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…
Posted June 5, 2017
ISIC 2018 is the twelfth ISIC conference. The ISIC conferences have a reputation for being an arena for discussing challenging work concerning people’s contextualised interactions with information of various kinds. To see the proceedings of previous ISIC conferences please visit: http://www.isic2018.com/paper-submission/conference-proceedings.html ISIC is multidisciplinary in scope: researchers from information science, information studies, library studies, communication…
Posted June 1, 2017
Submission deadline: August 1, 2017 Full announcement Data Visualization is an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines. Visualizations provide a visual overview in order to explore, analyze, and present something often difficult to understand. In the field of data science, librarians have emerged to help address this…
Posted June 1, 2017
ALISE 2018, Denver, CO, February 6–9, 2018 Historical Perspectives Special Interest Group (SIG) Call for Papers The ALISE Historical Perspectives SIG invites the submission of abstracts for a panel at the 2018 conference in Denver: Over the years, library historian Wayne Weigand has called our attention to three core professional values: reading, place, and users as the focus for…
