From mcunha at ipca.pt Fri Apr 1 07:44:32 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 12:44:32 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] International Journal of Web Portals - Call for papers (SCOPUS indexed) Message-ID: <201604011144.u31BiWv2018478@mail.asis.org> ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJWP Editors-in-Chief: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave) and Emanuel Peres(University of Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro) Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Mission of International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) The mission of the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) is to be a primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate the evolving theory and practice related to Web portals, providing comprehensive coverage and understanding in its technological, business, organizational, and social dimensions. IJWP expands knowledge on all types of portals, from personal and corporate to domain specific, including government, news, cultural, collaborative, and business oriented portals. The journal publishes original contributions concerned with all aspects of planning, development, implementation, management, and exploitation, including literature reviews and case studies. Indices: ACM Digital LibraryACM Digital Library; Bacon's Media Directory; Cabell's Directories; Compendex DBLP; GetCited; Google Scholar; INSPEC; JournalTOCs; Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA); MediaFinder Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) SCOPUS Recommended Topics Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: - Business process integration and management - Cloud and grid solutions - Content Management Systems - Customization - e-Commerce and e-Business applications - Evolution of portals - Frameworks for portal design and development - Infrastructures - Mobile technologies and applications - Project management - Resource management, performance issues, and administration issues - Security issues - Semantic Web services and federated architectures in Web portals - Tools and development environments - User interface issues - Web services Submission to International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal?s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically. Publisher The International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference?, ?Business Science Reference?, and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha and Emanuel Peres Editors-in-Chief International Journal of Web Portals E-mail: mcunha at ipca.pt From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 1 09:03:41 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:03:41 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: First Monday April 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2d3801d18c16$eae06a40$c0a13ec0$@asis.org> Forwarded -----Original Message----- Readers: First Monday has just published the April 2016 (volume 21, number 4) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. The following papers are included in this month's issue: First Monday Volume 21, Number 4 - 4 April 2016 ?Twitter, the most brilliant tough love editor you?ll ever have.? Reading and writing socially during the Twitter Fiction Festival by Joachim Vlieghe, Kelly Page, and Kris Rutten The ecology of the ePundit: Surveying the new opinion-making landscape by Eve Forrest and Alistair S. Duff Twitter friend repertoires: Introducing a methodology to assess patterns of information management on Twitter by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt "A good day to see a bobcat": Elementary students' online journal entries during a structured observation visit to a wildlife center by Michelle M. Kazmer, Nicole D. Alemanne, Anne Mendenhall, Paul F. Marty, Sherry A. Southerland, Victor Sampson, Ian Douglas, Amanda Clark, and Jennifer Schellinger Self-presentation in scholarly profiles: Characteristics of images and perceptions of professionalism and attractiveness on academic social networking sites by Andrew Tsou, Timothy D. Bowman, Thomas Sugimoto, Vincent Larivi?re, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto Pupils in the clouds: Implementation of Google Apps for Education by Maria Lindh, Jan Nolin, and Karen Now? Hedvall Automating power: Social bot interference in global politics by Samuel C. Woolley ------- With the contents of the April 2016 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,553 papers in 239 issues, written by 2,161 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work, Edward J Valauskas Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday From z665.a4 at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 09:23:59 2016 From: z665.a4 at gmail.com (Jean Amaral) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:23:59 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration open - Race Matters: Libraries, Racism, and Antiracism (NY, NY) Message-ID: *Register Now for the 2016 LACUNY Institute!* *Race Matters: Libraries, Racism, and Antiracism* Friday, May 20 from 9:00am - 4:45pm Brooklyn College Student Center, Brooklyn College, CUNY * Directions*: https://goo.gl/maps/FsZUMuFUSx52 *Register online: * http://tinyurl.com/LACUNY-Institute-2016 *Event Program*: https://2016lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/program/ *Presenters? Abstracts:* http://tinyurl.com/LACUNY-Institute2016-abstracts The LACUNY Institute is an annual, one-day conference open to LIS professionals, students, and the general public. It is organized by the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), and although geared to academic librarians, it strives to have broad relevance to the profession. For more information about LACUNY, please visit http://www.lacuny.org This year's Institute includes speakers who will discuss race and its connection to librarianship, access to collections, services, and the users we serve. *Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jelani Cobb* Dr. Cobb is Associate Professor of History and Director, Africana Studies Institute, University of Connecticut. He is also a staff writer of The New Yorker and winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. He is the author of several books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. *Opening Talk: April Hathcock *April M. Hathcock is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at New York University. Formerly a corporate attorney, she now researches ownership, rights, and diversity in scholarship and libraries. Her recent publications include "White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS." Registration fees include continental breakfast and lunch. We look forward to seeing you on Friday May 20, 2016! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Apr 1 09:33:49 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 14:33:49 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL workshop) + Special Issue of IJDL Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 18th April, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bean.lists at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 11:27:49 2016 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:27:49 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: Code4Lib Journal, issue 33 Message-ID: Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting): The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are accepting proposals for publication in our 33rd issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 33rd issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid July 2016, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal at code4lib.org by Friday, April 22, 2016. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message. C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 31 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org. Remember, for consideration for the 33rd issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal at code4lib.org no later than Friday, April 22, 2016. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee ================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcunha at ipca.pt Thu Apr 7 10:12:53 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:12:53 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS - Int. Conf. on ENTERprise Information Systems * AIS affiliated conference * Porto, Portugal: Oct 5-7, 2016 * Extended deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604071412.u37ECqUg030110@mail.asis.org> CENTERIS 2016 International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems http://centeris.scika.org An AIS affiliated conference Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 Extended submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 18, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From mcunha at ipca.pt Thu Apr 7 10:14:28 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:14:28 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] ProjMAN 2016 - Int. Conference on Project MANagement * AIS affiliated conference * Porto, Portugal * Extended sub deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604071414.u37EERSf030301@mail.asis.org> ProjMAN 2016 International Conference on Project MANagement http://projman.scika.org/ An AIS affiliated conference Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://projman.scika.org) until April 18, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://projman.scika.org ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From mcunha at ipca.pt Sat Apr 9 14:18:54 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:18:54 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS * HCist * ProjMAN 2016 *** AIS affiliated conferences *** call for workshop papers *** Extended submission deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604091818.u39IIq0K004395@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Extended submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- ---------- Workshops to be held in: - CENTERIS 2016 -? International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems http://centeris.scika.org/ - ProjMAN 2016 - International Conference on Project MANagement http://projman.scika.org/ - HCist 2016 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies http://hcist.scika.org/ ---------- Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 ---------- Extended submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- AIS affiliated conferences ---------- ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to consider submitting your work to the CENTERIS / ProjMAN / HCist 2016 workshops, to be held in Porto, Portugal, next October 5-7. ---------- ---------- Workshops IWoSMSO - International Workshop on Systems Modeling, Simulation and Optimization http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/01-IWoSMSO.pdf ---------- UCMAD2016 - Usefulness and Creativity in Mobile Application Development http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/02-UCMAD2016.pdf ---------- ACAI - Applied Computational and Artificial Intelligence http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/04-ACAI.pdf ---------- TQLDM - Trends in promoting quality of life through digital media http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/05-TPQLTDM.pdf ---------- IERP - Intelligent ERP systems and networks http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/07-IERP.pdf ---------- SARWatch - Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/10-SARWATCH.pdf ---------- MCDM&EIS - International Workshop on Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems http://centeris.eiswatch.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/11-MCDMEIS.pdf ---------- BPMR2T - Workshop on Business Process Management Research, Technologies and Tools http://centeris.scika.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/12-BPMR2T.pdf ---------- Industry-Academia - Industry-Academia Projects and Partnerships http://projman.scika.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/08-IAPP.pdf ---------- HSP - Healthy and Secure People http://hcist.scika.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/03-HSP.pdf ---------- IoT - Improving the Quality of Human Life - Applications Showcase http://hcist.scika.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/06-IoT.pdf ---------- CKRR - Clinical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning http://hcist.scika.org/CONTENTS/downloads/workshops2016/09-CKRR.pdf ---------- ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conferences webpage until April 4, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the respective webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit the workshops webpage. ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From mcunha at ipca.pt Sat Apr 9 14:20:02 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:20:02 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] International Journal of Web Portals - Call for papers (SCOPUS indexed) Message-ID: <201604091820.u39IK0Is004443@mail.asis.org> ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJWP Editors-in-Chief: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave) and Emanuel Peres(University of Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro) Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Mission of International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) The mission of the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) is to be a primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate the evolving theory and practice related to Web portals, providing comprehensive coverage and understanding in its technological, business, organizational, and social dimensions. IJWP expands knowledge on all types of portals, from personal and corporate to domain specific, including government, news, cultural, collaborative, and business oriented portals. The journal publishes original contributions concerned with all aspects of planning, development, implementation, management, and exploitation, including literature reviews and case studies. Indices: ACM Digital LibraryACM Digital Library; Bacon's Media Directory; Cabell's Directories; Compendex DBLP; GetCited; Google Scholar; INSPEC; JournalTOCs; Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA); MediaFinder Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) SCOPUS Recommended Topics Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: - Business process integration and management - Cloud and grid solutions - Content Management Systems - Customization - e-Commerce and e-Business applications - Evolution of portals - Frameworks for portal design and development - Infrastructures - Mobile technologies and applications - Project management - Resource management, performance issues, and administration issues - Security issues - Semantic Web services and federated architectures in Web portals - Tools and development environments - User interface issues - Web services Submission to International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal?s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically. Publisher The International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference?, ?Business Science Reference?, and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha and Emanuel Peres Editors-in-Chief International Journal of Web Portals E-mail: mcunha at ipca.pt From mcunha at ipca.pt Sat Apr 9 14:14:49 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:14:49 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] HCist 2016 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care IST * AIS affiliated conference * Porto, Portugal * Extended sub deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604091834.u39IYtqK004991@mail.asis.org> HCist 2016 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies An AIS affiliated conference Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 http://hcist.scika.org Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to HCist - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 18, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://hcist.scika.org ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Apr 11 14:27:30 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:27:30 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS | HCist | ProjMAN 2016 -- extended submission deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604111827.u3BIRS0n023246@mail.asis.org> ------- CENTERIS 216 International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems http://centeris.scika.org ------- HCist 2016 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies http://hcist.scika.org ------- ProjMAN 2016 International Conference on Project MANagement http://projman.scika.org ------- ------- AIS affiliated conferences ------- Porto, Portugal ------- October 5-7, 2016 Due to several requests, the CENTERIS | ProjMAN | HCist 2016 Conference organizers decided to extend the submission deadline to April 18, 2016. The conferences will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage until April 18, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the conference webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 ---------- From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Apr 11 14:28:32 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:28:32 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CENTERIS - Int. Conf. on ENTERprise Information Systems * AIS affiliated conference * Porto, Portugal: Oct 5-7, 2016 * Extended deadline: April 18 Message-ID: <201604111828.u3BISUpG023320@mail.asis.org> CENTERIS 2016 International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems http://centeris.scika.org An AIS affiliated conference Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 Extended submission deadline: April 18, 2016 ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Extended Submission deadline: April 18, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 18, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://centeris.scika.org ---------- ---------- Venue Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe and benefits from a privileged geographic location, complemented by a modern transport and communications network. The richness of its monumental and artistic heritage, Port Wine, numerous leisure facilities and its cultural attractions invite you to visit this contemporary and inspired city well-known for its hospitality. Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From rhill at asis.org Wed Apr 6 09:13:19 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:13:19 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award Opportunities in Information Sciences Message-ID: <42fb01d19006$19d04c60$4d70e520$@asis.org> Please forward as appropriate. Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From: Yang, Sophia [mailto:SYang at iie.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 5:30 PM Subject: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award Opportunities in Information Sciences My name is Sophia Yang, and I am a program officer with the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. I am writing to ask for your advice and/or assistance in publicizing exciting Fulbright awards for teaching and research within the area of information sciences. This year, the Fulbright Scholar Program is offering over 85 awards in the discipline of information sciences. Opportunities include: Namibia: Engineering and Information Technology * Australia: Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation (CSIRO) * Hungary: F ulbright-Aquincum Institute of Technology Lecturing Grant in Information Technology (Data Mining) * Trinidad and Tobago: Multiple Disciplines : College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts For additional awards in the field of information sciences, please visit: http://www.cies.org/opportunities-communications. There you will find award highlights and examples of successful projects in the discipline, and scholar testimonials which highlight the outcomes and benefits associated with completing a Fulbright Scholar grant. For eligibility factors, detailed application guidelines and review criteria, please follow this link: http://cies.org/program/core-fulbright-us-scholar-program. Your members may wish to register for one of our webinars or join My Fulbright , a resource center for applicants interested in the program. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and the current competition will close on August 1, 2016. Thank you, Sophia Sophia Yang Program Officer, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Institute of International Education 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 Phone +1.202.686.4024 | Fax +1.202.686.4029 syang at iie.org | www.iie.org The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is administered by CIES, a division of IIE. Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Google+| Vimeo | Blog | My Fulbright Opening Minds to the World R -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If it is an experimental or empirical research paper, concentrate on adding at least several more rounds of experiments or additional data collection as well as additional data analysis focused on new or revised/extended questions. Also focus on deepening the literature survey to cover more material and add more critical discussion and synthesis of the literature. Finally, expand the limitations, discussion (including implications), and future research sections. If the work is not experimental or empirical in nature, a significantly deeper literature review and critical analysis should be included in the journal submission. It would be highly important to point out what motivated the production of the subsequent paper, particularly new questions and previously unexamined angles (based on solid rationale). Relative to a conference-length paper, the implications and the potential impacts section of the non-empirical journal paper must also be substantially expanded. Regards, Diane and Javed -- Diane H. Sonnenwald Visiting Professor, Distinguished Endowed Chair Taiwan Global Networking Talent Program Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies National Taiwan Normal University Taipei (10610), Taiwan R.O.C. Emerita Professor of Information and LIbrary Studies University College Dublin Editor, Theory Development in the Information Sciences http://www.utexaspress.com/index.php/books/series/series/Information Chair, 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If it is an experimental or empirical research paper, concentrate on adding at least several more rounds of experiments or additional data collection as well as additional data analysis focused on new or revised/extended questions. Also focus on deepening the literature survey to cover more material and add more critical discussion and synthesis of the literature. Finally, expand the limitations, discussion (including implications), and future research sections. If the work is not experimental or empirical in nature, a significantly deeper literature review and critical analysis should be included in the journal submission. It would be highly important to point out what motivated the production of the subsequent paper, particularly new questions and previously unexamined angles (based on solid rationale). Relative to a conference-length paper, the implications and the potential impacts section of the non-empirical journal paper must also be substantially expanded. Regards, Diane and Javed -- Diane H. Sonnenwald Visiting Professor, Distinguished Endowed Chair Taiwan Global Networking Talent Program Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies National Taiwan Normal University Taipei (10610), Taiwan R.O.C. Emerita Professor of Information and LIbrary Studies University College Dublin Editor, *Theory Development in the Information Sciences* http://www.utexaspress.com/index.php/books/series/series/Information Chair, 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dwolfram at uwm.edu Sat Apr 2 13:52:09 2016 From: dwolfram at uwm.edu (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:52:09 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CFP: Joint workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL) @JCDL2016 In-Reply-To: <296dca58-3a05-414c-9997-ccc51a14d297@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> References: <296dca58-3a05-414c-9997-ccc51a14d297@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Message-ID: (Please excuse any cross-postings) == Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the upcoming Joint workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be held as part of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016 (JCDL 2016) in Newark, New Jersey, USA. We are happy to announce that the past BIR and NLPIR4DL organizers are proposing this workshop at JCDL together. In conjunction with the workshop, we will hold the 2nd CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. Reports from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at the workshop. === Important Dates === - Submissions: 15 April 2016 - Notification: 06 May 2016 - Camera Ready Contributions: 03 June 2016 - Workshop: 23 June 2016 in Newark, New Jersey, USA === Aim of the Workshop === Current digital libraries collect and allow access to digital papers and their metadata (including citations), but mostly do not analyze the items they index. The large scale of scholarly publications poses a challenge for scholars in their search for relevant literature. Searchers of digital libraries, citation indices and journal databases are inundated with thousands of results. The community needs to develop techniques to better support both basic as well as higher-order information seeking and scholarly sensemaking activities. The BIRNDL 2016 workshop is a joint scientific event gathering scholars from the BIR (Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval) and the NLPIR4DL (Text and citation analysis for scholarly digital libraries) communities. The scope of BIRNDL is on scholarly publications and data - the explosion in the production of scientific literature and the growth of scientific enterprise; its consistent exponential growth approaches an empirical law. The workshop will investigate how natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometric and recommendation techniques can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis and retrieval at scale. Researchers are in need of assistive technologies to track developments in an area, identify the approaches used to solve a research problem over time and summarize research trends. Digital libraries require semantic search, question-answering and automated recommendation and reviewing systems to manage and retrieve answers from scholarly databases. Full document text analysis can help to design semantic search, translation and summarization systems; citation and social network analyses can help digital libraries to visualize scientific trends, bibliometrics and relationships and influences of works and authors. All these approaches can be supplemented with the metadata supplied by digital libraries, inclusive of usage data, such as download counts. This workshop will be relevant to scholars in the cross-disciplinary field of Computer Science and Digital Libraries, in particular in the research areas of Natural Language Processing and in Information Retrieval; it will also be important for all stakeholders in the publication pipeline: implementers, publishers and policymakers. Even when only considering the scholarly sites within Computer Science, we find that the field is well-represented - ACM Portal, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, PSU's CiteSeerX, MSR's Academic Search, Elsevier?s Mendeley, Tsinghua's ArnetMiner, Trier's DBLP, Hiroshima's PRESRI; with this workshop we hope to bring a number of these contributors together. Today's publishers continue to seek new ways to be relevant to their consumers, in disseminating the right published works to their audience. The fact that formal citation metrics have become an increasingly large factor in decision-making by universities and funding bodies worldwide makes the need for research in such topics and for better methods for measuring the impact of work more pressing. This workshop is also informed by an ongoing COST Action TD1210 KnowEscape. http://www.knowescape.org === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Information retrieval (IR) for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scholarly text, e.g. citation-based IR - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Navigation, searching and browsing in scholarly DLs; Niche search in scholarly DLs; New information access methods for scientific papers - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Question-answering for scholarly DLs - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - (Social) Book Search - Summarisation of scientific articles; Automatic creation of reviews and automatic qualitative assessment of submissions; - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR; Citation function/motivation analysis; Novel bibliographic metrics; Topical modeling analysis - Knowledge discovery and analysis of the ancestry of ideas - Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and discovery; Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification - Translation, multilingual and multimedia analysis and alignment of scholarly works - Analyses of writing style in scholarly publications - Science Modelling (both formal and empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; Data cleaning and data quality - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) For the paper sessions we invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short and 12 pages for full papers, Springer LNCS: ; exclusive of unlimited pages for references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings and from the program. EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) and in the ACL Anthology. This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Planned IJDL Special Issue: We are currently working with the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) to edit a special issue that may feature extended works from BIRNDL. Selected workshop papers from BIRNDL may be fast-tracked for extension shortly after the workshop, and be re-reviewed for publication. IJDL is a Springer journal and indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and other indices. === Organizers === Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK Kokil Jaidka, Big Data Experience Lab, Adobe Research, India Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Dietmar Wolfram, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA === Program Committee (TBC) === The below lists the committee members who have stated their support to review submissions to the workshop. A few have yet to be confirmed. Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Iana Atanassova, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Marc Bertin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Jos? Borbinha, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA Jason S Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium Ed A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA Bela Gipp, University of Konstanz, Germany Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Pawan Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Bj?rn Hammarfelt, University of Bor?s, Sweden Peter Ingwersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK Rahul Jha, Microsoft Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Dain Kaplan, Tokyo Institute of Technology Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS, Germany Marijn Koolen, University of Amsterdam, NL Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Birger Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark John Lawrence, University of Dundee Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Xiaozhong Liu, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, USA Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University, USA Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University / Qatar Computing Research Institute Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven Peter Mutschke, GESIS, Germany Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology Byung-won On, Kunsan National University Arzucan Ozgur, Bogazici University Cecile Paris, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Philipp Schaer, GESIS, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS, NL Henry Small, SciTech Strategies, USA Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore Lynda Tamine-Lechani, University Paul Sabatier, France Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, UK Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Vasudeva Varma, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Andre Vellino, University of Toronto Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Ludo Waltman, CWTS, NL Stephen Wan, CSIRO ICT Centre -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From tibbo at ils.unc.edu Sun Apr 3 21:55:37 2016 From: tibbo at ils.unc.edu (Tibbo, Helen R) Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 01:55:37 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for DigCCurr Professional Institute 2016-2017 Message-ID: <16C92BA681D083499626AF35C5A645163B717F06@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Please excuse cross postings************************************ Registration Now Open! DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle July 17-22, 2016 & March 14-15, 2017 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute2016.html for more information. REGISTRATION LINK: http://tinyurl.com/zfcacrn The Institute consists of one five-day session in July 2016 and a two-day follow-up session in March 2017. The summer event begins at 6 PM on Sunday, July 17 with a welcome and opening event. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on "lab" components. A course pack and a private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, Continental breakfast, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Tuesday will also be included. This institute is designed to foster skills, knowledge and community-building among professionals responsible for the curation of digital materials. Registration: * Regular registration : $1,150 * Late registration (after June 15, 2016): $1,300 If you are a grant recipient working on a digital project, we recommend that you check with your program officer to request approval to use available grant funds to attend the institute. Institute Instructors Include: * From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Drs. Helen Tibbo, Cal Lee, and Kam Woods. * Dr. Nancy McGovern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. * Dr. Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. * Dr. Lorraine Richards, Drexel University. July 2017 Institute Components include (order and session titles may vary somewhat from those listed): *Overview of digital curation definition, scope and main functions *Where you see yourself in the digital curation landscape *Digital curation program development *Digital curation stakeholders and digital curation landscape *Case Study on developing a digital repository *Procedural accountability - policies, submission agreements, rules *LAB -Transforming policy statements into rules *Overview of digital preservation challenges and opportunities *Roles and responsibilities for curation *LAB - Matching skills and roles *Characterization of digital objects *Overview and Characterization of Existing Tools: Placing the Tools in a Larger Industry Context *File formats *LAB - File format robustness *Managing in response to technological change *Digital forensics *Ethical issues *LAB - Media and content *Workflows, humans, and tools *Lab - Workflows *Evaluating curation programs requirements and assessment *LAB - Evaluating curation programs: TRAC/ISO 16363 Review * Characterizing, analyzing and evaluating the producer information environment *Economics of digital curation - costs and resource commitments *LAB - Economics of digital curation *Cloud computing *Web archiving * Formulating your six-month action plan - task for each individual, with instructors available to provide guidance * Summary of action plans * Clarifying roles and expectations for the next six months March 14-15, 2017 Participants in the July event will return to Chapel Hill in March 2017 to discuss their experiences in implementing what they have learned in their own work environments. Participants will compare experiences, lessons learned and strategies for continuing progress. Accommodations for January will be the responsibility of the attendee. For more information, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo at email.unc.edu) for Institute questions or Michelle Taylor (michele at email.unc.edu) for payment or registration questions. The Digital Professional Institute was initiated as part of the DigCCurr II project, supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-08) and is partially supported by the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LODGING: Participants are responsible for their own lodging. A DigCCurr 2016-17 room block has been reserved at the Hampton Inn Hotel in Downtown Carrboro at $119/night. Please indicate "DigCCurr2016" when making reservations. You may reserve your hotel room by calling the hotel at +1-919-969-6988 or by clicking on this link: http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/groups/personalized/R/RDUCOHX-DIG-20160716/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG. Reservations must be received by 06/15/2016. See the Accommodations page for more information (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute_accom.html) We look forward to seeing you there! -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 rdubnic2 at illinois.edu Mon Apr 4 17:21:55 2016 From: rdubnic2 at illinois.edu (Dubnicek, Ryan C) Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:21:55 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] RFP: HTRC Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS), Spring 2016 Message-ID: The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) project awards. These awards are modeled in the form of HTRC staff time to collaborate on the proposed project during the award period. Awardees can be individual scholars or a team of scholars. The HTRC ACS-dedicated staff will provide a general overview of HTRC components, the HT corpus and HT computational tools, to the awardees over the course of the project?s time period. Proposals should be between 4 and 7 pages, and include project narrative, schedule of completion and list of deliverables. Full details of required components can be found in the full ACS RFP, available here: https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_sp16_acs-rfp Proposals are due by 5:00 pm Eatern, May 2, 2016, submitted electronically. For any questions or to submit your proposal, email acs at hathitrust.