From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr Sat Sep 7 09:58:43 2013 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr (Fidelia Ibekwe) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 15:58:43 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Publication: Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary Approach. Message-ID: <522B3113.6030401@univ-lyon3.fr> Folks, Some of you may be interested in this publication Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan & Thomas Dousa (eds.), Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary approach, Springer, Netherlands, Series Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 34, 2014, 331 pages. ISBN: 978-94-007-6972-4 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1/page/1 ABSTRACT ------------------- This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? And how do we communicate this meaning to others---that is to say, inform them? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information -- whether perceived as an ? object ? or as a ? process ? - is a precondition for knowledge. Epistemology can be defined as the study of how we know things in general---this is its primary signification in the anglophone world---or, more specifically, as the study of how scientific knowledge is attained and validated---this is how it is conceived in the francophone world. To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or, in procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria for distinguishing what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a precondition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should affect our understanding of information and communication as concepts. While much has been written on the definition of these concepts, relatively few researchers have sought to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of them and the underlying epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. It is a multidisciplinary exploration of how information and communication are perceived in different disciplines and how this affects theories of knowledge. TOC ------------------ Chapter 1: Introduction by Thomas M. Dousa, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Chapter 2: The Transdisciplinary view of Information Theory from a cybersemiotic perspective by S?ren Brier Chapter 3: Epistemology and the study of social information within the perspective of a Unified Theory of Information by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Chapter 4: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers by Luciano Floridi Chapter 5: Human Communication from the Semiotic Perspective by Winfried N?th Chapter 6: Mind the Gap: Transitions between Concepts of Information in varied domains by Lyn Robinson and David Bawden Chapter 7: Information without Information Studies by Jonathan Furner Chapter 8: Epistemological challenges for Information Science: Constructing information by Ian Cornelius Chapter 9: Information Science and its core concepts: Levels of disagreements by Birger Hj?rland Chapter 10. Visual Information Construing: Bistability as a revealer of Mediating Patterns by Sylvie Leleu-Merviel Chapter 11: Understanding Users' informational Constructs via a Triadic Method Approach: A case study by Michel Labour Chapter 12: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: The case of Julius Otto Kaiser's Systematic Indexing by Thomas Dousa best, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Ph.D. (MCF-HDR) Associate Professor - Dept. of Information & Communication University of Lyon 3 - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ EPICIC colloquium : http://www.epicic.org/ EPICIC videos: http://suel.univ-lyon3.fr/eltv/viewcategory/109/colloque-epicic-2011' -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2013 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks: - The first track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" focuses on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including: Data Semantics, Web-Centric Systems, Big Data, Information System Interoperability, Cloud, Cooperative information and Distributed Systems, and Information security - The second track titled "Signal & Image Technologies (SIT)" focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including:Image Processing and Analysis, Signal processing, Image/Video Coding and Authentication, and Applications - The third track titled "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Application (MIRA)" focuses on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environment. The internet, social networking, multimedia databases and management of multimedia cultural collections have created the need for cross-fields models, paradigms and techniques for efficient modeling, management and consumption of multimedia contents. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including Multimedia Query and Retrieval; Mobile and Location-Based Media, Social media and Social networking, Multimedia Security, and Multimedia Arts, Entertainment and Digital Culture. Submission and publication -------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 2013 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. - World Wide Web Journal (WWW) - Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP) - Journal of Complex Networks (JCN) Important dates ---------------- * Paper Submission (extended): September 23rd, 2013 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 06th, 2013 * Camera ready: October 13th, 2013 * Author registration: October 20, 2013 Committees ----------- General Chairs: Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Ernesto Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy WeCa Track Chairs: Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France MIRA Track Chairs: Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan SIT Track Chairs: Andrea Kutics, International Christian University, Japan Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.sitis-conf.org/ From adam.girard at ucdconnect.ie Mon Sep 16 16:37:29 2013 From: adam.girard at ucdconnect.ie (Adam Girard) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:37:29 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIS&T European Chapter Elections Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, If you are a current member of the European Chapter, we invite you to vote in the current election for officers. The voting will be conducted via a secure voting platform which allows the submission of one ballot per member. The system is called ballot bin. If your membership is in good standing, you will automatically receive an email from the voting system that includes simple instructions for casting a vote. If you do not receive the email, or you have any other issues, feel free to email me personally. Kind regards, Adam Girard -- Adam Girard, MLIS Outgoing Chapter Chairperson - ASIS&T European Chapter Ph.D. Student School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 716 7077 Email: Adam.Girard at ucdconnect.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING: September 23, 2013 !!!!!!! ====================================================================== TRACK ON WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA) The 9th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 13) December 2 - 5, 2013 In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing Kyoto Terrsa, Japan http://www.sitis-conf.org/ ====================================================================== The focus of the track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports related, but not limited, to the following topics: ** Data semantics ** Ontologies Conceptual Data Modeling Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Metadata Evolution and Change Semantic Caching Data Warehousing and Semantic Semantics in Data Visualization Semantic Services for Mobile Users Applications of Semantic-Driven Approaches ** Web-Centric Systems ** Semantic Web Social media and networking Web Services and Service Computing Hypermedia and Adaptation E-Commerce, E-government, and E-Learning Web/Data Mining Machine Learning Crowdsourcing ** Big Data ** Foundations and computation Infrastructure and platforms Management Data preservation and provenance Search and Mining Computational Modeling and Data Integration Link and Graph Mining Mobility Multimedia and Multi-structured Data Applications ** Information System Interoperability ** Digital Libraries Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators Ontologies Based Systems Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies ** Cloud ** Architectures and platforms Mobile Clouds Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds Migration, Management, and Quality Composition, Federation, and Integration Resource Virtualization and Composition High Performance Cloud Computing Programming Models and Paradigms Green Computing Innovative Applications and Experiences Computing Consulting ** Cooperative information and Distributed Systems ** Information Sharing Grid/cloud Applications Peer To Peer Computing and Applications Knowledge and Semantic Grid Semantics Of Peer Data Management Systems Mobile Information Systems and Computing ** Multimedia and application ** Image and Video Databases Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems Semantics and Meta Data in Multimedia Systems Content-Based Indexing, Search, and Retrieval of Retrieval Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization Tools, Benchmarks, Evaluation Protocols and Standards ** Information security ** Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response Web Security and Supporting Systems Security Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies Trust based systems Submission and publication --------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS-13 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals: - World Wide Web Journal (WWW) - Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP) Important dates ---------------- * Paper Submission (extended): September 23rd, 2013 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 06th, 2013 * Camera ready: October 13th, 2013 * Author registration: October 20, 2013 Track Chairs ------------ Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France General Co-Chairs ----------------- Ernesto Damiani, Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy Setsuo Tsuruta, Denki University, Japan More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.sitis-conf.org/ From Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de Tue Sep 17 12:24:26 2013 From: Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de (Tamara Heck) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:24:26 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 1 Webinar - 3 presentation: Meet your Library & Information Science colleagues Message-ID: <003c01ceb3c2$60ea05a0$22be10e0$@uni-duesseldorf.de> The ESC webinar comes with exciting topics and the chance to meet colleagues and collaborators from the library & information science field. The ESC webinar mainly addresses PhDs , Bachelor and Master students, and tries to open a forum to exchange research outcomes and interests for further collaboration. Webinar info: Time: September 24th, 2013, 6 pm UTC+2 (6 pm