From john at lis.upatras.gr Tue Mar 3 11:26:25 2015 From: john at lis.upatras.gr (Giannis Tsakonas) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:26:25 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] TPDL2015: Call for Tutorials - Extended Deadline Message-ID: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 14-18.09.2015, Pozna?, Poland http://www.tpdl2015.info CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================= New deadline for submissions: March 9, 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 extended deadline for submissions is March 9, 2015. From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Mar 5 08:46:54 2015 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Amrapali J Zaveri) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:46:54 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Linked Data Qquality at ESWC #LDQ2015 Message-ID: <54F85E4E.2040205@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/ /*News flash: Invited talk by Prof.Dr.Felix Naumann on "Brave new data, revisited"*//* */http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/program/keynote_felix_naumann *Important Dates* * Submission of research papers: March 16, 2015 * Notification of paper acceptance: April 9, 2015 * Submission of camera-ready papers: April 30, 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. *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 From drdckar at gmail.com Mon Mar 30 04:40:29 2015 From: drdckar at gmail.com (Dr D C Kar) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:10:29 +0530 Subject: [Eurchap] Request for Abstract for COLLNET 2015: Deadline 5th April 2015 for Papers- 11th Int Conf on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 16th COLLNET Meeting, Delhi, India Message-ID: *Call for Papers* *11thInternational Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS)* *&* *16th COLLNET Meeting * *November 26-28, 2015 New Delhi, India* *http://www.slp.org.in/collnet2015/* *Conference Venue: **Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), University of Delhi Enclave, Delhi-110007, India * *Organized by Society for Library Professionals in association with Asian Chapter, Special Libraries Association, Institute of Economic Growth * *&* *COLLNET* *General Chair: *Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany, China) *Steering Committee Chair: *P. K. Jain (India) *Technical Program Chair: *Debal C. Kar (India) *Call for Oral Presentations and Posters, Important Dates:* - *April 05, 2015 (Deadline)*, Extended Abstract for Oral Presentation, (3 pages, abstracts less than 2.5 pages are not accepted ) Please send your extended abstracts to: Hildrun Kretschmer kretschmer.h at onlinehome.de Please send also a copy to: P K Jain collnet2015 at gmail.com - *May 01, 2015*, Acceptance Notification - *May 15, 2015* (Deadline), Abstract for Poster Presentation (1 page) - *July 31, 2015* (Deadline), Full Paper (Camera-ready version, maximum 10 pages including tables, figures, references) The extended abstracts will be peer reviewed by the Programme Committee. The accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings. - *November 15, 2015 **(Deadline)*, Registration - *November 26*-*28, 2015,* Conference *Programme Committee**:* *COLLNET Members**http://www.collnet.de/* *and* *Local Programme Committee:* * Advisory Committee Chair: *P R Goswami, Director (Library), IGNCA, Delhi, India * Finance, Website Engineering, Graphics: *Parveen Babbar, Deputy Librarian, JNU, Delhi *Content, Communication: *N K Wadhwa, NPL (CSIR), Delhi, India *Co-ordinators: * Shantanu Ganguly, Fellow and Area Convenor, TERI, Delhi Tariq Ashraf, Librarian, South Campus Delhi University, Delhi Salek Chand, Library and Information Officer, Election Commission of India, Delhi M Madhusudan, Deputy Dean and Asst. Professor, Dept. of LIS, DU, Delhi Sujit Bhattacharya, Senior Scientist, NISTADS, Delhi Divya Srivastava, Scientist ?F?, Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi *Regional Chairs:* Regional Chair of Africa, America, Australia and Europe: Valentina Markusova (Russia) Regional Chair of China: Liang Liming (China) Regional Chair of India: Ramesh Kundra (India) Team: N.K. Wadhwa (India) Divya Srivastava (India) Sujit Bhattacharya (India) P.K. Jain (India) Regional Chair of Iran: Farideh Osareh (Iran) *Scope* The broad focus of the conference is on *collaboration and communication in science and technology*; science policy; quantitative aspects of science of science; and combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in study of scientific practices. The conference thus aims to contribute to evidence-based and informed knowledge about scientific research and practices which in turn may further provide input to institutional, regional, national and international research and innovation policy making. *Themes:* *A.