From chodgson at niso.org Mon Jan 6 10:01:58 2014 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:01:58 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] STILL TIME TO REGISTER: NISO January 8 Webinar: From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content Message-ID: <004501cf0af0$40658ea0$c130abe0$@org> There's still time to register for NISO's January webinar on Wednesday. Webinar: From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content Date: January 8, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/device/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR Content providers and libraries are struggling with the bests way to make their e-content adapt to the wide diversity of devices-including desktops, laptops, tablets, e-readers, and smartphones. For decades, the PDF document format has been the fallback for digital content display, despite its shortcomings. But new developments and standards from file formats to improved cascading style sheets, adaptive layouts, graphics scaling, and device recognition are encouraging the move away from PDF, but many challenges remain. When is reflowable text or fixed layout the best approach? Can a user have a common experience regardless of device being used or should the goal be to provide the best experience for the particular device? How can authors and publishers ensure that specialized content such as graphics and tables are not lost or garbled when presented to a smaller screen? Is there an efficient way to produce and distribute content without re-creating it for every different potential device and format? Is it possible to create device-agnostic content? Understanding these issues is critical both for publishers who need to efficiently distribute content and for libraries who will be purchasing this content and ensuring their patrons, with their variety of devices, can access the electronic content they need. NISO's January 8 webinar will describe some advances in adaptive publication design and provide a basis for what you can expect for making content device agnostic. SPEAKERS Jean Kaplansky - Digital Content Solutions Architect, Aptara, which provides digital publishing solutions to content providers for capitalizing on new digital and mobile mediums Toby Plewak - Product Strategist for Publishing Technology's pub2web platform, a custom hosting solution that supports and delivers published information REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on January 8, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance ). All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/device/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The first tag would indicate that the work is freely accessible during the specified timeframe (if applicable). The second tag would contain a reference to a URI that carries the license terms specifying how a work may be used. "Currently publishers provide articles that are free-to-read under a wide range of re-use terms and licenses," explains Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, PLOS, and Co-chair of the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group. "It is unclear to readers when an article is freely accessible and what their re-use rights are. Funders are unsure if the publication of an article complies with their open access policies. Aggregators and platform or knowledgebase providers have no consistent mechanism for machine-processing metadata and identifying the accessibility or rights status. Adoption of these two common metadata designations will allow both humans and machines to assess the status of content." "Use and re-use rights can be difficult to explain in metadata," states Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef, and Co-chair of the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group. "By publishing URIs for applicable licenses and including these URIs in the metadata for the content, more detailed explanations of rights can be made available. The metadata can also be used to express how usage rights change over time or point to different licenses for particular time periods, for example when an embargo applies." "The recommended metadata tags can easily be incorporated into existing metadata distribution channels, encoded in XML, and added to existing schemas and workflows," states Greg Tananbaum, Consultant at SPARC and Co-chair of the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group. "Publishers and platform providers can use the tag to automate the display of appropriate status icons to users. The combination of and metadata provides a mechanism for signaling or determining compliance with most funder and institutional policies that allow compliance through the article publisher's site." "In addition to the recommendations, the Working Group has defined the most common use cases," states Nettie Lagace, NISO's Associate Director for Programs. "For each use case, the current situation and applicable stakeholders are described and the extent to which the recommendations will solve the situation is explained. The group has also identified several issues for further follow-up, such as the incorporation of the recommended metadata into existing formats, such as ONIX." The draft recommended practice is open for public comment through February 4, 2014. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit the Open Access Metadata and Indicators webpage at: www.niso.org/workrooms/oami/. 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Dick Hill __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org _____ From: Pasig-announce [mailto:pasig-announce-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Pasquinelli Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:54 PM To: pasig-announce at mail.asis.org Subject: [Pasig-announce] January 23 PASIG Webinar Reminder - Policy-basedData Management PASIG Webinar: Policy-based Data Management Webinar Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 11:30am-12:30pm (EST) To register, go to; http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-1-23-2014-register.ht ml The DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC) is an NSF funded project to assemble national data cyberinfrastructure through the federation of existing data management systems. The DFC uses the iRODS data grid middleware to implement the interoperability mechanisms needed to federate heterogeneous data repositories, information catalogs, and workflow systems. The DFC provides a collaboration environment that enables researchers to share their data products and workflows, while managing both publication and preservation of research results. A specific intent is support for reproducible data-driven research. The DFC is collaborating with the iRODS Consortium on the implementation of iRODS version 4.0. This provides a pluggable architecture for production environments, enabling the addition of new storage systems, micro-services, and authentication systems to a running system. The expectation is that data products developed in a research project will be first shared, then analyzed through processing pipelines, then published, and then preserved. At each stage, the resources used to manage the data may change, the policies used to control the environment will change, and the user community will broaden. Viable data cyberinfrastructure gracefully handles the evolution of a data collection. Presenter: Dr. Reagan W. Moore Director, Data Intensive Cyber-Environments Center Chief Scientist, Data Intensive Cyber-Environments at RENCI Professor, School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 22 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Telephone: 919 962 9548 Fax: 919 962 8071 Reagan Moore is the Director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, professor in the School of Information and Library Science, and Chief Scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute. Moore coordinates research efforts in development of policy-based data management systems that are used to support data grids, digital libraries, processing pipelines and persistent archives. Moore is the co-principal investigator for the development of the integrated Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS). The iRODS technology automates the application of management policies, automates validation of assessment criteria, and minimizes the labor required to manage massive distributed data collections. The iRODS software is available as an open source distribution at http://irods.diceresearch.org. Moore has a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967), and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego (1978). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:02:06 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Message-ID: <915e8720842f4cfdaab8be54317ee524@BY2PR09MB030.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> Please excuse cross-post ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcement Number: ADMR-2014-0005 Position Title: Librarian ZA-1410-III (GS-11/12 equivalent) Salary: $62,467.00 - $97,333.00 Position Information: Term Appointment, not to exceed 2 years Hiring Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY Duty Locations: Gaithersburg, MD, US Open Period: 01/10/2014 - 01/31/2014 The Information Services Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an experienced individual to help accelerate the development of the Office's research data management services. ISO is a team-based environment, which emphasize knowledge sharing and collaboration to provide services to NIST scientific and technical staff throughout their research and publishing cycles. The selectee will serve as a Scientific Research Data Librarian to identify strategies for understanding and responding to the evolving research data service needs of NIST researchers. In partnership with ISO's Digital Services Librarian, the selectee will assist NIST researchers formulate data management plans, and prepare data for publication, reporting, and repository ingest. The selectee will identify and recommend tools, techniques, and practices for management of research data throughout its lifecycle. The selectee will also monitor, investigate, and report on emerging trends, best practices, and technologies in digital data stewardship, e-science, scholarly publishing, and open access. Education This position has an education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcripts to document that you have met the education requirement. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required prior to a final offer of employment. The job requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies: * Knowledge of the life cycle of research data in the context of scholarly publishing and digital preservation. * Skill in applying methods to curate research data. * Skill in using tools for managing digital data. * Ability to communicate orally and in writing with all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Ability to plan and deliver training on research data management to all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Knowledge of current issues in eScience/eResearch. * Ability to analyze and synthesize complex concepts and issues, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing you experience. Basic Requirements for Librarian ZA-1410: (Transcripts must be submitted) Successful completion of one full academic year of graduate study in library science in an accredited college or university, in addition to completion of all work required for a Bachelor's degree. OR Successful completion of a total of at least five years of a combination of college-level education, training, and experience. To qualify on this basis, the applicant must establish conclusively that the education, training, and experience provided a knowledge and understanding of the theories, principles, and techniques of professional librarianship; knowledge of literature resources; and the knowledge and abilities essential for providing effective library and information services. In addition to meeting the educational requirements above, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 OR ZA-III at NIST): Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band (ZA-II) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing scientific research data management services. Specialized experience can include experience in a college or university library which demonstrates professional knowledge and experience with research data life cycle; applying methods to curate research data; skill in using tools for managing digital data. SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 or ZA-III at NIST): Successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education in library science or doctoral degree related to the position Or A combination of education and experience as described above that equates to one year of experience. To Apply, go to USAJobs.gov: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/358805300 ____________________________________ Regina L. Avila Digital Services Librarian National Institute of Standards and Technology 301-975-3575 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Thu Jan 16 12:53:06 2014 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:53:06 -0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] RDAP14 Program Announced! Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A016538AB3EBD0@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 (RDAP14) March 26-28, Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA http://www.asis.org/rdap/ The RDAP14 program is now available here!: http://www.asis.org/rdap/program/ The RDAP14 Program Committee is very excited to present a fantastic lineup of speakers, panels, posters, and lightning talks offering a wide range of perspectives on research data access and preservation issues. With over 40 universities, funding agencies, data centers, and other institutions represented on the program, this year's RDAP will provide a unique opportunity for our community to come together to share our progress to date, lessons learned, and strategies for the challenges ahead. In addition to the regular programming, we are offering two hands-on workshops that will allow attendees to develop skills necessary for building and growing crucial components of institutional efforts to support research data. Workshop descriptions and registration information are available here: http://www.asis.org/rdap/workshops/ Early Bird registration for RDAP14 is offered until February 14th: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP14/rdap14regform.php Links to hotel information, social media channels, and more are available on the RDAP14 website: http://www.asis.org/rdap/ Additional program details will be announced soon. We hope that you will join us in San Diego for RDAP14! 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Elpub 2014 will continue the tradition, bringing together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Elpub 2014 will particularly focus on the openness and use of research data as well as new and innovative publishing paradigms. We welcome presentations and discussions that demonstrate the role of cultural heritage and service organisations in the creation, accessibility, curation and long term preservation of data. We aim to provide a forum for discussing appraisal, citation and licensing of research data. Also, what is new with reviewing, publishing and editorial technology in a data-centric setting? We invite contributions from members of the communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communication. Topics include but are not restricted to: DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY * Text Mining (Natural language processing, text harvesting, dynamic formatting) * Open Data, Open Linked Data (Solutions, methods, tools) * Web Mining (Knowledge discovery in web documents) * Association Mining (Knowledge linking, discovery, presentation) * Information Retrieval (Content search, analysis and retrieval) * Visualization (Clustering, Graphs, Augmented reality, Knowledge maps) * Stream Mining (Video tagging, Audiobook tagging) * Legal Issues (Ethics, Copyright, licensing, etc.) ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION * New digital media (user studies, innovative publishing) * User interfaces (Multilingual and multimodal interfaces, User generated content) * Specific user communities (Services and technology, media and content) * Personalization technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS) * Social interaction analysis (Author collaboration trends, publication trends) * Security, Privacy and Integrity (Online ethics, Privacy policies, Online censorship) * Network analysis (Modelling and visualization of science networks) * Ubiquitous computing (Mobile and social network interactions, RFID book tagging) * Bibliometrics, (Data appraisal, citation and attribution) PUBLISHING AND ACCESS? ? ? ? * New publishing models (Business models, costs, tools, services and roles) * Open access (Publishing solutions, mandates, recommendations) * Open Data, Open Linked Data (Data registries, workflows, demonstrations) * Mobile information services (e-contents, e-books, etc.) * Interoperability (Scalability and middleware infrastructure) * Legal issues (Security, privacy and copyright issues) * Digital preservation (Cultural heritage, content authentication, DP Planning) * Semantic web (Metadata, information granularity, digital objects) * Digital library (Repositories, services, future) * New publishing paradigms (Executable papers, data journals, research objects, open peer review) SUBMISSION All submissions are subject to peer review. For each accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register for the conference to present the paper. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. Moreover, upon submitting the workshop, tutorials and panels proposals, the proposers commit that in case their submission is accepted, all people involved (speakers, lecturers, panel members, etc.) will physically attend and coordinate it. Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted or be under review by another conference or by a journal. The accepted papers will be published by IOS Press in a digital format open access conference proceedings book. Papers will be indexed in DBLP and Scopus, and are also expected to be indexed by ISI and INSPEC (application pending). Furthermore, all accepted papers and posters will be archived at the Elpub Digital Library: http://elpub.scix.net [2]. All contents published in the ELPUB proceedings are distributed open access via the conference archive (http://elpub.scix.net [2]) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. For content published in IOS Press channels, different copyright arrangements might apply. Paper submission and review will be managed via the EasyChair system. To submit a paper, please use the appropriate template and follow the specific instructions available at the conference website (http://www.elpub.net [1]). ALL FULL PAPERS, SHORT PAPERS AND POSTERS MUST BE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH AND SUBMITTED VIA THE?EASYCHAIR [3]?SUBMISSION SYSTEM IN?_PDF_FORMAT. FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Contributions are invited for the following categories: * FULL PAPERS (up to 10 pages; please use the IOS Press instructions and tools which are available at the following URL: IOS Press template [4]); * SHORT PAPERS (up to 6 pages; please use the IOS Press instructions and tools which are available at the following URL: IOS Press template [4]) * POSTERS (up to 3 pages; no template) * TUTORIALS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) * WORKSHOPS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) * DEMONSTRATIONS (abstract min. of 500 and max. of 1,000 words) IMPORTANT DATES October 9, 2013 Submission Site Open (EasyChair - Elpub2014 [3]) January 31, 2014 Submission Deadline (Time: 11:59 PM, PST) NEW DATE February 28, 2014 Author Decision Notification March 28, 2014 Submission of Camera Ready Version March 30, 2014 Early Bird Registration Deadline April 30, 2014 Final Registration Deadline June 19-20, 2014 Conference Dates CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION: June 19-20, 2014, Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece CONFERENCE HOST: Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece GENERAL CHAIR: Panayiota Polydoratou [5], Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece PROGRAMME CHAIR: Milena Dobreva [6], University of Malta Links: ------ [1] http://www.elpub.net/ [2] http://elpub.scix.net/ [3] https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2014 [4] http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors [5] http://polydor.libd.teithe.gr/ [6] http://www.um.edu.mt/maks/las/staff/dr_milena_dobreva -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Jan 17 11:18:37 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Dick Hill) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:18:37 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] [Dlib-subscribers] The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Message-ID: <074EC4B8E85740DFAC35E84FCDD5CE84@asist.local> Greetings: The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This is a special issue on the topic of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) with guest editors Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; and John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities. The issue contains five articles and two conference reports. The 'In Brief' column presents five short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features DataVis.ca, courtesy of Michael Friendly, Professor of Psychology, Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University. The guest editorial is: Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities The articles include: Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the Research Data Alliance by Beth Plale, Indiana University Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group by Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Improving Access to Recorded Language Data by Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australian National Corpus Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data by Esther Dzale Yeumo Kabore, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute; Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations Organizational Status of RDA by Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The conference reports are: Data Identification and Citation - The Key to Unlocking the Promise of Data Sharing and Reuse by Adam Farquhar, British Library and DataCite; Jan Brase, DataCite Big Humanities Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2013 by Tobias Blanke, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London; Mark Hedges, King's College London; Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From Jessica.Hernandez at fda.hhs.gov Wed Jan 22 10:25:17 2014 From: Jessica.Hernandez at fda.hhs.gov (Hernandez, Jessica) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:25:17 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job Announcement: Programmer, FDA Digital Library of Modeling and Simulation, Silver Spring, MD $90k In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please distribute... FDA is seeking a software professional with an interest in digital library applications and technology. Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories Center for Devices and Radiological Health U.S. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD This is an interdisciplinary project to develop digital library software to enable management, preservation, and online discovery of scientific data and software. The project will develop the FDA Digital Library of Modeling and Simulation repository. This will involve deployment of a new repository and web application using the Hydra technology stack (http://projecthydra.org), which includes Fedora Commons Repository Software, Ruby on Rails, Java, and SQL. The project will design and implement the architecture, workflows, and applications for the FDA Digital Library. In addition, the project will implement a website to give the scientific community access to material in the FDA Digital Library. Working closely with the Digital Library team and team leaders, the project will include specifying, documenting and developing the technical architecture of a prototype repository and management system for digital preservation. Specific duties include: * Work closely with the FDA team to understand the requirements and develop specifications for the digital library architecture. * Design and implement a repository infrastructure, using open source software, that supports the ingestion, preservation, and delivery of digital objects (text, xml, images, videos, binary). * Develop and implement workflows to extract and repurpose metadata and digital objects. * Customize user interface to open source repository applications for end-user delivery. * Keep abreast with the digital library software and infrastructure development communities. * Write and maintain documentation. 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The Research Forum and Poster Session provide an excellent opportunity to share a wide range of research endeavors and methodologies relevant to science and technology librarianship. The Committee adheres to mentoring principles and utilizes a "blind" review process to select proposals. Submissions for the paper and poster presentations are selected based on the abstract and significant progress by June 2014. Writing style is critical and should be clear, concise, and organized. Abstracts should include some aspects of the research process. Some examples are: * Hypothesis * Problem or purpose - research question or thesis - stated in one sentence. * Literature review in its simplest form - where your project fits with scholarly community. * Target group: people, animals, things etc. and relevant characteristics. * Methodology with essential components * Basic findings, including statistical limitations such as confidence intervals * Conclusions, implications, or applications * Contribute to the advancement of science and technology librarianship. * Demonstrate innovative and original research. * Contribute ideas for positioning librarians to be leaders both on and off campus. Abstracts. Abstracts should total no more than 250 words while addressing the aforementioned criteria. Abstracts should indicate presentation category: Featured, Short Paper, or Poster Session. Be sure to include your name, institution, phone, and e-mail address of all participants (not part of word count). Please indicate whether or not the project was submitted to other conferences, for publication in a journal, published or presented before. Featured Paper Presentations. Our Featured Paper Presentation will be 20 minutes in length and followed by a thoughtful 10 minute critique from a guest commentator, who offers suggestions on how to prepare the paper for publication. Proposals should reflect research that has been completed or initiatives that have already been implemented. At a minimum, significant progress should have been made toward completion or implementation. Short Paper Presentations. Short Papers are 10 minutes in length and may reflect research or initiatives that have been completed or are currently in progress. Short papers may also solicit feedback (5 minutes) on research ideas that are being formulated, outlining possible approaches and asking attendees and the guest commentator for their response. Poster Presentations. Submissions for the poster session are selected from two categories - STS Theme and Open Session. The STS Theme for 2014 is "How can librarians assist with student diversity and retention in the STEM and health science fields at their institutions?" The Open category is for research endeavors or practitioner projects outside the Theme that enhance science and technology librarianship. Proposals should provide useful and practical findings, and opportunities for discussion. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Galileo's 450th Birthday, Saturday, February 15, 2014. Submissions are selected by the STS Research Committee. Acceptance of proposals reflects a commitment by the author(s) to present at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to Jack Maness, jack.maness at colorado.edu, and Greg Nelson, greg_nelson at byu.edu, Co-Chairs of the STS Research Committee. 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Webinar: We Know it When We See It: Managing "Works" Metadata Date: February 12, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR In the new models for describing information resources (FRBR, RDA, BIBFRAME), the conceptual essence of an item-referred to as a "Work"-is separated from the specific manifestations of the item-referred to as "Instances" or "Expressions". The work "Macbeth by Shakespeare" could have multiple forms or versions and exist in a variety of media, from a print copy of the play to a DVD of a live performance. Of equal importance in the new models is describing the relationship between a Work and its various Instances/Expressions. This represents an entirely different way of thinking about resource description for libraries and users. While the new models are still in the early days of implementation, a number of efforts are already underway to describe resources using these new concepts and relationships. This webinar will explore how metadata descriptive systems are developing around the new notion of "Works". TOPICS & SPEAKERS . The Use and Designation of "Works" in GOKb - Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University . RDA's Impact on Library Technical and Public Services - Magda El-Sherbini, Associate Professor and Head, Collection Description and Access Department, Ohio State University Libraries . Works as a Collection of "Rights" about a Content Object - Godfrey Rust, Principal Data Architect for Ontologyx, Rightscom REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 12, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance . If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/managing_metadata/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:15:34 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job Application Deadline Extended -- Scientific Research Data Librarian Message-ID: <15af7bf1101e4354bf5c87dca4004101@BY2PR09MB030.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> Please excuse the cross-post This job application Deadline has been extended to Feb. 14, 2014 ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcement Number: ADMR-2014-0005 Position Title: Librarian ZA-1410-III (GS-11/12 equivalent) Salary: $62,467.00 - $97,333.00 Position Information: Term Appointment, not to exceed 2 years Hiring Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY Duty Locations: Gaithersburg, MD, US Open Period: 01/10/2014 - 02/14/2014 The Information Services Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an experienced individual to help accelerate the development of the Office's research data management services. ISO is a team-based environment, which emphasize knowledge sharing and collaboration to provide services to NIST scientific and technical staff throughout their research and publishing cycles. The selectee will serve as a Scientific Research Data Librarian to identify strategies for understanding and responding to the evolving research data service needs of NIST researchers. In partnership with ISO's Digital Services Librarian, the selectee will assist NIST researchers formulate data management plans, and prepare data for publication, reporting, and repository ingest. The selectee will identify and recommend tools, techniques, and practices for management of research data throughout its lifecycle. The selectee will also monitor, investigate, and report on emerging trends, best practices, and technologies in digital data stewardship, e-science, scholarly publishing, and open access. Education This position has an education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcripts to document that you have met the education requirement. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required prior to a final offer of employment. The job requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies: * Knowledge of the life cycle of research data in the context of scholarly publishing and digital preservation. * Skill in applying methods to curate research data. * Skill in using tools for managing digital data. * Ability to communicate orally and in writing with all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Ability to plan and deliver training on research data management to all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Knowledge of current issues in eScience/eResearch. * Ability to analyze and synthesize complex concepts and issues, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing you experience. Basic Requirements for Librarian ZA-1410: (Transcripts must be submitted) Successful completion of one full academic year of graduate study in library science in an accredited college or university, in addition to completion of all work required for a Bachelor's degree. OR Successful completion of a total of at least five years of a combination of college-level education, training, and experience. To qualify on this basis, the applicant must establish conclusively that the education, training, and experience provided a knowledge and understanding of the theories, principles, and techniques of professional librarianship; knowledge of literature resources; and the knowledge and abilities essential for providing effective library and information services. In addition to meeting the educational requirements above, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 OR ZA-III at NIST): Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band (ZA-II) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing scientific research data management services. Specialized experience can include experience in a college or university library which demonstrates professional knowledge and experience with research data life cycle; applying methods to curate research data; skill in using tools for managing digital data. SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 or ZA-III at NIST): Successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education in library science or doctoral degree related to the position Or A combination of education and experience as described above that equates to one year of experience. To Apply, go to USAJobs.gov: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/358805300 ____________________________________ Regina L. Avila Digital Services Librarian National Institute of Standards and Technology 301-975-3575 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Jan 30 15:19:00 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:19:00 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP ASIS&T 2014 Message-ID: <388-220141430201859968@LEN-dick-2011> Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ SUBMISDSION URL: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2014/index.php?page=login The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST?s many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. Important Dates Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) . 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