Posted June 7, 2017
Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is soliciting nominations for the Best Information Science Book Award. The award consists of a certificate containing the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the book, the date, and the signature of the ASIS&T President. It may also include a citation, or promotion in the Bulletin. PurposeThe…
Posted June 7, 2017
This award will be for a maximum of $2,000 and will be awarded for the best research proposal submitted by June 30, 2017. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology may be proposed. The proposal should include: the central topic or question to be researched and an extended abstract, qualifications of the researcher (brief vita…
Posted June 7, 2017
Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due July 17; full chapters due Sept. 1 2017 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in…
Posted June 7, 2017
1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER2017) co-located with the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017), October 1, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://learner2017.dei.unipd.it/ AIMS AND SCOPE Learning to Rank (LtR), and machine learning in general, have proven to be very effective methodologies to address the increasing complexity…
Posted June 6, 2017
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering two $1,000 travel awards to attend the National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL), August 9-13, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia, and two $1,000 travel awards to attend the Reforma National Conference, September 7-9, 2017, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Funds from the travel awards may be used to cover the cost…
Posted June 5, 2017
Please be reminded that the deadlines for paper submission for ICADL andA-LIEP 2017 are approaching. Below includes CFP for both ICADL andA-LIEP, which will be co-located in Bangkok, Thailand on November 13-15,2017. The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2017) November 13 – 15, 2017Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailandhttp://www.icadl2017.org THEME: Data, Information, and Knowledge for…
Posted June 5, 2017
Date: January 3-6, 2018, Big Island, Hawaii, USAhttp://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Papers Due: June 15, 2017 Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and…
Posted June 5, 2017
Description In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely “digital ecosystems” connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing…
Posted June 5, 2017
Here is an exciting invitation to submit a 500-word abstract proposing a chapter for this edited collection by June 30, 2017 (the sooner the better): The editor seeks original scholarship on the emerging directions of advocacy and community engagement in LGBTQ librarianship relevant in the 21stcentury. The collection will include work in traditional library settings…
Posted June 5, 2017
A recommender system is designed to suggest items that are expected tointerest a user. In order to filter the items and produce the recommendation, Data Mining techniques are largely employed. Among the most popular recommendation approaches in the literature and in real-world applications (e.g., e-commerce websites) are the so-called content-based recommender systems. Content-based recommender systems suggest to users items that…
