[Sigsti-l] October 2007 SIG-STI Newsletter
Joe Hourcle
oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov
Thu Oct 18 01:10:30 EDT 2007
Okay, I admit it, I never put out a PDF version of the last one,
but I got nothing but compliments for the ASCII version. If
there are people out there who want a PDF version, I guess I'll
do it if there's a request.
-Joe
ps. If you're looking for research funding opportunities, read all the
way to the end.
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October 2007 Newsletter
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Table of Contents
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2007 Annual Meeting
New Member Brunch Respresentative / SIG-RUSH
SIG-STI Dinner
Officer Nominees / SIG-STI Planning Meeting
SIG-STI Sponsored Sessions
The Future of Institutional Repositories: ...
Live Usability Lab: ...
Opening Science to All: ...
Other Conferences
Second International Conference on Geospatial Semantics
AGU 2007 Fall Meeting
Digital Curation Conference
10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure
Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration AAAI/SSS Workshop
Miscelaneous
Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
NSF initiative: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
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October 19-24, 2007
Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, Wisconsion
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science
<http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/>
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New Member Brunch Respresentative / SIG-RUSH
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Thank you to Phil Edwards has volunteered to be our representative at
the New Member Brunch.
Joe Hourcle and Robin Peek will be manning the table for SIG-RUSH during
the Welcome Reception (Sunday, 6:30pm-8pm), but all are welcome to come
and socialize.
SIG-STI Dinner
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There will be a dutch treat dinner at Turners Historic Restaurant
(1034 N 4th St) immediately after the Welcome Reception / SIG-RUSH.
Meet up at the SIG-STI table on Sunday, at 8pm.
Please check the message boards at the meeting for a sign-up
sheet so we can attempt to get an accurate head count. If you're
going to be coming in on Sunday afternoon/evening, but are planning
on attending, please contact Joe Hourcle <oneiros at annoying.org;
cell: 703-371-9828>.
Officer Nominees / SIG-STI Planning Meeting
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The following people have been nominated thus far:
Chair-Elect
Bill Opperman
Secretary / Treasurer
John D'Ignazio
Communications
Joe Hourcle
(no specific position, just nominated)
Phoebe Ayers
The election will occur during the SIG-STI Planning Meeting, Monday,
October 22nd, at noon.
SIG-STI Sponsored Sessions
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The Future of Institutional Repositories: The Experts Debate (SIGs DL,
SI, STI, LT) Leslie Chan, Kenneth Frazier, Michael Leach, and Robin
Peek; Kristin Eschenfelder and Anita Coleman (organizers)
Sunday, October 21st, 1pm
Summary
In this debate-style moderated panel, four experts on institutional
repositories (IR) will take turns answering a set of provocative
questions about the future of IR and challenges inherent in ongoing
management of IR. Panelists will also be given an opportunity to respond
to each others' comments. The debate style format will give audience
members a rich understanding of the challenges related to IR.
Debate questions include:
1. How will IRs come to vary across in 10 years in terms of presence or
absence, but also in terms of the types of materials collected?
(e.g., preprints versus local digital collections)?
2. What will the relationship between university libraries and
disciplinary IRs be in 10 years? What will be the relationship
between IR and scholarly societies, especially those which publish
journals?
3. Under what circumstances will consortial or outsourced efforts become
popular?
4. Under what circumstances should we expect increases in deposit
activity among researchers and faculty?
5. Under what circumstances will IRs change the status of developing
nation scholars and the typical flows of scholarly communications?
6. How would our investments in IR be assessed? From an
economic/financial perspective? From a status perspective? From the
promotion and tenure perspective? From an open access perspective?
7. How will IR be funded in the long term?
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Live Usability Lab: Open Access Archives and Digital Repositories
(SIGs DL, SI, USE, STI), Paul Marty, Michael Twidale, Anita Coleman, Tim
Donohue, Dorothy Salo
Monday, October 22nd, 8:30am
Summary
This session proposes a solution to the usability problem in open access
archives by using an innovative and interaction-driven usability
demonstration method developed and tested over the past five years: the
Live Usability Lab (Marty & Twidale, 2005). While this would be its
first demonstration at ASIS&T, the Live Usability Lab has been presented
at seven different national and international conferences over the past
five years, each time evaluating different websites selected by the
audience. At these conferences, this method has consistently and
successfully a) demonstrated the potential and power of user testing,
and b) engaged the audience by illustrating the process with live data
instead of canned examples. Since there is very little in the literature
about the usability testing of open access archives and digital
repositories (which are, after all, another type of website) the Live
Usability Lab format will provide an exciting demonstration of the
potential of usability analysis for evaluating diverse information
interfaces.
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Opening Science to All: Implications of Blogs and Wikis for Social and
Scholarly Scientific Communication (SIG STI, SIG BWP) Bora Zivkovic,
Jean-Claude Bradley, Janet Stemwedel, Phillip Edwards (moderator) and
K.T. Vaughan (organizer)
Tuesday October 23, 8:30am
Summary
A growing number of scientists are turning to Web2.0 communication tools
such as blogs and wikis to provide open channels for their social and
scholarly discourse. Because of these tools, scientists are increasingly
able to share data, results, and analysis of research (scholarly
communication) with distant, and sometimes unknown peers, and are also
able to enter the realm of scientific commentary (social communication)
with the general public. While many science bloggers focus on purely
social commentary on science, others include conference announcements
and reports, book reviews, brief discussion of "failed" experiments, and
non-publishable research findings. Within this environment there is a
strong awareness that readers include -- and may preferentially be --
non-scientists, perhaps even nonspecialist skeptics about established
theories. This session is not only concerned with presenting a state of
the blog for science communication, but also with thinking about the
impact of "plain English" science writing on both society and on
science.
This session is cosponsored by SIGs STI and BWP.
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The following conferences are not sponsored by SIG-STI, but may be of
interest to our members:
Second International Conference on Geospatial Semantics
November 29-30, 2007
Mexico City, Mexico
<http://www.geosco.org/>
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AGU 2007 Fall Meeting
December 10-14, 2007
San Francisco, California
<http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/>
Specifically, see the Earth and Space Science Informatics:
<http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=session§ion=6
&searchBy=sponsor>
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Digital Curation Conference
"Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative
Challenge"
December 11-13, 2007
Washington, DC
<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007>
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10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure
February 25-29, 2008
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
<http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi10/>
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Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration AAAI/SSS Workshop
March 26-28, 2008
Stanford, CA
<http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/sss08/home/SSKI.html>
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Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
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Congrats to Phil Edwards (SIG-STI Chair-Elect) for his winning of
the Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship!
<http://www.asis.org/awards/awards_2007.html#isiddp>
Phillip Edwards, School of Information at the University of
Washington, is the winner of the 2007 Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Doctoral
Dissertation Proposal Scholarship. Phillip's dissertation proposal
focuses on how scholars make important decisions about how, when and
where to publish their work. One reviewer noted that the proposal is
very thorough, well written and well reasoned. Other comments
include that the methodology is creative and ties the different data
collection methods together to inform the research questions; the
proposal is nicely structured and very interesting.
A quote from his nomination letter further elucidates the proposal:
It is a topic at once very simple ' how do scholars decide where
and how to distribute the results of their scholarly work' but
also quite complex, with a large and growing variety of factors
affecting those decisions and in an increasingly complicated
communication landscape. Mr. Edwards has chosen to attack this
problem with an innovative and robust set of theoretical
frameworks from management and social psychology, and an
appropriate and cogent set of methods to answer his research
questions using those frameworks. We have been struck by the
lack of research in this seemingly obvious and crucial area, and
his original approach should serve him well in his
investigation.
NSF initiative: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
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NSF has begun a new, multi-disciplinary initiative referred to as Cyber-
enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI). This program is expected to
start at $26M for this fiscal year and increase significantly in future
years. Proposals submitted to CDI must be multi- disciplinary in
nature. A good rule of thumb is to ask whether or not the project you
are thinking of proposing would result in journal publications in
multiple disciplines. If the answer is 'no' the project would not be
appropriate for the CDI initiative.
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603>
The CDI program is organized around three major themes:
1) From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and generating new
knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;
2) Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems:
deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple
interacting elements;
3) Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery and innovation by
bringing people and resources together across institutional,
geographical and cultural boundaries.
In the first year of this initiative we will be accepting proposals in
two major categories:
A) Type 1 projects will require efforts up to a level roughly comparable
to: summer support for two investigators with complementary
expertise; two graduate students; and their collective research needs
(materials, supplies, travel, etc) for three (3) years.
B) Type 2 projects will require larger efforts up to a level roughly
comparable to: summer support for three investigators; three graduate
students; one or two senior personnel (including post-doctoral
researchers and staff); and their collective research needs for four
(4) years.
In future years NSF expects an additional Type 3 class of proposals that
are larger and more multi-disciplinary than either types 1 and 2.
Because we expect to receive a large number of proposals the proposal
submission and review process will take place in three stages:
1) Letters of Intent are required. Letters of intent must be submitted
via FastLane no later than November 30, 2007.
2) Preliminary Proposals are required and must be submitted no later
than January 8, 2008. Preliminary proposals must include a 1-page
project summary, a 1-page list of participants, and a maximum of 5
pages describing the scope of the project.
3) Full proposals may be submitted BY INVITATION ONLY (based on the
review of the preliminary proposal) and must be submitted by April
29, 2008.
IMPORTANT: No one listed in the Senior Personnel in the budget page or the
cover page may be on more than two (2) proposals.
The following web page provides further information about the CDI
initiative. In addition to a brief overview of the initiative it
provides links to frequently asked questions (FAQ), a calendar of CDI
related events, examples of projects that would be appropriate for the
initiative, and references and resources.
<http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/index.jsp>
The full program solicitation can be found at:
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603>
If you have questions about CDI, we have a special email address:
cdi at nsf.gov
** [The following was mentioned by Peter Fox (Vice-Chair of AGU's
** Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group) on a mailing list of
** people working on federated search of scientific data]
**
** There are detailed criteria to comply with so asking NSF program
** managers is essential.
**
** Also note this is a CISE (Computer & Information Science &
** Engineering) AO (sort of replacing the old ITR) and computer
** scientist peer participation is essential (and others, such as
** social, library, etc. are also encouraged).
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