From eschenfelder at wisc.edu Thu Jun 1 16:35:54 2017 From: eschenfelder at wisc.edu (Kristin Eschenfelder) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:35:54 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] SIG SI best paper award call nominations due July 10 (paper and student paper awards) Message-ID: Call for nominations for the annual Social Informatics Best Paper Awards Nominations due July 10, 2017 Self-nominations encouraged The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) is seeking nominations for the following annual awards: Best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2016 calendar year: The author or authors will receive a $1,000 cash award and will be invited to present their paper at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in late October, 2017. Best paper written by a PhD student on a topic informed by social informatics: Nominations for the PhD student paper may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceedings in the 2016 calendar year. The winners will receive a $500 cash award and will be invited to present their work at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in October 2017. Nomination statements for both awards should be sent to Kristin Eschenfelder by July 10, 2017 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and an e-copy of the article. Self-nominations are encouraged. Winners will be notified in mid-August. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/ For past award winners see: https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/awards/ Kristin R. Eschenfelder Director and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor SLIS, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison eschenfelder at wisc.edu 608-263-2105 608-263-2900 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rsandusky at gmail.com Thu Jun 8 10:15:31 2017 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:15:31 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: *Registration is open until July 17th for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting* Meeting will be held July 24th ? 25th 2017 and co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will be a 2-day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions, and community-led discussions. *There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting* Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2017 *Meeting Theme and Objectives* The 2017 meeting theme, ?Data Discoverability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability?, will bring together stakeholders to explore current advancements in these areas. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of discoverability, reproducibility and sustainability are invited. Some examples are provided below: *Data Discoverability:* - Describing, Documenting, and Representing Data - Connecting journal articles to datasets to repositories - Distinguishing between publishing, data, preservation repositories *Reproducibility:* - Best Practices, Guidelines, and Standards - Procedures, Tools, and Workflows - Projects, Prototypes, and Use Cases *Sustainability:* - Collaborations, Partnerships, and Stakeholders - Infrastructure, Resources, and Support - Computation, Integration, and Certification DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters* Abstracts for posters are solicited during the registration process. Poster submissions will remain open until July. *Important dates* Hotel block available: *July 7, 2017 or until filled* Meeting registration and poster submission deadline: *July 17, 2017* Thanks! Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago DataONE Users Group Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: