CFP: ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group (ALA Midwinter, Denver)
The ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group invites proposals for presentations for our meeting at Midwinter in Denver. The group will be meeting on Saturday, January 24th, from 1:30-3:30. Our theme is Cataloging Born-Digital Materials.
We are particularly interested in local policies for cataloging printouts from PDF files and other internet sources. As more and more publications are released online instead of in print, many public service librarians find themselves "printing the web." How are catalogers providing access to these materials?
The charge of the Catalog Management Discussion Group is as follows: to discuss the various issues involved with cataloging, classification, and authority control after the initial cataloging has been performed. In this respect, catalog management is defined as the continuous upgrading and updating of a catalog, regardless of its format, be it card, microform, book or on-line. The group will provide a forum for exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and problems in managing the bibliographic integrity of library catalogs.
Proposals are due by October 31, 2008.
For questions, contact:
Melissa De Fino
Chair, ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group, 2009
Special Collections Catalog Librarian
and Acting Coordinator of Gift Cataloging
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
47 Davidson Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
mdefino@rci.rutgers.edu
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
CFP: DC-2008 (International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications)
CFP: DC-2008 (International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications)
“Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications”
22-26 September 2008
in Berlin, Germany
Deadlines and Important Dates
Papers/reports/posters submission: 30 March 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2008
Camera-ready copy due: 15 June 2008
URL: http://www.dc2008.de/
CFP URL: http://dc2008.de/papers
The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata researchers and professionals from around the world. DC-2008 in Berlin will be the eighth in a series of conferences held previously in Tokyo, Florence, Seattle, Shanghai, Madrid, Manzanillo, and Singapore.
The DC-2008 conference is organized jointly by the Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck Digital Library, Göttingen State and University Library, the German National Library, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with sponsorship from Wikimedia Deutschland.
Conference Theme
Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration.
DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic Web — the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of semantic models. These two trends flow together in applications such as Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured information that can be extracted and used to enhance access to and use of information sources.
Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic standards can be expressed as Semantic Web vocabularies to facilitate the ingration of library and cultural heritage data with other types of data. Harnessing the efforts of content providers and end-users to link, tag, edit, and describe their information in interoperable ways (”participatory metadata”) is a key step towards providing knowledge environments that are scalable, self-correcting, and evolvable.
DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the development and deployment of semantic and social applications to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.
Papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:
-Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
-Semantic Web metadata and applications
-Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
-Social tagging
-Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri)
-Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
-Metadata interoperability and internationalization
-Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
-Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)
-Vocabulary registries and registry services
-Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)
-Application profiles
-Accessibility metadata
-Search engines and metadata
-Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
-Bibliographic standards (e.g., Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
See the CFP Link for more information
“Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications”
22-26 September 2008
in Berlin, Germany
Deadlines and Important Dates
Papers/reports/posters submission: 30 March 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2008
Camera-ready copy due: 15 June 2008
URL: http://www.dc2008.de/
CFP URL: http://dc2008.de/papers
The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata researchers and professionals from around the world. DC-2008 in Berlin will be the eighth in a series of conferences held previously in Tokyo, Florence, Seattle, Shanghai, Madrid, Manzanillo, and Singapore.
The DC-2008 conference is organized jointly by the Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck Digital Library, Göttingen State and University Library, the German National Library, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with sponsorship from Wikimedia Deutschland.
Conference Theme
Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration.
DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic Web — the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of semantic models. These two trends flow together in applications such as Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured information that can be extracted and used to enhance access to and use of information sources.
Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic standards can be expressed as Semantic Web vocabularies to facilitate the ingration of library and cultural heritage data with other types of data. Harnessing the efforts of content providers and end-users to link, tag, edit, and describe their information in interoperable ways (”participatory metadata”) is a key step towards providing knowledge environments that are scalable, self-correcting, and evolvable.
DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the development and deployment of semantic and social applications to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.
Papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:
-Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
-Semantic Web metadata and applications
-Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
-Social tagging
-Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri)
-Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
-Metadata interoperability and internationalization
-Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
-Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)
-Vocabulary registries and registry services
-Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)
-Application profiles
-Accessibility metadata
-Search engines and metadata
-Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
-Bibliographic standards (e.g., Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
See the CFP Link for more information
Monday, October 22, 2007
2008 Ingenta Research Award Call for submissions
2008 Ingenta Research Award Call for submissions
Please distribute this information to anyone who might be interested in this wonderful opportunity to receive research support. Note: Deadline date January 31, 2008 for applications.
Joan Stein, Chair, Ingenta Award Jury 2007-2008
Library Research Round Table, Past-Chair 2007-2008
Ingenta Research Award
Purpose
The Ingenta Research Award is given annually by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association to support research projects about acquisition, use, and
preservation of digital information.
Example areas of research include:
* The analysis of online journal usage data to develop conclusions and predictive models which may be used by libraries and publishers in determining future behavior
* An investigation of the issues surrounding institutional archiving, particularly costs, preservation and securing the participation of faculty
* A study of information seeking behavior of readers and/or authors
* The development of future models for verifying the relative usefulness of publications
Other topics related to digital publications will also be considered.
Eligibility
Applications are welcome from practicing librarians, faculty and students at schools of library and information science, and independent scholars.
Criteria
The Ingenta Award Jury will evaluate applications on the basis of the following criteria:
1. Appropriateness of the proposed project to understanding of seeking and use of digital information.
2. Significance of the problem.
3. Design of the study.
4. Qualifications of the investigator(s).
5. Realism of the timetable.
Amount
The grant consists of up to $6,000 for research and up to $1,000 for travel to a national or international conference to present the results of the research. Expenditures must directly support research; the award does not cover indirect costs or overhead. Half of the research amount will be paid within one month of the selection of the awardee; the remaining half will be provided approximately six months later upon the receipt of a satisfactory progress report as determined by the Ingenta Award Jury Chair and the ALA staff liaison to the Ingenta Award Jury.
How to apply
Send:
1. Proposal of no more than 6 double-spaced pages that provides:
Please distribute this information to anyone who might be interested in this wonderful opportunity to receive research support. Note: Deadline date January 31, 2008 for applications.
Joan Stein, Chair, Ingenta Award Jury 2007-2008
Library Research Round Table, Past-Chair 2007-2008
Ingenta Research Award
Purpose
The Ingenta Research Award is given annually by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association to support research projects about acquisition, use, and
preservation of digital information.
Example areas of research include:
* The analysis of online journal usage data to develop conclusions and predictive models which may be used by libraries and publishers in determining future behavior
* An investigation of the issues surrounding institutional archiving, particularly costs, preservation and securing the participation of faculty
* A study of information seeking behavior of readers and/or authors
* The development of future models for verifying the relative usefulness of publications
Other topics related to digital publications will also be considered.
Eligibility
Applications are welcome from practicing librarians, faculty and students at schools of library and information science, and independent scholars.
Criteria
The Ingenta Award Jury will evaluate applications on the basis of the following criteria:
1. Appropriateness of the proposed project to understanding of seeking and use of digital information.
2. Significance of the problem.
3. Design of the study.
4. Qualifications of the investigator(s).
5. Realism of the timetable.
Amount
The grant consists of up to $6,000 for research and up to $1,000 for travel to a national or international conference to present the results of the research. Expenditures must directly support research; the award does not cover indirect costs or overhead. Half of the research amount will be paid within one month of the selection of the awardee; the remaining half will be provided approximately six months later upon the receipt of a satisfactory progress report as determined by the Ingenta Award Jury Chair and the ALA staff liaison to the Ingenta Award Jury.
How to apply
Send:
1. Proposal of no more than 6 double-spaced pages that provides:
1. overall statement of the project
2. relation of the project to previous research
3. research questions
4. method/plan of investigation
5. timetable for the work
6. significance of the project
7. plan to disseminate the results
2. Budget (1 page)
3. Curriculum vitae (2 pages)
Deadline
All submissions must reach the ALA address on or before Thursday, January 31, 2008.
You will receive confirmation via e-mail within two days.
Before Thursday, January 31, 2008, email the Proposal, budget and curriculum vitae to:
Letitia Earvin
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 1-4274
Fax: (312)280-4392
E-mail: learvin@ala.org
If email attachments are not possible, applicants must send nine (9) printed copies to the address above and they must be received by Thursday, January 31, 2008.
Obligations
Authors retain the right to present and publish their findings where they choose. Ingenta reserves the right to post an abstract about the project on their website.
If you are interested in applying for this award, please consult:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/orsawards/ingentaresearchaward/ingentaresaward.htm
and read the following for more information:
* Schedule and Procedures
* 6-Month Report
* Final Report
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