From neils at uic.edu Tue May 8 13:12:15 2018 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:12:15 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Submission Message-ID: Below is our notification that the workshop was accepted at the annual conference. I think this is the 8th year in a row? Note that we have the first day of the conference, all day, Nov 10. Note that lunch will be served (as well as continental breakfast and afternoon snack). This does not come out of the SIG budget. Note, also, that nonmember speakers can have their registration paid for from SIG funds, if they were not planning to attend the conference anyway. Note that we need to tell ASIST before May 14 how we plan to handle discounts for students (members and nonmembers could be handled differently). Let's discuss. Also, I never got much feedback about inviting keynote speakers. Now that there is an exact date we should make invitations for one or two speakers. Neil Congratulations. I'm pleased to let you know that your Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Proposal entitled Metrics 2018: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research has been accepted for presentation at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Congratulations! Your workshop/tutorial will take place as follows: Saturday, November 10, 2018 from 9 am- 5 pm Every effort has been made to accommodate scheduling requests and to maximize the use of our available rooms. If you are aware of any conflict or the timing of your session makes it impossible for one of your presenters to attend, please let us know right away. We cannot make any amendments to the schedule after May 14. This year we are enacting a new process for pricing and profit sharing with SIGs that host workshops and tutorials. Rather than asking SIGs to keep track of the revenue and expenses from their sessions, ASIS&T will handle all of the logistics and finances for the workshops and simply rebate to the host SIG a per-capita credit for each attendee at their session. SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of $40 back per person and SIGs hosting a half-day session will receive a credit of $30 back per person. These amounts are based on the per-person cost to host a workshop which are considerably higher for full-day sessions given the need to provide lunch. Due to the logistical challenges of controlling who does and does not participate in lunch during the meeting, we are unable to allow SIGs to opt out of giving lunch to their attendees. Based on last-year's workshop accounting, this system will allow SIGs to make roughly the same amount of profit on their session as they did last year with considerably less confusion and more predictability. And best of all, you're guaranteed not to lose money on a session which has happened in the past. If more than one SIG is co-hosting the session, the rebate will be split evenly among the SIGs unless otherwise requested prior to the meeting. Your attendees will receive the following as part of their registration: Half-Day Morning Workshops: Continental Breakfast & Mid-Morning Refreshment Break Half-Day Afternoon Workshops: Afternoon Break with Snack Full-Day Workshop: Continental Breakfast, Mid-Morning Refreshment Break, Box Lunch, Afternoon Break with Snack If you wish to provide anything additional to your attendees, please let us know as soon as possible and not later than the end of August. The expense for that would be charged directly to the SIG at cost. SIG workshops will be priced as follows: SIG Half-Day Early Bird Advance On-Site Member $ 130.00 $ 155.00 $ 180.00 Non-Member $ 160.00 $ 185.00 $ 210.00 SIG Full-Day Member $ 230.00 $ 255.00 $ 280.00 Non-Member $ 260.00 $ 285.00 $ 310.00 This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive an additional $30 discount as a member. Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to do that not later than May 14 so that the discount can be reflected in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts once registration has opened. DeVonne Parks, Director of Meetings & Events, will be in touch soon requesting additional information about your session. Please remember that all presenters must be registered for the session. You may use SIG funds to register non-member presenters who would not otherwise be attending the meeting. Please let me or DeVonne know if you have any questions about your session. Warm regards, Lydia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lydia S. Middleton, MBA, CAE Executive Director Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 | Silver Spring, MD 20910 +1 301.495.0900 x1100 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shenmeng at email.unc.edu Tue May 8 23:12:28 2018 From: shenmeng at email.unc.edu (Xu, Shenmeng) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 03:12:28 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Submission In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Neil, I just found that in the initial version of the proposal you set the fees as below (although you deleted that in the final submission): Members: $100 Non-members: $140 Student members: $60 (what about student non-members?) This means that for each person we will compensate around $120-130 from our existing funds, given the prices provided by ASIS&T. For students, we can waive the rebate for them (thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount). I personally think these sound about reasonable. What do you guys think? We also need to decide the early-bird, advance, and onsite fees I think. Thank you! Best, Shenmeng ________________________________ From: Sigmet-officers on behalf of Smalheiser, Neil R Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 1:12:15 PM To: sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Submission Below is our notification that the workshop was accepted at the annual conference. I think this is the 8th year in a row? Note that we have the first day of the conference, all day, Nov 10. Note that lunch will be served (as well as continental breakfast and afternoon snack). This does not come out of the SIG budget. Note, also, that nonmember speakers can have their registration paid for from SIG funds, if they were not planning to attend the conference anyway. Note that we need to tell ASIST before May 14 how we plan to handle discounts for students (members and nonmembers could be handled differently). Let?s discuss. Also, I never got much feedback about inviting keynote speakers. Now that there is an exact date we should make invitations for one or two speakers. Neil Congratulations. I?m pleased to let you know that your Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Proposal entitled Metrics 2018: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research has been accepted for presentation at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Congratulations! Your workshop/tutorial will take place as follows: Saturday, November 10, 2018 from 9 am- 5 pm Every effort has been made to accommodate scheduling requests and to maximize the use of our available rooms. If you are aware of any conflict or the timing of your session makes it impossible for one of your presenters to attend, please let us know right away. We cannot make any amendments to the schedule after May 14. This year we are enacting a new process for pricing and profit sharing with SIGs that host workshops and tutorials. Rather than asking SIGs to keep track of the revenue and expenses from their sessions, ASIS&T will handle all of the logistics and finances for the workshops and simply rebate to the host SIG a per-capita credit for each attendee at their session. SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of $40 back per person and SIGs hosting a half-day session will receive a credit of $30 back per person. These amounts are based on the per-person cost to host a workshop which are considerably higher for full-day sessions given the need to provide lunch. Due to the logistical challenges of controlling who does and does not participate in lunch during the meeting, we are unable to allow SIGs to opt out of giving lunch to their attendees. Based on last-year?s workshop accounting, this system will allow SIGs to make roughly the same amount of profit on their session as they did last year with considerably less confusion and more predictability. And best of all, you?re guaranteed not to lose money on a session which has happened in the past. If more than one SIG is co-hosting the session, the rebate will be split evenly among the SIGs unless otherwise requested prior to the meeting. Your attendees will receive the following as part of their registration: Half-Day Morning Workshops: Continental Breakfast & Mid-Morning Refreshment Break Half-Day Afternoon Workshops: Afternoon Break with Snack Full-Day Workshop: Continental Breakfast, Mid-Morning Refreshment Break, Box Lunch, Afternoon Break with Snack If you wish to provide anything additional to your attendees, please let us know as soon as possible and not later than the end of August. The expense for that would be charged directly to the SIG at cost. SIG workshops will be priced as follows: SIG Half-Day Early Bird Advance On-Site Member $ 130.00 $ 155.00 $ 180.00 Non-Member $ 160.00 $ 185.00 $ 210.00 SIG Full-Day Member $ 230.00 $ 255.00 $ 280.00 Non-Member $ 260.00 $ 285.00 $ 310.00 This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive an additional $30 discount as a member. Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to do that not later than May 14 so that the discount can be reflected in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts once registration has opened. DeVonne Parks, Director of Meetings & Events, will be in touch soon requesting additional information about your session. Please remember that all presenters must be registered for the session. You may use SIG funds to register non-member presenters who would not otherwise be attending the meeting. Please let me or DeVonne know if you have any questions about your session. Warm regards, Lydia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lydia S. Middleton, MBA, CAE Executive Director Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 | Silver Spring, MD 20910 +1 301.495.0900 x1100 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christine.meschede at hhu.de Wed May 9 04:10:20 2018 From: christine.meschede at hhu.de (Christine Meschede) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:10:20 +0200 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Submission In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <278efd35-5f37-c0dd-a0df-f74ab09c0185@hhu.de> Dear all, I agree with Shenmeng. As soon as we decide on the fees, I will post the call for papers on our website. I assume the submission dates are set as described in the workshop proposal? Will there be a sponsorship by Elsevier/Altmetric/Figshare/Others like last year? I can also create a submission site on EasyChair. Best, Christine Am 09.05.2018 um 05:12 schrieb Xu, Shenmeng: > > Neil, I just found that in the initial version of the proposal you set > the fees as below (although you deleted that in the final submission): > > Members: $100? ? Non-members: $140 ? Student members: $60? ?(what > about student non-members?) > > > This means that for each person we will compensate around $120-130 > from our existing funds, given the prices provided by ASIS&T. For > students, we can waive the rebate for them (thus giving them the > additional $30-40 discount). I personally?think these sound about > reasonable. What do you guys think? > > We also need to decide the early-bird, advance, and onsite fees I think. > > Thank you! > > > Best, > > Shenmeng > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Sigmet-officers on behalf > of Smalheiser, Neil R > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 8, 2018 1:12:15 PM > *To:* sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > *Subject:* [Sigmet-officers] Annual Meeting Workshop/Tutorial Submission > > *Below is our notification that the workshop was accepted at the > annual conference. I think this is the 8^th year in a row?* > > *Note that we have the first day of the conference, all day, Nov 10. * > > *Note that lunch will be served (as well as continental breakfast and > afternoon snack). This does not come out of the SIG budget.* > > *Note, also, that nonmember speakers can have their registration paid > for from SIG funds, if they were not planning to attend the conference > anyway. * > > *Note that we need to tell ASIST before May 14 how we plan to handle > discounts for students (members and nonmembers could be handled > differently). Let?s discuss.* > > *Also, I never got much feedback about inviting keynote speakers. Now > that there is an exact date we should make invitations for one or two > speakers.* > > *Neil* > > ** > > Congratulations. I?m pleased to let you know that your Annual Meeting > Workshop/Tutorial Proposal entitled /Metrics 2018: Workshop on > Informetric and Scientometric Research/ has been accepted for > presentation at the 2018 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Congratulations! > > Your workshop/tutorial will take place as follows: > > Saturday, November 10, 2018 from 9 am- 5 pm > > Every effort has been made to accommodate scheduling requests and to > maximize the use of our available rooms. If you are aware of any > conflict or the timing of your session makes it impossible for one of > your presenters to attend, please let us know right away. *We cannot > make any amendments to the schedule after May 14*. > > This year we are enacting a new process for pricing and profit sharing > with SIGs that host workshops and tutorials. Rather than asking SIGs > to keep track of the revenue and expenses from their sessions, ASIS&T > will handle all of the logistics and finances for the workshops and > simply rebate to the host SIG a per-capita credit for each attendee at > their session. SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of > $40 back per person and SIGs hosting a half-day session will receive a > credit of $30 back per person. These amounts are based on the > per-person cost to host a workshop which are considerably higher for > full-day sessions given the need to provide lunch. Due to the > logistical challenges of controlling who does and does not participate > in lunch during the meeting, we are unable to allow SIGs to opt out of > giving lunch to their attendees. Based on last-year?s workshop > accounting, this system will allow SIGs to make roughly the same > amount of profit on their session as they did last year with > considerably less confusion and more predictability. And best of all, > you?re guaranteed not to lose money on a session which has happened in > the past. If more than one SIG is co-hosting the session, the rebate > will be split evenly among the SIGs unless otherwise requested prior > to the meeting. > > Your attendees will receive the following as part of their registration: > > Half-Day Morning Workshops: Continental Breakfast & Mid-Morning > Refreshment Break > > Half-Day Afternoon Workshops: Afternoon Break with Snack > > Full-Day Workshop: Continental Breakfast, Mid-Morning Refreshment > Break, Box Lunch, Afternoon Break with Snack > > If you wish to provide anything additional to your attendees, please > let us know as soon as possible and not later than the end of August. > The expense for that would be charged directly to the SIG at cost. > > SIG workshops will be priced as follows: > > *SIG Half-Day* > > > > Early Bird > > > > Advance > > > > On-Site > > Member > > > > $????? 130.00 > > > > ?$????? 155.00 > > > > ?$??????? 180.00 > > Non-Member > > > > $????? 160.00 > > > > ?$????? 185.00 > > > > ?$??????? 210.00 > > > > > > > *SIG Full-Day* > > > > > > Member > > > > $????? 230.00 > > > > ?$????? 255.00 > > > > ?$??????? 280.00 > > Non-Member > > > > $????? 260.00 > > > > ?$????? 285.00 > > > > ?$??????? 310.00 > > This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop > pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are > assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive > an additional $30 discount as a member. > > Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you > may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate > for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. > Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or > through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to > do that *not later than May 14* so that the discount can be reflected > in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts > once registration has opened. > > DeVonne Parks, Director of Meetings & Events, will be in touch soon > requesting additional information about your session. Please remember > that all presenters must be registered for the session. You may use > SIG funds to register non-member presenters who would not otherwise be > attending the meeting. > > Please let me or DeVonne know if you have any questions about your > session. > > Warm regards, > > Lydia > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Lydia S. Middleton, MBA, CAE > > Executive Director > > Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) > > 8555 16^th Street, Suite 850 | Silver Spring, MD 20910 > > +1 301.495.0900 x1100 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers -- Christine Meschede, B.Sc., B.A., M.A. Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Building 24.53.01.85 Universit?tsstr. 1 40225 D?sseldorf Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neils at uic.edu Wed May 9 12:18:22 2018 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 16:18:22 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] clarifying some confusion Message-ID: I think there is some confusion about fees for the workshop. Despite the fact that I carried over discussion of fees in the workshop proposal (because it was there previously and I largely kept what was there last year), we actually have no say on what the workshop fees are. These are set by ASIST. Here, again, is what ASIST told us in the workshop acceptance letter: SIG workshops will be priced as follows: SIG Full-Day Early Bird Advance On-Site ASIST Member $ 230.00 $ 255.00 $ 280.00 ASIST Non-Member $ 260.00 $ 285.00 $ 310.00 This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive an additional $30 discount as a member. Note that SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of $40 back per person. Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to do that not later than May 14 so that the discount can be reflected in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts once registration has opened. What this means is that if we waive our rebate alone, which will not deplete our existing bank balance, Student registration will be Early Bird Advance On-Site Student ASIST member $ 190 $215 $240 Student ASIST non-member $220 $245 $270 This is still $40 off the regular member prices, which was the amount of the discount offered in the workshop proposal draft. What I propose is that we waive our $40 for each student. Plus, each student who is not a member of ASIST should pay the rates listed above, but we will automatically pay their dues for one year for ASIST which allows them to be a SIG MET member too. This will grow our ranks, hopefully. That would cost an additional $40 per student non-member who registers -- maybe ?$400 or so, depending on how many students fall into this category. Also, remember that those who win the best student paper award will get a free membership too. We need to decide and let ASIST know our plan by May 14! Neil From neils at uic.edu Wed May 9 12:32:24 2018 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 16:32:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] about the call for papers Message-ID: According to the workshop proposal, here are the deadline dates we decided on: ? Acceptance of workshop: May 4, 2018 ? Announcement and call for submissions: May 20th ? Deadline for submissions: July 17th ? Review of submissions: July 18th- 31st ? Acceptance decisions: August 1st On the other hand, ASIST says that Workshop moderators will have an opportunity to modify and update the description and resubmit by Sunday, 15 July, 2018.. I think the call for papers can go out by May 20th, giving us time to agree on fees and perks for students. I think it would also be nice to allow people to submit not only presentations (talks and posters) but also panels and tutorials if they wish. So it may be worth rewriting the call for papers to allow for those types of submissions too. In between May 20 and July 15th, we should lock in keynote speakers and those can be advertised in the final description posted on the ASIST website by or before July 15th. Also, I think we are planning to give awards regardless of whether we get corporate sponsorship or not, so we don?t need to wait on those. But if we DO get sponsorship, that can be mentioned in the final description. 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Best, Isabelle Am 09.05.2018 um 18:32 schrieb Smalheiser, Neil R: > > According to the workshop proposal, here are the deadline dates we > decided on: > > ?Acceptance of workshop: May 4, 2018 > > ?Announcement and call for submissions: May 20th > > ?Deadline for submissions: July 17th > > ?Review of submissions: July 18th- 31st > > ?Acceptance decisions: August 1st > > On the other hand, ASIST says that Workshop moderators will have an > opportunity to modify and update the description and resubmit by > Sunday, 15 July, 2018.. > > I think the call for papers can go out by May 20^th , giving us time > to agree on fees and perks for students. I think it would also be nice > to allow people to submit not only presentations (talks and posters) > but also panels and tutorials if they wish. So it may be worth > rewriting the call for papers to allow for those types of submissions > too. > > In between May 20 and July 15^th , we should lock in keynote speakers > and those can be advertised in the final description posted on the > ASIST website by or before July 15^th . Also, I think we are planning > to give awards regardless of whether we get corporate sponsorship or > not, so we don?t need to wait on those. But if we DO get sponsorship, > that can be mentioned in the final description. > > Neil > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers -- Isabelle Dorsch, B.A., M.A. Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Bldg 24.53, Level 01, Room 87 Universit?tsstra?e 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf, Germany Tel. +49 211 81-10803 Website: www.isi.hhu.de/dorsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neils at uic.edu Sun May 13 15:23:40 2018 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 19:23:40 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] keynote speakers Message-ID: Inviting keynote speakers is tricky because many, perhaps most, of the people we will want are not available! I have made informal inquiries to three people to see if they have any interest or availability - John Ioannadis, George Santangelo, and Brian Nosek. I did not hear back from the first two (at least not yet), and the the third is handled by a secretary who is used to speaking engagements that offer honoraria [which we are not allowed to give]. The good news is that ASIS&T does allow us to defray travel and workshop registration for nonmember speakers who would otherwise not be attending the conference. And speakers who are at NIH are not allowed to receive anything at all. I think we can and should invited two keynote speakers - one on a traditional topic of citations or impact or bibliometrics etc., and one on the special topic of reproducibility metrics that I am trying to encourage this year. Two additional possible people we could invite are Phil Bourne or Halil Kilicoglu. I realize that this list is male-heavy and hope that others will propose names (including females) in each of the two categories. But I am getting very little feedback from the listserv and the responses are not very nimble, so I may have to use my best judgement in making invitations. If someone strongly objects to a name that is proposed, they should speak up quickly and loudly! - Neil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christine.meschede at hhu.de Sun May 20 14:12:10 2018 From: christine.meschede at hhu.de (Christine Meschede) Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 20:12:10 +0200 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Workshop announcement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, I created a draft for the workshop announcement (see below). Basically, I adopted the text from last year's announcement. Please let me know if you want to have any changes. I also set up the submission site on EasyChair. Let me know what you think. Best, Christine ------ *METRICS 2018: ASIS&T WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS RESEARCH * Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting Saturday, November 10, 2018 9:00am?5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Canada *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2018 workshop, which will be held in?Vancouver prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in November. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss metrics-related research, including the latest theories, methods, case studies, and tools relevant to the fields of informetrics, scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics, as well as information retrieval. The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series held annually since 2011 and is envisioned as a combination of short presentations, posters, and open discussions among experienced researchers, young academics, and practitioners. We invite abstracts related, but not limited to: * New indicators and methods * Applications of indicators * Theories of the publication process, citations, and social media in scholarly communication * Metrics in a library setting * Open access, open science, and metrics * Tool development * Limitations, misuses, and adverse effects of metrics * Interdisciplinarity * Visualizations of scholarly impact measures and analyses SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information and, thus, encompasses not only bibliometrics and scientometrics, but informetrics in a larger sense including measurement of the (social) Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. /SUBMISSIONS/ Submissions should be in the form of a two-page extended abstract using APA style. Conceptual, empirical, and works-in-progress will be accepted for submission. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. Please indicate the type of submission in *bold*?at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same. Posters will provide scholars with a format for presenting works-in-progress and works that are best presented visually. Every poster will be introduced in a poster pitch-format. The presentations will be an opportunity for researchers and professionals to present and discuss research that is more fully developed. The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation slides, will be published on figshare (http://figshare.com ). Figshare allocates DOIs to uploaded content and each publication will be linked from the SIG/MET website to enhance visibility and retrievability of presented research. Please submit your abstract as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018 Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in narrative format. /AWARDS/ The best paper will be selected by a committee from all accepted (non-student) workshop papers regardless of their topic. It will be awarded with a cash prize. Similarly, the best student paper will be awarded with a cash prize.The first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time student at the time of submission, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET membership. NOTE: If you qualify and you want to be eligible for the student paper award, please add the ?STUDENTPAPER? keyword to your EasyChair submission form in the KEYWORDS form field. Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018 The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review process from the accepted submissions that are to be presented?in Vancouver. The awards will be decided before presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify. /IMPORTANT DATES/ Submissions due: *July 17, 2018* Notifications: *August 1, 2018* Workshop: *Saturday, November 10, 2018, 9:00am ?5:00pm* /REGISTRATION FEES/ The registration fee includes wifi and coffee breaks: Early Bird (through Oct. 1) Regular (Oct. 2 - Nov. 2) On-Site ASIS&T Member $ 230 $ 255 $ 280 ASIS&T Non-Member $ 260 $ 285 $ 310 Student ASIS&T Member $ 190 $ 215 $ 240 Student ASIS&T Non-Member $ 220 $ 245 $ 270 *All students who are not yet ASIS&T members will be offered a one-year free ASIS&T membership by registering for the workshop!* /ORGANIZERS/ Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA) Philippe Mongeon?(Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands) Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Am 09.05.2018 um 18:18 schrieb Smalheiser, Neil R: > I think there is some confusion about fees for the workshop. Despite the fact that I carried over discussion of fees in the workshop proposal (because it was there previously and I largely kept what was there last year), we actually have no say on what the workshop fees are. These are set by ASIST. Here, again, is what ASIST told us in the workshop acceptance letter: > SIG workshops will be priced as follows: > SIG Full-Day Early Bird Advance On-Site > ASIST Member $ 230.00 $ 255.00 $ 280.00 > ASIST Non-Member $ 260.00 $ 285.00 $ 310.00 > > This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive an additional $30 discount as a member. > > Note that SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of $40 back per person. > > Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to do that not later than May 14 so that the discount can be reflected in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts once registration has opened. > > What this means is that if we waive our rebate alone, which will not deplete our existing bank balance, Student registration will be > Early Bird Advance On-Site > Student ASIST member $ 190 $215 $240 > Student ASIST non-member $220 $245 $270 > > This is still $40 off the regular member prices, which was the amount of the discount offered in the workshop proposal draft. > > What I propose is that we waive our $40 for each student. Plus, each student who is not a member of ASIST should pay the rates listed above, but we will automatically pay their dues for one year for ASIST which allows them to be a SIG MET member too. This will grow our ranks, hopefully. That would cost an additional $40 per student non-member who registers -- maybe ?$400 or so, depending on how many students fall into this category. Also, remember that those who win the best student paper award will get a free membership too. > > We need to decide and let ASIST know our plan by May 14! > > Neil > > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers -- Christine Meschede, B.Sc., B.A., M.A. Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf Dept. of Information Science Building 24.53.01.85 Universit?tsstr. 1 40225 D?sseldorf Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: