From chodgson at niso.org Thu May 8 15:48:06 2014
From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson)
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 19:48:06 -0000
Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO and OAI Publish American National Standard on
ResourceSync Framework Specification
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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives
Initiative (OAI) announce the publication of the ResourceSync Framework
Specification (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014)-a new American National Standard for
the web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow
third-party systems to remain synchronized with its evolving resources. The
ResourceSync joint project, funded with support from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation and Jisc, was initiated to develop a new open standard on the
real-time synchronization of web resources.
"Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple
hosting locations, are cached at multiple servers, and leveraged by several
services," explains Herbert Van de Sompel, Scientist, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, OAI Executive, and Co-chair of the ResourceSync Working Group.
"Since Web resources are continually changing, this proliferation of content
yields the challenging problem of keeping services that leverage a server's
evolving content synchronized in a timely and accurate manner. Our two-year
collaborative effort resulted in a specification that can be used to meet
this challenge for a wide variety of use cases. This was possible by
devising a modular specification and by grounding it in protocols that are
already widely adopted."
"The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) 2.0 specification can be
used to effectively synchronize the metadata about resources," states Simeon
Warner, Director, IT Application Development, Cornell University, "but
synchronizing the resources themselves was never specified. Although some
resource synchronization methods exist, they are generally ad hoc, arranged
by the individuals involved, and cannot be universally deployed. This new
specification fills that void."
"The ResourceSync specification introduces a range of easy to implement
capabilities that a server may support to enable remote systems to remain
more tightly in step with its evolving resources," explains Michael L.
Nelson, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University Computer. "It also
describes how a server can advertise the capabilities it supports. Remote
systems can inspect this information to determine how best to remain aligned
with the evolving data. All capabilities are implemented on the basis of the
document formats introduced by the Sitemap protocol. Capabilities can be
combined to achieve varying levels of functionality and hence meet different
local or community requirements."
"We expect this new standard will save a tremendous amount of time, effort,
and resources by repository managers through the automation of the
replication and updating process," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive
Director. "The end result will be to increase the general availability of
content in web repositories and alleviate the variety of problems created by
out-dated, inaccurate, superseded content that exists on the Internet
today."
The ResourceSync specification and video tutorials on using the standard are
available on the NISO website at
www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512
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From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Thu May 15 03:50:45 2014
From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 09:50:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [SigLT-L] CFP ACM MEDES 2014 (extended deadline to 8 June 2014)
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* Due to several requests, The ACM MEDES Submission Deadline has been EXTENDED *
* Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting *
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective
Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014)
In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/
September 15-17, 2014
Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi
Description and Objectives
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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 2014 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
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MEDES 2014 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
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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
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Extended Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014
Notification of Acceptance: 5 July 2014
Camera Ready: 20 July 2014
Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014
Keynote Speakers
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Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA
Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA
Special Tracks:
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Big Data Processing and Management
Computational Intelligence
Workshops
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- 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SECES)
- Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (AIEM)
Special issues and Journal Publication
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Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later.
Main Conference Program Chairs
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Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada
Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
International Program Committee:
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(Please check the web site for the full list)
From chodgson at niso.org Thu May 22 14:04:58 2014
From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:04:58 -0400
Subject: [SigLT-L] Free NISO/BISG Pre-ALA Conference Event: 8th Annual
Changing Standards Landscape Forum
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NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape:
Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content
Date: Friday, June 27, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, LVCC - N231-233
Event Description
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Book Industry
Study Group (BISG) have again partnered to explore how these trends impact
publishing, libraries, and technology standards in the 8th Annual Changing
Standards Landscape Forum. This year's event will focus on Managing an
Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content.
Digital content creation, distribution, and access is a worldwide endeavor
that is much more complex than printing and shipping physical books or
journals. Identification, description, file formats, purchasing models, and
measurement have all been transformed by the trends of globalization and
digitization of content distribution. For each of these trends, the role of
standards in making these processes more efficient is a critical element and
something all publishers and librarians should follow closely. Both
communities have a lot to learn from each other regarding how standards work
undertaken in the publishing community affects libraries and vice-versa.
Agenda
* Welcome and Introductions - Todd Carpenter, Executive Director,
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Len Vlahos, Executive
Director, Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
* Thema: The New Global Standard for Subject Classification - Julie
Morris, Project Manager: Standards & Best Practices, BISG
* Linked Content Coalition: Rights Management Tools - Linked Content
Coalition Board Member
* EPUB: Walled Gardens and the Readium Foundation - Readium Foundation
Representative
* New Forms of Discovery and Purchasing in Libraries: Demand Driven
Acquisitions - Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for
Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver
Libraries
* Where Digital is Going? E-book Adoption by the Numbers - Len Vlahos,
Executive Director, BISG
* Assessing Digital Output in New Ways - Mike Taylor, Research
Specialist, Elsevier Labs
Registration
Please RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7CVTZ3. This event is
free of charge; however, we would like to get an estimated count of
attendance for logistical purposes. For more information, visit the event
webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/
This event is sponsored by Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512
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From chodgson at niso.org Tue May 27 15:40:42 2014
From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:40:42 -0400
Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO June 11 Webinar: Fragmented Publishing: The
Implications of Self-Publishing
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NISO Webinar: Fragmented Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing
Date: June 11, 2014
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/fragmented/
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR
In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew
an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published
"traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution
mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and
disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have
their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this
revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity
publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out
from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow
in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries
incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When
there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user
separate the wheat from the chaff? NISO's June 11 webinar, Fragmented
Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing, will explore these issues
and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and
libraries.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
. When Authors Assume Their Own Risk - Laura Dawson, Product Manager
for Identifiers, Bowker
. Self-Publishing with Smashwords - Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and
Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
. Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
- Allison Brown, Editor & Production Manager, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
REGISTRATION
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on June 14, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available
for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance
(LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not
need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive
the login information. Members are listed here:
http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance
. If you
would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as
part of membership, information on joining is listed here:
http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA
webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year.
Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/fragmented/
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512
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