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

Thu Apr 5 16:47:52 EDT 2012

Great thought, Cassidy. I'm pretty sure that PLoS would send someone
to represent publihsers (Jen Lin, probably, who's good), as they just
won a substantial Sloan grant of their own to support their altmetrics
program and are trying to publicise it. Might be nice to add someone
from more traditional webometrics or scientometrics perspectives, too.
Then we might have

Publishers: Jen (or someone else from PLoS)
altmetrics researchers: 1-2 likely including jason
Librarians: Stacy
*metrics: Cassidy? :)

A really nice advantage of this over the iConf one is that we'd have
more hard research to present, including results from the big PLoS
paper Heather and I did (on ArXiv now) and the STI one Judit led.
j

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Cassidy Sugimoto
<cassidysugimoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>> Message: 1
>>> 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
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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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> Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
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> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
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