From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 8 16:59:18 2007 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:59:18 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST - Donate to Silent Auction to Benefit InfoShareAward! Message-ID: <200708082000.l78K0bl8003657@mail.asis.org> Hello colleagues, [Sent for Caryn.Anderson at simmons.edu. Dick] It is time to start thinking about what you want to contribute to the Silent Auction this year. Each year at the ASIST Annual Meeting the International Information Issues SIG holds an International Reception and Silent Auction. Donations from ASIST members are bid on by other members to raise money to sponsor memberships for colleagues in countries for whom the membership fee presents a financial hardship. Donations in the past have included items from the personal households/libraries of members (jewelry, books, etc.), offerings of services (weekend at vacation home, etc.), and items created by members themselves (paintings, knitted items, wine from member vineyards, etc.). So get creative or clear out your attic. No item is too small or too trivial. A large portion of the InfoShare funds are raised from items auctioned for less than $5.00! When it doubt, bring it along! If you plan to bring your items to Annual Meeting, please give them to Caryn Anderson or Vika Kravchyna or any SIG-III officer. If you would like to mail it, please coordinate with Caryn or Vika directly (vika.kravchyna at arius3d.com or caryn.anderson at simmons.edu). ** Special Uganda Books Project ** If you own books specifically related to Library and Information Sciences, please consider donating them to the SIG-III campaign (new this year) to provide materials to LIS programs and colleagues in Uganda. Please contact Vika for more information about the LIS books for Uganda project (vika.kravchyna at arius3d.com). We'll send you another reminder in early October about the Silent Auction, but we wanted to get you thinking before you start your fall cleaning. Thanks for thinking of the InfoShare Award. Best wishes, Vika Kravchyna Caryn Anderson InfoShare SIG-III ASIST _______________________________________________ Sigvis-l mailing list Sigvis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigvis-l From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Tue Aug 14 08:13:48 2007 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:13:48 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE SITIS'07: CFP... Message-ID: <1187093628.46c19c7cd5817@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> ------------------ ** Apologies for cross-postings ** ------------------ !!!!! Call For Papers !!!!! The 3rd IEEE International Conference SITIS 2007 December 16-19 2007 Jiangong Jinjiang Hotel Shanghai, China (in cooperation with ACM Sigapp.fr) 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 structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2007 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks: - Track Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT) - Track Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) - Track Signal & Image Technologies (SIT) Submission and publication -------------------------- SITIS 20007 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to the topics of the corresponding track. Papers must be up to 8 pages long and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be mailed by the IEEE CS press directly to registered authors after the conference. CD copies of the proceeding will be available during the conference. Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals. Tutorial proposals should be submitted to sitis at u-bourgogne.fr. Important Dates --------------- Tutorial proposals September 9th, 2007 Paper Submission September 9th, 2007 Acceptance/Reject notification October 15th, 2007 Final paper/registration November 3rd, 2007 General Chair ------------- Li Jianzhong, HIT, China Jianhua Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Local Committee Co-chairs ------------------------- Xue Zhi, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Shenghong Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yinghua Ma, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Members: Liya Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Gongshen Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Guiyang Su, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Junhua Tang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Mingzheng Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yu Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Track Organizers ---------------- Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT) track: Lei Chen, HKUST, China Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) track: Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Signal & Image Technologies (SIT) track: Abert Dipanda, Bourgogne University, France Jerzy J. Korczak, Strasbourg University, France Program Committee (To be completed) ------------------------------------ Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT) ------------------------------------------------------- * Agma Juci Machado Traina (University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil) * Ahmed Mostefaoui (U. of Franche Comte, France) * Ajith Abraham (IEEE) * Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy) * Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, Austria) * Clement Leung (Victoria University, Australia) * Danielle Boulanger (Jean Moulin University - Lyon, France) * Dimitri Theodoratos (NJIT, USA) * Ernesto Damiani (U. of Milan, Italy) * Fernando Ferri (IRPPS-CNR, Italy) * Genevieve Jomier (Universite Paris Dauphine, France) * Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany) * Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia) * Ingo Wolf (T-Systems, Germany) * Jaroslaw Kozlak (U. of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland) * Jim Geller (NJIT, USA) * Jun Miyazaki (NAIST, Japan) * Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan) * Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University, Korea) * Koji Eguchi (Kobe University, Japan) * Manabu Ohta (Okayama University, Japan) * Maria Luisa Sapino (Universita di Torino, Italy) * Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University, Japan) * Masakatsu Nishigaki (Shizuoka University, Japan) * Masayoshi Aritsugi (Kumamoto University, Japan) * Michael Granitzer (I-Know Center, Austria) * Michel Scholl (CNAM, France) * Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan) * Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University, Belgium) * Pit Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) * Ralf Klamma (University of Manchester, UK) * Ramzi Haraty (LAU, Lebanon) * Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne, France) * Roger RN. Nkambou (University of Qu?bec at Montr?al, Canada) * Satoshi Nakamura (kyoto University, Japan) * Sean Wang (University of Vermont, USA) * Seung-won Whang (POSTECH, Korea) * Shigeyoshi Ohna (Polytechnic University, Japan) * Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan) * Shinsuke Nakajima (NAIST, Japan) * Solomon Atnafu (U. Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia) * Taketoshi Ushiama (Kyushu University, Japan) * Tetsuji Satoh (University of Tsukuba , Japan) * Thierry Badard (University of Laval, Canada) * Toshiyuki Amagasa (University of Tsukuba , Japan) * Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT Informatique, France) * Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA) * Wook-Shin Han (Kyungpook National University, Korea) * Yoshihiko Ichikawa(Yamaguchi University, Japan) * Yukiko Kawai(Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan) Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (ISIM Sfax, Tunisia) * Abder Koukam (UTBM University, France) * Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Calabria, Italy) * Ana Cavalli (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) * Chandrasekhar Anantaram (TCS Ilab, India) * Chirine Ghedira (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France) * Christelle Vangenot (EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland) * David Taniar, (Monash University, Australia) * David Tien (Charles Sturt University, Australia) * Dik Lee (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong) * Djamal Benslimane (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France) * Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) * Faiez Gargouri (ISIM Institute, Tunisia) * Ferda Nur Alpaslan (METU University, Turkey) * Fernando Lopez Pelayo (Escuela Politecnica Superior De Albacete, Spain) * Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland) * Guoren Wang, (Northeastern University, China) * Hongen Lu (La Trobe University, Australia) * Ismael Rodriguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Jacques Fayolles (ISTASE University, France) * Jaroslaw Kozlak (U. of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Jianyong Wang, (Tsinghua University, China) * Jian-Tao Sun (Microsoft Research, Asia) * Kalpdrum Passi (Laurentia University, Canada) * Kokou Yetongnon (University of Bourgogne, France) * Manuel Nunez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Mario Bravetti (Universita di Bologna, Italy) * Masoud Mohammadian (University of Canberra, Australia) * Mercedes Merayo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Nabila Benharkat (INSA Lyon, France) * Natalia Lopez Barquilla (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain) * Ousmane Kone (IRIT Toulouse, France) * Pedro Isaias (Portuguese Open University, Portugal) * Rafik Bouaziz (ISIM Institute, Tunisia) * Salim Zabir (Kyung Hee university, Korea) * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Aegean, Greece) * Subhash Bhalla (University of Aizu, Japan ) * Sviatoslav Braynov (University of Illinois, USA) * Xiaoyong Du Renmin (University of China, China) * Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) * Youakim Badr (INSA Lyon, France) * Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) * Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E.) * Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research, Asia) * Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China) * Zhi-Hong Deng (Peking University, China) Signal & Image Technologies (SIT) ----------------------------------- * Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (ISIM Sfax, Tunisia) * Alain Chalifour (University Trois Rivieres, Canada) * Alain Lalande (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Alain Tiedeu (ENSP, Cameroon) * Alamine Mansouri (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Albert Dipanda (U. Bourgogne, France) * Athanassios Skodras (Hellenic Open University, Greece) * Audrey Roman (U. Bourgogne, France) * Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey) * Charith Abhayaratne (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) * Claire Bourgeois R?publique (U. Bourgogne, France) * Driss Aboutadjine (Mohemmed V University, Morocco) * El-Bay Bourennane (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Emmanuel Tonye (ENSP, Yaound?, Cameroun) * Fabrice Meriaudeau (U. Bourgogne, France) * Fan Yang (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Frank Boochs (U.Applied Sciences, Mainz Deutschland) * Franck Marzani (U. Bourgogne, France) * Zhichun Mu (Univ. Of Sci. & Tech. Beijing, China) * Fred Truchetet (U. Bourgogne, France) * Gabriel Cristobal (Instituto de Optica (CSIC) Madrid, Spain) * George Bebis (U. Nevada, USA) * Ir?ne Foucherot (U. Bourgogne, France) * Jean Louchet (Inria, France) * Johel Miteran (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Jon Hardeberg (U. Hogskolen Gjovik , Norway) * Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia) * Louis Legrand (U. Bourgogne, France) * Marcin Kociolek (University of lodz, Poland) * Nikolaos G. Bourbakis (Wright State University, USA) * Paul Scheunders (University of Antwerp, Belgium) * Paul Walker (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Peter Schelkens (Vrije U. Brussel, Belgium) * Pierre Ele (U. Yaounde I, Cameroon) * Pierre Gouton (U. Bourgogne, France) * Sebti Foufou (NIST, USA) * Tadeusz Sliwa (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) * Wilfried Philips (University of Ghent - Ugent, Belgium) * Xuan Fang Zha (University of Maryland, USA) * Yvon Voisin (Universit? de Bourgogne, France) #################################################### # 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 ldavolio at gmail.com Sun Aug 19 22:21:01 2007 From: ldavolio at gmail.com (Leonard D'Avolio) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:21:01 -0700 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Google Health Prototype screen shots Message-ID: <51fc56e10708191921q49369023rfd5ec62ea63ddce3@mail.gmail.com> If anyone is interested, some early screen shots from Google Health have made it to the web. Gives you a pretty good idea of what's planned. http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-14-n43.html -- Leonard D'Avolio Ph.D. Candidate NLM Medical Informatics Fellow Dept. of Information Studies Dept. of Medical Informatics University of California, Los Angeles http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/ldavolio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From casmith24 at wisc.edu Mon Aug 20 10:35:06 2007 From: casmith24 at wisc.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:35:06 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Google Health Prototype screen shots In-Reply-To: <51fc56e10708191921q49369023rfd5ec62ea63ddce3@mail.gmail.com> References: <51fc56e10708191921q49369023rfd5ec62ea63ddce3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46C9A69A.8070601@wisc.edu> Leonard D'Avolio wrote: > > If anyone is interested, some early screen shots from Google Health > have made it to the web. Gives you a pretty good idea of what's planned. > > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-14-n43.html > > I want to know how they're getting over the HIPAA issues. That's what *I* want to know. A Google guy was a keynote speaker at spring AMIA this year (in fact, Google was one of the sponsors -- hmmm), and he wasn't all that popular, mostly because he didn't seem aware of what had already been done. -- 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 Mon Aug 20 12:35:44 2007 From: casmith24 at wisc.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:35:44 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Google Health Prototype screen shots In-Reply-To: <51fc56e10708200921i72ced87eo6462a492bd80ddfc@mail.gmail.com> References: <51fc56e10708191921q49369023rfd5ec62ea63ddce3@mail.gmail.com> <46C9A69A.8070601@wisc.edu> <51fc56e10708200921i72ced87eo6462a492bd80ddfc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46C9C2E0.4020303@wisc.edu> Leonard D'Avolio wrote: > > That said, it's difficult to argue that the ability to more > effectively store one's health information, share it with providers, > search for related information, discuss\share with others in similar > situations, etc. isn't sorely needed. Oh, absolutely. No argument there. I'm just not wild about a commercial entity being in charge. Re the release of information, I think the real problem with medical records is that they represent so many other people besides the patient, but the patient is the one who gives consent for everything regarding their use. This is a very OLD problem but genetic medicine, of course, makes it worse. I've got major concerns, too, about data quality (based on the consumer health vocabulary work I've done.) Quoted from my presentation at ASIST's preconference last year, the woman who referred to an "exorcism of the lateral disk" is REALLY going to have trouble having her information needs met. And to forestall a ruckus: No, I do not think patients (or consumers) are all like this. I just don't worry about the others! -- 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 ldavolio at gmail.com Mon Aug 20 12:21:29 2007 From: ldavolio at gmail.com (Leonard D'Avolio) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:21:29 -0700 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Google Health Prototype screen shots In-Reply-To: <46C9A69A.8070601@wisc.edu> References: <51fc56e10708191921q49369023rfd5ec62ea63ddce3@mail.gmail.com> <46C9A69A.8070601@wisc.edu> Message-ID: <51fc56e10708200921i72ced87eo6462a492bd80ddfc@mail.gmail.com> I'm sure there's the standard legal sign-off prior to participation. Sort of like the 10 documents you sign when visiting your doctor, dentist, physical therapist, dog trainer, stating that your medical data can be used for secondary purposes. It will get interesting when people use the service to store and track the health information of loved ones as is often the case. As with all things Google these days, the fear of too much information controlled by one private company is warranted. This is especially true with what is essentially some of the most sensitive and potentially damaging personal information available. It doesn't take much creativity to imagine the worth of this data to insurers or employers and the harm that could come of it. That said, it's difficult to argue that the ability to more effectively store one's health information, share it with providers, search for related information, discuss\share with others in similar situations, etc. isn't sorely needed. If we want to be able to quickly access and share our health information from anywhere then it seems unavoidable that some for-profit company will facilitate it. But is this a step down from our current system? Today our information is stored by several companies and routinely sold for profit. Legally we own this information, but it's like putting your money in a bank with mountain-top ATMs. At least with Google's proposed service we'll have say in what we do or do not share, letting individuals weigh risk vs. reward. I may be just as guilty as said Google rep in not knowing the alternatives, but I don't expect the government to provide an effective service any time soon. And so, if we decide such a service is worth our while, we're left relying on private companies to fill the void. If it comes down to Google or some medicalrecordsonline.com, at least Google is financially solvent and therefore less likely host a medical record fire sale when the banks come calling. Or have I finally just ordered a tall shot of the kool aid? I hope everyone's having a great day, Len On 8/20/07, Catherine Arnott Smith wrote: > > Leonard D'Avolio wrote: > > > > If anyone is interested, some early screen shots from Google Health > > have made it to the web. Gives you a pretty good idea of what's planned. > > > > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-14-n43.html > > > > > I want to know how they're getting over the HIPAA issues. That's what > *I* want to know. > > A Google guy was a keynote speaker at spring AMIA this year (in fact, > Google was one of the sponsors -- hmmm), and he wasn't all that popular, > mostly because he didn't seem aware of what had already been done. > > -- > 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.] > > -- Leonard D'Avolio Ph.D. Candidate NLM Medical Informatics Fellow Dept. of Information Studies Dept. of Medical Informatics University of California, Los Angeles http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/ldavolio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: