From hoadriank at gmail.com Mon Sep 11 20:20:38 2017 From: hoadriank at gmail.com (Adrian Ho) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:20:38 -0400 Subject: [Sigdl-l] ARL Digital Scholarship Institute--Apply by October 6 for January 2018 Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting The announcement below might be of interest. Adrian Adrian K. Ho https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-7373 Apply by Friday, October 6, for January 2018. [image: Apply by Friday, October 6, for January 2018.] [image: Association Of Research Libraries] ARL Digital Scholarship Institute?Apply by October 6 for January 2018 [image: UC San Diego Geisel Library exterior] by Elizabeth Waraksa | 202-296-2296 <(202)%20296-2296> | elizabeth at arl.org | on September 8, 2017 The application period for the second iteration of the ARL Digital Scholarship Institute is now open, with a deadline of Friday, October 6, 2017. 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URL: From ejkelly at loyno.edu Wed Sep 13 09:37:22 2017 From: ejkelly at loyno.edu (Elizabeth Kelly) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:37:22 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Participate in IMLS Funded Survey on Digital Library Content Reuse Message-ID: Greetings: You are being invited to participate in a research study conducted by members of a sub-working group of the DLF Assessment Interest Group[1]: Santi Thompson from the University of Houston Libraries, Elizabeth Kelly from Loyola University New Orleans, Genya O?Gara from the Virtual Library of Virginia, Caroline Muglia from the University of Southern California, Ayla Stein from the University of Illinois University Library, and Liz Woolcott from Utah State University. This project is funded by a grant ( LG-73-17-0002-17 ) from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project team is conducting a community needs assessment, focused on developing the use cases and functional requirements for a freely available, collaboratively-developed digital library assessment toolkit, D-CRAFT. We are administering a survey that will ask respondents to identify how cultural heritage organizations currently assess digital library reuse. The survey will consist of several questions asking participants to identify barriers for reuse and to prioritize potential solutions and next steps. The results of this study may be published in professional journals. They may also be used for educational purposes or for professional presentations. However, no individual subject or identifying information will be shared. Those who meet any of the following criteria are eligible for participation in this survey: - those with demonstrated experience, such as direct work experience, and/or research that involves building, preserving, and/or assessing digital library collections; - self-identified individuals from underrepresented groups based on factors including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender identity, sexual orientation, ableness, veteran?s status, and/or socio-economic status; - representatives from organizations with diverse and inclusive collections; - self-identified representatives from cultural heritage organization types that might not be represented in the research team membership. If you meet the inclusion criteria, we would appreciate your participation in this survey. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. Respondents will only take this survey once. The first 50 participants will be eligible to receive a $25 Amazon gift card for completing the survey. You can access the survey here: http://uhlibrary.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bKNLEtMwORvQmJD This survey closes in one month (5:00 p.m. EDT on October 11, 2017) If you have any questions, you may contact any member of the project team: ? Santi Thompson at 713-743-9685 or sathompson3 at uh.edu ? Ayla Stein at 217-300-2598 or astein at illinois.edu ? Elizabeth Kelly at 504-864-7047 or ejkelly at loyno.edu ? Genya O?Gara at 703-993-4654 or gogara at gmu.edu ? Caroline Muglia at 213-821-0756 or muglia at usc.edu ? Liz Woolcott at 435-797-9458 or liz.woolcott at usu.edu We look forward to seeing your responses and sharing the results of our research. ------------------------------ [1] https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment:User/Reuse -- Elizabeth Kelly, C.A., D.A.S. 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Set in the heart of Bangkok metropolitan area, the forum will be held at Chulalongkorn University on November 13-15, 2017. The keynote speakers include Jane Greenberg from Drexel University, Makiko Miwa form the Open University of Japan, and Chayodom Sabhasri from Chulalongkorn University. You can register at http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/dlives/register.html. The early-bird rates end on October 5, 2017. Double registration is not required. For more information, please visit http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/dlives/. We are looking forward to seeing you in Bangkok. Best regards, Pimrumpai Premsmit, Ph.D. Organizing Committee Chair pimrumpai.p at chula.ac.th -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Sep 25 05:45:13 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:45:13 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Final CfP Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval - Deadline 6 October 2017 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval Extended Submission Deadline: October 6, 2017 ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ) http://jdiq.acm.org/ ** Guest editors ** Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy, ferro at dei.unipd.it Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, norbert.fuhr at uni-due.de Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, rauber at ifs.tuwien.ac.at ** Aim ** Information Retrieval is a discipline that has been strongly rooted in experimentation since its inception. Experimental evaluation has always been a strong driver for IR research and innovation, and these activities have been shaped by large scale evaluation campaigns such as TREC, CLEF, NTCIR and FIRE. IR systems are getting more and more complex. They need to cross language and media barriers; they span from unstructured, to semi-structured to highly structured data; and they are faced with diverse and complex user information needs, search tasks, and societal challenges. As a consequence, evaluation and experimentation, which has remained a fundamental element, has in turn become increasingly sophisticated and challenging. In this context, repeatability, reproducibility, and generalizability of experiments and results cannot be taken for granted. Indeed we need to emphasize these aspects as key requirements, if we wish to continue to reliably and durably advance research and technology in the field. In turn, we need to actively pursue them as a core part of our experimental methodology and practice. In this special issue of JDIQ, we aspire to provide an overview of innovative research at the intersection of information retrieval and data quality, from theory to practice, with a focus on challenges, solutions, and experiences in reproducibility of IR experimental results. ** Topics ** Specific topics within the scope of the call include, but are not limited to, the following: - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in system-oriented evaluation. - Analysis of reproducibility challenges in user-oriented evaluation. - General reproducibility frameworks for IR. - Lessons learned in reproducing third-party experiments. - Reproducibility of query results. - Reproducibility challenges on private or proprietary data. - Reproducibility challenges on ephemeral data, like streaming data, tweets, etc. - Reproducibility challenges on online experiments, e.g., A/B testing. - Reproducibility in evaluation campaigns. - Evaluation infrastructures and Evaluation as a Service (EaaS). - Experiment data management, data curation, and data quality. - Data models, semantic or not, for IR experimental data. - Reproducible experimental workflows: tools and experiences. - Quality of IR experimental data. - Data Citation: citing experimental data, dynamic data sets, samples, and statistical analyses. ** Expected contributions ** We welcome the following two types of contributions: - Research manuscripts reporting mature results [25+ pages]. - Experience papers that report on lessons learned from addressing specific issues towards improved quality and reproducibility of experimental results [12+ pages plus an optional appendix]. If this is an extension of prior published work, then submitted manuscripts must contain at least 30% new material, and the significant new contributions must be clearly identified in the introduction. Submission guidelines with Latex (preferred) or Word templates are available here: http://jdiq.acm.org/authors.cfm#subm ** Important dates ** - Initial submission: Friday October 6, 2017 - First review: Thursday December 7, 2017 - Revised manuscripts: Friday March 9, 2018 - Second review: Friday May 11, 2018 - Camera-ready manuscripts: Friday July 13, 2018 - Publication: Late October 2018 From ferro at dei.unipd.it Tue Sep 26 05:03:40 2017 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:03:40 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Last Call for Paper - EVIA 2017 (Evaluating Information Access) - Extended Deadline 13 October 2017 Message-ID: ########################################################### Call for Papers Eighth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/evia2017/ 5 December, 2017, Tokyo, Japan co-located with the NTCIR-13 Conference ** Extended Submission Deadline ** ** 13 October 2017 ** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=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 (extended): October 13, 2017 - Notifications to authors: November 7, 2017 - Camera ready due: November 17, 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