From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Sep 2 10:01:16 2006 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:01:16 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Call For Papers: IEEE/ACM SITIS 2006 Message-ID: <1157205676.44f98eac8a4eb@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> !!!!!! We Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP !!!!!!! +-------------------------------------------+ | ################### | | # | | ###### # # # ###### ### ### | | # # # # # # # # | | ##### # # # ##### # # ### | | # # # # # # # # # | | ###### # # # ###### ### ### | | | +-------------------------------------------+ CALL FOR PAPERS The 2006 International Conference on SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET- BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 06) Sponsored by IEEE and ACM December 17th - December 21st 2006 The MARCO POLO Hotel Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS 2006 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks. The focus of the first track "Information Management & Retrieval Technologies" (IMRT) is on the emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed computing environment. The main topics of Interest include: - Data Semantics - Spatial Information Systems and Applications - Multimedia and application - Information security. The second track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems" (WITDS) is devoted to emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating interconnected environments in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security threats that are present more than ever before. The main topics of Interest include: - Information System Interoperability - Emergent semantics - Agent-based systems - Distributed, Parallel, GRID, P2P, Mobile information management - Web-Centric Systems The third track "Signal & Image Technologies" (SIT) focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The main topics of Interest include: - Image Processing and Analysis - Image/Video Coding and Authentication - Signal processing - Applications Submissions must be in electronic form as PDF or PS files and should be uploaded through the SITIS 2006 Web site. Submissions should be 3000-4000 words long (approx. 8-12 double-space printed pages). Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified reviewers. 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. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The printed proceedings will be post-published by the Springer-Verlag. Tutorial and Workshop proposals should be submitted to sitis at u-bourgogne.fr. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------- Proposals for Tutorials/Workshops September 9th, 2006 Paper submission September 9th, 2006 Notification of acceptance October 15th, 2006 Final version paper with registration November 3rd, 2006 Track Organizers ---------------- IMRT Track Harald Kosch, U. Passau, Germany (harald.kosch at itec.uni-klu.ac.at) Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA (oria at homer.njit.edu) WITDS Track Esma A?meur, U. of Montreal, Canada (aimeur at iro.umontreal.ca) Djamal Benslimane, U. Lyon, France (djamal.benslimane at iuta.univ-lyon1.fr) Javier Lopez, U. of Malaga, Spain (jlm at lcc.uma.es) Zakaria Maamar, U. of Zayed, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae) Manuel Nunez, U. Comp.de Madrid, Spain (mn at sip.ucm.es) SIT Track Peter Schelkens, Vrije U. Brussel, Belgium (pschelke at etro.vub.ac.be) Louis Legrand, U. of Bourgogne, France (Louis.Legrand at u-bourgogne.fr) #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ing?nieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From ktlv at email.unc.edu Fri Sep 1 16:27:53 2006 From: ktlv at email.unc.edu (KT Vaughan) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:27:53 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] [Fwd: [Trisociety] Symposium Announcement: Trisociety / DASER 3] Message-ID: <44F897C9.4060707@email.unc.edu> Excuse cross-posting. Please share the following announcement with your colleagues and students! This is a preconference to the 2006 ASIST Annual Meeting. What: The Shape of Things to Come: The 8th Quadrennial Trisociety Symposium / 3rd DASER Summit When: Friday, Nov. 3, 2006 9am-5pm Symposium URL: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/Daser/index.htm Why: The 8th Quadrennial Tri Society Symposium / 3rd DASER Summit will focus on questions of how libraries and information centers are shaping the digital information world, and how they are being shaped by it. Many have wondered if libraries -- and librarians -- will even exist in the 22nd century. The Symposium assumes scientists, engineers, and physicians will continue to need information professionals. Instead, we ask the questions: What is a "library"? Where are libraries in the digital revolution? What does a physical "library" look like? What is a "librarian?" Research and opinion from leaders in cutting edge library and information centers will prove both enlightening and inspiring. Preliminary Schedule: Fred Heath (Vice Provost, University of Texas @ Austin Libraries) - The physical transformation of library space Carole Palmer (Assoc. Professor, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign GSLIS) - Changing habits and needs of information users Danielle Plumer (Faculty, University of Texas @ Austin School of Information) - New technologies in libraries Jack Maness (Librarian, University of Colorado @ Boulder Engineering Library) - Use of social networking and social communication technologies for library services Roundtable lunch (included in registration) on topics of attendees' choice Panel of Visionaries: Michael Leach (Director, Physics Research Library and the Kummel Library of Geological Sciences, Harvard University and President, ASIS&T) Martha Bedard (Associate Dean of Libraries & Director, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University) David Flaxbart (Head, Mallet Chemistry Library, University of Texas @ Austin) Conversations will continue at dutch-treat dinners in the lovely 6th Street area of Austin. History: The Trisociety Symposium on Chemical Information was founded in the late 1970s as a partnership among the three chemical informatics groups associated with ASIS&T, the ACS, and SLA. The DASER Summit was begun in 2003 as a joint project of the ASIS&T SIG/STI and the NEASIST Chapter. The 2003 Summit focused on digital archives in science from a broad perspective. The 2005 Summit, cosponsored by SIG/STI and the Potomac Valley Chapter, looked at open access publishing in STM. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Wed Sep 6 08:01:14 2006 From: rhill at asis.org (rhill at asis.org) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:01:14 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] International Calendar of Information Science Conferences Message-ID: <200609061204.k86C4hCW010401@mail.asis.org> ** Please excuse cross-postings ** A periodic reminder to post your event and look for conferences around the world in the: INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR OF INFORMATION SCIENCE CONFERENCES (http://icisc.neasist.org) Over 500 conferences listed in the past year! Over 50 events posted in the past 3 weeks! Over 75 countries hosting events on all continents! Over 80 countries represented by visitors to the Calendar! Over 9,000 visits a month! If you work in the information sciences and related disciplines (libraries, archives, museums, information and communication technology, telecommunications, etc.), be sure to stay up to date on the latest opportunities to learn and share your work throughout the world by regularly checking (RSS available) and posting your events in the Calendar. Help colleagues by registering the conferences you are aware of in case they are not listed. If your favourite conference or the one you organise is not listed, be sure to let us know of your event. There are three ways to submit events. See the FAQ here: http://icisc.neasist.org/about.html. ACCESSIBILITY The "Quick Calendar" is a static version of the calendar grouped by date and by region: http://icisc.neasist.org/quickcalendar.html ... great for a quick glance, slower connection speeds or printing. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Use the Calendar to coordinate events with other groups. Feel free to post "PROPOSED" events. We encourage you to enter your events directly: http://icisc.neasist.org/instructions.html VOLUNTEERS NEEDED If you would like to play a more active role in facilitating the international exchange of ideas through this Calendar, please contact Caryn Anderson at icisc at asist.org. Volunteers with all skills are welcome, and those with knowledge of calendar software are especially appreciated. The Calendar is a nonprofit collaboration between the International Information Issues Special Interest Group and the European and New England chapters of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (http://www.asist.org), with the additional support of Haworth Press (http://haworthpress.com/library/). Thank you for bookmarking and/or subscribing to the International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (http://icisc.neasist.org/) and sharing with your colleagues! -- Caryn Anderson Program Coordinator PhD/Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions GSLIS, Simmons College 300 The Fenway, P-204E Boston, MA 02115 caryn.anderson at simmons.edu 617.521.2829 http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/phdmlip From rhill at asis.org Wed Sep 6 11:23:24 2006 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:23:24 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Donald A.B. Lindberg Fellowship applications due 11/15 Message-ID: <200609061526.k86FQPNG019583@mail.asis.org> [Posted by request. Dick Hill] Applications for the Donald A. B. Lindberg Fellowship due November 15, 2006 MLA is now accepting applications for The Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship established by MLA to fund research aimed at expanding the research knowledge base of health sciences information management and enhancing the role of health sciences librarians and other information professionals in health care access and delivery, public health, consumer information, health professions education or biomedical research. The endowment will provide a $25,000 grant, awarded annually by MLA through a competitive grant process, to a qualified health sciences librarian, informatician, health professional, researcher, educator, or health administrator. An application and more information about the fellowship can be accessed at www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/ or by contacting Lisa C. Fried, MLA's Credentialing, Professional Recognition and Career Coordinator at mlapd2 at mlahq.org. The awardee will be notified in late February 2007. _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 From casmit07 at syr.edu Mon Sep 11 10:50:51 2006 From: casmit07 at syr.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:50:51 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST sigmed et al. symposium reminder Message-ID: A gentle submission reminder: The extended abstracts for the 2006 SIG-SI/DL/HFIS/MED preconference research symposium for ASIST 2006 are due this Friday September 15th. The symposium is entitled "Interrogating the social realities of information and communications systems." Share your ideas and research! Get interesting feedback! Meet people from other SIGs interested in ICT research! Send a 1000 word extended abstract describing research or practice cases by this Friday September 15th. The symposium is the morning of Saturday Nov 4th. The symposium is followed by the SIG-SI sponosored ethnography seminar in the afternoon. Submission instructions for the symposium and more information available at: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen/symposia.htm For more information on the ethnography seminar, see: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/special-interest-groups/37 -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD at her NEW address Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 Catherine Arnott Smith email: casmit07REPLACETHISTEXTWITHATSYMBOLsyr.edu *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.] From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun Sep 17 14:44:08 2006 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:44:08 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE/ACM SITIS 2006: Last Call For Papers Message-ID: <1158518648.450d9778de494@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> !!!!!! We Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP !!!!!!! +-------------------------------------------+ | ################### | | # | | ###### # # # ###### ### ### | | # # # # # # # # | | ##### # # # ##### # # ### | | # # # # # # # # # | | ###### # # # ###### ### ### | | | +-------------------------------------------+ LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 2006 International Conference on SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET- BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 06) Sponsored by IEEE and ACM December 17th - December 21st 2006 The MARCO POLO Hotel Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS 2006 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks. The focus of the first track "Information Management & Retrieval Technologies" (IMRT) is on the emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed computing environment. The main topics of Interest include: - Data Semantics - Spatial Information Systems and Applications - Multimedia and application - Information security. The second track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems" (WITDS) is devoted to emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating interconnected environments in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security threats that are present more than ever before. The main topics of Interest include: - Information System Interoperability - Emergent semantics - Agent-based systems - Distributed, Parallel, GRID, P2P, Mobile information management - Web-Centric Systems The third track "Signal & Image Technologies" (SIT) focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The main topics of Interest include: - Image Processing and Analysis - Image/Video Coding and Authentication - Signal processing - Applications Submissions must be in electronic form as PDF or PS files and should be uploaded through the SITIS 2006 Web site. Submissions should be 3000-4000 words long (approx. 8-12 double-space printed pages). Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified reviewers. 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. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The printed proceedings will be post-published by the Springer-Verlag. Tutorial and Workshop proposals should be submitted to sitis at u-bourgogne.fr. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------- Paper submission (Revised) : September 20th, 2006 Notification of acceptance (Revised) : October 20th, 2006 Final version paper with registration (Revised): November 15th, 2006 Track Organizers ---------------- IMRT Track Harald Kosch, U. Passau, Germany (harald.kosch at itec.uni-klu.ac.at) Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA (oria at homer.njit.edu) WITDS Track Esma Aimeur, U. of Montreal, Canada (aimeur at iro.umontreal.ca) Djamal Benslimane, U. Lyon, France (djamal.benslimane at iuta.univ-lyon1.fr) Javier Lopez, U. of Malaga, Spain (jlm at lcc.uma.es) Zakaria Maamar, U. of Zayed, U.A.E (zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae) Manuel Nunez, U. Comp.de Madrid, Spain (mn at sip.ucm.es) SIT Track Peter Schelkens, Vrije U. Brussel, Belgium (pschelke at etro.vub.ac.be) Louis Legrand, U. of Bourgogne, France (Louis.Legrand at u-bourgogne.fr) #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ing?nieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From rhill at asis.org Mon Sep 18 13:53:42 2006 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:53:42 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] AM 06 Hotel + General Election Message-ID: <4116-220069118175342231@RHILL-IBM> [Please excuse duplicate postings. Dick Hil] Note that the 2006 Annual takes place over election day. Request an absentee ballot quickly. We regret that the Hilton Austin is sold out for Friday, November 3 through Sunday, November 5. We have blocked additional rooms for those nights at: Austin Marriott at the Capitol * 701 East 11th Street * Austin, Texas 78701 USA * Phone: 1-512-478-1111 * Fax: 1-512-478-3700 We would very much like you to move to the Hilton for Monday through Wednesday (or whatever nights you need). Our reasons are below. Links to Both the Hilton and the Marriott are at: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/hoteltravel.html "Why You Should Stay at the Conference Hotel? * Center of conference activity. * Opportunity to network and socialize. * Short ?commute.? You can easily go back and forth between conference rooms and own room. * Carefully negotiated discounted room rate based on: o the total conference service including workshops, tutorials, and plenary sessions. o number of expected attendees. o other factors such as experience with room usage at prior conferences. * Good rates next year. Unfilled rooms can cost ASIS&T thousands of dollars. For the next conference, we cannot negotiate as beneficial a hotel contract, and the registration fee as well as the room rate might increase unreasonably. Please support the conference and ASIS&T by staying at the conference hotel. (Adapted from ACM) Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From casmith24 at wisc.edu Wed Sep 20 16:27:31 2006 From: casmith24 at wisc.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:27:31 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIGMED issues around 2006 Austin conference Message-ID: <4511A433.2050204@wisc.edu> Hello, interested SIGMed members; I am writing with a list of information items and a few questions. 1. Date/time of business meeting in Austin: Dick Hill tells me that Vicki Gregory will be getting out information about this in early October. More on this as it develops. Do people have preferences on food arrangements? 2. Business Meeting Agenda Items? Please let me know. 3. Advance Program Promotion: I?d like to get some promotional materials out to various people about the SIG?s programming for Austin, and particularly the Nov. 4 symposium. The usual suspects for non-ASIST e-mailings are: MLA SLA AMIA I would really like to hear suggestions from you all about other ways to publicize both the Saturday workshop, and the papers. 4. On-site Program and Activity Promotion: I am planning on pulling together posters and mailing them to the hotel ahead of time. The posters will advertise the following events with which we are associated: **[Symposium] Interrogating the social realities of information and communications systems (SIG/SI, DL, HFIS, MED)* Saturday November 4th 8:30 to 12:30 **Information Realities of HIV/AIDS Information in Sub-Saharan Africa: Barriers and Challenges to Information Professionals, (III, USE, MED, IFP, CRIT), Kendra Albright (moderator), Kingo Mohombu,Rosemary Kabugo, Renee Schoombee, Modou Fall Sall * Wednesday, November 8, 8:30-10:30 And, finally, our Business Meeting, once that is scheduled. I am intrigued by the medical papers turning up all over the place on this program. Perhaps there are medically interested individuals who don?t know that we are the SIG for them! 5. SIG Governance & Planning: I need members for a Nominating Committee. Bylaws state there should be 2 of them. Volunteers? 6. Dutch Treat Dinner: Please alert me to your preferred dinner time and dinner day while in Austin. I have to fly home on Tuesday the 7th because of teaching and going off to AMIA immediately afterwards.(Is anybody else attending AMIA?) But you all can certainly eat without me if that?s what the majority wants to do J Best wishes and looking forward to Austin, -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. --Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.] From casmith24 at wisc.edu Wed Sep 27 10:56:02 2006 From: casmith24 at wisc.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:56:02 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST Planning Issues Message-ID: <451A9102.1070204@wisc.edu> I've had essentially no response to my request for Nominating Committee members, so I am thinking about declaring a coup. Ideas? We need to send somebody to the SIG Cabinet meeting on Saturday morning, but since I am participating in the pre-conference joint workshop, I am unable to attend. Can somebody go for us? Steve M., can you go? Also: Vicki Gregory has written: *******I have put up two "shell" (no pun intended) documents with meeting times. You can check what is still available and then email me with your SIG's choice of meeting times. http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~gregory/ASIST/MondaySIGPLanningSessions.htm http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~gregory/ASIST/TuesdaySIGPLanningSessions.htm I will update the web documents when changes occur so that you will get updated information as SIGs begin to sign up for times.* ** PLEASE get back to me as soon as you can with your schedule preferences, and when I have a coagulated mass of responses, I will sign us up. -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. --Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.] From elworthi at MIT.EDU Wed Sep 27 11:52:19 2006 From: elworthi at MIT.EDU (Louisa Worthington Rogers) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:19 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST Planning Issues In-Reply-To: <451A9102.1070204@wisc.edu> Message-ID: <000001c6e24c$fc8e3d90$6501a8c0@mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu> Catherine, Would you tell me more about Nominating Committee duties? Thanks, Louisa ____________________________ Louisa Worthington Rogers Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences Librarian M.I.T. Science Library 14S-134 Cambridge, MA 02139 elworthi at mit.edu -----Original Message----- From: sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Catherine Arnott Smith Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:56 AM To: sigmed-l at asis.org Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST Planning Issues I've had essentially no response to my request for Nominating Committee members, so I am thinking about declaring a coup. Ideas? We need to send somebody to the SIG Cabinet meeting on Saturday morning, but since I am participating in the pre-conference joint workshop, I am unable to attend. Can somebody go for us? Steve M., can you go? Also: Vicki Gregory has written: *******I have put up two "shell" (no pun intended) documents with meeting times. You can check what is still available and then email me with your SIG's choice of meeting times. http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~gregory/ASIST/MondaySIGPLanningSessions.htm http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~gregory/ASIST/TuesdaySIGPLanningSessions.htm I will update the web documents when changes occur so that you will get updated information as SIGs begin to sign up for times.* ** PLEASE get back to me as soon as you can with your schedule preferences, and when I have a coagulated mass of responses, I will sign us up. -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. --Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.] _______________________________________________ Sigmed-l mailing list Sigmed-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmed-l From sigiiiblog at gmail.com Wed Sep 27 19:54:01 2006 From: sigiiiblog at gmail.com (SIG-III Blog admin) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:54:01 -0700 Subject: [Sigmed-l] The SIG-III Blog and the Global Plaza Message-ID: <2353deb0609271654i448e38f3se50d8e91919e339d@mail.gmail.com> The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) proudly introduces its blog as a means for communicating more actively with members, colleagues, and others interested in information science. The blog may be found here: http://www.neasist.org/icisc/blog/ In connection to this year's Global Information Village Plaza, which will conveine during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, our blog hosts a discussion on trust in information ? specifically on how information professionals and members of a general public judge the authority of the information they receive, and how perceptions of trust change in different cultural contexts. The discussion is broken down into six categories: - How do we define trust? - How do we measure trust? - What aspects of trust, such as privacy or data harvesting, are most significant? - e-commerce and data mining - Government surveilance - Government censorship The discussion of these aspects of trust has been lively, and we invite you to participate. We welcome any and all comments and thoughts you may have, and would love to have you contribute them to our discussion. On our blog you will also find information relating to the International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC ? icisc.neasist.org), as well as information relating to SIG-III activities and current international information issues. We welcome your views! Thanks for taking a look at the blog and for contributing your thoughts! The SIG-III Blog team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: