From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Jun 1 16:57:22 2017 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 20:57:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Seeking nominations for Best Information Science Book Award - June 30 Message-ID: <24D959AE-9494-457F-B985-CE4C8D11CAA2@rutgers.edu> Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is soliciting nominations for the Best Information Science Book Award. The award consists of a certificate containing the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the book, the date, and the signature of the ASIS&T President. It may also include a citation, or promotion in the Bulletin. Purpose The purpose of this award is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during the preceding calendar year. The award shall be given to the author(s) whose book is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution in the field of information science during the calendar year preceding the ASIS&T annual meeting. Nominations Candidate books may be submitted by anyone (including authors) or may be invited. Publishers are expected to submit six (6) copies of each candidate title to the Chair of the Best Information Science Book Award Jury (ASIS&T HQ). We also request a payment of $25 per title (payable to ASIS&T) to offset the administrative cost of distributing the books to the jury. All nominations should be submitted to ASIS&T Headquarters by June 30th. Each nomination package must include: (a) Name of the award; (b) Name(s) of the author(s), address, telephone number, and affiliation; (c) Name of the nominator, address, telephone number, and affiliation; (d) A 50-word citation; (e) A 250-word description of contribution for which nominated; (f) No more than three letters of support; and (g) Six (6) copies of the book. (h) An administrative fee of $25 per title. More information about this award can be found at https://www.asist.org/about/awards/best-information-science-book-award/. The deadline for submissions is June 30. Chirag Shah Chair, ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award chirags at rutgers.edu **** Chirag Shah, PhD Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University Director, InfoSeeking Lab (http://infoseeking.org) http://chiragshah.org **** From rferfal at unex.es Thu Jun 1 13:19:10 2017 From: rferfal at unex.es (=?utf-8?Q?Mar=C3=ADa_Rosario_Fern=C3=A1ndez?= Falero) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] The utility of electronic media for receiving information for everyday work (2nd Reminder) Message-ID: <221136067.4989584.1496337550542.JavaMail.zimbra@unex.es> Dear Asis-L subscriber, DESDE ESPA?A We are carrying out a study to determine the actual utility of different systems that allow professionals and researchers to receive information that is useful for their everyday work and the relationship with the processes of knowledge management. A few days ago we sent an email to Asis-L with a link to the on-line questionnaire. You will find the questionnaire attached to this email. We would be very grateful if you could fill it out. It will only take two minutes to complete. We can send you the results if you are interested. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X5Y1bgyoMmHL1z1W5HIXdxTre9FrrRHmYNUuRod3XXg/viewform?uiv=1&edit_requested=true Thank you for your time. -- M? del Rosario Fern?ndez Falero Dpto. Informaci?n y Comunicaci?n Fac. CC. de la Documentaci?n y la Comunicaci?n Plazuela de Ibn Marwan s/n 06001 Badajoz From yolande at asist.org Fri Jun 2 07:42:47 2017 From: yolande at asist.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:42:47 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Doctoral Colloquium Invitation to Participate Message-ID: <014001d2db95$5b5bd240$121376c0$@asis.org> Doctoral Colloquium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Washington, D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia) Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:30-12:30 Doctoral students are invited to participate in the 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Washington, DC (Crystal City, Virginia). This half-day event is intended for those of you in the later stages of your dissertation research; this means that you are, for example, post-proposal, have a completed research design, or have begun data collection. Pre-proposal students will also be considered. If you are accepted for the Doctoral Colloquium, your conference fee will be waived. The 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium provides you with a supportive and critical learning opportunity to discuss your work at whatever stage it is in with senior mentors and Colloquium participants. In your one-on-one session with your senior faculty mentor, you will have the opportunity to receive feedback and comments about your work. There will also be an opportunity for an open discussion session where you can ask the doctoral mentors questions about careers, job searches, managing an academic career, or other topics of interest. Another goal of the Colloquium is to develop a supportive community within which you can begin to develop your professional network by interacting with peers and senior scholars in information science. The organizers will invite a group of prominent professors and experts to serve as mentors during the Doctoral Colloquium. To benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium, you should be a PhD student, and be in the post-proposal stage of your dissertation research, have a completed research design, or have begun data collection; this way, participants and mentors may be of help in shaping and framing the research and analysis activities. Pre-proposal students will also be considered. How to submit Submit your completed proposal to the conference review system at: https://www.conftool.com/asist2017/ All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Colloquium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The Doctoral Colloquium program committee will select the best submissions for participation. The student winners of the proposal and dissertation of the year awards will be invited to the Colloquium without a submission. We expect to accept a total of 15 participants. Submit a nomination letter from your advisor or chair and a five-page description (in English) of your PhD research proposal or dissertation project electronically via the conference submission system. Your description must address each of the following questions: Problem statement: What is the problem that you are addressing? 1. Relevance: Why the problem is important? 2. Related work: How have others attempted to address this problem? 3. Research question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to address? 4. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions? 5. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? 6. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate that your approach is promising? 7. Implications: What are the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of your work? Additionally, all submissions must be single-author. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. Your application statement will not be published. Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Colloquium must plan to attend the full Doctoral Colloquium on October 31, 2017 and the Student Awards session on November 1, 2017 in order to gain as much value as possible from the experience. Important dates Deadline for submission: July 14, 2017 Decisions made: August 25, 2017 If you have questions, please contact the Colloquium organizers Dr. Howard Rosenbaum Dr. Pnina Fichman School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Naresh Agarwal ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2017 Co-Chair From aida.slavic at udcc.org Sat Jun 3 07:13:38 2017 From: aida.slavic at udcc.org (Aida Slavic) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 12:13:38 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Early Bird Registration (until 30 June): Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <1e317dde-cdd1-72e0-1495-ad74b9c39b7b@udcc.org> References: <1e317dde-cdd1-72e0-1495-ad74b9c39b7b@udcc.org> Message-ID: <3751d89f-3543-a959-7ae1-51ec56d722da@udcc.org> ===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: seminar2017 at udcc.org UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?290 regular fee, students ?250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. -- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief UDC Email: aida.slavic at udcc.org --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: mail at udcc.org ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ From ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Jun 5 04:21:07 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:21:07 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP - 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER2017) co-located with ICTIR 2017 Message-ID: <301C1137-F090-4803-9507-CA5F6C976000@dei.unipd.it> Call for papers 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER2017) co-located with the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017), October 1, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://learner2017.dei.unipd.it/ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- Learning to Rank (LtR), and machine learning in general, have proven to be very effective methodologies to address the increasing complexity of information systems, significantly improving over state-of-the-art traditional algorithms. Popular areas of investigation in LtR are related to efficiency, feature selection, supervised learning, but many new angles are still overlooked. The goal of this workshop is to investigate how to improve ranking, in particular LtR, by bringing in new perspectives which have not explored or fully addressed yet. In particular, we wish to encourage researchers to discuss the opportunities, challenges, results obtained in the development and evaluation of novel approaches to LtR. New perspectives on LtR may concern innovative models, study of their formal properties as well as experimental validation of their efficiency and effectiveness. We are in particular interested in proposal dealing with novel LtR algorithms, evaluation of LtR algorithms, LtR dataset creation and curation, and domain specific applications of LtR. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and related application areas to submit their original papers to this workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Next Generation LtR Algorithms: - Unsupervised approaches to LtR, active learning for LtR, transfer learning for LtR; - Incremental LtR, online, or personalized LtR; - Embedding user behaviour and dynamic in LtR; - Cost-Aware LtR; - List-based approaches for result list diversification and/or clustering; - Bias/Variance and other theoretical characterizations or ranking models; - Feature engineering for ranking; - Deep neural networks for ranking; - Understanding and explaining complex LtR models, also via visual analytics solutions. * Evaluation of LtR Algorithms: - Quality measures accounting for user behaviour and perceived quality; - Quality measures accounting for models failures, redundancy, robustness, sensitivity, etc.; - Evaluation of ranking efficiency vs. quality trade-off; - Visual analytics solutions for exploring and interpreting experimental data; - Reproducibility of LtR experiments. * Datasets: - Measuring quality of training datasets: noise, contradictory examples, redundancy, difficulty of building a good model, features quality, coverage of application domain use cases; - Creation and curation of datasets: compression, negative sampling, aging, dimensionality reduction; - Contributing novel datasets to the community. * Applications: - Application of LtR to verticals or to other domains (e.g., recommendation, news, product search, social media, job search, ...); - LtR beyond documents: keyword-based access to structured data, multimedia, graphs, etc. We invite four-six pages, single-blind submissions formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learner2017 ORGANIZERS -------------------- * Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy * Claudio Lucchese, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Maria Maistro, University of Padua, Italy * Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Papers Due: August 14, 2017 * Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2017 * Camera Ready: September 8, 2017 * Workshop: October 1, 2017 From jhuns at vt.edu Mon Jun 5 12:52:14 2017 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 12:52:14 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] another round of cfp International Handbook of Internet Research v2 Message-ID: (as several of the editors had life events happen, and we need around 20-30 more chapters before our deadline, we are having a another round for the CFP) Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due July 17; full chapters due Sept. 1 2017 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in two sections, that address one of two different aspects of internet research: foundations, and futures. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the two sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance within 2 weeks. The chapters will be due September 2017, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations or Futures) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author?s email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt From brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu Tue Jun 6 14:26:52 2017 From: brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu (Brenda Sheridan) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:26:52 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Rutgers_Professors_Kathryn_Greene=2C_Ch?= =?windows-1252?q?irag_Shah_and_REAL_Prevention_Receive_NIH_Grant_for_Phas?= =?windows-1252?q?e_II_of_=93Interactive_Technology_for_Media_Literacy_Dru?= =?windows-1252?q?g_Prevention_in_Community_Groups=94?= Message-ID: Professors Kathryn Greene, Chirag Shah and REAL Prevention Receive NIH Grant for Phase II of ?Interactive Technology for Media Literacy Drug Prevention in Community Groups? The School of Communication and Information (SC&I), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is proud to announce the National Institutes of Health?s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funding award for Phase II of the project ?Interactive Technology for Media Literacy Drug Prevention in Community Groups.? Principal Investigators Michael L. Hecht, REAL Prevention, and Kathryn Greene, Professor of Communication, along with Co-Investigator Chirag Shah, Associate Professor of iSchool, were awarded over $1.4 million by the National Institute of Health (NIH) for their research. Greene, Shah, and SC&I graduate Smita Banerjee (currently on faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), along with their partners at REAL Prevention LLC and the University of Missouri are now working with 4-H organizations in five states to adapt a media literay curriculum for use in 4-H clubs and further test it. The NJ 4-H, led by Rachel Lyons, has been integrally involved in developing, adapting, and pilot testing the REAL media intervention with REAL Prevention and SC&I?s Professor Greene. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (SAMHSA) has given the face-to-face version of the REAL media curriculum, Youth Message Development (YMD), its highest rating ? ?Effective? ? for improving teenagers? knowledge, attitudes and beliefs and intentions regarding substance use. Rutgers? partner is REAL Prevention LLC, a company devoted to developing evidence-based curriculum and prevention programs promoting health education and preventing harmful behaviors that place individuals? health at risk. The principals have diverse specialties in culture and narrative, families and youth across the developmental spectrum that results in a unique health message design process and the application of mixed methods research designs. The goals of the Phase II STTR (R42) are to evaluate the outcomes of REAL media, an interactive, self-paced, e-learning substance use prevention media literacy curriculum, and prepare it for marketing to community organizations, including our partner, 4-H. Substance use increases in frequency and risk through mid-adolescence, yet prevention interventions primarily target early use, are time intensive, and are implemented in a limited number of settings such as schools. Moreover, interventions often fail to address the media-saturated lives of youth despite research demonstrating the deleterious effects of advertising and entertainment media. This provides a market niche for the proposed project that addresses this curriculum gap through the innovative use of both technology and prevention science. Guided by the Theory of Active Involvement, REAL media develops critical perspective taking about substance use decisions and confers resistance to pro-drug (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, marijuana, smokeless tobacco) messages through youth analysis of pro-drug media messages combined with interactive media manipulation and active involvement of youth participants in creating their own anti-ATOD prevention messages. These youth-created messages are then entered into an online contest via a social media proliferation strategy (i.e., youth recruit others to view their messages on social media, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, to win the contest) in which messages are diffused to the wider community. The curriculum demonstrated promising results when administered face-to-face during an NIH-funded pilot study, and the Phase I project demonstrated excellent usability and feasibility for online delivery through 4-H clubs. During Phase II, the program will be finalized and researchers will conduct a group-randomized clinical trial among 4-H clubs in five states (NJ, OH, MD, PA, and WV). Clubs will be randomly assigned to use the curriculum or continue current practices with the option for delivery at the end of the study. 4-H members (ages 13-15) will complete a pretest, immediate posttest and follow-up posttests at 3 and 9 months to assess effects. Results will guide preparation of REAL media for the market. The flexibility of the brief, online format (four 15-25 minute levels plus a fifth message planning and production level) for youth in individual or group settings makes this ideal for both community and school implementation. Thus, REAL media is well-suited for rapid dissemination through our existing partners, 4-H, D.A.R.E., and Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as other potential community partners (e.g., YM/WCA, Boys and Girl Scouts). For more information on this research and curriculum, please see the full article in Rutgers Today: bit.ly/2qH51SO Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 c: 856-261-0089 From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Jun 6 10:26:22 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:26:22 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: NOvation. First call for papers- CSIIC In-Reply-To: <406def9a7d657267ac22ee63c.9ab84a8d11.20170606131733.368c526096.f28276de@mail226.atl121.mcsv.net> References: <406def9a7d657267ac22ee63c.9ab84a8d11.20170606131733.368c526096.f28276de@mail226.atl121.mcsv.net> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: NOvation. First call for papers- CSIIC Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:18:59 +0000 From: Beno?t Godin (CSIIC) Reply-To: Beno?t Godin (CSIIC) To: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr *CSIIC* Science, Technology and Innovation : Intellectual and conceptual histories June/Juin 2017 Launching of a new journal NOvation. First call for papers : http://www.csiic.ca/en/novation/ . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lancement d?une nouvelle revue NOvation. Appel ? contribution: http://www.csiic.ca/en/novation/ . NOvation. First call for papers- CSIIC <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Jun 6 10:29:35 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:29:35 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Air-L Digest, Vol 155, Issue 4 - cfp International Handbook of Internet, Research v2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <10157e46-5f7a-8332-1ea6-548c258886e8@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 155, Issue 4 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:00:21 -0700 From: air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 12:37:17 -0400 From: Jeremy Hunsinger To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] another round of cfp International Handbook of Internet Research v2 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" (as several of the editors had life events happen, and we need around 20-30 more chapters before our deadline, we are having a another round for the CFP) Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due July 17; full chapters due Sept. 1 2017 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in two sections, that address one of two different aspects of internet research: foundations, and futures. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the two sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance within 2 weeks. The chapters will be due September 2017, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: ? Section (Either Foundations or Futures) ? Title of chapter ? Author name/s, institutional details ? Corresponding author?s email address ? Keywords (no more than 5) ? Abstract (no more than 500 words) ? References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook at gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 155, Issue 4 ************************************* --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com From asis at gwizdka.com Tue Jun 6 08:02:41 2017 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 14:02:41 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CFP: JASIST Special Issue on Neuro-Information Science Message-ID: CFP: JASIST Special Issue on Neuro-Information Science http://bit.ly/CFP_JASIST_SI_NeuroIS Please forward to those interested. Summary and Scope ================= The field of neuroscience has fruitfully contributed to a wide variety of other fields, for example, economics, marketing and information systems. In the last decade, wide adoption and influence of neuro-physiological (NP) research tools also led the creation of several new sub-fields, including neuroeconomics, neuromarketing and NeuroIS. There is now a growing interest in the use of NP methods in human-information interaction (HII) and interactive information retrieval (IIR) research. The latter interest has been motivated, at least partially, by researchers who regularly utilize search logs, direct searcher observation and questionnaires and interviews as data collection methods and are concerned with the limitations of these traditional methods. Experimental data obtained from NP methods is expected to complement the more traditional data sources and, together, contribute to improving and deepening the understanding of HII (*1). The deeper understanding offers potential for the development of new information search models. The long-term and primary goal is to create robust and predictive models that go beyond behavioral data. A secondary and additional goal is to develop new search models that can account for physiological and neurological responses to information stimuli and the influence of cognitive and affective states on users' information behavior. The NP methods of potential usefulness to HII include, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electro-encephalography (EEG), magneto-encephalography (MEG), eye-tracking (esp. pupilometry). Example research questions include, investigating which cognitive functions are engaged in assessing relevance; establishing differences in NP signals collected when users are assessing relevant vis-a-vis not relevant information; establishing differences in brain activity between easy and difficult search tasks; relating individual differences in search task performance to differences in activations of brain regions. Early applications of NP methods to HII has resulted in two emerging threads of active research: (1) the investigation of inferring relevance assessment and (2) the study of human responses to search tasks. The results from the two research threads have been disseminated through a number of recent publications that appeared at major international conferences (e.g., ACM CHIIR, ACM SIGIR, ECIR) as well as (less frequently) in scholarly journals (e.g., JASIST). Importantly, a few of these early publications have garnered best-paper awards at major conferences and scholarly venues (including JASIST). Unfortunately, many IIR researchers and more broadly information science scholars in general are largely unaware of the new NP methods and NP applications. This special issue aims to increase the awareness of NP methods and their applicability and to showcase the state-of-the-art work in this area, as well as to to examine challenges in applying NP methods to HII and IIR research. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: * Application of NP-methods in measuring antecedents of HII behaviors and NP correlates of HII behaviors; * HII and IIR studies that utilize NP methods; * Adaptive or personalized search and retrieval systems that incorporate NP data (e.g., brain-computer or gaze-based interfaces specialized for search); * NP-based search and retrieval systems for special populations (e.g., older adults, people with cognitive disabilities); * Models and theories of HII informed by NP theories and data; * Methods for incorporating NP data in HII research and limitations of NP methods; * Ethical considerations in application of NP methods in HII research; The NP methods of interest include, but are not limited to: fMRI, fNIRS, EEG, MEG, eye-tracking (esp. pupillometry). Submission Guidelines ===================== Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read JASIST Submission Guidelines. The complete manuscript should be submitted through JASIST's Submission System. To insure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select "Special Issue on Neuro-Information Science" as your manuscript type. Submission Deadlines ==================== *Abstract Submission Due: July 31, 2017 - Response by Sept 11, 2017* (abstracts are **required**, please email to: jasist.si.neurois at gmail.com) *Paper Submission Due: November 15, 2017 (*submit to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jasist) First Review Notification: January 15, 2018 Revision Due: March 15, 2018 Final Notification: May 15, 2018 Guest Editors =============== Jacek Gwizdka, iSchool, University of Texas at Austin, USA, jacekg at ischool.utexas.edu Heather O'Brien, iSchool, University of British Columbia, Canada, h.obrien at ubc.ca, Kelly Giovanello, Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, USA, kgio at email.unc.edu Yashar Moshfeghi, CS, University of Glasgow, UK Yashar.Moshfeghi at glasgow.ac.uk Max Wilson, CS, University of Nottingham , UK, Max.Wilson at nottingham.ac.uk (*1) Mostafa, J., & Gwizdka, J. (2016). Deepening the Role of the User: Neuro-Physiological Evidence As a Basis for Studying and Improving Search. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 63-70). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2854946.2854979 Best - Jacek Jacek Gwizdka, PhD(Toronto) MASc(Toronto) MEng(TULodz) 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR | http://gwizdka.com/research Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.532 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From kera.allen at gatech.edu Tue Jun 6 15:55:35 2017 From: kera.allen at gatech.edu (Kera Allen) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:55:35 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] SIGCIS CFP | MEASURE, MODEL, MIX: COMPUTER AS INSTRUMENT | Oct 29, 2017 Message-ID: *MEASURE, MODEL, MIX: COMPUTER AS INSTRUMENT2017 SIGCIS Conference**Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | October 29, 2017* The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference *Proposal Due Date: June 30, 2017* KEYNOTE SPEAKER *Joanna Radin | Department of History, Yale University* THEME Computers are instruments of action. They are made to measure, model, and mix; count and aggregate; save and surveil; pick, parse, and select; and in a world of embedded systems, they are even designed to listen, wait, and relay. In many instances, these actions involve the computational transformation of other social and technological processes?from software that compiles the census to the suites of code assisting in the digital manipulation of sound and image. In other cases, computers register and create information at scales and speeds we have only begun to grasp: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ?big data? in all its local forms. And while often leveraged as democratizing, computers have long been known to amplify structural inequality, map over difference, and jettison ?noise? that cannot be translated into a specific form of information. Measure, Model, Mix invites scholars and independent researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to explore the historical conditions of computation. Areas of engagement may include: - How have bureaucratic, scientific, and aesthetic computational instruments eroded, produced, and reproduced biopolitical and epistemological realities, past and present? - How can we analyze the relationships between computing and identity categories such as race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity? - What are the historical foundations of computing?s contemporary capacity to recognize information? - How have cultures, subcultures, political systems and identity groups mobilized computational techniques for their own ends? SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting both disciplinary and theoretical interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology, and with respect to promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions from: histories of technology, computing, and science; science and technology studies; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies; software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains. The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. SIGCIS welcomes everyone, inclusive of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, age, appearance, race, nationality or religion. We are committed to fostering a positive, productive space for all participants. SUBMISSION FORMATS SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel proposals, works-in-progress (see below), and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, hands-on workshops, etc. WORKS-IN-PROGRESS We are pleased to announce a new format for the 2017 SIGCIS Works in Progress (WiP) session. This year, participants will not deliver presentations on their WiP, and there will not be an audience. Instead, the session will serve as a workshop wherein participants will discuss the works in small group sessions. We invite works in progress?articles, chapters, dissertation prospectuses?of 10,000 words or less (longer works must be selectively edited to meet this length). We especially encourage submissions from graduate students, early career scholars, and scholars who are new to SIGCIS. Authors who submit a WiP will also commit to reading (in advance) two other WiPs, discussing them in a very small group setting, and providing written feedback on one of those WiPs. Scholars who would like to participate in this session without submitting their own WiP are certainly welcome; we ask that they commit to reading (in advance) at least two of the WiPs. Submissions for WiP only require a 350-400 word abstract, but applicants should plan to circulate their max-10,000-word WiPs no later than October 8, 2017. Scholars who would like to be a reader of WiPs, please email a brief bio or 1-page CV, along with your areas of interest and expertise, to Gerardo Con Diaz [condiaz at ucdavis.edu]. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions are due June 30, 2017. Applicants should download, fill out and follow the instructions on the application cover sheet at http://meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-papers.html. All submissions will require: - 350-400 word abstract (full panel proposals should additionally include a 300-word panel abstract in addition to 3-4 paper abstracts) - 1-page CV or resume Please Note: Individuals already scheduled to participate on the main SHOT program are welcome to submit an additional proposal to our workshop, but should make sure that there is no overlap between the two presentations. However, SIGCIS may choose to give higher priority to submissions from those not already presenting at SHOT. Questions regarding submission procedure should be sent to Kera Allen [kera.allen at gatech.edu]. TRAVEL AWARD The top financial priority of SIGCIS is the support of travel expenses for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. The submission cover sheet includes a box to check if you fall into one of these categories and would like to be considered for an award. These is no separate application form, though depending on the volume of requests and available resources we may need to contact you for further information before making a decision. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT annual meeting, therefore so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. Details of available awards are at *http://www.sigcis.org/travelaward* . *SIGCIS CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Laine Nooney , Georgia Institute of Technology (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Andrew Russell , SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SIGCIS Chair) Stephanie Dick , University of Pennsylvania Gerardo Con Diaz , University of California, Davis Joy Rankin , Michigan State University Kera Allen , Georgia Institute of Technology (Conference Assistant) Nabeel Siddiqui , College of William and Mary (Conference Assistant) From Kristin.Lee at tufts.edu Tue Jun 6 15:40:27 2017 From: Kristin.Lee at tufts.edu (Lee, Kristin) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:40:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Ad: Team Lead, Social Sciences, Tisch Library, Tufts University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20227EDA01E5DF4DAAC832A5514520B7101B01C0@SSVMEXDAG01MB05.tufts.ad.tufts.edu> Hi everyone, Come work with us at the Tisch Library at Tufts University! See the ad below. Thanks, Kristin Kristin Lee Research Data Librarian, Tisch Library Tufts University kristin.lee at tufts.edu Team Lead, Social Sciences http://jobs.hr.tufts.edu/ Job Number: 17001340 Tisch Library at Tufts University is seeking a dynamic, team-oriented librarian to provide leadership for and work collaboratively with a highly talented group of social sciences librarians in the Research & Instruction (R&I) department. R&I consists of three disciplinary teams (Sciences & Engineering, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities) and the Digital Design Studio, and is responsible for working with students, faculty, and staff to incorporate information literacy into the curriculum; designing and delivering course-based and open workshops; providing research consultation services; and developing new services and programs to support teaching, learning, research, and scholarship at Tufts. Reporting to the Assistant Director, Research and Instruction, the Team Lead for Social Sciences provides leadership in the social sciences by coordinating team efforts to support students and faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. This position supervises the social sciences librarians, promoting collegiality, providing mentorship, and fostering a responsive and user-oriented team. The Team Lead is responsible for conducting ongoing needs assessment and engagement with the community to develop and maintain a robust and integrated set of programs and activities that strengthen the library's role in supporting teaching and research in the social sciences, including liaising with the Edwin Ginn Library, which supports the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Collaborating with the Team Leads for Sciences & Engineering and Arts & Humanities and the Supervisor of the Digital Design Studio, this position will play a key role in supporting departmental strategic initiatives, including pedagogy, user experience, assessment, and outreach. As a participant in the library liaison program, this position will provide liaison services for two or more departments in the social sciences. This work will include outreach and collection development, as well as provide instruction for the First-Year Writing program and serve scheduled shifts at the Research Hub, providing point-of-need research assistance. Tufts University is student-centered research university that cultivates an environment of curiosity, creativity, and engagement. The Tisch Library is on the Medford/Somerville campus, just outside Cambridge, MA, and with proximity to all that the Boston Metro area has to offer. Qualifications Basic Requirements * Master's degree in Library/Information Science from an ALA-accredited program, or equivalent. * Minimum of five years of experience working in an academic library. * Experience with library research tools relevant to the social sciences. * Experience teaching information literacy in an academic library or higher education setting. * Demonstrated leadership ability. * Knowledge and understanding of best practices, current issues, and trends in teaching information literacy skills and behaviors. * Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. * Strong commitment to outstanding public service. * Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment as well as take initiative on independent projects. * Ability to work effectively with a culturally diverse community. Preferred Qualifications * Supervisory experience. * Additional advanced degree in the social sciences. * Experience with creating digital learning objects, tutorials, or modules. * Knowledge of the issues and trends in the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education. * Experience with project management, including planning, communication, and assessment. * Collection development experience. Review of applications will begin July 5, 2017. Screening of applications will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed. Martha Kelehan Head of Scholarly Communications & Collections, Tisch Library Tufts University Martha.kelehan at tufts.edu @TischLibrary From rsandusky at gmail.com Thu Jun 8 10:03:45 2017 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:03:45 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: *Registration is open until July 17th for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting* Meeting will be held July 24th ? 25th 2017 and co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will be a 2-day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions, and community-led discussions. *There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting* Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2017 *Meeting Theme and Objectives* The 2017 meeting theme, ?Data Discoverability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability?, will bring together stakeholders to explore current advancements in these areas. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of discoverability, reproducibility and sustainability are invited. Some examples are provided below: *Data Discoverability:* - Describing, Documenting, and Representing Data - Connecting journal articles to datasets to repositories - Distinguishing between publishing, data, preservation repositories *Reproducibility:* - Best Practices, Guidelines, and Standards - Procedures, Tools, and Workflows - Projects, Prototypes, and Use Cases *Sustainability:* - Collaborations, Partnerships, and Stakeholders - Infrastructure, Resources, and Support - Computation, Integration, and Certification DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters* Abstracts for posters are solicited during the registration process. Poster submissions will remain open until July. *Important dates* Hotel block available: *July 7, 2017 or until filled* Meeting registration and poster submission deadline: *July 17, 2017* Thanks! Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago DataONE Users Group Steering Committee From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Thu Jun 8 10:34:48 2017 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:34:48 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] News from Simmons SLIS Message-ID: Simmons SLIS is proud to announce the most recent accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and alumni. *Faculty* Associate Professor *Gerald Benoit* was invited to speak at the NISO webinar, ?Enabling Discovery and Retrieval of Non-Traditional and Granular Output? on June 7. Benoit?s presentation was titled ?Visual-Only Retrieval.? Associate Professors *Melanie Kimball* and *Kathy Wisser* have co-edited a book, *Libraries - Traditionsand Innovations: Papers from Library History Seminar XIII * (DeGruyter, 2017). The book is a compilation of articles written from presentations at the conference ?Envisioning Our Information Future and How to Educate For It? held at Simmons in 2015, sponsored by a grant from IMLS. Kimball co-chaired the conference with Dean and Professor Emerita *Michele Cloonan*, and Wisser served on the program committee and conference committee. At the Simmons Service Awards on Thursday, April 27, 2017, Professor and Director *Cathryn Mercier* was the 2017 recipient of the Priscilla McKee Award for Exceptional Service . Mercier is Professor and Director of the Children?s Literature Program , and Director of the Center for the Study of Children?s Literature , and has made Simmons a part of the children's literature landscape. She was given the award in recognition of her "exceptional service to the Simmons community." In May, Mercier organized the first *School Library Journal* Innovator BaseCamp, which hosted and sponsored by Simmons. The event was for new and seasoned teachers and librarians eager to network, hear from the experts, and learn new practices. Assistant Professor *Kyong Eun Oh*'s article, "Types of personal information categorization: Rigid, fuzzy, and flexible" has been published in the *Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology*. Assistant Professor *Colin Rhinesmith* published an article, "At the Edges of the National Digital Platform " in D-Lib Magazine, and a report, ?Digital Inclusion Outcomes-Based Evaluation ? published by the Benton Foundation. At a Simmons recognition event, *Professor Candy Schwartz * was recognized for her upcoming retirement after 37 years of teaching at Simmons SLIS. In May, Associate Professor *Rebecka Sheffield* celebrated the release of her book, *Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer * (Coach House Books, 2017). The book incorporates archival records and new perspectives on Toronto's LGBTQ history and includes chapters on: Oscar Wilde's trip to Toronto; early cruising areas and gay/lesbian bars; queer shared houses; a pioneering collective trans archive project; bath house raids; LBGT-police conflicts; the Queen Street art/music/activist scene; and a profile of Jackie Shane, the gay R&B singer who performed in drag in both Toronto and Los Angeles, and gained international fame with his 1962 chart-topping single, ?Any Other Way.? Associate Professor and Director of the Simmons SLIS Doctoral Program *Rong Tang* was awarded a sub-contract grant from WGBH's "PBCore Development and Training Project," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Digital Humanities Research and Development Grant. Rong Tang will be conducting usability and accessibility evaluations of the PBCore website in Fall 2017. Tang is currently visiting several LIS schools in China, including Wuhan University, Nanjing University, Jiangsu University, and Nanjing University of Science and Technology to give research talks and explore research collaborations. On May 31, Tang presented "User Behavior Research: Facets and Measurements? at Wuhan University, School of Information Management. Associate Professor and Director of the Computer Science and Informatics Program, *Nanette Veilleux*, was awarded the fifth annual Toby Sloane Award for Student Centeredness in Teaching. This award was established by Carl Sloane through a gift made to Simmons in honor of his wife, Simmons Trustee Toby Sloane ?60. *Adjunct* Adjunct Professor Julie Roach chaired the 2017 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award committee. The winners were announced on May 31, 2017. *Students* LIS Master?s Student *Mylynda D. Gill* has been awarded the Summer Internship from the Massachusetts Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Gill will be working in the archives of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. this summer. Computer science students *Amal Saaed* and *Jazzmine White* presented their research project "Identifying and Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)" as part of the keynote panel at the Simmons Undergraduate Symposium . Their research included investigating low-cost BCI options and the usability of "thought passwords" as an alternative to traditional passwords. They also conducted security testing of the BCI to scan for vulnerabilities. Saaed and White were among a select few chosen for the keynote presentation. During Spring Break 2017, students volunteered at the JFK Library for Preservation Week. They helped reorganize 120 boxes (60 cubic feet) of the John F. Kennedy Condolence Mail Collection. This is the mail received by the White House and Mrs. Kennedy after President Kennedy's assassination, which had previously been minimally processed. This opportunity was part of Alternative Spring Break, a program that NARA (National Archives and Record Administration) coordinates to provide students with an opportunity to work at a NARA facility. *Alumni* *Tom Blake* '06LS has been awarded the 2017 Alumni Achievement Award by the SLIS Alumni Board. Tom has worked at the Boston Public Library (BPL) as their Digital Imaging Production Manager, Digital Projects Manager, and Content Discovery Manager since 2005. Since 2010, Tom has managed an ambitious project to help digitize collections from across Massachusetts in conjunction with digital Commonwealth, a statewide repository services, and as a pilot Service Hub of the Digital Public Library of America. In 2015 he received an MBLC award, and in 2014 was named one of Library Journal's Mover & Shakers as a Tech Leader. In April, *Emma Florio* '16LS competed on Jeopardy ! Florio works in Special Collections at The Newberry Library in Chicago. *Araceli Hintermeister* ?15LS and *Catherine Gaggioli* ?16LS, along with colleague Judy Gelman, were featured in a recent Boston Globe article about their project to leave free reading materials for commuters on the MBTA . On Wednesday, May 24, *Alex Lent* ?11LS became the 103rd President of the Massachusetts Library Association. Congratulations to *Liz Phipps Soeiro * '07LS and *D. Joshua Taylor * '10LS for being selected for Library Journal's list of 2017 Movers & Shakers! Phipps Soeiro, a librarian at the Cambridgeport School Library, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was selected for her innovative programs, which "builds strong and trusting relationships among students, families, and community leaders." Phipps Soeiro is also the founder of Cambridge Book Bike. Taylor, President and CEO of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, said his childhood interest in genealogy led him to pursue a career in the LIS field. Taylor brought genealogy to PBS's Genealogy Roadshow and continues to educate amateur genealogists. *Staff* *Em Claire Knowles*, Assistant Dean for Alumni and Student Affairs, presented awards at the ceremony for the Letters About Literature Program on May 16, at the Massachusetts Center for the Book. The event welcomed 30 students in grades four through 12. Representing the top 1 percent of participants from across Massachusetts, the honorees had written letters addressed to an author whose work had personally resonated with them, changing their view of the world or themselves. Knowles presented an award to Al Noor Academy sixth-grader Ali Shaikh, of Mansfield, for his letter written to author J.K. Rowling about her book, *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone*. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From yolande at asist.org Fri Jun 9 10:04:53 2017 From: yolande at asist.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:04:53 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T President's Page Message-ID: <000d01d2e129$61d4f220$257ed660$@asis.org> President's Page by Lynn Silipigni Connaway Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the 2016-2017 ASIS&T President. She is Senior Research Scientist and Director of User Research at OCLC Research. She can be reached at connawaloclc.org This column appears in the ASIS&T Bulletin, June/July Issue I have so many great developments to share with you in this issue of my column. Top on my list is the hire of ASIS&T's new Executive Director - Lydia Middleton ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydiamiddleton/). I am thrilled to welcome Lydia as the new Executive Director of ASIS&T. Lydia's first day with ASIS&T was on May 8. I have had the opportunity to orient Lydia with ASIS&T and to work with her in the ASIS&T office in Silver Spring, MD, in May, and it has been a fulfilling and worthwhile experience. Lydia joins ASIS&T at a critical juncture in our history - the 80th anniversary and the end of Dick Hill's 27 years as Executive director, which brought growth and financial stability to the Association. She is poised to lead and manage ASIS&T, being guided by its strategic plan, which includes membership growth, a stronger global presence, greater opportunities to connect academic and professional interests, pursuit of new sources of revenue, and implementation of new modes of communication and engagement with technology to support member interests. Lydia not only values the diversity of ASIS&T staff and members, but also looks forward to enhancing the Association's value to its members, and its presence in our professional and academic communities. As a member of the ASIS&T Executive Director Search Committee, I want to take this opportunity to thank Sandy Hirsh and Clara Chu, Co-chairs of the Search Committee; the other Search Committee members - Jamshid Beheshti, Nadia Caidi, Lisa Given, and Marjorie Hlava; and the executive search firm, Isaccson Miller, whose expertise and excellent service throughout the search was key to our success in identifying qualified candidates and in hiring Lydia. The Committee thanks the ASIS&T staff and members for their valuable input during the search process. Two hundred fifty-two individuals were considered in the search either as sources or as candidates. This appointment may be one of the most critical decisions of my presidential term and I feel privileged to have been a part of this important hire. I also have had the opportunity to work with our ASIS&T Annual Meeting co-chairs and 80th Anniversary Advisory Group members. We are very excited to announce our two keynote speakers for the Annual Meeting - Richard Marks and William Powers. Richard Marks is the Head of Playstation Magic Lab at Sony Interactive Entertainment. His area of expertise is social aspects of virtual reality and augmented reality. William Powers is the best-selling author of Hamlet's Blackberry and Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab. His area of expertise is work-life balance in a technologically-connected world. The members of the 80th Anniversary Advisory Group have been busy planning for the Annual Meeting. This group is chaired by Kathryn La Barre, and members include Michael Buckland, Toni Carbo, Ken Herold, Dania Bilal, Javed Mostafa, Nouf Khashman and Tatjana Aparac. Details about our invited 80th Anniversary-themed panel session will be available soon, and the plans for the 80th Anniversary-themed Welcome Reception are ongoing. Please forward names of ASIS&T friends and members who have died recently to Kathryn at klabarre at illinois.edu, to be honored with a moment of silence at the reception. Time will be devoted during the reception to honor Gene Garfield's contributions to ASIS&T. Kathryn also is facilitating efforts to create an interactive exhibit honoring 80 years of ASIS&T, to debut at the reception and to be available throughout the conference. If you have images, videos, or audio you would like to share, please contact her at klabarre at illinois.edu. Our ASIS&T members in Asia also have been quite busy. I was invited to spend two-weeks (26 March-7 April) at the University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education, working with the Master of Library and Information Management (MLIM) Program faculty and students. I began my visit by participating in the two-day Symposium on Research Design, Paper Writing, and Publishing in Information Science that was hosted at HKU and sponsored by the ASIS&T Asia Pacific Chapter (Christopher Khoo, Chair) and the Taipei Chapter (Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu, Chair, and Tien-I Tsai, Vice Chair), and Sam Chu (Paper Co-chair for the ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting). I discussed qualitative research methods and also had the opportunity to lead a break-out session with students. The students discussed their research, and I provided feedback on how to make the paper publishable in the ASIS&T journal, JASIST, and/or to submit a paper for review for the ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting. I am thrilled to report that one of the doctoral students in my break-out session did submit a paper proposal for the ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting. I hope it gets accepted! Javed Mostafa, the editor of JASIS&T, also attended the symposium and advised students and faculty on preparing and submitting papers for review for publication in JASIST. During my two-week visit, I met with many students, faculty, and practicing professionals in Hong Kong and Macau. Dr. Chu made sure I worked and played hard. He scheduled hikes with students and faculty so I was able to work in a beautiful outdoor environment with stimulating discussions. I am honored to have had the opportunity to spend time working with the students, faculty, and practitioners in Hong Kong and Macau. I learned so much from everyone and got to do so with wonderful colleagues in a gorgeous setting while eating delicious food!! When I returned from Hong Kong, Nadia Caidi, ASIS&T Past President, and I attended the Council for Scientific Society Presidents meeting in Washington, DC, 6-8 May. This meeting is an opportunity for ASIS&T presidents to meet with presidents and executive directors of other scientific associations. It's good to share challenges and opportunities and learn about different ways to lead change. The speakers are excellent, and this year we heard speakers from Harvard, Yale, Rutgers Universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, National Public Radio, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and the National Institutes of Health, as well as other government scientific agencies. The speakers introduced such diverse topics as the factors that count as evidence in the world of fake news, the current challenges facing the sciences, building with 3-D printed renewable resources (building with recycled tires), 3-D cell neurobiology and gene editing, computer models, the national strategy to improve safety testing (addressed testing skin lotions, perfumes, and so forth), and data-driven public engagement initiatives. Nadia, Lydia, and I attended the Kavli Lecture to hear George M. Church, professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also is director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard and MIT and director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard. We even had a photo op with Dr. Church! Since ASIS&T is a prominent society for the advancement of information science and technology, we officially partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Earth Day Network for the March for Science. Check out the story, videos, and photos of ASIS&T member participation in the March in Inside ASIS&T, Volume 1, Issue 2 (https://www.asist.org/publications/inside-asist/inside-asist-volume-1-issue -2/). Don't miss the events that are available to you as ASIS&T members since several important deadlines are approaching. One deadline of critical importance is for the ASIS&T awards. The award descriptions and deadlines are available at https://www.asist.org/about/awards/. These awards provide the ASIS&T membership an opportunity to nominate and honor fellow members for their professional and scholarly work and contributions to ASIS&T and the information science community. I encourage you to nominate colleagues for these prestigious awards. The Member-Get-A-Member Recruitment Drive ( https://www.asist.org/8-for-our-80th-anniversary/) ended June 1st with 54 new members! We want to thank all the members whose dedication and loyalty made this campaign a success. For their efforts, they will receive a membership renewal discount and a chance to win a free registration to the 2017 Annual Meeting. There also will be 2nd and 3rd prizes of a gift basket containing limited edition 80th anniversary merchandise. Thanks much to all those who participated! And, for the Annual Meeting, you still have time to submit your visual presentations, formerly known as posters! The deadline is 23 June and we are encouraging different types of visualizations in addition to traditional posters. Learn more about AM17 at https://www.asist.org/am17/. I also want to encourage each of you to share your accomplishments with ASIS&T so that we are able to celebrate with you. Please send your news to yolande at asist.org or use the website feedback form at https://www.asist.org/new-site-feedback/. And, speaking of sharing news, please remember to schedule your summer professional activities that are of interest to the membership on the Events Calendar that is available to all members on the homepage of the ASIS&T website ( https://www.asist.or g/asist-events-calendar/.) To add an event, simply login using your ASIS&T account information and click on the "Add Event" icon. Remember, you are ASIS&T. Make it the association that meets your professional and scholarly interests and ambitions! 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Name: image009.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6380 bytes Desc: not available URL: From bean.lists at gmail.com Mon Jun 12 10:58:08 2017 From: bean.lists at gmail.com (Carol Bean) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:58:08 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Code4Lib Journal Issue 38 Call for Papers Message-ID: <7F892718-AD27-46C6-BD7B-C9D08D9AA986@gmail.com> Call for Papers, with apologies for cross-posting: The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 38th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 38th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid October, 2017, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal at code4lib.org by Friday, Friday, July 14, 2017. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message. C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 36 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org. Remember, for consideration for the 38th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal at code4lib.org no later than Friday, July 14, 2017. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee Carol Bean Coordinating Editor, Issue 38 Code4Lib Journal From bhow at loc.gov Mon Jun 12 16:42:21 2017 From: bhow at loc.gov (Howard, Barrie) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:42:21 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration for NDSRDC 2017 now open! Message-ID: The National Digital Stewardship Residents of DC are pleased to open registration for their annual symposium, "Blending Collaborations and Bridging Gaps: Digital Preservation Communities of Practice", occurring August 17, 2017 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. The NDSRDC 2017 symposium will emphasize community-supported efforts that have allowed for project-based or grant-funded digital stewardship activities to transition into long-term, sustainable services. Much like NDSR is funded in order to create a community of practice for digital preservation, the symposium will highlight work being done by both local and distributed communities to support preservation and access to electronic resources. This program is centered around ways these communities leverage both local and international connections to build more robust relationships and greater interoperability between their services. Registration To register, please visit our Eventbrite page available from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsrdc-2017-blending-collaborations-and-bridging-gaps-tickets-34211654981?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing For a preview of the speakers see below, and check out our website from more details and the schedule, available from https://ndsr2017.wordpress.com/ Speakers and Roundtable We've got an all-star group to discuss digital preservation from multiple perspectives. They include: Keynote: T-Kay Sangwand, UCLA Library Speaker 2: Jessica Meyerson, Briscoe Center for American History, UT Austin Speaker 3: Matt Zumwalt, Protocol Labs Roundtable: * Guha Shankar, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress * Lauren Algee, District of Columbia Public Library * Joe Tropea, Maryland Historical Society We hope to see you on August 17 at #ndsr2017, and thank you to our sponsors! Institute of Museum and Library Services Library of Congress World Bank Group From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Jun 14 10:36:16 2017 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Marle) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:36:16 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_papers_=1F---_ICITS=2718_---_Ecu?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ador?= Message-ID: <201706141436.v5EEaI8R001593@mail.asis.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICITS'18 - The 2018 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador, 10 - 12 January 2018 http://www.icits.me/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ICITS'18 - The 2018 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (http://www.icits.me/), to be held at Pen?nsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador, 10 - 12 January 2018, is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Technology & Systems. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to ICITS'18. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. TOPICS Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); SUBMISSION AND DECISION Submitted papers (until 10-page limit) must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Scientific Committee. Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as paper or poster. The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that an accepted paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 20th of October 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit (until 10 pages). Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Papers written in English and accepted and registered will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series, will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and accepted and registered will be published in Proceedings by AISTI and will be submitted for evaluation and possible indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex and SCOPUS. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and DBLP, among others. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 6, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: October 13, 2017 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: October 20, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: October 20, 2017 --------- ICITS'18 website: http://www.icits.me/ --------- ---------------------------------------------- --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com From yolande at asist.org Wed Jun 14 13:43:38 2017 From: yolande at asist.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:43:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T June/July Bulletin Now Available! Message-ID: <038001d2e535$c1915400$44b3fc00$@asis.org> The June/July issue of the Bulletin is now available for your review -- https://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/. This issue has a special section on ?A New Open Humanities?. Here?s all that you?ll learn about: Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology June/July 2017 SPECIAL SECTION A New Open Humanities Introduction by Jeremy L. McLaughlin Full Text: HTML | PDF (Size: 168k) Open Access Publishing Models and How OA Can Work in the Humanities by Martin Paul Eve Full Text HTML | PDF (Size: 157k) Using Zombies to Teach Collaborative Scholarship and Born-Digital Publishing by Jamie A. Thomas Full Text HTML | PDF (Size: 914k) Collaboration in the Spotlight: The Open Symphony Case by Kate Hayes Full Text HTML | PDF (Size: 671k) Four Claims on Research Assessment and Metric Use in the Humanities by Bj?rn Hammarfelt Full Text HTML | PDF (Size: 163k) FEATURE 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting/Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon: Report and Recommendations by Diane H. Sonnenwald, Lauren Harrison, Judit Bar-Ilan, Harry Bruce, Toni Carbo, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ixchel Faniel, Sandra Hirsh, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, and Adam Worrall Full Text: HTML | PDF (Size: 106k) DEPARTMENTS Editor?s Desktop by Irene Travis Full Text: HTML | PDF (Size: 276k) President?s Page by Lynn Silipigni Connaway Full Text: HTML | PDF (Size: 259k) Inside ASIS&T Reminders Full Text: HTML | PDF (Size: 550k) Connect now and read it all at https://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/ The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology is a bi-monthly news magazine packed with in-depth reports on issues affecting the field, management analyses, opinion pieces, and current events in the information science community. Yolande Nanayakkara Communications Officer 301.495.0900 www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Against this background, the altmetrics17 workshop will have a special focus on the dependencies of altmetrics and their potential effects on altmetric research, the role of altmetrics in research evaluation and the effects on scholarly communication in general. The workshop particularly invites contributions that address the workshop?s theme directly or indirectly, analyze effects of the dependencies, and propose solutions and alternative frameworks in which to study altmetrics. *Call for contributions* We are soliciting empirical and theoretical contributions for short presentations and as a basis for discussions, which will be the main focus of the altmetrics17 workshop. Submissions can focus on empirical analyses, novel theoretical frameworks, original datasets or represent a position paper. The goal of the workshop is to discuss, exchange and foster collaboration on altmetrics between researchers and practitioners. Contributions will be curated by the altmetrics17 committee for their relevance and technical soundness and selected for short presentations. *How to submit* Please provide an extended abstract (max 1,000 words) presenting your altmetrics research contribution and highlighting particular issues you would like to discuss with other workshop participants. Abstracts need to be submitted via EasyChair by *31 July 2017*. Please include a link to any relevant artifact (e.g., a dataset, plots, slidedeck) you wish to present and discuss, after archiving it via an appropriate repository (e.g., Dryad, figshare, GitHub, SlideShare, etc.). More information can be found on the altmetrics17 website and on Twitter . ______________________ Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027 email: Judit.Bar-Ilan at biu.ac.il From amuncan at unex.es Thu Jun 15 05:26:21 2017 From: amuncan at unex.es (Antonio Munoz Canavate) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:26:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] The utility of electronic media for receiving information for everyday work (Last call) Message-ID: <1459458421.1746896.1497518781246.JavaMail.zimbra@unex.es> Dear Asis-L subscriber, We are finishing collecting the data from Spain of a study to determine the actual utility of different systems that allow professionals and researchers to receive information that is useful for their everyday work and the relationship with the processes of knowledge management. A few days ago we sent an email to Asis-L with a link to the on-line questionnaire. You will find the questionnaire attached to this email. We would be very grateful if you could fill it out. It will only take two minutes to complete. We can send you the results if you are interested. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X5Y1bgyoMmHL1z1W5HIXdxTre9FrrRHmYNUuRod3XXg/viewform?uiv=1&edit_requested=true Thank you for your time. Antonio Mu?oz-Ca?avate, Rosario Fern?ndez & Mar?a Antonia Hurtado __________________________________ Antonio Mu?oz-Ca?avate Departamento de Informaci?n y Comunicaci?n University of Extremadura. Spain @amunozcana From ferro at dei.unipd.it Fri Jun 16 05:02:35 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:02:35 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP EVIA 2017 - 8th Int. Workshop on Evaluating Information Access co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference Message-ID: ########################################################### Call for Papers Eighth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017) 5 December, 2017, Tokyo, Japan co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/evia2017/ ########################################################### SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ We invite submissions for the Eighth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017) which will be held in conjunction with NTCIR 13 in Tokyo, Japan, on December 5, 2017. Information Access technologies provide the interface between human information needs and digital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information retrieval technologies become more pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well. We invite both short papers (2-4 pages) and long papers (8-10 pages) addressing one or more of the following topics, as well as any other topic related to the evaluation of information access: - Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation environments - Statistical issues in information retrieval evaluation - User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction in information retrieval (HCIR) - Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile information access - Novel information access tasks and their evaluation - Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback, crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods - Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval systems - Reproducibility issues in information retrieval evaluation Accepted papers will be included in the EVIA 2017 proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) series, indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus and others. All the accepted papers will be given a presentation slot during EVIA. EVIA is open to all attendees at NTCIR. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 8-10 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and must use standard ACM SIGIR templates, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, for both LaTeX and Word. Papers must report work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing and should not contain any author identification. Papers should be submitted electronically conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2017 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Deadline time is 11:59 p.m. (anywhere in the world) - Submission deadline: September 29, 2017 - Notifications to authors: October 27, 2017 - Camera ready due: November 10, 2017 - EVIA 2017 @NII, Tokyo, Japan: December 5, 2017 - NTCIR-13 @NII, Tokyo, Japan: December 6-8, 2017 EVIA 2017 CHAIRS ================ Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA From chirags at rutgers.edu Fri Jun 16 13:27:17 2017 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:27:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Seeking nominations for Best Information Science Book Award - June 30 In-Reply-To: <24D959AE-9494-457F-B985-CE4C8D11CAA2@rutgers.edu> References: <24D959AE-9494-457F-B985-CE4C8D11CAA2@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: Reminder ? the deadline is in two weeks! On Jun 1, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Chirag Shah > wrote: Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is soliciting nominations for the Best Information Science Book Award. The award consists of a certificate containing the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the book, the date, and the signature of the ASIS&T President. It may also include a citation, or promotion in the Bulletin. Purpose The purpose of this award is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during the preceding calendar year. The award shall be given to the author(s) whose book is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution in the field of information science during the calendar year preceding the ASIS&T annual meeting. Nominations Candidate books may be submitted by anyone (including authors) or may be invited. Publishers are expected to submit six (6) copies of each candidate title to the Chair of the Best Information Science Book Award Jury (ASIS&T HQ). We also request a payment of $25 per title (payable to ASIS&T) to offset the administrative cost of distributing the books to the jury. All nominations should be submitted to ASIS&T Headquarters by June 30th. Each nomination package must include: (a) Name of the award; (b) Name(s) of the author(s), address, telephone number, and affiliation; (c) Name of the nominator, address, telephone number, and affiliation; (d) A 50-word citation; (e) A 250-word description of contribution for which nominated; (f) No more than three letters of support; and (g) Six (6) copies of the book. (h) An administrative fee of $25 per title. More information about this award can be found at https://www.asist.org/about/awards/best-information-science-book-award/. The deadline for submissions is June 30. Chirag Shah Chair, ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award chirags at rutgers.edu **** Chirag Shah, PhD Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University Director, InfoSeeking Lab (http://infoseeking.org) http://chiragshah.org **** From jmartin at nedcc.org Fri Jun 16 14:37:57 2017 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:37:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Directions - Aug 21-23 - Join us at the Seattle Waterfront Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9016F177380@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> *********************************************************************** End of your fiscal year approaching? Professional development funds available? NEDCC Presents DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 21-23, 2017 - Seattle, Washington LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS: From digital project planning, to rights and responsibilities, to digitizing AV materials, to metadata basics, to digital storage considerations. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The Digital Directions conference is geared toward professionals at archives, libraries, museums, historical organizations, town and city clerks and other government agencies, tribal entities, corporate archives, and other organizations that steward digital collections. Students and independent professionals welcome! Whether you are just getting started on a digitization project or need a refresher on best practices, this two and a half day program will give you the big picture. Reserve Your Seat Today! Registration Deadline: August 10, 2017 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: http://bit.ly/n-dd17 NOTE - HOTEL Update: A BONUS for participants! On August 21 there will be a 92% partial eclipse of the sun viewable from Seattle (at max during our morning break - expect a special eclipse activity!) But as a result, hotels are filling fast - grab your room reservation ASAP. NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER - nedcc.org - Preservation Training to Help You Care for Your Collections Join the NEDCC E-News List for All the Latest Conference Updates: http://bit.ly/EnewsN *********************************************************************** From songphan at gmail.com Sat Jun 17 11:35:34 2017 From: songphan at gmail.com (Songphan Choemprayong) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 22:35:34 +0700 Subject: [Asis-l] [ICADL 2017] Paper Submission Deadline Extention: June 27, 2017 Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting. Please share to interested colleagues and students. ] Please note that the deadlines for paper submission for IC?ADL 2017 are approaching. Below includes CFP for ICADL 2017 with an updated submission deadline. ---------------------------------- The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2017) November 13 ? 15, 2017 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand http://www.icadl2017.org THEME: Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives IMPORTANT DATES (ICADL) June 27, 2017 - Paper Submission Deadline (New Deadline) - Full research papers (oral presentation) - Short practitioner papers (poster presentation) - Short work-in-progress papers (poster presentation) July 31, 2017 ? Workshop Proposal Deadline August 30, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance September 15, 2017 - Camera Ready Copy Deadline November 13-15, 2017 - Conference Date AIMS While the number of digital collections have been increased constantly and in diverse practices, there are some concerns regarding the relevancy and value of the efforts to expand, enhance, and sustain these collections to society at large. These concerns call for discussions and exemplifications of how research efforts and practices on digital libraries improve the quality of human life in all dimensions, such as education, business, socialization, public administration, culture, and humanities. In addition, these questions initiate quest to discover novel methodologies of producing, managing, analyzing, and storing digital collections as well as deliver state-of-the-art services in a complex, connected, and ever-changing environment that matter to our daily lives. Therefore, the theme of ICADL 2017 is ?Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives? which is open to all opportunities that illustrate how digital libraries, digital collections, and corresponding methods would lead to better lives. The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2017) will be co-located with The 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) Conference at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand under a collective title ?International Forum on Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives?. Hosting these conferences together in a heart of Bangkok would bring a diverse group of academic and professional community members from all parts of the world to exchange their cutting-edge knowledge, experience and practices in various relevant issues in digital libraries, and other related fields. TOPICS We welcome research and practitioner papers in all aspects of digital libraries, for instance, - collection development and discovery - data mining and extraction - risk management and quality assurance - digital curation - digital preservation - applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning - performance evaluation - metadata creation and aggregation - semantic web and linked data - non-textual collection management - recommendation system - research data management - digital humanities and digital cultural heritage - service design for digital libraries - user experience design - user interface design - human-computer interaction - information visualization - information retrieval - applications of digital libraries in contexts such as learning, virtual organizations, collaborative task - personal information management and personal digital libraries - user generated content - digital library management and administration - digital library education - digital cultures and digital literacy - intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation - privacy - intellectual property issues - policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries - socio-technical aspects of digital libraries - sustainability of digital libraries. In addition to high-quality, original research papers, practitioner and work-in-progress papers discussing issues and future directions of digital libraries and digital collections are also welcome. Submissions that resonate with the conference?s theme are especially welcome. Nonetheless, all topics in digital libraries will be given equal consideration. SUBMISSIONS All paper submission should follow Springer Computer Science Proceedings guideline ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and are to be submitted via the conference?s EasyChair submission page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icadl2017). Full Papers A Full Research Paper reports significant milestone and provides original results relevant to the scope of ICADL 2017. The maximum length of a full paper is 12 pages. Short Practitioner Papers A Practitioner Paper is a concise report of findings or other types of work by practitioners relevant to the scope of ICADL 2017. We welcome papers identifying research problems and future directions in the digital library research. The maximum length of a short paper is 6 pages. Short Work-in-Progress Papers A Work-in-Progress paper is a concise report of preliminary findings or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work that does not necessarily reach a level of completion but relevant to the scope ofICADL 2017. The maximum length of a short paper is 6 pages. All accepted papers will be published by Springer as conference proceedings, included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) and indexed by SCOPUS. Electronic copies will be available on Springer website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Committee Co-Chairs Fabio Crestani, Universita? della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University, New Zealand Songphan Choemprayong, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Steering Committee Chair Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan General Conference Chair Pimrumpai Premsmit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Workshop Chair Marut Buranarach, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand For further information, please contact icadl2017 [at] gmail [dot] com. -- Songphan Choemprayong, Ph.D. Lecturer Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel. +66 2 218 4817 Fax. +66 2 218 4818 http://www.thaibrarian.org/songphan songphan at gmail.com From chirags at rutgers.edu Sun Jun 18 11:25:15 2017 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:25:15 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Second CFP: ACM CHIIR 2018 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA Message-ID: <911998BE-D32C-49A0-AFA6-E11F92C1D506@rutgers.edu> ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Papers and Proposals http://sigir.org/chiir2018/ ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced ?cheer?) which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. ACM CHIIR 2018 invites submissions on user-centered approaches to information access, retrieval, and use, including studies of interactive systems, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and a range of related areas. Alongside with detailed studies on specific information retrieval systems and situations, we welcome longitudinal, real-life, and ethnographic research of contextually embedded search tasks. Due to the rapidly increasing use of online and social media-oriented information interaction in all areas of human life - including work, leisure, and education - there has never been a more important time to consider, both empirically and theoretically, the consequences that search options, search strategies, recommendation systems, visualization, social media groups and other aspects of information interaction can have on the development of both individuals and society as a whole. Submissions focusing on user-centered work in the area of information interaction and retrieval are welcome, for example: * Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies * Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery * Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing * Modeling and simulation of information interaction * Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains * Information use, including measures of use as well as broader sense-making * Field and case studies relevant to understanding prerequisites for information searching, design and access * User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability * Human interaction and experience with mobile searching and services * User-Centered Design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems * Context-aware and personalized search and design, contextual features and analysis for information interaction * Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation * Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction Contribution Types Full papers: High quality, original research of relevance to CHIIR may be submitted as a full paper (10 pages). Submissions are expected to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, or log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as paper presentations at the conference. Perspective papers: A special category of full papers (10 pages), perspective papers should present novel ideas or insights concerning approaches, key challenges, or theoretical or methodological issues that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and lead to significant advances in the field. These papers should not consist primarily of literature reviews or the presentation of stand-alone studies, but may take the form of: * Reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field, the theories, the models, and the methods have developed; * Discussion of the implications of research findings on users in the real world; * Proposals for and discussions of theories or models of information-interaction; or * Critical, provocative, and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion. Short papers: Short Papers (4 pages) should report on original, significant, high-quality research. A short paper is likely to present a more focused study, and tends to make a smaller scope of contribution to the research program than full papers. For example, reporting on work in progress, preliminary research analysis, or late-breaking results may be suitable for Short Papers. This might be a good venue for those researchers who are new to the CHIIR community to become familiar with the field. Accepted short papers will be published in the proceedings, and presented as posters at the conference. Demonstrations: Demonstrations (4 pages) should enable presenters to give participants first-hand experience of novel research prototypes, operational systems, or in-progress concepts in development. The submission should both describe and show the proposed solution, addressing questions such as: What problem does the prototype/system/concept seek to address? How does it do so? Who are the users? How will you demonstrate this work? How does the work compare with those that exist already? Finally, how, where and when will your technology have a technical or commercial impact? The authors will have an opportunity of submitting a short video to show how their demo works. Wireless network access, along with a table and poster mount backdrop, will be provided for all accepted demonstrations. A paper describing each accepted demonstration will be included in the conference proceedings. Doctoral Consortium: Doctoral Consortium proposals (3 pages) should include the abstract, motivation, research questions, (planned or ongoing) methodology, progress made, and future plans. The CHIIR Doctoral consortium, held in conjunction with the main conference, provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising students regarding current critical issues in their research, and 2) making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as viewed from different perspectives. Accepted proposals are eligible for publication in the proceedings. Workshops: Original Workshop Proposals (4 pages) should be highly interactive and could be either full-day or half-day. We welcome workshops that address important issues, discuss potential solutions, integrate various approaches, and offer innovative perspectives within the themes of the conference and have strong potential to contribute to the evolution of research and development of human computer interaction and information retrieval. Tutorials: Proposals for Tutorials (4 pages) should address topics relevant to the themes of the conference and could be either full-day or half-day. Each proposal is expected to cover the selected topic in depth by providing the audience with different perspectives, approaches, and recent developments and advances in the community. The accepted Workshops and Tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings. Deadlines 1 October 2017 - Full papers and Perspectives papers due 22 October 2017 - Short papers, Demos, Workshops and Tutorials proposals due 1 November 2017 ? Doctoral Consortium applications due 15 December 2017 - Notification of acceptance Submission Guidelines * CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. * An international program committee will review all submissions. * All reviews will be double-blind, so submissions must be fully anonymized when submitted. * The page limits for each type of submission includes references. * All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. * All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. * Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system. **** Chirag Shah, PhD Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University Director, InfoSeeking Lab, http://infoseeking.org Director, Center for Data Science and Social Systems, http://cds3.comminfo.rutgers.edu http://chiragshah.org, @chirag_shah **** From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Fri Jun 16 18:00:24 2017 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: <1424898422.9908303.1497650424262.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended version: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2017 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From asis at gwizdka.com Mon Jun 19 06:33:48 2017 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:33:48 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: *Call for Doctoral Consortium* The 3rd annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2018) (pronounced ?cheer?), which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, is a forum for the dissemination and discussion of research on the user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. CHIIR focuses on elements such as human involvement in search activities, and information seeking and use in context. The CHIIR Doctoral consortium, held in conjunction with the main conference, provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The Doctoral consortium focuses on 1) advising students regarding current critical issues in their research, and 2) making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as viewed from different perspectives. Doctoral consortium is targeted at students in their second or third year of a year PhD program. At minimum, students ought to have formulated their research problem, theoretical framework and suggested methods, and at maximum, students will have just submitted some of the early PhD work for publication. *Mentors* On our list of mentors are so far: Dr. Pia Borlund, Dr. Katriina Bystr?m, Dr. Rob Capra, Dr. Luanne Freund, Dr. Diane Kelly, Dr. Heather O'Brien, Dr. Ian Ruthven, Dr. Max Wilson. *Fees* Participation to the Doctoral consortium is included in the conference registration fee. *Funding* Students participating in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) may apply for a limited number of travel grants. Information on how to apply for travel grants will made available to DC student participants. *Important Dates* ? *Nov. 1, 2017* *Deadline for research proposals* ? *Dec. 15, 2017* Notification of acceptance ? *Dec. 15, 2017-Jan 3, 2018 - *Application period for SIGIR sponsored travel grants ? *March 11, 2018 **Doctoral Consortium* *Topics* All topics within the main CHIIR submission call are acceptable as topics for the Doctoral consortium. *Format* Proposals must be written in English and formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word) . Submissions should be made in PDF. The final version of accepted proposals will be included in the CHIIR proceedings. The proposal must be no longer than 3 pages and contain the following contents: ? Title of research proposal, Name of student, Stage of degree (e.g., 2nd year PhD), Affiliation, Name of supervisor(s) ? Abstract ? Motivation ? Research questions ? (Planned or ongoing) Methodology ? Progress made so far ? Future plan ? References *Submission* Applications should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system . *Credit, certificate and grants* It is recommended that students participating in the Doctoral consortium will be awarded 2 credits, ECTS or equivalent, by their home department. Students will be presented with a certificate upon completed participation in the Doctoral consortium. *Contact* If you have any enquiries regarding the Doctoral consortium, please contact the chairs, Jacek Gwizdka (chiir2018 at gwizdka.com) and Vivek Singh ( v.singh at rutgers.edu). http://sigir.org/chiir2018/call.php Best - Jacek Jacek Gwizdka, PhD(Toronto) MASc(Toronto) MEng(TULodz) 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR | http://gwizdka.com/research Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.532 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Jun 19 15:34:23 2017 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:34:23 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Technical Report, Issues in Vocabulary Management, for Public Comment Message-ID: Baltimore, MD - June 19, 2017 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Technical Report, Issues in Vocabulary Management . This document is one outcome from the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted beginning in 2013 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Bibliographic Roadmap work examined requirements for usability and adoption of advanced bibliographic exchange in a global network environment and its final report , published in April 2014, prioritized several areas of potential future work, including those included in this technical report: policies supporting vocabulary use and reuse; documentation for vocabularies; and requirements for preservation of RDF vocabularies. As interest in the new environment for sharing bibliographic information grows, questions about appropriate policies and the supporting infrastructure come to the fore. The intent of this Technical Report is to provide a background on vocabulary management for those operating in the current transitional environment, where there may be less knowledge of policies and social constructs and less practical experience in moving forward using a common infrastructure. The technical report is also intended to position general recommendations for future gap-filling work. "The goal of discussing all of these activities is to highlight the importance of stability in the vocabulary environment, particularly regarding the need for interoperability as descriptive information moves into the Linked Open Data environment," notes Diane Hillmann, Principal of Metadata Management Associates LLC and co-chair of the Use and Reuse working group. "These issues are not new and we see the recent upswing of interest in linked data feeding interest in this area. We hope that this technical report will promote further solutions work." "The NISO community consists of librarians, publishers, and system and service providers, and of course the document is written for them," comments Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "But beyond these groups we hope the document may also help the many individuals and groups building and sharing bibliographic and other descriptive data, as well as knowledge managers within a variety of organizations using vocabularies to solve problems." The NISO Issues in Vocabulary Management technical report is available for public comment from June 19 to July 19, 2017. To download the draft document or submit comments, visit the NISO project page at http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/. All input is welcome. *About NISO* NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website . From ARAVIND002 at e.ntu.edu.sg Tue Jun 20 03:03:07 2017 From: ARAVIND002 at e.ntu.edu.sg (#SESAGIRI RAAMKUMAR ARAVIND#) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:03:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 1st CFP - 2018 Workshop on Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018) In-Reply-To: References: , , <1F89D1F8CE29DB4487E18A44F6EC53D62347D565@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg>, , , , , Message-ID: [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 2018 Workshop on Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018) CALL FOR PAPERS AROSIM 2018 is a full day workshop taking place on Friday January 26, 2018 in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Workshop website: http://www.altmetrics.ntuchess.com/AROSIM2018/ Important Dates: * Submissions Due - August 25, 2017 * Notification - October 24, 2017 * Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - November 17, 2017 * AROSIM 2018 Full Day Workshop - January 26, 2018 The main objective of the AROSIM 2018 workshop is to create a forum to disseminate the latest works on altmetrics for measuring research impact and scholarly information management. The workshop will investigate how social media based metrics along with traditional and non-traditional metrics can advance the state-of-the-art in measuring research outputs. The goals of the workshop are: * To promote the exchange of ideas and encourage potential collaborations amongst scholars from both computer science and information science disciplines, as well as with librarians and industry * To investigate challenges and explore solutions for cross-metric exploration and validation, while considering disciplinary differences related to measuring research outputs * To showcase innovative altmetric tools, methods, and datasets * To provide a discussion platform for the academic communities, librarians, policy makers, publishers, as well as grant funding agencies We hope this workshop will help to inspire new research ideas as well as encourage future collaborations amongst the different disciplines and industry stakeholders. A Best Paper Award, sponsored by Altmetric, will be given to the author(s) of the most outstanding work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Altmetrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webometrics * Non-traditional metrics * Article-level metrics * Traditional bibliometric approaches and metrics * Scholarly information management * Design of Altmetrics systems and tools * Tools and methods for cross-metric validation and visualization * Altmetrics data modelling and datasets * Bibliometrics/Altmetrics-based information retrieval and recommender systems * Altmetrics-related information analysis * Models and theories of scholarly communication * Social network analysis of scholarly communication * Impact metrics for diverse research outputs, e.g., source code, research datasets * Altmetrics for university/school libraries * Advances in digital repositories * Altmetrics and digital libraries * Altmetrics and big scholarly data * Critical discussions on (alt)metrics and research evaluation * Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies, libraries, and publishers Submission Instructions: We invite submission of ten pages (including references), representing original research, preliminary findings, new research proposals, position papers and also opinion papers. Student papers are also invited. All papers will be peer reviewed (double-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. All submissions must be formatted according to the latest Springer CCIS template available at http://www.springer.com/series/7899. Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person. The link to the paper submission system will be updated in our workshop website soon. The deadline for paper submission is August 25, 2017. Organizers: * Yin-Leng, THENG, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Eddie, RASMUSSEN, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada * Yonggang, WEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Robert, J?SCHKE, The University of Sheffield, UK * Isabella Peters, ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics and Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany * Mojisola, ERDT, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aravind, SESAGIRI RAAMKUMAR, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Contact: Please direct all your queries to Moji (Mojisola.Erdt at ntu.edu.sg) and Aravind (aravind002 at ntu.edu.sg) for help. Workshop website: http://www.altmetrics.ntuchess.com/AROSIM2018/ From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Tue Jun 20 11:51:05 2017 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:51:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Last Call: Open Lecturer Positions - UBC iSchool, Canada In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues - Please note the following positions: closing date for applications June 26th. *apologies for cross-postings* An exciting opportunity to join our dynamic iSchool at the University of British Columbia, a top 40 internationally ranked university located in beautiful Vancouver, Canada: The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS the iSchool at ubc) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for two full-time Lecturer positions commencing as early as August 1, 2017, for initial 1-year term appointment, with possibility of renewal for a further year depending on performance appraisal and availability of funding. The successful candidates will have teaching and research interests/experience in the area of Library and Information Studies. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. (or expect to have successfully defended prior to the start date of the appointment). Applicants must provide strong evidence of their teaching ability and effectiveness. Applicants with the knowledge and experience necessary to teach in one or more of the following areas are invited to apply (those able to teach across multiple areas will be given preference): digital technologies, databases and computing, digital preservation, public libraries, academic libraries, management of information organizations, library services, human information behaviour and human computer interaction. The full advertisement is available here: http://slais.ubc.ca/people/employment-at-slais-the-ischool-ubc/ Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS, the iSchool @ UBC The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Luanne.freund at ubc.ca From syn at cua.edu Wed Jun 21 01:02:07 2017 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:02:07 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG USE Annual Awards 2017 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the slate of SIGUSE awards available for travel and research; award winners will be formally recognized at the SIGUSE symposium, to be held at the upcoming ASIST Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA. Applications for Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award is due AUGUST 1, 2017 and ALL other awards are due JULY 15, 2017. Applications can be forwarded to both of the SIG USE Awards Co-Chairs: Sue Yeon Syn ( syn at cua.edu) and Sanghee Oh (sangee.oh at cnu.ac.kr). The following awards are open for competition: *The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award* for ?best research proposal that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $1000, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/ *The Innovation Award *for ?innovative work that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $200,* Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/innovationaward/ *The Student Conference Travel Award* to ?assist student in a Master?s or doctoral program in attending the ASIST annual conference by defraying travel expenses.? Value: $500, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-masters-student-conference-travel-award/ *The Interdisciplinary Conference Travel Award* to ?provide financial support for members to attend non-LIS specific conference.? Value: 3 awards of $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/interdisciplinary-conference-travel-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award* in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/best-information-behavior-conference-paper-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award* in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due AUGUST 1, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-best-information-behavior-conference-poster-award/ Please note the application requirements and procedures for the various awards, which can be found though the URLs provided above. Please encourage your faculty and student colleagues to apply. Sincerely, Sue Yeon Syn and Sanghee Oh SIGUSE Awards Co-chairs *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* *620 Michigan Ave. N.E.* *Washington, D.C. 20064* *Phone: 202-319-6277* *Email: syn at cua.edu * *Web: http://faculty.cua.edu/syn * From syn at cua.edu Wed Jun 21 04:50:44 2017 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:50:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG USE Annual Awards 2017 - WITH CORRECTIONS! Message-ID: Re-sending with corrections on the Student Conference Travel Award! Dear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the slate of SIGUSE awards available for travel and research; award winners will be formally recognized at the SIGUSE symposium, to be held at the upcoming ASIST Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA. Applications for Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award is due AUGUST 1, 2017 and ALL other awards are due JULY 15, 2017. Applications can be forwarded to both of the SIG USE Awards Co-Chairs: Sue Yeon Syn ( syn at cua.edu) and Sanghee Oh (sangee.oh at cnu.ac.kr). The following awards are open for competition: *The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award* for ?best research proposal that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $1000, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/ *The Innovation Award* for ?innovative work that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/innovationaward/ *The Student Conference Travel Award* to ?assist student in a Master?s or doctoral program in attending the ASIST annual conference by defraying travel expenses.? *Value: $1000 (**more than one award may be given depending on SIGUSE resources**)**,* *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-masters-student-conference-travel-award/ *The Interdisciplinary Conference Travel Award* to ?provide financial support for members to attend non-LIS specific conference.? Value: 3 awards of $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/interdisciplinary-conference-travel-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award* in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/best-information-behavior-conference-paper-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award *in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due AUGUST 1, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-best-information-behavior-conference-poster-award/ Please note the application requirements and procedures for the various awards, which can be found though the URLs provided above. Please encourage your faculty and student colleagues to apply. Sincerely, Sue Yeon Syn and Sanghee Oh SIGUSE Awards Co-chairs *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* *620 Michigan Ave. N.E.* *Washington, D.C. 20064* *Phone: 202-319-6277* *Email: syn at cua.edu * *Web: http://faculty.cua.edu/syn * From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Wed Jun 21 13:59:52 2017 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:59:52 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, June 22-27, 2017 Message-ID: Simmons SLIS at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, June 22-27, 2017 Stop by booth #4740 in the exhibit hall for info about Simmons SLIS. Alumni and students are invited to a free reception on Saturday, June 24, 5:30 p.m. at Tapas Valencia. Simmons SLIS is also represented in the following conference sessions: *Dean Eileen Abels* will co-present, *Library and Information Experts Succeeding in the 21st Century: A Town Hall Dialogue on Competencies, Careers, and Successful Practice*. Facilitated by ALA President Julie Todoro, attendees will participate in a conversation on what skills, knowledge, traits, and expectations will support successful libraries of the future--all types and sizes of libraries. Saturday, June 24 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Location: McCormick Place, W470. *Associate Professor Laura Saunders* will co-present *Going with (and Growing with) the Framework: Teaching Information Literacy with a Social Justice Lens*. The transition from the Standards to the Framework and the shift away from measurable skills-based outcomes has been challenging for many librarians, who still must meet the typical needs and requests of faculty with whom they work. Participants in this pre-conference will learn approaches for transitioning to and teaching the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education with a social justice lens. Friday, June 23, 9 AM - 4 PM Location: McCormick Place, W178a. *Associate Professor Laura Saunders* presents *Re-Framing Information Literacy for Social Justice*. The new ACRL Framework for information literacy provides scope for addressing social justice, but stops short of explicitly addressing the topic. This presentation examines how instruction librarians can promote social justice using the Framework as a lens. It will identify ways for addressing social justice within each frame, offer practical ideas developing a social justice IL pedagogy, and make a case for expanding the framework to include a new frame focused on social justice. Saturday, June 24 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location: McCormick Place, W187c. *Senior Lecturer Megan Dowd Lambert* presents a panel discussion, *Words and Pictures: Picture Book Author/Illustrators Discuss the Whole Book*, with picture book illustrators David Hyde Costello, Don Tate, and Duncan Tonatiuh. Lambert is the creator of the Whole Book Approach, a dynamic new model focused on the picture book as a visual art form. Saturday, June 24 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location: McCormick Place, W183c. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Thu Jun 15 22:48:59 2017 From: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg (Faculty Recruit) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:48:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Application: Assistant Professor in Information and Knowledge Management Message-ID: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 11th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks new faculty colleagues with a strong record of high-quality research and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars. Assistant Professor: Information and Knowledge Management We are looking for a scholar-teacher working in the area of information and knowledge management, and its applications in strategic management contexts in domains such as marketing, customer management, and related domains. Ideally, the candidate would have experience in utilizing big data analytics in information and knowledge management contexts. The candidate is expected to possess a doctorate in an appropriate field from a reputable university. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education. Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School's pre-eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia. Emoluments and General Terms and Conditions of Service Salary will be competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. Information on emoluments and general terms and conditions of service is available in the section on Terms and Conditions (http://bit.ly/1V80Rf4) for Academic Appointments. Application Procedures To apply, please refer to the Guidelines (http://bit.ly/1LDnrKk) for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 31 July 2017 to: The Search Committee Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building Singapore 637718 Email: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Applications sent via email should include the reference "Application for Assistant Professor in Information and Knowledge Management" in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email. Review of the applications will begin after 31 July 2017 and continue until the position is filled. The candidate is expected to start in December 2017 / January 2018. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. From rdubnic2 at illinois.edu Fri Jun 23 13:47:59 2017 From: rdubnic2 at illinois.edu (Dubnicek, Ryan C) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:47:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder - RFP: HTRC Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS), Spring 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A quick note that the deadline for ACS proposals has been extended to 5pm central US time on July 1. --------------------------- 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 central, July 1, 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 Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Fri Jun 23 16:04:05 2017 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:04:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG III InfoShare Membership Award Message-ID: <4a7db6f69958411a92263ff293c087a8@U-EXH-2.liunet.edu> Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2017 we will be able to sponsor another group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive). We are soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award. The award will be given to LIS professionals. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae and a one-page description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks and build relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the SIG-III officers. Each membership award will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the new member proves to be a strong advocate for ASIS&T in their home country during the course of the year. Awardees will be asked to submit a report on their activities by next year's Annual Meeting, which may include, but are not limited to: I. Sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues II. Promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues III. Serving as a contact/coordinator for ASIS&T members traveling to their area who may be able to speak about ASIS&T and information science IV. Having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and V. Sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T Nominators can mentor the award recipients for the above activities. We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, especially from countries that have never been ASIS&T members or have limited ASIS&T membership. Women, minority, and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Please feel free to circulate the Call in your professional networks (e.g., your alma mater listservs, professional contacts at IFLA, OCLC, international organizations, practitioner groups, academic institutions, etc.). Please send your nominations of deserving candidates to Selenay Aytac (selenay.aytac at liu.edu). The deadline for submitting nominations is July 15, 2017. Thank you! Dr. Selenay Aytac Associate Professor LIU Post B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library 720 Northern Blvd Brookville NY 11548 516 299 3443 From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Sat Jun 24 01:29:57 2017 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 07:29:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission Deadline is Approaching In-Reply-To: <374613254.11672383.1498131013986.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> References: <374613254.11672383.1498131013986.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <132029706.12258006.1498282197014.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended version: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2017 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Jun 24 11:58:36 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:58:36 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Bids to Host CLEF 2019 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 *Friday, July 7h 2017* 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 zimmerm at uwm.edu Sun Jun 25 16:18:39 2017 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:18:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Open call for submissions to Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy References: <0A52C233-19F6-4545-AA91-CF29C4B9C5CD@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <3C158BE2-BC55-4203-AB28-DA33970AB5F5@uwm.edu> Dear colleagues, As editor of the American Library Association?s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy, I excited to welcome submissions related to intellectual freedom and privacy, both in libraries and beyond. Submissions can include: ? research articles (peer reviewed) ? non-peer reviewed articles and essays discussing or describing policies,practices,projects,law, and scholarship related to intellectual freedom and privacy ? personal accounts of censorship and intellectual freedom challenges ? opinion pieces and essays on current and topical issues ? book and publication reviews Full submission details and author guidelines are available at https://journals.ala.org/index.php/jifp/about/submissions Feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions, or to volunteer to be a reviewer! And please forward this email to any other interested communities. Best, Michael Zimmer Editor, Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org From aida.slavic at udcc.org Tue Jun 27 05:51:03 2017 From: aida.slavic at udcc.org (Aida Slavic) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:51:03 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Last Reminder Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June): Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: seminar2017 at udcc.org UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?290 regular fee, students ?250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: mail at udcc.org ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ From lis at ntu.edu.tw Tue Jun 27 02:25:12 2017 From: lis at ntu.edu.tw (Dept. of LIS, National Taiwan University) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:25:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Journal of Library and Information Studies Volume 15 Issue 1 Published Message-ID: Volume 15 Issue 1 (June 2017) of the Journal of Library and Information Studies, JLIS (??????; ISSN: 1606-7509) is now available! The full-text of the articles in this issue can be found at http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/: (1) Evaluating music discovery tools on Spotify: the role of user preference structure by Muh-Chyun Tang, & Mang-Yuan Yang (2) Academic Performance of Indigenous Issues- Taking Original Equipment Manufacturer Research as an Example by Hong-Jiang Yue (3) Wen Tien Ke by Qiang Lei (4) Enterprise Mobility Implementation Strategies and Their Impacts on Organizational Performance by Ming-Hsin Lu, Weijane Lin, & Hsiu-Ping Yueh (5) Investigating Implementation Methods and Perceived Learning Outcomes of Children?s Library Instruction Programs: A Case of Parent-child Doctors? Mailbox in National Library of Public Information by Yu-Hua Chang, & Hui-Yun Sung JLIS is a semi-annual peer-reviewed journal published in June and December by the Department of Library & Information Science of the National Taiwan University (http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/ ). It is indexed in LISA, LISTA, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI), Chinese E-Periodical Services (CEPS), Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System, etc. JLIS welcomes original research manuscripts from a wide range of topics in library and information studies. Guidelines for the authors can be found at: http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=9&lang=us ----------------------------- Journal of Library and Information Studies Dept. of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University Telephone: 886-2-3366-2955(Taiwan Time Zone: GMT + 8) Fax: 886-2-2363-2859#62955 E-mail: jlis at mail.lis.ntu.edu.tw Address: No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd. Taipei, Taiwan From kdali at ualberta.ca Tue Jun 27 10:05:23 2017 From: kdali at ualberta.