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September/October 2015
Table of Contents

 

Summary

In Print

Point to Point

Calls for Participation

Goings On

Deadline Reminders

 

C L I P S   A N D   P O I N T E R S

September/October 2015

 

In Print

  • The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials, Jackie Dooley, OCLC Research, 2015.

    "This essay argues for involving archivists in the management of born-digital library materials (i.e., created and managed in digital form)....This essay also focuses on ten areas of archival expertise and their relevance to the digital context.These include confirming ownership, appraising the significance of content, documenting the context of creation, negotiating with collection donors and nurturing these relationships over time, recognizing and navigating legal issues, ensuring authenticity of files, and using practical approaches to creating metadata for large collections. Each of these is equally relevant for digital and analog (physical) materials. Archivists' in-depth knowledge of each area helps to ensure that the right questions are addressed."

  • Filling the Digital Preservation Gap. A Jisc Research Data Spring project. Phase One report - July 2015, by Jenny Mitcham, Chris Awre, Julie Allinson, Richard Green, and Simon Wilson, 2015, published by figshare ( a Jisc funded project), July 2015.

    "[This is] a report written during phase 1 of a Jisc funded project to investigate the potential of using Archivematica for the digital preservation of research data as part of a wider technical infrastructure for research data management. The project was a collaboration between the University of Hull and the University of York."

  • How Do Users Search and Discover? Findings from Ex Libris User Research, by Christine Stohn, Senior Product Manager, Discovery and Delivery, Ex Libris, May 2015.

    "This paper describes the findings and conclusions from a recent Ex Libris user study and discusses how the conclusions apply to library discovery systems. The study included analyses of users' search logs and qualitative surveys conducted via workshops with librarians and interviews of users at different academic levels and from various countries and disciplines."

  • The Once and Future Publishing Library, by Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman, Council on Library and Information Resources, July 2015, Pub Number 166.

    "The report explores the revitalization of library publishing and its possible future, and examines elements that influence the success and sustainability of library publishing initiatives....The authors trace the history of library publishing and factors that have transformed the publishing landscape, and describe several significant library-press collaborations forged over the past two decades."

  • IMLS Focus: Learning in Libraries, report of a meeting held Thursday, May 14, 2015, at the Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. Compiled and edited by Chrystie Hill, Merrilee Proffitt, and Sharon Streams, OCLC.

    "This report, prepared by OCLC Research, highlights some of the key themes and issues raised by convening presenters and participants at an IMLS Focus meeting convened on the subject of learning in libraries. The notes may be particularly useful for those interested in proposing projects related to the IMLS Learning in Libraries funding priority in both the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program and the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program."

  • NISO Primer on Research Data Management, by Carly Strasser, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2015.

    "The primer on Research Data Management provides an overview of how data management has changed in recent years, and outlines best practices for the collection, documentation, and preservation of research data. The importance of creating a data management plan (DMP) before beginning a research data project is emphasized. Crucial questions regarding how the data will be managed are answered ahead of time in a DMP, thus making it easier for the researcher to collect and document the data properly for future use and reuse."

  • NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition, by L. Johnson, S. Adams Becker, V. Estrada, and A. Freeman. The New Media Consortium, 2015.

    "The NMC Horizon Report series charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies in learning sectors across the globe. With more than 13 years of research and publications, it can be regarded as the world's longest-running exploration of emerging technology trends and uptake in education."

  • IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment, Endorsed by the IFLA Governing Board on 14 August 2015.

    "This new Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment is intended to give guidance to libraries and information services in an environment that includes mass surveillance by governments and routine user data collection by commercial interests that provide content or services through the Internet....The statement describes current challenges to the protection of user privacy for libraries and information services, outlines relevant international statements of privacy as a right and identifies related IFLA policies."

  • Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer, by Michael W. Carroll, PLoS Biology, Volume 13 Number 8: e1002235. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002235, published August 27, 2015.

    Abstract: "Sharing research data by depositing it in connection with a published article or otherwise making data publicly available sometimes raises intellectual property questions in the minds of depositing researchers, their employers, their funders, and other researchers who seek to reuse research data. In this context or in the drafting of data management plans, common questions are (1) what are the legal rights in data; (2) who has these rights; and (3) how does one with these rights use them to share data in a way that permits or encourages productive downstream uses? Leaving to the side privacy and national security laws that regulate sharing certain types of data, this Perspective explains how to work through the general intellectual property and contractual issues for all research data."

  • Code4Lib Journal, Issue 29, July 15, 2015.

    "The Code4Lib Journal exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future."

  • OSTI newsletter, Issue 12, July/August 2015.

    "OSTI is the Department of Energy office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results."

