From announce at dublincore.net Wed May 10 10:22:03 2017 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 07:22:03 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DCMI Webinar: Me4MAP - A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles Message-ID: ********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** Me4MAP: A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *=========================================================* *:: Presenter:* Mariana Curado Malta *:: Dates:* Wednesday, 24 May 2017 (EN) | Wednesday, 31 May 2017 (PT) *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT 24 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-EN) - English 31 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-PT) - Portuguese *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017Malta *=========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* A metadata application profile (MAP) is a construct that provides a semantic model for enhancing interoperability when publishing to the Web of Data. With a MAP, each property is defined as an RDF vocabulary term with the definition of domain, range, and cardinality. According to the DCMI document "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata", a MAP is a construct that enhances semantic interoperability. Therefore, when a community of practice agrees to follow a MAP's set of rules for publishing data as Linked Open Data, it makes it possible for such data published the LOD cloud to be processed automatically by software agents. A MAP is therefore a construct of great importance and the existence of a method for its development is essential to give MAP developers a common ground on which to work. The absence of such a method leads to a non-systematic set of MAP development activities that might result in MAPs with less quality. This Webinar will present Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Me4MAP was defined in the context of a PhD and is still now being tested and refined. It is a method that is approached through a software engineering perspective. With Me4MAP, we do not propose a universal solution; rather, our intention is to establish a starting point for the study and design of methods for the development of MAPs. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* Mariana Curado Malta is an Associate Professor at Polythecnic of Oporto, Portugal and a researcher in CEOS.PP, Portugal. Currently, she is on leave in the Laboratorio de Inovaci?n en Humanidades Digitales in the Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. Her research work is framed in a project (POSTDATA), financed by a European Research Council Starting Grant that aims to publish poetry data (and related data) as Linked Open Data. In POSTDATA she is responsible for the semantic modelling. Her research interests are related to methods for the development of metadata application profiles and the quality of MAPs in particular and metadata in general. She is the co-author of Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Mariana Curado Malta has a PhD in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Minho, Portugal. She is the author of several research papers, book chapters, and recently co-edited the book ?Developing metadata application profiles? published by IGI Global. From aida.slavic at udcc.org Mon May 15 08:39:05 2017 From: aida.slavic at udcc.org (Aida Slavic) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 13:39:05 +0100 Subject: [sigCR] Invitation: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September In-Reply-To: <01ef6687-4bc0-ca92-9d3f-baec4ebc395f@udcc.org> References: <01ef6687-4bc0-ca92-9d3f-baec4ebc395f@udcc.org> Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting] ===== Invitation for registration ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: seminar2017 at udcc.org UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: ?250 early bird fee, students ?220 (closes on 30 June) ?290 regular fee, students ?250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. -- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief UDC Email: aida.slavic at udcc.org --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: mail at udcc.org ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri May 19 13:28:38 2017 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 19:28:38 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended submission date: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)