Conferences and Meetings 4/19/12

Conference, meeting, and webinar opportunities from The University of Illinois; JCDL; ALCTS and NELA

 University of Illinois eTextbook UnConference > June 28-29 2012

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be hosting “a gathering of interested parties to identify and discuss solutions to the challenge facing us with etextbooks and their adoption in higher education…  To begin the work of understanding and sorting through the many and varied approaches to etextbooks we are convening an Unconference on the topic this summer … .  The goal of the meeting will be to draw together a broad spectrum of participants exploring provision of etextbooks from a variety of perspectives, whether that be though open access textbooks, vendor-driven solutions or self-publishing. We also hope to attract participants who have not yet ventured into the etextbook realm but are interested in learning more…

Among the topics we expect will be of interest and will be discussed are the following:

• Accessibility of extextbooks for students with disabilities and best practices in addressing these
• Models of university self-publishing of etextbooks
• Evaluating the adoption and impact of etextbooks at your institution
• Vendor-driven models of etextbook delivery
• Understanding the costs of etextbooks
• Open access etextbook solutions
• Technical considerations in offering or supporting etextbooks
• Policy considerations around etextbook solutions in higher education

The format of eTextbook Camp will be a 2 day meeting taking pace over 2 days in late June, starting mid-day on June 28th and continuing through 4pm on June 29th..

There will be no cost for the meeting apart from transportation to the meeting and accommodations.  Meals will be provided. Space is limited and registration will be limited at 75.  Register here

  1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications

This workshop is being held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 10-14 in Washington, DC and hosted by The George Washington University.

This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who:

• are interested in analysing and mining databases of scientific publications,
• develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases or
• who develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done.

The topics of the workshop will be organised around the following three themes:

1. Infrastructures, systems, datasets or APIs that enable analysis of large volumes of scientific publications.
2. Semantic enrichment of scientific publications by means of text-mining, crowdsourcing or other methods.
3. Analysis of large databases of scientific publications to identify research trends, high impact, cross-fertilisation between disciplines, research excellence etc.

We invite submissions related to the workshop’s topics. Long papers should not exceed 8 pages and short papers should not exceed 4 pages of the ACM style. Furthermore, we welcome demo presentations of systems or methods. A demonstration submission should consist of a maximum two page description of the system, method or tool to be demonstrated.

Papers should be submitted using the easychair system provided here.

5. IMPORTANT DATES

April 30, 2012 – Submission deadline
May 12, 2012 – Notification of acceptance
May 25, 2012 – Camera-ready
June 14, 2012 – Workshop

 Using the Library of Congress Classification H Schedule

This ALCTS  webinar will cover some of the more complex aspects of using the “H” schedule to create classification numbers, including use of various kinds of tables, special topics, and subdivisions for industries and trades.