From aylin.ilhan at hhu.de Tue Jan 2 14:58:25 2018 From: aylin.ilhan at hhu.de (Aylin Ilhan) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 20:58:25 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Webinar on Survey Methods (January 23, 09:15 am (EST)) Message-ID: <3FF249DC-D8F3-4E0D-BE61-E78361B9EA9F@hhu.de> Hi everybody, I wish you all a happy and successful new year. We (the ESC) organized a webinar on survey methods and cordially invite you to join us at January 23, 09:15 am (EST). We are proudly to present our two speakers, Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Marie L. Radford. For more information about our two speakers and the webinar please visit our website: https://www.asist.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?p=1490 Feel free to forward the flyer. :) Your ESC ------------------------------------------------- Aylin Ilhan, B.A., B.A., M.A. Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 88 Universit?tsstra?e 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany Tel. +49 211 81-11810 https://www.isi.hhu.de/ilhan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Webinar on Survey Methods.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 941598 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Jan 1 12:13:03 2018 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 18:13:03 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [Asis-l] CFP: Seminar "Women researchers and research on women in Iberian universities", Salamanca (Spain), September 27 and 28, 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Seminar "Women researchers and research on women in Iberian universities", Salamanca (Spain), September 27 and 28, 2018 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:22:16 +0100 From: JOS? ANTONIO FR?AS MONTOYA To: asis-l at asis.org Call for papers All too often, we refer to the topic of mutual uncertainty in which we lived, "back to back" in words of Jos? Saramago, Spain and Portugal, one trying to attract European attention over the Pyrenees, the other with eyes wide-open to the sea, waiting for new islands to be discovered. Although in recent years the normative provisions approved on gender equality in the different spheres of social and labour life are quite similar in both countries, in the field of gender studies, Spain and Portugal have followed different paths regarding centers and institutes for studies of women and gender in universities. Only in the last decades, on many occasions supported by the European Union's border cooperation initiatives, we started to carry out professional exchanges, inter-university teaching proposals and collaborative research projects. In university exchanges, the European higher education area has opened up new possibilities (dual qualification, interuniversity postgraduate courses, etc.) which, together with the increase in joint investigations and the flow of exchange of professional experiences, place us before the historical opportunity of turning ignorance into fruitful collaboration. Committed to fostering mutual knowledge and exchange of experiences and points of view between Portuguese and Spanish teachers, *"Teresa Andr?s" Research Group on Information and Society (GIR-TAIS)* and the *Women's Studies Center of the University of Salamanca (CEMUSA)* organize a seminar on* "Women researchers and research on women in Iberian universities"*, to be held on *September 27 and 28, 2018*, in the Faculty of Translation and Library Science of Salamanca. The seminar will consist of presentations, round tables and free communication sessions, and the minutes of the meeting will be published and printed in the form of monography by UCOPress, the editorial of the University of C?rdoba. The *main themes* will be as follows: - Situation of women researchers in the universities of the Iberian Peninsula (aspects that hinder their professional promotion, equality plans, etc.) - Professional trajectories and vital experiences of women (cis and transsexuals) and people of non-binary gender in Iberian universities. - Gender binarism, feminism and women's studies: conceptual tensions and academic consequences. - Critical analysis of the systems of evaluation and scientific production of Spain and Portugal from a gender perspective. - Scientific productions and channels who diffuse studies on women in Iberian universities. - Relation between the visibility and the impact of journals specialized in gender studies and the evaluation and promotion of university professors. Works are admitted in the main official languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Euskara and Galician) or in English. The conceptual works or theoretical reflection can be presented by anyone, regardless of their geographical origin. The empirical, descriptive or other case studies must necessarily refer to the geographic environment of the Iberian Peninsula. Those interested in submitting a paper must submit the abstract with the proposal through the "documents" tool that appears on the seminar website , until Sunday, *January 28, 2018*, according to the following specifications: - Thematic of the abstract - Title of the proposal - Type of proposal - A Summary with up to 500 words - An attachment file with the data already mentioned, in .doc format, which must also include a curricular profile of the proposal's authors and contact information (address, phone number and e-mail) - Name of the author(s) - Institutional affiliation of the author(s) The proposals will be evaluated by a scientific committee made up of experts in the themes of the seminar. The results will be communicated on *February 18, 2018* individually to its authors. All persons whose papers have been selected must send their full works before Wednesday, *May 20, 2018*. More information: http://eventum.usal.es/go/mujeresinvestigadoras ********************************************* Jos? Antonio Fr?as Universidad de Salamanca Departamento de Biblioteconom?a y Documentaci?n Francisco Vitoria, 6-16 E-37008 Salamanca Tlf. 34-923-294-580 Fax 34-923-294-582 C.e. frias at usal.es ORCID 0000-0002-5425-8950 ResearcherID I-2062-2015 ********************************************* ________________________________________ ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting Crystal City, VA Oct. 27th - Nov. 1, 2017 Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds ________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Thu Jan 4 05:07:28 2018 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:07:28 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] Fwd: [Asis-l] 15 Academic Positions at the University of Melbourne In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2e0a893a-4108-0b45-6e8a-3846b96f7e59@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] 15 Academic Positions at the University of Melbourne Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 04:24:32 +0000 From: Uwe Aickelin To: Uwe Aickelin CC: Karin Verspoor [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] The University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems is seeking applicants for 15 continuing (i.e. tenure-track / permanent ) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer positions. We seek dynamic academics with expertise in Computer Science or Information Systems who have the potential to build a stellar teaching and research career at Melbourne. The School of Computing and Information Systems is an international research leader in computer science, information