[KMDG-L] Call for Papers: ISKO-UK biennial conference, September 11-12 2017, London

Dear Colleagues

CALL FOR PAPERS

Knowledge Organization – what's the story?

Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies and Ontologies - current state and direction of travel

ISKO-UK biennial conference

11th – 12th September 2017, London

This will be the 5th biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and a celebration of the 10th birthday of the Chapter.

Call for Papers

Our ability to use narrative is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, with more than one role in Knowledge Organization (KO). Story-telling may have been superseded as the principal way of passing knowledge from one generation to the next, but can still bring to life the study of historical records. And a coherent story helps us make sense of any collection of knowledge.

This conference will explore the role of narrative both literal and metaphorical, in any context of KO, and the potential for KO to evolve towards an unfolding story of applications useful to society and economic development.

Relevant topics include:

•    Where has KO come from and where is it going?

•    What role is there for narrative in KO work?

•    Extracting the stories hidden in big data, and in image collections

•    Exploitation of Linked Data to follow threads of discovery

•    What are the latest developments in KO?  What are the challenges being faced in the field?

•    How will the future unfold? How should research support findability requirements?

•    What applications other than information retrieval can we see for KO in the future?

•    The evolving relationship between KO and metadata

•    Use of anecdote in the teaching of KO

•    Lessons learned

The UK Chapter of ISKO is working hard to make this conference a showcase for inspiring, innovative work in our field, and looks forward to welcoming the worldwide KO community to London.

Presentation format, submissions and acceptance criteria

The conference will include a mix of brief (20-minute) and long (40-minute) presentations, as well as a display of posters. Speakers will be asked to provide a paper as well as presenting the material in person. Together with slides and audio recordings, all the papers submitted will be published electronically on the conference website. After peer review the four best papers will be selected for publication in ISKO's journal, Knowledge Organization.

You can submit proposals in the form of an abstract via https://www.conftool.net/iskouk-2017/ from 1st December 2016. (To make the submission you will be asked to set up a user account with Conftool, our service provider.) The closing date for proposals is 31 January 2017. We are looking for papers that will attract a global audience of researchers, teachers, developers and practitioners. Your paper should help to deepen our understanding of knowledge organization, describe challenges and advances in the field, or consider the potential of KO to bring progress and benefits.

Other criteria for acceptance include originality, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme. Proposals should have a sound basis in historical fact, KO theory or current practice.

Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words (including references), and indicate whether you plan a Brief or Long presentation, or a Poster. We will let you know by the end of April 2017 whether your proposal has been accepted.  Full papers should be submitted by 31st July 2017. Editorial guidelines will be available via the conference website from early 2017.

More background on ISKO

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is to build bridges between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at Our Events, together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings of our previous biennial conferences are available there too, in electronic media.

Enquiries

Please contact us at info@iskouk.org if you have enquiries about the conference.

Registration

Registration will open in the Spring of 2017.

Liz Marley
ISKO-UK Publicity

[KMDG-L] BigScholar @WWW2017: The 4th WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

BigScholar 2017

The 4th WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars

http://thealphalab.org/bigscholar/

 

A workshop of WWW 2017 (The 26th International World Wide Web Conference)

Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017

 

Researchers worldwide are currently producing more and more scholarly data of various types such as papers, books, patents, etc. Such data are big data by nature. For example, the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and the Microsoft Academic Graph/API (research.microsoft.com/mag) provide bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. DBLP and MAG index more than 3 and 100 million articles, respectively, with records containing title, pages, years and authors' information, etc. Concurrently, scholars are associated with various academic activities such as conferences, workshops, congresses, peer review and so on. Such scenarios have motivated us to also explore the Web of Scholars in the context of big scholarly data on a global scale. It is imperative and vital for researchers to drive their knowledge towards the innovative generation of values from Big Scholarly Data. The emerging worldwide Web of Scholars demands a re-evaluation of existing techniques, such as data mining, recommender systems and social network analysis. Furthermore, there is the demand for novel ways of developing algorithms, methods and techniques to foster the analysis and interpretation of social environments such as academic collaboration networks.

