From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Oct 1 08:14:18 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:14:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] A new book on Collaborative Information Seeking Message-ID: We are happy to announce the availability of a new book that might be of interest to this community: Collaborative Information Seeking Best Practices, New Domains and New Thoughts Editors: Peter Hansen, Chirag Shah, Claus-Peter Klas [Published under Springer CSCW Series] http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319185415 Provides a fresh look on collaborative information seeking and retrieval research and practices Combines aspects of theories and systems relating to collaborative search Discusses best practices and applications of collaborative work in information-intensive domains Provides a selection of in-depth chapter to be used in curriculum in different disciplines Compiled by world-class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts: Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field. New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world. Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction. ============ Table of contents Collaborative Information Seeking: From ?What?? and ?Why?? to ?How?? and ?So What?? Chirag Shah Pages 3-16 Studying Collaborative Information Seeking: Experiences with Three Methods Jette Hyldeg?rd, Morten Hertzum, and Preben Hansen Pages 17-35 Situating CIS: The Importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking Kristine Newman, Simon Knight, Preben Hansen, and Stefanie Elbeshausen Pages 37-54 Procedures and Collaborative Information Seeking: A Study of Emergency Departments Morten Hertzum and Madhu Reddy Pages 55-71 Collaborative Information Seeking in the Context of Leisure and Work Task Situations: A Comparison of Three Empirical Studies Stefanie Elbeshausen, Thomas Mandl, and Christa Womser-Hacker Pages 73-98 Learning Through Collaborative Information Seeking Simon Knight and Karen Littleton Pages 101-116 A Proposed CIS Interface Based on the Analysis of Problem-Solving in Online Technical Support Ali A. Albar Pages 117-137 Collaboration, Information Seeking, and Technology Use: A Critical Examination of Humanities Scholars? Research Practices Lisa M. Given and Rebekah Willson Pages 139-164 A Probability Ranking Principle for Collaborative Search Thilo B?hm, Claus-Peter Klas, and Matthias Hemmje Pages 167-191 Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking Roberto Gonz?lez-Ib??ez Pages 193-208 Collaborative Information Seeking Around Big Data Mark S. Pfaff Pages 209-226 ============ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eileen.abels at simmons.edu Thu Oct 1 12:24:04 2015 From: eileen.abels at simmons.edu (Eileen Abels) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:24:04 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Check out Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library and Information Science Message-ID: *[image: Inline image 2]Thursday, October 1st* marks the launch of the new podcast *Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library and Information Science*. For many, the field of library and information science and the Master of Science in Library and Information Science continue to be misunderstood. In a time when the public still pictures graduates of MS-LIS programs to be solely bespectacled book jockeys, our graduates are working in new and fascinating roles, on cutting-edge projects. *Beyond the Stacks* is an interview podcast in which librarians, archivists, and information science professionals talk about the coolest experiences of their careers, and the unexpected ways that one can use a Master?s degree in Library and Information Science. The show premieres with two first episodes ? one focusing on user experience research, and one on data librarianship. *Beyond the Stacks* will release a new episode *on the first of each month*. Episodes can be streamed or downloaded at beyondthestacks.info, or on iTunes. *Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library and Information Science* is an outcome of the project ?Educate to Innovate: Re-visioning Library and Information Science Education.? It is part of a National Forum Planning Grant funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Focusing on the importance of leadership and cutting-edge skills in LIS education, this project represents an opportunity for ?evaluating and implementing relevant curriculum focused on innovation, continuous learning, and critical engagement within a global context.? The grant is being led by Dr. Eileen G. Abels, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College along with partners Dr. Linda C. Smith, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Dr. Lynne C. Howarth, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. During the grant-supported forum titled ?Envisioning Our Information Future and How to Educate for It,? forum participants agreed on the importance of promoting awareness of the ?cool? careers one can pursue in this field in libraries, archives, museums, and beyond. This podcast is one way of supporting that endeavor. The MS-LIS can lead graduates down a variety of exciting paths, paths that many would not have associated with the field of library and information science. *Beyond the Stacks* aims to make those paths more visible for established librarians and for those considering entering the field. You might think ?I didn?t know that you could do that kind of work in library and information science!? *Eileen G. Abels* Dean and Professor School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 Office: 617-521-2882 | eileen.abels at simmons.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Admitted candidates typically receive up to 2 years of full funding in the form of Graduate Student Initiative funding through the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies with additional funding opportunities in the forms of research, teaching and service assistantships. We would like to extend an invitation to all interested in joining us to attend our online information session. *Date:* Thursday October 8^th *Time:* 10:00am ? 11:00am PST Co-hosted by Dr. Edie Rasmussen, Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee and Dr. Luanne Freund, Acting Director Register for the session *here * *Application Deadline for PhD program:*January 15, 2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These services are being continuously upgraded, and librarians need to have a voice in the development of these tools to be sure their needs are met. Libraries have needs that are complex and evolving and available ILS systems are presently limited in their abilities. Minimally, an ILS system will track what the library owns, its patrons, what they have borrowed, and other general library services. These minimal functions do not take into account the need for integration with the wider array of online services libraries offer nor integration into services of the libraries? academic institution. This webinar will discuss what capabilities libraries need versus the capabilities currently offered in commercial ILS systems, and possible short-term solutions as well as helping ILS cloud services to understand better what future versions of their products should include. Confirmed topics and speakers are: - *Utilizing the Cloud to Empower Research Efforts - **John ?JG? Chirapurath, Senior Vice President and General Manager, ProQuest Workflow Solutions * - *Migrating CDL Infrastructure to Amazon Web Services - **Kurt Ewoldsen, Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support, California Digital Library, University of California* - *Surveying the Horizon: Preservation and the Cloud - **Heather Lea Moulaison, Assistant Professor, The iSchool (School of Information Science & Learning Technologies), University of Missouri* *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on October 14, 2015 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance. If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year?s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/cloud_services/ Be sure to check out NISO?s discounted subscription packages for webinars ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/) and virtual conferences ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/) for 2015. # # # 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 rhill at asis.org Mon Oct 5 12:54:48 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:54:48 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: First Monday October 2015 In-Reply-To: <00A3A0EA-B0DF-4CDF-B2FA-FA2BA295C11E@uic.edu> References: <00A3A0EA-B0DF-4CDF-B2FA-FA2BA295C11E@uic.edu> Message-ID: <013201d0ff8e$8bf320f0$a3d962d0$@asis.org> Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -----Original Message----- From: Readership of First Monday [mailto:FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Valauskas Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 12:09 PM To: FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Subject: First Monday October 2015 Readers: First Monday has just published the October 2015 (volume 20, number 10) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. The following papers are included in this month's issue: First Monday Volume 20, Number 10 - 5 October 2015 Following the Joneses: FOMO and conspicuous sociality by Joseph Reagle Kawaii meiru and Maroyaka neko: Mobile emoji for relationship maintenance and aesthetic expressions among Japanese teens by Satomi Sugiyama Presence, or the sense of being-there and being-with in the new media society by Sun-ha Hong Sprinting a media marathon: Uses and gratifications of binge-watching television through Netflix by Matthew Pittman and Kim Sheehan Shifting media imaginaries of the Web by Fr?d?rik Lesage and Louis Rinfret Framing digital activism: The spectre of cyberterrorism by Fidele Vlavo A new model to explore non-profit social media use for advocacy and civic engagement by David Chapman, Katrina Miller-Stevens, John C. Morris, and Brendan O'Hallarn Getting a ?quick fix?: First-year college students? use of Wikipedia by John C. Garrison ------- With the contents of the October 2015 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,507 papers in 233 issues, written by 2,073 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work, Edward J Valauskas Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday ------- From smilojev at indiana.edu Thu Oct 1 11:03:40 2015 From: smilojev at indiana.edu (Stasa Milojevic) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:03:40 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington Message-ID: <560D4B4C.5090900@indiana.edu> Title: Asst/ Assoc/ Full Professor Department: Information and Library Science Expected start date: 08/01/2016 Position summary: The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2016 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas solicited with preference for data curation, CSCW, digital libraries, information policy, digital youth, documentation, metadata, and the social web). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Duties include teaching, research, and service. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally in its most recent rankings. The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of more than 100 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,500 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas in ILS include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; data curation; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; human computer interaction; science studies; semantic web; social informatics; CSCW; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master?s degrees in Information Science, Library Science, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have an established record (for senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence (for junior level) in research and teaching, and a Ph.D. in Information Science or a related field or (for junior level) expected before 8/2016. Interested candidates should submit their application at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/1658 Application should include curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level). Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Prof. Noriko Hara, nhara at indiana.edu or to Faculty Search, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Herman B. Wells Library LI011, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2015. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu) or to members of the search committee: Noriko Hara (nhara at indiana.edu), Stasa Milojevic (smilojev at indiana.edu), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu), John Walsh (jawalsh at indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. IU Bloomington is vitally interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. -- Sta?a Milojevi?, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Email: smilojev at indiana.edu http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/smilojev/ From silvello at dei.unipd.it Tue Oct 6 05:27:31 2015 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:27:31 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] [ECIR 2016] Full/Short Papers DEADLINE EXTENSION to October 15, 2015 Message-ID: <4D371AEB-F747-443F-899E-9EFBC3A39A3E@dei.unipd.it> ECIR 2016: FULL/SHORT PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval Padua, Italy March 20-23, 2016 http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ https://twitter.com/ecir2016 *** The deadline for submission of short and full papers is extended to 15 October 2015 (AoE time zone) *** The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) will take place in Padua, Italy from 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. 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. REPRODUCIBLE IR 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. 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. PAPER 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 available at 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. IMPORTANT DATES * Papers: * 09 October 2015 15 October 2015 (AoE time zone) - Full/Short Paper submission deadline * 09 October 2015 15 October 2015 (AoE time zone) - Reproducible IR Track submission deadline * 23 October 2015 - Demo submission deadline * 04 December 2015 - Notification AoE deadline ?means that the deadline has not passed if, anywhere on earth, the deadline date has not yet passed? [http://www.ieee802.org/16/aoe.html ] TOPICS * 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 mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Oct 12 11:55:18 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:55:18 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Fourth Int. Conf. on Virtual and Networked Organizations *** Submission deadline: Nov 5, 2015 *** Portugal, November 18-20 Message-ID: <201510121555.t9CFtGX4011513@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ViNOrg 2015 Fourth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools November 18-20, 2015 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ vinorg at 2100projects.org *** Full Paper or Extended Abstract - submission deadline: November 5, 2015 Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fourth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ Full paper or abstract online submission can be done at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/submissionguide.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From garciam at denison.edu Tue Oct 6 11:58:02 2015 From: garciam at denison.edu (Moriana Garcia) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:58:02 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Science Librarian position (Denison University). Change contact information for Moriana Garcia Message-ID: **Please, excuse cross-posting** Dear friends and colleagues from Ohio and beyond, I am relocating to Upstate New York. I have accepted a position as Science & Engineering Librarian at the University of Rochester starting Nov 1st. My last day at Denison University will be Oct 16th, so if you need to contact me in the future, please use my personal email: The search for a new Science Librarian at Denison University is open. Please, consider applying. More information here: https://employment.denison.edu/postings/1062 Thanks! Moriana -- Moriana L. M. Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian Denison University Libraries P.O. Box 805 Granville, OH, 43023 Phone: 740-587-5714 Online profile: http://libguides.denison.edu/morianagarcia Skype: moriana_1 Personal email: morianagarcia at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb633 at drexel.edu Tue Oct 6 15:39:01 2015 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:39:01 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Drexel CCI Invites Applications for Tenure-track Faculty Position in Data Science Message-ID: <8A3EE63B361E364EA41B10DE3FBE64FDCDED2BFF@MB1.drexel.edu> The Department of Information Science in the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University invites applications for an open rank tenure-track faculty position in Data Science. This position is expected to complement existing strengths in the College, including but not limited to geographic information science, spatial analytics, geographic data acquisition, data mining, visual analytics, information quality evaluation, social-media analysis, human-centered computing, and information policy. The new hire would be expected to have an active role in centers in the College, including the Center for Spatial Analytics and Geocomputation and the Center for Visual and Decision Informatics. Candidates should have a completed doctorate at the time of appointment and a record of high-quality scholarly activities. The research areas of the information science faculty in the College of Computing & Informatics include library & information science, data curation, data mining, informatics, visualization, GIS, software engineering, spatial analytics, healthcare and medical informatics, human-centered computing, metadata, and knowledge management. Successful applicants will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, have an established sponsored research program, advise undergraduate and graduate students, and be involved in service to the Department, the College, the University and the global academic community. Evaluation of applications will begin as early as November 1, 2015, and will continue on a rolling basis until appropriate candidates are identified. Successful applicants must demonstrate potential for research and teaching excellence in the environment of a major research university. To be considered, apply at www.drexeljobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=80270 or search for Requisition #7098. Questions can be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Alan Murray (amurray at drexel.edu). Applications should consist of a cover letter, CV and brief statements describing your research program and teaching interests. Letters of reference will be requested from candidates who are invited for a campus interview. Electronic submissions in PDF format are required. The department has a broad, multidisciplinary, theoretical and applied view. The Department and College continue to evolve as an innovative leader in educating information professionals in the twenty-first century, combining high quality teaching and research in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. The College offers eight BS degrees, six master's degrees, and two PhD degrees (in Computer Science and Information Studies). Full-time PhD students are supported either through faculty research grants and/or teaching assistantships. The ALA-accredited MS(LIS) degree is highly ranked, both overall and for specializations in health librarianship, information systems and digital librarianship. All academic programs emphasize applied research. Drexel is a private university committed to research with real-world applications. The University has over 26,000 students in 15 colleges and schools and offers about 200 degree programs. The College of Computing & Informatics is comprised of approximately 70 faculty and 2,000 students. Drexel has one of the largest and best known cooperative education programs in the country, with over 1,200 co-op employers. Drexel's University City campus is located on Philadelphia's "Avenue of Technology" in the University City District and at the hub of the academic, cultural and historical resources of the nation's sixth largest metropolitan region. Philadelphia is also the midpoint of a mid-Atlantic technology corridor that stretches from New York City (100 miles north) to Washington, DC (135 miles south). Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The College of Computing & Informatics is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. Background investigations are required for all new hires as a condition of employment, after the job offer is made. Employment will be contingent upon the University's acceptance of the results of the background investigation. 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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. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. 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 *Overview and Topics* 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We see LIS as a broad area which includes information organization and retrieval, reference and information literacy services, assessment, library policy, K-12 school librarianship, community-focused librarianship, entrepreneurial librarianship and data science. Competitive applicants will demonstrate how their research interests both connect to and extend current faculty interests. The ability to obtain research grants and other external funding will be considered a competitive advantage in our evaluations, as will evidence of teaching experience and a commitment to teaching excellence. A record of publishing impactful scholarship is expected. Although rank and years of experience are open, we will consider outstanding ABDs with a strong expectation of a successful dissertation defense by August 2016. Applicants must submit a cover letter outlining their interests and qualifications (including the rank they are seeking); a current curriculum vitae; a statement describing research and teaching interests and accomplishments; and names and contact information of at least three references to: www.sujobopps.com. Job # 072040. Strong candidates will be contacted for letters of reference and asked to provide research samples and a teaching portfolio or other evidence of teaching experience. Please do not submit these items with the initial application. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply. We are interested in candidates who have the communication skills and cross-cultural abilities to maximize their effectiveness with diverse groups of students, colleagues and community members. We will begin screening applicants immediately and continue accepting applications until the position is filled. Direct questions to Dr. Murali Venkatesh, search chair, mvenkate at syr.edu. Located at the center of picturesque Syracuse University, the iSchool is at the cutting edge of scholarship and instruction. The iSchool has seven degree programs and an enrollment of 30 doctoral students, 650 masters' students and 650 undergraduates, led by over 40 full-time faculty and 100 part-time faculty. Our faculty have recognized strengths in information retrieval, information management, library programs and services, natural language processing, computational social science, online communities and civic participation, new forms of organization and collaboration, information and communications policy, smart energy systems, digital literacy, information and network security, globalization, data science, entrepreneurship, and social media. The iSchool hosts five research centers and laboratories, including the newly created Center for Library Advocacy and Center for Computational and Data Sciences. The SU-ADVANCE program (http://suadvance.syr.edu/) provides extensive mentoring services for women faculty in STEM disciplines. Syracuse University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer ________________________________ Jeffrey Stanton Interim Dean and Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From evardell at email.unc.edu Wed Oct 7 16:46:13 2015 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:46:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG HLTH Toiletry Donation Drive during ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting Message-ID: This year SIG HLTH will be sponsoring a collection of donated toiletries to benefit The Little Bit Foundation, an organization committed to helping disadvantaged school-aged children in St. Louis (http://www.thelittlebitfoundation.org/). Bring any extra hotel toiletries (either from home or from your hotel) and place them in a box by registration. Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and soap are encouraged. SIG HLTH will take the donated toiletries to The Little Bit Foundation at the end of the conference. This is an easy way to give back to our host city. Thank you for your participation! Emily Vardell, MLS PhD Student and Teaching Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://evardell.web.unc.edu/ Editor of: The Medical Library Association Guide to Answering Questions about the Affordable Care Act -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Wed Oct 7 14:13:34 2015 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 18:13:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Library and Information Services Manager / New York Cit Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C3615B0C843@ex1mbx02.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks candidates for a Library and Information Services Manager position with a large law firm in New York (Manhattan). The main focus of the position will be to help the firm move forward with innovative and effective best practices in portal development, research support and administrative functions. The manager of library and information services will be directly responsible for collection management for print and electronic resources, cataloging and serials administration, research/reference and controlling the library budget. In addition, they will coordinate with the Marketing and IT departments to develop business opportunities at the firm and improve resources discovery via innovative means. Founded in 1928 by two young lawyers guided by entrepreneurial spirit and a steadfast commitment to the rule of law the firm was originally established in Brooklyn across the street from the New York Supreme Court, the firm moved to Manhattan -- and subsequently expanded to include full-service offices in New Jersey. The firm offers a full range of legal services to businesses and individuals around the world -- including art law, bankruptcy and business reorganization, commercial litigation, corporate law, employment law, government relations, insurance, intellectual property, real estate, sports law, and tax and personal planning. RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage internal and external resources utilized in acquiring and disseminating electronic and print content to the Firm for legal and business research purposes; * Manage the services, contracts and relationships with the online research vendors, print content, print management, and library administration; * Manage the budget, develop standards for collection development and cost recoveries, oversee the Firm's resources and acquisition policies; * Oversee enhancement of the Firm's use of internet and web technologies to promote and disseminate information for legal, business research and marketing purposes; * Collaborate with other Firm managers and administrators on special projects; * Perform basic and advanced research support for attorneys and professional staff; * Conduct library orientation for new attorneys and professional staff; * Implement CLE and other training events throughout the year to enhance online legal research skills among attorneys and professional staff; * Function as back up to part time Library Assistant with mail check in, invoice processing, ILL and other administrative functions; QUALIFICATIONS * Advanced degree (JD, MBA, MLIS); * At least 5 years of experience with library contracts, vendor management, database and web technology within a law or business library and at least 2 years of supervisory experience. * Knowledgeable in integrated library management systems with proficiency in online research, legal databases and collaboration platforms (Microsoft SharePoint preferred). * Expert knowledge of law library administration and information management with demonstrated knowledge of best practices and current trends and issues applying information technology to libraries and law practice. For consideration, apply online at: http://goo.gl/z3KWPs LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk Thu Oct 8 03:07:55 2015 From: diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk (Diane Pennington) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:07:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG VIS Call for Nominations Message-ID: <106F013AD7EFCD4980EC804398CEA746242A2B88@EX2010-MBX2.ds.strath.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, & Sound (SIG-VIS) is pleased to announce this year?s call for nominations for SIG VIS Officers. We are seeking nominations for: Chair-Elect Secretary/Treasurer Communications We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic folks to join the SIG VIS executive team. This is your chance to take a lead on SIG VIS initiatives and to shape the future of the SIG! Please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. In your nomination, please include your name, institutional affiliation, the position you are interested in, and a brief paragraph about your background. Please e-mail your nomination to Diane Rasmussen Pennington at diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk. Nominations will be accepted until October 20, 2015. Once it closes, we will open up the online voting system. If you are a current SIG VIS member, you will receive a separate email with instructions on how to vote. The election results will be announced through the SIG VIS list. Please email us if you have any questions. ASIS&T SIG-VIS Nominating Committee: Andrea Copeland, Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science, Indiana University School of Informatics, ajapzon at iupui.edu Chris Landbeck, Asst. Dir. of Experiential Learning, School of Information, Florida State University, clandbeck at fsu.edu Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk From kimsch at illinois.edu Thu Oct 8 09:05:42 2015 From: kimsch at illinois.edu (Schmidt, Kimberly Rae) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:05:42 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities at Illinois Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), the iSchool at Illinois, is actively recruiting high quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding in the form of research, teaching and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. Massive changes in how large collections of data are created, disseminated, analyzed, and used have increased the role that information plays in industry, science, scholarship, government, and our everyday lives. The flexible program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. Faculty work on data from many domains including science (MEDLINE, EPA, STAR METRICS), business (health, energy, media), humanities (HathiTrust, Google Books), and everyday life (social media) and develop new methods in: ? Text and Data Mining ? Informetrics and Data Analytics ? Information Retrieval ? Social Computing ? Digital Humanities ? Social Network Analysis ? Digital Libraries ? Computer Supported Cooperative Work ? Data Curation and Linked Data ? Information Trust and Privacy ? Digital Youth GSLIS supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, data curation and information organization. Additional information about research at GSLIS is available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/projects. For specific information about the PhD program, please visit http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact lis-apply at illinois.edu. J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, will be available at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting to answer any questions you have about the program. To schedule a time to meet with Professor Downie, please email jdownie at illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2015. -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmabbas at ou.edu Thu Oct 8 10:39:34 2015 From: jmabbas at ou.edu (Abbas, June M.) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:39:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Post doc position with the Digital Latin Library at the University of Oklahoma Message-ID: <47B94C30D32510439D4CE3EBDC2CF99A01900B9773@it-lightning.sooner.net.ou.edu> The Digital Latin Library project at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in interactive text visualization. The DLL project is led by Drs. Sam Huskey (Classics), June Abbas (Library & Information Science), and Chris Weaver (Computer Science). Dr. Weaver will serve as primary mentor. We seek a post-doctoral researcher with a background in information visualization, visual analytics, and/or human computer interaction. The ideal candidate will have a PhD and an excellent research track record in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, information science, or digital humanities. Substantial experience with user-centered design and rigorous evaluation of interactive visualization tools is essential. Experience with implementation of interactive visualization tools is also highly desired. Duties and responsibilities will include planning and execution of funded research projects, supervision of graduate and undergraduate research assistants, writing and presentation of research results in academic journals and at scientific conferences, and active participation in a large, collaborative research project. Teaching opportunities may be available if desired. This is a full time, non-tenure position, with renewal dependent upon performance and availability of funds. Support for the position is currently available through the end of June 2017. To apply, send your application, including CV and references, to weaver at cs.ou.edu and jmabbas at ou.edu. Please include a one-page statement of your research motivation and interests. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Dr. June Abbas will be available for informal chats at the ASIST conference.To arrange a meeting with her, please email her at jmabbas at ou.edu with the subject line "DLL Postdoc position". The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. June Abbas, Ph.D. Professor School of Library and Information Studies College of Arts and Sciences The University of Oklahoma 401 W. 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Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. 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. Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja ?umer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria In?s Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu. Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag. To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015 Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon Organizer: UDC Consortium === ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2015: Classification and Authority Control - http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (over 50 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticatedindexing and retrieval tool ______________________ From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Sun Oct 11 18:51:37 2015 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:51:37 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Tips and Techniques in Effective Grant Writing (SJSU ASIST and SIG ED) Message-ID: Tips and Techniques in Effective Grant Writing Patty Wong October 22, 2015, 1:00-2:00pm EDT SJSU ASIST Student Chapter and ASIST SIG ED are excited to present the second grant writing webinar with Patty Wong. Intended as a follow up to the successful April event, in this session attendees can learn more effective grant writing techniques to leverage success in the research administration office and across the institution. This event is free and open to all. Please visit the event page for more information and to register. https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/tips-and-techniques-in-effective-grant-writing/ Thanks, Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tuf15651 at temple.edu Mon Oct 12 09:54:31 2015 From: tuf15651 at temple.edu (Katherine Lynch) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:54:31 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Code4Lib 2016 - Call for Proposals Message-ID: ** Please excuse any cross-posting ** Code4Lib 2016 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.sheratonphiladelphiasocietyhill.com/, from March 7-10, 2016. For information about Code4lib 2016, please visit http://2016.code4lib.org/. Proposals for Prepared Talks: We encourage everyone to propose a talk. Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas: - Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software - Tools and technologies ? How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better) - Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood - Relevant non-technical issues ? Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc. To Propose a Talk, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RaLyRyv_gHHPynDk2WIwC5JAcUiY0w8tsFq5YwEnsv4/viewform As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The top 10 proposals are guaranteed a slot at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will be guaranteed an opportunity to register for the conference. The standard conference registration fee will still apply. Proposals can be submitted through Monday, November 9, 2015 at midnight PST (GMT?8). Voting will start on November 16, 2015 and continue through December 7, 2015. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in mid-December. Thank you, The Code4Lib 2016 Program Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tuf15651 at temple.edu Mon Oct 12 13:00:45 2015 From: tuf15651 at temple.edu (Katherine Lynch) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:00:45 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Web Services and Digital Environments Librarian, Temple University Message-ID: **Please excuse any cross-posting** Looking for a dynamic work environment and professional growth opportunities? Come join the Library Technology team at Temple. We seek an enthusiastic service-oriented Web Services & Digital Environments Librarian to be involved in a range of collaborative projects including rethinking the Temple Libraries Web presence, creating a dynamic online library user experience for our community and helping to shape the future of learning and research-oriented digital services for our students and faculty. 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 Director of Library Technology & Knowledge Management Services, the Web Services & Digital Environments Librarian is responsible for analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, content coordination and evaluation of the Temple University Libraries? main web site, user interfaces, integrated web applications and all related mobile environments along with similar environments for the Temple University Press (TUP). Responsibilities include management of interface customizations and the integration of commercial and open source library applications (discovery services, materials request and resource reservation services, library research guides, etc.) into the TUL digital environment, with an emphasis on usability and user responsiveness. Assumes lead role in adopting and enforcing Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility standards and practices into all public facing library systems and interfaces, working in partnership with the Electronic Resources Librarian and others as appropriate. Explores, recommends and adopts standard and emerging tools, techniques, methods and applications to provide the Temple academic community a robust and reliable online experience with library-provided content and services. Coordinates and facilitates the work of the TUL Web Services team (including a designer, an implementer, and technology & public service specialists) to integrate design theory and usability principles into the Libraries? Web sites, tutorials, and other applications. Act as a liaison with campus-wide web team. Performs related duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience: * ALA accredited MLS and at least three (3) years? experience implementing & managing large web sites. * Demonstrated experience with a Content Management System like Drupal. * General web design and development experience using HTML 5 and CSS. * Experience with current web development trends, such as, mobile-friendly responsive design, ADA accessibility, and web security standards. Required Skills and Abilities: * Familiarity with usability design and assessment. * Ability to work both independently and as part of a team; supervisory abilities. * Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. * Initiative, flexibility, organization, precision and excellent problem solving skills. * Ability to support and enhance a diverse learning and working environment. * Ability to, at times, work evening and weekend hours and be available on-call to address web site problems and concerns. Preferred Skills and Abilities: * Strong project management experience, including effective communication with project stakeholders, requirement gathering and specifications writing; experience with agile-style project management. * Experience in information architecture, taxonomy/ontology creation, and writing of content for the web * Knowledge of SASS and XML/XSLT * Demonstrable experience with web APIs and mobile technologies * Strong interest in emerging technologies, library technology trends, general trends in librarianship and higher education that affect library technology 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-19741. 