From rsandusky at gmail.com Mon May 1 12:39:30 2017 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 11:39:30 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: Dear DataONE Community Please mark your calendars for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting to 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 and Talks Abstracts for talks and posters are solicited during the registration process. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. Submissions for talks will be accepted until June 2nd 2017. Oral presentations are not guaranteed and some submissions may be accepted as posters instead. Poster submissions will remain open until July. Important dates Oral Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2nd 2017 Author Notification: June 12th 2017 Thanks! Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago DataONE Users Group Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdressle at kent.edu Mon May 8 16:41:24 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 20:41:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Fw: Editorship opening- DLP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: May be of interest? Ginnie -- Virginia Dressler, MA, MLIS Digital Projects Librarian University Libraries Kent State University Kent, Ohio (330) 672-1465 ________________________________ From: Eileen Breen Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 11:25:10 AM To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] Editorship opening *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear all The publisher of Scopus-indexed journal Digital Library Perspectives - see http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=DLP - is inviting expressions of interest in editorship. Candidates must have some experience of editorship, e.g. via academic book volumes or journal guest editorship, and must be active in the journal areas of coverage. The journal's scope is in the process of widening, so as to embrace the wider definition of what is a digital library. If you are potentially interested in the role, please contact Publisher: Ms Eileen Breen on ebreen at emeraldinsight.com to find out what's involved. Very best wishes Eileen Breen Publisher | Emerald Publishing Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785172 | Fax: +44 (0)1274 785200 ebreen at emeraldgroup.com | emeraldpublishing.com | emeraldinsight.com Emerald Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From junus.msulibraries at gmail.com Fri May 12 15:14:25 2017 From: junus.msulibraries at gmail.com (Ranti Junus) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:14:25 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Digital Preservation 2017 - Call for Proposals! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0ac001d2cb53$f8bf5ae0$ea3e10a0$@gmail.com> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** The National Digital Stewardship Alliance ( NDSA) invites proposals for Digital Preservation 2017: "Preservation is Political," to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25-26, 2017. Digital Preservation is the major meeting and conference of the NDSA-open to members and non-members alike-focusing on tools, techniques, theories and methodologies for digital stewardship and preservation, data curation, the content lifecycle, and related issues. Our 2017 meeting is held in partnership with our host organization, the Digital Library Federation ( DLF). Separate calls are being issued for the DLF Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference (22 October) and 2017 DLF Forum (23-24 October)-all happening in the same location. Proposals are due by Ma y 22nd at 11:59pm Pacific Time. About the NDSA and Digital Preservation 2017: The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is a consortium of more than 160 organizations committed to the long-term preservation and stewardship of digital information and cultural heritage, for the benefit of present and future generations. Digital Preservation 2017 ( #digipres17) will help to chart future directions for both the NDSA and digital stewardship, and is expected to be a crucial venue for intellectual exchange, community-building, development of best practices, and national-level agenda-setting in the field. The conference will be held at the Westin Convention Center "where downtown buzz meets restorative sleep", just blocks from historic Market Square, The Andy Warhol Museum, boutiques, restaurants, and nightlife. The NDSA strives to create a safe, accessible, welcoming, and inclusive event, and will operate under the DLF Forum's Code of Conduct. Submissions: 250-word proposals describing the presentation/demo/poster are invited (500 words for full panel sessions). Please also include a 50-word short abstract for the program if your submission is selected. Submit proposals online: https://conftool.pro/dlf2017/. Deadline: May 9th, 2017 at 11:59pm PT. We especially encourage proposals that speak to our conference theme, "Preservation is Political." This core theme emerged from a discussion of strategic topics, our practice, our mission and the challenges. Submissions are invited in the following lengths and formats: Talks/Demos: Presentations and demonstrations are allocated 30 minutes each. Speakers should reserve time for interactive exchanges on next steps, possible NDSA community action, and discussion or debate. Panels: Panel discussions with 4 or more speakers will be given a dedicated session. Organizers are especially encouraged to include as diverse an array of perspectives and voices as possible, and to reserve time for audience Q&A. Minute Madness: Share your ideas in 60 seconds or less as part of the opening plenary of the conference. Presenters will have the option to display posters during the reception that follows. (Guidelines for poster sizes will be provided on acceptance.) Lunchtime Working Group Meetings: NDSA working and interest group chairs are invited to propose group meetings or targeted collaboration sessions. (Lunch provided.) All submissions will be peer-reviewed by NDSA's volunteer Program Committee. Presenters will be notified in July and guaranteed a registration slot at the conference. Cynthia A. Ghering Director, University Archives & Historical Collections Michigan State University 101 Conrad Hall 888 Wilson Drive East Lansing, MI 48824 - Office: (517) 355-2330 archives.msu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Join Us At: DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 21-23, 2017 Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington ABOUT THE PROGRAM: Guided by a faculty of national experts, join colleagues from institutions large and small for two and a half days of instruction on best practices and practical strategies for the creation, curation, and use of digital collections. Network with colleagues who have similar challenges, interact with faculty one-on-one, and gain a comprehensive introduction to digitization and digital preservation. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The Digital Directions conference is geared toward professionals working with digital collections at archives, libraries, museums, historical organizations, town and city clerks and other government agencies, corporate archives, and other organizations that steward digital collections. BENEFITS OF ATTENDING: -- Get the Big Picture: You will come away with an understanding of the major issues to consider in planning or implementing a digital collections project or program. -- Make the Case: You will explore strategies to help advocate for a digital preservation program to administrators, funders, and your community. -- Build Contacts and Support Networks: There will be ample time to interact with faculty, who are all experienced practitioners in the field. Meet colleagues who can be helpful as you develop your institution's digital preservation program. DISCOUNT DEADLINE APPROACHING: Early-bird Discount Deadline: May 26, 2017 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). But as a result, hotels are filling fast - grab your hotel reservation ASAP. **************************************************** NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER - nedcc.org Preservation Training to Help You Care for Your Collections NEDCC is grateful for support for its training programs from the National Endowment for the Humanities. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppichappan at gmail.com Mon May 15 02:19:19 2017 From: ppichappan at gmail.com (Pit Pichappan) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:49:19 +0530 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP: Future of Big Data 2017 Message-ID: Call for Workshop Papers Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) In Conjunction with the Twelfth Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) http://www.icdim.org/workshop.php Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Management Council Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. 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 01, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August -01, 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 --------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vdressle at kent.edu Tue May 16 15:19:22 2017 From: vdressle at kent.edu (DRESSLER, Virginia) Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 19:19:22 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Reminder: From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts- May 18th Webinar In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Reminder! This Thursday- Be sure to register and tune in. ------------------------------------------ An upcoming webinar ASIST webinar on 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! Spread the word. 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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 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 richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri May 19 13:26:42 2017 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 19:26:42 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: <4ANXFSGW-DQ3L-212A-SP6-TDHU1UPPE4M@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended submission date: 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 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 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 jmartin at nedcc.org Mon May 22 10:58:44 2017 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 14:58:44 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Digital Directions Seattle - Early-Bird Discount Ends Friday Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9015B721588@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> *********************************************************************** Early-bird Discount Ends Friday. Register Now and Save! DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections August 21-23, 2017 Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington Get the Big Picture - Learn to Advocate for Your Digital Preservation Project - Build Contacts and Support Networks. Are you just getting started in digitization and digital preservation? Trying to bring several digital projects together into a cohesive digital preservation program? Or are you well into a digital project and need a refresher on the latest standards and best practices? Join us in Seattle! The Digital Directions conference is geared toward professionals working with digital collections 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. EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 26 Final Registration Deadline: August 10, 2017 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: http://bit.ly/n-dd17 **************************************************** 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 Updates: http://bit.ly/EnewsN From songphan at gmail.com Tue May 23 01:22:41 2017 From: songphan at gmail.com (Songphan Choemprayong) Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:22:41 +0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] [Reminder] CFP: ICADL & A-LIEP 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting. Please share to interested colleagues and students. ] Please be reminded that the deadlines for paper submission for ICADL and A-LIEP 2017 are approaching. Below includes CFP for both ICADL and A-LIEP, which will be co-located in Bangkok, Thailand on November 13-15, 2017. ------------------------------ 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 20, 2017 - Paper Submission 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/conferenc e-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 of ICADL 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. ------------------------------- The 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) November 13 ? 15, 2017 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand http://www.a-liep.com THEME: Data, Information, and Knowledge for Digital Lives IMPORTANT DATES (A-LIEP) June 30, 2017 - Paper Submission Deadline August 30, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance September 15, 2017 - Camera Ready Copy Due November 13-15, 2017 - Conference Date The list of conference topics is divided into three tracks: LIS Education, LIS Practice, and LIS Research. It includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: LIS Education - LIS pedagogies - Reading advisory - Cooperative education - Challenges in LIS education - Collaboration among LIS schools/departments - Curriculum design - GLAM ? Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums - Community engagement - Digital education - Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS programs - Lifelong learning - Impact of LIS education to society LIS Practice - Technology application for LIS - Service design and design thinking in libraries - Digital and data curation, Digital preservation, Digital stewardship - - GLAM ? Galleries, Libraries Archives, and Museums - Relevance of libraries to society - Leadership development and strategic management in libraries - Libraries as a place: physical and virtual - New competencies in LIS - Evaluation in LIS - Evidence-based librarianship - Mobile platforms of libraries - Collaboration among libraries and with other professions LIS Research - Digital repositories - Human Information Interaction - Information literacy, Digital literacy, Data literacy, Media literacy - Organization of Data, Information, and Knowledge - Semantic web and linked data - Knowledge management and knowledge services - Text and data mining - Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage - Big Data and data science - Information visualization - Research evaluation in Science, Social Science, and Humanities - Search as learning - Gamification in libraries - Digital scholarship SUBMISSIONS Please follow the submission guideline, including templates and a submission site, at http://www.a-liep.com/aliep2017/submission.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Committee Co-Chairs Andrew B. Wertheimer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States Somsak Sriborisutsakul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Oranuch Sawetrattanasatian, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Steering Committee Chair Christopher Khoo Soo Guan, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore General Conference Chair Pimrumpai Premsmit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand For further information, please contact aliepcu2017 [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 ferro at dei.unipd.it Fri May 26 05:14:54 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 11:14:54 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CfP Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval - ACM JDIQ Message-ID: 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