From asis at gwizdka.com Mon Aug 1 06:18:38 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:18:38 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Special Issue on Search As Learning - Information Retrieval Journal Message-ID: ======================= Information Retrieval Journal http://www.springer.com/10791 ======================= Call for Papers: Special Issue on Search As Learning ========================================= Search systems today are mostly viewed as tools to satisfy immediate information needs instead of complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Research on the design, development and evaluation of search systems that foster learning and enhance the learning experience is scarce. Equally scarce is our current understanding of search as a human learning process. Opportunities exist today to not only observe and interpret users? behavior through the lens of search logs but also to enrich this information with detailed multimodal data streams gathered by tracking devices and sensors. In this special issue, we aim to provide a forum for researchers who explore the role of search in the learning process to examine challenging research questions, showcase the state-of-the-art and share breakthroughs. Topics of interest Topics of interest for this issue include but are not limited to: ? Log/lab-based studies on when and how learning occurs in the search process; ? The relationship between the learning process and searchers? work task contexts; ? Search system features that foster learning (both searching to learn and learning to search); ? Search interface designs in support of learning; ? The implications of search for learning for different populations (children, low- literacy searchers, non-experts, etc.); ? The roles of affect and engagement on learning whilst searching; ? Methods and measures to assess searchers? learning; ? Measuring learning outcomes to assess IR system performance; ? Learning analytics for search contexts; ? Collaborative aspects of search as learning; ? Interaction monitoring, modeling and optimization for learning outcomes. Special Issue Editors: Carsten Eickhoff, ETH Zurich Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas Austin Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology Jiyin He, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Important Dates Initial submission due: October 15th, 2016 Initial reviewer feedback: November 21st, 2016 Revised submission due: December 21st, 2016 Final decision: February 15th, 2017 Paper Submission Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/10791 (submit online). At the beginning of the submission processing Editorial Manager, under ?Article Type?, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process. For inquiries on the above please contact Claudia Hauff, c.hauff at tudelft.nl. 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 From rhill at asis.org Mon Aug 1 13:39:57 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:39:57 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: First Monday August 2016 In-Reply-To: <1B453320-6CCE-4F7E-8B15-6B5103B2441A@uic.edu> References: <1B453320-6CCE-4F7E-8B15-6B5103B2441A@uic.edu> Message-ID: <4cf501d1ec1b$b9970790$2cc516b0$@asis.org> Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -----Original Message----- From: Readership of First Monday [mailto:FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Valauskas Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 5:22 PM To: FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Subject: First Monday August 2016 Readers: First Monday has just published the August 2016 (volume 21, number 8) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. The following papers are included in this month's issue: First Monday Volume 21, Number 8 - 1 August 2016 Studying the viral growth of a connective action network using information event signatures by Jeff Hemsley Audience constructed genre with Instagram: Street art and graffiti by Christopher D.F. Honig and Lachlan MacDowall Social media and the transnationalization of mass activism: Twitter and the labour movement by Michael Dahlberg-Grundberg, Ragnar Lundstrom, and Simon Lindgren Ordering space: Alternative views of ICT and geography by Quinn DuPont and Yuri Takhteyev Connectedness and disconnectedness to new and old media within different age groups by Joo-Young Jung The cost of search and evaluation in online problem-solving social networks with financial and non-financial incentives by Daniel Scain Farenzena, Lu?s da Cunha Lamb, and Ricardo Matsumura de Araujo LatinoTwitter: Discourses of Latino civic engagement in social media by Alison N. Novak, Kristine Johnson, and Manuel Pontes ------- With the contents of the August 2016 issue, First Monday has published 1,587 papers in 243 issues, written by 2,203 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work, Edward J Valauskas Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday From awasom.afuh at ttu.edu Mon Aug 1 16:02:39 2016 From: awasom.afuh at ttu.edu (Afuh, Awasom) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:02:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Announcement: Winners of 2016 SIG (III) International Paper Contest Message-ID: The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III) is pleased to announce the following winners of its 2016 and 2015 International Paper Contests: First Place winners 2016: Yared Mammo and Patrick Ngulube (Ethiopia) - Insights into e-information resources (e-journals) Access Models in Higher Learning Institutions in Ethiopia. 2015: Amjid Khan and Shamshad Ahmed (Pakistan) - Usage of E-Databases and E-journals by Research Community in Pakistani Universities: Issues and Perspectives Second Place winners 2016: Muhammad Arif and Saima Kanwal (Pakistan) - Adoption of Social Media Technologies and their Impact on Students' Academic Performance: The only Way for Future Survival of Distance Education Students in Pakistan 2015: Hamza Musa and Zakari Muhammad (Nigeria) - Access to online Arabic information resources by the Academics in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. Third Place winners 2016: Syeda Batool and Sheila Webber (Pakistan) - Mapping information literacy situation in primary schools: A case of Pakistan. 2015: Deep Jyoti Francis and Vineet Kumar (India) - Cricket and Copyright in Indian Courts: Commercial Interests or National/Public Interests. The first place winners will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the 2016 ASIS&T Annual meeting taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 14-18. In addition, the principal authors of each of the selected winning papers will be awarded a two-year individual membership to ASIS&T. All the winning papers will be considered for publication by Taylor & Francis' International Information and Library Review (IILR). Congratulations to the above winners and looking forward to a wonderful 2016 annual meeting in Copenhagen. Sincerely, International Paper Contest Team Innocent Awasom Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen J. K. Vijaykumar From chirags at rutgers.edu Mon Aug 1 13:54:05 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:54:05 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] [Chapters-l] ASIS&T Chapter Annual Report - due by August 15 In-Reply-To: <66CA49BC-5B6E-4A79-9A7F-EEAE868C650C@rutgers.edu> References: <001F584F-AEEF-41E4-80F2-DBF527179B7B@rutgers.edu> <66CA49BC-5B6E-4A79-9A7F-EEAE868C650C@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <9680D4C2-71F5-44C5-BCBC-81A5E8664245@rutgers.edu> Hello, The deadline is almost here! If you are an officer with any regional chapter, please make sure that your chapter submits its annual report by Monday, August 15th. Please consult this document to prepare your report: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/ChapterAnnualActivitiesReportForm.pdf In addition to meeting one of the requirements for having a chapter, your annual report will also be useful in determining various chapter awards. So please do not miss this opportunity (and obligation). Sincerely, Chirag Shah, Director of Chapter Assembly (chirags at rutgers.edu ) Daniel Alemneh, Deputy Director of Chapter Assembly (Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu ) > On Jul 16, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Chirag Shah wrote: > > One month reminder - if you are an officer for your regional chapter, your annual report is due by August 15. Please see the full detail below. > > Note that the student chapter reports have a different deadline. > >> On Jun 15, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Chirag Shah > wrote: >> >> Two months reminder - if you are an officer for your regional chapter, your annual report is due by August 15. Please see the full detail below. >> >> Note that the student chapter reports have a different deadline. >> >> >>> On May 14, 2016, at 5:10 AM, Chirag Shah > wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> This is a three-month reminder that the regional chapters are expected to submit an annual report to the Chapter Assembly, highlighting efforts the chapter made to recruit new members, foster member participation in the chapter, and mechanisms to retain current members and to follow-up with members who did not renew their ASIS&T memberships. The report also contains the meetings, projects and services organized by the chapter and the efforts made by the chapter to communicate with its members. >>> >>> The annual report can be submitted via this web form: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/ChapterAnnualActivitiesReportForm.pdf >>> >>> The Chapter Annual Report must be submitted by August 15. This report will also serve as the nomination for the Chapter of the Year awards (i.e. Chapter of the Year, Chapter Member of the Year, Chapter Publication of the Year, Chapter Event of the Year, Chapter Innovation of the Year). These awards are decided by a jury. >>> >>> If you are an officer for your local chapter, you may want to take a look at the above form soon. An awareness of the annual report and judging criteria can be very helpful in planning and reporting chapter?s activities for the year. >>> >>> Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Chirag Shah, Director of Chapter Assembly (chirags at rutgers.edu ) >>> Daniel Alemneh, Deputy Director of Chapter Assembly (Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu ) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chapters-l mailing list >>> Chapters-l at asis.org >>> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chapters-l mailing list >> Chapters-l at asis.org >> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l > > _______________________________________________ > Chapters-l mailing list > Chapters-l at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 08:47:55 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:47:55 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'17 - Call for Workshops Proposals; Deadline: September 5 Message-ID: <201608031248.u73Cm38W027406@mail.asis.org> -- ----- --------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP FORMAT The Information Systems and Technologies research and industrial community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for WorldCist'17 ? 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11th - 13th of April 2017: http://www.worldcist.org/ Workshops should focus on a specific scientific subject on the scope of WorldCist'17 but not directly included on the main conference areas. Each workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, two researchers in the field, preferably from different institutions and different countries. The organizers should create an international Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific Workshop scientific area. Each workshop should have at least 10 submissions and 5 accepted papers in order to be conducted at WorldCist'17. The selection of Workshops will be performed by WorldCist'17 Conference/Workshop Chairs. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the conference main proceedings in specific Workshop chapters published by Springer in a book of the AISC series. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases. Extended versions of best selected papers will be published in journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at WorldCist'17 website: http://www.worldcist.org/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP); - Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to be installed); - Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by WorldCist'17 organizers; - Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference. WorldCist'17 organizers reserve the right to cancel any Workshop if deadlines are missed or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs associated with the Workshop. PROPOSAL CONTENT Workshop proposals should contain the following information: - Workshop title; - Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop; - List of topics of interest (max 15 topics); - Reasons the Workshop should be held within WorldCist?17; - Name, postal address, phone and email of all the members of the Workshop Organizing Committee; - Proposal for the Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations). Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to worldcist at gmail.com (cc: lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt), in PDF, (in English), by July 31, 2016. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Workshop proposals: September 5, 2016 - Notification of Workshop acceptance: September 11, 2016 - Deadline for paper submission: November 27, 2016 - Notification of paper acceptance: December 25, 2016 - Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8, 2017 - Conference dates: April 11-13, 2017 WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au Wed Aug 3 05:59:17 2016 From: Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au (Helen Partridge) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:59:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Jobs - Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Digital Life Lab, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Message-ID: Dear Colleagues Three exciting new positions available for social science researchers (including LIS): Research Fellow (Lecturer or in North America Assistant Professor Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer or in North America Associate Professor) Digital Life Lab University of Southern Queensland, Australia USQ?s Digital Life Lab will establish itself as a leader within the emerging national and international research and practice community studying the nature, impact, opportunities and challenges of people and communities living digitally. The Lab will be a research and practice hub that will explore and understand how digital technologies transform our social relationships and cultural practices, creating new problems but also providing novel opportunities to address societal challenges. The Lab will engage in applied discovery and will be an incubator of ideas and applications. From the Lab?s research and practice will come the innovations needed to inform how people and communities can live digitally. The positions of Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow will work in a highly motivated, vibrant and collaborative multi-disciplinary research and innovation team. The successful candidates will have a doctoral qualification in a discipline relevant the Digital Life Lab including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, humanities, education, library and information studies, media and communication studies. The Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow will work in an intellectually challenging and stimulating environment and has a focus on excellence, collaboration, curiosity, boldness, risk taking and innovation. Applications close 24th August More details can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/h5nfhgm Cheers Helen Professor Helen Partridge Pro Vice-Chancellor (Scholarly Information and Learning Services) & Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute T: +61 7 4631 2795 | M: +61 7 040 989 6374 | Skype: partridh | Twitter: @partridh Email: helen.partridge at usq.edu.au Academic Services Division University of Southern Queensland | Toowoomba, Queensland | 4350 | Australia Follow ADFI at http://adfi.usq.edu.au & @adfiusq _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. 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(CRICOS Institution Code QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M, TEQSA PRV12081 ) From jmartin at nedcc.org Tue Aug 2 11:15:34 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:15:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Preservation Training at NEDCC - Fall Webinars - Denver Digital Directions - Preservation 101 Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9E1E1A80E@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> NEDCC's Preservation Services staff and conservators offer a variety of programs each year to help cultural institutions and individuals preserve their collections. Join us! NEDCC Fall Webinars: -- Identification and Care of Negatives - September 7 -- Caring for Paper-based Collections - October 4 -- Introduction to Digitization Standards - October 12 -- Caring for Photographic Collections - October 25 -- Digitizing Photographic Collections - October 26 -- Caring for Rare Books - November 16 -- Writing a Disaster Plan, A Two Webinar Course - December 1 & 15 -- Caring for Framed Collections - December 7 LEARN MORE: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/training-currentlist DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections September 26-28, 2016 Denver, Colorado LEARN MORE: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/digital-directions/dd-2016 PRESERVATION 101: Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections September- November Course is almost full! Next Preservation 101 Course: June-August 2017 LEARN MORE: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/preservation-101 NEDCC's training programs are made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. ***************************************** NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER nedcc.org Join NEDCC in supporting the preservation of America's collections by contributing to: CROWDFUNDING FOR PRESERVATION, a New NEDCC Initiative to Help Institutions Raise Funds for Conservation and Digitization LEARN MORE: https://www.nedcc.org/crowdfunding/crowdfunding-for-preservation From college.mrce at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 23:57:33 2016 From: college.mrce at gmail.com (Upasna Bhandari) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:57:33 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] AIS SIGHCI Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 1 Message-ID: Dear all Attached, please find the latest issue (Volume 15, issue 1) of AIS SIGHCI newsletter. Best Regards Upasna Bhandari PhD Candidate, School of Computing, NUS a0106246 at u.nus.edu From ferro at dei.unipd.it Fri Aug 5 02:51:16 2016 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:51:16 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CLEF 2017 Call for Lab Proposals Message-ID: CLEF 2017 Conference First Call for Lab proposals Dublin, Ireland, September 11 - 14, 2017 http://clef2017.clef-initiative.eu/ CLEF is a leading annual international conference exploring topics in information access technologies. CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, poster and demo sessions. CLEF 2017 will be held in September 2017 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for evaluation Labs for consideration for inclusion in CLEF 2017. Lab proposals will be reviewed by the lab selection committee. Authors of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2017 lab programme, possibly subject to small suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline. Background The CLEF Initiative (http://clef2017.clef-initiative.eu/ ) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for: - independent evaluation of information access systems; - investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access; - creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking; - exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data; - discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge. CLEF 2017 will be the eighth edition of the current CLEF conference launched as a continuation of the annual CLEF evaluation campaign series which ran with great success from 2000 to 2009 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. Scope of CLEF Labs Proposals are accepted for two different types of ?labs?: - Evaluation Labs that are a ?campaign-style? evaluation for specific information access problems (during the twelve month period preceding the conference). For details of the labs offered at CLEF 2016 see http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ . Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task. - Labs that follow a more classical ?workshop? pattern, exploring issues of evaluation methodology, metrics, processes etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction. If the organisers of the proposal are new to CLEF or other shared task evaluation campaigns, we highly recommend that a lab workshop first be organised to discuss the format, the problem space, and the practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2017 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions which will take place within the conference in Dublin. The labs will present their overall results ?overview presentations? during the plenary scientific paper sessions to allow non-participants to get a sense of where the research frontiers are moving. Organisers of each lab are expected to organise the separate sessions for their lab at the conference so that they contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative and creative lab proposals. Potential task proposers who are unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2017 Lab Organising Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage. Lab Proposals Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to be able to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to co-ordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3-4 pages long and should provide the following information: Title of the proposed lab. - A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field. - A brief but clear statement of usage scenarios or domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics. - Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns. - The planned format of the lab, i.e. campaign-style ("track") or workshop. - Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity? For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made. For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity. - Details of the expected target audience, i.e. who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them. - Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks. - Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include very high level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length. - Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, including highlighting any IP issues that need to be addressed to enable data to be distributed to lab participants; tools or methods which will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to conducting your lab. - If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved. Reviewing Process Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the CLEF 2017 lab organising committee. The decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by September 8, 2016. The final length of the lab session will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab. Organisers of accepted labs are expected to announce and briefly present their lab at the final session of CLEF 2016 in Evora, Portugal on 8th of September, 2016. Important Dates - Final lab proposals: 26 August 2016 - Notification of lab acceptance: 8 September 2016 - Labs registration opens: 3 November 2016 Submission Details Lab proposals (or questions) should be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2017 . Questions on lab proposals should be directed to the CLEF 2017 Lab Chairs: Lorraine Goeuriot (lorraine.goeuriot at imag.fr ) Thomas Mandl (mandl at uni-hildesheim.de ) Further information on CLEF 2017 is available at: http://clef2017.clef-initiative.eu/ . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "fire-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fire-list+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to fire-list at googlegroups.com . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fire-list . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Aug 4 17:43:26 2016 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:43:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Cataloger / Washington, D.C. Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C368F057483@EX1MBX15.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . LAC Federal is seeking a Cataloger at a prominent national library headquartered in Washington, D.C. The cataloger will perform original descriptive and subject cataloging for various library materials in OCLC, SirsiDynix or a web-based ILS to create catalog links to specific items, including copy-specific information for historic print books, using MARC/RDA format and current LC standards, LC subject headings as locally modified, and LC classification with location and collection prefixes to catalog all materials. The work will include digital holdings as available. Additional responsibilities include: * Following guidance provided by conservation experts, carries out basic conservation measures such as boxing or tying books together in cases where historical collection books are in poor physical condition. * Sharing responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the NLE's bibliographic database and OCLC holdings. * Contributing expertise and leadership to policy development relating to metadata for digital collections, including participation in the development of a digital preservation strategy for the NLE. * Establishing and documenting local policies or practices in collaboration with other technical services personnel for consistency and continuity in the library collection. * Uses knowledge of integrated library systems to input details about new materials, utilize bibliographic reports and utilities, and run reports as needed. * May perform cataloging and processing of government documents in compliance with the Federal Depository Library Program's guidelines, policies and practices. * May perform copy cataloging from OCLC or LC. * Withdraws library materials from the NLE's collection, ILS, and OCLC as directed. * Assists with regular technical services statistics collection from OCLC and library ILS. * Maintains the collection by creating labels, replacing worn or inaccurate labels; and repairing items whenever possible with the help of the library technician. * Participates in collection development and maintenance activities. Evaluates items being withdrawn from the collection. * Inventories and reports technical sersvices supply needs to project manager for ordering. * Assists with space planning processes. * Stays abreast of new cataloging tools and rules and makes recommendations for change to Project Manager. * Manages or contributes to library projects as assigned. Qualifications: Candidates should possess an M.L.S./M.L.I.S. from an ALA-accredited school, and demonstrate at least 3 years of progressively greater on-the-job responsibility and experience in original and copy cataloging, processing, and maintaining access according to standard cataloging rules. Additional qualifications include: * Experience cataloging print, audiovisual and e-books and serials. * Expertise in the full range of the functionality of an integrated library catalog, including relationships between cataloging, serials control, circulation, and OPAC modules. * Formal coursework or training in rare books or special collections librarianship is desirable but not required. * Experience establishing local policies or practices and documenting them. * Experience with government document collections. * Aptitude for complex, analytical work with attention to detail, demonstrated problem-solving skills, flexibility and creativity. * Ability to work effectively in a team environment. * Excellent oral and written communication skills. * U.S. citizenship required. For immediate consideration, please apply online at: LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions and prominent government agencies From wilsontd at gmail.com Fri Aug 5 12:10:50 2016 From: wilsontd at gmail.com (Prof. T.D. Wilson) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 17:10:50 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Information Research Message-ID: The submission site for Information Research, which has been down because of a disc crash is now up and running again. The site for the journal (http://informationr.net/ir/) was also down for a brief period: it, too, is now back online. Tom Wilson -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD, PhD (h.c.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher and Editor in Chief: Information Research: an international electronic journal Website - http://InformationR.net/ir/ Photoblog - http://tomwilson.shutterchance.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------| E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------| From gunn at cua.edu Mon Aug 8 13:16:31 2016 From: gunn at cua.edu (Kevin B Gunn) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:16:31 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIES, AND LIBRARIANSHIP Message-ID: Greetings, The deadline for proposals has been extended to *September 9th, 2016*. Thank you. *THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS,* *LIBRARIES, AND LIBRARIANSHIP* The redefinition of humanities scholarship has received major attention in higher education over the past few years. The advent of digital humanities has challenged many aspects of academic librarianship. With the acknowledgement that librarians must be a necessary part of this scholarly conversation, the challenges facing subject/liaison librarians, technical service librarians, and library administrators are many. Developing the knowledge base of digital tools, establishing best procedures and practices, understanding humanities scholarship, managing data through the research lifecycle, teaching literacies (information, data, visual) beyond the one-shot class, renegotiating the traditional librarian/faculty relationship as ?service orientated,? and the willingness of library and institutional administrators to allocate scarce resources to digital humanities projects while balancing the mission and priorities of their institutions are just some of the issues facing librarians as they reinvent themselves in the digital humanities sphere. *A CALL FOR PROPOSALS* *College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, invites proposals for articles to be published in the fall of 2017. The issue will be co-edited by Kevin Gunn (**gunn at cua.edu* *) of the Catholic University of America and Jason Paul (**pauljn at stolaf.edu* *) of St. Olaf College.* The issue will deal with the digital humanities in a very broad sense, with a major focus on their implications for the roles of academic librarians and libraries as well as on librarianship in general. Possible article topics include, but are not limited to, the following themes, issues, challenges, and criticism: ? Developing the project development mindset in librarians ? Creating new positions and/or cross-training issues for librarians ? Librarian as: point-of-service agent, an ongoing consultant, or as an embedded project librarian ? Developing managerial and technological competencies in librarians ? Administration support (or not) for DH endeavors in libraries ? Teaching DH with faculty to students (undergraduate and graduate) and faculty ? Helping students working with data ? Managing the DH products of the data life cycle ? Issues surrounding humanities data collection development and management ? Relationships of data curation and digital libraries in DH ? Issues in curation, preservation, sustainability, and access of DH data, projects, and products ? Linked data, open access, and libraries ? Librarian and staff development for non-traditional roles ? Teaching DH in academic libraries ? Project collaboration efforts with undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty ? Data literacy for librarians ? The lack of diversity of librarians and how it impacts DH development ? Advocating and supporting DH across the institution ? Developing institutional repositories for DH ? Creating DH scholarship from the birth of digital objects ? Consortial collaborations on DH projects ? Establishing best practices for DH labs, networks, and services ? Assessing, evaluating, and peer reviewing DH projects and librarians. Articles may be theoretical or ideological discussions, case studies, best practices, research studies, and opinion pieces or position papers. Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and up to six keywords describing the article, together with complete author contact information. Articles should be in the range of 20 double-spaced pages in length. Please consult the following link that contains instructions for authors: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=wcul20&page=instructions#.V0DJWE0UUdU. Please submit proposals to Kevin Gunn (gunn at cua.edu) by *September 9th, 2016*; please do not use Scholar One for submitting proposals. First drafts of accepted proposals will be due by *February 1, 2017* with the issue being published in the fall of 2017. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions that you may have. Kevin Gunn, Catholic University of America Jason Paul, St. Olaf College From houzanme at gmail.com Mon Aug 8 04:23:21 2016 From: houzanme at gmail.com (Houzanme) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:23:21 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Enquete sur les Nouveaux Professionels des Archives - Delai de reponse le 12 Aout! Message-ID: Bonjour tres chers collegues francophones, Un peu de competition, ca ne tue pas. Notre pari est de reserver une agreable surprise a nos collegues anglophones et nous aimerions bien pouvoir compter sur vous! Nous vous serions donc tres reconnaissant de bien vouloir remplir ou faire acheminer cette demande d'enquete du Conseil International des Archives dans tous vos reseaux professionels, avec tous vos contacts ou associations francaises , francophones ou francophiles des specialistes des Archivage. Merci par avance ! Tibaut Houzanme, Archiviste https://www.linkedin.com/in/houzanme ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Houzanme Date: 2016-07-27 5:43 GMT+02:00 Subject: Enquete sur les Nouveaux Professionels (?tudiants, stagiaires, et dipl?m?s) To: ADADB Bonjour a tous, Le Programme pour les Nouveaux professionnels du Conseil international des archives (ICA) aimerait recueillir votre avis sur votre formation et votre d?veloppement professionnel dans le milieu des archives et du records management. Nous vous serions reconnaissants de consacrer 5 ? 10 minutes ? remplir l?enqu?te ci-apr?s (toutes les r?ponses sont anonymes) :http://goo.gl/forms/ XjqBmSCSo656vDjy1 En tant que nouveau professionnel travaillant depuis moins de 5 ans (y compris les ?tudiants, les stagiaires, les nouveaux dipl?m?s), vos r?ponses nous aideront ? mieux comprendre la situation actuelle, les besoins et les attentes des nouveaux professionnels autour du globe. L?enqu?te prendra fin le 12 ao?t prochain et les r?sultats seront pr?sent?s ? l?occasion du Congr?s international de l?ICA ? S?oul. Merci de partager le lien de cette enqu?te avec tous les nouveaux professionnels dont vous pensez qu?ils pourraient ?tre int?ress?s. Les Nouveaux Professionnels de l?ICA Enqu?te sur les Nouveaux Professionnels Nous vous remercions par avance pour votre int?r?t pour cette enqu?te. Vos r?ponses nous permettront de comprendre la situation actuelle, les besoins et les attentes des "nouveaux professionels" autour du globe, archivistes ou? DOCS.GOOGLE.COM Best Regards, Tibaut Houzanme - Mobile: +1-317-332-3296 email: houzanme at gmail.com - www.linkedin.com/in/houzanme/ From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Tue Aug 9 18:06:02 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 17:06:02 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Friendly reminder - Papers due Aug. 15 - Physical Samples and Digital Collections Workshop, ASIS&T AM 2016, October 14, Copenhagen Denmark In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <17158b1b-8f16-19dd-528b-55bc65804af5@austin.utexas.edu> This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: http://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdc2016/ ------------------------------------------ The First International Physical Samples and Digital Collections (PSDC 2016) workshop will be held on October 14th in Copenhagen, Denmark in conjunction with the ASIS&T AM 2016--2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. We solicit participation from information studies as well as communities that work with physical samples--for example, earth sciences, biology, paleontology, hydrology, archeology--to make this workshop a success. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the community of researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scholarly publications. The intention is to assemble the existing community of scholars and practitioners from both coasts of the Atlantic as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the information science community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences, broadly construed. Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube (http://www.earthcube.org) Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. Important dates --------------- * August 15: paper submissions due * August 23: Notification of acceptance * October 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * October 14: PSDC 2016 Workshop Topics ------ Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and information science that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposal Formats ----------------- We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers*: 6-8 page submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position on an issue of significance to the community * *work-in-progess and position papers*: 3-4 page submissions that discuss early results on nascent projects * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ASIS&T submission template, which is available at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.doc Submission ---------- Please submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdc2016 Organizers ---------- Please contact us with your questions. Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu ) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert(lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu ) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt(clenhardt at renci.org ) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Aug 10 10:32:39 2016 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:32:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science latest issue is ready to read on Project MUSE Message-ID: The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Volume 40, Number 2, June / juin 2016 This issue contains: SINCERITY: A Search Engine for Image Retrieval / SINCERITY: Un moteur de recherche pour les images Elaine M?nard, Jonathan Dorey This article presents the third and last phase of a research project wherein the search engine SINCERITY was tested with a sample of images and image searchers. Read more >> Cet article pr?sente la troisi?me et derni?re phase d'un projet de recherche dans lequel le moteur de recherche SINCERITY a ?t? ?valu? avec un ?chantillon d'images et de chercheurs d'images. Lire plus >> Determinants of User Acceptance of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems: A User-Focused Empirical Study of System Characteristics / Caract?ristiques d?terminantes de l'acceptation des syst?mes de gestion des documents ? lectroniques par les utilisateurs: Une ?tude empirique orient?e utilisateurs des caract?ristiques des syst?mes Xiangjun Feng, Weimei Pan This article presents the findings of an empirical study exploring a set of system characteristics that influence users' acceptance of electronic recordkeeping systems. Read more >> Cet article pr?sente les d?couvertes d'une ?tude empirique explorant un ensemble de caract?ristiques syst?miques qui influence l'acceptation par les utilisateurs des syst?mes de gestion des documents ?lectroniques. Lire plus >> The Web Illusion: Representation and Reality / L'illusion du Web: Repr?sentation et r?alit? Eric Boutin, Samuel Ravatua-Smith We are more inclined to visit and eat at a frequented restaurant than a restaurant that is notably deserted. Read more >> On s'installera plus volontiers ? la table d'un restaurant fr?quent? que d'un restaurant vide. Lire plus >> A Study of Collection Development Policy to Strengthen South Korea's Library Services for Persons with Disabilities / Une ?tude des politiques de d?veloppement des collections pour renforcer les services en biblioth?que pour personnes handicap?es en Cor?e du Sud Hee-Yoon Yoon, Sin-Young Kim Libraries must provide persons with disabilities with support in text interpretation, enjoyment of knowledge culture, and access to and utilization of information so as to narrow the knowledge gap, facilitate the participation of persons with disabilities in society, and ensure their full enjoyment of human rights. Read more >> Les biblioth?ques doivent offrir aux personnes handicap?es un soutien dans l'interpr?tation textuelle, le plaisir de la connaissance culturelle, de m?me que dans l'acc?s et l'utilisation de l'information, afin de r?duire l'?cart dans les connaissances, de faciliter la participation des personnes handicap?es au sein de la soci?t? et d'assurer la pleine jouissance des droits de l'homme. Lire plus >> ________________________________ A respected source of the most up-to-date research on library and information science, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is recognized internationally for its authoritative bilingual contributions to the field of information science. Established in 1976, the journal is dedicated to the publication of research findings, both in full-length and in brief format; reviews of books; software and technology; and letters to the editor. Join CJILS email list! Please sign up for important news relating to The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. You'll receive emails with peeks inside new issues, Tables of Contents, Calls for Papers, editorial announcements, open access articles, and special offers. Sign up here - bit.ly/alertsCJILS From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Tue Aug 9 12:25:06 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:25:06 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] News from Simmons SLIS, July 2016 Message-ID: *Recent News from Simmons SLIS, July 2016* *Faculty* SLIS Associate Professor Lisa Hussey offered a free webinar on Mentoring and Gender Issues in LIS in July 2016, cohosted by ALISE's Gender Issues SIG and Special Libraries Association's Education Division. http://education.sla.org/mentoring-in-lis-webinar/ SLIS Instructor Colin Rhinesmith was selected as faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Rhinesmith will collaborate on projects "that promote digital inclusion and broadband adoption in U.S. communities and beyond." https://cyber.law.har vard.edu/newsroom/2016_2017_community *Students* LIS Student Desiree Alaniz published a post on the Hack Library School blog, ?Why We Should All Be Excited About Dr. Carla Hayden." https://hacklibraryschool.com/2016/07/18/why-we-sho uld-all-be-excited-about-dr-carla-hayden/ PhD Candidate Maria Taesil Hudson McCauley was named director of Cambridge libraries in June 2016.http://cambridge.wickedlo cal.com/news/20160628/cambridge-names-new-director-of-libraries PhD Candidate Anastasia Weigle presented a poster, "User Experience with Physical Objects and Their Digital Surrogates" at the Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) 2016 at Kent State in Ohio, July 2016. https://du1ux2871uqvu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/file/Weigle_ALISE%202016%20Poster.pdf *Alumni* Dhyana Berry '16LS is featured in the Improper Bostonian music issue as one of "10 Local Bands Making Waves." Her band, Radclyffe Hall, released their full-length debut, *Ghosts*, in June. http://www.improper.com/ features/striking-a-chord/P9/ Boston Public Library Children's Librarian Laura Koenig '07LS offered summer reading recommendations in the Improper Bostonian. http://www.improper.com/columns/beach-tote-tomes/ Eliot Wilczek '02LS presented "Thick Description at Scale: Seeing Wicked Problems as a Recordkeeping Challenge" at the AERI 2016 at Kent State in Ohio, July 2016. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From p.morgan at miami.edu Mon Aug 8 14:17:51 2016 From: p.morgan at miami.edu (Morgan, Paige) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:17:51 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Open: Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium: September 29-October 1 Message-ID: This fall, the University of Miami will host the first symposium focusing on the intersection of digital humanities and data journalism research. Academics and journalists share common interests and questions about obtaining and visualizing data, the ethics involved in data research, and the work of communicating the results of research to the public effectively. http://dhdj.com.miami.edu/ DH+DJ will mix training workshops for data processing, visualization, and cleaning with talks from digital humanists and data journalism industry professionals from organizations including the Knight Lab, the BBC News Labs, FiveThirtyEight.com, and Mashable. Dan Cohen (Digital Public Library of America), Scott Klein (ProPublica), and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech) will be featured keynote speakers. Our goal is to create an environment where both novice and experienced practitioners can come together to learn and explore the possibilities that the fields of DH and DJ have to offer. Visit http://dhdj.com.miami.edu/ for a complete list of speakers, the schedule, and to register. Paige C. Morgan, Ph.D. Digital Humanities Librarian University of Miami Libraries 1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Appointments available via Outlook (for UM employees) or at http://paigecmorgan.youcanbook.me From pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Aug 9 09:25:27 2016 From: pr-aksw at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Sebastian Hellmann) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:25:27 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Contribute to the SEMANTiCS Workshops and the DBpedia Day Message-ID: SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Workshops, Tutorials and the DBpedia Day 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 _http://2016.semantics.cc/_ *Workshops/Tutorials * This year's SEMANTiCS is starting on September 12th with a full day of exciting and interesting satellite events. In _6 parallel tracks_ scientific and industrial workshops and tutorials are scheduled to provide a forum for groups of researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about hot topics in Semantic Web research. Attending the SEMANTiCS workshops and tutorial is _free of charge_, but you need to register. Feel free to have a closer look and register for the events here: _http://2016.semantics.cc/satellite-events_. *DBpedia Day - Call for Participation * Following our successful meetings in Europe & US our next DBpedia meeting will be held at Leipzig on September 15th, co-located with SEMANTiCS. _Highlights_ - Keynote #1: Wikidata: bringing structured data to Wikipedia with 16000 volunteers by Lydia Pintscher, product manager of Wikidata - Keynote #2: Harald Sack, (title TBA) (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) - A session for the ?_DBpedia references and citations challenge_ ? - A _session on DBpedia ontology_ by members of the DBpedia ontology committee - Tell us what cool things you do with DBpedia:_https://goo.gl/AieceU_ - As always, there will be tutorials to learn about DBpedia and a DBpedia showcase session _Quick facts_ - Web URL: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016_ - When: September 15th, 2016 - Where: University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig - Call for Contribution: _https://goo.gl/AieceU_ (submission form) - Registration: Free to participate but only through registration (Option for DBpedia support tickets)_https://event.gg/3396-7th-dbpedia-community-meeting-in-leipzig-2016_ We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the SEMANTiCS in Leipzig! From arubel at wisc.edu Thu Aug 11 09:06:04 2016 From: arubel at wisc.edu (Alan Rubel) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:06:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for participation: teaching information ethics and policy workshop at ASIS&T annual meeting Message-ID: Call for participation: Advancing Information Ethics and Policy Education: Designing Curriculum for Diverse Contexts, sponsored by SIG-IEP and SIG-ED ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 14, 2016 Organizers: Alan Rubel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Shannon Oltmann (University of Kentucky, USA), A.J. Million (University of Missouri, USA), Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia, Canada), Bryce Newell (Tilburg University, Netherlands), Emad Kharzraee (Kent State University, USA), Emily Knox (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA), Colin Rhinesmith (University of Oklahoma, USA), Kristene Unsworth (Drexel University, USA) Please join us for a full-day, collaborative workshop focusing on teaching information ethics and policy on October 14, 2016. The SIG IEP, with the support of SIG ED, is sponsoring a workshop on teaching information ethics and policy at the ASIS&T annual meeting in Copenhagen. The workshop will be highly collaborative, with most of the day devoted to working groups focused on building curriculum ideas, pedagogical approaches, project ideas, and teaching tools. Each working group will be preceded by one or two very short presentations on the topic in order to spark discussion and collaboration. The goal of the workshop is to learn from other scholars and teachers of IEP about different approaches, topics, and teaching methods. We are seeking participation from the broadest range of scholars and practitioners whose work includes, or relates to, information ethics and policy (broadly construed). Participation requires only registration and willingness to actively engage over the course of the workshop. We encourage, but do not require, participants to bring syllabi, reading lists, and other artifacts to share during the workshop. In addition, if you have a particularly novel, successful, or interesting approach, unit, assignment, or method for teaching information ethics and policy and would like to do a very short (less than 10 minutes) presentation, please send an abstract (approx.. 500 words) describing the presentation to Alan Rubel at arubel at wisc.edu (subject line: ASIS&T workshop) by August 30. We anticipate publishing versions of the short presentations in a special issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin. We will notify accepted presentations by September 1, in time for conference early registration (which ends September 2, 2016). Alan Rubel Associate Professor iSchool (School of Library and Information Studies) Legal Studies Program University of Wisconsin, Madison arubel at wisc.edu alanrubel.com From vmnesset at buffalo.edu Wed Aug 10 13:12:26 2016 From: vmnesset at buffalo.edu (Nesset, Valerie) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:12:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science issue 40.2 (June 2016) is now available on Project MUSE Message-ID: The latest issue (40.2, June 2016) of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is now available on Project MUSE (http://bit.ly/cjils402). The issue contains the following articles: SINCERITY: A Search Engine for Image Retrieval (http://bit.ly/cjils402a) Elaine M?nard, Jonathan Dorey Determinants of User Acceptance of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems: A User-Focused Empirical Study of System Characteristics (http://bit.ly/cjils402b) Xiangjun Feng, Weimei Pan The Web Illusion: Representation and Reality (http://bit.ly/cjils402c) Eric Boutin, Samuel Ravatua-Smith A Study of Collection Development Policy to Strengthen South Korea's Library Services for Persons with Disabilities (http://bit.ly/cjils402d) Hee-Yoon Yoon, Sin-Young Kim ----------------------------- Valerie M. Nesset, PhD, Associate Professor Editor: Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS) Department of Library & Information Studies Graduate School of Education State University of New York at Buffalo 524 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1020 vmnesset at buffalo.edu From ludovico.boratto at unica.it Fri Aug 12 07:49:07 2016 From: ludovico.boratto at unica.it (Ludovico Boratto) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:49:07 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] ICDM 2016 SERecSys Workshop - Deadline Extension Message-ID: <66CD5E66-C330-4C97-AA52-53F2534A9206@unica.it> Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (SERecSys) In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2016) 12 December, 2016 Barcelona, Spain Call for papers A recommender system is designed to suggest items that are expected to interest a user. In order to filter the items and produce the recommendation, Data Mining techniques are largely employed. Among the most popular recommendation approaches in the literature and in real-world applications (e.g., e-commerce websites) are the so-called content-based recommender systems. Content-based recommender systems suggest to users items that are similar to those they previously evaluated. The early systems used relatively simple retrieval models, such as the Vector Space Model, with the basic TF-IDF weighting. Simple (word-based) interest descriptions may fall short both because of semantic ambiguity and because they lack of generality. Recently, content-based recommender systems evolved and started employing external knowledge sources (e.g., ontologies) to improve accuracy and scope of recommendations. More recent approaches have been based on deep learning. Other approaches, such as, have employed word embeddings in the recommendation process. Among the best known and high-performance implementations following these lines of research we mention Google's word2vec. Given the rapid advances of Semantic Technologies, there is still a large number of options for recommender systems to take advantage of semantics. Our workshop will solicit contributions in all topics related to employing Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems, focused (but not limited) to the following list: - Novel approaches to user profiling in recommender systems that model behavior with semantic technologies; - Content-based recommendation algorithms that employ novel uses of semantic technologies; - Recommendation explanation using semantic technologies; - Generation of novel, diverse, and serendipitous recommendations using semantic technologies; - Hybrid recommender systems that combine semantic technologies with other recommendation techniques (e.g, collaborative); - Group-based approaches that use semantic technologies to describe the group preferences or to generate recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2016 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Types of contributions We will consider three different submission types, all in the IEEE 2-column format: regular (8 pages), short (4 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). Research and position papers (regular or short) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature should be made where possible. Position papers should introduce novel point of views in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a researcher or a group in the field. Practice and experience reports (short) should present in detail the real-world scenarios in which Semantic Technologies are employed for recommendation purposes. Demo proposals (extended abstract) should present the details of a prototype or complete application that employs Semantic Technologies in Recommender Systems. The systems will be demonstrated to the workshop attendees. Submission Guidelines All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2016 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2016.eurecat.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system, available at: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2016/icdm16/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S19&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2016/icdm16/scripts/ws_submit.php Important Dates - Paper Submission Due: August 17, 2016 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: September 13, 2016 Website http://serecsys.di.uniroma1.it/ Contact For general enquires regarding the workshop, send an email to serecsys at di.uniroma1.it Workshop Chairs Ludovico Boratto (EURECAT, Spain) Salvatore Carta (University of Cagliari, Italy) Giovanni Stilo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) From rieh at umich.edu Thu Aug 11 13:26:08 2016 From: rieh at umich.edu (Soo Young Rieh) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:26:08 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] 2017 iConference Call for Participation Message-ID: *Now Accepting Submissions: iConference 2017* iConference 2017 | Effect ? ? ?? Expand ? ? ?? Evolve: Global Collaboration Across the Information Community Wuhan, China March 22-25, 2017 Conference website: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference submissions site: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2017/ We are now accepting submissions for iConference 2017, our twelfth annual gathering of scholars, researchers and professionals who share an interest in the critical information issues of contemporary information society. iConference 2017 takes place March 22-25, 2017, in Wuhan, China. The theme of this first-ever Asia-based iConference is ?Effect ?? ? Expand ? Evolve: Global Collaboration Across the Information Community.? Authors and organizers can now submit materials using our secure submissions website: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2017/. The official proceedings will be published in the open access Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). The submissions deadline is September 16, 2016. iConference 2017 is jointly hosted by the Wuhan University School of Information Management and Korea?s Sungkyunkwan University Library & Information Science and Data Science Department. The 3,500-year-old city of Wuhan represents a combination of ancient culture and modern living, and conference participants are assured a memorable and rewarding experience. As always, the iConference will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, workshops and sessions for interaction and engagement, interspersed with multiple opportunities for networking. Early career and next generation researchers can engage in the Doctoral Student Colloquium and Early Career Colloquium. New this year are special conference programs focused on iSchool Best Practices, and also on iSchools and Industry Partnership. In addition, there will be a special track for papers originating in China. The iConference brings together scholars and researchers addressing critical information issues in contemporary society. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations?all shaping interdisciplinary discourses. Affiliation with a member iSchool is not required?all information scholars, researchers, and practitioners are encouraged to make submissions. Visit our website for more information, including sample topics and links to past proceedings: http://ischools. org/the-iconference/ The iConference is presented by the iSchools organization (www.ischools.org), a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. The event is sponsored by Microsoft Research, and other sponsorships are available. IMPORTANT LINKS * Conference: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ * Submissions: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2017/ * Past Proceedings: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/about-the- iconference/ * Facebook: IConference: https://www.facebook.com/IConference * Twitter: @iConf | #iconf17 *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* All submissions must be in English using our official template. All work should be original and not previously published. Complete guidelines can be found on the Author Instructions page: http://ischools.org/the- iconference/program/author-instructions/ *All submissions are due by September 16, 2016.* * PAPERS We invite papers falling into two categories: completed research or early work/preliminary results. Each paper will be refereed in a double-blind process. The author(s) of the completed research paper judged the best of the iConference will receive the Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper and $5,000. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/papers/ Submission deadline: September 16, 2016 Papers Chairs: Jian Qin, Syracuse University; Mika Grundstrom, University of Tampere; Jevin West, University of Washington * POSTERS We welcome submission of posters presenting new work, preliminary results and designs, or educational projects. Posters will undergo a double-blind review, and accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/posters/ Submission deadline: September 16, 2016 Posters Chairs: Ann-Sofie Axelsson, University of Boras; Min Song, Yonsei University; Esfandiar Haghverdi, Indiana University * WORKSHOPS This year?s workshops will be half-day only, and are intended to foster interactive discussions focusing on the particular topic within the purview of the iSchools, namely, the relationships among information, people and technology. Workshops provide a great opportunity for attendees who share common interests and want to have intensive discussions. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/ Submission deadline: September 16, 2016 Workshops Chairs: Noa Aharony, Bar-Ilan University; Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh; Fred Ye, Nanjing University * SESSIONS FOR INTERACTION AND ENGAGEMENT (SIE) These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to present ideas, facilitate discussions, and foster knowledge-sharing in unconventional ways. Formats can include panels, fishbowls, performances, storytelling, roundtable discussions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, and more. All should be highly participatory, informal, engaging, and pluralistic. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/sessions-for-interaction-and- engagement/ Submission deadline: September 16, 2016 SIE Chairs: Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina; Andrew Cox, University of Sheffield; Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington * DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM The Doctoral Colloquium provides doctoral students the opportunity to present their work to senior faculty and engage with one another in a setting that is relatively informal but that allows for the fullest of intellectual exchanges. Students receive feedback on their dissertation, career paths, and other areas from participating faculty and student peers. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/doctoral-colloquium/ Application deadline: September 16, 2016 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Bella Jing Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University; Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen; Jiangping Chen, University of North Texas * DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD Recognizing the outstanding dissertation of the preceding year, this competition is open to all member iSchools. Each school may submit one dissertation for consideration. The winner will receive a cash prize of $2,500, the runner up $1,000; both will be honored at the iConference. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/dissertation-award/ Submission deadline: September 16, 2016 Dissertation Award Chairs: Michael Seadle, Humboldt University of Berlin; Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan; Masooda Bashir, University of Illinois * EARLY CAREER COLLOQUIUM This half-day event is intended for assistant professors, post-docs, or others in pre-tenure positions and builds on the tradition of highly successful events at past iConferences. Participants will sign up at registration. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/early-career-colloquium/ Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Marcia Zeng, Kent State University; Kathy Burnett, Florida State University; Antonio Soares, University of Porto *THE FOLLOWING ARE NEW THIS YEAR* * SPECIAL TRACK: CHINESE PAPERS This special track for 2017 aims to provide excellent opportunities for scientists, scholars and participants throughout China to present their latest research results and to exchange views or experience not only in Library and Information Science, but also in other related areas. The theme is ?Data Management and Services.? http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/chinese-papers/ Submission Deadline: September 16, 2016 Chinese Papers Chairs: Ruhua Huang, Wuhan University; Wei Lu, Wuhan University * SPECIAL PROGRAM: iSCHOOL BEST PRACTICES This special session will focus on issues pertaining to curriculum/teaching/student experience. iSchools are invited to submit proposals and case studies to be considered for inclusion in this special program. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/ischool-best-practices/ iSchool Best Practices Chairs: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina; Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba; Ann-Sofie Axelsson, University of Boras * SPECIAL PROGRAM: iSCHOOLS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP New this year, the iConference will present a number of sessions focused on successful industry partnerships of iSchools worldwide. iSchools are invited to submit proposals in the form of case studies to be considered for inclusion in this special program. http://ischools.org/ the-iconference/program/ischools-and-industry-partnership/ iSchools and Industry Partnership Chairs: Sean McGann, University of Washington; Gobinda Chowdhury, Northumbria University; Joon Lee, Seoul National University ADDITIONAL ORGANIZERS *iConference 2017 Chairs:* Qing Fang, Wuhan University; Sam Oh, Sungkyunkwan University *Program Chairs:* Wonsik Jeff Shim, Sungkyunkwan University; Chuanfu Chen, Wuhan University *Local Arrangements Chairs:* Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University; Fei Wang, Wuhan University *Proceedings Chairs:* Wayne de Fremery, Sogang University; Preben Hansen, Stockholm University *Program Committee:* Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Denice Adkins, University of Missouri Naresh Agarwal, Simmons Jim Andrews, University of South Florida Ann-Sofie Axelsson , University of Boras Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Leanne Bowler, University of Pittsburgh Josep Cobarsi Morales, Open University of Catalonia Constantinos Coursaris, Michigan State University Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Karen Fisher, University of Washington Paul Gandel, Syracuse University Lisa Given, Charles Sturt University Sara Grimes, University of Toronto Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Robert Kauffman, Singapore Management University Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Kyung-Sun ?Sunny? Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison Young Seek Kim, University of Kentucky Lars Konzack, University of Copenhagen Andy Koronios, University of South Australia Serap Kurbano?lu, Hacettepe University Philippe Lenca, T?l?com Bretagne Claire R. McInerney, Rutgers University Julie McLeod, University of Northumbria at Newcastle Ruth Nalumaga, Makerere University Sanghee Oh, Florida State University Virginia Ort?z-Repiso Jim?nez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Jung-ran Park, Drexel University Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Nils Pharo, University College Oslo and Akershus Peter Reid, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen David Reitter, Penn State University Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Reijo Savolainen, University of Tampere Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin Elizabeth Shepherd, University College London Antonio Lucas Soares, University of Porto Martin Sou?ek, Charles University in Prague Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin ? Milwaukee Yong Jeong Yi, Sungkyunkwan University Yan Zhang, University of Texas Austin Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University More at: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ From barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il Mon Aug 15 11:45:01 2016 From: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il (Judit Bar-Ilan) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:45:01 +0300 Subject: [Asis-l] Altmetrics16: CFP extended till 8/21 Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* *altmetrics16: Call for contributions extended to Sunday, 21 August 2016* altmetrics16 is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 , altmetrics12 , altmetrics14 and altmetrics15 workshops. The workshop is co-organized with the 3rd Altmetrics Conference (3:AM) and will take place on* 27 September* *2016* at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila in Bucharest, Romania. We are soliciting empirical and theoretical contributions for short presentations and as a basis for discussions, which will be the main focus of the altmetrics16 workshop. Submissions can focus on empirical analyses, novel theoretical frameworks, original datasets or represent a position paper. The goal of the workshop is to discuss, exchange and foster collaboration on altmetrics between researchers and practitioners. While an abstract is not a requirement to attend the workshop, we strongly encourage prospective participants to submit a contribution to seed the discussions. The organizers will give priority to submissions linking to original research artifacts and focusing on the theme of this year?s workshop. All accepted submissions will be made available via the workshop website prior to the workshop. *How to submit * Please provide an extended abstract (max 1,000 words) presenting your altmetrics research contribution and highlighting particular issues you would like to discuss with other workshop participants. Abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair . Please include a link to any relevant artifact (e.g., a dataset, plots, slidedeck) you wish to present and discuss, after archiving it via an appropriate repository (e.g., Dryad, figshare, GitHub, SlideShare, etc.). Contributions should be submitted by *21 August 2016* and will be curated by the altmetrics16 committee for their relevance and technical soundness. Accepted contributions will be made available on the workshop website by *29 August 2016*. A number of contributions will be selected for short presentations. Notifications to authors of submissions shortlisted for presentations will be sent by 29 August 2016. Registration to the workshop will be open soon! *Important dates* - 21 August 2016: extended submission deadline - 29 August 2016: notification of acceptance - 27 September 2016: altmetrics workshop - ____________________ Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027 email: Judit.Bar-Ilan at biu.ac.il From rba at boballen.info Tue Aug 16 00:47:15 2016 From: rba at boballen.info (Robert B Allen) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:47:15 +0900 Subject: [Asis-l] Workshop: Rich Semantics and Direct Representation for Digital Collections Message-ID: <1471322835.2593886.696461833.20932FE3@webmail.messagingengine.com> Rich Semantics and Direct Representation for Digital Collections Workshop at the 2016 Asian Digital Library Conference, Tsukuba Japan, December 9, 2016 richsemantics.org Papers and abstracts due Oct 1, 2016 Rich semantics supports detailed information organization for the contents of documents, across documents, and even across resources in different modalities. In its strongest form, rich semantics provides highly- structured direct representations. This workshop welcomes papers on new directions for frameworks using such rich information organization. Rich semantics goes beyond simple models for linked data such as those using RDF-based triples and beyond ad hoc ontologies. Rather, rich semantic frameworks may include complex entities, dynamic models, schemas, systems, and descriptive programs. Interdisciplinary work which combines approaches from areas such as LIS, linguistics, programming languages, philosophy, jurisprudence, sociology, discourse, and system analysis, and intelligent agents is particularly welcome. Examples of services based on these high-level structures are also welcome. In addition, the workshop will consider descriptions of rich semantic information organization in specific areas including biology, law, medicine, history, and biography. Work on upper ontologies should go beyond existing frameworks or show how they can be applied to especially complex scenarios. Work on text mining should emphasize significant, novel, and general semantic structures. From dwolfram at uwm.edu Tue Aug 16 10:12:43 2016 From: dwolfram at uwm.edu (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:12:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Third Cfp: Special Issue on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: (Please excuse any cross-postings) Third Call for Papers: Special Issue on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries to be published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) Important Dates: - September 30, 2016 Paper submission deadline - November 15, 2016 First notification - January 15, 2017 Revision submission - March 15, 2017 Second notification - April 1, 2017 Final version submission Current digital libraries collect and allow access to digital papers and their metadata ? but mostly do not analyze the full-text of the materials they index. The scale of scholarly publications poses a challenge for scholars in their search for relevant literature. This special issue calls for new, unpublished article submissions on the analysis of scholarly publications and data, in the context of the explosion in the production of scientific literature and the growth of scientific enterprise. Articles in the issue will investigate how natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometric and recommendation techniques can advance the state of the art in scholarly document understanding, analysis and retrieval at scale. Researchers are in need of assistive technologies to track developments in an area, identify the approaches used to solve a research problem over time and summarize research trends. Digital libraries require semantic search, question answering and automated recommendation and reviewing systems to manage and retrieve answers from scholarly databases. Full document text analysis can help to design semantic search, translation and summarization systems; citation and social network analyses can help digital libraries to visualize scientific trends, bibliometrics and relationships and influences of works and authors. All these approaches can be supplemented with the metadata supplied by digital libraries - such as the article title, journal or conference name, author information, language, datasets, keywords, section headers, citation relationships, topic terms - and even browsing and usage data, such as related search queries and download counts. The issue aims to bring together the three communities of digital libraries (DL), information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) to discuss the potential of automated textual analysis and bibliometrics to enhance scholarly discovery process. We thus are soliciting high-quality, previously unpublished submissions on topics including ? but not limited to ? full-text, multimedia and/or multilingual analysis of scholarly publications, as well as citation-based NLP or IR. Example fields of interests include (but are not limited to): - Summarization of scientific articles; automatic creation of reviews and automatic qualitative assessment of submissions; question-answering for scholarly DLs - Text and data mining technologies of scholarly articles to facilitate browsing and information-seeking - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - Navigation, searching and browsing in scholarly DLs; niche search in scholarly DLs; new information access methods for scientific papers - Network analysis and citation analysis in scholarly DLs; citation function/motivation analysis; novel bibliometric metrics; topical modeling analysis; information retrieval for scholarly text, e.g.citation-based IR - Knowledge discovery and analysis of information provenance - Translation, multilingual and multimedia analysis and alignment of scholarly works; analyses of writing style in scholarly publications - Methods for and applications of the automatic mining and discovery of structured and unstructured metadata - Domain vocabularies and taxonomies for resource description and discovery - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; data cleaning and data quality Guest Editors Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, NUS School of Computing, Singapore Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK Kokil Jaidka, Adobe Systems Inc., India Min-Yen Kan, NUS School of Computing, Singapore Philipp Mayr, GESIS ? Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Paper Submission Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/799. At the beginning of the submission process, under ?Article Type?, please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal?s standard review process. Please address inquiries to Min-Yen Kan at knmnyn at gmail.com. cfp on the Springer page: From hiris at uwm.edu Mon Aug 15 17:25:35 2016 From: hiris at uwm.edu (Iris Xie) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:25:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Featuring Doctoral Student Research (deadline extended to Sept. 1st) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for video submission is September 1st, 2016. ASIS&T invites a doctoral student in the dissertation writing stage or close to defending to submit a short video (up to 5 minutes) that introduces the world to the exciting and engaging research that you are doing. In addition to the great visibility that your research receives, the best 20 submissions will win a free one-year ASIS&T membership (or free renewal). All vetted submissions will be featured on the ASIS&T website . SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 1, 2016 TOPIC: Produce a short video (up to 5 minutes) that is the equivalent of an elevator speech about your dissertation research (related to the information field broadly construed). Please include the following elements in your video: * Your Name and affiliation * Your dissertation title, and the name of your advisor(s) * What your research is about? How you went about it? What your findings indicate; and why it matters... (or any variant of these questions). While we encourage the elevator speech format (concise and well articulated), feel free to be as creative as you want to be! Please consult with your advisor(s) when preparing for the video. And remember to practice, practice, practice. FORMAT: Format the video using PowerPoint, Prezi, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, VoiceThread, or Brainshark. Include a statement that your video is created for "Doctoral Research @ ASIS&T". If an updated video file is needed, we will contact you with additional instructions. VIDEO LENGTH: Up to 5 minutes. Video Language: We are an international association, so we welcome a variety of languages. For more information, please contact Dr. Iris Xie - hiris at uwm.edu SUBMISSION: Upload the video to your YouTube account and submit the information below to: social at asist.org * Subject line: "Doctoral Research @ ASIS&T" * your full name and affiliation * Email address * Video Title * URL to your video file * You grant ASIS&T the right to feature your video on the ASIST website. PRIZES: All submitted videos will be reviewed by a committee. All approved videos will be featured on the ASIS&T website for a determined period of time. 20 videos featured on the website will receive a free one-year ASIS&T membership (for new members) or a free one-year renewal (for current members) based on a selection process spearheaded by the committee. This initiative is co-sponsored by the ASIS&T membership committee, ASIS&T Education and Professional Advancement committee, and ASIS&T Outreach and Engagement task force. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Iris Xie - hiris at uwm.edu Good luck, everyone! ************************************************* Iris Xie, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Phone:(414)229-6835 Fax:(414)229-6699 https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/hiris/www/index.html ************************************************* From houzanme at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 02:04:44 2016 From: houzanme at gmail.com (Houzanme) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:04:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Dernier jour! - Enquete sur les Nouveaux Professionnels Archivistes Francophones! Message-ID: > > > Bonjour tres chers collegues francophones, > > C'est aujourd'hui le dernier jour pour participer ou faire participer > les collegues Archivistes francophones a l'enquete du Conseil > international des archives (ICA > ! > Priere nous informer par email apres votre participation ou nous > copier CC sur votre partage et nous permettre de noter les associations ou > collegues qui auront ete notifies Merci beaucoup! - Tibaut > https://www.linkedin.com/in/houzanme > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Bonjour a tous, > > Le Programme pour les Nouveaux professionnels du Conseil international des > archives (ICA) aimerait recueillir votre avis sur votre formation et votre > d?veloppement professionnel dans le milieu des archives et du records > management. > > Nous vous serions reconnaissants de consacrer 5 ? 10 minutes ? remplir > l?enqu?te ci-apr?s (toutes les r?ponses sont anonymes) : > http://goo.gl/forms/XjqBmSCSo656vDjy1 > > En tant que nouveau professionnel travaillant depuis moins de 5 ans (y > compris les ?tudiants, les stagiaires, les nouveaux dipl?m?s), vos > r?ponses nous aideront ? mieux comprendre la situation actuelle, les > besoins et les attentes des nouveaux professionnels autour du globe. > > L?enqu?te prendra fin le 12 ao?t prochain et les r?sultats seront > pr?sent?s ? l?occasion du Congr?s international de l?ICA ? S?oul. > > Merci de partager le lien de cette enqu?te avec tous les nouveaux > professionnels dont vous pensez qu?ils pourraient ?tre int?ress?s. > > Les Nouveaux Professionnels de l?ICA > > > > From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Aug 16 15:24:06 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:24:06 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Jack Meadows RIP Message-ID: <0492a12a-52cb-6a80-8916-177b36823b71@orange.fr> Thanks to a post by Tom Wilson on FB, I just hear of Jack Meadows passing. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/02/jack-meadows-obituary?CMP=share_btn_fb From nacooke at illinois.edu Mon Aug 15 16:37:46 2016 From: nacooke at illinois.edu (Cooke, Nicole Amy) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:37:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ALA Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation Webinars - opportunities for input Message-ID: * This message is being cross posted * FYI, Please consider participating and passing this along to your networks, your input is valuable! http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/08/ala-task-force-context-future-accreditation-webinars If you cannot attend the sessions, but would still like to share your questions, opinions, and thoughts on the ALA Accreditation process, please contact Task Force Chair Peter Hepburn (his email is accessible at the above linked page). -- Nicole A. Cooke, PhD, MEd, MLS | Assistant Professor The iSchool at Illinois 501 E. Daniel St. | MC 493 | Champaign, IL 61820 nacooke at illinois.edu | +1 217 300 0211 | www.nicolecooke.info 2016 ALA Equality Award Honoree From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Mon Aug 15 15:28:30 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:28:30 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Congratulations to ASIS&T AM contributors from EUChap + invitation to miniBARcamp Message-ID: <020d01d1f72b$365ffdd0$a31ff970$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Dear ASIS&T-Members, in only 9 weeks the ASIS&T Annual Meeting is going to take place in Copenhagen .so I thought it would be a good idea to start with sending my congratulations to all EUChap members who got papers, posters, panels, or workshops accepted! Congratulations and I am looking forward do see you all in Copenhagen! Kjellberg, Sara; Haider, Jutta; Cox, Andrew; Tam, Winnie; Tammaro, Anna Maria; Matusiak, Krystyna K. Making research data possible: negotiating between disciplinary cultures, temporalities, data policies, professional interests and education and training Panel Huvila, Isto; Budd, John M.; Lloyd, Annemaree; Palmer, Carole; Toms, Elaine Information Work in Information Science Research and Practice Panel Julian Warner, Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Isabella Peters, Niels Windfeld Lund Tomato tomahto: European perspectives on information science Panel Mainka, Agnes; Castelnovo, Walter; Miettinen, Virve; Bech-Petersen, Sidsel; Hartmann, Sarah; Stock, Wolfgang G. Open Innovation In Smart Cities: Civic Participation and Co-Creation of Public Services Panel Wang, Peiling; Wolfram, Dietmar; Bates, Marcia; Hoyt, Jason; Poschl, Ulrich; Ingwersen, Peter; Smith, Richard The Last Frontier in Open Science: Will Open Peer Review Transform Scientific and Scholarly Publishing? Panel Lopatovska, Irene (USA); Bystr?m, Katriina (Norway); Given, Lisa (Australia); O'Brien, Heather (Canada); Rorissa, Abebe (USA) Life After Tenure: Professional Development Strategies for Mid-Career Faculty Panel Lai Ma, Selenay Aytac, Hsin Liang Chen, Xiao Hu, Devendra Dilip Potnis, and Abebe Rorrissa Diversity and Multiculturalism in LIS Education Panel Sarah Barriage, Wayne Buente, Elke Greifeneder, Devon Greyson, Vanessa Kitzie, Miraida Morales, Ross Todd, Julie Winkelstein Ethical Tensions in Research: The Influence of Metatheoretical Orientation on Ethics of Research Panel Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, and Christa Womser-Hacker Methods of User Centered Design and Evaluation of Text Analysis Tools in a Digital History Project Paper Domachowski, Alexa; Griesbaum, Joachim; Heuwing, Ben Perception and effectiveness of search advertising on smartphones Paper Lai Ma & Michael Ladisch Scholarly Communication and Practices in the World of Metrics: An Exploratory Study Poster Isabella Peters & Agnes Mainka Push a badly built cart with bumpy wheels along a marshy meadow?. Or: A Short Tale on the Importance of Information Science Poster Bystr?m, Katriina; Fichman, Pnina; Freund, Luanne; Rosenbaum, Howard Enhancing lives through Information and Technology: A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop Workshop Mei-Mei, Diane H Sonnenwald, Sam Chu; ShanJu Chang Theory development within the information sciences Workshop Please do also not forget the 1st Student miniBARcamp organized by the European Student Chapter on October 15th (5:30pm-8pm)! Register for free: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/Student/esc/?p=1115 Best Isabella + Virginia (for the European Chapter) *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 506) Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Aug 16 13:22:22 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:22:22 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop Message-ID: <95BAAC2A-95C0-46AB-AD49-D072164EBEE8@indiana.edu> Call for Papers and Participation Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology - A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2016 Organizers Katriina Bystr?m, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom at hioa.no Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, fichman at indiana.edu Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, hrosenba at indiana.edu Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and complementary perspectives in the conference theme. In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session, SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different research perspectives and explores the significance of information seeking and use on our lives. Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between members of both SIGs during the day. MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI) Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics This year?s conference theme is ?creating knowledge, enhancing lives through information & technology.? This is a particularly apposite theme for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design, implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the social informatics of work and play. We define ?social? broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define ?technology? broadly to include traditional technologies (e.g., paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that explore the ways in which people?s uses of ICT affect their practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium?s theme, but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include: ? What are the impacts of ICT on people?s practices and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives? ? What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the design and development of ICT? ? What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations, work, play, and social life? ? What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and behaviors while at work and play? The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. SIG-SI symposium chairs Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE) This year?s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces. Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During their work life, people may experience several career changes, are expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover, much of information and data are internetworked and accessible simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the creation and consumption of information used for work ? or at work; it also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their productivity, collegiality and innovativeness. Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today?s workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work. The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics (stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes and creating professional networks. Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics include: ? Critical cultural information behavior ? how do we infuse our workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice sensibilities? ? Collaborative IB; virtual team ? Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what happens when the physical workplace dissolves? ? Everyday Life Information (in the workplace) ? Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings ? IB/IP and workplace or information systems design ? Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field of research that is relevant to IB/IP? ? Organizational information genres ? Personal Information Management (in the workplace) ? The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital information use in the workplace ? The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace ? Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)? ? and any other work-related informational topics We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall (preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on short papers and posters by participants. Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary that is made available for the participants afterwards. SIG-USE symposium chairs David Allen, Leeds University, UK Katriina Bystr?m, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada TENTATIVE SCHEDULE SI - opening keynote: 8.30-9.00 Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30 Break 10.30-10.45 Panel: 10.45-11.45 SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15 SI- closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45 USE- opening and opening keynote: 13.45-14.45 Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45 Break 15.45-16.00 Roundtable discussion based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30 SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45 USE - closing remarks: 17.45-18.00 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19, 2016. SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to: hrosenba at indiana.edu SIG-USE: Please, send your submission as a PDF-file to: katriina.bystrom at hioa.no Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 2, 2016). FEES Members ? SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016 Members ? SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after September September 2, 2016 Members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after Sept. 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members - SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after September 2, 2016 Non-members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250 after Sept. 2, 2016 ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Aug 16 13:30:20 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:30:20 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Message-ID: <47242B97-A7E6-4CFF-8ADC-450F63075C6F@indiana.edu> Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2015 or a conference paper presented in 2015. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu ) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu ) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com > For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu > Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ From unmil at austin.utexas.edu Wed Aug 17 17:55:50 2016 From: unmil at austin.utexas.edu (Unmil Karadkar) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:55:50 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Extended deadline August 25 - Physical Samples and Digital Collections Workshop, October 14, Copenhagen In-Reply-To: <82b26b33-4d55-a145-df38-467099adf987@ischool.utexas.edu> References: <82b26b33-4d55-a145-df38-467099adf987@ischool.utexas.edu> Message-ID: Due to a few requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline to August 25th. This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at: http://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/psdc2016/ ------------------------------------------ The First International Physical Samples and Digital Collections (PSDC 2016) workshop will be held on October 14th in Copenhagen, Denmark in conjunction with the ASIS&T AM 2016--2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. We solicit participation from information studies as well as communities that work with physical samples--for example, earth sciences, biology, paleontology, hydrology, archeology--to make this workshop a success. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the community of researchers, curators, and practitioners who are interested in studying the issues involved in the management of samples, sample collections, and sample-based data in the field, in the lab, in repositories, in data systems and scholarly publications. The intention is to assemble the existing community of scholars and practitioners from both coasts of the Atlantic as well as invite those with emerging interests in this area. A secondary goal is to focus the attention of the information science community on the tremendous opportunities for research in this space and for collaborating with researchers in the Earth Sciences, broadly construed. Research in the Earth Science disciplines depends on the availability of representative samples collected above, at, and beneath Earth's surface, on the moon and in space, or those generated in experiments. These physical samples serve as fundamental references for generating new knowledge about the earth and contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes that created and shaped it, assess the availability of natural resources, and measure the risk of natural hazards. Many samples have been collected at great cost and with substantial difficulty, are rare or unique, and irreplaceable. TheEarthCube (http://www.earthcube.org) Research Coordination Network (RCN)iSamplES (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) aims to advance the use of innovative cyberinfrastructure to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. Important dates --------------- * August 25 (was 15): paper submissions due * August 31 (was 23): Notification of acceptance * October 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers * October 14: PSDC 2016 Workshop Topics ------ Presentations will address a broad range of issues and challenges at the intersection of Earth Science physical samples and information science that facilitate the data collection, management, and use of earth samples. Topics include but are not limited to: * physical sample collection curation * information behavior and needs, user modeling * evaluation of existing environments models * theoretical models * system architectures * social-technical perspectives on digital methods for sample management * policies and workflows * data analytics and visualization * user interfaces * cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * distributed data management information systems * impact of digital libraries on earth sciences * linked data and its applications * personal information management of physical samples * retrieval and browsing of sampels * scientific data curation, citation, and scholarly publication * social networks, virtual organizations, and networked information * sample collection archiving and preservation Proposal Formats ----------------- We encourage you to submit proposals for: * *full papers*: 6-8 page submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position on an issue of significance to the community * *work-in-progess and position papers*: 3-4 page submissions that discuss early results on nascent projects * *posters or demonstrations*: 1-2 page description All contributions must be written in English and use the ASIS&T submission template, which is available at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.doc Submission ---------- Please submit papers by May 1st via the workshop's EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psdc2016 Organizers ---------- Please contact us with your questions. Unmil Karadkar (unmil at ischool.utexas.edu ) School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin Kerstin Lehnert(lehnert at ldeo.columbia.edu ) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Chris Lehhardt(clenhardt at renci.org ) Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Aug 19 10:41:44 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:41:44 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'17 - Call for Workshops Proposals; Deadline: September 5 Message-ID: <201608191441.u7JEfkWF024875@mail.asis.org> -- ----- --------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ ------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP FORMAT The Information Systems and Technologies research and industrial community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for WorldCist'17 ? 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11th - 13th of April 2017: http://www.worldcist.org/ Workshops should focus on a specific scientific subject on the scope of WorldCist'17 but not directly included on the main conference areas. Each workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, two researchers in the field, preferably from different institutions and different countries. The organizers should create an international Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific Workshop scientific area. Each workshop should have at least 10 submissions and 5 accepted papers in order to be conducted at WorldCist'17. The selection of Workshops will be performed by WorldCist'17 Conference/Workshop Chairs. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the conference main proceedings in specific Workshop chapters published by Springer in a book of the AISC series. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases. Extended versions of best selected papers will be published in journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at WorldCist'17 website: http://www.worldcist.org/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP); - Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system to be installed); - Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by WorldCist'17 organizers; - Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference. WorldCist'17 organizers reserve the right to cancel any Workshop if deadlines are missed or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs associated with the Workshop. PROPOSAL CONTENT Workshop proposals should contain the following information: - Workshop title; - Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop; - List of topics of interest (max 15 topics); - Reasons the Workshop should be held within WorldCist?17; - Name, postal address, phone and email of all the members of the Workshop Organizing Committee; - Proposal for the Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations). Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to worldcist at gmail.com (cc: lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt), in PDF, (in English), by July 31, 2016. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Workshop proposals: September 5, 2016 - Notification of Workshop acceptance: September 11, 2016 - Deadline for paper submission: November 27, 2016 - Notification of paper acceptance: December 25, 2016 - Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8, 2017 - Conference dates: April 11-13, 2017 WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Aug 17 13:37:31 2016 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:37:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Message-ID: Call for Papers The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is actively soliciting for publication. The journal publishes research papers, scholarly opinion papers, reviews of research, brief communications, and reviews of books and other media. Papers are selected by a process of peer review, with double-blind review of each paper. The editorial policy of the journal is to contribute to the advancement of information and library science by serving as a forum for discussion of theory and research. The journal is concerned with research findings, understanding of issues in the field, information practices of individuals and groups, and understanding of the history, economics, and technology of information or library systems and services. Submissions in English or French are invited. Instructions for contributors are available at http://cais-acsi.ca/guidelines-for-submission/ Interested authors, referees, contributors, and book reviewers should contact the editor: Editor Dr. Valerie Nesset Department of Library and Information Studies Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo 534 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1020 vmnesset at buffalo.edu From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Wed Aug 17 13:02:14 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:02:14 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position Available at Simmons SLIS Message-ID: Full-time Contract Faculty and Site Administrator (Non-Tenure Track) Simmons SLIS invites applicants for a three-year renewable contract faculty appointment. Reappointment is possible based on performance and school needs. This is not a tenure-track appointment. This position combines both teaching and administrative responsibilities at SLIS West in South Hadley on the Mount Holyoke Campus. Responsibilities: Duties include teaching face-to-face and/or online during the 10-month academic year in addition to overseeing the administrative and day-to-day operations at this satellite campus. Administrative services may include, but are not limited to, student recruitment and advising, course and room scheduling, adjunct faculty recruitment and development. Opportunities are also available for additional summer teaching. Areas of Specialization: We seek faculty to support and contribute to a nationally ranked LIS program. The faculty member will teach at least one course in the core curriculum and other electives within the LIS curriculum. Priority areas include: reference, information services, user behaviors, business information, and government information. Requirements: A minimum of a Master?s Degree in library and information science (LIS) with relevant work experience required; preference will be given to applicants who hold an LIS doctoral degree. We seek applicants with administrative experience who can demonstrate excellence in teaching and leadership in professional service. Engagement in scholarly activities is desirable, but not required. Experience in the area of designing and delivering online courses is highly desirable. Work week includes Saturday, when most SLIS West courses are held. *To Apply: Please click the link above. * -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Mon Aug 22 17:10:18 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:10:18 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd Call for Proposals and Deadline Extension Message-ID: Apologies in advance for cross-posting. The Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) is accepting proposals for its inaugural 2016 virtual conference, being held November 15th and 16th, 2016. This two-day virtual conference will provide the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of others with a focus on practical professional development in all stages of digital asset management. Anyone can submit a proposal. We invite proposals for the following program formats: - Presentation - Poster Presentation - Talk the Practical roundtable We invite submissions on any aspect of digital asset management. This includes, but is not limited to: - Digital Preservation - Implementations - Workflows - Systems - Digital Projects - Funding - Workflows - Metadata - Outreach & Marketing - Platform - Presentation Layer - Systems - Customizations - Decision process for choosing a platform To view a full list of topics click on possible topics . For submission guidelines click here . *Deadlines* Submission Deadline (*Extended*): September 12, 2016 Acceptance Notification: October 3, 2016 Upload of final version of presentation and poster: October 31, 2016 *How to Submit* *Submit proposals here * Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com From hewu at yahoo.com Wed Aug 17 21:27:41 2016 From: hewu at yahoo.com (whgtf) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1506290994.16790790.1471483661978.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery?Emerald's ISI-ranked journal Interlending & Document Supply (ILDS) is expanding its scope to information science and technology and will change its name to Information Discovery and Delivery at the end of this year. As an incoming editor-in-chief, I cordially invite you to submit your original research papers to our January 2017 issue and subsequent issues. The 2015 impact factor of Interlending & Document Supply is 0.444.Information Discovery and Delivery aims to cover information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organizations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians.? The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange and sharing, including within and between libraries. It is also interested in digital information capture, packaging and storage by ?collectors? of all kinds.Information is widely defined, including but not limited to:???? *Records???? *Documents???? *Learning objects???? *Visual and sound files???? *Data and metadata and ???? *User-generated content.Further enquiries can be directed to Dr. Wu He (whe at odu.edu) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.? To submit your paper, please go to the journal website?athttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ilds? Wu He, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Technology Department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences Strome College of Business Constant Hall 2022 Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 757-683-5008 From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Thu Aug 18 10:37:09 2016 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:37:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Submissions: 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium (#cssws16), Cologne, Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2016 In-Reply-To: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1014498F8A9@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> References: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1014498F89F@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1014498F8A9@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1014498F979@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ============================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (POSTERS / SHORT PRESENTATIONS) ============================================================== 3rd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Symposium dates: NOV 30 - DEC 01, 2016 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws16 ============================================================== ----------------------------------------- CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------- We are delighted to announce that the following keynote speakers will be giving a talk at this years' CSS Winter Symposium: Noshir CONTRACTOR (Northwestern University), Tina ELIASSI-RAD (Northeastern University), Krishna GUMMADI (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Petter HOLME (Sungkyunkwan University), Helen MARGETTS (University of Oxford) ------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------ The CSS Winter Symposium 2016 will be a two-day event consisting of: * an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * an open call for contributed posters and short presentations that will provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss their own work * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- September30 2016: submissions due October 18 2016: notifications November 14 2016: registration deadline Nov 30 - Dec 01 2016: symposium days ------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSIONS FOR POSTERS + SHORT PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------ We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and methods for computational social science. Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, networks, communities and teams - Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and information on the web - Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, prejudice via new kinds of data - Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet - Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban planning - Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods) - Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational data on the Web - Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online - Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze social data on the Web - Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the social sciences Other related topics are explicitly welcome. --------------------------- PRESENTATION FORMATS --------------------------- Based on the submitted abstracts, submissions may be accepted as posters and/or short presentations. The standard format will be a poster presentation. As this is a single track conference, only few submissions can be selected for short plenary presentations of approx. 10-15 minutes. --------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------- Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit work-in-progress. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there are no proceedings. We may however discuss options for publishing selected submissions after the conference (e.g. as a journal special issue or edited collection). Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions. Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair submission system for the event: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws16 The full call for submissions can also be found at: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/call/ ---------------------------- ORGANIZATION AND VENUE ---------------------------- The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at KOMED Im MediaPark 7. We aim to keep registration costs as low as possible (approx. around 70 EUR). More information will be made available soon. Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------ CONTACT ------------ SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: -------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: diana.lindner at gesis.org Phone: +49 (221) 47694-401 From wmk at umd.edu Fri Aug 19 09:52:44 2016 From: wmk at umd.edu (Bill Kules) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:52:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ALA accreditation & the information professions - join the discussion Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Accreditation affects all the information professions but we don?t critically consider its benefits, challenges and impacts outside of libraries often enough. I invite you to read this blog post: *What does ?accreditation? mean to the information professions? And is it worthwhile?* It is an opportunity for you to learn and engage in an open discussion. And consider attending one of the upcoming webinars of the ALA Task Force on the Future of Accreditation (Aug 25, Aug 31 and Sep 2). We all benefit by participating in these conversations. Sincerely, Bill Kules ASIS&T Education and Professional Advancement Committee (EPAC) -- Bill Kules, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor, College of Information Studies (The iSchool) Faculty Fellow, Teaching and Learning Transformation Center University of Maryland at College Park http://questionablepedagogy.com wmk at umd.edu / @billkules (301) 755-7982 "Decide, do, reflect, repeat..." From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Wed Aug 24 11:11:00 2016 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:11:00 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position in Information/Social Work at the Univ. of Toronto Message-ID: Apologies for duplication. Assistant Professor ? Social Work and Information The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto invite applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position will be held 51% at the FIFSW and 49% at the iSchool. Appointments will begin July 1, 2017. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP. Candidates are expected to have a program of research and experience especially focused on big data from a quantitative or qualitative angle, analyzing both the challenges and opportunities of big data for social justice. Areas of specific interest can include the use and impact of big data for social service and child welfare agencies, youth service agencies, public libraries, archives and information centres, and for vulnerable citizens and marginalized communities, including older adults, indigenous, and immigrant communities. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: big data and society, data and information and communication technology use, infrastructure and platform studies, ethics of algorithms, data and discrimination, data and human rights, data and social inclusion, privacy and data, and disability studies in information studies and social work. Theoretical and methodological approaches to research should be commensurate with applicants? teaching and fields of expertise. The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work pursues excellence in the development and testing of new knowledge that will have an impact on social work direct practice and social policy, as well as social work education. Our commitment to social justice means that we look for creative solutions to social problems at the local, national and international level. We are proud of our record as one of North America?s pre-eminent Social Work Faculties, offering programs at the MSW, PhD, and post-MSW diploma levels. The Faculty is involved in several collaborative programs and joint degrees that provide many opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration including Health Administration; Addiction Studies; Aging and the Life Course; Asia Pacific Studies; Bioethics; Child Welfare; Community Development; Ethnic and Pluralism Studies; Health Care, Technology and Place; Health Services and Policy Research; Human Development; Sexual Diversity; Women and Gender Studies; and Women?s Health. Faculty website: http://wvvw.socialwork.utoronto.ca. The iSchool at the University of Toronto educates the next generation of professional and academic leaders in Information to transform society through collaboration, innovation and knowledge creation. The Faculty believes that society's information practices are being reconfigured and transformed by material shifts in information infrastructures and by political and cultural shifts in our attitudes toward information as a social phenomenon, accompanied by ethical challenges. The Faculty of Information provides a context in which to work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment with close ties to a range of collaborative programs including Knowledge Media Design and Book History and Print Culture. The Faculty is also home to the Digital Curation Institute. Faculty website: http://wvvw.ischool.utoronto.ca Candidates must have a PhD in social work, information or a related field by the time of appointment or shortly thereafter; an active research program that contributes especially to information studies affecting social work; social work practice experience; an emerging reputation in research with demonstrated ability to attract external research funding; and publications in high quality peer reviewed journals. Evidence of excellence in teaching (including a teaching dossier outlining experience and accomplishments) is also required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The application deadline is February 28, 2017. All qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below. Applications should include a cover letter, full curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including a statement of teaching philosophy), a brief outline of current and proposed future research interests and two samples of published work. All application materials should be submitted through the University of Toronto?s online application system. If you have questions about this position, please contact socialwork.admin at utoronto.ca. Please combine attachments into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Applicants should also ask three referees to send letters directly to the Faculty via e-mail to socialwork.admin at utoronto.ca. Applications without references will not be considered. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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From niso-announce at niso.org Thu Aug 25 12:28:18 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:28:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Launches New Project to Create a Flexible API Framework for E-Content in Libraries Message-ID: *Interested participants, especially those with experience in library vendor software and/or use of APIs and REST and mobile technologies, are encouraged to contact NISO regarding working group formation.* Baltimore, MD - August 25, 2016 - Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to modernize library-vendor technical interoperability to improve the access of digital library content and electronic books. Building upon a set of API (Application Programming Interface) Requirements developed by Queens Library, a new NISO Working Group will create a foundational API set that the library community can build on. This set will fulfill an array of user and library needs, including quicker response times, flexible item discovery and delivery options, improved resource availability, and more seamless integration of electronic and physical resources. Library patrons should expect an excellent user experience and requisite level of convenience should be built into all customer-facing tools that service library patrons. This project is being undertaken to bring patrons' library experiences in line with the modern tools and technologies-especially mobile technologies-they are accustomed to using in other areas of their lives. Currently, libraries use varied technologies, some of which rely on outdated and slow communication protocols, to provide services to users. By establishing standards on RESTful Web services APIs as well as standard mobile extensions, the library industry will leave many archaic, difficult-to-use tool sets behind, and allow libraries more flexibility in meeting local needs. "11.2 million patrons visited the Queens Library in 2015," says Kelvin Watson, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President, Queens Library. "It's imperative that we keep them coming back by providing fast, efficient service that rivals what they experience in the commercial world. Queens Library, which serves one of the five most diverse counties in the United States, has a vested interest in undertaking this work to customize library operations for specialized local needs. We are excited to have initiated this project at NISO and we look forward to working with other participants to actualize our draft framework." Volunteer working group members will deliver a foundational framework, in the form of a NISO Recommended Practice, that will communicate an understanding of how libraries should provide and receive data. These library-related communications and functions could include customized genre or category views for browse, search, and discovery of collections; user authentication; transmission of account information; management of barcodes; check out and return of items, streaming of online material, and other requirements as determined by stakeholders. Work will also include the creation of several proof-of-concept services that use the proposed approach to deliver services and a registry to enable supporting data providers and system vendors to communicate their support of the framework. The full work item approved by NISO Voting Members is available on the NISO website . NISO's Associate Director of Programs, Nettie Lagace, comments, "NISO is eager to begin this work to improve library-patron interactions. Advancing vendor-library communication processes through consensus discussions and agreement is a natural fit in our portfolio of work. NISO's mission is to streamline the work of libraries and other information providers to get content into the hands of consumers." Lagace continues, "We encourage working group participation from libraries, library system providers, providers and distributors of e-books, recorded books, and other forms of digital content and media. We are looking forward to hearing from interested volunteers who can dedicate their technical talents to this important effort." Those who are interested in participating in the E-Content API Framework working group should contact Lagace at nlagace at niso.org. About NISO NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website . From amyk at higheredjobs.com Thu Aug 25 15:24:41 2016 From: amyk at higheredjobs.com (HigherEd ListServ) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:24:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] Position Openings Message-ID: <643552099.3661743.1472153081642.JavaMail.zimbra@higheredjobs.com> The following positions were recently posted to HigherEdJobs: http://www.higheredjobs.com. We hope this is helpful! 