systems and software engineering. In this discipline, the School was ranked number 1 in Australia and 13th in the world in the 2016 QS World University Ranking exercise. We are particularly seeking applicants with expertise in the areas of business information systems, health informatics/digital health, software engineering, cybersecurity, or high-performance and distributed systems, but applicants whose work is aligned with any of the research groups in the School are encouraged to apply. Applications close on 15 Jan 2018. The positions are advertised at http://go.unimelb.edu.au/jsp6, where the formal position description and a brochure with more information are available. Contact Karin Verspoor karin.verspoor at unimelb.edu.au for enquiries and further information. ________________________________________ ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting Crystal City, VA Oct. 27th - Nov. 1, 2017 Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds ________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isto.huvila at abo.fi Mon Jan 8 01:10:26 2018 From: isto.huvila at abo.fi (Isto Huvila) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:10:26 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] CfP: Special issue: Archaeology and information research Message-ID: <1F9EFA26-6654-4750-A665-27FCA773757A@abo.fi> Call for papers ? Special issue: Archaeology and information research http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-4/CfpArchaeology.html Editors Isto Huvila (Uppsala University), Marija Dalbello (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Costis Dallas (University of Toronto), Ixchel M. Faniel (OCLC Research), and Michael Olsson (University of Technology Sydney) Deadline for submitting a full manuscript to the special issue is June 30, 2018. Archaeology and information research Archaeology is a domain that has intersections with information research both as an empirical domain of investigation and as a perspective to inquire into how people interact with information. The relevance of discussing the links between the disciplines of information and archaeology relates to the increasing societal significance of cultural heritage around the globe. In archaeology, improved understanding of archaeological information work, knowledge creation and management processes has been acknowledged as being critical in managing and exploiting the escalating amounts of archaeological data from archaeological excavations conducted prior to land-use around the world. From a theoretical and practical perspective, archaeology brings together methodological perspectives ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences, and serves as an interesting showcase of the problems, challenges and opportunities related to inter- and multi-disciplinary domains of information practices. Finally, similar to multiple areas of humanities and social science research, archaeology has provided inspiration and functioned as a powerful metaphor in critical research in the information field. As Huvila et al. (2017) note, it is possible to categorise the earlier research in the nexus of archaeology and information science into three broad categories. First, there is management, organisation and retrieval oriented research, often with an aim of contributing to the development of theories, methods and practices of archaeological information work. Secondly, there is a corpus of research with a focus on information behaviour and practices of archaeologists including studies about archaeological documents, documentation and the socio-technical aspects of archaeological knowledge production. Thirdly, earlier information science research has used archaeology (including but not restricted to Foucault?s archaeology of knowledge (Foucault, 2002) as a method or approach for studying diverse information science topics. Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to highlight the interdisciplinary nexus and invite papers that explore and investigate the intersections of archaeologies and the different areas of information research. The archaeologies include archaeology proper, media archaeology, the archaeology of knowledge and other archaeological approaches, whereas information research includes, library, museum and archival studies, as well as other relevant disciplines. Submissions can address, but are not limited to the following topics: ? The actual and potential impacts of archaeology, archaeological methods and/or archaeological metaphors on information research and practice. ? Historical case studies in information studies that apply archaeological approaches, methods, or theoretical perspectives. ? Information research on archaeological practices and issues that enhances our understanding of both archaeological work and topics of information research including but not limited to human information behaviour and practices, knowledge organisation, information literacies, information management, scholarly communication and others. The proposed manuscripts can be theoretical, conceptual or grounded in qualitative and/or quantitative methods (e.g. interviews, surveys, document studies, bibliometrics, etc.), or phenomenological inquiry. If you have questions about your proposed topic or approach, please contact Isto Huvila at isto.huvila at abm.uu.se Submissions Submissions should be made in Word (.doc) format, using the template provided at http://informationr.net/ir/IRWordTemplate.doc and following the instructions at Information Research Style Manual http://informationr.net/ir/StyleManual.html and Author Instructions http://www.informationr.net/ir/author2.html The final submission has to be done using editorial system at http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/infores/ NB! When typing the title of your manuscript in the system, add word [ARCHAEOLOGY] (in square brackets) to the end of the title to make sure that your submission will be processed by the editors of the special issue. The HTML-conversion of accepted and finalised manuscripts will be sponsored by the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and done on behalf of the authors. Timetable Deadline for full manuscripts is June 30, 2018. We expect that the reviews and revisions rounds will be completed by early 2019 and a projected date of publication for the special issue is in the first half of 2019. Literature on the topic ? Dalbello, M. (2013). ?Digitality, epistolarity and reconstituted letter archives,? Information Research 18(3) http://InformationR.net/ir/18-3/colis/paperC26.html ? Dalbello, M. (2011). ?A genealogy of digital humanities,? The Journal of Documentation 67(3), 480-506. ? Dalbello-Lovric, M. (1999). The case for bibliographical archeology. Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 10(1), 1?20. ? Dallas, C. (2015). Curating archaeological knowledge in the digital continuum: from practice to infrastructure. Open Archaeology, 1(1), 176?207. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2015-0011 ? Dallas, C. (2016a). Digital curation beyond the ?wild frontier?: a pragmatic approach. Archival Science, 16(4), 421?457. ? Dallas, C. (2016b). Jean-Claude Gardin on archaeological data, representation and knowledge: implications for digital archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(1), 305?330. ? Faniel, I., Kansa, E., Whitcher Kansa, S., Barrera-Gomez, J., & Yakel, E. (2013). The challenges of digging data: a study of context in archaeological data reuse. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, JCDL ?13, (pp. 295?304). New York, NY, USA: ACM. ? Faniel, Ixchel M. and Yakel, Elizabeth (2017). ?Practices Do Not Make Perfect: Disciplinary Data Sharing and Reuse Practices and Their Implications for Repository Data Curation.? In Curating Research Data, Volume One: Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository, 103?126. Chicago, Illinois: Association of College and Research Libraries. ? Foucault, M. (2002). The Archeology of Knowledge. London: Routledge. ? Huvila, I. (2009). Ecological framework of information interactions and information infrastructures. Journal of Information Science, 35(6), 695?708. ? Huvila, I. (2011). The politics of boundary objects: hegemonic interventions and the making of a document. JASIST, 62(12), 2528?2539. ? Huvila, I. (2012a). Authorship and Documentary Boundary Objects. In 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), (pp. 1636 ?1645). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society. ? Huvila, I. (2012b). Being Formal and Flexible: Semantic Wiki as an Archaeological e-Science Infrastructure. In M. Zhou, I. Romanowska, Z. Wu, P. Xu, & P. Verhagen (Eds.) Revive the Past: Proceeding of the 39th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Beijing, 12-16 April 2011, (pp. 186?197). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ? Huvila, I. (2014). Archaeologists and their information sources. In I. Huvila (Ed.) Perspectives to Archaeological Information in the Digital Society, (pp. 25?54). Uppsala: Department of ALM, Uppsala University. ? Huvila, I. (2016a). Awkwardness of becoming a boundary object: Mangle and materialities of reports, documentation data and the archaeological work. The Information Society, 32(4), 280?297. ? Huvila, I. (2016b). ?if we just knew who should do it?, or the social organization of the archiving of archaeology in Sweden. Information Research, 21(2). ? Huvila, I.; Faniel, I. M.; Dallas, C.; Olsson, M. & Dalbello, M. (2017). Archaeological Perspectives in Information Science. Proceedings of the 2017 ASIS&anolT Annual Meeting, ASIS&T. ? Kriesberg, A., Frank, R. D., Faniel, I. M., & Yakel, E. (2013). The role of data reuse in the apprenticeship process. Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech., 50(1), 1?10. ? Olsson, M. (2016). Making sense of the past: The embodied information practices of field archaeologists. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 410?419. From sfaletar at ffos.hr Sat Jan 13 13:23:33 2018 From: sfaletar at ffos.hr (Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:23:33 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] LIDA 2018 Submission Deadlines Approaching! Message-ID: <863adb462386604fdb9ba17b2af0c867.squirrel@knjiga.ffos.hr> Please excuse cross-posting. LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) LIDA 2018 Theme: Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion Zadar, Croatia, 13-15 June 2018 University of Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Web site: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Email: lida at unizd.hr Submission Deadlines Approaching! Proposals for papers, panels and workshops for LIDA 2018, a biennial conference that brings together students and scholars from across the globe to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities facing libraries in the digital age, are due Monday, January 15th. Proposals for posters, the PhD forum, and the student showcase are due Thursday, February 15th. This year's conference theme is "Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion." This year's conference takes place in beautiful Zadar, Croatia, and is co-sponsored by Rutgers University, University of Zadar, and University of Osijek. LIDA 2018 is also sponsored by ASIST, ISSN Internationale, OCLC, the Department of Information Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information, visit: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ and for the CfP, visit: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/call/LIDA_2018_Call_for_papers.pdf LIDA 2018 is excited to announce its keynote addresses! Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Centering Social Justice in LIS Practice Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, the iSchool at Illinois Definition of Risk: A Situation Involving Exposure to Danger Dr. Toni Samek, School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alberta -- izv. prof. dr. sc. Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic Odsjek za informacijske znanosti, Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek E-posta: sfaletar at ffos.hr Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, PhD Associate Professor Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia E-mail: sfaletar at ffos.hr From yelena.mejova at gmail.com Mon Jan 15 02:25:57 2018 From: yelena.mejova at gmail.com (Yelena Mejova) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 07:25:57 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] =?utf-8?q?RuSSIR_2018=3A_Call_for_Course_Proposals_=28d?= =?utf-8?q?eadline_=E2=80=93_March_3=2C_2018=29?= Message-ID: *Call for Course Proposals* 12th RUSSIAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (RuSSIR 2018) August 27?31, 2018, Kazan, Russia http://romip.ru/russir2018/ The school is co-organized by Kazan Federal University (https://kpfu.ru/eng) and Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru/en/). RuSSIR 2018 will have an additional focus on "IR for Good", emphasizing humanitarian and other public interest problems. The missions of the RuSSIR school series are to enable students to learn about modern problems and methods in information retrieval and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in the field; and to create an environment for informal contacts between scientists, students and industry professionals. RuSSIR 2018 will offer up to 6 courses and host approximately 100 participants. The target audience of the school is advanced graduate students, young scientists, academic and industrial researchers, and developers. The working language of the school is English. RuSSIR 2018 welcomes course proposals on any aspect of Information Retrieval, either generally on latest methodologies in the field or with a particular emphasis on IR for Good. Each course should consist of four or five 90 minute-long sessions. Courses may include lectures and/or practical exercises. Summer school organizers will cover travel and accommodation expenses for one lecturer per course; no additional honorarium will be paid to lecturer(s). The school organizers would highly appreciate if, whenever possible, lecturers could find alternative funding to cover the travel and accommodation expenses, and indicate this possibility in their proposals. *IMPORTANT DATES* Course proposals submission deadline: March 3, 2018 Notification: March 18, 2018 School: August 27-31, 2018 *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* Course proposals must be submitted in PDF format to the submission web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=russir2018, by March 3, 2018. A course proposal should contain the following: ? Title and keywords. ? Description of teaching and research experience, and contact information of the lecturer(s). ? Relevance of the course to the school's scope and objectives. ? Brief description of the course (up to 300 words suitable for inclusion in school materials). ? Full description (1-2 pages ? to be used for evaluation). ? Target audience and expected prerequisite knowledge of the audience. ? Relevant references to support proposal evaluation. ? Preferred schedule and necessary equipment. All proposals will be evaluated by the program committee according to the school's goals, the clarity of presentation, and the lecturers' qualification and experience. All applicants will be notified of the committee?s decision by March 18, 2018. Early informal inquiries about the school or the proposal evaluation process are encouraged (please send an email to school at romip.ru). *ABOUT RUSSIR* The first RuSSIR summer school took place in 2007 and since then has evolved into a popular academic event with solid international participation. Previous schools took place in Yekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Saratov. Courses in previous editions of RuSSIR were taught by many prominent researchers in information retrieval and related disciplines. *ABOUT THE VENUE* Kazan is one of the largest cities in Russia, and the third capital of the Russian Federation. It was founded more than 1000 years ago by the ancient Bulgars, where the great trade routes between Europe and Asia met. A vast array of sporting facilities have recently been constructed in and around Kazan, to the extent that the city was chosen to hold the 2013 Summer Universiade, the FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2015, the FIFA World Cup in 2018. Every year more and more tourists flock to Kazan to be enthralled by its stunning architecture, visit the Kazan State Theatre to experience the festivals of opera and ballet and sample true Tatar cuisine. Kazan is also a student town, and is home to many universities and institutes of learning, including the third oldest university in Russia, the Kazan Federal University, founded as Kazan Imperial University in 1804. Kazan University has gained its international fame thanks to its distinguished scholars and graduates whose achievements have had a beneficial effect on the whole mankind. The unique culture of University has shaped the development of Kazan and the Volga region. The University's new federal status obtained in 2010 poses new interesting challenges and calls for new approaches in the rapidly changing world. Today Kazan Federal University is a dynamic modern University actively participating in local and international cooperation, networking with academia and industry, boosting the region's human resources development as well as top-level research and innovation in different areas. 17 Centers of excellence and 80 world-class research and teaching laboratories have been established in recent years. *ORGANIZERS* ? Yelena Mejova (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Program co-chair ? Ekaterina L. Chernyak (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Program co-chair *CONTACTS* school at romip.ru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Menou Dear tripleC-Readers, **NEW 2018 CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES** Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series. **Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 23:00 BST** by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager) at A.Lockett at westminster.ac.uk For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2018/01/08/call-for-book-proposal-submissions-2018-critical-digital-and-social-media-studies-series/ Books already published in the Series: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/ University of Westminster Press Publishing Portfolio: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ubiquity-partner-network/uwp/UWP_Catalogue.pdf CALL DETAILS After the publication of five titles in the series we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for books in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges thanks to generous support by the University of Westminster that covers these fees. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes. We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as one single Word or PDF document. We can only accept suggestions for books written in English. TOPICS Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique University of Westminster, Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) & of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) christian.fuchs at triple-c.at @fuchschristian _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at --- Cet email a fait l'objet d'une analyse antivirus par AVG. http://www.avg.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Jan 14 15:17:15 2018 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:17:15 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2018): First Call for Papers and Special Sessions Message-ID: *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 8-9 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwlUaGUgNnRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBFbnRlcnByaXNlIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM2CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fes2018 WELCOME Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems. Enterprise Systems (ES), also referred to as Enterprise Information Systems, has become increasingly popular over the last 20 years because it integrates and extends business processes across the boundaries of business functions and corporate walls, as well as country border lines. The International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES) has been held every year since 2013. The sixth in the series will be held at St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 8-9 October, 2018. The conference is hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. This conference series is focusing on both the technical and application aspects of enterprise systems, the complex and cross-disciplinary problems of enterprise integration, and the new technological frontiers such as Industrial Integration, Industrial Information Integration, and Industry 4.0. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality research and professional interactions for the advancement of science and technology. The main features of the conference include Keynote Speeches, Regular and Special Sessions. It has been highlighted by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwlUaGUgNnRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBFbnRlcnByaXNlIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM2CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeesmc.org%2F . SCOPE We welcome original and survey articles about the latest advances of technology. The final results can be state-of-the-art, requirements, fundamental theories, models, frameworks, algorithms, methodologies, platforms, protocols, prototypes, testbeds, field trials, case studies/stories, field experiences, standardization efforts, regulatory activities, education and training innovations, etc. The application areas include aeronautics and astronautics, agriculture, automotive, building, construction, energy, finance, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, process industry, power, transportation, etc. TOPICS The topics of interest include but are not limited to: ? Enterprise Systems for Industry 4.0 ? Cyber Physical Systems for Industry 4.0 ? Internet of Things for Industry 4.0 ? Big Data for Industry 4.0 ? Security and Privacy Protection for Industry 4.0 ? System Engineering and Human Factors for Industry 4.0 ? IoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing A full list of subtopics for each one of the above topics can be found on the conference web site. SPECIAL SESSIONS The goal of Special Sessions is to provide a focused discussion of new or innovative topics. Special Session organizers consist of at least 5 papers. Please download the template of Special Sessions and submit it to the Special Session Chair (relevant information is available on conference web site). All Special Session papers will be reviewed with the same criteria as Regular Session papers. PAPER SUBMISSION The submitted paper should adhere to the double-blind review policy. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. Paper types: ? Full papers present final result. They must not exceed 8 pages. ? Short papers can contain preliminary results. They must not exceed 6 pages. ? Work-in-progress papers to present valuable and latest progresses of ongoing projects: 4 pages. Note, all manuscripts shall be written in English, using the IEEE conference template (double column, size 10). Templates can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwlUaGUgNnRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBFbnRlcnByaXNlIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM2CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences_events%2Fconferences%2Fpublishing%2Ftemplates.html . Please use the following submission link for Easy Chair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwlUaGUgNnRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBFbnRlcnByaXNlIFN5c3RlbXMgKEVTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM2CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Des20180 . PUBLICATION AND SPECIAL ISSUES Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore Database which is indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected papers will be invited for two journal special issues, the first to be published by Enterprise Information Systems, Taylor and Francis, with theme "Spacecraft Informatics", and the second by the Journal of Industrial Integration and Management, World Scientific, with theme "Next-Generation Enterprise Systems in the Industrial Integration Era". More information is available on the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES ? Special Sessions Proposals due: 2nd April 2018 ? Regular Paper Submissions (al types) due: 14th May 2018 ? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 23rd July 2018 ? Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 13th August 2018 ? Author Registration: 13th August 2018 ? Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018 ? Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary General Chairs ? Aurona Gerber, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair ? Alta Van der Merwe, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair ? Li Da Xu, USA, IEEE SMC EIS TC Co-Chair Program Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs ? Ling Xia Li, Old Dominion University, USA ? Wattana Golf Viriyasitavat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand ? Yale Yu, Infosys Australia & New Zealand ? Chris Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada ? 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Mon Jan 15 11:23:35 2018 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:23:35 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2018): First Call for Papers and Special Sessions Message-ID: <6YCWGRFW-LWXV-8QFQ-CQZS-852B2XOL651@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAl SESSIONS *** 24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 29-31 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIE1ldGhvZG9sb2dpZXMgZm9yIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKElTTUlTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM3CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fismis2018 WELCOME ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest research results in building intelligent systems. Held twice every three years, the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. SCOPE The scope of ISMIS is intended to represent a wide range of topics on applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, planning, databases, information retrieval, etc. The focus is on research in intelligent systems. The conference addresses issues involving solutions to problems that are complex to be solved through conventional approaches and that require the simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics and applications of knowledge. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a means for exchanging information for those interested purely in theory, those interested primarily in implementation, and those interested in specific research and industrial applications. TOPICS ISMIS 2018 is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: ? Active Media Human-Computer Interaction ? Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation ? Digital Libraries ? Health Informatics ? Intelligent Agent Technology ? Intelligent Data Processing and Analytics ? Intelligent Information Retrieval ? Intelligent Information Systems ? Intelligent Language Processing ? Knowledge Integration and Aggregation ? Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ? Knowledge Visualization ? Logic for Artificial Intelligence ? Multimedia Information Retrieval ? Soft Computing ? Text Mining ? Web Intelligence ? Web Mining In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. art, human genome, global change, manufacturing, social good, etc. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in LNCS/LNAI style (maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. All submissions will be subject to review by the ISMIS 2018 Program Committee. Papers should be prepared using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), maximum 10 pages. Papers should be submitted in PDF form via ISMIS 2018 Online Submission System: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIE1ldGhvZG9sb2dpZXMgZm9yIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKElTTUlTIDIwMTgpOiBGaXJzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBQYXBlcnMgYW5kIFNwZWNpYWwgU2Vzc2lvbnMJMTM3CUxpc3RzCTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dismis2018 . SPECIAL SESSIONS ISMIS 2018 solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scope of the conference. Special sessions supplement the regular program of the conference and provide a sample of the state-of-the-art research in specific topics. Special-session proposals should be submitted by the prospective organizer(s) who will commit to promoting and handling the review process of their special session as Chairs or Co-Chairs of the event. Proposals should include the following information: ? Title ? Name(s) of organizer(s) ? Email of main contact person ? Brief bio(s) of organizer(s) ? Brief description ? Related topics (with respect to those of the Main Conference) ? Potential participants ? A draft of the CFP ? Description of publicity and promotion plan Papers submitted to special sessions will have to be evaluated and peer- reviewed along the very same criteria as the regular sessions. It is expected that 4 or 5 papers are presented at each special session. The accepted papers will be published by Springer in the same conference volume with the regular accepted papers. Special-session proposals should be submitted in PDF format by E-mail to the Special Sessions Chair Stefano Ferrili at:?stefano.ferilli at uniba.it?. PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES The ISMIS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the conference. Authors of best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions to the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/10844) published by Springer. Fast Track Processing will be used to have them reviewed and published. IMPORTANT DATES ? Special Sessions Proposals Submissions due: 2nd February 2018 ? Special Sessions Proposals Notification: 9th February 2018 ? Paper Submissions due: 10th May 2018 ? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10th July 2018 ? Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 31st July 2018 ? Author Registration: 31st Juy 2018 ? Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018 ? Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Chair ? Zbigniew Ras (UNC-Charlotte, USA & Polish-Japanese Academy of IT, Poland) Symposium Chair ? George Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Committee Co-Chairs ? 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Tue Jan 16 11:29:52 2018 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:29:52 +0200 Subject: [Eurchap] 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): First Call for Papers Message-ID: <1ZS7UD23-TMAY-7TID-3HXJ-6FX6GVEVZ1T@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTEzOQlMaXN0cwkxNzUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fami2018 Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling and working environments. ABOUT AMI 2018 The 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) has a focus on the role of Ambient Intelligence "Towards a Smart and Human Centered Internet of Things". We invite submissions of full and short papers as well as posters, presenting original research. AmI 2018 is an interdisciplinary venue for leading international researchers, designers, and practitioners that present and discuss new results in Ambient Intelligence. AmI builds on the success of thirteen predecessor conferences, which started in 2003 with the EUSAI-event in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. More information about the AmI series can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTEzOQlMaXN0cwkxNzUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fami-conferences.org . The Proceedings of AmI 2018 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Furthermore, Springer will sponsor the Best Paper Award with 1,000 EUR. TOPICS AmI 2018 will revolve around the focus topic "Towards a Smart and Human- Centred Internet of Things" that follows the vision of Calm Technology, where technology is useful but does not demand our full attention or interfere with our usual behavior and activities. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to: ? Sensors and Actuators Networks ? Ambient Networking and Communication ? Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing ? Internet of Things and Interconnected devices ? Internet of Humans and Human Sensors ? Artificial Intelligence Models, Methods and Techniques ? Machine Learning, Data mining and Big Data ? Modelling Context Awareness and Location-based Services ? Agent Technologies and Multi-agent Platforms ? Cloud Computing for Intelligent Ambients ? Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction ? Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality ? Symmetric Interaction in Real and Virtual worlds ? Reliability, Assurance and Safety ? Security, Privacy and Trust ? Systems Architecture and Middleware ? Software Development Methodologies and Tools ? Robotic Companions ? Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0 ? Sustainability and Fair Trade ? Smart Homes and Intelligent buildings ? Energy Efficiency ? Ambient Assisted Living ? Healthcare and Well-being ? Smart Cities ? Connected Cars and Autonomous Driving ? ervasive Games in Hybrid Worlds ? Ambient Intelligence Education ? Evaluation methods and techniques for Trials ? Citizen science, Living labs, Maker communities PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSION Papers must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to minimize any references that may reveal the identity of the authors and their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed 16 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers. The posters session aims to collect papers showing work in progress and thus raise opportunities to present and discuss current work in an informal setting. These papers will be presented as posters in the conference. Poster contributions may not exceed 2 pages, including figures and references. For more information about what should be considered a regular, short or poster contribution, please refer to the conference web site. All paper and poster submissions must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submission of a paper or poster should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper or poster be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work. For preparation of papers and posters please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Authors of full and short papers as well as posters are welcome to submit using the conference review system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Z29vZ2xlZ3JvdXBzLmNvbSAsCQkJZXVyY2hhcEBhc2lzLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogRmlyc3QgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTEzOQlMaXN0cwkxNzUJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dami2018 . This year's best paper awards are graciously sponsored by Springer with 1,000 EUR. SPECIAL ISSUE The authors of the best papers to be accepted at AmI 2018 will be invited to submit substantially extended and revised versions of their papers with at least 70% new material to a special journal issue for AmI 2018 to be published in the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanised Computing, by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper and Poster Submissions due: 17th June 2018 ? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 22nd July 2018 ? Camera-Ready Versions due: 29th July 2018 ? Author Registration: 5th August 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair ? George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Program Chairs ? Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece ? Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Workshops Chairs ? Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy ? Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK Local Organization Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brooke.struck at science-metrix.com Wed Jan 17 12:15:08 2018 From: brooke.struck at science-metrix.com (Brooke Struck) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:15:08 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] Year in review: 2017 Message-ID: Hi everyone, In today's post, we take a look back at the best content of the ScienceMetrics.org blog from 2017. Some highlights included: 1. our series on the notion of collaborations being "captured" 2. our series on data mining to inform policy 3. our discussions of impact measurement and indicators to manage science (from STI 2017) 4. our coverage of evolving science policy, especially in the Canadian context (from CSPC 2017) The post offers a valuable synopsis of our coverage, as well as extensive links to find out more. Best wishes to everyone for 2018, Brooke Brooke Struck, Ph.D. Senior Policy Officer | Sp?cialiste des politiques Science-Metrix 1335, Mont-Royal E Montr?al, QC H2J 1Y6 Canada [http://1science.com/images/LinkedIn_sign.png][http://1science.com/images/Twitter_sign.png] T. 1.514.495.6505 x.117 T. 1.800.994.4761 x.117 F. 1.514.495.6523 brooke.struck at science-metrix.com www.science-metrix.com [sm15-left] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval @ECIR2018: Deadline extended till 29 January 2018 Message-ID: <28B758B9-33F8-44D4-91F8-0A463EDE8E42@univ-tlse3.fr> == Third Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the upcoming 7th international workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018), to be held as part of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018). === Important Dates === - Submissions: 29 January 2018 (extended) - Notifications: 28 February 2018 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15 March 2018 - Workshop: 26 March 2018 in Grenoble, France The keynote will be given by Cyril Labb? (Universit? Grenoble Alpes). Title of the keynote talk: "Trends in Gaming Indicators: On Failed Attempts at Deception and their Computerised Detection" === Aim of the Workshop === In this 7th workshop we aim to engage with the IR community about possible links to bibliometrics and complex network theory which also explores networks of scholarly communication. Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes, yet they offer value-added effects for users. Our interests include information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, network analysis, and natural language processing. The goal is to apply insights from bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics to concrete practical problems of information retrieval and browsing. See proceedings of the former BIR workshops at ECIR 2014 , ECIR 2015 , ECIR 2016 , ECIR 2017 , JCDL 2016 and SIGIR 2017 . Retrieval evaluations have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up well but do not progress. Traditional retrieval has reached a high level in terms of measures like precision and recall, but scientists and scholars still face challenges present since the early days of digital libraries: mismatches between search terms and indexing terms, overload from result sets that are too large and complex, and the drawbacks of text-based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on statistical modelling and corresponding visualizations of the evolving science system. Such analyses have revealed not only the fundamental laws of Bradford and Lotka, but also network structures and dynamic mechanisms in scientific production. Statistical models of scholarly activities are increasingly used to evaluate specialties, to forecast and discover research trends, and to shape science policy. Their use as tools in navigating scientific information in search systems is a promising but still relatively new development. We will explore how statistical modelling of scholarship can improve retrieval services for specific communities, as well as for large, cross-domain collections. Some of these techniques are already used in working systems but not well integrated in larger scholarly IR environments. The availability of new IR test collections that contain citation and bibliographic information like the iSearch collection or the ACL collection could deliver enough ground to interest (again) the IR community in these kind of bibliographic systems. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches based on informetrics and bibliometrics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, natural language processing, digital libraries, and approaches to visualize search and retrieval to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal and empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - (Social) Book Search - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (6 to 12 pages) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Springer LNCS: EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Program Committee: Iana Atanassova, CRIT, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Universit? - CNRS (LSIS), France Marc Bertin, Universit? Lyon 1, France Jose Borbinha, IST / INESC-ID, Portugal Cornelia Caragea, Kansas State University, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Bela Gipp, Universit?t Konstanz, Germany Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Peter Ingwersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Germany Petr Knoth, The Open University, UK Marijn Koolen, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands Rob Koopman, OCLC, The Netherlands Cyril Labb?, Grenoble University, France Vincent Larivi?re, EBSI-UdeM, Canada Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Peter Mutschke, GESIS ? Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS-KNAW, The Netherlands Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India Henry Small, SciTech Strategies, USA Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Lynda Tamine, University of Toulouse, France Ludovic Tanguy, University of Toulouse, France Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPA-PAMB, Germany Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Haozhen Zhao, Navigant, USA === Program Chairs === Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France This cfp on Twitter , please retweet! ------------------------------------------------------------ Guillaume Cabanac, PhD https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac University of Toulouse, France Computer Science Department IRIT UMR 5505 CNRS ~~~~~~~~ ?If you find something interesting drop everything else and pursue it!? ? B.F. Skinner From sfaletar at ffos.hr Mon Jan 22 07:35:41 2018 From: sfaletar at ffos.hr (Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:35:41 +0100 Subject: [Eurchap] LIDA 2018 Deadline extension Message-ID: <39bb9ec8424b5c401d18cbe1d25c8bc6.squirrel@knjiga.ffos.hr> Please excuse cross-posting. LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA), 13-15 June 2018, Zadar, Croatia Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to let you know that we have had a record number of submissions for this year's LIDA. Thank you for your interest. However, due to multiple questions, a decision was made to extend the deadline for Submission of proposals for papers, panels and workshops to 1 February 2018. All important dates (and deadlines) are available at http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/deadlines/ Also, registration for LIDA 2048 is now open! Early bird rates apply by 5 March. Go to http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/fees/ and register for the LIDA 2018! Best, LIDA 2018 Co-directors LIDA 2018 Theme: Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion Zadar, Croatia, 13-15 June 2018 University of Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Web site: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Email: lida at unizd.hr -- izv. prof. dr. sc. Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic Odsjek za informacijske znanosti, Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek E-posta: sfaletar at ffos.hr Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, PhD Associate Professor Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia E-mail: sfaletar at ffos.hr From I.Peters at zbw.eu Thu Jan 25 08:56:43 2018 From: I.Peters at zbw.eu (Peters Isabella) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:56:43 +0000 Subject: [Eurchap] Barcamp Open Science // Open Science Conference // 12-14 March, Berlin // Register now! Message-ID: <047272D289C1D14C9D54551BFDF8DE3872B5585E@cirdan.zbw-nett.zbw-kiel.de> ***sorry for multiple postings*** Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to this year's Barcamp Open Science and Open Science Conference to Berlin. Barcamp Open Science The Barcamp Open Science will take place on 12th March at Wikimedia and is open to everybody interested in discussing, learning more about, and sharing experiences on practices in Open Science. Further information: http://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/ Open Science Conference The Open Science Conference takes place from 13th-14th March and the thematic focus will be on "FAIR data" this year. The early bird rate is available until 9th February. Further information: http://www.open-science-conference.eu/ Best regards, Isabella *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science (CAU Kiel University) ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 506) Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Erasmus+ EINFOSE project seeks to find out the appropriate ways and modes of the harmonization and recognition of the entry requirements which would enable students from other fields to master learning outcomes at the graduate level of IS programs. The International Symposium on the Future of Education in Information Sciences (FEIS 2018) is intended to stimulate discussion and reach commonly accepted recommendations that could serve not only to partner HEIs but also as a model for other academic disciplines. Contributions and discussion are solicited from HEIs, their governing bodies, public authorities responsible for the implementation of EU guidelines and recommendations at the HEI level as well as representatives from national agencies for diploma recognition, ECTS implementation and Qualification Frameworks. Submissions are also invited from researchers and institutions to share their experience and accomplishments in recognition and mobility processes, building up the European Qualification Framework and its nationally based implementations, and in the implementation of new teaching/learning didactics and evaluation approaches and methods. Contributions from outside the EU are very welcome. It is expected that the exchange of ideas and experience in accreditation processes, cooperative efforts and joint programs at graduate and postgraduate level throughout the World might contribute to discussions about the future of education of Information professionals in Europe and Worldwide. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): * Educational trends in higher education worldwide * Information professionals in changing and challenging digital environment (new profiles, old skills and new competencies, social role) * Entrepreneurship and the information professional * Reminiscing about the future of professional education * Ethical values in IS (Universal access, collaboration, intellectual freedom, fairness) * Multidisciplinarity issues and relation with other sciences (Computer Sciences, Digital Humanities, Economics, etc.) * Best educational practices and current challenges * Software tools and platforms for collaborative learning and teaching * Open educational resources * Role and responsibility of archives, libraries and documentation centers in higher education * Entrance into the labour market of IS graduates. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission and Publication ----------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality, original papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Long papers, describing original ideas on the listed topics and on other fundamental aspects of higher education in Information Science, are solicited. Moreover, short papers or posters on early research results, new results on previous published works, demos, and projects are also welcome. Long papers should not exceed 12 pages, including bibliography. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages, including bibliography. Poster descriptions should not exceed 2 pages. All accepted contributions will be collected in the Symposium Proceedings and published online, as Open Access, in the Repository of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek, indexed in Google Scholar. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of one of the online journals dedicated to Information Science. Contributions should be written in English, formatted for single column A4 paper, without page numbering. Right and left margins should be justified, with 1,15 line spacing and 11 point Times New Roman font to be used for the body text. A Word template is available at the Symposium website. All contributions (either in Word or in .pdf) should be submitted via Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feis2018. The review process will be double blind. Please make sure not to include the authors names in the contribution, and to provide them to Easychair when making the submission. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- Papers and posters submission: 11 March 2018 Notification to authors: 30 April 2018 Camera-ready copies due by 1 July 2018 On line proceedings published by end of August Conference: 10-11 September 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Registration ----------------------------------------------------------------- Regular registration fees: * 150 euro early registration (until June 3rd, 2018) * 200 euro standard registration (until August 20th, 2018) * 250 euro late and on-site registration Student registration fees: * 50 euro early registration (until June 3rd, 2018) * 100 euro standard and on-site registration * 125 euro late and on-site registration Registration fees include coffee breaks and light lunches. Social dinner (on September 10th, 2018) is not included and the cost is 40 euro per person. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Student Scholarships ----------------------------------------------------------------- A number of student scholarships will be offered that cover registration, travel, and accommodation. The Call for Applications will be available at the conference web site. The deadline for applying will be in May 2018. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote speakers ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Bawden, City University London, UK Laif Kajberg, School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, USA Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organization ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs Tatjana Aparac-Jelu?i?, University of Osijek, Croatia Vittore Casarosa, University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy Elena Maceviciute, University of Borås, Sweden Program Committee Members (see website) Publicity Chair Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany Sponsor Chair Simona Turbanti, University of Pisa, Italy Local Organizing Committee Alessandro Gandolfo, University of Pisa, Italy Salvatore Ruggieri, University of Pisa, Italy Enrica Salvatori, University of Pisa, Italy Maria Simi, University of Pisa, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs: feis2018 at easychair.org Local Organization: feis2018 at di.unipi.it -- izv. prof. dr. sc. Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic Odsjek za informacijske znanosti, Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek E-posta: sfaletar at ffos.hr Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, PhD Associate Professor Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences L. Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia E-mail: sfaletar at ffos.hr