From Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu Fri Feb 5 17:26:24 2016 From: Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu (Alemneh, Daniel) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 22:26:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job Posting: Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of North Texas Message-ID: Apologies for any cross-postings. University of North Texas Denton, Texas Scholarly Communication Librarian Assistant Librarian https://facultyjobs.unt.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=168089 The University of North Texas Libraries, serving the largest and most comprehensive university in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, are a pioneer in fostering the transformation of libraries and of scholarly communication. With four physical locations on campus and an even larger digital footprint, with digital-library collections including over 10 million items, the Libraries were one of the first to archive web sites, one of the founding members of the Library Publishing Coalition, and the first non-federal library to participate in the Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet). Since 2010 the Libraries host an annual open-access symposium with speakers from around the world, and the Libraries are the driving force behind the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative, which brings together library staff from across the region for professional development and collaboration. The Libraries receive about $1 million per year in funding from grants and foundations. Reporting to and working in close collaboration with the Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication, the Scholarly Communication Librarian will contribute to the Libraries' efforts to educate users about the transformation of scholarly communication and foster a more sustainable publishing ecosystem. Responsibilities * Coordinate publishing projects for UNT Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services, especially by managing freelance editors and designers and communicating with authors. * Coordinate subsidized, revenue-generating publishing projects designed to raise awareness of the unique collections of the Libraries. * Consult with UNT researchers on developing data management plans and on using the DMPTool. * With support from the Libraries' Digital Scholarship Workgroup, serve as program manager for the Libraries' digital scholarship program. * Assist in the preparation of grant applications to support the transformation of scholarly communication. * Serve on the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Transformation Workgroup, the Digital Scholarship Workgroup, and other appropriate committees within the Libraries and other parts of the university. * Perform additional duties as assigned. Minimum qualifications * MS/MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited program or equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and experience. * Familiarity with academic research in a variety of fields. * Familiarity with scholarly publishing. * Positive customer orientation and strong interpersonal skills. * Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. * Strong attention to details Preferred Qualifications * Experience conducting academic research. * Experience managing the publication of works of scholarship. * Experience creating data management plans and using the DMPTool. * Exceptional attention to detail. * Experience in preparing grant applications. All applicants must apply to https://facultyjobs.unt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Ph.D. Digital Curation Coordinator, UNT Digital Libraries Adjunct Professor, College of Information University of North Texas Willis Library # 322, Denton, TX 76203 Email: Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu Phone: 940-891-6703 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdressle at kent.edu Mon Feb 8 09:02:53 2016 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:02:53 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] FW: Job Posting: Digital Archivist at Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: Frazer, Meghan [mailto:mfrazer at ohiolink.edu] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 9:00 AM To: ohiodiglist at ohiodig.org Cc: Sershen, Douglas Subject: [ohiodiglist at ohiodig.org] Job Posting: Digital Archivist at Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU Please see below for a job posting - contact Doug Sershen (sershen.2 at osu.edu), copied here, with any questions. The Ohio State University, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Resource Archivist and Curator The Digital Resource Archivist and Curator at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture leads the ongoing development and implementation of policies and procedures that facilitate the acquisition, transfer, preservation, arrangement, description and access to digital materials, including video (and analog materials converted to digital), in accordance with emerging standards and best practices; consults with and advises creators of digital content and external donors of content, when necessary; acts as school staff liaison to The Ohio State University Libraries. The Digital Resource Archivist and Curator creates standards, policies, procedures, and tools for processing, discovery and access to the school's collections, and collaborates with faculty and staff on the active use of these materials. Working closely with school leadership, faculty and staff, the Digital Resource Archivist and Curator manages acquisition of digital content in all formats for digital records in the Knowlton School Digital Library Office and School Archive. Position focus is on the collection and curation of content that represents the unique holdings and creative product of the Knowlton School, including the school's Baumer Lecture Series, other special events and exhibitions, and work created by faculty, students and alumni. Curated content to be used for numerous purposes, including: faculty, student and visiting scholar teaching and research; student recruitment; advancement and alumni relations; general outreach and support of major school initiatives, such as publications and special events. The Digital Resource Archivist and Curator manages the Digital Library Office, which includes a large-format scanner, and School Archive, both located in Knowlton Hall. The position oversees an operational budget, writes grants to secure additional funding for core activities and supervises undergraduate and graduate student staff. The Digital Archivist serves as the school's Carmen and Mediasite affiliate via the affiliates program in the OSU Office of Distance Education and eLearning. The Digital Resource Archivist and Curator is responsible for maintaining the school's Digital Library website. Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Demonstrated experience with web design and related software including Adobe Creative Suite. Programming experience using Drupal, HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. Experience with various database systems including MySQL. Excellent visual and written communication skills pertaining to design. Experience in website development and managing digital assets. Experience working with images and video production. A demonstrated interest in the design disciplines. Experience in office management and hiring, training and supervising student employees. Ability to lift and carry 35 to 40-pound boxes. Required Qualifications: A degree in Information Systems or Library Science with an emphasis on digital collections or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired. Knowledge of metadata schemas, including ARTstor Core. Experience with managing digitization projects. Proactive work ethic and ability to work effectively, productively and collaboratively with only modest direct supervision. Duties Description: 50% Manages digitalization and cataloging of archival collections, both new collections and existing archival content that needs to be cataloged and digitized; manages bi-annual collection of student work to be included in the school's Digital Library website and Student Work galleries on the school's main website 20% Manages Digital Library Office and School Archives Office, including budget oversight, student hiring training and supervision; provides strategic direction for the Digital Library Office and School Archives; serves as liaison to University Libraries; writes grants for external funding and manages donor relations 30% Supports special projects and initiatives, both independently and as a part of collaborative teams, that may be associated with school strategic priorities, such as recruitment, advancement and outreach; helps maintain school's YouTube and other social media pages; supports distance-learning initiatives and serves as school's Carmen, Mediasite and Canvas affiliate Pay range $45,000 to $55,000 Applications must be submitted via the Careers at Ohio State website: https://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/68254 For information on how to apply or questions about the position, contact Doug Sershen, sershen.2 at osu.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In a departure from previous years, the scientific program of the 2016 meeting invites both talks and posters from the community on the following topics: - Leveraging research data level metrics for large data repositories and data networks - Integrating the needs and inputs of data users to advance and improve data discoverability - Assessing the progress, impact, and success in promoting open data policies DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters and Talks* Please submit an abstract (250 words maximum) and indicate whether you prefer to give a talk or present a poster to dugchairs at dataone.org. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. The poster session will be held the evening of Sunday evening July 17th during the reception events. Submissions will be reviewed by the DataONE Users Group Steering Committee. Accepted abstracts will be published on the DataONE website. *Important Dates* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2016 Author Notification: May 15, 2016 Preliminary meeting information for the DUG Annual Meeting can be found here: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting Preliminary information for the ESIP Summer Meeting can be found here: http://commons.esipfed.org/2016SummerMeeting Best regards, DUG Steering Committee Felimon Gayanilo (co-chair) Plato Smith (co-chair) Steven Aulenbach, Amber Budden, Debora Drucker, Rebecca Koskela, Myrica McCune, Laura Moyers, Shannon Rauch, Robert J. Sandusky, Stephanie Simms, Heather Soyka -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library 312-413-9822 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From t.zachary.frazier at gmail.com Tue Feb 9 13:41:09 2016 From: t.zachary.frazier at gmail.com (T. Zachary Frazier) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:41:09 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIG DL First Quarter Newsetter Message-ID: ASIS&T SIG DL Welcomes submissions for our Winter Newsletter! SIG DL is now accepting pieces for our Winter Newsletter. Those interested in