[KMDG-L] Call for Papers - IFLA Agricultural Libraries SIG

Call for Papers
Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group

Theme:
Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective

The IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group in association with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) invites papers for presentation at IFLA General Conference, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012.

Social networking is a hawkeyed phrase. It is a tool to connect people to people. Agricultural research, education, and extension are establishing connections with one to one and many to many in sharing and exchange of information. The advent of Internet has greatly facilitated and reinforced these connections by a variety of social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flicker, Ning etc.

The session will focus on pragmatic approach on the role of social media as a catalyst in establishing connections for advancing agriculture. Proposals must focus on one or more of the following topics with reference to the country/region/institution:

1. Role of social media for agricultural research
2. Role of social media for agricultural education
3. Role of social media for agricultural extension service
4. Role of social media for sustainable agriculture
5. Role of social media for agribusiness and marketing

SUBMISSIONS:
Proposal abstract (max 500 words) must be submitted by January 20, 2012 on any one or more of the topics listed above to dereddy@tamu.edu. Submission is to include presenter's name, position, institution, and email address.
All fees, including registration to the conference, travel, accommodation etc. are the responsibility of the authors.Notification of acceptance of proposals will be completed by February 20, 2012.

Deva E. Reddy, PhD
Convener, IFLA Agricultural Libraries SIG
Associate Professor
Texas A&M University Libraries
College Station, TX 77843-5000
United States
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.edu

[KMDG-L] Call for papers for Knowlwdge Manage satellite meeting

IFLA Satellite Meeting

Knowledge Management Theory in Action: how to plan, apply, and assess knowledge management in libraries

12 August 2012 - Helsinki

 

Organised by the IFLA Knowledge Management Section

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Knowledge Management Section

 

Theme:  Knowledge Management Theory in Action: how to plan, apply, and assess knowledge management in libraries

 

Date:  10 August 2012

 

Location:

Goethe-Institut Helsinki  http://www.goethe.de/ins/fi/hel/knt/anf/deindex.htm

Conference Theme and Focus:

 

Knowledge Management (KM) in an institution is recognized by all to be of crucial importance.  Whether the institution is a library or an organization that contains a library, librarians can and should play a major role in this regard because they have the skill and the tools to do it.  KM may not be employed because it is not fully understood or seems too complex or vague.  It may also not be fully appreciated by the managers of the institution's budget.

 

Almost ten years after the official introduction of Knowledge Management within IFLA it is possible and appropriate

-          To report on the state-of-the-art

-          To examine the practical experiences that outline models of implementation that can encourage and guide the widespread application in different library contexts 

 

The framing of the theory and state-of-the-art is entrusted to keynote speakers that have been selected.

 

Librarians, information scientists, professionals, researchers and other interested parties in knowledge management are invited to submit proposals for presentation at the meeting about use and implementation of KM by libraries or similar institutions which supply examples and models that can be applied and adapted to other situations.

 

The presentation proposals should contain a description of the KM system implemented, and

-          How it was designed

-          The implementation process followed

-          Organizational and technological choices made

-          Implementation timing and costs

-          The organizational details of running the process

-          The measurement of organizational and financial sustainability

-          How the impact/the impact has been assessed

 

The KM Section welcomes examples from different contexts (libraries of different sizes, libraries within cultural/administrative institutions, community organizations, companies, etc.).

 

This satellite meeting will feature a state-of-the-art tutorial on the basics of Knowledge Management followed by case studies.  The KM tutorial will explain the process of KM, the situations to which it is most usefully applied, and tools to implement and manage it.  A panel discussion of speakers will explore  the major and most critical issues.

 

Submissions

 

If you are interested in contributing, please send:

 

An abstract of 300-500 words, in English and including a title.

An outline of the presentation.

Brief biographical information of the author(s)/presenter(s) with current employment information.

Submitter's  mailing address.

 

Send all this by February 15, 2012 to Leda Bultrini at e-mail:

leda.bultrini@arpalazio.it 

 

The submissions will be reviewed by a programme planning committee of the Knowledge Management Section Standing Committee. The selection will be based on the abstracts and rated on how well they fit the programme theme. Authors will be contacted by March 31, 2012.

 

Selection

 

For successful applicants the deadline for submission of full papers is May 31, 2012 to allow time for review of papers and all other organizational needs. The papers must be original submissions, not published elsewhere, and should be no longer than 15 pages, double-spaced. Papers should be in  English.

 

Presentations at the satellite meeting will be limited to approx. 20 minutes and will be a summary of the original paper.  The presenter is encouraged to use PowerPoint. The conference will be conducted in English and all presentations will be required to be in English.

 

For information on the IFLA Knowledge Management Section, please see:

http//www.ifla.org/en/km

 

For additional information on this call for papers, you may contact Leda Bultrini

(leda.bultrini@arpalazio.it)

 

Please note

 

All expenses, including registration for the full conference, travel, accommodation, etc. are the responsibility of the authors/presenters.  No financial support can be provided by IFLA or the IFLA KM Section.  The satellite meeting will not charge a registration fee.  Lunch and other refreshments on the day of the satellite meeting will be provided.

 

Congress attendance grants

 

The Finnish National Committee and IFLA are working hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information will be made available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage (forthcoming).

 

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Leda Bultrini

Chair of KM Satellite Meeting Committee in Helsinki

 

Planning, development and internal control division, Director

Education division, Director

 

ARPA Lazio (Regional Agency for Environment Protection, Lazio)

 

Via Boncompagni, 101

00187 Roma

Italy

 

Tel +39 06 48054549

Fax +39 06 48054443

 

 

[KMDG-L] Call for papers for Helsinki 2012: IFLA Knowledge Management Section

Call for papers for Knowledge Management Open Session

WLIC, Helsinki, August 2012

IFLA Knowledge Management (KM) Section provides an international platform for professional communication and understanding of the significance of KM for libraries. It gives a voice to KM on a global scale and follows the developments in KM, promoting its practical implementation within the global library community.

The 2012 WLIC Conference 

The annual IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) provides an opportunity to present innovative models, case studies and research.  Delegates and speakers from all parts of the world come together to discuss new developments and successful practice in libraries. The conference motto for the 2012 Conference in Helsinki, Finland is:

"Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering"

The IFLA Knowledge Management Section invites librarians and knowledge managers to submit proposals for papers in a 2-hour session at WLIC Helsinki, 11-17 August 2012.

The KM Conference Programme

"Potential of Knowledge Management in Public Libraries" is the KM Section’s theme for its 2012 Open Programme during the conference.  We are looking for speakers who can highlight use of KM, from a global and theoretical perspective but also with a practical aspect.  The focus should be on using KM in the public library setting, including reports from agencies whose tools support these KM initiatives.

We invite presentations that showcase:

-           Knowledge creation and knowledge sharing in public libraries particularly across boundaries of language, culture and technology

-           Innovative use of technology to support knowledge sharing, joint research and learning (workplace learning, e-learning)

-           Case studies in application of Knowledge Management tools that support the success of the library

Important Dates and Timelines

Submission: 

Please send an abstract of approximately 500 words, in English, no later than January 31, 2012 to: Agnes Hajdu Barat, Programme Chair (hajdu@jgypk.u-szeged.hu). Both abstracts and full papers should be submitted as a MS Word file by e-mail.  The abstracts will be reviewed by Programme Committee members of the Knowledge Management Section.

Please also attach a summary of the proposed paper, curriculum vitae of the author(s), contact details, professional affiliation(s), and a brief statement on their career(s). Also, a digital photograph(s) would be useful.

Proposed papers must be original and not have been published elsewhere.   Please attach a declaration about originality of the proposed paper and verify that it has not been published anywhere.

Selection:

Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February, 2012.

The selected presenters for the program at the Helsinki conference will be asked to submit a formal paper (for inclusion on the IFLA conference website) no later than May 1, 2012. Papers can be submitted in one of the official IFLA working languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish.  Papers should be submitted with a one-page abstract in English. Papers should not be longer than 20 pages.  Papers must be original and not have been published elsewhere.  Selected papers may be nominated by the Section for inclusion in an IFLA publication.

Presentation at the Conference:

A maximum of 20 minutes will be allowed for the presentation of each paper during the Section's session in Helsinki. Please note, although every effort will be made to provide simultaneous interpretation into other IFLA languages, interpretation may not be available. Therefore presenters are encouraged to use a PowerPoint in English to facilitate understanding of the ideas presented.  The PowerPoint for the presentation should be submitted to the Program Chair by 1 July, 2012.

At least one of the authors of the paper must present the paper. Please send a promissory note with your signature verifying intent to attend the IFLA Conference in Helsinki to the Program Chair.

Unfortunately, the Programme Committee has no funds to assist prospective authors: abstracts should only be submitted on the understanding that the expenses of attending the IFLA conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.  Some national professional associations may be able to help fund certain expenses, and a small number of grants for conference.

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Prof.dr.Ágnes Hajdu Barát

Chair of KM Program Committee in Helsinki

Institute of Adult Education

University of Szeged Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education

(SZTE JGYPK)

Address: Szeged, Szilléri sgt. 12. 6723 HUNGARY

Telephone/fax: ++36 62 474 255

E-mail: hajdu@jgypk.u-szeged.hu

http://www.jgypk.u-szeged.hu/tanszek/konyvtud.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KMDG-L] Call for Papers - Science & Technology Libraries

Call for Papers

IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section

Papers are invited to be presented at 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012

Theme: The Role of Libraries in Data Curation, Access, and Preservation: an International Perspective

Data curation, access, and preservation are integral to the advancement of research in science and technology. For further definition and clarification of the role of data in research see the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) website: (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/what-digital-curation).

The session will focus on the role of libraries and librarians in data curation in various countries and the challenges associated with establishing and operating data curation repositories, on a local or national level. Proposals must focus on one or more of the following topics:

1. Key issues confronted in establishing a national plan for data curation

2. The role of libraries in establishing data curation repositories.

3. A financial model for sustaining data curation within the library and/or university.

4. Training and preparation of librarians to participate in data curation.

Submissions

Proposal abstract (max 500 words) must be submitted by January 15, 2012, on any one or more of the topics listed above, with the topic to be discussed clearly identified by number from list above. Submission is to include presenter's name, position, institution, and email address.
Please note that all fees, including registration to the conference, travel, accommodation etc. are the responsibility of the authors.
Notification of acceptance of proposals will be completed by February 15, 2012

Deva E.Reddy,PhD
Chair, IFLA Science & Technology Libraries Section
Associate Professor
Texas A&M University Libraries
College Station, TX 77843-5000
United States
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.edu

[KMDG-L] Congratulations to Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar Sir

Dear All,

 

On behalf of the entire team of LIS Professionals, I would like to congratulate Respected Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar sir  for publication of his book  Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century  Published by Woodhead Publishing Limited ,UK.

 

About the Book

The book will be useful to classification researchers, LIS faculties and postgraduate students in library and information science. This book is also an ideal example for writers of literature reviews in theses and dissertations. 

 

For more information please visit : http://www.woodheadpublishing. com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2506& ChandosTitle=1

About the author

Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar is Associate Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pune, India. Dr. Kumbhar has been teaching classification, knowledge organization, vocabulary control and other related topics for more than 20 years. As a part of his doctoral research he compiled a comprehensive classification schedule and thesaurus of LIS and has published books and articles on this topic.

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Thanks and Regards

Sandeep Bhavsar
Librarian
Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies
Thane(W) 400601
MUMBAI. INDIA
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[KMDG-L] No more tickets for BOBCATSSS 2012!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!


Unfortunately there are no more tickets left for next year's BOBCATSSS conference in Amsterdam!

Thus it is not possible to register anymore!

At the moment, we are having a look at all of our lists to see if there are any mistakes and if people who have registered but haven't paid yet are still willing to attend.


With best regards,
Your BOBCATSSS 2012 Team

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[KMDG-L] BOBCATSSS 2012 - 1st Call for Participation

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are cordially invited to Amsterdam between January 23 and 25, 2012
to celebrate the 20th anniversary of BOBCATSSS together with us!

In keeping with the theme "information in e-motion", there will be
lectures, workshops and poster sessions on:

... "E-media in motion", the rise of mobile devices as e-book-readers
and their usability for you and me

... "My information" and if telling our everyday-details to a social
network instead of a diary is really as benign as we think

... "Organizations 2.0" and the best ways to archive and spread
information in big companies

... "Access to public information" and whose task it is to provide it
most adequate: authorities, libraries or someone completely different?

Register until December 1st and you'll save up to 15 % with our
Early-Bird price!
To register now just follow this link:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/registration/

More detailed information on the conference programme can be found on
our website:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/

In addition we'd like to introduce our Keynotes:

- Geert Lovink, a Dutch-Australian media theorist, will hold a speech
about a world beyond Facebook
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/about/staff/

- Karin Spaink, a dutch feminist and writer will inform us about our
personal privacy and its relation to safety
http://www.spaink.net/who=me.html

To learn more about our special guests please see:
http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/programme/keynote-speakers/

Sincerely,

Your BOBCATSSS 2012-Team
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Stuttgart Media University (GER),
Hanze University Groningen (NL) -

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[KMDG-L] UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) [http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap], aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members.

The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:

• Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access
• Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States
• Thematic focus areas of OA
• Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world
• Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country
• Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States
• Funding and deposit mandates
• Links to OA initiatives in the world

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment and to view their country's status, and understand where and why Open Access has been most successful.

Development of the Global Open Access Portal has been made possible with support received from the Governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This GOAP will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.

Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO's mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.

Source: UNESCO

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067, India
www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
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[KMDG-L] 979 information literacy contents-resourses from different Ibero-American countries (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal)

This October 25th marks the second anniversary of the blog and resources
"Information Literacy / Ibero-America (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal)":
http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com/

Considering this anniversary and with the goal to continue contributing to the
growth and recognition of information competencies training in educational
institutions and different types of libraries in the Iberoamerican context, we
launched the resource:

Wiki: "Information Literacy / Ibero-America. State of the Art":
http://alfiniberoamerica.wikispaces.com/

In this space you will find, to date, 979 contents-resources (journal
articles, papers, books, chapters of books, works of degree, graduate theses,
declarations, models, presentations, videos, audios, events, web resources
...) organized taking into account the 22 countries of Ibero-America.

We invite you to visit this Wiki, to add it to your websites and references to
information literacy, and waiting for your comments.

Regards,

Alejandro Uribe Tirado
Candidato Doctorado Documentación Científica Universidad de Granada
Docente / Investigador - Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología
Grupo Información, Conocimiento y Sociedad
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín-Colombia
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auribe@bibliotecologia.udea.edu.co
auribe@correo.ugr.es
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http://alfincolombia.blogspot.com
http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com
http://ci2-colombia.blogspot.com
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http://bit.ly/dkxuDd (Currículo)
http://bit.ly/kv8kef (Publicaciones en acceso abierto)

[KMDG-L] Reminder - ISKO-UK afternoon meeting on Tuesday 1 November: Health Information - please don’t miss it!

 

Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector
Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00)
Marlborough Theatre, King's Fund W1G 0AN

In this ISKO UK meeting, held appropriately on the premises of The King's Fund, we will be looking at several important emerging areas of Health Informatics practice. The focus will be on how clinical information is recorded, encoded for storage and retrieval, purged of ambiguity, imbued with relevance to patient and practitioner alike, and linked up to the universe of biomedical knowledge.

You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm . Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.  

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Please note the venue is not UCL this time - it is the King's Fund, Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.45 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m.

The programme includes these topics: 

• joining up knowledge and information to deliver better, safer, more convenient and cost-effective healthcare;
• using codes and controlled vocabularies to embed unambiguous definitions of medical conditions and procedures in the patient record;
• how real projects use metadata in practice;
• Knowledge Management when the patient is in control of the records;
• interoperability and the NHS using the Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) and opening it to greater engagement from potential users and suppliers;

As speakers we welcome Ewan Davis, a health informatics consultant; Ian Herbert, Vice-Chair of BCS Health; Ann Wrightson of the NHS Wales Informatics Service who since 2009 has chaired the HL7 UK Technical Committee; Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a clinician and researcher in medical software; Martin Whittaker of Touchstone Consultancy and Ian Lewin, a text mining specialist, working for the European Bioinformatics Institute.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm ) earlier this year.

 

 Please accept our apologies for cross and repeat posting.

We look forward  to seeing you there.

[KMDG-L] ISKO UK: Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector

Tuesday 1st November (14.00-19.00)

King's Fund W1G 0AN

 Registration has now opened for our ISKO-UK afternoon meeting on Tuesday 1 November:

The complexity of managing information and knowledge in health is astonishing. As budgets tighten in the public sector, all of us are affected - with patients at the really sharp end. Users and providers of information face huge demands for increased efficiency and effectiveness. Records must be shared and reused, while being accurate and confidential. We hope you can join us to hear about lessons and challenges for seamless and reliable flows of medical and care information. The emphasis will be on clinical information directly relevant to patients, but parallels can be drawn across the public and private sectors.

You can find out more details of the event and register via the ISKO UK site at http://www.iskouk.org/events/health_nov2011.htm. And please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Please note the venue is not UCL this time - it is the King's Fund, London W1G 0AN. Registration opens at 1.30 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m.

The provisional programme includes these topics from leading speakers: 

• joining up knowledge and information to deliver better, safer, more convenient and cost-effective healthcare;
• using codes and controlled vocabularies to embed unambiguous definitions of medical conditions and procedures in the patient record;
• how real projects use metadata in practice;
• Knowledge Management when the patient is in control of the records;
• interoperability and the NHS using the Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) and opening it to greater engagement from potential users and suppliers;

As speakers we welcome Ewan Davis, a health informatics consultant; Ian Herbert, Vice-Chair of BCS Health; Ann Wrightson of the NHS Wales Informatics Service who since 2009 has chaired the HL7 UK Technical Committee; Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a clinician and researcher in medical software; Martin Whittaker of Touchstone Consultancy and Ian Lewin, a text mining specialist, working for the European Bioinformatics Institute.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) earlier this year.

[KMDG-L] BOBCATSSS 2012 in Amsterdam - EXTENDED DEADLINE!

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Please forward to interested parties.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

once more, we would like to invite you to participate in the 20th BOBCATSSS Symposium on information management taking place in Amsterdam from January 23 to January 25, 2012.

 

Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts.

You are now welcome to upload your proposal on our special topic "information in e-motion" until Saturday, October 8, 2011.

Please note that the upload function of our conference management tool will definitely be disabled for submissions after this date.

For further information, please see our website:

http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/

 

We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Ilka Schiele

BOBCATSSS 2012 Programme Team

 

and

 

Selina Chadde

BOBCATSSS 2012 Marketing Team

 

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[KMDG-L] 5th Call - BOBCATSSS 2012

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Please forward to interested parties.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT UNTIL DEADLINE!

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Dear Sir or Madam,

 

we are delighted to invite you to the 20th BOBCATSSS Symposium on information management taking place in Amsterdam from January 23 to January 25, 2012. The special topic will be "information in e-motion", containing the following subtopics:

 

E-Media in motion: Nowadays an increasing amount of data is only accessible through digital media. The devices being used to gain access to this data are developing rapidly.

 

Organization 2.0: The globalised world demands us to find new ways of collaborating, learning and working. As a result of that, we will have to find alternative ways and tools to record and archive our information.

 

My Information: Instead of using a personal diary a lot of people are sharing their thoughts online nowadays, on social networks, communities and blogs, hardly hiding their personal information. How can people keep track of other people seeing, using and sharing their content?

 

Access to Public Information: In a democratic process it is crucial that citizens have access to public information. How can that be made possible and how can people learn to use that information critically?

 

You are very welcome to take active part in the conference by contributing a speech, workshop or poster, whether you're a professional, teacher or student.

 

You can now register at our Conftool as a speaker or participant: https://www.conftool.pro/bobcatsss2012/ 

 

You can also register for the social program, consisting of a canal cruise and a welcome dinner, there.

 

For further information, please see our website http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/  

 

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT UNTIL OCTOBER 1, 2011.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Ilka Schiele

BOBCATSSS 2012 Programme Team

 

and

 

Selina Chadde

BOBCATSSS 2012 Marketing Team

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[KMDG-L] 4th Call for Papers BOBCATSSS 2012

Apologies for cross-posting.

Please forward to interested parties.

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CALL FOR PAPERS -ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT UNTIL DEADLINE!

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Dear Sir or Madam,

we are delighted to invite you to the 20th BOBCATSSS Symposium on
information management taking place in Amsterdam from January 23 to
January 25, 2012. The special topic will be "information in e-motion",
containing the following subtopics:

E-Media in motion: Nowadays an increasing amount of data is only
accessible through digital media. The devices being used to gain
access to this data are developing rapidly.

Organization 2.0: The globalised world demands us to find new ways of
collaborating, learning and working. As a result of that, we will have
to find alternative ways and tools to record and archive our
information.

My Information: Instead of using a personal diary a lot of people are
sharing their thoughts online nowadays, on social networks,
communities and blogs, hardly hiding their personal information. How
can people keep track of other people seeing, using and sharing their
content?

Access to Public Information: In a democratic process it is crucial
that citizens have access to public information. How can that be made
possible and how can people learn to use that information critically?

You are very welcome to take active part in the conference by
contributing a speech, workshop or poster, whether you're a
professional, teacher or student.

You can now register at our Conftool as a speaker or participant:
https://www.conftool.pro/bobcatsss2012/

You can also register for the social program, consisting of a canal
cruise and a welcome dinner, there.

For further information, please see our website http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT UNTIL OCTOBER 1, 2011.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam.

Yours faithfully,

Ilka Schiele

BOBCATSSS 2012 Programme Team

and

Selina Chadde

BOBCATSSS 2012 Marketing Team

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For further information see:
- www.bobcatsss2012.org
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss  or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss

[KMDG-L] FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION: Classification & Ontology, The Hague, 19-20 September

*** Registration Closes on Thursday 15 September ***
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CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY: FORMAL APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
International UDC Seminar 2011 - 19-20 September, The Hague, Netherlands
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http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm
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VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
FEE: €200 (€170 students)
The conference fee includes the conference proceedings book
(published by Ergon), refreshments, reception and two lunches.

Registration and payment online at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/registration.php

The conference keynote speaker is Professor Patrick Hayes, one of the key
players in the Semantic Web initiative and the development of RDF, OWL and
SPARQL. His talk entitled "On being the same" will remind us of some oddities and internal
inconsistencies in data found on the Web, as the Semantic web starts to take
shape with the rise
of linked data.

Following the keynote address we will hear a selection of speakers from the
domains of web technology, ontology, knowledge organization and bibliographic
classification, including Dan Brickley, Guus Schreiber, Thomas Baker, Dagobert
Soergel, Roberto Poli, Ingetraut Dahlberg, Barbara Kwasnik, Rebecca Green,
Michael Panzer, Marcia Zeng, Daniel Kless, Joan Mitchell, Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Devika Madalli,
Claudio Gnoli and more.

The preliminary programme with abstracts and speakers biographies is available
at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/programme.htm.
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[KMDG-L] 2 years of the Information Literacy/Colombia blog

This September 8, International Literacy Day, marks two years after the
creation of the blog and other Web 2.0 resources, with the name Information
Literacy / Colombia:

http://alfincolombia.blogspot.com

We want to share this anniversary and give Thanks to all!

--
Alejandro Uribe Tirado
PhD Candidate / University of Granada (Spain)
Professor / Inter-American School of Information Science
Researcher / Information, Knowledge and Society Group
Information Literacy, Information Technology and Knowledge Management Areas
University of Antioquia
Medellin, Colombia
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auribe@bibliotecologia.udea.edu.co
auribe@correo.ugr.es
***
http://alfincolombia.blogspot.com
http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com
http://ci2-colombia.blogspot.com
http://tecnologiasdelainformacioneib.blogspot.com
***
http://bit.ly/mfvCdc (Curriculum Courses using Moodle)
http://bit.ly/lLqBiY (Information Literacy Course using Moodle)
***
http://bit.ly/9kckMh (Research Group)
http://bit.ly/dkxuDd (Curriculum Vitae)
http://bit.ly/jAJHv5 (Research Extranet)
***
http://bit.ly/kv8kef (Open Access Publications)
http://bit.ly/qGh0W8 (Citation Index G. Scholar)
http://bit.ly/kayLhk (EXIT-Directory of Experts in Information Handling)

[KMDG-L] LAST REMINDER: Classification & Ontology, The Hague, 19-20 September

================ Registration Closes 15 September ================
=====================================================
CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY: FORMAL APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
International UDC Seminar 2011 - 19-20 September, The Hague, Netherlands
=================================================
http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm
-------------------------------------------------
VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
FEE: €200 (€170 students)
The conference fee includes the conference proceedings book
(published by Ergon Verlag), refreshments, reception and two lunches.

To secure your place at this event please register online at
http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/registration.php

The conference keynote speaker is Professor Patrick Hayes, one of the key
players in the Semantic Web initiative and the development of RDF, OWL and
SPARQL. His talk
entitled "On being the same" will remind us of some oddities and internal
inconsistencies in data found on the Web, as the Semantic web starts to take
shape with the rise
of linked data.

Following the keynote address we will hear a selection of speakers from the
domains of web technology, ontology, knowledge organization and bibliographic
classification, including Dan Brickley, Guus Schreiber, Thomas Baker, Dagobert
Soergel, Roberto Poli, Ingetraut Dahlberg, Barbara Kwasnik, Rebecca Green,
Michael Panzer, Marcia Zeng,
Daniel Kless, Joan Mitchell, Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Devika Madalli,
Claudio Gnoli and more.

The preliminary programme with abstracts and speakers biographies is available
at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/programme.htm.
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The International UDC Seminar 2011 is followed by
DC-2011 - 11th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
"Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages and Description", 21-23 September -
see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2011

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[KMDG-L] 3rd call BOBCATSSS 2012 - only one month left

Apologies for cross-posting.
Please forward to interested parties.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ONLY 1 MONTH LEFT UNTIL DEADLINE!

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Dear Sir or Madam,

we are delighted to invite you to the 20th BOBCATSSS Symposium on
information management taking place in Amsterdam from January 23 to
January 25, 2012. The special topic will be "information in e-motion",
containing the following subtopics:

E-Media in motion: Nowadays an increasing amount of data is only
accessible through digital media. The devices being used to gain
access to this data are developing rapidly.

Organization 2.0: The globalised world demands us to find new ways of
collaborating, learning and working. As a result of that, we will have
to find alternative ways and tools to record and archive our
information.

My Information: Instead of using a personal diary a lot of people are
sharing their thoughts online nowadays, on social networks,
communities and blogs, hardly hiding their personal information. How
can people keep track of other people seeing, using and sharing their
content?

Access to Public Information: In a democratic process it is crucial
that citizens have access to public information. How can that be made
possible and how can people learn to use that information critically?

You are very welcome to take active part in the conference by
contributing a speech, workshop or poster, whether you're a
professional, teacher or student.

Also, you can now register at our Conftool as a speaker or
participant: https://www.conftool.pro/bobcatsss2012/

For further information, please see our website http://www.bobcatsss2012.org/

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT UNTIL OCTOBER 1, 2011.We are looking
forward to seeing you in Amsterdam.

Yours faithfully,

Ilka Schiele
BOBCATSSS 2012 Programme Team
and
Selina Chadde
BOBCATSSS 2012 Marketing Team

--
For further information see:
- www.bobcatsss2012.org
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss  or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss

--
For further information see:
- www.bobcatsss2012.org
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss  or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcatsss

[KMDG-L] Deadline extended to 15th September: DGI-Conference 2012 "Social Media & Web Science". European Afternoon on March 22nd, Düsseldorf Germany

 

*Apologies for cross-posting*

 

Call for Papers – Deadline extended to 15^th September 2011!

DGI-Conference 2012

European Afternoon, 22 March 2012

http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx

 

*Social Media and Web Science*

*The Web as a Living Space*

 

Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting

22 and 23 March 2012, Düsseldorf/Germany

Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012

(For those of you who speak German the Call for Papers for the main DGI-Conference might also be of interest: http://www.dgd.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz.aspx)

 

The upcoming DGI-Conference, hosted by the German Society of Information Science and Information Practice, will take place on March 22nd and 23rd in Düsseldorf, Germany. DGI-Conference continues the long tradition of annual meetings by the DGI, being held regularly since its foundation in 1948. This time, the conference topic is "Social Media & Web Science".

 

While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, it is planned to also organize a special research track in English language. This "European Afternoon" will take place on March 22nd. We would like to welcome researchers and practitioners interested in the social dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. from the fields of information science, library and documentation science, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, political science, law and economics.

 

The conference will cover topics such as:

 

Social Media

● Collaborative and collective information services (e.g. social bookmarking, social networking, wikis) ● Information retrieval for the Social Web, social search ● Knowledge representation for the social web (social tagging and folksonomies) ● Social Semantic Web ● Social software use cases & policies (e.g. corporate social software, social media for research, in e-learning environments, in libraries) ● Enterprise 2.0: knowledge management with social media ● Social analytics, metrics for social media ● Market research and trend monitoring ● Communities of practice and user networks ● Web-economy, new business models ● Linked Data and Open Data on the Social Web

 

Web Science

● Characteristics and structures of communication on the Web (e.g. blogs, microblogging) ● Information literacy and didactics for information science ● Measuring information behaviour, e.g. for particular target groups ● Visualization of data structures, networks and information ● Science and the Internet: eScience, digital humanities, scientific communication, eLearning ● Game studies, serious games and browser-based games ● Digital libraries ● The digital divide, accessibility and usability of information on the Web ● Emotions on the Web ● Legal dimensions of Web usage, trust and privacy, cybercrime ● eGovernment, eGovernance & eDemocracy ● eActivism & eProtest (e.g. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks) ● Crowdsourcing (e.g. for politics, in science, in business) ● Mobile Web and location based services ● Webometrics

 

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches for Web research!

 

Submissions

 

You can submit scientific research papers of up to 36,000 characters in length (including spaces). Please use the APA style for formatting your references. Additional information and a link to a conference management tool for uploading your submission will be provided on http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx. Accepted papers will have to be presented during the conference and will be published in the printed conference proceedings.

 

Important Dates

Submission of full papers:                                                                   15.09.2011

Notification of acceptance:                                                                  21.11.2011

Submission of camera-ready (revised) versions:                                               21.12.2011

 

Programme Committee

Programme Chairs:

Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

 

 

Organiser

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) / German Society of Information Science and Information Practice Windmühlstraße 3

60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Fon +49 (0)69 430313

Fax +49 (0)69 4909096

e-mail: mail@dgi-info.de

www.dgi-info.de

Contact

Nadja Strein