[Sigmet-officers] Updates and action items

Mon Dec 12 04:46:52 EST 2011

Dear all,

This is Bei saying hello. Thanks for invitation and updates!

I completely endorse the idea to use social media and I am willing to help
update our SIG/MET account and take over the responsibility of a membership
officer.

Please do feel free to contact.
Best regards,
Bei

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Jason Priem <priem at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> **
> Stasa: Great work, very informative. Thanks!
>
> Angela: I think a SIG/MET Twitter account would be useful for those of us
> using Twitter heavily for academic community-building and updates. I
> wouldn't expect anyone with significant experience in both media to see a
> Twitter account competing with a listserv; the two occupy very different
> niches in scholarly communication. The same is true of listservs and
> in-person discussion, or electronic and paper correspondence for that
> matter.
>
> I'd be glad to volunteer to help update a SIG/MET account. That said, I've
> gotten the sense that our community is a bit more technologically
> conservative than some of our counterparts in CS or digital humanities, for
> example. I've found very few *metricians on Twitter. But, as Cassidy said
> of Facebook, it can't hurt.
>
> Cassidy: 1) Agreed, great idea about publicising the CFP before formal
> acceptance of the workshop. 2) I think I agree, but what do you mean by
> ""sponsor"?" (may be the first time I've ever scare-quoted scare-quotes. It
> was fun.)
>
> General:
> This is likely too radical for many of our membership, but I'll throw it
> out there: I see no reason why we couldn't just self-publish the workshop
> proceedings using EPrints, like the WebScience conference does [1]. Or even
> easier, we could use Annotum [2], a WordPress-based scholarly publishing
> platform.
>
> re: webinars, of course I'd vote for an "emerging metrics" one at some
> point, since that's my research area :). But I do think there's some
> growing interest there, an expanding literature, and a crop of new tools
> like http://total-impact.org, http://altmetric.com, and others.
>
>
> [1] http://journal.webscience.org/view/events/ACM_WebSci=2711/paper.html
> [2] http://annotum.org/
>
>
> On 12/03/2011 05:31 PM, Jonathan Levitt wrote:
>
>  *Dear Stasa,*
>  * *
>
> *Thanks very much for forming this well-considered account of the way
> towards what seems likely to be a very productive year.  *
>  * *
> *My suggestions are:*
>
>     - *I did not see in your update of work carried out that you have
>    arranged to amend the membership of the Sigmet-officers list, to ensure
>    that the incoming officers have all been added to the list; has this been
>    done?*
>    - *You wrote: “2. ASIST Workshop … 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.”  You may want to investigate the possibility of
>    publishing workshop content in Research Trends.*
>    - *You wrote “6. Deciding on dates when to issue calls for ASIST
>    Workshop, ASIST Panels and Student Paper Contest. Any suggestions?”  I
>    suggest that the first call for the Student Paper Contest should be
>    published as soon as the details are finalised; am earlier call would allow
>    more time for both the students and the reviewers.*
>    - *You wrote “If you have any other ideas please feel free to share. “
>    Mike Thelwall and I are currently drafting a proposal for a
>    quantitative Doctoral forum, to be held in spring 2012 at Wolverhampton, to
>    commemorate ASSIST’s 75th anniversary.  SIG/MET may want to endorse
>    this event.*
>
>  * *
> **
> *Best,*
>  *Jonathan.*
>
>   *From:* Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu> <smilojev at indiana.edu>
> *To:* SIG/MET <sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org><sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 1, 2011 7:33 PM
> *Subject:* [Sigmet-officers] Updates and action items
>
> 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
>
>
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