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 junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Mon Oct 12 20:05:40 2015 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:05:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Faculty Position, Open Rank Department of Library & Information Science, SC&I, Rutgers University Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EFA70BF579@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> [forwarded by request] ranti. -----Original Message----- Dear colleagues, please find below the details of a Faculty position, open rank, in the Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. SC&I is a charter member of the iSchool caucus. For queries regarding the position, please contact Nicholas Belkin, Chair, LIS Department Search Committee, belkin at rutgers.edu. THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, welcomes applications at the Full, Associate or Assistant Professor level to join our faculty. We seek faculty candidates who can lead research and teaching in our undergraduate, master?s and Ph.D. programs, from across a broad range of research interests related to understanding the evolving connections among people, information and technology. Areas of particular interest for these positions include (but are not limited to): ? Health, social, and community informatics ? Data science ? Informatics and design ? Information management In addition to these areas, the Department holds long-standing strengths in human information behavior; information retrieval, language and communication; knowledge management; learning, youth, information and technology; and, information contexts including libraries, information agencies and archives. We especially invite candidates who will take leadership roles in our redesigned Master of Information (MI), our rapidly expanding Information Technology and Informatics undergraduate program, and our highly regarded inter-disciplinary Ph.D. program. Our MI program has created new concentrations in the following areas: Data Science, Informatics and Design, Technology and Information Management in addition to the Library and Information Science concentration. Positioned within the canopy of Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (SC&I), a charter member of the iSchool caucus, the Department is in an exciting period of transformation and growth, and we seek to expand our community of scholars, inviting applications from candidates who can thrive in this innovative setting, and contribute to our vision. SC&I houses a dynamic interdisciplinary community studying real world problems related to knowledge, interaction, technology, media and their relations. Future solutions are stimulated by four overarching challenges: health and wellness; global media and democracy; organizations, policy and leadership; social media and collaboration. Located close to the world?s largest media and information centers and within Rutgers? vibrant scholarly community, we embrace the University goals of promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our communities and programs. For more about the Department of Library and Information Science and the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, including faculty research interests, see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu. Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field no later than May 2016. The ideal applicant?s program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding. Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate?s fit to specific departmental and school-wide research interests. Responsibilities of the successful applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching assignments, an active program of research in the candidate?s area of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for tenure-track appointments. Submissions: Review of applications and invitation of candidates will begin on November 16, 2015. Applications must be received no later than December 11, 2015. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references (no letters at this time please). Submit to: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/lis-search/faculty. For queries regarding the position, please contact Nicholas Belkin, Chair, LIS Department Search Committee, belkin at rutgers.edu. LIS faculty will be available to speak with interested candidates at the Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T in St. Louis; please let us know in advance if you?d like to meet with us. Rutgers University was established in 1766 and is celebrating a milestone 250th anniversary in 2016. The university is the eighth oldest higher education institution in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America and of the CIC (Big Ten). We have 65,000 students and $400M in total Federal research funding. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates. -- Nicholas J. Belkin Distinguished Professor of Information Science Department of Library & Information Science School of Communication & Information Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA belkin at rutgers.edu +1 848-932-7608 http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/belkin/ From marialemos72 at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 10:38:17 2015 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:38:17 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Message-ID: <201510131438.t9DEcWpE020943@mail.asis.org> -- -- We apologise for any cross-posting. -- ---- Please forward for your contacts. Thank you so much! -- --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 8, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Tue Oct 13 07:08:41 2015 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:08:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] A FEW spots remain for IPRES2015 - Register TODAY! Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163B240D24@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Come join your colleagues from around the world! We are excited to announce that the registration for IPRES2015 is almost filled. If you are thinking of attending the premiere international conference on Digital Preservation, to be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA from November 2-6, 2015, register soon as space is limited. IPRES rotates between North America, Asia, and Europe and it will not be North America again until 2018. For more detailed information regarding the 2015 event, please visit http://ipres2015.org/. Registration rates include: * $750 inclusive of the conference, workshops, tutorials, and all receptions and dinner (M-F); * $575 for the main conference including dinner and two receptions * $300 for full-times students for the entire week * $150 for full-day workshops and tutorials * $100 for half-day workshops and tutorials Full Registration Includes 5 days of activities: * All sessions * Workshops/tutorials (Monday and Friday) * Monday and Wednesday receptions * Conference dinner on Tuesday * Lunch daily * Morning and afternoon refreshments * Bus service to and from many hotels to the conference * Bus service to the Monday reception and Tuesday dinner * Free parking at the Friday Center for drivers See the Registration tab on the IPRES2015 website. Descriptions of the workshops and tutorials can be found at https://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/workshops-and-tutorials/. Conference topics include but are not limited to explorations in digital preservation focused on: * Institutional opportunities and challenges * Infrastructure (organizational and technological) opportunities and challenges * Innovative practice * Education and training Please see http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/ipres-2015-program/ for conference program. Chapel Hill is home to the University of North Carolina, the flagship campus of the UNC system, the oldest public university in the US, and one of the top schools in the country. While exuding a small town feel, Chapel Hill offers food, fun, and culture the caliber of a big city. Check out this recent New York Times travel piece, 36 Hours in Chapel Hill-Carborro, N.C., for just a taste of what the town has to offer. While here for the conference, you will have the opportunity to dine at world class eateries, grab a drink at some blossoming breweries, and experience a wealth of museums and other cultural offerings. Also, the leaves will just be turning the first week of November! IMPORTANT: A refund will be offered, minus a $100.00 processing fee, for refund inquiries submitted before October 1, 2015. NO REFUNDS ARE PERMITTED AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2015. For refund inquiries, please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan at email.unc.edu. Thank you for your interest in the 2015 iPRES Conference, we look forward to seeing you in Chapel Hill in November! For accommodations, please visit http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/accommodations/. For questions concerning the Conference please contact Cal Lee at callee at email.unc.edu or Helen Tibbo at tibbo at email.unc.edu. For questions concerning registration or payment please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan at email.unc.edu. Hope to see you in Chapel Hill! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zimmerm at uwm.edu Tue Oct 13 12:00:19 2015 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:00:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Book_Chapters=3A_=22Internet_Research?= =?utf-8?q?_Ethics_for_the_Social_Age=3A_New_Cases_and_Challenges=E2=80=9D?= References: <02CCFEAD-CCE8-491F-8656-DF2A7A4A36C8@uwm.edu> Message-ID: Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges? Editors: Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda Publisher: Peter Lang: Digital Formations (Steve Jones, series editor) Synopsis: The Internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities and interactions. Increasingly, social media tools are used to aid traditional research: subjects might be recruited through Facebook or Twitter, surveys are administered and shared online, and data is often stored and processed on social and collaborative Web-based platforms and repositories. Social media has also emerged as a preferred domain for research itself: ethnographies take place within massively online social environments, entire collections of Facebook profile pages are scraped for data analysis, and public Twitter streams are routinely mined for academic purposes. Process data such as timestamps or logs are allowing researchers to model usage across time and space employing new computational methods. In short, academic research has begun to fully embrace what Maria Azua describes in her book, ?The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking,? as ?the social age,? the leveraging of the Internet and pervasive connected devices to enhance communication, information exchange, collaboration, and social interactions. As a result, researchers studying the internet find themselves immersed in a domain where information flows freely but potentially bound by contextual norms and expectations, where platforms may oscillate between open and closed information flows, and where data may be user-generated or proprietary. They are confronted with new economies of attention, where algorithms, memes and crowdfunding play a role in what is made visible on the Internet. As in its offline counterpart, Internet and social media-based research raises critical ethical issues of risk and safety to the human subject. The many disciplines already long engaged in human subjects research (such as medicine, anthropology, psychology, communication) have long-standing ethical codes and policies intended to guide researchers and those charged with ensuring that research on human subjects follows both legal requirements and ethical practices, and ethical review boards are charged with approving, monitoring, and reviewing research involving humans to ensure the rights and welfare of the research subjects are protected. But in the so-called ?social age? ? where individuals increasingly share personal information on platforms with porous and shifting boundaries, the aggregation of data from disparate sources is increasingly the norm, and web-based services, and their privacy policies and terms of service statements change too rapidly for an average user to keep up ? the ethical frameworks and assumptions traditionally used by researchers and review boards alike are frequently challenged and, in some cases, inadequate. Researchers using the Internet as a tool or a space of research ? and their ethical review boards ? are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the privacy of subjects engaging in activities in ?public? Internet spaces? Which national or international ethical standards apply when researching global networks, communities, or information flows? How is confidentiality or anonymity assured online? How is and should informed consent be obtained online? How should research on minors be conducted, and how do you prove a subject is not a minor? Is deception (pretending to be someone you are not or withholding identifiable information) in online spaces a norm, or a harm? Is ?harm? possible to someone existing online in digital spaces? What are researchers? obligations in spaces which are governed by platform providers? How should contend with inequalities in data access and uncertainties about data provenance and quality? In recent years, a growing number of scholars have begun exploring this new domain of Internet research ethics, numerous scholarly associations have drafted ethical guidelines for Internet research, and government regulatory authorities are starting to confront the myriad of ethical concerns Internet-based research brings to light. ?Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges? will provide a necessary update to this existing scholarship in four critical ways: ? First, as Internet tools and platforms continue to evolve at a rapid pace, we will seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses ? and related ethical concerns ? of the current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms, including new social media platforms like Vine and Tinder, cloud and distributed computing, wearable devices, health tracking applications, and so on. ? Second, we will strive to expand the disciplinary terrain impacted by Internet-based research, expanding the investigation of research approaches within the social sciences to include computer science, medicine, engineering, and business, resulting in a more inclusive umbrella of domains that must confront the challenges of Internet research ethics. ? Third, we will strive for a more global approach to the challenges of Internet research ethics, soliciting contributions from researchers in diverse regulatory environments, as well as those dealing with the complex ethical dimensions of researching platforms and users that cross borders. ? And fourth, we will also pay attention to the new ?players? in the domain of internet research ethics, such as platform providers and other commercial data owners who might engage in their own research, frequently disrupting traditional mechanisms of ethical review. Submissions: We envision two kinds of submissions for ?Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges?: - New Cases in Internet Research Ethics: We seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses ? and related ethical concerns ? of current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms within research contexts. Case studies can be descriptive and illustrative, and don?t necessarily need to resolve the ethical concerns. Cases could be examples from one?s own research, or an overview of various related projects in the field. Examples from industry, government, and academia are welcome. Topics for cases include, but are not limited to: ? Social network analysis ? Meta-data and log analysis ? Digital ethnography ? Mechanical Turk ? Library of Congress Twitter archive ? Mobile applications ? Wearable computers ? Facebook Emotion Contagion debate ? Apple HealthKit ? Internet shaming - New Challenges in Internet Research Ethics: Complementing the inclusion of various emerging cases, the 2nd part of the volume will provide broader discussions of new challenges in Internet research ethics. These chapters will tend to be more normative and analytical, engaging with the conceptual dimensions of Internet research ethics. We especially seek examples that consider a global perspective. Topics for discussion of challenges include, but are not limited to: ? What constitutes a human subject? ? What is the nature of Informed consent in online environments? ? Issues of privacy and anonymity ? Tracking & location privacy ? Citizen science & crowdsourcing data collection ? Information security ? Data sharing & openness ? Transnational information flows ? Internal and industry-sponsored research Submission details and timeline: Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-3 page chapter proposal to InternetResearchEthicsBook at gmail.com by December 1, 2015, detailing the chapter?s contribution and fit with the book, and the structure of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2016 as to the status of their proposal and sent formatting requirements. Full chapters should be 5,000-8,000 words in length (case studies may be shorter) and are due on May 1, 2016. After a round of editorial reviews, final revised manuscripts will be due on August 15, 2016. Editors: Dr. Michael Zimmer School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Institute for Web Science and Technologies at Koblenz University Publisher: The book will be published within the Peter Lang ?Digital Formations? series, edited by Dr. Steve Jones (UI-Chicago). Target publication date is late 2016/early 2017. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Tue Oct 13 12:51:46 2015 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:51:46 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Library 2.015 Conference is Next Week: View Sessions and Schedule Message-ID: <045701d105d7$72aca680$5805f380$@SJSU.Edu> Free Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference Promotes Global Information Sharing The date is set, proposals are accepted, and presentations are being prepared as the fifth annual Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference draws near. On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. U.S. Pacific Daylight Time, the free international conference will be held online via Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing and accessible from any personal computer and most mobile devices. Scholars, researchers, information professionals, and students are encouraged to attend and benefit from the global exchange of knowledge. The conference theme of Tools, Skills and Competencies is at the core of the opening keynote address by Dr. Sandra Hirsh, director of the San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information. Hirsh will discuss the evolution of information services and address what it means to be an information professional today. She will also offer specific insight gleaned while producing her new book Information Services Today: An Introduction . Her keynote starts at 7 a.m. U.S. Pacific Daylight Time. The day-long event is packed with keynote and distinguished speaker presentations and 50 crowd-sourced presentations. A time-zone adjusted schedule with detailed session descriptions is now available. All sessions will be recorded and freely accessible for future viewing. Founded in 2011 by Hirsh of the SJSU School of Information and Steve Hargadon of The Learning Revolution, the Library 2.0 conference series promotes inclusivity with the goal of creating open dialogue about the future of libraries. More information on the 21,000 member international Library 2.0 network, and on attending the Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference, is available on the conference website. About the SJSU School of Information 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 408-924-2465 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joan.Beaudoin at wayne.edu Tue Oct 13 13:10:36 2015 From: Joan.Beaudoin at wayne.edu (Joan Beaudoin) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:10:36 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Open Position: Wayne State University's School of Library & Information Science Message-ID: Wayne State University's School of Library and Information Science invites applications for the following position. University Library System School of Library and Information Science Assistant / Associate / Full Professor Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) is one of the nation's leading urban research universities with an enrollment of more than 31,000 students and a demonstrated commitment to teaching and learning experiences. The WSU campus is located in a very attractive, revitalized, and growing urban setting, surrounded by museums, theaters, and international corporations. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reporting to the Associate Dean of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), serving as an advisor to SLIS students, and providing service to SLIS, the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor will perform research and teach in one or more of the following areas: archives, collection development, digital preservation, information security, social media, plus teach one of the SLIS core courses. Candidates are expected to contribute to the growing and dynamic online teaching environment. The School of Library and Information Science offers the M.L.I.S. degree, a specialist certificate, graduate certificates in archival administration, information management, children and youth services in urban libraries, Michigan School Library Media Endorsement, and a joint MLIS and MA in history degree. The School currently has approximately 450 enrolled students. QUALIFICATIONS: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor ranks require an earned doctorate (with an ALA-accredited M.L.S. preferred), appropriate professional experience, and demonstrated ability to carry out competently the range of professional faculty functions and to teach fully online, face-to-face, and blended courses. QUALIFICATIONS: Assistant Professor - The ideal candidate will have exhibited: the ability to produce scholarly research and publication in an appropriate field(s); strong potential for visibility as a scholar on the national and international levels; evidence of professional achievement in an appropriate field; strong potential for visibility and leadership in the library / information profession; ability to supervise the work of graduate students and strong potential for excellence in teaching and continued professional growth. Highly qualified candidates very near completion of the Ph.D. will receive consideration. QUALIFICATIONS: Associate Professor - The ideal candidate will have evidence of: a consistent and demonstrated record of excellence in scholarly research and publication in an appropriate field(s); visibility as a scholar on the national and international levels; excellence in professional achievement in an appropriate field; visibility and leadership in the library / information profession; professional recognition in the area of teaching and research in library and information science, excellence in teaching; a record of service; and experience in supervising the work of graduate students. QUALIFICATIONS: Full Professor - The ideal candidate will have evidence of: a consistent and demonstrated record of excellence in scholarly research and publication in an appropriate field(s); proven visibility as a scholar on the national and international levels; proven excellence in professional achievement in an appropriate field; proven visibility and leadership in the library / information profession; national and international professional recognition of research; excellence in teaching; an excellent record of service; and demonstrated experience in supervising the work of graduate students. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Ability to secure and effectively manage grants. SALARY RANGE: Competitive; summer optional. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Qualified candidates should submit electronically a complete resume and letter of interest including the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of at least three professional references to position posting number: 041425. Applicants must apply through Wayne State University's ON-LINE HIRING SYSTEM at http://jobs.wayne.edu. Review process will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Expected starting date is August 2016. A summer appointment may be considered. Application and nomination of minority candidates strongly encouraged. Please contact Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin, Search Committee Chair, at ee4525 at wayne.edu regarding position specifics. Wayne State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative-action employer. |+/+|+\+|+/+|+\+|+/+|+\+|+/+|+\+|+/+|+\+|+/+| Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science Wayne State University 888-497-8754 ext. 701 Joan.Beaudoin at wayne.edu http://slis.wayne.edu/faculty/bio.php?id=61932 @joanebeaudoin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajapzon at iupui.edu Tue Oct 13 13:25:25 2015 From: ajapzon at iupui.edu (Copeland, Andrea) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:25:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Faculty_Position=2C_Open_Rank=2C_Depart?= =?windows-1252?q?ment_of_Library_=26_Information_Science=2C_Indiana_Unive?= =?windows-1252?q?rsity_School_of_Informatics_and_Computing_=96_Indianapol?= =?windows-1252?q?is?= Message-ID: <1444757124909.91011@iupui.edu> Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Library and Information Science The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing ? Indianapolis invites applications for one tenure-track faculty position (open rank) in the Department of Library and Information Science. The appointment will begin August 1, 2016 at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus. Exceptional teachers and researchers are being sought. Candidates must demonstrate commitment to the library/information management professions with relevant research and engaged teaching. The LIS department has an ALA accredited Master of Library Science degree program delivered through online methods. Coursework emphasizes technology, leadership, and professionalism. The Department collaborates closely with the Human Centered Computing and the BioHealth Informatics Departments in the application of technology to address information needs. Specializations include public libraries, school media, and electronic resource management. Areas of current and future interest for the department are: internet of things; information security; digital resources (community heritage, data management; data curation; digital libraries); technology (information system design // user interaction) and children and youth. The ability to collaborate across the School and with other Schools on campus is important. By strengthening or complementing existing faculty in the Department and School, ideal candidates will use creative, innovative approaches and technologies to address fundamental library and information challenges with broad societal impact, and have the potential to leverage the strengths of the IUPUI campus, including its unique location in downtown Indianapolis, interdisciplinary and collaborative environment and nation-wide leadership in the health and life sciences. The IUPUI campus values civic engagement, and the MLS program has a nationwide reach and a particular mission to Indiana communities. Qualifications * Ph.D. in Library or Information Science or related fields. Applicants must have completed their degree by the date of appointment. * Assistant rank: Ability to develop a record of research productivity with emerging national impact. * Associate or full rank: Demonstrated record of funded research resulting in high-impact scholarly contributions; research team leadership. The ability to secure external funding will be considered a strong competitive advantage in the assessment of the candidates. * Demonstrated ability to teach, mentor, and interact effectively with students in an online program. For complete details see: http://soic.iupui.edu/openings/lis-tenure-track/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Wed Oct 14 13:58:43 2015 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:58:43 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG AH call for nominations: join the leadership team of the 2015 SIG-of-the-Year! Message-ID: Want to be more involved within ASIS&T but aren?t sure where to start? Looking to gain valuable, applicable skills, network with colleagues, and have fun? The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG AH) is excited to announce our 2015-16 call for nominations for SIG Officers. We have another exciting year planned and are looking for take-charge, enthusiastic folks from all across the organization to build on our momentum from last year. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the following positions: --Chair-Elect --Communications Director --Webmaster --Newsletter Editor --Other (we are open to ideas for how you can contribute to the SIG) Nominations can be emailed to ASIST.SIGAH at gmail.com and should include your name, affiliation, position of interest, and a brief paragraph about your background and what you would like to accomplish in this position. Nominations will be accepted through October 20, 2015 at which time voting will be opened up to SIG AH members. If you have any questions, please email me directly at Jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu We look forward to working with you! Thanks, Jeremy ****************** Jeremy L. McLaughlin Chair, SIG AH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 15 14:16:18 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:16:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM Message-ID: <385-2201510415181618699@LEN-dick-2011> St. Louis Hyatt and ASIS&T are extending the cut off dates for discounts until OCTOBER 23. Rooms were tight and people were having problems. But rooms blocked for the potential World Series games have opened up so we are able to make this effort to help you save. _____ 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology -- Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch - St. Louis, Missouri Program and Registration at: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/ The 2015 ASIS&T conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ?including academics and practitioner? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on cultural institutions, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. 8 Preconference Workshops 40 Contributed Papers 18 Panel Discussions Plenary sessions: Aaron Doering -Building Community Online: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas through Innovative Design- Doering is associate professor in the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, currently holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology. His research involves the design, development and evaluation of online and mobile teaching environments; technology integration in K-12 settings; and the innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning. Sarah Morton -Creating Impact: Issues, Challenges and Solutions- Morton works at the intersection of social research, policy and practice in a range of leadership roles. She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Also within the University of Edinburgh, Sarah is the knowledge exchange specialist for the Centre for Community and Public Health Sciences and an impact analyst. She is a director of What Works Scotland and she is also an associate of the research unit for research utilization at the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and was a member of the Scottish Funding Council working group on Knowledge Exchange and Public Policy. Her research has investigated the process assessing the impact of research on policy and practice. She has a specialty in contribution analysis and uses this approach in a variety of projects, often working with non-academic partners, and also to assess the impact of research. 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 silvello at dei.unipd.it Thu Oct 15 10:46:00 2015 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:46:00 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] [IEEE-TCDL] Special Issue on Data Citation: Call for Papers Message-ID: IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL) Special Issue on Data Citation http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/TCDL/index.php/DataCitation Call for Papers Citation is an essential part of scientific publishing and scholarship. Nowadays, many scientific publications are related to or based on data which are modeled, managed and stored by means of heterogeneous formats and technologies (e.g. relational databases, digital libraries, XML, RDF, CSV, ...). Data citation allows us to establish a direct relationship between a data source and a publication or a statement relying on that data source. Being able to cite a dataset or a part of a it is essential for: making results of research fully available to others; enabling others to better build on previous results and to ask new questions about data; replicating, reproducing and verifying research; advancing the state of research and innovation. Furthermore, data citation is fundamental for giving credit to data creators and curators, to reference data in order to identify, discover and retrieve them and for building and propagating knowledge. Commonly data citation is paired up with traditional citation practices but data present some key differences that turn out to be serious challenges impairing the development of effective data citation methodologies: data evolution through time; different formats and structures: unstructured, single files, hypertext, RDF/LOD, XML, Relational DB, raw data, streaming data; necessity to cite a subset of data; collaborative works not structured as it happens in a scientific paper; licensing issues: open data, limited access, credentials; variety of systems managing data and lack of common standards and APIs. In the last years several international initiatives and research projects have been facing the issues concerned with data citation, but despite all these efforts there are several crucial questions that still need to be answered. For instance: how is a data source or a subset of it to be cited? When some data from a large and complex data source is extracted, how do we create a citation? How is it possible to verify the correctness of a citation? How does one retrieve the cited data? How is it possible to maintain data consistent across time handling changes? What is the role of data citations for scholarship attribution? This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community interested in providing novel methodologies or frameworks for managing, assessing, monitoring, maintaining and improving data citation and more in general to discuss the importance of data citation for the advancement of research. [edit ] <>Topics We welcome original submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: Principles of data citation Relational databases, XML, CSV, Tabular data, Linked Data, RDF citation methodologies Systems for data citation (digital libraries, relation databases, scientific databases, ...) Computational problems in data citation Executable/Actionable papers Metadata for data citation Automatic generation of citations Machine-readable data citations Verification of citations Closure of citations Citation of evolving data Citation with variable granularity Credit attribution Definition and maintenance of authority lists Reproducibility issues Tools for data citation Tracking the impact of data Visualization of data citations The use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) Data citation for scholarship Data sharing Data citation for the humanities, psychology, social sciences, ... Data citation for chemistry, physics, mathematics, ... Licensing issues Data journals Relationships between traditional and data citation methods Enrichment of LOD for citation purposes Impact measures based on data citation Interoperability issues in data citation Data quality and data citation Data curation/provenance and data citation Long term preservation and data citation Open access to data citation [edit ] <>Submission guidelines All submissions must be written in English following the ACM SIGIR author guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ) and submitted electronically through the special issues submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeetcdldc2016 Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated issue on the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Bulletin (http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/index.html ). [edit ] <>Important Dates 30 November 2015 - Initial submission deadline 15 January 2016 - Initial reviewer feedback 15 February 2016 - Revised submissions deadline 11 March 2016 - Final decision 25 March 2016 - Camera ready Mid April 2016 - Publication [edit ] <>Special Issue Editors Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy [edit ] <>Special Issue Editorial Board Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs, The Netherlands Bradley Hemminger, University of North Carolina, USA Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Paolo Manghi, Consorzio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI-CNR, Italy Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Costantino Thanos, Consorzio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI-CNR, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Fri Oct 16 14:21:17 2015 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:21:17 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS Community Newsletter Message-ID: *InfoLink, A SLIS Community Newsletter *Zine Life: Lo-fi Culture Persists in the Digital Age Dawn Stahura, Research Librarian for the Social Sciences and Zine Librarian at Beatley started the Simmons zine collection, which now boasts over 200 zines on a variety of topics such as gender, feminism, activism, library-related, and queer by those who self-identify as female. Stahura started a Zine Group at Simmons, meeting with students once a month in the library?s new makerspace to read and create zines. She also works closely with Assistant Professor of Sociology Saher Selod to integrate zines into the classroom. InfoLink talks to Stahura about her work with zines, and their role in libraries and society.The World of Participatory Computing Associate Professor Gerald Benoit encourages innovation with his information system platform that explores the potential of participatory computing. In its infancy in the late 1990s, the concept of participatory computing focused on engaging a wider audience in the design of computing systems. The aim was to address the politics of design, the nature of participation, and method, tools and techniques for participation. As Benoit states, we have ?responsibility and accountability in the use of any technology.? Benoit shared his insights with InfoLink.Big Top Burning: Laura Woollett '05GS Writes Nonfiction for Kids In 1944 a vicious fire decimated the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Hartford, Connecticut. There were 167 deaths including 59 children under 10, yet to this day, details of the fire are still murky. A new middle-grade book *Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and The Greatest Show on Earth*, written by SLIS children?s literature alumna Laura A. Woollett, investigates the circus fire story in a compelling non-fiction account using primary source materials. Woollett spoke with Infolink about her writing process and her time at Simmons.SLIS Beyond the Stacks Podcast Beyond the Stacks is a new interview podcast produced in part by Simmons SLIS, in which librarians, archivists, and information science professionals talk about the coolest experiences of their careers, and the unexpected ways that one can use a Master?s degree in Library and Information Science. The first episode is an interview with Gemma Petrie, a User Experience Researcher at Mozilla. The second episode features Data Librarian Kimberly Silk. You can find all episodes of Beyond the Stacks at this website, beyondthestacks.info .SLIS Faculty at the Simmons Academic Homecoming Celebration The Simmons Academic Homecoming Celebration was held on Friday, September 11, and SLIS faculty and staff played a major role. Assistant Professor Janet Ceja, Dean and Professor Emerita Michele Cloonan and Professor and Director Cathie Mercier participated in the panel ?Growing Global Citizens,? in which faculty presented global initiatives featured in the curriculum and faculty research that promote connectivity to the wider world and provide students with an international perspective.Awards, Accolades, Applause all around! Adjunct Anna Staniszewski '05MA/MFA had her middle grade novel *The Dirt Diary* nominated for the 2017 Louisiana Readers? Choice Award for grades 6-8. Staniszewski's first picture book,*Power Down, Little Robot,* was published by Henry Holt/Macmillan, March 2015. Her most recent middle grade novel, *I'm With Cupid*, was published by Sourcebooks in July 2015. Visit the news page to read about the accomplishments of faculty, students, and alums. *Do you have news to share? Want to continue to receive InfoLink emails? Please send your items and email address toinfolink at simmons.edu . * -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Follow me on tumblr! www.alisalibby.com. Buy the Kindle edition of *The Blood Confession* ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Oct 15 18:36:55 2015 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:36:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job posting / Virtual Research Analyst Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C3615B15E53@ex1mbx02.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group is seeking a full-time, experienced, Research Analyst, to work virtually for our Library as a Service (LaaS) platform. The Research Analyst will staff a busy and diverse virtual research desk, performing and managing requests for legal, corporate, business development and other research from LaaS clients. All research and communication will be performed online and by phone, using both paid databases and open sources. The Research Analyst will report directly to the Research Manager and work with other analysts to complete research requests in a timely, professional, and cost effective manner. Research will be delivered directly to clients using a virtual reference desk platform. This is a full-time virtual position. Candidates can reside in any time zone, but must be able to cover the hours of 9:00AM - 6:00PM or 10:00AM - 7:00PM in the Eastern Time zone. Duties & Responsibilities: * Perform legal, corporate, business development and other research for LaaS clients using both paid databases (Westlaw, Lexis, Avention, etc.) and open sources (web searches, government databases, phone research, etc.) * Communicate progress and research findings directly to client clearly and concisely * Work with clients to clarify research objectives when necessary and provide follow-up on research requests * Maintain current understanding of research methods and tools, including databases * Keep Research Manager apprised of research activities, client concerns, and issues that arise in the course of research * Work with other Research Analysts to provide seamless service to clients even when working on complex and long-term projects * Provide training and updates to research team regarding ongoing client projects * On occasion, manage small research teams to accomplish more complex research objectives for clients * Manage database access and other resources used for research * Other duties as the arise according to client requests Experience: * 3-5 years experience as a researcher in a law firm library, preferably with some business development research experience * MLS or JD preferred, though work experience or a similar or related degree may take the place of MLS/JD Desired Skills: * Advanced legal research skills including but not limited to docket and case law research (both state and federal), secondary sources, and practice guidance * Experience with corporate and business development research including gathering information from diverse sources (annual reports, SEC filings, Secretary of State records, case law, patent and trademark applications and records, lobbying activity, etc.) * Extensive experience with Lexis and Westlaw (preferably LexisAdvance and WestlawNext) and ability to quickly learn and navigate other databases including but not limited to Monitor Suite, Avention, Capital IQ, Intelligize and Practical Law. * Experience with open source research beyond search engine use, including government and non-profit databases, think tanks and academic sources. Must be comfortable calling and emailing sources for information. * Exceptional client service skills, particularly via written communication * Current experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) Apply online at: http://goo.gl/JIh0lu LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sun3 at buffalo.edu Fri Oct 16 11:35:41 2015 From: sun3 at buffalo.edu (Sun, Ying) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:35:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Assistant or Associate Professor Position at UB Message-ID: Due to outstanding growth potential, the Department of Library and Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York (SUNY) is currently seeking to expand its intellectual capital and resources. We seek a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative scholar at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. The preferred candidate will have a leading-edge research agenda, a record of successful publication, experience in a professional context, potential to develop external funding opportunities, and be able to contribute to effective teaching and professional service in the academic and community contexts. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers flexible programs that provide fully online or hybrid course delivery options. Minimum Qualifications Applicants for this position must hold a doctorate degree in library and information science or a related discipline. Preferred Qualifications ? Established research agenda, with potential for external funding* ? Online teaching experience or interest ? Demonstrated record of teaching excellence *Research agendas can include but are not limited to one of the following areas: * Data Curation/Data Science * Health Information * Information Management/Visualization/Analytics * Information Policy * Knowledge Management * User Experience Applicants with experience or interest in multidisciplinary collaboration are preferred. For the full position profile and desired qualifications, please visit: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp. The posting number is 1500742. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers an ALA-accredited MS in Information and Library Science, an MS in School Librarianship, and an Advanced Studies Certificate. These programs enjoy strong stakeholder support from the community. In addition, we have collaborative agreements with the School of Law to offer a JD/MS in Information and Library Science and with the Department of Music to offer an MA (Music) and MS in Information and Library Science. UB is a flagship institution in the SUNY system and a member of the Association of American Universities. Recently, US News and World Report ranked UB among the top 50 of the best public national universities. UB has also been named one of the ?Great Colleges to Work For? by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls region features four seasons of activities and events, from arts, culture, and historical tourism, to professional sports and environmental splendor. The City of Buffalo is consistently voted a top arts and culture destination. To learn more about the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, visit http://www.buffalo.edu/about_ub/the-buffalo-niagara-region.html. The Search Committee will accept nominations and applications until the position is filled. Nominations Please send nominations to the Search Committee Chair and include the nominee?s name, position, email address, and telephone number. Applications Please include the following application materials online at: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp, posting number 1500742. 1. Cover letter expressing interest in the position 2. Complete vita 3. Contact information for three professional references. Initial screening of completed applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Informal interviews may be scheduled by Skype, at the 2015 conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology, or at the 2016 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Please send inquiries and nominations to: Dr. Ying Sun, Search Committee Chair 534 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Phone: 716-645-2412 Email: sun3 at buffalo.edu Dr. Heidi Julien will be available to speak with interested candidates at the Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T in St. Louis; please contact her (heidijul at buffalo.edu) in advance if you'd like to discuss the position with her. The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Are there any plans for open access to these chapters? -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel From agruzd at gmail.com Sun Oct 18 23:28:20 2015 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:28:20 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - London, UK - July 11-13, 2016 Message-ID: <021a01d10a1e$342435e0$9c6ca1a0$@gmail.com> Hi Everyone, Apologies for cross-postings. Please help us share this CfP via your online and offline social networks! Thank you, Anatoliy -- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University, Canada Lab: http://SocialMediaLab.ca | Twitter: @gruzd ********************************************************* 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) CALL FOR PROPOSALS WHEN: July 11-13, 2016 WHERE: Goldsmiths, University of London, UK SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 4, 2015: Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Jan 15, 2016: Full & WIP Papers Mar 4, 2016: Poster Abstracts Conference website: http://socialmediaandsociety.org Data, data everywhere. With faster computers and cheaper storage, bigger data sets are becoming abundant. Social media is a key source of big data in the form of user and system generated content. What do we do with all of the social data and how do we make sense of it? How does the use of social media platforms and the data that they generate change us, our organizations, and our society? What are the inherent challenges and issues associated with working with social media data? What obligations do we have as social media researchers to protect the privacy of the users? These are just a few questions that will be explored at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). Now, in its 7th year, the conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference focusing exclusively on social media research. The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in studying and understanding social media impact and implications on society. This year's conference offers an intensive three-day program comprising of workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media research. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full papers presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Selected papers will also be invited to submit their extended full papers to Special Issues of Big Data & Society (BD&S) and American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) published by SAGE Publications. ORGANIZER: Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada HOSTS & CO-ORGANIZERS: Big Data & Society Journal (BD&S) and the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK TOPIC OF INTERESTS: Social Media & Big Data . Data Visualization . Analytics & Data Mining . Scalability Issues . APIs . Data Curation . Virality & Memes . Big and Small Data . Ethics . Privacy, Surveillance, & Security Social Media Impact on Society . Politics . Journalism . Sports . Health . Public Administration . Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Sharing Economy / Crowdsourcing . Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Mobile Theories & Methods . Qualitative Approaches . Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models Online / Offline Communities . Case Studies of Online or Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility . Online Community Detection . Measuring Influence . Online Identity (Gender, Private Self/Public Self) 2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2016 #SMSociety Conference Advisor: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb633 at drexel.edu Mon Oct 19 10:32:22 2015 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:32:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Drexel_University=92s_College_of_Comput?= =?windows-1252?q?ing_=26_Informatics=2C_Information_Studies_PhD_Open_Hous?= =?windows-1252?q?e?= Message-ID: <8A3EE63B361E364EA41B10DE3FBE64FDCDEE64F7@MB1.drexel.edu> Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics, Information Studies PhD Open House Friday, November 6, 2015 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Drexel University?s University City Campus Rush Building, Room 014 30 N. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us for an in-depth overview of the program with the opportunity to meet and network with our faculty, Program Director, and Program Manager. You will also have the chance to interact with current students to understand what it is like to be a student in the Information Studies PhD program at Drexel and attend a Q&A session with our IS PhD alumni. All MS students are welcome to attend. Light refreshments and appetizers will be provided during the event. Guests have the option of attending the event on-campus or by viewing a live online session. Click here to RSVP Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics Computer Science PhD Open House, will also occur on Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To learn more, see: http://drexel.edu/cci/admissions/graduate-professional-development/visiting-cci/graduate-open-houses/. Please contact Brenna Martin at brenna at drexel.edu with any questions about either of the Open House events, or if you are unable to attend. ### Kerry Boland, MS Writer/Editor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6271 | Fax: 215.895.2494 drexel.edu/cci -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Oct 19 11:54:19 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:54:19 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO October Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience Message-ID: *NISO October Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience* Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar. *Date:* October 28, 2015 *Time: *11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern *Event webpage: * http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/user_exp/ *ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE* The demands for awareness of and responsiveness to the academic user experience (UX) are increasingly important for all players in the scholarly communications industry. What began as a software development methodology has proven to be a critical function in our ability to deliver high-quality scholarly resources to a global readership. In this virtual conference, we will feature a range of perspectives on how publishers, libraries and technology suppliers achieve an understanding of reader needs and perspectives, in order to drive iterative improvements in the way users interact with the content we host, publish, and license. *CONFIRMED SPEAKERS* *? Keynote Address: Courtney Green Mcdonald, *Head, Discovery and Research Services, Associate Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries *? **Service Design: Towards a Holistic Assessment of the Library Experience - **Joe Marquez, **MLIS, Web Services Librarian, Reed Libraries, Reed College and **Annie Downey, MLIS, PhD**, **Reed Libraries, Director of Research Services, Reed College* *? **Object-Oriented UX - **Sophia Voychehovski, Founder and Lead UXer, ReWired UX Studio* *? A UX Case Study - **Angie Thorpe, Digital User Experience Librarian, Library, Indiana University Kokomo* *? I**teration-focused User Experience Testing **- **Jeffrey William Gallant, **Affordable Learning Georgia Visiting Program Officer for OER, University System of Georgia **and Laura Bell Wright**, **Head of Reference, Odum Library, Valdosta State University* *? *THE UX of Scholarship: *The Editors of Weave: The Journal of Library User Experience* *? * *Pete Coco, Web Services Librarian, Boston Public Library* * ? Kyle Felker, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Grand Valley State University Libraries* * ? Shoshana Mayden, Content Strategist at University of Arizona Libraries* * ? Matthew Reidsma, Web Services Librarian, Grand Valley State University * ? Free-Range Searching - *Kate Lawrence, Vice President, User Research, EBSCO Information Services* *? Roundtable Discussion - **Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, *Executive Director, NISO *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 4:00 pm Eastern on October 27, 2015 (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for all six of the 2015 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.) For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/user_exp/ # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Oct 26 16:05:54 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:05:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations *** subm. deadline: Nov 5, 2015 *** Portugal, November 18-20 Message-ID: <201510262005.t9QK5r5f012903@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ViNOrg 2015 - Fourth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools November 18-20, 2015 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ vinorg at 2100projects.org *** Full Paper or Extended Abstract submission deadline: November 5, 2015 *** Acceptance Notification: until one week after each submission Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fourth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ Full paper or abstract online submission can be done at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/submissionguide.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From hrosenba at indiana.edu Tue Oct 27 10:52:41 2015 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:52:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] OPEN RANK> Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington Message-ID: <4B0FAB5C-17CA-4C34-8256-F7C808616A9B@indiana.edu> Title: Asst/ Assoc/ Full Professor Department: Information and Library Science Expected start date: 08/01/2016 Position summary: The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2016 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas solicited with preference for data curation, CSCW, digital libraries, information policy, digital youth, documentation, metadata, and the social web). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Duties include teaching, research, and service. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally in its most recent rankings. The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of more than 100 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,500 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas in ILS include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; data curation; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; human computer interaction; science studies; semantic web; social informatics; CSCW; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master?s degrees in Information Science, Library Science, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have an established record (for senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence (for junior level) in research and teaching, and a Ph.D. in Information Science or a related field or (for junior level) expected before 8/2016. Interested candidates should submit their application at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/1658 Application should include curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level). Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Prof. Noriko Hara, nhara at indiana.edu or to Faculty Search, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Herman B. Wells Library LI011, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2015. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu) or to members of the search committee: Noriko Hara (nhara at indiana.edu), Stasa Milojevic (smilojev at indiana.edu), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu), John Walsh (jawalsh at indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. IU Bloomington is vitally interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. ? Howard Rosenbaum Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu From aida.slavic at udcc.org Wed Oct 21 10:53:52 2015 From: aida.slavic at udcc.org (Aida Slavic) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:53:52 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Final Reminder: Classification & Authority Control - 29-30 October, Lisbon In-Reply-To: <56278199.30209@udcc.org> References: <56278199.30209@udcc.org> Message-ID: <5627A700.4030604@udcc.org> [apologies for cross-posting] === Registration closes on 25 October === The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. Conference programme: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015 Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja ?umer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria In?s Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu. Poster presentations: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/posters.php Organizers: UDC Consortium, National Library of Portugal Contact: seminar2015 at udcc.org === -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Thu Oct 29 14:30:08 2015 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:30:08 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons College SLIS Welcomes Amy Ryan Message-ID: BOSTON (2015) ? Dean Eileen Abels is pleased to welcome Amy Ryan to the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) for a one year appointment as Advisor in Residence, which began October 1. ?Amy brings invaluable experience and enthusiasm to Simmons,? said Abels. ?Her expertise will enhance the student experience through activities such as career advising and guest lectures for the SLIS community.? Amy Ryan has over 35 years of public library management experience. From 2008 to 2015, she was the president of Boston Public Library (BPL), providing leadership to one of the most comprehensive library systems in the country. Prior to her role at the BPL, Ryan served in leadership positions for over 28 years with Minneapolis Public Library culminating in the directorship of the nationally recognized Hennepin County Library in Minnesota, which serves one million residents with a system of 41 libraries. Ryan is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Resolution of the City of Minneapolis for the consolidation of city and suburban libraries, and an American Institute of Architects Special Award honoring her contribution to library design. Most recently, she was selected by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners as the first ever recipient of the Samuel Swett Green Award, to be presented at the MBLC's 125th anniversary celebration on November 5, 2015 at the Massachusetts State House. She serves on numerous boards, and chairs the Board of Directors of the Digital Public Library of America, which makes the contents of the country?s libraries, archives, and museums freely available to the world online. Amy Ryan studied at the Institute for European Studies, Freiburg, Germany, holds a Bachelor?s Degree from Mankato State University in Minnesota, and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Minnesota. Simmons College was chartered in 1899. The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) opened with the College in 1902. Today, SLIS has nearly 800 students on two campuses and online, and some 50 in the PhD program. A top-ten ranked program in U.S. News & World Report, SLIS attracts students from all over the United States and the world. Alumni hail from every state and over 80 countries. -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* Buy the Kindle edition of *The Blood Confession* ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bean.lists at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 09:34:53 2015 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:34:53 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Issue 30 of the Code4Lib Journal now available! [apologies for cross posting] Message-ID: The Editorial Committee of the Code4Lib Journal is pleased to announce its 30th issue is now available at http://journal.code4lib.org, with the following lineup. Please feel free to share! Editorial Introduction: It?s All About Data, Except When It?s Not. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11072 Carol Bean Data capture and use is not new to libraries. We know data isn?t everything, but it is ubiquitous in our work, enabling myriads of new ideas and projects. Articles in this issue reflect the expansion of data creation, capture, use, and analysis in library systems and services. Collected Work Clustering in WorldCat http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10963 Janifer Gatenby, Gail Thornburg and Jay Weitz, OCLC WorldCat records are clustered into works, and within works, into content and manifestation clusters. A recent project revisited the clustering of collected works that had been previously sidelined because of the challenges posed by their complexity. Attention was given to both the identification of collected works and to the determination of the component works within them. By extensively analysing cast-list information, performance notes, contents notes, titles, uniform titles and added entries, the contents of collected works could be identified and differentiated so that correct clustering was achieved. Further work is envisaged in the form of refining the tests and weights and also in the creation and use of name/title authority records and other knowledge cards in clustering. There is a requirement to link collected works with their component works for use in search and retrieval. Data Munging Tools in Preparation for RDF: Catmandu and LODRefine Christina Harlow http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11013 Data munging, or the work of remediating, enhancing and transforming library datasets for new or improved uses, has become more important and staff-inclusive in many library technology discussions and projects. Many times we know how we want our data to look, as well as how we want our data to act in discovery interfaces or when exposed, but we are uncertain how to make the data we have into the data we want. This article introduces and compares two library data munging tools that can help: LODRefine (OpenRefine with the DERI RDF Extension) and Catmandu. The strengths and best practices of each tool are discussed in the context of metadata munging use cases for an institution?s metadata migration workflow. There is a focus on Linked Open Data modeling and transformation applications of each tool, in particular how metadataists, catalogers, and programmers can create metadata quality reports, enhance existing data with LOD sets, and transform that data to a RDF model. Integration of these tools with other systems and projects, the use of domain specific transformation languages, and the expansion of vocabulary reconciliation services are mentioned. Manifold: a Custom Analytics Platform to Visualize Research Impact http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10948 Steven Braun The use of research impact metrics and analytics has become an integral component to many aspects of institutional assessment. Many platforms currently exist to provide such analytics, both proprietary and open source; however, the functionality of these systems may not always overlap to serve uniquely specific needs. In this paper, I describe a novel web-based platform, named Manifold, that I built to serve custom research impact assessment needs in the University of Minnesota Medical School. Built on a standard LAMP architecture, Manifold automatically pulls publication data for faculty from Scopus through APIs, calculates impact metrics through automated analytics, and dynamically generates report-like profiles that visualize those metrics. Work on this project has resulted in many lessons learned about challenges to sustainability and scalability in developing a system of such magnitude. Open Journal Systems and Dataverse Integration? Helping Journals to Upgrade Data Publication for Reusable Research http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10989 Micah Altman, Eleni Castro, Merc? Crosas, Philip Durbin, Alex Garnett, and Jen Whitney This article describes the novel open source tools for open data publication in open access journal workflows. This comprises a plugin for Open Journal Systems that supports a data submission, citation, review, and publication workflow; and an extension to the Dataverse system that provides a standard deposit API. We describe the function and design of these tools, provide examples of their use, and summarize their initial reception. We conclude by discussing future plans and potential impact. Collecting and Describing University-Generated Patents in an Institutional Repository: A Case Study from Rice University http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10981 Linda Spiro and Scott Carlson Providing an easy method of browsing a university?s patent output can free up valuable research time for faculty, students, and external researchers. This is especially true for Rice University?s Fondren Library, a USPTO-designated Patent and Trademark Resource Center that serves an academic community widely recognized for cutting edge science and engineering research. In order to make Rice-generated patents easier to find in the university?s community, a team of technical and public services librarians from Fondren Library devised a method to identify, download, and upload patents to the university?s institutional repository, starting with a backlog of over 300. This article discusses the rationale behind the project, its potential benefits, and challenges as new Rice-generated patents are added to the repository on a monthly basis. SierraDNA ? Demonstrating the Usefulness of Direct ILS Database Access http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10924 James Padgett and Jonathan Hooper Innovative Interface?s Sierra(?) Integrated Library System (ILS) brings with it a Database Navigator Application (SierraDNA) ? in layman?s terms SierraDNA gives Sierra sites read access to their ILS database. Unlike the closed use cases produced by vendor supplied APIs, which restrict Libraries to limited development opportunities, SierraDNA enables sites to publish their own APIs and scripts based upon custom SQL code to meet their own needs and those of their users and processes. In this article we give examples showing how SierraDNA can be utilized to improve Library services. We highlight three example use cases which have benefited our users, enhanced online security and improved our back office processes. In the first use case we employ user access data from our electronic resources proxy server (WAM) to detect hacked user accounts. Three scripts are used in conjunction to flag user accounts which are being hijacked to systematically steal content from our electronic resource provider?s websites. In the second we utilize the reading histories of our users to augment our search experience with an Amazon style ?People who borrowed this book also borrowed?these books? feature. Two scripts are used together to determine which other items were borrowed by borrowers of the item currently of interest. And lastly, we use item holds data to improve our acquisitions workflow through an automated demand based ordering process. Our explanation and SQL code should be of direct use for adoption or as examples for other Sierra customers willing to exploit their ILS data in similar ways, but the principles may also be useful to non-Sierra sites that also wish to enhancement security, user services or improve back office processes. Streamlining Book Requests with Chrome http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10996 Dr. Rachel Schulkins & Joseph Schulkins This article starts by examining why a Chrome Extension was desired and how we saw it making the workflow for requesting new items both easier and more accurate. We then go on to outline how we constructed our extension, looking at the folder structure, third party scripts and services that combine to make this achievable. Finally, the article looks at how the extension is regulated and plans for future development. Generating Standardized Audio Technical Metadata: AES57 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10828 Jody L. DeRidder Long-term access to digitized audio may be heavily dependent on the quality of technical metadata captured during digitization. The AES57-2011 standard offers a standardized method of documenting fairly comprehensive technical information, but its complexity may be confusing. In an effort to lower the barrier to use, we have developed software that generates valid AES57 files for digitized audio, using output from FITS (File Information Tool Set) and a few fields of information from a tab-delimited spreadsheet. This article will describe the logic used, the fields required, the basic process, applications, and options for further development. Topic Space: Rapid Prototyping a Mobile Augmented Reality Recommendation App http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10881 Jim Hahn, Ben Ryckman, and Maria Lux With funding from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Sparks! Ignition Grant, researchers from the University of Illinois Library designed and tested a mobile recommender app with augmented reality features. By embedding open source optical character recognition software into a ?Topic Space? module, the augmented reality app can recognize call numbers on a book in the library and suggest relevant items that are not shelved nearby. Topic Space can also show users items that are normally shelved in the starting location but that are currently checked out. Using formative UX methods, grant staff shaped app interface and functionality through early user testing. This paper reports results of UX testing; a redesigned mobile interface, and provides considerations on the future development of personalized recommendation functionality. Integration of Library Services with Internet of Things Technologies http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10897 Kyriakos Stefanidis & Giannis Tsakonas The SELIDA framework is an integration layer of standardized services that takes an Internet-of-Things approach for item traceability in the library setting. The aim of the framework is to provide tracing of RFID tagged physical items among or within various libraries. Using SELIDA we are able to integrate typical library services?such as checking in or out items at different libraries with different Integrated Library Systems?without requiring substantial changes, code-wise, in their structural parts. To do so, we employ the Object Naming Service mechanism that allows us to retrieve and process information from the Electronic Product Code of an item and its associated services through the use of distributed mapping servers. We present two use case scenarios involving the Koha open source ILS and we briefly discuss the potential of this framework in supporting bibliographic Linked Data. Carol Bean Coordinating Editor, Issue 30 Code4Lib Journal beanworks at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blanchette at ucla.edu Wed Oct 28 22:31:16 2015 From: blanchette at ucla.edu (=?utf-8?Q?Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois_Blanchette?=) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:31:16 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] New Book --- Regulating the Cloud: Policy for Computing Infrastructure (MIT Press) Message-ID: I wanted to bring to your attention this recently published book which you might find useful for your teaching. The book covers cloud policy from the point of view of economics, security, reliability, architecture, privacy, consumer issues, archives, copyright, and liability, so a good coverage of salient issues by experts in the field. We worked hard with these experts to make the chapters not only useful as up-to-date surveys of their respective topics, but also as didactic introductions that take the reader step by step through the conceptual, technical, and historical development of their issues and how the cloud impacts them. As such the book would be quite adequate for upper-division or graduate courses. It is also immediately available as a paperback (for the price of a paperback) and as hardcover. Regulating the Cloud: Policy for Computing Infrastructure. Christopher S. Yoo and Jean-Fran?ois Blanchette, editors. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/regulating-cloud The emergence of cloud computing marks the moment when computing has become, materially and symbolically, infrastructure---a sociotechnical system that is ubiquitous, essential, and foundational. Increasingly integral to the operation of other critical infrastructures, such as transportation, energy, and finance, it functions, in effect, as a meta-infrastructure. As such, the cloud raises a variety of policy and governance issues, among them market regulation, fairness, access, reliability, privacy, national security, and copyright. In this book, experts from a range of disciplines offer their perspectives on these and other concerns. Introduction --- Jean-Fran?ois Blanchette: Computing's Infrastructural Moment Chapter 1 --- Joe Weinman: Cloud Strategy and Economics Chapter 2 --- Marjory S. Blumenthal: Finding Security in the Clouds Chapter 3 --- William Lehr: Reliability and the Internet Cloud Chapter 4 --- Christopher S. Yoo: Cloud Computing, Contractibility, and Network Architecture Chapter 5 --- Andrea Renda: Cloud Privacy in the US and the EU Chapter 6 --- Jonathan Cave, Neil Robinson, Svitlana Kobzar, Helen Rebecca Schindler: Understanding Regulatory and Consumer Interest in the Cloud Chapter 7 --- Luciana Duranti: Digital Records and Archives in the Commercial Cloud Chapter 8 --- Lothar Determann and David Nimmer: Software Copyright's Oracle from the Cloud Chapter 9 --- Nicolas Bauch: Bodies in the Cloud: A Geography of Electronic Health Data Conclusion ?-? Sandra Braman: The State of Cloud Computing Policy Serie?s Editor Introduction and Introduction available here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Yoo_SEIntro.pdf https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Yoo_Intro.pdf -- Jean-Fran?ois Blanchette, Associate Professeur Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette From dianek at email.unc.edu Wed Oct 28 09:58:05 2015 From: dianek at email.unc.edu (Kelly, Diane) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:58:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD Opportunities at University of North Carolina Message-ID: The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applicants to our PhD program for start in August 2016. Our doctoral program provides intensive, highly flexible and customizable preparation for a range of careers including those in academia and research centers. The program consists of a combination of coursework and independent and guided research in the areas of information interaction, organization and search; archival science and digital curation; health informatics and 21st century libraries. For those interested in pursuing faculty positions, we offer extensive training in teaching and curriculum development. We expect to provide 4 years of funding (tuition, stipend and health insurance) to all PhD students. The application period is open only until December 15. For more information about our PhD Program and the application process see: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/phd http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/admissions Questions? Email Professor Barbara Wildemuth, Doctoral Program Director, at wildemuth at unc.edu. From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Tue Oct 20 12:48:45 2015 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:48:45 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] IEEE BigDataService 2016 CFP - Big Data Information Banking Track Message-ID: *IEEE BigDataService 2016: Call for Papers* March 29 - April 1, 2016 Exeter College, Oxford, UK *Important Dates* Full paper submission: November 15, 2015 Review notification: January 9, 2016 Final camera-ready version: January 31, 2016 Big Data computing and service is becoming a very hot research and application subject in academic research, industry community, and government services. Today, with the fast advance of big data science, analytics and technology, big data researchers and application professionals are able to access to diverse data mining and machine learning algorithms, open-source platforms & tools, and cloud DB technology and big data access technologies. Unlike the other venues, this international conference is established to address the above needs for big data computing service researchers, domain-specific researchers, government agencies, and practitioners. The major objective is to provide a big platform for them to exchange innovation ideas and research results, and share application experiences and lessons. The three major objectives of this conference include: - *Big Data Innovation *of big data computing and service models, theories, tools, solutions and technologies. - *Big Data and Service Sharing* in big data banks and resources, portals, platforms, and open-sources, technology and tools. - *Big Data Application *in real world big data application service projects for major application domains, including energy and environment, medical and healthcare, library, social media and networking, and education. In particular, please consider submitting to the "*Big Data Information Banking*" track, which is specifically designed for the library and information science field. This track includes the papers focusing on big data-related research in library and information science, including big data information banking projects, policies, standards, business services & cost models, data sharing, exchange & management, data-intensive computing and services, data classification/indexing, retrieval, storage & search solutions for digital libraries, and supporting infrastructures. This conference will include a three-day program with a well-defined track program, plus a number of invited keynote speeches from well-known speakers from the real world. For more information, please see the following site: http://www.big-dataservice.net/ We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you soon in the near future. 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We have another exciting year planned and are looking for take-charge, enthusiastic folks from all across the organization to build on our momentum from last year. No previous SIG experience required. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the following positions: --Communications Director --Newsletter Editor --Other (we are open to ideas for how you can contribute to the SIG) Nominations can be emailed to ASIST.SIGAH at gmail.com and should include your name, affiliation, position of interest, and a brief paragraph about your background and what you would like to accomplish in this position. Nominations will be accepted through October 22, 2015 at which time voting will be opened up to SIG AH members. If you have any questions, please email me directly at Jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu We look forward to working with you! Thanks, Jeremy ****************** Jeremy L. 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We seek to design information management solutions that are accessible, useful, usable, and sustainable. To increase our scientific understanding of the role and impact of information in all human endeavors, we study problems and develop solutions for better information design, management, organization, preservation, and retrieval. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research[CT1] For best consideration for Fall 2016 admission, application materials should be received by November 15, 2015. Applications received after that date may be reviewed depending on the availability of funding. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/admissions/general_admissions_procedures Beyond our top-ranked international graduate program, UT Austin is one of the world's premier research universities and is located in one of the USA's most vibrant cities in which to live and work: Austin, TX. http://www.utexas.edu/about/overview http://www.utexas.edu/campus-life/life-in-austin http://www.austintexas.org/visit/ According to Forbes magazine, Austin "boasts the strongest expansion in tech sector employment of any of the nation?s 52 largest metropolitan areas from 2004 to 2014, 74%, as well as 36% growth in STEM jobs, the fourth-highest growth rate in the country." http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2015/04/14/cities-creating-the-most-tech-jobs-2015/ Our flexible curriculum allows students to tailor their individual programs of study in order to meet each student's diverse research interests, preparing all students to become high quality, high-impact researchers in their targeted areas of interest. Our School has a strong tradition of fully supporting our Ph.D. students throughout their time in the department, through a combination of Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, prestigious external scholarships and, in later years, teaching positions as Assistant Instructors. Though exact funding levels cannot be projected into the future, the school is committed to supporting all its doctoral students with tuition, health insurance, and a living stipend. Our university?s motto is that, ?What Starts Here Changes the World?, and our Ph.D. program will challenge you to do cutting-edge research. We hope you will join us in our mission to drive new research that truly changes the world and develops the new technologies of tomorrow. We will be hosting an online information session on Monday, October 26 at 3 pm. To learn more about all of our upcoming on-campus and online events, please see: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/doctoral-research-day We're eager to answer your questions about our program, so if you have any questions about the program, please contact Dr. Ken Fleischmann at kfleisch at ischool.utexas.edu prior to the information sessions and we?ll try to address your questions in both sessions. Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kyongeun.oh at simmons.edu Wed Oct 28 16:46:50 2015 From: kyongeun.oh at simmons.edu (Kyong Eun Oh) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:46:50 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Asian Digital Library Conference (ICADL) 2015 Message-ID: *Asian Digital Library Conference* *NKOS and CiSAP Workshops* December 9-12, 2015 Seoul, Korea Icadl2015.org We are pleased to invite you to attend the 17th Asian Digital Library conference (ICADL) which will be held on the campus of Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. The main conference will be December 10-11. In addition, the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop will be held December 9 and CiSAP 2015 workshop will be held on December 12. The main conference includes more than 30 peer reviewed paper, panel sessions on digital humanities and eScience, and invited speakers from Microsoft Research, Stanford University Library, and the Australian National Data Service. The deadline for early registration in November 9, 2015. Additional details are available at icadl2015.org. -- Kyong Eun Oh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 Office: 617-521-2265 | kyongeun.oh at simmons.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Thu Oct 22 04:58:12 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:58:12 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [icie] Call for Papers: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies needed today? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5628A524.5090906@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] Call for Papers: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies needed today? Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:16:46 -0600 From: Jared Bielby To: icie at zkm.de , Rory Litwin > > > Call for Papers: Deadline Extended for Inaugural Issue > > Theme: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies > needed today? > > > The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies is a > peer-reviewed open access journal which addresses the need for > critical discourse in library and information science and associated > domains such as communication and media studies. It critically engages > the cultural forms, social practices, the political economy, and the > history of information and information institutions. It also seeks to > broaden the methodological commitments of the field and to broaden the > scope of library and information studies by applying diverse critical, > trans-disciplinary, and global perspectives. The journal engages > issues of social and cognitive justice and the historical and > contemporary roles of documentary, information, and computational > technologies in creating, mediating, surveilling, and challenging > personal and social identities in cultural and political economies of > power and expression. > > For its inaugural issue, the JCLIS will focus on why such a journal is > needed, as a platform for critical discourse in LIS. JCLIS seeks to > publish research articles, literature reviews, and possibly other > essay forms (up to 7000 words) that use or examine critical > perspectives on library and information studies. Some of the issues > that might be addressed are: What are the current gaps in disciplines > and discourses that make the JCLIS necessary? How can scholars speak > to past silences in research and thinking in information studies? What > is ?critical perspective? in library and information studies research? > What ethical or political commitments might a critical perspective > entail? What do critical perspectives look like in practice? > > The theme for the inaugural issue is broad by design in order to > encourage diverse perspectives in describing, analyzing, and providing > insight into how and where library and information studies might > intersect with ethical, philosophical, and/or political concerns, > interpretative or speculative approaches to analysis, or > experimentation with novel, unique, or exploratory research designs > that might be marginalized or excluded from mainstream library and > information studies research. JCLIS aims to be a an inclusive platform > for library and information studies research,including locally > specific research designs and investigations as well as research that > adopts a more global or international frame of inquiry. To that end, > the journal also welcomes unpublished works in translation. > > Deadline for receipt of manuscripts has been extended to December > 18th, 2015. > > Possible topic areas may include (but are not limited to): > > - What is/are critical library and information studies? What might > distinguish critical approaches? > > - The use of a particular critical perspective for research into > topics relevant to library and information studies > > - Different notions of critical approaches and perspectives, and their > relations to information and knowledge studies and research > > - When and why are critical approaches timely? How does its timeliness > or not apply to today?s problems of information and knowledge? > > - Applications of critical approaches in information institution, > organization, or community contexts of practice. > > - How critical approaches or methods might relate to other > contemporary topics within library and information studies: open > access, patron privacy, evolutions in scholarly communication, digital > humanities, etc. > > - How are critical perspectives included or excluded from empirical or > engineering methods in the information and library sciences? > > - Descriptions and reflections on methods for conducting library and > information studies research with a critical approach. What is the > relationship of method tocritical activity? > > - Critical perspectives on race and ethnicity in LIS, and/or the need > for critical perspectives in LIS research. > > - How might postcolonial theory expand the scope and methods of LIS > research? > > - Critical approaches for investigating militarism and the politics of > information. > > - Development/Implementation of information services for diasporic > populations. > > - What has been the relation of critical theory to the LIS tradition > and its modes of historical, qualitative, and quantitative research? > > - What is the relationship of critical theory to LIS education and to > LIS research? > > - Failures and shortcomings: how can critical perspectives inform and > improve library and information studies? > > - Gender and identity within LIS: how might critical perspectives or > approaches be used to explore or investigate them? > > - #critlib and alternative platforms for critical professional > conversation > > - Library and information studies versus library and information > science: What are the differences? > > Types of Submissions > JCLIS welcomes the following types of submissions: > > Research Articles (no more than 7000 words) > Perspective Essays (no more than 5000 words) > Literature Reviews (no more than 7000 words) > Interviews (no more than 5000 words) > Book or Exhibition Reviews (no more than 1200 words) > Research articles and literature reviews are subject to peer review by > two referees. Perspective essays are subject to peer review by one > referee. Interviews and book or exhibition reviews are subject to > review by the issue editor(s). > > Contacts > Guest Editors for the Inaugural Issue of JCLIS > Please direct questions to the guest editors for the issue: > > Ronald Day, Indiana University - Bloomington: roday at indiana.edu > > Alycia Sellie, Graduate Center, City University of New York: > ASellie at gc.cuny.edu > Andrew J Lau, UCLA Extension: andrewjlau at ucla.edu > > > Journal Editors > Associate Editor: Emily Drabinski > Associate Editor: Rory Litwin > Managing Editor: Andrew J Lau > > > Description of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies > > The mission of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies > is to serve as a peer-reviewed platform for critical discourse in and > around library and information studies from across the disciplines. > This includes but is not limited to research on the political economy > of information, information institutions such as libraries, archives, > and museums, reflections on professional contexts and practices, > questioning current paradigms and academic trends, questioning the > terms of information science, exploring methodological issues in the > context of the field, and otherwise enriching and broadening the scope > of library and information studies by applying diverse critical and > trans-disciplinary perspectives. Recognizing library and information > studies as a diverse, cross-disciplinary field reflective of the > scholarly community?s diverse range of interests, theories, and > methods, JCLIS aims to showcase innovative research that queries and > critiques current paradigms in theory and practice through > perspectives that originate from across the humanities and social > sciences. > > Each issue is themed around a particular topic or set of topics, and > features a guest editor (or guest editors) who will work with the > managing editor to shape the issue?s theme and develop an associated > call for papers. Issue editors will assist in the shepherding of > manuscripts through the review and preparation processes, are > encouraged to widely solicit potential contributions, and work with > authors in scoping their respective works appropriately. > > JCLIS is open access in publication, politics, and philosophy. In a > world where paywalls are the norm for access to scholarly research, > the Journal recognizes that removal of barriers to accessing > information is key to the production and sharing of knowledge. Authors > retain copyright of manuscripts published in JCLIS, generally with a > Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. If an article is > republished after initially publication in JCLIS, the republished > article should indicate that it was first published by JCLIS. > > > Submission Guidelines for Authors > The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies welcomes > submissions from senior and junior faculty, students, activists, and > practitioners working in areas of research and practice at the > intersection of critical theory and library and information studies. > > Authors retain the copyright to material they publish in the JCLIS, > but the Journal cannot re-publish material that has previously been > published elsewhere. The journal also cannot accept manuscripts that > have been simultaneously submitted to another outlet for possible > publication. > > > Citation Style > JCLIS uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition as the official > citation style for manuscripts published by the journal. All > manuscripts should employ the Notes and Bibliography style (as > footnotes with a bibliography), and should conform to the guidelines > as described in the Manual. > > > Submission Process > Manuscripts are to be submitted through JCLIS? online submission > system (http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis) by > December 18th, 2015. This online submission process requires that > manuscripts be submitted in separate stages in order to ensure the > anonymity of the review process and to enable appropriate formatting. > > Abstracts (500 words or less) should be submitted in plain text and > should not include information identifying the author(s) or their > institutional affiliations. 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LIDA is an international biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable environs. The LIDA conference is held at the University of Zadar (Croatia) and the conference?s Guest of Honour is Professor Tefko Saracevic, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA. *Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2016* (for all types of contributions) Types of Contributions Invited: 1. Papers: scholarly studies and reports on practices and advances that will be presented at the conference. Both completed research and early work/preliminary results are invited. Papers will be refereed in a double-blind process. Submit 1,500 word abstract, plus references. 2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, preliminary work and educational projects that will be presented in a special poster session. Posters will undergo a double-blind review. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster. Submit 750 word abstract, plus references. 3. Panels: up to 90 minute sessions that will be interactive and offer different perspectives and approaches to a specific topic. Organizers propose the format and invite up to five panelists (including the moderator). Submit 750 word abstract, plus references. 4. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. Submit 750 word description. 5. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature, and are intended to foster interactive discussions for attendees who share common interest. Submit 750 word description, plus references. 6. PhD Forum: short presentations by doctoral students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/). The PhD Forum provides doctoral students the opportunity to present their work to senior faculty in relatively informal setting and to receive feedback on their dissertation by a panel of international educators. Submit 750 word description. 7. Undergraduate/Graduate Student Showcase: short presentations by undergraduate and graduate student, related to their research, practical projects, etc. The showcase will provide students with opportunity to get feedback on their work in informal setting and advice on how to develop their work further and get published. Submit 750 word description, plus references. Deadlines for all submissions: *February 1, 2016.* All proposals should follow formal LIDA guidelines available at LIDA 2016 website (http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/submissions/). All work should be in English, original and not previously published. Submission of proposals/extended abstracts should be made using the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lida2016 Following the double blind review process all accepted submissions will be published in the scholarly journal Libellarium: Journal for the research of writing, books and cultural heritage institutions. Libellarium is indexed by EBSCO and Erich II and has applied for inclusion into Scopus. Conference co-directors: *Martina Dragija Ivanovi?, Ph.D.* Department of Library and Information Science University of Zadar, Croatia mdragija at unizd.hr ; *Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, Ph.D.* Department of Information Sciences University of Osijek, Croatia sfaletar at ffos.h r ; *Ross J. Todd, Ph.D.* rtodd at rutgers.edu ; *Marie L. Radford, Ph.D.* School of Communication and Information Rutgers University, USA Program chairs: For Part I: *Heather Lea Moulaison, Ph.D*. The iSchool at the University of Missouri University of Missouri, USA moulaisonhe at missouri.edu For Part II: *Michael Seadle, Ph.D.* Institute of Library and Information Science Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany seadle at ibi.hu-berlin.de The entire conference, including all presentations and keynotes,are in English. Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties covering two national parks nearby: Kornati Islands National Park and National Park Paklenica. Marie L. Radford, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Ph.D. Program Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Office DeWitt Rm 206 848-932-8797 (o) 732-932-6919 (fax) @MarieLRadford -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Thu Oct 22 09:41:29 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:41:29 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Still time to register! NISO October Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience Message-ID: *NISO October Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience* Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar. *Date:* October 28, 2015 *Time: *11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern *Event webpage: * http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/user_exp/ *ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE* The demands for awareness of and responsiveness to the academic user experience (UX) are increasingly important for all players in the scholarly communications industry. What began as a software development methodology has proven to be a critical function in our ability to deliver high-quality scholarly resources to a global readership. In this virtual conference, we will feature a range of perspectives on how publishers, libraries and technology suppliers achieve an understanding of reader needs and perspectives, in order to drive iterative improvements in the way users interact with the content we host, publish, and license. *CONFIRMED SPEAKERS* *? Keynote Address: Courtney Green Mcdonald, *Head, Discovery and Research Services, Associate Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries *? **Service Design: Towards a Holistic Assessment of the Library Experience - **Joe Marquez, **MLIS, Web Services Librarian, Reed Libraries, Reed College and **Annie Downey, MLIS, PhD**, **Reed Libraries, Director of Research Services, Reed College* *? **Object-Oriented UX - **Sophia Voychehovski, Founder and Lead UXer, ReWired UX Studio* *? A UX Case Study - **Angie Thorpe, Digital User Experience Librarian, Library, Indiana University Kokomo* *? I**teration-focused User Experience Testing **- **Jeffrey William Gallant, **Affordable Learning Georgia Visiting Program Officer for OER, University System of Georgia **and Laura Bell Wright**, **Head of Reference, Odum Library, Valdosta State University* *? *THE UX of Scholarship: *The Editors of Weave: The Journal of Library User Experience* *? * *Pete Coco, Web Services Librarian, Boston Public Library* * ? Kyle Felker, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Grand Valley State University Libraries* * ? Shoshana Mayden, Content Strategist at University of Arizona Libraries* * ? Matthew Reidsma, Web Services Librarian, Grand Valley State University * ? Free-Range Searching - *Kate Lawrence, Vice President, User Research, EBSCO Information Services* *? Roundtable Discussion - **Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, *Executive Director, NISO *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 4:00 pm Eastern on October 27, 2015 (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for all six of the 2015 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.) For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/user_exp/ # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Oct 23 07:00:27 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:00:27 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] [CFP - Extended Deadline 20/11] Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems) Message-ID: <562A134B.3000204@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> *Extended Deadline November 20, 2015 CFP: Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems):* http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-quality-management-semantic-web-assets-data-services-and-systems Submission guidelines *Deadline:October 31, 2015* > *November 20, 2015** * 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. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. 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 *Overview and Topics* 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. 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In addition, join us at the Rutgers iSchool Reception: Meet our new Dean of the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University: Professor Jonathan Potter, and catch up with your Rutgers colleagues. This will take place in the Sterling 9 room located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Hotel (Conference Hotel) Here is the schedule of our faculty and students at ASIST. Saturday, November 7 8:55-9:15 11th Annual Social Informatics Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research (SIG/SI) Kaitlin Costello, Rutgers University, John D. Martin III, and Ashlee Edwards University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Costello: Dude... I zone out like that all the time:? Banter as Phatic Communication in the Context of Online Discussion Forums Focused on Illicit Behavior Saturday November 7th 12:10-12:30 Best Social Informatics Paper Mary Chayko, Rutgers University Techno-social Life: The Internet, Digital Technology, and Social Connectedness 1:30- 6:30 SIG/USE Symposium Keynote Address Ross Todd, Rutgers University and Safiya Noble, UCLA: Keynote Speakers 15th Annual SIG/USE Symposium: Making Research Matter: Connecting Theory and Practice (SIG/USE) Monday, November 9 8:00 Panel: Information Seeking and Beyond: Impacts of Studying Different Forms of Information Behavior Panelists: Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, Kyungwon Koh, University of Oklahoma, Kyong Eun Oh, Simmons College, Naresh K. Agarwal, Simmons College 1:30 pm Paper Session: Information Ethics & Policy Kaitlin Light Costello, Rutgers University Private: Information Quality, Privacy Policies, and Data Safety Practices in Online Social Networks for Health: A Longitudinal Analysis 3:30 pm Paper Session: Information Seeking Sarah C. Barriage, Darcey K. Searles Rutgers University Astronauts & Sugar Beets: Young Girls? Information Seeking in Family Interactions 3:30 pm Paper Session: Social Media User-Generated Content Vanessa Lynn Kitzie, Debanjan Ghosh Rutgers University #Criming and #Alive: Network and Content Analysis of Two Sides of a Story on Twitter 3:30 pm Paper Session: Social Media User-Generated Content Chirag Shah, Rutgers University Building a Parsimonious Model for Identifying Best Answers Using Interaction History in Community Q&A 6:30 pm President?s Reception Featuring Posters Shah? Navasart Sanentz and Michael Lesk Rutgers University Toward a Semantic Stability Index (SSI) via a Preliminary Exploration of Translation Looping. Dongho Choi, Ziad Matni and Chirag Shah, Rutgers University SOCRATES 2.0: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Social Media Data Through Natural Language Interactions. Si Sun and Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University Managing Personal Health Information in the Home: Strategies of Diabetes Patients in the United States and China. Si Sun and Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University 8:00 pm Rutgers Reception with Dean Jonathan Potter Sterling 9 room located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Hotel Tuesday, November 10 8:30 Paper Session: Health Informatics Miraida Morales, Xiaomu Zhou, Rutgers University Health Practices of Immigrant Women: Indigenous Knowledge in an Urban Environment 10:30 Paper Session: Information Practice Si Sun, Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University Information Attribute Motivators of Personal Health Information Management Activities 3:30 Paper Session: Information Behavior Dongho Choi, Ziad Matni, Chirag Shah, Rutgers University Switching Sources: A Study of People?s Exploratory Search Behavior on Social Media and the Web Ross Todd Dr Ross J Todd Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Library and Information Science Director, Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick , New Jersey USA 08901 Tel: 848 932 7602, Fax: 732 932 6916 Office: Room 201 Huntington House (184 College Av) http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~rtodd Email: rtodd at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Currently, he is working with his students on social computing in the US presidential elections and social movements in Twitter, and medical/health text mining. One of his students was recently awarded the Exploration Scholars Research Grant under his supervision from South Carolina Honors College. In the near future he will announce his new data science course and new interdisciplinary research areas in the following intersections: - Information and Data Science, Journalism, and Social Media - Information and Data Science, Social Media, Psychology, Sociology, and Politics - Information and Data Science, Social Media, Medical/Health - Information and Data Science, and Medical/Health - Information and Data Science, Social Media, Psychology, and Sociology For more information about him please visit his website at: https://sites.google.com/site/karamihomepage/homehttps://sites.google.com/site/karamihomepage/home Thanks, Sam Dr. S. K. Hastings Director and Professor, School of Library and Information Science University of South Carolina Davis College, 1501 Greene St. Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-3858 / hastings at sc.edu / http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/faculty-staff/hastings_samantha.php ALISE President 2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sian.Evans at ARTstor.org Fri Oct 23 11:13:05 2015 From: Sian.Evans at ARTstor.org (Sian Evans) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:13:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Art+Feminism Seeking Community Discussion Message-ID: Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Art+Feminism has prepared a combined renewal of our Wikimedia Foundation IEG grant and PEG grant. If awarded, these grants will fund: childcare and refreshments for the 2016 international Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons; in-person training sessions for New York-city based volunteers and online training sessions national and international node organizers; the expansion of our outreach to post-secondary institutions and international Wikimedia chapters; building sustainable infrastructure for node organizers; and making our materials more intersectional. We are seeking community comment, discussion and endorsement signatures (section at the bottom of the page) to help complete the grant process. You can view the renewal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Art%2BFeminism_Editathon_training_materials_and_network_building/Renewal We encourage you to take a look at these grants, and offer your feedback and/or your endorsement signature if you feel the project worthy. The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at The Museum of Modern Art on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, ongoing Wikipedia support, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments. Node edit-a-thons will be held over the weekend of March 4th-6th in venues across the U.S. and around the world. Those interested in organizing an edit-a-thon should contact us at info at art.plusfeminism.org to get involved. All best wishes, Si?n Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + Michael Mandiberg Meet-up page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism Website: http://art.plusfeminism.org/ __________________________ Si?n Evans Senior Implementation Manager Strategic Services, Artstor 6 East 32nd St., 10th floor New York, NY 10016 1-877-771-4908 | 1-646-943-5357 sian.evans at artstor.org www.artstor.org www.sharedshelf.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage startups working on new ideas to showcase working systems. We welcome presentations about: ? New search and discovery solutions ? Working systems that showcase new IR perspectives ? Novel industrial applications that introduce new IR problems ? IR related R&D challenges in industry ? Data science findings on real-world data sets ? Case studies showing successful industrial adaptations of IR theory and principles in practice ? Successful industry-academy collaborations on real-life problems ? Publicly available benchmarks and datasets, and their ability to predict performance of real systems Proposal Submission Industry authors are invited to submit presentation proposals by email (with the subject "ECIR Industry Day Talk Proposal") to both Industry track co-chairs by November 30th, 2015 at: ? omar.alonso at microsoft.com ? pavser at yandex-team.ru The proposals should consist of: ? Title and abstract of the proposal presentation (1 page); ? Short CV of the presenter(s) (up to 300 words). When submitting a proposal, please bear in mind the following: ? Ensure the presentation is relevant to IR researchers and practitioners; ? Try to highlight interesting R&D challenges in the work you present; ? Please do not propose a sales or funding pitch; ? All slides and links to any demos will be made public. Please do not include any confidential information on the slides. Make sure your slides are approved by your company before being presented. Important Dates ? Talk proposals due: 30 November 2015 ? Notification of proposal acceptance: 22 December 2015 ? Industry day: 23 March 2016 Industry Day Chairs Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing, USA Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Mon Oct 26 22:39:59 2015 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil P. Karadkar) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:39:59 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM/IEEE JCDL 2016: First Call for Workshop Proposals In-Reply-To: <562EA02F.7090001@jcdl.org> References: <562EA02F.7090001@jcdl.org> Message-ID: <562EE3FF.5040109@austin.utexas.edu> This call is also available as a PDF file: https://unmil.ischool.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/JCDL2016-CallForWorkshops.pdf --------------------------------------- JCDL 2016: Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation June 19?23, 2016 Newark, NJ http://www.jcdl2016.org/ The organizers of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016 invite proposals for workshops. Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest both those in established communities and those interested in discussion and exploration of a new or emerging issue. They can range in format from formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed papers, to informal, perhaps centering on an extended roundtable discussions among the selected participants. Workshops relating to the theme of the conference Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation are particularly encouraged. Please see the attached PDF call for details. Essential details: ------------------------ Important dates: (all deadlines at 11:59 PM Hawaii Std. Time on the date) Early submission: December 20, 2015 Early decision (for submissions received by December 20th): January 10, 2016 Submission deadline: January 10, 2016Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2016 Submission: * Proposal should be no more than two pages in the ACM Proceedings template, located at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html * Submit proposals via Easy Chair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2016 . Contacts: If you have questions, please contact the JCDL 2016 workshop co-chairs: Unmil Karadkar (unmil at jcdl.org) and Chirag Shah (chirags at rutgers.edu) About JCDL ---------------- JCDL is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations? operational information systems with all manner of digital content? new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content? theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing? and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Momentum towards the achievement of the vision of the International Council for Science of a ?world where excellence in science is reality? is gathering pace. >From their respective standpoints as practicing scientist and policy maker and research funder, Geoffrey Boulton and Jose Cotta will present their current thinking on the behavioral and technical issues to address, and the barriers to confront, in order to convert the vision of open science in practice. Confirmed topics and speakers are: - *Pathways to Open Science **? Geoffrey Boulton, University of Edinburgh, Royal Society, and President of CODATA ? UK * - *From Open Access to Open Science: A Vision ?* *Jos? Cotta Head of Unit Digital Science, DG CONNECT, European Commission ? Belgium* *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on Monday, November 9, 2015 (the day before the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members will need to register at the member rates. Joint NISO/NASIG webinars, as well as other partner events, are not included in the free webinar package (just NISO-only webinars). Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance. If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year?s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. 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URL: From nhara at indiana.edu Sat Oct 31 21:06:50 2015 From: nhara at indiana.edu (Hara, Noriko) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 01:06:50 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Meeting at ASIST 2015> Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington Message-ID: The department of Information and Library Science (ILS) at Indiana University, Bloomington would be happy to meet with candidates interested in our current job opening at the upcoming ASIST 2015 in St. Louis, MO. The position announcement is available below. If anyone would like to schedule a meeting there, please contact me (nhara at indiana.edu; Chair of Search Committee). Best, Noriko Hara ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of Graduate Programs Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics & Computing | Indiana University http://norikohara.org On 10/27/15, 10:52 AM, "Asis-l on behalf of Rosenbaum, Howard S." wrote: >Title: Asst/ Assoc/ Full Professor >Department: Information and Library Science >Expected start date: 08/01/2016 > >Position summary: > >The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, >Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2016 >in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas >solicited with preference for data curation, CSCW, digital libraries, >information policy, digital youth, documentation, metadata, and the >social web). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, >or full professor). Duties include teaching, research, and service. > >The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the >School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful >history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors >in 1946. U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and >Library Science program eighth nationally in its most recent rankings. >The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and >among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission >is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and >integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, >the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics >and has a total of more than 100 faculty, 900 graduate students, and >1,500 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research >areas in ILS include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated >communication; data science; data curation; digital libraries; >information organization, retrieval, and visualization; human computer >interaction; science studies; semantic web; social informatics; CSCW; >text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the >School include Master?s degrees in Information Science, Library Science, >Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Human Computer >Interaction Design, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in >Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is >also known for its strong undergraduate programs. > >Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with >over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts >110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of >distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its >high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music >school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills >of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town >with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. > >Basic qualifications: Applicants should have an established record (for >senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence (for junior level) >in research and teaching, and a Ph.D. in Information Science or a related >field or (for junior level) expected before 8/2016. > >Interested candidates should submit their application at > >http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/1658 > >Application should include curriculum vitae, statements of research and >teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references >(senior level). > >Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed >to: Prof. Noriko Hara, nhara at indiana.edu or to Faculty Search, Department >of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, >Herman B. Wells Library LI011, Bloomington, IN 47408. > >For full consideration, completed applications must be received by >December 1st, 2015. >Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina >Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu) or to members of the search committee: >Noriko Hara (nhara at indiana.edu), Stasa Milojevic (smilojev at indiana.edu), >Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu), John Walsh (jawalsh at indiana.edu). > >Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer >and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive >consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, >race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, >disability status or protected veteran status. IU Bloomington is vitally >interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. >? > >Howard Rosenbaum >Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies >Department of Information & Library Science >School of Informatics and Computing >Indiana University > >hrosenba at indiana.edu > >ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting >November 6-10, 2015 >St. Louis, Missouri > >________________________________________ >Asis-l mailing list >Asis-l at asis.org >http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Wed Oct 21 15:58:52 2015 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:58:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Join International Digital Preservation Experts at iPRES 2015 - Space limited Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163B24B0F7@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Come join your colleagues from around the world! We are excited to announce that the registration for IPRES2015 is almost filled. If you are thinking of attending the premiere international conference on Digital Preservation, to be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA from November 2-6, 2015, register soon as space is limited. IPRES rotates between North America, Asia, and Europe and it will not be North America again until 2018. For more detailed information regarding the 2015 event, please visit http://ipres2015.org/. Registration rates include: * $750 inclusive of the conference, workshops, tutorials, and all receptions and dinner (M-F); * $575 for the main conference including dinner and two receptions * $300 for full-times students for the entire week * $150 for full-day workshops and tutorials * $100 for half-day workshops and tutorials Full Registration Includes 5 days of activities: * All sessions * Workshops/tutorials (Monday and Friday) * Monday and Wednesday receptions * Conference dinner on Tuesday * Lunch daily * Morning and afternoon refreshments * Bus service to and from many hotels to the conference * Bus service to the Monday reception and Tuesday dinner * Free parking at the Friday Center for drivers See the Registration tab on the IPRES2015 website. Descriptions of the workshops and tutorials can be found at https://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/workshops-and-tutorials/. Conference topics include but are not limited to explorations in digital preservation focused on: * Institutional opportunities and challenges * Infrastructure (organizational and technological) opportunities and challenges * Innovative practice * Education and training Please see http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/ipres-2015-program/ for conference program. Chapel Hill is home to the University of North Carolina, the flagship campus of the UNC system, the oldest public university in the US, and one of the top schools in the country. While exuding a small town feel, Chapel Hill offers food, fun, and culture the caliber of a big city. Check out this recent New York Times travel piece, 36 Hours in Chapel Hill-Carborro, N.C., for just a taste of what the town has to offer. While here for the conference, you will have the opportunity to dine at world class eateries, grab a drink at some blossoming breweries, and experience a wealth of museums and other cultural offerings. Also, the leaves will just be turning the first week of November! IMPORTANT: A refund will be offered, minus a $100.00 processing fee, for refund inquiries submitted before October 1, 2015. NO REFUNDS ARE PERMITTED AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2015. For refund inquiries, please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan at email.unc.edu. Thank you for your interest in the 2015 iPRES Conference, we look forward to seeing you in Chapel Hill in November! For accommodations, please visit http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/accommodations/. For questions concerning the Conference please contact Cal Lee at callee at email.unc.edu or Helen Tibbo at tibbo at email.unc.edu. For questions concerning registration or payment please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan at email.unc.edu. Hope to see you in Chapel Hill! -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo at ils.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 13:37:46 2015 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:37:46 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'2016 - Deadline: November 15, 2015 Message-ID: <201510201737.t9KHbodX014827@mail.asis.org> * ** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email, or if its content is irrelevant for you. ** Please forward for your contacts. Thank you very much! * --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies ( http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ), to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 8, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Oct 30 02:33:45 2015 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:33:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'2016 Call for Papers - Deadline: November 15, 2015 Message-ID: <201510300633.t9U6XqEE012520@mail.asis.org> * ** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email, or if its content is irrelevant for you. ** Please forward for your contacts. Thank you very much! * --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies ( http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ), to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 8, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Thu Oct 29 07:06:07 2015 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:06:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] IPRES2015 Streaming Lisa Nakamura and Pam Samuelson Keynotes Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163B29A4C6@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> We are pleased to announce that both IPRES2015 keynote addresses will be live streamed. At 9:00 - 10:00 (14:00-15:00 GMT) AM EST on Wednesday, November 4th we will stream Lisa Nakamura's presentation entitled "The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Public Feminism and Open Access. On Thursday, November 5th at 9:00 - 10:AM (14:00-15:00 GMT) EST Pam Samuelson will speak on "Mass Digitization of Cultural Heritage: Can Copyright Obstacles Be Overcome?" To tune in, visit: http://livestream.com/unc-sils . Dr. Helen R. 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