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:05:23 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration open for Diversity by Design Symposium in Toronto, Sept. 13-14, 2017 Message-ID: <1E416520B28A426499701DEB4C9391F3@tns0.com> Apologies for cross-postings. Dear ASIS&T members, Registration for the Diversity by Design (DbD) symposium in Toronto is now open. The symposium will take place in Toronto, ON, over the gorgeous early autumn days of September 13-14, 2017. We have a limited number of spots available for the symposium, and they are filling up fast. Fortuitously, the symposium will also take place against the backdrop of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF; https://www.tiff.net/ tiff/), and the lucky attendees will be able to enjoy the best of Toronto's diverse and creative artistic landscape, and constellations of international stars. Please visit the symposium site at : https://www. idiversitybydesign.com/ and register through Event Brite at: https://www. idiversitybydesign.com/contact/ We have an impressive line-up of keynote speakers https://www. idiversitybydesign.com/keynote-speakers/ and presenters: https://www. idiversitybydesign.com/presenters/ Please view the draft program here: https://www.idiversitybydesign.com/early-draft/ , including the poster session: https://www.idiversitybydesign.com/poster-session/ . In particular, we ask department/program directors and chairs to encourage their Master and Ph.D. students interested in diversity issues to consider attending the symposium. We will have a limited number of small travel stipends, generously provided by the the Ontario Library Association, and graduate students will constitute a priority category for these stipends. While these stipends cannot fully offset travel and accommodation costs, they will provide an incentive to join the conversation. The symposium is free but registration is mandatory. We are looking forward to seeing you in the beautiful city of Toronto, ON, in early fall. Nadia Caidi ( nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca) and Keren Dali ( kdali at ualberta.ca) Keren Dali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Studies University of Alberta 3-05 Rutherford South Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J4 https://kerendali.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keren_Dali **************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. **************************************************** From Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu Tue Jun 27 12:08:33 2017 From: Krystyna.Matusiak at du.edu (Krystyna Matusiak) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:08:33 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?IFLA_WLIC_Satellite_in_Warsaw_16-17_Aug?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_Data_Curator=92s_Roles_and_Responsibilities=3A_Inter?= =?windows-1252?q?national_and_Interdisciplinary_Perspectives?= Message-ID: 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/ Dear colleagues, Please join us for the IFLA Satellite Meeting "Data Curator?s Roles and Responsibilities: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives" jointly organized by IFLA Library Theory and Research Section (LTR), IFLA- Preservation and Conservation Section, and IFLA- Information Technology Section, and 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/ The primary goal of the Satellite Meeting is to engage the international scholarly community in a conversation leading to a better understanding of the challenges that the new requirements for the dissemination of research data are posing to researchers and information professionals and to discuss the main trends in data curation/research data management practices and education. We are looking forward to your participation Krystyna K. Matusiak, co-chair Anna Maria Tammaro, 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 pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jun 29 05:24:25 2017 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:24:25 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, Sep 11-14, Call for Posters & Demos Message-ID: <5e25d474-c462-fdeb-92a4-cd174ca8cea4@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Posters & Demos 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 (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) As in the previous years, SEMANTiCS?17 proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS (pending) and CEUR WS proceedings. This year, SEMANTiCS features a special Data Science track, which is an opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in data science and its intersection with Linked Data to present their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economical challenges of this emerging field. SEMANTiCS 2017 will especially welcome submissions for the following hot topics: *Metadata, Versioning and Data Quality Management *Semantics for Safety, Security & Privacy *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems Special Track (please check appropriate topic in submission system) *Data Science Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions related but not limited to the following ?horizontal? (research) and ?vertical? (industries) topics: 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 Posters & Demos Track The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress, late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions in all fields related to the broadly understood Semantic Web. These include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications, use cases or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new data sets made publicly available. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages participants to present innovations to the research community, business users and find new partners or clients and engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describe the work, its contribution to the field or novelty aspects. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in HTML (RASH) in CEUR and, as such, the camera-ready version of the papers will be required in HTML, following the poster and demo guidelines (https://goo.gl/3BEpV7). Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2017 and should be less than 2200 words in length (equivalent to 4 pages), including the whole content of the paper. For the initial reviewing phase, authors may submit a PDF version of the paper following any layout. After acceptance, authors are required to submit the camera-ready in HTML (RASH). Submissions will be reviewed by experienced and knowledgeable researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive detailed feedback. For demos, we encourage authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls From kberlack at nfais.org Wed Jun 28 15:37:49 2017 From: kberlack at nfais.org (Ken Berlack) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:37:49 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] NFAIS Workshop 7/31: Can Funding for R&D be separated from political agendas? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: NFAIS Half-Day Virtual Workshop - Can funding for R&D be separated from political agendas? Date: Monday, July 31, 2017 Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT Location: Virtual Registration: https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=531330 ==================================================================== What's the focus? NFAIS intends to tackle the rarely addressed subject of R&D, STEM, and Humanities funding in light of the vagaries brought about by changes in government policies. The near-current advent of Brexit coupled with the new U.S. administration creates a palatable fear among researchers around the globe. Will funding for R&D align with political positions? And how will government agencies manage public expectations, priorities, and ideologies? What real impacts have these recent developments already had on research funding, what might come about in the near future, and which of these might be expected to impact scholarly communications in the long run? During this half-day workshop our presenters from both sides of the Atlantic will take on these tough questions: * Will funding for R&D align with political positions? * How will government agencies manage public expectations, priorities, and idealogies? * What real impacts have these recent developments already had on research funding? * What might come about in the near future? * * And which of these might be expected to impact scholarly communications in the long run? Register today: https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=531330 _________________________________________________________________________________ Please note: For individual registrations, the costs for this NFAIS Webinar are: $295 for NFAIS members; $349 for allied societies*; and $395 for non-members. For group registration, the member rate for unlimited attendance is $695 and the non-member rate for unlimited attendance is $795. *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: July 25, 2017 - Lunch & Learn: Customer Research - From Discovery to Execution July 31, 2017 - Can R&D Funding Be Separated From Political Agendas October 2-3, 2017 - Open Access and Beyond Conference Subscribe to NFAIS Advances e-newsletter! NFAIS - the National Federation of Advanced Information Services www.nfais.org nfais at nfais.org @NFAISForum From syn at cua.edu Wed Jun 28 21:01:06 2017 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:01:06 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG USE Annual Awards 2017 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the slate of SIG USE awards available for travel and research; award winners will be formally recognized at the SIGUSE symposium, to be held at the upcoming ASIST Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Applications for Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award is due AUGUST 1, 2017 and ALL other awards are due JULY 15, 2017. Applications can be forwarded to both of the SIG USE Awards Co-Chairs: Sue Yeon Syn ( syn at cua.edu) and Sanghee Oh (sangee.oh at cnu.ac.kr). The following awards are open for competition: *The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award* for ?best research proposal that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $1000, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/ *The Innovation Award* for ?innovative work that falls within the scope of information behavior.? Value: $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/innovationaward/ *The Student Conference Travel Award* to ?assist student in a Master?s or doctoral program in attending the ASIST annual conference by defraying travel expenses.? Value: $1000 (more than one award may be given depending on SIG USE resources), *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-masters-student- conference-travel-award/ *The Interdisciplinary Conference Travel Award* to ?provide financial support for members to attend non-LIS specific conference.? Value: 3 awards of $200,*Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/interdisciplinary-conference-travel-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award* in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due JULY 15, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/best-information-behavior- conference-paper-award/ *Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award *in recognition of the best information behavior paper accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Value $200, *Due AUGUST 1, 2017* https://siguse.wordpress.com/sig-use-best-information- behavior-conference-poster-award/ Please note the application requirements and procedures for the various awards, which can be found though the URLs provided above. Please encourage your faculty and student colleagues to apply. Sincerely, Sue Yeon Syn and Sanghee Oh SIG USE Awards Co-chairs *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* *620 Michigan Ave. N.E.* *Washington, D.C. 20064* *Phone: 202-319-6277* *Email: syn at cua.edu * *Web: http://faculty.cua.edu/syn * From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Wed Jun 28 22:57:07 2017 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:57:07 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] First CfP - iPRES2017 workshop - Preservation and Access to Privacy-sensitive Collections In-Reply-To: <922caaef-fc9c-1d16-3838-b19d15060cb9@austin.utexas.edu> References: <3e0a533e-12aa-49cd-feb5-376b28c8aa10@jcdl.org> <922caaef-fc9c-1d16-3838-b19d15060cb9@austin.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <92379836-44d5-0a5a-55e2-798597980f5b@austin.utexas.edu> This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/papc2017 ------------------------------------------------- Overview Recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available to a global audience. In addition, new collections of born-digital documents will be readily available to support a multitude of objectives of their diverse, worldwide stakeholders. Demographics such as family members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can all benefit from access to these historical collections. While these advances are broadly welcomed in most circumstances, some archival collections include restricted or privacy-sensitive collections. 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. While access to paper documents is protected by distance, physical barriers, and varying state and national policies and laws, digital access may exacerbate threats to the privacy of individuals named in these records. 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 some cases, the legal frameworks for digital records are substantially less clear than those for physical records. Topics We invite broad participation from scholars and practitioners who work with or are interested in issues surrounding the preservation of and providing access to digital, privacy-sensitive collections. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include: * 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: * *mature work (up to 500 words exclusive of references, 20-25 minute presentation)*: submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an area of interest * *work-in-progess (up to 250 words exclusive of references, 10-15 minute presentation)*: submissions that present early results or a nascent project Please submit papers via the workshop's*EasyChair submission page*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=papc2017. Important dates: * *August 10*: due date for all proposals * *August 17*: Notification of acceptance * *August 25*(expected): Early registration date for iPRES 2017 * *September 29*: PAPC2017 Workshop Organizers Please contact us in case of questions. Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu ) Pat Galloway (galloway at ischool.utexas.edu ) 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 kpearl at email.unc.edu Thu Jun 29 08:44:31 2017 From: kpearl at email.unc.edu (Perales, Katherine Pearl) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:44:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] UNC Professor David Gotz awarded over $1 million in NSF funding to develop advanced data visualization methods Message-ID: UNC SILS Professor David Gotz awarded over $1 million in NSF funding to develop advanced data visualization methods David Gotz, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Assistant Director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP), has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant worth over $1 million to develop a set of contextual visualization methods that will improve analysis of complex data sets. Gotz and his team will evaluate the new methods in a health outcomes setting, offering significant potential to improve health care through data analytics. Ultimate goals for the four-year project include the development of open-source software that can help advance data visualization accuracy and efficacy for enterprises around the world. "Datasets can have many thousands of variables, a stark contrast to the relatively small number of dimensions supported by current visualization tools," Gotz said. "The gap between what the data contains and what the visualization shows can put the validity of any analysis at great risk of bias, potentially leading to serious, hidden errors. This research project will develop a new approach to high-dimensional exploratory visualization that will help detect and reduce selection bias and other problems." Gotz and his team will build on the premise that the very summarization that makes many visual methods effective also inherently obscures important aspects of a high-dimensional datasets. In other words, people cannot fully understand complex data, or make good decisions based on that data, if they are relying on a visualization that omits or misrepresents the context of the findings. Read more at https://sils.unc.edu/news/2017/gotz-nsf