From jandrews at cas.usf.edu Thu Nov 1 10:08:44 2007 From: jandrews at cas.usf.edu (Andrews, James) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:08:44 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIG-MED elections and other business Message-ID: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD27492295B7@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> Hi all, It was good to see everyone at ASIST and I hope you all had a productive meeting. It was unfortunate that we had only short periods to meet, but I am very interested in any and all ideas for revitalizing this important SIG. Since I have only attended the past two SIG-MED meetings (I am usually only able to go to AMIA each fall), I have a lot to learn regarding administrative issues related to SIGs, but I am in the process of doing so now. At this point, we really need to take care of some pressing business: 1) Louisa has told me that other SIGs are interested in collaborating with us. She will be sending her notes from the planning meeting soon and we can discuss options for our session(s). 2) Steve is working on the the Annual Report, which will be sent in before long. 3) To do the above, we need to elect some officers. As noted, we are already in non-compliance with the SIG by-laws since this was to be done before the annual business meeting, but it needs to be done so I hope there are no issues that will prevent this. Here are the openings and any nominees at this point: Chair: Me (outgoing Steve MacCall) Chair-Elect: Cabinet Representative: Alternative Representative: Secretary/Treasurer: Nominee: Nancy Blase Communications Officer: current: Leonard D'Avolio As I understand it, we are only required by the by-laws to elect a Chair and Chair-elect, who also serve as the Cabinet Rep. and Alternate Rep, respectively. Since Nancy has been kind enough to agree to be nominated for Secretary/Treasurer, I would like to press her good nature to request that perhaps she consider switching to Chair-elect so that we have the two required officer positions filled this year. BUT, this may not be allowed in our rules. If anyone has a copy of our SIG's Operating Rules, I would appreciate these. Once we review them, I am inclined to suggest two-year terms for at least the Chair, and am curious to know more about any past rules the SIG has adopted. If it turns out that we must elect the other positions, then I would like to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for these positions. For more information on the responsibilities of these officers, please refer to the SIG Officers Manual and Bylaws on the ASIST website. Once we have the nominees finalized, I will send out an electronic ballot (email) and we can move on from there with the session planning and other issues related to the future of the SIG. Thanks for all of your help, Jim James E. Andrews, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-2108 Fax: 813-974-6840 jandrews at cas.usf.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elworthi at MIT.EDU Thu Nov 1 14:18:03 2007 From: elworthi at MIT.EDU (Louisa Worthington Rogers) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:18:03 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIG-MED elections and other business In-Reply-To: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD27492295B7@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> References: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD27492295B7@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> Message-ID: <004801c81cb3$8dcdaf10$e0013312@mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu> Hi, I would possibly be interested in either Cabinet rep or alternative rep, although I need to check the manual to see what those responsibilities are. I enjoyed attending the SIG Planning session in Milwaukee for Jim. Is that part of the Cabinet rep's job? I returned to MIT Monday to face 5 huge meetings and candidates to interview for a position here, but I will get my notes to Jim in a day or so. It was great to find that several SIGs are interested in our ideas. Thanks, Louisa Louisa Worthington Rogers Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences Librarian M.I.T. Science Library 14S-134 Cambridge, MA 02139 elworthi at mit.edu _____ From: sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Andrews, James Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:09 AM To: sigmed-l at asis.org Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIG-MED elections and other business Hi all, It was good to see everyone at ASIST and I hope you all had a productive meeting. It was unfortunate that we had only short periods to meet, but I am very interested in any and all ideas for revitalizing this important SIG. Since I have only attended the past two SIG-MED meetings (I am usually only able to go to AMIA each fall), I have a lot to learn regarding administrative issues related to SIGs, but I am in the process of doing so now. At this point, we really need to take care of some pressing business: 1) Louisa has told me that other SIGs are interested in collaborating with us. She will be sending her notes from the planning meeting soon and we can discuss options for our session(s). 2) Steve is working on the the Annual Report, which will be sent in before long. 3) To do the above, we need to elect some officers. As noted, we are already in non-compliance with the SIG by-laws since this was to be done before the annual business meeting, but it needs to be done so I hope there are no issues that will prevent this. Here are the openings and any nominees at this point: Chair: Me (outgoing Steve MacCall) Chair-Elect: Cabinet Representative: Alternative Representative: Secretary/Treasurer: Nominee: Nancy Blase Communications Officer: current: Leonard D'Avolio As I understand it, we are only required by the by-laws to elect a Chair and Chair-elect, who also serve as the Cabinet Rep. and Alternate Rep, respectively. Since Nancy has been kind enough to agree to be nominated for Secretary/Treasurer, I would like to press her good nature to request that perhaps she consider switching to Chair-elect so that we have the two required officer positions filled this year. BUT, this may not be allowed in our rules. If anyone has a copy of our SIG's Operating Rules, I would appreciate these. Once we review them, I am inclined to suggest two-year terms for at least the Chair, and am curious to know more about any past rules the SIG has adopted. If it turns out that we must elect the other positions, then I would like to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for these positions. For more information on the responsibilities of these officers, please refer to the SIG Officers Manual and Bylaws on the ASIST website. Once we have the nominees finalized, I will send out an electronic ballot (email) and we can move on from there with the session planning and other issues related to the future of the SIG. Thanks for all of your help, Jim James E. Andrews, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-2108 Fax: 813-974-6840 jandrews at cas.usf.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jandrews at cas.usf.edu Tue Nov 6 19:23:33 2007 From: jandrews at cas.usf.edu (Andrews, James) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:23:33 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] FW: [Sig-l] ASIST Intro to IS book References: Message-ID: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD274905EFFF@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> Please see below and forward any suggestions. thanks, jim ________________________________ From: sig-l-bounces at asis.org on behalf of Debora Shaw Sent: Tue 11/6/2007 4:03 PM To: SIG-L at asis.org Cc: dmhall at mindspring.com; davisc at kiva.net; edie at interchange.ubc.ca Subject: [Sig-l] ASIST Intro to IS book Hello SIG officers and others who have expressed interest in the ASIST collaborative book, Introduction to Information Science and Technology. In case you haven't heard about this project, I've attached the proposal as presented to SIG Cabinet last month (the outline is slightly modified from that proposal). The basic idea is that we'll produce an introductory book that presents the best thinking of ASIST experts. We're counting on SIGs to identify experts - these would be the contributors of draft chapters of people to review and enhance draft submissions. Please let me know your suggestions of authors for draft sections or chapters. Suggestions for reviewers or other comments are also welcome. I would greatly appreciate receiving your advice by Tuesday November 13. many thanks, ralf shaw -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ISBookOutlineNov07.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 28672 bytes Desc: ISBookOutlineNov07.doc URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT3647366.txt URL: From hersh at ohsu.edu Fri Nov 9 06:15:46 2007 From: hersh at ohsu.edu (Bill Hersh) Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:15:46 -0800 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Call for Papers: Information Retrieval in Biomedicine - The TREC Genomics Track Message-ID: Call for Papers - Special Issue of Information RetrievalInformation Retrieval in Biomedicine - The TREC Genomics TrackWilliam Hersh and Ellen Voorhees, Co-EditorsWe are seeking papers for a special issue of the journal Information Retrieval devoted to work performed with the test collections of the TREC Genomics Track. The track ran from 2003-2007 and its test collections feature a variety of tasks, including ad hoc information retrieval, text categorization, and entity-based question-answering. Papers can address other tasks, such as information summarization, text mining, or information extraction, but should have some connection to the Genomics Track or its data. Papers must be full-length and provide detailed descriptions of methods and results, along with analysis. We strongly discourage re-submission of TREC proceedings papers. "Good" results are less important than well-motivated and well-described experiments. As such, papers should have, and peer reviewers will be asked to look for, the following characteristics: Well-motivated approaches to real user information problems in the genomics domain Well-described baseline experiments with incremental analysis of algorithms and other system features Appropriate statistical analysis Detailed analysis of results, including failure and successHere is the timeline for the special issue: March 31, 2008 - papers due June 1, 2008 - results from peer review return to authors July 1, 2008 - revised papers due August 1, 2008 - final decisions for publications returned to authors Late 2008 - publication of special issueIf you are able to contribute, please send your paper to the Editorial Manager Site for the journal. Instructions for authors can be found at the journal's Web site. If you have questions regarding the system, contact Ms. Jacqueline Lalic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jandrews at cas.usf.edu Fri Nov 16 12:23:25 2007 From: jandrews at cas.usf.edu (Andrews, James) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:23:25 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] sessions and elections Message-ID: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD274905F039@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> Hi all, I haven't received any nominations for chair-elect thus far, and we need this information for the annual report. I am willing to serve two terms to help out unless someone has objections. I will gladly rescind this offer if someone is willing to self-nominate or has other ideas. For sessions, I haven't received a report yet from the planning seesion, though the last message seemed to convey that there is positive feedback on collaborating with other SIGs. I talked with one or two others at AMIA and we thought that a session with SIG CR would be good, perhaps along the lines of "Ontologies in support of semantic interoperability". Hopefully, papers would demonstrate different contexts, including medical. For our own session, I can't remember what was suggested. Please share ideas. Lastly, I am working on a site for the SIG, or rather have asked my GA if she would get started on one as a way for her to learn HTML. I will share a link and solicit feedback in the coming weeks. I am sending these notes to the entire list to try and ensure all SIG-MED members can get up to speed and hopefully increase participation. I hope to hear from many of you soon either through the list or individual emails. Thanks, jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elworthi at MIT.EDU Fri Nov 16 16:40:56 2007 From: elworthi at MIT.EDU (E Louisa Worthington Rogers) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:40:56 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] sessions and elections In-Reply-To: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD274905F039@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> References: <0C5AF85F327D8F468959D47E7CDD274905F039@MAILBOX.cas.usf.edu> Message-ID: <20071116164056.in8ceyaqpl8g40o0@webmail.mit.edu> Hi Jim, I sent you my report from the SIG planning meeting at ASIST in Milwaukee a few weeks ago. It included about 4 different ideas and other SIGs willing to join with us. I'll forward it again. I also volunteered to be the alternate rep if you still one. Best, Louisa Rogers Quoting "Andrews, James" : > Hi all, > I haven't received any nominations for chair-elect thus far, and we > need this information for the annual report. I am willing to serve > two terms to help out unless someone has objections. I will gladly > rescind this offer if someone is willing to self-nominate or has > other ideas. > > For sessions, I haven't received a report yet from the planning > seesion, though the last message seemed to convey that there is > positive feedback on collaborating with other SIGs. I talked with one > or two others at AMIA and we thought that a session with SIG CR would > be good, perhaps along the lines of "Ontologies in support of > semantic interoperability". Hopefully, papers would demonstrate > different contexts, including medical. For our own session, I can't > remember what was suggested. Please share ideas. > > Lastly, I am working on a site for the SIG, or rather have asked my > GA if she would get started on one as a way for her to learn HTML. I > will share a link and solicit feedback in the coming weeks. > > I am sending these notes to the entire list to try and ensure all > SIG-MED members can get up to speed and hopefully increase > participation. I hope to hear from many of you soon either through > the list or individual emails. > > Thanks, > jim > From elworthi at MIT.EDU Mon Nov 19 11:56:51 2007 From: elworthi at MIT.EDU (Louisa Worthington Rogers) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:56:51 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] FW: ASIST SIG planning information Message-ID: <002901c82acd$32059cb0$e0013312@mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu> Jim, Here is the original message. Nancy also requested this for the minutes. I've copied this to KT Vaughan per her request at the SIG planning session. Do you as Chair follow up with these ideas - or how do we proceed? 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: Louisa Worthington Rogers [mailto:elworthi at mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:40 PM To: 'Andrews, James' Subject: ASIST information Greetings Jim, I've been running bioinformatics programs for several days, so all else was put on the back burner. Here is the info from the ASIST SIG planning meeting. 1. biomedical informatics, with emphasis on ontologies - CR 2. Part 2 of Deborah Swain's study on NCPHIP (MED co-sponsored part 1 this year)- KM 3. standards, such as semantic inoperability - no standard yet) - DL, CR 4. UMLS update - no co-sponsors found for this I think this gives us a lot to work with. I suggest we send email to our SIG mail list to solicit other ideas or more discussion on these. K.C. Vaughn would like this preliminary list. Shall I send or you as Chair? Thanks, Louisa Greetings from Courtney. ____________________________ Louisa Worthington Rogers Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences Librarian M.I.T. Science Library 14S-134 Cambridge, MA 02139 elworthi at mit.edu From snhaque at syr.edu Tue Nov 20 09:05:58 2007 From: snhaque at syr.edu (Saira Haque) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:05:58 -0600 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Fwd: Opening - Program Manager, Biomedical Sciences and Technologies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <82a0475e0711200605y31c1c30fn249d494ccb0c661c@mail.gmail.com> FYI. Saira ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jody Roberts Date: Nov 20, 2007 7:17 AM Subject: Opening - Program Manager, Biomedical Sciences and Technologies To: STSGRAD Program Manager, Biomedical Sciences and Technologies Center for Contemporary History and Policy (CCHP) The Chemical Heritage Foundation has an opening for a program manager in its Center for Contemporary History and Policy. Located in Philadelphia's historic district, the Chemical Heritage Foundation seeks to preserve, analyze, and make known the history of the chemical and molecular sciences and affiliated industries. The Center for Contemporary History and Policy organizes conferences, carries out research projects, and publishes reports that bring long-range analysis to bear on contemporary issues in science, technology, innovation, and policy. CCHP is a fast-moving and highly relevant working group that employs cross-functional teamwork to produce timely results. Responsibilities: The program manager will play an active role in program management and new project development centered on the recent history of the biomedical sciences and technologies. She/He will manage this program area, including conducting and processing oral histories, research and publishing, budgeting, cross-function communication, and external communication. He/She will develop projects examining the recent history of biomedicine and its policy implications (including prosopographic research, conferences, and publications); work with the CCHP director to identify new opportunities and implement new projects; and represent CCHP at meetings, events, and conferences. The position may have one or more reportables. Background: ?Advanced degree in a relevant social science or scientific discipline. ?Superior research skills, including qualitative data analysis, oral history, and archival research. ?Demonstrated ability to manage projects of varying scope and size and ability to carry out self-motivated and self-supervised work. ?Superior writing and communication skills as evidenced by successful presentations and publications. ?High scientific and technical literacy and aptitude. ?Eager to work in fast-paced environment - adaptable and flexible. To Apply: Send a cover letter outlining skills, experience, and interests; your c.v. or resume; and contact information for two references to: Ron Reynolds / Chemical Heritage Foundation / 315 Chestnut Street / Philadelphia, PA 19106 Email: rreynolds at chemheritage.org / Fax: 215.629.8244 / Website: www.chemheritage.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You can view archived STSGRAD messages at http://groups.google.com/group/STSGRAD You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "STSGRAD" group. To post to this group, send email to STSGRAD at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to STSGRAD-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/STSGRAD -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Saira N. 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