[Sigmet-officers] Updates and action items

[Stasa Milojevic]

Dear all,

Thank you for agreeing to serve as officers of SIG Metrics. I'm very 
excited about the year ahead.

I first want to update you with some of the things I did:
- Worked with Jan and Angela to update both ASIST and our website so 
that it accurately presents the list of officers, has a link to the 
sigmetrics mailing list and has old content (Call for 2011 Student Paper 
Contest and information on ASIST Workshop) removed and new content (such 
as call for papers for STI 2012 Montreal and Collnet 2012) added. Once 
the iConference issues a program it would be nice to link to it, since 
there will be a panel on metrics.

-I've emailed Irene Travis, the editor of the Bulletin of the American 
Society for Information Science and Technology regarding the possibility 
of a special issue of the bulletin in honor of the 75th anniversary of 
ASIST.

- Dietmar and Judit wrote a report on SIG MET activities at the past 
ASIST meeting for the next issue of ISSI Newsletter.

- I've asked Angela to do the first webinar on visualization and she has 
agreed. However, in the meantime, on November 15th Katy Borner had a 
webinar on a similar topic ( Envisioning Science and Technology) that 
has not been associated with SIG MET. I was not aware of it being planned.

ACTION ITEMS:

1. In light of the webinar that Katy had do we still want to pursue a 
webinar on visualization. What are the other possible topics that we 
might want to pursue? Some possible suggestions for webinars other than 
visualization (bibliometrics and humanities; metrics: traditional and 
alternative). Your thoughts on this are much appreciated.

2. ASIST Workshop. The 2011 workshop was very successful. We should 
start planning for the next one. Dietmar suggested we have both full and 
work-in-progress papers as well as the posters next year. I like that 
idea. It would also mean that we'll need to advertise earlier than last 
year so that there is time to write these contributions. If we decide to 
have full papers, we might try to arrange for a special issue of a 
journal as a venue to publish those. Please share your ideas regarding 
the workshop.

3. ASIST panels. It would be nice to have a number of panels at ASIST. 
While we can certainly organize a number of panels I believe it would be 
nice to send a call for proposals for panels to all the current members 
of the SIG Metrics. Are there any suggestions on possible panels 
co-sponsored by other SIGs?

4. I want to thank Jonathan for all the effort he put in establishing 
special relationships with Research Trends. While I would be happy to 
take on the communication with them is anyone interested in taking on 
this? If so, please let me know.

5. I want to contact Thomson Reuters regarding reviving the citation 
analysis award. Do you know who was in charge of it before? Any 
suggestions on who to contact?

6. Deciding on dates when to issue calls for ASIST Workshop, ASIST 
Panels and Student Paper Contest. Any suggestions?

7. At the annual meeting we discussed pros and cons of having Facebook 
page. Do we want to add one?

If you have any other ideas please feel free to share. Looking forward 
to hearing from you regarding our plans for this coming year.

Best,
Stasa