  • Primary Source, Volume 17, Number 8, August 2015. Published by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    "Each issue of Primary Source contains brief articles that alert readers to new information about grants, monthly highlights of best practices, and important agency news with links to more detailed information on the website."

  • Informer, Summer 2015, Newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group.

    "Informer is the quarterly newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Its aim is to provide insights and inspiration to researchers and professionals working in all aspects of search and information retrieval. Our articles provide accessible and timely coverage of important topics, ranging from focused, practical advice, to concise overviews of broader topics, and to deeper, research-oriented articles and opinion pieces."

  • Greynet Newsletter, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2015.

    "This serial publication endeavors to keep information professionals abreast of developments in the field of grey literature. The quarterly newsletter gives exposure to GreyNet's information resources and frontline activities with special emphasis on the International Conference Series on Grey Literature."

  • DuraSpace Digest, Vol. 7, Issue 7 August 2015.

    "The DuraSpace Digest highlights recent events, releases, and opportunities of interest to the DuraSpace community."

Point to Point

  • Slides from OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual 2015, OCLC Research, July 2015.

    "Slides from this event are now available on the OCLC website. Presentations focus on work by OCLC Research, including: how libraries can engage with Wikipedia and why it's important; leveraging Linked Data for discovery, editing and visualization; and the latest developments with FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), a general use subject terminology scheme."

 

Calls for Participation

  • 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - BIOINFORMATICS 2016, 21 - 23 February 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for Tutorials, Demos and Panels Proposals. The submission deadline is 16 October 2015.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems and information technologies to the field of molecular biology, including for example the use of statistics and algorithms to understanding biological processes and systems, with a focus on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology."

  • 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2016, 23 - 25 April 2015, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 27 October 2015.

    "The 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2016, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing."

  • 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2016, 21 - 23 April 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for participation. The submission deadlines are as follows: for papers - 28 October 2015; for workshop proposals - 9 Novmeber 2015; and for special sessions proposals - 18 November 2015.

    "CSEDU 2016, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers. In particular, the Web is currently a preferred medium for distance learning and the learning practice in this context is usually referred to as e-learning."

  • 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST, 23 - 25 April 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for participation. The submission deadlines are as follows: for papers - 28 October 2015; for workshop proposals - 9 Novmeber 2015; and for special sessions proposals - 18 November 2015.

    "The purpose of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems."

  • 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP 2016, 19 - 21 February 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for position papers. The submission deadline is 29 October 2015.

    "The International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy aims at creating a meeting point for researchers and practitioners that address security and privacy challenges that concern information systems, especially in organizations, including not only technological issues but also social issues. The conference welcomes papers of either practical or theoretical nature, presenting research or applications addressing all aspects of security and privacy, that concerns to organizations and individuals, thus creating new research opportunities."

  • 11th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - VISAPP 2016, 27 - 29 February 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for position papers. The submission deadline is 29 October 2015.

    "The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the area of computer vision application systems. Five simultaneous tracks will be held, covering all different aspects related to computer vision: Image Formation and Preprocessing; Image and Video Analysis and Understanding; Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision; and Applications and Services."

  • 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - MODELSWARD 2016, 19 - 21 February 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for position papers. The submission deadline is 29 October 2015.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2016, is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for Software Development. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach to the development of IT systems in which models take a central role, not only for analysis of these systems but also for their construction."

  • 11th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - GRAPP 2016, 27 - 29 February 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for position papers. The submission deadline is 29 October 2015.

    "The International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Graphics. The conference will be structured along five main tracks, covering different aspects related to Computer Graphics, from Modelling to Rendering, including Animation, Interactive Environments and Social Agents In Computer Graphics."

  • 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2016, 25 - 28 April 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 October 2015.

    "The purpose of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Six simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Internet Computing, Electronic Commerce, Human Factors and Enterprise Architecture."

  • 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - GISTAM 2016, 26 - 27 April 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for participation. The submission deadlines are as follows: for papers - 30 October 2015; for workshop proposals - 13 Novmeber 2015; and for special sessions proposals - 24 November 2015.

    "The International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management aims at creating a meeting point of researchers and practitioners that address new challenges in geo-spatial data sensing, observation, representation, processing, visualization, sharing and managing, in all aspects concerning both information communication and technologies (ICT) as well as management information systems and knowledge-based systems. The conference welcomes original papers of either practical or theoretical nature, presenting research or applications, of specialized or interdisciplinary nature, addressing any aspect of geographic information systems and technologies."

  • 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2016, 27 - 28 April 2016, Rome, Italy. Call for participation. The submission deadlines are as follows: for papers - 30 October 2015; for workshop proposals - 13 Novmeber 2015; and for special sessions proposals - 24 November 2015.

    "The mission of ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering) is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. The conference acknowledges necessary changes in systems and software thinking due to contemporary shifts of computing paradigm to e-services, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, business processes, and societal participation."

 

Goings On

  • CHArt 2015 conference: The Fabrication of Art and Beyond: Making and Inventing in Digital Culture, 17 October 2015 (provisional), London, United Kingdom.

    "CHArt was established in 1985 by art and design historians who happened also to be computer enthusiasts. Initially a forum for the exchange of ideas between people who were using computers in their research, the largely academic membership was soon augmented by members from museums and art galleries, as well as individuals involved in the management of the visual and textual archives and libraries relevant to the subject."

  • International Conference on Culture and Computing 2015, 17 - 19 October 2015, Kyoto, Japan.

    "Culture and Computing 2015 will also be organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along with a number of organized sessions."

  • World Congress on Education (WCE-2015), 19 - 21 October 2015, Dublin, Ireland.

    "The World Congress on Education (WCE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The WCE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of WCE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy."

  • High Level Training Course on ISO 16363 for Managers of Digital Repositories, 19 - 23 October 2015, Washington, DC, USA.

    "The Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body (ISO-PTAB) plays a major role in training auditors and repository managers. There are three important ISO standards...These three standards form a closely related family and an understanding of their principles and use will become increasingly important in establishing an internationally recognised and certified set of trustworthy digital repositories....The aim is that at the end of the course, repository managers should be able to understand what a repository which seeks certification needs to do, what questions they may be asked by auditors and what kinds of evidence may be presented."

  • Internet Librarian International 2015, 20 - 21 October 2015, London, United Kingdom.

    "The theme of this event is 'Dynamic disruption: transforming the library'. Sixty world-class speakers, fifty inspirational presentations, forty enlightening case studies, and colleagues from over thirty countries combine to transform your library with vibrant and energetic new services that respond to your users' needs."

  • Tenth International Conference on Digital Information Management, 21 - 23 October 2015, Jeju Island, South Korea.

    "The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology."

  • 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015), 25 - 29 October 2015, Caraguatatuba/São Paulo, Brazil.

    "The International Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in 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 web technologies and resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end."

  • Library Leaders Digital Strategy Summit 2015, 26 - 27 October 2015, Monterey, California, USA.

    "The Library Leaders Digital Strategy Summit is an interactive, intimate experience for leaders to discuss future scenarios and options with colleagues and industry experts. During the sessions, leaders are challenged with various perspectives and viewpoints to clarify their visions and goals of digital strategy in their organizations environments."

  • DLF Forum 2015, 26 - 28 October 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

    "The DLF Forum is an annual meeting where the digital library, archive, and museum communities come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues."

  • Internet Librarian, 26 - 28 October 2015, Monterey, California, USA.

    "Internet librarians are pushing the boundaries and creating new directions for their services. Gather insights and ideas to ignite your imagination and spark innovation at the 19th annual Internet Librarian conference and exhibition as we focus on the new roles and directions that information professionals are taking within the 'info service biz'."

  • ISMIR 2015 - 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 26 - 30 October 2015, Malaga, Spain.

    "The annual Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on processing, analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. Music becomes music after being processed by the human mind and each person perceives the music in a different and complex way. Therefore, this conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing ideas and applications that aim to enhance the way in which we interact with music."

  • CASRAI Reconnect15, 27 - 28 October 2015, Toronto, Canada.

    "CASRAI is building a global nonprofit network of research organizations collaborating to standardize agreements on portable information for easier sharing. CASRAI Reconnect conferences are fast becoming the preeminent annual event for modern and interoperable data practices in shared research management. They are an opportunity for leaders, managers, administrators at research institutions, libraries, publishers and funders to share, network and learn with others who are tackling the same issues at the root of administrative burden and silo-obstacles to distributed evaluation and impact assessment."

  • EDUCAUSE 2015, 27 - 30 October 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

    "The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier higher education IT event, offering an engaging and informative program, formal and informal opportunities to build your professional network, and allows you to learn, reflect, and engage with colleagues from around the world."

  • NISO Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience, 28 October 2015, 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).

    "In this virtual conference, a range of perspectives will be featured on how publishers, libraries and technology suppliers achieve an understanding of reader needs and perspectives, in order to drive iterative improvements in the way users interact with the content we host, publish, and license."

  • International UDC Seminar: Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery, 29 - 30 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

    "Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a local perspective to the global environment."

  • 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2015), 29 October - 1 November 2015, Santa Clara, California, USA.

    "In recent years, 'Big Data' has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. The IEEE Big Data has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data."

  • Taxonomy Boot Camp 2015, 2 - 3 November 2015, Washington, DC, USA.

    "Taxonomy Boot Camp is the only conference dedicated to exploring the successes, challenges, methodologies and products for taxonomies. Share your experiences, knowledge and work with taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, tagging mechanisms and other techniques for organizing information at this one-of-a-kind boutique learning and networking event."

  • KMWorld 2015, 2 - 5 November 2015, Washington, DC, USA.

    "Successful organizations are flexible and fast. They can quickly transfer and share knowledge, deal with an enormous amount of data, innovate, engage, and impact communities, and customers in positive ways. The platforms, processes and programs have to respond in a timely fashion to make this happen and to keep customers satisfied. The culture of the organization, the people, enables the transformations and innovations – and well-oiled collaborative organizations excel at leading the charge. KMWorld 2015 will explore how to apply these techniques and more for knowledge sharing and innovation in your enterprise to be successful in today's world."

  • International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2015, 2 - 6 November 2015, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

    "This premier event brings together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in digital preservation. iPRES2015 draws participants from around the world and from leading institutions, projects and initiatives currently working in this domain."

  • Enterprise Search & Discovery 2015, 3 - 5 November 2015, Washington, DC, USA.

    "New technologies, next generation information access, and novel approaches to search and discovery are on the agenda for 2015. Focus will be on how to improve speed and relevancy, sound the death knell to those dreaded 'blue lists' of results, and debate the merits of various technologies. The role of information governance as it affects search and discovery will be considered, and the intriguing challenges presented by mobile devices will be investigated."

  • ETD 2015 Symposium, 4 - 6 November 2015, New Delhi, India.

    "The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). ...This international conference on electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) will be held for the first time in India."

  • Charleston Library Conference, 4 - 7 November 2015, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Registration deadline 16 October 2015).

    "The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment."

  • 15th Annual Brick and Click Libraries, 6 November 2015, Maryville, Missouri, USA.

    "Now in its 15th year, the Brick and Click Libraries conference (#BrickClickLib) is a one-day event featuring concurrent and lightning round sessions that explore cutting-edge technologies, practical solutions, and timely topics. The conference supports the academic information needs of both on-ground (brick) and online (click) students, library professionals and paraprofessionals."

  • 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 6 - 10 November 2015, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

    "This year's conference theme (Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community) provides an opportunity for information science researchers – including academics and practitioner researchers – to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts."

  • International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2015), 9 - 11 November 2015, London, United Kingdom.

    "The mission of i-Society 2015 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society."

  • London International Conference on Education, 9 - 11 November 2015, London, United Kingdom.

    "The London International Conference on Education (LICE-2015) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy."

  • SAI Intelligent Systems Conference 2015 (IntelliSys 2015), 10 - 11 November 2015, London, United Kingdom.

    "IntelliSys 2015 conference will focus on areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. It is an opportunity for researchers in this field to meet and discuss solutions, scientific results, and methods in solving intriguing problems in this field."

  • INFuture2015: e-Institutions - Openness, Accessibility, and Preservation, 11 - 13 November 2015, Zagreb, Croatia.

    "The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture) is a series of biannual international conferences aimed at researchers and professionals from the broad field of information and communication sciences and related professions. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform for discussing both theoretical and practical issues in information organization and information integration."

  • 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2015), 11 - 13 November 2015, Yichang, China.

    "JIST 2015 is a regional federation of Semantic Technology related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies."

  • 7th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR 2015, 12 - 14 November 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

    "Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge. Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web."

  • 7th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - KEOD 2015, 12 - 14 November 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

    "Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems....Ontology Development (OD) aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures specifying types of entities and types of relationships relevant within a certain domain."

  • 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - KMIS 2015, 12 - 14 November 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

    "Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes....Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures."

  • LITA National Forum, 12 - 15 November 2015, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

    "The LITA Forum is the annual gathering of about 300 technology-minded information professionals. It is the conference where technology meets the practicality of daily information operations in archives, libraries, and other information services."

  • International Knowledge Conference 2015 (IKC2015), 15 - 18 November 2015, Sarawak, Malaysia.

    "The International Knowledge Conference 2015 is a venue for researchers and practitioners especially in the Asian region to connect with the international research communities for exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge in the field of Library and Information Science, Knowledge Management, Archives and Records Management and other related fields."

  • European Data Forum (EDF2015), 16 - 17 November 2015, Luxembourg.

    "The European Data Forum (EDF) is a meeting for industry professionals, researchers, policymakers and members of community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus for the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving innovation and competition in many data-driven economic sectors."

  • NISO Webinar: Text Mining: Digging Deep for Knowledge, 18 November 2015. 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).

    "In this webinar, presenters will talk about the benefits and challenges to text mining and its impact on the library and information community."

Deadline Reminders

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