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HigherEdJobs.com shall not be liable to any party for any special, indirect, or consequential damages that arises in any form from the use of this email. From wbuntinuk at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 14:21:43 2016 From: wbuntinuk at gmail.com (Will Buntin) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:21:43 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting, UK Assistant Professor in ICT Message-ID: *University of Kentucky* *College of Communication & Information * *Position Title: Assistant Professor, Information Communication Technology* Job Description: The School of Information Science is currently seeking an Assistant Professor for an academic year appointment, tenure-track position with responsibilities for teaching, advising, maintenance of personal research program, participation in professional activities, and serving on university committees. This faculty appointment, housed within a Regular Title series, will be part of a program offering both undergraduate and graduate (Master?s) degrees in ICT, housed in the School of Information Science (http://ci.uky.edu/sis/), in conjunction with other faculties within the College of Communication and Information, a member of the iSchool consortium. Candidates will be expected to teach at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Opportunities exist to work with doctoral students in the College and to shape the evolution of an exciting new degree program. *Qualifications: Requires an earned doctorate (or ABD status) in information communication technology, instructional communication, learning technologies, educational technologies, information science, informatics, or a related field.* Teaching and research responsibilities include one or more areas in information communication technology such as social computing, social informatics, information studies, information science, instructional communication. *Preference will be given to candidates with an information communication technology background and an interest in training and instruction in applied settings.* The University of Kentucky is the flagship campus in the state, situated in greater Lexington (population 300,000), in the beautiful Bluegrass region of horse farms and rolling hills. Founded in 1865, UK is a public, research-extensive, land grant Institution, ranked among the top U.S. public universities on a number of criteria, with special strength in the health sciences. The School is part of the College of Communication and Information, which includes the Department of Communication, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, Department of Integrated Strategic Communication, and Graduate Program in Communication. Faculty positions are for nine months with possible opportunities for summer teaching. Salaries are competitive with those in other disciplines, and commensurate with qualifications and level of appointment. Benefits include participation in TIAA/CREF, employer-funded health insurance, and tuition assistance for employees, partners and dependents. For additional information, please see http://www.uky.edu/HR/benefits/. To be considered, you must apply at http://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/117827 For questions about the position, please contact: Dr. Jeffrey Huber, Director School of Information Science Jeffrey.huber at uky.edu Please note that, to be considered an applicant, application must be submitted via the UK Jobs site. Review process will begin November 1, 2016 and will continue until position is filled. Expected starting date is August 1, 2017. Position pending budget approval. Application and nomination of minority candidates are strongly encouraged. The University?s commitment to diversity is discussed at http://www.uky.edu/Diversity/. The University of Kentucky is An Equal Opportunity Employer. *Will Buntin* Assistant Director School of Information Science University of Kentucky * Follow UK Information Science: Facebook * Twitter * YouTube * From chirags at rutgers.edu Mon Aug 29 10:58:50 2016 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:58:50 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Involved in an ASIS&T chapter? You can ask us for funds! Message-ID: Dear all, Did you know that any ASIS&T Regional Chapter could request funds from ASIS&T? These funds could be used for different activities and events that enrich the experience of current members of the chapter and/or engage non-members with ASIS&T. Examples include invited talk+reception, career expo, workshop, etc. The funds are typically a few hundred dollars. You can use the form available from?https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/ChapterDevelopmentFundsAppl.pdf?to apply. It?s only two pages and you can ignore the deadlines on the form as we are accepting them on a rolling basis! More FAQs and useful information about ASIS&T chapters can be found at the bottom of this message. Thanks! Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, Chapter Assembly Director Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas, Chapter Assembly Deputy Director ?? Some points about the regional chapters. - ?????????Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Chapters are chartered by the Board of Directors as local vehicles for fostering continuous communication among members in geographically-defined areas. ASIS&T Chapters consist of groups of 15 or more members living or working within 50-mile radii or some other well-defined geographic areas. All ASIS&T members are encouraged to participate in their local Chapters. All ASIS&T members whose mailing addresses are within a Chapter?s geographic boundaries are automatically members of that Chapter. Only ASIS&T members may belong to Chapters. There are 20 regional chapters, but 8 of which are currently inactive. Active Chapters: Arizona, Asia Pacific, Carolinas, Central Ohio, Europe, Indiana, Los Angeles, New England, New Jersey, Northern Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Taipei Inactive Chapters: Chicago, Florida, Metropolitan New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio River Valley, Potomac Valley, Wisconsin Who the members of the Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee? - ?????????The Chapter Assembly consists of an elected or appointed representative from each Chapter. To assure Chapters of a voice in Society activities, the Chapter Assembly advises the Board of Directors on all matters involving the mutual interests of the Chapters. The Assembly Director, elected by the Assembly as its presiding officer, serves on the ASIS&T Board of Directors. The Chapter Assembly Director is assisted in matters relating to the Chapter Assembly by the Deputy Chapter Assembly Director, the Immediate Past Director, and the Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee. Where is the official Websites for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters? - ?????????The public website for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters is located at:? https://www.asist.org/find-your-groups/regional/. Make sure your Chapter?s information (Officers name, email, website, etc.) is accurate and up to date on the ASIST Student Chapter page. Otherwise let our webmaster Jan Hatzakos?(jan at asis.org) know about the changes. There is also an internal wiki page to be used by Chapters (and other Committees of the American Society for Information Science and Technology) to facilitate the operation of their groups:? http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/index.php/Main_Page Do we have email list for the ASIS&ST Regional Chapters? - ??????Yes, we have an email list that you can join by going to? http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-l? and signing up. Once joined, you can send a message by emailing to? chapters-l at asis.org. Typical messages on this email list are about conference announcements, job postings, and other opportunities for members. Can my chapter get some funds from the HQ? to start project or revitalize a chapter? - ????????Yes. Each Chapter plans its own programs to reflect the needs and interests of its local membership. ASIS&T is committed to providing assistance to help local Chapters to organize activities or special projects that revitalize and engage local members. Among other available resources and services, Chapters can apply for one of the Chapter Development Funds:? https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/ChapterDevelopmentFundsAppl.pdf I?m interested in revitalizing my local chapter that?s been inactive for some time. What do I do? It varies from chapter to chapter and depends greatly on where the activities (and funds) were left off. But typically, it involves the following: 1. Get hold of documents (membership list, chapter manual, by-laws) and funds. 2. Get the latest membership info. This could be done by contacting the HQ. 3. Email the members about the chapter being restarted. Ask if anyone would like to join the leadership (chair, program chair if applicable, treasurer, publicist, etc.) 4. Theoretically speaking, the chapter should then hold an election. But in practice, there may be only a handful of people interested in being in a leadership position. So just form a leadership committee using those people. 5. Get the web presence. At least have a blog or a website. 6. Announce these developments to the members. 7. Organize an event that marks the beginning of the chapter activities. Ask the HQ for help (tools, support, funds). In general, once the chapter has some momentum going, they could ask us for chapter development funds (typically a few hundred dollars). How do I start a new chapter? Follow the advice from the previous question starting with step-4. Make sure to let us know as you embark on this journey! Do we have the chapter manual? Where? - ?????????Yes, you can find the Chapter Officer?s Manual here:? https://www.asist.org/files/chapters/regional/chofficermanual.pdf. We will update the manual, but the purpose of the Chapter Officer?s Manual is essentially to guide and alert new Chapter officers to certain procedures regarding Chapter organization and administration, to suggest possible Chapter activities, and to remind officers of certain deadlines. There are also a number of other useful documentations linked from the Chapter Resources page:? https://www.asist.org/find-your-groups/resources/. Are the regional chapters expected to submit an annual report? What?s the deadline? - ?????????Yes, the regional chapters are expected to submit an annual report to the Chapter Assembly, highlighting efforts the chapter made to recruit new members, foster member participation in the chapter, and mechanisms to retain current members and to follow-up with members who did not renew their ASIS&T memberships. The report also contains the meetings, projects and services organized by the chapter and the efforts made by the chapter to communicate with its members. The annual report can be submitted via this web form:? http://www.asis.org/Chapters/ChapterAnnualActivitiesReportForm.pdf. If the Chapter Annual Report is submitted by the August 15 deadline, it will also serve as the nomination for the Chapter of the Year award. The Chapter-of-the-Year Award is decided by a jury. An awareness of the annual report and judging criteria can be very helpful in planning chapter?s activities for the year. Questions or comments? - ?????????We are very much interested in hearing from you what we could do to help you out. So please do not hesitate to contact us both Chirag Shah (Chapter Assembly Director):? chirags at rutgers.edu? and Daniel Alemneh (Chapter Assembly Deputy Director):? Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu. ?? From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Fri Aug 26 13:46:56 2016 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:46:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CHIIR 2017 - Full Paper Deadline extended to September 6 Message-ID: In response to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for full papers at CHIIR'17 to September 6. The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR) will be held in Oslo, Norway from March 7-11, 2017. CHIIR is the pre-eminent forum for the presentation and discussion of research related to the user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval, including human involvement in search activities, information seeking and use in context, and the design of interactive systems. 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 6 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 Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director SLAIS, the iSchool @ UBC The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Luanne.freund at ubc.ca From h.obrien at ubc.ca Mon Aug 29 12:49:55 2016 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:49:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder! ALISE Methodology Paper Competition - Sept. 22 deadline Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AEDBC70EF3@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> Dear Colleagues: The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is accepting proposals for its 2017 Methodology Paper Competition, sponsored by ProQuest. The purpose of this award is to stimulate communication on research methodologies at ALISE annual conferences. The competition is open to all types of methodology. Papers must be limited to description and discussion of a research method or a technique associated with a particular research method. (For example, papers may address such areas as sampling, grounded theory, historical methods, or statistical methods.) Papers must explain the particular method/technique, including methodological implications for library and information science. Examples to illustrate its value can come from LIS-related published studies, proposed studies, and works in progress. Papers that stress findings are not eligible for this competition. Deadline for submissions: September 22, 2016 More information is available at: http://www.alise.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=471 Submissions can be made using the ?ALISE Award and Grant Nomination Form? link at: http://www.alise.org/awards-grants Please consider applying and distribute widely. Sincerely, Heather O'Brien Chair, ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Paper Competition Committee Members John Bertot, Maryland Yunseon Choi, Southern Connecticut State Fatih Oguz, North Carolina-Greensboro Cecilia Salvatore, Dominican Ying-Hsang Liu, Charles Sturt From junus.msulibraries at gmail.com Tue Aug 30 09:32:52 2016 From: junus.msulibraries at gmail.com (Ranti Junus) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:32:52 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: New CLIR Report Message-ID: <00e701d202c3$0283b530$078b1f90$@gmail.com> (forwarded by request) ranti. From: Asis-l [mailto:mailman-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Alice Bishop A new report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) examines how new U.S. government requirements for exposing and managing federally funded research data add urgency to the call for curating data that can be used, reused, and exploited by future generations. The Open Data Imperative: How the Cultural Heritage Community Can Address the Federal Mandate , offers a series of recommendations to improve the open data infrastructure, engage a broad community of stakeholders to support the management of data as an asset, and expand collaboration that is vital to ensuring public access to data. In 2013, the U.S. government issued a mandate requiring federal agencies with annual research and development expenditures of more than $100 million to create plans for increasing access to federally funded scientific research, both as published articles and as data. These plans have significant implications for cultural heritage institutions in addressing the current deficit in the capacity to support the re-use of data over time and across generations of technology (digital curation) and in enabling collaboration based on shared infrastructure. In Part I of the report, Suzie Allard presents an analysis of 21 federal agency public access plans that were openly available as of late 2015. Allard, associate dean for research in the College of Communication and Information and professor in the School of Information Sciences at The University of Tennessee, provides 12 high-level findings grouped around open data infrastructure, roles and responsibilities, and making data public. These findings, she writes, "suggest that the mandate has created opportunities for cultural heritage institutions to both build upon and contribute to the infrastructure being developed by the federal agencies." Providing public access to data requires effective digital curation strategies. In Part II, Christopher Lee reports on interviews with project staff from seven recent IMLS-funded projects that included significant digital curation objectives to identify lessons about skills, capabilities, and institutional arrangements that can facilitate digital curation activities. Lee is professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A skilled workforce is essential if the promise of public access to data is to be fulfilled. In Part III, Nancy Y. McGovern, who is responsible for preservation at MIT Libraries, surveys curriculum development and training programs relating to digital curation, examines digital curation competencies, and analyzes job descriptions for digital curation to identify the skills and roles they entail. "The cumulative results, findings, and recommendations of this report provide a holistic view of data stewardship and the infrastructure required to support data-driven research and innovation," writes CLIR Senior Program Officer Alice Bishop, who co-authored the report. The report is available as a PDF download free of charge at https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub171/pub171abst.