[Sigmet-officers] Webmar debate

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

My notes on our Durban meeting were sent in a previous email. In this
meeting, we had just come from a lively discussion of the Book Citation
Index in which Eric Archambault had made some serious criticisms of the
implications of this new resource. We discussed the possibility of making
this into a webinar in which Jonathan Adams would do a quick (no more than
10 minute) introduction to the Book Citation Index and then the benefits and
dangers of this new source would be discussed. We discussed having Eric
serve as the "con" for the debate, but couldn't find the appropriate "pro".
We decided to wait and ask other SIG/MET officers for their opinions on
this. We thought the benefits would be: a wide audience interested in the
Book Citation Index, a fairly narrow focus, a good chance to discuss
positive and negative implications of citation indices in general.

To address the other things in the emails:
1. I agree that a weekday webinar would be better. We just held a SIG/ED
webinar with 159 registrants on Wednesday at 2p.m. Great attendance (101 at
the peak) and discussion. I think a Friday afternoon webinar could be very
successful.
2. I believe the $49 is the standard non-member price for these webinars.
The goal is to make it cheaper to join than to attend. I would be supportive
for having free or reduced prices for students.
3. I might suggest that both speakers not come from Europe.

Best,
Cassidy

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>wrote:

> **
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> Thank you for moving this forward. I have a few suggestions and questions.
>
> I think that having a webinar during a working week might bring in bigger
> audience. One possibility would be a Friday, since there are fewer classes
> on Fridays (in the US), which would mean that more faculty and students
> might be able to attend.
>
> What format do we envision? Are these two lecture-type presentations? What
> would the role of a moderator be in that case? Who is our targeted audience
> (bibliometrics community or general IS community)?
>
> Best,
> Stasa
>
>
>
> On 7/22/11 8:05 AM, Jonathan Levitt wrote:
>
>   * *
>
> *Dear all,*
>
> *** ***
>
> *I am a bit hampered by not having Cassidy’s notes on the SIG/MET meeting,
> but cannot delay pressing on with SIG meters (I am going on my annual
> holiday in August).  I recall two suggestions from our discussions on the
> Webmar debate:*
>
> *(1)      The strengths and weaknesses of using citation data in the
> humanities. *
>
> *(2)      The strengths and weaknesses of using citation data. *
>
> *** ***
>
> *I prefer the second proposal for two reasons: (a) we were unable to find
> a person who we thought would defend using citation data in the humanities
> and (b) the second topic is more closely related to our accepted panel on
> the use of informetric information and could attract participants at our
> panel.  *
>
> *** ***
>
> *My suggestions are:*
>
> *Topic: The strengths and weaknesses of using citation data.*
>
> *Time of day: Afternoon (EST) so at to be a comfortable time of day for
> members from California and Europe.*
>
> *Date of week: Saturday or Sunday.*
>
> *Month: September. *
>
> *Speakers: One from Holland (Loet or Henk) and one from Belgium (Ronald or
> Wolfgang).*
>
> *Moderator: A particularly experienced SIG/MET officer (Dietmar  or
> Judit).*
>
> *Cost: $14.99 for members of ASIST or ISSI; $49.99 for other people.*
>
> *** ***
>
> *Could you please let me know what you think?*
>
> *** ***
>
> *Thanks,*
>
> *Jonathan.*
>
> **
>
>
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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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