[Sigtis-l] What do other SIGs want to do for ASIST 08?

[KRISTIN R ESCHENFELDER]

Dear SIG SIers

Attached please find notes from the SIG planning lunch that summarizes the main topics other SIGs want to pursue for next year's ASIST.    At the lunch, each SIG rep stands up and reports on the SIGs priority areas for the next year.

By reviewing this summary, you may find areas for cross-SIG collaboration, co-sponsorship, or for your participation on some other SIGs panel!  If you find something interesting that fits with your interests, please contact the officers of that SIG.  I have no further information on their plans.

Best,

Kristin

1. SIG VIS
Trust and collaborative communities

2. Science/Tech information
Curriculum for digital world: digital curation, provenance of raw information used for policy purposes and issues of authenticity, also interested in doing the speed meeting again next year.

3. SIG Metrics: none

4. Medical Informatics:  ontologies, semantic interoperability standards, Unified Medical Language System, 

5. SIG Management: organizational competencies, management courses in library schools, management issues for institutional repositories, eval of corporate libraries

6. Library Technologies:  one laptop per child, log analysis and direct user observation, OHIO Link and local loading of data, DRM (SI), developing ontologies

7.  KM: bioinformatics, election/political data management and dissemination, KM and government and business (success stories in practice), KM in education: curriculum and program issues; social network planning, gaming, management of knowledge in open access repositories, project management vs. knowledge management.  ICKM will be two days before ASIST next year.

8.  III:  Global plaza, DL projects in a developing nation context; impact of technology in developing nations.

9.  No information policy rep

10.  USE:  lay information media phenomenon, those seeking information on behalf of someone else, information literacy, authority and trust, virtual reality and information seeking, teaching information seeking, agency and information seeking (*), underserved populations.

12. HCI no rep

13. HFIS: doctoral student workshop methods/oral history; multimedia classification, gendered views of history, pioneers and reminiscences, ethics/records/accountability, CAS history, 

14. ED: undergraduate education for programs developing a minor, image retrieval education, outcomes assessment for learning/teaching/research, early career development and management (juniors and senior faculty swap stories)  

15: DL: DL education, multilingual digital libraries, preservation and access of digital objects (how do we handle preservation of digital things (maps) They will bring SAA people in, classification software and standards,

16. CR:  chair is ill so not much planned right now.  Want to work with other SIGs to reduce the cost of their preconference, evaluating adoption of automated indexing.  

17.  Arts and Humanities:  Steve Paling is reviving it.  Anyone interested in arts, humanities, music should contact Steve at paling at wisc.edu


Kristin Eschenfelder
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
eschenfelder at wisc.edu
1-608-263-2105
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen