From vdressle at kent.edu Thu Jun 1 09:23:12 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:23:12 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Upcoming SIGDL webinar: Exploring the Challenges & Uses of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections Message-ID: Hello SIGDL- Exploring the Challenges & Uses of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections Date: June 6, 2017 Time: 2PM ETD Over the last 2 decades, libraries and cultural heritage institutions have expended resources digitizing their important special collections. However, many of the resulting digital collections exist on the Web today only as standalone silos of content, not well connected to related resources. This impedes discovery and limits available context when using this content. The core hypothesis of this University of Illinois research project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is that a Linked Open Data (LOD) approach to description could improve the connectedness of many digitized special collections. To begin testing this hypothesis, we are experimenting with LOD for 2 collections of theater-related images and 1 text-based collection pertaining to the life and works of Marcel Proust (~20,000 items in all). In this webinar we describe outcomes to date, highlighting a few unique challenges in transforming legacy metadata into the more RDF-compatible semantics of schema.org and the automated and manual means we used to identify and add links to item descriptions. We also will show how we have leveraged LOD to enhance end-user views of resource descriptions. Now when a user views images in context, JavaScript on the page reads embedded LOD and retrieves additional links and descriptions in real-time from external LOD services. Mustache.js templates are then used to dynamically add this related information to the HTML display providing additional context and clickable links regarding the people (authors, actors, directors, etc.), venues (theaters), plays and performances related to each digitized image. Project Website: http://publish.illinois.edu/linkedspcollections/ Registration can be found here: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/exploring-the-challenges-uses-of-linked-open-data-for-digitized-special-collections/ Please help spread the word! Thanks- 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 info at udcc.org Sat Jun 3 05:55:55 2017 From: info at udcc.org (Aida Slavic (UDC editor)) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 10:55:55 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Early Bird Registration: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <46e19338-0161-0e3b-0e8d-acc2e74fc00e@udcc.org> References: <46e19338-0161-0e3b-0e8d-acc2e74fc00e@udcc.org> Message-ID: <7c8417bb-1df0-66b0-d2d3-979cfc479877@udcc.org> ===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== 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 proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?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. -- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief UDC Email: aida.slavic at udcc.org --- 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 info at udcc.org Sat Jun 3 07:50:48 2017 From: info at udcc.org (Aida Slavic (UDC editor)) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 12:50:48 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Early Bird Registration: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <8e4e03a6-85bd-8643-e90a-284e28c26420@udcc.org> References: <8e4e03a6-85bd-8643-e90a-284e28c26420@udcc.org> Message-ID: <64e1e462-eafd-9ee8-0292-0cfc4ef97af9@udcc.org> ===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== 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 proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?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. -- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief UDC Email: aida.slavic at udcc.org --- 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 ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Jun 5 04:20:38 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:20:38 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP - 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER2017) co-located with ICTIR 2017 Message-ID: <27AC6AA0-F376-46D8-BE58-AA51FBC6B938@dei.unipd.it> Call for papers 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER2017) co-located with the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017), October 1, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://learner2017.dei.unipd.it/ AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- Learning to Rank (LtR), and machine learning in general, have proven to be very effective methodologies to address the increasing complexity of information systems, significantly improving over state-of-the-art traditional algorithms. Popular areas of investigation in LtR are related to efficiency, feature selection, supervised learning, but many new angles are still overlooked. The goal of this workshop is to investigate how to improve ranking, in particular LtR, by bringing in new perspectives which have not explored or fully addressed yet. In particular, we wish to encourage researchers to discuss the opportunities, challenges, results obtained in the development and evaluation of novel approaches to LtR. New perspectives on LtR may concern innovative models, study of their formal properties as well as experimental validation of their efficiency and effectiveness. We are in particular interested in proposal dealing with novel LtR algorithms, evaluation of LtR algorithms, LtR dataset creation and curation, and domain specific applications of LtR. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and related application areas to submit their original papers to this workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Next Generation LtR Algorithms: - Unsupervised approaches to LtR, active learning for LtR, transfer learning for LtR; - Incremental LtR, online, or personalized LtR; - Embedding user behaviour and dynamic in LtR; - Cost-Aware LtR; - List-based approaches for result list diversification and/or clustering; - Bias/Variance and other theoretical characterizations or ranking models; - Feature engineering for ranking; - Deep neural networks for ranking; - Understanding and explaining complex LtR models, also via visual analytics solutions. * Evaluation of LtR Algorithms: - Quality measures accounting for user behaviour and perceived quality; - Quality measures accounting for models failures, redundancy, robustness, sensitivity, etc.; - Evaluation of ranking efficiency vs. quality trade-off; - Visual analytics solutions for exploring and interpreting experimental data; - Reproducibility of LtR experiments. * Datasets: - Measuring quality of training datasets: noise, contradictory examples, redundancy, difficulty of building a good model, features quality, coverage of application domain use cases; - Creation and curation of datasets: compression, negative sampling, aging, dimensionality reduction; - Contributing novel datasets to the community. * Applications: - Application of LtR to verticals or to other domains (e.g., recommendation, news, product search, social media, job search, ...); - LtR beyond documents: keyword-based access to structured data, multimedia, graphs, etc. We invite four-six pages, single-blind submissions formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learner2017 ORGANIZERS -------------------- * Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy * Claudio Lucchese, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Maria Maistro, University of Padua, Italy * Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Papers Due: August 14, 2017 * Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2017 * Camera Ready: September 8, 2017 * Workshop: October 1, 2017 From vdressle at kent.edu Mon Jun 5 10:42:43 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:42:43 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Remider: Webinar tomorrow! Exploring the Challenges & Uses of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello SIGDL- One final reminder for the webinar tomorrow. Be sure to register, and spread the word! Exploring the Challenges & Uses of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections Date: June 6, 2017 Time: 2PM ETD Over the last 2 decades, libraries and cultural heritage institutions have expended resources digitizing their important special collections. However, many of the resulting digital collections exist on the Web today only as standalone silos of content, not well connected to related resources. This impedes discovery and limits available context when using this content. The core hypothesis of this University of Illinois research project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is that a Linked Open Data (LOD) approach to description could improve the connectedness of many digitized special collections. To begin testing this hypothesis, we are experimenting with LOD for 2 collections of theater-related images and 1 text-based collection pertaining to the life and works of Marcel Proust (~20,000 items in all). In this webinar we describe outcomes to date, highlighting a few unique challenges in transforming legacy metadata into the more RDF-compatible semantics of schema.org and the automated and manual means we used to identify and add links to item descriptions. We also will show how we have leveraged LOD to enhance end-user views of resource descriptions. Now when a user views images in context, JavaScript on the page reads embedded LOD and retrieves additional links and descriptions in real-time from external LOD services. Mustache.js templates are then used to dynamically add this related information to the HTML display providing additional context and clickable links regarding the people (authors, actors, directors, etc.), venues (theaters), plays and performances related to each digitized image. Project Website: http://publish.illinois.edu/linkedspcollections/ Registration can be found here: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/exploring-the-challenges-uses-of-linked-open-data-for-digitized-special-collections/ Thanks- 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 rsandusky at gmail.com Thu Jun 8 10:20:17 2017 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:20:17 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: *Registration is open until July 17th for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting* Meeting will be held July 24th ? 25th 2017 and co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will be a 2-day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions, and community-led discussions. *There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting* Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2017 *Meeting Theme and Objectives* The 2017 meeting theme, ?Data Discoverability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability?, will bring together stakeholders to explore current advancements in these areas. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of discoverability, reproducibility and sustainability are invited. Some examples are provided below: *Data Discoverability:* - Describing, Documenting, and Representing Data - Connecting journal articles to datasets to repositories - Distinguishing between publishing, data, preservation repositories *Reproducibility:* - Best Practices, Guidelines, and Standards - Procedures, Tools, and Workflows - Projects, Prototypes, and Use Cases *Sustainability:* - Collaborations, Partnerships, and Stakeholders - Infrastructure, Resources, and Support - Computation, Integration, and Certification DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters* Abstracts for posters are solicited during the registration process. Poster submissions will remain open until July. *Important dates* Hotel block available: *July 7, 2017 or until filled* Meeting registration and poster submission deadline: *July 17, 2017* Thanks! 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This IMLS grant will support a series of public events and working meetings on the ways in which information systems embody and reinforce cultural norms, and ask how we can design systems that account for diverse cultural materials and ways of knowing. The end results will be a teaching and learning toolkit for cultural heritage practitioners in systems design which will better inform both future work and the education and professional development of new practitioners. We envision this toolkit combating problems of colonizing, appropriating, silencing, and marginalizing; we are counting on your participation and involvement. It is essential to the success of this project that we partner with participants with a broad range of experience and backgrounds, to help us think through these complex questions of design and pedagogy from many different perspectives. We are especially interested in partners who are practicing cultural heritage systems design, whether in a formal organization or not: we seek activists, community organizers, and other grassroots collectors of history as well as librarians, archivists, scholars, and curators. We seek to involve the many different kinds of people undertaking information systems design, from activities like cataloging, building metadata schema, and creating automated re-use policies to building databases, designing web interfaces, and more. The first in-person event will be held October 16-17, 2017 at Northeastern University in Boston. To learn about ways that you can participate and sign up for our email list, visit our website: http://dsg.neu.edu/research/design-for-diversity/participate/ Follow us on Twitter at @Des4Div or contact the grant team at DesignForDiversity at northeastern.edu. Sarah, on behalf of the Design for Diversity grant team. 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About the Workshop Big Data concern large-volume, complex, growing data sets with multiple, autonomous sources. The developments in the Big Data research lead to almost the birth of a new domain. With the fast development of networking, data storage, and the data collection capacity, Big Data are now rapidly expanding in all science and engineering domains, including physical, biological and biomedical sciences. This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven models, big data standards, and so on. Topics to be addressed in the workshop, but not limited to: - Big Data models and architectures - Big data architecture and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Big Data mining, analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Big Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Big Data Visualization - Personalisation of data - Data contextualisation - Data Querying - Applications of open and linked data - Data-intensive computing, - Methodologies and cases studies - Data Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Bigdata Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT - Big data processing large-scale datasets on clusters - Smart and connected communities - Big Data and Urban Data Analytics - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management - Big data for Internet of Things Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 08, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August -03, 2017 Registration Due September -01, 2017 Camera Ready Due September -01, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Organizers Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org --------------------- From ferro at dei.unipd.it Fri Jun 16 05:02:41 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:02:41 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP EVIA 2017 - 8th Int. Workshop on Evaluating Information Access co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference Message-ID: <05074DE2-24EC-4285-BD81-2B2AC8CE708C@dei.unipd.it> ########################################################### 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 jmartin at nedcc.org Fri Jun 16 15:00:30 2017 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:00:30 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] NEDCC Presents Digital Directions - Aug 21-23 - See You in Seattle Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9016F1776E6@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> *********************************************************************** End of your fiscal year approaching? Professional development funds available? NEDCC Presents DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 21-23, 2017 - Seattle, Washington LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS: From digital project planning, to rights and responsibilities, to digitizing AV materials, to metadata basics, to digital storage considerations. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The Digital Directions conference is geared toward professionals at archives, libraries, museums, historical organizations, town and city clerks and other government agencies, tribal entities, corporate archives, and other organizations that steward digital collections. Students and independent professionals welcome! Whether you are just getting started on a digitization project or need a refresher on best practices, this two and a half day program will give you the big picture. Reserve Your Seat Today! Registration Deadline: August 10, 2017 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: http://bit.ly/n-dd17 NOTE - HOTEL Update: A BONUS for participants! On August 21 there will be a 92% partial eclipse of the sun viewable from Seattle (at max during our morning break - expect a special eclipse activity!) But as a result, hotels are filling fast - grab your room reservation ASAP. NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER - nedcc.org - Preservation Training to Help You Care for Your Collections Join the NEDCC E-News List for All the Latest Conference Updates: http://bit.ly/EnewsN *********************************************************************** From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Fri Jun 16 18:00:24 2017 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigdl-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: <1424898422.9908303.1497650424262.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended version: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand 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 2017 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 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical 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: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 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 Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From songphan at gmail.com Sat Jun 17 11:35:34 2017 From: songphan at gmail.com (Songphan Choemprayong) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 22:35:34 +0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] [ICADL 2017] Paper Submission Deadline Extention: June 27, 2017 Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting. Please share to interested colleagues and students. ] Please note that the deadlines for paper submission for IC?ADL 2017 are approaching. Below includes CFP for ICADL 2017 with an updated submission deadline. ---------------------------------- The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2017) November 13 ? 15, 2017 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand http://www.icadl2017.org THEME: Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives IMPORTANT DATES (ICADL) June 27, 2017 - Paper Submission Deadline (New Deadline) - Full research papers (oral presentation) - Short practitioner papers (poster presentation) - Short work-in-progress papers (poster presentation) July 31, 2017 ? Workshop Proposal Deadline August 30, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance September 15, 2017 - Camera Ready Copy Deadline November 13-15, 2017 - Conference Date AIMS While the number of digital collections have been increased constantly and in diverse practices, there are some concerns regarding the relevancy and value of the efforts to expand, enhance, and sustain these collections to society at large. These concerns call for discussions and exemplifications of how research efforts and practices on digital libraries improve the quality of human life in all dimensions, such as education, business, socialization, public administration, culture, and humanities. In addition, these questions initiate quest to discover novel methodologies of producing, managing, analyzing, and storing digital collections as well as deliver state-of-the-art services in a complex, connected, and ever-changing environment that matter to our daily lives. Therefore, the theme of ICADL 2017 is ?Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives? which is open to all opportunities that illustrate how digital libraries, digital collections, and corresponding methods would lead to better lives. The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2017) will be co-located with The 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) Conference at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand under a collective title ?International Forum on Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives?. Hosting these conferences together in a heart of Bangkok would bring a diverse group of academic and professional community members from all parts of the world to exchange their cutting-edge knowledge, experience and practices in various relevant issues in digital libraries, and other related fields. TOPICS We welcome research and practitioner papers in all aspects of digital libraries, for instance, - collection development and discovery - data mining and extraction - risk management and quality assurance - digital curation - digital preservation - applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning - performance evaluation - metadata creation and aggregation - semantic web and linked data - non-textual collection management - recommendation system - research data management - digital humanities and digital cultural heritage - service design for digital libraries - user experience design - user interface design - human-computer interaction - information visualization - information retrieval - applications of digital libraries in contexts such as learning, virtual organizations, collaborative task - personal information management and personal digital libraries - user generated content - digital library management and administration - digital library education - digital cultures and digital literacy - intellectual freedom, censorship, misinformation - privacy - intellectual property issues - policy, legal, and ethical concerns for digital libraries - socio-technical aspects of digital libraries - sustainability of digital libraries. In addition to high-quality, original research papers, practitioner and work-in-progress papers discussing issues and future directions of digital libraries and digital collections are also welcome. Submissions that resonate with the conference?s theme are especially welcome. Nonetheless, all topics in digital libraries will be given equal consideration. SUBMISSIONS All paper submission should follow Springer Computer Science Proceedings guideline ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and are to be submitted via the conference?s EasyChair submission page ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icadl2017). Full Papers A Full Research Paper reports significant milestone and provides original results relevant to the scope of ICADL 2017. The maximum length of a full paper is 12 pages. Short Practitioner Papers A Practitioner Paper is a concise report of findings or other types of work by practitioners relevant to the scope of ICADL 2017. We welcome papers identifying research problems and future directions in the digital library research. The maximum length of a short paper is 6 pages. Short Work-in-Progress Papers A Work-in-Progress paper is a concise report of preliminary findings or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work that does not necessarily reach a level of completion but relevant to the scope ofICADL 2017. The maximum length of a short paper is 6 pages. All accepted papers will be published by Springer as conference proceedings, included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) and indexed by SCOPUS. Electronic copies will be available on Springer website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Committee Co-Chairs Fabio Crestani, Universita? della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University, New Zealand Songphan Choemprayong, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Steering Committee Chair Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan General Conference Chair Pimrumpai Premsmit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Workshop Chair Marut Buranarach, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand For further information, please contact icadl2017 [at] gmail [dot] com. -- Songphan Choemprayong, Ph.D. Lecturer Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel. +66 2 218 4817 Fax. +66 2 218 4818 http://www.thaibrarian.org/songphan songphan at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Sat Jun 24 01:29:57 2017 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 07:29:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigdl-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission Deadline is Approaching In-Reply-To: <374613254.11672383.1498131013986.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> References: <374613254.11672383.1498131013986.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <132029706.12258006.1498282197014.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended version: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand 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 2017 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 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical 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: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 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 Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From ferro at dei.unipd.it Sat Jun 24 11:58:45 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:58:45 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Bids to Host CLEF 2019 Message-ID: <11AE74E7-63E4-43C2-BCE9-EFB73A733DAA@dei.unipd.it> 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 *Friday, July 7h 2017* 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 info at udcc.org Tue Jun 27 06:25:59 2017 From: info at udcc.org (Aida Slavic (UDC editor)) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:25:59 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Last Reminder Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June): Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <1e33e69a-4f86-8b8b-dd7b-7b956524b3b0@udcc.org> References: <1e33e69a-4f86-8b8b-dd7b-7b956524b3b0@udcc.org> Message-ID: ===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== 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 proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?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 ______________________