[Students-l] Fwd: [Sigmetrics] Several funded PhD positions at the Knowledge Media institute, UK

Sun Mar 26 16:58:41 EDT 2017

Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, 

With pleasure we invite you to participate, submit an Abstract and/or organize and chair an Invited Session (4-6 talks) or address an invited talk in the forthcoming Conference in Limerick, Ireland ((23-26 May 2017) for the 9th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2017,  http://www.isast.org <http://www.isast.org/> ) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). 

If you already have submitted your contribution ignore this message. However, please note that the early bird registration is approaching (30 March 2017).

This is the ninth year of the conference which brings together different disciplines on library and information science; it is a multi–disciplinary conference that covers the Library and Information Science topics in conjunction to other disciplines (e.g. big data, open data and open source, innovation and technological transfer, management and marketing, statistics and data analysis, information technology, human resources, museums, archives, special librarianship, etc). 

The conference invites special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters.

Target Group

The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al.

Main topics

The emphasis is given to the models and the initiatives focus on the  Data. 

The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes:

1.                   Data Mining, content analysis, taxonomies, ontologies

2.                   Open Data, Open Access, Analysis and Applications 

3.                   Big Data and its Management

4.                   Information Ethics 

5.                   Information and Knowledge Management

6.                   Synergies, Organizational Models and Information Systems 

7.                   Multimedia Systems and Applications 

8.                   Computer Networks and Social Networks, 

9.                   Health Reference and Informatics 

10.               Information Technologies in Education 

11.               Decision making in service innovation 

12.               STM information development

Special Sessions – Workshops

You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at:  secretar at isast.org <mailto:secretar at isast.org?subject=QQML2014%20International%20Conference>  or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 

You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 

Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways 

a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; 

b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words);

c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words);

In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. 

Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/. 

The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ 

All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s).

Student submissions

Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations.

Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized.

Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2017 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org  

Important dates:

Deadline of abstracts submitted: 20 December 2016

Reviewer’s response: in 3 weeks after submission

Early registration: 30th of March 2017

Paper and Presentation Slides: 1st of May 2017

Conference dates: 23-26 May 2017

Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. 

QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions.

For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org <http://www.isast.org/>  or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org 

Looking forward to welcoming you in Limerick,

With our best regards,

On behalf of the Conference Committee 

Anthi Katsirikou, PhD

Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head, European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals

 <mailto:anthi at asmda.com> anthi at asmda.com

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See you in Limerick, 

Kind regards, 

Anthi Katsirikou (Ms)

Librarian, PhD, MSc

QQML Conference co-chair

Director, University of Piraeus Library

Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece

Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals

IFLA Member

ALA/ ACRL Member 

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Fax 0030 210 4142330

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[Sigmetrics] Several funded PhD positions at the Knowledge Media institute, UK

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Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:53:52 +0000

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Petr.Knoth  <mailto:petr.knoth at open.ac.uk> <petr.knoth at open.ac.uk>

Apologies for cross-posting.

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Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/ 

Stipend: £14,553 per year net plus fee bursary, Ref: 9668 

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a leading research centre associated with the Open University. Research in KMi focuses on web & data science, natural language processing, information retrieval, digital libraries, machine learning and their applications to solve real-world problems. One of the application areas of a particular interest is scholarly communication & Open Science. 

We are currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships commencing in October 2017. Applications are invited from UK, EU and international students for full-time, 3-year study.

Deadlines for applications (with a fully developed research proposal): 10th April, 2017

Available topics:

-          Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76758 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76758&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Discovering facts to support or refute claims - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76757 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76757&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Identifying and predicting research & innovation by mining text - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76759 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76759&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84691 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84691&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & knowledge resources - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84692 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84692&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Towards Effective Open Science Workflows - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84744 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84744&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-          Investigating the impact of Open Science practices on scientific research - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84745 <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84745&LID=3843> &LID=3843

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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