Student Paper award and a $200.00 cash prize. Who is Eligible? Authors must be either Master?s or pre-candidacy PhD students. Only single author submissions are accepted. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. Authors do NOT need to be members of ASIS&T or SIG-IEP. The paper must be original work and purely the work of the student. A paper that has developed from work in a class, during an internship experience, or as part of a thesis project is eligible. Requirements and Selection Criteria The paper may address any topic dealing with an aspect of information ethics and / or information policy. The papers will show an appropriate level of writing style and should include a clear argument and or analysis of the issue. Paper submissions must adhere to the following guidelines: * Word .doc or .docx format * Approximately 5,000 words, 12 pt. font and follow a standard citation style (APA preferred). Tables, graphs, images, etc. can appear within the body of the paper and need not be submitted as separate files * Author names should not appear anywhere in the main text * A separate cover page with title, author names, institutional affiliations, and an abstract of 250 words or less The Best Student Paper will be selected based on the following criteria: clarity of issue, originality of argument and /or analysis, and quality of student writing. Submission and Deadline Authors are invited to submit papers, based on the requirements and selection criteria above, by emailing the final paper and cover page to Kris Unsworth at unsworth {at} drexel.edu. Subject line: IEP Best Student Paper Award before 11:59 pm EST, June 30, 2015. The Best Student Paper award will be made under blind review by panel of judges. If you have any questions, please contact Kris Unsworth at unsworth {at} drexel.edu. We are looking forward to your submissions. https://www.asist.org/SIG/SIGIEP/ Kris Unsworth Assistant Professor Chair ASIS&T Sig-IEP College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University Philadelphia, Pa 19104 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcmason at umd.edu Tue Jun 9 16:24:18 2015 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:24:18 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 3rd workshop on big humanities data: call for papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for papers: 3rd?Workshop on Big Humanities Data, held in conjunction with IEEE Big Data 2015 The 3rd?IEEE Workshop on?"Big Humanities Data"?will be held?on?Thursday, October 29, 2015,?in conjunction with the?2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2015) (http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/), which takes place?between October 29 and November 1 2015?in Santa Clara, California, USA, and which provides a leading international forum for disseminating the latest research in the growing field of "big data". This workshop will address applications of "big data" in the humanities, arts, culture, and social science, the challenges and possibilities that such increased scale brings for scholarship in these areas. The use of computational methods in the humanities is growing rapidly, with the increasing quantities of born-digital primary sources (such as archives of emails and social media) and the large-scale digitization programs applied to libraries and archives. This has resulted in a range of experiments with new methodologies and new applications. At the same time, humanities and culture research is itself challenged by interpretative issues raised by applying such data-driven methods for answering humanities research questions. Moreover, the questions and concerns raised by the humanities themselves have consequences for the interpretation in general of "big data" and the uses to which it is put, and the challenges of producing quality ? meaning, knowledge and value ? from quantity. The workshop will thus also address complementary research that uses the humanities and its methods to provide a critical appraisal of "big data" in other areas, both inside and outside academia. Research topics covered: Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not restricted to, the following: ? Text- and data-mining of historical and archival material. ? Social media analysis, including sentiment analysis ? New research objects for humanities analysis such as digital music, film ? Cultural analytics ? Social analytics ? Crowdsourcing and big data ? Cyber-infrastructures for the humanities (for instance, cloud computing) ? NoSQL databases and their applications in the humanities ? Big data and the construction of memory and identity ? Big data and archival practice ? Corpora and collections of big data ? Linked Data and Big Data ? Constructing big data for research in the humanities Paper Submission: ? Full-length papers are accepted through the?online submission system (https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2015/bigdata15/cbc_index.php). Full papers can be up to 9 pages in length, and should be submitted as a PDF formatted according to the?IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf.?LaTex Formatting Macros (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip). ? We also encouraged submission of short papers (up to 4 pages) reporting work in progress. ? All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the Workshop Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Important dates: ? Due date for full workshop papers submission:?Aug. 30, 2015 ? Notification of paper acceptance to authors:?Sep. 20, 2015 ? Camera-ready of accepted papers:?Oct. 5, 2015 ? Workshop:?Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 Program Chairs: ? Dr. Mark Hedges?Department of Digital Humanities King's College London, UK ? Dr. Tobias Blanke?Department of Digital Humanities King's College London, UK ? Prof. Richard Marciano?College of Information Studies ? "Maryland's iSchool" University of Maryland, USA From niso-announce at niso.org Wed Jun 10 10:50:07 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:50:07 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Free Live-Stream Invitation: NISO Patron Privacy Project Message-ID: *NISO Patron Privacy Project * *Live-Stream Invitation: Monday, June 29 - Tuesday, June 30, 2015 * *The Firehouse at the Fort Mason Center* *San Francisco, CA* The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the National Information Standards Organization a grant to develop a *Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems*. The grant will support a series of community discussions on how libraries, publishers and information systems providers can build better privacy protection into their operations and the subsequent formulation of a framework document on the privacy of patron data in these systems. Each of the discussion sessions are three-hour web-based session designed to lay the groundwork for a productive in-person meeting at the conclusion of the American Library Association meeting in San Francisco, CA on Monday and Tuesday, June 29-30, 2015. *FREE LIVE-STREAM AVAILABLE:* For those interested in this work, NISO will be live-streaming the day and a half in-person event. Credentials for login will be provided closer to the event date; please make sure to designate your attendance as "virtual" in the RSVP form so that we may be sure to communicate that information to you. *For planning purposes, please RSVP by **Thursday, June 25**.* Following the in-person meeting, a Framework document will be completed detailing the privacy principles and recommendations agreed to by the participants, and then circulated for public comment and finalization. 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URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jun 11 09:55:48 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Dimitris Kontokostas) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:55:48 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] 4th DBpedia Community Meeting in Poznan 2015 - Call for contribution/participarion Message-ID: <55799364.9070903@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> **Registration & talk submissions are still open** he 4th DBpedia community meeting will be held in Poznan, Poland, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2015) . * *Twitter:*#DBpediaPoznan * *Optional DBpedia support ticket*: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket:https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan Quick Facts * *Web URL:*http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Poznan2015 * *When:*June 25th, 2015 (Thursday) * *Where:*Poznan University of Economics (Al. Niepodleglosci 10, 61-875 Poznan, Google Maps ) * *Host:*Poznan University of Economics (http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en) and the DBpedia Polish Chapter * *Call for Contribution:*Please submit your contribution (talk, presentation, poster, ...) inthis form * *Publications: for details please see below.* * *Registration:* Free to participate butneeds registration . * *Optional DBpedia support ticket*: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket: https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan Acknowledgements If you would like to become a sponsor for the 4th DBpedia Community Meeting, please contact theDBpedia Association . H2020 ALIGNED Project Institute for Applied Informatics OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint Organisation * Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics * Adrian Paschke, DBpedia Germany, University of Berlin * Marta Bartkowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan * Dimitris Kontokostas , DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig * Sebastian Hellmann , DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig Registration You can register by adding yourselfhere or send an email to one of the organizers.Please indicate if you have an "eduroam" account for arranging internet access. Registration is free but we offer an optional Support Ticket if you would like to support the DBpedia Association (https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan). *Note that registration closes on 18/06/15.* Call for Contributions Please submit your proposal through ourWeb form . Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. Please note the publication opportunities. Important information (Opportunity for publication) As DBpedia Workshop is a regular conference workshop there is a possibility of having the publication included in the post-conference LNBIP Proceedings http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/proceedings/. A short or regular paper corresponding to the presentation at the DBpedia Workshop may be submitted after the conference. It will then be subject to the review by the DBpedia Programme Committee. If accepted, the author will have to register with a fee of 100 EUR to have the paper included in the volume (the rest of cost is covered by our sponsors). Moreover, if someone would like to stay for the whole BIS conference (three days), he is to pay (in case of publication) 250 EUR (or 320 EUR in case of very late registration). 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With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline:? June 30th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: July 20th, 2015 Camera Ready: July 25th, 2015 Paper Registration: July 25th, 2015 Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From rsandusky at gmail.com Thu Jun 11 18:10:28 2015 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:10:28 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Register for the DataONE Users Group Meeting, July 12th-13th 2015 Message-ID: The deadline for hotel room reservations at Asilomar is Monday, June 15! Registration is now open for the DataONE Users Group Meeting, July 12th-13th 2015. You may register at any time up the start of the meeting at no cost. The 2015 DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting is collocated with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA. The DUG will be a 2 day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions and community led round tables. Join us to learn more about DataONE; network with informatics, data management and domain science colleagues; and provide feedback on the prioritization and development of DataONE tools and services. We look forward to seeing you -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library From silvello at dei.unipd.it Thu Jun 11 05:35:13 2015 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:35:13 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ECIR 2016: Call for the ECIR student mentoring programme Message-ID: * 1st Call for the ECIR student mentoring programme * The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval 20 - 23 March, 2016 Padua, Italy http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ https://twitter.com/ecir2016 ########################################################### ECIR 2016 is offering a student mentoring programme with the objective to help and support students with the writing of their papers to be submitted to the ECIR conference ? and hereby increase the quality of submissions. The ECIR 2016 conference is to be held in Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016. For more information about the ECIR ?16 conference, please visit the conference website: ecir2016.dei.unipd.it If you are a student who plans to submit a paper to ECIR ?16, you may consider the ECIR student mentoring programme. The ECIR student mentoring programme offers help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft paper by assigning a mentor to you, who help you in preparing and maturing the paper for submission. How to sign up for the ECIR student mentoring programme: ------------------------------------------------------- 1) You send an email to Jaana Kek?l?inen (jaana.kekalainen at uta.fi). In the email you describe the topic of your paper and possibly the problems you might have concerning the paper. Signing up takes place in the period of July 6 - August 7, 2015. 2) Then we match you with a relevant and competent scholar, basically based on your description of your topic of the paper. 3) We email you the name and email address of the assigned mentor (August 21, 2015). 4) You contact by email the mentor with your draft paper (attached the email), including an outline of what in particular you need help with, that is, what you wish the mentor to focus on in the reading of your draft paper. 5) Having read the draft paper the mentor emails the feedback to you. This may develop into an email correspondence. Some notes: ---------- ? Please note, when submitting the draft paper to the assigned mentor, the paper should be a completed draft that allows the mentor to provide you with constructive feedback. ? Do also note that participation in the ECIR student mentoring programme does not guarantee acceptance of research papers at the ECIR 2016 conference. ? 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This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven modelds, big data standards, and so on. This workshop will analyze the trends in big data and can predict the future big data world. The emerging paradigms in big data including technologies, methods, mechanisms and applications will be treated in the proposed workshop. Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP ( http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission August 10, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 10, 2015 Registration Due October 10, 2015 Camera Ready Due October 10, 2015 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos October 22, 2015 Main conference October 21-23, 2015 Organizers Rita Yi Man Li, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmartin at nedcc.org Tue Jun 16 14:59:40 2015 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:59:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Is your fiscal year ending soon? Register Now for Digital Directions, Aug 3-5, Raleigh, NC Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF985F468DD@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> ******************************* PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY Does your fiscal year end June 30? Do you still have professional development funds to use? Join us at: NEDCC's DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 3-5, 2015 Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC The Digital Directions conference will give you the foundation you need to create good digital collections with an eye toward long-term access. You will come away with an understanding of concepts and processes, as well as the language you need to make a case for a digitization initiative at your institution. Fill in the gaps in your digital training - or confirm you are on the right track. CHECK OUT THIS YEAR'S AGENDA to see the breadth of topics and the stellar faculty: http://bit.ly/ddagend SEATS ARE GOING FAST for the optional lunchtime discussion groups with faculty - the opportunity to ask your questions in a small group setting. Register today! See you in Raleigh! ***************************** Northeast Document Conservation Center www.nedcc.org Join the NEDCC E-News List for all the latest updates: http://bit.ly/EnewsPres -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bean.lists at gmail.com Tue Jun 16 22:14:28 2015 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:14:28 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] C4L Journal Issue #30 Call for Papers Message-ID: <2FD4EC50-5948-422E-BBE5-5B021682E572@gmail.com> Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting) The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 30th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 30th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid October, 2015, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal at code4lib.org by Monday, August 17, 2015. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message. The Code4Lib Journal encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 29 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org . Remember, for consideration for the 30th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal at code4lib.org no later than Monday, August 17, 2015. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee Carol Bean Technology Coordinator NN/LM Greater Midwest Region Library of the Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 1750 W. Polk Chicago, IL 60612 cielbie at uic.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xh.gslis at gmail.com Wed Jun 17 02:46:54 2015 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:46:54 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Two Positions for A Project on Information Literacy Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting! This is posted on behalf of Dr. Sam Chu in the University of Hong Kong. Dear colleagues, Funded by University Grants Committee in Hong Kong, I?m involving in a BIG project on information literacy as a co-investigator. The project is titled ?Enhancing information literacy in Hong Kong higher education through the development and implementation of shared interactive multimedia courseware? (6.2 million HK$ / .8 million USD). The project is hiring 2 full-time staff and both positions can last for 3 years. Senior Project Fellow: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/postspec/15060503.pdf Project Associate: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/postspec/15060502.pdf The salary for ?Senior Project Fellow? is comparable to the beginning salary of an assistant professor in Hong Kong and the salary for the ?Project Associate? position is similar to the salary of a post-doc fellow. The project may involve the development of multiple SPOCs (a version MOOC) for scafffolding students? development in information literacy in all the universities in Hong Kong. It also consists of much research and evaluations for the project. The applicants should be good at English writing, quantitative and/or qualitative data analysis (with SPSS, NVivo) and have experience in conducting research. For questions, feel free to contact Mr William Ho (lbwkho at polyu.edu.hk) or me. Best, Sam -------------------------------------------------- Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2241-5894 Fax: (852) 2517-7194 E-mail: samchu at hku.hk Skype Name: chukaiwahsamuel Homepage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Wed Jun 10 02:12:00 2015 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:42:00 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP-International Journal of Civic Enagagement and Social Change, IGI Global, USA In-Reply-To: References: <003301ceb303$8106bfa0$83143ee0$@lbsim.ac.in>, , , , , , , Message-ID: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association DOI: 10.4018/IJCESC, ISSN: 2328-5494, EISSN: 2328-5508 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) DESCRIPTION OF IJCESC: Governments, corporations, individuals, and civic society play essential roles for worldwide growth and development. Management of resources for socioeconomic development of society requires design, development, and implementation of value driven civic engagement processes, practices, and frameworks. These initiatives create an environment of public accountability to distribute benefits of development for the overall benefit of society. The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) compiles theoretical and empirical works that significantly contribute to the unexplored field of how bringing social change through civic engagement can widened the ambience of public welfare activities. MISSION OF IJCESC: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change. The primary objective of IJCESC is to suggest value driven civic engagement practices, processes and frameworks to bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for individuals and society. IJCESC seeks to achieve its mission through research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of frameworks, collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: * Civic engagement and political reforms for development * Civic engagement for development and social change * Civic engagement for organization development * Civic engagement and urban development * Civic engagement reforms and capacity building * ICTs Engagement and Social Change * Leadership cases for civic engagement * Preservation of natural resources * Public policy and social change * Role of administrative competencies for civic engagement * Smart governance practices * Smart regulatory frameworks for civic engagement * Social accountability for individuals, government, and corporate sectors * Social networks and collaborations for bringing social change * Standards and benchmarks for civic engagement * Value-driven civic engagement * Women and child development * Civic Engagement and Rural Development SUBMITTING TO IJCESC: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All manuscript submissions to IJCESC should be sent through the online submission system:http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Changeis published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Dr. Susheel Chhabra Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change E-mail: Susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com http://www.igi-global.com/IJCESC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Jun 10 09:54:46 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:54:46 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Reopening of the Mundaneum Message-ID: <557841A6.7020008@orange.fr> http://expositions.mundaneum.org/en/exhibitions/mapping-knowledge-understanding-world-through-data > > > Mapping Knowledge. 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URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Jun 18 09:48:27 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:48:27 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Fall Data Science Fellowship Opportunity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <095f01d0a9cd$74df5e90$5e9e1bb0$@asis.org> From: > on behalf of Michael Li > Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 10:34 AM Subject: Fall Data Science Fellowship Opportunity ----------------------------------------- Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive 7 week fellowship that prepares masters, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM + social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for fellows and supported by sponsorships from dozens of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship. Locations: There will be both an in-person (in NYC, DC, SF) and online section of the fellowship. There is a common application for both the online and in-person sections. Dates: All sections will be from 2015-09-08 to 2015-10-23 Application Link: http://www.thedataincubator.com/#apply 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 are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session. For additional information, checkout our blog, Venture Beat article, or Harvard Business Review piece. Sincerely, Michael Li Postdoc, Cornell michael.li at mailg.thedataincubator.com Michael Li Training and placing PhDs to be data scientists: http://www.thedataincubator.com (Venture Beat) New bootcamp more competitive than Harvard (HBR) The question to ask before hiring a data scientist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Documents Required: *copy of doctoral diploma; Those who have not yet received the diploma at the time of application must provide a formal statement from the degree granted institution indicating that it will be in hand by the time of appointment *official transcripts of the master's or doctoral studies *copy of certification of working experience *resume *at least one academic work published within 5 years (published after Nov. 1, 2010, doctoral dissertation included) *a list of publications *a list of courses taught or course plan with detail course outlines, syllabi and bibliography 3. Other Requirements: *Ability to teach in Mandarin Chinese or English *The applicants who pass preliminary review by our review board will be invited to give a presentation to our faculty (travel expenses to be paid by applicant) *All applications will not be returned. 4. Date of appointment and position official rank: Appointment begins on February 1, 2016. Official rank appointed is according to working experience and qualifications. 5. Application deadline: August 21, 2015 6. How to apply: All the documents must be prepared in printed format and mailed to Department of Library and Information Science Address: Professor Shanju L. Chang Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R. O. C. Email: lis at ntu.edu.tw Tel: 886-2-3366-2958 Fax: 886-2-2363-2859 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Incoming MLIS students were asked to create a Pinterest board that demonstrated either why the student wishes to become an information professional or what sort of future the student envisions as an information professional. Fall 2015 Director?s Scholarship for Excellence Recipients: ? Hannah Blatchford?s board, ?Why I Decided to Become a Librarian ,? uses 29 pins to recount a ?tale of drama, adventure, and intrigue? in five chapters. Her ?chapters? touch upon her own personal history, describe the ways libraries serve their communities, and express her excitement about the journey she is about to begin at the iSchool. ? Katie Monroe?s board, ?Dream Job: Information Professional ? focuses on her passion ?to ensure the public is able to access and learn from rare books and special collections.? Using 41 pins, Monroe creates a collage of the past, present, and future of libraries. ? Beth Berlin-Stephens, a new teacher librarian in Pinole, California, used hashtags on her 43 pins to explain why she wants to be an information professional . The pins she chose focus on diversity, information literacy, and the creative ways libraries can encourage reading. ? Janine Bauer used her Pinterest board, ?I Want to ,? to focus on an increasingly important part of the librarian?s job: marketing. Each pin?s image, read left to right, explains what she wants to do with her education. ? Carina Langstraat used her board, ?The Courageous Librarian ,? to express how she was inspired to become an information professional by librarians of the past and present. Her 48 pins demonstrate how librarians ?regularly stand up to those who want to restrict our access to information--and that takes courage.? The Director ?s Scholarship for Excellence will be awarded to five more MLIS students in spring 2016. Applications for admission in spring 2016 open August 1, 2015, and admitted students can apply for the scholarship beginning September 1, 2015. In order to be eligible, incoming students need to have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5. More information about the Director?s Scholarship for Excellence and other iSchool scholarships is available on the Scholarship, Award, and Grant Information web page. * The Director?s Scholarship for Excellence was made possible by generous donations from alumni, students, faculty, and friends. More support is needed in order to continue awarding the scholarship to future incoming students. Donations may be made online using a credit or debit card via the school?s scholarship donation page . Please see the full news story on the iSchool ?s website. About The San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information prepares individuals for careers as information professionals. Graduates work in diverse areas of the information profession, such as user experience design, digital asset management, information architecture, electronic records management, information governance, digital preservation, and librarianship. The SJSU School of Information is a recognized leader in online education and received the Online Learning Consortium?s Outstanding Online Program award. For more information about the school, please visit: ischool.sjsu.edu. Contact: Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jos? State University One Washington Square, Clark Hall 420A San Jos?, CA 95192-0029 Direct: 408-924-2465 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu ischool.sjsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Temple University is a vibrant, urban research university with over 1,700 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/about/. *Primary Duties and Responsibilities: * Reporting to the Head of Digital Library Initiatives, the Digital Projects and Services Librarian coordinates the implementation of various digital library projects and services, working collaboratively with the developers? team, web designer, digitization team, external consultants and partners, and project stakeholders. The librarian acts as a coordinator and team lead for projects, assesses user needs and interface usability, develops project specifications in collaboration with developers? team and other stakeholders, and facilitates communication. Implements software platform configuration and settings and other non-programming implementation tasks. Coordinates the development and maintenance of the Drupal-based library website, as well as Hydra-based digital repository projects. The incumbent will also take an active part in the Hydra-based Pennsylvania DPLA aggregator project. Supervises one full-time staff member and up to 2 student workers. Maintains in-depth knowledge of standards and best practices in the realm of digital projects, library-oriented open-source platforms and project management. The librarian will participate in library-wide activities and committees, be active professionally and meet requirements for contract renewals, promotion, and regular appointment. Performs other duties as assigned. *Required Education and Experience:* ALA accredited master?s degree in Library Science and two years of relevant experience. *Required Skills and Abilities:* - Experience developing digital library projects and understanding of web-based project design methods and practices. - Demonstrated experience with a Content Management System like Drupal, and/or a digital objects repository/publication system, such as Hydra/Fedora, Omeka, CONTENTdm, or OJS. - Excellent project management and team leadership skills. - Experience with metadata standards, such as Dublin Core, MODS, and OAI-PMH. - Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and across multiple departments. - Supervisory skills. - Excellent oral and written communication skills. *Preferred Skills and Abilities:* - Experience developing and managing large websites and/or digital repositories, including managing stakeholders? expectations, and producing ADA-compliant sites. - Experience with HTML/CSS, and some familiarity with a scripting language like PHP and/or XML/XSLT. - Experience with UX assessment methodologies. - Experience with Agile-style project management. - Experience in an academic library setting. *Compensation:* Competitive salary and benefits package, including relocation allowance. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. *To apply: * To apply for this position, please visit www.temple.edu, click on Careers At Temple at the bottom of the home page, and reference TU-19265. 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. Margaret Janz Librarian to Bio-Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, CIS, & Physics Science & Engineering Library (SEL) Temple University 1947 N 12th St, Rm 202 Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 204-4725 *The best time to call me is email* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a local perspective to the global environment. The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. Michael Buckland, well-known expert in the history and theory of documentation and bibliographic access. The topic of authority control, subject authority control and subject access in various contexts will be discussed by a series of eminent speakers speakers including Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Zumer, Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Andrea Scharnhorst, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli. To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015 Early bird registration opened on 12 June 2015: ?200 early bird fee, students ?160 (to 31 July) ?250 regular fee, students ?210 (registration closes 20 October) About the organizer: Classification & Authority Control is the fifth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ailiadis at purdue.edu Mon Jun 22 20:27:15 2015 From: ailiadis at purdue.edu (Andrew J Iliadis) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:27:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?b?Q0ZQOiDigJxDcml0aWNhbCBEYXRhIFN0dWRpZXPigJ0g?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_Big_Data_=26_Society_Special_Theme?= In-Reply-To: <306709899.46471.1435019218837.JavaMail.root@mailhub051.itcs.purdue.edu> Message-ID: <842798358.46476.1435019235411.JavaMail.root@mailhub051.itcs.purdue.edu> CFP: ?Critical Data Studies? ? Big Data & Society Special Theme Guest Editors: Andrew Iliadis (Purdue University) and Federica Russo (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by ?Big Data.? Rather than treat Big Data as a scientifically empirical, and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that data should be seen as always-already constituted within wider data assemblages. Assemblages is a concept that helps capture the multitude of ways that already-composed data structures inflect and interact with society, its organization and functioning, and the resulting impact on individuals? daily lives. CDS questions the many assumptions about data that permeate contemporary literature on information and society by locating instances where data may be naively taken to denote objective and transparent informational entities. CDS may be viewed as an emerging field connected to Information Ethics, Software Studies, and Critical Information Studies in that it seeks to question the ethical import of information and Big Data for society. Problems of causality, quality, security, and uncertainty concern CDS scholars. Recent articles outlining the theoretical program of CDS offer a new platform from which to question data in this manner. We seek essays for this special volume that broaden these latest commitments in CDS to include new empirical research projects on information and communication technologies (ICTs) that fall under the umbrella of Big Data, while also seeking to question their attendant epistemological shifts. Through the critical lens of ethics and morality, this special volume opens up CDS to localizations where Big Data can no longer be seen as neutral, and where an ethics of Big Data might emerge. Issues of interest include (but are not limited to): - Causality: how should we find causes in the era of ?data-driven science?? Do we need a new conception of causality to fit with new practices? - Quality: how should we ensure that data are good enough quality for the purposes for which we use them? What should we make of the open access movement; what kind of new technologies might be needed? - Security: how can we adequately secure data, while making it accessible to those who need it? How do we protect databases? - Uncertainty: can Big Data help with uncertainty, or does it generate new uncertainties? What technologies are essential to reduce uncertainty elements in data-driven sciences? Proposals of 1000 words are invited for consideration and inclusion in the Special Theme to be published in Big Data & Society (BD&S), an open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies. Manuscripts should be 8,000 words for an Original Research Article, 3,000 words for a Commentary, and 1,000 words for an essay in the Early Career Research Forum section. All submissions of Original Research Articles to BD&S are double-blind, and triple peer-reviewed. Commentaries and ECR submissions are reviewed by the Guest Editors. Proposals should be sent to the Guest Editors: ailiadis at purdue.edu and f.russo at uva.nl Manuscript Guidelines: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/msg/bds.htm#PEERREVIEWPOLICY Style Guidelines: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE_UK_style_guide_short.pdf Proposal Deadline: July 10, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: end of July Paper Deadline: October 4, 2015 Reviews Returned: end of December Revised Paper Deadline: February 29, 2016 Anticipated Publication Date: Spring/Summer 2016 CFP link: http://bigdatasoc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/call-for-proposals-special-theme-on.html From ajmillion at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 15:40:54 2015 From: ajmillion at gmail.com (A.J. Million) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:40:54 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Missouri // Two Tenure Track/Tenured Faculty Positions with Emphasis in Library & Information Science Message-ID: *Announcement - Two Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Positions:* http://sislt.missouri.edu/2015/05/two-tenure-tracktenured-faculty-positions-with-emphasis-in-library-information-science/ Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Rank School of Information Science & Learning Technologies iSchool at University of Missouri To Apply Download Word document version As part of our recently developed Strategic Plan and our enhanced commitment to research as an AAU member institution, the University of Missouri (MU) College of Education is committed to strengthening its focus on Library & Information Science. We are searching for two individuals to fill tenured or tenure-track, nine month, faculty positions who share the College?s commitment to quality research, excellent teaching, exceptional service to students and the profession, and to continuous quality improvement in an environment of civility and respect. Minimum Qualifications - Doctorate in Library and Information Science or related field, by the time of appointment Candidates will be evaluated on the following factors - Demonstrated research productivity or strong potential for research productivity - Demonstrated ability or potential for seeking external funding - Professional experience in libraries or other information organizations - Ability to teach both foundational and a variety of elective courses in a curriculum aligned with American Library Association (ALA) accreditation Standards *About SISLT:* The School offers the Master of Arts in Library Science, Master of Education and Education Specialist degrees in Educational Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Learning Technologies. SISLT faculty maintain active research programs across a spectrum of areas: social and cultural institutions (including libraries), digital humanities and digital libraries, information needs and uses, human-centered computing, social computing, and designing games for learning and other immersive technologies. LIS faculty emphasize public librarianship, youth services, metadata and information organization, digital humanities, user experience and usability, big data and analytics, and educational technologies. The mission of SISLT is to improve the professional practice of information specialists and learning technologists; advance research on information, learning, and performance; disseminate knowledge, products, and services to improve the quality of life for all; and advance the economic well-being of Missouri and the Nation. As a member of the iSchool consortium ( http://ischools.org), SISLT faculty share the common fundamental interest of all iSchools in investigating and disseminating knowledge about the relationship between information, people, and technology. This fundamental interest is reflected in the number and depth of collaborations among the SISLT faculty, and with other academic and administrative units at the University of Missouri. Many of our projects are housed within the Allen Institute ( http://alleninstitute.missouri.edu), a physical space that supports SISLT faculty, staff, and students in research and development activities. The Information Experience Lab (IE Lab) is a usability laboratory in the Allen Institute that conducts research and evaluates technology. The IE Lab offers SISLT students an authentic opportunity to engage in usability testing and information behavior research of websites and software for on-campus, statewide, and global clients. SISLT is one of five academic units within the College of Education. *About the College:* The College of Education (COE) is ranked among the top doctoral granting colleges of education in the country. Today, the College of Education has a student population of approximately 1,300 undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students with 87 tenured/tenure-track and 25 full-time non-tenure track faculty members. The COE recently completed a new strategic plan and is financially well positioned to invest in opportunities for innovative ideas in support of the plan. Annual expenditures for externally funded projects are approximately $15 million with funded projects in research, instruction and public service. Our research portfolio has increased significantly in recent years, and is poised for continued significant strategic growth. The College is a leader on the campus and is nationally recognized for its distance and online education programs. *About MU and the Surrounding Community:* MU is the oldest state university west of the Mississippi River and the largest of the four institutions in the University of Missouri System. In 1848, MU became the first public university in the nation to open a college specific to teacher preparation. Cultural diversity is an important goal supported by the Division, College, and MU. More information is available on the web at: education.missouri.edu. MU is located in Columbia, a metropolitan community of approximately 130,000 which has been rated by Money Magazine, Men?s Journal and MSN.COM as one of the best places to live in the U.S. MU has a student body of over 34,000, and is designated as a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University Extensive. MU is one of only six universities in the U.S. that is both the flagship and land grant institution housing medicine, veterinary medicine and law on the same campus. As an AAU member institution since 1908, MU is recognized as one of the top research and educational institutions in the nation. This position provides an opportunity to work at a world-class research university in a beautiful and diverse setting that offers a high quality of life. There are numerous opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts and Columbia has been recognized as a bike-friendly community. Both Kansas City and St. Louis are within a 90-minute drive offering the shopping and cultural opportunities of major metropolitan areas. Columbia has a very high quality public school system and provides many opportunities for art, culture and music enthusiasts. *Salary:* education.missouri.edu *Appointment:* Tenure-track, nine-month appointment beginning January 1, 2016 or September 1, 2016. To Apply Apply on-line at http://hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/academic/index.php. Upload (a) a letter of application which describes in detail your qualifications for the position. As part of this letter, please discuss your expertise in the following areas (as pertinent): Digital Archives; Digital Librarianship Digital Assets Curation and Management; Research Data Management; Information Identification, Selection, Acquisition, and Preservation; Information Extraction and Organization, and Library Instruction in Digital Environments; (b) your research statement; (c) two (2) sample scholarly artifacts; (d) evidence of teaching effectiveness (course syllabi, student evaluations, chair/advisor/peer reviews); (e) evidence of experiences in generating external funding; and (f) names and contact information for three reference in the Attachments section of the application. Your CV must be uploaded in the Resume/CV and Cover Letter section. Please contact Dr. Denice Adkins, Search Committee Chair, adkinsde at missouri.edu, for questions about the position. *Beginning Review Date:* Formal review of applications will begin August 1, 2015 and continue until the positions are filled. *An Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer* *Women, minorities and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. To request ADA accommodations, please contact the Dean?s Office at 573-884-7717.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cglaze at illinois.edu Wed Jun 24 11:47:44 2015 From: cglaze at illinois.edu (Glaze, Christy Grant) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:47:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Join GSLIS at Illinois at ALA Annual 2015 Message-ID: GSLIS at Illinois faculty, staff, and students will participate in the American Library Association?s 2015 Annual Conference from June 25-30 in San Francisco. Stop by and visit us in the Exhibit Hall at Booth #3524. In addition to the presentations listed below, please join us for the LSAA Reception and Annual Meeting on Sunday, June 28, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco. All alumni and current students are invited to attend, and we encourage you to bring a prospective MS or PhD student to meet our faculty and other alumni. Thursday, June 25 ?Coding for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XML, XSLT, XQuery, and PyMarc for Library Data,? 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Presenters include Professor Tim Cole (MS '89), GSLIS affiliated faculty member. Saturday, June 27 ?Voices from the Field: Methodology and More in Library Research,? 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Panelists include GSLIS Assistant Professor Emily Knox. ?All the Data: Privacy, Service Quality, and Analytics,? 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Presented by Professor Lisa Hinchliffe, GSLIS adjunct faculty member. ?Should I Tweet That? Academic Freedom and Social Media,? 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Moderators include GSLIS Assistant Professor Emily Knox. ?How many followers today? Special Collections Adventures on Tumblr,? 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Poster presented by Dylan Burns, GSLIS master?s student. Sunday, June 28 ?Collaborative Influences of LIS Educators and Practitioners Regarding Hiring the Profession,? 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Speakers include Professor Sue Searing, GSLIS affiliated faculty member. Monday, June 29 ?Conversation Starter: What do LIS Students Really Think About Their Education?,? 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Speakers include Kate Rojas (MS ?14), GSLIS CAS student. ________________________________ Christy Glaze, MLS Visiting Communications Coordinator GSLIS: The iSchool at Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We'd be very grateful for any feedback from the UK HEI community and funding bodies in particular but also welcome views from other stakeholders. Is this list complete? Are there components that are missing? Please submit directly to the spreadsheet in Google Docs or email your feedback by July 10 2015. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kBRodq49Vm4qvoJpB45cglyNbTcRnMR045s6nyx0cS8/edit#gid=0 Once the list is agreed, we will seek to make RDM infrastructure components more visible within HEIs by adapting the OPD. The OPD is a simple RDF file which was developed by Equipment.data at the University of Southampton to help HEIs comply with EPSRC's mandate about exposing information about research equipment bought with public funds. The OPD is both human and machine readable and over 40 UK HEIs already have an OPD in place. In the short term, this work will help HEIs to identify good practice among peer organisations. Over the longer term, we believe that an agreed list of basic RDM components will help HEIs to better cooperate to identify metrics for successful implementation, the costs associated with delivering support services and systems, and approaches to sustaining our RDM operations. All the best, Joy Joy Davidson Associate Director Digital Curation Centre (DCC) HATII, University of Glasgow 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QJ Tel: 0141 330 8592 Email: joy.davidson at glasgow.ac.uk http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Tue Jun 23 12:08:25 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:08:25 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Free NISO/BISG Pre-ALA Conference Event: 9th Annual Changing Standards Landscape Forum Message-ID: *Apologies for cross posting?.* *NISO/BISG 9th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape:Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content* *Date: *Friday, June 26, 2015 *Time: *12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. *Location: Moscone Convention Center - * MCC* - 3012 (West Building) *Event Description* Standards are critically important elements that can make any business process more efficient. The traditional print subscription services model, the process of handling standing book orders by libraries, and even the process of buying, selling, and consuming ebooks through a variety of platforms all require standardized business processes to efficiently get content from publishers through vendors to libraries and ultimately to patrons. As our community adapts to changing paradigms regarding service and ownership models specific to digital publishing, both the library and publishing communities need to consider the implications of these changes. Print content distribution was centered on a sales model, where the transfer of ownership of a physical object was a core element of the transaction; this is often not the case with digital assets. Generally, content is licensed and access is limited; by rights, by term, or by community served. The implications of this shift are quite broad both for content providers as well as libraries. What are the business practices, roles and responsibilities, on both sides of the new digital exchange that all parties need to be aware of and incorporate to ensure efficient information exchange? *NISO and BISG will explore these issues during the 9th Annual NISO/BISG Changing Standards Landscape.* During this free half-day symposium held annually at the American Library Conference, speakers will explore the evolving business model processes that some community members are putting into place, discuss what is working and what isn't, and identify problems that remain to be solved. *Agenda* - Welcome and Introductions ? Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Julie Morris, Project Manager, Standards & Best Practices, Book Industry Study Group (BISG) - Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy: Results of BISG Research - Nadine Vassallo, Project Manager, Research & Information, BISG - Access vs. Ownership eBooks: You can have both! - Stacey Marien, Acquisitions Librarian, American University Library - Panel presented by BISG: *Publishers, Subscription Agents, Libraries: Bridging the Gap* - Moderated by: Nadine Vassallo, Project Manager, Research & Information, BISG - Confirmed Speakers: - Judy Luther, Informed Strategies - Lisa Nachtigall, Director of Sales Development Digital Books, Wiley - Peyton Stafford, VP Library Services, Total BooX - Challenges and opportunities in providing course content within changing instructor and student behaviors - Franny Lee, ProQuest SIPX (Founder) - Panel presented by NISO: *Managing the challenges of open access * - Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO) - Helen Atkins, Acting Publisher, PLoS - Peter Binfield, Founder and Publisher, PeerJ - Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of FloridaUniversity of Florida - Alicia Wise, PhD, Director of Access & Policy, Elsevier - *Registration * Please RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8XCDKBV. This event is free of charge; however, we would like to get an estimated count of attendance for logistical purposes. For more information, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/ala_annual_sf/nisobisgforum2015/ This event is generously sponsored by Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate, CrossRef, Highwire, and OCLC. # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk Wed Jun 24 12:31:29 2015 From: diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk (Diane Pennington) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:31:29 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Information Professionals Survey Invitation Message-ID: <106F013AD7EFCD4980EC804398CEA7462426CCA3@EX2010-MBX2.ds.strath.ac.uk> ASIS&T?s Information Professionals Task Force has been hard at work for the last several months. According to the task force?s web page, its charge is as follows: "? to create a web presence that highlights the diversity and value of the information professions to increase awareness and interest among the general public and students. It will also serve as a point of contact between potential employers, and established and aspiring information professionals. The web presence will be designed to define ?Information Professional,? as a generic term to refer to professionally trained workers in information intensive environments, but will also include the ASIS&T brand. The site will highlight information professional career paths and job descriptions and will provide leads to educational programs, jobs, and professional organizations." To that end, you are invited to complete a very short survey about your professional role and your thoughts regarding what an ?information professional? is. The survey is available at http://svy.mk/1FyKFaA. Thanks in advance! Diane Co-Chair, Information Professionals Task Force Diane M. Rasmussen Pennington, PhD Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk +44 (0)141 548 3900 http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/ The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263. From jqin at syr.edu Thu Jun 25 10:55:56 2015 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:55:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG/STI Sponsors a Best Paper Award -- Deadline for submission: 7/31 Message-ID: <3fc00e67876240a6a57814b8e02e56c2@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> ASIS&T SIG/STI Sponsors a Best Paper Award The special interest group (SIG), Scientific and Technical Information, is pleased to announce their annual Best Paper Award. This award is conferred upon a research article, which is acknowledged by our peers as the best paper in the library and information science literature that pertains to the subject of scientific and technical information. The winner will receive a cash stipend of $500 that is earmarked for attending the 2015 ASIS&T annual conference, held this year November 6-10, in St. Louis Missouri. Anyone interested in applying for this year's STI Best Paper Award, please read the guidelines and instructions below. Please send your paper submissions to the Award Jury Chair: Professor Qin Jian (jqin at syr.edu). Submission deadline for the award is July 31, 2015. Rules for Applying for the SIG/STI Best Paper Award 1. Nature of the award Author or authors who win the STI best paper award will receive a cash stipend of $500, which is ear-marked for the awardee, or awardees, to attend the ASIS&T annual conference. The award shall be announced by the Jury Chair by no later than one month prior to the start of the annual ASIS&T conference. 2. Purpose of the award The purpose of the SIG/STI award is to recognize the best paper in the library and information science literature that is devoted to the subject of Scientific and Technical Information. The paper is required to be published in the literature within the two previous calendar years. It must be published in either a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceeding. 3. Eligibility criteria for the award * Peer reviewed paper or conference proceeding, must be published during the previous two calendar years. * At least one author must be a current member of ASIS&T. * At least one author must register for the ASIS&T annual conference and attend the SIG/ STI business meeting during the ASIS&T annual conference. * The subject of the paper must fall within the subject of Scientific and Technical Information. 4. Administration of the award The Paper Award is sponsored by SIG/STI. It is administered by the SIG STI Awards Jury. 5. Nominations for the award Nominations for the Best Paper Award shall be submitted by email to the Award Jury Chair. The nomination must include: a full citation and a brief summary that justifies why the paper was nominated; a copy of the article should accompany the nomination. An individual may nominate himself or herself. 6. Selection of the Awardee Jury members will gain access to the papers nominated for the award. Content of each eligible paper shall be appraised by the jury members. Each paper will be assessed through an established set of criteria and can accrue a maximum number of 100 points. Each paper will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria: * Theoretical or conceptual framework relevant to the description of scientific and technical information systems and services. (Maximum: 10 points) * Well defined problem statement, sound methodology and clearly documented references. (Maximum: 20 points) * Significance and implications of the research findings. (Maximum: 30 points) * Innovation and originality of research. (Maximum: 30 points) * Clarity of expression. (Maximum: 10 points) 7. Presentation of Award In recognition of winning the best paper award, the recipient, or recipients, will receive the $500 award, which will be presented at the yearly SIG/STI business meeting held during the annual ASIS&T conference. 8. Publicity The award shall be posted in the STI listserv, the STI web site, and STI social media site. In addition, it shall also be posted by any chapter with which the winner is affiliated. 9. Deadline * The Call for Submissions for the SIG STI Paper Award shall be published during the spring. * The Submission Deadline is July 31th. * The awardee will be notified approximately one month before the start of the ASIS&T annual meeting. 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Continuing an already consolidated pattern since 2013, the Conference in Complex Systems (http://www.ccs2015.org) hosts the satellite workshop on Computational Social Science. The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT-mediated social phenomena emerging over multiple scales, ranging from the interactions of individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics: - Interdependent social contagion process - Peer production and mass collaboration - Temporally evolving networks and dynamics of social contagion - Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision - Online communication and information diffusion - Viral propagation in online social network - Crowd-sourcing; herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds - E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction - Online socio-political mobilizations - Public attention and popularity - Temporal and geographical patterns of information diffusion - User-information interplay - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. 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The awards include several categories of appreciation: * The Innovative ETD Award recognizes student efforts to transform the genre of the dissertation through the use of innovative research data management techniques and software to create multimedia ETDs. * The ETD Leadership Award recognizes members of the university community whose leadership and vision has helped raise awareness of the benefits of open access ETDs and whose efforts have improved graduate education and research through the use of technology. The awards will be presented at the ETD 2015 Symposium, to be held on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Campus, New Delhi, India during 4th - 6th November 2015. More information about the awards is available at http://www.ndltd.org/events/news/2015etdinnovationleadershipawardscallfornominations Suzie Allard, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research, College of Communication & Information Professor, School of Information Sciences Director, Center for Information & Communication Studies University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Drive | 423 Communications Building| Knoxville, TN | 37996-0341 | USA T 865.974.1369 | F 865.974.7878 | E sallard at utk.edu | W http://cics.cci.utk.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susie.slais at ubc.ca Thu Jun 25 12:03:31 2015 From: susie.slais at ubc.ca (Stephenson, Mary) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:03:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] (no subject) Message-ID: Just a reminder: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND INFORMATION STUDIES 1-Year Term Appointment: Lecturer The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS the iSchool at ubc) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a 12-Month Lecturer position for a 1-year term appointment commencing as early as August 1, 2015. The successful candidate will have a teaching and research interest/experience in the area of technology and informatApplicants should hold a Ph.D. (or expect to have successfully defended prior to the start date of the appointment), or a combination of extensive professional experience and a master's degree in a field related to the teaching areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and must provide strong evidence of their teaching ability and effectiveness. Applicants with experience teaching in one or more of the following areas will be given preference: web programming, web design, social media management, database design, data analysis, data science/analytics, systems analysis, information systems. This is a full-time position that carries a teaching load of six (6) 3-credit courses per year plus administrative and service responsibilities as appropriate, including contributions to curriculum development. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. Further information about the School can be found on its Web site at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, July 6, 2015 Application materials should include a cover letter stating the candidate's qualifications for the position, teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a complete CV, and the names and contact information for 3 referees. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations or gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Applications should be sent to: Connie Wintels SLAIS the iSchool at ubc, The University of British Columbia Suite 470 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Email: ischool.admin at ubc.ca Questions should be directed to: Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS the iSchool at ubc Email luanne.freund at ubc.ca Mary Sue Stephenson, Ph.D. Senior Instructor and Chair | Library and Information Studies SLAIS: The iSchool at The University of British Columbia | Irving K. 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The successful candidate will have a teaching and research interest/experience in the area of technology and informatApplicants should hold a Ph.D. (or expect to have successfully defended prior to the start date of the appointment), or a combination of extensive professional experience and a master's degree in a field related to the teaching areas of the position. Applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and must provide strong evidence of their teaching ability and effectiveness. Applicants with experience teaching in one or more of the following areas will be given preference: web programming, web design, social media management, database design, data analysis, data science/analytics, systems analysis, information systems. This is a full-time position that carries a teaching load of six (6) 3-credit courses per year plus administrative and service responsibilities as appropriate, including contributions to curriculum development. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. Further information about the School can be found on its Web site at www.slais.ubc.ca. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, July 6, 2015 Application materials should include a cover letter stating the candidate's qualifications for the position, teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a complete CV, and the names and contact information for 3 referees. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations or gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Applications should be sent to: Connie Wintels SLAIS the iSchool at ubc, The University of British Columbia Suite 470 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Email: ischool.admin at ubc.ca Questions should be directed to: Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS the iSchool at ubc Email luanne.freund at ubc.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In contrast with standard bibliometric studies, the recent surge in quantitative studies of science is characterized by a few distinct flavors: (i) They typically rely on large-scale datasets to study science, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of authors, papers and their citations; (ii) Instead of evaluating metrics, they use models to more deeply probe the mechanisms driving science, from knowledge production to scientific impact, systematically distinguishing predictable from random patterns; (iii) More quantitative studies of science no longer hold the unique goal of evaluating and improving the system of science. Rather, researchers from a wide range of disciplines have begun to use science as an observatory to probe social phenomena that are more universal and widely applicable than the institutions of science themselves. As such, the tools and perspectives vary, involving social scientists, information and computer scientists, economists, physicists and mathematicians, with results published in venues with non-overlapping readership. The goal of this satellite is to bring together leading researchers from various disciplines and form discussions on the proliferating subject of quantifying science. We specifically look for contributions that satisfy one or more of the aforementioned flavors. *Submission * Submit a (max) one-page abstract including one descriptive figure and caption using easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsccs15 Selected submissions are invited to present a research talk. Note, as a focused workshop, we welcome submissions that may also be presented in the main conference. *Areas of Interest* include but are not limited to the following focused topics: - Dynamical and structural properties of citations - Patterns behind normal and successful scientific career - How institutions (e.g., universities) shape scientific production - Collaborations and team science - Emergence and life course of concepts - Extinction, evolution and emergence of knowledge - Prediction of future knowledge and impact - Altmetrics - Peer review processes in science - Crowdsourcing science *Submission Deadline:* July 10, 2015** *Acceptance Notification:* July 17, 2015. ** We also honor expedite review of your submission if you demand a response prior to early registration deadline - please contact Dashun Wang < dashunwang at gmail.com> upon submission. *Confirmed Speakers as of June, 2015* *Brian Uzzi*, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University *Filippo Radicchi*, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University *C. Lee Giles*, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University *Carl Bergstrom*, University of Washington *Jacob Foster*, Department of Sociology, UCLA *Roberta Sinatra*, CCNR, Northeastern University *Luis A. Nunes Amaral*, Northwestern University *Organized by: Dashun Wang, James A. Evans, Qing Jin, Lingfei Wu* College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In contrast with standard bibliometric studies, the recent surge in quantitative studies of science is characterized by a few distinct flavors: (i) They typically rely on large-scale datasets to study science, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of authors, papers and their citations; (ii) Instead of evaluating metrics, they use models to more deeply probe the mechanisms driving science, from knowledge production to scientific impact, systematically distinguishing predictable from random patterns; (iii) More quantitative studies of science no longer hold the unique goal of evaluating and improving the system of science. Rather, researchers from a wide range of disciplines have begun to use science as an observatory to probe social phenomena that are more universal and widely applicable than the institutions of science themselves. As such, the tools and perspectives vary, involving social scientists, information and computer scientists, economists, physicists and mathematicians, with results published in venues with non-overlapping readership. The goal of this satellite is to bring together leading researchers from various disciplines and form discussions on the proliferating subject of quantifying science. We specifically look for contributions that satisfy one or more of the aforementioned flavors. *Submission * Submit a (max) one-page abstract including one descriptive figure and caption using easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsccs15 Selected submissions are invited to present a research talk. Note, as a focused workshop, we welcome submissions that may also be presented in the main conference. *Areas of Interest* include but are not limited to the following focused topics: - Dynamical and structural properties of citations - Patterns behind normal and successful scientific career - How institutions (e.g., universities) shape scientific production - Collaborations and team science - Emergence and life course of concepts - Extinction, evolution and emergence of knowledge - Prediction of future knowledge and impact - Altmetrics - Peer review processes in science - Crowdsourcing science *Submission Deadline:* July 10, 2015** *Acceptance Notification:* July 17, 2015. ** We also honor expedite review of your submission if you demand a response prior to early registration deadline - please contact Dashun Wang < dashunwang at gmail.com> upon submission. *Confirmed Speakers as of June, 2015* *Brian Uzzi*, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University *Filippo Radicchi*, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University *C. Lee Giles*, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University *Carl Bergstrom*, University of Washington *Jacob Foster*, Department of Sociology, UCLA *Roberta Sinatra*, CCNR, Northeastern University *Luis A. Nunes Amaral*, Northwestern University *Organized by: Dashun Wang, James A. Evans, Qing Jin, Lingfei Wu* College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tuf15651 at temple.edu Fri Jun 26 15:01:00 2015 From: tuf15651 at temple.edu (Katherine Lynch) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:01:00 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Job: Senior Digital Library Applications Developer @ Temple University, Philadelphia Message-ID: ** Please excuse any cross-posting ** Temple University Libraries' software development team is growing! With engaging and exciting projects currently in development and on the horizon, this is an opportunity to work as part of a dynamic team on Open Source projects like Hydra, Fedora Commons, and Blacklight. We seek a creative and innovative individual to fill the position of Senior Digital Library Applications Developer, to work on a range of collaborative projects supporting digital collection search and discovery, repository services, e-journal publishing, and helping grow our participation in the budding Pennsylvania DPLA Hub. Temple University is a vibrant, urban research university with over 1,700 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/about/. This position may telecommute up to 80% time. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Reporting to the Head of Digital Library Initiatives and working in close collaboration with other developers and colleagues, the Senior Developer develops and maintains the technological infrastructure for digital library projects, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects with the Hydra repository framework, and supporting digital scholarship and digital publishing initiatives, with platforms like Omeka and OJS. The Senior Developer takes a substantial role in coordinating the development of the digital library architecture as a whole, and thinks strategically about IT infrastructure and software platform choices. Takes a significant leadership role in overall management of projects. Gathers requirements and develops specifications, architects, implements, tests, and deploys projects. When appropriate, contributes the code generated to the open source community. Maintains awareness of developments in the realm of digital library software and infrastructure. May supervise junior programmers (part-time student employees or full-time staff). Performs other related duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience: BS in Computer Science or related field and 3 years of relevant 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 like Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java. * Demonstrated experience with web-based development and software integration, for instance using REST APIs, and JSON or XML for data interoperability. * Demonstrated experience with Unix/Linux, including basic administration, shell scripting, working with protocols like NFS and CIFS, and basic data storage management, and authentication and authorization technologies, including LDAP. * Demonstrated ability to perform effective code testing. * Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage projects. * Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team-based environment, and to communicate well with IT and non-IT staff. * Demonstrated ability to write clear documentation. Preferred Skills and Abilities: * Experience with a repository system, such as Hydra, a CMS like Drupal or an exhibit curation system like Omeka. * Familiarity with digital library standards, such as Dublin Core, MARC, METS, EAD, and OAI-PMH. * Experience working with Open Source software; experience with version control, test-driven development, and continuous integration techniques. * Experience managing junior programmers (full-time staff or student workers). * Experience working in an Agile project management environment. * Experience with software development in an academic library or higher education setting. 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-19291. For full consideration, please submit your completed electronic application, along with a cover letter and resume. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to cultural diversity. -- Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu) Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.lynch at temple.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Sat Jun 27 17:24:42 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:24:42 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Elects New Vice Chair and Directors to Serve Community Message-ID: *NISO Elects New Vice Chair and Directors to Serve Community* *Baltimore, MD -- June 26, 2015* -- The membership of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has elected new leadership for the 2015-2016 term that begins on July 1, 2015. *Mike Teets*, Executive Director, Strategy, Governance & Architecture at OCLC, who was elected last year and has served as Vice Chair during the current term, will become Chair of NISO for the 2015-16 term. *B. Tommie Usdin*, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the NISO Board of Directors. She will transition into the chairmanship in the 2016-17 term next July. Usdin has long been a leader in the technology around content markup and publishing production process and has organized a number of community efforts and conferences on the subject. She has served as an active member of NISO?s Board of Directors since 2013 and has been a member of the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) working group. She currently also serves as Co-Chair of the JATS standing committee. *Gerry Grenier*, Director of Publishing Technologies at IEEE, who is completing his term as Chair, will cycle into the role as Past Chair on the NISO Board of Directors Executive Committee when his term as Chair ends on June 30, 2015. ?I am honored to step into this leadership role at NISO,? said Teets, the incoming Chair. "Over the past several years, NISO has placed itself in the forefront of many technological advances in our community, including alternative metrics for assessment, metadata and indexed content discovery. NISO has achieved this because of its unique role in our community, providing an open forum for libraries, publishers and system developers to address technological and business efficiency issues. Consensus solutions are forged, vetted, and eventually implemented." "I am very excited about the opportunity to expand my service to the community as part of NISO's leadership," said Usdin. "As NISO?s community continues to expand, I hope to continue to raise the NISO?s profile and extend its reach, particularly in the areas of production efficiency and systems interoperability, which have been key areas of focus of NISO for years." The following industry leaders were also elected to seats on the NISO Board of Directors. ?* Sayeed Choudhury*, Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, the Johns Hopkins University Libraries ? *Chris Shillum*, Vice President, Product Management Platform and Content, Reed Elsevier ? *Chuck Thomas*, Executive Director, USMAI Library Consortium These new members will join the following Directors who will continue their terms through 2015-16 in determining priorities, managing operations and setting strategic direction for the organization. ? *Marian Hollingsworth*, Director of Publisher Relations, Thomson Reuters ? *Evan Owens*, Vice President, Publishing Technologies, Cenveo Publisher Services ? *Oliver Pesch*, Chief Product Strategist, EBSCO Information Services ? *Barbara Preece*, Director, Loyola/Notre Dame Library ? *Keith Webster*, Dean of University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University ? *Jabin White*, Vice President, Content Management, ITHAKA ? *Todd Carpenter*, Executive Director, NISO (Ex Officio Member) "NISO is extremely fortunate that such an accomplished and experienced group of industry leaders is willing and able to serve on our Board and provide guidance to the organization," said Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO. "The Board is representative of our membership roughly equally split among publishers, librarians and vendors. The new group of Directors continues a long tradition of senior leadership seeing the value in NISO?s mission and supporting that mission with their time and expertise. We look forward to another productive year under this new Board?s leadership.? *About NISO* NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org. For more information please contact NISO on (301) 654-2512 or via email on nisohq at niso.org. # # # Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, Maryland 21211 E: jwood at niso.org P: 301.654.2512 F: 410.685.5278 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Fri Jun 26 18:02:32 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:02:32 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Leadership Edit New Book on Standards in Information Exchange Message-ID: The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) division of the American Library Association has published a new book edited by Todd A. Carpenter, the Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment explores the process of developing information standards, the value of standards for libraries, publishing and the intermediaries that serve both communities. The book is published by ALCTS Publishing and is available in both print and electronic-book format. Carpenter, Nettie Lagace, NISO's Associate Director for Programs, and Cynthia Hodgson, recently retired NISO Editor, all contributed chapters to this publication. "Although we rely on standards every day to access, retrieve, and display digital content, few understand how these critical components in that process are developed or deployed," said Carpenter describing the book's aims. "Many people have commented to me that the development of standards is a procedural 'black box' -something that is difficult to comprehend or navigate. By creating this work, we hope to illuminate that process as well as describe the necessary role that standards play in our digital content ecosystem." "As the first ALCTS Monograph, this publication sets a high bar of content and form for the series, including a newly accessible epub format for our publication program," said Jeanne Drewes, ALCTS Monographs Editor. The idea for this book came from the NISO emails that I had received over the years from Cindy Hepfer, then the ALCTS representative to NISO. Her "standards" outreach to the library community was the seed for the need and she was instrumental in connecting ALCTS to the NISO team that brought this idea into reality." The book includes chapters on: the overall need for standards in content distribution; the formality of standards; the process and players involved in standards development; the description of information objects, digital preservation, identifiers, marketing standards, getting involved in the process as well as the future needs for information standards. Following each chapter is a case study describing real-world implications of these themes. In addition to Carpenter, Lagace, and Hodgson, many esteemed industry thought-leaders contributed to the book including: - Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation - Regina Romano Reynolds, Library of Congress - Diane I. Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates - Lisa Gregory, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center - Bill Kasdorf, Apex Content Solutions - Janifer Gatenby, OCLC - Adam Chandler, Cornell University Library - George Kerscher, DAISY Consortium - Laura Dawson, ProQuest - Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Guides Founder & Editor - Ted Koppel, Auto-Graphics - Kate Witteberg, Portico and many others. "In fact, everyone who inhabits any sector of the global information ecosystem should be interested in and at least minimally knowledgeable about standards. Twenty-first century libraries, information services and publications of all kinds simply wouldn't be usable without the support of standards," wrote Cindy Hepfer, recently retired librarian at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, in her Introduction. The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment is now available in print (ISBN13: 978-0-8389-8744-5) from the ALA Annual Conference Store in San Francisco and from the ALA Store online: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11483. Review copies are available by contacting the Christine McConnell in the ALCTS office at cmcconnell at ala.org. A PDF ebook (ISBN: 978-0-8389-8745-2) and EPUB (ISBN: 978-0-8389-8746-9) bundle will be available in mid-July through the ALA Store online. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Organizations that exchange serial content know that lack of consistency in packaging and describing the items being exchanged leads to frustration and inefficiency. The PESC recommended practice is intended to inform members of the scholarly information community about preferred practices for packaging and exchanging serial content which can enable the creation of better automated processes to receive and manage serial content." "Use cases including a diverse array of actors helped map out the complex ecosystem in which the exchange of serial content occurs," explains Leslie Johnston, Director of Digital Preservation, National Archives and Records Administration and Co-chair of the NISO PESC Working Group. "The PESC recommended practice includes guidance to communicate about the package itself, a manifest document, folder structure for the content of the package, and package format. There are also examples of three various conformance levels, which are intended to communicate various levels of exchange between organizations. These demonstrate the flexibility of PESC to be suitable for use in assorted situations between parties. The recommendations include advice for maximizing the effectiveness of the recommendations, and detailed examples of packages and an FAQ included in the document's appendices should also help practical adoption of PESC. This could additionally serve as a model for the interchange of other forms of electronic content." "By following these recommendations, exchanging organizations can clearly communicate more systematically what content has been transmitted, how it is organized, and what processing is required when a new package is received," comments Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "We are pleased to publish the collaborative product of another successful Working Group. As we have done with other initiatives, NISO will create a Standing Committee that will provide maintenance, education, and outreach for PESC." *Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (PESC)* (NISO RP-23-2015) is available for free download from the PESC Working Group webpage on the NISO website at www.niso.org/workrooms/pesc/ . Nettie Lagace NISO Associate Director for Programs nlagace at niso.