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May/June 2010

Table of Contents

 

Summary

In Print

Point to Point

Calls for Participation

Goings On

Deadline Reminders

 

C L I P S   A N D   P O I N T E R S

May/June 2010

 

In Print

  • State Library Agency Service Trends: 1999-2008, Research Brief No. 2, March 2010, institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

    "This research brief gives an overview of the revenues, expenditures, and services provided by state library agencies (StLAs) during fiscal year (FY) 2008. State library agencies are official agencies charged by state law with the extension and development of library services throughout the state; they have authority under state law to administer state plans in accordance with the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) (P.L. 104-208). The 2008 fiscal year includes parts of 2007 and 2008; for the vast majority of states (46), the 2008 fiscal year started on 7/1/2007 and ended on 6/30/2008. Because of the time period this survey spans, it does not reflect the full budgetary impact of the current economic downturn."

  • Planets Survey Analysis Report, Planets Project deliverable, May 6, 2010.

    From the Executive Summary: "In early 2009 Planets conducted an on-line survey of people with an interest in digital preservation. In particular, national libraries and archives in Europe were targeted. The objectives of the survey were to:

    • Better understand digital preservation needs within European organisations that create or hold digital content
    • Establish and begin to quantify and qualify demand for Planets' tools and services
    • Identify the most appropriate packaging for Planets to meet market requirements
    • Inform the design of a follow-on organisation to sustain Planets' products and services
    • after 2010."

    "The survey had a relatively large number of responses (over 200). While the respondents were from a wide variety of organisations, approximately two fifths were from libraries and a third from archives."

  • Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura et al., a publication of OCLC Research in support of the RLG Partnership, March 2010.

    From the Executive Summary: "The report acknowledges that 'Many of the users of library online catalogs are librarians and staff – these individuals form an important catalog user community themselves. Therefore, just as catalog end users (e.g. citizens, students, and faculty) have information needs, preferences, and expectations that need to be supported by catalog data, so do librarians who get their work done using the data underpinning the catalog' (p. 3). As such, librarians and library staff were also queried regarding desired data quality enhancements, with the top five being: merge duplicate records, add tables of content, add summaries, fix typos, upgrade brief records."

  • Our vision and strategy for heritage science, by the National Heritage Science Strategy (NHSS) Steering Group, March 2010.

    "The NHSS vision and strategy has two aims:

    1. to demonstrate the public benefit of heritage science and increase public engagement and support for it, and
    2. to improve partnership within the sector and with others by increasing collaboration to help practice make better use of research, knowledge and innovation and to enhance resources, funding and skills."

  • Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries, by Samantha Becker et al., (IMLS-2010-RES-01). Institute of Museum and Library Services. Washington, D.C., March 2010.

    "Over the past decade and a half, free access to computers and the Internet in U.S. public libraries evolved from a rare commodity into a core service....This study provides the first large-scale investigation of the ways library patrons use this service, why they use it, and how it affects their lives. A national telephone survey, nearly 45,000 online surveys at public libraries, and hundreds of interviews reveal the central role modern libraries play in a digital society."

    For more information, please see http://cis.washington.edu/usimpact/.

  • MODS User Guidelines (Version 3), Library of Congress, April 2010.

    "This document should be used in conjunction with the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) mappings (MARC to MODS and MODS to MARC) and Outline of Elements, as well as additional information that can be found on the MODS Web site. The guidelines are primarily intended to be used for assistance in creating original MODS records, although they may also be instructive in interpreting MODS records that have been converted from MARC 21 or for use in developing detailed conversion specifications. This document has been revised to reflect MODS version 3.3. The MODS User Guidelines are maintained by the Library of Congress with the MODS Editorial Committee."

  • Lifelong Learning Imperative in Engineering: Summary of a Workshop, by Debasish Dutta, Rapporteur and Program Chair; National Academy of Engineering, National Academies Press, 2010, ISBN-10: 0-309-15118-X.

    "The 21st century is witnessing a rapid increase in the pace of knowledge creation in the sciences and engineering. Competing in this global economy requires a science and engineering workforce that is consistently at the technological forefront."

    This report may be read online at no charge. For more information, please see the publisher's web site.

  • Ensuring Perpetual Access: Establishing a Federated Strategy on Perpetual Access and Hosting of Electronic Resources for Germany A study funded by The Alliance of German Science Organisations. Prepared by Charles Beagrie Limited in association with Globale Informationstechnik GmbH. Edited Final Report - February 2010.

    From the Preface to the Report: "This study was conducted as basis for all further steps towards a national hosting strategy. It was financed jointly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association and the Max Planck Society. The study is intended to be the starting point from which to arrive at concrete ideas and activities related to a coordinated national hosting strategy. The intensive, often controversial but always constructive and continuing discussion now expands out of the working group into the public area to be continued there in the same manner."

  • Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies, by Roger C. Schonfeld (Manager of Research) & Ross Housewright (Analyst), Copyright 2010 ITHAKA, April 7, 2010.

    From the Introduction to the Report: "Ithaka S+R Faculty Surveys provide a regular examination of key strategic issues facing academic information services providers. Conducted every three years since 2000, these surveys examine a broad sweep of issues affecting academic libraries, publishers, and scholarly societies, among others, to help them serve the changing needs of their faculty constituents."

  • Mapping ONIX to MARC, by Carol Jean Godby. A publication of OCLC Research. Copyright �2010 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., April 2010.

    "This report presents an interpretation of a crosswalk from ONIX for Books 2.1 to MARC 21 developed by OCLC and made publicly available from the OCLC Web site and EDItEUR."

    For more information, please see the press release about the report.

  • Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change , by James Michalko Constance Malpas and Arnold Arcolio, OCLC Research. Copyright 2010 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., March 2010.

    "This report provides an overview of the most significant risks facing research libraries and suggests strategies to mitigate them."

    For more information, please see the press release about the report.

  • Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future, by Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D., and Sarah Earl-Novell, Ph.D. CSHE 6.10 (April 2010).

    From the Abstract: "As part of its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Future of Scholarly Communication Project, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) has hosted two meetings to explore how peer review relates to scholarly communication and academic values. In preparation for an April 2010 workshop, four working papers were developed and circulated. They are presented as drafts here. (The proceedings from the April 2010 meeting will be published at a future date.)...The topics of the working papers are: (1) Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Norms, Complaints, and Costs, (2) New Models of Peer Review: Repositories, Open Peer Review, and Post Publication Metrics, (3) Open Access: Green OA, Gold OA, and University Resolutions, and (4) Creating New Publishing and Peer Review Models: Scholarly Societies, Presses, Libraries, Commercial Publishers, and Other Stakeholders."

    For more information, please see the report web page.

  • The Digital Information Seeker: Report of findings from selected OCLC, RIN and JISC user behaviour projects, by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Timothy J. Dickey, OCLC Research, published by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) March 22, 2010.

    From the Executive Summary: "This report is not intended to be the definitive work on user behaviour studies, but rather to provide a synthesised document to make it easier for information professionals to better understand the information-seeking behaviours of the libraries' intended users and to review the issues associated with the development of information services and systems that will best meet these users' needs."

    For more information, please see the report web site.

  • Working Group Connection, Issue 1, April 2010, National Information Standards Organizatio (NISO).

    "Beginning with this issue, Newsline subscribers will receive the Working Group Connection quarterly supplement. Working Group Connection provides the latest news from NISO's working groups and committees. NISO currently has more active working groups than ever before in its history. NISO also has two standards in a continuous maintenance mode with standing committees and several published standards have designated maintenance agencies. Working Group Connection will keep you up-to-date on the progress of all of the standards and recommended practices in development and maintenance, letting you know both what is new and what is forthcoming."

  • Primary Source, Vol. 12, No. 3; April 2010.

    "Primary Source is the e-mail newsletter of the Institute of Museum and Library Services."

  • ERCIM News 81, April 2010 Special theme: Computational Science/Scientific Computing Simulation & Modelling for Research and Industry.

    "ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. The printed edition of the current number has a circulation of 11,000 copies."

  • LIBRES, Volume 20, issue 1, March 2010.

    "LIBRES is an international refereed electronic journal devoted to new research in Library and Information Science. LIBRES is distributed through a listserver, and an ftp site."

  • DOI® News, May 2010.

    "DOI® News is a public news release. Information contained within this newsletter may be reproduced and disseminated to all interested parties."

    "In this issue:

    1. DOI for Datasets: DataCite Summer Meeting 2010
    2. International DOI Foundation Annual Meeting 2010
    3. DOI System Moves to Final ISO Standardization
    4. DOI-based Tool for Taxonomy
    5. International DOI Foundation Launches shortDOI™ Service"

  • Digital Content Quarterly (DCQ), Issue 2, Strategic Content Alliance, Spring 2010.

    "This is the second issue of the Strategic Content Alliance's interactive magazine. This time DCQ is themed around the current hot topic of 'open' - open content, open education resources, open data. It includes features from John Sheridan (Head of e-Services and Strategy at the Office of Public Sector) on the nuts and bolts of linked data; and Ahrash Bissell (Consultant to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation on innovation in education and science and former executive director of CC Learn) who provides a thought-provoking look at the challenges and benefits of Open Educational Resources."

  • Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (April), Library of Congress.

    "The April 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available. In this issue:

    • Another release in the Digital Preservation Video Series, 'Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone'
    • Recent news articles about the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative and Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project
    • A report on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Symposium, held April 1 in Washington, DC
    • JHOVE2 Prototype released to the digital preservation community"

  • Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (May), Library of Congress, 2010.

    "In this issue:

    • New media responds to news that Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library
    • The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is now on Facebook
    • Read about the Library of Congress at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Tx
    • Digital Preservation Pioneer Patricia Cruse is profiled
    • News from recent meetings: the Preserving Virtual Worlds project meeting and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's U.S. workshop to launch a digital preservation roadmap
    • New state partners - Alabama and New Mexico - join the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System research project
    • The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access is offering new grants
    • Take a survey for the JHOVE2 project
    • The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive releases a third report on link rot"

  • Factors in Open Access Which Influence the Impact Cycle, Sciecom Info, Number 1 (2010) Agerb�k Kjøller Nielsen.

    "The number of Open Access journals has been on the rise in recent years. This is believed to have had an influence on what can be termed the impact cycle: the cycle from the end of research to the production of a (citeable) publication. Open Access provides free and early access to publications, thus creating a more dynamic impact cycle. This article will explore the impact cycle, and the changes brought on by Open Access."

  • EBLIDA News, No. 4 - April 2010, edited by Joanne Yeomans & Claudia Forero, and published by the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA).

    "This issue provides a news roundup, news specific ot EBLIDA, and announcements of upcoming events."

  • What's New, Issue 24, April 2010, and What's New, Issue 25, May 2010. What's New is a joint production of the Digital Preservation Coalition and Digital Curation Centre.

    "Issue 24 marks a new initiative between the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) which pools our efforts and produces a more frequent and more interactive news bulletin for those interested in all matters of digital curation and preservation. It is a successor of the DCC's monthly Curation News Round-up and the DPC's quarterly bulletin What's new in Digital Preservation?."

  • Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 13, No. 1.

    "The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users. Our contributors and readers are publishers, scholars, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, attorneys, retailers, and others with an interest in the methods and means of contemporary publishing."

  • Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Number 60, Winter 2010.

    "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL) publishes substantive material of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians to share details of successful programs, materials for the delivery of information services, background information and opinions on topics of current interest, to publish research and bibliographies on issues in science and technology libraries."

  • Planetarium Newsletter, Issue number 9, March 2010.

    "Planetarium Issue number 9 features a spotlight on Preservation Planning: Protecting Files For The Future, presents research in the impact of transition from analogue to digital communication on researchers and civil servants, and also contain an article about how the Planets research partners develop tools and services and put Planets into practice. In addition you will find an article about Planets and the OAIS. The newsletter also contains a News Round Up and a list of Planets publications and presentations at events."

  • Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Volume 41, Number 3, April 2010, University of Toronto Press.

    "The Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models."

 

Point to Point

  • Google Books Bibliography, Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Version 6, April 12, 2010.

    "This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Books and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical."

  • Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Case Notes, Digital Preservation Coalition.

    "The DPC, with help from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Portico and ULCC, and with funding from JISC, has announced the launch of the first in a series of Digital Preservation Case Notes. The Case Notes offer straightforward examples of organisations and individuals tackling the digital preservation challenges that come from mass digitization."

  • PLANETS Training Materials.

    "The final conference 'Digital Preservation - The Planets Way' took place in Rome in April....To complement the face-to-face training and introduce Planets to people who were unable to attend, a set of online training materials is now available to download from the Planets website."

  • Presentations from Webwise 2010: Imagining the Digital Future, held March 3 - 5, 2010, Denver, Colorado.

    "The webcasts [at this site] focus on the sustainability of digital content, engaging users, new tools and services, essential skills for practitioners, and funding. The captioned videos also feature a pre-conference session on school libraries and 21st century skills and a thought-provoking dialogue between Howard Besser, professor of cinema studies and director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, and Susan Chun, a museum technology consultant."

 

Calls for Participation

  • The 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2010), 12 - 14 December 2010, Hong Kong, China. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 June 2010.

    "The aim of this eleventh edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications."

  • Fourth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'10), 20 - 22 October 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 June 2010.

    "[This conference] aims at becoming the main event for researchers in the area of metadata and semantics with an inter-disciplinary focus. The conference welcomes submissions from any disciplinary domain in which meta-descriptions of digital resources are used, defined or standardized (e.g. biology, agriculture, medicine, etc.)."

  • Forty-fourth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, 4 - 7 January 2011, Kauai, Hawai'i. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 June 2010.

    "Since the advent of high speed internet access and inexpensive storage, libraries around the world are building repositories of their books, papers, and other works which can be digitized or which were born digital. Repositories are growing rapidly in scope and number, for example, Project Gutenberg, Google Book Search, the Internet Archive, the World Digital Library, and many others."

  • The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) 2010, 26 - 29 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 20 June 2010.

    "The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations, and tutorials and workshops."

  • 1st Karlsruhe Summer School on Service Research, 18 - 23 July 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany. Call for participaiton. The application deadline is 15 June 2010.

    "Through a connected series of events, the Karlsruhe Service Summer seeks to bring together experts from academia and industry as well as interested students in the field of Service Research."

  • ISWC 2010, the Ninth International Semantic Web Conference, 7 - 11 November 2010, Shanghai, China. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 21 June 2010.

    "Research papers must describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies or systems."

  • Third Workshop on 'Very Large Digital Libraries', 10 September 2010, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 25 June 2010.

    "The goal of the Third Very Large Digital Library workshop is to prosecute...fertile discussions, hence to continue on providing researchers, practitioners and application developers with a forum fostering a constructive exchange among all key actors in the field of Very Large Digital Libraries."

  • IADIS International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2010), 15 - 17 October 2010, Timisoara, Romania. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 25 June 2010.

    "The IADIS CELDA 2010 conference aims to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. These developments have created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments."

  • 1st International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Web - SSW 2010, 27 - 28 October 2010, Valencia, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 28 June 2010.

    "This workshop is held in conjuction with IC3K, a conference organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    • Modeling and Representation of Sensor Knowledge
    • Analysis and Modeling of Sensor Domain
    • Sensor/Sensor Network Ontology Engineering
    • Semantic Sensor Web
    • Data Models and Languages for Semantic Sensor Web
    • Semantic Sensor Systems and Applications
    • Architectures and Middleware for Semantic Sensor Web"

  • 1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous-Data Mining and KDD in Support of Earth Observation - KKDEO 2010, 27 - 28 October 2010, Valencia, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 28 June 2010.

    "This workshop is held in conjuction with IC3K, a conference organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    • Heterogeneous Data Analysis
    • Category Discovery
    • Efficient Search based on Dynamically Generated Data Models
    • Advanced DB Techniques
    • Image Information Integration with Map or GIS-like Information
    • Bridging the Semantic Gap for EO Applications
    • 'Spatialisation' of Semantics, and Ontologies for Spatial Data
    • Fusion and Enriching of EO Images with, the Image Product Metadata, Internet Tagged Resources, Photography, Text, Maps, etc.
    • Access (Search Engines) to Large Spatial Data, Distributed Repositories
    • Optimal IT System Design (Man-machine Communication, Information and Knowledge Share, Optimal Access to Resources, etc...)
    • Semantic Catalogues for Data Bases Indexing Content"

  • EC-TEL 2010 Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 28 September - 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 June 2010.

    "The HetRec workshop aims to attract the attention of students, faculty and professionals both from academia and industry who are interested in addressing and exploiting...forms of information heterogeneity and fusion in recommender systems. The work goals are broad. First, we would like to raise awareness of the potential of using multiple information sources. Then, we look for sharing expertise and suitable models. Another dire need is for strong datasets, and one of our aims is to establish benchmarks and standard datasets on which the problem would be studied following the workshop. Our hope is that this workshop will put a basis for a line of works, and will help shaping the research agenda."

  • 4th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 26 - 29 January, 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 6 July 2010.

    "The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others."

  • 4th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), 26 - 29 January, 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 6 July 2010.

    "The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Health Informatics bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the specialized support to persons with special needs in particular."

  • 4th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies(BIOSTEC 2011), 26 - 29 January 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 6 July 2010.

    "The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine."

  • 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics (BIOINFORMATICS), 26 - 29 January 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 6 July 2010.

    "The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems and information technologies to the field of molecular biology, including for example the use of statistics and algorithms to understanding biological processes and systems, with a focus on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. Areas of interest for this community include sequence analysis, biostatistics, image analysis, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, computational genomics and proteomics with applications in fields such as computational molecular biology, molecular medicine and pharmaceutics."

  • 4th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES), 26 - 29 January 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 6 July 2010.

    "The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices is to bring together researchers and practitioners from electronics and mechanical engineering, interested in studying and using models, equipments and materials inspired from biological systems and/or addressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference."

  • 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 28 - 30 January 2011, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 8 July 2010.

    "The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand."

 

Goings On

  • 1st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2010), 15 - 17 June 2010, Madrid, Spain

    "The conference aims to be a meeting forum for researchers, practitioners, and teaching professionals with an interest for the Information Retrieval field, where an overview of the activity in the scope of (though not necessarily restricted to) Spain can be obtained, seeking to provide a get-together for discussion and progress of future initiatives towards the promotion of the area in our country."

  • 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2010), 15 - 18 June 2010, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

    "The purpose of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Three simultaneous tracks will be held, covering Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Automation, Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control."

  • ETD 2010 - 13th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 16 - 18 June 2010, Austin, Texas, USA

    "The itinerary [of this conference] consists of a series of workshops and plenary sessions designed to provide a focus on ETD implementation, digital library systems, standards and intellectual property issues, to highlight discussions from previous ETD symposia and to provide a networking forum for the successful launch and sustenance of ETD programs."

  • ELPUB 2010 - Publishing in the networked world: transforming the nature of communication, 16 - 18 June 2010, Helsinki, Finland

    "The themes for the conference in 2010 are:

    • Electronic publishing and social networks - services and technology for user communities media and content
    • Scholarly publishing - models, open access, user and author perceptions
    • Technological convergence, interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery"

  • 1st International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification, 17 - 18 June 2010, Minori, Italy

    "The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from academia and industry active in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, from theory to concrete applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization."

  • UMAP 2010: 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 20 - 24 June 2010, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

    "UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009."

  • 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, 21 - 24 June 2010, Màlaga, Spain

    "The field of computer music is interdisciplinary by nature and closely related to a number of computer science and engineering areas such as information retrieval, human computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics, signal processing, etc."

  • JCDL 2010 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 21 - 25 June 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

    "For the first time in 2010, the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) will be held together at the Gold Coast in Australia. The two conferences will each have their own Call for Papers and accepted research paper streams. However, workshops, plenaries, tutorials and social events will be held concurrently. JCDL is focused in the areas of computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice and preservation technologies."

  • International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), (held in conjunction with JCDL 2010) 21 - 25 June 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

    "ICADL is focused on the areas of computer science, library and information science and knowledge management in the applications of environmental sciences, social sciences, humanities and museum studies. The ICADL 2010 theme is 'Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change'..."

  • 8th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010), 23 - 25 June 2010, Grenoble, France

    "CBMI 2010 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of Content-Based Multimedia Indexing. The scientific program of CBMI 2010 will include the presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers."

  • JCDL 2010 Workshop: Music Information Retrieval for the Masses, 25 June 2010, Gold Coast, Australia

    "The objectives of this workshop are:

    • To provide a forum for discussion on the music information retrieval needs of everyday people, and the software / hardware to support their music information behaviours
    • To support discussion of research methods for uncovering music information needs
    • To highlight innovative software and hardware demos for everyday music needs
    • To create an opportunity for music information retrieval researchers in the southern hemisphere and Asia to network with their peers"

  • International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), 28 - 30 June 2010, London, United Kingdom

    "The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society."

  • METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond, 28 June - 2 July 2010, Washington, DC, USA

    "Although continuous, this hands-on workshop consists of three modules, any of which may be taken independently.

    • Module 1: An Overview of METS – offers a thorough introduction to METS including an overview of all of its high level features. (Duration: one day).
    • Module 2: Strategies for encoding various content types – delves deeply into the heart of METS: the flexible mechanisms it provides for encoding, organizing and representing digital content of various kinds and for different purposes. (Duration: two days).
    • Module 3: Strategies for implementing METS in a production environment – explores strategies for implementing METS in a production environment, and reviews existing tools that can facilitate implementation. (Duration: two days)."

  • 7th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2010, 29 June - 2 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA

    "The major themes of this conference are

    • Information and Computing Technologies.
    • Communications Technologies and Applications.
    • Control Technologies and Applications.
    • Interdisciplinary Research, Analogy based Modeling and Problem Solving.
    • Applications of Cybernetics and Informatics in other Scientific and Engineering Disciplines
    • Applications of other Disciplines in the areas of Cybernetics and Informatics
    • Dual Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their Applications"

  • 4th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management KGCM 2010 (Summer Session), 29 June - 2 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA

    "Information and communications Technologies are increasingly supporting the effectiveness and the efficiency on Knowledge generations, communication and management, as well as the relationships among them. Consequently, a main purpose of KGCM 2010 is to bring together researchers, professionals, academics, consultants and practitioners related to any of these three areas, to relationships among them as well as those who are related to the conception, design or implementations of systems, tools and technologies oriented to support knowledge generation, communications and/or management."

  • 2nd International Symposium on Peer Reviewing: ISPR 2010, 29 June - 2 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA

    "Conceptual and methodological research and reflections on Peer Review are being increasingly desirable, important and even necessary in academic disciplines and interdisciplinary programs and projects. Peer Review is a research evaluation process which, in turn, requires to be researched and, in turn, peer-reviewed."

  • 3rd International Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2010, 29 June - 2 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA

    "The purpose of AG 2010 is to bring together scholars, educators and practitioners with the objective of exploring, reflecting and sharing ideas with regards to the impact that the Globalization Phenomena is having or might have on universities (research, teaching and continuing education), and vice versa: the impact that academia is generating, or could generate on the phenomenon of globalization."

  • The JISC/CNI Meeting 2010: Managing Data in Difficult Times, 1 - 2 July 2010, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    "The meeting will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Parallel sessions will explore and contrast major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic. It should be of interest to all senior management in information systems in the education community and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research."

  • 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (AISC 2010), 5 - 6 July 2010, Paris, France

    "Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation are two views and approaches for automating problem solving, in particular mathematical problem solving. The two approaches are based on heuristics and on mathematical algorithmics, respectively. Artificial Intelligence can be applied to Symbolic Computation and Symbolic Computation can be applied to Artificial Intelligence. Hence, a wealth of challenges, ideas, theoretical insights and results, methods and algorithms arise in the interaction of the two fields and research communities. Advanced tools of software technology and system design are needed and a broad spectrum of applications is possible by the combined problem solving power of the two fields."

  • Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management, 5 - 8 July 2010, Thunder Bay, Canada

    "The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology."

  • The 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010), 5 - 10 July 2010, MIami, Florida, USA

    "The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services."

  • Eighth International Network Conference (INC2010), 6 - 8 July 2010, Heidelberg, Germany

    "This conference, the eighth in our series, will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in networking technologies from research and commercial perspectives."

  • Open Repositories 2010 – "The Grand Integration Challenge", 6 - 9 July 2010, Madrid, Spain

    "It is the aim of the Open Repositories Conference to bring together individuals and organizations responsible for the conception, development, implementation and management of digital repositories, as well as stakeholders who interact with them, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues."

  • Second International Conference on the Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010), 7 - 9 July 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

    "Currently, a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies."

  • The 9th International Conference on Mathmatical Knowledge Management (MKM 2010), 8 - 10 July 2010, Paris, France

    "Mathematical Knowledge Management is an innovative field at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science, and scientific publishing. Its development is driven, on the one hand, by new technological possibilities which computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing offer, and, on the other hand, by the increasing demand by engineers and scientists for new techniques to help in producing, transmitting, consuming, and managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge. This conference is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management."

  • MULTICONF-10, 12 - 14 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA

    "The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields."

  • Third International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2010), 12 - 14 July 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

    "The Third International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2010) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, Neural networks, Network security, Biometrics Technologies and Applications, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics Security, Bioinformatics and IT Applications in the above themes."

  • Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives Workshop, 13 July, 14, July, and 16 July 2010, webinars, to be followed by an in-person workshop 3 - 4 August 2010, San Jose, California, USA

    "Using CRL/OCLC Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) as its foundation, the three-day workshop will provide an introduction to digital preservation before focusing on planning, assessment and digital preservation solutions. BCR will offer additional training and support after the workshop, enabling the collaboratives to complete their preservation plans, which may serve as models for other organizations in the field."

  • 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 18 - 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

    "SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR)."

  • 1st Karlsruhe Summer School on Service Research, 18 - 23 July 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany

    "Through lectures, tutorials and social events, the Summer School will provide a forum for participants to discuss and learn about Service Research. Participants can benefit from the expertise of the lecturers and share experience with fellow attendees. Furthermore, the Summer School will foster interdisciplinary research and collaboration opportunities among international students and researchers interested in the disparate fields within Service Research."

  • 2010 International Conference on Informatics, Cybernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA2010), 19 - 21 July 2010, Bangalore, India

    "The 2010 International Conference on Informatics, Cybernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA2010) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Information Retrieval, Computer Security, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, Neural networks, Network security, Biometrics Technologies and Applications, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics Security, Bioinformatics and IT Applications in the above themes."

  • 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), 22 - 24 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of the ICSOFT 2010, the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. The conference tracks are 'Enterprise Software Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Distributed Systems', 'Data Management' and 'Knowledge-Based Systems'."

  • International Conference on the Business and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE), 22 - 24 July 2010, Bangalore, India

    "The world is becoming more and more 'digital'. Digital technology has transformed the entire world to a new reality. Almost all sectors – like journalism, banking, finance, manufacturing, health care, education, entertainment, etc. – are influenced by the digital revolution. It is essential to examine a variety of business, technical, legal and other related issues and seek to identify the opportunities and challenges in the movement toward being digital. This conference also looks at...a number of enterprises spawned by digital technology to learn about how they function."

  • SIGIR 2010 workshop on Desktop Search, 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

    "Desktop search refers to the process of searching within one's personal space of information. The information searched during a desktop search can include content that resides on one's personal computer (e.g., documents, emails, visited Web pages, and multimedia files), and may extend to content on other personal devices, such as music players and mobile phones. This workshop aims to bring together people interested in desktop search with the goal of fostering collaborations and addressing the challenges faced in this area."

  • SIGIR 2010 workshop on Query Representation and Understanding, 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

    "This workshop has the goal of bringing together the different strands of research on query understanding, increasing the dialogue between researchers working in this relatively new area, and developing some common themes and directions, including definitions of tasks and evaluation methodology."

  • AdMIRe 2010: 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research, 23 July 2010, Singapore

    "The International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe) serves as a forum for theoretical and practical discussions of cutting edge research in the fields of Web mining for music information extraction, retrieval, and recommendation as well as in mobile applications and services."

  • International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of SECRYPT 2010, the International Conference on Security and Cryptography, is to bring together researchers, mathematicians, engineers and practitioners interested on security aspects related to information and communication. Theoretical and practical advances in the fields of cryptography and coding are a key factor in the growth of data communications, data networks and distributed computing. In addition to the mathematical theory and practice of cryptography and coding, SECRYPT also focuses on other aspects of information systems and network security, including applications in the scope of the knowledge society in general and information systems development in particular, especially in the context of e-business, internet and global enterprises."

  • International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010), 26 - 28 July 2010, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

    "The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies related areas."

  • IADIS International Conference on Informatics 2010, 26 - 28 July 2010, Freiburg, Germany

    "This conference event shall host fundamental topics on Informatics. In addition, its scope is not just limited to fundamental theory, but it should also cover the impact of Informatics on society and human life, and it shall furthermore complement theory foundations with technical considerations and practice. Today, most research focuses on technical aspects of Informatics, but this event shall serve as well as platform for an exchange of ideas, which respect that all technology primarily has to serve human in their daily life and ease daily demands and problems."

  • International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of DCNET 2010 is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on communication networking between computer systems or other digital devices. Computer networking is a combination of knowledge related to the areas of telecommunications, computer science, information technology and/or computer engineering."

  • International Conference on e-Business (ICE-B), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The International Conference on e-Business, ICE-B 2010, aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in e-Business technology and its current applications. The mentioned technology relates not only to more low-level technological issues, such as technology platforms and web services, but also to some higher-level issues, such as context awareness and enterprise models, and also the peculiarities of different possible applications of such technology. These are all areas of theoretical and practical importance within the broad scope of e-Business, whose growing importance can be seen from the increasing interest of the IT research community."

  • International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2010), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "ICETE 2010 is a joint conference aimed at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information and communication technologies, including data communication networking, e-business, optical communication systems, security and cryptography, signal processing and multimedia applications, and wireless networks and information systems."

  • International Conference on Optical Communication Systems (OPTICS), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of OPTICS 2010, the International Conference on Optical Communication Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on any of the optical communication components of an optical communication system, or the system itself. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal."

  • International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of SIGMAP 2010, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of Signal Processing, including theory and practice in the field of telecommunications, image, video, audio, biometrics, etc., and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information."

  • International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS), 26 - 28 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "The purpose of WINSYS 2010, the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of wireless networks and mobile technologies."

  • Second International Conference on Data Engineering and Management, 29 - 30 July 2010, Tiruchirappalli, India

    "The International Conference on Data Engineering and Management will be a premier forum for presentation of research outcomes and discussion of issues on data engineering and data management. The aim of the conference is to share research solutions to problems of today's information society and to identify new issues and directions for further research."

  • Digital Libraries à la Carte 2010, 26 - 30 July 2010, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    "This is a modular course to prepare librarians for the future. Some modules are relevant to publishers, researchers, or IT specialists.

    • Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library Management
    • Module 2: The Library in the Scholar's Workflow and Research Data
    • Module 3: Libraries - Partners in Teaching and Learning
    • Module 4: Mobile Technologies in Education and Library
    • Module 5: Web 2.0 and Linked Data in Libraries

    "Modules are one day each. You can attend one or more modules."

  • International Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ICTEL), 29 - 31 July 2010, Athens, Greece

    "Inspired by a myriad of emerging networks linking people, institutions and companies, the International Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, ICTEL 2010 focuses on innovative concepts of learning and networking both in the corporate and the regular education sector."

Deadline Reminders

  • e-Health 2010, 13 - 15 December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 June 2010.
  • Digital Heritage, 8 - 13 November 2010, Lemesos, Cyprus. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 June 2010.
  • e-Health 2010, 13 - 15 December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 June 2010.

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