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jyoon at usf.edu Thu Apr 7 22:41:20 2016 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:41:20 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] So how is OA doing and who is writing about it? - Latest issue of Publications now out Message-ID: Open Access has been around for quite a time now, and it's appropriate that an OA journal on publishing continues to keep an eye on it. The latest issue of *Publications: the journal of academic publishing and communication* certainly does that with a couple of articles. And remember, they are all OA, and I give the links so you can go straight there and read them if you wish. First up we have a review of the literature - what's it about and who's writing it (using Scopus as source). You will be shocked to know that the USA is the most prolific country, with over 30% of articles and UK trailing behind with about 13.4%. All other countries are, a bit, also-rans. No prizes for guessing the most prolific author - If I tell you his first name is Bo-Christer?... Steven Harnad comes in fourth. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/1/htm* And then we have an article looking more at content, at least as far as the Health Sciences are concerned, tracking what evidence has been found, and in what direction. Although most articles nowadays seem to start from the premise that OA is necessarily 'a good thing', and these are no exception, in the body of the article it is careful to point out where evidence is also either weak or contradictory. On citation impact, for example, it rather assumes OA is positive but points also to the caveats and studies by such as Phil Davis et al. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/2/htm* *. * The history and rise of OA seems to have acquired its own mythology - since I was one of the people responsible for one of the very first substantial OA (not called that then) journals in the 1990s, and founded for very different reasons, it's all mildly amusing, but we have to live with it... There is another pair of articles looking at Non-Native English Speakers publishing in English. As someone who has now edited or 'polished' getting on for 200 articles in English by Chinese researchers, I read these with interest. One is really based on a set of case studies, charting in detail the trials and tribulations of such researchers as they work their way through, and trying to draw some conclusions. Interestingly, he raises how some are questioning the fairness of these systems 'requiring' English/American English and wanting to 'uncouple' the language from its native speakers, and talking, without irony, about the 'transformationalist framework' of that particular school of thought. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/6/htm* *, * *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/5/htm* *. *These days all major publishers will at least refer non-native speakers to places where they can get help. More may be needed, however, and James Cameron and Karen Englander, based partly on their own experience, make a call for more properly organised courses within universities, and outline the one in Mexico as an example. Given my own experience, I feel an editorial coming on... By the way, I do have an editorial in this issue, on a couple of aspects of one of my hobby-horses - peer review. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/8/htm* *. *For some reason it's not at the top of the contents list - as a new boy here I'll have to have a word with the publishers about that. We also have a bibliometric analysis of how co-authorship and exposure to 'international' journals e.g. those from USA and UK, can greatly assist visibility to authors from devloping countries, in this case, specifically, Brazil - which may have wider implications for many other other countries. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/4/htm* *. *Lastly, we have a piece which at first sight is less about academic publishing than creative writing - but it's interesting to see whether there is any crossover. This explores what it calls 'implicit collaboration' or 'appropriation' in the context of the Creative Commons licence. It recognises that in some fields this would be considered 'plagiarism' but explores how creative works use and build on the works of others, sometimes with full acceptance, and sometimes controversially. It makes interesting and thought-provoking reading - although I'm left with the feeling that, in science, it's fine for someone to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' but it's not ok for them to falsely pretend to actually *be *that giant.. *http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/7/htm* *. *That's all for now. Hope you enjoy at least browsing the articles. Hope to see you again in a few months. Alan Singleton Editor-in-Chief Publications Email: singleton at mdpi.com -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ICADL 2016 in Tsukuba, the Japanese science city near Tokyo, offers a valuable opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences and innovative developments. ICADL 2016 will be held as a part of an international forum with the Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) to promote exchange and collaboration among information schools in Asia-Pacific. AP-IS will include a doctoral consortium, workshops, panel discussions and meetings for students and faculties from Information Schools in the Asia-Pacific region. The main theme of ICADL 2016 is "Knowledge, Information and Data in Open Access Society." We solicit not only high-quality, original research papers, but also practitioner papers identifying research problems and future directions. Following the previous ICADLs, ICADL 2016 proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. The following is the (non-exhaustive) list of topics. [Information Technologies for Knowledge, Information and Data] Semantic Web and linked data Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information Multilingual information access Multimedia information management, retrieval and recommendation Metadata aggregation models Interchangeability and information integration Ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information Applications of digital libraries Quality assurance of digital libraries Sociability and high availability of digital libraries Digital preservation Digital curation Research data and virtual organizations User interface and user experience Visualization in digital libraries Social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interface in digital libraries Personal information management and personal digital libraries Ubiquitous computing and knowledge management [Societal and Cultural Issues in Knowledge, Information and Data] Community Informatics Cross-sectoral digital libraries Collaborations among archives, libraries, museums Digital cultural memory initiatives Digital humanities Digital library/ digital archive infrastructures Digital library education and digital literacy Digital preservation and digital curation Economic and legal frameworks and issues Ethics and ethical practice, privacy in digital collection building, management and access Higher education uses of digital collections Research data infrastructures, management and use Information policies Participatory cultural heritage Risks management in digital library/ archive projects Creating, managing and using collections of social media and dynamically generated contents Social sustainability and digital libraries/ archives Socio-technical perspectives of digital information Usability and accessibility aspects of digital libraries *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our unique training includes: (1) personalized training modules from core courses of the MS degree in Data Science and Analytics program, Big Data courses from Computer Science, and biomedical informatics courses from MUII, which will expose trainees to the basic concepts, ethics, and working knowledge in Big Data Science; (2) a problem-based learning curriculum in pre-doctoral-level Big Data-related courses, such as Mining Massive Data Sets for Biomedical Applications, designed to foster a team science approach to problem-solving; (3) a student-driven journal club/seminar series, in which students are offered opportunities to present research, pose questions, and receive feedback from peers and mentors. Our interdisciplinary components include (1) required tri-lab rotations to introduce students to animal/veterinary medical research, human medical research, computing/statistical methodologies, and health communications; (2) development of rigorous and reproducible open-source Big Data analytics tools, which will be assessed by the One Health research community after arduous testing; and (3) creation of an Individual Development Plan based on each trainee's background and career goal prior to joining the program. These positions are open to permanent residents and US citizens only. Women and minority students are encouraged to apply. Applications are now open and will close on May 1, 2016. For application information, please visit https://muii.missouri.edu/prospective_students/admission.php or click on link. Please contact the project director Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu at ShyuC at missouri.edu for inquiries. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn eighteen (18) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). This course is not for graduate credit. *About the instructor* Dr. Jen Golbeck is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago, and is one of the world?s foremost experts in the field. Her research has influenced industry, government, and the military. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people?s hidden attributes from their online behavior, and a leader in creating human-friendly security and privacy systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. *Short Course Details* - Dates: May 2nd ? June 11th - Delivery: A fully online, asynchronous course that will utilize the University's Canvas learning management system. - Price and Refunds - $379 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, visit *http://go.umd.edu/spring16-webprogramming * Registration will close April 29, 2016, and participation will be capped at 50 students. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. 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Message-ID: <1FE55AA8C30F694B820C89B197411E7131DFE297@AD-EXCHMBX4-1.aau.dk> CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction 5-8 September 2016, ?vora - Portugal Submission Deadlines: - Sunday April 24, 2016 (long papers), - Sunday May 1 (short papers) http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ Twitter: @clef_initiative / #clef2016 CALL FOR PAPERS The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The conference is teamed up with a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation. CLEF 2016 is the 7th year of the CLEF Conference and the 17th year of the CLEF initiative as a forum for IR Evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). TOPICS Relevant topics for the CLEF 2016 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis. - Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc. FORMAT Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: - https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2016 DATES - Submission of Long Papers: April 24, 2016 - Submission of Short Papers: May 1, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2016 - Camera Ready Copy due: June 17, 2016 - Conference: September 5-8, 2016 ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Paulo Quaresma, University of ?vora, Portugal Program Chairs - Birger Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark - Teresa Gon?alves, University of ?vora, Portugal Lab Chairs - Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK - Krisztian Balog, Uinversity of Stavenger, Norway Proceedings Chairs - Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy From awasom.afuh at ttu.edu Wed Apr 6 18:03:59 2016 From: awasom.afuh at ttu.edu (Afuh, Awasom) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:03:59 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd call : ASIST 2016 SIG III International Paper contest for LIS professionals in developing countries Message-ID: **** Apologies for cross Publications*** The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) hereby announces the opening of its 16th International Paper Contest for LIS Professionals in Developing countries, for the 2016 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 14-18, 2016. https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016. The theme of the Annual Meetings is: "Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology". This theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers - including academics practitioners, to discuss the impact of their research on industry, government, local/national/global community groups, individuals, information systems, libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. It highlights the focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a local and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to the following core areas: * Impact on Individuals: information behavior, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media use, information literacy, etc. * Impact on Society: digital citizenship, cultural engagement, archival preservation, policy development, copyright, intellectual property, infometrics, information access, etc. * Impact on Organizations: information architecture, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, linked data and big data, digital curation, records and archives management, etc. * Impact on Systems & Technology: cloud computing, digital libraries, automatic indexing, social tagging, classification, semantic web, database design, web usability, etc. * Impact on Information Contexts: health, education, law; environment, agriculture, business, etc. A panel of judges will select three winners. The panel is composed of Innocent Awasom (Texas Tech University, USA), J.K. Vijayakumar (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia), and Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy, Islamabad). Judging criteria: The papers will be judged on the following:- - Originality of paper in the developing world and global information ecosystem - Relevance to the paper contest theme and - Quality of argument, presentation and organization Eligibility Information for authors: Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners of the 2010-2015 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. Award: The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will receive a minimum of $1,000 towards offsetting the costs of attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from Oct. 14-18, 2016. (https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/). Style: The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ulbr20&page=instructions#.VOw5ZUex4k0 Publishing opportunities: Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the peer refereeing process of that journal. ASIS&T Copyright Policy: ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31st, 2016 via email to awasom.afuh at ttu.edu, [awasomdotafuhatttudotedu] preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachment. Thanks and look forward to receiving your submissions. Awasom Afuh (Innocent) Associate Librarian (Science) Texas Tech University Libraries Box 40002 Office M110 Lubbock, TX 79409 T 806 834 2385 F 806 742 1964 awasom.afuh at ttu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asis at gwizdka.com Sat Apr 9 16:04:42 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 15:04:42 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: SIGIR Workshop Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 Message-ID: ====================================== SIGIR Workshop: Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 http://chauff.github.io/sal2016/ July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy ====================================== Search systems to date are viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy immediate information needs, than as part of larger complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Since users increasingly learn informally while searching as well as use search systems as tools for self-study, there is a growing recognition of the importance to address the challenges of designing, developing, and evaluating search systems (algorithms, interfaces, etc.) that foster discovery and enhance learning outside of formal educational settings. The Search as Learning Workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, and survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. Further, this workshop wishes to bring together researchers with backgrounds in information science (IS), human computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR), with the goal of integrating conceptual, experimental, and simulation-based approaches and methodologies from within these different fields, thus allowing the transformation of search systems as isolated information access tools into systems that provide support for learning directly and that consider the broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): - Understanding searching as a human learning process. - When and how learning occurs in the search process. - The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts. - Features and functionalities to foster learning. - Search interface design in support of learning. - The implications of searching for learning for different populations: children, low literacy searchers, non-experts. - The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching. - Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience. - Learning analytics for search contexts. - Collaborative aspects of searching as learning. - Indicators of learning (while searching). - Interaction monitoring, modelling, and optimization for learning outcomes. The submissions will be peer reviewed (single-blind) and must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template. We invite position papers on the topic (up to 2 pages) as well as reports on ongoing research (up to 4 pages). We accept submissions through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sal2016 Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline (tentative): May 1, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2016 Final Papers Due: June 5, 2016 Workshop Date: July 21, 2016 Organizers: -------------------------------------------------------- Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin, USA Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, Netherlands Jiyin He, CWI, Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Programme committee: ----------------------------------------------------------- Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg Kalervo J?rvelin, University of Tampere Jussi Karlgren, KTH Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia Andreas Nurnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim Please contact us at sal2016 at nii.ac.jp for further information about the workshop. Jacek Gwizdka, PhD http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.442 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aman.powar-grewal at ualberta.ca Wed Apr 13 16:04:00 2016 From: aman.powar-grewal at ualberta.ca (Aman Powar-Grewal) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:04:00 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] UAlberta SLIS Welcomes Assistant Professor Keren Dali Message-ID: The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Keren Dali as an Assistant Professor, starting July 2016. Dr. Keren Dali comes to SLIS after teaching for four years at the University of Toronto iSchool, completing two years of postdoctoral SSHRC-funded research at Western University in Ontario, and spending one year as a Visiting Professor at GSLIS, Queens College, New York. Dr. Dali?s primary interests are in researching diversity and immigrant communities; reading practices in libraries and beyond; connections between information literacy and leisure behaviors; relationships between LIS and Social Work; and LIS education, with the focus on creativity and the issues of accreditation. Dr. Dali is an author and co-author of over two dozen publications in LIS and holds the inaugural Outstanding Instructor Award from the University of Toronto; the inaugural ALISE/Connie Van Fleet Award for Research Excellence in Public Library Services to Adults; and the Outstanding Reviewer distinction in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. She has taught a variety of core and elective LIS courses in the past and brings her expertise in and passion for teaching to SLIS. Actively involved in academic and professional service, Dr. Dali currently chairs the Education & Professional Advancement Committee for ASIS&T, participates in the ASIS&T Information Professionals Task Force, and chairs the 2016 Connie Van Fleet Award Committee for ALISE. She is also on the International Advisory Board for the *Journal of Librarianship & Information Science* (*JoLIS*) and actively reviews for other refereed publications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The project addresses the growing need for investigating people?s online question-answering (Q&A) behavior and the quality assessment method applied by experts to augment learning experiences of students, specifically in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. It will serve libraries and librarians, as well as students and educators in STEM classes. The project will integrate crowdsourced information and the wisdom of librarians and other information professionals to enhance the experience of STEM learners. The outcomes will provide mechanisms through which current informational services (e.g. virtual referencing) could obtain broader applicability and sustainability with new applications in education contexts. For more information on the School of Communication and Information, please visit comminfo.rutgers.edu. -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Mon Apr 18 10:42:02 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:42:02 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Student research paper award and Virtual Symposium date change Message-ID: Hello! A friendly reminder: we've changed the dates for the Second Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities. Accordingly, the submission deadline for the Student Research Paper Award has also been pushed back. Paper submission now due April 25 http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/2016/01/15/2016-cfsp/ Symposium dates: May 18 and 19 http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/2016/01/15/2016-symposium/ Please RSVP on the Symposium site if you can join us on the new dates. We hope to see you there! Thanks, Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdownie at illinois.edu Thu Apr 14 12:33:08 2016 From: jdownie at illinois.edu (Downie, J Stephen) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:33:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] MIREX 2016: Announcing the Music Information Retrieval eXchange for 2016 Message-ID: <612008895BFFF74BB7C7A74B2681CE618F8EF330@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The 2016 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) wiki is now up and running. This will be twelfth year of MIREX and we hope for the best one yet! Over the past eleven years, MIREX has evaluated nearly 2,800 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. MIREX has rolling deadline from June to July, please refer to the list at the bottom of this email for the submission data for your task. We will be trying out new and exciting variations on our traditional MIREX sessions during ISMIR 2016 happening in NYC between 7 - 11 August, 2016. Check out the conference website: https://wp.nyu.edu/ismir2016/. Specific dates and details concerning MIREX sessions follow later. This year we have 19 possible tasks; 18 existing tasks and 1 new one, but if you and your colleagues wish to propose new tasks or new data, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. We strive to keep MIREX a community endeavour. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three teams involved in a task, we will run that task. We introduce this year's task captains: Aggelos Gkiokas (Audio Tempo Estimation), Chris Tralie (Audio Cover Song Identification), Chung-Che Wang (Audio Fingerprinting), Corr?a D?bora C. (Structural Segmentation), Dalwon Jang on behalf of KETI (Audio Melody Extraction, Audio Key Detection), David Heise (Audio Offset Detection), Florian Krebs (Audio Beat Tracking), Hsin-Min Wang (Set List Identification), Johan Pauwels (Audio Chord Estimation, Audio Key Detection), Ju-Chiang Wang (Set List Identification), Julio Carabias (Real-time Audio to Score Alignment), Li Su (Singing Voice Separation), Ming-Chi Yen (Set List Identification), Sebastian B?ck (Audio Beat Tracking, Audio Downbeat Estimation, Audio Onset Detection), Shompa Ghosh (Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking, Structural Segmentation), Tak-Shing Chan (Singing Voice Separation), Tom Collins (Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections), Yi-Hsuan Yang (Singing Voice Separation, Set List Identification), Yun Hao (Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking, Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks, Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval), Peter Organisciak (Structural Segmentation, Audio Cover Song Identification, Audio Classification Train/Test Tasks), Kahyun Choi (Audio Classification Train/Test Tasks, Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval). BACKGROUND INFORMATION More information can be found at the MIREX 2016 wiki, including details on submitting: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2016:Main_Page TASK CAPTAIN LIST http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2016:Task_Captains CONTACT INFORMATION: The EvalFest mailing list is our primary point of communication. To subscribe, visit https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. For personal questions, please contact the MIREX 2016 Team . Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved! DEADLINES # June 16th 2016 -Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks (TC: IMIRSEL) # July 1st 2016 -Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (TC: IMIRSEL) -Audio Tempo Estimation (TC: Aggelos Gkiokas) -Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking (TC: Yun Hao, Shompa Ghosh) -Set List Identification (TC: Ming-Chi Yen, Hsin-Min Wang, Ju-Chiang Wang, Yi-Hsuan Yang) -Structural Segmentation (TC: Piotr Organisciak, Corr?a D?bora C., Shompa Ghosh) # July 8th 2016 -Audio Beat Tracking (TC: Sebastian B?ck, Florian Krebs) -Audio Chord Estimation (TC: Johan Pauwels) -Audio Cover Song Identification (TC: Chris Tralie) -Audio Downbeat Estimation (TC: Florian Krebs, Sebastian B?ck) -Audio Key Detection (TC: Johan Pauwels) -Audio Melody Extraction (TC: KETI (Dalwon Jang)) -Audio Onset Detection (TC: Sebastian B?ck) -Audio Fingerprinting (TC: Chung-Che Wang) -Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections (TC: Tom Collins) -Query by Singing/Humming (TC: KETI (Dalwon Jang)) -Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (TC: Julio Carabias) -Singing Voice Separation (TC: Tak-Shing Chan, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Li Su) -Audio Offset Detection (TC: David Heise) Cheers, J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MIREX 2016 Team at the University of Illinois ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 From jin at waseda.jp Fri Apr 15 09:36:38 2016 From: jin at waseda.jp (Qun Jin) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:36:38 +0900 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: IEEE CyberSciTech 2016 (Auckland, New Zealand, August 8-12, 2016) Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] Last Call for Papers 2016 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2016) http://cyberscitech.net/2016/ Auckland, New Zealand, August 8-12, 2016 CyberSciTech 2016 includes four main research tracks: - Track 1: Cyber Science and Fundamentals - Track 2: Cyber-Physical Computing and Systems - Track 3: Cyber-Social Networks and Computing - Track 4: Cyber-Mind and Mental Computing CyberSciTech 2016 program also includes a series of events: - Keynote Speeches on Future CyberSciTech - Tutorials on Advanced CyberSciTech (two accepted) - Panels on CyberSciTech Challenges - Open Forum on Top Ten CyberSciTech Emerging Issues - Workshops related to CyberSciTech (two accepted) - Special Sessions related to CyberSciTech (eight accepted) - Demo/Poster of CyberSciTech Researches & Applications CyberSciTech 2016 is co-located with three conferences: - 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2016) - 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2016) - 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom 2016) Important Dates (firm) - Main Track Paper Due: April 30, 2016 (extended) - Workshop Paper Due: May 13, 2016 (extended) - Special Session Paper Due: May 13, 2016 (extended) - Demo/Poster Due: May 13, 2016 (extended) - Author Notification: May 23, 2016 - Camera-Ready Manuscript/Registration Due: June 6, 2016 All accepted papers will be published in proceedings by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected excellent papers will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals. - Special Issue on Advances in Human-like Intelligence towards Next-Generation Web, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier, SCI-indexed, Impact Factor: 2.786) - Special Issue on Big Data Fusion in Internet of Things, Information Fusion (Elsevier, SCI-indexed, Impact Factor: 3.681) - Special Issue on Optimization in Distributed Information Systems, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier, SCI-indexed, Impact Factor: 1.231) - Special Issue on Pervasive Social Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, SCI-indexed, Impact Factor: 2.229) - Special Issue on Energy Management for Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier, SCI-indexed, Impact Factor: 2.786) - Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Network Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems, Wireless Personal Communications (Springer, SCIE-indexed, Impact Factor: 0.653) - Special Issue on New Paradigms in Cyber-Physical Social Sensing, Sensors (MDPI, SCIE-indexed, Impact Factor: 2.245) - Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Social Systems: Integrating Human into Computing, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing - Special Issue on Big Data Applications in Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Big Data -- Qun Jin, Ph.D. Professor Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama 359-1192, Japan Phone/Fax: +81-4-2947-6906 E-mail: jin at waseda.jp http://www.f.waseda.jp/jin/ http://nislab.human.waseda.ac.jp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Successful authors will also be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), following the workshop. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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We solicit participation from both the earth sciences (and related sciences that collect and manage samples such as hydrology, archeology, etc.) and digital library scholarly communities to make this workshop a success. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the community of researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scientific publications. The intention is both to assemble the existing community as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the digital libraries community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences. Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and the entire universe, contribute to and a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube (http://www.earthcube.org) Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. Important dates: * May 1: paper submissions due * May 8: Notification of acceptance * June 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop Participation: Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and digital libraries that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposal Formats We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers*: up to 8 page submissions that report on mature work or in an area of interest * *work-in-progess and position papers*: upto 4 page submissions that discuss early results or explore a significant issue related to the workshop topic * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ACM submission templates, which are available at:http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. Submission Process Please submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016. Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar ((unmil at ischool.utexas.edu)) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert((lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu)) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt((clenhardt at renci.org)) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Mon Apr 18 16:28:50 2016 From: sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu (Scoville, Sheila L) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:28:50 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New issue of Information & Culture Message-ID: Information & Culture Volume 51, Issue 2, Spring 2016 ARTICLES A Framework for Understanding Information Ecosystems in Firms and Industries James W. Cortada A Cowman?s-Eye View of the Information Ecology of the Texas Cattle Industry from the Civil War to World War I David B. Gracy II The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present Alistair Black and Henry Gabb Generations of Business Information, 1937?2012: Moving from Data Bits to Intelligence Andrew Gross and Emeric Solymossy Technology in Architectural Practice: Transforming Work with Information, 1960s?1990s Katie Pierce Meyer The Literature of American Library History, 2012?2013 Edward A. Goedeken http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/journals/information-culture Sheila Scoville Journals Promotion Coordinator University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 | Austin, TX 78731-7819 P: (512) 232-7618 | F: (512) 232-7178 sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Visit the UT Press website. Follow us on Twitter, and friend us on Facebook. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From heidijul at buffalo.edu Tue Apr 19 08:17:45 2016 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:17:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Conferene in online negative behaviours in social media - update In-Reply-To: <4D3489174DAA24469FF546068F9FC9E9E603EA9C@MARION.campus.unn.ac.uk> References: <4D3489174DAA24469FF546068F9FC9E9E603EA9C@MARION.campus.unn.ac.uk> Message-ID: <7be22397df424904a7ce7b324e1cd700@MBX-LS1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> We're delighted to let you know that we have an excellent addition to our ILG sponsored conference - New Vic Borderlines, the award-winning initiative using theatre in social context, will be performing their new play 'Love Hurts?' This new project sensitively and appropriately explores the nature of teenage relationships, the power dynamics which exist in all relationships, and challenges a culture where 'love' may be expressed through manipulation, exploitation and abuse both physical and online (more below). The delegate fee is ?50 for ILG members and ?80 for non-members. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Digital dE-BiAsing Techniques for an Engaged Society (Debates) 18th May 2016, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Debates conference will provide a forum to discuss the issue of negative behaviours in online social media including cyberbullying, extremism, discrimination, radicalisation and hate crime. The event will be of interest to academics, experts, policy makers, information professionals, practitioners and emerging early career researchers in the fields of information science, psychology, social computing, HCI & CSCW, education, media and communication studies, social policy and the creative arts. Confirmed international keynote speakers include: Professor Annemaree Lloyd - University of Boras, Sweden Professor Stephan Lewandowsky - University of Bristol, UK Professor Heidi Julien - University at Buffalo, USA Carl Miller - Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM), Demos Confirmed invited speakers include Prof Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University) and Dr Graham Walton (Loughborough University). Organisers are Northumbria University, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, the iSchool, the Digital Living multidisciplinary research group and the Digital Business Research Group. For further information please contact Geoff Walton geoff.walton at northumbria.ac.uk ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 526 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: 716-645-1474 Fax: 716-645-3775 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Leon Megginson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Tue Apr 19 14:46:53 2016 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:46:53 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Big_Data_=3D_Big_Opportunity=E2=80=A6_Take_You?= =?utf-8?q?r_Career_Higher?