From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sun Apr 2 15:23:07 2017 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 20:23:07 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for papers - CISTI'2017 Workshops, Lisbon, Portugal - Deadline: April 15 Message-ID: <201704021923.v32JN8dD018980@mail.asis.org> Papers submitted to the main conference: 508 Workshops deadline: April 15, 2017 Submission to the workshops: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cistiworkshops2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshops of CISTI'2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 21th and 24th of June 2017, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ List of CISTI'2017 workshops with call open: -> WASDACS 2017 ? 4th Applied Statistics and Data Analysis using Computer Science http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wasdacs -> WCBIPA 2017 - 4th Workshop on Computational Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wcbipa -> WCEECPPSC 2017 - 1st Workshop on Citizen Engagement and Evaluation of Current Participatory Platforms in Smart City http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wceecppsc -> WESG 2017 - 3rd Workshop on Educational and Serious Games http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wesg -> WGECRSD 2017 - II Workshop en Gesti?n de Empresa, Comunicaci?n y Redes Sociales Digitales http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wgecrsd -> WICTA 2017 - The 4th International Workshop on ICT for Auditing http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wicta -> WISA 2017 - 9th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wisa -> WSCUACIS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Smart Cities - Urban Analytic Challenges to Information Systems http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wscuacis -> WTCISSC 2017- 1st Workshop on Trends on Critical Information Systems for Smart Cities http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/workshops/wtcissc CISTI'2017 website: http://www.cisti.eu/ Kind regards, AISTI http://www.aisti.eu/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com From kdali at ualberta.ca Sun Apr 2 21:07:39 2017 From: kdali at ualberta.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 21:07:39 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Participation Reminder: International Survey of Entry Requirements for Library and Information "Professional" Practice Message-ID: <059EBAC2D83E49D9BAACC1D47837F53C@tns0.com> Please excuse cross-postings. Please distribute to other lists. The IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education (BSLISE) Working Group is conducting an international study to learn about the differing qualification requirements (education, certification, individual credentialing systems) for library and information "professional" practice in order to develop a better understanding of the equivalence of credentials and the role of LIS education. We invite the LIS community to participate in an online survey (click on this link: https://www.1ka.si/a/115316) and provide information regarding professional qualifications and certification in their country. We look forward to your contribution to this important research by April 10, 2017. The survey is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. Please access the BSLISE webpage at: https://lisedu.wordpress.com/. For more information, please contact us at: iflabslise at gmail.com. From rong.tang at simmons.edu Mon Apr 3 08:12:29 2017 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 08:12:29 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: ALISE Conference Survey Deadline This Friday Message-ID: Dear all, Just a reminder of the ALISE conference survey, which will end on this Friday April 7, 2017. We are counting on your input on the conference location and timing. Thanks to those who have completed survey. For those of you who have not yet done so, please complete your survey at your earliest convenience. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W8SSVQ8 Much appreciated! Rong On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Rong Tang wrote: > Greetings, > > The Board of the Association for Library and Information Science Education > (ALISE) strives to make financially sound decisions, and is therefore > seeking to identify affordable conference venues in future. This survey > will inform the ALISE Board decisions about the conference location in 2019 > and in following years. The survey should take no more than 5 minutes of > your time, and is open to ALISE members and non-members. Please use the > link below to access the survey, which will close on *April 7, 2017*. > Thank you for taking the time to share your opinions! > > > Sincerely, > > ALISE Board of Directors > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W8SSVQ8 > > > -- > Rong Tang, PhD. > Associate Professor > School of Library and Information Science > Director, Simmons Usability Lab > Director, SLIS PhD Program > Simmons College > > Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information > Science Education > rong.tang at simmons.edu > 1-617-521-2880 <(617)%20521-2880> > > -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Director, SLIS PhD Program Simmons College Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information Science Education rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From saddo at asis.org Mon Apr 3 10:23:28 2017 From: saddo at asis.org (Stephan Addo) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:23:28 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?FW=3A_ASIS=26T_Upcoming_Webinars!_Register_NOW?= =?utf-8?b?IcKg?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <09ac01d2ac85$e4607440$ad215cc0$@asis.org> From: ASIS&T Webinars [mailto:webinars=asist.org at mail215.suw16.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of ASIS&T Webinars Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 4:53 PM To: saddo at asis.org Subject: ASIS&T Upcoming Webinars! Register NOW! REGISTER NOW for these upcoming ASIS&T (and DCMI) webinars: April 5, 2017 - 1:00PM to 2:00PM EDT Re-envisioning Management Education and Training for Information Professionals This webinar will demonstrate the current landscape of LIS education in relation to the demand for leadership and management skills and the increasing significance of these competencies for information professionals. Also discussed will be a 15-credit online Advanced Certificate in Management for Information Professionals (CMIP) that was developed in the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John?s University. This certificate program was created in response to the current and future needs for leadership and management skills in the LIS profession. The CMIP courses include project management, knowledge management, and marketing and advocacy. Students learn skills to produce highly relevant artifacts such as a strategic plan, a marketing plan, an advocacy campaign proposal, a change management plan, etc. It is vitally important for LIS schools to bridge the gaps existing in LIS education in order to meet professional demands for leadership and management skills, and this webinar will demonstrate one way in which LIS schools can accomplish this. Webinar sponsored by SIG ED: https://www.asist.org/SIG/SIGED/ April 6, 2017 - 10:00AM to 11:15AM EDT Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits There is a growing interest in the publication and consumption of data on the Web. Government and non-governmental organizations already provide a variety of data on the Web, some open, others with access restrictions, covering a variety of domains such as education, economics, ECommerce and scientific data. Developers, journalists, and others manipulate this data to create visualizations and perform data analysis. Experience in this area reveals that a number of important issues need to be addressed in order to meet the requirements of both publishers and data consumers. In this webinar we will discuss the key challenges faced by publishers and data consumers when sharing data on the Web. We will also introduce the W3C Best Practices set ( https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/) to address these challenges. Finally, we will discuss the benefits of engaging data publishers in the use of Best Practices, as well as improving the way data sets are made available on the Web. This webinar was presented in Portuguese on March 30. Webinar sponsored by DCMI: http://dublincore.org/ Copyright ? 2017 ASIST, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list From heidijul at buffalo.edu Mon Apr 3 12:00:43 2017 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:00:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Online Music Librarianship Course Offered Fall 2017 Message-ID: Please excuse cross-posting: Do you have master's students interested in Music Librarianship? Please consider recommending this asynchronous online 3-credit course, being offered in fall 2017. Course Title: Music Librarianship I, LIS 588 Instructor: Kevin Michki, Music Librarian - Reed Library; Adjunct Instructor - Musicology - School of Music, The State University of New York at Fredonia (http://www.fredonia.edu/music/faculty/bios/michki.asp), Kevin.Michki at fredonia.edu Welcome to the world of Music Librarianship! This online course is a detailed introduction to that world, and to the many and varied things that music librarians do on a daily basis. It is also meant to be a primer on how to become a music librarian, whether at the university level, in a public library, working with a musical organization such as a symphony orchestra, or many other scenarios. The course begins with an overview of the history and literature of music librarianship and music libraries, and will cover the following broad topic areas: * the materials of the music library: their selection, acquisition, and physical treatment; collection development and maintenance * the cataloging, classification, and subject analysis of music, books about music, sound recordings, and related formats * online resources and digital collections, including research databases and streaming audio-visual resources * public services in the music library, including reference, library instruction, circulation, reserves, and outreach such as exhibits and concert series * music library facilities, including audio-visual equipment, renovation, growth planning and space utilization * music library administration, including the music library's relationship to a larger institution, budgets and statistics, personnel management, funding and donor development * careers in music librarianship and opportunities for professional development A music librarian needs to have a broad musical background, as well as training in librarianship, to be able to assist students, faculty and other patrons with their needs in a music library setting. According to the Music Library Association, training in music should be at least the equivalent of substantial undergraduate study in music, and should also include a background in the humanities, as well as a working knowledge of German and one other Romance language. Though this course has traditionally been offered to students enrolled simultaneously in the University at Buffalo MS in Information and Library Science and MA in Music degrees, it is our hope that this course will appeal to a wider online audience. Preferred prerequisites: University at Buffalo LIS 571, MUS 618, or equivalents. Enrollment in the course is by permission of the instructor (Kevin.Michki at fredonia.edu). Once permission is granted, students apply here: http://gse.buffalo.edu/nonmatric/grad/fall. Sincerely, Heidi Julien ****************************************************** 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 liadh.kelly at gmail.com Tue Apr 4 08:26:20 2017 From: liadh.kelly at gmail.com (Liadh Kelly) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:26:20 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CfP: CLEF Conference 2017 Message-ID: *Call for Papers: CLEF 2017* View this email in your browser *SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS* *CLEF 2017, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN* With only 4 weeks to go, we would like to remind everyone that* CLEF 2017* Call For Papers will close on the *28th April 2017.* We warmly welcome you to submit a long or short paper for CLEF 2017, which will be hosted by the ADAPT Centre and will take place at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland from 11-14 September 2017. The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2017 is the 8th year of the CLEF Conference series and the 18th year of the CLEF initiative as a forum for information retrieval (IR) evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as carried out within evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF evaluation paradigm. Relevant topics for the CLEF 2017 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information Access in any Language or Modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis. - Evaluation Initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology Transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc. See here for more detail: http://clef2017.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page= Pages/call_for_papers.html All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be ?r? eviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). *Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings- guidelines Two types of papers are solicited: ? Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works. ? Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=51288869.cLu6upaI1JY7CcJd *Important Dates* Long Papers submission: *28 April 2017* Short Papers submission: *5 May 2017* Notification of Acceptance: *9 June 2017* Camera Ready Copy: *23 June 2017* Conference: *11-14 September 2017* *Organisation* *Conference Chairs* ? Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland ? S?amus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *Program Chairs* ? Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain ? Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland *Lab Chairs* ? Lorraine Goeuriot, Universit? Joseph Fourier, France ? Thomad Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany *Proceedings Chairs* ? Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy ? Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy *Contact Us* *Conference Queries* *For all conference logistics, accommodation, registration and general queries, please contact:* Email: CLEF2017 at conferencepartners.ie Telephone: +353 1 2967251 Website: www.clef2017.clef-initiative.eu *Conference Programme* *For all queries related to the Scientific Programme, please contact Conference Chairs:* Gareth J. F. Jones Dublin City University, Ireland - gareth.jones at dcu.ie S?amus Lawless Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - seamus.lawless at scss.tcd.ie *Copyright ? *2017* *CLEF 2017, All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* CLEF2017 at conferencepartners.ie From jmartin at nedcc.org Tue Apr 4 09:34:48 2017 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:34:48 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Grant Opportunity Reminder - Upcoming NEH Grant Deadlines for Preservation Activities Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF901306F8ADF@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> GRANT OPPORTUNITY REMINDER from NEDCC NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES - Upcoming Grant Deadlines It's more important than ever to apply for NEH grants. Show support for the agency with your important projects and initiatives! ************************************************************ NEH COMMON HERITAGE GRANTS - Deadline: June 1, 2017 - Grant Amount: Up to $12,000 Eligible Grant Activities: Organization and presentation of digitization events for the community. *********** NEH HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS AND REFERENCE RESOURCES GRANTS (HCRR) - Deadline: July 20, 2017 - Grant Amount: Up to $350,000 for Implementation grants; Up to $50,000 for Foundation Projects Eligible Grant Activities: Planning; Assessments; Digitization, including audio recordings; Rehousing; Conservation treatment leading to enhanced access. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations grants). *********** Reminder: NEH PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE GRANTS (PAG) - Deadline Approaching - May 2! - Grant Amount: up to $6,000 Eligible Activities: Preservation Needs Assessments; Consultations; Training; Purchase of storage or environmental monitoring equipment. COMPLETE DETAILS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: http://bit.ly/2NEH6 ************************************************************* NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER - NEDCC - www.nedcc.org Join us at Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections - August 21-23 - Seattle - http://bit.ly/n-dd17 From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Apr 4 11:37:13 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:37:13 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [ICTs-and-Society] The Point is to Change It! TripleC special section with interviews published In-Reply-To: <2a7b5386-eedd-123f-5988-be5b4e79228d@uti.at> References: <2a7b5386-eedd-123f-5988-be5b4e79228d@uti.at> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] The Point is to Change It! TripleC special section with interviews published Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:58:28 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Reply-To: christian.fuchs at uti.at To: discussion-icts-and-society-net at icts-and-society.net From: From: "Amon Prodnik, Jernej" Dear All, A Special section of journal TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, which we entitled "The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies" (No 1, Vol 15, pp.: 214-336), has just been published. The section includes six interviews with some of the main representatives in critical media and communication scholarship, amongst them Bogdan Osolnik, member of the MacBride Commission. Interviews cover several intertwined topics and issues, which are connected together in the introduction, where we reflect on the role of critical communication studies and the antagonisms it faced in the past and faces today. The texts are available via the following links: - The Point Is to Change It! Introduction to Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/858/968 - "The intention was to democratise the sphere of communication." An Interview with Bogdan Osolnik. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/859/970 - "What happened was foremost an assault by interests of the big capital." An interview with Breda Pavli?. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/860/971 - "Well friends, let's play jazz." An Interview with Cees J. Hamelink. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/861/972 - "Is enlightenment just a European idea?" An interview with Daya Thussu. Available via:http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/862/973 - "The concentration of power, represented by current prevailing media conditions, is and ought to be open to challenge." An interview with Peter Golding. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/863/974 - "I can't imagine a radically reformed political economy that isn't built on a radically reformed public sphere." An interview with Dan Hind. Available via: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/864/975 You can also download the complete section on this link: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/866/989 Feel free to share the information about this publication with your colleagues and apologies for cross-posting. Best regards, Jernej Amon Prodnik, Sa?o Sla?ek Brlek _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ----- Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8007 / Base de donn?es virale: 4769/14196 - Date: 28/03/2017 From jyoon at usf.edu Tue Apr 4 17:55:23 2017 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:55:23 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] School of Information at University of South Florida: Full-time Instructor Position Message-ID: The School of Information at the University of South Florida seeks to fill a 9 month, full-time Instructor position with opportunities to move up in the newly approved instructor career path. The appointment is nine-month with summer teaching opportunities possible. It is required to have a minimum 4/4 teaching load without a research assignment, though that may vary based on the needs of the department and in consultation with the Director. Minimum Qualifications: ? Ph.D. in Information Science or closely related field. ? Demonstrated record of achievement in teaching courses reflective of the subject areas in the BS in Information Studies. Please see the current curriculum at http://si.usf.edu for details. ? Demonstrated ability to teach online and make extensive use of innovative distance learning technologies to support their teaching. ? Proven ability to create new courses and curricular opportunities for students. ? Demonstrated involvement and engagement in community and professional organizations. Preferred Qualifications: ? MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution or an internationally equivalent institution. ? Evidence of professional experience in related areas. ? Desire to contribute, if needed, to the graduate programs in the School of Information. ? Evidence of an ability to assist in the overall administration of the undergraduate program (course scheduling, curriculum development, marketing, etc.) Salary is negotiable and pay is competitive with similar instructor positions nationally, and USF offers an impressive benefits package. To Apply, please visit http://employment.usf.edu and attach a cover letter, CV, teaching philosophy, evidence of successful research, and provide names and contact information for three references, Position is open until filled, review of applications begin on March 10, 2017. The University of South Florida is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success. USF is a Top 25 research university among public institutions nationwide in total research expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation. Serving over 48,000 students, the USF System has an annual budget of $1.6 billion and an annual economic impact of $4.4 billion. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Conclusion of this search is subject to final budget approval. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. USF is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, contact Brandon Marks at (813)974-9889, a minimum of five working days in advance. -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 From WKWSCI-RESEARCH at ntu.edu.sg Tue Apr 4 21:53:26 2017 From: WKWSCI-RESEARCH at ntu.edu.sg (WKWSCI-Research Office) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 01:53:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Research Fellow Position at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Singapore Message-ID: <47702032DEE4664D8917C110FA2005B301CCDD3C4C@EXCHMBOX34.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> Research Fellow Position at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information invites applications for the position of Research Fellow in Computational Social Science with expertise in social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, or related areas. Interest in conducting web-based experiments and/or exploring big data is a plus. Successful candidate will work on projects focusing on the emergence and evolution of social systems and the role that human communication plays in them. Possible (but not limited) research topics include cooperation and coordination, contagion and diffusion, trust building, team formation and performance, group information seeking and processing, collective decision making and problem solving, and network dynamics. A PhD is required from one of the following, or allied, disciplines: communication, sociology, political science, economics, computer science, mathematics, statistics or statistical linguistics. Preferred qualifications: * Solid background in mathematics and statistics * Ability to design and administer web-based, real-time interactive experiments * Strong writing and presentation skills * Ability to collect, analyse, build and maintain large-scale databases (e.g., SQL) * Competence in programming languages: R, Python, C/C++, etc. Applicants should submit the following materials to wkwsci-research at ntu.edu.sg: * Cover letter * Latest curriculum vitae * Personal Particulars Form (http://bit.ly/2mgSoLN) * Education certificates * Scanned copy of NRIC/Passport * Research statement (no more than 2,000 words) * At least one writing sample (e.g. recent publications, excerpt/summary of dissertation) * Contact information for two references, one of which should be the chair of your dissertation committee. Letters of recommendation will only be solicited from finalists. Closing Date: The position is available immediately and will be closed once a suitable candidate is found. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you. From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Apr 5 03:37:10 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:37:10 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] Invitation to join the ICT&S/tripleC e-mail-list In-Reply-To: <20170404213015.11F2C6341330@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20170404213015.11F2C6341330@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <715b3dfe-75ec-abb3-c9fd-28bb3f0ffc11@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] Invitation to join the ICT&S/tripleC e-mail-list Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:30:14 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear tripleC readers, tripleC has joined forces with the ICTs & Society network for operating the ICTs & Society mailing list that has a new technical set-up (and has existed since 2009). tripleC will from now on post infos about all its new articles (as soon as they go online), calls, events, infos, etc. that have to do with the critical study of communication in capitalism on the ICTs & Society list. The [ICTS] list is open to all users for sharing news about publications, events, calls, etc. that relate to teh critical study of digital media. We invite you to join the list. Further infos: Subscription: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/icts (Press on the button "Subscribe" and follow the instructions) Further list info: http://icts-and-society.net/subscribe-mailing-list/ [ICTS] ICTs & Society List The task of [ICTS] is the discussion of critical perspectives on the role of digital media technologies in society. It is associated with the ICTs & Society Network (http://www.icts-and-society.net). The list aims at fostering debate and social change that help advancing an information society that is based on participatory democracy and transcends dominative structures of ICTs, communication and society. Discussions and announcements of events, meetings, publications, calls and related information about the critical study of ICTs and society are welcome. Kind regards, tripleC _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at From Frank.Guerino at if4it.com Wed Apr 5 10:29:24 2017 From: Frank.Guerino at if4it.com (Frank Guerino) Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:29:24 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Article Data Profiles as tools for Data Lineage and better Data, Information, Records, and Knowledge Management In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi All, For those interested in Data Lineage concepts, the following article covers Data Profiles? > Article ?Data Profiles as tools for Data Lineage and better Data, Information, > Records, and Knowledge Management > n-records-knowledge-management/> ? > [Direct Address: > https://www.if4it.com/data-profiles-tools-data-lineage-better-data-information > -records-knowledge-management > n-records-knowledge-management/> ] I hope you find the materials interesting and useful. My Best, Frank ? Frank Guerino, Managing Partner The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) http://www.if4it.com 1.908.294.5191 (M) From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Apr 8 04:31:57 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 10:31:57 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Paper - Special Issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval Message-ID: <03A1BA86-7C8B-4BBC-A62B-CAD84E2FF4CC@dei.unipd.it> CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ) http://jdiq.acm.org/ ** Guest editors ** Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy, ferro at dei.unipd.it Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, norbert.fuhr at uni-due.de Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, rauber at ifs.tuwien.ac.at ** Aim ** Information Retrieval is a discipline that has been strongly rooted in experimentation since its inception. Experimental evaluation has always been a strong driver for IR research and innovation, and these activities have been shaped by large scale evaluation campaigns such as TREC, CLEF, NTCIR and FIRE. IR systems are getting more and more complex. They need to cross language and media barriers; they span from unstructured, to semi-structured to highly structured data; and they are faced with diverse and complex user information needs, search tasks, and societal challenges. As a consequence, evaluation and experimentation, which has remained a fundamental element, has in turn become increasingly sophisticated and challenging. In this context, repeatability, reproducibility, and generalizability of experiments and results cannot be taken for granted. Indeed we need to emphasize these aspects as key requirements, if we wish to continue to reliably and durably advance research and technology in the field. In turn, we need to actively pursue them as a core part of our experimental methodology and practice. In this special issue of JDIQ, we aspire to provide an overview of innovative research at the intersection of information retrieval and data quality, from theory to practice, with a focus on challenges, solutions, and experiences in reproducibility of IR experimental results. ** Topics ** Specific topics within the scope of the call include, but are not limited to, the following: - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in system-oriented evaluation. - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in user-oriented evaluation. - General reproducibility frameworks for IR. - Lessons learned in reproducing third-party experiments. - Reproducibility of query results. - Reproducibility challenges on private or proprietary data. - Reproducibility challenges on ephemeral data, like streaming data, tweets, etc. - Reproducibility challenges on online experiments, e.g., A/B testing. - Reproducibility in evaluation campaigns. - Evaluation infrastructures and Evaluation as a Service (EaaS). - Experiment data management, data curation, and data quality. - Data models, semantic or not, for IR experimental data. - Reproducible experimental workflows: tools and experiences. - Quality of IR experimental data. - Data Citation: citing experimental data, dynamic data sets, samples, and statistical analyses. ** Expected contributions ** We welcome the following two types of contributions: - Research manuscripts reporting mature results [25+ pages]. - Experience papers that report on lessons learned from addressing specific issues towards improved quality and reproducibility of experimental results [12+ pages plus an optional appendix]. If this is an extension of prior published work, then submitted manuscripts must contain at least 30% new material, and the significant new contributions must be clearly identified in the introduction. Submission guidelines with Latex (preferred) or Word templates are available here: http://jdiq.acm.org/authors.cfm#subm ** Important dates ** - Initial submission: Friday September 8, 2017 - First review: Thursday December 7, 2017 - Revised manuscripts: Friday March 9, 2018 - Second review: Friday May 11, 2018 - Camera-ready manuscripts: Friday July 13, 2018 - Publication: Late October 2018 From rdubnic2 at illinois.edu Fri Apr 7 14:20:45 2017 From: rdubnic2 at illinois.edu (Dubnicek, Ryan C) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 18:20:45 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] RFP: HTRC Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS), Spring 2017 Message-ID: The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) project awards. These awards are modeled in the form of HTRC staff and compute time to collaborate on the proposed project during the award period. 4-6 awards are anticipated, and awardees can be individual scholars or a team of scholars, either from HathiTrust member institutions or non-members, though 3 award spots will be reserved for applicants from HT member institutions. The HTRC ACS-dedicated staff will provide a general overview of HTRC components, the HT corpus and HT computational tools, to the awardees over the course of the project?s time period. For this RFP, we are especially encouraging proposals that will utilize our Data Capsule (https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/HTRC+Data+Capsule) to do analysis on in-copyright volumes in HathiTrust. Proposals should be concise, and include project narrative, detailed description of the data you?re interested in engaging with, a schedule of completion, and list of deliverables. Full details of required components can be found in the full ACS RFP, available here: https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_sp17_acs-rfp Deadline for submission is 5:00 pm Eastern, June 19, 2017, submitted electronically. For any questions or to submit your proposal, email acs at hathitrust.org. __________________ For more information on HTRC: hathitrust.org/htrc To see HTRCs tools/datasets: analytics.hathitrust.org For general inquiries: htrc-help at hathitrust.org From xh.gslis at gmail.com Sat Apr 8 12:41:20 2017 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 00:41:20 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR17) -- Suzhou, China Message-ID: Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting! *Call for Participation* 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR17) 23-28 October, 2017, Suzhou, China *Accepting submissions for:* - Conference papers - Tutorials - Late-breaking papers & demos - Musical performances *Important Dates:* - March 24: Tutorial Proposals Due - April 21: Paper Abstract Due - April 28: Full Paper Due - April 28: Notification of Tutorial Acceptance - June 23: Notification of Paper Acceptance - June 30: Workshop/Special Session on MIR for Health Contributions Due - June 30: Music Submissions Due (tentative) - July 14: Notification of Workshop/Special Session Contribution Acceptance - July 21: Early Registration Ends - August 16: Late-Breaking Papers & Demos Opens - October 22: General Registration Ends - October 22: Late-Breaking Papers & Demos Closes *Overview* The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world?s leading interdisciplinary forum on accessing, analyzing, and organizing digital music of all sorts. The ISMIR conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing ideas and applications that enhance the way in which we interact with music. Centered around MIR, the conference aims to foster dialogue across disciplines by bringing together researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students and professionals, providing multifaceted interaction and cross-fertilization that will benefit a wide range of related fields. More information about ISMIR can be found from: http://www.ismir.net/. Music-Information Retrieval (Music-IR) is a wide-ranging area of study and includes elements from the disciplines of musicology, machine learning, signal processing, cognitive science, library and information science, music therapy, and many others. At ISMIR 2017 we aim to present work covering the state-of-the-art of this entire field of study, allowing researchers from every branch of this field to exchange ideas, compare results, and initiate collaborations. In addition, ISMIR 2017 will be hosting workshops with their own submission requirements. *Topics of Interest*: Music-IR data and fundamentals such as: Music signal processing Symbolic music processing Metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web Lyrics and other textual data, web mining, and natural language processing Multimodal approaches to Music-IR Extracting musical features and properties such as Genre Mood and emotion Instrumentation Melody and harmony Pitches and chords Key and mode Rhythm, beat, and tempo Structure Timbre Expressive and performative elements Estimating music metadata such as: Artist Album Release date Popularity Tags Cover song detection Methods for manipulating, analyzing, and processing musical sequences such as: Sound source separation Alignment, synchronization, and score following Automatic transcription Music synthesis, transformation, and augmentation Fingerprinting Applications for Music-IR such as: Music-IR for health and therapy Music-IR for learning Music-IR for indexing, querying, and retrieving music Music-IR for pattern matching and detection Music-IR for determining similarity Music-IR for music recommendation Music-IR for music training Music-IR for gaming Music-IR for enhanced performances Music-IR for business and marketing Music-IR for digital libraries and archives Domain-specific knowledge such as: Computational music theory Computational musicology Cognitive Music-IR Representations of music Methodological and social concerns such as: Corpus creation Annotation methodology Evaluation methodology Legal issues Ethical issues User-based concerns such as: User behavior User modeling Human-computer interfaces *Scientific Program Notes* All papers will go through a double-blind review. Each paper will be assigned at least three reviewers per submission. All accepted papers will be presented at ISMIR 2017 as either a poster or an oral presentation. The Program Committee will determine which submissions will be presented orally and which will be presented as posters; this determination will not be based on the relevance or potential impact of the papers, but rather on the content and the best method to reach each paper?s intended audience. Each paper may have a maximum of six pages of scientific content (including figures and possible references) and one additional page which may only contain references. *Call for Sponsorship* ISMIR 2017 offers sponsorship opportunities at Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze levels. Be sure to take this opportunity and become a proud sponsor of the conference, where you can showcase your company?s latest products and development to an international crowd of MIR researchers/practitioners, and learn about the state-of-the-art research and technologies in MIR. *Conference Committee* General chairs Ye Wang, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Wei Li, Fudan University, Mainland China Program co-chairs Xiao Hu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand Douglas Turnbull, Ithaca College, USA Sponsorship and travel grant co-chairs Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Mainland China Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University, USA Proceeding chair Zhiyao Duan, University of Rochester, USA Tutorial co-chairs Emilia Gomez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Kyogu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Unconference co-chairs Yi-Hsuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ning Chen, East China University of Science and Technology, Mainland China Women in MIR Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington, USA Preeti Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India Zhongzhe Xiao, Soochow University, Mainland China WEB co-chairs Zhiyan Duan, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Chitralekha Gupta, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Late-break/demo/student volunteer co-chairs David Grunberg, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Boyd Anderson, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Registration co-chairs Simon Lui, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore Kat Agres, A*STAR, Singapore Music program co-chairs Gus Xia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Zhengshan Shi, Stanford University, USA Simon Lui, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore Local organizing co-chairs Tiow Seng Tan, National University of Singapore Research Institute (NUSRI) Suzhou, Mainland China Xi Shao, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Mainland China Mi Tian, Queen Mary University of London, UK Advisory Board Meinard M?ller, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg (FAU), Germany Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Anja Volk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana?Champaign (UIUC), USA George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria (UViC), Canada Simon Dixon, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Contact information* ? General Conference Inquires: ismir2017 at ismir.net ? Program Inquires: ismir2017-papers at ismir.net ? Sponsorship Inquires: ismir2017-sponsorship at ismir.net 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 unmil at austin.utexas.edu Sun Apr 9 15:37:50 2017 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 14:37:50 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: PSDL 2017 - Physical Samples and Digital Libraries Workshop - JCDL 2017, June 22-23, Toronto In-Reply-To: <17158b1b-8f16-19dd-528b-55bc65804af5@austin.utexas.edu> References: <17158b1b-8f16-19dd-528b-55bc65804af5@austin.utexas.edu> Message-ID: This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdl2017/ ------------------------------------------ Overview Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and the entire universe, contribute to and a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. We welcome participation from scholars as well as practitioners in disciplines that depend upon the availability of physical samples, such as earth sciences, biology, hydrology, archeology, etc. as well as information and computer sciences. The workshop will be held on June 22-23, 2017 in Toronto, Canada in conjunction with JCDL 2017 (the link to the conference page is:JCDL 2017 ). Topics We invite researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scientific publications. The intention is both to assemble the existing community as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A goal of this workshop is to enable domain scientists, data curators, and computer and information scientists to learn from each other about the requirements of physical and digital sample and collection management. Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and digital libraries that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposals: formats and submission All contributions must be written in English. We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers (3000-4000 words, exclusive of references)*: submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an area of interest * *work-in-progess papers (1500-2000 words, exclusive of references)*: submissions that present early results or a nascent project * *posters or demonstrations (500 words, exclusive of references)*: While the paper authors will present their work during sessions, posters will be available for attendees view during the breaks as well as before and after the workshop. Please submit papers via the workshop's*EasyChair submission page*:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdl2017. Accepted submissions will be published in a special issue of the IEEE-TCDL bulletin in Fall 2017. Authors will also be invited to submit enhanced papers for a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries in late 2017. Important dates: * *May 10*: Paper submissions due * *May 17*: Notification of acceptance * *May 19*: Regular registration for JCDL 2017 ends * *June 10*: Submission of revised papers * *June 22-23*: PSDL 2017 Workshop Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu ) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert(lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu ) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt(clenhardt at renci.org ) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sarah Ramdeen(ramdeen at email.unc.edu ) School of Information, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Sun Apr 9 17:20:54 2017 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 16:20:54 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Humanities 2017 workshop - Call for Proposals: Privacy-sensitive Collections for Digital Scholarship In-Reply-To: <3e0a533e-12aa-49cd-feb5-376b28c8aa10@jcdl.org> References: <3e0a533e-12aa-49cd-feb5-376b28c8aa10@jcdl.org> Message-ID: <922caaef-fc9c-1d16-3838-b19d15060cb9@austin.utexas.edu> This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/pc4ds2017/ ------------------------------------------------- Overview Humanities scholars have historically used archives that include restricted or privacy-sensitive collections in order to conduct their investigations about sensitive topics. The recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available. Furthermore, collections of new, born-digital documents will be readily available to support and enhance scholarship. However, such access has also exacerbated threats to the privacy of individuals named in these records. Examples of such privacy-sensitive records include mental health institutional records, prison records, records of the Truth and reconciliation commissions, Nazi archives, and the Guatemalan national police archives. Access to paper records is protected by distance, physical barriers, and varying state and national policies and laws. In some cases, the legal frameworks for digital records are substantially less clear than those for physical records. Furthermore, the online availability of such records has a potential to stigmatize or embarrass the families or descendants of those named in the records when they bear no responsibility for the acts or health conditions of the named individuals, raising ethical issues in providing broad, open access to these records. In addition to scholars, demographics such as family members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can all benefit from access to these historical collections. Topics We invite scholars and practitioners who work with or are interested in issues surrounding humanities scholarship supported or enhanced by digital, privacy-sensitive collection to contribute to and participate in this workshop. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: * Digitization, curation, and preservation of privacy-sensitive collections * Theoretical and metadata models * Policies, workflows, and protections for accessing materials * Issues in using cloud services for privacy-sensitive materials storage and scholarship * Scholarly information behavior and needs * Models that recognize diverse user needs (for example, aggregate data, individual information) * Institutional and political negotiations surrounding access to privacy-sensitive collections * Mechanisms and models for data retrieval from handwritten documents * Privacy-aware digital repository architectures * Privacy-aware crowdsourcing and transcription methods * Privacy issues in designing user interfaces and data visualizations * Privacy mitigation in data analytics and presentation * Evaluation of existing software, infrastructure, and techniques * Social justice issues and non-scholarly outcomes of work with restricted collections Proposals: formats and submission All contributions must be written in English. We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers (up to 3,000 words, exclusive of references)*: submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an area of interest * *work-in-progess papers (up to 1,500 words, exclusive of references)*: submissions that present early results or a nascent project Please submit papers via the workshop's*EasyChair submission page*:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc4ds2017. Important dates: * *May 15*: due date for all proposals * *May 31*: Notification of acceptance * *June 7*(expected): Early registration date for DH 2017 ends (workshop participants must register for both the conference and the workshop) * *August 1*: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * *August 7/8*: PC4DS 2017 Workshop Program Committee (evolving) Donald Fyson, D?partement des sciences historiques, Universit? Laval Pat Galloway, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Unmil Karadkar, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu ) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin King Davis(king.davis at austin.utexas.edu ) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Acknowledgement The organizers are funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (grant number: 11500653) under the scholarly communications program. From samchu at hku.hk Mon Apr 10 09:54:59 2017 From: samchu at hku.hk (samchu) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:54:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Message-ID: <1491832499220.64364@hku.hk> Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Ref.: 201700487) Applications are invited for appointment as Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Education, to commence on November 1, 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter for a period of two years. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in Education, Educational Psychology, Information Management, or related fields; excellent oral and written communication skills in English; experience in implementing research projects; familiarity with advanced quantitative analyses (e.g. confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations modeling) and qualitative analyses; and experience in publishing research. He/she will be responsible for choosing and designing appropriate surveys/interview guide protocol to address the overarching aims of the project, performing data analyses on the raw data (quantitative and qualitative data), and writing journal article manuscripts for publications in top-tiered journals based on the findings from the project. The appointee will assist to work on a research project entitled ?Implementing sexuality education in secondary schools with a bilingual interactive game playable on Web, Facebook, tablets, and smartphones? for a project period of 24 months. The project adopts principles from gamification and game-based learning to develop and evaluate the effects of sexuality education on sexual attitudes and behaviors among secondary school students through an interactive social game. The project aims to make use of social media platforms that are particularly popular among youths in promoting sexuality education. An interactive online game playable on the Web, Facebook, iPad, and Android tablets will educate students on the proper knowledge and attitudes in the subject of sexuality education. The appointee is expected to coordinate with the key stakeholders (e.g., schools, collaborating agencies, research assistants) from various backgrounds. He/She will work with the Principal Investigator (PI), Co-investigators, and other research team members in this multidisciplinary research project. Inquiries about the post should be sent to Dr. Sam Chu (PI), Faculty of Education (e-mail: samchu at hku.hk). Information about the Faculty can be obtained at http://www.hku.hk/education. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered, in addition to annual leave and medical benefits. Applicants should send a completed application form together with an up-to-date C.V. and list of three references to samchu at hku.hk. Application forms (341/1111) can be downloaded at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Further particulars can be obtained at http://jobs.hku.hk. Closes April 22, 2017. The University thanks applicants for their interest, but advises that only candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified of the application result. The University is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to equality, ethics, inclusivity, diversity and transparency Sam -------------------------------------------------- Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D. Associate Professor, 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. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. (eBook - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811024795) Chu, S.K.W., Capio, C.M., Van Aalst, J., Cheng, E.W.L. (In press). Evaluating the use of a social media tool for collaborative group writing of secondary school students in Hong Kong. Computer & Education. Ranked 9/269 in ISI's Education category - top 3.35%; Impact Factor: 2.88 (JCR 2015) Chu, S.K.W., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Chan, C.K., Lee, C.W.Y., Zou, E., & Lau, W. (in press). The effectiveness of wikis for project-based learning in different disciplines in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education. Ranked 13/269 in ISI's Education category - top 4.83%; Impact Factor: 2.72 (JCR 2015) From Frank.Guerino at if4it.com Mon Apr 10 08:19:36 2017 From: Frank.Guerino at if4it.com (Frank Guerino) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:19:36 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Article: Type-Strong versus Type-Weak Semantic Relationships and Semantic Data Graphs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi All, For those of you interested in Semantic Data Theory for Data & Information Management, the following article discusses "Type-Strong versus Type-Weak Semantic Relationships and Semantic Data Graphs ?. > [Direct Address: > https://www.if4it.com/type-strong-versus-type-weak-semantic-relationships-sema > ntic-data-graphs/] I hope you find the materials interesting and useful. My Best, Frank ? Frank Guerino, Managing Partner The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) http://www.if4it.com 1.908.294.5191 (M) From birger at hum.aau.dk Tue Apr 11 03:18:58 2017 From: birger at hum.aau.dk (Birger Larsen) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:18:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Nominations - 2017 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Message-ID: <1FE55AA8C30F694B820C89B197411E714BC9AA7A@AD-EXCHMBX4-1.aau.dk> EUGENE GARFIELD DOCTORAL DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIP 2017 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 1. NATURE OF THE AWARD The scholarship will consist of an award of USD 3,000 (donated by the Eugene Garfield Foundation) to cover any research related expenses (including traveling) of the grant recipient, contingent upon the recipient's attending ISSI 2017, the next ISSI biennial conference. This conference will be held in Wuhan, P. R. China from October 16 till October 20, 2017. 2. PURPOSE OF THE AWARD The purpose of this scholarship is to foster research in informetrics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webmetrics and altmetrics by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research. 3. ELIGIBILITY The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications: (a) Be an active doctoral candidate pursuing research using informetric, bibliometric, scientometric, webmetric or altmetric methodology in a degree-granting institution; (b) Have a doctoral dissertation proposal accepted by the institution or by their dissertation advisor. Clarification: an active doctoral student is someone who has not yet obtained the doctoral degree at the moment he/she receives the award. Moreover, the applicant need not be a member of ISSI to be considered for this scholarship. 4. ADMINISTRATION The award is sponsored by the Eugene Garfield Foundation with the cooperation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and is administered by the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). 5. NOMINATIONS Submission should include the following: (a) The doctoral research proposal, including a description of the research, methodology, and significance, 10 pages or less in length, double-spaced, and in English; (b) A copy of the paper submitted for presentation at the ISSI Conference; (c) A cover letter from the dissertation advisor endorsing the proposal and confirming that the contents of this proposal are accepted by the institute, or at least by the advisor; (d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae. 6. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE Deadline for submission is April 20, 2017. All proposals should be submitted in PDF by e-mail to ISSI Board member Birger Larsen at egdds.award at gmail.com. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to candidates. 7. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION The recipient of the award will be given the opportunity to present his/her work either during a normal session (if his/her paper has been accepted for presentation), either as a special lecture on the same level as research in progress. This presentation will be referred to as the special Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Lecture. Some further clarifications a) The candidate must have the intention to attend the conference, as shown by a submitted paper. b) The awardee is free to use the award money as he/she pleases. The award does not have to (but of course may) be used for travelling to the conference. c) The awardee is not automatically entitled to an (extra) travel grant from the conference organizers or from ISSI. Of course he/she may apply for such a grant (if such grants are made available by the organizers) like any other conference participant. ___________________________________ Birger Larsen, PhD Professor Communication and Information Studies Department of Communication Aalborg University Copenhagen A.C. Meyers V?nge 15 DK-2450 K?benhavn SV Denmark ___________________________________ Birger Larsen, PhD Professor Communication and Information Studies Department of Communication Aalborg University Copenhagen A.C. Meyers V?nge 15 DK-2450 K?benhavn SV Denmark Email: birger at hum.aau.dk Phone: +45 22767042 From amber.cushing at ucd.ie Wed Apr 12 05:05:15 2017 From: amber.cushing at ucd.ie (Amber Cushing) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:05:15 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD Scholarships available at the UCD School of Info & Comm Studies Message-ID: PhD Scholarships available at the School if Information & Communication Studies, UCD, Dublin, Ireland. (tuition remission at the EU rate + 10k stipend per year, renewable for 3 years-if you are non-EU, you can apply part of the stipend to International tuition, if you like). Most full-time PhDs in UCD social science complete in 3-4 years. Applications due June 15, 2017. We have strengths in the areas of - Digital Curation and Digital Heritage - Information and Digital Literacy - Human Computer Interaction and Informatics - Communication with and through Technology - Critical Information Studies - Information Behaviour - Data and Society - Data Journalism Please the link below for more information https://www.ucd.ie/ics/study/phdresearchprogrammes/ Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation PhD Programme Coordinator School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info *new office location as of 6 Sept 2016-C117 Newman* From amber.cushing at ucd.ie Wed Apr 12 05:09:20 2017 From: amber.cushing at ucd.ie (Amber Cushing) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:09:20 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD Scholarships available at the UCD School of Info & Comm Studies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies, there was a typo in the last message: Applications are due May 15th, 2017 (not June). Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation PhD Programme Coordinator School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info *new office location as of 6 Sept 2016-C117 Newman* On 12 April 2017 at 10:05, Amber Cushing wrote: > PhD Scholarships available at the School if Information & Communication > Studies, UCD, Dublin, Ireland. (tuition remission at the EU rate + 10k > stipend per year, renewable for 3 years-if you are non-EU, you can apply > part of the stipend to International tuition, if you like). Most full-time > PhDs in UCD social science complete in 3-4 years. Applications due June 15, > 2017. > We have strengths in the areas of > > - Digital Curation and Digital Heritage > - Information and Digital Literacy > - Human Computer Interaction and Informatics > - Communication with and through Technology > - Critical Information Studies > - Information Behaviour > - Data and Society > - Data Journalism > > Please the link below for more information > https://www.ucd.ie/ics/study/phdresearchprogrammes/ > > > Dr. Amber L. Cushing > Lecturer/Assistant Professor > Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation > PhD Programme Coordinator > School of Information and Communication Studies > University College Dublin > Belfield > Dublin 4 > Ireland > +353 01 716 8441 > www.amberlcushing.info > *new office location as of 6 Sept 2016-C117 Newman* > From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Apr 13 03:34:57 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:34:57 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, open Calls Message-ID: <9f4a5c64-d5ed-3b27-b1f1-a1c57401ed15@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials SEMANTiCS 2017 - The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 -14, 2017 http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track): *Abstract Submission Deadline:May 17, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: July 3, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 14, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): *Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Workshops & Tutorials): *Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops without Call for Papers: June 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Notification of Acceptance: April 13, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 30, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *Camera-Ready Proceedings: September 4, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Time) *SEMANTiCS 2017 Workshop & Tutorial Days: September 11 and 14, 2017 Important Dates (Industry & Use Case Presentations): *Submission Deadline June 23, 2017 *Notification of Acceptance July 4, 2017 *Presentation Ready August 15, 2017 As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Data Science (special track, see below) *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Following the success of previous years, the ?horizontals? (research) and ?verticals? (industries) below are of interest for the conference: Horizontals: *Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration *Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search *Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies *Semantics in Big Data *Text Analytics *Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization *Semantic Information Management *Document Management & Content Management *Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management *Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking *Smart Data & Semantics in IoT *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects Data Science Special Track Horizontals: *Large-Scale Data Processing (stream processing, handling large-scale graphs) *Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Network Analytics) *Communicating Data (Data Visualization, UX & Interaction Design, Crowdsourcing) *Cross-cutting Issues (Ethics, Privacy, Security, Provenance) Verticals: *Industry & Engineering *Life Sciences & Health Care *Public Administration *e-Science *Digital Humanities *Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) *Education & eLearning *Media & Data Journalism *Publishing, Marketing & Advertising *Tourism & Recreation *Financial & Insurance Industry *Telecommunication & Mobile Services *Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology *Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids *Food, Agriculture & Farming *Safety, Security & Privacy *Transport, Environment & Geospatial From ferro at dei.unipd.it Thu Apr 13 04:13:09 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:13:09 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Bids to host CLEF 2019 - 20th Anniversary Edition Message-ID: INTRODUCTION The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. The CLEF Initiative is structured in two main parts: - a series of Evaluation Labs, i.e. laboratories to conduct evaluation of information access systems and workshops to discuss and pilot innovative evaluation activities; - a peer-reviewed Conference on a broad range of issues, including - investigation continuing the activities of the Evaluation Labs; - experiments using multilingual and multimodal data; in particular, but not only, data resulting from CLEF activities; - research in evaluation methodologies and challenges. Since 2000 CLEF has played a leading role in stimulating investigation and research in a wide range of key areas in the information retrieval domain. It has promoted the study and implementation of appropriate evaluation methodologies for diverse types of tasks and media. Over the years, a wide, strong, and multidisciplinary research community has been built, which covers and spans the different areas of expertise needed to deal with the breadth of CLEF activities. CALL FOR BIDS The CLEF Steering Committee solicits proposals from groups interested in organizing the CLEF conference and labs in September 2019. CLEF 2019 will be a special edition marking the 20th anniversary of the CLEF Initiative. Groups submitting a bid for CLEF 2019 also commit themselves to collect membership fees on behalf of the CLEF Association and to pass them to the CLEF Association. Guidelines on submitting a bid can be found in the Template for Bids available at: http://www.clef-initiative.eu/documents/71612/87713/CLEF-Initiative-Template_for_bids.docx Bids must be submitted by *Tuesday, May 31st 2016* by email to the Steering Commitee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ). The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Interested parties can contact the Steering Committee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ) to receive further details. IMPORTANT DATES - Bid submission deadline: Friday 7 July, 2017 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: mid August 2017 - Bid selection: late August 2017 STEERING COMMITTEE - Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain - Donna Harman, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Birger Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark - Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Josiane Mothe, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland - Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain - Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Jacques Savoy, University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland - Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany From openings at higheredjobs.com Wed Apr 12 15:45:59 2017 From: openings at higheredjobs.com (Higher Ed Listserv) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] Position Openings Message-ID: <960463880.1981843.1492026359230.JavaMail.zimbra@higheredjobs.com> The following positions were recently posted to HigherEdJobs: http://www.higheredjobs.com. 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HigherEdJobs.com shall not be liable to any party for any special, indirect, or consequential damages that arises in any form from the use of this email. From rong.tang at simmons.edu Fri Apr 14 08:05:44 2017 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:05:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Upcoming ALISE Webinar: Makerspaces in Libraries Message-ID: Dear all, Just a reminder of the upcoming ALISE Webinar: Makerspaces in Libraries: Creating Change through Active Partnerships with Communities *Date:* May 3, 2017 *Time:* 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST *Registration Fees:* Free for ALISE members (personal & institutional member contacts) $50 for non-members This webinar will discuss how libraries promote active community engagement through Makerspaces. A Makerspace is a place for community members to engage in creative making activities in a range of domains, offering access to fabrication technologies and social opportunities with other Makers. Community engagement is the key to success. Several library Makerspaces are currently practicing innovative approaches to engaging their communities. However, there seems to be a lack of consensus regarding what social responsibilities library Makerspaces must assume in today?s society. The panel proposes the following overarching questions: - What social responsibilities do Makerspaces in a library have to their community? - What are some of the effective ways Makerspaces currently practice to engage community? - What should LIS educators do to promote community engagement and social responsibility in and through library Makerspaces? To register, go to: http://www.alise.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=4&Itemid=179&year=2017&month=05&day=03 Best, Rong -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Director, SLIS PhD Program Simmons College Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information Science Education rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From Frank.Guerino at if4it.com Thu Apr 13 22:04:49 2017 From: Frank.Guerino at if4it.com (Frank Guerino) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:04:49 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Question about Language Classifications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi All, Is there a place where we can go to learn about how to properly classify all uses and tenses of a word? For example, for all permutations of the word ?run?: * ?run? * ?ran? * ?running? * ?runner" * ?a run? * ?the run? * Etc. Thanks for any help you can offer. My Best, Frank ? Frank Guerino, Managing Partner The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) http://www.if4it.com 1.908.294.5191 (M) From ErdelezS at missouri.edu Fri Apr 14 13:30:01 2017 From: ErdelezS at missouri.edu (Erdelez, Sanda) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:30:01 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T AM17 Paper submission deadline extended Message-ID: <7c6f2ef0115c4370a6cab0bae9d7aef6@missouri.edu> Dear colleagues, Due to the holiday weekend, the deadline for paper submissions to ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting in Washington DC has been extended from April 16, 2017 to April 23, 2017. Please refer to this link for submitting your papers: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2017/asist-2017-call-for-papers/ Regards, AM 2017 co-chairs Sanda Erdelez and Naresh Agarwal AM 2017 Program Committee From rong.tang at simmons.edu Fri Apr 14 14:06:45 2017 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:06:45 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Teaching UX courses in LIS or iSchool curriculum Message-ID: Dear all, Thanks to those who have completed our survey on teaching UX. We have decided to extend the deadline for the survey completion to next Friday, *April 21, 2017. *We truly appreciate your input. If you are a faculty member who teaches courses in the area of usability/UX research or UX design, please fill out the survey through the link below at your earliest convenience: https://tinyurl.com/teachUXinLIS Thank you very much in advance for your valuable time! Jean Thrift and Rong Tang ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rong Tang Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:07 PM Subject: Teaching UX courses in LIS curriculum To: asis-l at asis.org, lita-l at lists.ala.org, JESSE at lists.wayne.edu Cc: Rachel Jean Thrift , Rong Tang < rong.tang at simmons.edu> Dear all, Jean Thrift, a graduate student at the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science, and I are conducting a research study on teaching usability/UX courses in LIS schools. I teach a usability and UX research course at Simmons. We are seeking the participation of LIS faculty members who teach courses in the area of usability/UX research or UX design at ALA-accredited LIS schools. Participation includes both completing a brief online survey about your school?s UX coursework and usability lab if applicable, and emailing your course syllabi/syllabus to thriftr at simmons.edu. The survey is open now and will close on *Friday, April 14th.* Please take 15-20 minutes to respond to the survey, or forward this request if there is a more appropriate LIS faculty member at your school. https://tinyurl.com/teachUXinLIS Thank you very much in advance for your valuable time! Jean Thrift and Rong Tang -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Director, SLIS PhD Program Simmons College rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 <(617)%20521-2880> -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Director, SLIS PhD Program Simmons College Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information Science Education rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From dr.niranjan.sk at gmail.com Tue Apr 18 08:32:05 2017 From: dr.niranjan.sk at gmail.com (Dr. S K Niranjan Aradhya) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:02:05 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?*******_IEEE_Technically_Co-Sponsored_SmartTec?= =?utf-8?q?hCon2017_=E2=80=93_CALL_FOR_PAPERS*******?= Message-ID: ******** IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored SmartTechCon2017 ? CALL FOR PAPERS******** *----- Apologies for cross-postings----* *Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** *Greetings from SmartTechCon2017 ??* I am happy to inform you that *International Conference On Smart Technologies For Smart Nation (SmartTechCon2017)* is being conducted at REVA University, Bengaluru, India from *17th to 19th August 2017* technically Co-Sponsored by Bangalore IEEE & CIS. *Keydates* Paper Submission Deadline 1 June 2017 Notification of Acceptance 1 July 2017 Author Registration Deadline 15 July 2017 Final Paper Upload Deadline 31 July 2017 Conference 17 ? 19 August 2017 All accepted and presented papers are eligible for submission to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Details are available at: http://smarttech-conference.org/ Or for any quires contact: chair at smarttech-conference.org Thanks. With Regards, General Chairs SmartTechCon2017 From michel.menou at orange.fr Sun Apr 16 05:25:24 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:25:24 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Open letter against DRM control of web browsers - Seeking support and In-Reply-To: <011501d2b532$a684f7d0$f38ee770$@gmail.com> References: <011501d2b532$a684f7d0$f38ee770$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <26d9714b-cf22-15a3-55bf-af2100fb748b@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] Open letter against DRM control of web browsers - Seeking support and Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:20:27 -0700 From: Michael Gurstein Reply-To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, Michael Gurstein To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net A new WWW standard seeks to enable corporations to control web browsers with Digital rights Management - please support and endorse an open letter aiming to prevent that. Dear All We all use the Internet and the world wide web, and celebrate it for how it has equalized the information playing field. It has allowed unmediated p2p communication, and placed all content on an equal footing. Those who invented the Internet and the Web gifted it to the world so as to promote the public good. The key bodies establishing Internet standards such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), were similarly concerned to safeguard the Internet's core values of equality and openness. But as the Internet has evolved it has become as well, a key means for those with economic power to dominate and exploit. The various bodies now developing Internet standards are today dominated by trans-national digital corporations. Not surprising then that the new Internet/ Web standards increasingly respond to the needs of these corporations rather than of the public at large. Inspired by demands from the big content providers, the traditional movie and broadcasting companies, corporations like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix, have come together to use the W3C to develop a new web standard which allows them to gain ever more power over the cultural and economic life of humanity. At the heart of this is the EME, a technical specification which has been developed at the World Wide Web Consortium and is now close to publication an official Recommendation of the W3C. The purpose of EME is to allow for the implementation of Digital Rights (Restrictions) Management (DRM) systems through which publishers will control what end users can do with the content they receive through the Internet. The effect of the W3C's support of DRM is a new form of digital colonialism where a black box of computer code installed in all browsers globally will enforce U.S. Copyright laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act without user consent or respect for local laws. Unlike earlier web standards this undermines fundamental principles of social justice and equality of access to information as well as fundamental principles of computer security. In response to this the Just Net Coalition has sent an open letter urging the W3C, and in particular the inventor of the WWW, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who has veto powers at the W3C), to reject the EME. Louis Pouzin, an inventor of key elements of the original Internet, put it thus: ?Of course lobbies have financial and political means to ignore or distort standards in their products, but they want more. They need the guarantee of a reputable standard institution or outstanding individuals to boost the legalization of their marketing strategy.? The open letter can be found at http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf The Web is at a crossroad, and your voice is valuable to stop its enclosure. We are looking for support and endorsements for this letter, which will be conveyed to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C on April 28, 2017. Support can be conveyed in response to this email or by going to http://justnetcoalition.org/against-eme From ludovico.boratto at acm.org Wed Apr 19 08:21:36 2017 From: ludovico.boratto at acm.org (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:21:36 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd ICDM Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (SERecSys 2017) Message-ID: *2nd Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (SERecSys 2017)* *In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017)* New Orleans, USA - November 18, 2017 *CALL FOR PAPERS* A recommender system is designed to suggest items that are expected to interest a user. In order to filter the items and produce the recommendation, Data Mining techniques are largely employed. Among the most popular recommendation approaches in the literature and in real-world applications (e.g., e-commerce websites) are the so-called content-based recommender systems. Content-based recommender systems suggest to users items that are similar to those they previously evaluated. The early systems used relatively simple retrieval models, such as the Vector Space Model, with the basic TF-IDF weighting. Simple (word-based) interest descriptions may fall short both because of semantic ambiguity and because they lack of generality. Recently, content-based recommender systems evolved and started employing external knowledge sources (e.g., ontologies) to improve accuracy and scope of recommendations. More recent approaches have been based on deep learning. Other approaches have employed word embeddings in the recommendation process. Among the best known and high-performance implementations following these lines of research we mention Google?s word2vec. Moreover, semantic technologies will soon find a connection with cognitive computing, cooperating in the definition of the so-called cognitive recommender systems. Given the rapid advances of Semantic Technologies, there is still a large number of options for recommender systems to take advantage of semantics. Our workshop will solicit contributions in all topics related to employing Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems, focused (but not limited) to the following list: - Novel approaches to user profiling in recommender systems that model behavior with semantic technologies; - Cognitive recommender systems; - Content-based recommendation algorithms that employ novel uses of semantic technologies; - Recommendation explanation using semantic technologies; - Generation of novel, diverse, and serendipitous recommendations using semantic technologies; - Hybrid recommender systems that combine semantic technologies with other recommendation techniques (e.g, collaborative); - Group-based approaches that use semantic technologies to describe the group preferences or to generate recommendations. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Paper submission: August 7, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2017 - Camera-ready version submission: September 9, 2017 - Workshop date: November 18, 2017 *TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS* We will consider three different submission types, all in the IEEE 2-column format: regular (8 pages), short (4 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). *Research and position papers* (regular or short) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature should be made where possible. Position papers should introduce novel point of views in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a researcher or a group in the field. *Practice and experience reports* (short) should present in detail the real-world scenarios in which Semantic Technologies are employed for recommendation purposes. *Demo proposals* (extended abstract) should present the details of a prototype or complete application that employs Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems. The systems will be demonstrated to the workshop attendees. The reviewing process will be coordinated by the organizers. Each paper will receive three reviews: two externals to the organizing committee and one internal. The external reviewers will be contacted according to their expertise in the paper topic. *PROCEEDINGS* Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2017 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version in a journal special issue. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2017 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2017.bigke.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system, available at: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=SP *INVITED SPEAKER* Dr. Huzefa Rangwala (George Mason University, USA) *CONTACTS* Website: http://serecsys.di.uniroma1.it/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/serecsys/ For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to serecsys at di.uniroma1.it *ORGANIZERS* Ludovico Boratto (EURECAT, Spain) Salvatore Carta (University of Cagliari, Italy) Giovanni Stilo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) From Frank.Guerino at if4it.com Wed Apr 19 16:22:44 2017 From: Frank.Guerino at if4it.com (Frank Guerino) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:22:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Understanding why Content and Knowledge Repositories Fail - The Wikipedia Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi All, For those interested, The Wikipedia Problem is a paradox that plagues most enterprise content and knowledge repositories. The problem has been summarized in the article: ?The Wikipedia Problem ? Understanding why most Enterprise Knowledge Repositories Fail ,? which is used as a reference for numerous lectures presented at different colleges/universities and professional organizations. [Direct Address: https://www.if4it.com/wikipedia-problem-understanding-enterprise-knowledge-r epositories-fail/ ] If you have any questions or feedback, please let me know. In the mean time, I hope you find the materials interesting and useful. My Best, Frank ? Frank Guerino, Managing Partner The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) http://www.if4it.com 1.908.294.5191 (M) From ludovico.boratto at acm.org Fri Apr 21 04:12:40 2017 From: ludovico.boratto at acm.org (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:12:40 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline extension - Special issue on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction for Recommender Systems Message-ID: ****************************************************************** Submission deadline has been extended to May 15, 2017 ****************************************************************** *Special Issue on "Advances in Computer-Human Interaction for Recommender Systems"* *International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier)* *CALL FOR PAPERS* Recommender Systems produce suggestions to users for items or contents based on user profiles, users? explicit or implicit feedback, which the users might have not originally considered but might be of interest to them. Such recommendations are produced by analyzing what they previously consumed (bought, watched, or listened) or by the identification of similarities with other users. Such an explicit feedback is usually an expression of extreme ratings, either positive or negative. In the middle of the range stays a set of different actions in the interface that might be interpreted as feedback, but that needs to be collected *implicitly*. Even if the literature provides different techniques for collecting implicit feedbacks, they are usually tailored to specific types of applications. >From the user's point of view Recommender Systems remain a black box that suggests objects or contents, but the users hardly understand *why* some items are included in the suggestion list. Providing the users with an understandable representation of how the system represents them and allowing them to control the recommendation process would lead to benefits in how the recommendations are perceived and in the capability of the system to be persuasive. Such transparency is one of the multiple (and usually conflicting) requirements of Recommender Systems. Beyond the classical engineering of Recommender Systems focusing on data processing, filtering and sorting, the engineering aspects should also cover aspects related to how users interact with it, including how to input data, how to define and evolve the user model, how to present the information to the users and how the users can manipulate that information. Such engineering processes might benefit from practice in specific areas, such as web configurators (which guide the users in the inspection of possible product variants) and safety critical interactive systems (where predictability and consistency over executions are prerequisite to certification). In order to deploy Recommender Systems in broader contexts, there is a need for structured and systematic approaches to engineer such complex computing systems. This special issue solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to: - *NOVEL APPLICATION DOMAINS* - Critical systems; - 3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality; - End User Development; - Other novel applications. - *USER INTERFACES FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS* - Differences and analogies between UIs for recommender systems, expert systems, and configuration systems; - Identifying and managing conflicts between the properties of the UI and properties of the Recommender Systems; - Transparency of the recommendation process and creation of interactive handles for supporting user?s control; - New interactions for consuming and guiding recommendation (gestures, tangible interaction etc.); - Analysis of feedback based on small exposures on the item itself: photos, trailers etc. - *RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS CORE* - Exploit the user interaction to enrich recommendation models based on latent factors; - Real time aspects of recommendations: view updates, user?s awareness, balance between recommendation, and task focus/goal, worst case execution time analysis; - Recommendation effectiveness beyond business focused metrics: how to evaluate them, suitable classifiers; - Creating forms of elicitation and enabling user control to improve the perception of the recommendations. - *EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM* - Software architectures for usable recommender systems; - Guidelines for building trust in recommendations; - Solutions for enabling users and systems to work with large data; - Representation of performance issues. *IMPORTANT DATES* ? Manuscript submission due: *May 15, 2017* ? First round decision made: *July 31, 2017* ? Revised manuscript due: *September 30, 2017* ? Final decision made: *November 15, 2017* ? Final paper due: *December 15, 2017* *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Paper submissions must conform to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies format guidelines . Manuscripts must be submitted to the online submission system (select option SI:AdCHIReS in the article type section). Submissions to this Special Issue must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere should have at least 50% of novel valuable content that extends the original work (the original papers should be referenced and the novel contributions should be clearly stated in the submitted paper). *CONTACTS* For enquires regarding the special issue, please send an email to both the guest editors at davide.spano at unica.it and ludovico.boratto at acm.org. *GUEST EDITORS* Lucio Davide Spano (University of Cagliari, Italy) Ludovico Boratto (Eurecat, Spain) From campbell.meier at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 16:06:23 2017 From: campbell.meier at gmail.com (Jennifer Campbell-Meier) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:06:23 +1200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: FW: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Vacancy in New Zealand In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Information Studies* *School of Information Management* *Victoria University of Wellington* *Pipitea Campus* *An exciting opportunity to undertake teaching and research of high quality in Information Studies within the School of Information Management whilst establishing relationships with external practitioner communities. * The School of Information Management (SIM) is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Information Studies to teach and conduct research of high quality, and to assist in programme development, particularly for the Master of Information Studies and the Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Information Studies programmes. Contributions to our growing undergraduate programme are also expected. You will be part of new teaching initiatives using a mixture of conventional face-to-face delivery along with flexible modes of delivery involving distance, online and asynchronous classes. The appointee will be an active researcher in his/her field with a clear record of research and scholarship activity and peer-reviewed journal publications commensurate with experience. We are interested in applications from individuals across the entire Library and Information Studies spectrum, especially those with Archives and Records Management expertise. We are particularly interested in candidates able to teach in the following areas: ? Managing Archives ? Records Management ? Preservation in the context of archives and libraries Victoria University of Wellington is the only New Zealand university offering a post-graduate programme in Information Studies and as such it holds a special place nationally. It has successfully offered this programme for over 30 years. The School of Information Management is located in the Victoria Business School in New Zealand?s capital city and is well positioned to develop close links with national institutions such as the National Library, the National Archives and Te Papa Museum. For more information on the school, see www.victoria.ac.nz/sim. A completed or nearly completed PhD in a relevant domain is required. *Reference: 1289* *Applications close: **Midnight, Friday 28 April 2017 (NZ time)* *For further information and to apply online visit www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers * Jennifer Campbell-Meier Information Studies Programme Director School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600, Wellington NEW ZEALAND +64 (04) 463 5349 <+64%204-463%205349> | fax (04) 463 5446 | RH 416 jennifer.campbell-meier at vuw.ac.nz From ppichappan at gmail.com Thu Apr 20 07:34:21 2017 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:04:21 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: ICDIM 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 www.icdim.org Technically and Financially co-sponsored by TEMS, IEEE ICDIM 2017 hosts the following co-located workshops during the conference. Third Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE) Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) Third Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2017) Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Thailand (2014) Republic of Korea (South Korea)(2015) and Porto (2016), the Twelfth event is being organized at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 2017. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan The topics in ICDIM 2017 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications + Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. General Chair Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) Honorary Chair Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan) Organizing Chair Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair Toki Takeda (NTT, Japan) Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Hung-Yuan Chung, National Central University, Taiwan Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 1, 2017 Notification of Authors August 1, 2017 Registration Due September 1, 2017 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Submissions at- http://icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From rong.tang at simmons.edu Fri Apr 21 14:13:51 2017 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:13:51 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Final Call for Participants: Teaching UX courses in LIS or iSchool curriculum Message-ID: Greetings everyone, Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for our survey on teaching UX in LIS or iSchools curriculum is today at 11:59pm EDT. Your response is very important and valuable to us. If you are a faculty member who teaches courses in the area of usability/UX research or UX design, please fill out the survey through the link below at your earliest convenience: https://tinyurl.com/teachUXinLIS Much appreciated for your time! Jean Thrift and Rong Tang On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Rong Tang wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks to those who have completed our survey on teaching UX. > > We have decided to extend the deadline for the survey completion to next > Friday, *April 21, 2017. *We truly appreciate your input. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rong Tang > Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:07 PM > Subject: Teaching UX courses in LIS curriculum > To: asis-l at asis.org, lita-l at lists.ala.org, JESSE at lists.wayne.edu > Cc: Rachel Jean Thrift , Rong Tang < > rong.tang at simmons.edu> > > > Dear all, > > Jean Thrift, a graduate student at the Simmons College School of Library > and Information Science, and I are conducting a research study on teaching > usability/UX courses in LIS schools. I teach a usability and UX research > course at Simmons. > > We are seeking the participation of LIS faculty members who teach courses > in the area of usability/UX research or UX design at ALA-accredited LIS > schools. > > Participation includes both completing a brief online survey about your > school?s UX coursework and usability lab if applicable, and emailing your > course syllabi/syllabus to thriftr at simmons.edu. The survey is open now > and will close on *Friday, April 14th.* > > > > Please take 15-20 minutes to respond to the survey, or forward this > request if there is a more appropriate LIS faculty member at your school. > > > > https://tinyurl.com/teachUXinLIS > > > Thank you very much in advance for your valuable time! > > Jean Thrift and Rong Tang > > -- > Rong Tang, PhD. > Associate Professor > School of Library and Information Science > Director, Simmons Usability Lab > Director, SLIS PhD Program > Simmons College > rong.tang at simmons.edu > 1-617-521-2880 <(617)%20521-2880> > > > > > -- > Rong Tang, PhD. > Associate Professor > School of Library and Information Science > Director, Simmons Usability Lab > Director, SLIS PhD Program > Simmons College > > Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information > Science Education > rong.tang at simmons.edu > 1-617-521-2880 <(617)%20521-2880> > > -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Director, SLIS PhD Program Simmons College Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information Science Education rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu Sun Apr 23 23:33:08 2017 From: Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu (Krystyna Matusiak) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 03:33:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?IFLA_Satellite_Meeting_on_Data_Curator?= =?windows-1252?q?=92s_Roles_and_Responsibilities?= Message-ID: Please excuse cross-posting IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017 in Warsaw on August 16 ? 17 Data Curator?s Roles and Responsibilities: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives https://ifla.wdib.uw.edu.pl/ The registration is now open for the two-day IFLA Satellite Meeting on the Data Curator?s Roles and Responsibilities. The event is organized by IFLA Library Theory and Research Section (LTR), IFLA- Preservation and Conservation Section, and IFLA- Information Technology Section, and is hosted by the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies at the University of Warsaw. Please find the program of the satellite meeting and registration information at: https://ifla.wdib.uw.edu.pl/ Krystyna K. Matusiak, co-chair Krystyna K. Matusiak | Assistant Professor Library and Information Science Program Research Methods and Information Science Department Morgridge College of Education | University of Denver 1999 East Evans Avenue | Denver, CO 80208-1700 303.871.6163 | krystyna.matusiak at du.edu https://portfolio.du.edu/kmatusia From dwolfram at uwm.edu Mon Apr 24 09:01:09 2017 From: dwolfram at uwm.edu (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:01:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?BIRNDL_2017=3A_2nd_CFP=3A_BIRNDL=9217?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_Bibliometric-enhanced_IR__and_NLP_for_Digital_Librar?= =?windows-1252?q?ies_workshop_=40SIGIR_2017?= In-Reply-To: <201704241059.v3OAxKH1004190@easychair.org> References: <201704241059.v3OAxKH1004190@easychair.org> Message-ID: == Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be held as part of 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) in Tokyo, Japan on 11th August 2017. We are happy to announce that the past BIR and NLPIR4DL organizers are proposing this workshop at SIGIR together. In conjunction with the BIRNDL workshop, we will hold the 3rd CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. See for a separate cfp. Reports from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at the workshop. === Important Dates === - Submissions deadline: May 23, 2017 - Notification: June 23, 2017 - Camera Ready Contributions: TBD - Workshop: August 11, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan === Aim of the Workshop === The BIRNDL workshop is the first step to foster a reflection on interdisciplinarity, and the benefits that the disciplines bibliometrics, IR and NLP can derive from it in a digital libraries context. The workshop is intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, text mining and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. Researchers are in need of assistive technologies to track developments in an area, identify the approaches used to solve a research problem over time and summarize research trends. Digital libraries require semantic search, question-answering and automated recommendation and reviewing systems to manage and retrieve answers from scholarly databases. Full document text analysis can help to design semantic search, translation and summarization sys! tems; citation and social network analyses can help digital libraries to visualize scientific trends, bibliometrics and relationships and influences of works and authors. All these approaches can be supplemented with the metadata supplied by digital libraries, inclusive of usage data, such as download counts. We invite papers and presentations that incorporate insights from IR, bibliometrics and NLP to develop new techniques to address the open problems in Big Science, such as evidence-based searching, measurement of research quality, relevance and impact, the emergence and decline of research problems, identification of scholarly relationships and influences and applied problems such as language translation, question-answering and summarization. Finding relevant scholarly literature is key point of the workshop and sets the agenda for tools and approaches to be discussed and evaluated at BIRNDL. At the workshop, we would also like to address the need for established, standardized baselines, evaluation metrics and test collections. See the proceedings of the first BIRNDL workshop at JCDL 2016 and a recent report in SIGIR Forum . This workshop will be relevant to scholars in computer and information science, specialized in IR, bibliometrics and NLP. The Shared Task is expected to be of interest to a broad community including those working in CL and NLP, especially in the sub-disciplines of text summarization, discourse structure in scholarly discourse, paraphrase, textual entailment and text simplification. The workshop will also be of importance for all stakeholders in the publication pipeline: implementers, publishers and policymakers. Formal citation metrics are increasingly a factor in decision-making by universities and funding bodies worldwide, making the need for research in applying these metrics more pressing. Today's publishers continue to provide new ways to support their consumers in disseminating and retrieving the right published works to their audience. Even when only considering the scholarly sites within Computer Science, we find that the field is well-represented - ACM Portal, IEEE ! Xplore, Google Scholar, PSU's CiteSeerX, MSR's Academic Search, Elsevier?s Mendeley, Tsinghua's ArnetMiner, Trier's DBLP, Hiroshima's PRESRI; with this workshop we hope to bring a number of these contributors together. === Workshop Topics === We invite stimulating as well as unpublished submissions on topics including - but not limited to - full-text analysis, multimedia and multilingual analysis and alignment as well as the application of citation-based NLP or information retrieval and information seeking techniques in digital libraries. Specific examples of fields of interests include (but are not limited to): - Infrastructure for scientific mining and IR - Semantic and Network-based indexing, navigation, searching and browsing in structured data - Discourse structure identification and argument mining from scientific papers - Summarisation and question-answering for scholarly DLs - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - Measurement and evaluation of quality and impact - Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and discovery; - Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; Data cleaning and data quality For the paper sessions, we especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short and 12 pages for full papers, Springer LNCS: ; exclusive of unlimited pages for references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings and from the program. EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Please retweet BIRNDL cfp Please retweet 3rd CL-SciSumm Summarization Shared Task cfp === PC Chairs === - Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany - Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore The main organizers will be supported by our previous co-organizers: - Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France - Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK - Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Dietmar Wolfram, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA === Program Committee === The following committee members have stated their support to review submissions to the workshop. Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Iana Atanassova, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, University of Konstanz, Germany Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille University, France Marc Bertin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS, Germany Jason S Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences Ed A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA Bela Gipp, University of Konstanz, Germany Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, USA Pawan Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Wolfgang Gl?nzel, KU Leuven, Belgium Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Rahul Jha, Microsoft, USA Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Dain Kaplan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK John Lawrence, University of Dundee, UK Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, USA Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University, USA / Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Peter Mutschke, GESIS, Germany Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Arzucan Ozgur, Bogazici University, Turkey Cecile Paris, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ameni Sahraoui, GESIS, Germany Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Rajiv Ratn Shah, Singapore Management University, Singapore Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore Pradeep Teregowda, IBM, Watson Discovery Services, USA Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Bart Thijs, KU Leuven, Belgium Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Andre Vellino, University of Toronto Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Stephen Wan, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Yifang Yin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Best regards, Philipp Mayr, Kokil Jaidka, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Guillaume Cabanac, Ingo Frommholz, Min-Yen Kan, and Dietmar Wolfram From bean.lists at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 07:56:51 2017 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:56:51 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Code4Lib Journal Issue 36 published Message-ID: The new issue of the Code4Lib Journal is now available: http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue36 The table of contents is below. As you are reading, also know that we are looking for editors to join the Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee. What does it mean to join the editorial committee? Read more about our process and structure (http://journal.code4lib.org/process-and-structure ) and/or ask one of the current members of the editorial committee (http://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee ). Interested? Send a letter to journal at code4lib.org and address these two questions: 1) What is your vision for the Code4Lib Journal? Why are you interested in it? 2) How can you contribute to the Code4Lib Journal, i.e. what do you have to offer? In the meantime, enjoy issue 36! Editorial: Reflecting on the success and risks to the Code4Lib Journal Peter E. Murray Linked Data is People: Building a Knowledge Graph to Reshape the Library Staff Directory Jason A. Clark and Scott W. H. Young One of our greatest library resources is people. Most libraries have staff directory information published on the web, yet most of this data is trapped in local silos, PDFs, or unstructured HTML markup. With this in mind, the library informatics team at Montana State University (MSU) Library set a goal of remaking our people pages by connecting the local staff database to the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. In pursuing linked data integration for library staff profiles, we have realized two primary use cases: improving the search engine optimization (SEO) for people pages and creating network graph visualizations. In this article, we will focus on the code to build this library graph model as well as the linked data workflows and ontology expressions developed to support it. Existing linked data work has largely centered around machine-actionable data and improvements for bots or intelligent software agents. Our work demonstrates that connecting your staff directory to the LOD cloud can reveal relationships among people in dynamic ways, thereby raising staff visibility and bringing an increased level of understanding and collaboration potential for one of our primary assets: the people that make the library happen. Recommendations for the application of Schema.org to aggregated Cultural Heritage metadata to increase relevance and visibility to search engines: the case of Europeana Richard Wallis, Antoine Isaac, Valentine Charles, and Hugo Manguinhas Europeana provides access to more than 54 million cultural heritage objects through its portal Europeana Collections. It is crucial for Europeana to be recognized by search engines as a trusted authoritative repository of cultural heritage objects. Indeed, even though its portal is the main entry point, most Europeana users come to it via search engines. Europeana Collections is fuelled by metadata describing cultural objects, represented in the Europeana Data Model (EDM). This paper presents the research and consequent recommendations for publishing Europeana metadata using the Schema.org vocabulary and best practices. Schema.org html embedded metadata to be consumed by search engines to power rich services (such as Google Knowledge Graph). Schema.org is an open and widely adopted initiative (used by over 12 million domains) backed by Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and Yandex, for sharing metadata across the web It underpins the emergence of new web techniques, such as so called Semantic SEO. Our research addressed the representation of the embedded metadata as part of the Europeana HTML pages and sitemaps so that the re-use of this data can be optimized. The practical objective of our work is to produce a Schema.org representation of Europeana resources described in EDM, being the richest as possible and tailored to Europeana?s realities and user needs as well the search engines and their users. Autoload: a pipeline for expanding the holdings of an Institutional Repository enabled by ResourceSync James Powell, Martin Klein and Herbert Van de Sompel Providing local access to locally produced content is a primary goal of the Institutional Repository (IR). Guidelines, requirements, and workflows are among the ways in which institutions attempt to ensure this content is deposited and preserved, but some content is always missed. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, the library implemented a service called LANL Research Online (LARO), to provide public access to a collection of publicly shareable LANL researcher publications authored between 2006 and 2016. LARO exposed the fact that we have full text for only about 10% of eligible publications for this time period, despite a review and release requirement that ought to have resulted in a much higher deposition rate. This discovery motivated a new effort to discover and add more full text content to LARO. Autoload attempts to locate and harvest items that were not deposited locally, but for which archivable copies exist. Here we describe the Autoload pipeline prototype and how it aggregates and utilizes Web services including Crossref, SHERPA/RoMEO, and oaDOI as it attempts to retrieve archivable copies of resources. Autoload employs a bootstrapping mechanism based on the ResourceSync standard, a NISO standard for data replication and synchronization. We implemented support for ResourceSync atop the LARO Solr index, which exposes metadata contained in the local IR. This allowed us to utilize ResourceSync without modifying our IR. We close with a brief discussion of other uses we envision for our ResourceSync-Solr implementation, and describe how a new effort called Signposting can replace cumbersome screen scraping with a robust autodiscovery path to content which leverages the Web protocol. Outside The Box: Building a Digital Asset Management Ecosystem for Preservation and Access Andrew Weidner, Sean Watkins, Bethany Scott, Drew Krewer, Anne Washington, Matthew Richardson The University of Houston (UH) Libraries made an institutional commitment in late 2015 to migrate the data for its digitized cultural heritage collections to open source systems for preservation and access: Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. This article describes the work that the UH Libraries implementation team has completed to date, including open source tools for streamlining digital curation workflows, minting and resolving identifiers, and managing SKOS vocabularies. These systems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS), represent a novel effort to solve common issues in the digital curation lifecycle and may serve as a model for other institutions seeking to implement flexible and comprehensive systems for digital preservation and access. Medici 2: A Scalable Content Management System for Cultural Heritage Datasets Constantinos Sophocleous, Luigi Marini, Ropertos Georgiou, Mohammed Elfarargy, Kenton McHenry Digitizing large collections of Cultural Heritage (CH) resources and providing tools for their management, analysis and visualization is critical to CH research. A key element in achieving the above goal is to provide user-friendly software offering an abstract interface for interaction with a variety of digital content types. To address these needs, the Medici content management system is being developed in a collaborative effort between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in Egypt, and the Cyprus Institute (CyI). The project is pursued in the framework of European Project ?Linking Scientific Computing in Europe and Eastern Mediterranean 2? (LinkSCEEM2) and supported by work funded through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as other private sector efforts. Medici is a Web 2.0 environment integrating analysis tools for the auto-curation of un-curated digital data, allowing automatic processing of input (CH) datasets, and visualization of both data and collections. It offers a simple user interface for dataset preprocessing, previewing, automatic metadata extraction, user input of metadata and provenance support, storage, archiving and management, representation and reproduction. Building on previous experience (Medici 1), NCSA, and CyI are working towards the improvement of the technical, performance and functionality aspects of the system. The current version of Medici (Medici 2) is the result of these efforts. It is a scalable, flexible, robust distributed framework with wide data format support (including 3D models and Reflectance Transformation Imaging-RTI) and metadata functionality. We provide an overview of Medici 2?s current features supported by representative use cases as well as a discussion of future development directions An Interactive Map for Showcasing Repository Impacts Hui Zhang and Camden Lopez Digital repository managers rely on usage metrics such as the number of downloads to demonstrate research visibility and impacts of the repositories. Increasingly, they find that current tools such as spreadsheets and charts are ineffective for revealing important elements of usage, including reader locations, and for attracting the targeted audiences. This article describes the design and development of a readership map that provides an interactive, near-real-time visualization of actual visits to an institutional repository using data from Google Analytics. The readership map exhibits the global impacts of a repository by displaying the city of every view or download together with the title of the scholarship being read and a hyperlink to its page in the repository. We will discuss project motivation and development issues such as authentication with Google API, metadata integration, performance tuning, and data privacy. Peter From olssi.chair at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 09:40:54 2017 From: olssi.chair at gmail.com (OLSSI Chair) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:40:54 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] OLSSI 2017: Peace, Love, Libraries Message-ID: Hello, ASIS Colleagues, It?s time again for OLSSI: The Ohio Library Support Staff Institute . Please feel free to share this message with others who might be interested. This year?s conference will be at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, which is about a half hour east of Dayton. We have an excellent array of classes this year ? http://olssi.org/classes/ . Important dates: - Early Bird Registration: Now, through May 6, 2017 - Regular Registration: May 7 - July 14, 2017 - OLSSI 2017: July 30 ? August 1 at Central State University We hope to see you at OLSSI 2017: Peace, Love, Libraries! *Michael Bradshaw, OLSSI Chair Emeritus* *Ohio Library Support Staff Institute* *Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library * *65 South Front Street, 12th Floor Columbus, OH 43215-3431* * OLSSI: the Ohio Library Support Staff Institute * July 30 ? Aug. 1, 2017 * Central State University * Wilberforce, Ohio* Website: www.OLSSI.org Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1acgQAZ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OLSSI_Michael Pinterest: http://bit.ly/1ach77d Book Club: http://on.fb.me/1iTUmd8 From agruzd at gmail.com Sat Apr 22 20:23:01 2017 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:23:01 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Invitation to attend: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) Message-ID: <02ea01d2bbc7$c52618e0$4f724aa0$@gmail.com> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** We would like to invite you to attend the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) happening on July 28-30 in Toronto, Canada. This year?s theme is on ?Social Media for Social Good or Evil?. The May 1, 2017 early-bird deadline is fast approaching. Register today at: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ The 2017 #SMSociety Conference offers an intensive 3-day program that includes numerous methods workshops (https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2017-workshops/), over 100 full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and over 40 posters featuring the latest in social media research. Our interdisciplinary research community brings researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including Communication, Information Science, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and other fields. This year, we are honoured to have two highly distinguished scholars and leaders as our keynotes speakers: * Lee Rainie ? Director, Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project, USA * Ronald Deibert ? Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada. And two featured panels: * ? Women in Social Media: Safe and Unsafe Spaces? organized by Caroline Haythornthwaite (Syracuse University), Stephanie Teasley (University of Michigan), Jennifer Stromer-Galley (Syracuse University), Ingrid Erickson (Syracuse University), Libby Hemphill (Illinois Institute of Technology), and Alyssa Friend Wise (New York University); * Industry panel on ? Social Media and Twitter Analytics for Brands? organized by Twitter Canada. We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: ask at socialmediaandsociety.org -- 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: ? Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada ? Conference Chair ? Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada ? Conference Chair ? Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada ? Conference Chair ? Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK ? WIP Chair ? Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA ? WIP Chair ? Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA ? Poster Chair Advisory Board: ? William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA ? Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ? Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada Programme Committee: ? Visit: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ From ppichappan at gmail.com Tue Apr 25 05:45:22 2017 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:15:22 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] ICDIM 2017 Message-ID: Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 www.icdim.org Technically and Financially co-sponsored by TEMS, IEEE ICDIM 2017 hosts the following co-located workshops during the conference. Third Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE) Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) Third Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2017) Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Thailand (2014) Republic of Korea (South Korea)(2015) and Porto (2016), the Twelfth event is being organized at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 2017. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan The topics in ICDIM 2017 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications + Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. General Chair Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) Honorary Chair Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan) Organizing Chair Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair Toki Takeda (NTT, Japan) Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Hung-Yuan Chung, National Central University, Taiwan Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 1, 2017 Notification of Authors August 1, 2017 Registration Due September 1, 2017 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Submissions at- http://icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From kfleisch at utexas.edu Wed Apr 26 07:27:32 2017 From: kfleisch at utexas.edu (Kenneth Robert Fleischmann) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:27:32 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Dean, The Texas iSchool Message-ID: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/dean_search Apologies for cross-posting...please circulate. The University of Texas at Austin invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Information (the Texas iSchool). The Texas iSchool is seeking an accomplished, innovative, and transformational leader who will work with the faculty, staff, students, and university administration to lead and further develop the school during this exciting time of rapid change and evolution in the management and delivery of information. The Texas iSchool is committed to making a difference in the lives of all people by enabling and supporting the curation, organization, and experience of information in ways that enhance lives. Currently enrolling over 300 students in its Master of Science in Information Studies, Master of Science in Identity Management and Security, Certificates of Advanced Study, and Ph.D. programs, the Texas iSchool is a founding member of the iSchools Caucus, a growing international association of leading information schools. Ideal candidates for this position will combine exemplary achievements in the field of information with strategic leadership, entrepreneurial ambition, collaborative and creative strength, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, and a passion for the mission of the Texas iSchool and the University. This is an opportunity to join a university that is on a dramatic upward trajectory, with a strong executive leadership team; a collaborative council of college and school deans; and excellent faculty, staff, and students. An exceptional research record and international reputation of scholarly distinction and accomplishments in the field of information commensurate with appointment at the rank of full professor at the University is required, as is an earned doctorate in information or a related field, interdisciplinary training and research experience, and the ability to inspire and evaluate faculty and student research excellence across a wide range of research specialties. The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. For more information, please visit: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/dean_search Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D. Chair, Dean Search Committee School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin From nancy.evans at ualberta.ca Wed Apr 26 10:30:17 2017 From: nancy.evans at ualberta.ca (Nancy J Evans) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:30:17 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Alberta SLIS - Welcomes Dr. Danielle Allard Message-ID: ?*The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Danielle Allard as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2017.* The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Danielle Allard as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2017. Dr. Allard joins SLIS after the completion of a two-year interdisciplinary SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Mamawipawin at the University of Manitoba. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Information and a collaborative masters degree (MISt) in Information Studies and Gender and Equity Studies, from the University of Toronto. Dr. Allard?s scholarly pursuits fall at the intersection of culture and community, information (its usages, representations, and institutions), and the role that information plays in the promotion of a more ethical and socially just world. Her interests include: the information practices of newcomer and migrant communities; archival decolonization; Indigenous, community, and activist archives; critical information studies; and the inclusion of marginalized communities, cultural heritage, and knowledge domains in digital and real-world information institutions. Dr. Allard has co-authored a number of publications within both Information Studies and Women?s and Gender Studies; her publications can be found in *Library Trends,* *Library and Information Science Research*, and *Feminist Media Studies*. Active in a number of community organizations and professional associations, Dr. Allard is currently co-chair of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2017 annual conference. She is looking forward to bringing her teaching experience from Women?s and Gender Studies to the SLIS program. Please join SLIS faculty and staff in welcoming our new faculty member. ? -- *Nancy Evans* *Acting Assistant Chair, Administration* *School of Library Information Studies* *3-20 Rutherford South* *nancy.evans at ualberta.ca * *780 492 0373* NOTE: This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, if you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to retain, read, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately, delete the email and files from any computer, and destroy any copies or print-outs that may have been made of the email and files. From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Wed Apr 26 12:52:38 2017 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:52:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] new api for mapping the geography of global news coverage Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting - thought many on this list might find of great interest and utility the new GDELT mapping API for creating point, ADM1 and country-level maps of the geography of global news coverage from nearly all countries worldwide in 65 languages over the last 24 hours, updating every 15 minutes. The API, which is fully free and open, generates both instant embeddable browser-based interactive maps and GeoJSON optimized for use with platforms like Carto. http://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-geo-2-0-api-debuts/ Specify any keyword or phrase and search the English machine translations of all content monitored in those 65 languages, allowing you to search across languages. For each keyword, the system compiles a list of all locations (down to the resolution of a hilltop in many areas) that were found within a sentence or two of your keyword and constructs a map showing the locations mentioned most frequently in context with your search. You can also map specific languages, domains, by tone, etc. Perhaps most uniquely, we are releasing a set of experimental maps that apply the deep learning image categorization we perform on global news imagery each day (more than a quarter billion images processed last year) and let you search by 10,000 labels of objects and activities depicted in the image, the OCR'd text in more than 80 languages depicted in the image, all of the text contained in the image file's metadata fields, the textual caption of the image as it appeared in each article, and the result of a Google Images reverse search that compiles a list of all of the captions used for that image anywhere it was found on the open web and assigns several million topical labels. As but one simple, but extremely powerful example - one of our research threads revolves around how violence is depicted across the world and the differing levels of normative baselines (for example, here in the US ISIS beheadings are typically shown with a "before" image or a heavily pixelated image, whereas in the presses of certain other countries the raw graphic image is frequently shown; similarly in the US we rarely see imagery of drowned refugees with the notable exception of Alan Kurdi, while the presses of other countries run graphic imagery of those who perish on a more frequent basis). Understanding how violence is depicted in the presses of the world and how those baselines are changing offers a lot of insight into the question of desensitization and the communication of crises. The new API allows you to create such a map in just a few seconds and have it live update every 15 minutes - here is one such example map that displays up to five images from the domestic press of each country over the last 24 hours that were determined to potentially depict some sense of "violence" (click on each country to see the images from its local press). (WARNING: many of these images are very disturbing). While you will see some errors here and there, overall this gives a very visceral sense of the differences in depiction of violence throughout the world. http://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/geo/geo?query=imagetag:%22safesearchviolence%22&mode=imagesourcecountry&format=imagehtml Similarly, here is a map of rubble, destruction, flooding and fire that we are using in a series of forthcoming projects to ground truth the severity of natural disasters as they occur in realtime (note that this particular map below shows the imagery of damage FROM the press of that country, which may reflect events in other countries as well): http://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/geo/geo?query=(imagetag:%22rubble%22%20OR%20imagetag:%22demolition%22%20OR%20imagetag:%22disaster%22%20OR%20imagetag:%22earthquake%22%20OR%20imagetag:%22flood%22%20OR%20imagetag:%22fire%22)&mode=imagesourcecountry&format=imagehtml Looking at text, you can map a particular news outlet like AllAfrica: http://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/geo/geo?query=domain:allafrica.com Or source language like Chinese: http://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/geo/geo?query=sourcelang:chinese Or the phrase "Donald Trump", aggregated to the country level: http://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/geo/geo?query=%22donald%20trump%22&mode=country You can find many more examples, along with full documentation on the announcement this morning: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-geo-2-0-api-debuts/ Feel free to email me directly with any questions! We are super excited to see what you all are able to do with these new capabilities! And stay tuned for our temporal API being released in a few weeks! Kalev http://blog.gdeltproject.org http://kalevleetaru.com/ From kberlack at nfais.org Wed Apr 26 18:11:34 2017 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:11:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NFAIS Call for Presenters-Open Access Conference Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS Call for Presenters! Submission Deadline: Monday, May 15, 2017 http://www.nfais.org/call-for-presenters ==================================================================== Overview: Open Access (OA) continues to gain momentum as open science and open peer review advance the movement and trends. From the research development to the scholarly output, creating a more transparent end-to-end process allows unfettered sharing, inclusion and collaboration as a continuum in scientific research and discovery. And while all of this aligns well with a more socially engaged information community, it continues to disrupt and change the direction of how scholarly communications are evolving. NFAIS will explore this multidimensional disruption at our Open Access Conference on October 2- 3, 2017 in Old Town Alexandria, VA. The program will consist of keynote speakers, plenary and panel sessions. Become a speaker and share your insights and expertise with others in the information services community: introduce current thinking, industry trends, new technologies and application to others in the industry. You may be selected to present alone, with a co-presenter, or as a panel. We are looking for visionary, inspiring and future-focused individuals who can elevate discussions, debate and provide practical ideas and solutions. Presentation Guidelines: * The submissions deadline is May 15, 2017 * Submissions must be in English * Presentations must be original and unique to the Open Access and Beyond Conference; the same presentation/talk cannot have been given 90 days prior to the conference * Presentations must be educational in nature (sales presentations will not be accepted) * Presentations should be at least 20 minutes in length but no more than 45 minutes and allow time for Q&A. Submitting Your Proposal: Submissions should include a title, presentation summary (maximum of 300 words) identifying the purpose, content, and learning objectives/expected outcomes for participants, and a professional biography of presenter(s) (maximum of 50 words) along with a photo for inclusion in our program, should your presentation be accepted. Also provide your full name, institutional affiliation and mailing address, including email. Contact: For more information about this event, please contact Nancy Blair-DeLeon, NFAIS Director of Professional Development, at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or nblairdeleon at nfais.org. From nancy.evans at ualberta.ca Thu Apr 27 11:55:58 2017 From: nancy.evans at ualberta.ca (Nancy J Evans) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:55:58 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Alberta - School of Library and Information Studies - Welcomes new faculty member! Message-ID: The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Danielle Allard as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2017. Dr. Allard joins SLIS after the completion of a two-year interdisciplinary SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Mamawipawin at the University of Manitoba. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Information and a collaborative masters degree (MISt) in Information Studies and Gender and Equity Studies, from the University of Toronto. Dr. Allard?s scholarly pursuits fall at the intersection of culture and community, information (its usages, representations, and institutions), and the role that information plays in the promotion of a more ethical and socially just world. Her interests include: the information practices of newcomer and migrant communities; archival decolonization; Indigenous, community, and activist archives; critical information studies; and the inclusion of marginalized communities, cultural heritage, and knowledge domains in digital and real-world information institutions. Dr. Allard has co-authored a number of publications within both Information Studies and Women?s and Gender Studies; her publications can be found in *Library Trends,* *Library and Information Science Research*, and *Feminist Media Studies*. Active in a number of community organizations and professional associations, Dr. Allard is currently co-chair of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2017 annual conference. She is looking forward to bringing her teaching experience from Women?s and Gender Studies to the SLIS program. -- *Nancy Evans* *Acting Assistant Chair, Administration* *School of Library Information Studies* *3-20 Rutherford South* *nancy.evans at ualberta.ca * *780 492 0373 <(780)%20492-0373>* NOTE: This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, if you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to retain, read, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately, delete the email and files from any computer, and destroy any copies or print-outs that may have been made of the email and files. From kberlack at nfais.org Fri Apr 28 12:52:57 2017 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:52:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NFAIS Webinar 6/1: Applications for Open Peer Review In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS Webinar ? Applications for Open Peer Review Date: Thursday, June 1, 2017 Time: 9:00 am ? 11:00 am EDT Location: Virtual Registration: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=528307 ==================================================================== What's Covered: The peer review process plays a central role in upholding the quality and standards of articles and the journals that publish them. Until recently, researchers kept the critique of their work private, and reviewers kept their identities protected and anonymous. Now the scholarly ecosystem is seeking a means to implement a more open, transparent review process?one which might not quite be fully open yet, but does allow for a more collaborative, voluntary approach in reviewing scientific scholarship. This step is viewed as being the cornerstone to opening the lines of communication between the author and reviewer, and helps serve as a means to eliminate bias, publish work more quickly, and recognize and elevate reviewer contribution and expertise. In this NFAIS Webinar, our panel of experts will explore how open peer review is being applied and how it has opened the door for reviewer recognition, including: * How open review reports have increased reviewer participation and the overall quality of the review. * Why reviewers benefit from open peer review, and how it enables increased visibility for the reviewer. * How Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are being assigned to open review reports, how they are linked to the original article, and the benefits of making open review reports citable. * How open peer review can increase the speed in which articles are published. * How third-party companies are adding value to researchers, reviewers and publishers. Join NFAIS on Thursday, June 1st to find out why open peer review is winning over publishers and reviewers, and challenging our long-held system of blind review. Register today: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=528307 _________________________________________________________________________________ Please note: For individual registrations, the costs for this NFAIS Webinar are: $125 for NFAIS members; $150 for allied societies*; and $195 for non-members. For group registration, the member rate for unlimited attendance is $295 and the non-member rate for unlimited attendance is $450. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, Association of American University Presses, NISO and ASIS&T. Contact: For more information about this event or any of those shown below, please contact Nancy Blair-DeLeon, NFAIS Director of Professional Development, at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or nblairdeleon at nfais.org. Upcoming NFAIS Events: May 23, 2017 ? Lunch & Learn: Not So Rare Any More: Reaching New Special Collections Audiences through Unlikely Collaborations May 25, 2017 ? How Social Should Social Collaborative Networks (SCNs) Be? July 25, 2017 ? Lunch & Learn: Customer Research ? From Discovery to Execution October 2-3, 2017 ? Open Access and Beyond Conference Subscribe to NFAIS Advances e-newsletter! NFAIS www.nfais.org nfais at nfais.org @NFAISForum