[Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

Thu Apr 5 07:55:34 EDT 2012

I think that, if this were to go ahead, it would be nice to have
representation from other stakeholders--e.g., publishers, libraries,
and companies like Mendeley (Jason, you have some contacts here). From
the library (and previously PLoS side) I would recommend Stacy
Konkiel. I think this would bring a new perspective (and generate new
interest) for such a proposal.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Judit Bar-Ilan <barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Initially I thought that since there was an altmetrics panel at the last
> ASIST, and one at the iConference, it might be too much to have an
> altmetrics panel again. However if you (I mean the SIG/MET officers) think
> otherwise, then I'll be glad to plan it with you. And congratulations on the
> grant for total impact!
> So I suggest that we wait for some feedback on the list, and if it is
> positive, then we'll start planning.
>
> Regards,
> Judit
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM, sigmet-officers-request at asis.org
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>>   1. Re: ASIST Panel (Jason Priem)
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>>   3. Re: altmetrics session at asist? (Stasa Milojevic)
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>> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 20:50:13 -0400
>> From: Jason Priem <jp at jasonpriem.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] ASIST Panel
>> To: Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
>> Cc: "sigmet-officers at asis.org" <sigmet-officers at asis.org>
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>> Great start, Stasa!
>>
>> One idea that might be fun is to incorporate a hands-on or workshop
>> component. I don't think there's be much time for it in the session
>> itself, but we could have sort of a little infovis contest with a
>> certain dataset. If you introduced it at the beginning of the
>> conference and gave folks like 24 hours, you could then show off the
>> top ones at the panel, as examples of some good techniques and tools.
>> folks could use their laptops, or low-fi paper techniques like we did
>> for our ASIST panel poster last year.
>>
>> Wouldn't be too much extra work. Downsides are that 1) someone's got
>> to come up with the dataset and scenario, 2) maybe no one would be
>> interested in participating. Whether with this or something else,
>> though, it's be great to find a way to incorporate a hands-one
>> component if we can.
>>
>> Also: I'd love to be involved in the panel...have done some
>> interactive infovis stuff with js like <http://feedvis.com> and more
>> static stuff with R and ggplot like
>> <http://jasonpriem.org/self-archived/5uni-poster.png>. could talk
>> about theory, emerging tools, or the artistic/humanistic side of
>> infovis (used to be an artist yay :)
>>
>> Would totally cast a vote for Scott...he's a standup guy and very
>> engaging (at least one-on-one, never seen him present)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear all-
>> >
>> > I've started working on the ASIS&T panel on Information Visualization.
>> > Here are some of the ideas I have:
>> >
>> > TITLE: Information Visualization State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
>> >
>> > PROPOSAL:
>> > -Information Visualization as a thriving and rapidly expanding area.
>> > -A brief history: we've come a long way from graphs, charts and
>> > hierarchical trees to interactive maps, graphs, etc.
>> > -Information Visualization as a process vs. final product
>> > -What is the role of Information Visualization today? Is it a method, a
>> > set of techniques used to visually represent data? Is it used for
>> > depiction or scientific exploration?
>> > -The influence of large data set and powerful tools.
>> > -The visualization within and outside metrics community (e.g., in
>> > digital humanities, and other fields).
>> >
>> > FORMAT OF THE PANEL:
>> > -Brief introduction to the topic followed by each participant giving a
>> > short presentation on what he/she thinks are the current best practices,
>> > what are the main challenges, where the participant sees the field
>> > moving in the next few years.
>> > -Open discussion with the audience.
>> >
>> > PARTICIPANTS:
>> > -I believe we should have a mix of senior and junior scholars. We should
>> > also have people who bring somewhat different perspectives.
>> >
>> > -If you are interested in participating in the panel please let me know.
>> > Also, below is a list of some of the names that come to mind as
>> > potential participants.
>> >
>> > -Katy Borner, Loet Leydesdorff, Kevin Boyack, Chaomei Chen, Henry Small,
>> > Howard White, Kate McCain, Angela Zoss, Scott Weingart, John Walsh,
>> > Yanni Loukissas.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any suggestions/comments are welcome. Also, does anyone have proposals
>> > for a different panel to be supported by ASIST?
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Stasa
>> >
>> >
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>> --
>> Jason Priem
>> UNC Royster Scholar
>> School of Information and Library Science
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 20:56:06 -0400
>> From: Jason Priem <jp at jasonpriem.org>
>> Subject: [Sigmet-officers] altmetrics session at asist?
>> To: sigmet-officers at asis.org
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>> Have we talked about maybe doing an alternative metrics session for
>> jasist? I thought the iConference one went ok; would've benefited from
>> some rehearsal, but the idea was solid and the audience was really
>> engaged. With the recent Chronicle article, a PLoS ONE special
>> collection coming out soon, and Sloan's big grant to total-impact (an
>> altmetrics webapp) last week, it seems like this is an area with some
>> growing interest. Would be happy to take lead role, or support someone
>> else (Judit is awesome at this stuff :) Or wait till next year.
>> j
>>
>> --
>> Jason Priem
>> UNC Royster Scholar
>> School of Information and Library Science
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:42:26 -0400
>> From: Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] altmetrics session at asist?
>> To: sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org
>> Message-ID: <4F7BC322.30100 at indiana.edu>
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>>  No talks on it so far. It's as you've said a very hot topic. It would
>> be great If you and/or Judit would like to work on it.
>>
>> Best,
>> Stasa
>>
>> On 4/3/2012 8:56 PM, Jason Priem wrote:
>> > Have we talked about maybe doing an alternative metrics session for
>> > jasist? I thought the iConference one went ok; would've benefited from
>> > some rehearsal, but the idea was solid and the audience was really
>> > engaged. With the recent Chronicle article, a PLoS ONE special
>> > collection coming out soon, and Sloan's big grant to total-impact (an
>> > altmetrics webapp) last week, it seems like this is an area with some
>> > growing interest. Would be happy to take lead role, or support someone
>> > else (Judit is awesome at this stuff :) Or wait till next year.
>> > j
>> >
>>
>>
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