From anoruzi at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 09:05:02 2016 From: anoruzi at gmail.com (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:05:02 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Webology: Volume 13, Number 1, 2016 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 13, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 13, Number 1, 2016 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - Impact Factor, h-index, i10-index and i20-index of Webology -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Citation analysis, Impact factor; H-index; i10-index; i20-index; Webology -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/editorial21.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - What is being done with open government data? An exploratory analysis of public uses of New York City open data -- Karen Okamoto -- Keywords: Government information; Open data; Citizen participation; New York City -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a142.pdf - Roles of information systems in socio-legal context -- Xingan Li -- Keywords: Information; Information systems; Law; Social order; Social control; Cyberspace; Cybersecurity; Cybercrime -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a143.pdf - Exploring attitudes to online grieving on Facebook through survey research -- Eugenia Kuznetsova, & Alexander Ronzhyn -- Keywords: Online grieving; Online memorial; Online mourning; Facebook; Death -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a144.pdf - A psychobiological model for managing student engagement in online courses using gamification principles -- Leon James -- Keywords: Gamification; Online instruction; Engagement; Game mechanics; Affordances; Affective -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a145.pdf - Gamification in library websites based on motivational theories -- Zahed Bigdeli, Gholamreza Haidari, Alireza HajiYakhchali, & Reza BasirianJahromi -- Keywords: Gamification; Library game; Library websites; Self-determination theory; Flow theory -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a146.pdf - High school students' perspective on the features of consumer health information websites -- Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, V. Vishwa Mohan, Masoumeh Sattari, & Rafat Aliparasti -- Keywords: Health literacy; Health promotion; Health information systems; Health information management; Intermediate School students; Tabriz; Iran -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/a147.pdf ------------------------- Book Reviews ------------------------- - Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach / Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia, Dousa, Thomas M (Eds.) -- Elaheh Hosseini, & Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi -- Keywords: Theories; Information; Communication; Knowledge; Multidisciplinary approach -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/bookreview26.pdf - Radical Information Literacy: Reclaiming the Political Heart of the IL Movement / Andrew Whitworth -- Rahman Marefat, & Yazdan Mansourian -- Keywords: Information literacy; Knowledge Management Approach; Educational Approach; Transformational Approach -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2016/v13n1/bookreview27.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From morianagarcia at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 14:42:18 2016 From: morianagarcia at gmail.com (Moriana Garcia) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:42:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Position Opportunity at the University of Rochester, NY - Science and Engineering Outreach Librarian Message-ID: Feel free to share. Thanks! Moriana --- Moriana L. Molchanov Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS Science & Engineering Outreach Librarian Biology, Computer Science and Chemical Engineering Carlson Science & Engineering Library University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0236 Phone: 585-275-8088 Email: mgarcia at library.rochester.edu *From:* Hill, Latasha *Sent:* Thursday, September 01, 2016 2:12 PM *To:* AllRiverCampusLibraryStaff *Subject:* Position Opportunity - Science and Engineering Outreach Librarian Hello All. A search will be conducted for a Science and Engineering Outreach Librarian for River Campus Libraries. The job description is attached. Qualified library staff are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions, please contact Kelley or me. Best, *Latasha L. Hill* Administrative Assistant River Campus Libraries, HR latasha.hill at rochester.edu (585) 275-9323 *Learn more about us: **www.library.rochester.edu * From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Mon Sep 5 07:00:13 2016 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:00:13 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] New sources for evaluation purposes Message-ID: New edition of the **Ranking Web of Universities** with web data for 26000+ Higher Education Institutions collected during July 2016, Scimago Excellence data for the period 2009-2014 and ranks from the Transparent Ranking built with citations figures extracted from Google Scholar institutional profiles are now available: http://www.webometrics.info/en You can check also the updates of several rankings of individual authors: Top researchers with h-index>100 http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/177 China http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/177 Hong Kong http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/174 Macau http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/149 Finally, it has also refreshed the **Ranking Web of Repositories** http://repositories.webometrics.info/ -- ************************************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo Dr. Honoris Causa Universitas Indonesia Dr. Honoris Causa National Research Nuclear University Moscow Editor Rankings Web Cybermetrics Lab - Scimago Group, IPP-CSIC Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo at csic.es ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter @isidroaguillo Rankings webometrics.info *************************************************************** --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From samchu at hku.hk Tue Sep 6 01:57:34 2016 From: samchu at hku.hk (samchu) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 05:57:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T workshop invitation Message-ID: <1473141454371.75064@hku.hk> Dear all, It's always important to relate to a theory/model in a research. In the workshop "Theory Development within the Information Sciences", Professor Diane Sonnenwald from University College Dublin (the author of the book "Theory Development in the Information Sciences"), Professor Mei-Mei Wu from National Taiwan Normal University, Professor Shanju Lin Chang from National Taiwan University and I (Sam Chu from HKU) will share our experience on how one may create a theory/model in his/her research. Target Participants: PhD candidates / junior researchers and/or faculty who wish to learn/teach theory development For details, please see: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/Theory_Development_Within_the_Information_Sciences.pdf For information on registration, see: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/register/ Best, Sam -------------------------------------------------- Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Ranked 6th best in the world - QS 2015, 2016) Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Managing Editor, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management Tel: (852) 2241-5894 | Fax: (852) 2517-7194 E-mail: samchu at hku.hk Skype Name - chukaiwahsamuel Homepage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu -------------------------------------------------- Latest publications: Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2016, in press). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. Huang, H., Chu, S.K.W., & Chen, D. (2015). Interactions between English-Speaking and Chinese-Speaking users and librarians on Social Networking Sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 66(6), 1150-1166. (http://web.hku.hk/~samchu/docs/Huang-in-press-Interactions-between-English.docx) Ranked 13/85 in ISI's Information & Library Science category - top 15%; Impact Factor: 1.9 (JCR 2014) Cheng, E.W.L., Chu, S.K.W., & Ma, C.S.M. (2015). Tertiary students' intention to e-collaborate for group projects: Exploring the missing link from an extended theory of planned behaviour model. British Journal of Educational Technology. Ranked 61/262 in ISI's Education category - top 23%; Impact Factor: 1.3 (JCR 2014) From brad.eden at valpo.edu Fri Sep 2 14:30:08 2016 From: brad.eden at valpo.edu (Brad Eden) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:30:08 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Special journal issue on content management systems for digital library content Message-ID: Please excuse duplication. Please forward to interested colleagues and other listservs. *Digital Library Perspectives* (*DLP*) is looking for articles for a special issue on innovative uses of content management systems (CMSs)(both licensed and home-grown) for digital library content in libraries, museums, archives, and other information organizations. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged. *DLP* is a peer-reviewed journal. Inquiries can be sent directly to the editor's email listed below (please do not reply to the list). Please send a title and short proposal, along with contact information, to the editor no later than September 30, 2016. Accepted proposals will be due by March 6, 2017, and can be submitted directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral. com/dlp. If you have any questions, please contact the editor directly. Thanks. Brad Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor, *Digital Library Perspectives* Dean of Library Services Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 brad.eden at valpo.edu 219-464-5099 ___________________________________________________ *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* Journal history Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives* *Aims & Scope* *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: - ? Digitization - ? Data as information - ? Archives and manuscripts - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives - ? Usability studies - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Thu Sep 8 11:02:38 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 11:02:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] News from Simmons SLIS Message-ID: *InfoLink, a SLIS Community Newsletter* *Out and About* Dean *Eileen Abels* presented an interactive poster session at IFLA, "Re-visioning Library and Information Science Education within an International Context." The poster reflects research sponsored by an IMLS grant. Associate Professor *Lisa Hussey* traveled to Seoul, South Korea with SLIS students in July to teach a summer course at Yonsei University. Part of Simmons SLIS International Initiatives, the summer Travel Course has been offered since 2008. This summer, Senior Lecturer *Colin Rhinesmith* was a Co-Principal Investigator with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Oklahoma State University for an IMLS grant , titled "At the Edges of the National Digital Platform: Rural Library Hotspot Lending Programs." The purpose of the grant is to study how rural libraries in Kansas and Maine address the challenges of Internet connectivity with hotspot lending programs. Visit our latest SLIS Community News post for more news from SLIS students, faculty, and alumni. *Alumni Events at SAA, ALA, and IFLA* Over 60 students and alums attended the Simmons College Alumni Reception at the Society of American Archivists Conference on Thursday, August 4, at Hilton Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Jeannette Bastian, Associate Professor of Practice Donna Webber, and Associate Professor Katherine Wisser also attended. Simmons SLIS alums, faculty, and students gathered at alumni reception at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Conference on August 14. American Library Association Conference 2016 Simmons Alumni Reception was held on Saturday, June 25 at Hyatt Regency Orlando, FL. *Awards and Grants* *Prof. Bastian's Program Receives Award * The Council of State Archives (CoSA) has awarded the Massachusetts Archives and its partners this year's Rising Star Award for the Massachusetts Municipal Clerks Archival Education Program (MMCARP) project. The Awards Committee ?recognizes the importance of this training program as a state-wide program and a national model.? The Rising Star Award will be presented at the CoSA-Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Atlanta, August 4, 2016. *Computer Science Students and Faculty Awarded Grants from CREU* Asst. Prof. Amber Stubbs and students Amal Saeed and Jazzmine White received a grant from Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU) for their project, ?Identifying and Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs).? Prof Nanette Veilleux and students Karina Bercan, Sara Harland, Emily Chicklis received a CREU grant for ?Intonation and Evidence.? *Knowles and Saunders Appointed to Board of Beta Phi Mu * Dr. *Em Claire Knowles*, Assistant Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs of Simmons SLIS, and Assistant Professor *Laura Saunders*, were appointed to the board of Beta Phi Mu at a meeting on Saturday, June 25 at the American Library Association Annual Conference 2016 in Orlando, FL. *Library Test Kitchen * This Summer, a Library Test Kitchen course was held at Simmons SLIS. Using the Collaboratory, the course offers students the opportunity to experiment with ?human-centered design skills, ethnographic observation and interviews, rapid ideation, applied problem-solving, developing and pitching ideas, identifying assumptions, and design fictions.? We spoke to course instructors Jessica Yurkofsky, Matthew Battles, Jeff Goldenson, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Candy Schwartz, as well as Dean Eileen Abels, for additional insight on this unique course. *Diversity in Archives * Current LIS student *Desiree Alaniz* is the recipient of the 2016 Josephine Forman Scholarship, intended to promote diversity in the American archives profession by offering support to minority students pursuing archival science. In addition to her archives/history dual degree, Alaniz has been active in student groups on campus and in larger social justice issues, such as representation of LGBT communities and diversity in archives. We've asked Desiree a few questions about her time at Simmons SLIS, and her interest in archives. *Upcoming Events this Fall at Simmons SLIS* Introduction to SLIS Boston, September 6 Introduction to SLIS West, September 8 Simmons Hackathon: SharkHack, September 30 Horn Book Awards, October 1 Do you have news to share? Want to continue to receive InfoLink emails? Please send your items and email address to infolink at simmons.edu. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Fri Sep 9 08:47:57 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 07:47:57 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Last Call for Proposals for CPN-DAM Virtual Conference Message-ID: **Please excuse the cross listings** The Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) is accepting proposals for its inaugural 2016 virtual conference, being held November 15th and 16th, 2016. This two-day virtual conference will provide 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. Anyone can submit a proposal. We invite proposals for the following program formats: ? Presentation ? Poster Presentation ? Talk the Practical roundtable We invite submissions on any aspect of digital asset management. This includes, but is not limited to: ? Digital Preservation o Implementations o Workflows o Systems ? Digital Projects o Funding o Workflows o Metadata o Outreach & Marketing ? Platforms o Presentation Layer o Systems o Customizations o Decision process for choosing a platform To view a full list of topics click on possible topics . For submission guidelines click here . *Deadlines* Submission Deadline: September 12, 2016 Acceptance Notification: October 3, 2016 Upload of final version of presentation and poster: October 31, 2016 From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Tue Sep 6 17:42:26 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:42:26 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?SIG_AH_call_for_nominations_=E2=80=93_join_the?= =?utf-8?q?_leadership_team_of_the_2015_SIG-of-the-Year!?= Message-ID: Want to be more involved within ASIS&T but aren?t sure where to start? Looking to gain valuable, applicable skills, network with colleagues, and have fun? The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG AH) is excited to announce our 2016-7 call for nominations for SIG Officers. We have another exciting year planned and are looking for take-charge, enthusiastic folks from all across the organization to build on our momentum from last year. If you?d like to be involved, or if you have any questions, please email me directly at Jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu We look forward to working with you! Thanks, Jeremy ****************** Jeremy L. McLaughlin Chair, SIG AH From pdawson at rider.edu Thu Sep 8 16:37:12 2016 From: pdawson at rider.edu (Patricia Dawson) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 16:37:12 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] "Back to School: Social Media Skills for Research, Networking, and Professional Development" Sept. 27th Message-ID: *Register Now for the September 27th New Jersey & Greater Princeton/Trenton Chapters? Joint Meeting * . *When:* Tuesday, September 27, 2016; 5:30 p.m. ? 9:00 p.m *Where:* The Rutgers Faculty Club, 199 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Phone: 848-932-7139 *Speaker:* Tracy Z. Maleeff *Topic:* ?Back to School: Social Media Skills for Research, Networking, and Professional Development? *Cost:* $25.00 ? NJSLA/SCIP/ALA/AIIP/NJLLA (any chapter) $15.00 ? Students/Retired/Between Jobs $35.00 ? Non-Members *Dinner:* Dinner will be served buffet style, with a variety of choices available. Please notify us if you have special dietary needs. Tracy Z. Maleeff is the owner of her new independent research business, Sherpa Intelligence LLC. She was most recently the Library Resources Manager at Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia. Tracy is an SLA member, the recipient of the 2014 Dow-Jones Innovate Award, and was named a 2015 SLA Fellow. She created the #SLAtalk Twitter chat series. She co-authored ?Network Like Nobody?s Watching: Demystifying Networking as a Skill for Librarians and Info Pros,? which won the SLA 2015 Best in Conference contributed paper. Tracy is active on Twitter @LibrarySherpa. ?Billions of people are using social media and generating massive amounts of content that is ripe to use for things like competitive intelligence or job hunting. Get an understanding of how social media can be an asset in professional life. You will leave with tips on how to better use Twitter and LinkedIn, in addition to heightened knowledge about the social media landscape.? *Registration: http://newjersey.sla.org/event-registration/?ee=18 * Register *online* by *September 21, 2016*. The online registration site gives you the option of paying via PayPal or check. PayPal users can pay using Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover Card, or a bank account. Register by mail by *September 20, 2016*. To pay by mail, complete the bottom portion of the* flyer* and mail it with your check (made payable to NJSLA) to: Cindy Rockoff, 23 Revere Court, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550.*Email:* *cindy.rockoff at gmail.com *. *Phone:* 609-273-3698. *Directions to The Rutgers Faculty Club* *From Route 1:* Take Route 1 towards New Brunswick, and take the Route 18 North exit. Stay on Rt. 18 for approximately 3 ? miles, and take the George Street exit towards Rutgers University. Merge right onto George Street. Follow that around to the second traffic light. Go straight through the light onto Huntington Street (passing the Rutgers Police Department), to the next traffic light. Make a right onto College Avenue. The Rutgers Club will be on your right. *From Route 287:* Take Route 287 to Exit 10, to merge onto Easton Avenue towards New Brunswick. Follow Easton Avenue approximately 3 ? miles, and turn left onto Landing Lane. Then turn right onto George Street, then a slight right onto College Avenue. The Rutgers Club will be on your left. *From the NJ Turnpike:* Take Exit 9; bear right after the toll and merge on to Route 18 North. Stay on Rt. 18 for approximately 3 ? miles, and take the George Street exit towards Rutgers University. Merge right onto George Street. Follow that around to the second traffic light. Go straight through the light onto Huntington Street (passing the Rutgers Police Department), to the next traffic light. Make a right onto College Avenue. The Rutgers Club will be on your right. Pat Dawson Past President, NJ Greater Princeton/Trenton SLA Chapter Patricia H. Dawson, MLS, MS (Microbiology) Associate Professor-Librarian Moore Library, Rider University Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099 http://www.rider.edu/faculty/patricia-h-dawson orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-1243 https://patriciadawson.youcanbook.me/ From silvello at dei.unipd.it Tue Sep 6 12:15:36 2016 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:15:36 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale Workshop co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2017 Message-ID: *** Call for Papers *** 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/ --- 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 WHe at odu.edu Tue Sep 6 10:24:00 2016 From: WHe at odu.edu (He, Wu) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:24:00 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery Emerald's SSCI-indexed journal Interlending & Document Supply (ILDS) is expanding its scope to information science and technology and will change its name to Information Discovery and Delivery at the end of this year. As an incoming editor-in-chief, I cordially invite you to submit your original research papers to our January 2017 issue and subsequent issues. The 2015 impact factor of Interlending & Document Supply is 0.444. Information Discovery and Delivery aims to cover information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organizations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians. The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange and sharing, including within and between libraries. It is also interested in digital information capture, packaging and storage by 'collectors' of all kinds. Information is widely defined, including but not limited to: *Records *Documents *Learning objects *Visual and sound files *Data and metadata and *User-generated content. Further enquiries can be directed to Dr. Wu He (whe at odu.edu) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. To submit your paper, please go to the journal website at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ilds Wu He, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Technology Department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences Strome College of Business Constant Hall 2022 Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 757-683-5008 From xh.gslis at gmail.com Wed Sep 7 07:07:08 2016 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 19:07:08 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] International Reception / Silence Auction @ ASIS&T AM Message-ID: Dear ASIS&T Members: It's about the time of the year! ***Donations Needed for the Silent Auction at the International Reception!!!*** Time to clear out your attic. Set aside items from home. Please bring donated items to the 2016 Annual Meeting in Copenhagen for entry in the International Reception's silent auction, sponsored by SIGIII. If unable to attend, please send donated items with a friend. SIGIII will provide a box by the registration table in which ASIS&T members may drop off silent auction donation items prior to the International Reception. Contact: Xiao Hu, SIGIII Chair xiaoxhu at hku.hk Yao Emma Zhang, SIGIII Co-chair laviedeemma at gmail.com Thank you for your attention! Looking forward to seeing you in the fun event! Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building Tel: 22194722 Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Sep 12 10:49:25 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:49:25 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] Special issue call: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism In-Reply-To: <20160906180035.48FCA6340EB9@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20160906180035.48FCA6340EB9@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] Special issue call: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:18:40 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear tripleC Readers, We want to make you aware of a new, open call for abstracts to a tripleC special issue: Call for Abstracts: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/27 Guest Editors: Thomas Allmer and Ergin Bulut Modern universities have always been part of and embedded into capitalism in political, economic and cultural terms. In 1971, at the culmination of the Vietnam War, the Chomsky-Foucault debate reminded us of this fact when a young student pointed a question towards Chomsky: ?How can you, with your very courageous attitude towards the war in Vietnam, survive in an institution like MIT, which is known here as one of the great war contractors and intellectual makers of this war?? (Chomsky and Foucault 2006, 63) Chomsky responded dialectically, but also had to admit that the academic institution he is working for is a major organisation of war research and thereby strengthens the political contradictions and inequalities in capitalist societies. Edward P. Thompson, one of the central figures in the early years of British cultural studies, edited the book ?Warwick University Ltd? in 1970. Thompson was working at the University of Warwick then and published together with colleagues and students a manuscript that discovered, as the title suggests, the close relationship of their university with industry and industrial capitalism. The book also revealed some evidence of secret political surveillance of staff and students by the university uncovered by students occupying the Registry at Warwick at that time. The relationship between state control and global capitalism has intensified in the last decades. With the collapse of the welfare state and the drop of public funds, universities are positioning themselves as active agents of global capital, transforming urban spaces into venues for capital accumulation and competing for international student populations for profit. In this environment, students have to pay significant amounts of tuition for precarious futures. Similarly, teaching and research faculties across the globe have to negotiate their roles that are often strictly defined in an entrepreneurial manner. Increasingly, the value of academic labour is measured in capitalist terms and therefore subject to new forms of control, surveillance and productivity measures. As the recent cases of Steven Salaita (USA), Academics for Peace (Turkey) and the crackdown against students in India reveal, academic labour and academics in general are also facing immense challenges in terms of state control and freedom of speech. Situated in this economic and political context, the overall task of this special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is to gather critical contributions examining universities, academic labour, digital media and capitalism. We are thus particularly interested in articles focusing on (1) the context, history and theoretical concepts underlying academic labour, (2) the relationship between academic work and digital media/new information and communication technologies/the Internet/social media and (3) the political potentials and challenges within higher education. We welcome submissions that cover one or more of the following or related questions. 1. Contextualising and Theorising Academic Labour ? What is the historical role of universities and academic labour and how has it changed over time? ? What is the role of universities for capitalist development in the age of neoliberalism and post-Fordism (e.g. employability, market-driven and industrial research)? ? How far can the neoliberal university be considered as medium and outcome of informational capitalism? ? How far can the university expansion be understood as a dialectic development of progress and regress, social achievement and advanced commodification? ? What is meant by concepts such as Warwick University Ltd, McUniversity, academic proletarianisation, edu-factory, corporate university, academic capitalism, entrepreneurial university, university gamble, digital diploma mills, global university, DIY university, etc. in the context of academic labour? How are these concepts related to the wider social context and the existing capitalist order? How can a systematic typology of the existing literature be constructed? ? What is the role of the concept of value for understanding academic labour? ? What is the role of the concepts of the working class and the proletariat for theorising academic labour? ? How should we define academic labour; who is included/excluded by this understanding? Where does adjunct labour stand? ? What kind of workers are academics and how are they related to knowledge, informational and cultural workers? ? How far can the outcomes of academic labour be considered as part of the information and communication commons? ? To what extent rests informational capitalism on the commons produced at universities? ? What are the important dimensions for constructing a typology of working conditions within higher education (e.g. new managerialism, audit culture, workload, job insecurity)? ? How do different working contexts and conditions in academia shape feelings of autonomy, flexibility and reputation on the one hand and precariousness, overwork and dissatisfaction on the other? 2. Academic Labour and Digital Media ? Given that the academic work process is today strongly mediated through digital media, to what extent can academic workers be considered as digital workers, and academic labour as digital labour? ? In how far can digital education and online distance learning be understood as a new capital accumulation strategy that aims at attracting international students in a commodified and competitive higher education market? ? In how far can digital education be regarded as a response to neoliberal conditions within higher education? ? How do digital media/new information and communication technologies/the Internet/social media frame the working conditions of academics? ? How are the working conditions of academics characterised by intensification and extensification in the realm of the digital university (e.g. the blurring of working space and other spaces of human life, the blurring of labour and free time, fast academia, always-on cultures, deskilling, casualisation, electronic monitoring, digital surveillance, social media use for self-promotion, new forms of intellectual property rights)? 3. Politics, Struggles and Alternatives ? How do the broader political realities and potentials in terms of solidarity, participation and democracy at universities look like? ? What is the relationship between the state and academic labour? What are some of the lessons that we can learn from global crackdowns on academic labour? ? What are the challenges in order to reclaim the university as site of struggle for both academics and students? ? How far can the struggle at universities be connected to the global struggle against capitalism? ? How do the political potentials of alternatives within higher education look like (e.g. informal learning processes, co-operative education, open education, open access, copyleft, creative and digital commons, Wikiversity)? Deadlines: Abstract submission: 31 October 2016 All abstracts will be reviewed and decisions on acceptance/rejection will be communicated to the authors by the end of November 2016. Full paper submission: 15 April 2017 Please submit article title, author name(s), contact data and abstract of 200-400 words to: Thomas Allmer, thomas.allmer at uti.at and Ergin Bulut, erginb at gmail.com About the Guest Editors: Thomas Allmer is Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, and a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria. His publications include Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2012) and Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification (Routledge, 2015). For further information, please see: http://allmer.uti.at Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Arts in Istanbul. His research interests include political economy of media, digital media and politics, and media labor. Together with Michael A. Peters, he edited Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor (Peter Lang, 2011). His work has been published in TV & New Media, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at From sandy.hirsh at sjsu.edu Sun Sep 11 23:49:55 2016 From: sandy.hirsh at sjsu.edu (Sandy Hirsh) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:49:55 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] SJSU School of Information Assistant Professor position announcement Message-ID: <40CD46D6-5F4D-4913-9BCD-8A69CDEF8996@sjsu.edu> The School of Information at San Jos? State University is recruiting for a tenure track assistant professor in the area of Organizational Management and Behavior in Information Professions. Applicants should have: ? Experience in teaching 100% online courses in: ? Challenges and critical success factors of information service development. ? Strategic long term management and daily challenges involved in leading and supporting physical and digital library initiatives. ? Effective mediation between the users of information and the resources and information systems in specific organizational contexts. ? Best practices in library and information service strategic planning. ? Performance measures that contribute to the effective development of library and information services. Research interests in at least one of the following: ? Advocacy and advocacy metrics in the information professions. ? Decision making in the information professions. ? Management of globally distributed teams of information professionals who work in globally distributed online environments ?both profit and nonprofit. An earned doctorate must be completed by the time of application. Applications close on January 12, 2017.?? For complete information see: http://ischool.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/content_pdf/soi.pdf Dr. Sandy Hirsh -School Director-will be attending the ASIS&T meeting in Copenhagen and will be happy to talk with anyone interested.? Please email her to set up an appointment: Sandy.Hirsh at sjsu.edu _______________ Sandra Hirsh Professor and Director School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192 - 0029 (408) 924 - 2491; fax: (408) 924 - 2476 Sandy.hirsh at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu From WHe at odu.edu Fri Sep 9 10:17:07 2016 From: WHe at odu.edu (He, Wu) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:17:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery In-Reply-To: References: , , , , , Message-ID: Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery Emerald's SSCI-indexed journal Interlending & Document Supply (ILDS) is expanding its scope to information science and technology and will change its name to Information Discovery and Delivery at the end of this year. As an incoming editor-in-chief, I cordially invite you to submit your original research papers to our January 2017 issue and subsequent issues. The 2015 impact factor of Interlending & Document Supply is 0.444. Information Discovery and Delivery aims to cover information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organizations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians. The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange and sharing, including within and between libraries. It is also interested in digital information capture, packaging and storage by 'collectors' of all kinds. Information is widely defined, including but not limited to: *Records *Documents *Learning objects *Visual and sound files *Data and metadata and *User-generated content. Further enquiries can be directed to Dr. Wu He (whe at odu.edu) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. To submit your paper, please go to the journal website at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ilds Wu He, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Technology Department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences Strome College of Business Constant Hall 2022 Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 757-683-5008 From rba at boballen.info Thu Sep 15 22:17:07 2016 From: rba at boballen.info (Robert B Allen) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:17:07 +0900 Subject: [Asis-l] Rich Semantics and Direct Representation for Digital Collections (Workshop) Message-ID: <1473992227.397287.727361529.69BCEF20@webmail.messagingengine.com> Rich Semantics and Direct Representation for Digital Collections Workshop following 2016 Asian Digital Library Conference, Tsukuba Japan, December 9, 2016 richsemantics.org Papers and abstracts due Oct 2, 2016 Rich semantics supports detailed information organization for the contents of documents, across documents, and even across resources in different modalities. In its strongest form, rich semantics provides highly- structured direct representations. This workshop welcomes papers on new directions for frameworks using such rich information organization. Rich semantics goes beyond simple models for linked data such as those using RDF-based triples and beyond ad hoc ontologies. Rather, rich semantic frameworks may include complex entities, dynamic models, schemas, systems, and descriptive programs. Interdisciplinary work which combines approaches from areas such as LIS, linguistics, programming languages, philosophy, jurisprudence, sociology, discourse, and system analysis, and intelligent agents is particularly welcome. Examples of services based on these high-level structures are also welcome. In addition, the workshop will consider descriptions of rich semantic information organization in specific areas including biology, law, medicine, history, and biography. Work on upper ontologies should go beyond existing frameworks or show how they can be applied to especially complex scenarios. Work on text mining should emphasize significant, novel, and general semantic structures. From hong1.cui at gmail.com Thu Sep 15 23:58:51 2016 From: hong1.cui at gmail.com (Hong cui) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:58:51 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Post-Doc Fellow Positions at iSchool of University of Arizona Message-ID: Dear all, We have new post-doctoral opportunities available in Tucson, Arizona, USA, with the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies (the new research center housed in Arizona's iSchool). Our start and end dates/timing can be negotiated, and we'd love to hear from you! http://uacareers.com/postings/ 13452 The University of Arizona?s (UA) Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, in coordination with faculty from UA?s School of Information and School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), welcomes applications for three (3) postdoctoral fellows beginning in Late October or Early November, 2016 and ending August, 2017 (these are 10-month positions). The fellows will work with Professors Catherine Brooks, Samara Klar, and Yotam Shmargad on a series of projects related to government surveillance, technology use in developing countries, and the role of Big Data in political elections. Working with faculty mentors, fellows will write scholarly research papers, produce opinion pieces for popular media outlets, and communicate with stakeholders such as government officials and think tanks. Fellows will also support proposal development for external grant opportunities that are aligned with these research areas. Fellows should have strong methodological backgrounds and writing skills. We invite applicants from across the methodological spectrum, though priority will be given to those with expertise in statistical modeling, experiments in the lab or field, surveys, or ethnographic interviews. The goals of this project are to generate research findings that will inform policy, create new avenues for advocacy, and inform the broader public. Please share and forward, we would very much appreciate that! Catherine F. Brooks, PhD, Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies (CDSDS) http://cdsds.arizona.edu/ Associate Director, Arizona's iSchool, School of Information at UAhttp://si.arizona.edu/? -- Hong Cui, Ph.D Associate Professor, Information Technology Director of Graduate Studies School of Information (NOW on the 4th floor of the Harvill Building) University of Arizona ETC Bi-Weekly Hangout Member of Plazi.org Sustaining Member of NPR KUAZ Radio From heidijul at buffalo.edu Tue Sep 13 10:33:54 2016 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:33:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] University at Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies Newsletter Message-ID: We are delighted to launch the third volume of our annual departmental newsletter, The Informed. Please enjoy it at: http://bit.ly/TheInformedV3. Please excuse cross-posting. ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 526 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: 716-645-1474 Fax: 716-645-3775 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Leon Megginson From hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu Thu Sep 15 02:38:33 2016 From: hsuanwei.chen at sjsu.edu (H. Michelle Chen) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:38:33 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] San Jose State Big Data Certificate Online Program Message-ID: Whether you're currently working with big data in healthcare, finance or another industry, I encourage you to check out a new Certificate in Big Data program offered *exclusively online* by San Jose State University. The Certificate in Big Data program is uniquely designed to provide customization. While covering the wide spectrum of the big data pipeline, courses in the online program also feature individualized course projects. For example, one of the three courses is all about understanding big data technologies and how to optimize technology in order to abstract data and formulate a business strategy. Students gain practical experience utilizing big data technologies through online lab work and a small project. Data analysts, for instance, could tailor the course project to business goals and/or personal career aspirations. Please visit the program website and take a look around. The course syllabi are posted, as well as the program learning outcomes. If you have any questions, I can be reached at hsuanwei. chen at sjsu.edu. Best 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 rhill at asis.org Thu Sep 15 15:22:07 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (=?utf-8?Q?Richard=20Hill?=) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:22:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?There=27s_Still_Time!?= Message-ID: Join us for the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. ** Join us, 14-18 October, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------ Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology REGISTER NOW! (https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/register/) Plenary Speakers Markus Bundschuss Head Scientific & Business Information Services, Roche Diagnostics Penzberg, Germany Greg Welch Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing, USA ============================================================ 1st Time Attendee? This year, the ASIS&T Annual Meeting is offering one low registration rate of $555 to first time meeting attendees. Hurry now to take advantage of this exclusive offer! ** https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ (https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/) Venue : Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers ** RESERVE YOUR ROOM TODAY (http://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/copenhagen/rkecp/hoteldetail?qAdlt=1&qBrs=6c.hi.ex.rs.ic.cp.in.sb.cw.cv.ul.vn&qChld=0&qFRA=1&qGRM=0&qGrpCd=ASI&qIta=99801505&qPSt=0&qRRSrt=rt&qRef=df&qRms=1&qRpn=1&qRpp=12&qSHp=1&qSmP=3&qSrt=sBR&qWch=0&srb_u=1&icdv=99801505) ASIS&T attendees receive a special group rate of DKK 1.340 single or double occupancy. DKK 2.440 for suites. All rates inclusive of breakfast and VAT. Experience City Center Copenhagen Copenhagen is the world's happiest capital. In Copenhagen, you will find a wide range of entertainment, culture and shopping. 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USA From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Fri Sep 16 11:52:41 2016 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:52:41 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Finding your next academic position/ academic hire at the Annual Meeting Message-ID: Searching for your next academic job? Trying to fill an available academic position? Then come join us for ASIS&T?s Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-18 2016, where doctoral students and hiring departments will have the opportunity to mingle, network, and learn about each other (perhaps even interview!). As a free service, ASIS&T brings together hiring departments and job-seeking candidates all in one convenient location. It is not too late to post your academic position, or to post in your resume, on our website. Find registration and further information here ( https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/jobs/ We shall see you all in beautiful Copenhagen. Nadia From chirags at rutgers.edu Wed Sep 14 23:45:57 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:45:57 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Promotion: ASIS&T European Student Chapter miniBarcamp event in Copenhagen References: <956c876031b182f9cdd24e3a490b5049@uni-duesseldorf.de> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Aylin Ilhan > Subject: Promotion: ASIS&T European Student Chapter miniBarcamp event in Copenhagen > Date: September 12, 2016 at 11:19:56 AM EDT > To: > > Dear friends, > > the European Student Chapter would like to call your attention to our ASIS&T European Student Chapter miniBARcamp event in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is about an unconstrained get together (for free) between interested people to share their research backgrounds/own interests and get in touch with persons with similar interests on the field of information science and technology. Everyone who is interested to come is also preliminary invited to suggest a topic for discussion. > > The ESC would like to offer an open space for interesting discussions the evening before the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Copenhagen starts. The topic of the annual meeting is: "Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology" > Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. > Interested people get together to share research backgrounds/own interests and get in touch with persons with similar interests. As a special option, we would like to invite students and colleagues from Copenhagen to participate in this miniBARcamp (October the 15th, 17:30 ? 20:00 h) to bring together ASIS&T members and people from Copenhagen ? even if they are not participating at the conference or not a member of ASIS&T. We would like to foster or enable opportunities for future collaboration and enhance the visibility of ASIS&T in Copenhagen. > Our special guest will be Tja?a Jug ? she is the winner of the Movie Meets Science Contest 2016 and will present her short video as well as talk about her experience during the contest. > Everybody who participates is invited to bring own ideas and topics to be discussed. This could be the own thesis or dissertation or the work within ASIS&T groups or anything else. The topics that are going to be discussed will be decided collectively by the audience (barcamp format). > As it is a miniBARcamp we will provide snacks and drinks. > > http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?p=1115 > > Facebook Event-Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/490028274537032/ > > The European Student Chapter hereby invites you sincerely to join our event and/or we would be very delighted, if you could share it. > > > Your > ESC > > ************************************************************************************ > > Best regards, > Aylin Ilhan > > > -- > Aylin Ilhan, B.A., B.A. > Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf > Dept. of Information Science > Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 86 > Universit?tsstra?e 1 > D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany > aylin.ilhan at hhu.de > https://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/mitarbeiter/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter-hilfskraefte/aylin-ilhan/ From plato.smith at ufl.edu Thu Sep 15 15:18:45 2016 From: plato.smith at ufl.edu (Smith, Plato) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:18:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Data Management Librarian position at Auburn Message-ID: Please pardon the cross-post and contact Patricia Hartman for more information via pjh0011 at auburn.edu. Thanks. - Plato Auburn University Libraries Research Data Management Librarian ________________________________ The Auburn University Libraries invite applications for a new full-time, 12-month, tenure track, library faculty position. Auburn is one of the nation's premier land, sea, and space grant institutions. In U.S. News and World Report, it has been ranked in the top 50 public universities for the last 23 consecutive years. The institution is both highly research-active and committed to maintaining teaching excellence, offering bachelor, master, educational specialist and doctoral degrees. Its fall of 2015 enrollment of 27,287 students includes 21,786 undergraduates and 4,398 graduate students, and 1,103 professional-doctoral students. There are 1216 full time academic faculty members distributed across nine colleges and three schools with degrees offered in 200 academic programs. Auburn University is nationally recognized for its commitment to academic excellence, positive work environment, exciting student life, and the beauty of its campus. It is geographically located in a moderate climate with easy access to both beach and mountain recreational facilities and is situated along the rapidly developing I-85 corridor between Atlanta, Georgia and Montgomery, Alabama. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Public Services/Head of Reference and Instruction Services, the Research Data Management Librarian (Data Librarian) is responsible for leading a campus-wide effort to build a research data management infrastructure at Auburn University, including the development and provision of services to support the organization, dissemination, and preservation of data generated by the University's research enterprise. The Data Librarian collaborates with the Libraries' Assistant Dean for Research, the Libraries' IT department, and the Libraries' subject specialist faculty to establish working relationships with faculty, staff, students, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) and Proposal Services and Faculty Support (PSFS) in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED), and the University administration. The Data Librarian assists faculty, staff, and students in managing research data throughout the research lifecycle, including assisting with data management planning, research data best practices, data documentation, and ingest of data into discipline-specific or generalist data repositories. Specifically, the Data Librarian will be responsible for developing and implementing a research data services needs assessment, taking the lead in drafting library and University policies for research data management, and helping to build a campus infrastructure for identifying, managing, describing, preserving, and making research data discoverable and accessible. The Data Librarian's duties include: * Working with administrative and academic units outside of the Libraries to develop and sustain services for managing research data produced at Auburn University. This includes: o Consulting with researchers about data management, reuse, preservation, and accessibility. o Assisting researchers with creating documentation and metadata aimed at preparing data for deposit in digital repositories, including AUrora (Auburn's institutional repository) and the Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet). o Working with Proposal Services and Faculty Support (PSFS) in helping faculty to write data management plans. o Assisting faculty in meeting funder requirements for providing public access to research results, including data. * Participating in campus initiatives, committees, and task forces related to research data management and storage in order to build capacity for addressing the University's RDM needs. * Tracking national and international developments in data management and participating in library, campus, regional, and national discussions regarding cooperative data management activities and services. * Promoting the role of the Libraries in supporting University research endeavors. Example: the Data Librarian will work with subject specialists to identify and plan for the disposition of data generated by the five recently established Cluster Hire research teams (see http://www.auburn.edu/academic/provost/strategic_hire.html). * Developing and maintaining Web pages that describe campus and funding agency data policies, guidelines, best practices and library services. Library faculty members engage in the formal and informal teaching of internal and external audiences, including other library departments. The Data Librarian develops and delivers training and instruction related to the Libraries' institutional repository and data management in visiting lectures, workshops, and forums. The Data Librarian will be expected to design and produce training documents, self-guided tutorials, user guides and other print and web-based instructional materials. This tenure-track faculty position is being offered at the beginning rank of Librarian II (equivalent to Assistant Professor). The Data Librarian is a member of the University Libraries faculty. Library faculty serve on committees and task forces both at the library and university level and take a leadership role in local, state and national/international library and academic societies and organizations. Librarians are expected to share expertise and results of research with other information professionals via development of new technologies, publication in refereed journals, and poster sessions and presentations at professional meetings. Librarians are expected to align their work with the University's and Libraries' mission of supporting student success and research productivity. Requirements * A Master's degree by date of appointment from an ALA-accredited program or equivalent * Ability to connect with a wide range of people on campus, from undergraduate students to associate deans, with a clear and relevant data-related message to each population segment * Ability to work through groups and committees to implement new technology services and technology capacity on campus * Ability to advocate and promote data services to all segments, e.g. through a Data Information Literacy program * Ability to keep up with new developments in the field * Demonstrated knowledge of the issues and technical challenges related to research data management * Demonstrated understanding of the research process from conception to completion (i.e. conception, data collection, analysis, synthesis, and publication) * Familiarity with current best practices for research data management * Familiarity with one or more of the current metadata standards and formats for describing research data * Ability to work effectively and collegially with a diverse population * Ability to develop and execute a personal research agenda and to contribute to published research in data management and curation * Flexibility and the ability to deliver quickly on desired products and services * Strong technical and problem-solving skills * Excellent written and oral communication skills Preferred Qualifications * At least one year of relevant data management experience in an academic, scientific, or corporate setting * Experience working with data and researchers across a wide range of disciplines * Experience collaborating with many types of professionals, from engineers to IT people to lawyers * Familiarity or experience with software programs used in data-intensive research, such as visualization or statistical software * Experience working with DMPTool (or similar tools) to prepare data management plans (DMPs) * Project management experience * Experience teaching or doing academic outreach * Advanced degree in a data-intensive research field * Experience with one or more commonly used data repository platforms * Experience working in an academic library environment * Grant-writing experience and/or experience with being included as a data management specialist in sponsored research proposals * Familiarity with federal funding requirements for data management * Evidence of participation in professional societies and organizations Salary/Benefits: Minimum salary $54,025 at the rank of Librarian II, higher with experience or appointment as a Librarian III. Rank will be commensurate with experience/qualifications. This is a twelve month tenure-track position. Benefits include 20 days' vacation leave/12 days' sick leave per year; participation in State Teachers' Retirement System (mandatory); other additional voluntary retirement plans available; health/dental/life/disability insurance. The application review process begins September 16, 2016 and will continue until a qualified candidate is selected and recommended for appointment. Complete applications must include letter of interest, resume or curriculum vitae, and the names and full addresses of three current, professional references. The candidate selected for this position must be able to meet eligibility requirements to work in the United States at the time appointment is scheduled to begin and continue working legally for the proposed term of employment. Apply To: http://aufacultypositions.peopleadmin.com/postings/1826 "Auburn University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities for all individuals without regard to race, sex, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by applicable law." Kim Conner Executive Assistant/Business Manager Auburn University Libraries 231 Mell Street Auburn, AL 36849-5606 334.844.7421 334.844.4424 (Fax) From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sun Sep 18 07:33:20 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:33:20 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Published by Springer) Message-ID: <201609181133.u8IBXnpR010935@smtp.dei.uc.pt> * ** Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email, or if its content is irrelevant for you. * ** Please forward for your contacts. Thank you very much! * --------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto santo Isalnd, 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. 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) - 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) - 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) - 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 13, 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 - WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Sun Sep 18 16:19:17 2016 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:19:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Final Call for 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium (#cssws16), Deadline September 30 References: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D101449B30BD@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D101449D630E@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ============================================================== FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30 ============================================================== 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 a talk at this years' CSS Winter Symposium: Noshir CONTRACTOR (Northwestern University), Tina ELIASSI-RAD (Northeastern University), 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 will be a two-day event consisting of: * an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * an open call for contributed posters and short presentations that will provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss their own work * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- September30 2016: submissions due October 18 2016: notifications November 14 2016: registration deadline Nov 30 - Dec 01 2016: symposium days ------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSIONS FOR POSTERS + SHORT PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------ We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and methods for computational social science. Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, networks, communities and teams - Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and information on the web - Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, prejudice via new kinds of data - Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet - Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban planning - Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods) - Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational data on the Web - Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online - Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze social data on the Web - Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the social sciences Other related topics are explicitly welcome. --------------------------- PRESENTATION FORMATS --------------------------- Based on the submitted abstracts, submissions may be accepted as posters and/or short presentations. The standard format will be a poster presentation. As this is a single track conference, only few submissions can be selected for short plenary presentations of approx. 10-15 minutes. --------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------- Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit work-in-progress. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there are no proceedings. We may however discuss options for publishing selected submissions after the conference (e.g. as a journal special issue or edited collection). Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions. Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair submission system for the event: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws16 The full call for submissions can also be found at: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/call/ ---------------------------- ORGANIZATION AND VENUE ---------------------------- The GESIS CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at KOMED Im MediaPark 7. We aim to keep registration costs as low as possible (approx. around 70 EUR). More information will be made available soon. Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------ CONTACT ------------ SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: -------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: diana.lindner at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-401 From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Sep 20 10:16:34 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:16:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?The_12th_Annual_Social_Informatics_Research_Sy?= =?utf-8?q?mposium_=28SIG-SI=29=3A_=E2=80=9CThe_Social_Informatics_of_Work?= =?utf-8?b?IGFuZCBQbGF54oCd?= Message-ID: <0D7A2838-9EDF-488B-84F2-21A0B444D0E4@indiana.edu> The 12th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG-SI): ?The Social Informatics of Work and Play? Please join us in Copenhagen and celebrate with us as we mark the 12th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium! Saturday, October 15, 2015, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers Copenhagen, Denmark Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu) Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Note: Early registration deadline for the conference and the workshop is Friday, 9/25/2015 Schedule 8:30-8:40 Welcome 8:40-9:10 Opening Keynote Kalpana Shankar University of Dublin 9:10-10:10 Papers 9:10-9:30 An Analysis of Canadian Media Regarding The Potential Impact of Social Media and Cyberspaces on young bisexual and gay men Blake Hawkins; Elizabeth Saewyc 9:30-9:50 Coping with Private and Academic Information Needs Abroad: An exploratory Study of International Students Jette Hyldeg?rd and Morten Hertzum, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen 9:50-10:10 Impact of IT on Library Patrons: A Perspective from Pakistani Universities Muhammad Sajid MirzaIslamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad 10:10-10:30 Break 10:30-11:10 Papers 10:30-10:50 Rethinking STIN Chase McCoy, Indiana University 10:50-11:10 Algorithms and the natural attitude Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University 11:10-12:00 Awards 11:10-11:25 Best Student paper Tweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks 11:25-11:40 Best Social Informatics Paper Runner up Online Favela: The Use of Social Media by the Marginalized in Brazil David Nemer, University of Kentucky 11:40-11:55 Best Social Informatics Paper Social Networks and the Success of Market Intermediaries: Evidence From the U.S. Residential Real Estate Industry Kevin Crowston and Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University 12:00-12:30 Closing Keynote Eric Meyer Oxford Internet Institute Registration Fees: Early-bird: $90 Late: $120 To register for the workshop (and the conference): https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/register/ For more about the workshop: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/seminars-and-workshops/11th-annual-social-informatics-research-symposium-the-impacts-of-social-informatics-research-sigsi/ For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu From asis at gwizdka.com Tue Sep 20 18:13:31 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:13:31 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CFP: Special Issue on Search As Learning - Information Retrieval Journal Message-ID: 2nd Call: Special Issue of Springer's Information Retrieval Journal: Search As Learning. http://www.springer.com/10791 Guest editors: * Carsten Eickhoff, ETH Zurich * Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas Austin * Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology * Jiyin He, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Submission deadline: October 15, 2016 ============================== 1. Call for Papers Search systems today are mostly viewed as tools to satisfy immediate information needs instead of complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Research on the design, development and evaluation of search systems that foster learning and enhance the learning experience is scarce. Equally scarce is our current understanding of search as a human learning process. Opportunities exist today to not only observe and interpret users? behavior through the lens of search logs but also to enrich this information with detailed multimodal data streams gathered by tracking devices and sensors. In this special issue, we aim to provide a forum for researchers who explore the role of search in the learning process to examine challenging research questions, showcase the state-of-the-art and share breakthroughs. 2. Topics of Interest * Log/lab-based studies on when and how learning occurs in the search process; * The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts; * Search system features that foster learning (both searching to learn and learning to search); * Search interface designs in support of learning; * The implications of search for learning for different populations (children, low-literacy searchers, etc.); * The roles of affect and engagement on learning whilst searching; * Methods and measures to assess searchers' learning; * Measuring learning outcomes to assess IR system performance; * Learning analytics for search contexts; * Collaborative aspects of search as learning; * Interaction monitoring, modeling and optimization for learning outcomes. 3. Submission guidelines Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/10791(submit online). At the beginning of the submission processing Editorial Manager, under ?Article Type?, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process. For inquiries on the above please contact Claudia Hauff, c.hauff at tudelft.nl. 4. Important dates * Initial submission due: October 15, 2016 * Initial reviewer feedback: November 21, 2016 * Revised submission due: December 21, 2016 * Final decision: February 15, 2017 ------- Jacek Gwizdka, PhD http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.442 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From hiris at uwm.edu Wed Sep 21 12:13:15 2016 From: hiris at uwm.edu (Iris Xie) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:13:15 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Winners of ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research Contest Message-ID: Winners of ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research Contest ASIS&T invited students in the dissertation or defense stages of their doctoral career to submit a short video introducing the world to the exciting and engaging research they are doing as a part of the ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research contest. The selection committee reviewed all submissions and selected the winners. The approved videos will be featured on the ASIS&T website (https://www.asist.org/doctoral-student-research-videos/). This initiative was co-sponsored by the ASIS&T membership committee, ASIS&T Education and Professional Advancement committee, and ASIS&T Outreach and Engagement task force. Top Winner We are pleased to announce the top winner of this contest is Ms. Olubukola Oduntan, University of Strathclyde, for her original and creative video "Information behavior of refugees" The top winner will receive a free one-year ASIS&T Membership or renewal, as well as the opportunity to have her research in the ASIST&T Bulletin. Her video will be featured on the ASIST website. Winners The following winners will also receive a free one-year ASIS&T Membership or renewal, and have their videos featured on the ASIS&T website: Tali Gazit, Bar-Ilan University "Factors behind participating and lurking in Facebook groups" Jamie Johnston, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences "Conversation-based programming in public libraries and immigrant integration" Vanessa Kitzie, Rutgers University "Examining the information practices of LGBTQ+ individuals" Pei-Yi Kuo, Northwestern University "EcoSant?: Effect of Daily Challenges on Health and Pro-Environmental Behaviors" A.J. Million, University of Missouri "Bureaucratic organization and innovation" Carol Sabbar, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "Information seeking by scholars for non-English sources" Joan Xu, University of Alabama "User Engagement in Visual Context" We would like to thank all the doctoral students for participating and the committee who reviewed and critiqued the videos. Congratulations to Olubukola Oduntan, along with all the other doctoral students who are featured on the ASIS&T website. Check their videos on our ASIS&T website (https://www.asist.org/doctoral-student-research-videos/)! Selection Committee Chair: Iris Xie Lisa Given Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Diane Pennington ************************************************* Iris Xie, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Phone:(414)229-6835 Fax:(414)229-6699 https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/hiris/www/index.html ************************************************* From kc892 at comminfo.rutgers.edu Tue Sep 20 12:08:20 2016 From: kc892 at comminfo.rutgers.edu (Kaitlin Costello) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:08:20 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_Proposals=3A_Third_Rutgers_iScho?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ol_Research_Invitational_for_Master=B9s_Students?= Message-ID: Call for Proposals: Third Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational for Master's Students November 4-5, 2016 Deadline: October 9, 2016 Notification of decision: October 12, 2016 Rutgers University iSchool invites students with in-progress and completed master's degrees to the Third Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational. The conference focus is to showcase iSchool master's student research interests (completed, in-progress and prospective work), and to network with our iSchool community. Attendees will present a research poster. They will participate in networking events such as a catered dinner, research presentations by current PhD students, and discussions with iSchool faculty. The participants will also have a unique opportunity to learn about Rutgers PhD program and the excellent benefits it offers to those interested in pursuing research in iSchools. A complete proposal for participation requires: Poster abstracts of up to 500 words outlining your research interests and any results you have gleaned to-date, a CV, and a cover letter of introduction briefly describing you, your background and career plans. Applications will be considered by a juried panel of Rutgers faculty based upon thorough completion of the requested materials, depth of coverage, and fit in the iSchool scholarly fields. Selected participants will be reimbursed for up to $300 for travel to Rutgers University. Their hotel for up to two nights, local transportations, and meals will also be covered. Tentative schedule for the event: Friday, November 4: Noon Lunch; Tour of Rutgers; Poster presentations by the participants; Dinner; Optional night out with current Rutgers doctoral students. Saturday, November 5: Breakfast; Presentations by current students and faculty; Research games and exercises in groups; Lunch; Optional tour of the area. Apply today: https://goo.gl/forms/RTRuVZca4h3sBtls2 For more information, contact: Dr. Kaitlin Costello (k.costello at rutgers.edu) Rutgers iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in areas such as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Human Computer Interaction; Human factors, Health informatics, Social and Ubiquitous computing, Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; Social and Community Informatics. 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. About the Ph.D. program: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html From kokou at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Sep 21 12:26:54 2016 From: kokou at u-bourgogne.fr (Kokou Yetongnon) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:26:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] SLNA@IEEE SITIS2016 (Social Networks, Large Networks and their Applications Message-ID: <1152229094.23959445.1474475214257.JavaMail.zimbra@u-bourgogne.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) !!!!!! Submission Deadline September, 24 !!!! =================================================================== 2016 IEEE International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS Track on Social Networks, Large Networks and their Applications (SLNA) Naples Italy, 28 November ? 1 December 2016 http://www.sitis-conf.org/ =================================================================== Recently, social networks have grown rapidly in size and popularity. The global internet population has witnessed a popular expansion to reach billions of users around the world. For connected users, social networks provide a most suitable space for sharing data, interacting with other users and forming communities with common interests. Social networks have important impacts on today?s society not only in terms of structure and dynamics, but also regarding scientific and technological aspects. Social networks raise new research challenges due to the numerous emerging needs and applications. The focus of this track is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for social and more generally large networks analysis, tools and applications, including issues related to complex graphs, semantics, big data, and security. The topics of interest for this track include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Network Analysis - methods, algorithms, processes Social graph processing / manipulation Usage / implementation of Big Data algorithms Avoiding fragmentation of the social graph *Open cross-platform interactions *Usage of Identity algorithms (OAuth, openID, etc.) *Usage of Identity APIs Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction Information diffusion in Social Networks Social analytic tools Approaches based on Semantic Web Technologies Ontologies for managing social networks Social networks and cultural information Social Network Analysis of Terrorist Networks Cyber surveillance for unlawful activities for critical infrastructure protection Participatory surveillance Social Networks and Security Privacy-preserving Social network Analysis Social Networks Analysis for security applications Social network-based security measures and controls Social Networks Analysis for identifying and assessing cyber risks Security by means of Social Networks Analysis Information security measures and controls, to help in identifying and assessing cyber risks Architectures and methods for social network management Social media search and management in large scale environments Searching blogs, tweets, and other social media Frameworks and Methodologies for large scale Collaboration Collective Awareness Platforms for Social (CAPS) and business innovation Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline social networks Traffic prediction for dimensioning media applications User-centric applications Exploiting user mobility and geolocation Ontology-based user profiling Social and Ethical Issues in a Networked World Human-powered community question answering and expert finding Social, mobile, pervasive content sharing and live media distribution Spam, opinions and adversarial interactions in social media Personalisation for social interaction Use of Social Networks for business and marketing Immersive Social Networks Social businesses, social CRM Social gaming Large networks Internet of People Internet of Things Networks of networks Submission and publication ------------------------------------ The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS?16 invites submissions of high quality and original papers on the topics included (but not limited to) the list above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Journal special issue Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a major journal. Important dates --------------------- Paper Submission: September 24, 2016 Acceptance/Reject notification: October 17, 2016 Camera ready: October 24, 2016 Author registration: October 24, 2016 Track Chairs ------------ Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University & EBTIC (Abu Dhabi), University of Milan (Italy) Alessandro Provetti, Birkbeck, University of London (UK) Ana Roxin, University of Burgundy (France) From heather at pfeifferfamily.net Wed Sep 21 20:40:43 2016 From: heather at pfeifferfamily.net (Heather Pfeiffer) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:40:43 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Open SIG Cabinet positions Message-ID: This is a call for expressions of interest and/or nominations for individuals who are interested in serving as part of the leadership of the SIGs. We are looking for both SIG Cabinet Steering Committee members and a Deputy Cabinet Director for 2016. The SIG Cabinet SteeringCommittee has the general responsibility of assisting the Cabinet Director in the management of the SIG Cabinet, which consists of the Cabinet Director, the Director-elect/Deputy Director, the Immediate Past Director, and four advisors elected from among the current SIG officers and Cabinet Representatives, each of whom serves a two-year staggered term. One member of the Cabinet SteeringCommittee is elected in odd years; the other three members are elected in even years (which is the one we are now in). Members of the SteeringCommittee are responsible for evaluating and approving all Project and Reserve Fund requests, for serving on the SIG Member of the Year and SIG Publication of the Year juries, and for serving as liaisons between the SIGs and the Cabinet Director. The Deputy Cabinet Director is a three year term where the first year you are the Cabinet Director in training; second year the SIG Cabinet Director; and the third year the Past SIG Cabinet director. *Four positions are available ?* *[1] Deputy Director SIG Cabinet/Director-elect (three year term)* *[3] SIG Cabinet advisors on the SIG Steering Committee (two year term)* If you are interested, or would like to nominate someone to serve please respond directly to heatherdpfeiffer at gmail.com with a bio for the person being nominated. Eligibility requirements for both positions: *Must be a current ASIST member Eligibility requirements for Deputy Director position: *Must have held ONE of the following positions: (1)Is a current SIG Cabinet Steering Committee member OR (2)Has served as a SIG representative to the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee during the last three years OR (3)Has served as Chair of one of the Special Interest Groups Eligibility requirements for SIG Cabinet Steering Committee member: Has served as an officer for one of the SIGs *More about positions' descriptions:* /SIG Cabinet advisor. /Two year term beginning at the annual meeting in 2016 (do not need to be present to be elected). Evaluate and approve all Project and Reserve Fund requests. Serving on the SIG Member of the Year and SIG Publication of the Year juries. Serve as liaison between the SIGs and the Cabinet Director. Support Cabinet Director as needed. /DeputySIGCabinet//Director. /Three year term for this position beginning at the 2016 annual meeting (do need to be present to be elected). First year title: Deputy SIG Director [SIG Cabinet Director elect] ? also serves as a non-voting member of ASIST Board. Chair of the SIG Publication of the Year committee. Second year title: SIG Cabinet Director. Member of ASIST Board. Voting member of the ASIST Board. Chair of the SIG Member of the Year committee. Third year title Immediate Past SIG Cabinet Director. Chair of several nominating committees. Chair of the SIG of the Year committee. Duties for the Deputy Director / Director-Elect: ? Assist the Director as needed, manage the SIG-L listserv. ? Take notes at the Annual Meeting of the Cabinet. ? Attend ASIS&T Board meetings as a nonvoting member with voice. In the Director?s absence, the Deputy Director / Director-Elect has vote as well. ? Serve as the SIGs liaison to ASIS&T Committees at the discretion of the ASIS&T President including service as Chair of the SIG Publication of the Year Award committee, and serve on other SIG awardscommittees. /Neither ASIST nor individual SIGs may support the travel expenses of attendees at the SIG Cabinet Meeting. These expenses must be borne by the individuals. An individual need not be a registered attendee at the meeting in order to represent a SIG at a Cabinet meeting. ASIST does provide some travel support for the Director and Deputy Director of the SIG Cabinet to attend two ASIST board meetings scheduled each year (one in summer, one at the annual meeting)./ *If you are interested, or would like to nominate someone to serve please respond directly to heatherdpfeiffer at gmail.com .* From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Tue Sep 20 14:31:48 2016 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:31:48 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG AH webinar tomorrow - 9/21 - free to all Message-ID: Cross-posting reminder about the free SIG AH webinar tomorrow featuring Dr. Martin Paul Eve from the Open Library of Humanities. We look forward to seeing you there! Thanks, Jeremy Technology and Publishing: The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility. A SIG AH webinar featuring Dr. Martin Paul Eve, Open Library of Humanities and Birkbeck, University of London. September 21, 2016 at 11am-12:15pm EDT/8-9:15am Pacific. Chroniclers of the open-access movement such as Peter Suber have noted that the open, online dissemination of scholarly and research material is reliant upon digital reproduction. Indeed, prior to our present age, notes Suber, all forms of non-rivalrous objects, such as knowledge, were tied to rivalrous modes of communication, such as paper. Yet, is the digital age so different from the "Age of Mechanical Reproduction" noted by Walter Benjamin early in the twentieth century? Why should new technological mutations drive the ways in which humanities scholars disseminate their work? And is there a danger, we might ask, in letting technological fetishism act as determiners of humanities scholarship? In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will address these matters, which are formative elements of the terrain on which scholarship in the twenty-first century will emerge. Access details are available on the ASIST Webinars site: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/ From jmartin at nedcc.org Thu Sep 22 12:02:17 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:02:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NEDCC Wants to Hear from You! Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9E6110CB0@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> NEDCC INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE: A Survey of Digital Activities and Preservation Trends at Small and Mid-sized Institutions ************************************************************************ JOIN US: Small or mid-sized public libraries, historical societies, municipal offices, academic institutions, museums, community-based archives, or similar organizations. We need your input! ABOUT THE PROJECT: NEDCC is conducting a survey about the digital activities, equipment, and training at organizations with historic collections and permanent records. Your participation will help us improve continuing education and training related to digitization and digital preservation and communicate your needs to grant funders and service providers. SURVEY: Available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nedccdigipres Please share! PERKS! Completed surveys will be entered into a drawing for a free NEDCC webinar ($95 value) - multiple prizes will be awarded. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? Contact Frances Harrell NEDCC Preservation Specialist fharrell (at) nedcc (dot) org **************************************************************** NEDCC - NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER Andover, MA Preserving Cultural Heritage Collections Since 1973 www.nedcc.org From niso-announce at niso.org Thu Sep 22 09:55:14 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:55:14 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Altmetrics Recommended Practice Message-ID: Baltimore, MD - September 22, 2016 - The National Information Standards Organization has published NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project . This recommended practice on altmetrics, an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment, was developed by working groups that were part of NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The document outlines altmetrics definitions and use cases, alternative outputs in scholarly communications, data metrics, and persistent identifiers in scholarly communications. This guidance was necessary because, before the project began, scholars had long expressed dissatisfaction with traditional measures of success, such as the Impact Factor, but needed standards relating to other viable assessment methods. Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project represents the culmination of work that began with brainstorming sessions in 2013 and that included multiple in-person and virtual meetings, a white paper, conference presentations that gathered community input, and votes on draft documents by NISO's voting membership. The effort built on NISO's strength as a consensus-seeking organization to bring multiple perspectives, nuances, and needs into one set of recommendations upon which the scholarly community can rely. Scholars will find that the recommended practice addresses high-level ideas, such as the need for guidance on altmetrics, but also provides granular information on such topics as how the various metrics-providing vendors generate their data. Users of metrics will also find templates for starting work at their own institutions, as the intent is for the recommended practice to make altmetrics more widely used and more approachable than previously. Institutions can begin to apply these new metrics with greater confidence in their development, data gathering, and application. "NISO is proud to contribute to the advancement of new assessment forms that encourage extensions of scholarly communication forms and methods," said Executive Director Todd Carpenter. "Over the past three years, we have been able to bring together experts from throughout the scholarly publishing and assessment communities to expand the toolset available to review the impact of researchers' work. Consensus-building is always a challenging endeavor, but it is considerably more so in a domain that could influence important advancement, funding, and recognition decisions. The thoughts around altmetrics when we began this initiative in 2013 were only vaguely formed. It has been exciting to watch the project grow from very nascent understandings of altmetrics, to a place of greater understanding of just how rich altmetrics are and how they can be applied." Carpenter continued, "it's my hope that the recommendations that our working groups so carefully crafted will guide users toward optimal uses of the newly available data that can be such a benefit to their careers and institutions." Euan Adie, Founder and CEO, Altmetric, commented that, "We had some misgivings at the beginning of the process [in 2013] as it seemed too early for stakeholders or providers to contribute in a meaningful way, but actually the results turned out to be sensible and useful. NISO very ably guided the process and I don't think the community could have pulled anything like this together without them. The market has responded very positively, and in my opinion what got produced is helping both the understanding and uptake of alternative metrics. Furthermore, from a supplier's perspective, the Data Quality Code of Conduct has been very useful to lay down ground rules for future product development." "The NISO Altmetrics project was announced at a time when the field was still in a very active stage of development," noted Mike Taylor, formerly Senior Product Manager, Informetrics, Elsevier, and now Head of Metrics Development, Digital Science. "Despite that," he observed, "the project enabled experts in the community to have structured conversations around (a) what work was in a sufficiently mature state to publish recommendations, (b) what emerging behavior and research outputs were sufficiently similar to existing ones to 'borrow' standards, (c) what indicators about data quality could be usefully published, and (d) tackling some of the issues of emerging vocabulary." Taylor continued, "For me, one of the important outcomes was the opportunity to link many diverse and unconnected working groups into a developing network of stakeholders. There will be much future work to emerge from this network." *About the National Information Standards Organization (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 xh.gslis at gmail.com Wed Sep 21 20:35:19 2016 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:35:19 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] International Reception / Silence Auction @ ASIS&T AM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, This is a gentle reminder and warmly invitation for donations to the Silent Auction in ASIS&T AM! As you've probably known, the income of the Silent Auction will be used to support the InfoShare program and International Paper Contest held by SIG III each year. Both programs are to cultivate connections between ASIS&T/the field and students/professionals from developing countries. The AM is fast approaching. If you are coming, please bring along items that may be attractive to someone from another country. If you are not able to attend the AM in person, you may mail your donations to: Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers ASIS&T Annual meeting Attn: Vanessa Foss ?restads Boulevard 114-118 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark Hotel Front Desk: 45-88-776655 Many thanks to ASIS&T and to everyone of you! Cheers, Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Xiao Hu wrote: > Dear ASIS&T Members: > > It's about the time of the year! > > ***Donations Needed for the Silent Auction at the International > Reception!!!*** > > Time to clear out your attic. Set aside items from home. > > Please bring donated items to the 2016 Annual Meeting in Copenhagen for > entry in the International Reception's silent auction, sponsored by SIGIII. > > If unable to attend, please send donated items with a friend. SIGIII will > provide a box by the registration table in which ASIS&T members may drop off > silent auction donation items prior to the International Reception. > > Contact: > Xiao Hu, SIGIII Chair xiaoxhu at hku.hk > Yao Emma Zhang, SIGIII Co-chair laviedeemma at gmail.com > > Thank you for your attention! Looking forward to seeing you in the fun > event! > > Xiao Hu, PhD > Faculty of Education > The University of Hong Kong > Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building > Tel: 22194722 > Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk > From rhill at asis.org Fri Sep 23 08:47:32 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:47:32 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Internship for Grad Student Message-ID: <15b801d21598$a809ea00$f81dbe00$@asis.org> The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, CA is offering an internship with a stipend for a graduate student in an MLIS program. The announcement and application are here: http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.9455785/k.43A5/Jack_Vo orzanger_Archival_Internship.htm Is this something you can post to your members? Thank you, Margo Gutstein Archivist Simon Wiesenthal Center Email mgutstein at wiesenthal.com Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From brya at illinois.edu Fri Sep 23 12:10:24 2016 From: brya at illinois.edu (Brya, Cynthia Ann) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:10:24 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The School of Information Sciences at Illinois welcomes new faculty Message-ID: <1A0BC9C39CEB7F49AE6A91ECEB17921B5ED23218@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> This fall, three new faculty members joined the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois: Ted Underwood joined the iSchool in August as a professor. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of English, where he has served on the faculty since 2003. Underwood worked at the University of Rochester and Colby College before coming to Illinois. He has authored two books-Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies and The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science and Political Economy 1760-1860-and is working on a third, The Horizon of Literary History. He specializes in the broad collection of fields known as digital humanities. Following a one-year postdoctoral assignment at the University of Pittsburgh, Jodi Schneider joined the faculty in August as an assistant professor. Her research interests include computer-supported cooperative work; linked data including ontologies, metadata, and the semantic web; and scholarly communication. She previously worked as a science library specialist at Amherst College and as a web librarian at Appalachian State University. Her contributions to library technology include founding the Code4Lib Journal and co-authoring the "W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report," which has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Prior to joining the iSchool in September, Matthew Turk was a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a research assistant professor at the Department of Astronomy at Illinois. He continues to hold a joint appointment with Astronomy and is group leader at the Data Exploration lab at NCSA. His research focuses on the organization of data and the meaning behind it, how groups of individuals collaborate in an inherently competitive system, and how the interaction of software and the human experience of knowledge generation can be influenced to increase productivity or understanding. 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 jyoon at usf.edu Mon Sep 26 13:01:58 2016 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:01:58 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Latest issue of Publications now out Message-ID: Publications (ISSN 2304-6775) is an international, open access journal on scholarly publishing published quarterly online by MDPI. The September, 2016 issue is now available at http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/3. Thanks, JungWon -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 From chirags at rutgers.edu Sat Sep 24 21:55:53 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:55:53 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Chapter Awards 2016 Message-ID: Hello, We are happy to announce the following chapter awards for this year. Chapter of the Year We are pleased to announce that the European Chapter is the 2016 winner of the ASIS&T regional Chapter of the Year Award. In selecting European Chapter for the award, the jury considered the chapter?s membership, activities, communications, financial and administrative management, and contributions to ASIS&T and the broader IS community. The Chapter takes advantage of the regional information science meetings to hold their own chapter meetings. Great focus on the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting and the very important contributions to the success of the meeting dully noted. Also, recognizing the fact that the students are our future, such collaboration with and focus on student members is very important and essential to the success of ASIS&T. The chapter surveyed its members to understand members? needs and the jury members impressed with the honesty with which the leadership has identified the issues and is tackling the problems. Chapter Event of the Year The 2016 Chapter Event-of-the-Year Award goes to New Jersey ASIS&T for the first ASIS&T Regional Meeting held at Rutgers University on April 15: https://www.asist.org/events/asist-regional-meeting-2016-rutgers-university/. The nomination received high point with a theme of participant engagement. Reviewers noted the timeliness of the topic, diverse and well-known speakers, and opportunities for students and SIGs engagement. It was well-publicized and well attended, both face to face and virtual. As described by the nominator, this event brought together students chapters from Rutgers, Pratt, and Drexel together in working with the NJ Chapter, setting a good example of chapters could collaborate in mutually beneficial way. In addition to executing a highly successful program, this event created a milestone in ASIS&T and set an example of how ASIS&T could create value for its members at a local level. Chapter Member of the Year The award goes to Dr. Isabella Peters, whose outstanding service and leadership to the European Chapter (EC) has been identified by several members and officers. Dr. Peters has served as chair and advisor of the European Chapter, and has been a dedicated and active member of ASIST for many years. She has actively advertised and administered the ASIS&T free student membership program for the European Chapter, renewed and upgraded the EC website and Facebook pages, and provided advise and support to the EC Student Chapter. Dr. Peters has served as a mentor for ASIS&T New Leaders program, organized New member brunches at the Annual Meetings, and participated in delivering high-value webinars to the members. Congratulations to the winners of these prestigious awards. Hope to see you all in Copenhagen next month! Sincerely, Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, Chapter Assembly Director Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, Chapter Assembly Deputy Director From kb2880 at columbia.edu Mon Sep 26 15:49:23 2016 From: kb2880 at columbia.edu (Kelly M. Barrick) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:49:23 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Research Support & Data Services Librarian at Columbia University Message-ID: *Please excuse any duplicate postings.* *Research Support & Data Services Librarian* *Social Sciences Libraries * *Columbia University Libraries* The Columbia University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Research Support & Data Services Librarian in the Social Sciences Libraries. The Libraries seek an innovative, knowledgeable, and service-oriented professional to support research and data services and technologies. The successful applicant will be an adaptive problem-solver familiar with social science research methodologies and the use of quantitative and qualitative data. The Research Support & Data Services Librarian is responsible for providing support for social science research, including the use of quantitative and qualitative data and data applications, to faculty, students, and staff, and for identifying and assisting in the implementation of new library technologies related to social science research and data. As a member of the team providing research and data support in the Digital Social Science Center, the incumbent will assist students, faculty, and researchers with research projects and will aid users in finding and using qualitative and quantitative data, including offering training and guidance in the use of data analysis and research software. The incumbent will work with colleagues within the division and across the Libraries to provide coordinated support for research and data services and technologies. Reporting to the Geospatial Services Coordinator, the Research Support & Data Services Librarian will engage with emerging technologies and explore innovative services to support new research methods and data applications in the social sciences. The incumbent will assist with the management and support of the Libraries' quantitative and qualitative data collection, including data catalog records. The incumbent will also participate on Libraries-wide task forces and working groups and will represent the organization at appropriate regional and national forums. The successful candidate will have: ? Advanced degree in a related discipline or an accredited MLS or equivalent combination of education and experience ? Demonstrated experience using quantitative and qualitative data analysis applications, such as Stata, SPSS, R, NVivo, and ATLAS.ti ? Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a desire to work in a team environment ? Knowledge of or aptitude for learning programming languages ? Commitment to supporting and working in a multicultural and diverse environment Also highly desirable: ? Knowledge of GIS applications ? Knowledge of metadata standards for quantitative and qualitative data ? Public service experience in a research institution ? Experience in providing data analysis and data research support ? Aptitude for teaching and developing instructional content and documentation in an academic environment *Apply on-line at: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=63418 * As one of the world's leading research universities, Columbia University in the City of New York provides outstanding opportunities to work and grow in a dynamic, multicultural, intellectual community. The Columbia University Libraries comprises a diverse and engaged staff committed to furthering the University's teaching and research mission through innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence. *Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and strongly encourages individuals of all backgrounds and cultures to consider this position.* From samchu at hku.hk Fri Sep 23 21:47:41 2016 From: samchu at hku.hk (samchu) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 01:47:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T workshop invitation In-Reply-To: <1473141454371.75064@hku.hk> References: <1473141454371.75064@hku.hk> Message-ID: <1474681661185.7237@hku.hk> Dear all, It's always important to relate to a theory/model in a research. In the workshop "Theory Development within the Information Sciences", Professor Diane Sonnenwald from University College Dublin (the author of the book "Theory Development in the Information Sciences"), Professor Mei-Mei Wu from National Taiwan Normal University, Professor Shanju Lin Chang from National Taiwan University and I (Sam Chu from HKU) will share our experience on how one may create a theory/model in his/her research. Target Participants: PhD candidates / junior researchers and/or faculty who wish to learn/teach theory development For details, please see: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/Theory_Development_Within_the_Information_Sciences.pdf For information on registration, see: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/register/ Best, Sam -------------------------------------------------- Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Ranked 6th best in the world - QS 2015, 2016) Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Managing Editor, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management Tel: (852) 2241-5894 | Fax: (852) 2517-7194 E-mail: samchu at hku.hk Skype Name - chukaiwahsamuel Homepage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu -------------------------------------------------- Latest publications: Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2016, in press). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. Huang, H., Chu, S.K.W., & Chen, D. (2015). Interactions between English-Speaking and Chinese-Speaking users and librarians on Social Networking Sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 66(6), 1150-1166. (http://web.hku.hk/~samchu/docs/Huang-in-press-Interactions-between-English.docx) Ranked 13/85 in ISI's Information & Library Science category - top 15%; Impact Factor: 1.9 (JCR 2014) Cheng, E.W.L., Chu, S.K.W., & Ma, C.S.M. (2015). Tertiary students' intention to e-collaborate for group projects: Exploring the missing link from an extended theory of planned behaviour model. British Journal of Educational Technology. Ranked 61/262 in ISI's Education category - top 23%; Impact Factor: 1.3 (JCR 2014) From msajidmirza at gmail.com Sun Sep 25 09:28:37 2016 From: msajidmirza at gmail.com (Dr. M. Sajid Mirza) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:28:37 +0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Latest Issue of SIGIII Newsletter (Vol. 16, No. 01) Message-ID: Hi, SIGIII has published latest issue of its Newsletter (Vol. 16, No. 01). It can be accessible at https://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGII I/sites/default/files/2016/%3F09/sigiii_newsletter_v16n1.pdf . In this issue following contents are included: - Message from the Chair?1 - International Reception at the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting ? 2 - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group Supports SIG III?s International Paper Contest and the ASIS&T International Reception? 2 - 2015 SIG Cabinet Meeting ? 2 - SIG-III's Social media Strategy ? 3 - 2016 InfoShare News?3 - 2016 International Paper Contest Announcement ? 3 - Treasurer?s Report ? 4 - Mentorship Program ?4 - International Calendar of Information Science ... 4 - 2015 SIG III Annual Business Meeting ? 5 - 2015-2016 SIG-III Officers ? 6 - SIG-III Listserv, Website, and Social Media Sites ... 7 Kind regards, *Muhammad Sajid Mirza Ph.D* Communication Officer SIGIII Principal Librarian Islamic Research Institute (IRI) International Islamic University Faisal Mosque Campus, Islamabad. Pakistan Cell: +92-333-5385235 URL: http://msajidmirza.wordpress.com/ *http://pakillm.wordpress.com/ * FB: https://www.facebook.com/msajidmirza https://www.facebook.com/pakillm From bean.lists at gmail.com Mon Sep 26 20:02:23 2016 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:02:23 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: Code4Lib Journal, issue 35 Message-ID: With the usual apologies for cross-posting: The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 35th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 35th issue, which is scheduled for publication in late January 2017, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal at code4lib.org by Friday, October 28, 2016. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message. C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 34 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org . Remember, for consideration for the 35th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal at code4lib.org no later than Friday, October 28, 2016. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee From rhill at asis.org Wed Sep 28 11:19:33 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:19:33 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Andy Dillion to to resign as Dean Message-ID: <016a01d2199b$bab27ad0$30177070$@asis.org> Andrew Dillon has announced he will resign as dean of the School of Information in 2017 to return to the faculty. In an announcement to the UT Austin campus, Provost Maurie McInnis thanked Dillon for a decade and a half of service to the iSchool. ?The School of Information is consistently ranked among the best in the nation thanks in large part to Andrew's leadership over the past 14 years," she said. "He is a leader in the field of the human response to information technology, and we are fortunate to benefit from his continued scholarly contributions and leadership at UT Austin." Since joining the iSchool in 2002, Dillon has led major revisions of the school's mission, curriculum and organizational structure. The school changed its name in 2003 to the School of Information, and it has strengthened its research and teaching focus, leading to new emphases on human-computer interaction, digital curation, information retrieval and contemporary information work. In 2009 the school moved to new facilities in its current building, which is home to dedicated research labs, classrooms and offices, and houses the school in one space after years of separation across multiple sites on campus. Research funding grew more than tenfold over these years, and the school's endowment has more than doubled since 2005. "Leading the iSchool has been an honor, and it's hard to believe nearly 15 years have passed," Dillon said. "I feel enormously privileged to have had the support of an incredible staff and faculty over this period, and I stand in admiration of our graduates and the changes they are leading in the world." After a period of leave, Dillon will return to the faculty in 2018 to resume his scholarly career as a professor. "I always said my ultimate goal was to create the best possible environment in which to be a faculty member, and then to join as a professor myself," he said. "My administrative career was fascinating but at heart, I am a scholar, and I look forward to concentrating on research and teaching again." (https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/ut-ischool-dean-stepping-down-2017) Dr. Philip Doty Associate Dean Associate Professor School of Information http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/ Associate Director, Technology and Information Policy Institute http://www.utexas.edu/research/tipi/ Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women's and Gender Studies http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/ University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.202 Austin, TX 78701-1213 (512) 471-3746 voice (512) 471-3971 fax Pianu, pianu se va lentanu (Little by little, one goes far) -- Italian proverb Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From brya at illinois.edu Wed Sep 28 12:06:41 2016 From: brya at illinois.edu (Brya, Cynthia Ann) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:06:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Martin Wolske named interim director of CDI Message-ID: <1A0BC9C39CEB7F49AE6A91ECEB17921B5ED4B0DF@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Wolske as interim director of the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI). Wolske assumes the position following the departure of Jon Gant, founding director, who recently accepted the deanship of the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University in Durham. As a senior research scientist and adjunct lecturer, Wolske is well known for his excellence in teaching, research, and community service. His experience includes leadership roles in the international Community Informatics Research Network and the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network. A frequently invited speaker at national and international venues, Wolske shares insights gained through advanced research in areas such as community informatics and digital literacy. His accomplishments also include service as president of the Champaign Public Library Board of Trustees, which recently completed a successful search for a new director. Wolske joined the iSchool in 1995 and has served in many key roles, including director of Prairienet (1997-99), Champaign-Urbana's first community information network and the predecessor to CDI. Since the late 1990s, he has taught networking and information systems courses, for which he received the 2011 Library Journal Teaching Award. He has served on several campus advisory and review panels related to engagement and, in 2013, he was honored with the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. Wolske has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on a number of grants related to digital inclusion and digital literacy that have received funding through the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the American Library Association, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, among other agencies. "Martin has demonstrated a deep commitment to people in the communities in which he works, including East St. Louis, Champaign-Urbana, Danville, Rantoul, Decatur, and throughout the state," said Dean Allen Renear. "Recognizing that relationship-building and trust are fundamental to successful, long-term engagement with on- and off-campus partners, he nurtures those relationships well. Martin was one of the first people I met when I visited the School in 1999, and we've benefitted much from his guidance and support." Wolske looks forward to his new role and the opportunity to further the mission of CDI: to foster inclusive and sustainable societies through research, teaching, and public engagement about information and communication technologies (ICT) and their impacts on communities, organizations, and governments. "It has been my great pleasure to collaborate with CDI founder Jon Gant from the Center's inception," said Wolske. "He leaves behind a wonderful resource for the campus and community. I look forward to building on Jon's legacy to ensure that all, and especially those historically disadvantaged, are able to fully participate in our digital society, democracy, and economy." 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 rhill at asis.org Wed Sep 28 11:34:46 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:34:46 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Helen Manning passes Message-ID: <018901d2199d$d8157350$884059f0$@asis.org> Word was recently received that Helen Manning passed away. Helen was on the ASISA&T Board, led SIGs and the TX Chapter, and served on and chaired several juries. Dick Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 Helen Margaret Manning (1947 - 2016) MANNING, Helen Margaret Helen Margaret Manning, born August 30, 1947, Ancon, Panama, died April 6, 2016, Dallas, Texas. Helen was twin to her brother Matthew who predeceased her. She is survived by brothers John P., James B., and Mark K. She held a variety of positions at Florida State University, Texas Instruments and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She was a board member on American Society for Information Science and the Madi Museum. She was an active member on the Dallas Business Council for the Arts and a founding member of Junius Heights Historic District. She was an avid art collector, artist and supporter of the artists. She loved opera, ballet, symphony performances and going to art museums. Helen loved travel. She spent the final year of her life taking special trips to England, Italy, France, Spain, New Mexico and Maine. She went with people who she loved and who loved her. Helen had many friends and about 40 or so attended a memorial service on the 8th of April at her best neighbors and friends Guinn and Todd. She was an enthusiastic lover of life. She maintained active friendships with Judy from high school and Roberta (her clone!) from college. She was a great sister. Published in Dallas Morning News on Sept. 16, 2016 - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=helen-margaret-manning &pid=181432992#sthash.dxfLJ4GC.dpuf From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Sep 30 05:10:25 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:10:25 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Published by Springer) Message-ID: <201609300911.u8U9BDh9000412@smtp2.dei.uc.pt> * ** Best papers will be published in more than twenty SCI/SSCI-indexed journals * --------------------------------------------------------- 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) - 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) - 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) - Science of Computer Programming (IF: 0.828 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / 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 13, 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 WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Thu Sep 29 13:52:11 2016 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:52:11 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Sharpen Your Research Skills: Learn More Oct. 6 Message-ID: <065101d21a7a$34b81fe0$9e285fa0$@SJSU.Edu> For some, a PhD is the means for a change in career plans, and for others, it is a way to enhance skills and contributions to the field. Is a PhD in your future? Join us for an online information session and learn more about the San Jose Gateway PhD program , a primarily online doctoral program that spans two continents in a partnership between the San Jose State University School of Information and Queensland University of Technology. It's a great opportunity to meet the program coordinators, gain a better understanding of the program structure and research areas, and learn more about the benefits of this European-model doctoral program. There will be time for Q&A. Please RSVP and we'll send you a link to join the live session. Event: Information Session Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Time: 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) Location: Online If you are unable to attend the online information session and are interested in learning more about the San Jose Gateway PhD program, please visit our website and fill out the information request form . You may also contact Dr. Cheryl Stenstrom , assistant program coordinator, with any questions. Feel free to share this email with colleagues and friends. Thank you! Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jose State University 408-924-2465 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Sep 30 04:19:35 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:19:35 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] Call: 2017 WIAS-International Research Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Studies In-Reply-To: <20160928173031.A94026341036@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20160928173031.A94026341036@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <64e9a763-c273-970e-10ba-759cca5854b0@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] Call: 2017 WIAS-International Research Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Studies Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:51:27 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs To: Dear tripleC-Readers, The call below by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (=tripleC's publishing body) may be of interest to some of you. Kind regards, Christian Fuchs -- Call: 2017 Westminster Institute for Advances Studies-International Research Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Studies https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/2016/call-for-applications-wias-international-research-fellowships-in-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-2017 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AUN132/westminster-institute-for-advanced-studies-international-research-fellowships-in-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-2017-call-for-applications/ The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) www.westminster.ac.uk/wias is an academic space for independent critical thinking beyond borders. It is located at the University of Westminster in the heart of London. Prof Christian Fuchs is its Director. The WIAS? research focus is critical digital and social media studies. The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies has an open call for international resarch fellows who during a 3 month stay in 2017 conduct critical studies of digital and social media's role in society. The WIAS aims to contribute to bringing about a paradigm shift from big data analytics to critical digital and social media research methods and theories. Digital and social media research at WIAS uses and develops critical theories, is profoundly theoretical, and discusess the political relevance and implications of the studied topics. The WIAS? Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Fellowship Programme is aimed at current and future research leaders, who engage in independent critical thinking. It enables them to undertake independent and collaborative research on original topics in a stimulating academic environment in London. Funded scholarships are only awarded as a result of open calls. Priority will be given to well-defined projects. The regular scholarship duration is 3 months (start between 9 January and 1 May 2017). Later start dates are not possible. Application deadline: Friday October 28, 2016 More information, details and application: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/2016/call-for-applications-wias-international-research-fellowships-in-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-2017 Subcribe to the WIAS newsletter - https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at