From lai.ma at ucd.ie Mon Aug 4 06:16:57 2014 From: lai.ma at ucd.ie (Lai Ma) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:16:57 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Call for Nominations> European Chapter Officers 2014-2015 Message-ID: Greetings, On behalf of the ASIS&T European Chapter, I would like to invite nominations for the following officer positions in 2014-2015: 1. Chair-elect 2. Secretary-Treasurer 3. Chapter Assembly Representative 4. Alternate Chapter Assembly Representative The nomination process is open until Monday, August 11th at 12pm. Please send your nominations to Lai Ma at lai.ma at ucd.ie. Self-nominations are also welcomed. Please circulate this announcement as appropriate. We look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Lai Ma Chair-elect, ASIS&T European Chapter --- Dr Lai Ma School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Web: http://www.ucd.ie/sils/staff/laima/ Email: lai.ma at ucd.ie Phone: +353 1 716 7592 From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Aug 6 09:01:54 2014 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:01:54 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Fellow ticket discount for the SEMANTiCS conference Leipzig Message-ID: <53E22742.6040003@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Dear colleagues and fellow enthusiast of the semantic web, we are pleased to announce that the SEMANTiCS conference on Sep 4-5, 2014 in Leipzig, will become a major industry conference on semantic web and linked data applications in Europe. With partners such as PoolParty, STI2, Eccenca, IntraFind, LOD2 Project, MarkLogic, Ontos and Wolters Kluwer as well as more than 50% of our currently registered attendees being from the industry sector, SEMANTiCS has lifted the primarily academic topic of semantic web to the next level of business application. From our keynote speakers Sofia Angeletou (BBC), Thomas Kelly (Cognizant), Phil Archer (W3C) and Orri Erling (OpenLink) to 40+ speakers on 5 parallel tracks and special events like the vocabulary carnival, H2020 networking event and conference dinner, SEMANTiCS offers a wide variety of industry insights and networking chances. You can see our programm here: http://www.semantics.cc/programme/ Hence, this year's SEMANTiCS conference is your chance to get in touch with potential business clients and industry partners to push your own projects and developments in the semantic web sector. You can still submit to the Vocabulary Carnival: http://www.semantics.cc/vocarnival/ as well as the H2020 networking session. Furthermore, we will collect and print your H2020 organisation profile description in the program guide, so you can be approached at the conference for potential projects. Being a fellow enthusiast in this future-defining field, we'd like to offer you a special discount of 20% on your ticket to the conference. Simply go to www.semantics.cc/registration/discount and claim your discount with the following promo code: ?semantic-web-fellow? This offer is valid until 15th of August. For further information on the programme and our keynote speaker, please visit www.semantics.cc Feel free to forward this email to any interested fellow. See you in Leipzig, Sebastian Hellmann on behalf of the all conference committee members -- Sebastian Hellmann AKSW/NLP2RDF research group Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) and DBpedia Association Events: * *Sept. 1-5, 2014* Conference Week in Leipzig, including ** *Sept 2nd*, MLODE 2014 ** *Sept 3rd*, 2nd DBpedia Community Meeting ** *Sept 4th-5th*, SEMANTiCS (formerly i-SEMANTICS) Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org Thesis: http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please fill in the Doodle Poll to indicate your time preferences if you'd like to participate in planning activities in the coming year: http://doodle.com/ic6dxs357bk2vqay Cheers, Lai Ma Incoming Chair, 2014-2015 --- Dr Lai Ma School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Web: http://www.ucd.ie/sils/staff/laima/ Email: lai.ma at ucd.ie Phone: +353 1 716 7592 From christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at Sat Aug 23 02:49:35 2014 From: christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at (Schloegl, Christian (christian.schloegl@uni-graz.at)) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 08:49:35 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 1st Call for Papers: ISI 2015 (14th International Symposium of Information Science), May 19 - 21, 2015, Zadar, Croatia Message-ID: Dear colleague, With this email we would like to invite you to contribute to the 14th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2015). ISI 2015 is a biannual gathering of scholars, researchers and students from information science from Europe and beyond who share a common interest in critical information issues in contemporary society. The conference series originated in the German-language information science community but has become more and more international in recent years. This time, ISI 2015 will take place in Zadar, Croatia, from May 19 - 21, 2015 and will be co-organized by the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar and the German Academic Association for Information Science (Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft e. V.), in association with the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Below and at www.isi2015.eu please find more detailed information about the conference. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward your contribution. With kind regards, Franjo Pehar (head of organisation committee) & Christian Schloegl (head of programme committee) --------------------- ISI 2015: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS --------------------- CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE: www.isi2015.eu DATE AND LOCATION: May 19 - 21, 2015 at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia CO-ORGANIZED BY: German Academic Association for Information Science (Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft e. V.) and Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar in association with the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) CONFERENCE TOPIC: ?Re:inventing Information Science in the Networked Society? ISI 2015 takes place at a time of ongoing changes in today's networked society. Recent Internet developments have made it possible to access ever rising amounts of data and efficient analysis tools empower users to identify patterns which extend their human mind. Easy-to-use web services also allow users to be producers of information, a development which is subsumed under the term social web. Social tagging systems, for instance, provide users with the opportunity to perform activities which were primarily associated with librarians and information specialists before. Furthermore, science makes extensive use of collaboration, information sharing and information distribution which are available through network technologies (big data). Finally, Digital Humanities has emerged as a new research domain in recent years. These changes have a strong effect on both information science and prac?tice which are to be discussed at ISI 2015. SUBMISSIONS: Particularly desirable are papers that deal with the following topics, although contributions covering other subjects in the wider field of information science and neighbouring disciplines are welcome as well: 1. Information Science - Interdisciplinary Aspects and Cross-disciplinary Fertilization - Information Science: so broad - so small! - Information science vs. Web science - Digital humanities research across disciplines and cultures - LIS schools and digital humanities syllabi - convergence issues in information science education 2. Information Science in Today's Networked Society - Changing face of information science professions - Digital Collections and Connections - Changing Users 3. Information Science and ?Big Society? - Information science vs. data science - Semantic data meets big data - Information retrieval, information discovery, visualizing and mapping tools and approaches - Privacy concerns - the ?vitreous user? - Danger of ?information monopolies? - the winner takes it all? - New required competencies of information specialists 4. Changes in Scholarly Communication - Everything open: access, data, reviewing - New forms of scholarly publishing: blogs, tweets, wikis, crowdsourcing - Use of social media in scholarly communication: social reference management systems, social networking cites, etc. - Altmetrics (readership/bookmarks, mentions, likes, etc.) as alternatives to citations in research evaluation? 5. Decolonizing description: critical approaches and innovations - Description in liminal spaces: subverting systems to liberate description - Moving across diverse standards - Archives, libraries, museums integration through metadata - Decolonising international/national standards - Social tagging and participative metadata practices: alternative and/or welcomed practices and their impact on catalogue/finding aids (authority, trust, authenticity) Submissions can be made in the following forms: (1) Long papers (max. 12 pages) (2) Short papers (max. 5 pages) (3) Posters (max. 2 pages) (4) Panel suggestions (max. 2 pages, incl. naming of a panel chair, participants and a topic plan) (5) Student presentations (6) Doctoral thesis presentations Besides these submission options, there is a special call for the Gerhard Lustig Master Thesis Award. Contributions must be submitted in English and be original work. Proposed submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. Format guidelines for all types of submissions are available at www.isi2015.eu Deadline for submissions: January 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance: beginning of February 2015 Deadline for the submission of revised manuscripts: February 28, 2015 All submissions must be made online at www.isi2015.eu All accepted contributions will be published in a proceedings in print and made available online in digital repositories. PRE- AND POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS: On May 18, 2015, there will be two pre-conference workshops on: (1) Digital Humanities and the technologies of the semantic web organized by Gordon Dunsire (consultant, Edinburgh, UK), Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomic (University of Zadar, Croatia), and Manuel Burghardt (University of Regensburg, Germany) (2) Decolonizing description: critical approaches and innovations organized by Anne J. Gilliland (University of California at Los Angeles), Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomic (University of Zadar, Croatia) After ISI 2015, a workshop will be held by ASIS&T European Chapter in Osijek on May 22nd - 23rd, Bus transfer from Zadar to Osijek will be organised after the end of the conference. FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information concerning the different submission types, please have a look at the conference homepage at www.isi2015.eu From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Tue Aug 26 10:48:36 2014 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:48:36 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Call for Papers/Abstracts: ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely! Call for Papers Understanding Web search engine users Workshop at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) October 31, 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ Organized by Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, USA Dirk Lewandowski, Professor, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist, Microsoft, USA INTRODUCTION Many researchers are interested in internet search behaviour, both as a primary action and as a secondary source of data that reflects the what, how, and why of information seeking. But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow at search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert at microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim ********* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 27 09:55:17 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:55:17 -0400 Subject: [Eurchap] 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <380-220148327135517156@LEN-dick-2011> ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting See http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ for full information and to register October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA Come to Seattle for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme for this year?s conference is Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - we chose this theme to celebrate the breadth of information science, its historical roots, its user-centeredness, and its unique aim of bringing people together around ideas, thoughts, and the exchange of information and knowledge. The program includes 42 papers, 26 panels, 102 posters, 12 workshops, and many opportunities for socializing at receptions. All in all this conference is packed with intellectually stimulating sessions, lots of opportunities to network and meet new people, and engage in the health and well-being of this wonderful association. We are delighted to present two excellent and accomplished keynote speakers: Kris M. Kutchera is Vice President, Information Technology for the Alaska Air Group Alessandro Acquisti is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 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 preben at dsv.su.se Wed Aug 27 10:14:10 2014 From: preben at dsv.su.se (Preben Hansen) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:14:10 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Call for Chapters for Springer book on Collaborative Information Seeking In-Reply-To: <53FDE77C.3080807@dsv.su.se> References: <53FDE77C.3080807@dsv.su.se> Message-ID: <53FDE7B2.7030005@dsv.su.se> *CALL FOR CHAPTERS For a Springer Book in the CSCW Series on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS)* Springer Book series on CSCW seeks submissions for a 2015 book on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS). We are looking for original chapters on this topic - from scholars in academia and industry. For many years, information retrieval has focused on individual users searching for information. Algorithms have assumed that one person is reviewing the results, and user interfaces have supported the needs of individual searchers. CIS - also referred to as collaborative information retrieval and collaborative search - focuses on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity, and that people working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. CIS occurs in many contexts, including healthcare, business intelligence, technical fields, strategic research, information analysis, planning tasks, and everyday activities such as shopping and travel. While the submission could be a synthesis of some of the prior works, it should not be published before. Manuscripts may describe research, experiences, and software tools/algorithms/architectures focused on support for collaborative information seeking. Specific topics include . CIS theories and models; . Design experiences of CIS systems; . User Interfaces for CIS systems and tools; . CIS applications and use cases in different domains, such as e-learning environments, healthcare, office work, and intelligence analysis; . Approaches for incorporating CIS with social search; . Issues related to collaborators' awareness of actions, Team/group aspects and participants' roles; . Evaluation measures for CIS systems; . Methodologies for studying CIS; and . Software tools and algorithms to support collaborative search. All chapter submissions are subject to double peer review based on both technical merit and relevance to Springer CSCW book series readership. Accepted chapters will be professionally edited for content and style. Direct inquiries to the guest editors: Dr. Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden, (preben at dsv.su.se ) Dr. Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, USA; (chirags at rutgers.edu ) and Dr. Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS, Germany (Claus-Peter.Klas at gesis.org ) *Timeline*: . Chapter submission: *October 15, 2014* (submission information at http://collab.infoseeking.org/cisbook2015/) . Decision: *December 15, 2014* . Final chapter: *January 15, 2015* *Editors of the book*: *Dr. Preben Hansen* Associate Professor Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University, Sweden *Dr. Chirag Shah* Assistant Professor School of Communication & Information (SC&I) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *Dr. Claus-Peter Klas* GESIS - Leibniz-Institut for Social Sciences Wissenstechnologien fur Sozialwissenschaften (WTS), Germany -------------------------------------- Preben Hansen Associate Professor Stockholm University Dept. 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