From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 8 13:21:47 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:21:47 -0400 Subject: [Sigia-l] 2015 Awards Deadlines Message-ID: <386-22015618172147101@LEN-dick-2011> Furthwe Information at https://www.asist.org/about/awards Awards Nomination Deadline Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book July 1 History Fund Research Grant June 20 History Fund Research Paper Award June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership July 15 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation June 15 Research in Information Science June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher August 1 Watson Davis July 15 Chapter Awards Nomination Deadline Chapter of the Year August 15 Chapter Member of the Year August 15 Chapter Event of the Year August 15 Chapter Publication of the Year August 15 Chapter Innovation August 15 Student Chapter of the Year July 1 Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards Nomination Deadline SIG of the Year August 15 SIG Member of the Year August 15 SIG Publication of the Year July 15 Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From L.Will at willpowerinfo.co.uk Thu Jun 11 05:34:07 2015 From: L.Will at willpowerinfo.co.uk (Leonard Will) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:34:07 +0100 Subject: [Sigia-l] Booking time running out for ISKO UK Biennial conference, 13-14 July, London "Knowledge Organization - Making a difference- The impact of knowledge organization on society, scholarship and progress". Message-ID: <5579560F.1010108@willpowerinfo.co.uk> Dear Colleagues, Its just a month until the nextISKO UK conference in London. With the theme "*Knowledge organization making a difference-* *The impact of knowledge organization on society, scholarship and progress*" the conference aims to expands our horizons by catering amply for practitioners alongside theoreticians, including consultants, researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge Organization is useful to systems designers as well as information managers, with applications in areas as diverse as web design, records management, digital libraries and asset management, network management, etc. Sharing ideas is the way to advance your own thinking ? do come and join the discussions and network at this intimate, lively,**and engaging event. *Some highlights* ?As Keynote speakers we have*Alan Gilchrist* and *Dagobert Soergel*, both influential writers and speakers in our field. While Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting information. ?*Patrick Lambe*, always a popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an *interactive fishbowl session* for all of us to discuss what we can do in the workplace to implement KO effectively and raise its profile. ?Joining us from the USA,*Joseph Busch*, founder and Principal of Taxonomy Strategies, will talk about how global classification systems have inspired content organization on the Web. He?ll address the big questions about classification that come up again and again in his work with many different organizations. ??Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them? is the declaration of *Johannes Keizer* and *Caterina Caracciolo* from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of vocabularies. See more about these and many other eminent speakers in the full provisional programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details about the venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. Priced at just 180 pounds for members and students, and 210 pounds for non-members, this two-day event offers exceptional value for money. Please don?t delay in booking your place! We look forward to your participation, and do please let any interested colleagues know that time is running out. (With apologies for cross-posting) ************** More background* ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is on building bridges between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at Our Events , together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings (including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial conferences are available there too; see for example http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries. Best regards Leonard Will, ISKO UK #ISKOUK2015 www.iskouk.org