From vdressle at kent.edu Tue Jan 6 14:56:12 2015 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:56:12 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] FW: Research Fellowships at the Rock Hall Library and Archives In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for any cross-posting. From: Leslie Cade [mailto:lcade at clevelandart.org] Subject: Research Fellowships at the Rock Hall Library and Archives The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, working with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, announces the availability of research fellowships to support use of the resources of the Rock Hall's Library and Archives. Fellowships will be in the amount of $2,000 to support a one-week research trip. Applicants should send a CV or r?sum?, a one-page statement of research plans as they relate to the holdings of the Library and Archives (see http://catalog.rockhall.com), and proposed dates of residence to popmusic at case.edu. Review of applications will begin January 26, 2015. The Library and Archives is the world's most comprehensive repository of materials relating to rock and roll, its musical roots (e.g. blues, country, R&B, gospel) and related genres (e.g. soul, hip-hop). The library gives casual users access to over 16,000 non-circulating books, periodicals, and recordings. In the archives, researchers may work directly with hundreds of thousands of original photographs, posters, promotional materials, rare audio and video recordings, and personal and corporate papers. Many of the collection materials are unique to the Library and Archives, and much more is available at only one or two other repositories in the country, or, in some cases, the world. The more than 400 collections focus on such luminaries as Alan Freed, Del Shannon, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, Art Garfunkel, Clive Davis, and Scotty Moore, plus Atlantic Records, Sire Records, FAME Studios, Bloodshot Records, Kill Rock Stars, and other music-related companies, as well as a materials relevant to a local music collecting initiative, the Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives, which includes over 50 years of the late Cleveland rock critic Jane Scott's working notes, as well as personal collections from local producers, photographers, promoters, and musicians. The Library and Archives is a 22,500-square-foot facility located on the campus of Cuyahoga Community College, at 2809 Woodland Avenue in downtown Cleveland. More information about the Library and Archives and its holdings can be found at http://library.rockhall.com/. Any questions about the program can be sent to popmusic at case.edu. Leslie Cade Archivist and Records Manager The Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1797 T 216-707-2492 F 216-421-0921 www.ClevelandArt.org [Museum Banner] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caryn.anderson at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 10:52:31 2015 From: caryn.anderson at gmail.com (Caryn Anderson) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:52:31 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Message-ID: Please forgive cross-posting. For information scientists interested in making research and research methods more accessible across disciplines, particularly for complex social problems, the opportunity below may be of interest. (full RFP on SESYNC website ) I have worked with Professor Bammer in her efforts to collate, organize and develop theory and methods for transdisciplinary research. I outlined some of the philosophies that underpin this funding opportunity in an 2008 ASIST Bulletin article . Her book on Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods is an example of one kind of research methods synthesis. Professor Bammer is very keen to see a team of information scientists participate in this effort to synthesize research methods and has asked to share this RFP with ASIST members. The expectation is that multiple teams in different subject areas will generate aggregated transdisciplinary research methods toolkits, databases, and/or curricula for training inter-disciplinary research teams. An information science team should be able to assist with determining how to organize and distribute such information (the output of all the teams supported by this SESYNC project) for effective discovery and use by all researchers working on complex social problems. Information science teams may also be able to design strategies for finding and aggregating methods across disciplines generally or in support of the other teams in the project. This may be of particular interest to information scientists focused on scholarly communication, information needs/use, knowledge management, and science and technical information. There is also potential for classification and digital libraries specialists. Funding is for travel, accommodation & meals for teams to meet at SESYNC in Maryland multiple times over two years. Cheers, Caryn Anderson Research Information Specialist & PhD Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clndrsn2 at illinois.edu caryn.anderson at gmail.com ------------------------------ *Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015* *Details:* http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio-environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. Effective team science is key to finding solutions to socio-environmental problems. Many tools have been developed for integrating ideas, data, and methods across the diverse disciplines involved when researching complex problems. Similarly, practices have been identified that facilitate the linkage of research results with informed policy decisions. Relatively few of these tools and practices have been assessed and optimized for addressing socio-environmental challenges. We invite proposals for synthesis and refinement of the tools and practices of team science from all disciplinary sources for use in socio-environmental applications. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years (approximately four three-day meetings per team) to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams? effectiveness at understanding socio-environmental problems and informing socio-environmental decisions. The focus may be on improving research methods, on educating new generations of researchers, or both. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio-environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of relevant disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. *Purpose* The aim of the synthesis teams to be established under this proposal is to aggregate and synthesize the tools, methods, and other practices used in action-oriented team research as applicable to socio-environmental science. We encourage proposals that address issues across all stages throughout the lifecycle of an interdisciplinary project from problem formulation to approach design, data gathering analysis and synthesis, publication and other dissemination, implementation, and assessment, although individual teams might only work on a subset of these. Many types or combinations of synthesis approaches are possible and many sources of data for aggregation and analysis are appropriate, including diverse case study examples, concepts, methodologies, procedures, protocols, computational applications, or theoretical foundations. *Additional Info* Visit http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education for complete details. Proposals must be received by March 9, 2015, at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). *Questions?* For general inquiries, or contacts from individuals who are interested but are not currently part of a team, please contact Gabriele Bammer ( Gabriele.Bammer at anu.edu.au) or David Hawthorne (dhawthorne at sesync.org). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ecorrado at binghamton.edu Wed Jan 28 13:41:31 2015 From: ecorrado at binghamton.edu (Edward Corrado) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:41:31 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Digital Initiatives Librarian Message-ID: The following position is available at Binghamton University. A full job description with more details and requirements is available at the link below. One of the duties this person will have is working with our digital preservation system (Rosetta). Incidentally we also have an opening for a Fine Arts Librarian as well. Details can also be found at the link below. Applications will be reviewed startling the beginning of March for both positions. Please free to share with anyone who you think might be interested... Edward Digital Initiatives Librarian Binghamton University Libraries, Binghamton, New York, are currently accepting applications for a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Binghamton University is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is located in upstate New York. This tenure-track library faculty position will collaborate in the planning, implementation and monitoring of digital projects including digital curation, preservation and digital exhibits. Required Qualifications include an ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent and knowledge of and experience with current trends in digital preservation, experience developing web applications, and strong UNIX or Linux skills. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Applications Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. For full qualifications, application instructions, and additional information, visit our website at: http://www.binghamton.edu/libraries/about/employment/faculty.html Binghamton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -- Edward M. Corrado Director of Library Technology Binghamton University Libraries P.O. Box 6012, Binghamton, NY 13902 USA Phone: +1-607-777-4909 | Fax: +1-607-777-4848 ecorrado at binghamton.edu | http://library.binghamton.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Jan 31 05:52:00 2015 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:52:00 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Multilingual Web Access Workshop @ WWW 2015 Message-ID: <1CDA5821-CCB2-4A92-A987-E350FFDA3B7F@dei.unipd.it> --------------- Call for Papers --------------- International Workshop on Multilingual Web Access (MWA 2015), May 19, 2015 http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/ held In conjunction with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference, Florence, Italy. -------- Motivation and Goals -------- Over the past 25 years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has developed into a truly transnational information medium for users from across the globe. As of July 2013, Asia accounts for the largest share of online users in the world at 48.4%, followed by 21.8% from the Americas, and 19% from Europe. With this global development, the diversity of user languages on the Web has increased dramatically, leading to new challenges and opportunities for information access providers and consumers. The MWA workshop will bring together researchers working on Cross-/Multilingual Search & Discovery, the Multilingual Social Web, as well as the Multilingual Semantic Web, in order to promote the exchange of complementary ideas and applicable/transferrable techniques between these areas. The goal of the workshop is to advance the current state of the art in Multilingual Web Access techniques, and, most importantly, to increase the adoption of multilingual techniques, methods, and tools in real-world Web applications. -------- Themes of interest -------- Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Multilingual Web search & discovery - Multilingual Web user needs & behavior - Multilingual recommender systems - Multilingual news systems - Cross-/multilingual information retrieval - Interactive MWA systems & interfaces - Personalized multilingual search systems - Multilingual social network analysis - Methods & tools for information & community linking - Multilingual semantic knowledge extraction, representation, and annotation - Multilingual ontology mapping & data linking - Sharing multilingual language resources as open web data - Integration of language technology with multilingual Web content, e.g. automated translation, automated text annotation for topic detection, named entity recognition and disambiguation - Evaluation: methods, collections, and metrics for MWA - Language resources for MWA - Cultural aspects of MWA - Risk-aware MWA - Privacy and Data Protection of multilingual Web content and data across jurisdictions ----------- Submissions ----------- We solicit submissions of long (up to 6 pages) and short papers (up to 3 pages) from diverse backgrounds, with the aim of promoting the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page at http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. *** Accepted papers will be included in the WWW conference companion volume that is published together with the main proceedings by ACM. *** --------------- Important dates --------------- Feb 11, 2015: Submission Deadline Feb 27, 2015: Notification to Authors Mar 8, 2015: Camera-ready Due May 19, 2015: Workshop -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - ben.steichen at ubc.ca Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy) - ferro at dei.unipd.it Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Dave.Lewis at scss.tcd.ie Ed H. Chi (Google, USA) - chi at acm.org For further questions please contact a member of the organizing committee.