From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 09:48:50 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 09:48:50 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] =?utf-8?q?Intro_to_Web_Programming=E2=80=94An_Online_Sh?= =?utf-8?q?ort_Course_Offered_by_UMD=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: Have you ever wanted to make a better website? Register now for *Introduction to Web Programming*?a fully online, 6-week short course! Offered through the Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool, this short course is an introduction to the fundamentals of designing and programming websites. This course will teach you the basics of writing code for webpages, including how to use formatting tools HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This course also introduces you to the fundamentals of building well-designed and usable websites. Students need no prior programming experience. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn eighteen (18) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). This course is not for graduate credit. *About the instructor* Dr. Jen Golbeck is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago, and is one of the world?s foremost experts in the field. Her research has influenced industry, government, and the military. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people?s hidden attributes from their online behavior, and a leader in creating human-friendly security and privacy systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. *Short Course Details* - Dates: May 2nd ? June 11th - Delivery: A fully online, asynchronous course that will utilize the University's Canvas learning management system. - Price and Refunds - $379 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, visit *http://go.umd.edu/spring16-webprogramming * Registration will close April 29, 2016, and participation will be capped at 50 students. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:06:34 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:06:34 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] =?utf-8?q?Short_Course_on_Children=E2=80=99s_Book_Award?= =?utf-8?q?s_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016--6:30-8:00pm - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland, College Park campus - Price and Refunts - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 12:14:29 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:14:29 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] =?utf-8?q?Dynamic_Workshop_on_Illustrations_in_Literatu?= =?utf-8?q?re_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a one-day, in-person workshop entitled *An Educated Eye: Looking at Picture Books (and Other Images)*. Participants will work with leading children?s literature expert, Maria Salvadore, to gain a better understanding of how illustration and other visual images convey meaning. By examining illustrations and other images that appear in various media, participants will leave this workshop with the ability to identify and evaluate picture books (and illustration in general) that are appropriate for different age children from the very young to adolescents. At the completion of the workshop, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn six (6) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - Saturday, June 11, 2016 ? 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland College Park campus - Price and Refunds - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/educatedeye-Jun16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Sat Apr 16 05:57:52 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:57:52 +0100 Subject: [SigLT-L] Extended deadline: CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL 2016 workshop) Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline Extended: 25th April, 2016 (12pm Hawaii time)*** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Successful authors will also be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), following the workshop. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 25 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 25 07:19:21 2016 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [SigLT-L] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: <981716848.14746418.1461583161201.JavaMail.zimbra@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France 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 Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", 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 2016 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 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Apr 25 11:54:39 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:54:39 +0100 Subject: [SigLT-L] Final CfP: Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (workshop at JCDL2016) Message-ID: Final Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 2nd May, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 2 May 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:35:15 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:35:15 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] DEADLINES - New Leader Award & Annual Meeting Panels & Workshops Message-ID: <3810-220164529143515409@LEN-dick-2011> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ 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 ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 29 10:57:54 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:57:54 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] =?utf-8?q?Register_Now_for_a_Short_Course_on_Children?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Book_Awards_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSc?= =?utf-8?q?hool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* ? Dates and Times o May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016?6:30pm?8:00pm ? Location o Hornbake Library South Wing University of Maryland, College Park campus ? Price and Refunds o $269.00 (payable by debit or credit only) o Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: