From apollak at uwo.ca Mon May 2 13:40:37 2016 From: apollak at uwo.ca (Angela Michel Pollak) Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:40:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CAIS/ACSI 2016 - Award papers announced AND Reminder to register for conference Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The CAIS/ACSI 2016 conference co-chairs are pleased to announce the winners of our student, practitioner and best paper award competitions, as follows: Student-to-CAIS Deborah Hicks (UAlberta) Person or Place: The Rhetorical Construction of Librarian and Library by the Information Profession Community. Best Practitioner Paper Lynne Bowker (UOttawa) and C?sar Villamizar (UOttawa) The Embedded Records Manager: A pilot study emphasizing the importance of community as a key to success. Best Overall Conference Paper Bharat Mehra (UTennessee), Bradley Wade Bishop (UTennessee) and Robert P. Partee (UTennessee) Information Science Professionals as Community Action Researchers to Further the Role of Rural Public Libraries in Small Business Economic Development: A Case Study of Tennessee. Authors will be presenting their papers at the CAIS/ACSI Conference that will take place as part of the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta from June 1-3, 2016. Registration is still available online through the Congress website (http://congress2016.ca/register). We encourage you to register soon to attend all of the fine presentations scheduled during this event. A preliminary program is available at (http://congress2016.ca/program/events/68-cais). For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI 2016 Conference Co-chairs. David H. Michels Angela Pollak Conference Co-Chair Conference Co-Chair Public Services Librarian Faculty of Information and Media Studies Sir James Dunn Law Library University of Western Ontario Dalhousie University, 6061 University Avenue London, Ontario, Canada PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H4R2 apollak at uwo.ca 902 494-8856 | david.michels at dal.ca www.AngelaPollak.ca informingfaith.blogspot.com From Dick at asis.org Fri May 6 06:43:44 2016 From: Dick at asis.org (Dick at asis.org) Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 06:43:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Pratt Severn - Masters Student Rsch Message-ID: The ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Jury is looking for the best Masters student research paper in information science. Any student in a Masters'degree-granting institution can submit a paper. Papers must follow the guidelines of a JASIST article and must be endorsed by a faculty sponsor for submission to the contest. The paper must be original and cannot have been previously published nor be submitted to another publication or group while being considered for the award. The package should consist of the following: 1. A cover letter stating the author's name, address, academic affiliation, and that the attached paper is being submitted for the Best Student Research Award. 2. The paper can carry no author identification. Please note if you are using a word processing program that has author identification within the software please remove this as well. 3. No more than two letters of endorsement from faculty sponsors. All nominations must be submitted by June 15, 2016 electronically to http://tinyurl.com/hz7ak3z. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Diane Dr Diane Velasquez Program Director - Information Management School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus, Rm. D2-33 (Mondays & Fridays) City West Campus, Rm. Y1-56 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays) T: +61 8 8302 5101 M: +61 402 209 141 Fax: +61 8 8302 3381 Email: diane.velasquez at unisa.edu.au Web: http://cis.unisa.edu.au/ CRICOS Provider No.: 00121B From hong1.cui at gmail.com Wed May 4 15:54:43 2016 From: hong1.cui at gmail.com (Hong cui) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:54:43 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Second Call: ASIST ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominations Message-ID: Dear Deans, Directors, school leaders, and asis-lers: ASIST ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award is currently calling for nominations (2nd call). Please encourage your recent Ph.D graduates to enter the competition. There is NO limit on the number of entries from a particular school. Participation is limited to those who have completed their doctorates since May of 2015 and it is NOT restricted to ASIS&T members. Dissertations submitted shall fall within the scope of information science, including, but not limited to, the scope of JASIST: ?the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes?. The nomination package shall consist of the entire dissertation, and a letter of endorsement from the nominee's dissertation advisor. More information on the award can be found at http://www.asis.org/awards/proquestdocdissertation.html. *The deadline for nominations:* June 15, 2016. *Submit nominations* at http://www.softconf.com/asist2/ProQuestDocDissert/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit We greatly appreciate your participation. Please also direct any questions to hongcui at email.arizona.edu Best wishes, ASIST Proquest Doctoral Dissertation Award Jury -- Hong Cui, Ph.D Associate Professor, Information Technology Director of Graduate Studies School of Information (NOW on the 4th floor of the Harvill Building) University of Arizona ETC Bi-Weekly Hangout Member of Plazi.org From cglaze at illinois.edu Thu May 5 10:03:06 2016 From: cglaze at illinois.edu (Glaze, Christy Grant) Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 14:03:06 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?One_of_the_world=B9s_largest_digital_li?= =?windows-1252?q?braries_opens_doors_to_text-mining_scholars?= Message-ID: One of the world?s largest digital libraries opens doors to text-mining scholars HathiTrust Research Center now helps researchers analyze 14 million books BLOOMINGTON, Ind./CHAMPAIGN, Ill.?Who influenced Charles Darwin when he was writing his pioneering theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species? Indiana University (IU) professor Colin Allen wants to know, and the HathiTrust Research Center may now hold the answer. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), a cooperative service of Indiana University, the University of Illinois, and HathiTrust, has expanded its services to support computational research on the entire collection of one of the world?s largest digital libraries, held by HathiTrust. HathiTrust?s collections include over 14 million digitized volumes, including more than 7 million books, more than 725,000 US federal government documents, and more than 350,000 serial publications. HathiTrust?s collections are drawn from some of the largest research libraries in North America, including Indiana University and the University of Illinois. Previously the HathiTrust Research Center supported analysis of only the public domain subset of the HathiTrust collection. HTRC is now the only place where scholars like Allen can perform text mining on the entire HathiTrust collection. In other words, researchers can now explore the entire collection, run an algorithm against all 14 million volumes, and make new connections and discoveries in the process. Text mining is crucial to Allen?s research. As a member of the IU Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine and IU?s cognitive science program, he is collaborating with informatics professor Simon DeDeo and graduate student Jaimie Murdock to research how what Darwin read influenced his theory of evolution. They can now use the HathiTrust collection, developing algorithms to analyze the books and journals Darwin himself read in the 1800s. ?We have only scratched the surface of what is possible,? said Allen. ?Using advanced computing, scholars will be able to analyze patterns in millions of books and understand how individual authors, who are limited to selectively reading just a few thousand of them, nevertheless manage to make creative and innovative contributions that ripple throughout the entire culture.? ?Supporting innovative uses of the collections we are preserving is a vital part of our mission,? said Mike Furlough, executive director of HathiTrust. ?The HathiTrust Research Center is an essential part of the HathiTrust partnership. Its secure environment for computational analysis, coupled with the expanded services, is an absolute game changer for science and scholarship.? Staff members of the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) and the Data to Insight Center (D2I) have helped expand the service to support 14 million volumes. ?The big data infrastructure of HTRC ensures that researchers will retain access to the collection even as it grows in size,? said Beth Plale, Indiana co-director of HTRC and professor of informatics and computing at IU. ?A researcher carrying out text mining on millions of texts needs both tools and the help of HTRC experts in high performance mining techniques. HTRC research staff bridge the gap between the researcher and the data.? At first, researchers will be able to access the HTRC collection through its Advanced Collaborative Services grants. This peer-reviewed grant process gives awardees dedicated HTRC staff time. HTRC expects to make the full collection available through its secure HTRC data capsules in spring 2017. A features data set, derived from the full collection at both volume level and page level, will be released in fall 2016. ?The upcoming release of the extracted features data derived from the full collection will enable researchers to have hands-on access to HT materials allowing scholars to refine their research questions for the corpus in the comfort of their own labs. Another game changing breakthrough for HTRC,? said J. Stephen Downie, the Illinois co-director of HTRC and a professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ?This step exemplifies how researchers combine computer science, informatics, humanities, and cyberinfrastructure in ways that enable new forms of scholarship,? said Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for information technology and interim dean of the IU School of Informatics and Computing. ?IU is proud to be a co-founder, operator, and research partner in all that the HathiTrust has accomplished as one of the world?s foremost digital libraries.? About the HathiTrust and its Research Center HathiTrust, a partnership of academic and research institutions, works to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. HathiTrust was launched jointly in 2008 through a partnership with the consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the university libraries of the University of California. Since then, HathiTrust has grown to include over 110 members from around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center is a partnership between Indiana University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the HathiTrust. Established in 2011, HTRC develops cyberinfrastructure and cutting-edge software tools for advanced computational analytics to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HTRC is staffed by an interdisciplinary team of personnel at the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute and the Data to Insight Center, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois, and libraries at both Indiana and Illinois. ________________________________ Christy Glaze, MLS Visiting Communications Coordinator GSLIS: The iSchool at Illinois www.lis.illinois.edu From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu May 5 11:28:06 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 11:28:06 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Report on ASIS&T Regional Meeting at Rutgers Message-ID: On April 15, 2016, the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held a regional meeting at Rutgers University?s Alexander Library and the School of Communication and Information (SC&I). The full-day program (https://www.asist.org/events/asist-regional-meeting-2016-rutgers-university/) included a creativity workshop, a panel on library as community, as well as a panel on wearable technology. The speakers/organizers/panelists and dignitaries included ASIS&T president Nadia Caidi, Chapter Director Chirag Shah, immediate Past Chapter Director Michael Leach, Denise Agosto (Drexel University), Adriana Blancarte-Hayward (New York Public Library), Fred Gitner (Queens Library), Vivek Singh (Rutgers University), and SIG KM Chair Tricia Bradshaw. The participants were from academia (students, faculty) as well as practice (libraries, other companies). A report on this event, along with links to some of the videos from the sessions, can be found at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/nj/association-for-information-science-and-technology-regional-meeting/. We are thankful to ASIS&T headquarters as well as Rutgers University for providing support (personnel, facilities, funds) that made this event possible. Best, Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University Director, InfoSeeking Lab (http://infoseeking.org) http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Thu May 5 13:05:08 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (BRENDA SHERIDAN) Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 13:05:08 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers School of Communication and Information Student Wins 2016 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award Message-ID: Rutgers School of Communication and Information Student Wins 2016 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award The School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, congratulates MLIS candidate Tanya Johnson on receiving the 2016 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award. Tanya is receiving this award for her paper entitled "Let's Get Virtual: An Examination of Best Practices to Provide Public Access to Digital Versions of Three-Dimensional Objects." Presented by Ex Libris, a top global provider of cloud-based solutions for higher education, and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), this award is in recognition of outstanding writing on a topic in the area of libraries and information technology by a student in an ALA-accredited library and information studies graduate program. To see the full announcement, please visit, http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/04/tanya-johnson-wins-2016-lita-ex-libris-student-writing-award -- 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 dianek at email.unc.edu Thu May 5 18:04:07 2016 From: dianek at email.unc.edu (Kelly, Diane) Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 22:04:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM SIGIR Google Travel Grants Message-ID: ACM SIGIR invites students from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for a SIGIR 2016 Google Travel Grant. Grants are available for students from all traditionally underrepresented groups in technology (including, but not limited to, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, persons with disabilities, women and veterans). This grant will cover the cost of the SIGIR registration fee and a $500 travel stipend, for a total of $1000 USD per recipient. Students are not required to have accepted papers at SIGIR. We are especially interested in assisting first timers and those interested in exploring SIGIR. To apply, complete the form found at: http://goo.gl/forms/uZ1yB9p1My The application period will close on May 18th and applicants will be notified of the outcome on or before May 27. SIGIR takes place in Pisa, Italy July 17-21. For more details or questions, please contact Amanda Arenas (arenasa at google.com) or Diane Kelly (SIGIR Treasurer, dianek at email.unc.edu). Please help us advertise by circulating this announcement to any interested parties! Speaking of parties, make sure students know that SIGIR sponsors a student luncheon and a student party at the SIGIR Conference! Diane Kelly, SIGIR Treasurer From xh.gslis at gmail.com Thu May 5 23:59:46 2016 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 11:59:46 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Temporary Lecturer Position in University of Hong Kong Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Ref.:201600533 Posting Title:Temporary Lecturer [Full-time (1 post) or Part-time (50%)(2 posts)] in the Division of Information and Technology Studies Department:Faculty of Education Closing Date:May 15, 2016 Applications are invited for the position(s) of temporary Lecturer, on a full-time (1 post) or part-time (50%) (2 posts) basis, in the Division of Information and Technology Studies in the Faculty of Education, to commence on September 1, 2016, on a one-year temporary basis. Applicants should have at least a higher degree in information management/I.T. in education/ library science or any relevant areas. They should have at least 5 years of teaching and research experience. The appointee(s) will be expected to teach some of the courses offered in the following programs: Bachelor of Science in Information Management, Master of Science in Library and Information Management, and Master of Science in Information Technology in Education. Information about the programs can be obtained at http://web.edu.hku.hk/prospective-students/programmes-finder. Information about the Faculty can be obtained at http://www.hku.hk/education. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered, in addition to annual leave and medical benefits. Applicants should send a completed application form together with an up-to-date C.V. to edufact at hku.hk. Application forms (341/1111) can be downloaded at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Further particulars can be obtained athttp://jobs.hku.hk/. Closes May 15, 2016. The University thanks applicants for their interest, but advises that only candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified of the application result. Please feel free to forward to those who might be interested. Thank you for your attention! Xiao Hu, PhD Assistant Professor Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Room 209, Runme Shaw Building Tel: 22194722 Webpage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/academic_staff.php?staffId=xiaoxhu From kules at cua.edu Fri May 6 16:18:28 2016 From: kules at cua.edu (William Kules) Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 16:18:28 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Nominations invited for ASIS&T Outstanding Teacher Award Message-ID: Please help us honor the best teaching in information science! The Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award recognizes the unique teaching contribution of a teacher of information science. The award is presented at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, and consists of a check for $1,000 and a certificate. It also covers up to $500 in travel expenses for the recipient to attend the meeting. Nomination packages must be submitted electronically by July 1, 2016, to http://tinyurl.com/gwmg36u. For more information and detailed nomination guidelines, see https://www.asist.org/about/awards/thomson-reuters-outstanding-information-science-teacher-award/ or contact Bill Kules, kules at cua.edu. The award jury looks forward to reviewing your nominations. Bill -- Bill Kules, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Maryland at College Park Associate Professor and Chair (on leave 2015-16), Department of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America http://questionablepedagogy.com kules at cua.edu / @billkules (301) 755-7982 "Decide, do, reflect, repeat..." From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Fri May 6 20:54:26 2016 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 00:54:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST - Thomson Reuters Dissertation Proposal Award - seeking applications Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Thomson Reuters Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship is now calling for nominations/applications. Please encourage outstanding current PhD students who have had their dissertation proposals accepted to apply for this award. The award consists of a $1500 prize plus $500 travel expenses to attend the Annual ASIST meeting. Each application should include an abbreviated 10 page research proposal, a cover letter from the Dissertation Advisor endorsing the proposal, and an up-to-date CV of the applicant. Full details of the award and application procedures are available here: https://www.asis.org/awards/doctoraldissertationscholarship.html The deadline for nominations: July 1, 2016. Submission page: http://www.softconf.com/asist2/ISI_DocDiss/submit.html Questions may be directed to Jury Chair and member of the ASIST Information Science Education Committee - Luanne Freund: Luanne.freund at ubc.ca Best wishes, Luanne Freund Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS, the iSchool @ UBC The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Luanne.freund at ubc.ca From drnmathiyazhagan at gmail.com Sun May 8 00:27:18 2016 From: drnmathiyazhagan at gmail.com (Nithyanandam Mathiyazhagan) Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 00:27:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD Dissertation study participation (Information system managers and leaders) Message-ID: Hello, I am conducting a research study titled Baby Boomer Mass Retirement Influence on Information Systems Organizations. The purpose of the study is to explore the experiences of the leaders and managers of information systems organizations as they strive to maintain operational continuity after baby boomer worker retirement. The baby boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) is the workforce that became eligible to retire at about their age of 65. The population for my study is the managers and leaders who have experienced the knowledge loss due to the retirement of a baby boomer generation employee(s). If the study piques your interest and you would like to participate, or would like more information, please send me an email at drnmathiyazhagan at gmail.com. Best regards, Nithyanandam Mathiyazhagan (Mathi) PhD student (knowledge management), Walden University From hiris at uwm.edu Tue May 10 15:50:41 2016 From: hiris at uwm.edu (Iris Xie) Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 19:50:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research Message-ID: Are you a doctoral student in the writing stage or close to defending? We would like to showcase your research! ASIS&T invites you to submit a short video (5 mins or less) 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: July 1, 2016 TOPIC: Produce a short video (5 mins or less) 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: 5 minutes or less. Any videos longer than 5:59 mins will be automatically disqualified. Video Language: We are an international society, 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 hcomp16 at gmail.com Mon May 9 19:07:32 2016 From: hcomp16 at gmail.com (HCOMP 2016) Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:07:32 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] HCOMP 2016 Final Call for Full Papers (Extended Deadline) Message-ID: The* 2016 AAAI Conference on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (HCOMP)* will be held October 30 - November 3, 2016 in Austin, TX, USA. Website: http://www.humancomputation.com/2016 Follow us on Twitter: *@hcomp_conf* *Full papers are due on June 7th, 2016*, with *abstracts due on May 31st*. See details below. In addition to full papers, HCOMP will offer many other ways to participate, including workshops, a doctoral Consortium, a demos and ?works-in-progress? track, an industry/practitioner track, and an all-new "Encore Track" in which authors of papers recently published elsewhere can request to give an encore presentation of their papers at HCOMP 2016. Calls for these events will follow in June, though early details are at http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/participate.html. *Call for Full Papers - Extended Deadline* HCOMP strongly believes in inviting and fostering broad, interdisciplinary research on crowdsourcing and human computation. Submissions may present principles, studies, and/or applications of systems that rely on programmatic interaction with crowds, or where human perception, knowledge, reasoning, or physical activity and coordination contributes to the operation of computational systems, applications, or services. More generally, we invite submissions from the broad spectrum of related fields and application areas including (but not limited to): *- human-centered crowd studies*: e.g., human-computer interaction, social computing, design, cognitive and behavioral sciences (psychology and sociology), management science, economics, policy, ethics, etc. - *applications and algorithms*: e.g., computer vision, cultural heritage, databases, digital humanities, information retrieval, machine learning, natural language (and speech) processing, optimization, programming languages, systems, etc. - *crowdsourcing areas*: e.g., citizen science, collective action, collective knowledge, crowdsourcing contests, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, crowd ideation, crowd sensing, distributed work, freelancer economy, open innovation, microtasks, prediction markets, wisdom of crowds, etc. To ensure relevance, submissions are encouraged include research questions and contributions of broad interest to crowdsourcing and human computation, as well as discuss relevant open problems and prior work in the field. When evaluation is conducted entirely within a specific domain, authors are encouraged to discuss how findings might generalize to other communities and application areas using crowdsourcing and human computation. Full papers of up to 10 pages may be submitted. Full papers must represent original work, not previously published or under simultaneous peer-review for any other peer-reviewed, archival conference or journal. All papers must be anonymized (include no information identifying the authors or their institutions) for double-blind peer-review and formatted according to the conference's style guidelines. Accepted papers will be published in the HCOMP conference proceedings and included in the HCOMP Conference's Digital Archive. HCOMP is a young but quickly growing conference, with a historical acceptance rate of 30% for full papers. *About HCOMP* HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) represent traditional mainstays of the conference, HCOMP believes strongly in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research. This field is particularly unique in the diversity of disciplines it draws upon, and contributes to, ranging from human-centered qualitative studies and HCI design, to computer science and artificial intelligence, economics and the social sciences, all the way to cultural heritage, digital humanities, ethics, and policy. The HCOMP conference is aimed at promoting the exchange of advances in human computation and crowdsourcing among not only researchers, but also engineers and practitioners, to encourage dialogue across a spectrum of disciplines and communities of practice. HCOMP 2016 builds on a successful history of past meetings: three HCOMP conferences (2013-2015) and four earlier workshops, held in conjunction with the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011-2012), and the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2009-2010). Proceedings from past HCOMP conferences are available online in the HCOMP Conference Digital Archive. For Program Committee details, please see: http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/organizers.html *Schedule: Full Papers* May 31: Abstracts due June 7: Papers due July 11: Reviews released to authors July 14: [Optional] author feedback due August 4: Notification of acceptance decisions August 20: Camera-ready papers due From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Wed May 11 16:16:38 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:16:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS welcomes Colin Rhinesmith and Rebecka Sheffield to the Faculty Message-ID: Dean Eileen Abels is pleased to announce two additions to the Simmons SLIS faculty on July 1, 2016. *Dr. Colin Rhinesmith, Senior Lecturer* Dr. Colin Rhinesmith comes to Simmons with a broad teaching portfolio that includes graduate and undergraduate courses, and teaching both face-to-face and online. He is a Faculty Research Fellow with the Benton Foundation, a private foundation that works to ensure that media and telecommunications serve the public interest and enhance our democracy. Rhinesmith?s research interests are focused on the social, community, and policy aspects of information and communication technology, particularly in areas related to digital inclusion and broadband adoption. He is a co-Principal Investigator on an IMLS grant to study rural wifi hotspot lending programs in Kansas and Maine. *Dr. Rebecka Sheffield, Senior Lecturer* Dr. Rebecka Sheffield will join the SLIS faculty after serving as the Executive Director and Archives Manager at the Canadian Gay & Lesbian Archives. Dr. Sheffield has also worked with the LGBTQ+ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, which brings together a team of researchers across four community archives and five research institutions. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto iSchool, and she specializes in strategic planning and archival discovery and access. Sheffield is passionate about LGBTQ+ archives and finding innovative ways to bring researchers and collections together. Her areas of specialization include LGBTQ+ Archives & Heritage, Queer & Feminist Social Movements, Community Informatics & Heritage, Management & Administration of Archives, Archival Exhibitions, Digital Archives, Social Movement Theory, and Sexual Diversity Studies. SLIS is thrilled to welcome these dynamic new faculty members to our team. More information can be found on our SLIS News page. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 From Diane.Velasquez at unisa.edu.au Wed May 11 20:58:55 2016 From: Diane.Velasquez at unisa.edu.au (Diane Velasquez) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 00:58:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper 2016 Nominations Message-ID: The ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Jury is looking for the best Masters student research paper in information science. Any student in a Masters' degree-granting institution can submit a paper. Papers must follow the guidelines of a JASIST article and must be endorsed by a faculty sponsor for submission to the contest. The paper must be original and cannot have been previously published nor be submitted to another publication or group while being considered for the award. The package should consist of the following: 1. A cover letter stating the author's name, address, academic affiliation, and that the attached paper is being submitted for the Best Student Research Award. 2. The paper can carry no author identification. Please note if you are using a word processing program that has author identification within the software please remove this as well. 3. No more than two letters of endorsement from faculty sponsors. All nominations must be submitted by June 15, 2016 electronically to http://tinyurl.com/hz7ak3z. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Diane Dr Diane L Velasquez Program Director - Information Management School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus, Office D2-33 (Mondays, Fridays) City West Campus, Office Y1-56 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays) T: + 61 8 8302 5101 F: + 61 8 8302 3381 Email: diane.velasquez at unisa.edu.au Web: http://unisa.edu.au/infomanagement CRICOS Provider No.: 00121B "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." ----- Dr. Seuss From keren.dali at alumni.utoronto.ca Wed May 11 21:20:26 2016 From: keren.dali at alumni.utoronto.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:20:26 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper 2016 Nominations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And I didn't get it again through the listserv. Only to my personal email. On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Diane Velasquez wrote: > > The ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Jury is looking for > the best Masters student research paper in information science. Any > student in a Masters? degree-granting institution can submit a paper. > Papers must follow the guidelines of a JASIST article and must be endorsed > by a faculty sponsor for submission to the contest. The paper must be > original and cannot have been previously published nor be submitted to > another publication or group while being considered for the award. > > The package should consist of the following: > 1. A cover letter stating the author?s name, address, academic > affiliation, and that the attached paper is being submitted for the Best > Student Research Award. > 2. The paper can carry no author identification. Please note if you > are using a word processing program that has author identification within > the software please remove this as well. > 3. No more than two letters of endorsement from faculty sponsors. > > All nominations must be submitted by June 15, 2016 electronically to > *http://tinyurl.com/hz7ak3z* *.* > > If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. > > Diane > > > > Dr Diane L Velasquez > Program Director - Information Management > School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences > University of South Australia > Mawson Lakes Campus, Office D2-33 (Mondays, Fridays) > City West Campus, Office Y1-56 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays) > T: + 61 8 8302 5101 > F: + 61 8 8302 3381 > Email: diane.velasquez at unisa.edu.au > > Web: http://unisa.edu.au/infomanagement > > CRICOS Provider No.: 00121B > > "Be who you are and say what you feel, > because those who mind don't matter, > and those who matter don't mind." > ----- Dr. Seuss > -- **************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. **************************************************** From awasom.afuh at ttu.edu Thu May 12 08:24:18 2016 From: awasom.afuh at ttu.edu (Afuh, Awasom) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:24:18 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Final Call : ASIST 2016 SIG III International Paper contest for LIS professionals in developing countries Message-ID: Final Call!! **** Apologies for cross postings*** The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) hereby announces the opening of its 16th International Paper Contest for LIS Professionals in Developing countries, for the 2016 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 14-18, 2016. https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016. The theme of the Annual Meetings is: "Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology". This theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers - including academics practitioners, to discuss the impact of their research on industry, government, local/national/global community groups, individuals, information systems, libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. It highlights the focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a local and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to the following core areas: * Impact on Individuals: information behavior, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media use, information literacy, etc. * Impact on Society: digital citizenship, cultural engagement, archival preservation, policy development, copyright, intellectual property, infometrics, information access, etc. * Impact on Organizations: information architecture, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, linked data and big data, digital curation, records and archives management, etc. * Impact on Systems & Technology: cloud computing, digital libraries, automatic indexing, social tagging, classification, semantic web, database design, web usability, etc. * Impact on Information Contexts: health, education, law; environment, agriculture, business, etc. A panel of judges will select three winners. The panel is composed of Innocent Awasom (Texas Tech University, USA), J.K. Vijayakumar (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia), and Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy, Islamabad). Judging criteria: The papers will be judged on the following:- - Originality of paper in the developing world and global information ecosystem - Relevance to the paper contest theme and - Quality of argument, presentation and organization Eligibility Information for authors: Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners of the 2010-2015 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. Award: The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will receive a minimum of $1,000 towards offsetting the costs of attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from Oct. 14-18, 2016. (https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/). Style: The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ulbr20&page=instructions#.VOw5ZUex4k0 Publishing opportunities: Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the peer refereeing process of that journal. ASIS&T Copyright Policy: ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31st, 2016 via email to awasom.afuh at ttu.edu, [awasomdotafuhatttudotedu] preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachment. Thanks and look forward to receiving your submissions. Awasom Afuh (Innocent) Associate Librarian (Science) Texas Tech University Libraries Box 40002 Office M110 Lubbock, TX 79409 T 806 834 2385 F 806 742 1964 awasom.afuh at ttu.edu From lynnwest at ischool.utexas.edu Thu May 12 10:26:33 2016 From: lynnwest at ischool.utexas.edu (Westbrook, Jo L) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:26:33 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Crestos Leadership Award Message-ID: <8EF7FEE1-CF97-419F-A0AB-0FF408836E50@ischool.utexas.edu> Do you know a new ASIS&T member who is an outstanding leader in professional ASIS&T activities? Then you know a potential Cretsos Leadership award winner! Nominations for the Cretsos Leadership Award are being accepted until July 15. Individuals who have been members of ASIS&T for seven years or less are eligible. Complete award and submission information located at: http://www.asis.org/awards/leadershipaward.html Help us find and recognize new members who are already demonstrating exemplary leadership. If you have any questions, please contact the award jury chair, Lynn Westbrook at lynnwest at ischool.utexas.edu From jmartin at nedcc.org Thu May 12 12:01:12 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 16:01:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Directions Sept 26-28 Denver - Early Bird Deadline is May 27 - Register Early and Save Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF994C2A7B5@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> Apologies for Cross Postings EARLY BIRD DEADLINE APPROACHING - May 27 **************************************** NEDCC Presents DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2016 Denver, Colorado ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: Guided by a faculty of national experts, join colleagues from institutions large and small for two and a half days of instruction on best practices and practical strategies for the creation, curation, and use of digital collections. Network with colleagues who share similar challenges, interact with faculty one-on-one, and gain a comprehensive introduction to digitization and digital preservation. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Best practices and standards; Assessing risks; Rights and responsibilities; Digital project planning; Selection for digitization; Digital storage; Working with born-digital collections; Access and digital collections; Starting a digital preservation program; and more. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Join colleagues from across the United States and Canada who care for digital collections in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, government agencies, and corporate archives. Are you just beginning a digital initiative? Or are you well into a digital project and would like to confirm that you are on the right track? See you in Denver! COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/digital-directions/dd-2016 ******************************************* NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER www.nedcc.org Join the NEDCC E-List for conference updates, grant reminders, NEDCC Stories, and other preservation news you can use. http://bit.ly/EnewsPres From rhill at asis.org Thu May 12 12:42:12 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:42:12 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Participation and Demos: NKOS Dublin Core workshop Message-ID: <00ca01d1ac6d$476d8e70$d648ab50$@asis.org> Apologies for cross-posting ?? 16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2016 (DC 2016) Call for Presentations and Demos The 16th European NKOS workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October as part of DC 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Important Dates: Submission deadline: Friday, 1 July 2016 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 16th August 2016 Proposals are invited for the following: a) Presentations (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also possible. b) Demos on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below). Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying work, relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (koraljka.golub at lnu.se ). Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one presentation author needs to register for the workshop (this is a strict requirement). After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made available on the workshop website as well as be subject to the DCMI copyright provisions (http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/submissions#copyrightN otice). Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication. Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be: (1) KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases) of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes manual and automatic alignments. (2) KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them. (3) Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the need to manage research data as part of universities research output, subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices and guidelines. Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the following topics in the CfP: (4) KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL. (5) Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS. (6) Standards developments. (7) Evaluation of KOS-based systems ? methods and practical experience. KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops. Example topics include: (8) KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research data, KOS, Semantic web. (9) Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided and informed by KOS? (10) Users interaction with KOS in the online environment. (11) KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in sense making and learning? (12) Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools. (13) Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application contexts, etc. More information on the workshop can be found under https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/c all-for-papers.html We hope to see you in Copenhagen, Denmark. Please note that workshop presenter entry into Denmark may be subject to Visa requirements (see https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visa.htm). Best regards, NKOS workshop organizing committee Koraljka Golub (primary contact), Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University | 351 95 V?xj? | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8909 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail: koraljka.golub at lnu.se | http://koraljka.info Joacim Hansson Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University | 351 95 V?xj? | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8971 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail: joacim.hansson at lnu.se | Maria Johnsson, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0) 222 90 40 | E-mail: maria.johnsson at ub.lu.se | Monica Lassi, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0) 222 01 06 | E-mail: monica.lassi at ub.lu.se | Douglas Tudhope, Hypermedia Research Group Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science University of South Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK dstudhope at glam.ac.uk http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/ Kind regards, Kora Koraljka Golub, Associate Professor Responsible for LIS Programme http://lnu.se/personal/koraljka.golub Digital Humanities / iSchool Initiative Department of Library and Information Science School of Cultural Sciences Faculty of Arts and Humanities Linnaeus University From fichman at indiana.edu Fri May 13 13:14:59 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 17:14:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?CFP_HICSS_=E2=80=9950_Minitrack_on_Collective_?= =?utf-8?q?Intelligence_and_Crowds?= Message-ID: CFP HICSS ?50 Minitrack on Collective Intelligence and Crowds Track: Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) January 4-7, 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, USA http://www.hicss.org/ Papers Due: June 15, 2016 This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new sociotechnical configuration of knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles. Thus the minitrack invites a range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these sociotechnical relations. We live surrounded by socially constructed identities ? organizations, nations, websites ? all of which are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. To allow for these collectives to evolve, it is necessary to have not only a representation in an individual?s mind but also the knowledge that similar representations exist in the minds of others. The way we can create shared representations have changed with the proliferation of a wide range of Internet platforms. These Internet platforms allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people ? and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences ? to negotiate identities. With these socio-technical configurations we can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. These collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational and social structures, in which committed members of a community create, improve, and share ideas. The output of these socio-technical systems often takes the form of digital media, and their traces are varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. We are interested in 1) papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these socio-technical structures and their outputs; 2) papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production; 3) design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes; and 4) papers that simulate the production processes and outcomes through software. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms that explain the emergence of collective identity. Particularly we are open to papers that explore unusual ways of modeling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions, as well as socio-technical models of deviance and disruption. We are interested in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. In sum, the content of the minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new sociotechnical configuration of knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these sociotechnical relations. Important deadlines for authors: June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. Aug 16: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. September 15: Submission final papers. Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be removed from the Proceedings. Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing and the Director of the Rob Kling Center of Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. fichman at indiana.edu Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Professor and Director of the Center for Decision Technologies in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. jnickerson at stevens.edu Donald Steiny, President and Founder of the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy, a member of the Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project, and an instructor at the University of California Santa Cruz. steiny at steiny.com ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From niso-announce at niso.org Fri May 13 15:50:22 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:50:22 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Altmetrics Recommended Practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers Message-ID: Baltimore, MD - May 13, 2016 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on three draft documents related to Altmetrics: NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics; NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications; and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications. These documents are the latest outputs from NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The project aims to address limitations and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an expansion of tools available for measuring scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment. Other working groups participating in the project have released drafts on Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases and a Code of Conduct for Provider Data Quality. NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics emphasizes the necessity for data to be citable and its use to be measurable. "The Research Data Metrics recommendations are intended to be a very practical set of guidelines that can be implemented by repositories and data publishers alike in the immediate future," says Mike Taylor of Elsevier, co-chair of the Working Group that created the drafts. "The last two years have shown a tremendous growth in the interest in data publishing and posting," continues Taylor, "and we can all benefit from standards about how we define and count a 'download.' I'd like to thank the folk at FORCE11 and elsewhere for their continuing drive to implement data citation." The second two draft documents, NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications, are largely comprised of tables that offer overviews of important aspects of scientific communication today. "I'm hopeful that these two outputs will seed and support conversations around these important topics," states Kristi Holmes, of Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University and co-chair of the Working Group. "Wider use of persistent identifiers and recognition of non-article academic outputs are important steps that can further help transform the modern scholarly landscape and facilitate broad data interoperability and exchange." The Persistent Identifiers document recognizes that DOIs are only one type of identifier among the many available to researchers today, and describes the importance of related efforts in a variety of scholarly domains to identify research outputs of various types. The authors encourage those community members working to support open science and interoperability to use persistent identifiers to measure, evaluate, and report on the effectiveness of research infrastructure and communication whenever possible. NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communication offers a current list of nontraditional research outputs, displaying the rich array of scholarly products that are created during the research process. The included table provides brief descriptions of the various kinds of materials being produced, from new cell lines to W3C standards; notes example s of known current efforts and by whom these are being undertaken; and offers relevant links. "These three documents represent a tremendous amount of effort on the part of the Working Group, and we thank them for these valuable contributions," remarks Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "Commentary from the wide spectrum of stakeholders in the area of altmetrics will make the documents even stronger, and NISO and the Working Group are hopeful for rich input before the material is published in its final form early this summer." The draft Recommended Practices are open for public comment through June 11, 2016. To download the drafts or submit online comments, visit the NISO Altmetrics Initiative web page at http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/. *About NISO* NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website . From chirags at rutgers.edu Fri May 13 23:10:42 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 23:10:42 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Chapter Annual Report - due by August 15 Message-ID: <001F584F-AEEF-41E4-80F2-DBF527179B7B@rutgers.edu> 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) From c.haythorn at ubc.ca Sat May 14 06:37:31 2016 From: c.haythorn at ubc.ca (Haythornthwaite, Caroline) Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 10:37:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] HICSS Learning within Digital and Social Media CFP (June 15) Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Learning within Digital and Social Media a "mini track" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS-50) January 4-7, 2017, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii ?????????????????????????????????? We solicit papers on how human learning takes place via interactive and social processes enabled or supported by digital and social media. We seek to bridge disciplines and research communities between system and learning sciences, so within this scope a broad range of research questions, learning settings, and theoretical and methodological traditions will be considered. Contributions may include new design approaches, theoretical perspectives, learning analytic techniques, policy implications and/or other research results relating to the relationship between digital and social media and learning. Studies may be situated in formal or informal learning settings, and we particularly encourage studies of learning "in the technological wild". The shared theme across accepted papers will be on relationships between human learning activities and the technologies used. Topics of particular interest include: * how learning takes place in networks, crowds, teams and communities that exist on and through the WWW and digital and social media; * how the affordances of technological systems influence or are appropriated for learning via social processes, and how design of affordances can leverage these influences; * how learning is (or can be designed to be) distributed and coordinated across multiple digital and social media; * learning practices at the nexus of distributed work, socializing, and knowledge sharing; * learning analytics in digital and social media: how to understand learning via the traces people leave in social media; * new trends in learning and digital and social media, including issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, viral learning and entrepreneurial learning; and * ethical issues relating to learning online, including issues relating to data capture, analysis and display, and learning about controversial subjects or anti?social activities. HICSS 50 and the "Big Island" The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in its 50th year, is one of the longstanding scientific conferences and is highly ranked among information systems conferences. Diverse disciplines unified by a focus on information technologies are woven together in a matrix structure of tracks and themes. By attending HICSS you are not only reaching the audience of your track and mini-track; you also have the opportunity to learn about what is happening in related fields and meet leaders in those fields. Mini-tracks within the Collaboration Systems and Technologies and the Digital and Social Media tracks are particularly relevant. With five of the world's seven climate zones, and a mixture of Hawaiian and immigrant cultures, the "Big Island" of Hawaii offers diverse outdoor activities, good food, and cultural activities. Please see http://www.hicss.org/ for conference, venue and submission information. Papers are due June 15, 2016 Minitrack Co-Chairs: Dan Suthers (Primary Contact) University of Hawaii suthers at hawaii.edu Maarten De Laat Open University of the Netherlands maarten.delaat at ou.nl Caroline Haythornthwaite University of British Columbia haythorn at interchange.ubc.ca From Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk Mon May 16 03:35:59 2016 From: Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk (Joy Davidson) Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 07:35:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [CODATA-international] The Rescue of Data At Risk: An RDA-CODATA Workshop, 8-9 September, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA In-Reply-To: <970FAF04-F751-4CF9-9EB7-329AC918FC87@codata.org> References: <970FAF04-F751-4CF9-9EB7-329AC918FC87@codata.org> Message-ID: Members of the list may be interested in this RDA-CODATA workshop. From: CODATA-international [mailto:codata-international-bounces at lists.codata.org] On Behalf Of Simon CODATA Sent: 13 May 2016 18:17 To: CODATA International; tg-dar at lists.codata.org Subject: [CODATA-international] The Rescue of Data At Risk: An RDA-CODATA Workshop, 8-9 September, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA A workshop on The Rescue of Data At Risk http://www.codata.org/task-groups/data-at-risk/dar-workshops will be held in Boulder, Colorado, on 8?9 September 2016, in association with International Data Week http://www.internationaldataweek.org/ that is taking place the following week in nearby Denver. The Workshop is being organized by the joint CODATA Task Group for Data At Risk http://www.codata.org/task-groups/data-at-risk and the RDA Interest Group for Data Rescue https://rd-alliance.org/groups/data-rescue.html, and is being hosted by NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research), 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO 80307, USA. Rationale It is becoming imperative, and urgent, to broadcast the need to rescue (uncover, preserve, digitize and create public access to) heritage data which are languishing in non-digital (or non-readable) formats and cannot be used at all efficiently (or at all) for research in that state. Many are stored in inappropriate conditions and may be deteriorating rapidly. The most effective tool is example?showing what can be gained (and equally, what is currently being lost), both in science and in the humanities and social sciences. By presenting a variety of Case Studies, the Workshop will demonstrate the scientific value of recovering the information from those non-electronic data through the use of modern technology, and will debate the methods, techniques, and support, needed to make many more of those older data widely accessible. The Workshop also needs to hear about projects which were unsuccessful?or never even got off the ground?since one objective is to size up the actual challenges. Content and Schedule We invite papers, either as oral presentations or as posters, that describe the management and challenges of nearly-lost heritage data. Posters will be on view for the duration of the Workshop, and may thus gain much more exposure than would a brief oral presentation. Following presentation(s) on one of the Workshop themes, the meeting will divide into breakout sessions to discuss the specific challenges or pointers, and then collect and review the various conclusions. Themes 1. Locating nearly lost data (?dark data?), e.g., libraries, reports,closed field stations, hearsay. Aspects of access, borrowing or transferring. 2. Ownership 3. Contents catalogues for analogue materials 4. Digitizing technologies 5. Meta-data 6. Long-term preservation of digitized records 7. Long-term preservation of originals. Registration .... (Coming soon) Registration (at approximately $100 USD) will include morning/afternoon tea/coffee breaks and lunch on both days, and a bus to/from hotels if required. A Registration page will be available soon. Please pre-register by sending an email, stating your intention to attend, to Elizabeth.Griffin [at] nrc-cnrc.gc.ca and include "Boulder Data Rescue Workshop" in the subject line. Travel and Accommodation Boulder is about 40 miles (70 km) from Denver International Airport. The route is serviced by the AB bus (see schedules). Hotels Preferential rates have been arranged with the Best Western Inn Boulder for 30 rooms at $139 (includes breakfast). 