From niso-announce at niso.org Fri Dec 5 14:01:11 2014 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:01:11 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO Two-Part December Webinar: Sustainable Information Message-ID: <003001d010bd$d808e7b0$881ab710$@org> NISO Two-Part December Webinar: Sustainable Information Part 1: Digital Preservation for Text Date: December 10, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/text_preservation/ Part 2: Digital Preservation of Audio-Visual Content Date: December 17, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/av_preservation/ ABOUT THE WEBINAR Information resources are increasingly born digital and may never have a print counterpart. Many older resources are being digitized, with the digital resource now the primary version. But digital resources depend on technology and technology changes can render a resource in accessible. To ensure digital information is sustainable, issues including file formats, metadata, storage media, and compatible software and hardware must be addressed. ABOUT PART 1: Digital Preservation for Text This webinar will share the experiences of several organizations in developing a process for ensuring the preservation of digital textual resources. Topics and speakers are: . Preserving the Law: Digital Curation in a Law Library Setting - Leah Prescott, Associate Law Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Georgetown University Law Library . Rosetta digital preservation system: Enabling institutions to preserve and provide access to their digital collections - Edward M. Corrado, Director of Library Technology, Binghamton University Libraries . National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Preservation - Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress ABOUT PART 2: Digital Preservation of Audio-Visual Content Audio-visual resources in digital formats present even more challenges to preservation than do digital text resources. Reformatting information to a common file format can be difficult and may require specialists to ensure it is done with no loss in integrity. While digital text may still be usable if done imperfectly (e.g., skewed but still readable pages), even small errors in digital A/V files could render the material unusable. This webinar will share the experiences of several projects that are working to ensure that A/V files can be preserved with their full integrity ensured Topics and speakers are: . Planning for Video Preservation Services at Harvard - Andrea Goethals, Manager of Digital Preservation and Repository Services, Harvard University Library and David Ackerman, Head of Media Preservation, Harvard University Library . AXF: Finally a Storage and Preservation Standard for the Ages - Brian Campanotti, Chief Technical Officer, Front Porch Digital . An Open-Source Preservation Solution: Hydra/Blacklight - Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University Libraries REGISTRATION You may register for one or both parts; registrants to both parts receive a 25% discount. For a detailed agenda and to register, visit the event webpages: Part 1: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/text_preservation/ Part 2: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/av_preservation/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Dec 15 04:45:12 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [SigLT-L] CfP : ACM MEDES'15 - Sao Paulo, Brazil In-Reply-To: <1801670561.8817907.1418636257828.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <1815744627.8820767.1418636712701.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ September 25-29, 2015 Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2015 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. 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 related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 26th, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 03rd, 2015 - Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)