[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 Story-telling may have been superseded as the principal way of passing knowledge from one generation to the next, but can still bring to life the study of historical records.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

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]

 

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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