[Sigmet-officers] workshop

[Dietmar Wolfram]

Hi Cassidy,

I think 14 is a reasonable number given the short lead time and that this is the first time we are trying this format. If the price for the workshop won't change, we could try to extend the time of the workshop to occupy essentially the full day. It's a rare opportunity to bring together metrics researchers at the conference, so we may wish to take advantage of it. If so, would 25 minutes per paper be too long (or 15 minutes per paper with 30 minutes total for discussion per session)? It would allow more opportunity for a detailed presentation and discussion, so the schedule would just extend a bit with the addition of lunch and a couple of breaks: 

8:30-9:00 gather for breakfast foods and registration
9:00-10:15 first session (3 papers)
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:45 second session (3 papers)
11:45-1:00 lunch on your own
1:00-2:00 posters (assuming 5)
2:00-3:15 third session (3 papers)
3:15-3:30 break
3:30-4:30 wrap-up discussion 

The wrap-up could also integrate discussion of attendees' interests and suggestions for future SIG events. At the metrics event in Vancouver, we ended the day with a dutch treat dinner (very informal, with interested attendees meeting at a designated restaurant about an hour after the workshop ended). 

However, if SIG officers would prefer a half-day session to allow time for attendees to do other things in the afternoon (or get ready to leave town), I'm fine with that. As a post-conference event, attendees may be thinking of heading back home by Wednesday afternoon. 

Dietmar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cassidy Sugimoto" <cassidysugimoto at gmail.com>
To: "SIG/MET" <sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 7:18:47 PM
Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop

Dear All:

We received 14 submissions for the workshop: 12 presentations and two
posters. This is not as many as I had hoped for, but I think we have
some very interesting topics and very intelligent people in the
roster. I would, however, suggest that we move to a half-day workshop
rather than a full day workshop. My suggestion would be to do the
following:

1) Send all submissions out for review. If we have each person do 4
reviews, we only need to have 7 reviewers.
2) Select the top 9 papers for the workshop.
3) Suggest to the bottom 3 papers that they turn their paper into a poster.
4) Accept the other 2 posters.
5) Move to a half-day schedule:
8:30-9:30 gather for breakfast foods, observe posters, and registration
9:30-10:30 first session (3 papers)
10:30-11:30 second session (3 papers)
11:30-11:45 snack break
11:45-12:45 third session (3 papers)
12:45-1:15 wrap-up discussion

My goal is to shorten the presentation times to focus on discussion
over presentation. I would like to have 10 minutes for the
presentation for each, 5 minutes of discussion on just that paper and
then 15 minutes at the end for general topic discussion in each
session. This will require skilled moderators.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this as I set up the reviewers.

Best,
Cassidy



-- 
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto
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