[Sigmet-officers] Conference call

Fri Jan 25 04:37:39 EST 2013

Dear all,

thank you Cassidy for putting together the minutes and for your comments,
Judit.

I am deeply impressed about our action plan and hope that SIGMet is able to
reach as many people as possible.

I'd like to come up with few suggestions as well:

1d.    Student paper contest: colleagues and I organize a student workshop
every year (where students present their theses and discuss them with other
students) and we made good experiences with asking the students' advisors to
fund (parts of) the students' travel expenses (travel, hotel, conference
fee). I think that we should approach the students' advisors as soon as the
students submitted their paper to our contest and ask the advisors whether
it is possible that they share some money from their university's fund
(especially when the advisor is a second author). Perhaps it is also
possible for the advisors to apply for some university-specific fund. We can
mention this "request" when promoting the contest (I assume that last year
you also sent emails to professors to announce the contest). Maybe this
would make it easier for students to decide whether to submit a paper or
not, when they know that a lion's share of the costs is taken from their
shoulders.

3a.   Conference presence: What about the Webscience Conference
(http://www.websci13.org)? The last two web science conferences had
Altmetrics-workshops. Deadline for paper and workshop proposal is in the
beginning of February, though. Maybe we can keep it in mind for 2014?

5b.     Webinars: I like the idea of webinars. What about more
practice-oriented ones like tutorial or how-to's? Let's say: I would like to
do a bibliometric analysis of a specific field. Which tools should I use?
How can I get the data? Webinar topics could include: Downloading data via
APIs (and using Python for this purpose) - Analyzing data with SPSS/ R/
MathLab. Don't know whether SIGMet tried to offer such kind of webinars yet
- but I would love to have those. :-)

6a.    As far as I recall correctly from the Baltimore-meeting: we still
haven't decided which Elsevier-date we want to have. Gali said that we have
to enumerate each field from their database which we want to put in the data
set. Should we go bottom-up then and formulate research questions for which
we need particular data OR should we go top-down and just download a bunch
of data and then try to make something out of it? (Or are there any new
information on this point?) 

12b.   Promotional material: There is the International Symposium for
Information Science in Potsdam this March. Colleagues and I will attend this
conference and we could take some promotional material with us. Where do I
get this from? Is it ready for download somewhere? (Printing would not be a
problem).

Hope, that my 2-pence could help. :-)

Best

Isabella

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[mailto:sigmet-officers-bounces at asis.org] Im Auftrag von Judit Bar-Ilan
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 10:09
An: sigmet-officers at asis.org
Betreff: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Conference call

Dear All,

Thanks to Cassidy for the detailed summary of the call, and to all who were
able to attend. Here are my comments:

1 d.   We should definetely try to get some support for the workshop from
Elsevier again. And perhaps also from Thomson-Reuters (7 a)

4 a. Panels at ASIST. Last year we put together a proposal for an altmetrics
panel with an excellent group of people (in my objective opinion), but our
submission wsa not accepted. We had people from PLoS and Mendeley, which was
an excellent idea in my opinion, but the reviewers thought that the panel
was not objective, even though we emphasized that we are going to discuss
the pros and cons (perhaps we did not emphasize this point sufficiently). Do
you think that we should try again???

6. Workshop - We should definetely follow up on the dataset proposal by
Elsevier.

Webinar to introduce the dataset is a good idea. We could also publish
something on this in the ISSI newsletter, and probably also something in
Research Trends. We have to coordinate this carefully with Elsevier,
becausee it seemed to me that they were rather sensitive about who could use
the planned common dataset.

A workshop at ISSI does not seem feasible to me, the deadline for workshop
proposals has already passed. We could however distribute flyers at the
conference (again after discussing this with Elsevier and asking permission
from the conference organizers - but this should not be a problem). Maybe we
could produce a poster or a roll-up and place it somewhere in the entrance
hall (again we need permission for this).

I am in favor of not waiting until 2014 to produce results, but to present
results at the forthcoming SIG/MET workshop in Montreal. If we get the
dataset later spring-early summer, this should give us enough time to
produce something. If we feel that we can do further studies on the dataset,
we can reuse the set for the next AM as well. The idea of the common dataset
that came out at the last workshop, was an excellent idea, and we should
show its feasibility and value as soon as possible and not wait for another
year.

The challenge option was discussed at the workshop, and we felt that it is
too early to work on defined tasks, perhaps we can do this at a later stage,
after we understand what can be done with such a dataset.

10. Publications - special collection with PLoS 1 - we should keep in mind
that in order to publish in PLoS1, the authors have to pay a rather
substantial sum.

Regards,

Judit

Please note that there is an additional relevant conference in September in
Berlin
http://www.forschungsinfo.de/STI2013/start.asp

We can try to advertise our workshop and SIG/MET in general there as well.

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Dear All:

Thank you for all of those who could participate in our January meeting. I
have attached some notes from the meeting here. These aren't true
"minutes", but serve rather as a working document for all of the things on
which we are working. I will be incorporating new comments as they come
across the listserv.

Please find action items at the end of the notes as well as a proposed
budget. I welcome feedback and discussion on the ideas in this document and
any others you might have! I would like to send the budget to Cabinet
within the next few days.

I think this will be a fantastic year for SIG/MET!

Cassidy

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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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