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

Sat Apr 7 22:37:51 EDT 2012

What would be the general thrust of the panel? ASIS&T is very against
panels that are essentially multiple papers, so we'd have to be
careful to have presentations of individual research projects
well-integrated.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jason Priem <jp at jasonpriem.org> wrote:
> 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
>>>> 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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>> 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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> Jason Priem
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> School of Information and Library Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
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