From john at lis.upatras.gr Sun Oct 6 08:30:46 2013 From: john at lis.upatras.gr (Tsakonas Giannis) Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 15:30:46 +0300 Subject: [Eurchap] Support Greek Academic Libraries : HEAL-Link petition Message-ID: <8229eed8d631c84cdc4b94c896edd8f8@upatras.gr> * apologies for cross-postings * Dear colleagues, please consider signing the petition of HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link, the consortium of Greek academic and research libraries) at http://heal-link.gr/heal_petition/?lang=en against the decision of the Ministry of Education to dispossess 94 colleagues from academic libraries. Please find below the text of HEAL-Link that explains the situation and why someone should sign this petition. With kind regards Giannis Tsakonas --------------- The Greek Government?s decision on the administrative staff redundancy/mobility scheme has an enormous impact on the Greek Librarians working in the academic libraries. Ninety-four (94) of them, coming from the biggest (eight in total) academic institutions have been affected. A substantial number of administrative staff working in academic libraries, including the already limited staff supporting the horizontal electronic services offered by HEAL-Link (negotiation/handling of e-resources, Union Catalog of the Hellenic Academic Libraries, Hellenic Interlibrary Loan Network), has also been affected. Consequently, HEAL-Link sadly realizes that is unable to provide its well-respected services to the Greek academic and research community. Moreover, HEAL-Link realizes that the academic libraries affected by the staff redundancy scheme, will be forced to minimize or even cut many of the services they provide, like electronic and in-library services, services offered to external users. Branch Libraries will seize to operate due to the total lack of staff. It should be pointed out that the sustainability of many of the new services that are already in progress and are provided via the National Strategic Development Plan (ESPA), the Digital Convergence Plan and the Education and Life Long Learning Plan, are at high risk. Upon completion of the horizontal services, like ILSaS (Integrated Library System as a Service), Institutional Repositories, Greek e-books (Kallipos project), there will be no staff to continue to provide such services due to the staff redundancy scheme. Last, but not least, HEAL-Link would like to express its support to those colleagues, who have worked closely with HEAL-Link over the years, and are immediately affected by being made redundant and thus unemployed. The Greek Ministry of Education is currently implementing a cruel, unfair and rather unjustified ?mobility? scheme in eight of the country?s bigger universities composed of forced transfers and layoffs resulting in a mean staff reduction of about 30%. This ?mobility?, a part of the troika-imposed so-called ?public sector restructuring plan? proposed though by the Greek Ministry of Education, will also have a huge impact on the Libraries of the eight institutions, since the Greek Government decided to include 94 ! librarians and a number of other library staff in the scheme. This policy is ruining people?s lives and devastating library staff morale, since instead of rewards for the huge improvement and expansion of university library services that took place during the last 10-15 years in Greece, library staff is inhumanely being removed from them and sent to oblivion. This decision maybe a result of the naive perception that since most library services are nowadays digital and web?provided, librarians are no longer needed, ignoring the fact that all web services are designed, built and maintained by humans and it?s not possible to sustain a single one of them without human souls behind the keyboards, a lot of them being librarians. From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Oct 5 15:50:28 2013 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:50:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Eurchap] ACM MEDES'13: Call for participation - Luxembourg (28-31 oct. 2013) In-Reply-To: <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <1833664661.8120815.1381002628214.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** ** Kindly forward to interested colleagues and doctoral students.** =========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =========================================================================== The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2013) Technically Sponsored by: ACM SIGAPP ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/ October 28-31, 2013 Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For registration and hotel reservations, please visit the conference web site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The MEDES addresses a large number of themes and issues including the following regular session topics: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Big Data - Services - Cloud Computing - Emergent Intelligence - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Networks and Protocols -------- PROGRAM: -------- For full program details, please visit the conference web site at: http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/. Some of the highlights of the program include: (1) A half-day tutorial: From data to services: the creation of services from Open Data and Semantic data sets By Dr. Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Dr. Geraldine Vidou, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg (2) Keynote presentations from field leaders including; Explaining Recommendations in time-aware Location-based Social Networks Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ecosystem of CNRTA in Brazil Dr. Silvio A. Spinella, Information Technology Center Renato Archer, Brazil ------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: ------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in affiliated journals and special issues. Special tracks affiliated with MEDES 2013 include: * Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) * EU-Brazil innovation and Best Practice in IT Ecosystems * DEEP: experiences and perspectives of Digital Ecosystems European Projects ------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE : ------------------- General Chair ------------- Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informacao Renato Archer, Brazil Program Chairs -------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Local Organizing Chairs ------------------------------- Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg International Program Committee: (see the web site for the full list) From michel.menou at orange.fr Sat Oct 12 09:15:53 2013 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:15:53 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Prato 2013 Conference Program is now online In-Reply-To: <1381392668.15223.32273349.5F8AAF2C@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1381392668.15223.32273349.5F8AAF2C@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <52594B89.3040003@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] Prato 2013 Conference Program is now online Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:11:08 +0200 From: Larry Stillman Reply-To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, Larry Stillman To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net Hello there, The Prato CIRN Conference Oct 28-30 2013, Monash Centre, Prato Italy:Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community Informatics is now online at https://www.conftool.net/prato2013/sessions.php . This is a chance to hear the clang and clash and convergence of community informatics and community archives with speakers from all around the globe. Keynotes from Anne Gilliland and Andrew Flinn from the world of archives, and Steve Thompson from Community Informatics. While all the presentation slots are now filled, we of course encourage your participation at the event and particularly, the great social atmosphere! You can register at conftool.net/prato2013. More information about the conference is at http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+Call+2013 . -- ********************** Larry Stillman, PhD Senior Research Fellow Centre for Community Networking Research & Oxfam Australia-Monash Collaboration Monash University http://ccnr.infotech.monash.edu www.webstylus.net 61 3 9903 1801 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at lis.upatras.gr Sun Oct 13 03:18:07 2013 From: john at lis.upatras.gr (Tsakonas Giannis) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:18:07 +0300 Subject: [Eurchap] CfP 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing Message-ID: <60935ae04285246ef2e8c5410d540355@upatras.gr> * apologies for cross-postings * Call for Papers 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing June 19-20, 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece Conference web site: www.elpub.net Proceedings will be published OPEN ACCESS by IOS PRESS ------------------------- SCOPE The International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) enters its 18th year. Elpub 2014 will continue the tradition, bringing together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Elpub 2014 will particularly focus on the openness and use of research data as well as new and innovative publishing paradigms. We welcome presentations and discussions that demonstrate the role of cultural heritage and service organisations in the creation, accessibility, curation and long term preservation of data. We aim to provide a forum for discussing appraisal, citation and licensing of research data. Also, what is new with reviewing, publishing and editorial technology in a data-centric setting? We invite contributions from members of the communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communication. Topics include but are not restricted to: DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY * Text Mining (Natural language processing, text harvesting, dynamic formatting) * Open Data, Open Linked Data (Solutions, methods, tools) * Web Mining (Knowledge discovery in web documents) * Association Mining (Knowledge linking, discovery, presentation) * Information Retrieval (Content search, analysis and retrieval) * Visualization (Clustering, Graphs, Augmented reality, Knowledge maps) * Stream Mining (Video tagging, Audiobook tagging) * Legal Issues (Ethics, Copyright, licensing, etc.) ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION * New digital media (user studies, innovative publishing) * User interfaces (Multilingual and multimodal interfaces, User generated content) * Specific user communities (Services and technology, media and content) * Personalization technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS) * Social interaction analysis (Author collaboration trends, publication trends) * Security, Privacy and Integrity (Online ethics, Privacy policies, Online censorship) * Network analysis (Modelling and visualization of science networks) * Ubiquitous computing (Mobile and social network interactions, RFID book tagging) * Bibliometrics, (Data appraisal, citation and attribution) PUBLISHING AND ACCESS? ? ? ? * New publishing models (Business models, costs, tools, services and roles) * Open access (Publishing solutions, mandates, recommendations) * Open Data, Open Linked Data (Data registries, workflows, demonstrations) * Mobile information services (e-contents, e-books, etc.) * Interoperability (Scalability and middleware infrastructure) * Legal issues (Security, privacy and copyright issues) * Digital preservation (Cultural heritage, content authentication, DP Planning) * Semantic web (Metadata, information granularity, digital objects) * Digital library (Repositories, services, future) * New publishing paradigms (Executable papers, data journals, research objects, open peer review) SUBMISSION All submissions are subject to peer review. For each accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register for the conference to present the paper. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. Moreover, upon submitting the workshop, tutorials and panels proposals, the proposers commit that in case their submission is accepted, all people involved (speakers, lecturers, panel members, etc.) will physically attend and coordinate it. Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted or be under review by another conference or by a journal. The accepted papers will be published by IOS Press in a digital format open access conference proceedings book. Papers will be indexed in DBLP and Scopus, and are also expected to be indexed by ISI and INSPEC (application pending). Furthermore, all accepted papers and posters will be archived at the Elpub Digital Library: http://elpub.scix.net [1]. All contents published in the ELPUB proceedings are distributed open access via the conference archive (http://elpub.scix.net [1]) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. For content published in IOS Press channels, different copyright arrangements might apply. Paper submission and review will be managed via the EasyChair system. To submit a paper, please use the appropriate template and follow the specific instructions available at the conference website (http://www.elpub.net [2]). ALL FULL PAPERS, SHORT PAPERS AND POSTERS MUST BE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH AND SUBMITTED VIA THE?EASYCHAIR [3]?SUBMISSION SYSTEM IN?_PDF_?FORMAT. FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Contributions are invited for the following categories: * FULL PAPERS (up to 10 pages; please use the IOS Press instructions and tools which are available at the following URL: IOS Press template [4]); * SHORT PAPERS (up to 6 pages; please use the IOS Press instructions and tools which are available at the following URL: IOS Press template [4]) * POSTERS (up to 3 pages; no template) * TUTORIALS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) * WORKSHOPS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) * DEMONSTRATIONS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) IMPORTANT DATES October 9, 2013 Submission Site Open (EasyChair - Elpub2014 [3]) January 18, 2014 Submission Deadline (Time: 11:59 PM, PST) February 28, 2014 Author Decision Notification March 28, 2014 Submission of Camera Ready Version March 30, 2014 Early Bird Registration Deadline April 30, 2014 Final Registration Deadline June 19-20, 2014 Conference Dates CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION: June 19-20, 2014, Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece CONFERENCE HOST: Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece GENERAL CHAIR: Panayiota Polydoratou [5], Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece PROGRAMME CHAIR: Milena Dobreva [6], University of Malta Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the conference. 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We strongly > urge potentially interested participants to explore the resource lists on > the conference website of recommended accommodations and book as early as > possible.? Notifications of acceptance will be issued sufficiently early > (March 14, 2014) so as to allow cost-free reservation cancellation if > need be. > > Important Dates: > Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 14 February 2014 > ? ??Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2014 > ??? Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 18 April 2014 > > Background. > Our 1998 conference on ?Culture, Technology, and Communication? (CATaC) was > among the first devoted to the roles of culturally-variable norms, > practices, and communicative preferences in the designs, implementations, > and responses to (networked) information and communication technologies. > While certainly successful in academic terms (including publications and > conference ranking by the Australian Research Council as among the top 20% > of conferences in these domains), what became a biennial series has also > been marked as a critical but collegial conference culture that > provides a unique oasis for participants who share often radically > interdisciplinary interests. (AoIR-ists will feel right at home!) > Much has changed, of course, since 1998 - including the "mainstreaming" > of > our signature focus on culture as inextricably interwoven with ICTs. > Accordingly, CaTaC'14 will be a transformational conference - one that will > explore new, robustly interdisciplinary ways of attending to the > intersections of culture, technology, and communication in critical but > cordial fashion. We aim to both celebrate the people and accomplishments of > the past conference series, and to transform the conference series through > development of new research, directions and approaches. > > We invite both participation in the opening Doctoral Colloquium and paper > and panel submissions that address the intersections between culture, > technology, and communication with a focus on either Design/Production or > Practice (see descriptions below). > > Doctoral Colloquium: PhD students will present and collaboratively discuss > their current work, and enjoy advice and mentoring from senior faculty > across the disciplines represented at CaTaC?14 ? including informatics and > design, communication and media studies, among others (Monday morning, June > 16, 8.30-12.00). > > Conference tracks. We invite research, reflection, and scholarship > that specifically address one or more of our defining elements of culture, > technology, and communication ? while simultaneously exploring the > interrelationship(s) between these.? ?More particularly, we invite > submissions that do so through focusing on either Design/Production or > Practice. (For a much more extensive description of the tracks and their > threads, please see the conference website.) > > Design/Production > For this track, we invite individual papers and panels that look at how > technical, cultural and communication affordances and constraints intersect > in the production of technology, messages and theory construction. This > track includes: > > * Designs for Good Lives in a Mediated Age, > Invited panel, ?Cross-cultural understandings and designs of social robots > as co-agents of good lives? (Satomi Sugiyama, chair). > * Trans-mediated and intelligent workplaces: implications for work analysis > and interaction design > * Technology Design: Politics and ethics > * Legal and ethical issues > * Research Design and Theory Development > > Practice > We invite individual submissions and panels that have the use of information > and communication technologies in specific cultural contexts as their main > focus. Examples include: > * Cultural diversity and global ICTs, e.g. ,global health information > systems, Wikipedia, social media; > * Global and local cultures of computing; > * The construction of identity using online social media, gaming, and > blogging platforms > * Political activism through social media > * Privacy issues in media environments that encourage public identities. > * Analysis of Cultural Discourses about technology that shape understanding > and use, > > Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for > presentation.? Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also > encouraged. > Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings (electronic only).? > Authors retain copyright, etc. > ??? > Registration fees: to be determined.? (We anticipate that registration fees > will be somewhat ? perhaps significantly ? less than in previous years.) > > We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo next June! > > Conference Co-organizers: > Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) > Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo) > Organizing Committee > Jos? Abdelnour-Nocera (School of Computing and Technology, University of > West London) > Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy Department, University of Vienna) > Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British > Columbia) > Patrizia Schettino (Communication Studies, Universit? della Svizzera > italiana) > Ylva H?rd af Segerstad (Department of Applied Information Technology at the > University of Gothenburg/Chalmers) > Andra Siibak (Media Studies, University of Tartu) > Michele M. Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater > College) > Satomi Sugiyama (Communication and Media Studies, Franklin College > Switzerland) > > > > From adam.girard at ucdconnect.ie Mon Oct 14 10:55:01 2013 From: adam.girard at ucdconnect.ie (Adam Girard) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:55:01 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIS&T European Chapter Election Results Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the board members of our chapter, I would like to announce the recent election results. A warm congratulations to each of the newly elected officers! We have been fortunate enough to attract a desirable pool of nominees, and a large number of our members voted in our first online ballot. Please join me in welcoming both new and long-time participants. I look forward to another year of exciting work for the chapter. The results are: *Chairperson:* Johnathan Levitt (previously elected) *Chair-Elect:* Lai Ma *Secretary / Treasurer:* Isabella Peters *Assembly Representative:* Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan *Alternate Assembly Representative:* Julian Warner *Records Holder:* Helena Francke If any of you have questions about these offices, or things that you can do to become more involved, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Best wishes, Adam Girard Current Chairperson, ASIS&T European Chapter -- Adam Girard, MLIS Ph.D. Student School of Information and Library Studies Ph.D. affiliate, UCD Social Science Research Centre University College Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 716 7077 Email: Adam.Girard at ucdconnect.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lilimelgar at gmail.com Tue Oct 15 14:12:39 2013 From: lilimelgar at gmail.com (Liliana Melgar E.) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:12:39 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIS&T European Student Chapter board election results Message-ID: Dear ESC and EC members, the election of the ESC board 2013/2014 closed with 7 votes in favor of the proposed candidates. The ESC welcomes the new team: Agnes Mainka and Evelyn Dr?ge as new chair and new vice chair of the ESC, and Tamara Heck as the new secretary/treasurer. On behalf the board, Liliana Melgar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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