From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Tue Nov 1 14:11:19 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:11:19 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Recent News from Simmons SLIS, October 2016 Message-ID: *Recent News from Simmons SLIS, October 2016* *Faculty* - Associate Professor *Naresh Agarwal *presented a panel , ?Research Perspectives on Serendipity and Information Encountering? at the ASIST Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Agarwal also co-presented a paper titled, "How Can Professional Associations Continue to Stay Relevant? Knowledge Management to the Rescue," during the Information and Scholarly Association Papers session on Sunday, October 16. - Professor *Jeannette Bastian* and Associate Professor *Donna Webber*?s book (co-authored with Megan Sniffin-Marinoff) *Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together*, was reviewed in the New England Archivists Newsletter, Volume 43, Number 4, October 2016. - Associate Professor *Gerry Benoit* published two papers: ?The ?Beautiful? in Information: Thoughts about Visual Literacy and Aesthetics ,? published in *Journal of Visual Literacy*, 35 (1), 60-78 and ?Visual communication as an information activity,? published in *Journal of Visual Literacy*, 34 (2), 51-67. - Dean and Professor Emerita *Michele V. Cloonan*?s *Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age*, was reviewed in the New England Archivists Newsletter, Volume 43, Number 4, October 2016. - Director of the School Library Teacher Program and Associate Professor *Melanie Kimball *and School Library Teacher Program Manager *Lisa Estabrook* were interviewed by WGBH-TV for a story about a lack of libraries in public schools. Melanie?s comments can be seen in the video clip , and Lisa's were included in the radio story. - Dean and Professor Emeritus *James M. Matarazzo* '65 and Dr. *Toby Pearlstein* '77LS and '87LDS presented "Sustainability through Strategic Focus - Understanding and Demonstrating Contribution," at the SLA New England Conference in Southbridge, MA on September 30, 2016. Dr. Matarazzo received a Presidential Citation from Special Libraries Association for his work on the the new "Competencies for Information Professionals" document, approved by the SLA Board of Directors on April 13, 2016. - Associate Professor *Rong Tang* presented a paper titled "Needs Assessment of ASIS&T Publications: Bridging Information Research and Practice," at the ASIST Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. The paper reports the results of a 2016 online survey on perceptions and uses of ASIS&T publications. Tang is a co-Chair of ASIS&T Publications Committee 2016-2017; the Committee conducted follow-up interviews with a number of survey respondents during the Annual Meeting. *Adjunct Faculty* - Adjunct *Sid Berger*?s newest book , *The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others* has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - Adjunct *Roger Sutton* and Children?s Literature Alum *Sian Gaetano* ?13LS recorded a HornBook podcast on library censorship, intellectual freedom, and VOYA. *Alums* - *Danielle Geller ?14LS combines her archives training with creative nonfiction to create a unique window into the past. A recent winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for her writing, Geller shares how her studies in LIS have informed her creative work.* - Dr. *Toby Pearlstein* ?77LS and '87LDS received a Presidential Citation from SLA for her work on the Association's "Advocacy Toolkit" Committee which was approved in 2016. - *Gary Shaffer* ?16LDS was appointed director of the Master of Management in Library and Information Science program at the University of Southern California. - *Kelcy Shepherd* ?98LS joined fellow LIS professionals at Amherst College on Thursday, October 6 for a panel discussion on counteracting bias in classification and decolonizing the library catalog: https://www.facebook.com/events/1686223728364680/ - Dr. *Sohair Wastawy* ?87LS has been appointed ExecutiveiDirector of the Qatar National Library. Dr Wastawy brings more than 30 years of international library and university management experience to the position, and has practiced and taught librarianship in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the US. *Other news* The newest episode of the SLIS podcast Beyond the Stacks features Amanda Brennan, discussing Internet Librarianship. Check out the article , ?What MAKES A Library? Issue No. 1 ? Design Thinking,? on Unbound: Library Futures Unfettered. The Boston Globe - The Horn Book awards took place at Simmons College on October 1. The weekend included the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Ceremony, the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, and the presentation of the Scott O?Dell Award, all hosted by the Center for the Study of Children?s Literature at Simmons (CSCL). ?The Horn Book at Simmons? colloquium examines the winners and honor books in the contexts of publishing, education, library services, and popular culture. Read a recap of the events in *School Library Journal.* Simmons SLIS was represented at the Boston Book Fest on October 15 with a booth in Copley Square. Simmons also sponsored the Kids? Keynote by Jon Klassen, moderated by Elissa Gershowitz ?00GS, senior editor of the Horn Book Magazine. The Simmons College SLIS Alumni Association Board of Directors is soliciting nominations of Simmons College SLIS graduates for the 2016-2017 Alumni Achievement Awards, due December 1, 2016. -- *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 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 12:58:12 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:58:12 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] REMINDER: Registration Now Open for CPN-DAM's Virtual Conference Message-ID: ***Please excuse the cross postings.*** *Registration Now Open!* Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve it for Tomorrow Virtual Conference November 15th and 16th, 2016 9:00am-4:00pm Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) two-day virtual conference will include presentations, poster presentations, and the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of others. With a focus on practical professional development in all stages of digital asset management, sessions will cover topics such as digital preservation, digital projects, and platforms. Learn, network, and share all from the comforts of your desk! The conference program will be available by November 6th. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cpndamconfinfo for more information. *REGISTRATION LINKS:* Day 1, Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/0d4cbe1b4cff1bdd34538d7d4481ef37 Day 2, Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1a0db6366309fa8434538d7d4481ef37 This virtual conference is open to anyone and is free to attend. The recording and slides for each presentation will be made available at http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ for those who cannot attend. From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Wed Nov 2 09:28:23 2016 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:28:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for participation: registration for the 3rd Compuational Social Science Winter Symposium is open until November 14 In-Reply-To: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D10144AA9AE1@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> References: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D10144AA9AE1@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D10144AA9B58@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Dear colleagues, we would like to point out that registration for the 3rd Compuational Social Science Winter Symposium will close on November 14. If you are planning to attend the symposium, please make sure to register on time. All the best Katrin ============================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: REGISTRATION CLOSES on NOVEMBER 14, 2016 ============================================================== 3rd GESIS COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Symposium dates: NOV 30 + DEC 01, 2016 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws16 ============================================================== ----------------------------------------- CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------- We are delighted to announce that the following keynote speakers will be giving talks at this years' CSS Winter Symposium: * Noshir CONTRACTOR (Northwestern University) * Tina ELIASSI-RAD (Northeastern University) * Marko GROBELNIK (Jo?ef Stefan Institute) * Krishna GUMMADI (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) * Petter HOLME (Sungkyunkwan University) * Helen MARGETTS (University of Oxford) ------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------ The GESIS CSS Winter Symposium 2016 is a two-day event consisting of: * an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * 60 contributed posters and 12 short presentations selected in in open call for submissions, which showcase current work in the field of computational Social science * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets Please check out the program via our website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/ ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- November 14, 2016: registration deadline Nov 30 + Dec 01, 2016: symposium days ---------------------------- ORGANIZATION AND VENUE ---------------------------- The GESIS CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at KOMED Im MediaPark 7. Visit http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/registration/ for information about registration and fees. ------------ CONTACT ------------ SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-472 From rhill at asis.org Mon Nov 7 10:42:19 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:42:19 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: First Monday November 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5e5901d2390d$8b8430a0$a28c91e0$@asis.org> Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -----Original Message----- From: Readership of First Monday [mailto:FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Valauskas Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2016 6:15 PM To: FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Subject: First Monday November 2016 Readers: First Monday has just published the November 2016 (volume 21, number 11) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. The following papers are included in this month's issue: First Monday Volume 21, Number 11 - 7 November 2016 Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion by Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara More emojis, less :) The competition for paralinguistic function in microblog writing by Umashanthi Pavalanathan and Jacob Eisenstein Engaging with (big) data visualizations: Factors that affect engagement and resulting new definitions of effectiveness by Helen Kennedy, Rosemary Lucy Hill, William Allen, and Andy Kirk How does the front page of the Internet behave? Readability, emoticon use, and links on Reddit by Andrew Tsou Tweeting for peace? Twitter and the Ardoyne parade dispute in Belfast, July 2014 by Paul Reilly International students' social media use and social adjustment by Hyunjin Seo, Ren-Whei Harn, Husain Ebrahim, and Jose Aldana A snap of intimacy: Photo-sharing practices among young people on social media by Jette Kofoed and Malene Charlotte Larsen The winners take it all: A comparative study of Twitter campaigns under pressure by Lene Pettersen and Anders Olof Larsson ------- With the contents of the November 2016 issue, First Monday has published 1,613 papers in 246 issues, written by 2,241 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work, Edward J Valauskas Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday From wildemuth at unc.edu Mon Nov 7 07:58:50 2016 From: wildemuth at unc.edu (Wildemuth, Barbara M) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 12:58:50 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Evidence-Based Library & Information Practice - Call for Papers Message-ID: <9265f53f1b1e4c48bc7eae6e55af1fba@its-msxmbs9f.ad.unc.edu> EBLIP9 Call for Papers and Posters EBLIP9, the 9th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference is taking place June 18-21, 2017 in Philadelphia, USA. The theme of EBLIP9 is embedding and embracing evidence. Evidence based library and information practice is a way of working ? of incorporating various types of evidence into the work we do. Embedding evidence is the act of integrating the best available research evidence, professional knowledge and expertise, and user preference into daily work. Embracing evidence means the willingness to explore various sources of evidence with curiosity and enthusiasm in order to enhance personal practice and advance the profession. The program committee is particularly interested in research about and illustrations of how librarians and information professionals can encourage community building within EBLIP and the populations we serve. We are also interested in the consideration of data as a foundational source of evidence, how it can be leveraged for building knowledge, and the possibilities that exist for innovation with open data. You can find all the details here: http://eblip9.org/ The call closes on November 15.? From kdali at ualberta.ca Tue Nov 8 09:10:18 2016 From: kdali at ualberta.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] IFLA webinar recording now available Message-ID: Please excuse cross-postings. *** The audio recording and slides for the Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Webinar (held 03/04 November 2016): "Developing an international quality assessment framework for LIS education: experiences and opportunities from three accreditation programs," with speakers: Simon Berney-Edwards, CILIP (UK), Judy Brooker, ALIA (Australia), and Karen O'Brien, ALA (USA), are now available at the following links: Audio recording: http://tinyurl.com/BSLISE-2016-11-audio Paper and slides: https://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/program/ *** Keren Dali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Studies University of Alberta 3-05 Rutherford South Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J4 https://kerendali.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keren_Dali **************************************************** 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 centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Sun Nov 6 23:39:51 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 22:39:51 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] CPN-DAM Conference Program Now Available Message-ID: ***Please excuse the cross postings.*** Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) virtual conference program is now available. Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve it for Tomorrow Virtual Conference November 15th and 16th, 2016 9:00am-5:00pm CST *FULL PROGRAM* *BRIEF PROGRAM* Registered attendees will receive a link that allows them to access each day?s sessions. Register for both days to get access to all content. If you have not registered, you may do so via the links below. *All sessions will be Central Standard Time* For more information about the presenters, go to the Meet the Presenters series on Instagram (with reposting on Twitter): Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cpn_dam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CPN_DAM ------------------------------ *Registration Still Open!* *Tuesday, November 15th, 2016* https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/0d4cbe1b4cff1bdd34538d7d4481ef37 *Wednesday, November 16th, 2016* https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1a0db6366309fa8434538d7d4481ef37 Planning Committee centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com newprairiepress.org/cpndam From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 16:31:03 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:31:03 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd Call for Volunteers - Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Executive Committee Message-ID: *** Excuse the cross postings *** Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) invites volunteers to serve on the Executive Committee for a two-year term, 2017-2018. The Executive Committee is the governing body of CPN-DAM that plans and considers future priorities and initiatives for the network that serves a five-state region of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. Members of the Executive Committee are required to be from an institution located in this five-state region (Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas). *CPN-DAM is particularly looking for representatives from Oklahoma and Nebraska*. CPN-DAM would value your participation. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please contact the network?s Ad Hoc Executive Committee at centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com. The deadline to notify the committee of your interest is this Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Sincerely, Amanda Harlan Ad Hoc Executive Committee, Chair Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management www.newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 09:35:33 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:35:33 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Conference Info and Business Meeting Agenda Message-ID: *** Excuse the cross postings *** Recordings and presentation slides for each session will be made freely available after the conference, *Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve It for Tomorrow*, at http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam. On the last day of the conference, CPN-DAM?s Ad Hoc Executive Committee will be holding a business meeting. Below is a link to the business meeting agenda. http://preview.tinyurl.com/cpndambusmtgagenda Amanda Harlan Planning Committee, chair Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management From wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu Thu Nov 3 12:07:51 2016 From: wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu (Ferguson, Wes) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:07:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Texas iSchool renames conservation lab to honor donor Message-ID: The University of Texas at Austin School of Information has received a $2.3 million gift from the estate of Judge William Wayne and Mary Kilgarlin. The funds will support the iSchool's areas of conservation and preservation and provide $1.38 million for student support. To honor the Kilgarlins and their contribution to the iSchool, Dean and Professor Andrew Dillon announced the school is naming its paper conservation lab The William and Margaret Kilgarlin Information Preservation Lab. The lab will be housed in the iSchool at 1616 Guadalupe Street and will serve as a focal point for extended teaching in modern information preservation and conservation. "This is the largest gift we've received from an individual donor and provides us with a tremendous opportunity to advance our research and teaching," Dean Dillon said. Judge Kilgarlin died in 2012 at the age of 79. He is buried in the Texas State Cemetery. The son of a refinery worker from Houston, Judge Kilgarlin was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the late 1950s. He later became a district judge in Harris County. From 1982 to 1988, Judge Kilgarlin served as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where his colleagues described him as warm, fiercely intelligent, and devoted to defending the rights of the underprivileged. "Bill Kilgarlin was a Texas legal legend," said former Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips, according to an obituary released by the court. "He had a passion for fairness, and his opinions as a judge and his briefs as a lawyer were skillfully crafted in memorable and persuasive prose." https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/school-renames-conservation-lab-honor-donor WES FERGUSON Public Affairs Specialist II The University of Texas at Austin | School of Information 1616 Guadalupe Street Suite 5.202 Austin, Texas 78701 | D8600 wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu | www.ischool.utexas.edu From dpotnis at utk.edu Thu Nov 3 09:28:27 2016 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:28:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] AMCIS 2017 1st CFP: "Managing ICT for Development Field Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions" Minitrack Message-ID: ***Apologies for Cross-Postings*** AMCIS 2017 Call for Papers Managing ICT for Development Field Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions ICTs in Global Development (SIGGlobDev) Track Devendra Potnis University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA dpotnis at utk.edu NOTE: Authors of best papers in the ICTs in Global Development track will be invited to submit revised versions for fast-track review and possible publication in one of the two journals: Information Systems Management (ISM) - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uism20/current Information Technology for Development (ITD) - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/titd20/current Description A large number of ICT for development (ICT4D) projects across the world cannot meet their objectives. One cause of the failures of ICT4D projects is related to the shortcomings in field research. Field research primarily involves data collection, and often attempts to understand someone else's experience. The high failure rates of ICT4D projects call for fundamentally new ways to tackle the challenges experienced by researchers and practitioners when planning and conducting ICT4D field research in the developing and developed world. This minitrack invites researchers and practitioners to share and analyze their success stories, failures, mistakes, and advice, which would gather momentum for a global discussion on better managing ICT4D field research, furthering the larger goal of socioeconomic and human development of marginalized communities across the world. Suggested Topics The following topics suggested for the proposed minitrack will help the "ICTs in Global Development" track serve as a forum for research on the use and diffusion of ICTs and associated practices across the world. * Failure stories in ICT4D fieldwork: Reflection and analysis; What went wrong? Why? Solutions? * Dynamic inter-relationship between contextual factors (e.g., policy frameworks, environmental conditions, culture, etc.), research methods, researchers, and local assistants in ICT4D field research * Open data, big data, and real-time data in the context of ICT4D field research across the world * Innovative applications of data collection techniques like participatory rural appraisal, image formation, etc. * Innovative process-based and technology-driven solutions to capture, store, and process textual, numeric, audiovisual, and tactile data in ICT4D fieldwork * Issues related to data security, privacy, ethics, copyrights, and intellectual property * Theory development: Extending theories like design-reality gap, innovation management framework, etc. * Applications of theoretical perspectives from anthropology, human-computer interaction, computer science, information science, information systems, etc. for better managing ICT4D field research * Managing scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communication, and risks related to ICT4D field projects * Workforce development and training programs for conducting successful ICT4D field research * Applications of emerging technologies like Near Field Communication, Monitoring & Evaluation tools, Social Media Analytics Cloud, RFID, Biometric Identification, etc. to manage ICT4D field research * Applications of analytical systems like automated decision support systems, real-time performance dashboard, etc. for capturing data in the field (frontend) to make real-time decisions in the backend * What can ICT4D field research in the developing and developed world learn from each other? IMportant Date March 1, 2017 (1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time): Deadline for Completed Research and ERF (Emergent Research Forum) submissions Instructions for Authors The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words and no more than 10 pages, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system ScholarOne (Manuscript Central). For complete instructions for authors, information about the conference, and for instructions on submitting through ScholarOne (Manuscript Central), please visit the AMCIS 2017 website at http://amcis2017.aisnet.org _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, PhD Associate Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 Office: +1-865-974-2148 https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis From Faculty.Search at olin.edu Tue Nov 8 18:14:37 2016 From: Faculty.Search at olin.edu (Faculty Search) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:14:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Olin College of Engineering - Faculty Positions Message-ID: <4370436b269b4aaf87a730666c4b1a2e@EX03.olin.edu> Olin College of Engineering, located in the greater Boston area in Needham, MA, seeks enthusiastic applicants for faculty positions at all ranks in computer science, software engineering, computational science and engineering, or related areas. Olin is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment, and we strongly encourage individuals from historically underrepresented communities and women to apply. Olin College is a highly selective, gender-balanced undergraduate engineering college, which was founded in 1997 with goals to develop students as exemplary engineers, to drive positive change in engineering education, and to do good throughout the world. Towards these goals, we have developed an innovative approach to engineering that erases boundaries between disciplines, encourages students to take control of their learning, and emphasizes human-centered design and entrepreneurship. We have forged active partnerships with neighboring Babson and Wellesley Colleges and have co-developed transformative educational experiences with collaborators around the globe. We are thrilled to grow our faculty team as we continue to innovate within and outside of Olin. Computing plays a vital role at Olin. From the first semester course on modeling and simulation through the year-long industry-sponsored senior capstone project, from our active research communities in areas such as robotics and assistive technologies to our deployed innovations in the developing world, our students learn the tools and practices of computing and apply them to real world problems. We seek applicants who bring expertise in computer science, software engineering, computational science and engineering, or related disciplines. We are particularly excited about individuals who can articulate a vision for innovating in our computing-focused course offerings, for strengthening connections between computing and other parts of the Olin curriculum, and for involving students in their externally-facing professional work (e.g., research, entrepreneurship, consulting). If you are passionate about integrating computing throughout the curriculum and beyond, we would love to hear from you. We encourage applicants to apply by December 5, 2016, and applications will be considered as they are received. To apply, please visit http://bit.ly/OlinSearch. For inquiries: facultysearch at olin.edu. Olin is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Wed Nov 9 14:12:53 2016 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:12:53 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Prepare for Careers in the Top 5 Big Data Industries Message-ID: The top 5 industries for careers in big data according to Forbes.com are professional, scientific and technical services; information technologies; manufacturing; finance and insurance; and retail trade. With a Certificate in Big Data from the San Jose State University School of Information, you can pursue a career in any one of these or other industries. That?s because our courses will give you a solid foundation in big data technologies, information visualization, and web and data mining?the pillars of data science. Plus, you?ll gain the must-have technology skills employers seek in job candidates like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, MLlib, MapReduce, and more. Our Certificate in Big Data program is delivered *100% online* with no mandatory in-person meeting times. That means it is super convenient to earn your certificate from San Jose State University, ranked sixth among the West?s top public universities by US News & World Report! I invite you to watch my short video about the Certificate in Big Data program and learn how the program can help you land a top-paying job in the data science field. Questions? Please email me . As the program coordinator, I?m here to help you navigate your options and find the best program for your career goals. Friendly reminder: Applications for admission in spring 2017 are due by December 1, 2016. Kind regards, *H. Michelle Chen, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor, School of Information Program Coordinator, Certificate in Big Data San Jos? State University One Washington Square, San Jos?, CA 95192-0029 SJSU iSchool: ischool.sjsu.edu Certificate in Big Data: ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data From jdownie at illinois.edu Fri Nov 4 10:21:39 2016 From: jdownie at illinois.edu (Downie, J Stephen) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:21:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities at Illinois: Online Information Session Message-ID: <612008895BFFF74BB7C7A74B2681CE61905E782E@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Dear Colleagues: On Monday, November 14, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. CST, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois will host an online information session about our PhD degree in library and information science. During the session, iSchool faculty and staff will answer questions and provide information about our School and programs. Login instructions are below. Join a world-class community of scholars at the iSchool at Illinois, one of the nation's top professional schools. Conduct research with our renowned faculty and customize your program according to your research interests. Admitted candidates in good academic standing are offered four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Applications for the Fall 2017 semester are due by December 15 For additional information about our program, visit our PhD web page or contact ischool-apply at illinois.edu Anyone interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in LIS at the School of Information Sciences is encouraged to participate in the online information session. Location: ONLINE: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/meet Login Instructions: http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/itdweb/bbcollaborate/bbcmeetingrooms.php If you are away from your computer or without a microphone, you may dial in to the session as follows: Meeting Room Number: +1-571-392-7703 PIN: 746 676 595 353 If you have questions or problems with regard to participation, please contact our Help Desk: help at support.ischool.illinois.edu +1-217-244-4903 or +1-800-377-1892 For additional information about: * The School of Information Sciences: http://ischool.illinois.edu/ * The PhD program: http://ischool.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd * The iSchool faculty: http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty * The online information session: http://ischool.illinois.edu/events/2016/11/14/phd-online-information-session ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 From jemai at hum.ku.dk Tue Nov 8 09:09:26 2016 From: jemai at hum.ku.dk (Jens-Erik Mai) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:09:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD scholarships, Copenhagen Message-ID: <30AA51DD-62ED-402F-A4AA-044980E629F2@ku.dk> Dear all - We have 16 fully-funded PhD scholarships available at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. The 16 scholarships will be divided among 4 departments; one of the departments is The Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS)[http://iva.ku.dk/english/]. The scholarship includes salary and benefits [PhD scholars are employed at the University] and travel expenses [for conferences]. There is no tuition. Starting date will be September 1, 2017 for a period of up to three years. The potential research areas at the RSLIS is the full range of topics within information studies? the only criteria applied when assessing the applications/proposals are merit and fit with potential supervisors in the department. Application deadline: January 22, 2017 at 23.59 (CET). More information here: http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/16-phd-scholarships-at-university-of-copenhagen/ Please circle this annoncement among potential applicants. Best, Jens-Erik ------------------------------------- Jens-Erik Mai Professor University of Copenhagen Information Studies jemai at hum.ku.dk http://jenserikmai.info From silvello at dei.unipd.it Fri Nov 4 12:05:36 2016 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 17:05:36 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP - Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale (KARS 2017) Message-ID: *** 3rd Call for Papers - KARS 2017: T-10days to deadline *** Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale (KARS 2017) Workshop co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2017 Venice, Italy, 21 March 2017 http://kars2017.dei.unipd.it/ * Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2016 * --- 1) Motivation Keyword search is the foremost approach for searching information and it has been successfully applied for retrieving non-structured documents such as text and multimedia files. Nonetheless, retrieving information from (unstructured or semi-structured) documents is intrinsically different from querying structured data sources with either an explicit schema, as relational databases or triple stores, or an implicit one, as tables in textual documents and on the Web. Consequently this model has left out the structured data sources which are typically accessed through structured queries, e.g. Structured Query Language (SQL) queries over relational databases or SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries over Linked Data graphs. Structured queries are not end-user oriented and far away from a natural expression of users' information needs by means of keywords, given that their formulation is based on a quite complex syntax and requires some knowledge about the structure of the data to be queried. Over the past several years, these facts triggered the research community and big data technology vendors to put a lot of effort into developing new approaches for keyword search over structured databases and it is still a primary research and industrial concern. There are three main issues currently hampering the design and development of next generation systems for keyword search over structured data able to effectively address the needs described above: (i) the lack of systemic approaches considering all of the issues of keyword search from the formulation and interpretation of the user needs, to the computation, retrieval, ranking and presentation of the results as well as the model by which iterative refinement is supported; (ii) the wide variety of tasks and domains (product to financial, public-record, health and drugs, scientific publications, hobby-related, and government, ?) which keyword search techniques need to address and which require the development of customized specific solutions. This make the design of a ?general purpose? keyword search application a complex task; (iii) the absence of a shared and complete evaluation methodology measuring user satisfaction, achieved utility, both effectiveness and efficiency, as well as required user effort for carrying out informative tasks on keyword-search systems on structured data. The aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers from Databases, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Human-Computer Interaction, and to combine their perspectives and research to address the above-mentioned issues. In particular, we wish to encourage researchers to discuss the opportunities, challenges, results obtained in the development and evaluation of ?complete?, ?ready-to-market? keyword search applications over structured data. We are in particular interested in proposal dealing with systemic approaches which manage all the phases of the keyword search, from the management of the data, query formulation, interpretation, computation, ranking and visualization of the results, as well as rigorous evaluation methodologies for such systems. --- 2) Topics We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in relational databases, XML, RDF, Linked Open Data, information extraction, natural language processing, data warehouses, knowledge bases, and related areas to submit their original papers to this issue. The main topics include but are not limited to: - Keyword search on large graphs and knowledge bases; - Keyword search on XML data, RDF data, and Linked Open Data; - Keyword search on relational databases and data warehouses; - Keyword search semantics; - Conversational and spoken queries over structured data; - Learning to rank approaches for keyword search; - Integration of keyword search with other kinds of search tasks, e.g. unstructured search, multimedia search, semi-structured search, and more; - User interaction with keyword search systems; - Visualizations and user interfaces for keyword search query formulation and result presentation; - Keyword search for data integration; - Exploratory search and informative queries over keyword search; - Web tables extraction and search; - Highly scalable techniques, algorithms and data structures for keyword search; - Computational complexity of keyword search algorithms; - Semantic similarity, management, disambiguation and indexing; - Ranking schemes; - Top-K query processing; - Result snippet generation; - Result clustering; - Handling vagueness in users? information needs; - Query formulation, suggestion, and expansion; - Query cleaning; - User preferences and feedback; - Handling data uncertainty in keyword search; - Experimental evaluation: efficiency, effectiveness, effort, time-aware, user models, user satisfaction, and more; - Shared benchmarks and infrastructures for comparative keyword search evaluation; - Measures and analysis methods for keyword search evaluation; - Challenges in application domains of keyword search: product search, government, health and drugs, scientific data and publications, finance, and more. --- 3) Important Dates - Workshop paper submission deadline: November 14, 2016 - Workshop paper notification: December 20, 2016 - Workshop paper camera-ready: January 15, 2017 - Workshops: March 21, 2017 --- 4) Submission Instructions Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers should be two-four pages (maximum) in length. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee through single-blind peer review, i.e. authors do not need to be anonymized. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kars2017 Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. --- 5) Organizers: - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Zack Ives, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy - Martin Theobald, Ulm University, Germany From nhara at indiana.edu Wed Nov 2 14:10:53 2016 From: nhara at indiana.edu (Hara, Noriko) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:10:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Ph.D. in Information Science at Indiana University-Bloomington Message-ID: <5459CCB3-C8BB-4E9B-BFD7-5D90AB6FE62A@indiana.edu> Apply now for a Ph.D. in Information Science at Indiana University-Bloomington As the Indiana University Ph.D. in Information Science celebrates over 50 years - and over 185 graduates - we are pleased to accept applications to our program for the upcoming year (2017). Our doctoral program is one of the longest continuously running Information Science programs in the United States. Our graduates have held positions including Deans of iSchools and libraries, distinguished professors, directors of doctoral programs, editors of journals, and presidents of national professional associations. Our Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science is committed to training the next generation of information scientists. Doctoral students are advised by faculty who are engaged in cutting-edge research areas such as social informatics, computer mediated communication, digital curation, data science, digital humanities, information retrieval, data and text mining, and scholarly communication, among other concentrations. Our students benefit from our active community of scholars that includes the following research centers: Catapult Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Analysis, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI), and the Center for Computer Mediated Communication Research (CCMC). We are pleased to accept new applications through January 15, 2017. Please see the ILS page on Graduate Admissions for details on how to apply. Funding packages of up to $50,000 per year are available for top candidates. Contact Dr. Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Program Director, with questions at nhara at indiana.edu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of Graduate Programs Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics & Computing | Indiana University http://norikohara.org From minashojaei at wpi.edu Mon Nov 7 15:49:11 2016 From: minashojaei at wpi.edu (Shojaeizadeh, Mina) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:49:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Items for AIS SIGHCI Newsletter: Volume 15, Issue 2 Message-ID: Dear all, You are invited to offer items to the coming issue of AIS SIGHCI newsletter (Volume 15, Issue 2), to be published in November 2016. All items will be editorial reviewed. If you are interested, please send your pieces to either of the newsletter editors Mina Shojaei Zadeh (minashojaei at wpi.edu) or Upasna Bhandari (upasna.bhandari at u.nus.edu) by November 20, 2016. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Short essay/opinion/research study (800 - 1700 words) 2. HCI book review (800 - 1700 words). Please feel free to contact the editor beforehand if you intend to review a book or if you wish your own book to be reviewed. 3. Teaching HCI (up to 1700 words): teaching ideas or cases, sample syllabus, etc. 4. Industry voice (800 - 1700 words). We welcome HCI related essays from industry professionals. 5. Brief introduction of HCI research tools (up to 300 words). 6. Brief introduction of interesting HCI journals and/or special issues, including citation information, brief description, table of content (for special issues), etc. 7. CFP for HCI related journals or conferences. 8. News about SIGHCI members (up to 300 words for each item): honors and awards, professional activities, new appointments, interesting projects, new books or publications, etc. 9. Any other announcements (up to 300 words for each item). Best regards, Mina Shojaei Zadeh School of Business, PhD candidate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, minashojaei at wpi.edu From kalbers at gseis.ucla.edu Thu Nov 3 16:31:56 2016 From: kalbers at gseis.ucla.edu (Elizabeth Kalbers) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:31:56 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] UCLA Information Studies Department at CLA! Message-ID: <4B81C787-3F91-4376-8F5A-E46BB283F83B@gseis.ucla.edu> UCLA Information Studies will have a great showing this year at the California Library Association (CLA) conference in Sacramento! Cindy Mediavilla (MLS, PhD UCLA; adjunct professor in the IS Dept) will be presented with the 2016 CLA Member of the Year Award. http://www.cla-net.org/?116. She will also be conducting a debriefing session there with participants in the State Library's "California Public Innovators" program. Natalie Cole (former director of the California Center for the Book when it was housed in the IS Dept) will be presented with the 2016 CLA President's Award. http://www.cla-net.org/?302. The department will hold a reception for IS alumni, students, faculty, and staff on Friday, 10/4 from 5:30-7pm at Hock Farm Craft & Provisions (1415 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814). Hope you'll join us! -- Elizabeth Kalbers Administrative Assistant UCLA Department of Information Studies 310-206-9393 kalbers at gseis.ucla.edu From ludovico.boratto at unica.it Mon Nov 7 04:56:21 2016 From: ludovico.boratto at unica.it (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:56:21 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] ECIR 2017 Workshop on "Social Media for Personalization And Search" Message-ID: Workshop on "Social Media for Personalization And Search" (SoMePeAS 2017) ECIR 2017: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval Aberdeen, Scotland (UK) - April 9, 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS In order to improve the web experience of the users, classic personalization technologies (e.g., recommender systems) and search engines usually rely on static schemes. Indeed, users are allowed to express ratings in a fixed range of values for a given catalogue of products, or to express a query that usually returns the same set of webpages/products for all the users. With the advent of social media, users have been allowed to create new content and to express opinions and preferences through likes and textual comments. Moreover, the social network itself can provide information on who influences who. Being able to mine usage and collaboration patterns in social media and to analyze the content generated by the users opens new frontiers in the generation of personalization services and in the improvement of search engines. Moreover, recent technological advances, such as deep learning, are able to provide a context to the analyzed data (e.g., Google?s word2vec provides a vector representation of the words in a corpus, considering the context in which a word has been used). This workshop will solicit contributions in all topics related to employing social media for personalization and search purposes, focused (but not limited) to the following list: Recommender systems Search and tagging Query expansion User modeling and profiling Advertising and ad targeting Content classification, categorization, and clustering Using social network features/community detection algorithms for personalization and search purposes IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: December 30, 2016 Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2017 Camera-ready version: February 25, 2017 Workshop date: April 9, 2017 TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS We will consider three different submission types, all in the LNCS format: regular (12 pages), short (6 pages), and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). Research and position papers (regular or short) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature should be made where possible. Position papers (short) should introduce novel point of views in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a researcher or a group in the field. Practice and experience reports (short) should present in detail the real-world scenarios in which social media is employed for personalization and search purposes. Demo proposals (extended abstract) should present the details of a prototype or complete application that employs social media is employed for personalization and search purposes. The systems will be demonstrated to the workshop attendees. The reviewing process will be coordinated by the organizers. Each paper will receive three reviews: two externals to the organizing committee and one internal. The external reviewers will be contacted according to their expertise in the paper topic. PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website together with the material generated during the meeting. The SoMePeAS 2017 Workshop proceedings will also be available in the CEUR series, and indexed on DBLP and Scopus. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version in a journal special issue. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submission must be written in English and follow the ECIR paper?guidelines . All papers must be formatted according to the LNCS format style. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the EasyChair submission system, available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=somepeas2017 INVITED SPEAKER TBA CONTACTS For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to: somepeas at di.uniroma1.it Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/somepeas/ ORGANIZERS Ludovico Boratto (Eurecat, Spain) Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Eurecat, Spain) Giovanni Stilo (Sapienza University, Italy) From marialemos72 at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 14:20:04 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:20:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Last call - WorldCIST'2017 - Deadline: November 27 Message-ID: <201611101920.uAAJK3xI022012@smtp2.dei.uc.pt> * Best papers published in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals ** Proceedings by Springer, indexed in ISI, Scopus, DBLP, EI-Compendex, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Telematics & Informatics (IF: 2.261 / Q1) - Special Issue on "Disruption of Higher Education in the 21st Century due to ICTs" - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Strategic Knowledge Management in the Digital Age" - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Annals of Telecommunications (IF: 0.722 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 27, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of the WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From wildemuth at unc.edu Thu Nov 10 13:12:25 2016 From: wildemuth at unc.edu (Wildemuth, Barbara M) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:12:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD program at UNC-Chapel Hill accepting applications Message-ID: <68e94217afbf4d2696de793cfa19d14c@its-msxmbs9f.ad.unc.edu> The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applicants to our PhD program for start in August 2017. Our doctoral program provides intensive, highly flexible and customizable preparation for a range of careers including those in academia and research centers. The program consists of a combination of coursework and independent and guided research in broad range of areas, including information organization, interactive information retrieval, information services for particular populations, and digital/data curation, among others. Please review the research interests of the faculty (https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty) for more details. For those interested in pursuing faculty positions, we also offer extensive training in teaching and curriculum development. We expect to provide at least 4 years of funding (tuition, stipend and health insurance) to all PhD students admitted to the program. The application period closes December 13. For more information about our PhD Program and application process, please visit: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/phd http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/admissions If you're interested in applying, you can contact the chair of the admissions committee, David Gotz, gotz at unc.edu, or the Doctoral Program DirectorArcot Rajasekar, rajasekar at unc.edu. Barbara M. Wildemuth SILS, UNC-CH wildemuth at unc.edu From a.helmond at uva.nl Mon Nov 14 05:35:13 2016 From: a.helmond at uva.nl (Anne Helmond) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:35:13 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Applications_=E2=80=93_MA_in_New_Medi?= =?utf-8?q?a_and_Digital_Culture_at_the_University_of_Amsterdam?= Message-ID: # Call for Applications 2017-18 # MA New Media and Digital Culture (University of Amsterdam) One-year and two-year international Master?s programs in New Media available: * MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (one year, full time) * Research MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (two years, full time) -- # MA New Media and Digital Culture The MA Program in Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive and critical approach to new media research, practices and theory. It is an internationally renowned program in critical media theory, dedicated to the study of the social transformations brought about by digital culture. The program provides in-depth training in the latest digital research methods, with the opportunity to participate in data sprints and to collaborate with international researchers. It is situated within a pioneering new media cultural scene in Amsterdam and an academic environment ranked among the top 6 universities worldwide (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016: Communication & Media Studies). # Application and Deadlines As of mid-November 2016, it will be possible to apply for a Master's programme at the Graduate School of Humanities. All Master's start in September 2017. http://gsh.uva.nl/prospective-masters-students/ application/application.html For more information about the program, please see the full call: http://bit.ly/NMDC_Call1718 Best regards, Anne Helmond --- Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor | Program Director MA New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ | @silvertje Latest publications: Helmond, Anne. 2015. ?The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready.? Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080. From brenda.sheridan at comminfo.rutgers.edu Fri Nov 11 13:46:02 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at comminfo.rutgers.edu (Brenda Sheridan) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:46:02 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes Ph.D. Applications for Fall 2017 Message-ID: The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes Ph.D. Applications for Fall 2017 The Library & Information Science Department in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, Rutgers' iSchool, invites creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for the Ph.D. in Library and Information Sciences. Application deadline for Fall 2017 enrollment is January 15, 2017. Located in New Brunswick, NJ, within 90 minutes drive/train to both NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers University's iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as: Human Information Behavior & Human-Computer Interaction Information Retrieval, Language and Communication Information Agencies and Artifacts Learning, Youth, Information and Technology Social Computing The School of Communication and Information offers competitive funding to doctoral students for four years of $25,000 or more in stipend or salary annually, full tuition remission, and health insurance. Doctoral students are also eligible for support for academic travel. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Faculty have secured nearly $20 million in grant funding in recent years. More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the state of New Jersey's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Established in 1766 and celebrating a milestone 250th anniversary in 2016, the university is the eight oldest higher education institution in the United States. More than 69,000 students and 22,000 faculty and staff learn, work and serve the public at Rutgers location across New Jersey and the world. Rutgers has 18 schools and colleges (including a medical school) on 2,688 acres across New Jersey. We are among the top 25 public universities, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We are an NCAA Division I School and a member of the Big Ten and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Our location in central New Jersey and close proximity to New York City makes us ideally suited for scholars exploring all types of libraries and information centers, as well as evolving information technologies and their users. For more information, contact Associate Professor Chirag Shah (chirags at rutgers.edu) or Professor Marie Radford (mradford at rutgers.edu). Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 c: 856-261-0089 From hicks1 at ualberta.ca Tue Nov 15 00:36:02 2016 From: hicks1 at ualberta.ca (Deborah Hicks) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:36:02 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] CAIS/ACSI 2017 Conference: Call for Proposals (May 31 - June 2, 2017, Toronto, Ontario) Message-ID: <23CD73F2-021F-46AC-917E-5CD672C8BD29@ualberta.ca> First Call for Proposals: CAIS/ACSI 2017 Conference Conference Theme: The Warp & Weft of Knowledge: Information Threads Connecting Disciplines, Identities and Perspectives Location: Toronto, Ontario (May 31 ? June 2, 2017) Deadline for Submission: January 27, 2017 (The French and English CFP soon to be posted to http://cais-acsi.ca ) ___________ The Warp & Weft of Knowledge: Information Threads Connecting Disciplines, Identities and Perspectives The conference theme The Warp & Weft of Knowledge: Information Threads Connecting Disciplines, Identities and Perspectives reflects the broad cross-disciplinary nature of information science. Information science research focuses on how information is structured, represented, organized, disseminated, and accessed. More than this, it examines how information is embedded in our communities, institutions, and social lives. Information itself is all pervasive. It touches a myriad of disciplines, identities, and perspectives. As such, those of us who trace the ?red thread of information? within and across disciplinary boundaries are uniquely situated to observe how disciplinary and methodological terrains connect, overlap, contradict, and diverge as well as how various perspectives and paradigms are shaped and formed by information. Indeed, as noted by Marcia Bates in her well known 1999 article, The Invisible Substrate of Information, ?we always follow the information?. This year we are picking up on the Congress theme ?From Far and Wide: The Next 150? to emphasize not only the length and breadth of information studies throughout the years but also the places, far and wide, across which information science has travelled and from which we draw. The weaving metaphor relates to the red threads of information that not only connect various disciplines, identities, and perspectives but brings to light new ideas and approaches. Along with Canada?s 150th anniversary we also celebrate our past accomplishments and our hopes for the future. We want CAIS/ASCI 2017 to explore the interdisciplinarity of information studies, build on past research, and forge new paths for the future. We invite papers and proposals representing diverse themes and methods related (but not limited) to the above theme. Consider the following ideas: Collaboration and independence: Within IS contexts and beyond Differentiation and integration: Among groups, professionals, or on personal levels Papers representing methods drawn from other disciplines or mixed methods approaches New and innovative approaches to IS research Papers reflecting on the development and future of IS research Papers from a variety of perspectives: Institutional, social, and ethical Historical examinations of IS as a discipline We are also pleased to announce that Marcia Bates will give the opening keynote presentation on May 31, 2016. Dr. Bates has published widely in the areas of information system search strategy, user-centered design of information retrieval systems, organization of knowledge, information seeking behavior, and the nature of the information professions. We welcome proposals that explore or are directly influenced by Dr. Bates?s work. Call for proposals Proposals may be submitted in English or French. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from professional and academic researchers. Types of submissions include: CAIS Papers: 20-minute oral presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of an extended abstract (approximately 1000-1500 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. CAIS Posters: Visual presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (with a limit of 750 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. Student-to-CAIS/ACSI and Practitioner Awards: Paper submissions by graduate students and practitioners will be considered for these awards. The Student-to-CAIS/ACSI award includes a monetary prize, and both awardees will have the opportunity to publish the full manuscript in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La Revue Canadienne des Sciences de L?information et de Biblioth?conomie. Students and practitioners should submit full papers by April 14th to be considered for this award. Details of the award, including previous winners, can be found at the CAIS/ACSI website at?www.cais-acsi.ca . Doctoral Forum We are pleased to invite students to this year?s inaugural Doctoral Forum. The goal is to provide students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research project, get feedback, and to meet with other researchers. Feel free to join us, regardless of the current stage of your doctoral project. Format: 10 minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion Submission: 250 to 500 words abstract describing your research project To participate, please fill the following?submission form . Doctoral students interested in attending the Doctoral Forum are also encouraged to submit completed or ongoing research projects for consideration as part of the CAIS conference. Please note that you have to register to the CAIS conference to attend the Doctoral Forum. Submission Deadline for all proposals is January 27, 2017. Submissions will be reviewed using the online EasyChair system. Further instructions and guidelines will be available on the conference website at?www.cais-acsi.ca . Authors will be notified of the decision no later than February 27th, 2017. All presenters must register for the conference. Abstracts will be published on the CAIS/ACSI Website once registration has taken place. Final versions must be submitted no later than April 28th, 2017. Participants are also encouraged to submit full papers to the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne des sciences de l?information et de biblioth?conomie. Registration: The conference will take place as part of the 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario (May 31-June 2, 2017). Registration will be available online through the Congress website (http://congress2017.ca/register ). For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI 2017 Conference Co-chairs. Danielle Allard Postdoctoral Research Fellow Women?s and Gender Studies Program/ Master?s of Archival Studies Program University of Manitoba danielle.allard at umanitoba.ca Deborah Hicks Lecturer The iSchool @ UBC University of British Columbia deborah.hicks at ubc.ca Catherine Johnson Associate Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies University of Western Ontario cjohn24 at uwo.ca --- Deborah Hicks Lecturer SLAIS, the iSchool @ UBC The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Email: deborah.hicks at ubc.ca From rhill at asis.org Tue Nov 15 15:56:56 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:56:56 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [lita-l] Call for Nominations for the 2017 Kilgour Research Award: Due 12/31 In-Reply-To: References: <47E17834-EF3E-4549-BDB7-C73E82DC61DE@oclc.org> Message-ID: <0a3d01d23f82$cdd459f0$697d0dd0$@asis.org> From: Tennant, Roy View the full press release at: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/11/submit-nomination-prestigious-kilgour-technology-research-award The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and OCLC, Inc. invite nominations for the 2017 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2016. The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to the development of information technologies, in particular research showing promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information or how information and data are manipulated and managed. The award consists of $2,000 cash, an award citation, and an expense-paid trip (airfare and two nights lodging) to the 2017 ALA Annual Conference. Nominations will be accepted from any member of the American Library Association. Nominating letters must address how the research is relevant to libraries; is creative in its design or methodology; builds on existing research or enhances potential for future exploration and/or solves an important current problem in the delivery of information resources. A curriculum vita and a copy of several seminal publications by the nominee must be included. Preference will be given to completed research over work in progress. More information and a list of previous winners can be found on the LITA website. Currently-serving officers and elected officials of LITA, members of the Kilgour Award Committee, and OCLC employees and their immediate family members are ineligible. Send nominations no later than December 31, 2016, to the Award jury chair: Tabatha Farney University of Colorado 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy Colorado Springs, CO 80918-3735 tfarney at uccs.edu The Kilgour Research Award will be presented at the LITA President?s Program during the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. To maximize your use of LITA-L or to unsubscribe, see http://www.ala.org/lita/involve/email From brya at illinois.edu Wed Nov 16 11:18:11 2016 From: brya at illinois.edu (Brya, Cynthia Ann) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:18:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Cooke receives 2016 Cowan Award for Teaching and Mentoring in Diversity Message-ID: <1A0BC9C39CEB7F49AE6A91ECEB17921B5ED7555E@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> Nicole A. Cooke, assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois, is the 2016 recipient of the Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Teaching and Mentoring in Diversity, given annually by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award honors Dr. Larine Y. Cowan, past director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access. There are four award categories, including Advocacy for LGBTQ Affairs, Excellence in Access and Accommodations, Leadership in Diversity, and Teaching and Mentoring in Diversity. Cooke received the award at the University's 31st Annual Celebration of Diversity on November 11 in Champaign. At the iSchool, Cooke has led the development of three graduate courses directly addressing diversity: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Information Professions (LIS 537), Social Justice in the Information Professions (LIS 545), and Information Services for Diverse Populations (LIS 547). "I have had the pleasure of being a student in two of Dr. Cooke's classes: Information Services to Diverse Populations and Social Justice in the Information Professions," said doctoral student Cass Mabbott in the nomination materials. "I can easily say she has been one of the most influential professors I have ever had in all of my education. I believe this is because she has a gift for creating trust in the classroom, something that is much needed when discussing diversity and equity. From the first day of class, she presented and demonstrated the ground rules for respect. She allowed us to make mistakes, recover, and eventually, transform into more culturally fluent individuals." Cooke recently collaborated with the School's student affairs staff to ensure the integration of cultural competency training for all new students. A member of the iSchool's Diversity Committee, she took the lead in organizing workshops for faculty and staff addressing racial microaggressions. Cooke's publications in the areas of social justice and diversity includes articles in The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy; a chapter on "Reference Services for Diverse Populations" in the 5th edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction; and her book on Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (2016). In addition she has co-edited the book Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom (forthcoming in 2017). Cooke was named a "Mover & Shaker" by Library Journal in 2007 and was the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association's Equality Award. Her research and teaching interests include human information behavior, particularly in the online context; critical cultural information studies; and diversity and social justice in librarianship with an emphasis on infusing them into LIS education and pedagogy. She holds an MEd in adult education from Penn State, and a Master of Library Science and PhD in communication, information, and library studies from Rutgers University, where she was an ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellow. Cooke serves as a member of the Spectrum Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the American Library Association Committee on Diversity. "Receiving this award is an overwhelming honor, and I'm so grateful that my work is being recognized," Cooke said. "Not only is my award named for an amazing scholar and activist, but I was nominated by Dr. Linda C. Smith, which is an honor in and of itself! I am very fortunate to teach these courses at the iSchool and I've been blessed with some amazing students who have helped me make them successful." Cindy Brya Assistant Director for Communications School of Information Sciences 207 LIS Building, MC-493 501 E Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-8312 From mkazmer at fsu.edu Wed Nov 16 10:04:33 2016 From: mkazmer at fsu.edu (Michelle Kazmer) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:04:33 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Earn your doctorate in information at the Florida State University iSchool Message-ID: Further your career with a PhD in Information. Our approach combines award-winning faculty, innovative technology, and valuable experience to offer an unparalleled education. Florida State University (FSU) is a national leader in information and technology research, and a founding member of the iSchools Consortium. 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Doctoral students work with makerspace technologies including Oculus Rift, 3D Printing, LittleBits Robotics, Raspberry Pi, 3D Visualization and more in The Collaboratory at Goldstein Library. FSU?s iSchool PhD students travel nationally and internationally to present research at conferences including ASIS&T, ALISE, AMIA, AOIR, iConference, IEEE, JCDL, CHI, CSCW and more. PhD students at FSU receive assistantships in research or teaching with tuition waivers and stipends, as well as opportunities for scholarship support, and work in research collaborations with iSchool professors. Florida State University?s iSchool in Tallahassee, Florida, is situated in Florida?s capital with access to research settings in government, information and cultural heritage institutions, health, technology and scientific settings, including the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. APPLY NOW FSU iSchool Student Services (850) 645-3280 ischooladvising at admin.fsu.edu ischool.cci.fsu.edu From toine at hum.aau.dk Tue Nov 15 13:26:38 2016 From: toine at hum.aau.dk (Toine Bogers) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:26:38 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: 2nd Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks (SCST 2017) Message-ID: ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS SCST 2017: 2nd Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks (co-located with CHIIR 2017) http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST17/ Oslo, Norway March 11, 2017 ========================================================= ------------------------ Description & Objectives ------------------------ One of the current challenges in information access is supporting complex search tasks. A user's understanding of the information need and the overall task develops as he or she interacts with the system. Supporting the various stages of this task involves many aspects of the system, e.g. interface features, presentation of information, retrieving and ranking. The Supporting Complex Search Tasks workshop (SCST 2017) aims at creating and fostering an interdisciplinary forum where researchers can exchange ideas about alternative experiments and prototypes, and contribute to the development of a research agenda in supporting complex search tasks. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ We invite position papers addressing open research questions related to: * Context: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? * Tasks: What are essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? * Heterogeneous sources: With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized, and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when to show what sources of information? * Search process: How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant differences between different stages? * UI/UX: What affordances are required and in what stage of the search process? How can we make the search process transparent to the user? How and when does the initiative shift between system and user? * Evaluation: How do we evaluate and compare approaches? Which measures should be taken into account? ------ Format ------ This is a workshop proper where discussion is central, and all attendees are active participants. We will start the workshop with a full round of introductions of all participants, making everyone feel welcome and part of the workshop. Then, the workshop continues with two short keynotes by keynote from academia to be confirmed and keynote from industry to be confirmed to set the stage and ensure all attendees are on the same page. Next, we will have presentations of contributed papers, with each paper getting a 1-minute boaster and a poster presentation in an interactive poster session. There will be 3-4 breakout groups seeded from the open research questions (see Goals) and the contributed papers, each group thoroughly prepared by a chair who guides the discussion, with examples from relevant IR evaluation campaigns such as the TREC Session and Tasks Tracks and the SBS Interactive and Suggestion Tracks, and from concrete examples of complex support systems with their UX and UI challenges. The breakout groups will report to the audience and a panel of experts, with continued discussion on what we learned, concrete plans for the next year, and a roadmap for the longer term. The discussion will continue during a social event, where the discussion will continue in a more informal way over food and drinks, deep into the Oslo night. The organizers have gained a proud reputation for their open and inclusive workshops, leading to new research collaborations, other workshops, and new evaluation tracks. The results will be disseminated in various ways: * A high quality, peer reviewed workshop proceedings, published in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (http://ceur-ws.org/). * A report on the results of the workshop in the ACM SIGIR Forum of June 2017. * Depending on the outcome, we will consider a special issue in an appropriate journal. * Last, but not least, the results can be fed into the running tracks at TREC, CLEF, and other evaluation campaigns. -------- Audience -------- The workshop will bring together a varied group of researchers?bridging CHI and IR in a natural way?with experience covering both user- and system-centered approaches, to work together on the problem and potential solutions, and identify the barriers to success and work on ways of addressing them. Authors can submit both research and position papers. Papers can be 2+1 pages max., with 2 pages of narrative text and an additional page for tables/figures/notes/references. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process. --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: March 1, 2017 * SCST 2017 Workshop: March 11, 2017 ---------- Organizers ---------- * Nick Belkin (Rutgers University) * Toine Bogers (Aalborg University Copenhagen) * Diane Kelly (University of Tennessee) * Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam) * Marijn Koolen (Huygens ING) * Emine Yilmaz (University College London) For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee. From brenda.sheridan at comminfo.rutgers.edu Mon Nov 14 15:00:43 2016 From: brenda.sheridan at comminfo.rutgers.edu (Brenda Sheridan) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:00:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers, School of Communication and Information Holds Third Annual iSchool Research Invitational Message-ID: Rutgers, School of Communication and Information (SC&I) held its Third Annual iSchool Research Invitational on Friday, Nov. 4 and Sat. Nov. 5 to showcase master's student research and provide a networking opportunity for current and prospective Ph.D. students. The symposium is hosted annually by the Department of Library and Information Science to attract strong master's students and potential Ph.D. applicants to SC&I. iSchools are university-level institutions committed to understanding the relationship between information, technology and people. SC&I, an iSchool, is a founding member of the iSchool consortium. The students who participated in the research invitational were students with in-progress and completed master's degrees. They came from all around the country to present their research in information science or related domain, network with Rutgers faculty and Ph.D. students, and learn more about the Ph.D. program at SC&I. On Friday, the attendees enjoyed a noon lunch, and then took a tour of the Rutgers campus. After the tour they presented their research posters at a poster session that was open to the entire SC&I community. An optional night out with current SC&I Ph.D. students was also offered to maximize attendees' networking opportunities. On Saturday, the group enjoyed breakfast, presentations by current students and faculty, research games and exercises in groups. After lunch an optional tour of the area was offered. All of the activities were designed to present the attendees with a unique opportunity to learn about the SC&I Ph.D. program and its benefits. To attend the symposium, participants went through a rigorous application process. They were required to submit their research interests and any results in a poster abstract of up to 500 words, a CV, and a cover letter. A panel of SC&I faculty chose applicants based on their submissions, depth of coverage of their chosen topics, and how well their research fit within the iSchool scholarly fields. "With the third Research Invitational event," Associate Professor Chirag Shah said, "Rutgers iSchool has once again shown how it is a leading research school with a top-ranking interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. Our Ph.D. program is committed to supporting budding scholars and invested in providing research and education excellence." Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 c: 856-261-0089 From bhow at loc.gov Wed Nov 16 13:23:51 2016 From: bhow at loc.gov (Howard, Barrie) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:23:51 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Announcing the NDSR Symposium in Washington, DC from 27 - 28 April 2017 Message-ID: <7CC4AB09C979C242B5E468C64182DD440135D98D767E@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> On behalf of the NDSR Symposium Program Committee, I am passing along the announcement below. Please excuse the cross-posting. Barrie Howard, Internship and Fellowship Programs, Library of Congress The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) will hold a Symposium on April 27-28, 2017 in Washington, DC. It will be free and open to the public and aims to: discuss and create standardized guidelines based on the NDSR evaluation being undertaken by the Council on Library and Information Resources; develop sustainability strategies; expand the geographic reach of NDSR; foster a digital preservation community of practice; and raise awareness of the NDSR program. Open call for session proposals and applications for travel grants will be accepted now through mid-January. For more information, please visit https://ndsr-program.org/ndsr-symposium/ From rhill at asis.org Fri Nov 18 08:57:32 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:57:32 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. In-Reply-To: <15957399-5970-4307-BB96-D30A5B09C863@cnri.reston.va.us> References: <15957399-5970-4307-BB96-D30A5B09C863@cnri.reston.va.us> Message-ID: <1e1701d241a3$b650f7c0$22f2e740$@asis.org> -----Original Message----- From: dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org [mailto:dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org] On Behalf Of Bonita Wilson Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The November/December 2016 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four full-length articles 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 "OPENN," a collection of high-resolution archival images of cultural heritage material, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. The articles are: Assessing Stewardship Maturity of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Monthly (GHCN-M) Dataset: Use Case Study and Lessons Learned By Ge Peng, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina, North Carolina State University and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information; Jay Lawrimore, Christina Lief, Richard Baldwin, Nancy Ritchey, Danny Brinegar and Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information; Valerie Toner, STG, Inc. and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information Intake of Digital Content: Survey Results From the Field By Jody L. DeRidder and Alissa Matheny Helms, University of Alabama Libraries Technical Debt as an Indicator of Library Metadata Quality By Kevin Clair, University of Denver A Doomsday Scenario: Exporting CONTENTdm Records to XTF By Andrew Bullen, Illinois State Library 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 November/December 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 yolande at asis.org Fri Nov 18 09:07:30 2016 From: yolande at asis.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T and #GivingTuesday Message-ID: <17f201d241a5$1ab82250$502866f0$@asist.org> Subject: ASIS&T to Participate in #GivingTuesday Something magical happens when we tell a person that they matter. That they are important. It changes their lives by empowering them. And the wonderful thing is - we all can make this magic happen. There is nothing more magical than having the world open to you through Information Science. Unfortunately, technology is not available to everyone. ASIS&T believes we can make a magical impact in one day. As a community, we can do this by supporting an organization that provides technology to philanthropic organizations, nonprofits and libraries around the world through #GivingTuesday, this November 29th. #GivingTuesday is a special call to action to create a global day of giving that brings diverse organizations and communities around the world together to give back. Last year 700,000 people participated and raised $116 million in over 70 countries. The ASIS&T Board of Directors has selected TechSoup Global to partner with on this initiative. TechSoup Global provides software products to nonprofits, charities and libraries around the world. Please go to the TechSoup Global donation page to make your donation. Please make sure to indicate that this is for #GivingTuesday in the Donation Program Designation field. If every member just gave $50, we could make a powerful global contribution. Please join ASIS&T for #GivingTuesday by donating on November 29th Thank you for your generous support! Yolande Nanayakkara Communications Officer ASIS&T The Association for the Information Age W: 301.495.0900 8555 16th Street; Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA www.asist.org From Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu Thu Nov 17 18:25:09 2016 From: Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu (Krystyna Matusiak) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:25:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?University_of_Denver_LIS_Faculty_Positi?= =?windows-1252?q?on_=96_Assistant_or_Associate_Professor?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Morgridge College of Education (MCE) at the University of Denver (DU) invites applications for a nine-month, tenure-track faculty appointment in the Library and Information Science (LIS) Program at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning September 1, 2017. The successful candidate will have a forward thinking and articulated research agenda and will be comfortable with collaboration in research and teaching projects with other faculty members in the Research Methods and Information Science (RMIS) Department, MCE, and DU. This position will play a strong role in teaching, research and service and in leading the proposed Research Data Management concentration of the MLIS degree. Interested candidates must apply online through https://dujobs.silkroad.com/ to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted. Once within the job description online, please click New Resume/CV at the bottom of the page to begin application. Inquiries about this position may can be made to the chair of the search committee, Dr. Bruce Uhrmacher (bruce.uhrmacher at du.edu). For more information, please see the full job description: https://du-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobInfo&version=1&jobid=2003 Krystyna K. Matusiak | Assistant Professor Library and Information Science Program Research Methods and Information Science Department Morgridge College of Education | University of Denver 1999 East Evans Avenue | Denver, CO 80208-1700 303.871.6163 | krystyna.matusiak at du.edu https://portfolio.du.edu/kmatusia From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Wed Nov 16 14:33:55 2016 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:33:55 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Big Data Career Opportunities Message-ID: The career opportunities in the data science field are expanding. Big data is one of today?s fastest-growing job markets. As Forbes.com puts it, ?Big data is sexy.? Since you subscribe to this listserv, you?re probably working in some capacity in the data science field. If you?re looking to deepen your big data skills and stay current with technology advances, take a look at the Certificate in Big Data program, offered 100% online by the San Jose State University School of Information. The program focuses on the most current innovations in big data technologies, information visualization, and web and data mining. You?ll gain the must-have technology skills like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, MLlib, MapReduce, and more. And with only three courses , you can earn your certificate in as quickly as two semesters! The application deadline to start the Certificate in Big Data program this January is December 1, 2016. *Reserve your spot now!* Please visit our website for admission requirements and application procedures. Questions? Please email me . As the program coordinator, I?d like to learn more about your learning needs and help you take the next step in your career. Feel free to forward this email to your coworkers and friends who may benefit from our Certificate in Big Data program. Kind regards, H. Michelle Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Information Program Coordinator, Certificate in Big Data San Jos? State University One Washington Square, San Jos?, CA 95192-0029 SJSU iSchool: ischool.sjsu.edu Certificate in Big Data: ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data From jmartin at nedcc.org Thu Nov 17 10:43:22 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:43:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Opportunity at NEDCC - Manager of Audio Preservation Services Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF901119A808E@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> Employment Opportunity: NEDCC SEEKS MANAGER OF AUDIO PRESERVATION SERVICES ******************************************************** The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) seeks an experienced audio preservation professional to lead its expanded Audio Preservation Services program. The new Manager of Audio Preservation Services will manage the day-to-day operations of the Center's Audio Preservation Services department. EXPANDING AUDIO SERVICES: NEDCC is expanding its digital audio preservation service for libraries, archives, and museums. This service will build upon NEDCC's successful implementation of "IRENE," the IMLS-funded optical scanning technology developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Library of Congress for digitizing grooved audio carriers. NEDCC will now offer reformatting of audio content on magnetic, DAT, and other obsolete media using more traditional approaches. NEDCC acknowledges the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for underwriting the implementation of its expanded audio preservation service. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have: 1) detailed knowledge of, and hands-on experience in, all aspects of digitally preserving audio collections; 2) strong communication skills in listening to clients' needs and clearly articulating proposed specifications; 3) excellent relationship-building skills; 4) strong production, management and supervisory skills to lead the staff in achieving the highest quality results in strict accordance with the best practices for digital audio preservation; and 5) a solid educational and/or experiential foundation related to digital reformatting in general and audio preservation in specific. FOR COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION and Application Instructions, visit: https://www.nedcc.org/about/employment-opportunities ******************************************************** Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA Preserving Cultural Collections Since 1973 www.nedcc.org Join our team! From asis at gwizdka.com Mon Nov 21 15:25:09 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:25:09 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD opportunities at UT Austin's iSchool Message-ID: UT Austin's School of Information is looking for talented students to join its Ph.D. Program. ============== Our curriculum prepares our doctoral students to become high quality, high-impact researchers. UT Austin is one of the premier research universities in the US and the city of Austin is both a rapidly growing center for IT research and development and one of the country's most vibrant cities in which to live and work. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/phd Our school has a strong tradition of fully financially supporting our Ph.D. students through a combination of Research Assistantships, Teaching Assistantships, Fellowships and, in later years, teaching positions as Assistant Instructors. Our packages of support include tuition, health insurance, and a stipend sufficient to live comfortably in Austin. PhD Applications for our School of Information, ranked 6th nationally, are due ***December 15th***. While we do not guarantee consideration of late applications, the closer to the deadline an application is received, the greater the likelihood that it will be considered. The application process is detailed on this page: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/admissions (please scroll down to PhD Program requirements) Our Mission ============ At the UT Austin School of Information, we are committed to making a difference in the world. The study of information extends beyond any existing field. Our world-class faculty has expertise in a range of disciplines, from computer science, psychology, and engineering to anthropology, history, communications, English, science and technology studies, and more. We come together to study and educate people about the interactions of people and information; the processes of managing and organizing information for meaning and use; and the impact of new technologies and behaviors on individuals, organizations and society. We seek students who can see beyond current approaches to problems, who recognize that information transcends boundaries, and who are comfortable crossing disciplines in search of answers. The greatest challenges facing today's modern information society are to tackle the extraordinary complexity of information, to discover principles and processes to manage its massive scale, and to leverage it to enhance our lives. We seek the best and brightest people who thrive on challenges: * People dedicated to creating new forms of information systems that can augment human and organizational capabilities * People committed to exploring the human and technological principles and processes that underlie information complexity * People seeking to understand human-computer interaction, from interacting with mobile devices, to systems in homes, organizations, and governments. * People energized by a vision of a diverse society where access to relevant information is not a luxury but a requirement * People appreciative of the importance and challenge of preserving and disseminating information on the human cultural record Our faculty and students are passionate about information, and we welcome others who want to join us in helping to forge a better information society. We encourage prospective applicants to explore our faculty and our research. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/faculty_directory https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research ---------------------- Jacek Gwizdka, PhD (Toronto) http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.532 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From bstjean at umd.edu Fri Nov 18 16:09:19 2016 From: bstjean at umd.edu (Beth L St Jean) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:09:19 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] UMD iSchool Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Search (Human-Centered Design) Message-ID: iSchool Tenure Track/Assistant Professor Search Human-Centered Design - 2016-2017 The iSchool at University of Maryland, College Park seeks an assistant professor (tenure track) focused on human-centered design of information and technology, including but not limited to human-computer interaction, social computing, digital humanities, data visualization, and visual analytics. We are interested in candidates with superior research and scholarship potential as well as teaching ability. This is a 9-month tenure-track appointment, with opportunities for summer teaching and grant-funded summer research. Salary and benefits are competitive based upon qualifications and experience. The iSchool is home to a dynamic set of centers and labs, including the world renowned Human-Computer Interaction Lab (hcil.umd.edu), the Trace Center (trace.umd.edu), and the Digital Curation Innovation Center ( dcic.umd.edu), and more that conduct interdisciplinary research that transforms the way we connect with information and each other. The growing iSchool faculty work in a wide variety of domains and problem areas, and we are interested in faculty colleagues who evidence creative exploration of new areas and collaboration with others. We seek candidates interested in conducting interdisciplinary research within strategic application areas including but not limited to environmental sustainability, cybersecurity, smart and connected communities, youth learning and technology, big data management and curation, diversity, equity, information accessibility, and inclusive design. *Qualifications*: Ph.D. or equivalent in a related area at time of appointment; demonstrated research excellence; a research agenda with the potential to attract external support; interest in developing effective and innovative teaching. *Preferences*: The ideal candidate will combine cutting edge, high impact research that shapes the information field with a desire to create an exceptional educational experiences for students within a diverse, interdisciplinary environment. *Applications: *For best consideration, apply online by December 1, 2016 at https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/47772. Applications should consist of a cover letter, a CV, a research statement, a teaching statement, and names and contact information for at least three references. The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. -- Beth St. Jean, Assistant Professor College of Information Studies - "Maryland's iSchool" Room 4117K Hornbake Bldg., South Wing University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-6573 From Faculty.Search at olin.edu Mon Nov 21 15:35:40 2016 From: Faculty.Search at olin.edu (Faculty Search) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:35:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Olin College of Engineering - Faculty Positions - Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <425c600f54364ffcbc8ab5974d3b93f4@EX03.olin.edu> Olin College of Engineering, located in the greater Boston area in Needham, MA, seeks enthusiastic applicants for faculty positions at all ranks in computer science, software engineering, computational science and engineering, or related areas. Olin is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment, and we strongly encourage individuals from historically underrepresented communities and women to apply. Olin College is a highly selective, gender-balanced undergraduate engineering college, which was founded in 1997 with goals to develop students as exemplary engineers, to drive positive change in engineering education, and to do good throughout the world. Towards these goals, we have developed an innovative approach to engineering that erases boundaries between disciplines, encourages students to take control of their learning, and emphasizes human-centered design and entrepreneurship. We have forged active partnerships with neighboring Babson and Wellesley Colleges and have co-developed transformative educational experiences with collaborators around the globe. We are thrilled to grow our faculty team as we continue to innovate within and outside of Olin. Computing plays a vital role at Olin. From the first semester course on modeling and simulation through the year-long industry-sponsored senior capstone project, from our active research communities in areas such as robotics and assistive technologies to our deployed innovations in the developing world, our students learn the tools and practices of computing and apply them to real world problems. We seek applicants who bring expertise in computer science, software engineering, computational science and engineering, or related disciplines. We are particularly excited about individuals who can articulate a vision for innovating in our computing-focused course offerings, for strengthening connections between computing and other parts of the Olin curriculum, and for involving students in their externally-facing professional work (e.g., research, entrepreneurship, consulting). If you are passionate about integrating computing throughout the curriculum and beyond, we would love to hear from you. We encourage applicants to apply by December 5, 2016, and applications will be considered as they are received. To apply, please visit http://bit.ly/OlinSearch. For inquiries: facultysearch at olin.edu. Olin is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Nov 21 12:15:14 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:15:14 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Announces New Publishers Enacting Phase Two of KBART Guidelines, Encourages Other Publishers to Seek Endorsement Message-ID: Baltimore, 11/21/2016 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that five publishers are now supplying metadata that conforms to phase two of the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2014) . Conformance with KBART indicates that the format and content of data supplied by these publishers observe practical recommendations for timely exchange between content providers and knowledge base vendors. The newest endorsers are: - Greenleaf Publishing - Harvard University Press - IEEE - Oxford University Press - Project MUSE John Peters, Managing Director, Greenleaf Publishing, comments, "We are committed to serving our customers well, and to industry standards that benefit our customers. We are pleased to be endorsing the KBART initiative." "The KBART Standing Committee encourages all providers that have taken the time and effort to follow the KBART recommendations to seek endorsement from the Standing Committee," says Kathy Marcaccio, Publication Metadata Program Manager at Cengage Learning and co-chair of that committee. "Endorsement by the Standing Committee is an indicator to librarians and vendors that the provider is serious about making its content work well with library discovery and management products to give libraries the best possible experience." "All content providers, from major databases to small publishers, are encouraged to submit a sample file to the KBART Standing Committee" says Magaly Bascones, Service Manager at Jisc Collections and co-chair of the committee. "Once the file's format and content has been reviewed and approved, and the provider has made it publicly available (in line with the recommendations), the provider will be added to a public list of endorsing providers. Bascones adds, "Knowledge base developers can endorse the KBART Recommended Practice by confirming that their systems can process KBART formatted files." To learn about how your organization can endorse KBART, and for more information on the initiative's Phase II activities, visit www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart. *About KBART* The NISO KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Standing Committee manages and supports Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2014). This publication provides all parties in the information supply chain with straightforward guidance about metadata formatting to ensure the exchange of accurate metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers. Phase II of the Recommendations, published in 2014 builds on the original 2010 publication by supporting consortia-specific metadata and metadata transfer for open access publications, e-books, and conference proceedings. For more information, visit www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart. *About NISO* NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: http://www.niso.org . From vmnesset at buffalo.edu Fri Nov 18 11:26:46 2016 From: vmnesset at buffalo.edu (Nesset, Valerie) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:26:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science latest issue (40.3) is ready to read on Project MUSE Message-ID: The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Volume 40, Number 3, September 2016 http://bit.ly/cjils403 This issue contains: Knowledge Translation in Agriculture: A Literature Review / L'application des connaissances dans le secteur agricole : une revue de la litt?rature Isioma Elueze http://bit.ly/cjils403a Gender Effect on the Information Environment of Distance Learners in Botswana / Effet du genre sur l'environnement informationnel des apprenants ? distance au Botswana Olugbade Oladokun http://bit.ly/cjils403b Factors Affecting Researchers' Collaborative Patterns: A Case Study from Maghreb Universities / Les facteurs affectant les pratiques de collaboration des chercheurs : Une ?tude de cas des universit?s maghr?bines Hind Achachi, Zakia Amor, Corinne-Colette Dahel-Mekhancha, Mohammed Cherraj, Hamid Bouabid, Sandra Selmanovic, Vincent Larivi?re http://bit.ly/cjils403c A Preliminary Research Study on the Library Collections and Services of Public Primary and Middle Schools in Guangzhou, China / Une recherche pr?liminaire sur les collections documentaires et les services dans les biblioth?ques des ?coles primaires et secondaires de Guangzhou, en Chine Wenyan Zhang, Hui Wang, Mengmeng Ji, Sheng Xu http://bit.ly/cjils403d Book Review/Critique de livre Panorama de l'archivistique contemporaine : ?volution de la discipline et de la profession (review) Alexandre Fortier http://bit.ly/cjils403e A respected source of the most up-to-date research on library and information science, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is recognized internationally for its authoritative bilingual contributions to the field of information science. Established in 1976, the journal is dedicated to the publication of research findings, both in full-length and in brief format; reviews of books; software and technology; and letters to the editor. Join CJILS email list! Please sign up for important news relating to The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. You'll receive emails with peeks inside new issues, Tables of Contents, Calls for Papers, editorial announcements, open access articles, and special offers. Sign up here - bit.ly/alertsCJILS From wildemuth at unc.edu Wed Nov 23 09:13:35 2016 From: wildemuth at unc.edu (Wildemuth, Barbara M) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:13:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] International summer seminars offered by UNC-CH Message-ID: <307429cbf2c44a2f8535be809e5cdca3@its-msxmbs9f.ad.unc.edu> Registration is now open for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SILS summer seminars to London, Prague, and (new this year!) Dublin and Berlin. These two-week seminars are open to graduate level library and information science students, as well as professionals with an interest in international librarianship. For students, the option to take the seminar for (3) hours of credit is offered. The deadline to register is FEBRUARY 15, 2017. Our seminars tend to fill quickly. Early registration is encouraged! NEW! THE DUBLIN AND BERLIN SUMMER SEMINAR (May 22 - June 6, 2017) Our only multi-city seminar focused on Information Science, this program will focus on the ways information gathering, dissemination, privacy, and security affect business. In both cities students will participate in business visits. While we are still confirming the exact locations, possibilities include Facebook, Red Hat, Google, and others. There will also be an organized daytrip to Potsdam, which includes a visit to Sanssouci Palace and park (a UNESCO world heritage site). Participants will also take part in cultural activities. The program is in partnership with University College Dublin and Humboldt University of Berlin, and participants will spend time on each iSchool's campus. It will be offered for 3 hours of academic credit, and participants will be accompanied by UNC SILS faculty and staff, as well as staff from IES