= Message-ID: Get the skills you need to maneuver in our increasingly data-driven world by earning a Certificate in Big Data from the San Jos? State University School of Information. With courses delivered exclusively online , you can continue working while learning how these growing data sources can be managed, stored, queried, analyzed, and visualized. The nine-unit online certificate program can be completed in as quickly as two semesters. *Course Spotlight: INFO 208 Big Data Technologies* Under the guidance of instructor Glen Mules, Ph.D., a Data Scientist and former Big Data instructor for IBM, students will explore the technological ecosystem of Big Data and Hadoop to better understand how to implement a Big Data strategy in a business organization. View Syllabus Applications are now being accepted for fall 2016 admission. Please visit our website for admission requirements and to complete the online application. Space is limited and may fill before the application deadline of July 1, 2016. For more information about the iSchool's Certificate in Big Data program, please visit ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data. You may also contact Dr. Michelle Chen , program coordinator. Please feel free to forward this email to your friends and colleagues. *About* The San Jos? State University (SJSU) School of Information (iSchool) 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 . Find out more about the SJSU iSchool's award-winning online education programs at ischool.sjsu.edu. ___________________ *H. Michelle Chen, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor, School of Information Program Coordinator, Certificate in Big Data San Jos? State University One Washington Square San Jos?, CA 95192-0029 hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu SJSU iSchool: ischool.sjsu.edu Certificate in Big Data: ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rjhall at uwm.edu Thu Apr 14 13:55:24 2016 From: rjhall at uwm.edu (Rebecca J Hall) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:55:24 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] UW-Milwaukee, SOIS Awarded IMLS National Leadership Grant to Develop Digital Library Design Guidelines for Blind and Visually Impaired Users Message-ID: For Immediate Release April, 2016 Milwaukee, WI UW-Milwaukee, SOIS Awarded IMLS National Leadership Grant to Develop Digital Library Design Guidelines for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. Professor Iris Xie and Assistant Professor Rakesh Babu at UW-Milwaukee's School of Information Studies, along with their research team, have been awarded a $495,600 National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant period extends from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2019. The grant will allow Drs. Xie and Babu and their research team to create digital library (DL) design guidelines on accessibility, usability and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The guidelines will address the help-seeking situations in BVI users' interactions with DLs, incorporating perspectives from DL stakeholders and related guidelines. BVI Americans cannot effectively use DLs due to their sight-centered design, and limitations of existing accessibility and usability guidelines do not address many of the help-seeking situations these users face when using DLs. The project will generate three products: 1) DL design guidelines organized by types of help-seeking situations associated with accessibility, usability and utility; 2) report on the current status of how DLs satisfy BVI users' help needs and support DL interactions; and 3) methodology that can be applied to other underserved users to develop similar guidelines for DLs and different types of information systems. The partners of this project include American Library Association-Office for Information Technology Policy, The Digital Public Library of America, Milwaukee Public Library and WI Talking Book & Braille Library, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, UWM Libraries, Recollection Wisconsin, American Council of the Blind, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Blind Service Association, Learning Ally, National Federation of the Blind-WI Chapter, and Vision Forward Association. In addition to the partners, three consultants and twelve advisory board members, representing DL organizations and vendors, BVI associations, and scholars and experts in the areas of accessibility, usability and utility, will provide consultation and feedback on the project. Doctoral students Melissa Castillo, Hye Jung Han and Tae Hee Lee will also assist the PIs working on the project. The project will benefit approximately 20.6 million Americans with significant vision loss. Please see the official IMLS Announcement: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-70-16-0038-16 For more information about this project, contact Professor Iris Xie at hiris at uwm.edu. The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers several degree programs including a Bachelor's in Information Science and Technology, an ALA accredited Master of Library and Information Science and a PhD in Information Studies. With a growing student body of more than 900 students SOIS strives to be a premier international school that shapes knowledge and information technology through innovative research and teaching. SOIS is a leader in advancing knowledge and preparing students from diverse backgrounds to be successful information professionals within their communities. For more information about the School, its faculty and its programs, see ischool.uwm.edu or call 1-888-349-3432 Rebecca Hall Web Development & Marketing Director Instructor UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Ph: 414.229.2855 | F: 414.229.6699 ischool.uwm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:06:34 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:06:34 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Short_Course_on_Children=E2=80=99s_Book_Awards?= =?utf-8?q?_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016--6:30-8:00pm - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland, College Park campus - Price and Refunts - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 12:14:29 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:14:29 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Dynamic_Workshop_on_Illustrations_in_Literatur?= =?utf-8?q?e_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a one-day, in-person workshop entitled *An Educated Eye: Looking at Picture Books (and Other Images)*. Participants will work with leading children?s literature expert, Maria Salvadore, to gain a better understanding of how illustration and other visual images convey meaning. By examining illustrations and other images that appear in various media, participants will leave this workshop with the ability to identify and evaluate picture books (and illustration in general) that are appropriate for different age children from the very young to adolescents. At the completion of the workshop, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn six (6) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - Saturday, June 11, 2016 ? 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland College Park campus - Price and Refunds - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/educatedeye-Jun16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Apr 13 11:09:01 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:09:01 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [icie] Corrected: CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <570E610D.5010601@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] Corrected: CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:37:48 -0700 From: Rory Litwin To: SustainRT (sustainrt-l at lists.ala.org) , ProjectARCC , Library and Information Science Information and Discussion List , StanleyK at yahoogroups.com, icie at zkm.de, announce-iacap.org at iacap.org, SRRTAC-L , plg Greetings, In my earlier message I neglected to include the link to the website for this colloquium. It contains additional information, including a profile of our keynote speaker. http://litwinbooks.com/laac2017colloq.php *Call for Proposals* Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium May 13-14, 2017 New York University As stewards of a culture?s collective knowledge, libraries and archives are facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning awareness of its unique implications for their missions and activities. Some professionals in these fields are focusing new energies on the need for environmentally sustainable practices in their institutions. Some are prioritizing the role of libraries and archives in supporting climate change communication and influencing government policy and public awareness. Others foresee an inevitable unraveling of systems and ponder the role of libraries and archives in a world much different from the one we take for granted. Climate disruption, peak oil, toxic waste, deforestation, soil salinity and agricultural crisis, depletion of groundwater and other natural resources, loss of biodiversity, mass migration, sea level rise, and extreme weather events are all problems that indirectly threaten to overwhelm civilization?s knowledge infrastructures, and present information institutions with unprecedented challenges. This colloquium will serve as a space to explore these challenges and establish directions for future efforts and investigations. We invite proposals from academics, librarians, archivists, activists, and others. * Some suggested topics and questions: * How can information institutions operate more sustainably? * How can information institutions better serve the needs of policy discussions and public awareness in the area of climate change and other threats to the environment? * How can information institutions support skillsets and technologies that are relevant following systemic unraveling? * What will information work look like without the infrastructures we take for granted? * How does information literacy instruction intersect with ecoliteracy? * How can information professionals support radical environmental activism? * What are the implications of climate change for disaster preparedness? * What role do information workers have in addressing issues of environmental justice? * What are the implications of climate change for preservation practices? * Should we question the wisdom of preserving access to the technological cultural legacy that has led to the crisis? * Is there a new responsibility to document, as a mode of bearing witness, the historical event of society's confrontation with the systemic threat of climate change, peak oil, and other environmental problems? * Given the ideological foundations of libraries and archives in Enlightenment thought, and given that Enlightenment civilization may be leading to its own environmental endpoint, are these ideological foundations called into question? And with what consequences? Formats: Lightning talk (5 minutes) Paper (20 minutes) Proposals are due August 1, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 16, 2016. Submit your proposal here: http://goo.gl/forms/rz7uN1mBNM * Planning committee: * Casey Davis is Project Manager at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH and co-founder of ProjectARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change . * Madeleine Charney is Sustainability Studies Librarian at UMass Amherst and co-founder of theSustainability Round Table of the American Library Association . * Rory Litwin is a former librarian and the founder of Litwin Books, LLC (Colloquium sponsor) -- Rory Litwin Library Juice Academy Library Juice Press Litwin Books, LLC PO Box 188784, Sacramento CA 95818 Tel. 218-260-6115 http://libraryjuice.com/ http://rorylitwin.info/ Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. 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Jegliche > Bem?hungen f?hrten jedoch nicht zum gew?nschten Ziel. > > Die finale Entscheidung ist am 31. M?rz 2016 bei der Rektoratssitzung > von der Rektorin getroffen worden. Die Studieng?nge > Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie (B.A., M.A.) sowie das > Erg?nzungsfach Informationswissenschaft werden nicht mehr weiter an > der Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf angeboten. Die aktuellen > Studierenden der D?sseldorfer Informationswissenschaft k?nnen ihr > Studium weiterhin abschlie?en: Die letzte Neueinschreibung f?r den > Bachelor war somit im vergangenen Wintersemester (2015/2016). Die > letzte Neueinschreibung in den Master wird 2018 sein. Bis zum 30. > September 2020 k?nnen Bachelorstudierende ihr Studium beenden, > Masterstudierende bis zum 30. September 2022. > > ? Ihr Fachschaftsrat Informationswissenschaft der HHU > > ? ? ? ? ? ? > > English: > > Dear students, friends and supporters of Information Science in > D?sseldorf, > > We would like to give you our sincere thanks for the impressive > scientific, institutional and political support. Over 2000 supporters > signed our online petition and over 70 letters were sent by > supporters. Though our efforts did not lead to our goal. > > The final decision was made at the rectorate?s meeting on 31st March > 2016. The degree courses Information Science and Language Technology > (B.A., M.A.), as well as the combined minor Information Science will > no longer be offered at Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf. The > current students of D?sseldorf?s Information Science can continue to > complete their studies: the last enrolment for the Bachelor's degree > therefore was in the past winter semester (2015/2016). The last > enrolment for the Master?s degree is set to 2018. 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As Tilley moves through the roles of second vice president (effective immediately), first vice president (2017-2018), president (2018-2019), and past president, she will be the first person elected to those roles by the full membership. CSS is the first professional association for comics scholars in the United States, open to researchers and teachers ?who share the goals of promoting the critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world.? The group currently boasts five hundred members representing more than two dozen countries. At GSLIS, Tilley teaches courses in comics reader?s advisory, media literacy, and youth services librarianship. She is a faculty affiliate in the Center for Children?s Books and Center for Writing Studies at Illinois. In addition to her newly-elected role with CSS, Tilley is a member of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards judging panel and is the director of external relations for the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Part of Tilley?s scholarship focuses on the intersection of young people, comics, and libraries, particularly in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. Her research has been published in journals including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Information & Culture: A Journal of History, and Children?s Literature in Education. Her research on anti-comics advocate Fredric Wertham was featured in The New York Times and other media outlets. ________________________________ Christy Glaze, MLS Visiting Communications Coordinator GSLIS: The iSchool at Illinois www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From plato.smith at ufl.edu Thu Apr 21 08:19:50 2016 From: plato.smith at ufl.edu (Smith, Plato) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:19:50 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Applications due 5/1 for RIT's Future Faculty program Message-ID: <981e7f007ad24c3f8be696110a10ef01@AHC-EXCH06.ad.ufl.edu> Excuse cross-post but this was sent to the NMEPSCoR Postdoc Leadership Workshop list serve on 4/20/16 and may be of interest to some. Thanks. - Plato _________________________________________ 2016 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program The Rochester Institute of Technology's Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP) is now accepting applications for the class of 2016. Apply today! FFCEP is the cornerstone of our recruitment strategy and critical to the success of RIT's diversity goals. We bring brilliant scholars who are nearing the end of their doctoral or MFA studies, as well as post-docs and junior faculty, to experience RIT as a prospective faculty member. When you participate in this program, you'll have the chance to discover RIT's unique teaching and research philosophy from our world-renowned faculty. The FFCEP program allows you to engage RIT Deans and Department Chairs in your academic work and career interests. You'll also learn about current and upcoming position openings. This is not a job placement program, but rather an opportunity for you to experience what life as an RIT faculty member would be like during all-expenses-paid trip to Rochester, New York. Who should apply? -- Individuals able to contribute in meaningful ways to the university's continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individual differences. We are primarily interested in applicants of African American, Latin American, American Indian, or Alaskan Native descent, and others who are underrepresented and under-served in teaching professions at RIT. -- Are within a year or two of receiving, or already received, a PhD or MFA degree, Postdoctoral assignment or a junior level faculty. -- Desire a rewarding academic teaching and research career at an exceptional institution. -- Receiving degrees in disciplines offered at RIT. For a complete list of programs offered, visit http://www.rit.edu/programs. -- Demonstrate a potential to fill current or anticipated vacancies. -- Able to travel to Rochester, New York, for the duration of the entire program. Apply Today! Application Deadline is May 1, 2016. Apply at online today! To be considered for the program, please fill out and submit an online application using the link below. You will be required to submit your CV (r?sum?), cover letter that includes your statement of diversity, teaching statement, and research statement. What's in it for you? --Exploratory, candid discussions with faculty in your host college --Networking receptions with RIT's President, Provost, deans, and department chairs --Presentations of your research to faculty and students --Campus and community tours --Panel discussions with RIT's African American, Latina/o American, and Native American faculty and students --Feedback on your research, presentation, and interactions while visit RIT Questions? Email facultyr at rit.edu or call 585-475-5775. Lorraine Stinebiser Assistant Director, Office of Faculty Recruitment Rochester Institute of Technology Slaughter Hall, Bldg. 78, Room 1121 111 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester, NY 14623 585-475-5775 | losofr at rit.edu About the Office: Established in 2002, the Office of Faculty Recruitment to serve as a resource for minority and women scholars interested in becoming faculty members at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Our current efforts are focused on expanding the pool of applicants by attracting underserved populations - African Americans, Latina/o Americans and Native Americans (AALANA) and women, to enrich our diverse educational community. Learn more at www.rit.edu/ofr ________________________________________________________ Plato L. Smith II, Ph.D. Data Management Librarian University of Florida Libraries Office: 352-273-8399 | Cell: 850-319-7924 | Email: plato.smith at ufl.edu ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1814-0151 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Fri Apr 22 03:08:48 2016 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:08:48 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: CLiC-it 2016 - Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics Message-ID: <7CB4A768-5A01-4571-B93B-784B715690EB@dei.unipd.it> Second Call for Papers 5-6 December 2016, Napoli, Italy http://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it co-located with EVALITA 2016 (http://www.evalita.org ) CLiC-it, Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, is aimed at establishing a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics organized by the recently founded Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -www.ai-lc.it ). Together with the co-located EVALITA evaluation campaign specifically devoted to Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian, the conference is intended to meet the need for a national and international forum for the promotion and dissemination of high-level original research in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) by the Italian community. CLiC-it covers all aspects of automatic language understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field. The third edition of CLiC-it will be held in Napoli, at the University Federico II. The spirit of the Conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS The conference invites the submission of papers on research in all aspects of automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the thematic areas reported below (together with the Area Chairs): Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics (D. Crepaldi, G. Lebani, V. Pirrelli) NLP for Digital Humanities (M. Passarotti, S. Tonelli) Information Retrieval and Question Answering (N. Ferro, A. Moschitti) Information Extraction, Entity Linking and (Linked) Open Data (V.Basile, R. Navigli) Linguistic Resources (C. Bosco, M. Monachini, S. Vietri) Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications (M. Cettolo, J. Monti) Pragmatics, Creativity and Linguistic Games (M. de Gemmis, M. Gori, M. Poesio) Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition (R. Bernardi, A. Gangemi, F.M. Zanzotto) Spoken Language Processing and Understanding (P. Cosi, A. Origlia) Morphology and Syntax Processing (A. Lavelli, A. Mazzei) NLP for Web and Social Media (D. Croce, F. Dell'Orletta) Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP (A. Lenci, P. Merlo) Machine Learning for CL and NLP (G. Attardi, R. Basili) SUBMISSION INFORMATION FOR REGULAR PAPERS CLiC-it 2016 has the goal of a broad technical program. We invite papers in the following four broad categories: theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, resources/evaluation, applications/tools. We also invite papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers, and papers that describe a negative result. Papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Paper can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract both in English and Italian. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. The deadline for paper submissions is July 15, 2016. Paper submissions should follow the two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the ACL format, which will be soon available on the conference website under "Submissions". Submission must be electronic in PDF, using the Easychair submission software. Reviewing will NOT be double blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. Further details can be found athttp://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it/index.php/en/submission YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to award the work of young researchers, the title of ?best paper? will be attributed to the best papers in different research areas with a PhD student and/or postDoc among the authors. The awarded authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). CONFERENCE VENUE Accademia Pontaniana, via Mezzocannone, 8, 80134 Napoli IMPORTANT DATES 22/2/2016: First call for papers 15/4/2016: Second call for papers 15/7/2016: Deadline for paper submission 15/9/2016: Notification to authors of review results 15/10/2016: Camera ready version of the accepted papers 5-6/12/2016: CLiC-it Conference CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it/index.php/en/ TWITTER ACCOUNT: https://twitter.com/Clic_it2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com Wed Apr 20 23:51:08 2016 From: susheel_chhabra at hotmail.com (Dr. Susheel Chhabra) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:21:08 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) 2(4) Message-ID: Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) 2(4)The contents of the latest issue of:International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC)Volume 2, Issue 4, October - December 2015Published: Quarterly in Print and ElectronicallyISSN: 2328-5494; EISSN: 2328-5508; Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USAwww.igi-global.com/ijcescEditor-in-Chief: Susheel Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, India)Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.ARTICLE 1Societal Influence on the Cognitive Aspects of EntrepreneurshipNeeta Baporikar (HP-GSB, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)Social history in last century has witnessed a transformation not experienced in any period before. How people are affected - what sort of characteristics individuals have ? how they try to handle situation is multi-perspective. Understanding inter-societal and interpersonal relationship systems that are based on fluctuation and competition issues have been studied thoroughly. But, the role of entrepreneurship in dealing with competition has drawn researchers' extensive interest of late. Entrepreneurship is associated with the fields of administration, business, management and economics. However, in reality it is multi and interdisciplinary, with psychology having a bearing on the growth of entrepreneurship concept as is used with the broader meaning today. Through grounded research and content analysis, the core of this paper is to sketch out and understand how societal influence affects the cognitive aspects of entrepreneurship.To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/article/societal-influence-on-the-cognitive-aspects-of-entrepreneurship/149928To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=149928ARTICLE 2Jordanians Perceptions Regarding E-Government Ethical IssuesMai Tarik Al-Sebae (MIS Department, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan), Emad Ahmed Abu-Shanab (MIS Department, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan)Despite the benefits of e-government and the achieved progress, e-government concepts need some support based on its ethical perspective. The purpose of this paper is to present some important ethical issues that must be considered by e-government stakeholders when adopting such initiative. The objectives of this research aimed at exploring how ethical issues influence citizens' adoption, and the challenges for such issues. An empirical test was conducted utilizing 293 surveys to probe Jordanians perceptions regarding major ethical dimensions of e-government projects. It's concluded that e-government has potential to ensure its progress and success by being ethical. Results indicated also that three dimensions significantly predicted the intention to use e-government services: people with disabilities issues, privacy and security issues, and unemployment issues. The only predictor that failed to predict ITU was the environmental aspect of e-government projects. Conclusions and future work are stated at the end of this work.To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/article/jordanians-perceptions-regarding-e-government-ethical-issues/149929To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=149929ARTICLE 3The Future of Healthcare: Political Participation of Nursing and Public Health StudentsChristine Vandenhouten (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA), Susan Gallagher-Lepak (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA), Derryl E. Block (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA), Sylvia May Kubsch (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA), Jan Strom (Northern Illinios University, DeKalb, IL, USA), Crystalmichelle L. Malakar (Bellin Psychiatric Center, Bellin Health System, De Pere, WI, USA)The U.S. healthcare environment is undergoing rapid change. New policies have reshaped healthcare through reimbursement models focused on access and quality. Advocating for policies that improve population health is important for health professionals and students. For this reason, educators need to know how to prepare students to be active in the political process. Using the Civic Volunteerism Model, factors influencing nursing and public health students' political participation were examined. Both groups had relatively low levels of political participation and differences in types of political activities. The best predictor of political participation was found to be psychological engagement (e.g., political efficacy, partisanship, political interest). Students were more politically active if they attended school part-time, employed more than part-time, and were non-traditional students. Suggested educational strategies and use of social media were discussed. Further exploration of social media as a source of political information and recruitment is recommended.To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/article/the-future-of-healthcare/149930To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=149930ARTICLE 4Organizational Performance Framework: e-Government ServicesSusheel Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, New Delhi, India)The research study proposes an organizational performance framework of Haryana Government departments involved in providing e-Government services through citizen service centers (CSCs). The objective of this framework is to suggest dimensions which need improvement for enhancing organizational performance. This will help to improve efficiency and effectiveness in providing services to citizens through CSCs. The organizational performance framework has been suggested using responses collected from 150 government departments. A log linear regression analysis is used to develop the framework. The framework can be used as a template for Government departments in similar other organizational settings.To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/article/organizational-performance-framework/149931To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=149931For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.igi-global.com/isj.CALL FOR PAPERSMission of IJCESC:The mission of the International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) is to discuss and explore value driven civic engagement practices, processes, and frameworks to bring social change for effectively managing socioeconomic resources for individuals and society. The journal promotes cutting edge research on various issues of civic engagement as an integrated platform for researchers, scholars, academic institutions, and civic society. IJCESC achieves its mission through research, exemplary cases, smart processes and competencies, development of frameworks, and collaborations, suggesting standards and benchmarks worldwide.Indices of IJCESC:Cabell's DirectoriesGoogle ScholarUlrich's Periodicals DirectoryCoverage of IJCESC:Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: Civic engagement and political reforms for developmentCivic engagement and rural developmentCivic engagement and urban developmentCivic engagement for development and social changeCivic engagement for organization developmentCivic engagement reforms and capacity buildingICTs engagement and social changeLeadership cases for civic engagementPreservation of natural resourcesPublic policy and social changeRole of administrative competencies for civic engagementSmart governance practicesSmart regulatory frameworks for civic engagementSocial accountability for individuals, government, and corporate sectorsSocial networks and collaborations for bringing social changeStandards and benchmarks for civic engagementValue-driven civic engagementWomen and child developmentInterested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-civic-engagement-social/75851 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppichappan at gmail.com Fri Apr 22 06:51:10 2016 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:21:10 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] ICDIM 2016 Message-ID: Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information Management Porto, Portugal September 19-21, 2016 (www.icdim.org) Technically and financially co-sponsored by IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013) Thailand (2014) and Jeju (South Korea) the eleventh event is being organized at Porto in Portugal in 2016. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multi-subdomain conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 19-21, 2016 at Porto in Portugal. The topics in ICDIM 2016 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Workshops ICDIM 2016 has the following co-located workshops Fourth Workshop on Emerging Problem- specific Crowdsourcing Technologies Fourth Workshop on Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization Third IEEE International Workshop on Data Management First Workshop on Internet of Things First Workshop on Big Data Mining First Workshop on Cluster Computing First Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (SCOPUs/EI) 2. Journal of Electrical Systems 3. Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering 4. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) 5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) 7. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 8. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) 9. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 10. International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) 11. International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) 12 International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 13. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI Important Dates Full Paper Submission June 30, 2016 Notification of Authors August 1, 2016 Registration Due September 1, 2016 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2016 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 20, 2016 Main conference September 19-21, 2016 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Committee General Chair Ramiro S?mano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Program Chairs Arun Pujari, Central University of Rajasthan, India Antonio J. Tall?n-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain Co-Chairs Robert Bierwolf, IEEE TEMS, Netherlands Imran Bajwa, The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan Feliz Lustenberger, Espros Photonics Corporation, Switzerland Workshop Chair Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Email: conference at icdim.org SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html ---------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year?s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Quality Management * Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics) * Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Verticals * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety, Security & Privacy * Transport, Environment & Geospatial Research / Innovation Papers The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS is a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, reviewers stay anonymous). The submitted abstract and the topics are leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org, if you have any questions. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, WordPerfect, Word) will also be needed. Important Dates (Research & Innovation) * Abstract Submission Deadline: extended: May 3, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: extended: May 10, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: extended: June 7, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: extended: July 1, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Research and Innovation Chairs: * Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck * Amrapali Zaveri, Stanford University Contact email address: semantics2016researchtrack at easychair.org Research and Innovation Deputy Chairs: * Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology * Artem Revenko, Semantic Web Company Conference Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. P?lten Senior Program Committee: * Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid * Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari * Brian Davis, National University of Ireland, Galway * Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam * Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany * Michel Dumontier, Stanford University * Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics * Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig * Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG ?sterreich * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim * Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. P?lten * Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology * Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam * Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Fujitsu * Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds * Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science From Heather.Ranieri at liu.edu Fri Apr 22 11:58:14 2016 From: Heather.Ranieri at liu.edu (Heather Ranieri) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:58:14 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Introducing Dr. Tom Walker as the new Director for the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University Message-ID: <1ae8994be35c42f6817f8ec26423821d@U-EXH-2.liunet.edu> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After an extensive search, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Walker has accepted the position of Director for the Palmer School of Library and Information Science and Associate Dean of the College of Education, Information, and Technology, at Long Island University (LIU), effective May 9, 2016. Dr. Walker brings to LIU a wealth of experience as both a faculty member and an administrator that will enable him to work collaboratively in order to forward a vision for the Palmer School that resonates with the whole Palmer community. This vision includes expanding the diversity of academic opportunities within Palmer while increasing the visibility and footprint of Palmer within the NYC, regional, and national markets. In addition, Dr. Walker brings with him knowledge of libraries across the spectrum - public libraries, school libraries, special libraries - as well as strong support for community partnerships to extend diverse opportunities for our students. He also prioritizes increasing research and grantsmanship in order to strengthen excellence in teaching and scholarship, and create funding possibilities for Palmer students. Dr. Walker comes to us from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, School of Information Studies, where he serves as an Associate Professor. He previously served as the School's Interim Dean and Associate Dean. In addition, Dr. Walker served as the Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Walker to the LIU community. Valeda F. Dent, Ph.D., MILS, MSW Dean, University Libraries Interim Director, Palmer School of Library and Information Science Long Island University Founder, Rural Village Libraries Research Network http://www.rurallibrariesresearchnetwork.com Barbara Garii, Ph.D. Dean College of Education, Information, and Technology Long Island University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb633 at drexel.edu Fri Apr 22 14:37:36 2016 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:37:36 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Adjunct Faculty Positions in Archival Studies at Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics Message-ID: Adjunct Faculty Positions in Archival Studies at Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics is accepting applications for adjunct faculty to teach graduate courses in archival studies. The Archival Studies concentration, offered both as part of the MSLIS and as a post-masters degree certificate program, currently includes the following courses: ? Introduction to Archives I ? Introduction to Archives II ? Archival Access Systems ? Archival Appraisal ? Digital Curation ? Digital Preservation ? Electronic Records Some courses are offered on campus; all courses are offered online. Please specify the courses for which you would like to be considered. Requirements: MS degree in a library science, information science, or archives related area and relevant industry experience. Prior teaching experience preferred. Submit a cover letter describing teaching interests, relevant work experience, and any relevant teaching experience plus a resume to raiken at drexel.edu. Please visit our website at http://drexel.edu/cci/about/jobs-at-cci/adjunct-faculty/ for application requirements. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 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This event will be offered online via live stream. RSVP now. Event Details: Master of Information, ONLINE Information Session 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, 2016 -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Fri Apr 22 16:46:13 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:46:13 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Important information and FAQs about ASIS&T Chapters Message-ID: Dear all, As you may know, we (Chirag Shah and Daniel Alemneh) are the current Director and Deputy Director of the Chapter Assembly of ASIS&T. What this means is that we represent regional and student chapters? interests and concerns to the ASIS&T board. Among other things, we help and guide the chapters with membership management and other resources you may need. To meet this objectives, we have been reaching out to chapter officers to find out what is working well and also what challenges they are facing at the local level. Indeed, most of the chapters gave us valuable feedbacks and interesting ideas including the successes their regional chapter achieved and how they reached these achievements. Based on the preliminary result, we compiled the following FAQs, which we think will help the chapter officers (and future new officers) run their local chapters? activities better. Some points about the regional chapters. - Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Chapters are chartered by the Board of Directors as local vehicles for fostering continuous communication among members in geographically-defined areas. ASIS&T Chapters consist of groups of 15 or more members living or working within 50-mile radii or some other well-defined geographic areas. All ASIS&T members are encouraged to participate in their local Chapters. All ASIS&T members whose mailing addresses are within a Chapter?s geographic boundaries are automatically members of that Chapter. Only ASIS&T members may belong to Chapters. There are 20 regional chapters, but 8 of which are currently inactive. Active Chapters: Arizona, Asia Pacific, Carolinas, Central Ohio, Europe, Indiana, Los Angeles, New England, New Jersey, Northern Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Taipei Inactive Chapters: Chicago, Florida, Metropolitan New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio River Valley, Potomac Valley, Wisconsin Who the members of the Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee? - The Chapter Assembly consists of an elected or appointed representative from each Chapter. To assure Chapters of a voice in Society activities, the Chapter Assembly advises the Board of Directors on all matters involving the mutual interests of the Chapters. The Assembly Director, elected by the Assembly as its presiding officer, serves on the ASIS&T Board of Directors. The Chapter Assembly Director is assisted in matters relating to the Chapter Assembly by the Deputy Chapter Assembly Director, the Immediate Past Director, and the Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee. Where is the official Websites for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters? - The public website for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters is located at: https://www.asist.org/find-your-groups/regional/ . Make sure your Chapter?s information (Officers name, email, website, etc.) is accurate and up to date on the ASIST Student Chapter page. Otherwise let our webmaster Jan Hatzakos (jan at asis.org) know about the changes. There is also an internal wiki page to be used by Chapters (and other Committees of the American Society for Information Science and Technology) to facilitate the operation of their groups: http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/index.php/Main_Page Do we have email list for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters? - Yes, we have an email list that you can join by going to http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l and signing up. Once joined, you can send a message by emailing to chapters-l at asis.org. Typical messages on this email list are about conference announcements, job postings, and other opportunities for members. Can my chapter get some funds from the HQ to start project or revitalize a chapter? - Yes. Each Chapter plans its own programs to reflect the needs and interests of its local membership. ASIS&T is committed to providing assistance to help local Chapters to organize activities or special projects that revitalize and engage local members. Among other available resources and services, Chapters can apply for one of the Chapter Development Funds: https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/ChapterDevelopmentFundsAppl.pdf I?m interested in revitalizing my local chapter that?s been inactive for some time. What do I do? It varies from chapter to chapter and depends greatly on where the activities (and funds) were left off. But typically, it involves the following: 1. Get hold of documents (membership list, chapter manual, by-laws) and funds. 2. Get the latest membership info. This could be done by contacting the HQ. 3. Email the members about the chapter being restarted. Ask if anyone would like to join the leadership (chair, program chair if applicable, treasurer, publicist, etc.) 4. Theoretically speaking, the chapter should then hold an election. But in practice, there may be only a handful of people interested in being in a leadership position. So just form a leadership committee using those people. 5. Get the web presence. At least have a blog or a website. 6. Announce these developments to the members. 7. Organize an event that marks the beginning of the chapter activities. Ask the HQ for help (tools, support, funds). In general, once the chapter has some momentum going, they could ask us for chapter development funds (typically a few hundred dollars). How do I start a new chapter? Follow the advice from the previous question starting with step-4. Make sure to let us know as you embark on this journey! Do we have the chapter manual? Where? - Yes, you can find the Chapter Officer?s Manual here: https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/chofficermanual.pdf . We will update the manual, but the purpose of the Chapter Officer?s Manual is essentially to guide and alert new Chapter officers to certain procedures regarding Chapter organization and administration, to suggest possible Chapter activities, and to remind officers of certain deadlines. There are also a number of other useful documentations linked from the Chapter Resources page: https://www.asist.org/find-your-groups/resources/ . Are the regional chapters expected to submit an annual report? What?s the deadline? - Yes, the regional chapters are expected to submit an annual report to the Chapter Assembly, highlighting efforts the chapter made to recruit new members, foster member participation in the chapter, and mechanisms to retain current members and to follow-up with members who did not renew their ASIS&T memberships. The report also contains the meetings, projects and services organized by the chapter and the efforts made by the chapter to communicate with its members. The annual report can be submitted via this web form: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/ChapterAnnualActivitiesReportForm.pdf . If the Chapter Annual Report is submitted by the August 15 deadline, it will also serve as the nomination for the Chapter of the Year award. The Chapter-of-the-Year Award is decided by a jury. An awareness of the annual report and judging criteria can be very helpful in planning chapter?s activities for the year. Questions or comments? - We are very much interested in hearing from you what we could do to help you out. So please do not hesitate to contact us both Chirag Shah (Chapter Assembly Director): chirags at rutgers.edu and Daniel Alemneh (Chapter Assembly Deputy Director): Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu. Thanks! 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Additionally, this position is responsible for exploring new technologies and platforms to strategically support a variety of user-centered service platforms and applications. Provides lead technical support and management of the library's website. Builds, tests, and manages production and development environments. Maintains customization of the library website?s content management system, WordPress. Designs and develops web applications in both development and production environments. Supports integrated library system. As a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, PCC currently uses Ex Libris?s Alma/Primo in a consortial installation. This position is involved in coordinating systems integration with other PCC departments and other aspects of discovery, customization, and systems administration in Alma/Primo. Manages the library?s existing systems and servers. Position works collaboratively with the College's Information Technology department. Minimum qualifications: Bachelor?s Degree in Information Technology/Information Science/Informatics, Library Science, or Computer Science. Relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis. Two years experience working with vended library systems and web development experience. For more information, and to apply, please visit http://jobs.pcc.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=55259 Maria Maria Wagner Manager, Library Technology Portland Community College 971.722.4631 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Mon Apr 25 09:47:17 2016 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:47:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Faculty at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee receive an IMLS grant. Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EFB04F4823@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> forwarded by request. -ranti. -----Original Message----- From: Bilal, Dania [mailto:dania at utk.edu] Faculty at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee receive an IMLS grant. Drs. Carol Tenopir (PI), Dania Bilal (Co-PI), and Rachel Fleming-May (Co-PI) in the School of Information Sciences in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee have received $811, 501 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to educate students in a future career in User Experience and Assessment. The grant will provide assistantships and co-curricular educational opportunities for twelve graduate students interested in pursuing a career specializing in User Experience and Assessment. "Experience Assessment" is an on-campus program that will begin in Fall semester 2016. During the 42-credit hour program students will complete 36 hours of course work and 6 hours of field experience. Every student will receive travel assistance to attend a professional meeting, specialized mentoring, and workplace opportunities in UX and Assessment. Each student will receive full tuition, medical benefits, and an assistantship that includes a yearly stipend from fall 2016 through graduation in May 2018. The University of Tennessee M.S. degree in Information Sciences is fully accredited by the American Library Association. Partners for Experience Assessment include the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Information International Associates, the Tombras Group, USGS, Martha Kyrillidou and Associates, and the University of Tennessee Library. ________________________________________ Dania Bilal, Interim Director and Professor School of Information Sciences College of Communication and Information 1345 Circle Park Drive, Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 (865) 974-3689 http://scholar.cci.sis.utk.edu/dania-bilal From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Mon Apr 25 09:48:43 2016 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:48:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Please post In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EFB04F4854@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> forwarded by request. -ranti -----Original Message----- From: Bilal, Dania [mailto:dania at utk.edu] The University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences, in conjunction with the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services, has an exciting opportunity for students to earn a Master's Degree in Information Sciences (M.S.) with a specialization in User Experience (UX) and Assessment. Each student will select a focus area of either academic libraries or UX work in a special setting, such as government or corporate organizations. Applicants with bachelor's degrees in any academic field are eligible to apply. Students graduating with a bachelor's degree in spring or summer 2016 are also eligible to apply. "Experience Assessment" is an on-campus program that will begin in Fall semester 2016. During the 42-credit hour program students will complete 36 hours of course work and 6 hours of field experience. Every student will receive travel assistance to attend a professional meeting, specialized mentoring, and workplace opportunities in Assessment and UX. Each student will receive full tuition, medical benefits, and an assistantship that includes a yearly stipend from fall 2016 through graduation in May 2018. The University of Tennessee M.S. degree in Information Sciences is fully accredited by the American Library Association. Partners for Experience Assessment include the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Information International Associates, the Tombras Group, USGS, Martha Kyrillidou and Associates, and the University of Tennessee Library. The program has space for only twelve students, so apply now! For more information, please contact Dr. Rachel Fleming-May (rfmay at utk.edu or 865-974-6509) or Dr. Kitty McClanahan (kmcclan3 at utk.edu or 865-974-8942). To start the application process to the University of Tennessee graduate school and School of Information Sciences go to: http://graduateadmissions.utk.edu ________________________________________ Dania Bilal, Interim Director and Professor School of Information Sciences College of Communication and Information 1345 Circle Park Drive, Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 (865) 974-3689 http://scholar.cci.sis.utk.edu/dania-bilal From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 25 07:19:21 2016 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: <981716848.14746418.1461583161201.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Mon Apr 25 08:28:05 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (BRENDA SHERIDAN) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:28:05 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers MLIS Alumna on Library Journal's 2016 Movers & Shakers List Message-ID: *School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, MLIS Alumna Elizabeth Fitzgerald Makes Library Journal?s 2016 Movers & Shakers List* *with Groundbreaking Job Title* Congratulations to Rutgers 2008 MLIS alumna Elizabeth Fitzgerald, named one of *Library Journal?s* Movers & Shakers of 2016! Another example of how the Library and Information Science field is evolving, Fitzgerald holds the innovative position of Culinary Literacy Specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia?s (FLP) Culinary Literacy Center. Teaching in a commercial-grade kitchen classroom that seats 36, Fitzgerald?s classes incorporate literacy basics with the dynamics of cooking, such as reading through recipes, math by measuring, and science and chemistry. So far, the program has hosted 6,000 people at more than 400 events that include growing initiatives such as Nourishing Literacy?a kids? program linked to the Common Core?how to create delicious meals on a SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) budget, and Edible Alphabet, an English-language learning (ELL) program. Check out the entire article at http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/03/people/movers-shakers-2016/elizabeth-fitzgerald-movers-shakers-2016-innovators/#_ For more information on the School of Communication and Information, please visit us at https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/ -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And meet other participants working in these areas! /Apply for a comprehensive student grant// /The grants for students from outside of Germany will cover the costs room and board and most of costs for travelling, depending on the rates defined for different countries by the DAAD. Some 20 international students can be invited. https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/media/fb3/informationswissenschaft/Herbstschule/ASIRF_2016-Application_form.pdf German students can register at a very competitive price. ASIRF takes place in the historical environment at the Leibniz Center for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl - www.dagstuhl.de One tutor will be (almost sure) Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen), a Salton-Award winner. *Topics** *- Models - Evaluation - Modelling Interactive IR - Information Behavior - IR interfaces and user oriented design ... ASIRF will also take place in 2017 and it will again offer student grants. *Organisation* Prof. Thomas Mandl & Dr. Ben Heuwing Universit?t Hildesheim, Germany asirf att uni - hildesheim dott de Dr. Ingo Frommholz University of Bedfordshire, UK German Special Interest Group IR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Apr 25 11:30:43 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:30:43 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: IFLA Conference in Columbus, OH and ALISE & ASIS&T Meet & Greet Dinner In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1f8f01d19f07$6ef5e050$4ce1a0f0$@asis.org> Forwarded From: Connaway,Lynn Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 8:30 AM Subject: IFLA Conference in Columbus, OH and ALISE & ASIS&T Meet & Greet Dinner We're very excited that IFLA is meeting in Columbus, OH 13-19 August 2016. Please read the information about Early Registration, etc. below. The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) are planning a Meet & Greet Dinner on Sun., 14 August, after the IFLA Exhibition Opening Party, which is 4-6 (16:00-18:00). Details and a request for RSVP will follow. Please mark your calendars for this informal dinner. Looking forward to seeing you in Columbus! Lynn -- Lynn Silipigni Connaway, PhD OCLC . Senior Research Scientist , OCLC Research 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH USA 43017 M +1-303-246-3623 IFLA National Committee 2016 Representative for Association for Library and Information Science Education President-Elect (2015-2016), Association for Information Science & Technology OCLC.org . Facebook . Twitter . YouTube Colleagues: We're hoping that many of you have heard the news that Columbus, Ohio will be the site for this year's World Library and Information Congress, sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The Congress expects to attract nearly 5,000 librarians from more than 100 countries around the globe. As co-chairs of the 2016 National Committee, we're asking for your help in getting the word out about the Congress. It's been 15 years since the Congress was in the United States and the National Committee is hard at work to bring delegates an exceptional experience! Registration for the Congress is now open and early registration is available until May 17. Visit the official Congress website for information on the Congress schedule, calls for papers and library tours offered. Check out this short video highlighting the city of Columbus and its award-winning libraries. We hope to see you in August. 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Lynn Colleagues: We're hoping that many of you have heard the news that Columbus, Ohio will be the site for this year's World Library and Information Congress, sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The Congress expects to attract nearly 5,000 librarians from more than 100 countries around the globe. As co-chairs of the 2016 National Committee, we're asking for your help in getting the word out about the Congress. It's been 15 years since the Congress was in the United States and the National Committee is hard at work to bring delegates an exceptional experience! Registration for the Congress is now open and early registration is available until May 17. Visit the official Congress website for information on the Congress schedule, calls for papers and library tours offered. Check out this short video highlighting the city of Columbus and its award-winning libraries. We hope to see you in August. -- Lynn Silipigni Connaway, PhD OCLC . Senior Research Scientist , OCLC Research 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH USA 43017 M +1-303-246-3623 IFLA National Committee 2016 Representative for Association for Library and Information Science Education President-Elect (2015-2016), Association for Information Science & Technology Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agruzd at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 21:15:42 2016 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:15:42 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] 2016 Social Media & Society Conference: Keynotes & Presentations Announced! Message-ID: <034a01d19f59$279f1da0$76dd58e0$@gmail.com> (Apologies for cross-posting) We would like to invite you to attend the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society that will be held on July 11-13 in London, UK. KEYNOTES This year, we are honoured to have two featured keynotes: * Dr. Susan Halford - Director, Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK * Dr. Helen Kennedy - Professor of Digital Society, University of Sheffield, UK PRESENTATIONS The conference's intensive 3-day program will feature workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters, covering a wide range of areas including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, etc. * Accepted workshops: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016-workshops/ * Accepted panels, papers and posters: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/schedule/ REGISTRATION The early-bird deadline ends May 1, 2016, so register ASAP. We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! Register here: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: smsociety16 at easychair.org ~2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, Marc Esteve Del Valle, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy, Evelyn Ruppert, & Ville Takala, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Mon Apr 25 14:27:29 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:27:29 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Final CfP: Physical Samples and Digital Libraries workshop at JCDL 2016 In-Reply-To: <571517A2.4010809@austin.utexas.edu> References: <571517A2.4010809@austin.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <571E6191.5040400@austin.utexas.edu> Hi folks, A final reminder about the workshop submission deadline on May 1st. This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: http://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdl2016/ ------------------------------------------ The First International Physical Samples and Digital Libraries (PSDL 2016) workshop will be held on June 22nd and 23rd in Newark, NJ in conjunction with theJCDL 2016--ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. We solicit participation from earth sciencesi, biology collections, (and related sciences that collect and manage samples such as hydrology, archeology, etc.) and digital library scholarly communities to make this workshop a success. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the community of researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scientific publications. The intention is both to assemble the existing community as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the digital libraries community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences. Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and the entire universe, contribute to and a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube (http://www.earthcube.org) Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. Important dates: * May 1: paper submissions due * May 8: Notification of acceptance * June 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop Participation: Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and digital libraries that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposal Formats We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers*: up to 8 page submissions that report on mature work or in an area of interest * *work-in-progess and position papers*: upto 4 page submissions that discuss early results or explore a significant issue related to the workshop topic * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ACM submission templates, which are available at:http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. Submission Process Please submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016. Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar ((unmil at ischool.utexas.edu)) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert((lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu)) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt((clenhardt at renci.org)) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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His research interest includes studies of interactive information seeking, especially in the context of online social networks and collaborations, contextual information mining, and applications of social media services for exploring critical socio-political issues. Shah has received numerous awards and grants from federal agencies such as NSF and IMLS, including the IMLS Faculty Early Career Award; and private organizations such as Amazon, Google, and Yahoo. Most recently, Shah was the recipient of an Institute of Museum and Library Services 2016 National Leadership Grants for Libraries award for the project, "Online Q&A in STEM Education: Curating the Wisdom of the Crowd." The project received $491,973 in funding. Shah serves on the board of Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) as the Director of the Chapter Assembly. -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Wed Apr 27 14:51:54 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (BRENDA SHERIDAN) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:51:54 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Leslie Burger, Founding Partner of Library Development Solutions, Speaks at Beta Phi Mu, Omicron Chapter Annual Meeting, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Message-ID: *Leslie Burger, Founding Partner of Library Development Solutions, Speaks at Beta Phi Mu, Omicron Chapter Annual Meeting, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey* Earlier this month, the Omicron Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, Rutgers University, held its annual chapter meeting at the Rutgers Club in New Brunswick, with Leslie Burger speaking on leadership in the library and information science industry. Kicking off the event, Omicron scholarship awards were presented to Helen Busness and Carla Harwood, two current Master of Information students. A ceremony for new initiates and a business meeting to discuss chapter updates followed the awards. New officers for the chapter are Jen Hunter, President; Melody Townley, Vice President/President-elect; Cassidy Charles, Treasurer; and Meaghan Darling, Secretary. New initiates for 2016 are William Bejarano, Jennifer Bigioni, Melissa Ciotti, John Daquino, Kathleen DiGiulio, Genevieve Hewson, Manuel Jusino, Amanpreet Kaur, Elizabeth Lien, Kristin Lepping, Anne Lonergan, Lisa Nazzaro, and Khusboo Rana. The highlight of the event was a presentation entitled ?Wonder. Risk. Imagine: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know to be a Successful Library Leader? given by Leslie Burger, founding partner of Library Development Solutions, a New York based consulting firm founded in 1991. Focusing on developing the qualities of a leader in the LIS industry, Burger explained her decision for the title of her speech. ?The inspiration for this talk came from Robert Barry, a conceptual artist, who has the cornerstone installation at the Princeton Public Library. The words inscribed on the cornerstone are: Wonder. Risk. Imagine. Explore. Doubt. Possible. Change. Question. Hope,? Burger said. ?These simple words can apply to many aspects of life. I want to use them in the context of leadership and how they can guide you throughout your library career.? Burger gave several practical tips on effective leadership including the importance to think competitively and creatively, listen to what others have to say, never stop learning, lead by example, and be passionate about libraries. ?As an employer I am primarily looking for two things - attitude and a broad understanding of the role libraries play in our society. I?ll teach you everything else you need to know on the job, that?s the easy stuff. But I want librarians who are leaders, thinkers,? Burger said. Burger has 42 years of experience in the LIS field, which included her position as the executive director of the Princeton Public Library where she helped plan, design and secure the funding required for a new 55,000 square foot library that opened in 2004. Over the past year and a half, she has spearheaded the effort for Princeton?s 2-Reimagine project including design, funding and rallying support from the community. Leslie is also an adjunct faculty member atRutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I ), teaching management and leadership in the Library and Information Science concentration within SC&I?s new Master of Information program. Beta Phi Mu was founded in 1948 at the University of Illinois by a group of leading librarians and library educators, and the Omicron Chapter was started at Rutgers in 1970 by two PhD students. Bill Summers, one of the chapter founders, went on to become the Dean of the Library School at Florida State and Executive Director of Beta Phi Mu. -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu From wilsontd at gmail.com Thu Apr 28 15:16:44 2016 From: wilsontd at gmail.com (Prof. T.D. Wilson) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:16:44 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD studentship available Message-ID: Evaluation of Mobile Information Systems The following PhD studentship opportunity is available in Leeds Information systems evaluation remains a ?thorny problem? for both scholarship and practice. The current generation of mobile systems in use in organisations provide particular challenges for evaluation but also provide new forms of data which can be used in the evaluation process. The research will address the evaluation of mobile information systems in a particularly challenging context: policing in the UK. More information about the project is available by contacting Professor David Allen atd.allen at lubs.leeds.ac.uk or Dr Stuart Lister at S.C.Lister at leeds.ac.uk. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile on the iPad From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Fri Apr 29 16:07:26 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:07:26 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline extension--May 10th--Physical Samples and Digital Libraries workshop at JCDL 2016 In-Reply-To: <571E6229.4080606@austin.utexas.edu> References: <571E6229.4080606@austin.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <5723BEFE.1070205@austin.utexas.edu> Hi folks, We have extended the deadline for submitting proposals for this workshop to Tuesday, May 10th. ---------------------------------------------------- This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: http://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdl2016/ ------------------------------------------ The First International Physical Samples and Digital Libraries (PSDL 2016) workshop will be held on June 22nd and 23rd in Newark, NJ in conjunction with theJCDL 2016--ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. We solicit participation from earth sciences, biology collections, (and related sciences that collect and manage samples such as hydrology, archeology, etc.) and digital library scholarly communities to make this workshop a success. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the community of researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scientific publications. The intention is both to assemble the existing community as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the digital libraries community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences. Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and the entire universe, contribute to and a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube (http://www.earthcube.org) Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. Important dates: * May 10: paper submissions due * May 15: Notification of acceptance * June 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * June 22-23: PSDL 2016 Workshop Participation: Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and digital libraries that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposal Formats We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers*: up to 8 page submissions that report on mature work or in an area of interest * *work-in-progess and position papers*: up to 4 page submissions that discuss early results or explore a significant issue related to the workshop topic * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ACM submission templates, which are available at:http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. Submission Process Please submit papers by May 10th via the workshop's EasyChair submission page:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2016. Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar ((unmil at ischool.utexas.edu)) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert((lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu)) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt((clenhardt at renci.org)) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:35:52 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:35:52 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] DEADLINES - New Leader Award & Annual Meeting Panels & Workshops Message-ID: <385-220164529143552416@LEN-dick-2011> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ 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 ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 29 10:57:54 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:57:54 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Register_Now_for_a_Short_Course_on_Children?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Book_Awards_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSc?= =?utf-8?q?hool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* ? Dates and Times o May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016?6:30pm?8:00pm ? Location o Hornbake Library South Wing University of Maryland, College Park campus ? Price and Refunds o $269.00 (payable by debit or credit only) o Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* From asis at gwizdka.com Fri Apr 29 10:46:20 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:46:20 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CFP: 2nd Intl Workshop Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 (at SIGIR) Message-ID: ====================================== 2nd International Workshop Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 held in conjunction with ACM SIGIR conference. Submission deadline extended to: *May 20, 2016* http://chauff.github.io/sal2016/ July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy ====================================== Search systems to date are viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy immediate information needs, than as part of larger complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Since users increasingly learn informally while searching as well as use search systems as tools for self-study, there is a growing recognition of the importance to address the challenges of designing, developing, and evaluating search systems (algorithms, interfaces, etc.) that foster discovery and enhance learning outside of formal educational settings. The Search as Learning Workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, and survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. Further, this workshop wishes to bring together researchers with backgrounds in information science (IS), learning sciences (LS), human computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR), with the goal of integrating conceptual, experimental, and simulation-based approaches and methodologies from within these different fields, thus allowing the transformation of search systems as isolated information access tools into systems that provide support for learning directly and that consider the broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. The 1st SAL workshop took place in 2014 in Regensburg http://www.diigubc.ca/IIIXSAL/index.html Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): - Understanding searching as a human learning process. - When and how learning occurs in the search process. - The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts. - Features and functionalities to foster learning. - Search interface design in support of learning. - The implications of searching for learning for different populations: children, low literacy searchers, non-experts. - The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching. - Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience. - Learning analytics for search contexts. - Collaborative aspects of searching as learning. - Indicators of learning (while searching). - Interaction monitoring, modelling, and optimization for learning outcomes. The submissions will be peer reviewed (single-blind) and must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template. We invite position papers on the topic (up to 2 pages) as well as reports on ongoing research (up to 4 pages). We accept submissions through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sal2016 Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: *May 20, 2016* Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2016 Final Papers Due: June 20, 2016 Workshop Date: July 21, 2016 (Workshop takes place immediately after ACM SIGIR conference) Organizers: -------------------------------------------------------- Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin, USA Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, Netherlands Jiyin He, CWI, Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Programme committee: ----------------------------------------------------------- Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg Kalervo J?rvelin, University of Tampere Jussi Karlgren, KTH Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia Andreas Nurnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim Please contact us at sal2016 at nii.ac.jp for further information about the workshop.