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Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination / ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy / 7-16 July 2008
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Colleagues/ I have discovered The Venue associated with _Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access _/ Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy) , the Open Access Book that I blogged earier this week [ http://tinyurl.com/5malq6 <http://tinyurl.com/5malq6> ] The Venue is/was >>>Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination / ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy / 7-16 July 2008<<< I have blogged and linked to the Program / AV for The Workshop at [ http://tinyurl.com/55tsdm <http://tinyurl.com/55tsdm> ] ******************************************************************************************************* BTW: I've created a separate Blog Entry For The Table of Contents Of The Book @ [ http://tinyurl.com/5k9y8r ] ******************************************************************************************************* WORKSHOP OVERVIEW A better understanding on what Open Access is, and examples of what it offers to individual scientists and to scientific institutions in Developing Countries, will be presented. The aim of the workshop is not only to introduce the newest technologies in Open Access but also to give participants an extensive hands-on experience on selected techniques. TOPICS Participants will be exposed to the tremendous resources and possibilities available to the scientific community including: * Potential of Open Access in science * Open Source software for Open Access * Open Access policy, advocacy and editorial roles * Open Access publishing and repository design for science * Open Access repositories and eJournals - case studies * Web 2.0 for Open Access *********************************************************************** BTW: I delivered at presentation in Trieste at the WORKSHOP ON PEER REVIEW [ http://people.sissa.it/~marco/ws.html <http://people.sissa.it/~marco/ws.html> ] in May 2003 titled "Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/APR-1.ppt ] >>It's A Big PPT (200+ Slides) But IMHO ... Well Worth The Experience [:-)]<< *********************************************************************** Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://exchange.ias…> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://exchange.ias…> ]

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fantasy football time!
by jeremy hunsinger 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

once again, I invite anyone interested to join our annual fantasy football league. last year Paul D won the Championship 12-3. I've invited the usual suspects for another round, but we can always use more players. If you are interested, drop me a note off list and I'll send you and invite. 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

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Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world? One day symposium
by Adi Kuntsman 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

**Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world?** One day symposium, 24 October 2008, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Hosted by the MA programme in Internet and Communication Studies, School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91704.htm Facebook is one of the faster growing sites for social networking. Its popularity increases every day, and so do the hopes, the concerns and the controversies that surround it. This event brings together researchers in Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, who study Facebook and its effect on our life and work. The symposium will explore issues of trust, deception and negotiation of identity; the use of Facebook for student support and learning; the use of Facebook as a research tool; and many more. Confirmed speakers: Fiona Frank, Department of Continuing Education, Lancaster University and Department of History, University of Strathclyde Monica Whitty, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University Tristram Hooley, CRAC and Jane Wellens, University of Leicester On-line research methods training programme Jane Secker, LASSIE project, London School of Economics We welcome additional contributions in the form of short papers. Please submit your proposals to a.kuntsman(a)ljmu.ac.uk by August the 31st 2008. For more details please check our website http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91704.htm

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Post-Doctoral & PhD Research Positions @ CNGL, IRELAND
by Ríona Finn 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Localisation is the adaptation of digital content to culture, locale and linguistic environment. The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a large Academia-Industry partnership, funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Industry Partners, with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing the key localisation challenges of volume, access and personalisation. The major research strands within the CNGL are Integrated Language Technologies (ILT), Digital Content Management (DCM), Localisation Technologies and Processes (LOC) and Systems Framework (SF). We are currently recruiting: Post-Doctoral Research Positions: 3 Post-Doctoral Positions in ILT (MT, NLP) 1 Post-Doctoral Position in DCM (Ontology Induction) 3 Post-Doctoral Positions in LOC (Workflow, Translation, Multilingual Content) Post-Doctoral positions are fixed term contracts. Salary: €38,623-45,401 per annum (depending on experience). Starting dates: now – November 2008. PhD Studentship Research Positions: 5 PhD Studentships in ILT (MT, NLP) 5 PhD Studentships in DCM (IR/IE, QA, Ontology Induction) 8 PhD Studentships in LOC (Workflow, Translation, Multilingual Content) PhD positions are typically for 4 years. Stipend: €16,000 (tax free) plus payment of registration fees. Starting dates: now – November 2008. CNGL provides state-of-the-art research facilities and supports travel to present at conferences. Please visit http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html for more detailed information on each position. The successful candidates will join well established research groups at Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and University of Limerick, Ireland. Deadline for applications: 31st August 2008 To apply send CV and contact details of 2 referees to info(a)cngl.ie quoting the appropriate reference (see http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html) Please also use for informal inquiries. Ríona Finn, Administrator, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)1 700 6707 Fax: +353 (0)1 700 5442 Mob: +353 (0)87 623 4464 Web: http://www.cngl.ie Email: rfinn(a)computing.dcu.ie

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Call for Papers and Participation: PD4D 2008 Participatory Design for Development -- Workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Deadline Extended)
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Call for Papers and Participation Participatory Design for Development 2008 Workshop (PD4D 2008) http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/~jabdelno/pd4d2008.htm to be held in conjunction with the Participatory Design Conference in Bloomington, Indiana 1st of October 2008 http://www.pdc2008.org/ About the Workshop Participatory design within the context of developing countries is an emerging area of interest in the Participatory Design community. This workshop will provide a unique forum for participants to exchange their experiences, consider the different approaches needed in developing country's context, encourage new partnerships and learn from each others past difficulties and how these were solved. Audience It is hoped this workshop will foster dialogue between practitioners and academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW, CMC, International Development, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Software Engineering, Ergonomics, Education, and Information Systems, among others) interested in the challenges presented by conducting PD in the developing world. Topics There are unique issues that arise within the context of a developing country that need to be considered when carrying out participatory design. These include: * Power distance: this is the perceived status between the host communities and the designers. * Cultural/language barriers: there are normally language and cultural barriers between the host communities and the visiting designers. * Incompatibilities of PD techniques with host community values and communication codes. * Uncertainty about appropriate methods/techniques when participant users and developers are from different national and organizational cultures * Dispersed geographical distances mean that travelling costs are high and time zone differences make remote synchronous communications difficult. * Low literacy levels: the host communities may have low literacy level thus hindering collaborative activities between them and the designers. * Poor telecommunication infrastructure: this means that activities that could be followed-up from a distance or meaningful communication between the two dispersed groups may prove to be a challenge. Registration Please register via www.pdc2008.org Submissions Presenters will be invited to submit a 2 page proposal on their experience with PD in the developing world, or in similar settings within the developed world. Proposals should report on presenters' experience of PD and ideally touch on some of the issues identified in 'Topics'. Emphasis should be placed on the successful and challenging elements of working in a development context. Presentations will be followed by an interactive session where key themes will be identified by presenters and participants, who will work in groups to discuss lessons learnt and opportunities for successful PD. The workshop will close with a round-table session bringing together all the main points identified in the interactive session into a list of learning outcomes and challenges for PD in the developing world. articipatory design within the context of developing countries is an emerging area of interest in the Participatory Design community. FORMATTING GUIDELINES Submissions should follow the SIGCHI Conference Proceedings Format (www.sigchi.org/chipubform) Key Dates - 1st of September, 2008: Submission deadline - 7h of September, 2008: Notification of Acceptance - 15th of September, 2008: copies of accepted papers due. Papers should be submitted to cecilia.oyugi(a)tvu.ac.uk Co-chairs Cecilia Oyugi, Jose Abdelnour Nocera and Lynne Dunckley, Institute for Information Technology, Thames Valley University, Wellington Street, Slough, SL1 1YG, United Kingdom email: {cecilia.oyugi, jose.abdelnour-nocera, lynne.dunckley} at tvu.ac.uk http://iit.tvu.ac.uk Susan Dray Dray & Associates 2007 Kenwood Parkway Minneapolis, MN 55405 USA +1 6123771980 Dray at acm.org http://www.dray.com/ Program Committee Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Heike Winschiers, Polytechnic of Namibia Ann Light, Queen Mary University of London, UK Rogerio DePaula, Intel, Brazil Tim Waema, University of Nairobi, Kenya Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Josh Underwood, London Knowledge Lab, UK Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, France Souleymane Camara, Thames Valley University, UK Suzana Sukovic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Juan M. Fernandez, Unesco, Mexico Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK

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Psychological aspects of cyberspace -- New Book
by Sheizaf Rafaeli 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I’m not sure the following book and website have been announced on Air-l, so (with potential apologies for double posting): A. Barak (Ed.) (2008). Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Is now available. This book includes contributions by Azy Barak, John Suler, Carina B. Paine Schofield & Adam N. Joinson, Janet Morahan-Martin, Alexander E. Voiskounsky, Liat Hen, Andrea J. Baker, Monica T. Whitty & William A. Fisher, Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Katelyn Y. A. McKenna (Yael Kaynan), , Sheizaf Rafaeli & Yaron Ariel, , and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. An extensive accompanying website is at http://cyberpsych.yeda.info/ The website includes access to full text pdf files of the chapters in the book, and online discussions of the contents. Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli Director, Center for the Study of the Information Society and Head, the Graduate School of Management University of Haifa. Tel +972-4-8249578 (04)8249192 sheizaf(a)rafaeli.net <mailto:sheizaf@rafaeli.net> http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net <http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net> Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.

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Re: [Air-L] Metaphors in Technology
by Sabryna Cornish 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

The internet as a disease is missing--this one was very popular when the internet was first being utilized by general society. Also, the internet as connection and disconnection. And of course the internet as transportation and its variations. Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University >>> "Gordon Carlson" <gordycarlson(a)gmail.com> 06/28/08 2:23 PM >>> Hello all, Many of you have helped me compile a list of technology metaphors. Several asked to see the list. So here we go. The following is a list of metaphors related to technology and its use. The emphasis is clearly on digital technology but some others are in there as well. If you have additions to the list PLEASE do send them along, I would like to keep the list growing. If you have a dispute or other comment that should make for interesting conversation, as metaphorical as it might be on a mail list. Thanks for all your help! active and inactive bandwidth blog - web log?? blogosphere breadcrumbs brick and mortar broadband broken record (not digital but still a technology metaphor) bulletin boards calculating (as in a person is cold and calculating) chat "rooms" chatting citizen of the internet - netizen click cloud (storage and computing) cyberspace dashboard database deckware desktop dial a touch phone dial up internet access dialog boxes directory domain drop a packet email extranet files filing system firewall flame flaming folders forum forward (as in to forward an email) frames garbage can garbage in, garbage out gateway grinding (used in gaming to get lots of a resource) harvesting hit homepage hotspot hub inbox information superhighway instant messaging intranet link lurking menu mining, especially data mining mouse navigation open (as in a file or email) outbox owning someone (as in to defeat someone in a game, not unique to technology basis for pwned) palette portal programmed or hardwired people protocol quad (a couple people mentioned this but I don't know why it is a metaphor, any help?) recycle bin reply reserving a "seat" for an online course run search engine server shopping carts/basket slides in powerpoint spam speed dial (Opera browser) spyware surfing tabs tag tap (as in a line or phone which is no longer literal) terminal the computer going to "sleep" the whole concept of a virtual open house tree trojan horse trolling virus windows wiping out a team of players (gaming, not unique to technology) world wide web worm -Gordon _______________________________________________ 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/

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AoIR on facebook
by Marcus Foth 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

If you are on facebook, please consider joining the AoIR group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2468341531 And if you are attending the AoIR IR 9.0 conference in Copenhagen, please rsvp here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14695665347 (Sorry, you still have to register the usual way, too.) thanks cheers, marcus AoIR Exec Cttee -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Online World Utopias
by Shira Chess 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of any articles that discuss the utopic/dystopic possiblities of online worlds (primarily with game worlds, but I'm open to any online suggestions). Thanks! Shira Chess Doctoral Candidate Dept. of Language, Literature, & Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Colleagues/ >>>Now Available<<< Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access / Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy). The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) / July 2008 / 207 pp. / ISBN 92-95003-40-3. /Gerry Open Access means aims to remove restrictions that exist on the access to articles and knowledge to the world-wide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries. Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work due to the lack of access to the network, to their institutional economic difficulties or to the lack of awareness of available Open Access solutions. The visibility, usage and impact of researchers' own findings can increase with Open Access, as does their power to find, access and use the work of others. This book aims to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on Open Access is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open publishing in general. The book also aims to encourage decision makers in academia and research centers to adopt institutional and regional Open Access Journals and Archives to make their own scientific results public and fully searchable on the Internet. For (Open) Access To The Full Text ... Plus .. Please Visit [ http://tinyurl.com/5malq6 ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blogger.c…> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://alternativeen…> ]

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