[KMDG-L] Second Call: BOBCATSSS 2012 - Amsterdam

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 submit a contribution and register as a participant by using our Conference Administration Tool:
https://www.conftool.pro/bobcatsss2012/

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

We'd be pleased to receive your abstract until October 1, 2011 and 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] Second Call: BOBCATSSS 2012

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 submit a contribution and / or register as a participant by using our Conference Administration Tool: https://www.conftool.pro/bobcatsss2012/

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

We'd be pleased to receive your abstract until October 1, 2011 and 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

[KMDG-L] Open session - Agricultural Libraries at IFLA conference

Dear colleagues,

The Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group cordially invites you to its
session at IFLA Conference in San Juan,Puerto Rico
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla77/programme-and-proceedings-day/2011-08-14

Theme:

"Information systems for indigenous knowledge in agriculture"

on Sunday 14 August 2011 13:45 - 15:45

In this session: Papers to be presented include:

*Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: American Indian tribes and Maori
communities support indigenous agricultural lifeways

*Promoting learning process to produce organic vegetables with special reference
to one village in rural Northeast Thailand

*knowledge for sustainable food security: the efforts of agricultural research
libraries in Nigeria

*Role of libraries in promoting the dissemination and documentation of
indigenous agricultural information: case study of Zimbabwe

*Information systems for Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: an overview

The session will take place on Sunday 14 August 2011 13:45 - 15:45 | Room:
Exhibition Hall A.

Hope to See you soon in Puerto Rico!

Best regards,

Deva EswarReddy,PhD
Associate Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-5000
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.eduSC Member, IFLA Science&Technology Section
Convener, IFLA Agricultural Libraries Group
College Station, TX 77843-5000
Tel.979-862-1062 Fax.979-458-0112
dereddy@tamu.eduSC Member, IFLA Science&Technology Section
Convener, IFLA Agricultural Libraries Group

[KMDG-L] INVITATION: Classification and Ontology, The Hague, 19-20 September

Apologies for cross-posting

*** INVITATION***

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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 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

Ontology-like representations of classifications are recognized as potentially
important facilitators in creating a web of linked data.

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] Call for Papers: DGI-Conference 2012 “Social Media & Web Science”. European Afternoon on March 22nd, Düsseldorf Germany.

Call for Papers

DGI-Conference 2012

European Afternoon, 22 March 2012

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

 

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

Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012

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

 

W We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches for Web research!

 

S  Submissions

Y  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.

 

I   Important Dates

S  Submission of full papers:                                                                              31.08.2011

N  Notification of acceptance:                                                                             21.11.2011

S  Submission of camera-ready (revised) versions:                                               21.12.2011

 

P  Programme Committee

P  Programme Chairs:

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

 

O  Organiser

D  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft

N  und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) /

German Society of Information Science and Information Practice

    Windmühlstraße 3

  0 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

F  Fon +49 (0)69 430313

F  Fax +49 (0)69 4909096

e-  mail: mail@dgi-info.de

w  www.dgi-info.de

 

Contact

N  Nadja Strein

 

[KMDG-L] EARLY BIRD CLOSES: Classification and Ontology, 19-20 September, The Hague

Apologies for cross-posting

*** EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 1 JULY***

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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
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VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of Netherlands)
EARLY BIRD FEE: €170 (€130 students) - early bird closes on 1 July
Fee includes conference proceedings book (published by Ergon Verlag),
refreshment, reception and two lunches.

To register and pay online go to http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/registration.php

Ontology-like representations of classifications are recognized as potentially
important facilitators in creating a web of linked data. The objective of this
conference is to promote collaboration and exchange of expertise between
different fields dealing with knowledge classifications: bibliographic, web and AI.

Highlights: Keynote address by Prof. Patrick Hayes, followed by an outstanding
selection of speakers from the domains of web technology, ontology, knowledge
organization and bibliographic classification: 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 etc.

The preliminary programme with abstracts and speakers biographies is available
at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/programme.htm.

To secure your place at this event at early bird rates, delegates need to
register and
pay by 1 July.
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Dr Aida Slavic
UDC Editor-in-Chief
UDC Consortium
aida.slavic@udcc.org
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Web: http://www.udcc.org
Blog: http://universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UDCC
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* Multilingual UDC Summary: http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php
* Classification& Ontology: http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm