From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Apr 1 08:10:08 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:10:08 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL workshop) + Special Issue of IJDL Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 18th April, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birger at hum.aau.dk Wed Apr 6 08:52:17 2016 From: birger at hum.aau.dk (Birger Larsen) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:52:17 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CLEF'16: 3rd CFP on Information Access, deadlines extended: April 24 (long) - May 1 (short). Message-ID: <1FE55AA8C30F694B820C89B197411E7131DFE29F@AD-EXCHMBX4-1.aau.dk> CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction 5-8 September 2016, ?vora - Portugal Submission Deadlines: - Sunday April 24, 2016 (long papers), - Sunday May 1 (short papers) http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ Twitter: @clef_initiative / #clef2016 CALL FOR PAPERS The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The conference is teamed up with a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation. CLEF 2016 is the 7th year of the CLEF Conference and the 17th year of the CLEF initiative as a forum for IR Evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). TOPICS Relevant topics for the CLEF 2016 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis. - Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc. FORMAT Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: - https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2016 DATES - Submission of Long Papers: April 24, 2016 - Submission of Short Papers: May 1, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2016 - Camera Ready Copy due: June 17, 2016 - Conference: September 5-8, 2016 ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Paulo Quaresma, University of ?vora, Portugal Program Chairs - Birger Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark - Teresa Gon?alves, University of ?vora, Portugal Lab Chairs - Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK - Krisztian Balog, Uinversity of Stavenger, Norway Proceedings Chairs - Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy From syn at cua.edu Mon Apr 4 11:57:41 2016 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:57:41 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP: ICADL2016 - 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting ============================================= Call For Papers 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2016) http://icadl2016.org Dates: December 7 to 9, 2016 Location: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Co-located Event: Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) Dec. 5 to 6, 2016 ============================================= 2016-07-02(Sat) Paper Submission Deadline Full research papers (oral presentation) Short practitioner papers (poster presentation) Short work-in-progress papers (poster presentation) 2016-08-19(Fri) Workshop Proposal Deadline 2016-08-29(Mon) Notification (Papers and Workshops) 2016-09-13(Tue) Camera Ready Copy Due (Tentative) ============================================== Since its beginnings in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has become a premiere international conference for digital library research. ICADL 2016 in Tsukuba, the Japanese science city near Tokyo, offers a valuable opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences and innovative developments. ICADL 2016 will be held as a part of an international forum with the Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) to promote exchange and collaboration among information schools in Asia-Pacific. AP-IS will include a doctoral consortium, workshops, panel discussions and meetings for students and faculties from Information Schools in the Asia-Pacific region. The main theme of ICADL 2016 is "Knowledge, Information and Data in Open Access Society." We solicit not only high-quality, original research papers, but also practitioner papers identifying research problems and future directions. Following the previous ICADLs, ICADL 2016 proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. The following is the (non-exhaustive) list of topics. [Information Technologies for Knowledge, Information and Data] Semantic Web and linked data Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information Multilingual information access Multimedia information management, retrieval and recommendation Metadata aggregation models Interchangeability and information integration Ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information Applications of digital libraries Quality assurance of digital libraries Sociability and high availability of digital libraries Digital preservation Digital curation Research data and virtual organizations User interface and user experience Visualization in digital libraries Social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interface in digital libraries Personal information management and personal digital libraries Ubiquitous computing and knowledge management [Societal and Cultural Issues in Knowledge, Information and Data] Community Informatics Cross-sectoral digital libraries Collaborations among archives, libraries, museums Digital cultural memory initiatives Digital humanities Digital library/ digital archive infrastructures Digital library education and digital literacy Digital preservation and digital curation Economic and legal frameworks and issues Ethics and ethical practice, privacy in digital collection building, management and access Higher education uses of digital collections Research data infrastructures, management and use Information policies Participatory cultural heritage Risks management in digital library/ archive projects Creating, managing and using collections of social media and dynamically generated contents Social sustainability and digital libraries/ archives Socio-technical perspectives of digital information Usability and accessibility aspects of digital libraries *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Sat Apr 16 05:31:52 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:31:52 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Extended deadline: CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL 2016 workshop) Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline Extended: 25th April, 2016 (12pm Hawaii time)*** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Successful authors will also be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), following the workshop. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multi-subdomain conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 19-21, 2016 at Porto in Portugal. The topics in ICDIM 2016 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Workshops ICDIM 2016 has the following co-located workshops Fourth Workshop on Emerging Problem- specific Crowdsourcing Technologies Fourth Workshop on Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization Third IEEE International Workshop on Data Management First Workshop on Internet of Things First Workshop on Big Data Mining First Workshop on Cluster Computing First Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (SCOPUs/EI) 2. Journal of Electrical Systems 3. Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering 4. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) 5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) 7. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 8. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) 9. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 10. International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) 11. International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) 12 International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 13. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI Important Dates Full Paper Submission June 30, 2016 Notification of Authors August 1, 2016 Registration Due September 1, 2016 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2016 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 20, 2016 Main conference September 19-21, 2016 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Committee General Chair Ramiro S?mano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Program Chairs Arun Pujari, Central University of Rajasthan, India Antonio J. Tall?n-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain Co-Chairs Robert Bierwolf, IEEE TEMS, Netherlands Imran Bajwa, The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan Feliz Lustenberger, Espros Photonics Corporation, Switzerland Workshop Chair Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Email: conference at icdim.org SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html ---------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 25 07:19:21 2016 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: <981716848.14746418.1461583161201.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Apr 25 11:45:27 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:45:27 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Final CfP: Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (workshop at JCDL2016) Message-ID: Final Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 2nd May, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 2 May 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:35:54 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:35:54 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] DEADLINES - New Leader Award & Annual Meeting Panels & Workshops Message-ID: <388-220164529143553963@LEN-dick-2011> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 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/ 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