From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 2 10:17:58 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 10:17:58 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] FW: [Pasig-announce] December 12 PASIG Webinar: Digital Forensics andBitCurator Message-ID: ASIS members attend at no cost. __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org _____ From: Pasig-announce [mailto:pasig-announce-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Pasquinelli Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 5:17 PM To: pasig-announce at mail.asis.org Subject: [Pasig-announce] December 12 PASIG Webinar: Digital Forensics andBitCurator The next PASIG webinar will be given by Cal Lee, a regular PASIG and IS&T Archiving speaker and leader in the area of Digital Forensics. PASIG Webinar: Digital Forensics and BitCurator Webinar Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2013, 11:30am-12:30pm (EST) To register go to: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-12-12-2013-register.h tml Abstract: The BitCurator Project, a collaborative effort led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, builds on previous work by addressing two fundamental needs and opportunities for collecting institutions: (1) integrating digital forensics tools and methods into the workflows and collection management environments of libraries, archives and museums and (2) supporting properly mediated public access to forensically acquired data. The project is developing and disseminating a suite of open source tools. These tools are currently being developed and tested in a Linux environment; the software on which they depend can readily be compiled for Windows environments (and in most cases are currently distributed as both source code and Windows binaries). We intend the majority of the development for BitCurator to support cross-platform use of the software. We are freely disseminating the software under an open source (GPL, Version 3) license. BitCurator provides users with two primary paths to integrate digital forensics tools and techniques into archival and library workflows. This webinar will introduce the BitCurator environment and briefly highlight support for mounting media as read-only, creating disk images, using Nautilus scripts to perform batch activities, generation of Digital Forensics XML (DFXML), generation of customized reports, and identification of sensitive data within data. Participants who are interested in trying out the software in advance can download and install the BitCurator environment by following the instructions at: http://wiki.bitcurator.net Bio: Christopher (Cal) Lee is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on archival administration; records management; digital curation; understanding information technology for managing digital collections; and acquiring information from digital storage media. He is a lead organizer and instructor for the DigCCurr Professional Institute, and he teaches professional workshops on the application of digital forensics methods and principles to digital acquisitions. Cal's primary area of research is the curation of digital collections. He is particularly interested in the professionalization of this work and the diffusion of existing tools and methods into professional practice. Cal developed "A Framework for Contextual Information in Digital Collections," and edited and provided several chapters to I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era published by the Society of American Archivists. Cal is Principal Investigator of BitCurator, which is developing and disseminating open-source digital forensics tools for use by archivists and librarians. He was also Principal Investigator of the Digital Acquisition Learning Laboratory (DALL) project, which incorporated digital forensics tools and methods into digital curation education. Cal has served as Co-PI on several projects focused on preparing professionals for digital curation: Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr), DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners; Educating Stewards of Public Information for the 21st Century (ESOPI-21), Educating Stewards of the Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI2), and Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00162.txt URL: From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Mon Dec 9 08:11:48 2013 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 06:11:48 -0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Reminder: Submit your RDAP14 proposals by December 16th! Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A016538980ED6C@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> The deadline for poster and lightning talk proposals for the 2014 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP14) is December 16, 2013: http://www.asis.org/rdap/call-for-proposals/ RDAP14 (http://www.asis.org/rdap/) invites proposals for posters and lightning talks at the upcoming summit March 26-28 in San Diego, CA. RDAP brings together people from a variety of disciplines and fields to share success stories, innovative research, and resources and tools developed by and for the research data community. Posters and lightning talks offer an excellent opportunity to share work with the community, hear about a variety of new projects and initiatives, and network with others interested in research data access, preservation, and innovation. We are soliciting posters and lightning talks on any of the following themes: * Institutional policies for research data * Building/expanding research data services * Collaboration or tension between units involved with research data * Institutional responses to government policies/guidelines concerning research data * Systems/strategies for full-lifecycle research data curation * Tools developed and/or used for data curation/management * Digital preservation * Data citation and reuse * Data repositories (institutional/disciplinary/other) * Education and training for research data management/curation Submit your 300 word max summary/abstract, along with any supplementary documentation for posters and (seven-minute) lightning talks here: http://www.softconf.com/asis/rdap-14/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit Thank you for spreading the word and contributing to the conversation about RDAP14! Please email rdapinfo at asis.org with any questions. 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The CLEF Initiative is structured in two main parts: - a series of Evaluation Labs, i.e. laboratories to conduct evaluation of information access systems and workshops to discuss and pilot innovative evaluation activities; - a peer-reviewed Conference on a broad range of issues, including - investigation continuing the activities of the Evaluation Labs; - experiments using multilingual and multimodal data; in particular, but not only, data resulting from CLEF activities; - research in evaluation methodologies and challenges. Since 2000 CLEF has played a leading role in stimulating investigation and research in a wide range of key areas in the information retrieval domain. It has promoted the study and implementation of appropriate evaluation methodologies for diverse types of tasks and media. Over the years, a wide, strong, and multidisciplinary research community has been built, which covers and spans the different areas of expertise needed to deal with the breadth of CLEF activities. CALL FOR BIDS The CLEF Steering Committee solicits proposals from groups interested in organizing the CLEF conference and labs in September 2016. Guidelines on submitting a bid can be found in the Template for Bids available at: http://www.clef-initiative.eu/documents/71612/87713/CLEF-Initiative-Template_for_bids.docx Bids must be submitted by *Friday, April 11th 2014* by email to the Steering Commitee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ). The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Interested parties can contact the Steering Committee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ) to receive further details. IMPORTANT DATES - Bid submission deadline: April 11th, 2014 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: April - May 2014 - Bid selection: June 2014 STEERING COMMITTEE - Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain - Donna Harman, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Jaana Kek?l?inen, University of Tampere, Finland - Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland - Carol Peters, ISTI, National Council of Research (CNR), Italy - Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain - Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland - Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany From chodgson at niso.org Mon Dec 16 12:20:00 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:20:00 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Special Information Standards Quarterly Issue on the Evolution of Bibliographic Data Exchange Published by NISO - available in open access Message-ID: <009e01cefa83$0e6123b0$2b236b10$@org> NISO announces the publication of a special themed issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) on the topic of the Evolution of Bibliographic Data Exchange. Libraries are in the midst of moving away from AACR2 and MARC 21 to the new world of the semantic web, linked data, FRBR, and RDA. As noted by Ted Fons, Executive Director, Data Services & WorldCat Quality at OCLC and the guest content editor for this ISQ issue, ?the success of the web as a research tool has dramatically changed the library?s role in the exposure of library catalogs. The rise of new metadata initiatives reflects the need to respond to this change and to increase our effectiveness in the exchange and management of library metadata.? Fons has gathered together in the Winter 2013 issue of ISQ a set of thoughtful and informative articles about the work that is underway in this bibliographic data evolution. In the feature article, Are Current Bibliographic Models Suitable for Integration with the Web?, Lars Svensson from the German National Library discusses why it is important for libraries to make their metadata an integral part of the web and why libraries need (but don?t yet have) an agreed-upon model that can draw in entities across the cultural heritage sector. Paul Moss (OCLC) in his opinion piece, Replacing MARC: Where to Start, further emphasizes the need to step away from thinking solely about a single library interchange format and instead consider that ?each function MARC serves should be examined independently and may be replaced by a different technology.? The Library of Congress initiated a Bibliographic Framework project (BIBFRAME) in 2011 to define a replacement for MARC 21. The George Washington University is one of the early experimenters for BIBFRAME and Jackie Shieh in the first in-practice article reviews how their participation was a ?transformative opportunity? for their staff ?to contribute and establish a new standard that would benefit researchers navigating the information sphere.? Another national library, the Biblioth?que nationale de France (BnF), is also a leader in defining and implementing this new bibliographic model. Ted Fons interviews Gildas Illien, Director of BnF?s Bibliographic and Digital Information Department, who discusses the need for a new framework for bibliographic data exchange, what the BnF has already done to transform the way they express their bibliographic data, what European libraries have been focusing their efforts on in the past five years related to metadata management, and what the focus should be in the next two years. As an example of how the bibliographic community is addressing these issues, in the context of the wider web, Richard Wallis (OCLC) reviews the work of Schema Bib Extend, a W3C Community Group focused on establishing a consensus within the bibliographic community around proposals for extending the Schema.org vocabulary to enhance its capabilities in describing bibliographic resources. Todd Carpenter (NISO) reviews how the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap project is Charting a Course through a New Exchange Environment in an effort to ensure that the needs of a variety of affected stakeholders?not just libraries?will be fully integrated into the new bibliographic ecosystem. ?It is my hope,? states Fons, ?that this set of thoughtful essays provides you with some insight into the landscape of new metadata initiatives and is a useful continuation of the dialog on how we can improve data exchange.? ISQ is available in open access in electronic format on the NISO website. Both the entire Winter 2013 Evolution of Bibliographic Data Exchange issue and the individual articles may be freely downloaded. Print copies are available by subscription and as print on demand. For more information and to access the free electronic version, visit: www.niso.org/publications/isq. Cynthia Hodgson ISQ Managing Editor National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Tue Dec 17 22:19:48 2013 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:19:48 -0700 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job Posting: Foundational Experiences Librarian Message-ID: The Robert E. Kennedy Library at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, seeks an energetic, creative, collaborative, user-focused professional to join us in a new tenure-track faculty position as Foundational Experiences Librarian. We are looking for someone with a passion for teaching who is willing to experiment with and deliver creative and effective instruction, both in the classroom and online; and who can create outreach programming that focuses on diverse student and prospective student audiences. The Foundational Experiences Librarian will develop programming, both instructional and recreational, to support the development of competencies and literacies that are the underpinning of a successful comprehensive polytechnic education. Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Academic Services, this new position supports the library's mission of promoting open and informed inquiry and fostering collaboration and innovation, by leading the library's program of instructional outreach and services delivered through General Education (GE) courses in both physical and virtual learning environments. Through collaboration with various stakeholders, including our college librarians, this position will design and manage the integration of online learning modules and tutorials to broaden the reach of library instruction beyond the physical classroom. This position also provides leadership, development, support, and assessment of student instructional contributions delivered by the LibRATs, our peer-to-peer learning technicians who provide reference at our Research Help Desk and lead sessions for lower division General Education courses. Working closely with various library units and strategic partners, including Student Affairs, Admissions, Advising, Marketing, and other campus offices, partners and community members, this position leads the development and implementation of outreach and programs, both virtually and face to face, for new members of the Cal Poly community: prospective and first year students and families, as well transfer students and international students. This position will also coordinate instructional support to Cal Poly's Summer Institute and Educational Opportunity students in collaboration with the Kennedy Inclusive Culture Committee (KICC). Creative and promotional talents will allow this position to work with the library's user experience and communication teams to develop materials as well as coordinate and advance the library's "whole student" programs. This position will be part of a team of librarians who are committed to improving instructional effectiveness to advance student success. The successful candidate will be an effective teacher who uses creative pedagogical strategies, and who is adept at building relationships across the disciplines and with a variety of stakeholders. Candidates will demonstrate strategic and tactical capability in creating and implementing outreach programs through events and virtual and written communications. Collaboration skills, organization skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate well across various audiences are essential. The successful candidate will have a record of being a highly collaborative self starter. More information and how to apply: www.calpolyjobs.org/ applicants/Central?quickFind=163629 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sallard at utk.edu Fri Dec 20 10:00:31 2013 From: sallard at utk.edu (Allard, Suzanne Lorraine (Suzie)) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:00:31 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] IMCW2014 First Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a very interesting international conference that I have found valuable to attend. Suzie ************************************* Suzie Allard, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Associate Director School of Information Sciences College of Communication & Information The University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Drive * 453 Communications Bldg * Knoxville, TN * 37996-0341 USA phone: 865.974.1369 * fax: 865.974.4967 * email: sallard at utk.edu ************************************** ********* APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ************ IMCW2014: 5th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, November 24-26, 2014, Antalya, Turkey Research Data Management and Knowledge Discovery (First Call for Papers) Symposium web site: http://imcw2014.bilgiyonetimi.net SCOPE IMCW2014: The "5th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" will take place at the Club Hotel Sera (http://www.clubhotelsera.com.tr/) in Antalya, Turkey, from November 24-26, 2014 (http://imcw2014.bilgiyonetimi.net/). To commemorate the 2014 Turkish-German Science Year, IMCW2014 is organized in cooperation with Hacettepe University and the Goethe-Institutes in Turkey. IMCW2014 will be held jointly with the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2014) at the same venue so that participants will have a chance to attend both events. MAIN THEME The main theme of the Symposium is ?Research Data Management and Knowledge Discovery?. It aims to bring together researchers, data scientists, computer engineers, data repository managers, information scientists and information professionals, data librarians and archivists to discuss the issues pertinent to research data management and open data repositories, and to contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative knowledge discovery and mining services over the research data. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions can be theoretical as well as technical and practical. Informative case studies are also welcome. We accept extended abstracts (no less than 750 words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports, visual presentations (?pecha kuchas?) and posters on all aspects of innovative and collaborative research data management and knowledge discovery. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome. Extended abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf) byMarch 16, 2014. We also accept proposals to organize workshops. Proposals should include a title, a short abstract, proposal type, the name and contact information of the convener and be addressed to imcw2014 at gmail.com by March 16, 2014. We also encourage session proposals. The coordinator of a special session will be responsible for the selection of papers (4-6 papers) and will chair the session. For session coordinators, registration fee will be waived. Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as full papers. A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (decision pending) and the Symposium web site. Papers that appear in Springer?s CCIS series are indexed in Thomson Reuter?s Conference Proceedings Citation Index. MAIN TOPICS Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following: Research Data Research Data Infrastructure Research Data Management Open Access to Research Data Knowledge Discovery in Research Data Education for Research Data Management IMPORTANT DATES First Call: December 2013 Second Call: January 2014 Third Call: February 2014 Last date to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: 16 March 2014 Authors notification: 1 May 2014 Submission of extended abstracts in final form: 1 June 2014 Registration starts: 2 June 2014 Submission of full papers (if desired):1 July 2014 Notification of acceptance of full papers: 1 August 2014 Submission of full papers in final form: 1 September 2014 Symposium: 24-26 November 2014 All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at imcw2014 at gmail.com. Ya?ar Tonta and Serap Kurbano?lu, General Co-chairs Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 297 82 00 Fax: +90 312 299 20 14 E-mail: {yasartonta, kurbanogluserap}@gmail.com Nico Sandfuchs Goethe-Institut Ankara Atat?rk Bulvar? No:131 06640 Bakanl?klar, Ankara, Turkey Phone:+90 312 419 52 83 E-mail: sandfuchs at ankara.goethe.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 23 09:05:35 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:05:35 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP ASIS&T 2014 Message-ID: <388-220131212314535820@LEN-dick-2011> Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST?s many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. Important Dates Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From chodgson at niso.org Mon Dec 30 20:12:01 2013 From: chodgson at niso.org (Cynthia Hodgson) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:12:01 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] NISO January 8 Webinar: From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content Message-ID: <008601cf05c5$5084a440$f18decc0$@org> Webinar: From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content Date: January 8, 2014 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/device/ ===================================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR Content providers and libraries are struggling with the bests way to make their e-content adapt to the wide diversity of devices-including desktops, laptops, tablets, e-readers, and smartphones. For decades, the PDF document format has been the fallback for digital content display, despite its shortcomings. But new developments and standards from file formats to improved cascading style sheets, adaptive layouts, graphics scaling, and device recognition are encouraging the move away from PDF, but many challenges remain. When is reflowable text or fixed layout the best approach? Can a user have a common experience regardless of device being used or should the goal be to provide the best experience for the particular device? How can authors and publishers ensure that specialized content such as graphics and tables are not lost or garbled when presented to a smaller screen? Is there an efficient way to produce and distribute content without re-creating it for every different potential device and format? Is it possible to create device-agnostic content? Understanding these issues is critical both for publishers who need to efficiently distribute content and for libraries who will be purchasing this content and ensuring their patrons, with their variety of devices, can access the electronic content they need. NISO's January 8 webinar will describe some advances in adaptive publication design and provide a basis for what you can expect for making content device agnostic. SPEAKERS Jean Kaplansky - Digital Content Solutions Architect, Aptara, which provides digital publishing solutions to content providers for capitalizing on new digital and mobile mediums Toby Plewak - Product Strategist for Publishing Technology's pub2web platform, a custom hosting solution that supports and delivers published information REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on January 8, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance ). All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/device/ Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: