[Sigsti-l] SIG/STI Newsletter 8/28/2006

[Jian Qin]

SIG/STI Newsletter 8/29/2006
(A PDF version is also available at:
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/sti-newsletter-2006-08.pdf)

1. STI Highlights at ASIS&T Annual 
2. News in Brief
3. Pointers (By Joe Hourcle)

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STI Highlights at ASIS&T Annual 

Shaping Things to Come-DASER Summit III and Tri Society Symposium (full
day seminar) 
Friday, November 3, 2006, 9:00-5:00

The 8th Quadrennial Tri Society Symposium / 3rd DASER Summit (the
Symposium) will focus on questions of how libraries and information
centers are shaping the digital information world, and how they are
being shaped by it. Many have wondered if libraries -- and librarians --
will even exist in the 22nd century. The Symposium assumes scientists,
engineers, and physicians will continue to need information
professionals. Instead, we ask second-generational questions: What is a
"library?" Where are libraries in the digital revolution? What does
a physical "library" look like? What is a "librarian?" Given
that information centers are loci for knowledge sharing, how are they
facilitating digital collaboration, education, and information
management among scientists? Research and opinion from leaders in
cutting edge library and information centers will prove both
enlightening and inspiring.

Information about the symposium will be updated as it becomes
available. Please check http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/daser.html
for updates.

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The Landscape of Metadata Research and Development 
Wednesday, November 8, 1:30-3:00

Metadata R&D has gone through three phases of exploration,
standardization, and expansion in the past ten years. It has become a
matured research and application field, in which every branch is built
upon the newest technology and concepts. This panel brings researchers
from Asia, North America, and Europe to this panel with an international
perspective.

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Access to Scientific Data: The social and Technical Challenges &
Strategies (two sessions) 
Wednesday, November 8, 1:30-3:00, 3:30-5:00

Panel One will present broader issues of access to scientific data from
a social and policy perspective, including intellectual property
concerns, ethical considerations in collaborative work, and supporting
effective communication and sharing in a distributed scientific
community. Presentations in panel one include:
*Yale Braunstein: Economic impact of intellectual property protection
of non-original databases. 
*Caroline Whitbeck: Ethics of sharing scientific and technological
data. 
*Mark Parsons: Designating user communities for scientific data. 

Panel Two will focus on the specific system developments that implement
the broader issues on the micro-level. These developments are structures
at the discipline or personal level that facilitates data archiving and
promotes sharing and use of data sets among scientists. Presentations in
panel two include 
*Timothy Eastman: EScience and archiving for space science. 
*Sherry Xie: The long-term preservation of accurate and authentic
digital data. 
*John D'Ignazio: Metadata architecture for use of scientific data. 

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News in Brief

1) Call for nominations for STI Chair-Elect and Communication officer
for 2006-2007
Please send your nomination/self-nomination to Jian Qin at jqin at syr.edu
by August 30, 2006.

2) Congyan Zhao of Dalhousie University won the SIG/STI CAS Student
Travel Award 

Congyan Zhao graduated from Jiangsu Institute of Petrochemical
Technology, China with a bachelor's degree in analytical chemistry. 
She worked in the department of scientific and technical information,
Nanjing Library, China before her master program in Dalhousie
University. 

The 2006 CAS Student Travel Award offers  $1000 to defray the cost for
the student winner. This money is made available through a grant from
Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical
Society.

3) New publications by members

Downs, R. R. & Chen, R. S. (2005). Organizational Needs for Managing
and Preserving Geospatial Data and Related Electronic Records. Data
Science Journal, 4: 255-271. Available: 
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/4/0/4_255/_article 

4) New issue of Science and Technology Librarianship is available at
http://www.istl.org/06-summer/index.html 
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SIG/STI officers: 
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/officers.html
Issue editor: Jian Qin