 

Following the success of the previous three editions, the BigScholar 2017 workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on Big Scholarly Data to discuss what are emerging research issues and how to explore the Web of Scholars. Several core challenges, such as the tools and methods for analyzing and mining scholarly data will be the main center of discussions at the workshop. The goal is to contribute to the birth of a community having a shared interest around the Web of Scholars and exploring it using data mining, recommender systems, social network analysis and other appropriate technologies.

 

The workshop will be a full-day workshop. The format of the workshop will include 1-2 invited talks (keynotes), research and position paper presentations, and one discussion panel. The workshop will be held in April 2017 in Perth, Australia, in conjunction with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017).

 

In this workshop, we will explore the most promising areas of research in big scholarly data, with focus on major foci of the rapidly emerging field of the Web of Scholars. This workshop also seeks to answer noteworthy research questions such as:

- How to model the Web of scholars?

- How to connect scholars on the Web?

- How to measure impact of publications, researchers, groups, or institutions?

- How to visualize Big Scholarly Data for insights and analytics?

- How to utilize the Web of Scholars to improve the way research is being done?

 

Researchers are welcome to submit highly interesting and quality papers that address these questions above and other topics below which may include, but are not limited to:

- Academic social network analysis

- Scientific measurement

- Scholarly data management

- Digital infrastructures for accessing scholarly data

- Methods and tools for analyzing and visualizing big scholarly data

- Indexing, searching, and mining scholarly data

- Connecting scholars using a Web approach

- Paradigms to promote scientific collaboration

- Scientific trends prediction

- Web tools and techniques for big scholarly data

- Systems, platforms, and services exploring the Web of Scholars

- Applications and use cases of big scholarly data

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: January 20, 2017 (firm)

Author Notification: January 31, 2017

Final Manuscript: February 14, 2017

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Authors are invited to submit original papers that must not have been submitted to or published in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept full papers describing completed work, work-in-progress papers with preliminary results, as well as position papers reporting inspiring and intriguing new ideas. 

 

All submitted papers must:

* be written in English;

* contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;

* be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;

* be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;

* occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices.

 

It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format.

Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the Program Committee and be evaluated for originality, quality and appropriateness to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted papers must present their work at the workshop. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the Companion Proceedings of the WWW 2017 conference, through the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of SCI-index international journals.

 

 

Please submit your paper here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigscholar2017

 

 

Organizers:

Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology

Huan Liu, Arizona State University

Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research

 

 

Contact Info:

Email: bigscholar@googlegroups.com

 

 

 

[KMDG-L] CFP(1): Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September 2017

[apologies for cross-posting]   ====  CALL FOR PAPERS (1) ====     International UDC Seminar 2017   FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY:   Theory, Technology and End Users    DATE:     14-15 September 2017   VENUE:    London   WEBSITE:    http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/   CONTACT:    seminar2017@udcc.org     International UDC Seminar 2017 marks the anniversaries of two conferences devoted to faceted classification research: sixty years since the First International Study Conference on Classification Research (Dorking, 1957) and twenty years since the the Sixth International Study Conference (London, 1997).  The objective of the conference is to revisit faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern classifications and indexing languages and the role analytico-synthetic classifications have had in resource discovery and retrieval, from their introduction at the beginning of the 20th century to date. The conference will examine the challenges analytico-synthetic classifications represent for data modelling and interface design in the Web environment. Most importantly, it will explore potential fields of application for faceted classifications in information organization, visualization and presentation of large datasets, social networks and in the open linked data environment.  High quality and innovative contributions are invited for the following topics:  - The impact of faceted analytical theory and research on modern classification and indexing languages;  - Data modelling, data management and data sharing of faceted and analytico-synthetic classifications;  - Vocabulary mapping, semantic linking and natural language interfacing of analytico-synthetic systems;  - Applications of faceted analytical theory on (re)constructing knowledge classifications and indexing languages;  - End user interface design and user-friendly knowledge presentation for faceted systems;  - Novel applications of faceted systems outside the bibliographic domain.    CONTRIBUTIONS:     Two kinds of contributions are invited: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website.     Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers.   The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference. Best papers will be proposed for publishing in the Knowledge Organization journal.    IMPORTANT DATES:  29 Jan 2017	Submission deadline  1 Mar 2017	Notification of acceptance & paper submission instruction  15 May 2017	Papers submission (camera ready copy)    ORGANIZER: The International UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars   organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC). UDC Seminars are devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment. UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development. UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.     

