From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Tue Sep 9 11:26:29 2014 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 17:26:29 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Reminder: Call for Papers/Abstracts: ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users - Deadline 15 September References: Message-ID: <7BA471C6-50E1-4F5E-8975-782CF52A3A25@haw-hamburg.de> 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 ********* From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Mon Sep 15 02:07:45 2014 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:07:45 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users - Abstracts due today! 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. 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URL: From Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de Mon Sep 15 06:30:34 2014 From: Adrian.Paschke at gmx.de (Adrian Paschke) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:30:34 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] CfP: SWAT4LS 2014, Extended Deadline Sept. 30th Message-ID: Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2014) Berlin, Germany Dec. 9-11th, 2014 http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2014 ************************ Program News: - Keynotes by Andre Dekker (Maastro Clini, NL), Maryann Martone (UCSD, USA), Stefan Decker (Insight Center, IE) - Tutorials: ? RDF linked data at the European Bioinformatics Institute ? Ontologising the Health Level Seven (HL7) Standard ? Ontologies Ontop Databases ? Natural Language Interfaces for SPARQL endpoints ? Introduction to rule systems - Hackathon Day on December, 11th - Accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics ************************ Overview Since 2008, the SWAT4LS Workshop has provided a platform for the presentation and discussion of the benefits and limits of applying web-based information systems and semantic technologies in the domains of health care and life sciences. SWAT4LS has been held in Edinburgh (2008), Amsterdam (2009), Berlin (2010), London (2011), Paris (2012) and Edinburgh (2013). The next edition of SWAT4LS will be held in Berlin, Germany, on December 9 - 11, 2014. It will be articulated in a tutorials day (9th), a main workshop day (10th) and an hackathon day (11th). We are confident that the next edition of SWAT4LS will provide the same open and stimulating environment that has previously brought together researchers, developers, and users, from various fields including eHealth, biomedical and clinical informatics, radiation oncology, systems biology, computational biology, drug discovery, bioinformatics and biocomputing, to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences with Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies in health care and the life sciences. ________________________________________ Rationale The Web is a key medium for information publishing, and Web-based information systems play a key role in biomedical information exchange and data integration. The Semantic Web in particular provides a set of interoperable standards and technologies that support knowledge representation, ontology development, machine reasoning, data mining, machine learning, distributed information resources, and collaborative research environments. The variety and complexity of biomedical information requires these kind of technologies and altogether, the adoption of the Web-based semantic technologies in health care and the life sciences is having an impact on publishing, as well as biological and clinical research. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss the benefits and limits of adoption of these technologies. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tool development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from biology, bioinformatics, computer science, and the clinic to discuss goals, current limits and use cases for Semantic Web technologies. ________________________________________ Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and clinical trial data - Connecting clinical practice and clinical research - Rapid Learning infrastructures for health care - Enabling translational medicine and personalized medicine - Interactive Knowledge Browsing and Semantic Web approaches to Big Metadata - Harnessing biomedical ontologies and terminologies with medical standards for information exchange - Standards such as HL7, BRIDG, CDISC, DICOM, EN13606, ISO 18308, openEHR, together with medical terminologies and ontologies such as SNOMED, NCIt, LOINC, MedDRA, ICD, CTCAE, ATC for international Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and transmural care - Clinical Decision Support Systems - Methods for reusing patient data in clinical research - Patient recruitment, eligibility studies, and OWL/RDF models of eligibility criteria - Semantic Web standards and new proposals (e.g.: RuleML, RDF, OWL, SKOS, SPIN, Microformats) - Tools for ontology mapping, editing, annotation, versioning and provenance management - APIs and Tools for access to (distributed) knowledge bases (e.g.multi-agents, rest apis, semantic web services, OMG API4KB) - Semantic Scientific Workflows and eScience processes - RDF stores, NoSQL, reasoners, query and visualization systems - Knowledge representation for biomedical knowledge bases - Applications of query federation for distributed knowledge, data sharing, and data discovery - Access control and data security for medical data - Tools for semantics-enabled Web publication ________________________________________ Type of contributions The following possible contributions are sought: - Tutorials - Research papers - Position papers - Posters - Software demos ________________________________________ Proceedings Proceedings of SWAT4LS 2014 will be published in CEUR Workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). ________________________________________ Special issue Authors of accepted contributions to the upcoming edition of SWAT4LS will be invited to submit to a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics (tbc). ________________________________________ Deadlines Papers submission (abstracts): September 22nd, 2014 Papers submission deadline (full text): extended September 30th, 2014 (strict) Posters and demos submission deadline: September 30th, 2014 Communication of acceptance: October 27th, 2014 Camera ready paper: November 18, 2014 Tutorials Tue, December 9, 2014 Workshop Wed, December 10, 2014 Hackathon Thu, December 11, 2014* (*) the hackathon may be extended to one extra optional day, pending confirmation of venues. ________________________________________ Instructions: All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf format. Submissions for papers should report original research, and should be between 8 and 15 pages. Submissions for position papers should report qualified opinions, recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 3 and 6 pages. Submissions for posters should be between 2 and 4 pages. Submissions for software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. Please upload all submissions as PDF files based on the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). ________________________________________ Submission All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2014 To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee. ________________________________________ Tutorials Tutorial proposals consist of a brief description of the rationale for the tutorial, its content and the experience of presenters, they should be sent via email at info at swat4ls.org no later than August 5th. However, tutorials will be accepted on an ongoing basis and we encourage early submissions. ________________________________________ Sponsorship We offer a variety of sponsorship options. Interested parties are invited to contact the organizers at info at swat4ls.org . From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Sep 16 12:13:00 2014 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:13:00 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [Asis-l] announcing OAI9 in Geneva 17-19 June 2015 In-Reply-To: <20140915055256.GA13795@openlib.org> References: <20140915055256.GA13795@openlib.org> Message-ID: <5418618C.3000707@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] announcing OAI9 in Geneva 17-19 June 2015 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:52:56 +0000 From: Thomas Krichel To: asis-l at asis.org The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) University of Geneva June 17th-19th 2015 This series of Workshops in Geneva has become the major community event in Europe in the year in which it is held. For these three days, librarians, IT professionals, publishers and researchers come together to network, hear presentations from keynote speakers, attend tutorials on cutting-edge themes, and congtribute their ideas through breakout/technical sessions and poster displays. The workshop is designed to provide a focus for the interchange of ideas, the building of new partnerships, the annoucement of new developments and the celebration of success in innovation in the whole scholarly communications process. The workshop will be held in the University of Geneva at the Institute of Graduate Studies and Campus Biotech. Both locations are close to each other and easily accessible on the Geneva tram network. The Programme Committee is currently drawing up an innovative programme for the meeting. Please reserve the dates for OAI9 in your diaries now. Keep an eye on the Workshop website at http://indico.cern.ch/e/oai9, which also lists the Twitter feed and hashtag for the meeting. On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments in scholarly communication. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4015/8223 - Release Date: 09/16/14 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: