From rhill at asis.org Mon Apr 4 15:42:18 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:42:18 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] Regional Meeting, Webinars + Bulletin TOC Message-ID: <3bc201d18eaa$19dc0850$4d9418f0$@asis.org> Several subscribers indicated they wanted more details on the meeting and webinars in Monday post. Please let me know if you prefer this level of detail or simply a pointer to where to get the info. And this is sent as plain text because many e-mail clients turn HTML into attachments, giving an empty message with an attachment that looks suspicious. Dick Hill ASIS&T Regional Meeting Friday, 15 April 2016 Rutgers University, School of Communication & Information https://www.asist.org/events/asist-regional-meeting-2016-rutgers-university/ If you are on the East Coast, do not miss the ASIS&T Regional Meeting to be held on Friday, 15 April 2016, at Rutgers University (School of Communication & Information). ASIS&T President, Nadia Caidi, will open the day-long event. Three workshops will be held on: - Creativity, Imagination & Innovation in the Workplace & Home Life: Practical Methods & Techniques - Library as Community: New Directions in Multicultural Public Library Research and Services - Wearable Technology ? Behaviors, Data Management & Policies ASIS&T SIGs, Student and Regional Chapters will also share best practices. Do not miss the opportunity to network with your peers. Member Registration Rates: $35 ? Professional Member $25 ? Student Member Non-Member Rates: $50 ? Professional, non-member $40 ? Student, non-member Friday Afternoon Session Only $15 ? ?Library as Community? ---- Upcoming Webinars https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/ April 4, 2016 Mixed Methods Research Pierre Pluye and Vera Granikov This webinar provides an overview of mixed methods research, and will be followed by a webinar on mixed studies reviews. These two approaches are used to combine the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods and to compensate for their respective limitations. This webinar is structured in two main parts. First, the worldviews associated with mixed methods are presented. Afterward, we will present the main types of mixed methods research designs and techniques as well as guidance for planning, conducting, and appraising mixed methods research. Webinar sponsored by SIG HLTH: https://www.asist.org/groups/health-informatics-hlth/ Moderator: Si Sun Pierre Pluye MD PhD is FRQS Senior Research Scolar, Full Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), and Director of the Methodological Developments for the Quebec SUPPORT Unit. Vera Granikov holds an MLIS in Knowledge Management from McGill University, where she now works as a research-embedded information specialist. April 7, 2016 Cast Aside into the Public Domain: The Resurrection of an Esoteric Jules Verne Adventure Novel Jared Bendis 1898, Jules Verne serialized an adventure across the United States entitled ?The Will of an Eccentric?. In the story, a group of strangers compete for a 60 million dollar fortune by playing the classic board game The Noble Game of the Goose, but adapted as a map of the United States! The book is extremely rare, was only published in the UK in 1900, and has never seen mainstream publication in the US. This presentation outlines how an out of print book can be brought back to life for all to enjoy! Webinar sponsored by the ASIS&T Northern Ohio regional chapter: http://norasis.slis.kent.edu/ Presenter Jared Bendis Jared received his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in Psychology with minors in Music and Art Studio and his M.A. in Art Education from the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art joint program and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Case Western Reserve University in Contemporary Dance with a focus on Performance Media. Jared Bendis is a specialist in photography, game design, virtual reality, interactive and new media and serves as the Creative New Media Officer for Case Western Reserve University?s Kelvin Smith Library. ---- Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology April/May 2016 Volume 42, No. 4, (Size: 5.3mb) ________________________________________ Special Section iSchools Around the World Introduction by Koraljka Golub, Joacim Hansson and Lars Selden Overview of the iSchool Movement: An Interview with Ronald L. Larsen, iCaucus Chair iSchools and Africa: Trends and Developments by Ruth Nalumaga The Asia-Pacific iSchools by Sam Oh The European iSchools by Michael Seadle The Challenge and Obstacles of Becoming an iSchool: The Case of Zadar, Croatia by Tatjana Aparac-Jelus?ic IA Column Staying on Top of Your Skills by Laura Creekmore RDAP Review Strategic Planning for Research Data Services by Kristin Briney Departments Editor?s Desktop by Irene Travis President?s Page by Nadia Caidi Inside ASIS&T Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From rhill at asis.org Thu Apr 7 09:15:17 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 09:15:17 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] Call for Awards Nominations; Presidential Message from Bulletin Message-ID: <47a701d190cf$880b5890$982209b0$@asis.org> CALL FOR NOMINATIONS. ASIS&T Awards deadlines will soon be upon us. Details of all awards, including SIG and Chapter awards, are at https://www.asist.org/about/awards/. Below are the deadlines for non-SIG or Chapter awards. Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book Award July 1 Best Research in Information Science Award June 15 History Fund: Research Grant June 20 History Fund: Research Paper Award June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award August 1 New Leaders Award June 1 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award July 1 Watson Davis Award July 15 - - - - - President?s message, from https://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/ By Nadia Caidi, 2016 ASIS&T President In my last column, I reflected on the importance of building more bridges between ASIS&T and sister societies. I am happy to report that ASIS&T has already embarked on such collaborations with several organizations, among them the Society for the Social Studies of Science, known as 4S; the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP), an umbrella organization representing a broad array of scientific disciplines; and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). In conversations with 4S president Lucy Suchman, ASIS&T and 4S embarked in the co-sponsorship of a session for the May meeting of CSSP (https://sciencepresidents.org/spring- 2016-meeting/) on the topic of the challenges of managing data (big and small). There is evidence that many scientific societies and/or their members are greatly concerned about the integrity, security and re-use of their data, as well as about effective data access. The panel will examine the issues surrounding digital curation methods and practices; approaches to long-term data management; and policies, costs and mechanisms for ensuring data resilience, accessibility and reusability in the context of information risk and change. The CSSP board subsequently decided to introduce this panel as the opening session for its May meeting in Washington, DC, and made data the central theme of the meeting. Suchman noted, ?The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) welcomes the opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue and debate, with ASIS&T and related scientific societies. Our concerns include the question of what we mean by data, not (only) as a theoretical matter but also in terms of the contingencies of data production, and the practical politics of naming (particularly qualitative) research materials as alienable data. We are committed as well to addressing concerns and initiatives beyond North America, the UK and Europe in our discussion.? The speakers we selected for the panel are no strangers to ASIS&T. They include Liz Lyon, University of Bath, UKOLN Director and a recent Visiting Professor at the iSchool at Pittsburgh; Reagan Moore, chief scientist for data intensive cyber environments with RENCI and member of the DICE group in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science; and David Ribes, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. Our selection of speakers responds to the need for interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex issues surrounding data archiving, sharing and interpretation. We look forward to continuous engagement in these critical conversations with our colleagues at 4S, CSSP and elsewhere. The ASIS&T relationship with CSSP has been further strengthened as a result of my election to the CSSP executive board. I am delighted to have the opportunity to represent the information field and bring our perspectives and sensibilities to the table. In addition, I will be co-chairing the CSSP scholarly publications and data committee. Taken together, these developments cement our engagement and outreach efforts outside the field of information. ASIS&T has also strengthened its ties with ALISE. On February 12, 2016, the ASIS&T Board issued a position statement on accreditation that outlines its views on current accreditation reforms and the importance of taking stock of the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the information field. As an organization that represents thousands of information researchers and professionals across a broad spectrum, ASIS&T supports a pluralist agenda on accreditation. To contribute to the ongoing debate, ALISE president Louise Spiteri and I have joined forces and will be hosting a joint ALISE/ASIS&T Presidential Session on Accreditation during our Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, in October 2016. The purpose of this session will be to engage in a candid and open dialog about accreditation models with various stakeholders, so mark your calendars! Other noteworthy sessions at the Annual Meeting will include the ?Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon? and the ?Meet the Editors? session, in which attendees will be able to engage with editors from several key journals in our field (including recently appointed JASIST editor, Javed Mostafa) and to hear about the findings from the publications committee survey of members? perceptions of ASIS&T publications. Two excellent keynote speakers promise to be a draw. Greg Welch is the Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation at the University of Central Florida, with appointments in the College of Nursing, Computer Science Department and the Institute for Simulation & Training. He is also the co-director of both the Synthetic Reality Laboratory and the Interactive Systems & User Experience Research Cluster at University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He will be sharing his experiences with us on various healthcare related applications (including virtual and augmented reality, human motion tracking and computer graphics and vision). Markus Bundschus is head of scientific and business information services at Roche Diagnostics Bavarian Site (Penzberg), one of the largest biotechnology centers in Europe. With a background in bioinformatics (Technical University of Munich) and a Ph.D. in informatics from Ludwig-Maximilians Universit?t M?nchen, he is uniquely placed to unpack for us the art and science of diagnostics. Both speakers epitomize the conference theme of building bridges between industry and research. Both have been applying information and technology in their respective sectors as a way of generating new knowledge and innovative ways of framing problems and solutions. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Annual Meeting and hope you can take advantage of the cultural and historical richness that Copenhagen has to offer. Finally, I also invite everyone to engage in local conversations that are taking place throughout the ASIS&T universe. Examples include the ASIS&T Regional (East Coast) Meeting on April 15th at Rutgers University (https://www.asist.org/events/asist-regional-meeting-2016- rutgers-university/), with a day-long opportunity to learn and network (check our website for more details). And across the globe, the ASIS&T Taipei Chapter will hold a stimulating workshop on data science, information visualization and infographics on April 29th at National Taiwan Normal University Library. Remember that ASIS&T is your organization and your window into cutting-edge research and achievements in our field, so go ahead, get engaged and tell us about what is happening in your lab, classroom or workplace, and about the grants, initiatives, awards and programs you are involved in. We want to hear from you. Send us an email with the details at: asist-news at asist.org Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:12:06 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:12:06 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] DEADLINES (Award & Annual Meeting), Election, JASIST TOC Message-ID: <323f01d1a221$1d6e3f80$584abe80$@asis.org> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ - - - - ELECTION: https://www.asist.org/2016-elections/ Voting information will be coming shortly, with special, one-time, username and password (Order chosen by lot) President-elect: - Lisa Given - Diane Rasmussen Pennington Treasurer - June Abbas - Michael Luesebrink Director-at-Large: - Naresh Agarwal - Dania Bilal - Heather O?Brien - Hazel Hall - - - - JASIST, Volume 67, Issue 5 Pages C1 - C1, 1021 - 1275, May 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles Personalized generation of word clouds from tweets (pages 1021?1032) Martin Leginus, ChengXiang Zhai and Peter Dolog Blocked: When the information is hidden by the visualization (pages 1033?1051) Kyong Eun Oh, Daniel Halpern, Marilyn Tremaine, James Chiang, Deborah Silver and Karen Bemis On online collaboration and construction of shared knowledge: Assessing mediation capability in computer supported argument visualization tools (pages 1052?1067) Luca Iandoli, Ivana Quinto, Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum Social network analysis on a topic-based navigation guidance system in a public health portal (pages 1068?1088) Jin Zhang, Shanshan Zhai, Hongxia Liu and Jennifer Ann Stevenson Characteristics of tagging behavior in digitized humanities online collections (pages 1089?1104) Youngok Choi and Sue Yeon Syn Uncovering information from social media hyperlinks: An investigation of twitter (pages 1105?1120) Liwen Vaughan How users employ various popular tags to annotate resources in social tagging: An empirical study (pages 1121?1137) Xuwei Pan, Shenglan He, Xiyong Zhu and Qingmiao Fu A knowledge-based approach to Information Extraction for semantic interoperability in the archaeology domain (pages 1138?1152) Andreas Vlachidis and Douglas Tudhope Shaping guanxi networks at work through instant messaging (pages 1153?1168) Carol X. J. Ou and Robert M. Davison Intuitive or idiomatic: An interdisciplinary study of child-tablet computer interaction (pages 1169?1181) Rhonda McEwen and Adam K. Dub? User motivations for asking questions in online Q&A services (pages 1182?1197) Erik Choi and Chirag Shah Can Mendeley bookmarks reflect readership? A survey of user motivations (pages 1198?1209) Ehsan Mohammadi, Mike Thelwall and Kayvan Kousha Theory-changing breakthroughs in science: The impact of research teamwork on scientific discoveries (pages 1210?1223) Jos J. Winnink, Robert J. W. Tijssen and Anthony F. J. van Raan Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in higher education (pages 1224?1232) Antoni Meseguer-Artola, Eduard Aibar, Josep Llad?s, Juli? Minguill?n and Maura Lerga A Does research with statistics have more impact? The citation rank advantage of structural equation modeling (pages 1233?1244) Mike Thelwall and Paul Wilson The scientific impact of mexican steroid research 1935?1965: A bibliometric and historiographic analysis (pages 1245?1256) Yoscelina I. Hernandez-Garcia, Jos? Antonio Chamizo, Mina Kleiche-Dray and Jane M. Russell Diversity of references as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of journals: Taking similarity between subject fields into account (pages 1257?1265) Lin Zhang, Ronald Rousseau and Wolfgang Gl?nzel Data, ideology, and the developing critical program of social informatics (pages 1266?1275) Michael Marcinkowski Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810