From niso-announce at niso.org Thu Feb 12 12:23:58 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:23:58 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO Two-Part March Webinar: Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier? Message-ID: *NISO Two-Part March Webinar: Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?* *Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of Content* *Date: *March 11, 2015 *Time: *1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time *Event webpage: * http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/ *Part 2: ** The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery* *Date: *March 18, 2015 *Time: *1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time *Event webpage:* http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/ =============================================================== NISO will be holding a two-part webinar on March 11 and 18 to explore the question, *Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?* The rise of the Discovery System in the library world has helped to streamline searching for end users by providing them with search functionality that more closely resembles search engines like Google than traditional database searches. But with this streamlined search comes added expectations from users about their ability to drill down into content and retrieve more granular pieces of information?anything from book chapters and individual letters to the editor to specific graphs and images could conceivably be retrieved in a more granular search. Users are beginning to expect more granular search and access in Discovery System searches -- encyclopedia articles, images, tables, book chapters. The implications for discovery system providers, content providers, and libraries to realize this vision are significant. These granular "objects" each have to be retrievable separately from the parent object and each has to have its own metadata and indexing. What is needed to ensure that discovery systems can retrieve and display information below the publication or article level? What is the role of the content provider and the library in this scenario? How do libraries help end users find and use this content? This two-part NISO Webinar for March will examine the many implications of an increasingly granular discovery environment. *ABOUT PART 1: **Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of Content* In *Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of Content*, this webinar will discuss the implications of granular content for user search interfaces and discovery engines. Topics and speakers are: - *Working with Metadata Challenges to Support Granular Levels of Access and Descriptions - **Myung-Ja Han*, Assistant Professor/Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois - *How Discovery Services are Meeting Evolving Granular Discovery User Needs - **Tito Sierra, *Director of Product Management, EBSCO Information Services *ABOUT PART 2: **The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery* Part 2 will look at *The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery*, and presenters will discuss the implications of granular content? discovery for the business side of the equation. Topics and speakers are: ? *Enabling discoverability into specific segments of multimedia* ? *Andrea Eastman-Mullins, *Chief Operating Officer, Alexander Street Press ? *The Business side of Making Granular Discovery Work * ? *Dan Valen*, Product Specialist, figshare *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on March 11 for Part 1 and March 18 for Part 2 (the days of the webinars). 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: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: www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. You can register for either or both parts. There is a 25% discount if registering for both. Visit the event webpages to register and for more information: Part 1: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/ Part 2: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/ Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, Maryland 21211 E: jwood at niso.org P: 301.654.2512 F: 410.685.5278 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Tue Feb 17 03:13:52 2015 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:13:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [SigLT-L] CFP AIAI 2015: 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (September 14-17, 2015 - Biarritz/Bayonne, France) In-Reply-To: <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <984453789.4478500.1424160832867.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> * Sorry for cross-posting * ************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************* The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'15) http://aiai2015.sigappfr.org/ September 14-17, 2015 Bayonne/Biarritz - France Description and Objectives --------------------------- The importance of Artificial Intelligence is underlined by the fact that it is nowadays being embraced by a vast majority of research fields across different disciplines, from Engineering Sciences to Economics and Medicine, as a means to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational as well as cognitive problems. Being one of the main streams of information processing, Artificial Intelligence may now offer solutions to such problems using advances and innovations from a wide range of sub-areas that induce thinking and reasoning in models and systems. The Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations Conference (AIAI) is a major technical event in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The 11th AIAI Conference will be held in Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne (BAB) in France, from September 14th to 17th 2015. Its general focus is to present different perspectives on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied and offer solutions to real world problems, serving the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. The primary target of AIAI is to present highly novel research papers describing innovative algorithms, systems, tools and techniques, as well as proposing advanced prototypes in the area of Artificial Intelligence. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. AIAI is supported and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Topics ------- AIAI 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data Fusion Reasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models - Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies - Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis - Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing - Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science - Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality - Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions no longer than 10 pages formatted according to the well known LNCS Springer style, or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. Paper submission deadline is April 26th, 2015. Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings, which will be published by SPRINGER and they will be available on site. At least, one author must register and attend the conference to present the paper. Proceedings will be published by Springer in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series and indexed by major indexes. Paper submission is available online via: EasyChair for AIAI 2015 website. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: April 26th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: May 29th, 2015 - Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 - Paper Registration: June 17th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 14-17 September 2015 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals, such as: - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - International Journal of Neural Systems General Chairs --------------------- - Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France - Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Chairs ???????----------------------- - Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Piraeus, Greece - Reda ElHajj, University of Calgary, Canada International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Feb 23 13:20:51 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:20:51 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO White Paper Explores the Future of Library Resource Discovery Message-ID: <008501d04f95$74ef8500$5ece8f00$@org> The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by independent consultant, speaker, and author Marshall Breeding. The white paper was commissioned by NISO's Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee as part of its ongoing examination of areas in the discovery landscape that the information community could potentially standardize. Included in the paper is an overview of the current discovery environment; descriptions of how these technologies, methodologies, and products may be able to adapt to potential future change; and a look beyond current models of discovery to explore possible alternatives, especially those related to linked data. "Marshall's paper thoroughly fulfills D2D's charge when we determined that further focused exploration and analysis of the future discovery terrain would better direct our work as a NISO Topic Committee," states Pascal Calarco, Associate University Librarian, Research & Digital Discovery Services, University of Waterloo, and Chair of the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee. "The D2D Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the finding and distribution of information by and to users and, among other tasks, identifies where new standards may provide solutions in this area and creates and provides guidance and oversight to working groups under its purview. We are appreciative that the paper, in addition to an extensive background section, includes significant sections on gap analysis, opportunities for future enhancements using various emerging technologies, and discovery beyond library-provided interfaces, which will provide rich material for our decisions on NISO projects in 2015 and beyond." "This impressive work will propel the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee's and NISO's work in the area of discovery," observes Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "NISO is pleased to be able to make Marshall's expert observations and analyses available to the library and information community through the commission and publication of this white paper. We expect that the community will continue to strive to provide its users with more universal access to diverse types of content, and this document is an important tool to help identify areas which, if engaged in, will provide positive and long-lasting outcomes." "I'm gratified that the paper will be an important contribution to NISO's work," said Marshall Breeding, author of the white paper, who has also served on numerous NISO committees and working groups over many years. "An area of interest for me in this paper's composition was identifying or exploring factors that may cause barriers to discovery, examining potential methods for progress which may benefit from additional stimulation, and detailing further opportunities to lower thresholds of entry to support additional contributions in the important arena of discovery services. I hope the material in the paper will enable the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee to further support its important work." The Future of Library Resource Discovery white paper is available for free download on the NISO website at www.niso.org/publications/white_papers/discovery/ For more information, contact: Nettie Lagace NISO Associate Director for Programs 301-654-2512 nlagace at niso.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: