From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Nov 1 15:29:57 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:29:57 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Metrics Workshop Next Week: Register now! Message-ID: <010601cb79fb$2b5c1bc0$82145340$@org> Reminder: NFAIS Workshop on Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging Metrics Scheduled for Next Week The NFAIS one-day workshop, Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging Metrics will take place on November 10, 2010. Experts from around the globe will gather in Philadelphia, PA to discuss the new methods that are becoming increasingly important for measuring the usage and value of scholarly and scientific content, including large scientific data sets, and how those measures complement the more traditional, well-known approaches. Registrations for virtual and onsite attendance are still available. The meeting will open with Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist, EBSCO Information Services, providing a look at what's new with Project COUNTER and SUSHI. He will be followed by Ross MacIntyre, Senior Manager, Mimas, University of Manchester, UK, who will describe a relatively new initiative, PIRUS 2,that takes COUNTER statistics down to the article level. Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), will provide an update on Project MESUR, and Dr. Robert D. Chen, Secretary-General, CODATA and Director, CIESIN, Columbia University and Dr. Robert Downs, Senior Digital Archivist, CIESIN, Columbia University, will describe the challenges of accessing, preserving, and citing large datasets. Dr. Jevin West, University of Washington, will open the afternoon session with a discussion of the Eigenfactor, an alternative/complement to the more widely-known journal impact factor. He will be followed Ashlea Higgs, Elsevier, who will talk about a new indicator of journal citation impact, denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). Dr. Peter Binfield, Public Library of Science, will describe the article level metrics that are currently offered by PLoS, and Jeff Dougherty, Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science, will talk about the traditional and proven citation approach to measuring usage and value with a look at citation indexes, journal metrics and the impact factor. In closing, both a librarian, Joseph Zucca, Director of Planning and Communication, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a publisher, Jonathan Morgan, Assistant Director, Web Strategy and Innovation, American Chemical Society, will discuss the metrics that they use to measure value and usage and how they apply those metrics to key decisions within their organizations. The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholarly-a nd-scientific-output. On-site Attendance: NFAIS members pay $435 and non-members pay $485. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all-day beverages Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435. Reduced virtual registration fees are available for groups of 6 or more attendees (go to the registration site for more information: http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf). For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Supporting the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Nov 4 07:50:43 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:50:43 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] ICSTI Workshop Hosted by Microsoft Message-ID: <006401cb7c16$82e23a60$88a6af20$@org> ICSTI Announces a one-A One-Day Workshop hosted by Microsoft. NFAIS members can Attend at ICSTI Member rates. *********************************************************************** WHERE: Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Building 99, Redmond, WA 98502, USA WHEN: February 8, 2011 (Tuesday): 9.00am to 5.30pm why attend: Multimedia and visualization tools and technology offer tremendous opportunity for accelerating scientific discovery. Where science was once limited to text and two-dimensional graphs and charts for communications purposes, multiple factors have contributed to a rise in the use and availability of multimedia and visualization as tools to augment and enhance more rapid uptake of science. This workshop will feature leading-edge innovations in science-oriented web multimedia, large-scale data exploration and visualization, speech and object recognition, image indexing and analysis, human/computer interaction and virtual environments, among other topics. Presentations will be made by technology, science, and information professionals across the broad spectrum of academia, government, business, and industry. confirmed Speakers and Topics Peter Tu, GE Global Research, "Video Analytics and its Application to Science and Technology." Behrooz Chitsaz, Microsoft Research, and Lorrie Apple Johnson, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information, "ScienceCinema: Multimedia Search and Retrieval in the Sciences." Wilmot Li, Adobe Systems, "Explaining Complex 3D Objects with Interactive Illustrations." . Tim Smith, CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), "Communications from the Particle Frontier." Michael Ackerman, National Library of Medicine, "Interactive Multimedia Scientific Publishing." Alexander Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, "Speech Processing Applications in Quaero (European Multimedia Search Engine)." Robert M. Hanson, St. Olaf College, "Delivering Interactive 3D Molecular Structure - The Jmol Solution." Rafael Sidi, Elsevier, "The Impact of Visualization on Search and Discovery" Curtis Wong, Microsoft Research, "Telling Stories in the Cloud" Peter Fox, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Semantics for Innovation in Visualization and Multimedia; Smarter Information Science." Brett Brewer, Microsoft Live Labs. Mike Frame, U.S. Geological Survey, "Visualization and Indexing of Ecological/Biological Data." REGISTRATION OPEN FROM NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Registration: Because seats are limited, advance registration is required. The registration fee, which includes continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks, is $250/295 (before/after 5 January) for ICSTI members, $300/395 (before/after 5 January) for non-members and $150/195 (before/after 5 January) for students. Members of ALPSP, NFAIS, GreyNet, and CENDI are eligible for the member rate for this event, as are members of ICSU's scientific unions and CODATA. Check the ICSTI website URL http://www.icsti.org/ for updates, including additional speakers, final program content and registration form. **************************************************************************** *************************************For more information, contact the organizers Brian Hitson, US Department of Energy, hitsonb at osti.gov, Tony Llewellyn, ICSTI Executive Director, aj.llewellyn at btinternet.com, or the ICSTI Secretariat. 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Experts from around the globe will gather in Philadelphia, PA to discuss the new methods that are becoming increasingly important for measuring the usage and value of scholarly and scientific content, including large scientific data sets, and how those measures complement the more traditional, well-known approaches. Registrations for virtual and onsite attendance are still available. The cut-off for all registrations is noon on Tuesday, November 9th. The meeting will open with Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist, EBSCO Information Services, providing a look at what's new with Project COUNTER and SUSHI. He will be followed by Ross MacIntyre, Senior Manager, Mimas, University of Manchester, UK, who will describe a relatively new initiative, PIRUS 2,that takes COUNTER statistics down to the article level. Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), will provide an update on Project MESUR, and Dr. Robert D. Chen, Secretary-General, CODATA and Director, CIESIN, Columbia University and Dr. Robert Downs, Senior Digital Archivist, CIESIN, Columbia University, will describe the challenges of accessing, preserving, and citing large datasets. Dr. Jevin West, University of Washington, will open the afternoon session with a discussion of the Eigenfactor, an alternative/complement to the more widely-known journal impact factor. He will be followed Ashlea Higgs, Elsevier, who will talk about a new indicator of journal citation impact, denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). Dr. Peter Binfield, Public Library of Science, will describe the article level metrics that are currently offered by PLoS, and Jeff Dougherty, Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science, will talk about the traditional and proven citation approach to measuring usage and value with a look at citation indexes, journal metrics and the impact factor. In closing, both a librarian, Joseph Zucca, Director of Planning and Communication, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a publisher, Jonathan Morgan, Assistant Director, Web Strategy and Innovation, American Chemical Society, will discuss the metrics that they use to measure value and usage and how they apply those metrics to key decisions within their organizations. The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholarly-a nd-scientific-output. On-site Attendance: NFAIS members pay $435 and non-members pay $485. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all-day beverages Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435. Reduced virtual registration fees are available for groups of 6 or more attendees (go to the registration site for more information: http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf). For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Supporting the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Nov 8 13:12:26 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:12:26 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Audio: Digitizing for the Future Message-ID: <5E720EDAC0F145FE80C9CD90F0FFE340@DDPXRT91> Issues and Answers in Digitization A Joint CENDI/FLICC/FADGI Workshop Series Workshop 4: Audio: Digitizing for the Future presented by Carl Fleishhauer, Library of Congress Jimi Jones, Library of Congress Thursday, December 2, 2010 9:30am - Noon EST Library of Congress, Madison Building, Montpelier Room There is no fee, but registration is required. Space is limited. Webcast is available first come, first served. This two-hour workshop will cover the key concepts and technology pertaining to recorded sound preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums. This workshop is aimed at persons with some prior understanding of audiovisual materials but not requiring advanced technical knowledge. The presentation will outline the typical elements in audio preservation and digitization activities: an overview of legacy audio carriers and how to assess their condition, discussion of digitization and digital preservation concepts and technologies, recommendations for digital audio target formats, a few words about outsourcing, and information about where to turn for additional help to learn more. For Additional Information and to Register: http://www.cendi.gov/activities/12_02_2010_audio_digitizing.html Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Thu Nov 11 16:50:31 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:50:31 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] CENDI-NFAIS Workshop on Mobile Computing, Nov 18 Message-ID: Registration Deadline Extended to NOON, Nov. 15 Mobile Computing: Delivering Content to the Research Community November 18, 2010 9:00 am - 4:30 pm A One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS and hosted by NARA at the National Archives, William G. McGowan Theater, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408 http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_1110/CENDI_NFAIS_1110_reg.html Cell phones, smart phones, netbooks and other hand-held computing devices are becoming essential conduits to information by an increasingly mobile and collaborative global research community. Today's top-end smart phones are as powerful by the computational calculation speeds of their processors as were the world's fastest supercomputer of only two-decades ago. Mobile computing is not only a rapidly growing content delivery channel, but it is also shaping the future of scientific and technical communication! WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The over-arching nature of this one-day workshop will appeal to anyone involved in the delivery of content to researchers and scholars around the world, including content providers, librarians, publishers, information professionals, scientists/researchers, technologists, and educators. THE FOCUS OF THE DAY - The program will begin with an overview of the current landscape for the mobile delivery of content, including the level of adoption by content providers and users as well as the types of devices that are most popular. This will be followed by a look at the technology challenges in delivering content to mobile devices. In the afternoon, a panel of publishers will present case studies on how they delivering content to mobile devices and discuss new opportunities offered by this unique delivery channel. Next will be a look at newly developed applications to facilitate the use of mobile computing within scientific communication and workflow. The meeting will close with a discussion on open government and policies on the future of mobile computing. Welcome from the U.S. Archivist, David S. Ferriero Speaker Affiliations: Astute Technologies CAS ITR Group Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery Magellan Media National Center for Atmospheric Research National Library of Medicine Smithsonian Institution Sookmyung Women's University (Korea) The full program is available at the following URL: http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_1110/index.html REGISTRATION The registration fee for CENDI and NFAIS members is $95 and $125 for non-members. The fee includes lunch and refreshment breaks. Register online at: http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_1110/CENDI_NFAIS_1110_reg.html FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS 215-893-1561 or jilloneill at nfais.org Kathryn Holloway, CENDI Secretariat 865-298-1234 or kholloway at iiaweb.com NFAIS (http://www.nfais.org) Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a premier membership organization of more than 60 of the worlds leading producers of databases, information services, and information technology in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. CENDI (http://www.cendi.gov) CENDI, the Federal STI Managers Group, was formally created in 1985 when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by four charter U.S. government agencies (Commerce, Energy, NASA, and Defense). From this small core of STI managers, CENDI has grown to its current membership of 14 major science agencies involved in the dissemination and long-term management of scientific and technical information. 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