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[KMDG-L] New book: 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning

Introducing you our new book: Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. (eBook - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811024795)

 

The 21st century is characterized by the rapid progress in technology. It is also defined by the complex nature of problems we face in the world today. Hence, it is crucial for a learner to be information and computer-literate in order to tackle the challenges that lie ahead.

The monotonous and burdensome nature of traditional teaching has failed to cultivate innovativeness and learning interest among students. This book offers the key to making learning environments fun and inspiring. The book explores the theoretical implications of inquiry-based pedagogical approaches and uses empirical evidences collected from comprehensive and well-designed research studies to offer innovative instructional interventions that support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with twenty-first century skills. The book contains the following chapters:

1.  Introduction
2.  Twenty-First Century Skills and Global Education Roadmaps
3.  Twenty-First Century Skills Education in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China: Inquiry Project-Based and Collaborative Teaching/Learning Supported by Wiki
4.  Twenty-First Century Skills Education in Switzerland: An Example of Project-Based Learning Using Wiki in Science Education
5.  Twenty-First Century Skills Education in the U.S.: An Example of an Inquiry-Based Game Design Learning Approach
6.  Teachers’ Professional Development
7.  Guides and Suggestions for Classroom Implementation
8.  Assessment Instruments for Twenty-First Century Skills
9.  Summary and Conclusions
   
   

The book targets at academic researchers, education practitioners, policymakers, parents, and e-learning service providers who wish to support an evolving set of skills and knowledge in learners to prepare them well for active engagement in the drastic technological changes in the twenty-first century.

Sam
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Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies
Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Ranked 6th best in the world - QS 2015, 2016)
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Managing Editor, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management        
Tel: (852) 2241-5894  |  Fax: (852) 2517-7194
E-mail: samchu@hku.hk
Skype Name - chukaiwahsamuel
Homepage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu
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Latest publications:

Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. (eBook - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811024795)

Huang, H., Chu, S.K.W., & Chen, D. (2015). Interactions between English-Speaking and Chinese-Speaking users and librarians on Social Networking Sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 66(6), 1150-1166. (http://web.hku.hk/~samchu/docs/Huang-in-press-Interactions-between-English.docx) Ranked 13/85 in ISI's Information & Library Science category - top 15%; Impact Factor: 1.9 (JCR 2014)

Cheng, E.W.L., Chu, S.K.W., & Ma, C.S.M. (2015). Tertiary students' intention to e-collaborate for group projects: Exploring the missing link from an extended theory of planned behaviour model. British Journal of Educational Technology. Ranked 61/262 in ISI's Education category - top 23%; Impact Factor: 1.3 (JCR 2014)

[KMDG-L] ISKO-UK Evening meetup in London, 19 July 2016

Dear IFLA Knowledge Management colleagues:

ISKO-UK's next meeting is an evening meetup on User Centric Design, taking place on 19 July 2016 from 18:00 hours at the Marlborough Arms, 36 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7LY.

Not long ago, we had to learn database languages and use long search commands to retrieve records and documents. Whereas now, systems are designed to work for users! Applying "user centric design" (UCD) frameworks has been one of reasons for this major change. UCD is a complicated process that requires understanding what users really need and want, and involves defining the purpose, identifying personas and scenarios and constant testing with real people. UCD is also commonly used in taxonomy design processes these days. In our second Meet-up, we have the opportunity to benefit from expert speakers on UCD issues regarding the challenges they have to face to make an actual match between users' needs and delivering clients' success stories.

We will have talks from Robert Fein, an independent consultant, on "How do you design a great customer experience for Fashion/Retail?" and from Jo Kent of the BBC on "ADA – Opening up the BBC Archive with linked data" as well as time to socialise between and after the talks.

More details of the talks and registration information can be found here on the ISKO-UK website

Hope to see many of you there!

Regards

Liz Marley

ISKO-UK Publicity

[KMDG-L] Map: InfoLit in Ibero-America and the World

Map: InfoLit in Ibero-America and the World

http://bit.ly/9hu80u  

On this map, you can find more than 600 websites of libraries or academic programs, especially at a university level, located in Ibero-American countries and around the world (more than 60 countries) that are developing Information Literacy programs or support the inclusion of information literacy in different curricula.

Cases have been found, after reviewing literature and content in different databases, repositories and specialized websites (Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO, E-lis, RedALyC, Scielo, Wiki ALFIN / Iberoamérica, Information Literacy Weblog).

Steps to build the Map:

Stage 1: Ibero-America (2010-2015)

See papers: http://eprints.rclis.org/16522/ - http://eprints.rclis.org/20803/ 

Stage 2: Every World (2015-2016)

This map was collaboration in updating for Ibero-America, and its extension for every world of students and future librarians: Daniel Mejía Ushima (2015-2) and María Isabel Flórez (2016-1).

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have a link to suggest at: alfiniberoamerica@gmail.com

Regards,

Note: Apologies for the duplicate messages.

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Alejandro Uribe Tirado
PhD en Documentación Científica
Profesor / Investigador - Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología
Sublíneas ALFIN, Altmetrics, Open Access, TIC, E-learning y G.del Conocimiento
Coord. Grupo de Investigación "Información, Conocimiento y Sociedad"
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín-Colombia 
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http://bit.ly/12VWYgS (Publicaciones en acceso abierto)
http://bit.ly/1HffALS (Índice de citación G. Scholar)
http://bit.ly/1I4NNPl (Research Gate)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0381-1269 (ORCID / ResearcherID)
http://www.redalyc.org/autor.oa?id=597 (Autores RedAlyc)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2532947 (SSRN Repository)

[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2016 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-3862

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2016 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-3862

The 150+ page study presents detailed data on budgets and spending, man hours devoted to the repository, revenue generation and fees, access policies & content viewing restrictions, levels of cooperation from faculty and parent institution staff, marketing, cataloging, downloads and other user statistics, ePublishing & peer review efforts, and much else of interest to library staff and suppliers interested in repositories, content distribution & publishing and open access.

The study presents data and commentary from 37 institutional digital repositories worldwide including but not limited to: Johns Hopkins University, the Association of European Research Libraries, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, OECD, Rutgers University, University College Dublin, Iowa State University, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Oregon State University, the World Bank, the University of Seville, Qatar University, Montana State University, Utrecht University and the University of Canterbury, among others.

Just a few of the report�s many findings are that:

� The digital repositories in the sample were operational for 5.18 years on average, with a maximum of 16 years.
� About 86% of repositories sampled do not charge users a fee in any form; none of those charging a fee were educational institutions.
� Level 1 or Level 2 Carnegie Class Research Universities in the sample (and their equivalents outside of the USA) had a mean of 1,104,140 downloads in the past year.
� For US-based repositories, 27% of downloads came from countries other than the US itself or Canada.
� In case of BA or MA Granting Institutions less than half (43%) of the repository downloads come outside the parent institution, while for other types of educational institutions at least 76% on average comes from outside the parent institution.
� Non-US repositories sampled experienced higher increases ($16,562 on average) in their repository budgets than their US counterparts ($5,006).
To place an order, or to obtain a table of contents, excerpt, the questionnaire and full participants list, visit the product page for this report at:

http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=596

Or visit our main home page at www.PrimaryResearch.com; call us at 212-736-23156 or contact us by fax at 212-12-9097.

[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Law School Faculty: Evaluation of the Law Library, ISBN 978-157440-381-7

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Law School Faculty: Evaluation of the Law Library, ISBN 978-157440-381-7

The 115-page study presents detailed data on law faculty evaluations of a myriad of law library information resources and services, including but not limited to information services such as West, LexisNexis, Bloomberg, FindLaw, and Google Scholar; services such as group study rooms, database training and other infoliteracy services, inter-library loan, range and quality of law journals and legal databases, course reserves, law library information technology and much more.

In addition, the report presents faculty judgments on the idea of hiring more librarians, on the future of the library budget and on the overall efficiency of the law school library compared to other departments and units of the law school. Respondents also rate the overall quality of their law librarians and discuss what they like most and least about their performance and the law library in general. Moreover, the study gives detailed data on how often law faculty visit the library and for how long and how they reach out to librarians, in person, by phone, email, chat service or other means.

124 law school faculty from 38 law schools in the United States took part in the survey
Data is broken out by age, work title and gender of survey participant, as well as by law school size and US News & World Report law school ranking, among other criteria.

Just a few of the report�s many finding are that:

More than 64% of faculty in law schools ranked in the top 30 thought that the range and quality of legal journals available to them in their libraries was excellent.

14% of the interviewees from schools with more than 900 students and 7% from schools with 600-900 students regard availability and quality of the group study rooms as problematic or bad.

Only 43% of the female respondents consider the noise level excellent or good, in contrast about 70% of their male interviewees are have no significant concern about the noise level.

Faculty at the lowest ranking law schools were particularly dissatisfied with the quality of the technology in the law school library.

19% of respondents use Google Scholar at least once per day.

To view a table of contents, excerpt and list of the law schools of the survey participants, visit the product page for this report directly at http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=592

Or visit our general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

[KMDG-L] Free access to leading Information and Knowledge Management research

**Apologies for cross-posting**

 

Virtual Issue: free research on Intellectual Capital, Learning and Knowledge Management Emerald are delighted to offer you free access to a specially-curated virtual issue, containing a selection of recent and highly-read research papers from our premier journals in Intellectual Capital, Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management. Papers are free to view until 29 February 2016. Just click on the hyperlinks below to begin your research discovery! We hope you enjoy your reading. Free papers

 

Journal of Intellectual Capital 15 years of the Journal of Intellectual Capital and counting: A manifesto for transformational IC research John Dumay (2014) IC 21: reflections from 21 years of IC practice and theory Leif Edvinsson (2013) The relationship between human capital, value creation and employee reward, Peter Rex Massingham Leona Tam (2015) Recognition and measurement of intellectual capital in Spanish universities Ramírez Yoland, Gordillo Silvia (2014) IC and public sector: a structured literature review John Dumay, James Guthrie, Pina Puntillo (2015) Improving the information environment for analysts: Which intellectual capital disclosures matter the most? Farooq Omar, Nielsen Christian (2014)
Journal of Knowledge Management Does knowledge management produce practical outcomes? Peter Rex Massingham, Rada K Massingham (2014) Antecedents of organizational knowledge sharing: a meta-analysis and critique Candace L. Witherspoon, Jason Bergner, Cam Cockrell, Dan N. Stone (2013)

 

The Learning Organisation Exploring the relationship between the knowledge creation process and intellectual capital in the pharmaceutical industry Gholamhossein Mehralian, Jamal A. Nazari , Peyman Akhavan, Hamid Reza Rasekh (2014) Learning to create sustainable value in turbulent operational contexts: the role of leadership practices Eng Chew, Kenneth Anthony Dovey (2014)

 

Call for Papers for Special Issues Exploring Corporate Disclosure Organizational learning and intellectual capital

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[KMDG-L] Open-Rank Faculty Positions @ Mobile and Social Computing Lab, Dalian Univ. of Tech., China

Dear friends & colleagues,

 

We have several Open-Rank Faculty Positions available in the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (http://msclab.org/), which is based in the School of Software, Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China. More details are available at: http://fengxia.net/facultypositions.html (in Chinese)

 

Besides full-time positions, adjunct positions are always available for senior researchers/professors.

 

Feel free to contact me if you are interested. Please kindly help forward this message to those who might have interest. Thanks a lot!

 

Best regards,

Feng

 

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Feng XIA (夏锋), PhD, Professor, SMIEEE, SMACM

Director, Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (http://msclab.org)

Head, Department of Network Engineering

Assistant Dean, School of Software

Dalian University of Technology

Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China

Email: f.xia@ieee.org; f.xia@acm.org

URL: http://FengXia.NET

 

 

 

 

 

[KMDG-L] Two Post-doc Positions in computational social science (Dalian University of Technology, China)

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (http://msclab.org/) at Dalian University of Technology, China conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in social computing and mobile computing. We are opening two full-time post-doc positions. The successful applicant is expected to work on topics like computational social science, (scholarly/social) data analytics, or mobile social networks. The salary will be around 6,000 RMB/month, plus other Benefits. We will offer excellent working conditions.

 

Supervisor: Professor Feng XIA

Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China

Start date: ASAP (Negotiable)

Duration: 2 years (fixed)

 

Qualifications:

1. Applicants shall have PhD in related disciplines.

2. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.

3. Research experience in related areas is required.

 

Application procedure:

Please submit your application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees), a brief statement of research plan (no more than one page), and at least two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). There is no deadline for application, but we will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible. 

 

For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (http://FengXia.NET).

 

[KMDG-L] PhD Positions with Full Scholarships in Computational Social Science / Big Data @ Dalian Univ. of Tech., China

Apologies for cross-posting.

 

Deadline for application: 19 Feb 2016.

 

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (http://msclab.org/) at Dalian University of Technology, China conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in mobile and social computing. The Lab now has 30+ members, including 10+ PhD students (from seven countries on this planet!).

 

We are opening 2 PhD student positions in social computing (including e.g. computational social science, data analytics, big scholarly data, social network analysis, etc). All positions will be coupled to full Chinese Government Scholarships. Basic living allowance will be 3,500 RMB/month, plus Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit. The scholarships are exempt from registration fee, tuition, and fee for basic learning materials. Accommodation on campus will be provided for free. The University will offer excellent working conditions.

 

Supervisor: Professor Feng XIA

Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China

Starting date: September 2016

PhD duration: 4 years

 

Qualifications

1. Applicants shall have a master's degree in related discipline.

2. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.

3. Research experience in related areas is a plus.

 

Application procedure

Before submitting the full application (to the University), each potential applicant should first send an initial application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees, detailed contact information, etc), and at least two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). The deadline for applications is 19 Feb 2016. Only a few candidates will be shortlisted for full application. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. We will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled.

 

For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org).

 

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Feng XIA (夏锋), PhD, Professor, SMIEEE, SMACM

Director, Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (http://msclab.org)

Head, Department of Network Engineering

Assistant Dean, School of Software

Dalian University of Technology

Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China

Email: f.xia@ieee.org; f.xia@acm.org

URL: http://FengXia.NET

 

 

[KMDG-L] Agricultural Libraries -IFLA Conference -Call for Papers - 2016

http://2016.ifla.org/cfp-calls/agricultural-libraries-special-interest-group

Call for Papers: Open Sessions

Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group

Theme:
"Animal Agriculture Information Systems: An International Perspective"

Focus

Papers are invited to be presented at the Open Session organized by the Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group during the 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Columbus, Ohio, United States in August 2016 on the theme: Animal Agriculture Information Systems: An International Perspective

Submissions

All proposals must be received by 15 February 2016.

All proposals must be sent to:

Dr. Ajay P. Singh
Convener
Email: apsingh_73@yahoo.co.in

Copy should be sent to:

Dr. Deva E. Reddy
Program Chair
Email: devaereddy@tamu.edu

[KMDG-L] Organizing information: roles, skills and training for the future: ISKO-UK, 14 March 2016

Dear IFLA colleagues

ISKO UK Next Meeting and AGM - Organizing information: roles, skills and training for the future

What part will knowledge organization play in our ability to find and manage information in the future, whether it's on websites, document management systems, collaboration systems, corporate intranets, or even on shared drives? What sort of roles will be needed to cope with the ever increasing amounts of information that we're dealing with, and how do we prepare ourselves for these roles? Do university courses and other institutions reflect the needs of the market in their syllabus, and what other ways are there to improve our skills?  

This will be a slightly different format than usual, as we are expecting to look at the topic from a number of different angles. Speakers from government, enterprise, recruitment and academia will be reflecting on the marketplace and how we as professionals respond to it, but instead of our usual longer papers, we are planning shorter contributions in order to cover a wider spectrum of thoughts and experience  and will also welcome input about your own situations. Come and join in the discussion at 2pm on March 14th 2016 at The British Dental Association, Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS. Members are urged to attend the ISKO UK AGM at 1pm, immediately before the main session, and non-mem! ber observers are welcome too.

For more information, and details of registration, please go to

http://iskouk.org/content/organizing-information-roles-skills-and-training-future

Free to members, only £40 for non-members.

Hope to see you there!

Liz Marley ISKO-UK Publicity