From brad.eden at valpo.edu Thu Jun 2 14:32:46 2016 From: brad.eden at valpo.edu (Brad Eden) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:32:46 -0500 Subject: [SigLT-L] Call for editorial board members: Digital Library Perspectives Message-ID: Please excuse duplication. I am looking for new editorial board members for the journal *Digital Library Perspectives* (a description of the journal is provided below). The editorial board serves as the peer reviewers for the journal, and I am looking to expand the number as well as add international board members. If you are interested, please send me a short 100 word statement of your interest and background, and a CV to the email below (not the listserv). If you have any questions, please contact me directly via email. Thanks. Brad Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor Dean of Library Services Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 brad.eden at valpo.edu 219-464-5099 _______________________________________________ *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* Journal history: Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives* *Aims & Scope* *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: - ? Digitization - ? Data as information - ? Archives and manuscripts - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives - ? Usability studies - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Jun 8 04:14:56 2016 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:14:56 +0200 Subject: [SigLT-L] CFP: The 8th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems, Hendaye, France (ACM MEDES 2016) Message-ID: <5LYAMALL-F8HT-3UZZ-X88B-O4HHOZMMO41Y@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * The 8th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Hendaye, 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 2016 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Internet of People - Cyber Physical Systems - Systems of Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks 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 (extended): July 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2016 - Camera Ready: September 15th, 2016 - Paper Registration: September 15th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chair ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- Philippe Aniorte, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Philippe Arnould, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Haritza Camblong, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain Ionel Vechiu, ESTIA, France Laurent Gallon, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Sebstian Laborie, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Philippe Lopisteguy, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Manuel Munier, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Khouloud Salameh, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Nathalie Charbel, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Lara Kallas, NOBATEK, France Irvin Dongo, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Chinnapong Angsuchotmetee, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Regina Ticona, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Solomon Asres, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Jun 20 10:14:33 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:14:33 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO-ICSTI Webinar, June 30, Text and Data Mining Message-ID: Text and Data Mining: The Way Forward as Seen by the Library, Publisher and Researcher Communities, June 30, 2016, 10:00am (EDT) Webinar Event, jointly sponsored by ICSTI and NISO June is always such a busy month for those of us in the information community! Many industry conferences, many highly-relevant sessions, and so many demands on our time! That said, perhaps you gad overlooked this forthcoming NISO/ICSTI Joint Webinar on the topic of text and data mining? Such activities represent a critically important means of uncovering patterns of intellectual practice and usage that have the potential for illuminating facets and perspectives in research and scholarship that might otherwise not be noted. At the same time, challenges exist in terms of project management and support, licensing and other necessary protections. Listen in on June 30 to hear an international roster of stakeholders discuss the best path forward while ensuring the needs of the broadest spectrum of the information community are successfully met. Confirmed speakers include: Audrey McCulloch, Executive Director, ALPSP; Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; Ellen Finnie, Head, Scholarly Communications and Collections Strategies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Jeremy Frey, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Head of Computational Systems Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK. Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016 Time: 10am-11:30am (EDT) Broadcast Platform: WebEx For more information about this event and to register, please visit the NISO event page. http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/webinars/joint_webinars/ Please note that this event is not part of the regularly scheduled NISO webinar series included in NISO?s Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership and does require a separate registration fee. Questions for NISO? Get in touch at: NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 Phone: +1.301.654.2512 Email: nisohq at niso.org From niso-announce at niso.org Wed Jun 22 15:22:50 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:22:50 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO Members Elect New Leadership for 2016-2017 Term Message-ID: Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have selected their board's leadership for the 2016-2017 term, which will begin on July 1, 2016. B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., becomes Chair; and Chris Shillum, Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data Integration at Reed Elsevier, has been elected Vice Chair. Three other board members have also been confirmed: Gerry Grenier (IEEE); Marian Hollingsworth (Thomson Reuters); and Evan Owens (Cenveo Publisher Services). Continuity is a welcome hallmark of this election's result: Usdin, Shillum, Grenier, Hollingsworth, and Owens are all continuing another term of service to NISO's board, continuity that helps the organization smoothly advance its ongoing projects and goals. NISO Executive Director Todd Carpenter welcomes the new board, commenting that, "Tommie, Chris, and the whole board are deeply involved in work that impacts information sharing technology and its users for decades to come. NISO is fortunate to have our ideas and work guided by such a talented group." Usdin and Shillum below describe their views of NISO's work and their goals for the coming term; their professional biographies are also listed. *B. Tommie Usdin, Chair* I'm happy to help lead NISO in its important work supporting the library, publisher, and information-interchange communities, says Usdin. "My work on content markup has shown me how important it is to users and consumers of information technology for standards to get it right. Involvement in conferences and educational events, too, has brought home that collaboration is essential, and collaboration among developers and users of new resources is central to NISO's work. The stability in NISO's current board facilitates continued teamwork; the tasks ahead are challenging, but I foresee our working groups producing groundbreaking results that are essential to our audience." *B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML systems for textual documents, has long been a leader in the technology around content markup and the publishing production process. She has organized a number of community efforts and conferences on the subject, such as the Markup Technologies and Extreme Markup Languages events, and is involved in the, Balisage conference series. She has served as an active member of NISO's Board of Directors since 2013 and has been a member of the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) and the NISO Standards Tag Set (STS) working groups.* *Chris Shillum, Vice Chair* "I am gratified to continue my leadership at NISO, an organization whose ability to bring together stakeholders with different, and sometimes opposing, goals makes it a vital part of scholarly infrastructure. I look forward to working on upcoming projects on, for example, data privacy, that impact a diverse set of users and that urgently need addressing." Shillum also commented that, "as a veteran board member, I've seen how NISO has achieved consensus on contentious issues in the past. Such problems are interesting and vital to tackle, and many face us going forward. In addition, standards and other documents issued by NISO are regularly reassessed, and the coming years will see familiar standards getting a fresh look, a process in which it's rewarding to participate." *Chris Shillum is Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data Integration at Reed Elsevier, a position he has held since 2014. He has worked for Elsevier since 1996, starting as Product Manager, Content, and then held positions as Director, Product Development (1999-2001); Publishing Technology Director (2001-2004); and Vice President Product Management, Platform and Content (2004-2014).* *He has served a variety of community organizations and served as a member of the NISO Board and as a member of the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee.* *Additional Board Members* Gerry Grenier is Senior Director, Publishing Technology at IEEE Marian Hollingsworth is Director of Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters Evan Owens is Vice President, Publishing Technologies at Cenveo Publisher Services *About NISO* NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 16:07:51 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (iSchool UMD) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:07:51 +0100 Subject: [SigLT-L] Snapshot: Summer Professional Education @ UMD iSchool Message-ID: [image: Inline image 1] *Don?t Miss Out! 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