ISKO UK are delighted to announce this event at the BCS Office, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
Full details and booking at <http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm>
This event will be a showcase for the latest developments in the evolution of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), metadata annotation to aid workflow automation, information retrieval in networks of diverse media assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for using metadata. It is a Joint Meeting of ISKO UK, IRSG (Information Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT) and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). The day will be modular: attendance in the morning is optional, with a choice of workshop or tutorial, while the afternoon programme is for everyone. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested
Morning options
a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint (10.00 -12.00)
While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever before, the range of options can make it hard to implement the most effective way. Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular challenge. This tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an experienced consultant, Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.
b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage (9.30 – 12.30)
Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs) and/or element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described by Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche (Fujitsu, Ireland), Dan Brickley (Google), Gordon Dunsire and Stella Dextre Clarke, with emphasis on the opportunities as well as the barriers to widespread adoption. After that is a case study from Johan De Smedt and Agis Papantoniou, both of TenForce, that draws on more than one technique. The subsequent discussion will address the prospects for take-up, aiming to help participants with application or development of similar techniques and projects.
Afternoon meeting (Plenary, 14.00 – 18.00)
Martin White: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
Sean Bechhofer: Wf4Ever: metadata for “Research Objects”
Mark Sandler: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content for the 21st century
Richard Ranft: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio collections
Antoine Isaac: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case (in progress)
Andrew MacFarlane: Analysing creative image search queries to determine important facets
Followed by networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00.
Registration fee and booking
Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: £120 (or £70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students);
Afternoon only: £60 (or £25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students).
Booking is open at <http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm>
About ISKO UK
ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) 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). Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the general theme of “Knowledge organization – pushing the boundaries” http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.
About BCS IRSG
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as a link between computer science, library and information science and also cognate communities (like natural language processing).
About DCMI
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open, international forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards with diverse applications. DCMI’s activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology).
We shall all look forward to welcoming you on the day. To avoid disappointment, please don't delay in booking.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
[KMDG-L] ISKO UK event Monday 23rd June June "Making metadata work"
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
[KMDG-L] Reminder: CFP - IFLA WLIC Conference - Knowledge Management Section - Deadline 15 February 2014
IFLA WLIC Conference Lyon, France 16 - 22 August 2014
IFLA Knowledge Management Section
Call for Papers
Theme: Knowledge in the Digital Age - Libraries and librarians are managing the digital transformation
See http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/calls-for-papers/knowledge-digital-age for details on the programme and submission guidelines.
Contact Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Programme Chair (ceynowa@bsb-muenchen.de) for more information.
Monday, February 10, 2014
[KMDG-L] CFP: IFLA KM Satellite Meeting - Deadline Extended
DEADLINE EXTENDED until 28 February 2014
2014 IFLA KM Satellite Meeting Lyon, France 15 August 2014
IFLA Knowledge Management Section & Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section Call for Papers
This one day satellite meeting will focus on the processes which promote change management in the changing environment faced by libraries. It includes the tools manager librarians can use and the methods they can adopt through Knowledge Management to make a success of this transition period.
Theme: Knowledge Management as a vital tool for change management
· See also: 2014 satellite meeting website - http://parisdescartes.libguides.com/IFLA2014/ENG
For additional information on this call for papers, you may contact Julien Sempéré: julien.sempere@parisdescartes.fr
Monday, January 13, 2014
[KMDG-L] CFP: Joint Session Knowledge Management Section & Asia & Oceania Section IFLA WLIC 2014 Lyon, France
Joint Session Knowledge Management Section & Asia & Oceania Section IFLA WLIC 2014 Lyon, France
Theme: Knowledge Management initiatives and development in Asia and Oceania
(http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/calls-for-papers/knowledge-management-initiatives-and-development-asia-and-oceania)
A joint session of Knowledge Management Section and Asia & Oceania Section are inviting colleagues of the field to present their thoughts and practice of knowledge Management in the area.
In keeping with the IFLA WLIC 2014 overall theme of the conference - "Librarians, Citizens, Societies: Confluence of Knowledge" - This session focuses on how Knowledge Management (KM) initiates and current development in the region to address the lessons learned, knowledge sharing and knowledge solutions in current status.
Full abstracts (500 words) should be prepared following the template provided (See Details)
Abbreviated abstracts or late submissions will not be considered.
Please send your abstract by 31 January 2014 to:
Leda Bultrini, Chair, Knowledge Management Section Chair
Email: leda.bultrini@arpalazio.it
Chihfeng P. Lin, RSCAO Chair
Email: chihfeng@cc.shu.edu.tw
Takashi Nagatsuka, RSCAO Secretary
Email: nagatsuka-t@tsurumi-u.ac.jp
Jayshree Mamtora, RSCAO Open Session Program Chair
Email: Jayshree.Mamtora@cdu.edu.au
[KMDG-L] Call for Papers Knowledge Management Section Program IFLA WLIC 2014 Lyon, France--DEADLINE 15 FEB 2014
Call for Papers Knowledge Management Section Program IFLA WLIC 2014 Lyon, France
(http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/calls-for-papers/knowledge-digital-age)
Theme: Knowledge in the Digital Age - Libraries and librarians are managing the digital transformation
The 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 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 practices in libraries. The conference motto for the 2014 Conference in Lyon, France is: "Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge".
The IFLA Knowledge Management Section invites librarians, information scientists, knowledge managers and professionals to submit proposals for papers to be presented in a 2-hour session at WLIC Lyon, France, 16-22 August 2014.
“Knowledge in the Digital Age – Libraries and Librarians are Managing the Digital Transformation” is the KM Section’s theme for its 2014 Open Programme during the conference:
Please send an abstract of approximately 500 words, in English, no later than 15 February 2014 to:
Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Programme Chair
Email: ceynowa@bsb-muenchen.de
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.
[KMDG-L] Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
From: Doyle, Ann
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:02 PM
To: KMDG-L@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Dear KMDG,
Please excuse cross-postings, and share with those you think may be interested. Thank you! --Ann
Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Guest editors, Cheryl Metoyer and Ann Doyle, invite contributions to an Indigenous Special Issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. This special issue aims to engage an international and interdisciplinary dialogue about Indigenous approaches to cataloguing and classification. It includes theoretical and applied research that examines processes of representing and organizing documents or their resultant products in Indigenous contexts. It values practitioners' perspectives and projects that envision new directions or inspire innovation drawing upon Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies. The concept of the catalog is broadly defined as a tool for organizing and facilitating access to various kinds of information at different levels of granularity – archival collection, song, image, monograph, multimedia et al – that draws upon multiple sources of metadata in social, political, and ethical contexts.
Call for Proposals
Contributions are welcomed on a range of topics. The list below is meant to be generative, and we encourage contributors to be creative in their interpretations of topics that fit the theme of representing, ordering, and accessing information in Indigenous contexts.
· Indigenous theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to representing, ordering, and accessing information;
· Indigenous and tribal libraries' cataloguing and classification;
· Structural bases for organizing information in Indigenous contexts;
· Indigenous names, naming and authority control;
· Collaboration and partnerships (community/academy; tribal and non-tribal institutions);
· Indigenous information ethics/ ethics of Indigenous information;
· Cataloguing and classification for reconciliation;
· The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007) and bibliographic control;
· Development of iSchool education and curriculum for Indigenous cataloguing, classification, and knowledge organization;
· Indigenous research agendas in cataloging and classification.
Proposals in the form of abstracts (approximately 300 words excluding references) should be sent to the guest editors by February 15, 2014. Acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee publication. All manuscript submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed, and should be in the range of 5,000-8,000 words.
Guest Editors
Cheryl Metoyer (Cherokee), University of Washington, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean for Research at the iSchool and Adjunct Associate Professor in American Indian Studies. Dr. Metoyer's research interests include indigenous systems of knowledge with an emphasis on American Indian and Alaska Native tribal nations; information seeking behaviors in cultural communities; and ethics and leadership in cultural communities. Ann Doyle is the Head of the Xwi7xwa Library at the First Nations House of Learning, the Aboriginal branch of the University of British Columbia Library. Dr. Doyle's research interests focus on knowledge organization in Indigenous contexts, Indigenous education, and the interaction of knowledge domains.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submissions (up to 300 words): February 15, 2014
Notification of abstracts review (results): February 28, 2014
Manuscript submission deadline: August 30, 2014
Peer review completed: October 30, 2014
Final manuscript revisions: January 15, 2015
Planned publication date: Spring/summer 2015
The complete special issue becomes available approximately 3 months after all pieces of the issue are received by the publisher. The individual articles become available online (with DOI) as soon as they are completed (before the whole issue is out).
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly "is respected as an international forum for discussion in all aspects of bibliographic organization. It presents a balance between theoretical and applied articles in the field of cataloging and classification, and considers the full spectrum of creation, content, management, and use and usability of both bibliographic records and catalogs. This includes the principles, functions, and techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of methods of subject analysis and classification; provision of access for all formats of materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected to the effective use of bibliographic records in modern society." … http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com
Instructions for Authors: "The journal deals with the historic setting as well as with the contemporary, and with theory and scholarly research as well as with practical applications. In a rapidly changing field, it seeks out and fosters new developments in the transition to new forms of bibliographic control and encourages the innovative and the nontraditional." … http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/instructions.html
Taylor & Francis' Author Services – LIS Rights:
"Copyright is retained by the author, who grants a license to Taylor & Francis to publish the version of Scholarly Record, but who remains copyright holder and is free to post versions of the Article – Author's Original Manuscript (preprint) and Author's Accepted Manuscript (postprint) – at any time, without embargo, with a link to the Version of Scholarly Record." … (Definition of Terms. Paragraph 3) http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp
Please direct proposal submissions and inquiries to the guest editors:
Cheryl Metoyer Ann Doyle
E: metoyer@uw.edu E: ann.doyle@ubc.ca
Associate Dean for Research Head, Xwi7xwa Library
Information School First Nations House of Learning
University of Washington University of British Columbia
USA Canada
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Ann Doyle
Xwi7xwa Library, Head (on study leave until Aug 2014 ... still online)
University of British Columbia
1985 West Mall,
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
ann.doyle@ubc.ca
t. 604-649-3569
f. 604-822-8944
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
[KMDG-L] Current Science's Special Focus on Science Writing in India
Current Science, 2014, 106 (1), 20-21.
- Science journalism in South Asia – untapped potential, by T.V. Padma Download
- Science for all, by Nidhi Jamwal Download
- Writing science for school children, by Shubashree Desikan and A. S. Ganesh Download
- The (science) writing life, by Seema Singh Download
- Is blogging journalism and other questions, by Subhra Priyadarshini Download
- Science reporting in Hindi, by Sopan Joshi Download
- Lessons for a climate change scribe!, by Archita Bhatta Download