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Tue Jun 30 12:17:19 2015 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:17:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST '15> SIG-SI workshop - First call for papers Message-ID: <14D7EB7C-8A95-49B0-BAC6-FF97666D7442@indiana.edu> First Call for Papers and Participation The 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu) Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics -and- School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington This year we are celebrating the start of our second decade of successful and vibrant SIG-SI Research Symposia. Since 2004, established scholars, young researchers and doctoral students interested in the study of people, ICT and work and play have gathered at the SIG-SI ASIS&T Annual Research Symposium to share their work and ideas. Approximately 110 papers, posters and panels have been presented and for the past three years, we have given awards for the best papers published by Social Informatics (SI) faculty and students in the preceding years. This year we gather to celebrate a decade of intellectually challenging and engaging work in SI and hope that you will join us. Our goal remains the same: to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIS&T. Building on the success of past years, the symposium includes members of many SIGs and defines ?social? broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. It also defines ?technology? broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium?s theme but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Papers that take social informatics further in theoretical conceptualization or empirical grounding are of particular interest to SIG-SI this year as we celebrate a decade of Symposia in ASIS&T. This year?s conference theme is ?Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community.? In keeping with this theme, the symposium is also soliciting work from Social Informatics researchers that focuses on the impact of their work on industry, government, local/national/global community groups, individuals, information systems, GLAMs, and on other practice contexts. We are interested in work that addresses questions and issues such as the following: ? What are the social, political, economic, and legal implications of social informatics research? ? What are the ways in which social informatics research impacts various organizations, groups, and communities of practice? ? How can social informatics researchers work more closely with members of these communities? ? What can a social informatics approach tell us about roles of information and communication technologies in the work and social practices of people in these communities? ? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in SI work that seeks to understand and improve the work and social lives of people in these communities? The schedule for the workshop will involve the presentations of papers and the best social informatics paper awards for 2013 (call to follow). We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. Deadlines: August 9, 2014: Submit a short paper (2000 words), a poster (500 words), or a panel (1000 words) by email to Kiotta Marshall (kiomarsh at indiana.edu) September 2, 2014: Author notifications (in time for conference early registration (NOTE: this timeline may be adjusted when the registration dates are announced). Fees: To be determined From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Tue Jun 30 13:00:56 2015 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:00:56 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] SJSU School of Information Students Receive Funding to Attend Professional Conferences Message-ID: <06de01d0b356$55dc88a0$019599e0$@SJSU.Edu> Twenty-Five New iSchool Students Awarded Funding to Attend Professional Conferences Thanks to a generous donation to the San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information, 25 students beginning the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) and Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree programs in fall 2015 will receive up to $200 to help pay for expenses related to attendance at a professional conference of their choice. The one-time conference funding was made available on a first-come, first-served basis to new students as a way to encourage students to get involved in professional associations early on and "build their professional networks and make important connections that will help them considerably when they are ready to enter the job market," said Dr. Sandra Hirsh, director of the SJSU School of Information. Meeting other librarians interested in archiving is the goal of Randi Cline, a technical services librarian in Buena Vista, Virginia, who plans to use the funds she was awarded to attend the Virginia Library Association (VLA) conference in October. Cline's objective is to work in archives once she completes her MLIS degree. Similarly, Alexandra Apolloni is hoping to meet others interested in digital technology when she attends the annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in Paris this year. A musicologist and part-time lecturer in the Musicology and Music Industry programs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Apolloni is interested in pursuing a career as a digital archivist in a research library. Other students, such as Alyson Durham, a circulation assistant at the Columbia Public Library in Columbia, Missouri, are looking forward to using the conference funding to investigate the diversity of careers available in information organizations. "I am planning to use my conference funding to attend the ALA annual conference in 2016," explained Durham. "I chose to attend the ALA annual conference because it is the largest LIS conference, and will offer a broad range of subjects for me to explore." For students nervous about attending professional conferences for the first time, the School of Information has made available a webinar presented by iSchool lecturer and Yolo County librarian and chief archivist Patty Wong on the topic of "Surviving and Thriving at Professional Conferences." Wong offers students tips on planning their conference experience, choosing the best sessions to attend, how to network effectively, and much more. Membership in professional organizations has long been a priority at the School of Information. All students enrolled in INFO 200 Information Communities receive a complimentary one-year student membership to the American Library Association (ALA), the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), or the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The iSchool's scholarship program is made possible thanks to the generosity of alumni, faculty and staff members, and friends of the school. Please consider making a donation today. About The San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information prepares individuals for careers as information professionals. Graduates work in diverse areas of the information profession, such as user experience design, digital asset management, information architecture, electronic records management, information governance, digital preservation, and librarianship. The SJSU School of Information is a recognized leader in online education and received the Online Learning Consortium's Outstanding Online Program award . For more information about the school, please visit: ischool.sjsu.edu . Contact: Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0029 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Jun 30 08:40:47 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Amrapali Zaveri) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:40:47 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] [CFP] Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems) Message-ID: <55928E4F.7070109@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The standardization and adoption of Semantic Web technologies has resulted in a variety of assets, including an unprecedented volume of data being semantically enriched and systems and services, which consume or publish this data. Although gathering, processing and publishing data is a step towards further adoption of Semantic Web, quality does not yet play a central role in these assets (e.g., data lifecycle, system/service development). Quality management essentially refers to activities and tasks involved to guarantee a certain level of consistency and to meet the quality requirements for the assets. In general, quality management consists of the following four phases and components: (i) quality planning, (ii) quality control, (iii) quality assurance and (iv) quality improvement. The quality planning phase in the Semantic Web typically involves the design of procedures, strategies and policies to support the management of the assets. The quality control and assurance components have their primary aim in preventing errors and to meet quality requirements pertaining to the Semantic Web standards. A core part for both components are quality assessment methods which provide the necessary input for the controlling and assurance tasks. Quality assessment of Semantic Web Assets (data, services and systems), in particular, presents new challenges that were not handled before in other research areas. Thus, adopting existing approaches for data quality assessment is not a straightforward solution. These challenges are related to the openness of the Semantic Web, the diversity of the information and the unbounded, dynamic set of autonomous data sources, publishers and consumers (legal and software agents). Additionally, detecting the quality of available data sources and making the information explicit is yet another challenge. Moreover, noise in one data set, or missing links between different data sets, propagates throughout the Web of Data, and imposes great challenges on the data value chain. In case of systems and services, different implementations follow the specifications for RDF and SPARQL to varying extents, or even propose and offer new, non-standardized extensions. This causes strong incompatibilities between systems, e.g., between the used SPARQL features in the query engines and support features in RDF stores. The potential heterogeneity and incompatibility poses several challenges for the quality assessments in and for such systems and services. Eventually, quality improvement methods are used to further enhance the value of the Semantic Web Assets. One important step to improve the quality of data is identifying the root cause of the problem and then designing corresponding data improvement solutions. These solutions select the most effective and efficient strategies and related set of techniques and tools to improve quality. Quality improvement metrics for products and services entails understanding and improving operational processes and establishing valid and reliable service performance measures. This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community interested in providing novel methodologies or frameworks in managing, assessing, monitoring, maintaining and improving the quality of the Semantic Web data, services and systems and also introduce tools and user interfaces which can effectively assist in this management. Topics of Interest We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: - Methodologies and frameworks to plan, control, assure or improve the quality of - - Semantic Web Assets - Quality exploration and analysis interfaces - Quality monitoring - Developing, deploying and managing quality service ecosystems - Assessing the quality evolution of Semantic Web Assets - Large-scale quality assessment of structured datasets - Crowdsourcing data quality assessment - Quality assessment leveraging background knowledge - Use-case driven quality management - Evaluation of trustworthiness of data - Web Data and LOD quality benchmarks - Data Quality improvement methods and frameworks e.g., linkage, alignment, cleaning, enrichment, correctness - Service/system quality improvement methods and frameworks -- Managing sustainability issues in services -- Guarantee of service (availability, performance) - Systems for transparent management of open data Submissions October 31, 2015 - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the Special Issue on ?Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems)?. Submissions are possible in the following categories: full research papers, application reports, reports on tools and systems and case studies. Guest editors Amrapali Zaveri, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria The editors can be reached using the following email: swjsi-dqmangement at googlegroups.com.