contributing should email sigdlnews at gmail.com with contributions before 5:00pm PST, March 7th, 2016. We are soliciting proposals in the following categories: News: Let us know what happened to you last quarter (October, November, December): This includes accomplishments (Did you post a new collection? Win an award?), grants received, new positions (have an opening? Let us know so we can help you find the best person!), new hires (just fill an opening? Let the community know), & new events (holding a conference workshop or training this spring?) Dispatches, short works, or case studies. Tell the community about the research that you are doing, share insights from your latest project or feature roll outs, or submit a short paper based on your on-going research. Fiction, Poetry, and Miscellany: Do you work in a digital library? Do you have a poem about finding something online? Are you a scholar who writes short fiction about the organization of content? Send submit your quirky content. Pictorials: Works in which the visual components (e.g. diagrams, sketches, screenshots, story boards, and renderings,) are accompanied by text meant to illuminate the component, as opposed to work in which visuals serve to illustrate concepts in the text. Do you have a particularly great interface for your DL or technology? Show it off, and submit a pictorial.* Please send submission with the subject line ?SIGDL NEWSLETTER: . 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The CLEF Initiative is structured in two main parts: - a series of Evaluation Labs, i.e. laboratories to conduct evaluation of information access systems and workshops to discuss and pilot innovative evaluation activities; - a peer-reviewed Conference on a broad range of issues, including - investigation continuing the activities of the Evaluation Labs; - experiments using multilingual and multimodal data; in particular, but not only, data resulting from CLEF activities; - research in evaluation methodologies and challenges. Since 2000 CLEF has played a leading role in stimulating investigation and research in a wide range of key areas in the information retrieval domain. It has promoted the study and implementation of appropriate evaluation methodologies for diverse types of tasks and media. Over the years, a wide, strong, and multidisciplinary research community has been built, which covers and spans the different areas of expertise needed to deal with the breadth of CLEF activities. CALL FOR BIDS The CLEF Steering Committee solicits proposals from groups interested in organizing the CLEF conference and labs in September 2018. Groups submitting a bid for CLEF 2018 also commit themselves to collect membership fees on behalf of the CLEF Association and to pass them to the CLEF Association. Guidelines on submitting a bid can be found in the Template for Bids available at: http://www.clef-initiative.eu/documents/71612/87713/CLEF-Initiative-Template_for_bids.docx Bids must be submitted by *Tuesday, May 31st 2016* by email to the Steering Commitee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ). The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Interested parties can contact the Steering Committee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ) to receive further details. IMPORTANT DATES - Bid submission deadline: May 31st, 2016 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: June - July 2016 - Bid selection: July 2016 STEERING COMMITTEE - Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain - Donna Harman, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Josiane Mothe, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland - Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain - Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Jacques Savoy, University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland - Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany From RVanDuinen at clir.org Wed Feb 10 10:45:34 2016 From: RVanDuinen at clir.org (Rita Van Duinen) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:45:34 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Revitalized DLF Community Calendar Now Online In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We've recently improved and revitalized the DLF community calendar -- for all things related to digital libraries & archives, DH, museums & cultural heritage, data curation, open science, digital publishing, and more! The calendar has been in operation as a crowdsourced community resource since 2009, when it was founded by former CLIR postdoc Amanda French with a focus on digital humanities conferences. DLF expanded its scope in 2015, gave it some design love last week, and will be maintaining it as a one-stop-shop for events that matter to our members and broader community. The new calendar is online at its original URL (as a standalone site), and can be subscribed to, downloaded, or embedded in your website as we've done here. Ways to get involved with the community calendar: 1. Volunteer to help us keep it up to date for your interests! It's a breeze to set you up with access as a calendar editor (and if you're already a Google calendar user, it's seamless to toggle back and forth). Send an email to info at diglib.org and we'll get you going. (No big commitment required.) 2. Drop us a line to suggest events for inclusion in the calendar, whether it's something you're planning, attending, or just see passing by on your screen. 3. Planning an event? You may find it helpful to consult the calendar when considering dates. And please let us know as soon as you've got your dates locked down so we can help publicize your meeting and prevent conflicts! 