From ASands at imls.gov Wed Aug 2 08:30:52 2017 From: ASands at imls.gov (Ashley Sands) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:30:52 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] IMLS Accepting Grant Applications: Next Deadline September 1st Message-ID: Please distribute widely and forgive duplication. IMLS Accepting Applications for National Leadership and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grants September 1 deadline Washington, DC - The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced the guidelines for the first round of FY 2018 National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG) and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21). The NLG program invests in projects that address challenges faced by the library and archive fields and generate results such as new tools, research findings, or models that can be widely used. The LB21 program supports human capital capacity projects for libraries and archives. This call for preliminary proposals has a deadline of September 1, 2017, for both programs. A separate funding opportunity for both programs will be announced in December with a deadline in February 2018. >From the preliminary proposals received in September, IMLS will select applicants and invite them to submit full proposals in January of 2018. Applicants who are not invited to continue from the first round of funding may submit new preliminary proposals in February. Both funding opportunities support projects in three areas: 1. Community Anchors: NLG projects that advance the role of libraries as community anchors that provide civic and cultural engagement, facilitate lifelong learning, promote digital inclusion, and support economic vitality through programming and services. LB21 projects that improve the ability of library professionals to create meaningful community partnerships and provide programs and services that encourage civic and cultural engagement; foster community dialog; facilitate lifelong learning; promote digital inclusion; and/or support economic vitality. 2. National Digital Platform: NLG projects that create, develop, and expand the social and technical infrastructure and the open source software applications used by libraries and archives to provide digital content and services to all users in the United States. LB21 projects that increase library professionals' capacity to create, develop, and use the social and technical infrastructure and the open source software applications used by libraries and archives to provide digital content and services to all users in the United States. NDP projects bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. 3. Curating Collections: NLG projects that can have a significant national impact on shared services for the preservation and management of digital library collections and content across the country. LB21 projects that increase librarians' and library professionals' capacity to create, preserve, manage, and provide access to digital library collections across the country. Applicants to the LB21 program are required to align their projects with a project category, i.e., National Digital Platform, Community Anchors, or Curating Collections. Projects must also align with a project type, i.e., Pre-Professional; Masters-level and Doctoral-level Programs; Early Career Development; or Continuing Education. See the grant program guidelines for more information about LB21 or NLG programs. Webinars and Getting Your Questions Answered Three informational webinars were held. For more information about the webinars and to view the recordings, see the IMLS Webinar webpage, which also includes information about system compatibility. IMLS staff members listed on the NLG and LB21 program pages are available by phone and email to answer general questions related to the programs -- Ashley E. Sands, PhD Senior Library Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services 955 L'Enfant Plaza North, SW, Suite 4000 Washington, D.C. 20024-2135 (202) 653-4730 | asands at imls.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmartin at nedcc.org Wed Aug 2 11:04:44 2017 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:04:44 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Registration Deadline is Aug 10 for Digital Directions Seattle Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9018D15815F@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> Apologies for cross-postings . . Registration Deadline is August 10 DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 21-23, 201 ---- Seattle, Washington REGISTER TODAY?- Seats are Limited! Whether you are just getting started on a digitization project, need a refresher on updated best practices, or are developing an action plan to help make the case for a digitization project with your administration, this unique program will give you the big picture. DD AGENDA: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/digital-directions/dd-17/agenda The Digital Directions conference is geared toward practitioners at libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, town and city clerks and other government agencies, tribal entities, corporate archives and libraries, and other organizations that steward digital collections. Our participants come from across the US, Canada, and internationally. Students and independent professionals welcome. Make long-lasting connections with colleagues who share your challenges. Did You Know? ?Seattle will experience a 92% eclipse of the sun during the Digital Directions, Day 1 morning break. Expect a special eclipse activity! For Complete Information and to Register: DIGITAL DIRECTIONS 2017: www.nedcc.org ******************************************** NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center Join the NEDCC Enews List for all the latest preservation training updates: From vdressle at kent.edu Fri Aug 4 06:38:18 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:38:18 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Fw: Applications now open for 1st cohort for online Master's in Digital Curation from UNC-Chapel Hill In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Tibbo, Helen R Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 12:29:04 PM To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Applications now open for 1st cohort for online Master's in Digital Curation from UNC-Chapel Hill Please excuse cross postings. Become a leader in the emerging field of digital asset management with the new Professional Science Master?s (PSM) degree in Digital Curation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This 31-credit, 100% online program is the first master?s degree in North America focused on digital curation. Students will have the opportunity to work with world-renowned faculty members from UNC?s top-ranked information school, including Dr. Helen Tibbo, Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee, and Dr. Arcot Rajasekar. Graduates of this program will benefit from UNC?s longstanding reputation as an international leader in digital curation and data management. Applications for spring enrollment is now open. Learn more at https://sils.unc.edu/programs/psm-digital-curation. Hope to see you online! Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. ?Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor & Society of American Archivists, President 2010-2011 and Fellow School of Information and Library Science 211 Manning Hall, CB# 3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 1+ 919 418 4557 Fax: 1+ 919 962 8071 tibbo at email.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annakgold1 at gmail.com Mon Aug 7 09:11:22 2017 From: annakgold1 at gmail.com (Anna Gold) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 09:11:22 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job Opportunity: Web & Library Application Developer II (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Message-ID: WPI is growing its web application development team and is seeking a Web and Library Application Developer to help build a highly functional and customizable institutional repository that will address university-wide repository needs. As a member of the Web Application Development & Academic Integration team, the Web & Library Applications Developer will work closely with the IT Web Developers and library staff to deploy and support a Digital Asset Management System, such as Samvera (Hydra) and Fedora Commons, to preserve student projects and cultural and historical data and collections. Provide technical expertise for integration of other custom or vendor software systems and data with the Digital Asset Management System, eProjects, Gordon Library, and working closely with ITS counterparts. For more information, please see: https://careers.wpi.edu/postings/4802 Anna Gold George C. Gordon Library University Librarian *Worcester Polytechnic Institute* 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609 508-831-6161 (O) 857-225-2534 (C) akgold at wpi.edu wpi.edu/+library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at udcc.org Tue Aug 8 06:34:26 2017 From: info at udcc.org (Aida Slavic (UDC editor)) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:34:26 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Invitation: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <309ee623-ef85-cf34-135f-1a5c5468cdbb@udcc.org> References: <309ee623-ef85-cf34-135f-1a5c5468cdbb@udcc.org> Message-ID: <5cff81ca-a15b-7612-dbb3-4bda5639f0c6@udcc.org> ===== Invitation to delegates ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: seminar2017 at udcc.org UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceeding (published by Ergon Verlag), will be distributed to delegates at the conference (http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=facetedclassification). To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/. Registration fee: ?290 regular fee (students ?250) About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: mail at udcc.org ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ From vdressle at kent.edu Wed Aug 9 10:22:34 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:22:34 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Next week- SIGDL Digital Liaison Twitter chat on the Future of Digital Libraries Message-ID: Please join us! We've got two times scheduled to accommodate the many time zones of our members::: Topic: The Future of Digital Libraries- trends and global vision August 14- 5PM (Central European time) August 15- 10AM (Pacific time) More information here: https://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/the-future-of-dl-twitter-chat/ -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 Mon Aug 28 13:07:13 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:07:13 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP EVIA 2017 - 8th Int. Workshop on Evaluating Information Access co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference Message-ID: ########################################################### Call for Papers Eighth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017) 5 December, 2017, Tokyo, Japan co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/evia2017/ ########################################################### SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ We invite submissions for the Eighth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017) which will be held in conjunction with NTCIR 13 in Tokyo, Japan, on December 5, 2017. Information Access technologies provide the interface between human information needs and digital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information retrieval technologies become more pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well. We invite both short papers (2-4 pages) and long papers (8-10 pages) addressing one or more of the following topics, as well as any other topic related to the evaluation of information access: - Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation environments - Statistical issues in information retrieval evaluation - User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction in information retrieval (HCIR) - Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile information access - Novel information access tasks and their evaluation - Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback, crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods - Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval systems - Reproducibility issues in information retrieval evaluation Accepted papers will be included in the EVIA 2017 proceedings in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) series, indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus and others. All the accepted papers will be given a presentation slot during EVIA. EVIA is open to all attendees at NTCIR. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 8-10 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and must use standard ACM SIGIR templates, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, for both LaTeX and Word. Papers must report work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing and should not contain any author identification. Papers should be submitted electronically conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2017 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Deadline time is 11:59 p.m. (anywhere in the world) - Submission deadline: September 29, 2017 - Notifications to authors: October 27, 2017 - Camera ready due: November 10, 2017 - EVIA 2017 @NII, Tokyo, Japan: December 5, 2017 - NTCIR-13 @NII, Tokyo, Japan: December 6-8, 2017 EVIA 2017 CHAIRS ================ Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA From ferro at dei.unipd.it Wed Aug 30 04:43:15 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:43:15 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP ACM JDIQ Special Issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval - Deadline Extended to October 6, 2017 Message-ID: <9375BB51-97CD-44CA-81F2-7C27713AEB0B@dei.unipd.it> CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval Extended Submission Deadline: October 6, 2017 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 October 6, 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