From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Apr 8 04:32:18 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 10:32:18 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Paper - Special Issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval Message-ID: <49CDFD35-6B50-4FC6-BE4D-48C34D266C32@dei.unipd.it> CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ) http://jdiq.acm.org/ ** Guest editors ** Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy, ferro at dei.unipd.it Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, norbert.fuhr at uni-due.de Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, rauber at ifs.tuwien.ac.at ** Aim ** Information Retrieval is a discipline that has been strongly rooted in experimentation since its inception. Experimental evaluation has always been a strong driver for IR research and innovation, and these activities have been shaped by large scale evaluation campaigns such as TREC, CLEF, NTCIR and FIRE. IR systems are getting more and more complex. They need to cross language and media barriers; they span from unstructured, to semi-structured to highly structured data; and they are faced with diverse and complex user information needs, search tasks, and societal challenges. As a consequence, evaluation and experimentation, which has remained a fundamental element, has in turn become increasingly sophisticated and challenging. In this context, repeatability, reproducibility, and generalizability of experiments and results cannot be taken for granted. Indeed we need to emphasize these aspects as key requirements, if we wish to continue to reliably and durably advance research and technology in the field. In turn, we need to actively pursue them as a core part of our experimental methodology and practice. In this special issue of JDIQ, we aspire to provide an overview of innovative research at the intersection of information retrieval and data quality, from theory to practice, with a focus on challenges, solutions, and experiences in reproducibility of IR experimental results. ** Topics ** Specific topics within the scope of the call include, but are not limited to, the following: - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in system-oriented evaluation. - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in user-oriented evaluation. - General reproducibility frameworks for IR. - Lessons learned in reproducing third-party experiments. - Reproducibility of query results. - Reproducibility challenges on private or proprietary data. - Reproducibility challenges on ephemeral data, like streaming data, tweets, etc. - Reproducibility challenges on online experiments, e.g., A/B testing. - Reproducibility in evaluation campaigns. - Evaluation infrastructures and Evaluation as a Service (EaaS). - Experiment data management, data curation, and data quality. - Data models, semantic or not, for IR experimental data. - Reproducible experimental workflows: tools and experiences. - Quality of IR experimental data. - Data Citation: citing experimental data, dynamic data sets, samples, and statistical analyses. ** Expected contributions ** We welcome the following two types of contributions: - Research manuscripts reporting mature results [25+ pages]. - Experience papers that report on lessons learned from addressing specific issues towards improved quality and reproducibility of experimental results [12+ pages plus an optional appendix]. If this is an extension of prior published work, then submitted manuscripts must contain at least 30% new material, and the significant new contributions must be clearly identified in the introduction. Submission guidelines with Latex (preferred) or Word templates are available here: http://jdiq.acm.org/authors.cfm#subm ** Important dates ** - Initial submission: Friday September 8, 2017 - First review: Thursday December 7, 2017 - Revised manuscripts: Friday March 9, 2018 - Second review: Friday May 11, 2018 - Camera-ready manuscripts: Friday July 13, 2018 - Publication: Late October 2018 From vdressle at kent.edu Mon Apr 10 11:50:44 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:50:44 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Virtual Uncommons, SIGDL Twitter chat, 4/18 Message-ID: Hello SIGDL- Please join us for the next Twitter chat on April 18th, 4-6PM (ET), using the theme "Technical skill sets in digital library settings." What: A virtual discussion about what Digital Librarianship looks like in the wild and how Digital Libraries contribute to communities Where: On Twitter using the hashtag #SIGDLChats When: April, 18th, 2017 from 17:00?19:00 CT (16:00?18:00 ET, 18:00?20:00 MT, 19:00?21:00 PT) More info here: https://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/digital-liaisons-2017/ Ginnie -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian University Libraries Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Thu Apr 13 04:13:19 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:13:19 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Bids to host CLEF 2019 - 20th Anniversary Edition Message-ID: INTRODUCTION The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. 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 2019. CLEF 2019 will be a special edition marking the 20th anniversary of the CLEF Initiative. Groups submitting a bid for CLEF 2019 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: Friday 7 July, 2017 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: mid August 2017 - Bid selection: late August 2017 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 - Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - 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 - Birger Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark - 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 ppichappan at gmail.com Thu Apr 20 07:34:21 2017 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:04:21 +0530 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP: ICDIM 2017 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 www.icdim.org Technically and Financially co-sponsored by TEMS, IEEE ICDIM 2017 hosts the following co-located workshops during the conference. Third Workshop on Internet of Everything (IoE) Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) Third Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS 2017) Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Thailand (2014) Republic of Korea (South Korea)(2015) and Porto (2016), the Twelfth event is being organized at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 2017. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary 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. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. 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 Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan The topics in ICDIM 2017 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 Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications + 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. General Chair Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) Honorary Chair Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan) Organizing Chair Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair Toki Takeda (NTT, Japan) Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Hung-Yuan Chung, National Central University, Taiwan Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 1, 2017 Notification of Authors August 1, 2017 Registration Due September 1, 2017 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Submissions at- http://icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary 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. Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. 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 Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan The topics in ICDIM 2017 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 Intelligence Systems Artificial Intelligence Applications + 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. General Chair Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) Honorary Chair Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan) Organizing Chair Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair Toki Takeda (NTT, Japan) Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Hung-Yuan Chung, National Central University, Taiwan Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 1, 2017 Notification of Authors August 1, 2017 Registration Due September 1, 2017 Camera Ready Due September 1, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Submissions at- http://icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdressle at kent.edu Thu Apr 27 15:35:42 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:35:42 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Upcoming SIGDL Webinar: May 18: From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts Message-ID: Hello SIG-DL- Please join us in an upcoming webinar highlighting digital preservation efforts at the University of Southern Mississippi, presented by Digital Lab Manager Elizabeth La Beaud. May 18, 2017 3PM (EDT) Free(!) Webinar description: The University of Southern Mississippi has been digitizing materials for almost two decades. Similar to other institutions, backups were considered ?preservation? of digital objects. In 2013, we started learning what was really required to preserve our data. We slowly started testing methods, proving validity of tools, and implementing improvements ? all with minuscule resources. After demonstrating years of data, projections for the future, and calculating the true cost ? including staffing resources and time ? we transitioned to a robust digital preservation system. Our journey from digital library to digital archive is not unusual and can be replicated. This session will outline the differences between a digital library and a digital archive and simple changes that can be made to get started with digital preservation. Using the University of Southern Mississippi as a case study, this session will cover digital preservation basics from identifying needs to tool selection, from piecemeal efforts to implementing a full digital preservation system. If Mississippi can do it, you can too. Details on registration and more information on the program can be found here: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/webinar-from-digital-library-to-digital-archive-implementing-digital-preservation-efforts/ Webinar: From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts | ASIS&T www.asist.org May 18, 2017, 3:00 PM EDT From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts The University of Southern Mississippi has been Thanks! Please spread the word. Ginnie -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian University Libraries Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: