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September/October 2016
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 2016

 

In Print

  • National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education: An Assessment, by Jason Brodeur, Morgan Daniels, Annie Johnson, Natsuko Nicholls, Sarah Pickle, and Elizabeth A. Waraksa, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) CLIR Pub 172, August 2016.

    "The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) was formed in 2001 to 'stimulate collaboration between selected liberal arts colleges and to act as a catalyst for the effective integration of emerging and newer digital technologies into teaching, learning, scholarship, and information management.' In July 2015, NITLE migrated its operations from Southwestern University to CLIR. In conjunction with this migration, CLIR initiated a rigorous analysis of NITLE's current condition and the needs of its constituents. CLIR engaged a six-member team of consultants to conduct the assessment."

  • Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report (2016), by Committee on Continuing Innovation in Information Technology; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academies Press, ISBN: 978-0-309-43724-0, DOI: 10.17226/23393. Purchase for $45 or download PDF free of charge.

    From the Description: "The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information technology (IT), conducted at industry and universities, has led to the introduction of entirely new product categories that ultimately became billion-dollar industries. The central graphic from that report portrays and connects areas of major investment in basic research, university-based research, and industry research and development; the introduction of important commercial products resulting from this research; billion-dollar-plus industries stemming from it; and present-day IT market segments and representative U.S. firms whose creation was stimulated by the decades-long research."

  • Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020, by the Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academies Press, 2016. Purchase for $48 or read free online.

    From the Description: "Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced computing has been growing for all types and capabilities of systems, from large numbers of single commodity nodes to jobs requiring thousands of cores; for systems with fast interconnects; for systems with excellent data handling and management; and for an increasingly diverse set of applications that includes data analytics as well as modeling and simulation. Since the advent of its supercomputing centers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided its researchers with state-of-the-art computing systems. The growth of new models of computing, including cloud computing and publically available by privately held data repositories, opens up new possibilities for NSF."

  • The Modern News Consumer: News attitudes and practices in the digital era, by Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Elisa Shearer, Pew Research Center, July 2016.

    "A new, two-part survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in early 2016 in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, reveals a public that is cautious as it moves into this more complex news environment and discerning in its evaluation of available news sources."

  • The Open Data Imperative: How the Cultural Heritage Community Can Address the Federal Mandate, by Suzie Allard, Christopher Lee, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Alice Bishop, July 2016, CLIR pub 171, Council on Library and Information Resources.

    "[This report] offers a series of recommendations to improve the open data infrastructure, engage a broad community of stakeholders to support the management of data as an asset, and expand collaboration that is vital to ensuring public access to data. It is available online only."

  • ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians, approved by the ACRL Board of Directors during the ALA Annual Conference, June 2016.

    From ACRL Update, August 9, 2016: "The policy statement was developed by ACRL's research and scholarly environment committee with feedback from members and the broader community then vetted by the ACRL Standards Committee."

  • Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record, EDINA and the ISSN International Centre, July 2016.

    "Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record is a statement that outlines the actions now required to tackle the evolving challenges of preserving and ensuring the long term accessibility of digital scholarship."

  • Data Breach Aftermath and Recovery for Individuals and Institutions: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016), Anne Johnson and Lynette I. Millett, Rapporteurs; Forum on Cyber Resilience Workshop Series; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academies Press, 2016.

    "In January 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Data Breach Aftermath and Recovery for Individuals and Institutions. Participants examined existing technical and policy remediations, and they discussed possible new mechanisms for better protecting and helping consumers in the wake of a breach. Speakers were asked to focus on data breach aftermath and recovery and to discuss ways to remediate harms from breaches. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop."

  • Code4Lib Journal, Issue 33, 2016-07-19.

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

  • ERCIM News, Special Theme: Cybersecurity, Number 106, July 2016.

    "This special issue on the theme of Cybersecurity presents a variety of research results that show the richness and range of Cybersecurity issues and their application domains. The issue has been coordinated by the guest editors Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) and Edgar Weippl (SBA Research)."

 

Point to Point

 

Calls for Participation

  • Eighth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2017), 29 - 31 March 2017, Juarez, Mexico. Call for workshop proposals. The submission deadline is 15 October 2016.

    "The Conference Committee invites proposals from prospective researchers to organize one day workshops during the ICADIWT 2017. The main goal of the ICADIWT 2017 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to digital information technologies and web management. The workshops will provide an optimum environment where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas."

  • ISI2017 - 15th International Symposium of Information Science, 13 - 15 March 2017, Berlin, Germany. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 1 November 2016.

    "With the ongoing digitization and virtualization of goods, services and living environments, information science reflects on the potential changes within the information society. While some parts of the community proclaim a revolutionary shift not only in the way we approach information and information systems, but also in the way society constitutes itself, others state that while the applications and interfaces adapt to advances in information technology, the underlying principles for human interactions with information remain the same. At ISI 2017, we invite contributions on the development of innovative information spaces and services, on analyses of human-computer interactions in physical or virtual information spaces and on the role of information science and its research endeavors.."

  • Archiving 2017, 15 - 18 May 2017, Riga, Latvia. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 1 November 2016.

    "The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together an international community of imaging experts and technicians as well as curators, managers, and researchers from libraries, archives, museums, records management repositories, information technology institutions, and commercial enterprises to explore and discuss the field of digitization of cultural heritage and archiving."

  • 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2017, 24 - 26 February 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for participation. The submission deadline for workshop proposals is 7 November 2017; for position papers is 8 November 2016; and for special sessions is 23 November 2017.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence."

  • 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP 2017 19 - 21 February 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for participation. The submission deadline for workshop proposals is 10 November 2017; for position papers is 11 November 2016; and for special sessions is 28 November 2017.

    "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."

  • 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - MODELSWARD 2017 19 - 21 February 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for participation. The submission deadline for workshop proposals is 10 November 2017; for position papers is 11 November 2016; and for special sessions is 28 November 2017.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2017, 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. MDD has emerged from modelling initiatives, most prominently the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) fostered by the Object Management Group (OMG). In the scope of MDA, a couple of technologies have been developed that became the cornerstones of MDD, like metamodelling and model transformations. MDD relies on languages for defining metamodels, like the Meta-Object Facility (MOF) and Ecore (developed in the scope of the Eclipse Modelling Framework), and transformation specification languages like QVT and ATL."

  • 2nd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - COMPLEXIS 2017, 24 - 26 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 21 November 2016.

    "COMPLEXIS – the International Conference on Complex Information Systems – aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing innovative views on all aspects of Complex Information Systems, in different areas such as Informatics, Telecommunications, Computational Intelligence, Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Social Sciences. Information is pervasive in many areas of human activity – perhaps all – and complexity is a characteristic of current Exabyte-sized, highly connected and hyper dimensional, information systems. COMPLEXIS 2017 is expected to provide an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the potential of new methodologies, technologies and application areas of complex information systems, in the academic and corporate world."

  • 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2017, 24 - 26 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 21 November 2016.

    "The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2017, 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."

  • 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2017, 25 - 27 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 23 November 2016.

    "The purpose of the 13th 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, namely Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems."

  • 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2017, 21 - 23 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 28 November 2016.

    "CSEDU 2017, 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. CSEDU 2017 is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world."

  • 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2017, 28 - 29 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 30 November 2016.

    "The purpose of the 19th 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."

  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Managemen GISTAM 2017, 27 - 28 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 30 November 2016.

    "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."

  • 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2017, 28 - 29 April 2017, Porto, Portugal. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 30 November 2016.

    "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 novel approaches to software engineering. The conference acknowledges evolution 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

  • Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS), 17 - 18 October 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

    "The Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS) is intended to enable midwestern librarians who work with research data management issues the chance to network; however, it is open to all who wish to attend, including future data librarians and data librarians situated outside the Midwest."

  • Internet Librarian 2016, 17 - 19 October 2016, Monterey, California, USA.

    "[Attend this event to] discover the insights, strategies and practices that allow us to push the envelope in expanding the net, building solid connections to the Internet of Things, managing libraries and digital information, and enhancing the information sharing and learning experience of people in our communities."

  • 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), 17 - 21 October 2016, Kobe, Japan.

    "ISWC 2016 is the premier international forum, for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. Here, scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions."

  • Taxonomy Boot Camp London, 18 - 19 October 2016, London, United Kingdom.

    "More and more organisations are recognising the value of taxonomies to drive their data, content and information processes....at the first ever Taxonomy Boot Camp London – discover new applications and develop new skillsets."

  • Internet Librarian International: The Library Innovation Conference, 18 - 19 October 2016, London, United Kingdom.

    "Internet Librarian International is a great forum for sharing ideas, learning new skills, hearing about new tools and technology, making unexpected connections, discovering practical solutions, and exploring new and interesting approaches – all with the aim of helping you make a difference to your organisation, clients and communities."

  • NISO Webinar: Internet of Things, 19 October - 2 November 2016, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

    "This session will introduce concepts and potential implications of the internet of things on the information management community. It will also explore applications related to managing resources in a library environment that are being developed and implemented."

  • INNS BIG DATA 2016, 23 -25 October 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece.

    "[The] aim of this conference is to promote new advances and research directions in efficient and innovative algorithmic approaches to analyzing big data (e.g. deep networks, nature-inspired and brain-inspired algorithms), implementations on different computing platforms (e.g. neuromorphic, GPUs, clouds, clusters) and applications of Big Data Analytics to solve real-world problems (e.g. weather prediction, transportation, energy management)."

  • Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2016), 24 - 27 October 2016, Dublin, Ireland.

    "The aim of IICE 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. The IICE-2016 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. The IICE-2016 main themes are Curriculum, Research and Development."

  • International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 24 - 28 October 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

    "CIKM is a top-tier ACM conference in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and databases. Since 1992, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities, with the purpose of identifying challenging problems facing the development of advanced knowledge and information systems, and shaping future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings."

  • EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, 25 - 28 October 2016, Annaheim, California, USA.

    "The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier convening of IT professionals and technology providers across the diverse higher education landscape. The conference creates networking opportunities for colleagues to share ideas regarding strategies, leading change, effective processes, what's working, and sometimes – more importantly – what isn't."

  • European Conference on eLearning, 27 - 28 October 2016, Prague, Czech Republic.

    "ECEL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of e-Learning."

  • Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference Preconference Summit: 'Crossing Borders', 26 - 28 October 2016, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

    "Over the course of three days prior to the start of the 'Negotiating Borders' Conference, participants in the Summit will discuss both the challenges and opportunities that exist for cross-departmental collaboration between librarians, technologists and those who support digital scholarship programs at our respective colleges and universities. Through both small and large group conversations and activities, participants will work towards producing a set of guidelines and recommendations to share with the broader digital scholarship community."

  • Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration, 28 - 30 October 2016, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

    "Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference. Our theme, 'Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.' will bring together a broad community of practitioners – faculty, researchers, librarians, educational technologists, and students – who are using technology to rethink seemingly intractable borders within and outside of the university. We define 'borders' as boundaries that limit access; conditions that differentiate insiders from outsiders; or any obstacle that impairs open communication and collaboration."

  • Museum Computer Network (MCN) 2016, 1 - 4 November 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

    "MCN hosts an annual conference bringing together cultural heritage professionals interested in advancing digital in their organizations. Attendees come from all areas of practice, from IT to digital outreach and visitor engagement, to collections, conservation, archival, libraries, curatorial, education, marketing, and more. Each conference features a variety of interactions and professional development opportunities."

  • 8th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16), 1 - 4 November 2016, Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne, France.

    "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 web technologies and resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end."

  • Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 3 - 5 November 2016, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

    "The [conference] program is full of exciting attractions. Workshops emphasize practical skills that fall just outside of the traditional archival curriculum. e sessions follow several distinct tracks: some exploring local history, others investigating innovative local initiatives documenting previously underrepresented communities."

  • 16th Annual Brick & Click Library Conference, 4 November 2016, Maryville, Missouri, USA.

    "Brick & Click is a one day academic library conference featuring sessions that explore cutting-edge technologies, practical solutions, and timely topics."

  • 2016 DLF Forum, 7 - 9 November 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

    "The DLF is a robust and inclusive community that works to advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies. Our annual Forum (#DLFforum) brings digital library, archives, and museum practitioners together to set ambitious agendas, share new methods and experiments, develop best practices, and better organize our community to accomplish its shared mission."

  • NISO Two-Part Webinar: Digital Security Part 1: Securing Library Systems, 9 November 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).

    "This two-part webinar program will focus on what best practice activities libraries should be implementing to ensure that their services are protected and secure. Part one of this webinar will be focused on management of internal systems and methods of securing library systems and the data that they hold."

  • 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR 2016, 9 - 11 November 2016, Porto, 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. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called 'information overload'."

  • 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - KEOD 2016, 9 - 11 November 2016, Porto, Portugal.

    "Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social as-pects 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."

  • 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - KMIS 2016, 9 - 11 November 2016, Porto, 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."

  • Taxonomy Boot Camp 2016, 14 - 15 November 2016, Washington, DC, USA.

    "Taxonomy Boot Camp 2016 will focus on taxonomy methodologies inspired by a range of disciplines, including cognitive science, data management, and user experience design."

  • KM World 2016, 14 - 17 November 2016, Washington, DC, USA.

    "Hacking and hackathons are perhaps better known in the geek community, but KMWorld 2016, is taking a page from their book and looking to hack, or change in our case, our ideas, strategies, and practices in using processes and technology to engage our communities."

  • Enterprise Search & Discovery 2016, 15 - 17 November 2017, Washington, DC, USA.

    "Within the enterprise, data is driving many decisions. But to navigate the data-intensive organization, it's necessary to effectively and efficiently find the relevant data. That's where enterprise search and discovery come on board. Those involved with implementing and maintaining enterprise search and discovery operations feel buffeted by winds of new technologies and look for ways not to be blown off course. They are the experts in skirting dangerous shoals of missed, out-of-date, and unfindable data. People want 'at-their-fingertips' information and quickly abandon ship when search is not up to their expectations. This creates challenges for IT departments, business unit managers, intranet designers, and webmasters."

  • NISO Two-Part Webinar: Digital Security Part 2: Protecting Library Resources From Piracy, 16 November 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (US Eastern Time).

    "This two-part webinar program will focus on what best practice activities libraries should be implementing to ensure that their services are protected and secure....The second session of this program will be focused on the issue of privacy and methods for protecting content from unauthorized distribution, including digital rights management systems, social DRM, and other approaches to preventing piracy."

  • 19th Annual Forum of the Library Information and Technology Association: Lita Forum 2016, 17 - 20 November 2016, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

    "The Library and Information Technology Association is the leading organization reaching out across types of libraries to provide education and services for a broad membership. The membership includes new professionals, web services librarians, systems librarians, digital initiatives librarians, library administrators, library schools, vendors and anyone else interested in leading edge technology and applications for librarians and information providers."

  • 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research MTSR 2016, 22 - 25 November 2016, Göttingen, Germany.

    "MTSR'16 brings together scholars and practitioners with common interest in the interdisciplinary fields of metadata, data and semantics. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies across diverse types of information environments and applications."

  • Eighteenth International Conference on Grey Literature 'Leveraging Diversity in Grey Literature', 28 - 29 November 2016, Manhattan, New York, USA.

    "GL18 will focus on evidence and will seek to further raise awareness among the wider public to the strength of grey literature based on a shared commitment by a diverse community of authors and researchers responsible for its production and open access. GL18 welcomes information professionals in government and non-government, in academics, business and industry to engage in this year's international forum."

  • Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) Conference 2016, 28 - 30 November 2016, Bonn, Germany.

    "The SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations....The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD activities in other areas. SWIB mainly targets IT staff, developers, librarians and researchers."

  • Gilbane Digital Content Conference, 29 - 30 November 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    "Well-designed content is the core ingredient of competitive digital experiences. And the accelerating pace of technology allows us to dramatically improve content creation, content management, content delivery, and ultimately the customer experience. But this is far from easy, and depending on your goals can require pulling together many components, including web content management / web experience management, new development frameworks, analytics, tag management, social media, and advertising tools, as well as ecommerce, CRM, and other system integrations. The Gilbane Digital Content Conference brings together content strategists and managers, marketers, technologists, IT and business executives, as well as external service providers to learn and share how to put the pieces of the puzzle together."

  • Acting on Change: New Approaches and Future Practices in Digital Preservation: An international meeting and conference, 30 November - 1 December 2016, London, United Kingdom.

    "This conference will consider the importance of understanding digital objects in relation to their associated dependencies and context for preservation. During the conference we will look at how modelling might help us to understand the digital object and associated dependencies within its environment, and how this could support decision-making to lessen or countermand the impacts of change. Risk analysis and the use of models will also be explored, as tools that can support practitioners in anticipating the consequences of decisions and policies on digital preservation."

 

Deadline Reminders

  • Computing Conference 2017, 18 - 20 July 2017, London, United Kingdom. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 1 October 2016.

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