From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Sun Aug 3 14:47:11 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 12:47:11 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] SIG DL's CfP Students and Recent Grads for ASIST 2014 Message-ID: Call for Student and Recent Graduate Proposals Digital Liaisons: Building Communities and Empowering Culture through Digital Libraries *SUBMISSION DEADLINE*: Friday, September 19, 2014 *ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION*: Monday, September 29, 2014 The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries ( http://www.asis.org/sig/sigdl) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is seeking proposals for an Undergraduate, Master's, and recently graduated professionals (having graduated May 2012 or later) research program at the ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting in Seattle on October 31 ? November 4, 2014. This session is intended to provide students and recent graduates with an opportunity to present their work during the main conference on areas of interest relevant to information and knowledge management. The session will also serve as a social meeting point to facilitate networking between students, faculty, and professionals. Note: Presenters do not have to attend the conference in order to qualify. To accommodate individuals who cannot attend the conference, we are accepting pre-made video presentations and mailed-in posters. All abstracts, presentation media, and posters will be published on the SIG DL website after the conference. Topics Poster and lightning talk presentation proposals should focus on innovative projects that explore digital libraries through topics concerning community and/or culture, in keeping with this year?s ASIS&T annual meeting theme. Proposals may include, but are not limited to, past research, case studies, and current projects on areas such as social network analysis, linked data, open access and new publishing models, crowd-sourcing, big data, digital humanities, citizen science, or other projects falling within the panel?s theme. (The list is meant to be illustrative, not prescriptive.) Who is Eligible? Submissions can be made as a single author or a group of authors, including collaborations between students or recent graduates from different institutions. Student chapters are particularly encouraged to submit a poster as a group. Authors do NOT need to be members of ASIS&T. However, they must pay for the conference registration fee and related expenses if attending in person. Students and recent graduates are encouraged to consult faculty and professional mentors but should not allow them to be a significant contributor to the content. All research is expected to be purely the students' or recent graduates' work and could include coursework, internship experiences, work-related experience, and independent interests, including theses or other capstone projects. Selection Criteria Up to 10 posters and 5 lightning talk proposals will be accepted for the panel session. Poster submissions must include an abstract of no less than 250 words and a one-page storyboard or mock-up of the poster. Lightning talk submissions must include a two-page paper using the ASIST short paper template available at https://www.asis.org/asist2014/AM14ProceedingsFormat.pdf. Students should indicate whether they will be present at the conference and which format they plan to present. Both posters and lightning talk proposals will be selected based on the following criteria: relevance of topics to the Digital Liaisons session and SIG DL mission, feasibility of presentation within a compressed format, and originality of research. Poster Format The posters will be displayed around the room for the entire session, including during the lightning talks. Students or recent graduates who are unable to attend the session will be allowed to mail in their poster ahead of time or have a colleague put it up for them. Lightning Talks Lightning talks will consist of 5-minute presentations with no more than 10 slides (optional). Presenters may, alternatively, submit a video of their talk. Presenters are encouraged to think creatively while maintaining formal language and respect for the audience. Guest Speakers Dr. Michael Eisenberg (Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Information School, University of Washington) will make the keynote remarks. and Dr. Karen Fisher (Professor at the Information School, University of Washington) will give plenary remarks. Awards The following awards will be given at the session. $300 for the best paper $150 for the best poster $100 for honorable mention paper $100 for honorable mention poster Submission and Deadline Authors are invited to submit proposals by filling out a form at http://tinyurl.com/k85n3ad anytime until 11:59 pm EST, September 19, 2014. Selections will be made by a panel of judges. If you have any questions, please email Holley Long at holley.long at colorado.edu *Link to CfP*: http://tinyurl.com/pyqmjsp *Link to Submission Form*: http://tinyurl.com/k85n3ad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 27 09:55:20 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:55:20 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <388-220148327135519968@LEN-dick-2011> ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting See http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ for full information and to register October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA Come to Seattle for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme for this year?s conference is Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - we chose this theme to celebrate the breadth of information science, its historical roots, its user-centeredness, and its unique aim of bringing people together around ideas, thoughts, and the exchange of information and knowledge. The program includes 42 papers, 26 panels, 102 posters, 12 workshops, and many opportunities for socializing at receptions. All in all this conference is packed with intellectually stimulating sessions, lots of opportunities to network and meet new people, and engage in the health and well-being of this wonderful association. We are delighted to present two excellent and accomplished keynote speakers: Kris M. Kutchera is Vice President, Information Technology for the Alaska Air Group Alessandro Acquisti is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 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 preben at dsv.su.se Wed Aug 27 10:15:31 2014 From: preben at dsv.su.se (Preben Hansen) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:15:31 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Chapters for Springer book on Collaborative Information Seeking In-Reply-To: <53FDE7B2.7030005@dsv.su.se> References: <53FDE7B2.7030005@dsv.su.se> Message-ID: <53FDE803.5020000@dsv.su.se> *CALL FOR CHAPTERS For a Springer Book in the CSCW Series on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS)* Springer Book series on CSCW seeks submissions for a 2015 book on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS). We are looking for original chapters on this topic - from scholars in academia and industry. For many years, information retrieval has focused on individual users searching for information. Algorithms have assumed that one person is reviewing the results, and user interfaces have supported the needs of individual searchers. CIS - also referred to as collaborative information retrieval and collaborative search - focuses on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity, and that people working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. CIS occurs in many contexts, including healthcare, business intelligence, technical fields, strategic research, information analysis, planning tasks, and everyday activities such as shopping and travel. While the submission could be a synthesis of some of the prior works, it should not be published before. Manuscripts may describe research, experiences, and software tools/algorithms/architectures focused on support for collaborative information seeking. Specific topics include . CIS theories and models; . Design experiences of CIS systems; . User Interfaces for CIS systems and tools; . CIS applications and use cases in different domains, such as e-learning environments, healthcare, office work, and intelligence analysis; . Approaches for incorporating CIS with social search; . Issues related to collaborators' awareness of actions, Team/group aspects and participants' roles; . Evaluation measures for CIS systems; . Methodologies for studying CIS; and . Software tools and algorithms to support collaborative search. All chapter submissions are subject to double peer review based on both technical merit and relevance to Springer CSCW book series readership. Accepted chapters will be professionally edited for content and style. Direct inquiries to the guest editors: Dr. Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden, (preben at dsv.su.se ) Dr. Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, USA; (chirags at rutgers.edu ) and Dr. Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS, Germany (Claus-Peter.Klas at gesis.org ) *Timeline*: . Chapter submission: *October 15, 2014* (submission information at http://collab.infoseeking.org/cisbook2015/) . Decision: *December 15, 2014* . Final chapter: *January 15, 2015* *Editors of the book*: *Dr. Preben Hansen* Associate Professor Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University, Sweden *Dr. Chirag Shah* Assistant Professor School of Communication & Information (SC&I) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *Dr. Claus-Peter Klas* GESIS - Leibniz-Institut for Social Sciences Wissenstechnologien fur Sozialwissenschaften (WTS), Germany -------------------------------------- Preben Hansen Associate Professor Stockholm University Dept. 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