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ITA 09: 8th-11th September 2009: Wrexham, North Wales, UK.
by Vic Grout 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

ITA 09. Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications 8th-11th September 2009. Glyndwr University (formerly NEWI), Wrexham, North Wales http://www.ita09.org The third in a series of biennial international conferences on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), will be held in Wrexham, North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 8th to Friday 11th September 2009. The conference will draw together researchers and developers from academia and industry across all fields of Internet computing and engineering. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition to a full technical programme, including keynote presentations, papers, posters, tutorials and special sessions, the social itinerary will include a visit to the historic English city of Chester and a mediaeval Welsh banquet at Ruthin Castle. Information for authors and delegates can be found at http://www.ita09.org. For further details, contact the conference chair (v.grout(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) programme chair (r.picking(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) or conference secretary (d.oram(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) ITA 09 is also sponsored by the Chester and North Wales branch of the British Computer Society (BCS) and supported by the Wales North branch of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), British Telecom iNet (BT iNet) and IT Wales. ITA 05 (http://www.newi.ac.uk/computing/research/ita05/index.shtml) and ITA 07 (http://www.newi.ac.uk/computing/research/ita07/) were extremely successful events. ITA 09 aims to be bigger and better in every way. Come and join us in Wrexham in September 2009! The scope of the ITA conference series is wide and covers all aspects of Internet activity ranging from technical hardware and software solutions to applications and the wider issues arising from them. Papers, up a maximum of 6,000 words, are invited on any of the topics below or related fields. Papers will be submitted via the EDAS conference management system (www.edas.info - details on the conference website). Final, camera-ready papers must conform to the author guidelines at http://www.ita09.org/authorGuidelines.html and must not exceed ten pages in length. Submission deadline: Friday 6th February 2009 Topics of Interest * Accessibility and usability * Agents * AI/Expert systems * Collaborative decisions * Congestion control * Data-mining * Distributed systems * e-Business/e-Commerce * e-Learning/e-Society * Ethical, social and legal issues * Filtering * HCI * Integration * Internet applications * Internet languages * Internet technologies * Multimedia * Music and audio * Network algorithms * Network architectures * Network management * Network optimisation * Network performance * Protocols and standards * Routing * Routing aggregation * Routing performance * Scheduling * Security * Semantics * Services * Storage * Systems failure * Traffic * Ubiquitous computing * Visualisation * Web hardware * Web software * Wireless networks * XML These topics, however, are only intended as an illustrative guide. Please contact the conference chair (v.grout(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) programme chair (r.picking(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) or conference secretary (d.oram(a)glyndwr.ac.uk) for additional guidance. Selected papers not considered appropriate for the conference proceedings may be accepted for poster presentation. Suggestions from senior researchers for organising special sessions, workshops or tutorials are also welcome. We look forward to welcoming you to Wales! Professor Vic Grout ITA 09 Conference Chair Centre for Applied Internet Research (CAIR) Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales Professor Vic Grout, CMath FIMA, CEng FIET, CSci CITP FBCS Director of the Centre for Applied Internet Research (CAIR) School of Computing and Communications Technology Faculty of Business, Science and Technology Glyndwr University Plas Coch Campus, Mold Road, Wrexham, North Wales, LL11 2AW, UK Tel/Fax: +44(0)1978 293203 v.grout(a)glyndwr.ac.uk www.glyndwr.ac.uk/groutv www.cair-uk.org

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Call for Nominations for 2008 AIIP Technology Award
by Mark Goldstein 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

The Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP - http://www.aiip.org/) is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for our ninth annual AIIP Technology Award. Members and non-members alike are welcome to nominate any company or individual that produces information products (databases, web organizers, Internet sites) as an entry in the competition via a short and simple nominations form found online. There will be two categories; one for web based services and another for desktop software. Successful entries in each category will be new or revamped products or technologies that help information professionals with their day-to-day operations in locating, analyzing and organizing information. The product must be related to the information field; AIIP does not consider accounting, word-processing, database or spreadsheet, or other programs not directly related to locating, analyzing, or organizing data appropriate for this award. The deadline for nominations is October 10, 2008. You will find more information about the AIIP Tech Award and access to the simple nomination form at: http://www.aiip.org/TechAwardNominations Please consider nominating your favorite information products. You can send the completed nomination forms or your questions to: Ed Vawter, AIIP Technology Awards Committee Co-Chair, E-mail: qdinfo(a)comcast.net &/or Mark Goldstein, Co-Chair, E-mail: markg(a)researchedge.com. Electronic submittal of the entry form via e-mail is preferred. Previous winners of the AIIP Technology Award include: 2007: XLineSoft ASPRunner Professional, with honorable mention for IBM Visual Communication Lab's Many Eyes 2005: Copernic Desktop with honorable mention for Devon Technologies DEVONagent and Wolff Worldwide 2004: Net Snippets Professional Edition, with honorable mentions for Dialog Corporation's DialogLink 4.0 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 2003: Google Toolbar 2002: askSam 5 2001: eGems Collector Pro 2000: IPO Express 1999: Webforia Organizer The AIIP Technology Award will be presented to the winners at Internet Librarian Conference (http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/) on Monday, October 20, 2008 in Monterey CA. Thanks to our friends at Information Today for their continued support of AIIP and its initiatives. Please consider what information products are most useful to you in your endeavors and help them and us as we select the best of breed for our annual AIIP Technology Award. Thanks! Best Regards, Mark Goldstein, AIIP Secretary President, International Research Center Voice & Fax: 602-470-0389, Skype: mark.goldstein LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markgoldstein E-Mail: markg(a)researchedge.com, IRC: http://www.researchedge.com/ Harnessing Global Information Resources for Informed Decision Making

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ground transport
by Mark D. Johns 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

I may have missed this, and if so, apologies, but... Is there a recommended mode of transport from the Copenhagen airport to the University and conference site? Do the convention hotels run shuttles? Is there a shuttle company? Or do we just have to take a taxi? -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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Best practices in online outreach and activism across multiple cultures
by Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Dear AIR Colleagues, I'm asking this question on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (<http://ippnweupdate.wordpress.com/> and <http://ippnw.org>). As you can probably imagine, this group mobilizes physicians and medical students from around world to abolish nuclear weapons. They also work to prevent injuries caused by conventional weapons. IPPNW (with a little help from yours truly) is currently looking at the way that it uses online resources for outreach, activism, advocacy, and organizing among its stakeholders. While the physicians and medical students share the experience of a medical education, they are not all from a single culture and do not all speak English as a first language. Therefore the team at the international office is looking for best practices in online outreach, activism, advocacy, and organizing across multiple cultures. Any suggestions? Links to peer-reviewed research and how-to manuals would be extremely welcome. Many thanks and best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Cyber-Yenta Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org Skype: Deborah909 Twitter: Deborah909 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909 "Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, that we must not strike too hard upon others....They pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper Gentleness to us in our censures." -George Savile (1633 - 1695)

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Lessons in Second Life (day and time change)
by jeremy hunsinger 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

distribute as appropriate -jh we're returning to our fall schedule. tuesdays at noonish slt, 3ish est. Every Week on Tuesday(noon-1:30pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/ . _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ softwareandculture mailing list softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com _______________________________________________ softwareandculture mailing list softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

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The Vulnerable Researcher and the IRB
by jeremy hunsinger 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=2476 a little off topic, but worth the read.

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"Hack the Debate" - Twitter and CurrentTV join together
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Some of you may already be aware of this. For all the debates in the US presidential election this month, CurrentTV (the network founded by former Vice President Al Gore) has collaborated with Twitter.com to run a program called "Hack the Debate." Essentially what happens is CurrentTV selects messages being posted to their Twitter channel/page and runs those messages on the bottom of the tv screen during the debates. It's a little like Pop Up Video for politics, for those who remember that show. Current and Twitter are both promoting this as being the first time this has ever been done, running live "tweets" over a tv broadcast. I'm sure it's the first time it's been done with Twitter, but running text messages over a tv broadcast has been done before, I'm pretty sure. I've participated in both of these so far. There's a severe lag between what's posted to Twitter and what appears on the television screen, leading to some unintended humor and of course the majority of the actual messages on Twitter don't appear on the television screen (the network is also filtering out profanity, etc.). At first there wasn't much interaction between people posting on the Twitter channel but during the VP debate you started to see more messages being aimed at other people posting, so who knows what will happen during these last 2 debates. http://current.com/topics/88834922_hack_the_debate PS - See some of you in Austin this week, I hope! Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College

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The Coding Analysis Toolkit: A Hands-On Training at
by Stuart Shulman 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I wanted to make sure that a.o.i.r. conference attendees were aware of this late addition to the program. I will be doing a free CAT/BAT training on Saturday the 18th at the conference. If you are interested in capturing and coding blog data or coding text in general, I hope to see you there. The Coding Analysis Toolkit: A Hands-On Training Saturday October 18th - 9.00 am (Room: 3A52) Dr. Stuart Shulman is the founder of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), which is a fee-for-service coding lab at the University of Pittsburgh. QDAP and now QDAP-UMass staff and coders work on coding projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. funding agencies. Dr. Shulman (Oregon Ph.D. 1999) has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States. At AoIR, he will lead a hands-on, computer lab-based training introducing to the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), a web-based service designed to facilitate the measurement and reporting the reliability and validity of work completed by multiple coders. He will also introduce the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), which is designed to capture blog posts and archive them for analysis in CAT. For more information, see: QDAP: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/ QDAP-UMass: http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Coding Analysis Toolkit: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm Blog Analysis Toolkit: https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php Dr. Shulman's Home Page: http://people.umass.edu/stu/

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Collaborative Information Behavior - Call for Chapters
by Jonathan Foster 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

**WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS** FIRST CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 Collaborative Information Behavior: User Engagement and Communication Sharing A book edited by Dr. Jonathan Foster University of Sheffield, UK http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=514 Introduction Collaborative information behavior can be broadly defined as the study of the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable people to collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information. In recent years, it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to engage in such collaborative information behavior. Collaboration may be quite direct when users seek, retrieve, and use information as part of a shared work activity (e.g. research and development project) or learning activity e.g. (collaborative group work); or more indirect as users draw for example on the automated recommendations generated by collaborative filtering and reputation systems. In the fields of information studies, information science, information systems, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, there is a need for an edited collection of articles in this area. Objective of the Book This book will aim to coordinate and integrate current research and practices in the area of collaborative information behavior. It will aim to provide information on empirical research findings, theoretical frameworks, and models relevant to understanding the following aspects: the range of contexts in which collaborative information behavior occurs; the range of approaches, qualitative and quantitative, currently being used to study collaborative information behavior; and the range of systems and practices that enable and constrain its occurrence. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals, educators, and researchers working in the fields of information studies, information science, information management, information retrieval, and knowledge management, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Practitioners who have role in organizational information, communication, and knowledge sharing will also find the publication of value in understanding and assessing the collaborative information behaviors that occur within their organizations. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Collaborative information behavior - conceptual frameworks Collaborative information behavior - methodologies and methods Collaborative information behavior - qualitative and quantitative approaches Collaborative information behavior - frameworks and models Collaborative information behavior in business settings Collaborative information behavior in educational settings Collaborative information behavior in legal settings Collaborative information behavior in medical settings Collaborative information behavior in government Collaborative information behavior in other professional contexts Collaborative information behavior in everyday life Collaborative information needs, seeking, and use Collaborative filtering systems Collaborative querying systems Recommender systems Social bookmarking systems Social navigation systems Social tagging systems Designs for systems to support collaborative information behavior Evaluations of systems to support collaborative information behavior Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 30, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Jonathan Foster Department of Information Studies Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 2665 Fax: +44 (0)114 278 0300 E-mail: j.j.foster(a)sheffield.ac.uk -- Dr. Jonathan Foster Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP Tel: +44 114 222 2665 Fax: +44 114 278 0300 E-mail: j.j.foster(a)sheffield.ac.uk

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Webology: Volume 5, Number 2, 2008
by Alireza Noruzi 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 5, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 5, Number 2, 2008 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Citation-Linking between Open Access Journals -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Open access journals; Hyperlink; Citation-linking; Reference-linking -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/editorial16.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Search Engines and Power: A Politics of Online (Mis-) Information -- Elad Segev -- Keywords: Search engines; Information inequalities; Misinformation; Structural biases; Politics of online information; Google Earth -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/a54.html - Information retrieval and machine learning: Supporting technologies for web mining research and practice -- MPS Bhatia & Akshi Kumar Khalid -- Keywords: Web Information Retrieval; Machine Learning Paradigms; Web mining -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/a55.html - Marketing of library and information services in global era: A current approach -- Basanta Kumar Das & Sanjay Kumar Karn -- Keywords: Library services; Information services; Marking; Market; Management -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/a56.html - Web citation behaviour in scholarly electronic journals in the field of library and information science -- Smt. Veena R. Bhat & B. T. Sampath Kumar -- Keywords: Internet; Electronic Journals; Web-based sources; Web references; Citation analysis; Library and Information Science -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/a57.html ----------------------------------------- Book Reviews - American libraries and the Internet: The social construction of Web appropriation and use --- Bin Li --- Book reviewer: Hamid R. Jamali --- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/bookreview14.html - The human side of reference and information services in academic libraries: Adding value in the digital world --- Lesley S.J. Farmer --- Book reviewer: Hamid R. Jamali --- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/bookreview15.html - Evidence-based librarianship: Case studies and active learning exercises --- Elisabeth Connor --- Book reviewer: N. K. Swain --- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n2/bookreview16.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing.~

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