From rhill at asis.org Tue Dec 1 11:22:10 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:22:10 -0500 Subject: [sigCR] CFP ASIS&T 2016 Annual, Copenhagen, Oct 14-18, 2016 Message-ID: <387-220151221162210542@LEN-dick-2011> 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/\ Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. Paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome. The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&T?s many special interest groups (SIGs). Important Dates: (all deadlines are midnight, Greenwich Mean Time) Paper Mentoring Service Submission of complete draft papers to the mentor service due: 10 March 2016 Mentors? feedback on drafts: 4 April 2016 Papers Submission of papers due: 17 April 2016 Notification regarding submitted papers: 23 May 2016 Submission of ?revise & re-submit? papers due: 3 June 2016 Notification regarding ?revise & re-submit? papers: 23 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted papers due: 25 July 2016 Panels and Workshops Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 Notifications regarding submitted panels and workshops: 15 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted panels and workshop descriptions are due: 25 July 2016 Posters Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016 Notifications regarding submitted posters: 30 July 2016 Camera-ready accepted posters are due: 10 August 2016 Submission site: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/ Final versions of accepted workshops and tutorials must be formatted according to guidelines provided at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf . 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 melissa.adler at uky.edu Tue Dec 1 11:41:46 2015 From: melissa.adler at uky.edu (Adler, Melissa A) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:41:46 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] SIG/CR news Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am very happy to report that Barbara Kwasnik (Professor, Syracuse) is Chair-elect for SIG/CR. Lala Hajibayova (Assistant Professor, Kent State) is Secretary/treasurer, and Laura Ridenour (doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is the Communications Officer. Melissa Adler (Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky) is the current chair. We had a successful half-day workshop on Saturday, November 7, with productive conversations about the direction and impact of classification research. There were some familiar faces and many new attendees and speakers. Papers and abstracts will be published in Advances in Classification Research Online in the not-too-distant future. A heartfelt thanks goes out to participants and attendees at this year's workshop and meeting. Thanks also to the workshop organizing committee: Barbara Kwasnik, Joseph Tennis, and Jonathan Furner. And to Jonathan for serving as Chair this past year. It has been a privilege. ASIS&T will be held in Copenhagen next year, and we are hoping to sponsor many panels. 2016 conference information is here: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ Please let us know if you are interested in submitting a proposal related to Classification Research! Also of note, Dublin Core-2016 will be held in Copenhagen at the same time, so we anticipate excellent opportunities for collaboration and conversation. At the business meeting we arrived at a theme for next year's workshop. Barbara will be sending information on this soon. Please, if you have any questions or thoughts about SIG/CR, send me a note. melissa.adler at uky.edu For your reference, the workshop schedule from the St. Louis workshop is posted below. Warm regards, Melissa Adler 8:45-9:45: Session 1 ? Space/time/semantics Karen M. Wickett, University of Texas at Austin, Modeling Classifications and Value Vocabularies with Situation Semantics Yejun Wu, Louisiana State University and Li Yang, Southwest Petroleum University, China, Exploring Completeness and Balanced Perspectives in Classifications: Case Studies of Violence and Man-Made Disaster Joseph Busch, Principal?Taxonomy Strategies, Revisiting Historical Source Information 10:00-10:40: Session 2 ? Ontology/Epistemology/Culture Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington, On Operationalization and Evaluation of Epistemic and Ontological Claims to Knowledge Organization Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cultural Pervasiveness or Objective Violence?: Three Questions about KOS as Cultural Arbiters 11:00-12:00: Session 3 ? Social/Personal/DIY Lala Hajibayova, Kent State University, Participatory Systems of Knowledge Representation and Organization Audrey Lorberfeld and Elan May Rinck, University of Washington, Structural (In)visibility: Possible Effects of Constructing a Controlled Vocabulary on a Niche Domain Ronald Day, Indiana University, Social Classifications, Affect, and Human Actions Melissa Adler, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Science University of Kentucky 341 Lucille Little Library Building 859-218-2294 From announce at dublincore.net Sat Dec 5 14:10:33 2015 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:10:33 -0800 Subject: [sigCR] ASIS&T Webinar: Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar Message-ID: ********* PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING ********* *ASIS&T Webinar:* Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar =========================== *DATE/TIME:* 9 December 2015 at 10:00am EST (World Clock: http://bit.ly/asist_webinar-Dec2015) *REGISTRATION URL: * https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/160653313167616769 *WEBINAR WEBPAGE:* https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/academic-search-engine-optimization/ *REGISTRATION FEE:* Free for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members =========================== *ABSTRACT:* Academic search engine optimization, also known as ASEO, is the creation, publication, and modification of scholarly literature in a way that makes it easier for academic search engines to access, interpret, and rank scholarly documents. Additionally, search-engine friendly academic documents are ones that are written, formatted, organized, and labeled for people who use academic search engines. Successful ASEO implementation communicates. What do librarians, information architects, and academic professionals need to know about building search-engine friendly documents for Google Scholar and other academic search engines? In this webinar, SEO pioneer and veteran Shari Thurow will debunk some common myths and misconceptions about academic SEO and show you how to properly optimize different types of scholarly web documents. Topics covered in this webinar include: Academic SEO overview - 4 fundamental building blocks of academic SEO - How to optimize individual document types (PDF, Word, HTML, etc.) - The role of metadata - Creating and optimizing wayfinders for academic literature - Common myths & misconceptions This webinar includes real-time examples and a downloadable bibliography for academic SEO resources. *PRESENTER:* *Shari Thurow*, Founder & SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive (http://www.search-usability.com) Shari Thurow is a contributing editor for the ASLIB Journal of Information Management. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI) and the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). She is currently the founder and SEO director at Omni Marketing Interactive, a full-service SEO, website usability, information architecture, and web design firm. 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