From NOsorio at niu.edu Fri Sep 17 10:31:28 2010 From: NOsorio at niu.edu (Nestor Osorio) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:31:28 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Library Faculty position at Northern Illinois University Libraries Message-ID: <4C933570020000D90008346A@wpo.cso.niu.edu> Library Faculty position at Northern Illinois University Libraries: Assistant Professor, Health & Human Sciences Librarian, available 1/1/11, Northern Illinois University. Preference will be given to applications received by October 1, 2010. See www.ulib.niu.edu/employment for application details, complete job description and more information about Northern Illinois University Libraries. AA/EEO Institution. Nestor Osorio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Patricia.McNary at mcphs.edu Fri Sep 17 19:12:00 2010 From: Patricia.McNary at mcphs.edu (Patricia.McNary at mcphs.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:12:00 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] MLA Lindberg Research Fellowship Message-ID: **Please forgive cross posting. Hello Everyone, The Medical Library Association (MLA) is now accepting applications for The Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship. The purpose of this fellowship is to fund research aimed at expanding the research knowledgebase, linking the information services provided by librarians to improved health care and advances in biomedical research. The endowment will provide a $10,000 grant, awarded by MLA through a competitive grant process, to a qualified health sciences librarian, informatician, health professional, researcher, educator, or health administrator. Research in alignment with MLA's research agenda's top ranked research questions is preferred over other areas of research and is located at http://www.mlanet.org/research/agenda_2008.html. Applications for the Donald A. B. Lindberg Fellowship are due November 15, 2010!! 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 2011. Pat Patricia McNary Electronic Services Librarian Assistant Professor, Library and Learning Resources Henrietta DeBenedictis Library Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 179 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115 617-732-2810; fax: 617-278-1566 patricia.mcnary at mcphs.edu www.mcphs.edu Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, and any attachment to it, is intended to be confidential and might be legally privileged. 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The grant can be used to develop one's knowledge of the theoretical, administrative, or technical aspects of librarianship, and may be used either for MLA courses or for other CE activities. Applicants should have 2+ years of professional library experience. Awards range from $100 to $500 and more than one CE award may be offered in a year. Please email questions to jury chair, Kay Chapa (email address: kay.chapa at utsouthwestern.edu). Application form: See http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/grants/ce_app_20090909.pdf Application deadline: December 1, 2010 ________________________________ Kay Jury Chair, 2010-2011 MLA CE Grant Elia Kay Chapa, MPA, MSLS Program Evaluation and Assessment Specialist Office of the Assistant Vice President for Library Services UT Southwestern Medical Center Library 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-9049 Email: kay.chapa at utsouthwestern.edu Phone: 214-648-2085 "Information that makes a Difference" ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Sep 29 12:17:00 2010 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:17:00 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] MTAP: Special Issue on Multimedia Data Annotation and Retrieval using Web 2.0 Message-ID: Sorry for cross-postings ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal Special Issue on Multimedia Data Annotation and Retrieval using Web 2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------- Currently, more than 80% of the information exchanged on the Web carry personal data and are primarily of multimedia nature (video, audio, images, etc.). Two main reasons are behind this phenomenon: 1) each of the major players on the Internet (individual users, companies, local and/or regional authorities, etc.) is both data producer and data consumer at the same time, and 2) the use of various tools of Web 2.0 (blogs, social networks, etc.) allows to ease sharing, accessing, and publishing information on the Web. While such tools provide users many easy-to-use functionalities, several issues, however, remain unaddressed. For instance, how to automate the processes of annotation and description of some photos using the annotations/descriptions provided by the user friends on his/her blog/wiki/social network? How to provide the user with more effective and expressive means to multimedia information retrieval? How to protect a multimedia data repository (e.g., photo album) while several related information about the same content is already published (by some user friends) on the same or other blog/wiki/social network? The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to the use of Web 2.0 in providing automatic annotation and easing retrieval and access control of multimedia data. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art and future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups. Topics ------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Semantic Web and Web 2.0 * Social Networks * Multimedia Semantics * Contextual Multimedia Metadata * Annotation Enriching * Query Rewriting * Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications * Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic Stores, etc.) * Multimedia Authoring * Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization * Multimedia Retrieval * Personalizing Multimedia Content * Cross-media Clustering * Mobile Applications * Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support * Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline: November 15, 2010 Notification of First Round of Review: January 30, 2011 Submission of the Revised Manuscript: March 15, 2011 Notification of Final Acceptance: April 30, 2011 Camera-ready Submission: May 30, 2011 Submission ----------- Authors are invited to submit contributions at the journal Online Submission System (http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap) not exceeding 8000 words (approx. 20 pages single-spaced) including diagrams and references with at least 10-point Times Roman like font. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least three external expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue topics above. Since a "blind" paper evaluation method will be used, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file. Guest Editors ------------- Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France, richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr) Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, oria at homer.njit.edu)