From ischool.recruit at ubc.ca Fri Mar 2 13:05:53 2018 From: ischool.recruit at ubc.ca (iSchool Recruit) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 18:05:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Lecturer Positions - Library, Archival and Information Studies Message-ID: The iSchool (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for two full-time lecturer positions, beginning July 1, 2018. Applicants should have knowledge to teach in one or more of the following areas: digital technologies, digital preservation, information systems, digital libraries, librarianship, management of information organizations, and/or library services. Lecturer positions are non-tenure track appointments - one position is an initial three-year term, the second position can be filled for a term of up to three years. A full-time lecturer is responsible for the equivalent of 24 teaching credits (i.e. eight 3-credit courses). The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. The iSchool is an internationally recognized school, located at UBC, a premiere research institution in Canada. Visit the UBC Faculty Careers website (Job ID 29084) to apply by March 28, 2018. Enquires may be addressed to Dr. Heather O'Brien. Lu Tian Information Assistant|School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The iSchool at UBC | Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 470 - 1961 East Mall |Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 T 604 822-2404 | F 604 822-6006 ischool.info at ubc.ca |www.slais.ubc.ca<../../../Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/MOC2FSDI/www.slais.ubc.ca> [cid:image001.png at 01D1FC61.6C2B2850] From h.obrien at ubc.ca Sat Mar 3 12:55:48 2018 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 17:55:48 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Lecturer positions - UBC In-Reply-To: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE010AC7FEDE@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> References: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE010AC7FEDE@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE010AC7FEFE@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> The iSchool (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for two full-time lecturer positions, beginning July 1, 2018. Applicants should have knowledge to teach in one or more of the following areas: digital technologies, digital preservation, information systems, digital libraries, librarianship, management of information organizations, and/or library services. Lecturer positions are non-tenure track appointments ? one position is an initial three-year term, the second position can be filled for a term of up to three years. A full-time lecturer is responsible for the equivalent of 24 teaching credits (i.e. eight 3-credit courses). The School offers a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), a joint MAS/MLIS, a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children?s Literature (MACL), and a doctorate in library, archival and information studies leading to the awarding of a Ph.D. The School also offers courses at the undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Media Studies Program. The iSchool is an internationally recognized school, located at UBC, a premiere research institution in Canada. Visit the UBC Faculty Careers website (Job ID 29084) to apply by March 28, 2018. Enquires may be addressed to Dr. Heather O?Brien. Dr. Heather O'Brien Associate Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca; https://heatherobrien.arts.ubc.ca Member-at-Large, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T): https://www.asist.org Why Engagement Matters: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on User Engagement, edited with Paul Cairns is now available: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319274447 From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Sun Mar 4 15:13:51 2018 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 20:13:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2018/19 Dodson Visiting Professor at the iSchool at UBC Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-postings* Note March 23 deadline: The iSchool (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies) at UBC is inviting applications for the 2018/2019 Dodson Visiting Professorship. The Professorship provides funds for the successful candidate to spend an extended period of time (normally an academic term) engaged in research and teaching at the iSchool. This is an opportunity to work with well-known senior scholars at the iSchool as well as an outstanding group of junior faculty members active in areas such as archival science, human computer interaction, values and technology, Indigenous information initiatives, social media analytics and mining, and knowledge organization. The Dodson Visiting Professor will be welcomed into the research culture at the iSchool and will be expected to attend research talks and events, interact with doctoral students, and present research at an open colloquium. This position also offers the opportunity to work with talented and motivated graduate students in the iSchool by teaching up to two courses. The professorship provides funding for one term in the amount of CAD $15,000, which can be supplemented through teaching (up to two 3-credit courses) to reach a combined total of CAD $30,000. Join the iSchool and experience research at an internationally recognized university. For more information and to apply, view the full posting. Closing date for applications is March 23, 2018. The iSchool at the University of British Columbia is an internationally renowned program offering graduate level programs: Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Archival Studies (MAS), Dual MAS/MLIS, Master of Children?s Literature, and PhD studies. Learn more at slais.ubc.ca. From ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Mar 5 03:32:22 2018 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:32:22 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Bids to Host CLEF 2020 - September 2020 Message-ID: <90F8F419-911C-4024-B445-2E4E81228918@dei.unipd.it> 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 2020. Groups submitting a bid for CLEF 2020 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/71612/60f6dc78-cc9a-4866-97bc-a4bc858c9d77 Bids must be submitted by *Friday, June 15h 2018* 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 15 June 2018 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: mid July 2018 - Bid selection: early August 2018 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 - Lorraine Goeuriot, Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France - 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 - Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - 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 pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Mon Mar 5 05:22:42 2018 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:22:42 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] SEMANTiCS 2018, Vienna, Sep 10-13, Open Calls Message-ID: <095fb115-1055-47ce-3e52-63174e6be5dd@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Apologies for cross-posting Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials SEMANTiCS 2018 - The Linked Data Conference 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 10 -13, 2018 http://2018.semantics.cc Important Dates (Research & Innovation incl. Data Science Track) Abstract Submission Deadline:??? April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline:??? April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: ??? ??? August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2018 SEMANTiCS?18 proceedings will be published as Open Access by Elsevier Procedia Computer Science. The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits, and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from a wide spectrum of organisations ranging from SMEs and non-profit organizations, to public administration bodies, to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of semantic software, including enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees routinely interlinking areas such as knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analysis, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary management. Given the success of last year?s conference in Amsterdam, which attracted more than 370 attendees from 28 countries, SEMANTiCS 2018 is bound to continue a long tradition of bringing together a community from around the world. There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in a broad range of regular as well as informal settings. SEMANTiCS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions on emerging topics and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will have a unique opportunity to network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter technical challenges in any stage of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the key event across Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic experts alike. Following the success of the previous year, this year?s SEMANTiCS will also again feature a special Data Science track, which offer a unique opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Data Science and provide a platform to present their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges in this emerging field. SEMANTiCS 2018 particularly welcomes submissions on the following key topics: *Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org *Corporate Knowledge Graphs *Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies *Data Quality Management *Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems *Ethics and Explainable AI *Data Science (special track, see below) 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 *Semantic Services *Semantics for IT Safety & Security *Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing *Community, Social & Societal Aspects 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 We invite contributions to the following tracks: # Research and Innovation Track The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must not exceed 12 pages in length for full papers and 6 pages for short papers, including references and optional appendices. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline:??? April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline:??? April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: ??? ??? August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format.? Details will be provided soon. # Data Science Track Following the success of last year?s inaugural edition, SEMANTiCS will again feature a Data Science track that provides a unique opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection between data science and Semantic Technologies. Semantics will provide a forum to present their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges of this emerging field. The detailed Call for Data Science papers is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline:??? April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline:??? April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: ??? ??? August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon. # Posters and 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 Semantic Web in a broader sense. These include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users, such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. The detailed Call for Poster & Demos papers is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline:??? ??? June 11, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? July 2, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: ??? ??? August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the CEUR Workshop proceedings format. Details will be provided soon. # Industry and Use Case Track Focusing strongly on industry needs, SEMANTICS invites presentations on enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like Linked Data, Data Publishing, Semantic Search, Recommendation Services, Sentiment Detection, Search Engine Add-Ons, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text Mining, Data Mining and any related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications beyond the prototypical stage and demonstrate the power of semantic systems! The detailed Call for Industry and Use Case Presentations is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline:??? May 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline:??? ??? May 28, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? August 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) # Workshops and Tutorials Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for presenting widely recognized contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. A detailed call for workshops and tutorials is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates for Workshops: Workshop Proposals due: ??? ??? April 1, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification of Acceptance: ??? April 14,? 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): Submission deadline: ??? ??? July 1,? 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notifications: ??? ??? ??? July 10,? 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time) # Vocarnival Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project: At the carnival you can present your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people to get the Vocab discussion going. For this event we use a very open definition of what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome. We require at least a project website. Details to follow. The detailed calls will be available on the conference website http://2018.semantics.cc From kb633 at drexel.edu Mon Mar 5 13:19:23 2018 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:19:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] LEADS Fellowship for Doctoral Students - Deadline March 30 Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-posting. Please feel free to share!** Apply Now for a LEADS Fellowship Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), the Metadata Research Center, and project partners invite doctoral students to participate in the LIS Education and Data Science-4-the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP) program and become LEADS Fellows. LEADS Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend and additional financial support for a three-day Data Science Bootcamp at Drexel University (early June 2018), an NDP site visit during the summer, and conference travel during the 2018/2019 academic year to share project outcomes. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 30, 2018. LEADS is a virtual fellowship program. Students located near their selected site may have more on-site interaction. Applicants must be doctoral students at an institution with an ALA-accredited master's degree program. Drexel University and the Metadata Research Center are dedicated to building a culturally diverse and pluralistic team of fellows. For more information on the LEADS fellowship, projects at NDP sites, and the application process, please visit drexelcci.info/LEADS4NDP Kerry Boland, MS Assistant Director, Creative Content and Publications The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6271 | Fax: 215.895.2494 drexel.edu/cci From katy.davis at libgig.com Mon Mar 5 17:32:57 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:32:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Part-Time Library Assistant Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-posting... LibGig, an LAC Group Company, seeks a Part-time Library Assistant to work Tuesday and Thursday from approximately 4 pm to 8:00pm with flexibility for additional coverage including illness/vacation/finals in an academic library in West Los Angeles. We are looking for a responsible employee, with excellent customer service skills, to staff the circulation desk for these hours. The Assistant duties include receiving, processing, distributing and circulating information materials. RESPONSIBILITIES * Staff the circulation desk during set hours to assist with check-in and check-out of materials; * Provide basic reference and help patrons navigate the library; * May process books, journals, subscription orders and other multimedia material requests as needed; * May require some light lifting and shelving/stacking of books in the library. Work is primarily performed indoors in a normal office environment. QUALIFICATIONS * College Degree or College Certificate in Library Technology is required, some library school/experience is preferred; * Must have prior experience working in a library, prior academic/school library experience preferred; * Prior experience working in circulation and reference is a plus; * Excellent communications skills are required; * Customer Service focused. To apply, visit: https://goo.gl/oFva1A Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From katy.davis at libgig.com Mon Mar 5 17:33:39 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:33:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Part-Time Library Assistant, Los Angeles, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-posting... LibGig, an LAC Group Company, seeks a Part-time Library Assistant to work Tuesday and Thursday from approximately 4 pm to 8:00pm with flexibility for additional coverage including illness/vacation/finals in an academic library in West Los Angeles. We are looking for a responsible employee, with excellent customer service skills, to staff the circulation desk for these hours. The Assistant duties include receiving, processing, distributing and circulating information materials. RESPONSIBILITIES * Staff the circulation desk during set hours to assist with check-in and check-out of materials; * Provide basic reference and help patrons navigate the library; * May process books, journals, subscription orders and other multimedia material requests as needed; * May require some light lifting and shelving/stacking of books in the library. Work is primarily performed indoors in a normal office environment. QUALIFICATIONS * College Degree or College Certificate in Library Technology is required, some library school/experience is preferred; * Must have prior experience working in a library, prior academic/school library experience preferred; * Prior experience working in circulation and reference is a plus; * Excellent communications skills are required; * Customer Service focused. To apply, visit: https://goo.gl/oFva1A Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From plato.smith at ufl.edu Thu Mar 1 10:49:04 2018 From: plato.smith at ufl.edu (Smith, Plato) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:49:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Data Carpentry Workshop @ UF, 3/20-3/21/18 Message-ID: Good morning all, Please share with your graduate students, doctoral, and postdocs involved with data management. Data Carpentry Workshop @ UF - 3/20-3/21/18 The 1st Annual UF Data Symposium and the UF Carpentries Club are offering a two day Data Carpentry workshop to help the UF community get started learning R and common data management tools such as the spreadsheets, OpenRefine, and SQL. Need to learn some programming for a class? Have data you're scared to work with in Excel? Want to collaborate effectively with your peers? We were there once too. Come start learning with us. Our instructors are trained by the Carpentries in evidence-based pedagogy and our materials have been developed collaboratively over years by dozens of contributors. The University of Florida Informatics Institute and Biodiversity Institute have generously volunteered space and resources for this workshop in order to advance the skillset of the UF community. The organizers, instructors, and helpers are volunteering their time to help UF, and you! Register here: https://uf-carpentry.github.io/2018-03-20-UFDataSymposium/ Thank you. Plato ________________________________________________________ Plato L. Smith II, Ph.D. Data Management Librarian University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, USA Office: + 1 352-294-1077 | Cell: + 1 850-319-7924 | Email: plato.smith at ufl.edu ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1814-0151 From susan.parham at gmail.com Thu Mar 1 11:59:30 2018 From: susan.parham at gmail.com (Susan Wells Parham) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 11:59:30 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] SAVE THE DATE - Southeast Data Librarian Symposium, Oct 8-9, 2018 Message-ID: The Georgia Tech Library in Atlanta, GA is hosting the inaugural *Southeast Data Librarian Symposium on October 8-9, 2018.* This symposium is styled after the successful and popular Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, being held this year on the same date. As such, it is intended to provide similar low-cost networking and educational opportunities for librarians and other specialists supporting research data management in the Southeastern United States. However, students and data specialists from outside of the region are welcome to attend. A planning committee of librarians from Duke, Emory, Florida State, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and the University of Virginia are responsible for developing the program and organizing symposium events. Topics covered may include data visualization, data sharing and reuse, data curation and preservation, and data literacy. Stay tuned for additional information and announcements. Follow @SEDataLibrarian on Twitter and visit our website https://se-datalibrarian. github.io/ for updates. Questions should be directed to se.datalibrarian at gmail.com From christoph.becker at utoronto.ca Mon Mar 5 20:49:24 2018 From: christoph.becker at utoronto.ca (Christoph Becker) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 01:49:24 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Applications: Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute, University of Toronto Message-ID: <942654EC98359B4C9CD06A295E571C3B024A63F1E1@ArborExMBx4P.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> The Digital Curation Institute (DCI) at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is calling for applications for a funded Fellowship in Digital Sustainability. Applications are due by April 6, 2018 (see below). This is the third year of the 7-year Fellowship program initially called the McLuhan Centenary Fellowship at the Digital Curation Institute. The inaugural Fellowship was held by Prof. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo (see the announcement). The second Fellowship is currently held by Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario, Lecturer in Digital Technology and Environmental Change at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK (see the announcement). Sustainability - the capacity to endure - has become a crucial concern of our data-intensive society. It needs to be addressed jointly across multiple disciplines and perspectives around information, computing, technology and society. A very abstract concept at first, sustainability brings central questions in our information society to the fore. It urges us to take a longer-term perspective on the entanglement of social, cultural, and technical questions in systems design and strive to simultaneously advance environmental, social, economic, individual, and technical goals. These perspectives don't emerge from incremental technical progress. The term "digital sustainability" aims to scope this fellowship in an intentionally broad sense that unites key concerns of interest for the DCI and offers connections to many disciplinary perspectives. The capacity of digital resources to endure is a key focus of digital curation activities. At the same time, sustainability has become a central challenge in the design of information systems and software-intensive systems in general, where it draws our attention to the capacity of communities, socio-technical systems, processes, or ecosystems to endure. Curation activities in turn are crucial for data-intensive research, in particular historical or longitudinal inquiry. For example, they are central to the environmental sciences and equally at the heart of understanding social and economic sustainability. Well-curated, usable, understandable data are essential in exploring our place in the universe, sustaining humanity and the environment, promoting and improving public health, engaging cultural values, enabling future technologies, preserving past and future cultural heritage, and advancing prosperity - key challenges emphasized in the Strategic Research Plan of the University of Toronto. For this Fellowship, we are seeking a curious individual who pursues creative friction and synergies across disciplinary boundaries, especially those between the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering, design, computing and technology. The Fellowship is awarded on a yearly basis. It can be offered to an academic faculty member (at any level), adjunct instructor, industry professional, graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow. Each of the categories is given equal consideration. Only one Fellowship will be awarded each year. Details are in the call at http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2018/03/06/call-for-applications-fellowship-at-the-digital-curation-institute/ ! Best regards, Prof Christoph Becker Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Director, Digital Curation Institute, University of Toronto http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca https://twitter.com/ChriBecker From heidijul at buffalo.edu Tue Mar 6 09:32:11 2018 From: heidijul at buffalo.edu (Julien, Heidi) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:32:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Position Opening - Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Education - apply by March 31, 2018 Message-ID: <14a7754b87394a48b626444539eed0f0@MBX-LS6.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> Please excuse cross-posting. Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo, State University of New York The Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the University at Buffalo (UB), the State University of New York invites an accomplished scholar for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Professor to provide leadership and expert mentorship in all aspects of research. The Associate Dean for Research (ADR) will coordinate development and implementation of a vision for scholarship for the school, lead large interdisciplinary externally funded research projects and training programs, support faculty research, and facilitate training for proposal development, writing, and compliance requirements. The ADR will also assist faculty in identifying external research support opportunities, coordinating submissions, and managing research programs. The ADR will teach one course per year and maintain an active program of research. We seek a scholar who is committed to interdisciplinary research and understands different research methodologies. UB is a flagship institution in the SUNY system and a member of the Association of American Universities. Nationally and internationally recognized for its empirical and theoretical scholarship, GSE faculty are committed to advancing knowledge in the areas of social and educational opportunity, information access and use, cognition, and the science of learning, literacy across the lifespan, and interventions for wellness. Learn more about the University at Buffalo. The GSE is located on the North Campus, centrally located in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls region. The area provides a wide array of features including arts, culture, and environmental splendor. Learn more about the Buffalo-Niagara Region. The successful candidate must have a doctoral degree in one of the disciplines or related fields in the GSE. The candidate must also have a solid academic record in terms of publications, grant-funded research, and experience in student mentorship consistent with a tenured, full professor appointment. Extensive knowledge of and track record with federal and other appropriate funding sources for GSE project activities and polices relating to human subjects' protection is required. Superior verbal and written communication skills, the ability to work with individuals from many different backgrounds, and a strong commitment to diversity are also required. Relevant administrative experiences at the department or decanal level are desired. Submit applications, including a letter of application that address a) relevant qualifications for the position, b) research interests, c) experience promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as curriculum vitae and contact information for three references. The search committee will begin reviewing applications immediately and continue until the position is filled for an anticipated start date of August 2018. For inquires, contact Dr. Amanda Nickerson, Search Committee Chair, at nickersa at buffalo.edu. The University at Buffalo is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic university community committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. Potential applicants, who share this goal, including veterans and individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. ****************************************************** Heidi Julien, Ph.D. President, Association for Library and Information Science Education Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo 526 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: 716-645-1474 Fax: 716-645-3775 Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu ****************************************************** "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Leon Megginson From fernando.vandervlist at gmail.com Wed Mar 7 12:14:37 2018 From: fernando.vandervlist at gmail.com (Fernando van der Vlist) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:14:37 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Digital Methods Summer School 2018 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: Dear all, The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) will host its 12th annual Digital Methods Summer School from July 2-13, 2018 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Below please find the call for participation. This year?s theme is: "Retraining the machine: Addressing algorithmic bias". The deadline for application is May 4, 2018. More information is available at bit.ly/dmi18-ss-call or email to summerschool at digitalmethods.net . Best regards, Fernando van der Vlist Research Associate, Collaborative Research Centre "Media of Cooperation", University of Siegen Research Associate, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam Lecturer, New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam -- # CALL FOR PARTICIPATION # DIGITAL METHODS SUMMER SCHOOL 2018 # JULY 2-13, 2018 # UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM # RETRAINING THE MACHINE # ADDRESSING ALGORITHMIC BIAS -- ## DIGITAL METHODS SUMMER SCHOOL This year's Digital Methods Summer School is dedicated to approaches to studying so-called machine bias. Discussions have been focusing on how to hold algorithms accountable for discrimination in their outputting of results such as in the notorious cases of query results for 'professional hair' (white women's hair-do's) and 'unprofessional hair' (black women's' hair-do's). Recently, it was found that search engine image results for 'pregnancy' and 'unwanted pregnancy' are similarly divided, with the pregnancy queries returning white skinned women (mainly bellies, privileging the baby over the woman). 'Unwanted pregnancy' results in diverse ethnicities. These are new variations on classic, and still urgent, search engine critiques (once known as 'googlearchies') which questioned the hierarchies built into rankings, asking who is being authorised by the engine to provide the information. That work moves forward at the Summer School, building on examinations of the volatility of engine results, as in the Issue Dramaturg project, which put on display the drama of websites rising and falling in their rankings after algorithmic updates, meant to fight spam, but having unintended, epistemological consequences. More recently, Facebook newsfeeds have been the source of critique for their privileging and burying mechanisms, however much they -- like the engine returns preceding them -- are not easily captured and documented. Saving engine results has been against the terms of service; making derivative works out of engine results also breaks the user contract. Saving, or recording, social media (newsfeed) rolls seems even less practicable given how feeds are even more personalised, presumably resisting generalisable findings. User surveys pointing out unexpected newsfeed results have led to calls for 'algorithmic auditing', a precursor to machine bias critique. As reported in the technical press, querying social media ad interfaces shows highly segmented audiences (including racist ones such as publics to target for 'jew haters' among other available keyword audiences for sale). These ad interface results could be repurposed to show which population segments (as defined by the platforms) are driving the content choices reflected in the results served. How large are these discriminatory segments? Capturing, auditing, or repurposing results are diagnostic practices, identifying under which circumstances machines could or ought to be retrained. The larger question, however, concerns how to retrain the machine. One approach lies in query design -- fashioning queries so as to 're-bias' the results. Others concern corpus development. For example in stock photography efforts have been to reimagine ('re-image') women (in the well-known case of Getty Images' 'Lean In Collection'), however much the images are often used out of context, as has been found. Yet another one concerns training and maturing research accounts to trigger controlled algorithmic responses. The Digital Methods Summer School is interested in contributing not only to interpretations of celebrated cases of algorithmic or machine bias, but also providing diagnostic, query-related, research account and corpus-building research practices that seek to address the matter more conceptually. Expanding the case study collection is also of interest; age discrimination in Facebook ad interfaces (an American theme) is a recent example of a telling case study of in-built rather than organic machine bias, but the international landscape may contribute more to bias detection, as is the aim of the Summer School. In Twitter there are feminist bots striving to keep the #metoo space serious, since the spam has arrived. Which other practices of remaining on topic may be found, and how may their success and and complications be characterised? There is also the question of the ramifications of conceptual contributions to re-biasing for big data science. Which practical contributions could be made to big data critique? ## APPLICATIONS: KEY DATES To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2018, please use the University of Amsterdam Summer School form. If that form is not working, please send (i) a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, (ii) enclose a CV (with full postal address), (iii) a copy of your passport (details page only), (iv) a headshot photo, and (v) a 100-word bio (to be included in the Summer School welcome package). Mark your application 'DMI Training Certificate Program,' and send to summerschool at digitalmethods.net. * 4 May: Deadline for applications. * 7 May: Notifications. Accepted participants will later receive a welcome package in mid June, which includes a reader, a day-to-day schedule, and a face book of all participants. * 18 June: Deadline for summer school fee payments. Participants must send a proof of payment by this date. The cost of the Summer School is EUR 895 and is open to PhD candidates and motivated scholars as well as to research master's students and advanced master's students. Data journalists, artists, and research professionals are also welcome to apply. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School on 7 May. Note: University of Amsterdam students are exempt from tuition and should state on the application form (under tuition fee remarks) that they wish to apply for a fee waiver. Please also provide your student number. Any questions may be addressed to the Summer School coordinators, Esther Weltevrede and Fernando van der Vlist: summerschool at digitalmethods.net. Informal queries may be sent to this email address as well. From kalbrig7 at kent.edu Thu Mar 8 09:08:26 2018 From: kalbrig7 at kent.edu (Albright, Kendra) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:08:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Libri: Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers Libri: The International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies Libri was established in 1950 and is a leading international scholarly journal which investigates the aspects of library and information studies from both a historical and present-day perspective and analyses the role of information and knowledge in cultural, organizational, national and international developments. The journal reports on current trends in library and information studies worldwide and describes their resulting transformation from the introduction of new information and communication technologies, multidisciplinary approaches, changing practices, and evolving methods. Background information and the latest research findings in library and information studies are made accessible to academics, practitioners, and a broader public. The editors are pleased to consider papers on new initiatives and current issues in library and information studies worldwide, including, but not limited to topics such as: * Libraries (national, public, academic, school, special, etc.) and other information environments * Information and knowledge management * Information for development (developing and industrialized countries) * Indigenous knowledge * Literacy (media, information, etc.) * Data analytics, big data and their impact on organizations (e.g., customer related data; social science perspective) * Digital libraries and repositories * Data management, data curation and virtual research environments (VREs) * Information ethics and information law * Information retrieval * Information behavior * Freedom of access to information and freedom of expression * Archives & preservation * Cultural heritage * Book and publishing history * Theory submissions Papers may include theoretical issues surrounding philosophies, policies and trends in all types of library, information, archive, and museum studies. Articles should be in English and conform to the highest academic standards. Papers that include citations to publications that are not in English or are not in Roman script are welcome. Libri, the International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, is published by De Gruyter, and is published both in print (ISSN: 0024-2667) and online (ISSN: 1865-8423) versions. Libri is indexed with and included in De Gruyter Saur, EBSCO, Elsevier SCOPUS, Gale, Proquest, Thomson Reuters, and Web of Science. Submit your manuscript to the editors at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri From mandl68 at gmx.de Mon Mar 12 17:52:42 2018 From: mandl68 at gmx.de (Thomas Mandl) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:52:42 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP Intl. Symposium on the Future of Education in Information Sciences (FEIS 2018) Pisa - Extended Deadline Message-ID: -- Apologies for multiple posting -- International Symposium on the Future of Education in Information Sciences (FEIS 2018) Pisa, Italy 10-11 September 2018 http://feis2018.di.unipi.it An event organized by the Erasmus+ EINFOSE project (http://einfose.ffos.hr) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Differences in entry requirements and learning outcomes in the field of Information Science (IS) cause large mobility barriers and lack of uniformity among Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that offer Master degrees in IS. The Erasmus+ EINFOSE project seeks to find out the appropriate ways and modes of the harmonization and recognition of the entry requirements which would enable students from other fields to master learning outcomes at the graduate level of IS programs. The International Symposium on the Future of Education in Information Sciences (FEIS 2018) is intended to stimulate discussion and reach commonly accepted recommendations that could serve not only to partner HEIs but also as a model for other academic disciplines.Contributions and discussion are solicited from HEIs, their governing bodies, public authorities responsible for the implementation of EU guidelines and recommendations at the HEI level as well as representatives from national agencies for diploma recognition, ECTS implementation and Qualification Frameworks. Submissions are also invited from researchers and institutions to share their experience and accomplishments in recognition and mobility processes, building up the European Qualification Framework and its nationally based implementations, and in the implementation of new teaching/learning didactics and evaluation approaches and methods. Contributions from outside the EU are very welcome. It is expected that the exchange of ideas and experience in accreditation processes, cooperative efforts and joint programs at graduate and postgraduate level throughout the World might contribute to discussions about the future of education of Information professionals in Europe and Worldwide. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): * Educational trends in higher education worldwide* Information professionals in changing and challenging digital environment (new profiles, old skills and new competencies, social role)* Entrepreneurship and the information professional* Reminiscing about the future of professional education* Ethical values in IS (Universal access, collaboration, intellectual freedom, fairness)* Multidisciplinarity issues and relation with other sciences (Computer Sciences, Digital Humanities, Economics, etc.)* Best educational practices and current challenges* Software tools and platforms for collaborative learning and teaching* Open educational resources* Role and responsibility of archives, libraries and documentation centers in higher education* Entrance into the labour market of IS graduates. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission and Publication ----------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality, original papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Long papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of higher education in Information Science, are solicited. Moreover, short papers or posters on early research results, new results on previous published works, demos, and projects are also welcome.Long papers should not exceed 12 pages, including bibliography.Short papers should not exceed 6 pages, including bibliography.Poster descriptions should not exceed 2 pages. All accepted contributions will be collected in the Symposium Proceedings and published online, as Open Access, in the Repository of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek, indexed in Google Scholar. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of one of the online journals dedicated to Information Science. Contributions should be written in English, formatted for single column A4 paper, without page numbering. Right and left margins should be justified, with 1,15 line spacing and 11 point Times New Roman font to be used for the body text. A Word template is available at the Symposium website. All contributions (either in Word or in .pdf) should be submitted via Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feis2018. The review process will be double blind. Please make sure not to include the authors names in the contribution, and to provide them to Easychair when making the submission. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- Papers and posters submission: 25 March 2018 (extended)Notification to authors: 14 May 2018Camera-ready copies due by 1 July 2018On line proceedings published by end of AugustConference: 10-11 September 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Registration ----------------------------------------------------------------- Regular registration fees: * 150 euro early registration (until June 3rd, 2018)* 200 euro standard registration (until August 20th, 2018)* 250 euro late and on-site registration Student registration fees: * 50 euro early registration (until June 3rd, 2018)* 100 euro standard and on-site registration* 125 euro late and on-site registration Registration fees include coffee breaks and light lunches. Social dinner (on September 10th, 2018) is not included and the cost is 40 euro per person. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Student Scholarships ----------------------------------------------------------------- A number of student scholarships will be offered that cover registration, travel, and accommodation. The Call for Applications is available at http://feis2018.di.unipi.it/scholarships. The deadline for applying is 1 May 2018. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote speakers ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Bawden, City University London, UKLaif Kajberg, School of Library and Information Science, DenmarkGary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, USAAnna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organization ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs Tatjana Aparac-Jelu?i?, University of Osijek, CroatiaVittore Casarosa, University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy Elena Maceviciute, University of Bor?s, SwedenProgram Committee Members (see website) Publicity Chair Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany Sponsor ChairSimona Turbanti, University of Pisa, Italy Local Organizing CommitteeAlessandro Gandolfo, University of Pisa, ItalySalvatore Ruggieri, University of Pisa, Italy Enrica Salvatori, University of Pisa, ItalyMaria Simi, University of Pisa, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs: feis2018 at easychair.org Local Organization: feis2018 at di.unipi.it From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Mar 13 12:40:03 2018 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:40:03 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP HICSS-52> Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Message-ID: <17A0726F-64D6-43B8-9A24-BFF3861DA0B8@indiana.edu> CFP HICSS52 Minitrack title: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Track: Internet and the Digital Economy January 8-11, 2019 Maui, Hawaii, USA Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. Our minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? The impacts of cultural values on: 1) ICT design, adoption, and use; 2) Policies and practices of big data collection and use. ? Cross cultural studies of: 1) ICT adoption, use and development; 2) Quantification of self at work, by individuals or organizations; 3) Big data collection and use. ? Issues relating to: 1) Globally distributed teams; 2) Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level; 3) Global knowledge management; 4) Cross-national legislation and regulation; 4) Global ICT governance; 5) Global Cloud sourcing strategies; 6) Effects of global social computing on work organization and practices; Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. ? Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts. ? Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington Email: fichman at indiana.edu Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria Email: edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at From uwe.aickelin at unimelb.edu.au Wed Mar 14 02:29:47 2018 From: uwe.aickelin at unimelb.edu.au (Uwe Aickelin) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 06:29:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Melbourne - LECTURER (5 Positions; Female Applicants Only) Message-ID: <0FD6BCCF-9B17-4BA4-A622-33E1767C73EB@unimelb.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, International Women?s Day provided us with the opportunity to reflect upon the diversity within our School. The Melbourne School of Engineering has 182 women academic staff, but this represents just 22 per cent of our total academic numbers. We are committed to remedying this imbalance and lifting the representation of women to 30 per cent by 2022. To help enact this change, I?m pleased to announce five new continuing positions that we are making available to women of exceptional calibre, in all fields of engineering, computing and information systems. The five positions are across the School and we are accepting applications from all related areas. To view complete position descriptions, click here. These positions are a key component of a broad suite of programs we have implemented at MSE that are aimed at increasing the recruitment, retention and promotion of women. Successful appointees will be given the opportunity to play a significant role in realising the industry engagement targets of MSE 2025, develop internationally recognised research portfolios, establish funding streams to support these portfolios, and to enhance interdisciplinary research within and outside the University, whilst contributing to teaching and curriculum development within MSE. Applications for part-time or other flexible working arrangements will be welcomed and will be fully considered subject to meeting the inherent requirements of the position. Close date: 8 Apr 2018 Uwe Aickelin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Uwe Aickelin ? Head of School School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia T. +613 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin at unimelb.edu.au W: http://aickelin.com From fichman at indiana.edu Thu Mar 15 11:36:06 2018 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:36:06 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP HICSS-52> Collective Intelligence and Crowds Message-ID: <858B5C04-926F-4A23-BE14-0CE117BE06CA@indiana.edu> Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds HICSS 52 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Track: Digital and Social Media January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii, USA This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. We think that assemblages of people and machines are making new forms of organization possible, and we are interested in research that explores these new forms of organization. The minitrack invites papers that look at crowd sourcing, at idea generation, at remixing communities, and hybrid organizations in which learning machines plays a strong role. We live surrounded by socially constructed identities ? organizations, nations, websites ? all of which are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. These Internet platforms allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people ? and maybe autonomous learning machines ? to negotiate identities. With these socio-technical configurations we can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. These collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational and social structures, in which committed members of a community create, improve, and share ideas. The output of these socio-technical systems often takes the form of digital media, and their traces are varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. We are interested in 1) papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these socio-technical structures and their outputs: for example, analyses of open design and open source collectives 2) papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production; 3) design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes for crowds and communities; and 4) papers that simulate the production processes and outcomes through software. We are open to papers that explore unusual ways of modeling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions, as well as socio-technical models of deviance and disruption. We are particularly interested in papers that apply the foundational ideas of James Coleman, James March, Herb Simon, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to modern information systems. We are open to papers concerned with how to visualize large scale social phenomena. And papers that analyze the role machine algorithms and human processes play in our politics and our personal interactions. In sum, the content of the minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new sociotechnical configuration of knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure. Thus, the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman fichman at indiana.edu Donald Steiny steiny at steiny.com Jeffrey Nickerson jnickerson at stevens.edu ------------------------ Pnina Fichman, Professor Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From saddo at asist.org Thu Mar 15 13:37:57 2018 From: saddo at asist.org (Stephan Addo) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:37:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST2018 Submissions for Papers, Panels, Workshops, & Tutorials Due April 2! Message-ID: The 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology November 10-14, 2018, Vancouver, Canada BUILDING AN ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION FUTURE WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES This meeting will focus the creative and analytical energies of the ASIS&T community on the dramatic near horizon socio-technical shifts expected due to rapid developments in technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, virtual and augmented reality, and embedded, ubiquitous computing. The opportunities afforded by these technologies are enormous, as are the challenges of ensuring that ethical and human-centered perspectives, including sustainability, privacy, human agency and equity, are incorporated into their design and use. As interdisciplinary information science and technology researchers and practitioners, with an 80 year tradition of studying and working in this rapidly evolving field, we are uniquely situated to steward and mediate this shift. ASIS&T 2018 will provide an opportunity to learn from one another and from leading experts in these emerging technologies; to discuss, critique and pose the much-needed questions; and to share perspectives grounded in our own research and practice that intersect with and provide context for current developments. The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding the role of information and technology in the lives of individuals, organizations and communities. We invite papers, posters and visual presentations, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the conference theme, as well as work that reflects the broader mandate of ASIS&T, regarding the creation, representation, storage, access, dissemination and use of information, media and records, and the systems, tools, and technologies associated with these processes. The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research, development and practice from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&T's many special interest groups (SIGs). We are pleased to announce that the ASIS&T 2018 Proceedings will be published by John Wiley & Sons and will be indexed and accessible via multiple international venues. Please note that at least one of the authors must register for the conference in order for a paper to be accepted and published in the proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION INFORMATION The Conftool submission site is available here: ConfTool Submission Site (https://www.conftool.com/asist2018/index.php) All submissions for Papers, Panels, Workshops & Visual Presentations must be formatted according to the guidelines provided in the ASIS&T AM template, as this is the required format for inclusion in the Proceedings. The template is available here: AM18 Proposal Template (https://www.asist.org/am18/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Proposal-Template.docx) Tutorial Proposals must be submitted using this form: Tutorial Proposal Form (https://www.asist.org/am18/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Tutorial-Form.pdf) IMPORTANT DATES Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials Submission System opens: Tuesday, 2 January, 2018 Submissions due: Monday, 2 April, 2018 Notifications: Friday, 4 May, 2018 Final publishable version due: Sunday, 15 July, 2018 Visual Presentations Submission System opens: Tuesday, 2 January, 2018 Submissions due: Tuesday, 15 May, 2018 Notifications: Friday, 15 June, 2018 Final publishable version due: Sunday, 15 July, 2018 For more information, please visit https://www.asist.org/am18/call-for-proposals/. From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Tue Mar 6 16:28:34 2018 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:28:34 -0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Library 2.018 Design Thinking: Free Web Conference March 8 Message-ID: <50ec01d3b592$157ef1d0$407cd570$@SJSU.Edu> What is design thinking and how can it be applied to libraries? Find out this Thursday, March 8, when the San Jose State University School of Information presents the first of three Library 2.018 web conferences. This is a great opportunity to learn how you can develop and lead a design challenge at your library. Registration is free! Event: Design Thinking: How Librarians Are Incorporating It Into Their Practice Date: March 8, 2018 Time: 12 to 3 p.m. Pacific Time Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/library-2018-design-thinking-how-librarians-are -incorporating-it-into-their-practice-registration-41114249828 The design thinking conference was developed in collaboration with Steven J. Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University and adjunct instructor at the SJSU iSchool. Bell will moderate the opening panel discussion and provide the final thoughts. Keynote panelists are Sidsel Bech-Petersen, head of projects and co-creation at Aarhus Public Libraries; Rachel Ivy Clarke, SJSU iSchool alumna and assistant professor at Syracuse University; and Gregory Diaz, children's librarian at the Chicago Public Library. To attend live, please register for the conference. The final conference schedule with links to join the keynote and crowdsourced sessions will be emailed to all conference registrants. Those who register in advance will also receive the recording links. Please use #library2018 and #librarydesignthinking on your social media posts leading up to and during the event. Co-founded by the San Jose State University School of Information, the Library 2.0 conferences are participatory events where information professionals around the globe are encouraged to not only attend the open-access online sessions, but to also share their knowledge by submitting presentation proposals. For more information about the Library 2.0 online conferences, visit the conference website. Contact: Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0029 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Thu Mar 29 11:50:12 2018 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:50:12 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS Alumni chosen as 2018 Movers & Shakers Message-ID: Three Simmons SLIS alumni were chosen by Library Journal as 2018 Movers & Shakers . *Laurie Allen* ?02LS , recognized as an "Advocate" is the Director for Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia. She created an online repository, www.datarefuge.org , and organized volunteers to preserve data from federal websites at risk of disappearing under the new administration. Another "Advocate," *Lisa Lindsay* ?05LS is Manager of Community Services at the Fresno County Public Library, CA. Lindsay produced a documentary *Our Lives: Surviving the Streets of Fresno *that sheds light on homelessness in Fresno County and encourages community awareness and dialog. *Jay Moschella* ?10LS , in the "Digital Developer" category, is Curator of Rare Books at the Boston Public Library (BPL). Moschella was highlighted for his role as lead curator of BPL?s Shakespeare Unauthorized exhibition (October 2016?March 2017). Simmons SLIS extends congratulations to our alums - keep up the good work! -- *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 anoruzi at gmail.com Sun Mar 18 11:14:51 2018 From: anoruzi at gmail.com (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:14:51 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Webology: Volume 14, Number 1 & 2, 2017 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ======= Webology: Volume 14, Number 2, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - Hot Papers in Library and Information Science from the Point of View of Research Methods -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Hot papers; Library and information science; Research methods -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/editorial24.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - Systematic Literature Review on Opinion Mining of Big Data for Government Intelligence -- Akshi Kumar, & Abhilasha Sharma -- Keywords: Opinion mining; Big data; Digital governance; Systematic literature review -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a156.pdf - The Role of Responsive Design in Web Development -- Fernando Almeida, & Jos? Monteiro -- Keywords: Web development; Responsive design; Web designing; User experience -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a157.pdf - Highly-alted articles in Library and Information Science -- Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh -- Keywords: Altmetrics; Alternative metrics; Altmetric Explorer; Altmetric score; Social media; Research impact -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a158.pdf - Tell Me Why Bob Dylan and the Beatles Song Titles Are Used in Biomedical Literature -- Ger T. Rijkers, Anya Luscombe, & Carla Sloof -- Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Popular culture; Web of Science; Medline; Citations -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a159.pdf - Open Access Health and Medicine Journals - An Informative Study -- Rabiya Mushtaq, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, & Mufazil Ali -- Keywords: Health Science; Medicine; Open access; Open access journals -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a160.pdf =======Webology: Volume 14, Number 1, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - YouTube in scientific research: A bibliometric analysis -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: YouTube, Social network, Open access, Citation analysis, Scopus -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/editorial23.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- Charting the Landscape of Open Access Journals in Library and Information Science -- Emmanuel Edward Te, Frances Owens, Megan Lohnash, Janice Christen-Whitney, & Kristen Radsliff Rebmann -- Keywords: Open access; Scholarly communication; Publishing; Journals; Library and Information Science -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a152.pdf - Scientific Publication Behavior versus Information Seeking Behavior: An Infodemiological Study on Stomach Cancer -- Shohreh SeyyedHosseini, Asefeh Asemi, Ahmad Shabani, & Mozafar CheshmehSohrabi -- Keywords: Infodemiology; Health information supply; Health information demand; Health information need -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a153.pdf - Designing a Predictive Analytics Solution for Evaluating the Scientific Trends in Information Systems Domain -- Babak Sohrabi, Iman Raeesi Vanani, & Mohsen Baranizade Shineh -- Keywords: Text analytics; Text clustering; Document classification; Natural language processing (NLP), Information systems -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a154.pdf - Instruction of Citation Management Tools by Academic Librarians: The Need for Training the Trainers -- Maryam Sarrafzadeh, & Narges Khaleghi -- Keywords: Citation management software; Reference management software; Bibliographic management software; Citation tools; Information literacy instruction; Academic libraries -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a155.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From WHe at odu.edu Tue Mar 20 20:21:55 2018 From: WHe at odu.edu (He, Wu) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:21:55 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] JCDL 2018 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, You are invited to submit your original research and practices to the JCDL 2018 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries. The URL is https://2018.jcdl.org/knowledge_discovery The workshop is with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2018 (JCDL 2018) which will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA on June 3 ? 7, 2018. The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. We solicit contributions on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries. Knowledge is defined as facts, information, descriptions or skills acquired through experience or education. Valid, useful knowledge can help people make better predictions, support decision making and improve people?s lives. Knowledge Discovery focuses on searching and extracting useful knowledge from data, databases and documents with different methodologies. The goal of Knowledge Discovery is mainly to uncover hidden relationships between data with techniques from artificial intelligence, mathematics, statistics, and algorithms. Topic of Interests: We invite original articles related to Knowledge Discovery from Library and Digital Libraries, which include but are not limited to: *Information Visualization techniques in Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries *Information extraction and text-mining approaches for semantic enrichment of Digital Libraries *Ontology driven Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries *Case-based reasoning systems for knowledge discovery from Digital Libraries *Applications of Sematic Web in Digital Libraries *Automatic categorization and clustering of scientific publications *Academic recommender systems *Applications of mining from scientific publications Submission Details: Each paper submitted to the workshop will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition and should be prepared according to the JCDL conference Authors Guidelines. It must be no longer than 10 pages and no less than 2 pages in length, including a 200-word abstract, references and tables/figures. Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF format to Dr. Hui Shi (huishi at cpp.edu), Dr. Wu He (whe at odu.edu) and Dr. Guandong Xu (guandong.xu at uts.edu.au) by email. Top quality papers after presented at the conference will be selected for extension and publication in Information Discovery and Delivery published by Emerald. Important Dates: Paper Submission: 04/18/2018 Author Notification: 04/30/2018 Camera-ready Submission (for workshop proceedings): 05/15/2018 Conference Dates: 06/03-06/07/2018 Workshop Date: 06/06/2018 (half day) Organizers: Hui Shi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA Wu He, Old Dominion University, USA Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia From sbarocas at cornell.edu Sun Mar 18 11:48:58 2018 From: sbarocas at cornell.edu (Solon Barocas) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:48:58 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Postdoc Opportunity with Cornell's new Initiative on AI, Policy, and Practice Message-ID: <7892D08C-80A1-4D3F-A4BB-4A3FBDFB1D38@cornell.edu> Postdoc Opportunity with Cornell's new Initiative on AI, Policy, and Practice https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10902 Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP) is a new initiative at Cornell University, led by faculty in Computing and Information Science and spanning the Ithaca and New York City campuses. The initiative brings together researchers pursuing fundamental technical advances in AI with scholars considering its ethical, legal, and social implications. We seek a Postdoctoral Researcher who will help us explore how an integrated interdisciplinary approach to these issues can generate unique insights and provide an effective foundation for future innovation, policy, and advocacy. The initiative will focus on a number of key challenges in the near-term future of AI. We will investigate how AI might improve the quality of decision-making, while also posing new challenges to fairness, equality, autonomy, dignity, and privacy, among other core values. We will consider how AI risks exacerbating information and power asymmetries, while also providing a way to measure, model, and mitigate these dynamics. Our goal is to establish the appropriate role for AI in addressing pressing issues, while ensuring that it does so with due consideration of social context and ethical norms. The Postdoctoral Researcher will have the opportunity to help launch and shape this new initiative, conduct research, run seminars, stage events, and foster a truly interdisciplinary community. S/he will collaborate with one or more of the faculty supervisors associated with the initiative: Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy, and Helen Nissenbaum. Applications are welcome from recent Ph.D. graduates with a range of disciplinary backgrounds (e.g., computer and information science, data science, the social sciences, public policy, philosophy, media studies, science and technology studies, or related fields). Law graduates or ABDs with strong backgrounds or work experience in related fields are also eligible to apply. An interest in and ability to do translational, cross-disciplinary work between fields is crucial. This is a one-year position with the possibility of a second year depending on performance and funding. The Postdoctoral Researcher may be located in Ithaca or New York City, depending on the location of the primary supervising faculty, but will have ample opportunity to spend time on both campuses. Applications should be submitted to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10902 and should include a CV, up to two publications (or writing samples), the names and contact information of three references, and a cover letter summarizing the candidate's relevant background, accomplishments, and fit with the position. A transcript of graduate work (unofficial is acceptable) may also be requested. For substantive questions related to the initiative or position, please contact sbarocas at cornell.edu. The position is available for a Fall 2018 start (or sooner, given the candidate?s availability). We began to review applications on March 5th, but continue to welcome submissions. Diversity and inclusion are a part of Cornell University?s heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. From sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr Sun Mar 25 09:14:35 2018 From: sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr (Sanghee Oh) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:14:35 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Nominations (Due Extended to April 16): The 2018 SIGUSE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award Message-ID: C*all for Nominations: The 2018 SIGUSE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award * The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual for their outstanding contribution to information behavior research. The award is intended to be for achievements that have had a significant impact in the field. The award is for a systematic program of research at the level of a lifetime?s work. *Eligibility* (a) Persons who have made a significant contribution to information behavior research are eligible for the award. (b) The award is to be made to an individual, not an organization. (c) Persons who have received the Award in the past are not eligible in future years. *The nomination package shall consist of the following*: (a) Nominating letter (1-2 pages), stating why the candidate deserves the award; (b) The name, address, and phone number of the person making the nomination; (c) The name, address, and phone number of the candidate for the award; (d) Supporting documents including the nominee?s CV, up to two letters of support, and up to two publications that most reflect the nominee?s research contributions or impact. *Nominations must be submitted to the SIGUSE Awards Chair, Sanghee Oh (sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr ) by April 16. (It is an extended due date!) * Please find the detail about the award here: https://siguse.wordpress.com/ outstanding-contribution-to-information-behavior-research-award/ The past winners of the award are available from here: https://siguse. wordpress.com/academy-of-fellows/ Please feel free to email, Sanghee Oh, the SIGUSE Awards Chair ( sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr), for questions. Thank you! Sanghee Oh SIGUSE Awards Chair Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan & Sarah Barriage SIGUSE Awards Members -- Sanghee Oh, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Chungnam National University Tel: 82-42-821-6357 Email: sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr Homepage: http://shoh.cnu.ac.kr/ From ralf.bierig at gmail.com Tue Mar 20 09:31:35 2018 From: ralf.bierig at gmail.com (Ralf B) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:31:35 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd CfP: Special Issue on De-Personalisation, Diversification, Filter Bubbles and Search (IR Journal) Message-ID: 2nd CfP: Special Issue on De-Personalisation, Diversification, Filter Bubbles and Search (IR Journal) Call for papers for the Information Retrieval Journal (http://www.springer.com/10791) Apologies for cross-posting. Introduction Information retrieval, recommender systems and, more generally, approaches in machine learning have resulted in highly personalised web experiences. Building on context, location and users? virtual (social) profiles, the web is highly aligned to users? perceived interests, to the interests of ?similar? users, and to the interests of users to whom a user is digitally connected. Whilst this delivers relevant content, it also polarises informational perspectives and removes serendipity through the development of filter bubbles or echo chambers: scenarios where specific ideas, beliefs or data are reinforced through repetition of a closed system that limits the free movement of alternative (competing) ideas. There is the implication that certain ideas or outcomes dominate due to, and resulting in, a bias concerning how specific input is gathered. Search diversification has gained significant attention in information retrieval in recent years as one approach to relax over-focused views on search results and content. However, methods, reviews and evaluations that aim to qualify and quantify personalised experiences and their biasing effects are under-addressed in the literature. Currently, there is no single source that integrates multidisciplinary research that conceptualises and evaluates the bias that results from continuous filtering and personalisation. We aim to address this gap by accepting a selective set of papers that allows researchers to better understand the influence that personalisation has on information experiences. In this context, we aim to bring together a wide range of views and approaches from information retrieval, information science, cognitive systems, computational social science and machine learning. Topics of Interest We envisage the following topical categories for submission with a particular emphasis on variety and cross-disciplinary approaches: * Reviews: Review papers concerning pertinent aspects of filter bubbles including understanding and determining the needs and boundaries of (de-)personalisation; * Theoretical & Empirical Models: Formal approaches to represent highly personalised filter bubbles to facilitate experimental approaches, enable user comprehension, and simulate filter bubbles; * Metastudies: Studies that attempt to qualify/quantify/visualise the divergence of users' personalised search results and information experience(s); * Experimental Methods: Methodologies for the reproducibility of studies seeking to investigate filter bubbles; * Experimental Infrastructures: Systems that help control and compare the effects of various degrees of (de-)personalised search scenarios; * IR Experiments: Experiments that demonstrate and formalise any effects of filtered information experiences; * Test Collections and Corpora: Practice and experience using, adapting, merging and/or gathering (test) collections and experimental data sets; * User Studies: Studies that consider multiple users or multiple user profiles (search engines, social media, etc.) and contexts (location, tasks, devices, etc.) that shed light on the differences in users' diverging search results and information experience(s), and * Case Studies: Studies into filter bubbles and discussion on the tangible effects and observations of (de-)personalisation. Special Issue Guest Editors Ralf Bierig (Maynooth University, Ireland) (Contact Person: ralf [dot] bierig [ad] mu [dot] ie.) Simon Caton (National College of Ireland) Important Dates Initial submission due: July 01, 2018 Initial reviewer feedback: October 01, 2018 Revised submission due:: November 01, 2018 Final reviews and notification: December 15, 2018 Paper Submission Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/10791 (submit online). At the beginning of the submission process in Editorial Manager, under ?Article Type?, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process. Contact For inquiries on the above please contact Ralf Bierig, ralf [dot] bierig [ad] mu [dot] ie. From ola.pilerot at hb.se Fri Mar 16 09:25:28 2018 From: ola.pilerot at hb.se (Ola Pilerot) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:25:28 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New issue of Information Research References: <5AABC5C002000058000300D3@gwis1.adm.hb.se> Message-ID: <5AABC5C002000058000300D3@gwis1.adm.hb.se> The new issue of Information Research is now available: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/infres231.html Best wishes Ola Pilerot, Editor, Western Europe ************ Dr Ola Pilerot Universitetslektor / Senior Lecturer Biblioteksh?gskolan / Swedish School of Library and Information Science H?gskolan i Bor?s / University of Bor?s SE-501 90 BOR?S SWEDEN Tfn.: 033-435 43 29 Mobil: 0733-012 779 https://olapilerot.net/ http://lincs.gu.se/members/ola_pilerot/ From katy.davis at libgig.com Mon Mar 19 18:32:07 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:32:07 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Library Inventory/Material Handlers (Temporary) Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-posting... LibGig, an LAC Group Company, is seeking Temporary Library Inventory/Material Handlers to work on a project onsite at an LAC Group client, an academic library and museum. The primary role of this position will be to: provide hands-on labor such as lifting and carrying boxes; removing items from shelves, opening, unpacking and packing boxes; loading and unloading materials; packing and shipping and proper storage; and labelling of materials. This is a full-time, temporary position with a flexible schedule, lasting through April 30 2018 approximately. This is a great opportunity for students. QUALIFICATIONS * Ideal candidate will have had 1-3 years of similar or related experience. * Prior experience with inventory or library projects and a library/archive background/education would be helpful. * Prior similar or related experience handling sensitive and delicate items in a careful and secure manner * Able to follow instructions and work within a team but also capable of working independently and autonomously * Must be physically able to lift at least 40 pounds, to push carts up small ramps, to bend, stoop, and to lift items for removal from or placement to shelves of varying heights. * Must be able to stand, walk and be mobile through most of the workday * Must have demonstrated organizational skills, with the ability to follow instructions, maintain work and productivity schedules and benchmarks with a strong attention to detail * Must be able to read, write and speak English fluently and accurately and have good written and verbal communication skills * Must be punctual, reliable and committed to adhering to the work schedule provided * Must be able to follow instructions and work within a team but also capable of working independently To apply, please visit: https://goo.gl/pHXwWj Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From katy.davis at libgig.com Mon Mar 26 12:51:58 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:51:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Research Specialist - Document Delivery, Virtual, USA Message-ID: Please excuse the cross-posting... LibSource, a division of LAC Group, is seeking a full-time, Research Specialist - Document Delivery, to work virtually for our Library as a Service (LaaS) platform. The Research Specialist will join a team of researchers in staffing a busy and diverse virtual research desk, performing and managing requests for legal, corporate, business development and other research from LaaS clients. All research and communication will be performed online and by phone, using both paid databases and open sources. The Research Specialist will report directly to the Deputy Director of Research & Intelligence and work with research analysts to complete research requests in a timely, professional, and cost effective manner. Research will be delivered directly to clients using a virtual reference desk platform. This is a full-time, benefitted virtual position that can work from any US-based location. This is an entry-level position focused on case and docket pulls, literature searches, public records searches, document procurement and other general duties to support the research team. Responsibilities: * Perform case pulls and literature searches; * Perform docket pulls and searches * Participate in basic legal research including corporate filings and public record searches; * Responsible for accurate document ordering; * Communicate progress and research findings directly to client clearly and concisely; * Keep Deputy Director apprised of research activities, client concerns, and issues that arise in the course of research; * Other duties as the arise according to client requests Qualifications: * 1-3 years previous experience is desired; * Previous experience working in a law firm is preferred; * MLS/MLIS preferred, though work experience or a similar or related degree may take the place of MLS/MLIS; * Legal research skills including but not limited to docket and case law research (both state and federal), secondary sources, and practice guidance * Experience with corporate and business development research including gathering information from diverse sources; * Exceptional client service skills, particularly via written communication * Current expertise using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) To apply, please visit: https://goo.gl/cCJLeb Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From katy.davis at libgig.com Wed Mar 28 15:03:36 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:03:36 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Digital Library Asset Management Assistant - West Los Angeles, CA Message-ID: *Please excuse cross-posting* LibGig, a LAC Group Company, seeks a Digital Library Asset Management Assistant for an academic library client in the West Los Angeles area. The position will be responsible for managing and maintaining the Digital Library's assets and accompanying metadata that reside within or are destined for the Digital Library's asset management systems and publication platforms. This is a full-time employment position. POSITION SUMMARY * Responsible for implementation of workflows for ingest, arrangement, description, and access following Digital Library standards. * Support the work of project managers on digitization projects, ensuring that projects follow best practices and DL standards. * Check filenames / object models of digitized assets to ensure they can be ingested. * Ingest assets and metadata into DAMS and related platforms. * Check metadata for correct mappings, required fields, adherence to standards, etc. * Manage files on networked file storage * Coordinate QA of assets and metadata by DL students and/or project partners. QUALIFICATIONS * Master's Degree in Library Science or Information Services is a plus. * Previous experience with digital asset management solutions and workflows, preferably in an academic, public or corporate library environment is required. * Knowledge of digital assets including ingest, storage, discovery, access, publication, and preservation as well as metadata standards, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies for describing digital assets. * Familiarity with third party and open source tools for managing digital assets and repository software To apply, visit: https://goo.gl/ufwF3n Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From katy.davis at libgig.com Wed Mar 28 17:29:31 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:29:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Librarian I, Washington DC Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-posting... LAC Federal is seeking a Librarian I for a temporary four-month assignment at a federal library in Washington, D.C. This position is looking for a generalist to perform library duties such as reference, patron support, marketing and event planning. This is a full time (40 hour a week; Monday-Friday) contract position. Work will be performed on site. Responsibilities: * Assisting event planning and the creation and management of webinars and reports for agency and library events * Helping develop a roster of potential speakers for agency functions, collecting data and analyzing usage statistics on events and library resources * Promote the library and its print and digital collections through various branding, marketing, and promotional activities * Assist with general library duties including manning the reference desk and assisting patrons in-person or via telephone and email * The selected librarian will be trained in position; prior experience is valued but not required Qualifications: * The candidate should have two full years of progressively higher level of graduate education towards a master's in library science or equivalent degree (e.g., L.L.B. or J.D.) * 1-2 years of experience recommended (but not required for recent graduates) * The candidate should be highly-motivated, capable of working independently, and responsive to customers' needs * Strong written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills, including the ability to write succinct, straightforward, and clear copy for marketing materials * Ability to multi-task and work on a wide range of projects at one time. Note: * Selected candidate with MLS degree will have Librarian I title; selected candidate with no MLS degree but meeting minimum requirement will have Library Paraprofessional title. To apply, please visit: https://goo.gl/7bSGZi Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From katy.davis at libgig.com Fri Mar 30 16:28:55 2018 From: katy.davis at libgig.com (Katy Davis) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:28:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting: Library Technician - Bethesda, MD Message-ID: Apologies for the cross-posting... LAC Federal is seeking a Library Technician to work for a federal agency in Bethesda, MD. The Technician will be helping patrons find and use print, electronic, and audio-visual resources, and provide technical assistance when needed. This is a full time contract (40 hour a week; Monday to Friday) benefited position. Duties for this position include: * Answering routine telephone or in-person reference inquiries, referring patrons to librarians for further assistance, when necessary * Cataloging, processing, and shelving library materials to prepare them for inclusion in library collections * Reserving, circulating, renewing, and discharging books, periodicals, and other materials * Providing assistance to teachers and students by locating materials and helping to complete special projects * Maintaining and troubleshooting problems with library equipment including computers, photocopiers, and audiovisual equipment * Train other staff, volunteers or student assistants, and scheduling and supervising their work. Qualifications: * Recent Library Technician experience * Familiarity with Microsoft Office products and the Voyager catalog record system. * Must be able to lift boxes up to 50 lbs. and possess the ability to shelve items on top shelves Preferred Qualifications: * Recent experience interpreting bibliographic data elements and searching bibliographic records in an online environment is desired. * Experience working with serial publications and experience with imaging techniques is highly desirable. * Basic knowledge of biomedical information and history is preferred. To apply, please visit: https://goo.gl/XHq99u Katy Davis Recruiting Assistant LibGig - LAC Group (323)302-9432 Katy.davis at libgig.com From kanwal.im at pu.edu.pk Tue Mar 20 12:28:56 2018 From: kanwal.im at pu.edu.pk (Prof. Kanwal Ameen) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:28:56 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Invitation for International Conference on Information Management & Libraries Message-ID: > > > Dear Ones, > > You are invited to be part of *International Conference of Information > Management 2018* (ICIML 2018), come and join this exciting event, connect > with international participants, and disseminate your research, experience, > and opinions > ? ? > on:? > > *Leading for Transformation* > *?:?* > *Preparing Reflective Information & Library Professionals* > > In keeping with the theme, we will embrace creative proposals for full > papers, short papers/poster presentation on research in progress, and best > practices. > ? ? > Please visit http://www.pu.edu.pk/iciml for > ? ? > sub-themes, details of the Submission Instructions and other information. > > *Important Dates: * > > *Abstract Submission (Structured)* > > *10th May 2018* > > Notification of Acceptance/Rejection > > 4th June 2018 > > Revised Abstract Submission > > 27th June 2018 > > Paper Submission > > 15th July 2018 > > Revision > > 15th August 2018 > > Camera-ready final version > > 10th September 2018 > > > > *Please submit your Abstract/Paper/Poster to the Convener, Program > Advisory Committee, Syeda Hina Batool at (hina.im at pu.edu.pk) > .* > Look forward to seeing you! > ICIML 2018 Organi ?s? > ing Team > > Website: http://pu.edu.pk/iciml Email: iciml at pu.edu.pk > Prof. Kanwal Ameen*, *PhD*.* Chairperson, Dept. of Information Management, and Doctoral Program Coordination Committee, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Chief Editor, *Pakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries* Research Fellow, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 2013 Member, PLA, ALA, CILIP, ASIS&T *Co-Chair, Visual Presentations, ASIS&T, 2017* *http://faculty.kanwal-ameen.pu.edu.pk/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanwal_Ameen From Heather.Ranieri at liu.edu Tue Mar 27 09:47:36 2018 From: Heather.Ranieri at liu.edu (Heather Ranieri) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:47:36 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Music_Libraries-_Field_Trips_include_st?= =?windows-1252?q?ops_at_some_of_the_world=92s_most_renowned_music_librari?= =?windows-1252?q?es?= Message-ID: <48e45d8e675e4bb28ab2d29c2e9906f9@U-EXH-2.liunet.edu> New Course! Summer 2018 Music Libraries ******************************************************************************** Special Topics: Music Libraries Dr. Walker LIS 901 Manhattan Campus Field Trips include stops at some of the world?s most renowned music libraries. ** NY Philharmonic Archives Columbia University, Music Library NYU, Music Library Juilliard School, Music Library A comprehensive and practical introduction to music libraries and librarianship aimed at those intending careers in this specialty or generalists who seek familiarity with music literature, research needs, specialized problems related to the organization of musical information, and applications of technologies to this field, including digitized resources, archives, recorded formats, and scores. This course consists of weekend lectures and labs as well as weekday tours of select music libraries and similar organizations in the New York City area. **Please note more locations may be added based on availability. Heather Ranieri Director of Program Effectiveness, Marketing & Recruitment Palmer School Of Library and Information Science LIU Post 720 Northern Boulevard Brookville, New York 11548 Tel.: 516.299.4110 Fax: 516.299.4168 E-mail: heather.ranieri at liu.edu www.liu.edu/palmerblog www.facebook.com/palmeratliu From Elena.Maceviciute at hb.se Sun Mar 18 10:50:49 2018 From: Elena.Maceviciute at hb.se (Elena Maceviciute) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:50:49 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New issue of Information Research In-Reply-To: <5AAE7CC3020000E80006AF74@gwis1.adm.hb.se> References: <5A36930C020000E800065D9A@gwis1.adm.hb.se> <5AAE7CC3020000E80006AF74@gwis1.adm.hb.se> Message-ID: <5AAE7CC3020000E80006AF74@gwis1.adm.hb.se> The March 2018 issue of the journal is now available http://informationr.net/ir/23-1/infres231.html; you can read the Editorial at http://informationr.net/ir/23-1/editor231.html From dwolfram at uwm.edu Mon Mar 26 14:15:13 2018 From: dwolfram at uwm.edu (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:15:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ALISE Book Series - Now Accepting Proposals Message-ID: Please excuse cross-postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is pleased to announce the ALISE Book Series, published by Rowman & Littlefield. The series addresses issues critical to Library and Information Science education and research through the publication of epistemologically grounded scholarly texts which are inclusive of regional and national contexts around the world. Series Editors * Jaya Raju, University of Cape Town (jaya.raju at uct.ac.za) * Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (dwolfram at uwm.edu) Call for Proposals Before submitting your proposal for the series, please review the guidelines. Proposals relating to education and/or research in the following broad areas, inter alia, are welcome: * Education of library and information professionals * Socio-cultural or international perspectives in library and information services * Information and communication technologies * Cultural heritage preservation and promotion * Data and knowledge management * Data science * Human-computer interaction and design * Information organization and retrieval * Information services and practices ________________________________ About ALISE The Association for Library and Information Science Education is a non-profit organization that serves as the intellectual home of faculty, staff, and students in Library and Information Science and allied disciplines. It promotes innovation and excellence internationally through leadership, collaboration, advocacy, and dissemination of scholarship. From dr.niranjan.sk at gmail.com Thu Mar 29 07:08:41 2018 From: dr.niranjan.sk at gmail.com (Dr. S K Niranjan Aradhya) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:38:41 +0530 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Paper : Second International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT 2018) Message-ID: *?<<<<< Apologies for cross-postings >>>>><<<<< Please circulate among your friends, peers and researchers >>>>>* *We are happy to announce our Previous edition is published in Scopus (ICGCIoT 2015-Record ID:21100457337), Engineering Village and ISI.* *UP COMING CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS [CFP]* IEEE sponsored *Second International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT 2018)* Global Academy of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Conference Date : 16-18 August 2018 *Submission Deadline : 2 May 2018* Conference website : http://gciot-conference.org/2018/ We have attached the call for paper for your ready reference. 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From deshazok at ohsu.edu Fri Mar 23 12:32:56 2018 From: deshazok at ohsu.edu (Kristina DeShazo) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:32:56 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Registration Open > 2018 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Message-ID: <7798002DD53CAA4182C975FB27D35327D7F33617@EXMB05.ohsu.edu> Just a reminder that registration is open, and we'd love to see you on the mountain! **** Cross-posted to multiple lists; please excuse any duplication. **** The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Saturday May 19 - Tuesday May 22, 2018; Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon REGISTRATION IS OPEN We're so excited to share our 2018 Program with you! We had what we think is a record number of proposals this year and from them have chosen a program we hope will both educate and inspire you. From a panel discussion between librarians and publishers on diversity, inclusion and equity in scholarly publishing and acquisitions, to the triumphs and tribulations of leading workplace culture change, to deciphering and visualizing data, there's a little something for everyone. Check out the program page for much more! We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker this year is Thomas Padilla, Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He publishes, presents, and teaches widely on digital scholarship, digital collections, Humanities data, data curation, and data information literacy. In his talk, he will advance the argument that conditions of uncertainty and a speculative orientation to collections constitutes a disposition that empowers libraries and the communities they serve. As the poet a. maxwell reminds us, uncertainty is not the same as not knowing - uncertainty indicates the presence of alternatives. This talk is a call to embrace those alternatives. About The Acquisitions Institute Since 2000, we are the pre-eminent conference located in Western North America on acquisitions and collection development held at Timberline Lodge. We are a small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Pacific Northwest setting, focused on the methods and innovation of building and managing library collections. Timberline Lodge is located on the slope of Mt. Hood, about an hour east of Portland, Oregon. Read more about us at http://www.acquisitionsinstitute.org, contact us at planning at acquisitionsinstitute.org. About Timberline Lodge The Timberline Lodge conference facility offers a relaxed atmosphere for librarians, vendors, and publishers to discuss issues of concern. Plan to come and listen to one another in this small conference (enrollment is limited to 85) with its rustic resort setting and the finest of people and conversations. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience and there are plenty of opportunities for informal discussion outside the scheduled program. Plan to enjoy the good food, the beautiful mountain scenery, snow sports and swimming, and favorite readings. Explore the Timberline Lodge web site for a sense of the historic character of the lodge. We have reserved the entire suite of rooms for the Institute. ________________________________________ The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Planning Committee is Lindsay Cronk, University of Rochester; Kristina DeShazo, Oregon Health & Science University; Stacey Devine, Library of Congress; Kerri Goergen-Doll, Oregon State University; Kim Maxwell, MIT; Nancy Slight-Gibney, University of Oregon; and Scott Alan Smith, Librarian at Large From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Mar 22 13:17:54 2018 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:17:54 -0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Help Make Web Searching Better Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] We invite you to participate in a research study on information searching intentions! The purpose of this study is to understand search behavior to better improve the web searching experience. This study is hosted by the Library and Information Science Department of Rutgers University, under a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Requirements * Approximately 7 hours of work over 10 days. * Must be at least 18 years old * Must be a non-student and employed * Proficiency in English required * Intermediate typing + online search skills required * You must use Google Chrome on a laptop/desktop computer for the study Total compensation for participation is $95. For more information, please consult the registration site at: https://tinyurl.com/istudynat [cid:D99D4CC7-10FA-486C-90DF-9254824F6B91 at rutgers.edu] From asalaba at kent.edu Mon Mar 26 12:19:09 2018 From: asalaba at kent.edu (SALABA, ATHENA) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:19:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_MTSR=E2=80=9918=2C_12th_International_C?= =?utf-8?q?onference__on_Metadata_and_Semantics_Research?= Message-ID: <6A468EE2-4A18-49CE-9489-854E2DF25AE2@kent.edu> [cid:image001.png at 01D3C4FC.A199F2E0] 1st Call for Papers MTSR?18 : 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research http://www.mtsr-conf.org/ The 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18) will be held at Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, Cyprus between October 23rd ? 26th, 2018 Motivation MTSR is an annual international inter-disciplinary conference, which brings together academics, researchers and practitioners in the specialized fields of metadata, ontologies and semantics research. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies across diverse types of information environments and applications. These include Open Access Repositories and Digital Libraries, Cultural Informatics, Digital Humanities, E-learning applications, Search Engine Optimization and Information Retrieval, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures, e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Bio-Health & Medical Information Systems. Important Dates * 15th June 2018: Submission deadline (Full and Short papers) * 15th June 2018: Submission deadline (Posters, Workshops, Tutorials, Demos and Panels) * 27th July 2018: Notification of decision * 24th August 2018: Camera-ready papers due 23rd ? 26th October 2018, Conference at Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Topics Contributions are welcome on Metadata in general, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Automatic Metadata Generation, Open-Access Repositories, Digital Libraries, Knowledge Management, Software Engineering, Cultural Informatics, Digital Humanities, E-learning applications, Information Retrieval, e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Bio-Health and Medical Information Systems, including but not limited to: I. Foundations ? Typology of metadata and metadata implementations ? The value and cost of metadata ? Quality evaluation in the use of metadata ? Metadata reusability ? New or revised metadata schemas or application profiles ? Metadata standardization ? Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management ? SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice ? Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management ? Metadata and the Semantic Web ? Metadata and Knowledge Management ? Metadata and Software Engineering ? Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies ? Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems III. Case Studies ? Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical archives and archaeological research ? Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and processes ? Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical information management ? Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations ? Metadata and ontologies in industry ? Metadata and ontologies in education ? Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment IV. Technological Issues Technologies for: ? Metadata and ontology storage, Metadata and ontology integration, Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and editing of ontologies ? Learning Objects management ? Search engines, Localization & Visualization ? Mobile challenges ? Automatic metadata generation V. Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Big, Linked, Social & Open Data ? Ontologies and SKOS ? Linked Data and its applications ? Information visualization ? Metadata quality ? Digital curation ? Impact and evaluation of digital libraries ? Use and re-use of digital data ? Data mining ? Open and Social Data ? Social Networking & Collaboration platforms ? Multilingual IR ? User behavior and modeling ? Big Data semantics, search and mining ? Big Data best practices ? Reasoning on Big Data VI. Tutorials, Workshops, Demos and Panels You can bring in your ideas for tutorials, workshops, demos and panels. If you are interested in a particular topic, please let us know by sending an email to mtsr.conference at gmail.com. Submit your proposal to EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2018 Special Tracks The conference welcomes the organization of special tracks focusing on particular domains or topics. Proposals for special tracks are welcome. Papers submitted to tracks undergo the same review procedures and are published in the same proceedings as those accepted for the main track. Tracks currently being organized: ? Agriculture, Food & Environment ? Cultural Collections & Applications ? Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Big, Linked, Social & Open Data ? European and National Projects ? Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures ? Digital Humanities and Digital Curation ? Knowledge IT Artifacts (KITA) in professional communities and aggregations Submission procedure The following types of submissions are invited: ? Full papers (12 pages, CCIS format) reporting completed research ? Short papers (6 pages, CCIS format) presenting ongoing or preliminary research ? Posters (4 pages) ? Proposals for Tutorials, Workshops, Demos and Panels (1-3 pages providing a description) Submissions should be original and not previously submitted, published and under review to other Conferences or Journals. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a double-blind peer review process. Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines. Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster presentation. Interested authors can submit to EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2018 Conference Proceedings Proceedings will be published by Springer in CCIS Vol. 846 (Communications in Computer and Information Science) book series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Other Publication Opportunities Selected papers might be considered for a revised and extended version to be published in a range of international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience) (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ind/ijmso) and Program (Emerald) (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog), currently published as Data Technologies and Applications. Awards There are two types of awards: the Best paper award and the Best student paper award, both sponsored by euroCRIS (http://www.eurocris.org/). ? Best paper award: This award will be presented to the authors of the best full research paper submitted and presented to the conference. ? Best student paper award: MTSR sponsors a paper competition to recognize excellence in a conference paper contribution whose primary author is a student (normally at a PhD or MRes level). The student is required to present the paper at the MTSR 2018 conference. Submissions are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and clarity of composition. The author of an awarded paper, and co-authors if any, will be entitled to: ? Receive a signed and stamped official award certificate by the conference organizers ? Promote their achievement on MTSR conference webpage, and MTSR Social Media ? Get invited to submit an extended and revised version of the awarded paper for publication in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience) (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso); ? Each award comes with the price of a free access/registration to next year?s MTSR. including all conference materials, together with the printed/digital conference proceedings ? This voucher, in case of many co-authors, is valid only for one author of the awarded paper, and only for the MTSR conference that follows the year after receiving the award. General Chairs Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Program Chair Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute ? Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA Local Organization Chair Marios Zervas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Contact: mtsr.conference at gmail.com