From barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il Fri Jul 1 04:15:31 2016 From: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il (Judit Bar-Ilan) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:15:31 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for contributions: altmetrics16 Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* *altmetrics16* is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 , altmetrics12 , altmetrics14 and altmetrics15 workshops. The workshop is co-organized with the 3rd Altmetrics Conference (3:AM) and will take place on *27 September 2016* at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila in Bucharest, Romania. *Call for contributions* We are soliciting empirical and theoretical contributions for short presentations and as a basis for discussions, which will be the main focus of the altmetrics16 workshop. Submissions can focus on empirical analyses, novel theoretical frameworks, original datasets or represent a position paper. The goal of the workshop is to discuss, exchange and foster collaboration on altmetrics between researchers and practitioners. While an abstract is not a requirement to attend the workshop, we strongly encourage prospective participants to submit a contribution to seed the discussions. The organizers will give priority to submissions linking to original research artifacts and focusing on the theme of this year?s workshop. All accepted submissions will be made available via the workshop website prior to the workshop. *How to submit* Please provide an extended abstract (max 1,000 words) presenting your altmetrics research contribution and highlighting particular issues you would like to discuss with other workshop participants. Abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair . Please include a link to any relevant artifact (e.g., a dataset, plots, slidedeck) you wish to present and discuss, after archiving it via an appropriate repository (e.g., Dryad, figshare, GitHub, SlideShare, etc.). Contributions should be submitted by *14 August 2016* and will be curated by the altmetrics16 committee for their relevance and technical soundness. Accepted contributions will be made available on the workshop website by *29 August 2016*. A limited number of contributions will be selected for short presentations. Notifications to authors of submissions shortlisted for presentations will be sent by 29 August 2016. *Important dates* - *14 August 2016*: submission deadline - *29 August 2016*: notification of acceptance - *27 September 2016*: altmetrics workshop _______________ Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027 email: Judit.Bar-Ilan at biu.ac.il From rhill at asis.org Tue Jul 5 09:07:56 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:07:56 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Application: Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management Message-ID: <08ab01d1d6be$40279040$c076b0c0$@asis.org> Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks new faculty colleagues with a strong record of high-quality research and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars. Assistant Professor: Knowledge Management We are looking for a scholar-teacher working in the area of knowledge management with an interest in its application to marketing, customer management, big data analytics or equivalent. The candidate is expected to possess a doctorate in an appropriate field from a reputable university. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education. Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School's pre-eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia. Emoluments and General Terms and Conditions of Service Salary will be competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. Information on emoluments and general terms and conditions of service is available in the section on Terms and Conditions for Academic Appointments. Application Procedures To apply, please refer to the Guidelines for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 11 August 2016 to: The Search Committee Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building Singapore 637718 Email: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Applications sent via email should include the reference "Application for Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management" in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email. Review of the applications will begin on 12 August 2016 and continue until the position is filled. The candidate is expected to start in July/August 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. 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 hrosenba at indiana.edu Tue Jul 5 14:45:09 2016 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 18:45:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Message-ID: Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2015 or a conference paper presented in 2015. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University From dania at utk.edu Thu Jul 7 12:35:53 2016 From: dania at utk.edu (Bilal, Dania) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 16:35:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] UT School of Information Sciences Granted Continued Accreditation Message-ID: The University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that the American Library Association's (ALA) Committee on Accreditation has granted continued accreditation status to its Master of Science in Information Sciences (MSIS) program. The next comprehensive review of the program is scheduled for spring 2023. The School of Information Sciences has been continually accredited by ALA since 1972. Applications for the MSIS program are currently being accepted for fall 2016 and spring 2017 (see http://www.sis.utk.edu/admissions). ________________________________________ 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 Arjun.Sabharwal at utoledo.edu Wed Jul 6 15:04:50 2016 From: Arjun.Sabharwal at utoledo.edu (Sabharwal, Arjun) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:04:50 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Save the date! SIG AH Webinar: Technology and Publishing with Dr. Martin Paul Eve Message-ID: <017FC959FD85F84595B95C3E59604ACF0162EC8235@msgdb10.utad.utoledo.edu> SIG- AH invites you to the following Webinar in September: Technology and Publishing: The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility Dr. Martin Paul Eve, Open Library of Humanities/Birkbeck, University of London September 21, 2016 at 11am-12:15pm EDT/8-9:15am Pacific Time Chroniclers of the open-access movement such as Peter Suber have noted that the open, online dissemination of scholarly and research material is reliant upon digital reproduction. Indeed, prior to our present age, notes Suber, all forms of non-rivalrous objects, such as knowledge, were tied to rivalrous modes of communication, such as paper. Yet, is the digital age so different from the "Age of Mechanical Reproduction" noted by Walter Benjamin early in the twentieth century? Why should new technological mutations drive the ways in which humanities scholars disseminate their work? And is there a danger, we might ask, in letting technological fetishism act as determiners of humanities scholarship? In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will address these matters, which are formative elements of the terrain on which scholarship in the twenty-first century will emerge. Access details will be available on the ASIST Webinars site: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/ Dr. Martin Paul Eve is Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Academic Project Director for the Open Library of Humanities. He is the author of three books: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014); Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Password: A Cultural History (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2016) and many journal articles. A strong advocate for open access to scholarly material, Martin has given evidence to the UK House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into Open Access; served on the Jisc OAPEN-UK Advisory Board, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, and the Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Board; been a member of the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Group; and is a member of the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications. Martin is also a qualified computer programmer (Microsoft Professional in C# and the .NET Framework) and is the author of the digital publishing tools meTypeset and CaSSius. From hsiehyee at cua.edu Thu Jul 7 15:34:55 2016 From: hsiehyee at cua.edu (Ingrid P Hsieh-Yee) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:34:55 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Catholic University MSLIS Program Granted Continued Accreditation Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Department of Library and Information Science of the Catholic University of America (CUA) is pleased to announce that the American Library Association's (ALA) Committee on Accreditation has granted continued accreditation status to its Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) program. The next comprehensive review of the program is scheduled for spring 2023. The library and information science program at CUA has been continually accredited by ALA since 1946/47. We welcome applications to the MSLIS program for fall 2016 and spring 2017 ( http://lis.cua.edu/admissions/index.cfm) Best wishes, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Ph.D. Professor & Interim Co-Chair Room 451A Columbus School of Law Building Dept. of Library & Information Science Catholic University of America Washington, DC 20064 Phone: 202-319-5085 Fax: 202-319-5574 E-mail: hsiehyee at cua.edu From Tom.Mackey at esc.edu Wed Jul 6 21:03:47 2016 From: Tom.Mackey at esc.edu (Tom Mackey) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 01:03:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job posting: Associate Dean for Library and Instructional Services Message-ID: Empire State College is seeking a collaborative and pioneering leader to integrate and advance our library and information services with curriculum and instructional design. The Associate Dean for Library and Instructional Services is a newly created position at the college that will report directly to the Dean of Academic and Instructional Services. This is a college wide role that will promote the ongoing development of state-of-the-art library and instructional services for faculty and students. To apply: https://esc.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=73157 The successful candidate will work collaboratively with library staff, curriculum and instructional designers, educational technologists, faculty, and academic leadership, to offer library and instructional design services as a comprehensive college wide resource. This team-based approach will support the innovative design and delivery of learner-centered curriculum in a variety of existing and emerging modalities. This position will be responsible for developing high quality library and instructional services in blended and online environments while promoting leading edge practices to support the development of Open Educational Resources (OERs), micro-credentialing, competency-based learning, MOOCs, video, multimedia, and up-and-coming educational technologies. The successful candidate will partner with stakeholders throughout the college to develop exceptional library and instructional services that are available to faculty and learners at our 35 locations through New York State, as well as internationally, and online. The associate dean will supervise the college's information services professionals, as part of our virtual library, and our curriculum and instructional designers that support our undergraduate and graduate programs. This position will effectively leverage existing resources while envisioning the future state of an expanded college wide approach. The associate dean will be aware of current trends in higher education and evaluate emerging practices and resources that align with our strategic priorities. The selected incumbent in collaboration with the Dean of Academic and Instructional Services will work closely with disciplinary associate deans in our undergraduate and graduate programs. The associate dean promotes collaboration among information services professionals, curriculum and instructional designers, faculty, and educational technologists at Information Technology Services (ITS) to provide integrated and comprehensive library and instructional services that are of the highest quality and available to all stakeholders across the college. The associate dean will support learning environments that reflect the college's non-traditional mission and vision, and provide consistent library and instructional services that support teaching and research excellence. He/she will work with the Dean of Academic and Instructional Services to prepare and maintain the library and instructional services budget and for the recommendation and assurance of proper implementation of relevant policies. The successful candidate will be effective in the area of performance management, conducting timely performance programs and appraisals for direct reports and supporting all staff for professional development opportunities. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Provides leadership for library and instructional design services, including the virtual library, and curriculum and instructional design. * Promotes collaboration among information services professionals, curriculum and instructional designers, and faculty to develop exceptional learning environments. * Partners with the academic deans and associate deans to plan and implement the library and instructional design service needs of faculty and students. * Collaborates with academic leadership, faculty, and colleagues to integrate library and instructional design resources to support learner-centered pedagogies. * Works with academic deans and associate deans to provide seamless access for faculty and students to innovative library and instructional design services throughout the college. * Partners with the Office of Decision Support to identify relevant emerging trends and to assess the effectiveness of library and instructional services. * Collaborates with the Office of Sponsored Programs to pursue funding opportunities that support current and emerging trends that align with strategic priorities. * Partners with Information Technology Services (ITS) to promote collaboration with educational technologists college wide and to leverage technology resources for learning. * Applies effective methods for supervision and professional development of staff. * Manages fiscal resources to include budget planning and ongoing review of library and instructional design resources in consultation with the Dean of Academic and Instructional Services. Requirements: Required Qualifications: * An earned doctorate from a regionally accredited U.S. university or comparable non-U.S. university. * Minimum of three years of relevant higher education leadership experience, preferably in library or instructional design, including supervisory and budget experience. * Proven successful development of library or instructional design initiatives to support faculty development and student academic success in such areas as information literacy, library services, and curriculum and instructional design in blended, online, and/or technology-mediated environments. * Experience with blended and online modes for the design and delivery of library and instructional services. * Experience in the assessment of library and instructional services and continuous process improvement. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills. * Demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity in higher education. Desired Attributes and Experiences: * Understanding of the regulatory environment of higher education. * Ability to lead and develop staff distributed throughout the state. * Experience in the development of successful grant proposals. * Experience with institutions serving adult learners. Special Information: * This is a Management/Confidential position. * Travel to Empire State College locations throughout New York is required, along with occasional evening and weekend obligations. Additional Information: Rank/Salary: Commensurate with qualifications. Applications Due: July 6, 2016. Empire State College is an EOE employer. IF YOU NEED A DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATION, PLEASE CALL THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER AT (518) 587-2100. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TITLE II CRIME AWARENESS AND SECURITY ACT, A COPY OF OUR CRIME STATISTICS IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST BY CALLING (518) 587-2100, ext. 2800. IT CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON-LINE AT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY WEBSITE AT http://www.esc.edu/safety-security Application Instructions: If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit the following documents, which are required for consideration by clicking on the APPLY NOW button : * Resume * Cover letter * Name and contact information of three references See the FAQ for using our online system. Please contact us if you need assistance applying through this website. Returning Applicants - Please click here to login to your Empire State College Employment Account to check your completed application or to update your account. Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Academic Programs Office of Academic Affairs Interim Dean, School for Graduate Studies Tom.Mackey at esc.edu 518-587-2100, ext. 2790 [ESC logo sized for email signatures] SUNY Empire State College | 1 Union Avenue | Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Stay connected: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube From bhow at loc.gov Thu Jul 7 15:16:54 2016 From: bhow at loc.gov (Howard, Barrie) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:16:54 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] 2016-2017 National Digital Stewardship Residency application period closes in two weeks Message-ID: <7CC4AB09C979C242B5E468C64182DD44010E227A3EEC@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> Please excuse cross-posting... The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program is accepting applications through July 20, 2016. Applicants can apply through the USAJOBs vacancy announcement available from https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/441209500 The NDSR program is a field experience opportunity developed by the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services open to recent masters and doctoral graduates interested in digital stewardship, who have graduated from an accredited degree-granting program between summer 2014 and summer 2016. Doctoral candidates with graduation beyond summer 2016 are also encouraged to apply. You can read more about the NDSR program from the website, available from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr Five residents will be selected to begin a one-year, full-time, paid residency to develop, apply, and advance their digital stewardship knowledge and skills in real-world settings. Please help spread the word about this exclusive opportunity, and pass this message along. I have also provided some sample text to share via social media channels. Thank you, George George Coulbourne Chief, Internship and Fellowship Programs National and International Outreach Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue Washington, DC 20540-3000 (o) 202-707-7856 (iP) 202-258-2969 gcou at loc.gov| www.loc.gov facebook: The 2016-2017 National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) application period for the Washington, DC cohort is now open! The one-year residency is a paid position from September 2016 through September 2017, and is open to recent masters and doctoral graduates with an interest in digital stewardship. Developed by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the Library of Congress, the program prepares recent graduates for the professional world of digital stewardship through field work at one of five host institutions in the Baltimore-Washington area. To learn more about the program and how to apply for this exciting opportunity, visit the website available from the link below. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/ Tweet: @librarycongress @US_IMLS #ndsrdc application period is open! 1-yr PAID residency w/dig pres focus in Balto-DC area, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/ From cglaze at illinois.edu Thu Jul 7 17:00:25 2016 From: cglaze at illinois.edu (Glaze, Christy Grant) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 21:00:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Emily Knox elected to National Coalition Against Censorship board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Emily Knox elected to National Coalition Against Censorship board iSchool at Illinois Assistant Professor Emily Knox has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). An alliance of more than fifty nonprofit organizations, NCAC promotes freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression and opposes censorship in all its forms. Knox?s research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, and the intersection of print culture and reading practices. In 2015 she was awarded the Illinois Library Association Intellectual Freedom Award and was named a WISE Instructor of the Year. Knox?s book, Book Banning in 21st Century America, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in January 2015. It is the first monograph in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars? Series. The book is an expansion of the analysis presented in her Library & Information Science Research article, "Society, institutions, and common sense: Themes in the discourse of challengers in 21st century United States." Knox also contributed a chapter on religion and intellectual freedom to The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories, the 2016 winner of the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award for best published work in intellectual freedom. She previously wrote a manual on running a small interlibrary loan and document delivery department published by Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association. It is listed as a key source in Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources (Bemis, 2014, p. 107). Knox received her PhD from the doctoral program at the Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. Her master?s in library and information science is from the iSchool at Illinois. She also holds a BA in religious studies from Smith College and an AM in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School. She was the Associate Director and Reference Librarian at the St. Mark?s (now Keller) Library of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City for five years before returning to school. ________________________________ Christy Glaze, MLS Communications Coordinator School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ischool.illinois.edu From hiris at uwm.edu Wed Jul 6 16:11:56 2016 From: hiris at uwm.edu (Iris Xie) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 20:11:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research (deadline extended to Sept. 1st) Message-ID: Per doctoral students' requests, we have extended the deadline for video submission to September 1, 2016. ASIS&T invites a doctoral student in the writing stage or close to defending to submit a short video (any length) that introduces the world to the exciting and engaging research you are doing. We are extending an invitation to those doctoral students who have: a) completed their coursework, qualifying examinations (or equivalent) and defended their proposals, and b) are in the process of analyzing/writing, or ready to defend their dissertations. In addition to the great visibility that your research receives, the best 20 submissions will win a free one-year ASIS&T membership (or free renewal). All vetted submissions will be featured on the ASIS&T website . SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 1, 2016 TOPIC: Produce a short video (up to 5 minutes) that is the equivalent of an elevator speech about your dissertation research (related to the information field broadly construed). Please include the following elements in your video: * Your Name and affiliation * Your dissertation title, and the name of your advisor(s) * What your research is about? How you went about it? What your findings indicate; and why it matters... (or any variant of these questions). While we encourage the elevator speech format (concise and well articulated), feel free to be as creative as you want to be! Please consult with your advisor(s) when preparing for the video. And remember to practice, practice, practice. FORMAT: Format the video using PowerPoint, Prezi, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, VoiceThread, or Brainshark. Include a statement that your video is created for "Doctoral Research @ ASIS&T". If an updated video file is needed, we will contact you with additional instructions. VIDEO LENGTH: Up to 5 minutes. Video Language: We are an international association, so we welcome a variety of languages. For more information, please contact Dr. Iris Xie - hiris at uwm.edu SUBMISSION: Upload the video to your YouTube account and submit the information below to: social at asist.org * Subject line: "Doctoral Research @ ASIS&T" * your full name and affiliation * Email address * Video Title * URL to your video file * You grant ASIS&T the right to feature your video on the ASIST website. PRIZES: All submitted videos will be reviewed by a committee. All approved videos will be featured on the ASIS&T website for a determined period of time. 20 videos featured on the website will receive a free one-year ASIS&T membership (for new members) or a free one-year renewal (for current members) based on a selection process spearheaded by the committee. This initiative is co-sponsored by the ASIS&T membership committee, ASIS&T Education and Professional Advancement committee, and ASIS&T Outreach and Engagement task force. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Iris Xie - hiris at uwm.edu Good luck, everyone! ************************************************* Iris Xie, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Phone:(414)229-6835 Fax:(414)229-6699 https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/hiris/www/index.html ************************************************* From ola.pilerot at hb.se Fri Jul 8 04:55:38 2016 From: ola.pilerot at hb.se (Ola Pilerot) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:55:38 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for papers: thematic issue of Information Research - Materiality and social dynamics of information infrastructures and learning Message-ID: <577F86AA0200005800020268@gwis1.adm.hb.se> Call for papers: thematic issue of Information Research Information Research (www.informationr.net/ir/) is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. MATERIALITY AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES AND LEARNING This thematic issue on the ?Materiality and social dynamics of information infrastructures and learning? aims to widen the empirical base and further the theoretical framing of information infrastructures and their relations to learning processes, conditions and outcomes in various contexts. Although information infrastructures are not necessarily designed and developed for formal learning purposes, they can nonetheless be seen to support, enable or constrain learning in both foreseeable and unforeseen ways from a view on learning as mediated by all sorts of human engagement with tools and artefacts. This focus, consequently, presupposes an understanding of information infrastructures as material artefacts constructed in, and constructing, the social practices and (prod)user activities of which they are part. Common denominators for the sort of infrastructures that we particularly wish to focus on are that they structure some form of information and are, in most cases, digital. Examples include (digital) libraries; social media; search engines; databases, repositories and document collections; encyclopaedias; visualisation tools; virtual learning platforms, publishing houses, and MOOCs. For this thematic issue, we encourage an open approach to how socio-material perspectives on information infrastructures and their relations to learning processes, conditions and outcomes can be studied and interpreted. We explicitly seek and encourage contributions of researchers from different fields including library and information science, learning/educational sciences and organization studies, in order to inspire new ideas and enable a fruitful conversation across disciplinary borders. Furthermore, individual conceptualisations and empirical delimitations of study objects suitable for this theme may comprise all levels of granularity, from singular artefacts conceived as free-standing and self-contained infrastructures, to artefacts treated as parts or components of a larger, interconnected network (infrastructure), all the way up to concerns with networked information infrastructures comprising multitudes of components in the broadest and most comprehensive way. We also welcome a wide variety as regards theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as the inclusion or delimitation of relevant actors and social/cultural/historical/intellectual et cetera contexts as shaped by, and shaping, the infrastructures in question. In thinking about the journal issue theme, we have drawn inspiration from, but will not limit ourselves to, a number of conceptions of and approaches to infrastructures. Guribye and Lindstr?m (2009, 154), e.g., define infrastructures for learning in a fairly intentional manner as artefacts ?designed to and / or assigned to support a learning practice? (Guribye & Lindstr?m, 2009: 154). Susan Leigh Star (1999, 380) on the other hand emphasises, from broader organisational and institutional concerns, infrastructures as relational to organized practices in the sense that they mean different things in different practices. And Bowker et al. (2010) make explicit that conceptions of infrastructures need to include the people associated with them. Possible questions that could be addressed in individual contributions and when viewing the contributions as a collective are: How does the materiality of infrastructures change when they are reinvented in a new medium (remediated) and what implications does it have for learning and other information activities? What similarities and differences can be found in how information activities, such as learning, are constructed (and constrained) through different types of infrastructures (or parts thereof)? What aspects of power and politics can be connected to the design and use of various information infrastructures? How does this relate to issues of user empowerment, participation and inclusion and/or of oppression, exclusion, and cultural/intellectual socialisation or ?hijacking?? What does a focus on infrastructures and materiality ? often unnoticed or viewed as operating in the background ? contribute to the study of learning and information practices? REFERENCES Bowker, G. C., Baker, K., Millerand, F. & Ribes, D. (2010). Toward information infrastructure studies: Ways of knowing in a networked environment. J. Hunsinger et al. (eds.). International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer Science+Business Media B. 97-117. Guribye, F. & Lindstr?m, B. (2009). Infrastructures for learning and networked tools. The introduction of a new tool in an inter-organisational network. In Dirckink-Holmfeld, L., Jones, L.& Lindstr?m, B. (Eds.), Analysing Networked Learning Practices in Higher Education and Continuing Professional Development. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 103-116. Star, S. L. (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377-391. EDITORS Veronica Johansson and Ola Pilerot, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Bor?s. PUBLICATION DATE The thematic issue is planned for publication in September 2017. On average, papers take approximately eleven months from submission to publication. This means that papers should be submitted through the journal management system by the end of November 2016. http://www.informationr.net/ir/Cfp_Mat.html ************ Dr Ola Pilerot Universitetslektor / Senior Lecturer Biblioteksh?gskolan / Swedish School of Library and Information Science H?gskolan i Bor?s / University of Bor?s SE-501 90 BOR?S SWEDEN Tfn.: 033-435 43 29 Mobil: 0733-012 779 https://olapilerot.net/ http://lincs.gu.se/members/ola_pilerot/ From jmartin at nedcc.org Thu Jul 7 10:08:45 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 14:08:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Directions Denver, Sept 26-28 - Join Us! Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9CA82AC56@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> NEDCC Presents DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections Sept 26-28, 2016 - Denver, Colorado Smaller venue this year - seats are filling fast! Register Now! LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS: Digital Project Planning, Selection, Rights and Responsibilities, Metadata, Access, Use, and More. Get answers to your questions in many Q&A sessions with faculty; meet colleagues with similar challenges; and visit Denver, the Mile-High City. 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By Chern Li Liew and Ferne Cheetham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Analysis of International Linked Data Survey for Implementers By Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research The Opinion Piece is: Text Mining at an Institution with Limited Financial Resources By Drew E. VandeCreek, Northern Illinois University Libraries D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From hcomp16 at gmail.com Mon Jul 11 10:03:33 2016 From: hcomp16 at gmail.com (Human Computation Conference) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:03:33 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP HCOMP Encore, Industry, and WIP track (Aug 15) Message-ID: *Call For Participation, Human Computation 2016, Austin TX, Oct 30-Nov 3* The Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2016) is now welcoming submissions to three tracks: 1. Works-in-Progress and Demonstration Papers Early progress work or work that is most appropriate for the demonstration format. 2. Encore Track High-quality and relevant previously published work. 3. Industry and Practice Track Crowdsourcing in practice. For all tracks, please SUBMIT BY AUG 15th. More information for these calls is at: http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/submit.html http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/industry.html We hope to see you in Austin! If you have any additional concerns, email us at hcomp16 at gmail.com. There is also a discussion list for all things Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/crowd-hcomp. *# Works in Progress* Work-in-progress papers provide a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. A demonstration is a high-visibility, high-impact forum of the HCOMP program that allows you to present your hands-on demonstration, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. We encourage submissions from any area of human computation and crowdsourcing. Track co-chairs: - Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research) - Walter S. Lasecki (University of Michigan) Length. Works-in-Progress & Demonstration papers can be up to 2 pages (excluding references, which may be unlimited pages), may be submitted. Works in Progress and Demonstrations are NOT anonymized and NOT Archival. Authors should include information identifying themselves and their institutions for single-blind review. Accepted papers will not be included in official conference proceedings, and so may be submitted later to other conferences or journals for official publication. Authors will decide at submission what should be posted on HCOMP's conference's website if the paper is accepted: only the paper's title, or the PDF for the entire paper. *# Encore Track* The broad utility and impact of crowdsourcing and human computation have led to widespread interest from researchers spanning many different academic disciplines and domains of study. As part of this diversity, some researchers publish in journals, some in conferences, and others write books. To help stay abreast of the latest, important research findings, the Encore Track was created to provide a common forum to bring together such diverse researchers. We invite previously-published work for encore presentation at HCOMP, to foster further interactions among researchers and further broaden the dissemination and impact of important work in the field. # Industry and Practice Track HCOMP seeks to advance human computation and crowdsourcing practice as well as research, including engineers and practitioners to encourage dialogue across disciplines and communities of practice. Participation in the Industry & Practice Track offers a unique opportunity to showcase your technology (by demo or presentation), network with other professionals and researchers alike, and tap into HCOMP's incredible source of talent. The Industry & Practice track allows practitioners to share and discuss state-of-the-art practice in crowdsourcing and human computation processes and technologies, whether in companies (big and small) or other organizations (e.g., non-profits, governments, etc.). To apply to participate in the Industry & Practice Track at HCOMP 2016, please submit a written description of what you would like to present (up to 2000 words). There is no required formatting or template to adhere to, but submissions must be uploaded in PDF format. Track Chairs: - Anand Kulkani - Lead Genius - Matt Manning - Information Evolution, Inc. From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Mon Jul 11 15:40:57 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:40:57 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] First CfP: Physical Samples and Digital Collections Workshop, ASIS&T AM 2016, October 14, Copenhagen Denmark Message-ID: This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: http://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdc2016/ ------------------------------------------ The First International Physical Samples and Digital Collections (PSDC 2016) workshop will be held on October 14th in Copenhagen, Denmark in conjunction with the ASIS&T AM 2016--2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. We solicit participation from information studies as well as communities that work with physical samples--for example, earth sciences, biology, paleontology, hydrology, archeology--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 scholarly publications. The intention is to assemble the existing community of scholars and practitioners from both coasts of the Atlantic as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the information science community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences, broadly construed. 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 contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess 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 --------------- * August 15: paper submissions due * August 23: Notification of acceptance * October 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * October 14: PSDC 2016 Workshop Topics ------ Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and information science 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*: 6-8 page submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position on an issue of significance to the community * *work-in-progess and position papers*: 3-4 page submissions that discuss early results on nascent projects * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ASIS&T submission template, which is available at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.doc Submission ---------- Please submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdc2016 Organizers ---------- Please contact us with your 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 ludovico.boratto at unica.it Tue Jul 12 14:10:47 2016 From: ludovico.boratto at unica.it (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:10:47 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ICDM 2016 Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (SERecSys) Message-ID: <7B6D6B83-3BEF-4589-AA3B-D1DFF3E939AC@unica.it> Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (SERecSys) In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2016) 12 December, 2016 Barcelona, Spain Call for papers A recommender system is designed to suggest items that are expected to interest a user. In order to filter the items and produce the recommendation, Data Mining techniques are largely employed. Among the most popular recommendation approaches in the literature and in real-world applications (e.g., e-commerce websites) are the so-called content-based recommender systems. Content-based recommender systems suggest to users items that are similar to those they previously evaluated. The early systems used relatively simple retrieval models, such as the Vector Space Model, with the basic TF-IDF weighting. Simple (word-based) interest descriptions may fall short both because of semantic ambiguity and because they lack of generality. Recently, content-based recommender systems evolved and started employing external knowledge sources (e.g., ontologies) to improve accuracy and scope of recommendations. More recent approaches have been based on deep learning. Other approaches, such as, have employed word embeddings in the recommendation process. Among the best known and high-performance implementations following these lines of research we mention Google's word2vec. Given the rapid advances of Semantic Technologies, there is still a large number of options for recommender systems to take advantage of semantics. Our workshop will solicit contributions in all topics related to employing Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems, focused (but not limited) to the following list: - Novel approaches to user profiling in recommender systems that model behavior with semantic technologies; - Content-based recommendation algorithms that employ novel uses of semantic technologies; - Recommendation explanation using semantic technologies; - Generation of novel, diverse, and serendipitous recommendations using semantic technologies; - Hybrid recommender systems that combine semantic technologies with other recommendation techniques (e.g., collaborative); - Group-based approaches that use semantic technologies to describe the group preferences or to generate recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2016 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Types of contributions We will consider three different submission types, all in the IEEE 2-column format: regular (8 pages), short (4 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). Research and position papers (regular or short) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature should be made where possible. Position papers should introduce novel point of views in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a researcher or a group in the field. Practice and experience reports (short) should present in detail the real-world scenarios in which Semantic Technologies are employed for recommendation purposes. Demo proposals (extended abstract) should present the details of a prototype or complete application that employs Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems. The systems will be demonstrated to the workshop attendees. Submission Guidelines All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2016 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2016.eurecat.org/ . Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system, available at: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2016/icdm16/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S19&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2016/icdm16/scripts/ws_submit.php Important Dates - Paper Submission Due: August 12, 2016 - Acceptance Notification: September 13, 2016 Website http://serecsys.di.uniroma1.it/ Contact For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to serecsys at di.uniroma1.it Workshop Chairs Ludovico Boratto (EURECAT, Spain) Salvatore Carta (University of Cagliari, Italy) Giovanni Stilo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) From syn at cua.edu Tue Jul 12 13:15:23 2016 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:15:23 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG USE Annual Awards 2016 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the slate of SIG USE awards available for travel and research; award winners will be formally recognized at the SIGUSE symposium, to be held at the upcoming ASIST Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. Applications can be forwarded to both of the SIG USE Awards Co-Chairs: Wade Bishop bbisho13 at utk.edu and Sue Yeon Syn syn at cua.edu. The following awards are open for competition: *The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award* for ?best research proposal that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $1000 *(Due July 15, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/ *The Innovation Award* for ?innovative work that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $200 *(Due July 15, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/phd-student-conference-travel-award/ *The Student Conference Travel Award* to ?assist student in a Master?s or doctoral program in attending the ASIST annual conference by defraying travel expenses.? Value: $500 (*Due July 15, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-masters-student-conference-travel-award/ *The Interdisciplinary Conference Travel Award* to ?provide financial support for members to attend non-LIS specific conference.? Value: 3 awards of $200 *(Due July 15, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/interdisciplinary-conference-travel-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award* in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200 *(Due July 15, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/best-information-behavior-conference-paper-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award* in recognition of the best information behavior poster accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200 *(Due August 1, 2016)* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-best-information-behavior-conference-poster-award/ Please note the application requirements and procedures for the various awards, which can be found though the URLs provided above. Please encourage your faculty and student colleagues to apply. Sincerely, Wade Bishop and Sue Yeon Syn SIGUSE Awards Co-Chairs *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* *620 Michigan Ave. N.E.* *Washington, D.C. 20064* *Phone: 202-319-6277* *Email: syn at cua.edu * *Web: http://faculty.cua.edu/syn/ * From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Jul 12 03:12:37 2016 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:12:37 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, Contribute to the Vocabulary Carnival Message-ID: <57849865.7090703@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The Vocabulary Carnival at SEMANTiCS 2016 is a unique opportunity for vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work, meet the growing community of vocabulary publishers and users, and build useful semantic, technical and social links. *When?* The Vocabulary Carnival is part of the SEMANTiCS programme with the Carnival Minute Madness on the 13th of September and on the industrial marketplace. *What kind of vocabularies do we expect?* * *Any kind!* For this event we use a very open definition of what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome. * *Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project:* At the carnival you can present your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people to get the Vocab discussion going. We require at least a project web site. *What is your benefit of submitting?* * *attention*: make people aware of your work * *feedback*: a room full of other vocabulary creators will guarantee expert feedback * *linking*: discover links from your vocabulary to others on-site *How to submit your Vocabulary to the Carnival?* 1. Make sure your vocabulary is accessible on the Web through a public URI. 2. Communicate your intention to participate at _https://goo.gl/mV3VpZ_ by joining and posting your vocabulary link and writing ?See you at the Carnival in Leipzig? or send an email to monika.solanki at cs.ox.ac.uk , with subject ?Vocabulary Carnival?. 3. Register to SEMANTiCS:_http://2016.semantics.cc/registration/_ 4. Submissions will be handled on a *first come, first serve basis* *Are there any technical requirements?* Your vocabulary submission will be evaluated in accordance to the following criteria: * *Reusability* - Which vocabularies and/or ontology design patterns have been reused in its development? Has it been mapped, aligned, imported within other ontologies yet? If not, where do you foresee potential reuse? * *Value addition* - How does the vocabulary provide value addition for the intended project or domain as compared to previous efforts and to Semantic Web in general? * *Design and Technical quality* - how do the ontologies incorporate best practices in design, i.e., using ontology design patterns or extending from upper level ontologies? * *Documentation* - does the vocabulary provide both human and machine readable documentation using for e.g., rdfs:label, rdfs:comment and HTML documentation? * *Availability*: We expect your vocabulary (terminology, taxonomy, ontology, etc.) to be hosted on the Web at a persistent URI (PURL, w3id, ODI) and with an appropriate licence specification. If it is not Linked Data or uploaded to_http://lov.okfn.org_ you can get technical help and advise at the conference. * *Usage*: Which academic/industrial projects have adopted the vocabulary? Which datasets have been annotated using the vocabulary? *At the SEMANTiCS 2016 Conference:* * Prepare a poster (max format A0) presenting your vocabulary: description, purpose, history and link to its publication page. Your description of the vocabulary must include the above criteria. * Present your poster in the dedicated space at SEMANTiCS conference. * Brace yourself to participate in the Vocabulary Minute Madness, where every vocabulary will have one minute to convince of its usefulness and quality. Sporting your vocabulary colors at this occasion is optional, but will be much appreciated. * An independent jury will select the best vocabulary poster and presentation. *Vocabulary Carnival and LOV* * If your vocabulary is already recorded at_http://lov.okn.org_ , check its record to see if everything is OK. Ping the LOV curators if something is missing or inaccurate, or if you brush up a brand new version for the Carnival. If you think your vocabulary is LOV-able but not yet recorded, submit its URI at_http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/suggest/_ * If your vocabulary is not yet meeting the technical requirements to be included in LOV, and you wish it could, we can help you to achieve that during the Carnival. *About the Vocabulary Carnival* The Vocabulary Carnival will be hosted at the SEMANTiCS conference, Sep 12-15 2016 *Contact* Monika Solanki (_monika.solanki at cs.ox.ac.uk_ ) Ghislain Atemezing (_ghislain.atemezing at mondeca.com_ ) From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Jul 13 05:33:10 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:33:10 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] [WorldCIST'17]: Call for Workshops Proposals Message-ID: --------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP FORMAT The Information Systems and Technologies research and industrial community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for WorldCist'17 ? 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11th - 13th of April 2017: http://www.worldcist.org/ Workshops should focus on a specific scientific subject on the scope of WorldCist'17 but not directly included on the main conference areas. Each workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, two researchers in the field, preferably from different institutions and different countries. The organizers should create an international Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific Workshop scientific area. Each workshop should have at least 10 submissions and 5 accepted papers in order to be conducted at WorldCist'17. The selection of Workshops will be performed by WorldCist'17 Conference/Workshop Chairs. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the conference main proceedings in specific Workshop chapters published by Springer in a book of the AISC series. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases. Extended versions of best selected papers will be published in journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at WorldCist'17 website: http://www.worldcist.org/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP); - Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to be installed); - Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by WorldCist'17 organizers; - Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference. WorldCist'17 organizers reserve the right to cancel any Workshop if deadlines are missed or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs associated with the Workshop. PROPOSAL CONTENT Workshop proposals should contain the following information: - Workshop title; - Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop; - List of topics of interest (max 15 topics); - Reasons the Workshop should be held within WorldCist?17; - Name, postal address, phone and email of all the members of the Workshop Organizing Committee; - Proposal for the Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations). Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to worldcist at gmail.com (cc: lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt), in PDF, (in English), by July 31, 2016. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Workshop proposals: July 31, 2016 - Notification of Workshop acceptance: September 11, 2016 - Deadline for paper submission: November 27, 2016 - Notification of paper acceptance: December 25, 2016 - Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8, 2017 - Conference dates: April 11-13, 2017 WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From jornalistamarcio at ig.com.br Wed Jul 13 08:43:57 2016 From: jornalistamarcio at ig.com.br (=?UTF-8?Q?Marcio_Gon=C3=A7alves?=) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:43:57 -0300 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for papers: The First Brazilian Wikipedia Science Conference Message-ID: <4942728c23de7ee7b59f6716f886136f@ig.com.br> The submission is open until August 20, 2016. Please consider submitting your papers to I CCBWIKI. 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HigherEdJobs.com shall not be liable to any party for any special, indirect, or consequential damages that arises in any form from the use of this email. From chirags at rutgers.edu Wed Jul 13 02:04:05 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:04:05 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Did you know? Your chapter can ask for funds from ASIS&T! Message-ID: <5F329592-2ADC-4FC8-B1E4-D18ADAC27183@rutgers.edu> Dear all, Did you know that any ASIS&T Regional Chapter could request funds from ASIS&T? These funds could be used for different activities and events that enrich the experience of current members of the chapter and/or engage non-members with ASIS&T. Examples include invited talk+reception, career expo, workshop, etc. The funds are typically a few hundred dollars. You can use the form available from https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/ChapterDevelopmentFundsAppl.pdf to apply. It?s only two pages and you can ignore the deadlines on the form as we are accepting them on a rolling basis! More FAQs and useful information about ASIS&T chapters can be found at the bottom of this message. Thanks! Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, Chapter Assembly Director Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, Chapter Assembly Deputy Director ?? 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 . ?? From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Wed Jul 13 14:35:52 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (BRENDA SHERIDAN) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:35:52 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey announces new appointments Message-ID: The School of Communication and Information announces the following new appointments. *Mark Aakhus, Associate Dean For Research (ADR) * Professor Mark Aakhus has been appointed associate dean for research (ADR), effective July 1, 2016, succeeding Professor *Phil Napoli*. Aakhus investigates the relationship between communication and design, especially the uses of technological and organizational design, to augment human interaction and reasoning for decision-making and conflict-management. He uses multiple methods from discourse analysis and computational social science to examine language, argumentation, and social interaction in professional practice, organizational processes, and information infrastructures. Aakhus earned a PhD from the University of Arizona, a Master?s degree from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, and a Bachelor?s degree from the University of North Dakota. *Susan Keith, Chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies * Associate Professor Susan Keith has been appointed chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, effective July 1, 2016, succeeding Associate Professor *Jack Bratich*. A former journalist, Keith studies the evolving practice of journalism, paying particular attention to the impact of the transition from traditional to digital media forms on newsroom processes, media content (especially visual content), and legal and ethical concerns. Before pursuing a PhD, Keith spent 16 years working as a newspaper reporter and editor. Keith earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master?s degree from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor?s degree from the University of Montevallo. *Dafna Lemish, Associate Dean of Programs (ADP)* Professor Dafna Lemish has been named associate dean of programs (ADP). Joining SC&I in the fall of 2016, Lemish is currently dean and professor of radio, television and digital media at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. Lemish combines leadership experience with a strong track record in scholarship. The ADP will work collaboratively with the dean and associate deans of administration and research. Lemish will work with chairs and faculty in developing new programs, refining existing programs, considering issues of recruitment, retention, quality and feedback. Lemish holds a PhD from Ohio State University, a Master?s degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a Bachelor?s degree from Tel Aviv University in Israel. She is also a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at the rank of Sergeant. *Craig Scott, Chair of the Department of Communication * Professor Craig Scott has been appointed as the new chair of the Department of Communication, effective July 1, 2016, succeeding Professor *Laurie Lewis*. Author of the award-winning book ?Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives: Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century? (2013, Stanford University Press), Scott?s research examines anonymity and identification in organizations and related communication contexts. More specifically, he is interested in the study of hidden organizations?and he recently edited a special issue of *Management Communication Quarterly* on that topic. Scott holds a PhD from Arizona State University, a Master?s degree from San Diego State University, and is a former director of the SC&I PhD program. -- 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 -- 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 chirags at rutgers.edu Sat Jul 16 16:15:26 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:15:26 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] [Chapters-l] ASIS&T Chapter Annual Report - due by August 15 In-Reply-To: References: <001F584F-AEEF-41E4-80F2-DBF527179B7B@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <66CA49BC-5B6E-4A79-9A7F-EEAE868C650C@rutgers.edu> One month reminder - if you are an officer for your regional chapter, your annual report is due by August 15. Please see the full detail below. Note that the student chapter reports have a different deadline. > On Jun 15, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Chirag Shah wrote: > > Two months reminder - if you are an officer for your regional chapter, your annual report is due by August 15. Please see the full detail below. > > Note that the student chapter reports have a different deadline. > > >> On May 14, 2016, at 5:10 AM, Chirag Shah > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> This is a three-month reminder that 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 >> >> The Chapter Annual Report must be submitted by August 15. This report will also serve as the nomination for the Chapter of the Year awards (i.e. Chapter of the Year, Chapter Member of the Year, Chapter Publication of the Year, Chapter Event of the Year, Chapter Innovation of the Year). These awards are decided by a jury. >> >> If you are an officer for your local chapter, you may want to take a look at the above form soon. An awareness of the annual report and judging criteria can be very helpful in planning and reporting chapter?s activities for the year. >> >> Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. >> >> Sincerely, >> Chirag Shah, Director of Chapter Assembly (chirags at rutgers.edu ) >> Daniel Alemneh, Deputy Director of Chapter Assembly (Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu ) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chapters-l mailing list >> Chapters-l at asis.org >> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l > > _______________________________________________ > Chapters-l mailing list > Chapters-l at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l From ludovico.boratto at unica.it Wed Jul 13 14:45:38 2016 From: ludovico.boratto at unica.it (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:45:38 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Special issue on "Behavioral-Data Mining in Information Systems and the Big Data Era" Message-ID: <44E81629-1817-48CF-B5DA-6970FC617CB8@unica.it> Information System Frontiers (Springer) Special issue on "Behavioral-Data Mining in Information Systems and the Big Data Era" Call for papers An information system collects and processes data with the aim to extract information and to support decision-making tasks. Since the advent of the so-called Social Web (also known as Web 2.0), users are allowed to create content and upload it on the Web, so huge amounts of data are continuously generated, leading to the widely known big data problem. In order to handle these new challenges and accomplish their objectives, information systems need efficient and effective ways to process these data. On the one hand, the algorithms that process these large amounts of data should have low computational costs, in order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the Web and guarantee efficiency, while on the other hand they should be able to filter out the useless sources of data and process only those that lead to an effective decision making. Behavioral-data mining is the process of extracting information by analyzing the huge amounts of data that describe the behavior of the users in a system. This particular kind of mining has proven to be useful in various information systems areas [1], such as the detection of tag clusters [2], the creation of web personalization services [3], the improvement of web search ranking [4], and the generation of friend recommendations in social media systems [5]. A new frontier in Information Systems is to produce behavioral-data mining approaches able to deal with the big data problem. This special issue solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to: Behavioral-data mining algorithms employed in information systems that deal with the big data problem; Analysis of behavioral social web data in order to explore its effectiveness for information systems; Algorithms to extract and select features from behavioral data, in order to employ these data in information systems and decision making processes; Real-world information systems that employ behavioral-data mining and deal with the big data; Data mining theories, methods, and applications on behavioral big data, to be applied in information systems. References for behavioral data mining in Information Systems [1] A. Beutel, L. Akoglu, and C. Faloutsos. ?Graph-Based User Behavior Modeling: From Prediction to Fraud Detection?. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ?15), pp. 2309-2310 (2015). [2] L.Boratto, S. Carta, and E. Vargiu, ?RATC: A robust automated tag clustering technique,? in E-Commerce and Web Technologies, 10th International Conference, EC-Web 2009, Proceedings, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5692. Springer, pp. 324?335 (2009). [3] B. Mobasher, R. Cooley, J. Srivastava, ?Automatic personalization based on web usage mining?. Commun. ACM 43(8), pp. 142?151 (Aug 2000) [4] E. Agichtein, E. Brill, S. Dumais, ?Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information?. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval pp. 19? 26. SIGIR ?06, ACM (2006) [5] M. Manca, L. Boratto, S. Carta, ?Behavioral Data Mining to Produce Novel and Serendipitous Friend Recommendations in a Social Bookmarking System?. Information Systems Frontiers (2015). Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must conform to the Information Systems Frontiers format guidelines, available at: http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796 . Manuscripts must be submitted to the online submission system (select option SI: BDM in the ?Choose Article Type? section): https://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ . Submissions to this Special Issue must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere should have at least 30% of novel valuable content that extends the original work (the original papers should be referenced and the novel contributions should be clearly stated in the submitted paper). Important Dates - Manuscript submission due: September 15, 2016 - First round decision made: December 15, 2016 - Revised manuscript due: February 15, 2017 - Final decision made: March 15, 2017 - Final paper due: April 15, 2017 Website http://sites.unica.it/bdm-isf/ Contact For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to bdm.isf at gmail.com Guest editors Ludovico Boratto (EURECAT, Spain) Salvatore Carta (University of Cagliari, Italy) Andrea Kaltenbrunner (EURECAT, Spain) Matteo Manca (EURECAT, Spain) From Kokou.Yetongnon at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Jul 13 11:26:45 2016 From: Kokou.Yetongnon at u-bourgogne.fr (Kokou Yetongnon) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:26:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Social Networks, Large Networks and their Applications Message-ID: <899383188.10942207.1468423605196.JavaMail.zimbra@u-bourgogne.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ==================================================================== 2016 IEEE International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS Track on Social Networks, Large Networks and their Applications (SLNA) Naples Italy, 28 November ? 