[CODE4LIB] Semanic Web Journal Issue on Semantic Web and Reasoning for Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries
(Apologies for cross postings) * Call for Papers* * * * Semantic Web Journal * * (URL: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/) * * * * Special Issue on * * Semantic Web and Reasoning for Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries* * * URL: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-web-and-reasoning-cultural-heritage-and-digital-libraries Short URL: http://bit.ly/a6HmTk === Description === During the past few years, great and continually increasing scientific interest has been paid towards the efficient dissemination and management of the world's cultural assets on the Web. As more and more cultural heritage institutions tend to exploit World Wide Web's technologies in order to render their collections globally available, integrated access to this vast amount of content has become an imperative need. Traditionally, the main requisite for integrating diverse resources has been syntactic interoperability. However, in the more knowledge-intensive world of the Semantic Web a number of powerful techniques are offering the promise of knowledge-based management and retrieval instead of mere syntactic data exchange. In particular, techniques for obtaining semantic interoperability and reasoning over metadata and ontologies have been proven powerful tools towards this direction. In the cultural heritage field, significant efforts have been initiated for achieving semantic-aware data integration, but many issues are still under discussion and problems remain unsolved. Hundreds of existing digital libraries and repository systems, responsible for gathering and disseminating digital objects originating from cultural assets, still lack common standards and best practices for properly ingesting and publishing knowledge. The community is looking for powerful semantic search and navigation mechanisms able to efficiently retrieve and interlink distributed, heterogeneous knowledge about cultural heritage. In addition, it is not clear what might be the most suitable evaluation techniques for analyzing the suggested methods and tools. == Topics == This special issue solicits contributions to the open problems of publishing cultural content on the Semantic Web, such as innovative techniques, tools, case studies, comparisons, and theoretical advances. The papers should consider and present contributions towards representing semantic aspects of cultural heritage information in the web environment, i.e. aspects of modeling, creating, aggregating, managing, publishing, and using content on the Semantic Web in the cultural heritage field. In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Semantic-enabled search and recommending - Reasoning over cultural heritage information - Semantic content creation and annotation - Semantic integration of heterogeneous and contradicting information - Ontologies and vocabularies for cultural heritage - Linked heritage data and its applications - Semantic aging and ontology evolution - Evaluation of semantic techniques and systems - Web 2.0, collaborative systems, tagging, and user feedback - Semantic and mental maps of interlinked cultural content - Visualization techniques and paradigms - Success reports of in-use applications and projects === Submissions === High-quality papers containing original research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Extended versions of papers previously published in
[CODE4LIB] Collaborative Annotation Software
Hello, Our Special Collections Department is investigating collaborative annotation software to be used in conjunction with an online exhibit of their Women Poets of the Romantic Period digital collection. By collaborative annotation software, I mean a web-based application that allows scholars to annotate texts, compare multiple editions, and share these annotations online. Ideally, we are looking for a light-weight solution that is either SaaS or works in a Windows IIS environment. We are considering Collex and eComma, but are not certain that either of these will work for our needs. If your library has implemented collaborative annotation software (not necessarily Collex or eComma) or if you have suggestions for other tools or approaches to accomplish these goals, we would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks, Holley Long Digital Initiatives Librarian University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
[CODE4LIB] Call for Student/Recent Graduate Proposals
Call for Student and Recent Graduate Proposals Digital Liaisons: Building Communities and Empowering Culture through Digital Libraries SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, September 19, 2014 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: Monday, September 29, 2014 The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries (http://www.asis.org/sig/sigdl) of the Association for Information Science Technology (ASIST) is seeking proposals from students and recently graduated professionals (having graduated May 2012 or later) for a student panel at the ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting in Seattle on October 31 – November 4, 2014. This session is intended to provide students and recent graduates with an opportunity to present their work during the ASIST annual conference on areas of interest relevant to information and knowledge management. The session will also serve as a social meeting point to facilitate networking between students, faculty, and professionals. Note: Presenters do not have to attend the conference in order to qualify. To accommodate individuals who cannot attend the conference, we are accepting pre-made video presentations and mailed-in posters. All abstracts, presentation media, and posters will be published on the SIG DL website after the conference. Topics Poster and lightning talk presentation proposals should focus on innovative projects that explore digital libraries through topics concerning community and/or culture, in keeping with this year’s ASIST annual meeting theme. Proposals may include, but are not limited to, past research, case studies, and current projects on areas such as social network analysis, linked data, open access and new publishing models, crowdsourcing, big data, digital humanities, citizen science, or other projects falling within the panel’s theme. (The list is meant to be illustrative, not prescriptive.) Who is Eligible? Submissions can be made as a single author or a group of authors, including collaborations between students or recent graduates from different institutions. Student ASIST chapters are particularly encouraged to submit a poster as a group. Authors do NOT need to be members of ASIST. However, they must pay for the conference registration fee and related expenses if attending in person. Students and recent graduates are encouraged to consult faculty and professional mentors but should not allow them to be a significant contributor to the content. All research is expected to be purely the students' or recent graduates' work and could include coursework, internship experiences, work related experience, and independent interests, including theses or other capstone projects. Selection Criteria Up to 10 posters and 5 lightning talk proposals will be accepted for the panel session. Poster submissions must include an abstract of no less than 250 words and a one page storyboard or mockup of the poster. Lightning talk submissions must include a two page paper using the ASIST short paper template available at https://www.asis.org/asist2014/AM14ProceedingsFormat.pdf. Students should indicate whether they will be present at the conference and which format they plan to present. Both posters and lightning talk proposals will be selected based on the following criteria: relevance of topics to the Digital Liaisons session and SIG DL mission, feasibility of presentation within a compressed format, and originality of research. Awards The following awards will be given at the session. ● $300 for the best paper ● $150 for the best poster ● $100 for honorable mention paper ● $100 for honorable mention poster Submission and Deadline Authors are invited to submit proposals by filling out a form at http://tinyurl.com/k85n3ad anytime until 11:59 pm EST, September 19, 2014. Selections will be made by a panel of judges. If you have any questions, please email Holley Long at holley.l...@colorado.edu.