**Theoretical, Methodological and Applied Aspects in Webometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics, for example:* - Emerging issues in Scientometrics / Informetrics /webometrics and history - Science Policy and collaboration - New Metrics (Altmetrics), their Potential Value and their Relationship to Established Measures - Collaboration Studies for Science & Society - Collaboration, Knowledge Management & Industrial Partnership - Collaborative Bridge between Academic Research and Industry - Techniques for Collaboration Studies - Visualization Techniques in Collaboration Studies - Quantitative Analysis of S&T Innovations - Informetrics Laws and Distributions, Mathematical Models of Communication and Collaboration - Nature and Growth of Science and of Collaboration in Science and its Relation with Technological Output - Evaluation Indicators - Collaboration in Science and in Technology from both Quantitative and Qualitative Points of View Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. *B. Data Management* - Data Analysis and Data Mining - Open Access Management and its Impact *C. Information Technology, Management and Services* - Information and Knowledge Services Measurement - Information Literacy Program - Performance Measurement and Competitiveness Quality Assessment - Technology & Innovations in Libraries and Impact Measurement - Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories - Development of Information and Knowledge Services - IPR and its Impact - Economic Co-operation and Development - Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship *D. Change Management* - Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques - Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs *COLLNET and WIS History (WIS: Webometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics)* COLLNET is a global interdisciplinary research network of scholars who are concerned to study aspects of collaboration in science and in technology (see COLLNET web site at: http://www.collnet.de/). This network of interdisciplinary scholars was established in January 2000 in Berlin with Hildrun Kretschmer as coordinator. Since that time there have been thirteen meetings: the first in Berlin, September 2000, the 2nd in New Delhi, February 2001 and the 3rd in Sydney (in association with the 8th ISSI Conference), July 2001. The 4th COLLNET Meeting took place on August 29th in 2003 in Beijing in conjunction with the 9th International ISSI Conference; the First International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics *(WIS)*and 5th COLLNET Meeting in Roorkee, India, in March 2004. The 6th COLLNET Meeting took place in association with the 10th ISSI Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2005. The Second International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics*(WIS)* and 7th COLLNET Meeting was organized in Nancy, France, in May 2006. The Third International Conference on *WIS*and Science and Society & Eighth COLLNET Meeting took place in New Delhi, India, in March 2007 (http://www.collnet-delhi.de), the Fourth International Conference on *WIS*&Ninth COLLNET Meeting in Berlin, Germany in July 2008 (http://www.collnet-berlin.de) and the Fifth International Conference on *WIS*& Tenth COLLNET Meeting in Dalian, China, in September 2009 (http://www.wiselab.cn/collnet-dalian/).The Sixth International Conference on *WIS*&Eleventh COLLNET Meeting took place in Mysore, India, in October 2010,the Seventh International Conference on *WIS*&Twelfth COLLNET Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2011 ( http://collnet.cs.bilgi.edu.tr/), the 8thInternational Conference on *WIS* &13thCOLLNET Meeting in Seoul, Korea, October, 2012, Seoul, Korea, http://collnet2012.ndsl.kr*; *the 9thInternational Conference on *WIS*&14thCOLLNET Meeting, August, 2013in Tartu, Estonia, http://www.etag.ee/international-research-cooperation/collnet-2013/?lang=en*, *September 3-5, 2014 in Ilmenau, Germany*, **http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/collnet2014 * *Registration Fee* Early Bird Registration 1st September 2015 onwards Till 31st August 2015 Indian Delegates Rs.3500/- Rs.4000/- Other countries Delegates ? 200 or US$ 300 ? 225 or US $325 SAARC countries Delegates US$ 100 US$ 125 *Students, SLA members, accompanied persons, retired professionals and additional participants from the same organization can avail 20% discount. Registration fee covers ? All Conference sessions ? Conference bag and materials ? Catering: Lunches (3 days), tea/ coffee breaks (3 days) and Dinner ? Conference social programme and City tour Brochure is attached *Contact Person:* Dr. P K Jain Institute of Economic Growth University of Delhi Enclave Delhi- 110007. India e-mail: pkjain1310 at gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hildrun Kretschmer PD, Dr. sc. phil., Dr. oec., Dipl.-psych. Honorary Professor, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China Former Professor at the Dalian University of Technology, China Honorary Director and Special Fellow of WISELAB of the Dalian University of Technology, China COLLNET Co-ordinator (www.collnet.de) Editor, COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management Homepage: www.h-kretschmer.de E-mail: kretschmer.h at onlinehome.de Regards Debal C Kar, PhD University Librarian Ambedkar University Delhi Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate, Delhi 110006, India debal at aud.ac.in, debal.kar at gmail.com Ph: +91-11-26273558(R), +91-11-23865084(O), 9811392242 *Steering Committee Chair- COLLNET 2015* http://www.slp.org.in/collnet2015/ *President- Asian Chapter, Special Libraries Association (SLA) * http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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