Abroad. * To register for Dublin/Berlin, visit: http://tinyurl.com/jz5g7fb. * To learn more about the summer seminar in Dublin/Berlin (including a sample schedule and syllabus), visit: https://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/dublinberlin. THE PRAGUE SUMMER SEMINAR (May 21 - June 3, 2017) This summer seminar allows library professionals to explore the past, present and future of libraries and librarianship in the heart of one of the world's most remarkable, yet largely undiscovered, countries. During this two-week, residential summer program, participants will enjoy lectures and tours related to librarianship in this culturally and academically rich country. Participants also experience firsthand how the democratization of the Czech Republic, formerly a communist state, has affected the accessibility of information, in both print and electronic forms. In addition to visiting libraries and museums in Prague, the group will also make trips to visit two UNESCO World Heritage sites, Krom???? (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/860) and ?esk? Krumlov (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/617) with their historic libraries, castles and gardens. Accommodation in the center of Prague allows participants to explore this historic and absorbing capital city during the week, and the surrounding countryside during their free time on the weekends. This seminar has been offered each summer by UNC and Charles University in Prague since 2002. * To register for Prague, visit: http://tinyurl.com/jvyvd4o. * To learn more about the summer seminar in Prague (including a sample schedule and syllabus), visit: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/prague. THE LONDON SUMMER SEMINAR (May 21 - June 3, 2017) The London Summer Seminar is offered by SILS and the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), the largest and one of the most highly ranked LIS Schools in the United Kingdom. The seminar will be held in London, and will feature lectures and presentations at UCL as well as tours of libraries and cultural heritage institutions in England. Although most of the program will take place in London, there will be day trips to visit the university libraries at both Oxford and Cambridge. In London, participants will tour behind the scenes at the British Library, the National Archives, the Imperial War Museum (including its library) and the Wellcome Library (including the History of Medicine Collection). Visits will be made to other types of libraries and there will be presentations from experts in the field of librarianship in Great Britain. There will also be guided tours of UCL and the Bloomsbury area of London. Some free time will be built into the program so that participants can explore London and surrounding countries, and visit other libraries and cultural institutions of their choice. * To register for London, visit: http://tinyurl.com/h4zobd4. * To learn more about the summer seminar in London (including a sample schedule and syllabus), visit: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/london. If you have any questions about the seminars, please contact Kaitlyn Murphy, SILS International Programs Coordinator, by e-mail at kmurphy at unc.edu. These popular seminars are open on a first come, first served basis. Early registration is encouraged. From marialemos72 at gmail.com Thu Nov 24 14:38:05 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:38:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'17 - Submission deadline: November 27 Message-ID: <201611241938.uAOJcRpL026256@smtp.dei.uc.pt> * Best papers published in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals ** Proceedings by Springer, indexed in ISI, Scopus, DBLP, EI-Compendex, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Telematics & Informatics (IF: 2.261 / Q1) - Special Issue on "Disruption of Higher Education in the 21st Century due to ICTs" - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Strategic Knowledge Management in the Digital Age" - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Annals of Telecommunications (IF: 0.722 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 27, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of the WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sat Nov 26 06:50:41 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:50:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'2017 - Submission deadline: November 30 Message-ID: <201611261151.uAQBp5WS017962@smtp2.dei.uc.pt> * Best papers published in several SCI/SSCI-indexed journals ** Proceedings by Springer, indexed by ISI, Scopus, DBLP, EI-Compendex, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Telematics & Informatics (IF: 2.261 / Q1) - Special Issue on "Disruption of Higher Education in the 21st Century due to ICTs" - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Strategic Knowledge Management in the Digital Age" - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Annals of Telecommunications (IF: 0.722 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 27, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of the WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From asis at gwizdka.com Sat Nov 26 17:45:06 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:45:06 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction Message-ID: CFP: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction ================================================ ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS - NeuroIIR'2017 2nd International NeuroIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction in conjunction with the 2nd Annual ACM CHIIR Conference (CHIIR'2017) to be held in Oslo, Norway Workshop date: March 11th, 2017 (afternoon) Website: https://sites.google.com/site/neuroiir2017 -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ * Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: February 12, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: February 27, 2017 * Workshop date: March 11, 2017 (half-day) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Jacek Gwizdka, NeuroIIR2017 at gwizdka.com (School of Information, University of Texas at Austin) Javed Mostafa, jm at unc.edu (Biomedical Research & Imaging Center, School of Medicine & the iSchool, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Objectives: ============= NeuroIIR'2017 will build upon a successful workshop held at the SIGIR'2015. One critical take-away from the last workshop was that application of neuro-physiological (NP) experimental methodologies in IIR research studies is promising but highly challenging. The 2017 workshop has three broad aims: 1) Develop a foundational knowledge of appropriate methods or adapting experimental methods in IIR that permit execution of a large range of information seeking tasks, while wearing specialized devices or being inside scanning equipment. 2) Gain a deeper and clearer understanding of the wide variety of parameters that are essential to operating the NP equipment and tuning them for particular types of information interaction events. 3) A related aim is to gain insights regarding a set of well-known NP modalities/devices and related parameters, so that they could be potentially combined to study complex information seeking phenomena. Submissions: ============== We invite submissions that may include the following topics: * findings from completed IR/IIR research that utilized neuro-physiological tools; * research questions in IR/IIR that are likely to benefit from NP methods; * comparative analysis of NP tools and techniques with their applications in IR/IIR; * data fusion methods that support combination of NP data with traditional IR/IIR data; In all types of submissions we ask the authors to describe some of the following: * how IIR research protocols were (or will be) modified to allow for use of NP tools; * why NP modalities (one or more) were selected for use in IIR research; * what lessons were learned from using NP tools in IIR research; We invite submissions in two categories: 1. papers describing completed research or methodological contributions (up to 4 pages) 2. work-in-progress - short report papers (up to 2 pages). ). The accepted WIPs would need to be submitted in poster format for poster-session presentation during the workshop. The neuro-cognitive and physiological tools of interest include, but are not limited to, fMRI, fNIRS, EEG, MEG, eye-tracking. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. * papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=neuroiir2017 * paper submission deadline: January 12, 2017 * Accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings at CEUR-WS.org * Workshop attendees will be encouraged to submit manuscripts to a special issue on Neuro-Information Science to be published by Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Workshop Location: ==================== NeuroIR 2017 will take place in Oslo, Norway and will be held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual ACM CHIIR Conference. Program Committee (preliminary): ============================== Ioannis Arapakis, Yahoo Labs, Spain Ofer Bergman, Bar-Ilan University, Isreael Vincent N. Carrasco, Info. Science, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA Kelly Giovanello, Neuroscience, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA Yasher Moshfeghi, CS, U Glasgow, UK Henning Muller, Medical Imaging & Informatics, Switzerland Frank Pollick, Psychology, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK Tuukka Ruotsalo, HIIT, Finland Erin Treacy Solovey, iSchool, Drexel, USA Max Wilson, University of Nottingham, UK Follow us on: ============= Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/200261157094023/ Jacek Gwizdka, PhD (Toronto) http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.532 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From bhow at loc.gov Mon Nov 28 13:25:04 2016 From: bhow at loc.gov (Howard, Barrie) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:25:04 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] How ready are you to provide long-term access to your organization's digital content? Message-ID: <7CC4AB09C979C242B5E468C64182DD440135DB26A262@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> Greetings! How prepared is your organization to provide long-term, durable access to its mission-critical digital content? What skills and experience do staff need to address the digital preservation needs of your organization? The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/index.html, is conducting a survey designed to capture the digital preservation continuing education, professional development, and training needs of your organization. The Library will in turn use this information to assist with the further development and/or refinement of its digital preservation educational programs and initiatives. Any organization in the United States and territories engaged in the preservation of digital content is invited to complete the survey through close of business on Friday, January 20, 2017. The survey is available from https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016DPOESurvey Thank you for your participation. Barrie Howard Internship and Fellowship Programs Library of Congress bhow at loc.gov +1-202-707-1830 facebook How prepared is your organization to provide long-term, durable access to its mission-critical digital content? What skills and experience do staff need to address the digital preservation needs of your organization? The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program is conducting a survey to discover the answers to these questions. Please contribute your answers to the survey by Friday, January 20, 2017, available from the link below. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016DPOESurvey Twitter How ready r u 2 provide long-term access 2 ur org's digital content? Complete @librarycongress survey by 1/20/17 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016DPOESurvey From k.costello at rutgers.edu Mon Nov 28 20:08:37 2016 From: k.costello at rutgers.edu (Kaitlin Costello) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 01:08:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NJ-ASIST Distinguished Lecture Series Award Message-ID: The New Jersey chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that this year's Distinguished Lecture Series Award will be presented to Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To honor and celebrate Dr. Wildemuth, we invite you to join a reception at Rutgers University on Wednesday, December 7th. Date and time: Wednesday, December 7 2016, 5:00 p.m. Location: Rutgers Club (199 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901) Cost: Free for students, $10/$15 for professionals (ASIS&T members, non-members). Pay at the door. NJ ASIS&T, in partnership with RU-ASIS&T and the Library and Information Science department at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, are hosting a distinguished lecture series featuring esteemed scholar Dr Barbara Wildemuth on Wednesday, December 7th from 5-7 pm at the Rutgers Club. Join us as Dr. Wildemuth reflects on her research on people's use of information and information technologies, with particular emphasis on people's online searching behaviors. To this lecture, Dr. Wildemuth brings 40 years of experience in the study of people's use of information and information technologies, with particular emphasis on people's online searching behaviors. Her most recent work includes an analysis of the search strategies used by people conducting web searches (in collaboration with Diane Kelly) and a methodological study of the search tasks assigned in interactive information retrieval experiments. Her book, "Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science," has been adopted as a text in a number of ILS schools in the United States and abroad; a second edition was released last month. She teaches courses in various aspects of research methods, human information interactions, and information ethics. She received her Ph.D. from Drexel University, and holds master's degrees from Rutgers University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A period and a reception honoring Dr. Wildemuth's distinguished career. We hope you can join us! Contact rutgersuasist at gmail.com with questions. From ludovico.boratto at unica.it Fri Nov 25 12:15:44 2016 From: ludovico.boratto at unica.it (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:15:44 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Special Issue on "Advances in Computer-Human Interaction for Recommender Systems" Message-ID: <4978E8B2-077B-41DB-82E4-F551687D4278@unica.it> Special Issue on "Advances in Computer-Human Interaction for Recommender Systems" International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier) CALL FOR PAPERS Recommender Systems produce suggestions to users for items or contents based on user profiles, users? explicit or implicit feedback, which the users might have not originally considered but might be of interest to them. Such recommendations are produced by analyzing what they previously consumed (bought, watched, or listened) or by the identification of similarities with other users. Such an explicit feedback is usually an expression of extreme ratings, either positive or negative. In the middle of the range stays a set of different actions in the interface that might be interpreted as feedback, but that needs to be collected implicitly. Even if the literature provides different techniques for collecting implicit feedbacks, they are usually tailored to specific types of applications. From the user's point of view Recommender Systems remain a black box that suggests objects or contents, but the users hardly understand why some items are included in the suggestion list. Providing the users with an understandable representation of how the system represents them and allowing them to control the recommendation process would lead to benefits in how the recommendations are perceived and in the capability of the system to be persuasive. Such transparency is one of the multiple (and usually conflicting) requirements of Recommender Systems. Beyond the classical engineering of Recommender Systems focusing on data processing, filtering and sorting, the engineering aspects should also cover aspects related to how users interact with it, including how to input data, how to define and evolve the user model, how to present the information to the users and how the users can manipulate that information. Such engineering processes might benefit from practice in specific areas, such as web configurators (which guide the users in the inspection of possible product variants) and safety critical interactive systems (where predictability and consistency over executions are prerequisite to certification). In order to deploy Recommender Systems in broader contexts, there is a need for structured and systematic approaches to engineer such complex computing systems. This special issue solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to: NOVEL APPLICATION DOMAINS Critical systems 3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality End User Development Other novel applications USER INTERFACES FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Differences and analogies between UIs for recommender systems, expert systems, and configuration systems; Identifying and managing conflicts between the properties of the UI and properties of the Recommender Systems; Transparency of the recommendation process and creation of interactive handles for supporting user?s control; New interactions for consuming and guiding recommendation (gestures, tangible interaction etc.); Analysis of feedback based on small exposures on the item itself: photos, trailers etc. RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS CORE Exploit the user interaction to enrich recommendation models based on latent factors; Real time aspects of recommendations: view updates, user?s awareness, balance between recommendation, and task focus/goal, worst case execution time analysis; Recommendation effectiveness beyond business focused metrics: how to evaluate them, suitable classifiers; Creating forms of elicitation and enabling user control to improve the perception of the recommendations. EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM Software architectures for usable recommender systems; Guidelines for building trust in recommendations; Solutions for enabling users and systems to work with large data; Representation of performance issues. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission due: April 30, 2017 First round decision made: July 31, 2017 Revised manuscript due: September 30, 2017 Final decision made: November 15, 2017 Final paper due: December 15, 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions must conform to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies format guidelines . Manuscripts must be submitted to the Evise online submission system (select option SI:AdCHIReS in the article type section). Submissions to this Special Issue must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere should have at least 50% of novel valuable content that extends the original work (the original papers should be referenced and the novel contributions should be clearly stated in the submitted paper). CONTACTS For enquires regarding the special issue, please send an email to both the guest editors at davide.spano at unica.it and ludovico.boratto at acm.org . GUEST EDITORS Lucio Davide Spano (University of Cagliari, Italy) Ludovico Boratto (Eurecat, Spain) From srichards at lac-group.com Mon Nov 28 16:44:09 2016 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:44:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Document Analyst / Washington, D.C. area In-Reply-To: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C368F0AF940@EX1MBX15.onthenetoffice.com> References: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C368F0AF940@EX1MBX15.onthenetoffice.com> Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C368F0AFFA9@EX1MBX15.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . LAC Federal is seeking a Document Analyst to perform document processing and collection development for an internationally-focused government agency's knowledge repository in the Washington, D.C. area. This is a full-time (40 hours per week; Monday - Friday), benefited position. Responsibilities: * You will collect a variety of electronic, paper, and multimedia materials from multiple agencies and departments on a daily basis * You will maintain a list of contacts at those sites, and develop proactive outreach strategies with agency liaisons * You will review and select documents based on potential for significant contribution towards the improvement of the knowledge base in each of the Agency's strategic program area * You will analyze the newly acquired documents and data against pre-defined criteria for processing and ingest into agency document clearinghouse * You will scan, proof, convert, and optimize materials for inclusion into knowledge repository, redacting Personally Identifiable Information where found * You will add metadata descriptors and tags to make items more discoverable for the agency, partners, and public * You will maintain Agency Thesaurus as well as authority files * You will work with Agency to establish policies and guidelines for submission of multimedia materials * You will digitize, transcode analog materials to a format acceptable to the Agency add metadata to resulting digitized items to enhance discoverability * You will respond to requests for help in submitting materials, searching, locating documents, and other queries * You will provide in-person or on-line training for submitting documents and searching the repository * You will reach out to agency staff and partners to inform them of changes, news, demonstrations/training, and to encourage submission of documents * You will work with internal IT/Security teams to ensure that systems meet all business, functional, technical and security requirements * You will make recommendations to Agency for system changes or enhancements based on requirements, user feedback or as directed by the Government Qualifications: * Must possess a bachelor's degree, plus 3 years of progressively responsible experience in word processing, the internet, database and other information technology, including document scanner software and technology * Must have an active secret-level security clearance * Skill to research, elicit and correlate data and information from diverse document and data sources for use in databases, websites, publication products and briefing presentations * Experience in loading data and scanning source documents into a computerized database and converting electronic documents, spreadsheets and other files into Adobe Acrobat Reader pdf file format is highly desirable * Knowledge of document management functions such as disposition, indexing, retrieving and archiving of electronic document management technologies For consideration, please apply online: https://goo.gl/nWZe5C LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions and prominent government agencies. From yolande at asis.org Tue Nov 29 10:58:21 2016 From: yolande at asis.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:58:21 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] #GivingTuesday TODAY! Message-ID: <009001d24a59$6e49f0d0$4addd270$@asist.org> #GivingTuesday IS HERE!! Please support this new ASIS&T initiative with a contribution to TechSoup Global today. If every member gave $50 we can make a powerful contribution to libraries around the world. Thank you for your generosity and supporting the ASIS&T community by going to https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1426356. Don't forget to indicate that this is for #GivingTuesday in the Donation Program Designation field. Thanks so much!! DONATE NOW Yolande Nanayakkara Communications Officer ASIS&T The Association for the Information Age W: 301.495.0900 8555 16th Street; Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA www.asist.org From kberlack at nfais.org Tue Nov 29 15:05:04 2016 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:05:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Register today for the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, Feb. 26-28, Alexandria, VA! Message-ID: ==================================================================== 59th NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference - The Big Pivot: Re-Engineering Scholarly Communication Date: Sunday-Tuesday, February 26-28, 2017 Location: Hilton Alexandria Old Town, 1767 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 Registration: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=518882&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 ==================================================================== What's Covered: The scholarly record - the foundation of the ever accumulating body of scholarly research - is undergoing a transformation in how it functions and serves the information and scholarly research communities. The possibilities and challenges confront the information community now. Join your fellow colleagues and information professionals at the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, focusing on "The Big Pivot: Re-Engineering Scholarly Communication," February 26-28, in Alexandria, VA. Innovative technical developments are creating new blueprints for optimizing the way users create, access and use data and information more profoundly than ever before. Don't miss being a part of shaping this big pivot - join us at the 2017 NFAIS Annual Conference! For registration, note that our Early Bird rates close on January 9, 2017. Here's a tip - register now and request an invoice to pay early next year. Just commit today and pay in January! The Conference Hotel also offers special discounted rates through February 3, 2017 - but room inventory is limited, so register early! Click here for more conference and hotel information and to register for Early Bird rates: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=518882&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0 See you in Alexandria, VA! NFAIS is grateful for the support of our sponsors. For information on becoming a sponsor of the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, click here: http://www.nfais.org/2017-conference-sponsors _________________________________________________________________________________ NFAIS Members: Register three or more employees simultaneously on or before January 9, 2017 and pay the Assembly Representative rate. Staff of member organizations who are in the early stages of their career (5 years or less) are eligible for a 50% discount on full/daily rates. Federal Employees: Contact Elinda Deans (ehar at loc.gov) regarding use of your FEDLINK training account for the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference. Contact: For more information about the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference or 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: December 1, 2016 - Measuring Scholarly Impact: Can One Size Fit All? December 7, 2016 - NISO-NFAIS Virtual Conference: Making Certain Digital Content is Preserved: Archiving Digital Resources December 9, 2016 - The Internet of Things: Impacting Scientific Data and Information Flows December 19, 2016 - Document Delivery in the Information Ecosystem January 24, 2017 - Lunch & Learn: Achieving Better Visual Communication: Best Practices in Data Visualization 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 h.obrien at ubc.ca Tue Nov 29 10:12:04 2016 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:12:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: SIG USE member survey Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AEDF3A0C39@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> Dear SIG USE members: We are seeking your input on a number of issues in relation to SIG USE: continuing education; the SIG USE Symposium; Communications; Awards; and Involvement with SIG USE. We would greatly appreciate your response to this survey, which should take approximately 20 minutes. The link to the survey is here: https://simmons.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cYCHF5skAja2t3D You will not be asked to provide your name and your responses will be used to inform the SIG USE Executive Committee about how they can communicate more effectively with SIG USE members and better meet your needs. Your ideas and perspectives are incredibly valuable to us. The survey will be open from now until mid-December. Thank you in advance for your input. Heather O'Brien (Chair) and Kayla Hammond Larkin (ASIS&T New Leader) On behalf of the SIG USE Exec Dr. Heather O'Brien Associate Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Nov 25 09:00:15 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:00:15 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [icie] IRIE CfP Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] IRIE CfP Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:49:28 +0100 From: Rafael Capurro Reply-To: rafael at capurro.de To: icie at zkm.de Dear colleagues, The CfP for IRIE Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective is online. Guest Editors: Marco Schneider and Ricardo M. Pimienta. Deadline for extended abstracts: 31st Feb 2017 Notification of acceptance to authors: 15th Apr 2017 Deadline for full articles: 30th June 2017 Deadline for revised articles: 31st July 2017 Publication: August 2017 http://www.i-r-i-e.net/call_for_papers_27.htm Please spread the news. Rafael -- Prof.em. Dr. Rafael Capurro Hochschule der Medien (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics (http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org) Distinguished Researcher at the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE), Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Chair, International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) (http://icie.zkm.de) Editor in Chief, International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (http://www.i-r-i-e.net) Postal Address: Redtenbacherstr. 9, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany E-Mail: rafael at capurro.de Voice: + 49 - 721 - 98 22 9 - 22 (Fax: -21) Homepage: www.capurro.de ----- Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7924 / Base de donn?es virale: 4664/13466 - Date: 24/11/2016 From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 07:25:33 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:25:33 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'2017 - Workshops submission deadline - December 8 Message-ID: <201611301225.uAUCPVG9022700@smtp.dei.uc.pt> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST 2017 will feature a total of 18 Workshops. Paper submission for all Workshops must be performed at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist_workshops2017 selecting the desired Workshop. Workshop papers (Full ? 10 Pages and Short ? 7 Pages) will be published by Springer AISC series and the authors of the best Workshop paper will be invited to extend their work for publication at top International Journals (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS). Paper submission is open until December 8th for all Workshops. WORKSHOPS ? BIO - Business Intelligence in Organizations ? CMAIPA - Computational Methods and Applications for Image Processing and Analysis ? CSQA - Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis ? ESG - Educational and Serious Games ? ETCBPM - Emerging Trends and Challenges in Business Process Management ? HISISE - Workshop on Healthcare Information Systems Interoperability, Security and Efficiency ? HMInARMM - Human-Machine Interfaces in Automation, Robotics, Mechanics and Mechatronics ? ICDSS - Intelligent and Collaborative Decision Support Systems for Improving Manufacturing Processes ? ICTwithUAV - ICT solutions with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ? IoT4Health - Workshop on Internet of Things for Health ? ISM - Intelligent Systems and Machines ? ISTA - Information Systems and Technologies Adoption ? MAMM&MJ - Managing Audiovisual Mass Media (governance, funding and innovation) and Mobile Journalism ? NPAT - New Pedagogical Approaches with Technologies ? PIS - Workshop on Pervasive Information Systems ? RSPPI - Resources Sharing between Private and Public Institutions ? SIdEWayS - Social Media World Sensors ? TinW - Technologies in the Workplace - Use and Impact on Workers IMPORTANT DATES ? Deadline for paper submission: December 8th ? Notification of paper acceptance: December 28th, 2016 ? Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8th, 2017 ? Conference dates: April 11 -13, 2017 SUBMISSION AND PAPER FORMAT Please Submit your paper at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist_workshops2017 Two types of papers can be submitted to workshops (both will be published at the Springer AISC proceedings): - Full papers: Finished or consolidated R&D works. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short papers: Finished or consolidated R&D works and also Ongoing work but with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference, workshop or publication. Paper should not include any information leading to the authors? identification (in order to enable double blind review). Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two/three members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the latter case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING Workshop papers will be published in the AISC Springer Conference Proceedings. To ensure that a paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by 11th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in renowned international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP (see the information available at the main conference CFP for more details). Kind regards, WorldCIST'2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ From agruzd at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 19:48:08 2016 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:48:08 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Announcement of Keynotes & 2nd Call for Papers: 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society #SMSociety (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada) Message-ID: <08ca01d24b6c$95e6ae80$c1b40b80$@gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to announce two distinguished Keynotes for the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada): * Lee Rainie - Director, Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, USA * Ronald Deibert - Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada. SUBMIT TODAY We would also like to invite scholarly and original submissions that broadly relate to the 2017 conference theme on "Social Media for Social Good or Evil." We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research. See the call for proposals at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-soc ial-media-society/ DEADLINES * Workshops/ Technical Tutorials - Due December 5, 2016 * Full and Work-in-progress (WIP) Papers - Due January 16, 2017 * Posters - Due March 6, 2017 PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES Full and WIP (short) papers presented will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special issue of the Social Media + Society journal ( http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE. 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: * Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair * Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair * Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK - WIP Chair * Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA - WIP Chair Advisory Board: * William H. 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