e.g. in Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany; 5 pm e.g. in UK, Ireland) To join the webinar write an e-mail to tamara.heck(at)hhu.de. If you tell us your name and your research interests, we will put you on the participants list, which will be provided to all participants after the webinar. Presenters: * 1st talk (10 min): ?What ASIS&T can do for you: connections and engagement with your professional community?: Adam Girard, University College Dublin, Ireland, chair of ASIS&T European Chapter * 2nd talk (20 min): ?How far are we to the ?enhanced? doctoral dissertations??: Gema Bueno de la Fuente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. * 3rd talk (20 min): ?Pathways and Opportunities for Early Career Researchers in Library and Information Science.?: Anna Hampson Lundh, University of Boras, Sweden. Further information about the topics and the presenters can be found on the ESC website: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/ On behalf the ESC board. best regards, tamara. ? Tamara Heck Heinrich-Heine University D?sseldorf Institute for Language and Information Department of Information Science Office 24.53/01.87 Universit?tsstra?e 1 40225 D?sseldorf Tel.: +49-211-81-10803 tamara.heck at hhu.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de Sat Sep 21 07:30:42 2013 From: Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de (Tamara Heck) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:30:42 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] =?iso-8859-1?q?1_Webinar_-_3_Presentations=3A_Meet_your?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Library_=26_Information_Science_colleagues?= Message-ID: <01c701ceb6be$01d1a100$0574e300$@uni-duesseldorf.de> The ESC webinar comes with exciting topics and the chance to meet colleagues and collaborators from the library & information science field. Webinar info: Time: September 24th, 2013, 6 pm UTC+2 (6 pm e.g. in Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany; 5 pm e.g. in UK, Ireland) How to join: Write an e-mail to tamara.heck(at)hhu.de to get access to the webinar and join us at any place you want to. If you tell us your name and your research interests, we will put you on the participants list, which will be provided to all participants after the webinar. Presenters: * 1st talk (10 min): ?What ASIS&T can do for you: connections and engagement with your professional community?: Adam Girard, University College Dublin, Ireland, chair of ASIS&T European Chapter. ASIS&T is a well respected and vibrant ?association for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information?. Adam Girard, current Chairperson of the European Chapter will discuss the benefits of involvement, as well as various roles that might be right for you. ASIS&T has an organisational structure that allows involvement at several levels, including Regional Chapters, Special interest Groups (SIGs), Committees, Task Forces. Adam will speak about his personal experiences, and the value of ASIS&T as a rich professional resource. * 2nd talk (20 min): ?How far are we to the ?enhanced? doctoral dissertations??: Gema Bueno de la Fuente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. This presentation is a reflection on the future of doctoral dissertations as documents, or better yet as scientific digital objects. Theses and dissertations, as scientific information sources meant to disseminate new contributions to scholarly knowledge, cannot be left out of the evolutions in the scientific communications landscape. Electronic publishing is moving away from the simple replication of the print model, towards maximizing the potential of technologies, especially those of the Semantic Web. Enhanced publications, liquid publications, nanopublications, or research objects, are real proposals towards richer scholarly communications, compound digital objects that integrate nor only the digital text file, but also research data, extra materials, post-publication data and other resources, meaningfully and dynamically integrated and annotated thanks to technologies, vocabularies and standards as RDF and OAI-ORE. * 3rd talk (20 min): ?Pathways and Opportunities for Early Career Researchers in Library and Information Science.?: Anna Hampson Lundh, University of Boras, Sweden. In this presentation, Anna Hampson Lundh will talk about the transition from doctoral studies to developing a sustainable postdoc career. This transition would form an integral step to a senior academic service. About the presenters: Dr Anna Hampson Lundh is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science and active researcher within the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Medicated Communication in Contemporary Society at the University of Bor?s. Her specific research interests lie in the areas of information and reading practices; information literacies; and the history of reading. She is the First Chief Investigator of Reading, Traditions and Negotiations: Reading Activities in Swedish Classrooms 1967-1969 funded by the Swedish Research Council 2013-2015. Gema Bueno de la Fuente holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science (2010) . Assistant Professor at the Library and Information Science Department, University Carlos III of Madrid, she teaches since 2005 in many Undergraduate and Master programs, e.g. the Master on Digital Libraries and Information Services. She has participated in many research projects as a member of the Tecnodoc group, and published in national and international journals mainly in the area of Library and Information Science. She has made several research stays as a visiting scholar in the University of Minho (Portugal), the School of Information and Library Science of UNC-Chapel Hill (USA) and CAPLE/CETIS (UK). Her teaching and research focuses on open access to science and education, digital libraries, digital preservation, vocabularies, semantic web standards and linked data. Adam Girard is PhD student working at the University College Dublin in Ireland and current chair of the ASIS&T European Chapter. best wishes, tamara Tamara Heck Institute for Language and Information Dep. of Information Science Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf Universit?tsstra?e 1 40225 D?sseldorf Phone: 0049-211-81-10803 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Sep 23 10:25:44 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:25:44 -0400 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIST Annual Meeitng - Early reg.date extended to Sept 30 Message-ID: <380-220139123142544227@LEN-dick-2011> Early registration deadline extended to Sept. 30, 2013 Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-6, Montreal, Canada http://asis.org/asist2013/ 83 papers contributed papers 78 posters 28 panels. The program is extremely rich in content and will draw attendance from scholars and practitioners from information related fields all over the world. The conference program focuses on research and technological development on the latest issues affecting information environments, information phenomena, and information users. The program sets to provide a wide range of research topics and related practical issues such as cloud-based metadata, biomedical research, social informatics to collective information seeking, adoption of social media, digital humanities and human information interaction, among others. We hope that the discussions generated by the papers, panels and posters will contribute to expand our understanding of information problems and to help us in better addressing them in our research and professional endeavors. Keynote speaker: Jorge Garcia, a Montreal-based expert in the area of business intelligence and data management. His work involves the assessment and implementation of information technologies. This year, the Annual Meeting follows the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), another great venue for learning about developments in information and knowledge management. The presence of ICKM attendees at ASIS&T Annual Meeting should provide additional opportunities for great discussions. http://asis.org/asist2013/ . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de Wed Sep 25 08:02:17 2013 From: Tamara.Heck at uni-duesseldorf.de (Tamara Heck) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:02:17 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ESC officer positions open Message-ID: <001a01ceb9e7$1518bdd0$3f4a3970$@uni-duesseldorf.de> Dear colleagues, the European Student Chapter (ESC) will elect its board from 1st to 7th September 2013. There are still open officer positions to be occupied and nominations are being accepted until Monday 30th. Officer positions are held for one year (from Oct to Sep). The fixed ESC board positions according to our bylaws are chair, vice chair and secretary/treasurer. That means we need at least three students (ASIS&T member in good standing), preferably from 3 different European countries. It would be ok if your ASIS&T student status changed into regular ASIS&T member during the one year?s term. We are still searching for nominees for vice chair and secretary/treasurer. Nominations for chair are also possible. Self-nominations are possible. Further positions are open and will be occupied if there are interested nominees. Possible positions are e.g. newsletter editor (publish a newsletter 2 times a year; see e.g. last newsletter at website: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?cat=7 ), webmaster (responsible for our website). Other ideas concerning engaging positions can be made. We are also searching for country representatives: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?page_id=21 If you are interested please contact anyone of the board members. Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues. Thank you. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Sat Sep 28 09:12:20 2013 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:12:20 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [Asis-l] Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2014 In-Reply-To: <5245AF93.7070503@rutgers.edu> References: <5245AF93.7070503@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <5246D5B4.6040808@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2014 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:17:23 -0500 From: Tefko Saracevic To: asis-l at asis.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2014* *Zadar, Croatia, 16--20 June**2014* University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/hr-hr/english/aboutus.aspx) Full information at: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/**Email: lida at unizd.hr Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the transformation of libraries and information services in the digital environment. In recognition of evolving online and social technological influences that present both challenges and opportunities, "ASSESSMENT" is the theme for LIDA 2014. The conference theme is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advances in qualitative assessment methods and practices and the second part covers assessment methods involving alternative metrics based on social media and a wider array of communicative activities, commonly referred to as "altmetrics." LIDA 2014 brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made memorable by being held in an enchanting and spectacularly beautiful city on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. ** *LIDA 2014 Theme: ASSESSING LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY USERS AND USE * *_Part I: Qualitative methods in assessing libraries, users, & use: applications, results._* Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following and related topics: * new methodological developments and practical applications in qualitative assessments of libraries and information systems;// * application of qualitative methods to the study of library users and use; * studies using a variety of qualitative methods, such as observations, surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, cultural studies, oral history, grounded theory, document studies, Delphi studies and others; * qualitative study of a variety of library user groups or potential users: by generation, by role or occupation, by level of education and technological literacy, and others * assessment of library services in a variety of e-services, such as information literacy programs, e-learning, distance education, e-scholarship and others; * practical transformations in library services as a result of assessment; * emergence of new library visions and missions related to users and their reflection in new services as a result of assessment; * discussion about general issues resulting from assessments: How are we to understand new or transformed library services in their own right? In relation to traditional library services and values? *_Part II: Altmetrics - new methods in assessing scholarly communication and libraries: issues, applications, results._* Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following and related topics: * methodological developments and practical applications in altmetric assessments of scholarly communication, including caveats;// * related criteria for altmetrics, such as [articles, concepts, ideas] viewed, downloaded, reused, adapted, shared, bookmarked, commented upon;// * results from altmetric studies related to scholarly communication and evaluation; // * methodologicaland practical applications in the use of altmetrics in libraries and information systems/; /// * effects of social media on libraries and information systems of all kinds; * criteria and metrics for assessing library employment of social media; * results from studies of use of social media in libraries, particularly involving any kind of assessment; * changes in libraries' use of social media; * discussion about general issues: How can and should libraries use social media? How are libraries and information systems to respond to the ever growing importance of social media in society? What are opportunities and challenges? *_Types of contributions_* Invited are the following types of contributions: 1. *Papers:*scholarly studies and reports on research and practice that will be presented at the conference and included in the published proceedings. The proceedings will be published in print and on the LIDA web site. 2. *Posters*: short graphic presentations on research studies, advances, examples, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster. 3. *Demonstrations:*live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. 4. *Workshops:*two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers. 5. *PhD Forum:*short presentations by Ph.D. students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (EC/ASIST); responses will be provided by a panel of educators at this forum. *Submissions:*Instructions for all submissions and author guidelines are provided at LIDA 2014 site http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/.**All submissions will be refereed.** *_Important dates: _*** *Papers and posters*: an extended abstract by 15 January 2014. *Acceptance decision*: announced by 10 February 2014. *Full papers and poster summaries**for Proceedings*: by 15 April 2014. *Workshops:*a short proposal by 31 January 2014. *Demonstrations:*a proposal by 1 March 2014. *PhD Forum:*dissertation proposal or research description by 1 March 2014. *_Conference contact information_* *Conference co-directors:* TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D., Department of Information Science, University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac at unizd.hr (also for general correspondence) TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D., School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos at rutgers.edu *Program chairs:* For part I: DAVID BAWDEN, Ph.D., Centre for Information Science, City University London, London, UK. db at soi.city.ac.uk For part II: BLAISE CRONIN, Ph.D., D.S.Sc., School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, Indiana, USA. bcronin at indiana.edu *_Venue_* Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In addition, the Zadar region is one of unparalleled natural beauty that includes two national parks. On the Adriatic Sea is the Kornati National Park , an unusual and colorful group of some 100 small islands. The National Park Paklenica is also close by, for those who enjoy exploring a more mountainous terrain. Croatia is a great tourist destination of unspoiled beauty. -- *********************************************************************** Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. Professor II Emeritus School of Communication & Information Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901 U.S.A. Email:tefkos at rutgers.edu URL:http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~tefko/ *********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: