From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Jul 1 03:45:49 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:45:49 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] IEEE SITIS'15: CFP WeCA (Web Computing and Application), Bangkok-Thailand Message-ID: Apologies for multiple diffusion CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== Track on WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA) The 11th IEEE International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 15) Bangkok, Thailand, 23-27, November 2015 http://www.sitis-conf.org/ In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter ====================================================================== The WeCA (Web Computing and Application) track will focus on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging application requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. Novel architectures are being proposed to allow resource sharing and distributed processing of linked data and devices. Peer to peer computing, mobile information systems, semantic based applications, linked data systems, Internet of things etc. are a few examples. Topics of interest include, but not limited, to: ---------------------------------------------- * Data semantics * Web-Centric Systems * Semantic Web * Social media and networking * Big Data * Information System Interoperability * Digital Libraries * Cloud Computing * Integrated, Virtualized and Distributed Information Systems * Multimedia and application * Information security * Service Based Systems Submission and publication -------------------------- SITIS'15 WeCa Track invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. Allsubmitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for potential publication journals. Important dates --------------- * Paper Submission: September 7, 2015 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 7, 2015 * Camera ready: October 15, 2015 * Author registration: October 19, 2015 Track Chairs ------------ Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France From melissa.adler at uky.edu Thu Jul 16 11:24:15 2015 From: melissa.adler at uky.edu (Adler, Melissa A) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:24:15 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] CFP-Classification Research Workshop, ASIST 2015 Message-ID: Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/Classification Research ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:30 AM ? 12:30 PM Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, USA This year?s Classification Research workshop consciously and critically engages the general conference theme, ?Information Science with Impact,? in order to frame conversations about the results and significance of classification research. With the increasing emphasis on impact in and around information science, the theme provides us with an opportunity to consider some of the ways in which we define ourselves as a Classification Research group and how we understand our research to affect and influence theory and practice. Classification matters not only in the functioning of information systems and technologies, but also in the lived experiences of individuals, and in society, organizations, and all information contexts. The spate of violent events in the U.S., together with the resistance and response, quickens a crucial set of questions about the nature of our work. This workshop aims to cast such violence as a knowledge organization problem. We also aim to consider whether and how classificatory acts and systems can be reparative, or even transformative: What bearing does the structuring of knowledge have upon the seeking, reception, circulation, and use of knowledge and information? Do classifications tell us something about agendas, political contexts, or authority? What role do our classification systems play in constituting, and challenging categories of difference? In what ways have communities used and/or challenged classifications in civic action and protest? We welcome papers that address positive or negative and intended or unintended consequences of classification, as well as papers and projects that explore potential and possibilities for classification systems and research. Doctoral students are encouraged to submit paper/presentation proposals, and two scholarships covering workshop fees will be awarded to student authors. We also invite presentations and posters of classification design projects in any stage of development, as well as nontraditional presentation formats. We are interested in work that addresses questions and issues such as the following: ? Encounters with classification in daily life, on- and off-line ? Material effects of classifications, e.g., how do classifications bar or grant access to information, and in what ways does this matter? ? Structures and hierarchies and their effects and consequences ? Design and aesthetics in classifications ? Consequences of specific systems or types of systems, e.g., thesauri, universal classifications, folksonomies ? Reparative/transformative classifications ? Classification research as it relates to diversity initiatives ? Limitations and possibilities for assessing impact of classifications ? The role of classifications in constituting and ordering value in information science, i.e., how measurements of impact rely upon the classification and ranking of what counts as research, users, and knowledge ? Critical / theoretical discussions of classifications, e.g., critical race studies, queer theory, disability studies ? Classificatory mechanisms as tools for building or dividing communities ? Classifications as reflections of agencies, nations, individuals, or organizations ? Classifications in particular contexts, e.g., health information, libraries, archives, the Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, social media, etc. ? Knowledge organization in scientific and political debates, e.g. climate change ? The construction of users (user types, user communities, user identities) through classification Deadlines: August 20, 2015: Submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for a paper, poster, or alternative format presentation to Melissa Adler: melissa.adler at uky.edu Include your name, title, and institutional affiliation with your submission. September 10, 2015: Tentative author notification date, to be determined so that authors will be notified ahead of the early bird registration date. Fees: $100, SIG/CR members $110, non-SIG/CR members (Fees increase after the early bird registration deadline) Organizers: Melissa Adler, University of Kentucky Jonathan Furner, UCLA Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington Melissa Adler, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Science University of Kentucky 341 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506-0224 (859) 218-2294 melissa.adler at uky.edu From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Jul 24 12:53:11 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:53:11 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] IEEE SITIS'15: 2nd CFP WeCA (Web Computing and Application), Bangkok-Thailand Message-ID: Apologies for multiple diffusion CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== Track on WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA) The 11th IEEE International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 15) Bangkok, Thailand, 23-27, November 2015 http://www.sitis-conf.org/ In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter ====================================================================== The WeCA (Web Computing and Application) track will focus on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging application requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. Novel architectures are being proposed to allow resource sharing and distributed processing of linked data and devices. Peer to peer computing, mobile information systems, semantic based applications, linked data systems, Internet of things etc. are a few examples. Topics of interest include, but not limited, to: ---------------------------------------------- * Data semantics * Web-Centric Systems * Semantic Web * Social media and networking * Big Data * Information System Interoperability * Digital Libraries * Cloud Computing * Integrated, Virtualized and Distributed Information Systems * Multimedia and application * Information security * Service Based Systems Submission and publication -------------------------- SITIS'15 WeCa Track invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. Allsubmitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for potential publication journals. Important dates --------------- * Paper Submission: September 7, 2015 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 7, 2015 * Camera ready: October 15, 2015 * Author registration: October 19, 2015 Track Chairs ------------ Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France From smiragli at uwm.edu Tue Jul 28 11:55:35 2015 From: smiragli at uwm.edu (Richard P Smiraglia) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:55:35 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] Knowledge Organization call for papers for volume 43 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call For Papers volume 43 2016 Knowledge Organization (KO): Devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. The journal is published eight times per year by Ergon-Verlag, W?rzburg, Germany. Tables of contents of prior issues may be examined at this address: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/en/bibliotheks--informationswissenschaft/knowledge-organization-journal/index.php. The journal is available online to ISKO members here: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/. The journal (2008 to date) is indexed and full-text is available through LISTA with full text (EBSCOHost). The contents of the journal are indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO), Library Literature and Information Science (Wilson), PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal Informatika, Scopus and Sociological Abstracts. Research articles, including review articles: 1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); 2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; 3) trace the foundations and history of knowledge organization; 4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and 5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields. All articles are subject to rigorous, double-blind, peer-review. Manuscripts that are accepted during review are generally published within six months of submission. Articles should be between 4,000 and 10,000 words in length. Papers should be situated properly in the literature of the knowledge organization domain. Manuscripts: Instructions for authors may be found here: http://www.isko.org/ko.html Submissions should be submitted with an indicative abstract through our ScholarOne portal at: http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/jisko Richard P. Smiraglia Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Organization Professor, Knowledge Organization Research Group, School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin Milwaukee ko at isko.org From lquiroga at hawaii.edu Tue Jul 28 21:42:57 2015 From: lquiroga at hawaii.edu (Luz Quiroga) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:42:57 -0300 Subject: [sigCR] Fwd: semantic web - ontologies Message-ID: Aloha I am trying to find out colleagues / students / practitioners who include in their work aspects of semantic ontologies as framed in the Semantic Web Project http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ontology I would like the be aware of their experience with literature used in their teaching, research and practice as I am trying to update related readings and activities in some parts of my courses on user centered design of information / communication systems, digital libraries, relational databases, Information Architecture for the WWW, and personalized systems. In those courses we cover concepts of knowledge representation, organization and management introducing semantic-ontological modeling of content (disciplines) and users (personal ontologies for user modeling) In my research on homeless use of information / communication technologies I am considering the creation of an ontology of homelessness to facilitate web-based information access, sharing and collaboration among stakeholders Please reply off-list and | or forward this message to anyone you think would be interested in sharing his / her experience with me. With appreciation for any help Luz Marina Quiroga ----- Luz Marina Quiroga; Associate Professor, ICS & LIS / UH Manoa mailto: lquiroga at hawaii.edu Cell: (808) 3892489; Fax: (808) 956-3548 http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lquiroga/ My Hawaiian name: Keaomaikekai --- "El exceso de informacion ya es obra de deformacion": Facundo Cabral. "Cuando yo tenia listas las respuestas, me cambiaron las preguntas." Graffitti en Quito citado por Benedetti (1992)