15 rooms have also been set aside at the Millennium Hotel for $119 (breakfast not included). Participants should make their own bookings. In both cases the limit of the agreed discount ends by August 7. Other hotel rooms may be booked as per individual choice. Travel Support Limited travel support may be available for those who do not have other sources of travel funds. When pre-registering, please indicate if travel support is essential, and (if so) approximately how much will be needed. L.O.C. Mike Daniels (UCAR) David Gallaher (NSIDC) Matthew Mayernik (UCAR) Steve Williams (UCAR) Enquiries For general enquiries, please contact Elizabeth.Griffin [at] nrc-cnrc.gc.ca in the first instance. We look forward to seeing you in September! ___________________________ DEADLINE EXTENDED! SCIDATACON ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS, DEADLINE 30 MAY: http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/submit/ SciDataCon 2016 is THE international conference addressing issues around data in research. ___________________________ Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | http://www.codata.org E-Mail: simon at codata.org | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99 Blog: http://www.codata.org/blog Diary: http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59 CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Mon May 16 13:04:35 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (BRENDA SHERIDAN) Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:04:35 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, Proud to Support and Exhibit at NJLA, May 16-18 Message-ID: The School of Communication and Information, (SC&I) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Annual Conference being held May 16-18 at Harrah?s Waterfront Convention Center in Atlantic City. The conference, entitled ?All Together Now? unites all professionals and supporters within the library and information science field and presents keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and career development sessions relevant to today?s LIS industry. Stop by and visit us during exhibiting hours at booth H3. Also, please attend our special session on Tuesday, May 17 from 3:10 pm to 5:00 p.m. in Wildwood 25 & 26. This is an interactive session titled, The Changing Face of Education for Information Professionals, which will address some of the dynamic developments in our Master of Information (MI) program, and provide the opportunity for input from the library community. For more information on our MI program, please visit, https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/. For NJLA information, visit http://njlaconference.info/. -- 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 fichman at indiana.edu Mon May 16 13:26:31 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 17:26:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP HICSS Minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Message-ID: CFP HICSS Minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) January 4-7, 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, USA Kauai, Hawaii, USA http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2016 This minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. In line with the track recognition that the Internet has transformed the way we work, learn, and play, our minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * The impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) on ICT design, adoption, and use. * The impact of cultural values on policies and practices of big data collection and use (e.g., * Cross cultural studies of quantification of self at work, by individuals or organizations * Cross-cultural comparisons of big data collection and use * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies *Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman at indiana.edu Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel at american.edu About HICSS conferences: Now in its 50th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: ? A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. ? Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. ? A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. ? A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). ? Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. ? Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. ? A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. ? Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance. ? HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. Aug 16: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. September 15: Submission final papers. Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be removed from the Proceedings. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg Tue May 17 06:30:44 2016 From: chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg (Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof)) Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:30:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd call for papers: A-LIEP 2016 -- Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice, Nov 3-4, 2016 in Nanjing, China Message-ID: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A20167911C71@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> *********************************************************************** 7th ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY & INFORMATION EDUCATION & PRACTICE (A-LIEP 2016) November 3-4, 2016, Nanjing, China Paper submission system (via EasyChair) is ready: http://aliep2016.nju.edu.cn/Submit%20a%20Paper.htm Paper submission deadline is 30 June 2016. *********************************************************************** Organized by Nanjing University, China Hosted by the School of Information Management, Nanjing University, China In collaboration with - College of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, China - School of Economics & Management, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China The Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) is an international conference series which has been held in the Asia-Pacific region every one or two years since 2006. The aim of the conference is to bring together LIS educators, researchers and practitioners to share their research, experiences and innovations in Library & Information Science, and stimulate greater collaboration and cooperation regionally and globally. The 7th A-LIEP (A-LIEP 2016) will be held in Nanjing, China on 3-4 November 2016. Nanjing is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of 2500 years and regarded as one of the "top four ancient cultural capitals of China". This conference will continue the tradition of examining new challenges and developments in LIS, in particular potential paradigm shifts in the age of big data. *********************************************************************** *CALL FOR PAPERS* The theme of A-LIEP 2016 is: Innovation in Library & Information Science in the Age of Big Data We sincerely invite submissions on LIS education, practice and research in the context of the recent global interest in big data, taken in a broad sense. *CONFERENCE TOPICS* There are three conference tracks: LIS Education, LIS Practice and LIS Research. The following list of topics for the 3 conference tracks is suggestive, but not exhaustive. LIS EDUCATION Challenges in LIS education nationality or internationality Collaboration and resource sharing among LIS schools/departments Cultivation of scientific data specialists MOOCs and LIS education Impact of big data on LIS education Preparing LIS graduates for the new market Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS programs Impact of LIS education on the work and career of LIS graduates Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in LIS Developing Competencies of LIS Professionals Impact of new ICTs on LIS curriculum LIS PRACTICE Collaboration among Libraries and with other professions Competency standards for library and information services Customer-focused services Efficiency vs. Effectiveness of Libraries Impact of Mobile Technologies on Libraries Integrating teaching, research and practice Leadership development and strategic management in libraries Digital Preservation Outsourcing of Information Services User education and information literacy for life-long learning Libraries as learning organizations Libraries' role in curating and exposing big data Future libraries, future librarians, future skills LIS RESEARCH Digital Libraries, Digital Archives Information Behavior Information Literacy Information Organization, Knowledge Organization Knowledge Management and Knowledge Services Semantic Web and Linked Data Text and Social Media Mining Digital Humanities Big Data and Data Science Information Visualization Scientometrics and scientific evaluation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* Full Papers: length 8 to 12 pages, single-spaced, Times New Roman 11 pt. font Short Papers: length 4 to 7 pages, single-spaced, Times New Roman 11 pt. font Poster: abstract of 1 to 2 pages A paper template is given for your reference on the conference website. The conference proceedings will be published officially. High quality papers will be considered for publication by the LIBRES e-journal (Singapore) and Journal of Data and Information Science (China), after required revisions. *IMPORTANT DATES* Long/short paper submission deadline: 30 June 2016 Notification of long/short paper acceptance: 31 July 2016 Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 20 August 2016 Poster submission deadline: 31 July 2016 Notification of poster acceptance: 31 August 2016 If you have any question, please contact the conference organizer by the email: aliep2016 at nju.edu.cn. *********************************************************************** ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you. From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Mon May 16 13:47:32 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:47:32 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Virtual Symposium - May 18 - Schedule available Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Hello! We're excited about the Second Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities, being held this WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 from 10am to 2pm Pacific. The schedule of speakers is live and we will be adding details today and tomorrow. You can also find the Collaborate access details on the Schedule page: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/2016/05/13/2016-second-virtual-symposium-schedule/ We look forward to seeing you there! Thanks, Jeremy From rhill at asis.org Wed May 18 09:02:54 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:02:54 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [Dlib-subscribers] The May/June 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available In-Reply-To: <54E3B22B-D019-4F5A-8F17-8D05436C51A1@cnri.reston.va.us> References: <54E3B22B-D019-4F5A-8F17-8D05436C51A1@cnri.reston.va.us> Message-ID: <172301d1b105$986231e0$c92695a0$@asis.org> -----Original Message----- From: dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org [mailto:dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org] On Behalf Of Bonita Wilson Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 4:17 PM To: Dlib-Subscribers at dlib.org Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The May/June 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The May/June 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains three full-length articles, two conference reports and three brief articles (the latter of which appear in the In Brief column). The In Brief column also presents excerpts from recent press releases. In addition, you can find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in D-Lib's 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features the CDC's 'Public Health Image Library'. The articles are: Scientific Stewardship in the Open Data and Big Data Era ? Roles and Responsibilities of Stewards and Other Major Product Stakeholders By Ge Peng, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC), North Carolina State University and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Nancy A. Ritchey, NCEI, Kenneth S. Casey, NCEI, Edward J. Kearns, NCEI, Jeffrey L. Privette, NCEI, Drew Saunders, NCEI, Philip Jones, STG, Inc, Tom Maycock, CICS-NC/NCEI, and Steve Ansari, NCEI Institutional Repositories: Home for Small Scholarly Journals? By Julie Kelly and Linda Eells, University of Minnesota Customization of Open Source Applications to Support a Multi-Institution Digital Repository Using DSpace By Youssef Benchouaf, Daniel Hamp and Mark Shelstad, Colorado State University The conference reports are: Linking Publications and Data: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities By Matthew S. Mayernik and Jennifer Phillips, NCAR/UCAR Library, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Eric Nienhouse, Computational and Information Systems Lab, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Report from the Sixth Annual DuraSpace Member Summit, March 2016 By Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace 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 May/June 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 kberlack at nfais.org Wed May 18 13:59:35 2016 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:59:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?NFAIS_Webinar_5/23_=96_DIY_Meets_Tradit?= =?windows-1252?q?ional_Publishing?= Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS Webinar ? DIY Meets Traditional Publishing: Developing Value-Added Partnerships Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EDT) Location: Virtual Registration: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=507117&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 ==================================================================== What's Covered: Do-it-yourself (DIY) scholarly publishing has been on a growth path in recent years, driven in part by the advent of the cloud and by many entrepreneurial companies that have developed workable DIY publishing platforms. While it's still early in the life span of DIY scholarly publishing, to what extent will DIY evolve into a disruptor to traditional publishing? Or can DIY act as a disruptor while working in partnership with traditional publishing? In this NFAIS Webinar, Monday, May 23, join Authorea's Alberto Pepe, Peerwith's Joris van Rossum, PhD, and Ivo Verbeek, M.Sc., and MIT Press's Bill Trippe, each of whom will examine DIY publishing as a new link being deployed with traditional publishers to serve the needs of scholarly authors. These services are working to help researchers accelerate the dissemination of their scholarly output. Our expert presenters will discuss: ? New tools and services that enable researchers to collaborate, share and connect with one another on their terms ? Challenges researchers face with traditional publishing models ? What DIY means to authors and how publishers can support a more collaborative environment to foster transparent scientific discovery ? How Peerwith integrates with Mendeley to give authors the ability to bolster research collaboration and publication ? How author-initiated content can be integrated into the next steps of the publishing workflow ? Whether a more openly collaborative environment reflects a shift toward more value-added collaborations between all stakeholders Presenters (listed per presenter order): Alberto Pepe, Co-founder, Authorea (NFAIS 2016 Startup Shootout Winner) Joris van Rossum, Co-founder, Peerwith Ivo Verbeek, Co-founder, Peerwith Bill Trippe, Director of Technology, MIT Press Join us for this NFAIS Webinar to learn more about DIY scholarly publishing and how this method of scholarly research dissemination and communication fits into the overall scholarly publishing environment. To register or to learn more about this event, go to: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=507117&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 ________________________________________ For individual registrations, the costs for this NFAIS Webinar are: $125 for NFAIS members; $150 for allied societies*; and $195 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. For federal employees, contact Elinda Deans (ehar at loc.gov) regarding use of your FEDLINK training account for this NFAIS Webinar. Contact: For more information, please contact Nancy Blair-DeLeon, Director of Professional Development, 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at nblairdeleon at nfais.org. Upcoming NFAIS Events: May 23, 2016 ? DIY Meets Traditional Publishing: Developing Value-Added Partnerships May 24, 2016 ? Lunch & Learn with NFAIS: Using Altmetrics Responsibly July 26, 2016 ? Lunch & Learn with NFAIS: New Technology in Manuscript Authoring, Submission, and Peer Review Feb. 26-28, 2017 ? 59th NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA Subscribe to NFAIS Advances e-newsletter! NFAIS www.nfais.org nfais at nfais.org @NFAISForum Ken Berlack Director of Marketing and Communications NFAIS 801 Compass Way, Suite 201 Annapolis, MD 21401 443-221-2980, x103 kberlack at nfais.org From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Tue May 24 12:13:50 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 11:13:50 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] JCDL 2016 Call for Participation In-Reply-To: <57447D0C.8000607@jcdl.org> References: <57447D0C.8000607@jcdl.org> Message-ID: <57447DBE.6070208@austin.utexas.edu> ACM/IEEE JCDL 2016 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 19-23, 2016 Newark, NJ http://www.jcdl2016.org/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The theme of JCDL 2016 is Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation. As more of our interaction with libraries happens digitally, interfaces and tools for access have become increasingly important. An important issue for digital libraries is how to provide users with improved access to materials. We have big data -- how can we help scholars use those resources to make new discoveries in their own fields? This year's conference will feature 3 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, 7 paper sessions, 2 panels, 3 keynotes, 39 posters/demos, and 5 co-located workshops. We are especially excited about our keynote speakers (http://www.jcdl2016.org/keynotes): * June 20 - Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation (NSF), "Future Digital Libraries: Research and Responsibilities" * June 21 - Rachel Frick, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), "The State of Practice and Use of Digital Collections: the Digital Public Library of America as a platform for research" * June 22 - Stephen Bury, New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), "The Energy of Delusion: The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) & The Digital" Important Dates * May 30 - hotel deadline (http://www.jcdl2016.org/accommodations) * May 23 - early registration deadline (http://www.jcdl2016.org/registration) Full program details are available at http://www.jcdl2016.org/program We hope you will join us in Newark! -- Dr Ingo Frommholz (@iFromm) | Dept. of Computer Science and Technology Senior Lecturer | University of Bedfordshire ingo.frommholz at beds.ac.uk | Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU, UK http://www.frommholz.org/ | Room B107a, P: +44-1582-743986 PGP/GPG fingerprint: B1AB F93D DB71 3AFB 324E 7297 9485 57CA 64B1 8FC7 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x948557CA64B18FC7 From ischoolumd at gmail.com Thu May 19 15:14:15 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:14:15 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Snapshot: Summer Professional Education @ UMD iSchool Message-ID: [image: Inline image 1] Here?s a look at what?s on this summer*!* *Don?t forget to sign up for **An Educated Eye* *, a workshop on June 11* Participants in this one-day, in-person workshop will gain a better understanding of how illustration and other visual images convey meaning. Maria Salvadore, leading expert in children?s literature, will walk participants through interactive, hands-on activities aimed at showcasing the power of illustration and image in children?s literature. Register today! Registration closes on *May 27, 2016.* *Learn how to build a website with our one-credit, fully online courses! * Dr. Jen Golbeck, a world leader in social media research and science communication, is offering two different, online one-credit graduate courses this summer! *Introduction to Web Programming* will teach you how to build a website, the basics of good website design, and how to write code. *Introduction to Javascript *will give you more in-depth skills in programming languages, including variables, types, data structures, and control flow. No prior programming experience is needed! Both courses run from *July 11 through August 19*. Visit our *website* for more details! From S.Hartmann at uni-duesseldorf.de Tue May 24 07:59:27 2016 From: S.Hartmann at uni-duesseldorf.de (Sarah Hartmann) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 13:59:27 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ESC Webinar Announcement In-Reply-To: <2c553446-8b9c-7708-2645-2a4c8eff1729@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <2c553446-8b9c-7708-2645-2a4c8eff1729@uni-duesseldorf.de> Message-ID: <5a314e84-3b8a-05e5-f9c9-e41f1905ae0b@uni-duesseldorf.de> The European Student Chapter (ESC) invites you to its next webinar about: *How to write successful journal manuscripts and convince the reviewer* ============================================================= *Date*: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 *Time*: 5:00 ? 6:00 p.m. CEST (UTC 3:00 pm) ============================================================= Experienced reviewers and editors from information science and related fields will answer your questions and give you advice on how to improve your journal submissions and increase your manuscript?s chance to be published. We are happy to announce that *Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski* (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany), *Prof. Dr. Loet Leydesdorff *(Amsterdam School of Communications Research at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & *Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters* (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics & Kiel University, Germany) will speak about their experiences from the reviewers point of view and hand out advice on writing better journal manuscripts. Do you already have some questions in mind that you always wanted to ask your journal manuscripts reviewers? Then don?t hesitate to send them to s.hartmann at hhu.de or agnes.mainka at hhu.de until May 31, 2016. So we can make sure that the most relevant questions will definitely be answered by the speakers. The webinar is open and free to all. To join the webinar on *June 15, 2016* please visit the following website https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/escwebinar_jun2016/ and enter your full name. All information is also available on our website http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc. *About the Speakers*: /Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski/ Dirk Lewandowski is a Professor of Information Research & Information Retrieval at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He studied library science at the School of Library Science in Stuttgart, as well as philosophy, information science, and media studies at Heinrich Heine University in D?sseldorf. His research interests are in Web Information Retrieval, search engine user behavior as well as the role that search engines play in the society. He authored and edited several books on that topic and is the editor of Aslib Journal of Information Management (formerly: Aslib Proceedings), an ISI-ranked information science journal. Furthermore he is an associate editor of Online Information Review and serves frequently as a reviewer for various journals. /Prof. Dr. Loet Leydesdorff/ Loet Leydesdorff is a Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, a M.A. in Philosophy, and a M.Sc. in Biochemistry. His research interests are in the fields of systems theory, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation. He has published extensively in these topics and also authored several books on theory and methods for understanding the dynamics of knowledge-based development. In addition, he is on the editorial boards of several journals since 1987, e.g. Scientometrics, Social Science Information, Cybermetrics, Journal of Informetrics, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, and received the Derek de Solla Price Award for scientometrics in 2003. Since 2006 he has been Honorary Research Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 2007 Honorary Fellow of SPRU ? Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex. /Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters/ Isabella Peters is a Professor of Web Science at the ZBW (German National Library of Economics) Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and Kiel University, Germany. She studied German Linguistics, German Literature, and Information Science at the Heinrich Heine University in D?sseldorf. In her research she studies social media and Web 2.0 (with focus on user generated content), Science 2.0, scholarly communication on the social web, altmetrics, knowledge management and information retrieval. She reviews for a couple of international journals and conferences, e.g. PloS One, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Aslib Proceedings, Webology, Social Information Research, International Symposium of Information Science, Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Furthermore she is on the editorial board of the international peer-reviewed journal Webology. Please, distribute this information to your contacts who might be interested. Thanks and we look forward to receiving your questions. -- Sarah Hartmann, B.A., M.A. ASIS&T ESC Vice Chair Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Building 24.53, Room 01.87 Universit?tsstr. 1 40225 D?sseldorf Germany Phone: +49-211-81-10803 From jmartin at nedcc.org Thu May 26 09:41:34 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:41:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Preservation Training at NEDCC - New Webinars - New Topics - DD16 Early Bird Deadline is Friday Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF994C50524@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> PRESERVATION TRAINING AT NEDCC ******************************** The Northeast Document Conservation Center's 2016-2017 training programs are now posted. New Webinars - new topics to help you care for a wide variety of collections. NEW WEBINAR TOPICS INCLUDE: - Identification and Care of Negatives; - Caring for Framed Collections; - Selection for Digitization; - Caring for Architectural Records; - Funding and Fundraising; - Caring for Digital Media; - Creating Useful Digital Objects; - Digitizing Scrapbooks; - and many more! REMINDER................... DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections Denver, CO September 26-28 Early Bird Discount Deadline Ends THIS Friday - Join us in Denver! https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/digital-directions/dd-2016 LEARN MORE about NEDCC's Training Programs: https://www.nedcc.org/newsletters/trcal1617 ************************************** NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER www.nedcc.org Serving Clients Nationwide JOIN NEDCC's E-List for all the latest preservation news: http://bit.ly/newsprs From kberlack at nfais.org Thu May 26 11:11:19 2016 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 15:11:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NFAIS Two-Part Workshop: Open Data Fostering Open Science, June 16 & June 20 Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS Two-Part Workshop - Open Data Fostering Open Science: Meeting Researchers' Needs Date: Thursday, June 16, and Monday, June 20, 2016 Time: June 16 (9:00 am - 10:45 am EDT) and June 20 (11:00 am - 12:45 pm EDT) Location: Virtual Registration: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=508850&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 ==================================================================== What's Covered: Open data initiatives continue to create new scholarly research opportunities through the development of transparent policies, practices and partnerships. This dynamic is evolving via collaboration between research institutes, governments, publishers and the public at large, all of which are promoting a transformative environment that cuts across industries and fields of study for exploration and discovery. Much of this the momentum behind the open data movement comes from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's 2013 memorandum, "Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research." In addition, the UK already has implemented firm data archiving policies and mandates. To this end, clear benefits of open data sharing are emerging - increased visibility of scholarly work, safe storage for data through archiving, the optimization of publicly funded research, and the benefit to the public's well-being through more rapid advancement of scientific research and discovery. Yet challenges and risks need to be addressed to ensure open data's future, including privacy concerns, complying with complex funder mandates, managing reuse policies and ensuring responsible researcher interpretation of shared data. To explore these issues in-depth, NFAIS is hosting a two-part virtual workshop, to be held on Thursday, June 16 and Monday, June 20, that will address current open data mandates and models by a diverse range of expert presenters from leading universities, open source application developers, publishers and researchers. Who should attend this two-part NFAIS Workshop: scholarly researchers, publishers, librarians, government agency officials, non-profit scholarly society and foundation staff, and information services consultants. Special Note: This is an NFAIS Virtual Workshop taking place in two parts - just register once to attend both events! Presenters (listed per presenter order): Torsten Reimer, PhD, Scholarly Communications Officer, Imperial College London Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Publisher, Scientific Data and Head of Data and HSS Publishing, Open Research, Springer Nature Merc? Crosas, PhD, Chief Data Science and Technology Officer, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University Eric Peterson, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute Clifford Anderson, Director, Scholarly Communications, Vanderbilt University To register for this event, go to: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=506227&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 _________________________________________________________________________________ For individual registrations, the costs for this NFAIS Webinar are: $295 for NFAIS members; $315 for allied societies*; and $345 for non-members. Group rates are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, Association of American University Presses, NISO and ASIS&T For Federal employees, contact Elinda Deans (ehar at loc.gov) regarding use of your FEDLINK training account for this NFAIS Webinar. Contact: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Nancy Blair-DeLeon, NFAIS Director of Professional Development, at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or nblairdeleon at nfais.org. Upcoming NFAIS Events: July 26, 2016 - New Technology in Manuscript Authoring, Submission, and Peer Review September 22-23, 2016 - NFAIS 2016 Humanities Roundtable, Atlanta, GA February 26-28, 2016 - 59th NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA Subscribe to NFAIS Advances e-newsletter! NFAIS www.nfais.org nfais at nfais.org @NFAISForum Ken Berlack Director of Marketing and Communications NFAIS 801 Compass Way, Suite 201 Annapolis, MD 21401 443-221-2980, x103 kberlack at nfais.org From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Fri May 27 09:53:28 2016 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 09:53:28 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] For Immediate Release - Dick Hill set to retire. Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2016 With mixed feelings, regret for ourselves but happiness for him, the ASIS&T Board learned that after 27 years at the service of our organization, our Executive Director, Dick Hill, will be passing the baton at the end of the year in order to retire to his rural farm, and a lengthy (and growing) ?to do? list, including serving as a volunteer officer in a couple of environmental groups. Dick Hill joined ASIS&T in 1989, having previously run a DC trade association, his own business, teaching English in several private schools, and other endeavors. He then spent the next 27 years at ASIS&T, worked with 27 different ASIS&T presidents and engineered 3 office moves. His tenure involved moving from a Control Data computer with 14 inch disk drive that had to be changed to run a complete mailing list (he still has a couple of the disk covers serving as plant saucers) to remote storage and automatic backup. Dick and ASIS&T started using e-mail in the early 1990?s courtesy of Clifford Lynch and the Coalition for Networked information, getting our own domain and service a year or so later. We went on the web with a rudimentary site in the mid 90?s. Under his direction, ASIS&T has gone from a deficit to a sizable surplus which is conservatively invested. The contract with Wiley-Blackwell for publishing JASIST has been renegotiated in our favor twice, and JASIST has gone from 6 issues to 12 per year; the ASIS&T Digital Library was inaugurated in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell and goes back to Volume 1, issue 1 of what is now JASIST. Dick perhaps is proudest of two accomplishments: 1) the staff size is the same now as it was in 1989, and the same core of the team has remained in place since the early 1990?s, through all the moves, increased revenues and workload; and 2) building the IA Summit and RDAP Summits and the communities that have coalesced around those events. After almost three decades devoted to our Association, Dick certainly deserves a break. He will be sorely missed by his staff, the Board and officers, as well as our members. A constant presence at the Annual Meetings, and a fervent advocate for the field and our organization, Dick has mentored and nurtured an impressive number of officers, and has been an incredible leader for his team at the ASIS&T headquarters. On a recent visit to the ASIS&T headquarters in Silver Spring (just outside Washington, DC), President-Elect Lynn Silipigni Connaway and I were touched by the high esteem that Dick?s team holds for him. Vanessa, Jan, Carline, and Stephan all spoke with great affection and respect about their ?boss,? and it is clear that his shoes will be hard to fill. We are all very grateful to Dick for his hard work, dedication and passion toward making ASIS&T what it is today. I know you will join me in thanking him and wishing him the best for the next chapter of his life. Dick's retirement date is yet to be finalized, and he was kind enough to give us assurance of his commitment to ASIS&T until the new position is filled. The Board will be hard at work on this matter, and we will keep you updated regularly. The Board is grateful to Dick and his staff for their flexibility and cooperation as we turn a new page in the history of our organization. There will be ample opportunities at the Annual Meeting to celebrate Dick?s tenure with ASIS&T. Bring your best stories or photos, and use this chance to say ?Thank You? to Dick and his staff. Nadia Caidi, ASIS&T President (on behalf of the ASIS&T Board). Dr. Nadia Caidi Faculty of Information, University of Toronto President (2016) of the Association for Information Science & Technology ------------------------- This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. From aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be Sat May 28 07:37:29 2016 From: aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be (Aarnoud Rommens) Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 13:37:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?CONF=3A_Poetics_of_the_Algorithm=2C_16-18_June?= =?utf-8?q?_2016=2C_University_of_Li=C3=A8ge_=28ULg=29=2C_Belgium?= Message-ID: <1176481612.2628350.1464435449187.JavaMail.zimbra@ulg.ac.be> POETICS OF THE ALGORITHM: NARRATIVE, THE DIGITAL AND 'UNIDENTIFIED' MEDIA, 16-18 June 2016 / University of Li?ge (ULg), Salle des Professeurs, Place du XX Ao?t, 4000 Liege, Belgium Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ?Unidentified? Media is an international and bilingual (English and French) conference organized by the ACME Research Group and hosted by the University of Li?ge (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016. It focuses on interactive fiction, apps, digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ?new? media. The conference will host workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and presentations of papers. The conference does not require advance registration (except the WREKshop). It is a free event and completely open to the public. All practical information is available on the website: https://poeticsofthealgorithm.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1541606192815768/ PROGRAMME: WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE Conference opening event - 9.00 - 17.00: WREKshop lead by Olivier Deprez & Miles O?Shea, Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts de Li?ge: ?Cin?matogravure? workshop. - 20.00: WREKshop Projection by Olivier Deprez & Miles O?Shea, Salle Lumi?re, Universit? de Li?ge: Projection of the results from the workshop; projection of film "Apr?s la mort, apr?s la vie." THURSDAY 16 JUNE - 8.30 - 9.00: Welcome and registration - 9.00 - 9.30: Introduction Aarnoud Rommens, Bj?rn-Olav Dozo & Beno?t Crucifix 9.30 - 11.30: Panel: "Thinking about Digital Comics through Practice" - Nicolas Labarre (Universit? Bordeaux-Montaigne), ?The Users of Comics as Scholarship? - Anthony Rageul (Universit? Rennes 2, artist), ?De la jubilation de concevoir des ?r?cits-interfaces?? - Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (University of Hertfordshire), ?Choose the Format of the Destructor: Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media? - Yannis La Macchia (graphic artist), ?Narration par fragments? 11.45 ? 12.45: Keynote: Ilan Manouach (artist): ?Shapereader: Tactile storytelling for the visually impaired? 14.00 - 15.30: Bande dessin?e num?rique et esth?tique - Julien Baudry (Universit? Bordeaux-Montaigne), ?Les paradoxes de l'innovation esth?tique dans la cr?ation num?rique en bande dessin?e? - Magali Boudissa (Universit? Paris 8), ?De l?album ? l??cran : enjeux narratifs et esth?tiques de la bande dessin?e num?rique? - Jean-Bernard Cheymol (CMI - Universit? Paris 3), ?La vitesse dans 3" de Marc-Antoine Mathieu? 15.45 - 17.15: "Comics, Technology and 'Here'" - C?me Martin (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV), ?Contre ou au-del? de l?imprim? ? La bande dessin?e num?rique ? la recherche d?un statut sp?cifique? - Ernesto Priego (City University of London) and Peter Wilkins (Douglas College), ?The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid? - Aarnoud Rommens (BEIP-Cofund, Universit? de Li?ge), ?Weird Media? 18.00 - 19.30: Keynote: Richard McGuire & Stephen Betts: ?Digitizing 'Here'? FRIDAY 17 JUNE 9.00 - 9.45: Panel: "Digital Practices" - Loraine Furter (Hybrid Publishing Group), ?Hidden Histories, Public Libraries? - Robert Rapoport (Leuphana University), ?The Poetics of the AI Video Edit: Projection, Synch, Phase? 9.45 - 11.15: Panel: "Networks/Circulation" - Estelle Dalleu (Universit? de Strasbourg), ?D?un algorithme en r?sistance : le GIF. ? propos de Zac?s Haunted House et Zac's Control Panel de Dennis Cooper? - Dinu Gabriel Munteanu (Nottingham Trent University), ?Indeterminate Media and the Poetics of Loss: Architecture, Colour and Mood on Tumblr Microblogs? - Vendela Grundell (Stockholm University), ?Interfacing Poetics: Glitch Art Transforming Spectatorship? 11.30 - 12.30: Keynote: Johnny Golding (CFAR-Birmingham City University, UK): ?Exquisite Matter: Sensoria, Entanglement and the Roll of the Code (Encountering the Strange Case of 3D Printing)? 13.30 ? 14.15: Panel: "Music and the Digital" - Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute & Middlesex University), ?Building with the unnamable: code, music and operational discourse? - Raffaele Pavoni (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze), ?From Music Videos to Music Algorithms. The Convergence of Software Houses and Record Labels in Chrome Experiments Interactive Music Videos? 14.30 - 15.30: Keynote: Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London): ?iMedia: What or Where is the i in iMedia?? 15.45 - 16.45: Panel: "Rethinking Interfaces" - Sylvie Fabre (Universit? d?Artois), ?Du lecteur ? l'utilisateur: l'exp?rience de la lecture sur ?cran, entre raison graphique et raison num?rique? - Dane Watkins (Falmouth University), ?Smudging the Interface: How Can the Aesthetics of Comics Enhance the Usability of User Interfaces?? 17.00 - 18.00: Gregory Ulmer (University of Florida; via digital conferencing): ?Electracy: The Digital Apparatus? SATURDAY 18 JUNE 9.00 - 10.30: Panel: "Mediality in the Digital Age" - Simon Grennan (University of Chester) and Ian Hague (London College of Communications), ?Medium, knowledge, structure: capacities for choice and the contradiction of medium-specificity in games and comics? - Olivier Cr?pin (Universit? Paris 8), ?Walking Dead : de l'adaptation ? la transm?dialit?, transformations du rythme du r?cit et implications? - Gert Meesters (Universit? de Lille), ?Bob and Bobette and Digital Enthusiasm. How a Big Comics Publisher in Flanders Put a Lot of Effort into Discrediting His Own Books? 10.45 - 11.00: Li?ge Gamelab presentation 11.00 - 12.00: Keynote: Markku Eskelinen (independent researcher): ?Cybertextuality in 3D: a historical-theoretical-practical framework for re-reading literature? 13.30 - 14.45: Panel: "Game Design and Narratology" - Victor Cayres, Lynn Alves, Cristhyane Ribeiro (State University of Bahia), ?A game narrative development framework based on dramaturgical analysis tools? - Mark R. Johnson & Darren J. Reed (University of York), ?Towards Participatory Game Design? - David Myers (Loyola University New Orleans), ?Possible stories and literal games? 14.45 - 15.45: Keynote: Gregory Steirer (Dickinson College): ?God from the Machine: Constructing Authorship in Twenty-First Century Interactive Fiction? 16.00 - 17.00: Panel: "Reprocessing Literature through the Algorithm" - Martin Zeilinger (Anglia Ruskin University; via digital conferencing), ?Machine-Readable Beckett: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reading and Performing Quad as Algorithmic Theatre? - Philipp Sack (Braunschweig University of Art), ?Commodity and thought forms. On ?Poetry for Robots?? 17.00 - 18.00: Panel: "Oulipo and Digital Avant-Gardes" - Natalie Berkman (Princeton University), ?L?Oulipo num?rique? - Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens (Algolit), ?Exercices de style with algorithms #Digital avant-gardes? 18.00 - 18.20: Concluding Remarks Aarnoud Rommens, Bj?rn-Olav Dozo & Beno?t Crucifix Organizing Committee: - Aarnoud Rommens. BeIPD-COFUND Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Li?ge (ULg), Belgium. - Beno?t Crucifix. F.R.S-FNRS Doctoral Fellow, University of Li?ge (ULg) and University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. - Bj?rn-Olav Dozo. Associate Professor, University of Li?ge (ULg), Belgium. Scientific Committee: - Jan Baetens. Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium. - Beno?t Crucifix. F.R.S-FNRS Doctoral Fellow, University of Li?ge (ULg) and University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. - Bj?rn-Olav Dozo. Associate Professor, University of Li?ge (ULg), Belgium. - Gert Meesters. Professor, University Lille 3, France. - Fabrice Pr?yat. Professor, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. - Aarnoud Rommens. BeIPD-COFUND Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Li?ge (ULg), Belgium. - Giovanna di Rosario. Associate professor, University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. ? Dr. Aarnoud Rommens Post-Doctoral Fellow (BeIPD-COFUND) ACME Research Group Facult? de Philosophie et Lettres University of Liege (Ulg) Place du 20-Ao?t 7, B?t. A2 4/47 4000 Li?ge, Belgium aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be tel. +32(0)495/326237 From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue May 31 02:44:36 2016 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:44:36 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2016, Leipzig, Sep 12-15, Call for Posters & Demos Message-ID: <574D32D4.9040004@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ?Call for Posters & Demos SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Transfer // Engineering // Community 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 http://2016.semantics.cc Important Dates (Posters & Demos) * Submission Deadline: June 17, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: August 1, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submissions via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. The success of last year?s conference in Vienna with more than 280 attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2016 will continue a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe. SEMANTiCS 2016 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: * Data Quality Management * Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics) * Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org * Corporate Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals: * Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization * Semantic Information Management * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking * Smart Data & Semantics in IoT * Semantics for IT Safety & Security * Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing * Community, Social & Societal Aspects Verticals: * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Education & eLearning * Media & Data Journalism * Publishing, Marketing & Advertising * Tourism & Recreation * Financial & Insurance Industry * Telecommunication & Mobile Services * Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology * Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids * Food, Agriculture & Farming * Safety & Security * Transport, Environment & Geospatial Posters & Demos Track The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions in all fields related to the broadly understood Semantic Web. These include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new data sets made publicly available. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages participants to present innovations to the research community, business users and find new partners or clients and engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper of 1-4 pages that describe the work, its contribution to the field or novelty aspects. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting. The layout templates can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The best posters (5-6 papers) will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series. The other papers will be published in the http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2016research). Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the source files (Latex, Word) will also be needed. Submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive a detailed feedback. For demos, it would be beneficial to include also links enabling the reviewers testing the application or reviewing the component. Important Dates (Posters & Demos) * Submission Deadline: June 17, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: August 1, 2016 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Poster and Demo Chairs: * Michael Martin, University of Leipzig * Mart? Cuquet, Semantic Technology Institute, University of Innsbruck * Erwin Folmer, University of Twente, Kadaster and Geonovum Contact email address: semantics2016postersdemos at gmail.com Conference Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University * Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. P?lten From 123module at gmail.com Mon May 30 10:31:43 2016 From: 123module at gmail.com (g m) Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:31:43 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for proposal - AIB CILW 2016 Conference Message-ID: * Forwarded upon request. Please excuse cross postings * Call for proposals - AIB CILW 2016 Conference The AIB Study Group on Cataloguing, Indexing, Linked Open Data and Semantic Web (CILW), part of the Italian Library Association (AIB), launches a call for proposals for the "AIB CILW 2016 Conference" to be held at the National Library in Rome, October 21, 2016. The Conference is organized in collaboration with AIB Lazio and the National Library in Rome. The Conference aims at presenting research and initiatives related to theoretical, methodological and technological innovation in the area of LAMMS (Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites), with particular regard to Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies. The title of the Conference is "Revamping Information Resources: Granularity, Interoperability, and Data Integration". The second session is devoted to "The universe of cultural resources: between eurekas and concrete actions" and will be organized through a call for proposals. The main purpose is to get contributions from scholars all around the world on theoretical and practical aspects of this area of research. The contributions will take the form of lightening talks and can be delivered either in Italian or in English. The deadline for submission is June 20, 2016. Please note that the deadline may be extended. Further information at: http://www.aib.it/attivita/2016/56331-aib-cilw-2016-conference-call-for-proposals/ The full program along with detailed information on registration and logistics is expected to be published in June. The Conference website is at: http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/c2016/giornata-studi-aib-cilw-2016/aib-cilw-2016-conference/ The AIB CILW Study Group site is at: http://www.aib.it/struttura/commissioni-e-gruppi/cnc/ Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested. Best regards, Roberto Raieli (AIB CILW Study Group, chair) on behalf of the AIB CILW study Group --------------------------------------------------------- AIB Study Group on Cataloguing, Indexing, Linked Open Data and Semantic Web (CILW) e-mail: raieli at aib.it e-mail: cnc at aib.it website: http://www.aib.it/struttura/commissioni-e-gruppi/cnc/ From ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri May 27 15:41:03 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 15:41:03 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] UMD's Digital Curation Innovation Center Hosts Computational Archival Science Symposium Message-ID: *College Park, Md*. ? On April 26-28, the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the University of Maryland?s College of Information Studies (iSchool) convened a Symposium in collaboration with King?s College London. This invitation-only symposium, entitled *Finding New Knowledge: Archival Records in the Age of Big Data, *featured 52 participants from the UK, Canada, South Africa and the U.S. Among the participants were researchers, students, and representatives from federal agencies, cultural institutions, and consortia. This distinguished group of experts gathered at Maryland's iSchool to discuss and define computational archival science: an interdisciplinary field concerned with the application of computational methods and resources to large-scale records/archives processing, analysis, storage, long-term preservation, and access, with the aim of improving efficiency, productivity and precision in support of appraisal, arrangement and description, preservation and access decisions, and engaging and undertaking research with archival material. See attached or visit the iSchool website for more about the symposium and future plans to continue this work. From S.Hartmann at uni-duesseldorf.de Mon May 30 04:30:19 2016 From: S.Hartmann at uni-duesseldorf.de (Sarah Hartmann) Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 10:30:19 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ESC Webinar Announcement and Call for Questions Message-ID: <77a5ee5f-3bfb-a7e7-f7cd-a0ccd8fb61f2@uni-duesseldorf.de> *Don't forget to send us your questions!* The European Student Chapter (ESC) wants to know your most urgent questions to the topic of our next webinar: ***How to write successful journal manuscripts and convince the reviewer*** Send your questions to s.hartmann at hhu.de or agnes.mainka at hhu.de until *May 31, 2016* . So we can make sure that the most relevant questions will definitely be answered by our reviewers: Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski(Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) *Prof. Dr. Loet Leydesdorff* (Amsterdam School of Communications Research at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters(ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics & Kiel University, Germany) They will speak about their experiences from the reviewers point of view and hand out advice on writing better journal manuscripts. The webinar takes place on ============================================================= Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Time: 5:00 ? 6:00 p.m. CEST (UTC 3:00 pm) ============================================================= For further information about the speakers and the webinar, please see our website http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?p=1061. Feel free to distribute this information to your contacts who might be interested. Thanks and we look forward to receiving your questions. -- Sarah Hartmann, B.A., M.A. ASIS&T ESC Vice Chair Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Building 24.53, Room 01.87 Universit?tsstr. 1 40225 D?sseldorf Germany Phone: 49-211-81-10803 From hrosenba at indiana.edu Tue May 31 11:02:18 2016 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:02:18 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> Doctoral Colloquium @ ASIST '16, Copenhagen 10/18/16 Message-ID: <08C664D8-AF95-45E7-A856-05B2E6883132@indiana.edu> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Colloquium at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark Tuesday, October 18, 2016 3:00-6:00 PM We invite doctoral students to participate in the 2016 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology in Copenhagen, Denmark. This event, replacing the previous ASIST doctoral colloquium, is intended for those of you in the later stages of your dissertation research; this means that you are, for example, post-proposal, or have a completed research design, or have begun data collection. The purpose of this doctoral colloquium is to provide a forum in which you can discuss and receive feedback on your research and career plans from senior scholars in our field. Participation in the Colloquium is included in the conference registration fee. Description Two main goals of the 2016 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium are to provide you with a supportive and critical learning opportunity to discuss your work in progress and to receive feedback and guidance from senior information science scholars. You will present your dissertation research and can highlight theoretical and methodological problems/issues for further discussion and inquiry both with senior mentors and Colloquium participants. There will also be an opportunity for an open discussion session where you can ask the doctoral mentors questions about career, the job search, managing an academic career, and other topics of interest. Another goal is to develop a supportive community within which you can begin to develop your professional network by interacting with peers and senior scholars in information science. The organizers will invite a group of prominent professors and experts to serve as mentors during the Doctoral Colloquium. To benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium, you should be a PhD student, and be in the post-proposal stage of your dissertation research or have a completed research design, or have begun data collection; this way, participants and mentors may be of help in shaping and framing the research and analysis activities. How to submit All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Colloquium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The Doctoral Colloquium program committee will select the best submissions for participation. The student winners of the proposal and dissertation of the year awards will be invited to the Colloquium without a submission. We expect to accept a total of 15 participants. Submit a nomination letter from your advisor or chair and a five-page description (in English) of your PhD research proposal or dissertation project electronically via the conference submission system. Your description must address each of the following questions: 1. Problem statement: What is the problem that you are addressing? 2. Relevance: Why the problem is important? 3. Related work: How have others attempted to address this problem? 4. Research question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to address? 5. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions? 6. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? 7. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate that your approach is promising? 8. Implications: What are the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of your work? Additionally, all submissions must be single-author. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. Your application statement will not be published. Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Colloquium must plan to attend the full Doctoral Colloquium in order to gain as much value as possible from the experience. Important dates Deadline for submission: July 15 Decisions made: August 1 If you have questions, please contact the Colloquium organizers Dr. Howard Rosenbaum Dr. Pnina Fichman hrosenba at indiana.edu fichman at indiana.edu From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Tue May 31 12:57:59 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 12:57:59 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] News from Simmons SLIS Message-ID: *InfoLink, A SLIS Community Newsletter *Dean and Professor Emerita Michele Cloonan wins SAA's Preservation Publication Award Dean and Professor Emerita Mich?le Cloonan has been awarded the Preservation Publication Award by the Society of American Archivists for *Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age*. This award highlights an outstanding work that contributes to the ?advancement of the theory and practice of preservation in archives institutions.? Dean and Professor Emeritus James Matarazzo and Dr. Toby Pearlstein awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award Dean and Professor Emeritus James Matarazzo ?65LS and Dr. Toby Pearlstein ?77LS, ?86LSD have been awarded the Special Library Association?s (SLA) prestigious John Cotton Dana Award for 2016. This award is SLA?s highest honor to recognize Matarazzo and Pearlstein?s lifetime of achievement, and will be awarded at the annual conference in Philadelphia, PA in June 2016. Professor Candy Schwartz wins Provost's Award SLIS Professor Candy Schwartz is the first recipient of the newly created Provost's Award for Student Centeredness in Graduate Teaching. Valued by students and alums for her commitment to LIS and her enthusiasm for teaching, Dr. Schwartz is being honored by Simmons College for her exemplary career at Simmons. Since joining the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1980, Schwartz has helped to shape the career paths of many students in the field of library and information science. Sharon Shaloo named Mass Literacy Champion Sharon Shaloo, Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, was named as one of five Mass Literacy Champions by Mass Literacy and the Boston Herald. The Mass Literacy Champions Awards Program "recognizes and supports outstanding literacy providers, their practices and their programs." Simmons SLIS has been a partner and supporter of Massachusetts Center for the Book since 2003. SLIS Commencement Awards 2016 The Faculty of the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science awarded outstanding students for their accomplishments during their course of study. The commencement awards were presented at a faculty, staff, and student luncheon on May 16, 2016. For the full list of winners visit the News page . Simmons Honors Doctoral Graduates On May 19, Simmons SLIS celebrated three graduates of the LIS doctoral program at a hooding ceremony at Simmons College, Boston campus. Dr. Renee Di Pilato, Dr. Amy Elisabeth Greer, and Dr. Gary L. Shaffer received their degrees. A Legacy of Librarianship In honor of Simmons Commencement this month, we?re featuring two interviews with alums of the LIS program: Tricia London ?88LS and her son, Alex London ?14LS. The mother and son attended Alex?s Beta Beta Chapter induction ceremony in Spring 2014, and Tricia shared that Alex had been a baby when she attended her own ceremony. We asked mother and son a few questions about their legacy of librarianship. Unbound: "Library Escape Rooms - Keeping Your Patrons Captive" In the past ten years, Escape Rooms have emerged from obscurity into the mainstream. Largely inspired by video games and interactive theater, this new form of live, participatory entertainment has been growing in popularity and revenue since its inception. Like the Human Library events discussed previously on Unbound, Escape Rooms have great potential to cross over into library programming. News this Spring at Simmons SLIS Simmons SLIS welcomes Colin Rhinesmith and Rebecka Sheffield to the Faculty Beyond the Stacks interview with Jason Griffey, creator and director of the LibraryBox project Children's Lit Grad named "Change Agent" by *Library Journal * SLIS welcomed visiting faculty in the areas of Digital Communication and Linguistics Visiting Scholar Wayne Wiegand shares his view of Library History and the Future of the American Public Library SLIS Alum Katrina Ireland '13LS Brings STEM to Libraries SLIS Launches Diversity and Inclusion Task Force *Do you have news to share? Want to continue to receive InfoLink emails? Please send your items and email address to infolink at simmons.edu .-- Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816f 617-521-3192 Author, The King's Rose and The Blood ConfessionBuy the Kindle edition of The Blood Confession ! * From hong1.cui at gmail.com Tue May 31 19:55:26 2016 From: hong1.cui at gmail.com (Hong cui) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:55:26 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Third Call: ASIST ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominations Message-ID: Dear Deans, Directors, school leaders, and asis-lers: ASIST ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award is currently calling for nominations (3rd call). Please encourage your recent Ph.D graduates to enter the competition. There is NO limit on the number of entries from a particular school. Participation is limited to those who have completed their doctorates since May of 2015 and it is NOT restricted to ASIS&T members. Dissertations submitted shall fall within the scope of information science, including, but not limited to, the scope of JASIST: ?the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes?. The nomination package shall consist of the entire dissertation, and a letter of endorsement from the nominee's dissertation advisor. *Details at:* https://www.asist.org/about/awards/proquest-doctoral-dissertation-award/ *The deadline for nominations:* June 15, 2016. *Submit nominations:* http://www.softconf.com/asist2/ProQuestDocDissert/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit We greatly appreciate your participation. Please direct any questions to hongcui at email.arizona.edu Best wishes, ASIST Proquest Doctoral Dissertation Award Jury