From isto.huvila at abo.fi Thu Feb 5 02:11:08 2015 From: isto.huvila at abo.fi (Isto Huvila) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 09:11:08 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] CfP: CoLIS9 in Uppsala June 27-29, 2016. Deadline Jan 15, 2016 Message-ID: <878D4A7A-C16C-4343-8E77-A48226893A9F@abo.fi> We invite authors to submit research papers (up to 5000 words), short research papers (up to 3000 words), panels, workshops, alternative events and posters to the 9th conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) held in Uppsala, Sweden June 27-29, 2016. Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of Library and Information Science, Information Studies, and related disciplines. It welcomes diverse contributions offering empirical, theoretical and historical perspectives. The 9th conference in the series is organised by the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and Division of ALM, Lund University. Three keynote lectures by ? Prof. Geoffrey Bowker, University of California, Irvine, USA ? Prof. Louise Limberg, University of Bor?s, Sweden ? Assoc. Prof. Pamela McKenzie, University of Western Ontario, Canada Consult the full Call for papers available at http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp for details about submissions, and the conference. Deadline for all submissions (apart from the doctoral forum) is Jan 15, 2016. Questions regarding paper submissions incl. posters should be directed to Dr. Isto Huvila (firstname.lastname at abm.uu.se). Questions regarding panels, workshops and other formats should be directed to Dr. Jutta Haider (firstname.lastname at kultur.lu.se). Questions about the conference should be sent to the conference chair Kerstin Rydbeck (firstname.lastname at abm.uu.se) or the co-chair Olof Sundin (firstname.lastname at kultur.lu.se) From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Feb 6 09:31:44 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Anisa Rula) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:31:44 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] [CfP] Linked Data Quality #LDQ2015 Call for Papers Message-ID: <54D4D050.1090106@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> LDQ 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Linked Data Quality co-located with ESWC 2015, Portoro?, Slovenia June 1, 2015 http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/ Important Dates * Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015 * Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015 * Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015 Since the start of the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, we have seen an unprecedented volume of structured data published on the web, in most cases as RDF and Linked (Open) Data. The integration across this LOD Cloud, however, is hampered by the ?publish first, refine later? philosophy. This is due to various quality problems existing in the published data such as incompleteness, inconsistency, incomprehensibility, etc. These problems affect every application domain, be it scientific (e.g., life science, environment), governmental, or industrial applications. We see linked datasets originating from crowdsourced content like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap such as DBpedia and LinkedGeoData and also from highly curated sources e.g. from the library domain. Quality is defined as ?fitness for use?, thus DBpedia currently can be appropriate for a simple end-user application but could never be used in the medical domain for treatment decisions. However, quality is a key to the success of the data web and a major barrier for further industry adoption. Despite the quality in Linked Data being an essential concept, few efforts are currently available to standardize how data quality tracking and assurance should be implemented. Particularly in Linked Data, ensuring data quality is a challenge as it involves a set of autonomously evolving data sources. Additionally, detecting the quality of datasets available and making the information explicit is yet another challenge. This includes the (semi-)automatic identification of problems. Moreover, none of the current approaches uses the assessment to ultimately improve the quality of the underlying dataset. The goal of the Workshop on Linked Data Quality is to raise the awareness of quality issues in Linked Data and to promote approaches to assess, monitor, maintain and improve Linked Data quality. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Concepts * - Quality modeling vocabularies * Quality assessment * - Methodologies * - Frameworks for quality testing and evaluation * - Inconsistency detection * - Tools/Data validators * Quality improvement * - Refinement techniques for Linked Datasets * - Linked Data cleansing * - Error correction * - Tools * Quality of ontologies * Reputation and trustworthiness of web resources * Best practices for Linked Data management * User experience, empirical studies Submission guidelines We seek novel technical research papers in the context of Linked Data Quality with a length of up to 8 pages (long) and 4 pages (short) papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Other supplementary formats (e.g. html) are also accepted but a pdf version is required. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please submit your paper via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldq2015. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. We note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place. Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop. Important Dates All deadlines are, unless otherwise stated, at 23:59 Hawaii time. * Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015 * Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015 * Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015 * Workshop date: May 31 or June 1, 2015 (half-day) Organizing Committee * Anisa Rula ? University of Milano-Bicocca, IT * Amrapali Zaveri ? AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE * Magnus Knuth ? Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE * Dimitris Kontokostas ? AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE Program Committee * Maribel Acosta ? Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AIFB, DE * Mathieu d?Aquin ? Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK * Volha Bryl ? University of Mannheim, DE * Ioannis Chrysakis ? ICS FORTH, GR * Jeremy Debattista ? University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, DE * Stefan Dietze ? L3S, DE * Suzanne Embury ? University of Manchester, UK * Christian F?rber ? Information Quality Institute GmbH, DE * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo ? University of Oviedo, ES * Markus Graube ? Technische Universit?t Dresden, DE * Maristella Matera ? Politecnico di Milano, IT * John McCrae ? CITEC, University of Bielefeld, DE * Felix Naumann ? Hasso Plattner Institute, DE * Matteo Palmonari ? University of Milan-Bicocca, IT * Heiko Paulheim ? University of Mannheim, DE * Mariano Rico ? Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, ES * Ansgar Scherp ? Kiel University, DE * J?rgen Umbrich ? Vienna University of Economics and Business, AT * Miel Vander Sande ? MultimediaLab, Ghent University, iMinds, BE * Patrick Westphal ? AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE * Jun Zhao ? Lancaster University, UK * Antoine Zimmermann ? ISCOD / LSTI, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Saint-?tienne, FR * Andrea Maurino ? University of Milan-Bicocca, IT More details can be found on the workshop website: http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/ From john at lis.upatras.gr Fri Feb 20 02:49:45 2015 From: john at lis.upatras.gr (Giannis Tsakonas) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:49:45 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] TPDL2015 - Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <328c5375e47023b0025cf4ce9a996dbf@upatras.gr> International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 14-18.09.2015, Pozna?, Poland http://www.tpdl2015.info CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================= The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2015. ================= * Introduction * Tutorial topics should have a direct relevance to the topics of the conference. Anticipated areas of interest at the time of TPDL2015 include topics related to digital libraries, their foundations and methodologies, as well as their relevant applications and usages, including cross-disciplinary areas. We especially welcome tutorials bridging multiple areas, or presenting new perspectives in these areas, and tutorials with a practical hands-on approach that educate participants in using a technology after the tutorial. Proposals will be considered for half-day and full-day tutorials. Tutorials may cover material either at an introductory level (introducing new areas of research or practice to attendees) or in depth (advancing the understanding of attendees with basic familiarity of the area). Tutorials may target researchers, practitioners, or the field as a whole. * Proposal * A tutorial proposal should include the following: - Title of the tutorial - Instructor(s) and their credentials (short CV, link to personal web page) - Aims, scope and learning objectives of the tutorial - Relevance to TPDL2015 and significance for the research field - Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation) - Tutorial history (previous offerings of tutorial, if any) - Format of tutorial (half- or full-day) - Target audience and prerequisite knowledge * Submission * Tutorial proposals should be maximum four pages in length and they can be submitted in PDF format via email to contact at tpdl2015.info. Please use the subject line ?TPDL2015 Tutorial Proposal? when submitting. Upon submitting the tutorial proposal, the proposers commit that in case the tutorial is accepted, all lecturers will physically attend and present the tutorial. Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Tutorial Chairs with the approval of the Conference General Chairs and Program Chair. Notification of acceptance will be sent via email to the workshop proposers by April 13, 2015. The selected tutorials will be organized on September 14, 2015, before the Main Track of the conference. The Organizing Committee will provide substantial support in the area of logistics management, namely registration, catering, halls and infrastructure. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2015. From anoruzi at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 08:54:35 2015 From: anoruzi at gmail.com (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:24:35 +0330 Subject: [Eurchap] Webology: Volume 11, Number 2, 2014 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 11, No. 2 of Webology journal is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 11, Number 2, 2014 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - A discourse analysis technique for charting the flow of interactions in online activity -- Leon James, & Diane Nahl -- Keywords: Content analysis; User comments; Constructionism; Affective; Cognitive; Sensorimotor -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a123.pdf - Result-oriented e-government evaluation: Citizen's perspective -- Marya Butt -- Keywords: Website evaluation; E-government; Test cases; Learning; Results utilization -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a124.pdf - Exploring into regulatory mode for social order in cyberspace -- Xingan Li -- Keywords: Social order in cyberspace; Regulation over cyberspace; Ability-and-utility-oriented control (AUOC); Steps in data movement -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a125.pdf - Development of a software for computer-linguistic verification of socio-demographic profile of web-community member -- Solomia Fedushko -- Keywords: Computer-linguistic analysis; Virtual community; Linguistic and communicative indicator; Socio-demographic marker; Web-community member; Socio-demographic characteristic; World Wide Web -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a126.pdf - How to use recommender systems in e-business domains -- Umberto Panniello -- Keywords: Personalization; Recommender Systems; E-business; E-commerce -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a127.pdf - Information ethics and Internet research ethics: An interview with Rafael Capurro -- Rahman Marefat, & Mahmood Sangari -- Keywords: Information ethics; Internet research ethics, World Wide Web -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a128.pdf - Investigating the relationship between library anxiety and emotional intelligence -- Shohreh SeyyedHosseini, Abdolrasoul Khosravi, & Reza BasirianJahromi -- Keywords: Library anxiety; Emotional intelligence; Bushehr University of Medical sciences; Persian Gulf University; Students -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2014/v11n2/a129.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~