From isto.huvila at abo.fi Mon Jun 8 08:49:37 2015 From: isto.huvila at abo.fi (Isto Huvila) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:49:37 +0300 Subject: [Eurchap] CfP: Doctoral Forum at CoLIS 9 Message-ID: Reserve the date (and apologies for cross-posting): Doctoral Forum at CoLIS 9: The Ninth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science We invite doctoral students to a doctoral forum held in connection with the main conference CoLIS 9 in Uppsala. The Doctoral Forum will take place on June 26, 2016, at the Department of ALM (Archive, Library and Museum Studies), Uppsala University, Sweden. Date: 26th of June 2016 Objective The Doctoral Forum is intended to provide a setting for discussion of doctoral students' research projects with invited senior researchers and other participating students. The discussions will take place in a constructive spirit and friendly atmosphere taking into consideration the diversity of contemporary LIS. A further objective of the forum is to act as a platform for initiating international contacts between doctoral students and with researchers for enabling future collaboration. We are investigating the possibility for forum participants to present their doctoral research as posters during the main conference in Uppsala (optional). Chairs Chair: Dr. ?se Hedemark, Senior lecturer, Department of ALM (Archive, Library and Museum Studies), Uppsala University, Sweden Assistant chair: MA Lisa Dahlquist, PhD student, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden Costs Participation is included in the main conference fee. More information about the doctoral forum For more information, see the conference website: http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/doctoral-forum/ More information about CoLIS9 conference and the Call for Papers More information about CoLIS9 conference at www.abm.uu.se/colis9 and the Call for Papers (deadline Jan 15, 2016) at http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp/ From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 8 13:23:19 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:23:19 -0400 Subject: [Eurchap] 2015 Awards Deadlines Message-ID: <380-22015618172319577@LEN-dick-2011> Furthwe Information at https://www.asist.org/about/awards Awards Nomination Deadline Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book July 1 History Fund Research Grant June 20 History Fund Research Paper Award June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership July 15 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation June 15 Research in Information Science June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher August 1 Watson Davis July 15 Chapter Awards Nomination Deadline Chapter of the Year August 15 Chapter Member of the Year August 15 Chapter Event of the Year August 15 Chapter Publication of the Year August 15 Chapter Innovation August 15 Student Chapter of the Year July 1 Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards Nomination Deadline SIG of the Year August 15 SIG Member of the Year August 15 SIG Publication of the Year July 15 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 mrleach at fas.harvard.edu Tue Jun 9 14:54:15 2015 From: mrleach at fas.harvard.edu (Leach, Michael R.) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:54:15 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] [Chapters-l] ASIST Chapters update - web site branding guidelines Message-ID: Dear Chapters Leaders, I am sure you all noticed the launch of the new ASIST website last month, but did you notice the new Brand Guidelines and WordPress template: https://www.asist.org/brand-guidelines/ Brand Guidelines and WordPress Template | ASIS&T Logo and Branding Assets Below are two versions of the ASIS&T logo (one with the tagline and one without) as well as a PDF document for our Brand Read more... which includes a new Branding Assets package and a pdf Branding Guide. Be sure to download these useful resources as you update Chapter websites, start new social media channels, etc. Also, IF you find anything INCORRECT on the new ASIST website, please tell us (there is a link on the web site - or just email me and I'll pass it along). Feedback on the new website is, of course, also appreciated. 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Have a nice summer Your ESC board -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ESC_Newsletter_Jun15.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 4552082 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Jun 30 08:40:51 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Amrapali Zaveri) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:40:51 +0300 Subject: [Eurchap] [CFP] Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems) Message-ID: <55928E53.4070903@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> The standardization and adoption of Semantic Web technologies has resulted in a variety of assets, including an unprecedented volume of data being semantically enriched and systems and services, which consume or publish this data. Although gathering, processing and publishing data is a step towards further adoption of Semantic Web, quality does not yet play a central role in these assets (e.g., data lifecycle, system/service development). Quality management essentially refers to activities and tasks involved to guarantee a certain level of consistency and to meet the quality requirements for the assets. In general, quality management consists of the following four phases and components: (i) quality planning, (ii) quality control, (iii) quality assurance and (iv) quality improvement. The quality planning phase in the Semantic Web typically involves the design of procedures, strategies and policies to support the management of the assets. The quality control and assurance components have their primary aim in preventing errors and to meet quality requirements pertaining to the Semantic Web standards. A core part for both components are quality assessment methods which provide the necessary input for the controlling and assurance tasks. Quality assessment of Semantic Web Assets (data, services and systems), in particular, presents new challenges that were not handled before in other research areas. Thus, adopting existing approaches for data quality assessment is not a straightforward solution. These challenges are related to the openness of the Semantic Web, the diversity of the information and the unbounded, dynamic set of autonomous data sources, publishers and consumers (legal and software agents). Additionally, detecting the quality of available data sources and making the information explicit is yet another challenge. Moreover, noise in one data set, or missing links between different data sets, propagates throughout the Web of Data, and imposes great challenges on the data value chain. In case of systems and services, different implementations follow the specifications for RDF and SPARQL to varying extents, or even propose and offer new, non-standardized extensions. This causes strong incompatibilities between systems, e.g., between the used SPARQL features in the query engines and support features in RDF stores. The potential heterogeneity and incompatibility poses several challenges for the quality assessments in and for such systems and services. Eventually, quality improvement methods are used to further enhance the value of the Semantic Web Assets. One important step to improve the quality of data is identifying the root cause of the problem and then designing corresponding data improvement solutions. These solutions select the most effective and efficient strategies and related set of techniques and tools to improve quality. Quality improvement metrics for products and services entails understanding and improving operational processes and establishing valid and reliable service performance measures. This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community interested in providing novel methodologies or frameworks in managing, assessing, monitoring, maintaining and improving the quality of the Semantic Web data, services and systems and also introduce tools and user interfaces which can effectively assist in this management. Topics of Interest We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: - Methodologies and frameworks to plan, control, assure or improve the quality of - - Semantic Web Assets - Quality exploration and analysis interfaces - Quality monitoring - Developing, deploying and managing quality service ecosystems - Assessing the quality evolution of Semantic Web Assets - Large-scale quality assessment of structured datasets - Crowdsourcing data quality assessment - Quality assessment leveraging background knowledge - Use-case driven quality management - Evaluation of trustworthiness of data - Web Data and LOD quality benchmarks - Data Quality improvement methods and frameworks e.g., linkage, alignment, cleaning, enrichment, correctness - Service/system quality improvement methods and frameworks -- Managing sustainability issues in services -- Guarantee of service (availability, performance) - Systems for transparent management of open data Submissions October 31, 2015 - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the Special Issue on ?Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems)?. Submissions are possible in the following categories: full research papers, application reports, reports on tools and systems and case studies. Guest editors Amrapali Zaveri, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany J?rgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria The editors can be reached using the following email: swjsi-dqmangement at googlegroups.com.