1 December 2016 http://www.sitis-conf.org/ ==================================================================== Recently, social networks have grown rapidly in size and popularity. The global internet population has witnessed a popular expansion to reach billions of users around the world. For connected users, social networks provide a most suitable space for sharing data, interacting with other users and forming communities with common interests. Social networks have important impacts on today?s society not only in terms of structure and dynamics, but also regarding scientific and technological aspects. Social networks raise new research challenges due to the numerous emerging needs and applications. The focus of this track is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for social and more generally large networks analysis, tools and applications, including issues related to complex graphs, semantics, big data, and security. The topics of interest for this track include, but are not limited to: Social Network Analysis - methods, algorithms, processes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Social graph processing / manipulation Usage / implementation of Big Data algorithms Avoiding fragmentation of the social graph *Open cross-platform interactions *Usage of Identity algorithms (OAuth, openID, etc.) *Usage of Identity APIs Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction Information diffusion in Social Networks Social analytic tools --------------------------- Approaches based on Semantic Web Technologies Ontologies for managing social networks Social networks and cultural information Social Network Analysis of Terrorist Networks Cyber surveillance for unlawful activities for critical infrastructure protection Participatory surveillance Social Networks and Security ---------------------------------------- Privacy-preserving Social network Analysis Social Networks Analysis for security applications Social network-based security measures and controls Social Networks Analysis for identifying and assessing cyber risks Security by means of Social Networks Analysis Information security measures and controls, to help in identifying and assessing cyber risks Architectures and methods for social network management Social media search and management in large scale environments Searching blogs, tweets, and other social media Frameworks and Methodologies for large scale Collaboration Collective Awareness Platforms for Social (CAPS) and business innovation Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline social networks Traffic prediction for dimensioning media applications User-centric applications ---------------------------------- Exploiting user mobility and geolocation Ontology-based user profiling Social and Ethical Issues in a Networked World Human-powered community question answering and expert finding Social, mobile, pervasive content sharing and live media distribution Spam, opinions and adversarial interactions in social media Personalisation for social interaction Use of Social Networks for business and marketing Immersive Social Networks Social businesses, social CRM Social gaming Large networks --------------------- Internet of People Internet of Things Networks of networks Submission and publication ------------------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS?16 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Journal special issue Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a major journal. Important dates --------------------- Paper Submission: September 6, 2016 Acceptance/Reject notification: October 7, 2016 Camera ready: October 20, 2016 Author registration: October 20, 2016 Track Chairs ----------------- Ana Roxin, IEM Dept., University of Burgundy, France Alessandro Provetti, MIFT Dept., University of Messina, Italy Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Thu Jul 21 11:02:29 2016 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:02:29 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Inspiring the Future: Library 2.016 Online Conference Oct. 6 Message-ID: <019b01d1e360$e7011b30$b5035190$@SJSU.Edu> We realize that an October event may not be on your radar, especially since we are in the thick of summer, but we thought you'd like to get it on your calendar now before your schedule gets too hectic. The third in the Library 2.016 series of three online mini-conferences is scheduled for Thursday, October 6, 2016, from noon - 3 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (view your time zone ). Register for free today while it is fresh on your mind. Once again, the conference schedule will include keynote sessions and crowdsourced presentations. Presentation proposals are being accepted now through September 15, 2016. Slots are limited and may fill before the proposal deadline. View the call for proposals . Abstract: As libraries shape their futures and adapt to the future needs of their communities, what are the near and long-term trends that point to our brightest opportunities? How can libraries support our global communities? Engage in conversations with civic, social and education innovators as they share their visions for libraries of the future. This dialogue will help bring our best thinking together. More information about the conference, including keynote speaker biographies, the web conferencing platform Blackboard Collaborate, and registration, is available on the conference website at http://www.library20.com/future. The Library 2.016: Libraries of the Future conference is sponsored by the American Library Association Center for the Future of Libraries. Please forward this email to your friends and colleagues, and join us on Twitter using #library2016. The Library 2.0 Worldwide Virtual Conference series was co-founded by the San Jose State University School of Information (iSchool) in 2011. The iSchool offers several lifelong learning solutions delivered fully online for 21st century information professionals. For more information about the iSchool, please visit ischool.sjsu.edu . Contact: Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0029 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu From bkeegan at gmail.com Tue Jul 19 16:26:13 2016 From: bkeegan at gmail.com (Brian Keegan) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:26:13 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Final CFP: Social Informatics 2016 submissions due July 20 Message-ID: The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo16) is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from the computational and social sciences to help fill the gap between the two communities. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum to help practitioners from the two disciplines define common research objectives and explore methodologies. The organizers welcome a broad range of contributions, from those that apply methods from the social sciences to the study of socio-technical systems, to the application of computational methods to the study of complex social processes and the use of social concepts in the design of information systems. http://usa2016.socinfo.eu/call-for-paper/ SocInfo16 offers an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities by soliciting presentations of original research papers and experience-based case studies in computer science, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, linguistics, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, and other disciplines that can shed light on the open questions in the growing field of computational social science. SocInfo16 will also offer workshops and keynote talks that will be tailored to enhance the collaboration between the two research cultures in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span offline, online and augmented reality worlds. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: July 20th, 2016 Notification: August 20th, 2016 Camera-ready version: August 31st, 2016 Conference dates: November 14-17, 2016 Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New theories, methods and objectives in computational social science - Computational models of social phenomena, including behavior modeling - Dynamics of social collaborative systems - Social network analysis and mining - Mining big social data - Social influence and social contagions - Web mining and its social interpretations - Quantifying offline phenomena through online data - Rich representations of social ties - Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues - Opinion mining and social media analytics - Credibility of online content - Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies - Equity in social and information systems - Social choice mechanisms in the e-society - Social applications of the semantic Web - Social psychology and personality - Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) - Impact of technology on socio-economic, security, defense aspects - Urban informatics - Forecasting of social phenomena - Socio-economic systems and applications - Collective intelligence and social cognition Information about Submission We solicit submission of two types of contribution - Full papers: should not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and any appendix). - Short papers: should not exceed 8 pages (excluding references and any appendix) Submissions will be reviewed through a single-blind review process (names of the authors visible). To ensure a thorough and fair review process, this year?s conference will rely on a two-tier review process and we will enforce strict review guidelines to provide even higher-quality feedback to authors. To further incentivize useful and detailed feedback to authors, contributions of best reviewers will be rewarded with special mentions. As in previous years, accepted papers will appear in Springer?s Lecture Note Series in Computer Science. We will also allow accepted papers to be presented without publication in the conference proceedings, if the authors choose to do so. Some of the full paper submissions may be accepted as short papers after review by the Program Committee. A small set of particularly high quality and important papers will be selected for journal publication. Submission Procedures Original manuscripts should be submitted in English in pdf format through the EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socinfo16). Because SocInfo will publish proceedings, manuscripts should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). From brad.eden at valpo.edu Wed Jul 20 10:55:44 2016 From: brad.eden at valpo.edu (Brad Eden) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:55:44 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Special journal issue on altmetrics Message-ID: > > Please excuse duplication. Please forward to interested colleagues and > other listservs. > > *Digital Library Perspectives* (*DLP*) is looking for articles for a > special issue on the use and incorporation of altmetrics in libraries and > within academia. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen > shots are encouraged. *DLP* is a peer-reviewed journal. > > Inquiries can be sent directly to the editor's email listed below (please > do not reply to the list). Please send a title and short proposal, along > with contact information, to the editor no later than August 15, 2016. > Accepted proposals will be due by January 2, 2017, and can be submitted > directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at > http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dlp. > > If you have any questions, please contact the editor directly. Thanks. > Brad > > > Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. > Editor, *Digital Library Perspectives* > Dean of Library Services > Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources > Valparaiso University > Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 > brad.eden at valpo.edu > 219-464-5099 > ___________________________________________________ > > *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* > > Journal history > > Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital > Library Perspectives* > > *Aims & Scope* > > *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned > with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the > curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the > advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the > digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, > communication and world memory. > > The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, > initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and > digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. > > The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other > related topics: > > - ? Digitization > - ? Data as information > - ? Archives and manuscripts > - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving > - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives > - ? Usability studies > - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections > > From Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au Tue Jul 19 04:36:59 2016 From: Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au (Helen Partridge) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:36:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job - Professor and Director, Digital Life Lab, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Message-ID: Dear Colleagues This exciting new position for a leading social science research (including LIS) may be of interest: Professor and Director, Digital Life Lab University of Southern Queensland, Australia USQ?s Digital Life Lab will establish itself as a leader within the emerging national and international research and practice community studying the nature, impact, opportunities and challenges of people and communities living digitally. The Lab will be a research and practice hub that will explore and understand how digital technologies transform our social relationships and cultural practices, creating new problems but also providing novel opportunities to address societal challenges. The Lab will engage in applied discovery and will be an incubator of ideas and applications. From the Lab?s research and practice will come the innovations needed to inform how people and communities can live digitally. The Director will provide strategic direction, leadership and innovative management of the Digital Life Lab. The position will suit an academic who possesses strong visionary, strategic and collegial management and leadership skills. The incumbent will have an excellent track record of high impact applied research relevant to the Digital Life Lab, along with considerable experience in successfully leading vibrant and collaborative multi-disciplinary research and innovation teams. The Director will be a highly motivated and inspirational leader and researcher who can develop and promote an environment and culture within the Digital Life Lab, which is intellectually challenging and stimulating and has a focus on excellence, collaboration, curiosity, boldness, risk taking and innovation. Applications close 12th August More details can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/j5v9ew5 Cheers Helen Professor Helen Partridge Pro Vice-Chancellor (Scholarly Information and Learning Services) & Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute T: +61 7 4631 2795 | M: +61 7 040 989 6374 | Skype: partridh | Twitter: @partridh Email: helen.partridge at usq.edu.au Academic Services Division University of Southern Queensland | Toowoomba, Queensland | 4350 | Australia Follow ADFI at http://adfi.usq.edu.au & @adfiusq _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. 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(CRICOS Institution Code QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M, TEQSA PRV12081 ) From kmasten at mail.twu.edu Tue Jul 19 11:17:12 2016 From: kmasten at mail.twu.edu (Masten, Kathryn) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:17:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Faculty Position at Texas Woman's University In-Reply-To: <11A930B070A92946A0467C485CA2E87A2744B84E@ARGON02.fs.dew.twu> References: <11A930B070A92946A0467C485CA2E87A2744B82A@ARGON02.fs.dew.twu>, <11A930B070A92946A0467C485CA2E87A2744B84E@ARGON02.fs.dew.twu> Message-ID: <11A930B070A92946A0467C485CA2E87A2744B86A@ARGON02.fs.dew.twu> We continue to accept applications for a faculty position in informatics, at the Associate or Assistant Professor level, in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University (TWU). The full posting is available at HigherEdJobs.com. For questions about the position, please contact SLIS Director, Dr. Ling Hwey Jeng, at LJeng at mail.twu.edu or 940-898-2602. Kathryn Masten, Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Texas Woman's University 940-898-2613 From ischoolumd at gmail.com Mon Jul 18 16:36:14 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (iSchool UMD) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:36:14 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Nominations Welcome for the 2016 James Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award Message-ID: Nominations are now being accepted for the *2016?? James Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award*. Presented by the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland and the Citizens for Maryland Libraries, the award honors the unsung members of the library profession who contribute greatly but who are often behind the scenes and not publicly recognized for their important contributions to librarianship and the library community. Please consider nominating someone from your staff, someone you know, or yourself. Any information professional may make a nomination, but please make sure to get the consent of someone you nominate. *Eligibility* To be eligible, a nominee must: 1. Be a graduate of an ALA-accredited program of library and information science. 2. Be working at a library, archive, government agency, research center, library and information science professional organization, or other type of information center at the time of the nomination. 3. Have demonstrated sustained, high quality contributions to and dedicated service in support of the mission of the information professions to provide access to information for all and high quality outreach to the community. *Selection Criteria* The James Partridge Awards Committee, appointed by the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland and the Citizens for Maryland Libraries, will select the winner of the award based on the following criteria that reflect the life and ideals of James Partridge: 1. The award recipient will exemplify the highest ideals of the library and information professions, including career-long dedicated service, leadership and commitment to the empowerment of those they serve. 2. The award recipient will have demonstrated true advocacy for the right of all people to access and understand information. 3. While deserving of accolades, the award recipient must not have been widely recognized already for contributions to the library and information professions and the community by his/her professional peers. *Nomination Process* Please submit a letter of nomination that includes the following information: 1. The nominee?s name and place of employment. 2. The number of years of service of the nominee to the library and information professions. 3. Documented evidence of the nominee?s contributions to his/her place of employment and the library and information professions. Please include as many specifics as possible. Nominations can be sent to Dr. Paul T. Jaeger either via email ( partridgeaward at gmail.com, ?Partridge Award Nomination? must be specified in the subject line) or via mail: James Partridge Awards Committee, c/o Dr. Paul T. Jaeger 4105 Hornbake Building College of Information Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD, 20742 *Closing Date* Nominations will be accepted until September 1, 2016. *Award Ceremony* The 2016 James Partridge Award will be presented on October 21st during the Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library & Information Science (CIDLIS), which will be hosted by the College of Information Studies on the University of Maryland campus. For more information and to register for the conference, please visit: http://go.umd.edu/CIDLIS2016 From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Wed Jul 20 09:36:37 2016 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:36:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Submissions: 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium (#cssws16), Cologne, Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2016 Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D10144938F18@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ============================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (POSTERS & SHORT PRESENTATIONS) ============================================================== 3rd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Symposium dates: NOv 30 - DEC 01, 2016 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws16 ============================================================== ------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------ The CSS Winter Symposium 2016 will be a two-day event consisting of: * an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * an open call for contributed posters and short presentations that will provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss their own work * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- September30 2016: submissions due October 18 2016: notifications November 14 2016: registration deadline Nov 30 - Dec 01 2016: symposium days ------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSIONS FOR POSTERS + SHORT PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------ We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and methods for computational social science. Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, networks, communities and teams - Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and information on the web - Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, prejudice via new kinds of data - Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet - Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban planning - Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods) - Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational data on the Web - Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online - Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze social data on the Web - Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the social sciences Other related topics are explicitly welcome. --------------------------- PRESENTATION FORMATS --------------------------- Based on the submitted abstracts, submissions may be accepted as posters and/or short presentations. The standard format will be a poster presentation. As this is a single track conference, only few submissions can be selected for short plenary presentations of approx. 10-15 minutes. --------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------- Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit work-in-progress. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there are no proceedings. We may however discuss options for publishing selected submissions after the conference (e.g. as a journal special issue or edited collection). Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions. Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair submission system for the event: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws16 The full call for submissions can also be found at: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/call/ ---------------------------- ORGANIZATION AND VENUE ---------------------------- The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at KOMED Im MediaPark 7. We aim to keep registration costs as low as possible (approx. around 70 EUR). More information will be made available soon. Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------ CONTACT ------------ SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: -------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: diana.lindner at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-401 From hrosenba at indiana.edu Thu Jul 21 10:35:44 2016 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:35:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award Message-ID: The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award Call for nominations for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2015 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University From krisztian.balog at uis.no Tue Jul 26 06:47:02 2016 From: krisztian.balog at uis.no (Krisztian Balog) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:47:02 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ESAIR@CIKM'16: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval Message-ID: <2AF90211-F0D8-4D5A-8EF4-0359F2325086@uis.no> ======================================================= 9th Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR?16) in conjunction with CIKM 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.esair.org/ 28 October 2016, Indianapolis, USA ======================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission: 8 August 2016 (extended) Demo track submission: 15 August 2016 (extended) Notification of acceptance: 22 August 2016 Camera ready: 1 September 2016 Workshop: 28 October 2016 OVERVIEW The amount of structured content published on the Web has been growing rapidly, making it possible to address increasingly complex information access tasks. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of large scale human-curated knowledge bases as well as a growing array of techniques that identify or extract information automatically from unstructured and semi-structured sources. The ESAIR workshop series aims to advance the general research agenda on the problem of creating and exploiting semantic annotations. The ninth edition of ESAIR sets its focus on personal mobile applications. The desired result of the workshop is a roadmap and research agenda that guides academic efforts and aligns them with industrial directions and developments. SCOPE AND TOPICS The continuing goal of the ESAIR workshop series is to create a forum for researchers interested in the application of semantic annotations for information access tasks. ESAIR ?16 aims at shifting researchers? focus to new opportunities in exploiting semantic annotations for personal mobile applications. Mobile usage is on the rise and now accounts for 60% of total time spent on digital media platforms; even more interestingly, mobile apps alone account for 51% of total time spent on digital media [1 ]. We are looking for different use cases of semantic annotations to enhance information retrieval tasks on personal applications, such as: personal assistants, personal tracking and general information seeking applications on mobile platforms. One main question we seek to answer is the types of semantic annotations needed for such use cases. Another important issue on our agenda is the (un)availability of large-scale (personal) data for (academic) research. This year we will continue with our demo track with a primary focus on personal applications. We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes in a dedicated demo track at the workshop. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Applications and use cases What are use cases that make obvious the need for semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by traditional (bag-of-words) retrieval approaches? Annotations What types of annotation are available and what is missing? Are there crucial differences between human and machine-generated annotations? How should we deal with the uncertainty of annotations? User interfaces and interaction How to aid users in articulating powerful queries (beyond a few keywords)? How to present results and interact with users in an intelligible way (esp. on mobile devices)? Evaluation How to evaluate semantic annotations (component-based vs. end-to-end)? How to make interesting and large-scale real-world data available for academic research (esp. for personal mobile applications)? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We accept two types of contributions: position papers (2+1 pages) and demo papers (4+ pages). All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings format (option 2). The reviewing process is single-blind, so submissions do not need to be anonymized. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to present their work at the workshop. Please submit your paper through the submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esair16 Position papers We like short and focused contributions highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment, project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear tables, graphs, and full citations (that?s the ?+1? page). So your submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text. Submission deadline: 8 August, 2016 (extended) Acceptance notification: 22 August, 2016 Camera-ready version: 1 September, 2016 Demo papers We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes in a dedicated demo track at the workshop. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented system that pursues one or more aspects relevant to the interest areas of the workshop. Submission deadline: 15 August, 2016 (extended) Acceptance notification: 22 August, 2016 Camera-ready version: 1 September, 2016 PC MEMBERS (some are yet to be confirmed) Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA) Gianluca Demartini (University of Sheffield, UK) David Graus (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Claudia Hauff (TU Delft, The Netherlands) Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Nattiya Kanhabua (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai, Sweden) Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Edgar Meij (Yahoo!, London, England) Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Reuters, USA) Ralf Schenkel (Universit?t Passau, Germany) Andrew Trotman (eBay Inc, USA) ORGANIZERS Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger, Norway Jeffrey Dalton, Google Research, USA Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, L3i Laboratory, France Yusra Ibrahim, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbr?cken, Germany From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Tue Jul 26 16:03:55 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:03:55 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: CFP - Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Virtual Conference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) is accepting proposals for its inaugural 2016 virtual conference, to be held November 15th and 16th, 2016. The CPN-DAM is a regional organization that promotes professional development, networking and collaborating opportunities to professionals involved or interested in digital asset management in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. We invite proposals for the following program formats: - Presentation - Poster Presentation - Talk the Practical roundtable We invite submissions on any aspect of digital asset management. This includes, but is not limited to: - Digital Preservation - Implementations - Workflows - Systems - Digital Projects - Funding - Workflows - Metadata - Outreach & Marketing - Platforms - Presentation Layer - Systems - Customizations - Decision process for choosing a platform To view a full list of topics click on possible topics . Submissions: All submissions will be peer-reviewed by our volunteer review board. We encourage all presenters to upload additional relevant documents with their proposal type below. Presentations Presentations are intended for one or more speakers who provide active learning opportunities that are practical and relevant to digital asset management. - Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and describe the topic being presented. - Allotted time: 30 minutes Poster Presentations Poster presentations are intended to be interactive opportunities with attendees to demonstrate practical and relevant work in digital asset management. - Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and describe the topic being presented. - Allotted time: 10 minutes NOTE: Poster presentations will be done in an hour long session where each poster presenter will have 10 minutes to present on their poster. Talk the Practical Talk the Practical roundtables are networking opportunities where one or more speakers will lead an informal discussion on a topic of their choice with fellow practitioners. - Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and describe the topic being presented. - Allotted time: 45 minutes Deadlines Submission Deadline: August 29, 2016 Acceptance Notification: September 26, 2016 Upload of final version of presentation and poster: October 31, 2016 How to Submit Submit proposals here RequirementsPresenters must register and agree to the submission agreement that is part of the submission process. It states the presenters will have their work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license and grant CPN-DAM the right to record their presentations or roundtables and distribute recordings online with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. newprairiepress.org/cpndam From hrosenba at indiana.edu Sun Jul 31 22:36:17 2016 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 02:36:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop (ASIS&T '16) 10/15/16 Message-ID: <3F6A2A4D-BE55-4CC3-B2B9-98DEE3F21712@indiana.edu> Call for Papers and Participation Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2016 Organizers Katriina Bystr?m, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom at hioa.no Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, fichman at indiana.edu Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, hrosenba at indiana.edu Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and complementary perspectives in the conference theme. In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session, SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different research perspectives and explores the significance of information seeking and use on our lives. Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between members of both SIGs during the day. MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI) Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics This year?s conference theme is ?creating knowledge, enhancing lives through information & technology.? This is a particularly apposite theme for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design, implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the social informatics of work and play. We define ?social? broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define ?technology? broadly to include traditional technologies (e.g., paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that explore the ways in which people?s uses of ICT affect their practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium?s theme, but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include: ? What are the impacts of ICT on people?s practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives? ? What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the design and development of ICT? ? What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations, work, play, and social life? ? What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and behaviors while at work and play? The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. SIG-SI symposium chairs Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE) This year?s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces. Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During their work life, people may experience several career changes, are expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover, much of information and data are internetworked and accessible simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the creation and consumption of information used for work ? or at work; it also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their productivity, collegiality and innovativeness. Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today?s workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work. The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics (stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes and creating professional networks. Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics include: ? Critical cultural information behavior ? how do we infuse our workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice sensibilities? ? Collaborative IB; virtual team ? Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what happens when the physical workplace dissolves? ? Everyday Life Information (in the workplace) ? Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings ? IB/IP and workplace or information systems design ? Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field of research that is relevant to IB/IP? ? Organizational information genres ? Personal Information Management (in the workplace) ? The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital information use in the workplace ? The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace ? Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)? ? and any other work-related informational topics We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall (preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on short papers and posters by participants. Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary that is made available for the participants afterwards. SIG-USE symposium chairs David Allen, Leeds University, UK Katriina Bystr?m, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada TENTATIVE SCHEDULE SI - opening keynote: 8.30-9.00 Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30 Break 10.30-10.45 Panel: 10.45-11.45 SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15 SI- closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45 USE- opening and opening keynote: 13.45-14.45 Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45 Break 15.45-16.00 Roundtable discussion based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30 SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45 USE - closing remarks: 17.45-18.00 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19, 2016. SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to: hrosenba at indiana.edu SIG-USE: Please, send your submission as a PDF-file to: katriina.bystrom at hioa.no Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 2, 2016). FEES Members ? SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016 Members ? SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after September September 2, 2016 Members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after Sept. 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250 after Sept. 2, 2016 From skroe at ilstu.edu Fri Jul 29 14:55:31 2016 From: skroe at ilstu.edu (Roe, Sandy) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:55:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CCQ call for papers: Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services Message-ID: CCQ call for papers: Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services A special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly will be devoted to an exploration of how cataloging units or organizations have conducted assessment of their workflows, services, quality of work, or the impact of their work on their respective institutions or society. The guest editor invites submissions from professionals in cataloging and metadata, as well as other related disciplines. Submissions by authors outside North America and from a variety of library types (academic, public, special) are encouraged. TOPICS Case studies, historical surveys, and research studies are all of interest. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Assessment of: o Cataloging and metadata workflows o Quality of cataloging and metadata o Services offered by cataloging and metadata units o Cataloging and metadata standards o Productivity * Impact of cataloging and metadata work or services on the larger organization or society * Assessment of cataloging and metadata by vendors or utilities * International assessment efforts * Advantages and disadvantages of various assessment methods * Communicating the results of assessment * Metrics for assessment * Use of statistics for cataloging and metadata assessment * Methods of assessment, e.g., surveys, focus groups, interviews, statistics, benchmarking, and more. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract (up to 300 words) due to rmugridge at albany.edu by September 1, 2016 * Notification of appropriateness: September 15, 2016 * Manuscript submission: March 15, 2017 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 30, 2017 * Final papers due: May 30, 2017 GUEST EDITOR Rebecca L. Mugridge, Interim Dean of Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York Cataloging & Classification Quarterly emphasizes full-length research and review articles, descriptions of new programs and technology relevant to cataloging and classification, considered speculative articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future, and solicited book reviews. Articles are refereed. Instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/current# . Sandy Roe Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services Unit Milner Library | Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-8900 309-438-5039 | skroe at ilstu.edu On behalf of: Rebecca L. Mugridge Interim Dean of Libraries University Library, LI-123 University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Phone: 518-442-3570 Email: rmugridge at albany.edu From wilsontd at gmail.com Sat Jul 30 09:40:24 2016 From: wilsontd at gmail.com (Prof. T.D. Wilson) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:40:24 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Information Research - submission site down Message-ID: Our apologies to anyone trying to submit a paper or a review to the journal's OJS site. There has been a disc crash and our colleagues at Lund are experiencing delays in getting a replacement disc. I will send another message when things are back to normal. 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