[Sigmet-officers] Updates and action items

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

Dear Stasa,

Great work on everything! My comments to your questions are in-line below.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>wrote:

> 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.
>

Did anyone see Katy's webinar? Is there another angle that we could take?
If not, I think your other two suggestions would both be very interesting.
I think there is a great deal of interest on both topics.

>
> 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.
>

Last year, all workshops were accepted. I don't anticipate a change this
year. Therefore, I might suggest that we do a call for papers BEFORE the
submission for the workshop is due. We could use that to our advantage if
the call was competitive (by stating how many submissions we had received,
thus showing interest for our workshop). This would also help with visa
issues for international participants. I also want to fight with HQ before
about the cost of the workshop and possibilities for lowering the cost for
students. I was not pleased with the inflexibility of the pricing structure
last year.

>
> 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?
>

I think we should heavily "sponsor" panels on metrics from any member of
ASIS&T. Perhaps we could formalize a process for sponsorship and let people
know about this in advance?

>
> 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?
>

I think one of the issues was that the person driving this before was no
longer there. However, I think Eugene Garfield was heavily involved the
first time. Might it be worth approaching him first? I can't think of a
better ally to discuss with ThomsonReuters.

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

See above. Earlier. :)

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

Might as well. It's a low burden to set up, as long as we have someone to
maintain it and keep it active.

>
> 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
>
>
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-- 
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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