From furner at gseis.ucla.edu Tue Aug 12 15:09:00 2014 From: furner at gseis.ucla.edu (Jonathan Furner) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:09:00 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DEADLINE EXTENDED: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop References: <735084e212029.53c1118e@uwo.ca> Message-ID: <696B3752-8C72-44F9-8656-1687B224EA46@gseis.ucla.edu> Dear ISKO and ASIS&T SIG/CR members, Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals of papers for presentation at the 25th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop in Seattle, WA, on November 1, 2014, has been extended. The deadline for submitting an extended abstract of 500 words is now AUGUST 31, 2014. Please see the attached Call for Proposals, and consider submitting (to furner at gseis.ucla.edu) a proposal that relates to this year's theme of "Universal Classification in the 21st Century." All the best, Jonathan Furner Begin forwarded message: > From: Grant Campbell > Subject: [isko-l] Call for Proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 1, 2014 > Date: July 12, 2014 7:44:30 AM PDT > To: ISKO-L , SIIGCR-L , JESSE-L > > Apologies for Cross-Posting: > > On behalf of Dr. Jonathan Furner, program chair for SIG/CR 2014, I am delighted to present the following call for proposals for our 2014 Classification Research Workshop, to take place on November 1, 2014, just prior to the annual ASIST meeting in Seattle, WA. > > Regards, > Grant Campbell > Call for Proposals: > ?Universal Classification in the 21st Century? > SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop > http://sigcr.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/149/ > > Saturday, November 1, 2014 > > ASIST Annual Meeting > Seattle, WA > > ASIST?s Special Interest Group in Classification Research will hold its annual Classification Research Workshop as part of the ASIST Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 2014. The Workshop Program Committee is currently inviting proposals for papers to be presented at the workshop. > > DUE DATES: > > Proposals are due on Friday, August 15. Please submit your proposal in PDF or RTF format to Jonathan Furner at furner at gseis.ucla.edu > > Notice of acceptance will be sent before the Earlybird Deadline for the ASIST Conference Registration. > > > THEME > > As our global information environment moves further into the twenty-first century, historic tensions continue to challenge us: the tensions between universal standards and local variations; between empirical and critical-discursive approaches; between an infrastructure that pushes us towards homogeneity and communities that insist on their specificity and individuals who insist upon their rights to privacy. > > In particular, recent trends in the areas of both linked data and big data suggest that much of our information environment will be shaped by the need for an underlying infrastructure of classification that will enable us to combine data collected from different sources and for different purposes. Whatever the future holds for professional bibliographic control, crowdsourced indexing, big data algorithms or linked data ontologies, our future information environment will be shaped by harmonization: developing the means to reconcile diversity into a coherent structure than facilitates the development of information systems and information communities that do tangible good for their users. > > With such a pressing need for harmonization, the time is ripe to revisit the great general classification schemes: the Dewey Decimal Classification, the Library of Congress Classification, and the Universal Decimal Classification. As instances of universal classificatory synthesis, these systems, in their rich history and active maintenance stand on the threshold of an intriguing, but as yet undefined future role in the twenty-first century. They could serve as exemplars and prototypes of future systems; they could be adapted into universal ontologies in their own right; they could exist in a dialogic and contrapuntal relationship with systems designed on different principles. > > > Topics appropriate to the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: > > actions, decisions, goals, interests, needs, tasks of GCS users > activist, critical, discourse-analytic, postcolonial, queer approaches to the study of GCSs > analytical, epistemological, formal, historical, ontological, rationalist, semantic, semiotic approaches to GCS design > automatic GCS-construction, classification, clustering > benefits and risks of globalization, localization, standardization, universalization > bibliometric, computational, graph/networktheoretic, probabilistic, statistical approaches to GCS design > big data and GCSs > cognitive, empirical, naturalistic, pragmatic, social, taxonomic approaches to GCS design > conceptual and formal models for GCSs > design and evaluation of GCSs, of interfaces to GCSs, of methods of research into GCSs > ethical and political issues for GCS developers and users > evaluation of the use and/or utility of GCSs > folk/natural classifications and GCSs > folksonomies and GCSs > graphical displays and visualizations of GCS class hierarchies, networks, queries, results > hybrid designs for the integration of crowdsourced and institutional content > information retrieval and GCSs > interoperability among GCSs, and between GCSs and special classification schemes > knowledge discovery and GCSs > knowledge production and GCSs > Linked Open Data and GCSs > Semantic Web and GCSs > use of GCSs by specific groups, and/or for specific purposes > use of GCSs in discipline-, domain-, field-, industry-, institution-, organization-specific contexts > web search and GCSs > web services and GCSs > > FORMAT OF PROPOSALS: > > Authors wishing to present a paper may submit a 500-word extended abstract. Extended abstracts should contain citations (not included in the word count). Presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. > > > After the workshop, full papers will be published online in > Advances in Classification Research Online, http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro > > > > > -- > ------------------- > D. Grant Campbell > Associate Professor > Faculty of Information and Media Studies > University of Western Ontario > London, Ontario > N6A 5B7 > 519-661-2111 ext.88483 __ Jonathan Furner, Ph.D. Professor, Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles http://jfurner.info From announce at dublincore.net Thu Aug 21 17:31:20 2014 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:31:20 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DC-2014 Special Session: RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control Message-ID: ***Please excuse the cross-posting*** RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control *Half-day Special Session @ DC-2014* *Thursday, 9 October 2014 - 1:30-5:00* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center ( http://www.meetattexas.com/) *SESSION HOMEPAGE: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014 *(Thursday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== *Session Abstract: * This session will focus on establishing requirements for implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers. In particular, our interests include the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages remain valuable in our context. *Scope and Motivation: * Over the last fourteen years, the DCMI community has focused much of its efforts on the development of Application Profiles as a means to enable reuse of properties across multiple schemas, as well as constraint languages to express those profiles. Building on the DC-2013 special session Application Profiles as an Alternative to OWL Ontologies , this session will explore the requirements for defining and implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers and other implementers. In particular, our session will focus on the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages, such as Description Set Profiles and Shape Expressions/RDF Data Shapes, remain valuable in our context. *Confirmed Panelists:* - Mark Matienzo (mark at matienzo.org), DPLA, USA (Facilitator) - Kevin Ford, Library of Congress, USA - Thomas Johnson, Oregon State University, USA - Eric Miller, Zepheira, USA - David Wood, 3 Round Stones, USA *Open Questions Guiding the Session:* 1. How can Application Profile-based validation provide meaningful feedback to a user editing a "record" or set of statements? 2. From the perspective of an implementor, what do we mean by "validation," and does this mean different things from the perspective of implementers building user-facing tools or automated systems to perform these checks? 3. How are existing constraint languages valuable to implementers, particularly if the tools we are building cannot interpret or act on them natively? 4. Should we prioritize developing tools that can interpret serialized constraint definitions, or ensuring that our tools and systems can serialize their constraints into one of these languages? *Special Session Sponsors:* - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - DCMI Technical Board You can register using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014 . Don't procrastinate, register now! The Conference discount hotel block rate at the AT&T Center ends 12 September. This Special Session and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival ( http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Conference dates approaches. Mark Matienzo *Director of Technology, DPLA* From announce at dublincore.net Sun Aug 24 07:44:38 2014 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:44:38 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DC-2014 full-day workshop--"Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management" Message-ID: ***Please excuse the cross-posting*** Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management *Full-day Workshop @ DC-2014* *Wednesday, 8 October 2014* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/) *HOMEPAGE:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014 *(Wednesday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== This DC 2014 special event will bring together experts and practitioners to explore archival description in the cultural heritage descriptive landscape, the emergence of authority files/identity description as an opportunity for cultural heritage cross-community collaboration, and provide attendees with the latest information on key metadata editing and management tools used by the working archivist. *Workshop Sponsors:* - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Host) - ArchivesPortal Europe (APEx) - ArchivesSpace - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Europeana - Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) - OCLC (Europe) - University of Miami *Workshop Planning Committee:* - Daniel Pitti -- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - Julianna Barrera-Gomez -- University of Texas at San Antonio - Eric Childress -- OCLC Research - Jen Schaffner -- OCLC Research - Ryan Hildebrand -- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin The Workshop program is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives. You can register for the Workshop as a day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014 . Don't procrastinate, register now! Workshop space is limited. The Workshop and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Workshop date approaches. Eric Childress, OCLC DCMI Governing Board Chair-Elect From furner at gseis.ucla.edu Mon Aug 25 15:47:53 2014 From: furner at gseis.ucla.edu (Jonathan Furner) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:47:53 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] FINAL CALL for proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop References: <696B3752-8C72-44F9-8656-1687B224EA46@gseis.ucla.edu> Message-ID: Dear ISKO and ASIS&T SIG/CR members, Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals of papers for presentation at the 25th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop in Seattle, WA, on November 1, 2014, has been extended. The deadline for submitting an extended abstract of 500 words is now AUGUST 31, 2014. Please see the attached Call for Proposals, and consider submitting (to furner at gseis.ucla.edu) a proposal that relates to this year's theme of "Universal Classification in the 21st Century." All the best, Jonathan Furner Begin forwarded message: > From: Grant Campbell > Subject: [isko-l] Call for Proposals: SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 1, 2014 > Date: July 12, 2014 7:44:30 AM PDT > To: ISKO-L , SIIGCR-L , JESSE-L > > Apologies for Cross-Posting: > > On behalf of Dr. Jonathan Furner, program chair for SIG/CR 2014, I am delighted to present the following call for proposals for our 2014 Classification Research Workshop, to take place on November 1, 2014, just prior to the annual ASIST meeting in Seattle, WA. > > Regards, > Grant Campbell > Call for Proposals: > ?Universal Classification in the 21st Century? > SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop > http://sigcr.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/149/ > > Saturday, November 1, 2014 > > ASIST Annual Meeting > Seattle, WA > > ASIST?s Special Interest Group in Classification Research will hold its annual Classification Research Workshop as part of the ASIST Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 2014. The Workshop Program Committee is currently inviting proposals for papers to be presented at the workshop. > > DUE DATES: > > Proposals are due on Friday, August 15. Please submit your proposal in PDF or RTF format to Jonathan Furner at furner at gseis.ucla.edu > > Notice of acceptance will be sent before the Earlybird Deadline for the ASIST Conference Registration. > > > THEME > > As our global information environment moves further into the twenty-first century, historic tensions continue to challenge us: the tensions between universal standards and local variations; between empirical and critical-discursive approaches; between an infrastructure that pushes us towards homogeneity and communities that insist on their specificity and individuals who insist upon their rights to privacy. > > In particular, recent trends in the areas of both linked data and big data suggest that much of our information environment will be shaped by the need for an underlying infrastructure of classification that will enable us to combine data collected from different sources and for different purposes. Whatever the future holds for professional bibliographic control, crowdsourced indexing, big data algorithms or linked data ontologies, our future information environment will be shaped by harmonization: developing the means to reconcile diversity into a coherent structure than facilitates the development of information systems and information communities that do tangible good for their users. > > With such a pressing need for harmonization, the time is ripe to revisit the great general classification schemes: the Dewey Decimal Classification, the Library of Congress Classification, and the Universal Decimal Classification. As instances of universal classificatory synthesis, these systems, in their rich history and active maintenance stand on the threshold of an intriguing, but as yet undefined future role in the twenty-first century. They could serve as exemplars and prototypes of future systems; they could be adapted into universal ontologies in their own right; they could exist in a dialogic and contrapuntal relationship with systems designed on different principles. > > > Topics appropriate to the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: > > actions, decisions, goals, interests, needs, tasks of GCS users > activist, critical, discourse-analytic, postcolonial, queer approaches to the study of GCSs > analytical, epistemological, formal, historical, ontological, rationalist, semantic, semiotic approaches to GCS design > automatic GCS-construction, classification, clustering > benefits and risks of globalization, localization, standardization, universalization > bibliometric, computational, graph/networktheoretic, probabilistic, statistical approaches to GCS design > big data and GCSs > cognitive, empirical, naturalistic, pragmatic, social, taxonomic approaches to GCS design > conceptual and formal models for GCSs > design and evaluation of GCSs, of interfaces to GCSs, of methods of research into GCSs > ethical and political issues for GCS developers and users > evaluation of the use and/or utility of GCSs > folk/natural classifications and GCSs > folksonomies and GCSs > graphical displays and visualizations of GCS class hierarchies, networks, queries, results > hybrid designs for the integration of crowdsourced and institutional content > information retrieval and GCSs > interoperability among GCSs, and between GCSs and special classification schemes > knowledge discovery and GCSs > knowledge production and GCSs > Linked Open Data and GCSs > Semantic Web and GCSs > use of GCSs by specific groups, and/or for specific purposes > use of GCSs in discipline-, domain-, field-, industry-, institution-, organization-specific contexts > web search and GCSs > web services and GCSs > > FORMAT OF PROPOSALS: > > Authors wishing to present a paper may submit a 500-word extended abstract. Extended abstracts should contain citations (not included in the word count). Presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. > > > After the workshop, full papers will be published online in > Advances in Classification Research Online, http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro > > > > > -- > ------------------- > D. Grant Campbell > Associate Professor > Faculty of Information and Media Studies > University of Western Ontario > London, Ontario > N6A 5B7 > 519-661-2111 ext.88483 __ Jonathan Furner, Ph.D. Professor, Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles http://jfurner.info