4. Are you a developer or designer who wants to add functionality or help us improve the interface? Send a pull request. -- Oliver Bendorf, program associate at the Digital Library Federation find us online: diglib.org | follow us on Twitter: @CLIRDLF 1707 L Street NW, Suite 650 | Washington, DC, 20036 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kjeffery at mail.sdsu.edu Fri Feb 12 13:27:40 2016 From: kjeffery at mail.sdsu.edu (Keven Jeffery) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:27:40 -0800 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Position Announcement: Digital Humanities Librarian Message-ID: <010f01d165c3$0e9c08b0$2bd41a10$@mail.sdsu.edu> Digital Humanities Librarian San Diego State University San Diego, CA SDSU Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to collaborate with SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative to envision and develop digital scholarship services at SDSU. This position will help build on one of SDSU's Areas of Excellence, "Digital Humanities and Global Diversity." This full-time, tenure-track faculty position will serve as a strategist and resource person for the library on digital humanities; take a leadership role in envisioning digital scholarship at SDSU; and provide expert consultation, support, and training on digital humanities tools and techniques. As a faculty member, the Digital Humanities Librarian will be expected to engage in professional growth activities and participate in the shared governance of San Diego State University by serving on library, campus-wide, and California State University committees as needed. This position is open at the Senior Assistant Librarian to Associate Librarian, depending on qualifications. Salary commensurate with experience. This position will remain open until filled. Review will begin immediately. Preference will be given to applications received by March 8, 2016. Anticipated start date is August 2016. 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ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). Registration at http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/registration.html Deadlines --------- * Early Bird Registration: 07.01.2016 - 19.02.2016 (AoE) * Normal Registration: 20.02.2016 - 19.03.2016 (AoE) * Late / On Site Registration: 20.03.2016 - 23.03.2016 (AoE) Fees (in euros) ---------------- Student BCS/ACM/CLEF Regular Early Bird Registration: 250.00 430.00 480.00 Normal Registration: 280.00 480.00 530.00 Late / On-Site Registration: 310.00 530.00 580.00 One Day Only: 180.00 180.00 180.00 Industry Day Only: 180.00 180.00 180.00 Reception, workshops, tutorials, industry day, banquet, coffee, lunches and proceedings are included in the price when registering for the full conference. Only coffee and lunches will be included when registering for One Day only and Industry Day. Additional banquet tickets can be purchased for ?80 each and additional welcome reception or additional poster session reception for ?40 each. Workshops, tutorials and additional banquet dinner tickets ALL require that you have purchased a conference ticket (full or single day) in your name. Visa ----- If you need a travel visa to Italy, we can issue a visa support letter once you registered and payed the conference fee. Requested information and more details on VISA letter at: http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/registration.html Programme --------- http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/accepted_papers.html http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/schedule.html Keynotes -------- http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/keynotes.html Workshops --------- http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/workshops.html Tutorials --------- http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/tutorials.html Industry Day ------------ http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/industry_day.html =========== ORGANIZERS =========== General Chair: - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Programme Chairs: - Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland - Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Short Paper Chairs: - Josiane Mothe, ESPE, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo! Labs, London Student Mentor Chairs: - Jaana Kek?l?inen, University of Tampere, Finland - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Workshop Chairs: - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Demo Chairs: - Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy - Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, The Netherlands Industry Day Chairs: - Omar Alonso, Microsoft Bing, USA - Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia Tutorial Chairs: - Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy Local Organization Chair: - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy Sponsorship Chair: - Emanuele Di Buccio, University of Padua, Italy Full program committee: http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/program_committee.html ==================== VISIT AND FOLLOW US! ==================== http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ https://twitter.com/ecir2016 For more information, please contact: ecir2016-secretariat at dei.unipd.it ###################### SEE YOU SOON IN PADUA! ###################### From vdressle at kent.edu Mon Feb 15 10:49:24 2016 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:49:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] =?windows-1252?q?SIG-DL_Webinar=3A_A_Hub_of_Activity=3A?= =?windows-1252?q?_Clemson_University=92s_Involvement_in_the_Digital_Publi?= =?windows-1252?q?c_Library_of_America_=28DPLA=29_and_the_Open_Parks_Netwo?= =?windows-1252?q?rk?= Message-ID: Hello SIG-DL?ers- I hope you can join us for an upcoming webinar, hosted by SIG-DL. A Hub of Activity: Clemson University?s Involvement in the Digital Public Library of America and the Open Parks Network Friday, February 26th, 2016, 11:00am ? 12:00noon Clemson University Libraries has emerged as a recognized leader in the development of exceptional digital libraries and services, evidenced in its involvement with two national initiatives: the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Open Parks Network. In collaboration with its partners in the South Carolina Digital Library, Clemson supports the South Carolina Service Hub of the DPLA?one of the founding Service Hubs?and works to bring new digital content from South Carolina organizations online and more widely available to a national audience. In that same spirit of collaboration and shared resources, Clemson University established a unique relationship with the U.S. National Park Service on a large-scale project known as the Open Parks Network, which IMLS sponsored in 2010 with a National Leadership Grant. The collections digitized for the Open Parks Network now comprise over 350,000 unique items and 1.5 million pages of gray literature, representing national parks, historic sites, battlefields, and other protected areas from all areas of the country. Christopher Vinson, Head of Library Technology at Clemson University Libraries, will discuss both of these exciting initiatives from his perspective as Manager of the South Carolina DPLA Service Hub and Project Director for the Open Parks Network. Presenter Presenter Bio: Christopher Vinson Christopher Vinson joined Clemson University Libraries in 2011 as the Digital Projects Librarian. In 2012, he was appointed the Head of Library Technology?his current position that he finds to be both challenging and rewarding. Christopher develops and implements policies and service models to provide support to the Libraries and University in the areas of digital scholarship, web and application programming, technology management, and enterprise systems administration. Christopher also served as the principal investigator on a number of national grants in support of programs such as the Digital Public Library of America Service Hub in South Carolina and the Open Parks Network. Christopher graduated from Winthrop University with a BA in English in 2006, and earned his MLIS from the University of South Carolina in 2008. Christopher loves his work and tries to translate his passion for libraries and technology into effective, positive change for himself and his colleagues. 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URL: From birger at hum.aau.dk Sun Feb 21 15:31:52 2016 From: birger at hum.aau.dk (Birger Larsen) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:31:52 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CLEF'16: 2nd Call for papers on Information Access, deadlines April 8 (long) April 15 (short) Message-ID: <1FE55AA8C30F694B820C89B197411E7131DD7E93@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: - Friday April 8, 2016 (long papers), - Friday April 15 (short papers) http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ 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 8, 2016 - Submission of Short Papers: April 15, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdressle at kent.edu Mon Feb 22 08:49:46 2016 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:49:46 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Reminder: A Hub of Activity webinar is Friday, Feb 26th Message-ID: Reminder for the upcoming SIG-DL webinar::: A Hub of Activity: Clemson University's Involvement in the Digital Public Library of America and the Open Parks Network Friday, February 26th, 2016, 11:00am - 12:00noon Clemson University Libraries has emerged as a recognized leader in the development of exceptional digital libraries and services, evidenced in its involvement with two national initiatives: the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Open Parks Network. In collaboration with its partners in the South Carolina Digital Library, Clemson supports the South Carolina Service Hub of the DPLA-one of the founding Service Hubs-and works to bring new digital content from South Carolina organizations online and more widely available to a national audience. In that same spirit of collaboration and shared resources, Clemson University established a unique relationship with the U.S. National Park Service on a large-scale project known as the Open Parks Network, which IMLS sponsored in 2010 with a National Leadership Grant. The collections digitized for the Open Parks Network now comprise over 350,000 unique items and 1.5 million pages of gray literature, representing national parks, historic sites, battlefields, and other protected areas from all areas of the country. Christopher Vinson, Head of Library Technology at Clemson University Libraries, will discuss both of these exciting initiatives from his perspective as Manager of the South Carolina DPLA Service Hub and Project Director for the Open Parks Network. Presenter Presenter Bio: Christopher Vinson Christopher Vinson joined Clemson University Libraries in 2011 as the Digital Projects Librarian. In 2012, he was appointed the Head of Library Technology-his current position that he finds to be both challenging and rewarding. Christopher develops and implements policies and service models to provide support to the Libraries and University in the areas of digital scholarship, web and application programming, technology management, and enterprise systems administration. Christopher also served as the principal investigator on a number of national grants in support of programs such as the Digital Public Library of America Service Hub in South Carolina and the Open Parks Network. Christopher graduated from Winthrop University with a BA in English in 2006, and earned his MLIS from the University of South Carolina in 2008. Christopher loves his work and tries to translate his passion for libraries and technology into effective, positive change for himself and his colleagues. Pricing and Registration ASIS&T Members: Free Non-Members: $5 More information and registration HERE. -Ginnie -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 2016 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Systems of Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks 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 Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France 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 vdressle at kent.edu Thu Feb 25 13:49:16 2016 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:49:16 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Fw: Online Privacy Literacy short course from the University of Maryland's iSchool In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: May be of interest. -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian University Libraries Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 ________________________________ From: Rosemary Hall Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 1:47:15 PM To: DRESSLER, Virginia Subject: Online Privacy Literacy short course from the University of Maryland's iSchool Dear colleagues, Please check out this exciting opportunity for professional and further education in a very important field: Online Privacy Literacy! Regards, Rosemary Hall Graduate Assistant for Professional Education University of Maryland School of Information Studies Online Privacy Literacy-An Online Short Course Offered by Maryland's iSchool Have you ever thought about what you're agreeing to when you click "I Accept" on your social media accounts? Register now for Online Privacy Literacy-a fully online, 6-week short course! Offered through the Professional Education program at the University of Maryland's iSchool, this short course will introduce participants to the fundamental issues of online privacy literacy. This non-credit course will cover privacy settings on social media, show what information apps can access when you install them, demonstrate how to find the most important elements buried in complex privacy policies, discuss encryption and online tracking, and show what's coming in the near future. The course is designed for the general public, but is specifically focused on librarians who want to offer privacy training and advice to patrons. After completing the short course, participants will receive 1.8 CEUs and a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland's Office of Extended Studies. About the instructor: Dr. Jen Golbeck is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago, and is one of the world's foremost experts in the field. Her research has influenced industry, government, and the military. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people's hidden attributes from their online behavior, and a leader in creating human-friendly security and privacy systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Short Course Details * Dates: March 14, 2016-April 30, 2016 * Delivery: A fully online, asynchronous course that will utilize the University's Canvas learning management system. * Price and Refunds * $379.00 (payable by debit or credit only) * Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee Registration Details To register for this short course, visit http://go.umd.edu/online-privacy-literacy-mar16. Registration will close March 11, 2016, and participation will be capped at 50 students. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland's iSchool. The Professional Education program at Maryland's iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. 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We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Mon Feb 29 10:08:10 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:08:10 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Corrected Survey - Perceptions and experiences w/ ASIS&T Publications Message-ID: <388-22016212915810645@LEN-dick-2011> [Please excuse duplication. Apologies for earlier typo] Dear all, The ASIS&T Publications Committee would like to collect information about your perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications, specifically The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (The Bulletin), and The Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Proceedings (The ASIS&T Proceedings). As an ASIS&T Publications user (author, reader, and/or reviewer), your responses are extremely important to us. We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Feb 29 06:35:45 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:35:45 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP: Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale - workshop collocated at JCDL2016 Message-ID: *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Apologies for cross posting. *----------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *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****** *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 spaces - 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 Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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