[Sigsti-l] Planning Meeting Minutes / 2009 ASIS&T Annual

[John D'Ignazio]

Hi all:

Just to get these out there, here's some of what transpired at our  
meeting in Vancouver, B.C. Please add to the list anything I missed or  
pipe in with comments, clarifications, and questions.

SIG/STI
Planning Meeting
November 10, 2009

Attendees:
Joe Hourcle
Phil Edwards
Michael Leach
Airong Luo
Gail Hodge
Heather Piwowar
Neil Smallhauser
John D’Ignazio

Agenda Items:
Conference Planning
New officers
Travel awards
Membership

How do you indicate SIG membership?
Relationship to inactive list dwellers
Benefits of large membership

Update on change of membership – smorgasboard of all SIGS for one flat  
fee
Update on annual meeting change – Workshops at end now. What’s  
happening to panels? Not elimination but a push for something  
different & more interactive. Need to tie our ideas to tracks/streams  
set up by program committee.

Plan a workshop on data-sharing?
- Overlap in topic with planned metrics workshop. Opportunity for  
collaboration and workshop cosponsor -- Citation of data sets? –  
metrics of this. International Association of Science and Technical  
Information – DOI? Harvard U? Nothing is standardized
- Strive for SIG interaction over year not just at Annual - Dublin  
Core Science stuff – next year DC meeting will adjoin ASIS&T annual --  
workshop at end would require people to stay too long

Publishing a book or article?
Earth and Space Scientist  has something coming but highly technical.  
If you want to involve practitioners writing is not the ticket

Another workshop idea:
A paired strategy: one practitioner/one academic to create case  
studies – raises profile of group – have to be substantial, that’s a  
problem – proprietary aspects? One ASIS&T member/one non-member to  
compete with case study. If good, non-member gets funding to come to  
annual meeting. Collab with arts and humanities? Involve SIG-DL with  
their lists. Need direct marketing to academic librarians for  
promotion. - Study questionnaire  or some other method would surface  
best practices

Other Panel ideas:
- Translational medicine from bench to bed – w/ SIG Health. Related to  
Translation from pure science to media accounts
- Science & social media. New forms of scientific journals -- would  
take advantage of call for demos –PubMed – new journal – rapid  
research reports; ArXiv issue of public comment, indexing, versioning;  
Nature something or other; PLOS currents w/ SIG BLOG, DL, HEALTH -  
Political issues – sharing your data across boundaries

Slate of officers for 2009/2010 elected:
Airong Luo – chair
Michael Leach – chair elect
John D’Ignazio – past chair
Heather Piwowar – secretary/treasurer
Communications (continuing) – Bob Downs
Webmaster (continuing) – Darcy Duke
Awards Coordinator – discontinued as there are no awards to be
administered


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John D'Ignazio
IMLS research assistant / doctoral student
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University