From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Apr 1 08:13:59 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:13:59 +0100 Subject: [Siguse-l] CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL workshop) + Special Issue of IJDL Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 18th April, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn eighteen (18) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). This course is not for graduate credit. *About the instructor* Dr. Jen Golbeck is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago, and is one of the world?s foremost experts in the field. Her research has influenced industry, government, and the military. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people?s hidden attributes from their online behavior, and a leader in creating human-friendly security and privacy systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. *Short Course Details* - Dates: May 2nd ? June 11th - Delivery: A fully online, asynchronous course that will utilize the University's Canvas learning management system. - Price and Refunds - $379 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, visit *http://go.umd.edu/spring16-webprogramming * Registration will close April 29, 2016, and participation will be capped at 50 students. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/professional-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. 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Since users increasingly learn informally while searching as well as use search systems as tools for self-study, there is a growing recognition of the importance to address the challenges of designing, developing, and evaluating search systems (algorithms, interfaces, etc.) that foster discovery and enhance learning outside of formal educational settings. The Search as Learning Workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, and survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. Further, this workshop wishes to bring together researchers with backgrounds in information science (IS), human computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR), with the goal of integrating conceptual, experimental, and simulation-based approaches and methodologies from within these different fields, thus allowing the transformation of search systems as isolated information access tools into systems that provide support for learning directly and that consider the broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): - Understanding searching as a human learning process. - When and how learning occurs in the search process. - The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts. - Features and functionalities to foster learning. - Search interface design in support of learning. - The implications of searching for learning for different populations: children, low literacy searchers, non-experts. - The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching. - Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience. - Learning analytics for search contexts. - Collaborative aspects of searching as learning. - Indicators of learning (while searching). - Interaction monitoring, modelling, and optimization for learning outcomes. The submissions will be peer reviewed (single-blind) and must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template. We invite position papers on the topic (up to 2 pages) as well as reports on ongoing research (up to 4 pages). We accept submissions through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sal2016 Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline (tentative): May 1, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2016 Final Papers Due: June 5, 2016 Workshop Date: July 21, 2016 Organizers: -------------------------------------------------------- Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin, USA Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, Netherlands Jiyin He, CWI, Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Programme committee: ----------------------------------------------------------- Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg Kalervo J?rvelin, University of Tampere Jussi Karlgren, KTH Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia Andreas Nurnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim Please contact us at sal2016 at nii.ac.jp for further information about the workshop. Jacek Gwizdka, PhD http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.442 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:06:34 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:06:34 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] =?utf-8?q?Short_Course_on_Children=E2=80=99s_Book_Awar?= =?utf-8?q?ds_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016--6:30-8:00pm - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland, College Park campus - Price and Refunts - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 12:14:29 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:14:29 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] =?utf-8?q?Dynamic_Workshop_on_Illustrations_in_Literat?= =?utf-8?q?ure_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSchool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a one-day, in-person workshop entitled *An Educated Eye: Looking at Picture Books (and Other Images)*. Participants will work with leading children?s literature expert, Maria Salvadore, to gain a better understanding of how illustration and other visual images convey meaning. By examining illustrations and other images that appear in various media, participants will leave this workshop with the ability to identify and evaluate picture books (and illustration in general) that are appropriate for different age children from the very young to adolescents. At the completion of the workshop, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn six (6) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* - Dates and Times - Saturday, June 11, 2016 ? 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - Location - Hornbake Library South Wing, University of Maryland College Park campus - Price and Refunds - $249.00 (payable by debit or credit only) - Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/educatedeye-Jun16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Sat Apr 16 05:32:32 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:32:32 +0100 Subject: [Siguse-l] Extended deadline: CfP Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (JCDL 2016 workshop) Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline Extended: 25th April, 2016 (12pm Hawaii time)*** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Successful authors will also be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), following the workshop. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 18 April 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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Many areas of interest for CHIIR have traditionally been covered under "Users and interactive IR" at the SIGIR Conference, and at the HCIR and IIiX conferences, which have merged to form the CHIIR conference. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. We invite submissions on user-centered approaches to information retrieval, access, and use, including studies of interactive systems, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and a range of related areas. We are particularly interested in papers in the following areas: * Information seeking, search and retrieval, including task-based and exploratory search * Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery * Online information-seeking behavior, including log analysis of search and browsing * Modeling and simulation of information interaction * Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains * Information use, including measures of use and sensemaking * Field and case studies relevant to information retrieval and access * User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability * Context-aware and personalized search, contextual features and analysis for information interaction * Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction * Information visualization and visual analytics, search result presentation * User-centered work in other areas of information retrieval Contribution Types Full papers: We are looking for high quality original research of relevance to CHIIR as full paper submissions (10 pages). We expect submissions to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, and log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse. Short Papers: Short papers (4 pages) should also be original, high-quality submissions, like full papers, but based upon a smaller, concise contribution. These may present work in progress, late-breaking results, reports on projects or applications, or demos. Accepted short papers will be published as part of the proceedings, but will also be presented as posters during the poster reception at the conference. Perspectives Papers: a special category of full papers (10 pages) that present novel ideas or insights concerning approaches, key challenges, or methodological issues that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and lead to significant advances in the field. These papers should not consist primarily of literature reviews or the presentation of stand-alone studies, but may take the form of: * reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field, the theories, the models, and the methods have developed; * discussion of the implications of research findings on users in the real world; * proposals for and discussions of theories or models of information-interaction; or * critical, provocative, and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion. Workshops: We encourage prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals for highly interactive workshops (either full-day or half-day) that fall within the scope of the conference. We are particularly interested in workshops that bridge multiple approaches or present new perspectives on user-centred aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. Workshops will be held on the last day of the conference. Application instructions are available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Tutorials: Proposals will be considered for full day or half day tutorials. Tutorials may cover material either at an introductory level (introducing new areas of research or practice to attendees) or in depth (advancing the understanding of attendees with basic familiarity of the area). Application instructions will be available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Doctoral Consortium: We invite doctoral students to submit applications for a supervisory seminar, to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students. The consortium will take place on the first day of the conference. Application instructions are available on the conference web page at http://sigir.org/chiir2017/ Conditions * CHIIR submissions should be original, high quality research that has not been published previously and are not under review for another conference or journal. * An international program committee will review all submissions. * All reviews will be double-blind so submissions should be made anonymous when submitted. * Full papers and Perspectives papers will be up to 10 pages in length, while short papers will be up to 4 pages. * All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF. * All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM Digital Library as part of the CHIIR series. Important dates 1 Sept 2016 - Full papers and Perspectives papers due 15 Sept 2016 - Short papers, Workshop and Tutorial proposals and Doctoral consortium submissions due 20 Oct 2016 - Workshop notifications 13 Nov 2016 - All other notifications 7-11 March 2017 - CHIIR Conference From p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Apr 25 11:52:07 2016 From: p.goodale at sheffield.ac.uk (Paula Goodale) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:52:07 +0100 Subject: [Siguse-l] Final CfP: Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (workshop at JCDL2016) Message-ID: Final Call for Papers Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS) Newark, NJ, 22-23 June, 2016 (in association with JCDL) http://achs.group.shef.ac.uk/ ***Deadline: 2nd May, 2016*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS: Successful authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==Aims== Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale is a workshop collocated at the JCDL 2016 conference, to be held in Newark, NJ, USA. The workshop will take place over two half days on 22-23 June 2016. Our focus is on challenges and opportunities, current and emerging developments in the area of information access via exploration and discovery in large-scale digital libraries and collections, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. We will consider the underlying technologies which enable this access, as well as interaction functionalities, and user evaluations. Our goal is to identify the needs of providers and their users, assess the current state-of-the-art, and to identify challenges and prioritize areas of future research potential. ==Topics== The workshop is focused on all aspects of supporting access, exploration and discovery within large-scale digital libraries, especially within cultural heritage. This fits with the JCDL conference theme of 'Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation' to include information access issues and solutions in cultural heritage that focus on volume, variety and velocity of library content, and also variety (complexity, diversity) of users and uses. Specifically, we invite contributions on related topics including (but not limited to): * Information discovery, exploration and serendipity * User-centered information access and evaluation * Multimedia, multilingual and exploratory Information Retrieval * Information needs and information behaviour * Information organization, ontologies * Entity-centric information access * Information extraction, content enrichment, text analytics, natural language processing * Entity-extraction and disambiguation * Metadata and linked data * Visualization of information space * User modelling and adaptation * Personalization and recommendation Contributions may include findings from completed empirical studies or work-in-progress, as well as position papers inviting discussions of emerging and future developments. ==Submissions== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished academic research, industry papers and position papers related to the topics listed above. We invite papers in 3 formats: * full papers (8 pages) * short papers (4 pages) * posters (2 pages) Full papers will report on completed work, or work that has reached a level of maturity or important milestone. Short papers and posters will report on work-in-progress, or work that can be presented in a more concise form. Position papers are welcome in either full or short paper format. Full and short papers will be presented in the main the workshop track, and posters will be presented in a dedicated session. All paper types are welcome from both academics and practitioners. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings will be published immediately prior to the workshop via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be written in English, prepared anonymously in the ACM Proceedings template, and submitted in PDF format, via the workshop EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=achs20160 . ==Important dates== * Paper submissions - 2 May 2016 * Notifications - 16 May 2016 * Camera-ready copy - 31 May 2016 * Proceedings published - 7 June 2016 * Workshop (at JCDL) - 22-23 June 2016 (2x half days) ==Organising Committee== * Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK) * Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield, UK) * Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) * S?amus Lawless (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ==Contact== Enquiries should be made via: Paula Goodale p dot goodale at sheffield.ac.uk -- Paula Goodale Teaching Associate Information Retrieval Research Group Please note: My working pattern for Jan-June 2016 is usually Monday, Thursday, Friday Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 318, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP @PaulaGoodale www.sheffield.ac.uk/is Keep it green: do you need to print this email? 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Name: Intro to Web Programming.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 80240 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 29 10:35:19 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:35:19 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] DEADLINES - New Leader Award & Annual Meeting Panels & Workshops Message-ID: <3816-220164529143518848@LEN-dick-2011> DEADLINES COMING AWARD: New Leaders Award, May 15 (Incorrect deadline announced earlier) https://www.asist.org/about/awards/new-leaders-award/ ANNUAL MEETING: Panels and Workshops: Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From asis at gwizdka.com Fri Apr 29 10:46:20 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:46:20 -0500 Subject: [Siguse-l] 2nd CFP: 2nd Intl Workshop Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 (at SIGIR) Message-ID: ====================================== 2nd International Workshop Search as Learning (SAL) 2016 held in conjunction with ACM SIGIR conference. Submission deadline extended to: *May 20, 2016* http://chauff.github.io/sal2016/ July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy ====================================== Search systems to date are viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy immediate information needs, than as part of larger complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Since users increasingly learn informally while searching as well as use search systems as tools for self-study, there is a growing recognition of the importance to address the challenges of designing, developing, and evaluating search systems (algorithms, interfaces, etc.) that foster discovery and enhance learning outside of formal educational settings. The Search as Learning Workshop aims to flesh out research directions and methodologies, and survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. Further, this workshop wishes to bring together researchers with backgrounds in information science (IS), learning sciences (LS), human computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR), with the goal of integrating conceptual, experimental, and simulation-based approaches and methodologies from within these different fields, thus allowing the transformation of search systems as isolated information access tools into systems that provide support for learning directly and that consider the broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results. The 1st SAL workshop took place in 2014 in Regensburg http://www.diigubc.ca/IIIXSAL/index.html Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to): - Understanding searching as a human learning process. - When and how learning occurs in the search process. - The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts. - Features and functionalities to foster learning. - Search interface design in support of learning. - The implications of searching for learning for different populations: children, low literacy searchers, non-experts. - The role of affect and engagement on learning while searching. - Methods and measures to assess learning performance and experience. - Learning analytics for search contexts. - Collaborative aspects of searching as learning. - Indicators of learning (while searching). - Interaction monitoring, modelling, and optimization for learning outcomes. The submissions will be peer reviewed (single-blind) and must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template. We invite position papers on the topic (up to 2 pages) as well as reports on ongoing research (up to 4 pages). We accept submissions through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sal2016 Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: *May 20, 2016* Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2016 Final Papers Due: June 20, 2016 Workshop Date: July 21, 2016 (Workshop takes place immediately after ACM SIGIR conference) Organizers: -------------------------------------------------------- Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas at Austin, USA Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, Netherlands Jiyin He, CWI, Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Programme committee: ----------------------------------------------------------- Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg Kalervo J?rvelin, University of Tampere Jussi Karlgren, KTH Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia Andreas Nurnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim Please contact us at sal2016 at nii.ac.jp for further information about the workshop. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Fri Apr 29 10:57:54 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:57:54 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] =?utf-8?q?Register_Now_for_a_Short_Course_on_Children?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Book_Awards_Offered_by_Maryland=E2=80=99s_iSc?= =?utf-8?q?hool?= Message-ID: The Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool invites children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers to participate in a 5-week, in-person short course entitled *But is it* *Award Worthy? A Critical Look at the 2016 Award Winning & Honor Books*. During this short course, participants will examine and discuss the criteria, scope, and related issues of the major youth book awards and exercise critical judgement to argue for or against the winning books of 2016. Discussions will include the history of the awards, similarities and differences between them, and potential readers and impact. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Maryland?s Office of Extended Studies and earn ten (10) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs). *About the Instructor* Maria Salvadore, leading children?s literature expert, will be teaching this dynamic course. Maria has served on and chaired various book award committees, including the Washington Post/Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, and the Caldecott Committee. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, a reviewer for *School Library Journal *and Capitol Choices, and a former member of ALA?s Notable Children?s Book Committee, Maria brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to this exciting professional development opportunity. *Short Course Details* ? Dates and Times o May 24, 31, June 7, 14, & 21, 2016?6:30pm?8:00pm ? Location o Hornbake Library South Wing University of Maryland, College Park campus ? Price and Refunds o $269.00 (payable by debit or credit only) o Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, please visit http://go.umd.edu/awardworthy2-sp16. For any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/ .* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: